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The University and Towns
In Brief
Four UNC Employees
Win Massey Awards
Chancellorjames Moeser chose the
winners of the prestigious the C. Knox
.Massey Distinguished Service Award
Even annually to outstanding
niversity employees. The award car
ries a $5,000 stipend.
; This year’s winners were Physics
and Astronomy professor Thomas
Clegg, Associate Vice Chancellor for
Finance Patricia Crawford, mainte
nance mechanic William Howard and
Director of Auxiliary Services Rut
Tufts.
The award is named in honor of the
late C. Knox Massey of Durham, an
advertising executive and UNC trustee
who established the award in 1980 to
recognize "unusual, meritorious or
superior contributions" by university
employees.
UNC Divers Uncover
Blackbeard’s Ship
UNC’s Institute of Marine Sciences
in Morehead City is one of several
organizations working on the recovery
of artifacts from the wreck of the Queen
Anne’s Revenge off Atlantic Beach,
NC.
Divers retrieved a large cannon, the
largest artifact recovered so far, from
the wreck Wednesday.
It makes the sixth big gun brought
up so far, leaving at least 16 underwa
ter.
Institute of Marine Sciences Director
John Wells said the exploration of the
wreck allows researchers to develop
recovery techniques and to study an
important cultural and historical
resource.
Moeser Given Alumnus
Award From UT
UNC Chancellor James Moeser
received the Outstanding Alumnus
Award from the Graduate School at the
University of Texas at Austin on May
18.
The award was established in 1999 to
recognize the school’s alumni for out
standing achievements in academic or
professional careers.
Moeser earned a master’s of music in
musicology from the University of
Texas at Austin in 1964, after receiving a
bachelor's of music degree with honors
in 1961 at Austin.
Price Won’t Ask For
Nuclear Waste Hearing
U.S. Representative David Price
(D-NC) told a group of local and state
officials on May 4 that he would not
help with their fight against the
Carolina Power and Light Company’s
.plan to expand their nuclear waste
site.
Price said he realized there are flaws
in the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission’s review process, but indi
cated it’s not his place to try to persuade
the NRC to conduct safety hearings or
await results of an internal NRC inves
-tigation.
Orange County has appealed to the
five-member NRC Commission to
overrule a March order by an NRC
licensing board that allows CP&L to
begin using two new waste cooling
pools this summer - without hearings
or an environmental impact state
ment.
The congressman acknowledged
potentially dire consequences of waste
pool accidents, but said he believed the
probability was low.
Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) has also
been asked by regional officials to take
future measures to insist the NRC con
duct the hearings and an environmental
impact study. He has not yet respond
ed to that request.
“I respect Rep. Price’s position,”
said Chatham County Commission
Chair Gary Phillips. “But I’m disap
pointed that he chose not to advocate
for us.”
Water Pumps Caused
Orange County Spill
The Town of Hillsborough had a
wastewater spill from May 16, 2001 at
about 6:00 p,m. until May 18, 2001 at
10:00 a.m. of an estimated 2,400 gal
lons at Cemetery Pump Station located
at the Town Cemetery off of East
Corbin.
The spill occurred due to the pumps
not energizing and the auto dialer mal
functioning.
The untreated wastewater spilled
into an unnamed tributary of the Eno
River in the Upper Neuse River
Basin.
The Division of Water Quality was
notified of the event on May 18, 2001
and is reviewing the matter.
Students Meet Possible Cuts With Protests
Demetrius Grigolaya
Staff Writer
While students across the state
protested the proposed budget cuts for
higher education, others express no
opinions or knowledge of the issue.
Regardless, the impact on UNC-Chapel
Hill is still unclear.
The Association of Student
Governments President Andrew Payne
said students protested budget cuts on
eight different campuses across North
Carolina in May. One of them was held
at UNC-CH May 2.
“We received 25,000 letters from stu
dents (against the proposed budget cuts),
which we are passing on to the North
Carolina General Assembly,” Payne said.
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Mudwrestlers Wallow in Good Time
It was a hot Saturday at the
Chicken Shack in Chatam County.
The heat didn’t slow pairs of women
from facing off against
each other in tag team
matches in a pit roughly a
dozen feet wide.
The Tar Heel Rock
and Mudwrestling tour-
nament, the third of its kind spon
sored by mudwresthng.org, benefited
Pittsboro’s Carnivore Preservation
Trust.
Chris Francis, one of the event’s
promoters, said the idea to have a
mudwresding party came to him by
chance. "It was basically a big joke,"
he said. "We had run out of ideas for
theme parties."
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Her team won'the bout with a score of 14-12.
Robertson Scholarship Winners Announced
Ama Boaten
Staff Writer
UNC chancellorjames Moeser and
Duke President Nannerl Keohane
announced the first class of recipients of
a scholarship enabling students to take
classes at both UNC and Duke
University.
A committee comprised of faculty
and staff from both universities selected
30 recipients for the Robertson Scholars
Program on May 7.
Eric Mlyn, program director of the
scholarhship, said the recipients were well
chosen to help foster a productive rela
tionship between the rival schools. “They
are more than just bright and inquisitive,
the%are young leaders with a conscience
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He said ASG
lobbies state legis
lators and has set
up a web site at
www.nobudget
cuts.com with
information and
an on-line petition
to the legislators
against the budget
cuts.
But many stu
dents say they are
indifferent on the
issue. Fewer and
fewer students are
signing the ASG’s
ASG President
Andrew Payne
says the ASG lobbies
state legislators and
organizes protests
throughout the state.
online petition each day. Only four sig
natures were logged on Tuesday, as
With about 500 people cheering
on, the contestants rolled around in
the mud trying to pin their opponents.
When all was said and
done, a lot of women got
their hands, legs and most
everything else dirty.
The event also fea
tured music from seven
Story By
Coke Whitworth
Staff Writer
local bands, with food and drinks
provided by the Speakeasy.
Another promoter of the event,
Andrew Gray, said his group’s mud
wrestling parties weren’t always such
a streamlined success. "What you see
now is the result of a couple of years
of fine tuning," Gray said.
"We started out with both men’s and
women’s matches, but it ended up that
and sense of adventure," he said.
The Robertson Scholars is a joint
merit scholarship program at Duke and
UNC. It will automatically consider all
prospective students who apply to either
UNC or Duke for the scholarship. The
program is funded by a $24 million
endowment gift from UNC alumnus
Julian and wife Josie Robertson.
Half of the recipients will enroll at
UNC and the other half at Duke. All of
the students will take courses at both
schools but will receive a diploma from
their respective school.
The recipients come from 11 states,
the District of Columbia, Norway and
Hong Kong.
Moeser said the two universities are
eagerly awaiting the arrival of the
opposed to 45 a week before on May 15,
and more than 120 signatures on the
site’s first day.
“I do not know much how it is going
to affect me,” said junior economics and
political science major Michael Vollmer.
“I only know that they are trying to bal
ance die budget.”
Caroline Bond, a sophomore psy
chology major, said she had only a
vague idea about budget cuts.
“I do not have any opinion,” she said.
“And I do not think many of my friends
know something.” Bond said the subject
is too difficult to understand fully.
Charles Roche, a senior drama major,
echoed the statement of many students’
awareness of the proposed budget cuts. “I
am just not sure what is going on,” he said.
no one really wanted to watch the men
wresde. They just got way too out of
hand and way too testosterone-driven."
Upon hearing about an mud
wrestling pit, it’s not uncommon to
think of mudwrestling as a sexist spec
tator sport But Megan Sharkey, anoth
er of the event’s promoters, said that is
not what the ‘mudfest’ is all about
"It has never been about the sexu
ality of the women or of the sport,"
Sharkey said. "It’s all about the ath
leticism and competitiveness of the
women involved. You just have to be
there once and you’ll realize that."
(Sharkey was also a contestant.)
A cash prize was to be awarded to
the winner of the tournament and so
an enormous empty water jug was
passed around the audience to fund
the award. The jug seemed to fill at a
particularly quick pace during, and
just after, hody contested matches.
One of those matches involved the
tag team of Caidin Gotwals and Tracy
Harris.
Gotwals, 22, a resident of Carrboro
and waitress at the Mellow
Mushroom, won the first ever ‘mud
fest’ two years ago. She did not wresde
in the tournament last year, but said
one thing brought her back to wresde.
"One of my friends told me that
Ms. America doesn’t compete more
than once so I shouldn’t," she said.
•"So I took last year off, but this year I
decided to forget all of that and go
for the money."
Harris, 24, who is an assistant first
grade teacher at Reedy Creek
Elementary School in Cary, said her
motivation for wrestling was definite
ly for the fun. And despite short
notice, Harris added, she was there to
Robertson scholars on their campuses.
Scholarship winner Christopher Paul,
a senior at the North Carolina School of
Science and Mathematics, said the pro
gram seeks “global citizens” to develop
their leadership abilities.
Scholarship winner Samantha
Fernandez of Raleigh said she was excit
ed to learn that she was being offered
the scholarship.
“I think the scholarship is wonderful
because it provides so many different
opportunities, especially the summer
funding to pursue international travel.”
Fernandez said she thinks the rivalry
between the schools will not be a prob
lem for the winners.
“Even though you’ll be staying in the
other school during the basketball sea
Originally, a 7-percent $ 125-million
budget cut was proposed for the UNC
system, including $25 million at UNC-
Chapel Hill. New estimates of the UNC
system cut are between S3O to $ 40 mil
lion.
“The major challenge is how to do it
without (direcdy) impacting the instruc
tion,” said Elmira Mangum, associate
provost for finance at UNC-CH. “And
we do not know if it is possible.
“The University has three missions,
instruction, research and public service.”
Mangum said instruction is the bot
tom line.
She said she considered two different
budget cut scenarios -one at a 2 percent
cut and other at 4 percent
Some expenses were considered in
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Caitlin Gotwals holds Sara
Noffsinger down in the mud
(top). Chapel Hill's Shay Bryant
scans the crowd (above).
help out her friend Gotwals.
"Caitlin and I have been best
friends for a long time," Harris said.
"We were chearleaders together in
highschool, so we’ve been teammates
before. She called me up just yester
day to ask me if I would be her part
ner, and of course I’m not going to
say ‘no’ to my best friend."
The duo’s teamwork and tenacity
ended up overwhelming every team it
wrestled.
Gotwals and Harris won the nearly
S2OO pot and the title of Tar Heel
Rock and Mudwrestling Champions
for 2001.
Coke Whitworth can be reached at
coke4@email.unc.edu
son, I think it will turn out fine.”
Scholarship winner Brittain Peck of
Greensboro said the program’s interac
tion with Duke makes it unique.
“We were looking for ways to make
the rivalry enjoyable and not to separate
the two schools,” Peck said.
Eighty-two finalists met on both cam
puses in late March for a round of inter
views and social interaction. Fernandez
said she enjoyed meeting with other
scholarship contenders.
Mlyn said the program sought out
students with academic excellence who
had demonstrated interest in communi
ty service and cultural diversity.
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the scenarios first, such as library acqui
sitions, travel expenses and temporary
wages, Mangum said.
She said the impact of the budget cut,
if approved, will depend on its magnitude,
Mangum added that the University came
to the conclusion that it is very difficult
not to affect the quality of instruction
direcdy, which may mean elimination of
faculty positions and similar cutbacks.
“And whatever we do affects instruc
tion (in some way),” Mangum said.
She said it is impossible to say how
different schools and departments may
be affected by the cut “We have to con
sider priorities of every unit”
Demetrius Grigolaya can be reached
at demetrius@unc.edu.
University
Rebuilding
Continues
As renovations at Old East
are finishing this week,
other buildings will close
for remodeling this summer.
MattMinchew
Staff Writer
Major construction projects both new
and continuing will make some areas
on campus unavailable this summer.
Renovations to classrooms and
offices will cause certain buildings to
close, while pedestrian traffic will be re
routed according to the construction
sites themselves.
These extensive construction and
renovation projects over the next eight
yean will affect academic buildings, res
idence halls, and offices and will cost an
estimated sl.l billion.
Some buildings, such as Murphey
Hall, will soon close for renovations that
could last from one to two years.
“Murphey was built in the 19205," said
Diane Gillis, facility architect for the
Division of Facilities Services. “We’re
leaving all of the structure up that we
can.”
Though extensive, renovations to
campus buildings are carried out in a
way that preserves their character and
historical feel, Gillis said.
Other buildings, including Greenlaw,
Caldwell and Phillips Halls, will hold
classes through the noise and distraction
of the renovation process.
Among the most noticeable of the
projects is the continuation of the
Student Union renovations, which is
scheduled to have its final phase com
pleted in November 2002, said Ed
Willis, director of construction manage
ment
The new wing will feature computer
labs with internet and laptop connec
tions, rooms for student organizations,
and places where students can grab
something to eat, Willis said.
Facilities Planning expects to begin
renovations on the existing Union
building once the final phase of the new
wing is complete, Willis said.
In addition to the continuing Student
Union project, work on the
Undergraduate Library recendy began
in late April.
Renovations to the interior of the
Undergraduate Library will include
new walls, ceilings and floors. Davis
Library will continue to hold the
library’s books until the project is com
pleted sometime in April 2002. But
some students say they will hardly
notice the difference.
“I like Davis Library a lot better,"
said sophomore Ben Tosky of Raleigh.
“Honesdy, the change doesn’t affect me
too much.”
Another major project is the con
struction of four new residence halls
located on South Campus. The new
residence halls will be home to an esti
mated one thousand students.
In addition to new projects and con
struction occurring throughout cam
pus, older projects are being complet
ed.
Renovations on New East Hall were
finished early this week. Construction
on New East began as a project on the
heat and air conditioning systems, but
soon expanded to include upgrading
the building’s classrooms.
Some projects, including the renova
tion of New East, have experienced
delays that made meeting expected
deadlines difficult Dave Moreau, chair
man of the Department of City and
Regional Planning, which is housed in
New East, said the building’s renova
tions took six to nine months longer
than expected.
But he said the University did a good
job with the project. “We’re pleased (to
be back in the building).”
Matt Minchew can be reached at
minchew@email.unc.edu.
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