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3% Satly ®ar MM Weather Delays Start Date For Smith Middle School The Carrboro school will launch programs t/ build school spirit and improve teacher development. Bv Aloesha Gore "Staff Writer ;•. A severe winter £torm and heavy ’summer rains have ckmpened construc ' tion of Carrboro’s Aew Smith Middle ".School. I s Officials have attibuted delays in the school in (jiapel Hill-Carrboro “City Schools to wiather and other con struction problems, pushing back the "official date for Opening from May 1, 2001 to June orjily of 2001. “ Steve Scrogß, assistant superinten dent for supporfservices, said the damp madf construction almost impossible. I “The extranely wet July and last year’s high adumulation of snow made jhe ground s* wet that it made it hard Jor construcbrs to put together all the Equipment t< construct the building,” he jaid. 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RO., Box - 1629, Hollywood, CA9QG 78. • . . . •/. •••• :/• not cause any financial woes. “The bad weather has not increased the cost of the project at all,” said Board of Education member Nick Didow. Despite weather setbacks, builders have been able to work continuously over the past two months due to dry weather. Scroggs said builders are work ing extra days to make up for an eight week delay. “Construction workers are now able to put more attention to the site,” he said. “More of them are working on the weekends.” Scroggs said the steel and walls are up in the building and concrete has been added to most of the floors. But builders still have a lot of work ahead of them. “They need to “Construction workers are now able to put more attention to the site. More of them are working on the weekends. ” Steve Scroggs Assistant Superintendent do a lot more pret ty quickly," Scroggs said. The new middle school, located between Seawell Elementary and Chapel Hill High School, is expected to handle increased enrollment in the dis trict. But Scroggs said enrollment at Smith Middle School might change by the time the school is fully constructed. “It is hard to say right now,” Scroggs said. “We may start off with an enroll ment of 400 to 450 students and then possibly grow within the capacity.” But other plans for the school have already begun. Valerie Reinhardt, the selected principal for the new school, has already started planning for its grand opening. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools spokeswoman Kim Hoke said Reinhardt has extensive school experi ence. “She is wonderful,” Hoke said. “Ms. Reinhardt has already started develop ing programs and activities for the future students at Smith Middle School.” The programs have been designed to increase teacher development and communication with parents and will kick off with an effort to gamer school spirit “There will be information sessions for parents and community members,” Reinhardt said. “Activities for students next year will include a voting contest for choosing the new school colors and mascot.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. Nd X-h*s sss ? k. GRILL Stop ih to pick up Ak application. J2O E. MAIN STREET CARRBORO 929-H449 News Microsoft Cries Foul, Contests Case The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Seeking to keep its business intact, Microsoft filed legal briefs Monday alleging the federal judge who ordered the company’s breakup compromised the “appearance of impartiality.” In its first filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which now has custody of the landmark case, Microsoft lambasted U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson as a biased judge who thrust himself into the dispute rather than resolve it impartial >y- “By repeatedly commenting on the merits of the case in the press,” the com pany’s brief argued, “the district judge has cast himself in the public’s eye as a participant in the controversy, thereby compromising the appearance of impar tiality, if not demonstrating actual bias against Microsoft” A spokeswoman for Jackson said the judge had no comment on Microsoft’s statements. “Believe me, I have no grudge against Microsoft,” Jackson said in an interview with The Washington Post just days after his June ruling. But in the interview, rare for a federal judge, he said he had little choice but to accept the government’s breakup proposal. And in a speech to an antitrust con ference in New York in late September, Jackson said his order was a last resort forced by the company’s unwillingness to make changes voluntarily. Microsoft on Monday asked the appellate court to overturn Jackson’s order in June that the company be bro- ken into two parts. If the higher court calls for anew trial, Microsoft wants someone other than Jackson to preside. Monday 1 s brief was the latest volley in a long-running battle that could result in the largest government ordered restruc turing since the 1984 breakup of AT&T. Microsoft’s brief asked the federal appeals court to find that Jackson was wrong in concluding that the software giant was an unfair monopoly and reverse his breakup order. “The case went awry from the out set,” said company spokesman Vivek Varma, “and our appeal provides a comprehensive picture of why Microsoft should win this case.” Said Justice Department spokes “Promoting Best Practice for High School arid College Students with LD and ADHD” with keynote speaker Dr. Loring C. Brinckerhoff A higher education consultant and an adjunct professor at Tufts University. Dr.Brinckerhoff specializes in transition planning for high school students, programming for college students with LD, legal rights of adults with LD, and program evaluation. 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