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®he Saily (Ear Hrri The University and Towns In Brief Meyer Honored For Public Opinion Studies Public opinion researchers gave their highest award to Professor Philip Meyer, who holds the Knight Chair at the UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. ' The American Association for Public Opinion Research gave its award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement to Meyer on May 20 in Portland, Ore. Meyer became a media pollster and Organized polling activities with sever al Knight-Ridder news organizations. Part of his work included the pioneering of studies in Detroit after the urban dis turbances of 1967, which were part of the coverage that earned a Pulitzer Prize for a Detroit Free Press reporting team. Meyer joined the University’s faculty in 1981. Purifying Pen Makes Dirty Water Drinkable UNC researchers have confirmed that a disinfecting “pen" is effective. The device, developed by Los Alamos Technical Associates and MIOX Corp., of Albuquerque, has been found to electrochemically gener ate oxidants from a salt solution that helps purify water. Researchers at the University, fund ed by MIOX, evaluated the effective ness of the battery-powered tool and found that the amount of parasites, bac teria or viruses located in water was reduced 99.9 percent in a matter of minutes. The device will make it possible for people to quickly purify drinking water, especially in remote or isolated areas or in situations where drinking water has been contaminated. Retired Naval Cmdr. Hosts Book Discussion Retired Naval Cmdr. Thomas Buell will discuss his 1997 book, “The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War,” at Carolina" Meadows on June 28. Buell is a writer-in-residence and guest lecturer in history at UNC. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School and the Naval War College. For more information, call Sandy Roberts at 962-1993. Duke, UNC Awarded Int’l Studies Grants The U.S. Department of Education awarded UNC and Duke University five grants each for international centers and programs. Three of the grant recipients are run joindy by the two universities and focus on the areas of Western European stud ies, Slavic, Eurasian and East European studies and Latin American studies. A fourth grant will go toward the Center for South Asian Studies, a con sortium involving North Carolina State University, North Carolina Central University, Duke and UNC-CH. The fifth grant will go to the UNC Center for International Studies. The three-year grants will be used to fund international programs, confer ences, speakers, film series and new courses. REI Seeks Volunteers for National Trails Day Recreational Equipment, Inc. is seek ing volunteers on June 3, National Trails Day, for their 2000 Service Project of Trail Work at Umstead Park. Volunteers are needed to help with the trail projects designed for volunteers by the park staff. National Trails Day, organized by the American Hiking Society, celebrates trails and the volunteers who maintain them. REI is a national retailer of outdoor gear and clothing. The first Saturday of every June, more than 3,000 trail organizations, agencies and businesses across the country host a variety of events. ; Work is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. pn Saturday. Interested persons can sign up for the project by calling REI in Cary at 233-8444. Habitat for Humanity Seeks Volunteers • Habitat for Humanity of Orange County is currendy seeking people to Work with the organization as AmeriCorps or VISTA volunteers. I ; For further information, contact Executive Director, Susan Levy at the priange County office of Habitat for Humanity at 732-6767. From Staff Reports UNC Faculty Take Road Trip Around State Faculty hop on buses to tour the state and learn about the different regions many UNC students call home. By Jennifer Brown Staff Writer The day after watching thousands of wet graduates cross Kenan Stadium, 30 members of the University’s faculty and administration began a journey through North Carolina’s past, present and future by participating in the third annu al Tar Heel Bus Tour from May 22 through May 26. Spanning five-days, the tour provid ed new faculty members with the chance to learn about regions of North Carolina that 82 percent of the University’s students call home. Travelling more than 1,000 miles, this year’s bus tour visited everything from flood-ravaged areas at the east coast to the foothills of Morganton. Phillip Boyle, one of this year’s par ticipants and an associate professor at the Institute of Government, said, “Because we are a public institution, we need to connected in all that we do to the people of N.C. This is the way to help that large percent.” Boyle said that while he came to the FOR THOSE ABOUT TO TOAST... ■ ■ lg|| I B HHpP Jm ‘* ■ rVm I iftfp I ''' ■ ,/ £ \ AW moM Jw j \7flH DTH/EMILY SCHNURE The "Sledge", trumpet player for New York City ska band The Toasters, gets his groove on at a high-energy show at the Cat's Cradle on Tuesday night. The crowd of mostly under-21s danced away the school night to the infectious punk-reggae beats. The group takes its name from a Jamaican style of rap called "toasting." 2 Injured in Plane Crash During Storms By michaei. Abel Staff Writer Two members of the Chapel Hill Flying Club were injured when their plane crashed into trees in the University’s physical plant parking lot near Horace Williams Airport, during the severe and strong winds that struck Chapel Hill last Thursday morning. Richard Binkley of Chapel Hill, the pilot and instructor of The Piper Cherokee Warrior, said the make of the plane he was flying suffered bums to his face and the side of his body. Binkley’s student and passenger, William Ladd, a 51-year-old from Durham, suffered bro ken bones and deep lacerations. Both men were taken to UNC Hospitals for treatment. At press time, Binkley, one of the 285 members of the Chapel Hill Flying Club, had been discharged from the hospital. Ladd remains at UNC Hospitals in good condition, said an official. This is the fourth accident that has occurred near Horace Williams Airport since February 1998 and rekindles an ongoing debate about the location of the airport, which the University has owned and operated since 1940. Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary Waldorf said the airport has been a major source of contention between the University and town for twenty years. “At various times the Town Council University & City University for the professional draw, the tour provided him with an opportunity to forge ties with his new home state. JoAnn Pitz, director of benefits for human resources, said she enjoyed a stop in Marshall, N.C. to a rural moun tain health clinic. “I ran a health clinic in Illinois and 1 saw some of the same problems they were dealing with now that I did 15 years ago,” Pitz said. One of the objectives of the tour is to provide new members of the faculty and administration with a better under standing of the state’s unique history, said the Tar Heel Bus Tour web site. Boyle said the tour showed him the state’s changing economy] Boyle relo cated to N.C. from Colorado. “There is traditional labor and work force on one hand and on the other side there is a high-tech change within the state,” he said. Another objective of the tour is to encourage public service and research to address state problems. Organizers also hope the tour provides participants with a link to the state’s many different people, said the tour’s web site. Participants also said the close quar ters provided encouragement to interact with faculty members that they may not otherwise work with at the Univeristy. Stephen Shaban, an associate profes sor of surgery, said he found the inter- wanted the airport to close,” Waldorf said. “In my personal opinion, it would be a safer community without an airport in the middle of town,” No current efforts are under way to move the airport, she said. The crash took place when the single engine, four-passenger plane was on approach for landing on return from a trip to Raleigh. Reports said strong winds forced the plane onto its side and into the trees on the corner of the intersection of Airport Road and Estes Drive, about one mile from the University campus. The plane crashed into a storage area in the phys ical plant parking lot. University administrators said the flight conformed with policies and oper ation guidelines concurrent with the air port. John P. Evans, interim vice chancel lor for finance and administration at UNC-CH, said he believed last week’s storms tobe the cause. “We’re expecting that when the investigation report is filed that the FAA will say that weather was a factor,” Evans said Tuesday. The strong thunderstorms responsi ble for the crash left 10,000-12,000 cus tomers without power for 24 to 36 hours according to Orange County Emergency Management. The University editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu 2000 UNC-CH Faculty Bus Tour Yarikinville DSV 1 Lenoir ■ Hill Louisburg r - m Greensboro „ S MarSHi " Mo'nlorr DaV 3 r • > Jlseagrove Ud V ° BaraanT n I-, Grlfton Sa,„° _ Charlotte s. HU Day 4 \i { % Day 5 action between faculty enjoyable. “You are isolated in your day to day teaching within your department,” Shaban said. “By being on the bus tour, you are exposed to other departments. It opens your horizons for the on-cam pus community.” Sponsored by the chancellor’s office and the Carolina Center for Public Service, this year’s bus tour was planned Union Renovations Delayed Instead of the original June 1 start date, officials have pushed back the start of renovations until June 15. By Craig Ledford Staff Writer This week “it” was supposed to begin. After eight years of planning and sev eral delays, Phase I renovations on the Student Union have been pushed back from a June 1 start date to June 15, offi cials said. Karen Geer, capital improvements financial co-ordinator, said the delay developed out of a legal technicality. “We have not received the state signed contracts,” Geer said. “We cannot let them break ground until we get (the contracts) back signed.” Geer said it was not unusual for con tracts to be delayed and expected their return at any time. Jon Curtis, assisstant director for stu dent activities, said though delays are common in projects of this size, he is confident about thejune 15 start date. “We’re really excited that we actually have a concrete start date,” Curtis said. During Phase I, slated to last until next May, construction fences will go up along the comer of Raleigh and South Roads, enclosing the union parking lot, Curtis said. Curtis added that the fences will also serve to protect a grove of trees that lies next to the union. by reviewing past participant’s feedback, said the tour’s web site. Each year, a group of 30 participants representing the diversity of the University’s faculty is selected to join the tour. In order to be eligible, candidates must have joined the University within the last three years. Since the first tour in 1997, the pro gram has graduated nearly 100 partici Educators Elock to See Bond Signing By Courtney Mabels University Editor Hundreds of higher education advo cates from across the state gathered at the Capitol last Thursday to support and celebrate the future of state public edu cation as Governor Jim Hunt signed the controversial bond referendum. Calling the signage a great day in the future of the state, Hunt told onlookers of the importance of their commitment to its passage, adding that his signature was not the beginning of the end. “The end will come in November and carry the bond,” Hunt said. Last Thursday marked the beginning of a campaign to urge voters to support the $3.1 billion bond referendum, aptly titled the Michael J. Hooker Higher Education Facilities Financing Act after a late UNC-CH chancellor. If voters approve the referendum in the November’s election, much needed renovations would go to help ensure the future successes of UNC campuses and community colleges statewide. “When we say our facilities are in cri sis, I mean our students are in crisis,” Hunt said. “If there has ever been a bi partisan issue in the state, this is it” During the spring, several legislators participated in a tour of state campus facilities, many of which they found in dire condition. The tour helped provide the momen tum needed to spur the unanimous approval of the bond issue, the largest in state history, through the General Assembly two weeks ago. Students and administrators can also expect the relocation of the bus stop on the union side of South Road to an area behind the Undergraduate Library. Also accompanying Phase I will be the closure of the stairwell between the union and Student Stores. All entrances to the union, with the exception to those facing South Road, will remain open as well as all other areas of the union. The stairwell is scheduled to re-open after the first six weeks of construction, said the Carolina Union web site. Despite the promise of better facilites, some students still complain that the clo- sures will create hassles. Star Sanders, a junior psychology major who will wit ness this summers’ renovations, said the closures will make her daily life more difficult. “The union (parking lot) was a “(The renovations) are impor tant to students. It's hopefully going to meet the needs of the student population here. ” Jon Curtis Assistant Director for Student Activities quick place to go if you needed to return books or do something really quickly," Sanders said. “Now we’re going to have to park somewhere further away.” Rodrick West, a senior Spanish and economics major, said the closures come at a bad time. “With the stairwell being closed, I will have to take a long route to the stu dent stores and library. West said the closure of the unoin lot wouldtake away from qhat he called “already limited" parking. Thursday, June 1, 2000 pants. Linda Douglas, director of communi ty relations and one of this year’s partic ipants said this year’s group asked many questions. “It wasn’t what they asked, but how, with such a great spirit,” Douglas said. The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu Senate minority leader, Patrick Ballentine, R-Wilmington, recalled a sight from the tour. “We literally saw research hi bookshelves held together with pizza boxes,” Ballentine said. “No more.’ Still, despite the bond's overwhelm ing approval, legislators and other up porters said it was time for the real work to begin in earnest. Speaker of the House. Jim Black. D Matthews, called for personal cam paigning at the grass roots level. “Look around. For every person that you see, there are \0 people that need to be convinced,” Black said. Hunt signed the bond amongst cheers as Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” played over the sound system. “I’ve never signed a bill that I have more enthusiasm about than I have signed today,” Hunt said. Several members of the UNC-CH community, including the Board of Trustees, also came out in support. Observing the crowd, Student Body Present Brad Matthews called the cere mony a good start. “I think it stands a very good chance," he said. “And I think this is a very good representation of why.” Board of Trustees chairwoman Anne Cates said she’d talk to everyone in the state to ensure the bond’s passage “We certainly want it,” she said. “We feel like it will mean a lot to students on this campus.” The University editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu The three phase renovation.', whu i will total $3 million, are scheduled fo completion by 2002 and will add in on than thirty-seven thousand square feet o lounge, office and meeting room space said Curtis. The revamped union will eventually be home to a twenty-four hour compiit er lab and copv center a: -a : tions for laptop compue: al student organization offices am enhanced handicapped access Curtis said he hoped that th< improved union building will pro ;di students and faculty with a nn m com fortable atmos phere. “(The renova tions’ are things that are important to students,” he said. “It’s hopeful ly going to meet the needs of the student population here." Phase II of the improvements is schedueled for com mencement in the summer of 2001, and will focus primarily on the second floor and lower levels of the union. Phase 111 will begin in the spring of 2002 with a focus on the main floor and lobby area. Construction during both the final phases is expected to last six months, said the union web site. The University editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu
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