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The University and Towns
In Brief
Bank Merger Will Not
Change UNC Services
Wachovia and UNC will continue
their current relationship despite ongo
ing negotiations concerning a merger
between the bank and First Union, offi
cials say.
UNC ONE Card Office Manager
Jim Clinton said the services Wachovia
now offers the University would not be
affected by the merger if it goes
through.
These services include a Wachovia
branch office in the Pit and the ability to
tie in a Wachovia checking account to
the ONE Card.
“It should not affect it at all,” Clinton
said. “They were going to retain the
name Wachovia in this merger.
“Our sources at Wachovia say there
should be no interruption in any ser
vices they are providing through the
ONE Card.”
Added Clinton, “We’re happy about
that.”
NC WARN Launches
Multi-Media Campaign
Environmental group NC WARN is
launching a multi-media campaign to
persuade Sen. John Edwards to act on
behalf of the region’s citizens who have
been calling for safety hearings for
CP&L’s high-level waste expansion at its
Shearon Harris nuclear plant
West & Vaughan of Durham, one of
the state’s largest advertisement agen
cies, is producing print and television
advertisements which will illustrate
Edwards as a leader who can minimize
the risk of a major nuclear waste acci
dent, but who has not yet taken action.
On June 1,10 state and local govern
ment officials asked Edwards for an
emergency meeting and urgent action.
His press secretary said he is still con
sidering the requests.
Proposed Dix Closing
Could Trigger Lawsuits
Closing Raleigh's Dorothea Dix
Hospital and other mental health cen
ters as proposed by the state Senate
could invite a costly wave of lawsuits
over patients' lost care, mental health
advocates say.
Dorothea Dix Director Terry Stelle
said if the state slashes mental health
care, individual patients could sue the
state or the federal government could
sue under a law protecting the civil
rights of patients in mental health insti
tutions.
“I don't think the state would take
kindly to the mental health system
being taken over by a federal judge who
mandated what kinds of care it had to
provide,” Stelle said.
Senate leaders are calling on the
Department of Health and Human
Services to suggest how to redirect sav
ings from the closures to local group
homes, nursing homes or supervised
home care.
They have proposed raising taxes on
beer, wine and liquor to finance a per
manent fund for mental health, devel
opmental disability and substance abuse
services.
The federal government has ordered
states to put as many mental patients as
is practical into local programs instead
of state institutions, and several studies
have concluded that Dix should be
closed or replaced.
State Approves Grant
For Public Schools
The Department of Education will
award more than $4.2 million to North
Carolina public schools for the devel
opment of community learning centers,
Sen. John Edwards announced June 13.
“Education is a top priority for the
people of North Carolina and for me,”
Edwards said. “Improving the public
school system is critically important.
These grants will give North Carolina
students the opportunity they deserve to
excel and succeed.”
Funding is provided by the
Department of Education’s 21st
Century Community Learning Centers
program, which seeks to help schools in
rural or inner-city areas create safe after
school and weekend learning centers
for students.
Conference Highlights
Differences in Learning
All Kinds of Minds, a private non
profit institute affiliated with UNC, is
holding its annual conference this week
on “Understanding and Managing
Differences in Learning.”
The conference, designed to develop
educators’ awareness of differences in
learning styles among students, is
attended by teachers and administrators
from 27 states and three countries.
From Staff Reports
Construction Claims Campus Parking Spaces
By Matt Minchew
Staff Writer
The demand for on-campus parking
will become an even greater issue at the
University as campus construction
decreases available parking by 177
spaces this fall.
Assistant Director of Parking Services
Cheryl Stout said some parking spaces will
be blocked off and others lost as construc
tion continues across campus.
“Construction will have a significant
impact at various points,” Stout said.
According to data given by Parking
Barbecue Fanatics
Flock to Hog Day
By Bill Hill
Senior Writer
Even without the hogs,
Hillsborough’s 19th-annual Hog Day
Festival opened the gates to hog heav
en for its participants.
On Saturday morning, the paths at
the annual fair were swarming with peo
ple as crafts vendors and food stands
hawked their wares in the hot June sun.
The crowds ambled between the ven
dor’s tents, sipping fresh-squeezed
lemonade and munching on homemade
potato chips, onion blossoms and the
main attraction - local barbecue.
Thirty-seven teams cooked more
than 9,000 pounds of pork on Friday
night in preparation for the estimated
crowd of more than 48,000 people.
Hillsborough Chamber of
Commerce Executive Director Craig
Lloyd said the success of this year’s Hog
Day helps put the area on the map.
“We’ve been featured in Time Magazine
and in The New York Times,” he said.
Birkenstock-clad college students in
beer T-shirts and men with oversized
belt buckles and camouflage baseball
caps mingled with stroller-pushing
moms as lines stretched from the two
large tents selling the barbecue.
The sandwiches, served on buns
donated by McDonald’s, were snapped
up by the bagful.
Nancy Evans, visiting her family in
Durham from Texas made the drive to
Hillsborough just for the barbecue. “I try
Congress Opposes Tuition Hikes
Student Congress shows
its opposition to tuition
increases at the first of two
summer session meetings.
By Ama Boaten
Staff Writer
Student Congress unanimously
passed a resolution June 13 opposing
proposed tuition increases.
The resolution, sponsored by Student
Body Presidentjustin Young, claims stu
dents have not been given enough time
to prepare for the proposed five-percent
increase and may not be able to afford it
Young said at the meeting that it is
Exhibit Honors UNC Alumnus
By Allyson Shaffer
Staff Writer
Before frequenting the courtroom in
“Madock,” he kept order in Mayberry
on “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Before that Andy Griffith, the famous
comedian, actor and musician, was a
student here at the University.
Now all these different phases from
his life have returned in an exhibit at
Wilson Library. The “Andy Griffith:
Chapel Hill, Mayberry and Beyond”
exhibit includes playbills, posters,
recordings and photographs and will
run through Aug. 22.
Among these things, a program dated
1946 for Mount Airy Operetta Club’s
“The Bartered Bride,” credits Griffith for
playing a more minor character named
Kezal. A few steps away is a listening
center visitors can use to hear him brawl
out exerts from “What It Was, Was
Football,” his famous comedy routine.
Also featured in the exhibit are an “Andy
Griffith Show” trivia game and a toy car
modeled after Mayberry’s police car.
Research to bring this exhibit togeth
er started at the beginning of year and
continued sporadically until last month,
during which library assistant Laura
Baxley worked almost full-time on it
“Visitors often ask about Andy
Griffith,” she said. “We thought this
would be a fun exhibit for the summer
and a good way to answer those ques-
See GRIFFITH, Page 7
University St City
Services, the areas that will be most
effected by the elimination of parking
spaces are the BG lot near the Bell
Tower, which will lose 145 spaces, and
the Cardinal Deck on Manning Drive,
which will lose 70 spaces.
Stout said relatively few of the spaces
being lost were student spots. “Mosdy
employees would be impacted,” she said.
Stout said limited realty and space,
combined with the University’s efforts to
expand the campus to accommodate
more students, creates a conflict of inter
ests when it comes to parking.
“Most universities struggle with on
and go to six or seven barbecue festivals
every year but this is my favorite,” she
said between mouthfuls of sandwich.
Evans’ three-year-old daughter, Parker,
played in the grass while her mom kept a
close watch, snacking on barbecue all the
while. “There just isn’t barbecue like this
in Texas,” she said. “But I wish there was
some cole slaw on my sandwich.”
One of Hog Day’s most popular
attractions, the Best Dressed Hog
Contest, had to be cancelled this year.
Because of the threat of hoof and
mouth disease, and because people trav
el to Hog Day from Australia and Europe,
there were no five hogs allowed at Hog
Day. “Better safe than sorry,” Lloyd said.
“But we’ll be over it by next year.”
But not everyone at Hog Day was
there for the barbecue.
Melissa Lawson from Lexington, N.C.,
was attending her first Hog Day. She was
selling china dolls and pewter figurines in
a bright yellow tent around the comer
from the Orange County Court House.
Like many of the vendors at Hog Day,
Lawson travels the state, year round to
sell her dolls at different festivals.
“Hog Day isn’t the largest festival I
attend, but I’m having a really good
time,” she said. “I haven’t really tried
the barbecue yet and I probably won’t.
To be honest, I don’t really eat much
barbecue, not even in Lexington.”
For the younger Hog Day partici
pants, there were rides, a petting zoo, a
See HOG DAY, Page 7
not appropriate for the legislature to
take such action during the summer.
“The bill in the proposed budget
comes at a time when students are not
around and I think that is unfair,” Young
said. “It comes at a time when they wifi
not be able to prepare for the increase.”
Rep. Liz Gardner, Dist. 20, said she
thinks students generally oppose the
tuition increase because it would limit
access to the University.
“The state prides itself on low tuition
and access to education,” Gardner said.
“Tuition increases limit access.”
The resolution also encouraged state
legislators to find other ways to deal
with state budgetary problems.
An early version of the resolution
suggested the legislature explore alter
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PHOTO COURTESY OF WILSON LIBRARY
UNC Alumnus Andy Griffith, who is the subject of anew exhibit at the
Wilson Library, performed in Carolina PlayMakers' "Mikado" in 1948.
campus parking,” she said. “It’s neces
sary, but you don’t want the university
to look like a parking lot.”
She said while the University is sen
sitive to student transportation needs,
the focus from the University’s point of
view is on other options than increasing
available parking spaces for students.
“There is ongoing work to increase
park-and-ride and all methods of free
transportation,” Stout said.
As the student body grows and avail
able parking decreases, the University
will make efforts to improve public trans
portation options such as the Point-2-
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Allen Victor of Raleigh hurls a greased up ham through the sweltering air Saturday at the Hillsborough Hog
Day Ham Hock contest. Participants of all ages try to throw the ham further than the competition.
native options such as a temporary tax
increase or temporary sales tax. But
Congress amended the resolution to
omit that language.
“I don’t think there’s any question
that students in general oppose tuition
increases,” Gardner said. “But I don’t
believe that Student Congress can say
that all Carolina students would support
a tax increase as an alternative especial
ly without talking to our constituents.”
But Young said alternatives should be
expressed to legislators if doing so would
help prevent tuition costs from going up.
“I think whatever alternatives are out
there, those alternatives need to be
expressed,” he said.
See CONGRESS, Page 7
Point and the recently-approved fare-free
bussing for students on and off campus.
Associate Vice Chancellor of Auxiliary
Services Carolyn Elfland said while most
of the upcoming losses are temporary, the
total number of available spaces will not
increase at all over the next eight to 10
years.
“The (Master Plan) will not increase
parking,” Elfland said. “We’re not grow
ing parking for students or employees.”
But some students said they think the
University should make student spaces
a higher priority.
“I couldn’t get parking this year,” said
Price Works to Fix
Election Problems
A special congressional
committee held a hearing in
Florida earlier this week on
issues of election reform.
By Matt Viser
City, State & National Editor
U.S. Rep. David Price, D-4th, has
become a leader among members of
Congress in reforming the American
voting process.
Price, the co-chair of the Democrat’s
Special Committee on Election Reform,
was in Jacksonville, Fla., Monday to
hold a hearing on Florida’s problems
during the last election.
In February, the former Duke
University professor and Chapel Hill
resident was named to the eight-mem
ber special committee of congressional
Democrats.
The hearing focused on issues such as
recount procedures, confusing ballot
design, malfunctioning voting equip
ment, irregular voter roll purges,
unclear lines of authority among elec
tion personnel and inconsistent provi
sional balloting.
“The events in Florida during the last
election exposed the problems in our
voting system and highlighted the need
for comprehensive election reform,”
Price said in his opening statement
“There is room for improvement
everywhere, and this committee is
exploring how Congress can support
efforts at every level of government to
implement effective election reform in
the short-term and beyond,” he said.
One of the discussions at the hearing
had to do with provisional balloting.
Provisional balloting allows someone
to vote even if their name does not
appear on the voter list at the poll site.
Election officials would wait until con
firmation that the voter is registered
before counting their vote.
Provisional balloting varies from state
to state. In North Carolina, for example,
a voter would be able to cast a provi
sional ballot, but in some cases in
Florida, people were turned away and
not allowed to vote.
“Some have estimated one out of 10
votes were thrown out,” said Price’s
spokesman, Thomas Bates said. “That’s
Thursday, June 21, 2001
sophomore Brad Sain of Lincolnton.
“There just isn’t enough of it’
Elfland said availability of parking
spaces will fluctuate as the Master Plan
progresses, but could be significantly
worse at times'. But some students say
they could live with those losses.
Senior political science major Dan
Morris said, “I don’t have a problem
with them cutting spots if they would
come up with a system that gave seniors
priority, which they don’t have now.”
Matt Minchew can be reached
at mincheweemail.unc.edu.
not acceptable.”
About 300 peo
ple came to the
hearing, Bates
said. “(Price) was
struck by the level
of anger and frus
tration people
showed.”
The Special
Committee on
Election Reform
has been traveling
across the country,
trying to gauge
what concerns
people have with
US Representative
David Price
says last year's
Florida presidential
race proves the need
for election reform.
the election process. They will later
debate the issues in Congress to deter
mine what further actions should take
place.
In addition to taking part in the
reform committee. Price has also drafted
a bill that would provide money to help
states install modem equipment such as
optical-scanner systems. These systems
are considered much more reliable than
the punch-card balloting system that
became so controversial in Florida.
The optical-scanner systems would
cost $6,000 each, with most of the fund
ing coming from federal money.
The machines would allow voters to
correct their mistakes at the poll site. If
a voter voted twice for governor, for
example, the machine would let the
voter know and they would be allowed
to revote.
This type of voting system is used in
Orange County, but there are still six
counties in North Carolina that use
punch-card voting machines.
The new system could be ready in
time for the 2002 elections.
“I don’t think anyone can justify hav
ing another election under (the current)
circumstances,” Bates said.
Under Pace’s bill, states would also
receive money to use for voter educa
tion and for training poll workers.
Price has stepped into the forefront of
the election reform issue, Bates said.
“With legislation he’s introduced and
with his involvement in the election
reform, he’s been considered a leader in
the election reform movement.”
Matt Viser can be reached
at visereemail.unc.edu.
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