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6 Tuesday, October 31, 2000 RESIDENTS From Page 1 he doesn’t want to leave,” said Michael Hobbs, father of the 3-year-old. He shares the experience of this place with the 300 children before him. “It fits its current usage perfectly," Steele said. She also rents rooms in the cottage to foreign and doctoral exchange students to sup plement her income from the preschool. Residents on Mason Farm Road have seen construction before. Steele recalls The APPLES Service-Learning Program APPLES is a student-run organization providing students with service-learning opportunities throughout the Triangle Area and NC. Alternative Spring Break - ASB is a great way to meet remarkable people, learn valuable skills and have an amazing spring break helping an NC community. Applications available at Union desk and APPLES office. Due Nov 17. Service-Learning Courses - Ever wonder how your classes relate to real life? APPLES courses turn ordinary classes into life-changing experiences. Register Now! BUSI 100 - Business Communication EDUC 50 - Risk and Resiliency JOMC 182 - PR Writing JOMC 191 - PR Campaigns PLAN 111 - Selected Topics in Urban Studies PSYC 80 - Behavior Disorders PSYC 104 - Autism SOWO 180 - Advocacy Strategies for Change SPAN 61 - Advanced Conversation and Composition UNITAS - Seminar School Year Internships - Earn 3 hrs. academic credit, $1,200 stipend and valuable learning experience while serving the community. Applications available at Union desk and in APPLES office. Due Nov 8. See our ad under internships in the classifieds. For more information yf contact the APPLES office at 962-0902 or apples@unc.edu. , YOU’LL LIKE WHAT WIVE GOT LINED UP FOR OUR GRAND OPENING... ... AND WHAT WE’VE GOT IN STORE AFTER THAT. UP TO 70 % OFF DEPARTMENT STORE PRICES. Stop by the Grand Opening of our new Cary Rugged Wearhouse Superstore and have fun saving money. You’ll find all your favorite name-brand casual apparel, accessories and shoes for men, women and kids, plus lifestyle products. All at savings up to 70% off department store prices every day. mjooßQ. HOUSE I NOW OPEN INCARY South Hills Mall & Plaza 1297 Buck Jones Drive Open Mon-Sat 9:3oam-9pm, Sun 11am-6pm $lO, $25 and SSO gift certificates available for purchase. when UNC built the Smith Center in 1986. “The children and I walked to see (he big trucks at work,” she said. Steele has spent a lifetime of learning here. Her father was a genetics teacher at UNC, and she walked to school in Chapel Hill her whole life. Now her tenants walk to UNC too. “The international students say that they love having a home-like place within easy walking distance of the hospital, and I love having the tenants in student housing as neighbors,” she said. The Master Plan proposes to relocate Student Family Housing at Odum A Simple Plan: The Residents Village and purchase residential land to make room for the highway. But today the houso sits quiedy await ing an answer from the Master Plan Committee, and the children will return tomorrow. “It’s their place,” Steele said. UNC has the option to implement the power of imminent domain, which, by state statute, would allow the University to seize the land for public use. UNC officials say they don’t intend to exercise this right, but if they do, Steele says, “1 have my answer ready for them: I’m staying.” Trick or Treat? Westwood, a neighborhood off South Columbia Street, will soon welcome trick-or-treaters, and “each year they look a litde older,” said Elaine Barney, a 20- year resident, who is able to recognize Come watch returns on one of Spanky's many TV's J Tuesday Drink Special $2.50 Bottled Beer - Import & Domestic edition T-shirts available for $10.95^ each child. Westwood, however, faces bigger worries than what type of candy to give out at Halloween. TTie neighbor hood, part of the National Historic Registry, lies on the edge of what might soon be the mass transit corridor. The corridor would run beside the neighborhood. Although not direcdy affected by the Master Plan, neighbors say they share concern about the plan’s effect on the neighborhood ambiance. “When we first saw the plan a year and a half ago, it changed a little each time we saw it,” Barney said. In each version of the plan, the path of destruction changed a little, cutting through a different neighborhood. Seeking protection against the plan, Westwood neighbors presented a peti tion of 120 signatures to the Town Council in July 1999. The council passed 2000 OFFICIAL BALLOT FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA NOVEMBER 7, 2000 U.S. PRESIDENT, MEMBER OF CONGRESS, STATE, DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICES READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE VOTING - MARK ONLY WITH PEN PROVIDED BY THE OFFICIAL. FOR PRESIDENT AND , VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE \ * UNITED STATES - f XjT % INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTER I \/ * PRESIDENT AND VICE • ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE W STRAIGHT PARTY TICKET THEY * MUST BE VOTED ON SEPARATELY FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT There are other OF THE UNITED STATES DEMOCRATIC pro-environment, AL GORE JOE UEBERMAN PTO " ed UCatiOH, REPUBLICAN 1 GEORGE W. BUSH . , I |t , dickcheney cdndiddl/63 on the ballot LIBERTARIAN HARRY BROWNE WllO Will WOTk fOT ART OLIVIER S££2SM campaign finance reform. PAT BUCHANAN | ** EZOLA FOSTER THE STRAIGHT must VOTED UPON SEPARATELY nHud 16TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT (You may vote for TWO) ELUE KINNAIRD DEM HOWARD N. LEE DEM BILL BOYD REP VICKIE HARGROVE REP And don’t forget the University and Community College bonds ... ... to pay the cost of renovating laboratories, classrooms, academic buildings, and worker training facilities and providing other capital improvements... Paid for by the Kinnaird and Lee for Senate campaigns a unanimous resolution promising that it would oppose a transit corridor through any established neighborhood. But while the council pledges to advo cate for preservation, the UNC Board of Trustees will make the final call. And Westwood is still at risk, Barney said. A large highway could produce noise pollution and interrupt the aesthet ic flow from University to neighborhood. Barney said the residents love being able to walk to the University. “The people who live in all three neighborhoods - Westside, Westwood and the Mason Farm area - have either worked or do work for the University,” Barney said. Barney and her neighbors want to preserve the sense of peaceful neigh borhood that has drawn people to these neighborhoods since the 19305. She first saw Chapel Hill when her husband was working on his doctoral thesis at the University. “In 1968, you could go from Chapel Hill to Duke and go through maybe one traffic light and see maybe five cars,” Barney recalled. The couple returned to live in Chapel Hill seven years later, and there was a huge change, she said. “If (UNC) can take a plan of action that will drastically affect people’s neighborhoods, then where will it stop?” Barney asked. With a neighborhood association, pas sion and a 300-signature petition, Westside residents warily guard their future. A Sense of Place Bitty Holton and Betty Cloutier are self-proclaimed tag-team talkers. Their dialogue of Chapel Hill’s history and their desire to maintain it mesh seamlessly. mmmmn CAU^tODAX ' PRIKETM RHIIW/mU., 1800-ZHVKW QJljf Hath} ®ar Hrri Co-presidents of the Chapel Hill Preservation Society, a watchdog group to maintain historic accuracy, Holton and Cloutier have a vested interest in the Master Plan. “We are very concerned about the older buildings on campus and maintaining the historic facade of these buildings, and not just buildings, but sense of place,” Holton said. She said UNC’s reputation as a neighborhood-oriented school depends on its treatment of the surrounding com munity. “When I tell people where I went to school, Chapel Hill, they all say, ‘What a beautiful place,’” Holton said. “We are envied for living here.” Cloutier echoed her colleague. “The ambiance of our town is directly related to the historic look,” she said. “We are known for our beautiful neighborhoods filled with University people. We can’t possibly not be concerned.” The school and community have been inextricably bound since land for private houses was auctioned off immediately fol lowing the laying of the first cornerstone of campus at Old East in 1793, Cloutier said. “Westwood, exquisite in the spring time, would be affectal by the corridor,” she said. “There are a lot of old Chapel Hill people there. The scary thing is that the UNC Board of Trustees has the ulti mate decision about the plan. We might not know what the final decision is.” Holton said the decision-makers should take the memories of alumni, like her, into consideration. “We want to come back and see it the way we remember it” The City Editor can be reached atcitydeskQunc.edu.
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