She lathi (Tar Heel iOle! La Fiesta del Pueblo draws diverse crowds and vendors. see Page 3 Campus Forum to Center on Growth Plan The Faculty Council, student government and Employee Forum will host the forum at 5:30 today in Carroll Hall. By Matt Viser Senior Writer The Faculty Council, Employee Forum and student government are sponsoring a forum today to present the Dedication Reveals New Hospitals N.C. Women's and Children's Hospitals, slated to open in October, will include an indoor park and a solarium. By Ann Hau Staff Writer Stainless steel. Cold. Sterilized. For many people, these are words associated with a visit to the hospital. But UNC Hospitals officials and staff hope to ease some patient and family anxiety with the patient-friendly design of the newly constructed N.C. Women’s and Children’s Hospitals, which were dedicated Saturday. When the hospitals open in late October, they will serve as anew home for the women and infant services offered at the N.C. Memorial Hospital. Plans to construct the facility began in the mid 1980s when officials recognized the need to renovate the aging UNC Hospitals. “We planned the building from the patient perspective, not the providers,” said Mary Beck, director of planning and development of the two hospitals. The two new towers are located on Manning Drive next to the Neurosciences Building. Eventually, a roadway will link all the UNC Hospitals to provide easier access. Beck said patient comfort was a key consideration in building the hospitals. Both facilities utilize special fighting, a clean, modem design and art to create a more inviting atmosphere. Construction on the new hospitals began three and a half years ago. Beck said the funds for the $166 million pro ject came from bonds sold with approval from UNC Health Care’s Board of Governors in 1995. The facilities at the Children’s Hospital are all designed to make the hospital more inviting for children. Spacious private rooms and lounges accommodate family visits. Children can let loose in the “Play Atrium,” and next door is the state’s only accredited K-12 school for hospitalized children. And the Women’s Hospital is marked by the same attention to detail. “(The hospitals) will combine holistic and humanistic care with cutting-edge technology,” said Valerie Parisi, chair woman of obstetrics and gynecology at See HOSPITALS, Page 7 UNC Senior Found Dead; Officials Suspect Drug Use Involved By Kellie Dixon City Editor A 20-year-old UNC senior was found dead at his Carrboro residence on Friday, and officials suspect his cause of death involved drug use. The deceased student, Daniel S. Walker of 92 Pine St. in Carrboro was a student in UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. University’s proposed Development Plan to the campus community. The Development Plan, which includes portions of UNC’s Master Plan, details campus growth for the next eight years. The forum will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Carroll Hall audi torium. It will allow students, faculty and community members to be aware of the University’s plans for campus growth. “It’s important to understand the changes going on right now,” said Student Body President Justin Young. “There’s a EHP —aag 'wtm.'"" w— jSjfß' f Hr .•■lp .HHfiaßHKri j- BK JH He %:■ f v■ m , JWr .A&Er .jfIPHBI ■ BMB ~ I DTH/CHRI STINE SCIiTIN Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., speaks about his efforts in Congress on behalf of the Patient's Bill of Rights at the dedication of the N.C. Children's and Women's Hospitals Saturday. Edwards said the hospitals should set examples for health care in the nation. Celebration Marks Hospitals' Opening By Stephanie Horvath Assistant University Editor Among balloons, children, sunshine and music, a 15-year-old dream became a celebrated reality. Hospital employees, University offi cials, politicians and state residents gath ered in front of the new N.C. Children’s and Women’s hospitals on Saturday to witness the facilities’ dedication. “This is a historic day for UNC Hospitals and for the women and children of North Carolina,” said Eric Munson, president and CEO of UNC Hospitals. And while much of the dedication had a jovial mood, Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., the keynote speaker, brought up the serious issue of shortfalls in the nation’s health care system. “Too often American health care is held back by bureaucracy, gridlock and political indifference,” he said. Edwards said the new hospitals reprer sent a medical model the nation should Carrboro Police Capt. Joel Booker said Saturday that officials were con cerned the use of tainted drugs might have contributed to Walker’s death. “There’s concern over possible drug use and the possibility of an overdose or that there could have been some tainted drugs in the area,” Booker said. “We’re not trying to alarm the com munity. But we’re trying to make folks aware this potential exists." ■ Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. Daphne Du Maurier Serving the students and the University community since 1893 We Want You! New staff lists are posted outside the DTH office. Check them out. Mandatory Orientation Sept. 16 lot of visible construction going on, and (the forum) will help put into perspective why we’re doing what we’re doing.” The forum also will help clarify the University’s need for growth. “There’s been miscommunication, not only with the students about the construc tion, but with the town and the University’s need for growth,” Young said. The construction could add about 5.9 million square feet of building space to the almost 14 million existing square feet on campus. Some of the key projects strive to imitate. “Here in Chapel Hill, you’ve built a monument to an ideal - that the best medicine belongs not in some dis tant laboratory or far-off academy but in the lives of all our people,” he said. Edwards went on to outline his con gressional work on the Patient’s Bill of Rights, a bipartisan effort that he said is not supported by President Bush. Instead, Edwards said Bush is support ing another bill that is popular with health maintenance organizations. “It promises rights but doesn’t give patients a real rem edy to enforce those rights,” he said. “This is not a bill of rights - it’s a bill of wrongs.” Edwards also said he supported afford able prescription drugs for seniors, expanding health care for uninsured chil dren and funding for undirected research. Other speakers at the ceremony included UNC-system President Molly Broad, UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Robert Shelton and Dean of the UNC CH Medical School Jeffrey Houpt. Houpt pledged to provide the best Booker said police were not certain what type of drugs Walker might have used or even if any drugs were used at all. The State Medical Examiner’s Office in Orange County performed an autop sy on Walker this weekend and deter mined that there was no foul play involved in his death, Booker said. Because drug use was suspected, Dr. Tom Owens, assistant medical examiner and pathology resident, said certain tests Flexing Muscles Women's soccer roar in face of Nittany Lions. See Page 12 include new residence halls, student fam ily housing and the Ramshead project, which will provide new parking, student dining, recreation and grocery facilities. The plan also includes additions to Memorial Hall, anew arts area around Hill Hall and the Ackland Museum, the replacement of Venable Hall and three new UNC Health Care buildings. The plan has not been void of debate. Town residents have expressed concern at past meetings, sometimes vehement ly, about proposed growth along South 1 ' ; 1? DTH/CHRISTINE NGUYEN Claire Horn, one of many entertainers in the festivities, performs a Modern Extension routine for the opening of the new hospitals. medical care possible to the state -a goal Shelton said fell in fine with the were run - the results of which should be available in a few weeks. “They won’t know until they get toxicology reports back,” Owens said. “That usually takes weeks. It’ll prob ably be a month and a half before any word is settled on.” Carrboro police will continue to investigate the incident Booker said Walker’s body was found by one of his roommates at 10:30 a.m. tit: Campus, particularly in the Mason Farm Road area. The Chapel Hill Town Council is scheduled to vote on the plan Oct. 3. It must approve the plan before construc tion of any of the projects can begin. The Town Council will hold a public hearing Sept 19 to give residents anoth er chance to air their concerns before the council makes a final decision. The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. See HOSPITAL OPENINGS, Page 7 Friday, adding that he was last heard in the residence by his roommates between 4:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. Members of Walker’s family, who five in Hendersonville, declined to com ment on the incident. Funeral arrangements have been made but not announced as of Sunday. The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. Weather Today: T-storms; H 82, L 66 Tuesday: T-storms; H 80, L 59 Wednesday: T-storms; H 77, L 58 Council Asks to Cut Class Days The Faculty Council has requested more autonomy in determining the length of the academic calendar. By Daniel Thigpen Assistant University Editor The UNC Faculty Council passed a resolution Friday asking for more autonomy when determining its acade mic calendar in hopes of decreasing the number of classroom days. The resolution urges the UNC-sys tem Board of Governors to allow each institution in the 16-campus system to modify its 150-day academic year. In their first meeting of the year, council members also asked that the University return to a shortened 140- to 144-day school year in an attempt to accom modate students who participate in summer educa tional activities. The resolution will be sent to Provost Robert Shelton for fur ther evaluation. The BOG lengthened the school year to 150 days in 1996 in the final days of former UNC-system President C.D. Spangler’s administration. Spangler implemented the extension in hopes of enhancing the educational qual ity of the state’s public universities. Faculty members who support die res olution claim that a 150-day academic year causes complications in collabora tive efforts with other universities and hinders students’ participation in summer education. The council’s Educational Policy Committee presented the issue with the concern that the current calen dar does not allow enough time between the end of summer school and the begin ning of the school year. Committee members have particular interest modifying UNC’s academic schedule so students who partake in sum mer enrichment activities - such as studying abroad and interning - have enough time to complete them. “This is an issue of students who do participate in research, in summer activities," said Douglas Crawford-Brown, chairman of environmental sciences and engineering. Proponents of the change cite the dis crepancy between Duke University and UNC’s school years, causing problems for the new Robertson Scholars program. The program allows students to take class es at both schools. Scheduling conflicts arose when the program’s officials real ized that Duke’s fall semester began on Aug. 27, while UNC’s began on Aug. 21. Faculty Council Chairwoman Sue Estroff said faculty are not attempting to cut back on work days. “(The resolution) simply refen to classroom days," Estroff said. “The students have the 75-day semester, (the faculty does) not” Anew calendar would give faculty more time to revise their courses, the resolution stated. The council also approved a measure Friday for more thorough reviews of departmental grading standards. To assess grade inflation, the resolution calls for annual departmental evalua tions of grading standards and submis sion of reports to their deans. Former Educational Policy Committee Chairman Boone Turchi proposed an amendment, which also was approved, that would require the committee to report the evaluations to the Faculty Council at least once a year. “I think the intent of the amendment is to keep the issue from being buried.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. If* Faculty Council Chairwoman Sue Estroff said faculty are not trying to cut ba<k on their work days.

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