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2 Thursday, November 11, 1999 Restaurant Offers Bicultural Setting The owner of Besa Mi Burro has reopened his restaurant with anew name and plans to bridge cultural gaps. By Kathleen Wirth Staff Writer Neatly hidden behind the trees on West Franklin Street, the Mexican restaurant El Raccoon y La Iguana offers customers a taste of Latin American cuisine. Restaurant manager and owner Carlos Salvo said he was hoping to bridge the gap between American soci ety and Latin American culture. “The whole idea behind El Raccoon y La Iguana is to get a bi cultural expe rience,” Salvo said. “Here you can learn what ‘amigo’ really means.” El Raccoon y La Iguana, formerly known as Besa mi Burro, reopened its doors last week after being forced to SEARCHES From Page 1 pushed for anonymous surveys of the final three candidates to be published in The Daily Tar Heel, but search commit tee members killed the proposal after search firm officials said there was no time for the process. But University officials and members of the current and past committees defended their decision to maintain lim ited student representation during the ongoing search. “We want to draw from all areas of the school for representation on the committee, but we also need to keep the committee smaller to ensure an efficient job,” Stevens said. Then-BOT Chairman Johnny Harris Get Paid to Surf the Web No Cost or Obligation. Keep using the internet as you normally do. Check it out at The money will surprise you. GefMcneytcSurf.ccm Now that you've gotten into college... here's your chance to really go somewhere. Congratulations! You're in college now. Soon, you'll be facing questions about life. Like what to do with the rest of it. One thing for sure, if you're a student of color, with an INROADS internship, you could have a serious job every summer while you're still in school - contacts and gaining experience in your chosen field of study. Hey, it won't be easy. 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Robert Humphreys, director of the Downtown Commission, said the restau rant was a welcome addition to Chapel Hill. “I’m excited (the restaurant) is com ing back,” Humphreys said. “It was a wonderful place to get real authentic Mexican food.” Humphreys said the colorful and oftentimes disorganized decor inside the restaurant added to the aura surround ing El Raccoon y La Iguana. “The decor was always a little bit in disarray,” Humphreys said. “But it added to the ambiance - it felt like you were in a small remote Mexican vil lage.” Salvo said he repainted the walls so customers could decorate the restaurant themselves. “In Mexico everyone participates, from parents to grandchildren,” he said. “I want everyone to get involved with led the search committee that hired Hooker. He also led a student commit tee of N.C. Fellows Program members that gathered student input, but he agreed that the student body president was an adequate student representative. “(The committee) was not chosen to represent a variety of interests,” said Harris in a January 1995 article in The Daily Tar Heel. “It was chosen to select the most qualified candidate.” Keeping Quiet Convincing qualified candidates to stay in the running when their names are leaked to the media is a more serious issue, current and past committee members said. Opposition to the open process stems from concerns that candidates currently sitting as chancellors or highly ranked administrators of prestigious universities the restaurant decoration.” The restaurant will be offering more diverse menu options ranging from Tex- Mex to Colombian cuisines. “For a long time we weren’t labeled as Mexican because we didn’t have bur ritos,” Salvo said. “We’ve added burritos and a little more for people who are ignorant about Mexican food.” He said the restaurant would also be hosting Tequila 101 on designated nights to teach customers the real, Mexican meaning behind the liquor. “To a lot of college kids, tequila is a cheap way to get drunk,” Salvo said. “The idea of tequila is to sip it and enjoy the flavor.” He said the restaurant had been test ing the waters with the public since it reopened last Saturday. “Most people don’t know we’ve opened up again,” Salvo said. “However, we’ve gotten some good feedback from some old customers who have been looking forward to us reopen- would not want to alert their employers of their possible desire to take another job. Stevens said opposition also rested on the N.C. Open Meetings Law, which allowed officials to keep the names of candidates for certain state positions confidential. Information about possible candi dates during both Hooker’s and former Chancellor Paul Hardin’s search processes was leaked to the press. The new committee has already cau tioned its members to prevent leaks by protecting the names of candidates, Heinke said. Throughout the process to replace Hardin, Harris stressed secrecy. He served as spokesman for the committee and conducted closed meetings. But under the advice of University Counsel Susan Ehringhaus to comply City ing.” Sophomore political science major Michael Songer said he was looking for ward to eating at El Raccoon y La Iguana. “I’ve been to Besa mi Burro once before, and the food was pretty good,” Songer said. “It was definitely an interesting expe rience.” Controversy swarmed two years ago over the restaurant’s name, which when translated loosely meant “kiss my don key” or “kiss my ass.” Salvo said he changed the restaurant’s name this time to avoid any further disagreements with the town. “Two years ago, the town of Chapel Hill thought the name’s translation was too vulgar,” Salvo said. “However, ‘kiss my ass’ in Spanish doesn’t mean anything - in order to understand it, you have to be bilingual.” The City Editor can be reached atcitydesk.unc.edu. with the Open Meetings Law, Harris decided to announce all chancellor search meetings to the public. The 13-member search committee for former Chancellor Christopher Fordham also faced problems when the names of the final candidates for the chancellorship appeared in the DTH and other local newspapers. While the leak of Fordham’s name angered many leaders in the UNC com munity, former chairman of the faculty and member of Fordham’s selec tion committee Dan Pollitt said he saw no reason why the names should have been secret. “We had select ed who we want ed, and we had three very good candidates,” he “We want to draw from all areas ... but we also need to keep the committee smaller to ensure an efficient job. ” Richard Stevens 1999 Search Committee Chairman said. “I didn’t see any reason why it shouldn’t be known. “We are not the only people who know who would be a good chancellor.” After a public hearing in which stu dents and faculty could give their input to the search committees, the committee adopted a policy of secrecy, Pollitt said. But the search committee to replace Fordham began with an open process, and eventually narrowed its list of can didates to two publicly named choices. In a move that confirmed past offi cials’ fears of alienating announced can- Thinking about Law School in North Carolina? 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Law School Admissions Forum in Union 224. 7 p.m. - Residence Hall Association will sponsor a “Resident Assistant Information Session - Get a Clue to What RAs Do!” in Old East Residence Hall Library. Those interested can learn about the fall 2000 RA selection process. Applications will only be given out at the information sessions. 7:30 p.m. - Ebony Readers Onyx Theatre presents “Cat Mamas & Cat Daddies” in the Union Cabaret. Members will perform poetry from the 1960 sand 19705. Everyone is encour aged to dress in seventies attire. Food will be served. didates, Jay Oliva, then the New York University chancellor, withdrew his name from consideration for the posi tion after he was named in news stories, leaving Hardin the remaining candidate for chancellor. Oliva called UNC a “first-class insti tution” in the DTH, but said publicity surrounding the search made him exam ine the benefits of his position at NYU. But committee members did agree that community input soared under the open process. “We tried to solicit as much information as pos sible from students and faculty in what they wanted for the next chancel lor,” said Edward Holley, the profes sor who was chair man of the Hardin search committee. The Smaller, the Better In the 14-month search process that led to the selection of Hooker, the search committee consisted of 25 facul ty members, alumni, trustees and the student body president. The committee charged with replac ing him has only 13 members -a size that ensures efficiency, Stevens said. “The size of the committee for Chancellor Hardin was about the size of the one now, because we thought the size {The Saily (Tar Hppl e Friday noon to 1:30 p.m. - Professor Angela O’Road will speak about “Asynchronous Lives: Work and Family Contingencies in the Retirement Transition” at the UNC Institute on Aging located in Room 204A at 730 Airport Road. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. - The UNC Medical Auxiliary will sponsor the 1999 Holiday Bazaar with gifts, food, crafts and more outside the main building of UNC Hospitals on the walkway. 5:30 p.m. - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. will celebrate Founder’s ’ Week with a “Founder’s Day Mixer” in Union 226. Items of Interest ■ Lab! Theatre will present “The ' Hothouse,” a play by Harold Pinter at 8:15 p.m. Friday through Monday, 4 p.m. Monday and 5 p.m. Tuesday at Playmakers Theatre on Cameron i Avenue. The show is free. For the Record In the “The State Speaks” story on Nov. 10, Eddie Harrell was incorrectly identified as Eddie Lewis. The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error. of the last one was too large,” he said. The trend toward smaller committees goes back to the Fordham selection committee, which had 13 members, and Hardin’s committee, which had 14. “A large committee is unwieldy, and you end up having a small handful of people dominate,” Pollitt said. He said his group learned to work well together during the selection of Fordham. “We were a cohesive group that respect ed each other,” he said. “We were too small to have anyone dominate.” The current search committee has two members who served on previous committees. “This provides a sense of continuity from the past committees,” Stevens said. He said past search committee veterans could help current members avoid the problems of past searches. Rectifying those problems means keeping the small group close-mouthed about potential candidates. And while the benefits of that confi- . dentiality continue to be debated, one ' thing is certain - members of the University community must trust the member committee to select singlei handedly the person who will lead UNC into the next century. Stevens seemed certain the commit tee could tackle the job. “As with past committees, we will abide by the rich history and standards of this University.” , The University Editors can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. 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