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Tuesday, November 28, 2000
On-campus Bar Makes Last Call at Duke
By Emily Canaday
Staff Writer
DURHAM - The old stools sit idly
behind the wooden bar that for 27 years
served swarms of Duke University stu
dents.
The Hideaway, named by Playboy
magazine as one of the best college bars
in America, is now only a shadow of its
former self, as declining revenues forced
its doors shut last spring.
Graduate students in Duke’s Business
School began the bar in 1974 as a busi
ness experiment and it quickly became
a favorite among students. Each year
students bought shares in the bar, leased
space from the university and then sold
their stock to the next generation of
eager undergraduates.
Fare-free Busing Factors Into Town Budget
By Emily Canaday
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council
cleared the way for fare-free busing
Monday as part the town’s $57.3 million
budget.
The budget also combines the
Transportation Fund tax rate with the
General Fund tax rate to form a total tax
rate of 50.4 cents for the 2001-2002 fis
cal year, which is 7.4 cents lower than
the current rate of 57.8 cents.
But these numbers can be deceiving.
This year the county assessor determined
that Chapel Hill homes increased an aver
age of 25 to 30 percent in value. So, even
though the tax rates are lower than in pre
vious years, residents will pay 2.2 percent
more per $ 100 valuation in property taxes
because their homes are worth more.
REZONING
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UNC from the current 14 million
square-foot floor area limit.
But the University will now drop its
request for some areas not slated for
development under the Master Plan.
The compromise seemed to please most
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But the administration felt the bar
had become too popular when the num
ber of student-owners rose to 66 in 1998.
“We thought this was too many people
involved with the overall management,
and no one seemed to take responsibility
for the day-to-day-operations,” said Sue
Wasiolek, Duke assistant vice president for
student affairs. “We loaned the business
$650,000 to buy out the owners with the
arrangement that the number would be
reduced to a maximum of 10 owners who
would then repay the university.”
Last year the students combined to pay
$57,214 for their shares and $1,030 per
month for rent A campaign targeting
underage drinking reduced profits and the
bar regained only 60 percent of what stu
dents put in at the beginning of the year.
The owners met with the administra
This additional
revenue will raise
the salaries of
town employees,
allow for the addi
tion of 22 new
town personnel
including police
officers, firefighters
and public works
crews and help
provide for free
Chapel Hill
Transit service.
Seventy per
cent of student
voters supported a
Chapel Hill Mayor
Rosemary Waldorf
says UNC'said
encouraged the Town
to accept fare-free
busing.
tuition increase in a February referen
dum to subsidize the implementation of
fare-free busing. Instead of paying over
S2OO for a bus pass, students now will
residents at the meeting.
“I’m delighted the University recog
nized near-to-campus neighborhood
needs by making the changes they did,”
resident Joe Capowski said. “But the
true test is still ahead, which is the devel
opment plan.”
If the Town Council approves the
rezoning at its July 2 meeting, the
University will follow by submitting its
University & City
tion on several occasions in an attempt to
stretch out the repayment of the debt, but
the university refused to compromise.
“I don’t think the university should
be viewed as an entity that is going to
bail out student business ventures that
don’t work,” Wasiolek said.
When the lease ran out on May 31,
the owners decided not to recruit anew
crop of students.
Former owner Scott Eichel blames the
financial crisis on the 1998 restructuring.
“Under my reign, investors were
making a 25-percent annual return,” he
said. “Once you put the school in charge
of anything concerning fun, they’re
going to mess it up.”
Wasiolek said he doubts the bar’s dis
appearance will have an effect on the
social life of the campus. “From what
only have to fork over a mere sl7.
“The students really wanted this,”
Council member Kevin Foy said. “The
University said it really wanted it and
was willing to put up the money. It’ll
help them deal with the loss of parking
spaces on campus in the next two years
as growth goes on.”
Carolyn Elfland, associate vice chan
cellor for auxiliary services said the
University will experience parking
deficits as the bond-financed construc
tion and renovation program unfolds
over the next few years.
“We will sacrifice 500 spaces in the
fall and in four years lose up to 2,700
spaces during the height of construc
tion,” Elfland said. “We’re not looking at
temporary solutions, we’re looking at
permanent demand.”
The 75-cent-per-ride fare will cease
10-year development plan the next day.
The development plan will clearly
lay out what the University will do and
when they plan to do it. The plan will
have to be approved by the council
before the University can proceed.
The town council is slated to vote on
the development plan after 90 days of
review, on Oct 1. “We’ve committed to
make the schedule and we will continue to
do that,” said Mayor Rosemary Waldorf.
But some residents saifl they are still
uneasy about University growth. “I had
hoped it would be a more thoughtful
process,” said Diana Steele, a Mason
Farm Road resident. “Growth does not
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they’ve indicated, their business has
been so minimal that one wonders if
there’s going to be any impact,” she said.
Duke senior Dana Simon said she dis
agreed. “Once again, drinking will be
forced off campus, and the issue of drink
ing and driving cannot be ignored,”
Simon said. “Without safe rides to pick
students up at off-campus parties, more
students will be intoxicated behind the
wheel. The university should consider
that a tremendous impact”
Unless new owners appear before the
fall semester, the.bar’s fate will forever
be sealed - administrators are already
focusing on other undisclosed uses for
the Hideaway’s West Union space.
Emily Canaday can be reached at
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beginning Jan. 1, 2002 and the hours of
four routes, the C express, the S, the F,
and the North-South Express will be
extended until 8 p.m. starting this fall.
Anew route including Meadowmont
and Southern Village will be added to
prepare for Chapel Hill’s annexation of
the large neighborhoods. Two other
added routes will include anew park
and ride lot offjones Ferry Road and an
express shutde to the Friday Center and
the Hendrick building, two UNC facili
ties off N.C. 54.
“The University’s willingness to put
money on the table swayed our opin
ion,” said Mayor Rosemary Waldorf.
“Its payments will help local govern
ments maximize a good investment.”
Emily Canaday can be reached at
sundancrWmsn.com.
necessarily mean quality.”
Regardless of trepidation from some
residents, University and town officials
alike seemed relieved after the meet
ing.
“I think it was a productive meeting,”
Moeser said. “Maybe the most success
ful we’ve had with the town so far.”
Waldorf echoed Moeser’s statements.
“I appreciate the University’s efforts
to compromise,” Waldorf said. “I think
we’re going to resolve this next
Monday.”
Matt Viser can be reached
at viseWemail.unc.edu.
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Project Uplift student volunteers perform TLC's “Lets Talk About Sex" at
a show Thursday night in the Carolina Union auditorium.
UPLIFT
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ponents of the program.
Project Uplift on-campus coordinator
Shayla Higginbotham, a senior from
West Virginia, said the program’s stu
dent volunteers give it energy and focus.
“Adults don’t exactly understand
what we go through every day,”
Higginbotham said. “We try to interact
with them in a way that they feel at
home.”
According to statistics, about half of
all minority students admitted to UNC
in 2000 enrolled. Houston said probably
about half of the Project Uplift partici
pants will apply to and enroll at UNC.
Many of those students return to the
program as volunteers.
BUDGET
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House’s plan would cut 455 non-teach
ing jobs across the 16-campus UNC sys
tem, saving $3.1 million.
“That’s a serious problem,” Hackney
said. “It’s a big cut, but since we don’t
have the votes to raise the revenue,
we’ll have to do the best we can.”
The House and Senate proposals
both include a 5 percent tuition increase
for UNC system students, which will
come in addition to the 4 percent tuition
increase approved by the UNC Board
of Governors in February. Students will
face increases ranging from s4l to $93
starting in the fall 2001 semester.
But the House has amended some of
the severe cuts to the Department of
Health and Human Services.
The Senate’s plan would close the
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“Project Uplift is a great program,”
said sophomore Norledia Moody of
Gaston, who participated two years ago.
“It got me to go to school here.”
Terrunda Taylor, a rising high school
senior from Tyner, said attending
Project Uplift led her to consider apply
ing to UNC.
“I saw for myself that it was a good
school,” she said.
Another participant, Anthony Lee of
Charlotte, also said he is interested in
applying to UNC as a result of Project
Uplift.
“Before, I thought it was only the
elite,” Lee said.
“Now I feel like I have a chance of
getting in here.”
Emily Drum can be reached
at edrum@email.unc.edu.
Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Hospital in
January 2003, while the House budget
keeps the hospital open. The House
plan would also keep the Whitaker
School, an institution for deeply trou
bled adolescents, at its Butner location.
But the House budget includes no
tax increases, instead relying on tactics
like accelerating tax payments by busi
nesses and utilities.
House budget writers alsp looked in
several places where money is not tra
ditionally taken from.
“It was amazing to me the amount of
money in various places that was not
working for the people of North
Carolina,” said Rep. David Redwine,
D-Brunswick. “We were able to identify
lots of money that was not used for
good and noble purposes.”
House budget writers are confident
with the budget they’ve put together and
still think it will be well-received. “We
have been able to present a balanced
budget and we’ve been able to do it with
out raising taxes,” Redwine said. “We
actually think the Senate will like it a lot”
The full House will continue to
debate the budget and their version
should pass either today or Friday.
“Overall, it’s a good budget,” said
Verla Insko, D-Orange. “It could be bet
ter. It could be a lot worse.”
Matt Viser can be reached
at viseWemail.unc.edu.
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