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8A Saturday, August 18, 2001 Trouble Brews in Neighborhood By Sauy Francis Staff Writer JUNE 7 - A familiar problem is rear ing its head yet again in Carrboro, one that is pitting students against perma nent residents. An influx of student housing in resi dential areas has some Carrboro resi dents concerned about maintaining their neighborhood’s close-knit feel. Pine Street residents are worried that the traffic on the narrow and sidewalk less street will be increased by the stress es and strains associated with about 20 undergraduate college students living in four houses. In protest of the construction, neigh bors have posted signs in their lawns that read, “Now Showing: The Rape of Pine Street at 106 and 108,” and “This Isn’t a Dorm.” Residents claim that none of the signs are directed towards undergraduates. “Our concern is for town density,” Pine Street resident Jennifer Hay said. “We are concerned that developers and landlords have no control over how many tenants live in their properties.” Residents claim that die two new stu dent houses will cause an increase in noise, street traffic, late night activity and litter, negatively affecting the fami lies and the Pine Street neighborhood. Vt j, in? decorate? College Survival Guide Get out of your dorm room! There’s a whole world to discover • Get ISIC 2002 - $22 for student discounts in Chapel Hill & worldwide • Trip-On Europe Council Travel’s student package for weekends of fun! • Save your Sanity Book spring break, backpacking adventures & weekend trips early! www.counciltravel.com Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9:30 a m. - 5:30 p.m fin Wednesday M 10:30 a m - 5:30 p.m. Area residents believe that Pine Street landlord Annin Lieth is turning the neighborhood into a family-versus student issue to avoid being at the cen ter of the controversy. “He is trying to take the heat and focus off himself,” Hay said. “We are not anti-students.” But Lieth said the neighborhood behavior has turned into a discrimina tion issue against student housing. “People are trying to find ways to complain about students,” Lieth said. “The problem is fueled by the fear peo ple have about what a minority of stu dents have done.” Student renters on Pine Street agreed that the residents have wrongly judged them and suggested the neighborhood not take their landlord’s development plans out on the students. “I wish they would get to know us first before they judged us,” UNC senior and Pine Street resident Whitney Isenhour said. “They should stop stereo typing us.” But what is frustrating for the Pine Street residents is that Leith’s plan falls safely under legal protection. Under the town’s zoning ordinance, Lieth is within his jurisdiction to build additional hous es on his two properties. The Carrboro Board of Aldermen is now examining alternative solutions that include changing the parking and Welcome Back * '.?C " • '* w ;/ JwMgl&C ' DTH FILE PHOTO Two-year-old Connor Hay plays in the driveway of his home on Pine Street. Connor's parents worry about the increased traffic on the street. traffic in the neighborhood, increasing police patrols, changing die notification process, re-routing nearby elementary school traffic and asking the landlord to include behavior clauses in his leases. Dane Alamassy contributed to this story. Sally Francis can be reached at sfrancis@email.unc.edu. Transfer Student Network frrrnTiTTrrrfnTr Rrir Thursday, August 23rd from 4-6 pm James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence (Graham Memorial Building Commons Room 39) Ask questions of representatives from a variety of departments and organizations on campus including: Career Services JOMC Student Health Kenan Flagler School of Business Health Professions Campus Y Housing and lots more... REFRESHMENTS will be served and DOOR PRIZES will be given throughout the program. i^JJ, University ot Horth ' CHAPEL HILL Sunday, August 19, 2001 • 9pm- 2 a m * So ut h Road A street party full of food, music, games, and prizes - all for FREE! UNC-CH says "WELCOME BACK STUDENTS!" UNC Misses National Student Conference By Geoff Wessel University Editor JULY 19 - The University was forced to cancel early plans to send a delegation to the United States Student Association’s 54th National Student Congress this summer. Although the UNC-system Association of Student Governments holds membership rights in the nation wide political lobbying organization, finances prevented the ASG from send ing any student delegates to the confer ence, to be held in Milwaukee, Wis. from July 22 to 29. Because funding was unavailable, the ASG left it to the, sys tem’s 16 individual campuses to send delegates, ASG President Andrew Payne said. “The problem we have with partici pating in those events is the ASG does n’t have the financial base to send stu dents to events like that,” Payne said. “We can’t afford that, so we have to rely on the individual institutions to make the commitment.” But although Payne expected UNC- Chapel Hill and UNC-Wilmington to send at least a few students to the event, UNC-Chapel Hill Student Body 3% latly ®ar Hwl President Justin Young said no students UNC-Chapel Hill students could attend. “Basically, we were trying to create a group of people to go,” Young said. “Because of the timing and funding, it was a tough situation and our plans pretty much fell through.” Payne said he understood that timing and financial commitments make it dif ficult for students to represent the sys tem. But he said he hopes UNC will be able to send delegates to future confer ences, because the USSA is valuable to students. “The value of (the USSA) is that it provides us a connection with what’s going on in Washington from a student perspective,” Payne said. “We do have some UNC students who sit on the board of directors of USSA. So the sys tem will be represented in some capac ity.” Young said UNC-Chapel Hill senior Erica Smiley is one of those board members, and will be attending the conference in that capacity. He said Smiley will be the Chapel Hill campus and the ASG’s representative at the conference. The conference, which will focus on setting the USSA’s agenda for the com ing year, aims to bring together students from across the country to organize grass-roots lobbying campaigns around common issues, according to the official program. Young said he hopes to learn more about the USSA, which came under fire recently for focussing on politically lib eral agendas, rather than purely on issues of concern to students and edu cation. “It has been a heated issue on cam pus,” he said. “I want to be able to get enough information about the organi zation so we can answer the age-old question of what USSA could do for Chapel Hill and what our involvement should be. “We’ll look into it and try to find out more, but again there are bigger issues here on campus, like tuition increases and campus safety, that occupy my time - those are the things on my mind.” Geoff Wessel can be reached at vrooom@email.unc.edu.
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