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Thursday, March 30, 2000
Museum Axes Request for Town Money
By Theresa Chen
Staff Writer
A local museum has withdrawn a
portion of its request for aid, forcing the
Chapel Hill Town Council to postpone
making a decision on the issue.
The Chapel Hill Museum’s board of
trustees introduced a proposal Jan. 24
requesting assistance from the Town
Council. The proposal asked the council
to provide the museum with $20,000
annually for operational support and to
help with maintenance of the Chapel
Hill-owned museum building.
At a Town Council meeting on
Monday, the museum board decided to
withdraw their request for financial sup
port and said more time was needed to
discuss the request with town staff.
Museum Director Morgan Kenney
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said the board withdrew its request for
monetary support out of respect for the
town’s fiscal crunch this year.
“(We withdrew the request) primarily
because it’s a tight budget for the town,”
he said. “We decided to relieve any sort
of pressure we might have put on them
out of courtesy.”
If the museum had not retracted the
proposal. Town Manager Cal Horton
said he would have recommended the
Town Council vote against it. He cited
the tight budget as his reasoning for this
advice. “Our opinion is that the council
could reasonably decide not to grant the
funds due to a difficult budget year,” he
said. “It could request the museum
board to make another year’s effort to
be self-sufficient.”
Although the museum is no longer
seeking financial help from the town, it
is still asking Chapel Hill for assistance
with facility maintenance and capital
asset management, including services
like changing light bulbs and roof repair.
Kenney said the idea was that the
council should maintain the building
since they own it, like a landlord would
maintain his or her apartments.
Horton recommended four options to
the Town Council as a response to the
maintenance request. Along with provid
ing no additional funding, Horton said
the council could decide to reallocate
money from other services, contract for
maintenance services or allocate mainte
nance funds annually to the museum.
Kenney said his hope was that the
council would decide to take full respon
sibility for the costs of maintenance,
since it had come to $5,000 annually for
each of the past three years.
CONNER
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receiving a commitment that it would be
an “absolute” inclusion.
Beyond working with the UNC com
munity, the organization addressed a
number of internal issues, including the
creation of a the first-ever GPSF Cabinet.
“Just the fact that we have a Cabinet is
a major accomplishment,” Conner said.
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He said the museum board wanted to
help the council make the best decision.
By asking the council for more time, the
board could discuss the issue further with
town staff. Kenney said he wanted to
make sure the town had the most accu
rate data to make an infonned decision.
Board of Trustees Chairwoman
Nancy Preston agreed that it would be to
the museum’s advantage to hold further
discussions with town staff before
appearing before the council again.
“I think the idea was that we would sit
down with the manager and figure out
what the town’s willing to do with
regards to maintaining the building and
grounds before presenting before the
council,” she said.
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However, the only goal which Conner
failed to achieve was also an internal
issue. “The one thing we wanted to get to
was an overhaul of the constitution and
bylaws but when you compare it to the
things more tangibly touching students,
we just ran out of time,” he said.
“If that’s all we didn’t do, that’s not a
horrible thing, and hopefully (the
GPSF) can get it done next year.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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Associated Press
RUGAZI, Uganda - The children
and neighbors who had looked on in
horrified wonder for two days drifted
away Wednesday, accustomed by now
to the gruesome sight of shirtless work
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row doorway onto the green lawn.
But that didn’t mean the horror had
ceased. The death count linked to a
Christian doomsday sect climbed even
higher Wednesday - more than 640 - in
what officials say is one of the largest
mass murders in recent history.
The latest collection of twisted,
decaying bodies was uncovered in the
plain gray fieldstone house of Dominic
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She said the issue of coed rooms had
never been brought to the attention
UNC officials. If students requested a
similar policy at UNC, the issue would
be sent through a line of committees
and boards, including the Board of
Trustees, Casey said. Bui gay and les
bian students can live with their partners
if they sign up together, she said.
At Wesleyan, Ederer said very few
heterosexual couples ended up utilizing
the coed room option; instead, more
friends chose to live together.
But Sciorlino said the problems con
cerning administrators would not hap
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Kataribabo, an excommunicated
Roman Catholic priest and a sect leader.
Earlier this week, 74 mutilated and
strangled bodies, many of them chil
dren, were unearthed from a mass grave
in Kataribabo’s backyard.
Scenes of horror linked to the apoc
alyptic sect have emerged repeatedly
since March 17, when fire engulfed the
chapel of a compound in nearby
Kanungu. At least 330 people burned to
death there. Kataribabo, 64, is believed
to have been among the dead.
Authorities initially ruled it a mass
suicide. But within days, investigators
discovered six strangled, mutilated
corpses in a pit latrine on the com
pound, sparking a murder investigation.
“I think it’s just a fear factor they’re
using to avoid the issue right now.”
But Sciortino’s plan is far from dead.
Although it won’t be instituted next
year, he said, a large group of Tufts stu
dents still adamantly support it.
Sciortino said the next step was getting
other universities involved and that a
group of students would meet this week
to decide specific schools to contact.
He said the university’s rooming reg
ulations violated its antidiscrimination
policies. “I understand the concerns, but
I think there are ways to deal with the
concerns. It’s the right of adult students
to choose their roommates, regardless of
sex or sexual orientation.”
The State S National Editor can be
reached atstntdesk@unc.edu.