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Forum Highlights Various Wishes for Parking Lot
Bv Adrienne Clark
Staff Writer
The Orange-Chatham Sierra Club
and UNO’s Student Environmental
Action Coalition sponsored a forum to
gauge public opinion about uses for
parking lot No. 5.
The reformation of the 75,000 square
foot lot, located on West Franklin Street,
is a result of the Chapel Hill Downtown
Small Area Plan, adopted in March
2000, to encourage residential and office
development in the area.
UNC students, Chapel Hill residents
Officials Gather Feedback on Construction
The department of housing
held forums with a series
of presentations on the new
residence hall communities.
Bv Jenny McLendon
Staff Writer
It wasn’t just Chinese food and subs
that brought students to talk to housing
department officials Tuesday night.
South Campus residents attended
forums Tuesday in Ehringhaus and
Craige residence halls to exchange ques
tions and ideas about housing construc
tion. The Department of Housing and
Residential Education presented brief
descriptions of the new facilities and
gathered student feedback.
Housing department Director
Christopher Payne said Tuesday’s meet
ings were the first in a six-part series of
forums. “Open forums are scheduled
CONGRESS
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the N.C. General Assembly.
Many members, including Speaker
Mark Townsend, said they believe a ref
erendum supporting an idea or sending
a message, as opposed to one enacting a
tangible, on-campus change, would set
a “dangerous precedent.”
Townsend said congressional resolu
tions, not referendums, should be the
preferred means of expressing student
sentiment.
“This is why we were elected,” said
Townsend, in regard to Congress’
power to pass resolutions as a show of
student support for an issue.
Townsend said he specifically fears
that a referendum supporting an idea
“opens the door for anyone on campus”
to do the same.
But Gregory Wahl, Student Affairs
Committee chairman, said he favors
placing the referendum on the ballot,
emphasizing students’ right to do so as
expressed in the Student Code.
“Can you imagine we’re setting a
dangerous precedent by letting students
exercise their right?” he said.
Earlier in the meeting, Congress swore
in its six newest members, who were
elected in Tuesday’s campus elections.
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and Town Council members were invit
ed to the forum to hear opinions from
four panelists and voice their opinions
afterward.
The meeting was opened by Sierra
Club Chairman Robert Porter, who said
Chapel Hill should use the space to keep
the town unique.
“We need to be a special place, not
just another place,” Porter said. “Good
public places bring people together.”
Local business officials also attended
the forum.
Chiropractor Chas Gaertner, who
works near the area in question, said
throughout campus to involve all stu
dents who might be interested in attend
ing,” Payne said. “It’s an opportunity to
share information and listen to comments
and questions from students that we can
include in our plan to move forward.”
During the forums, Payne and Lisa
Wells, assistant housing department
director, outlined the amenities of the
four buildings being built adjacent to
Ehringhaus, Morrison, Craige and
Hinton James residence halls.
Construction of the residence halls,
which began last fall, is scheduled to be
completed by fall 2002, and the halls’
openings will create 900 new bed spaces.
Wells said the halls will increase the
intellectual climate on campus. “These are
not just places to live - they are places for
faculty offices and seminar spaces to cre
ate an academic bridge from the southern
region to the heart of campus,” she said.
Wells also addressed the names of the
new buildings, an issue which has not
yet been officially resolved. “Because of
POSITIONS
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tions. “We still have a large number of
vacated positions, and a number of
positions open up each year,” Charest
said. “There are a number of spots open
for people looking for them.”
Charest said each department of
UNC-CH employees had its budget
reduced but that not every department
was able to accommodate this cut with
out eliminating certain staff positions.
“Every department had their budget tar
geted,” she said. “They each had to
make hard decisions about how to deal
with that cut.”
Heuer said the employee forum will
try to prevent the elimination of more
staff positions by looking into the pos
sibility of reducing work hours to 32
hours a week. He also said the forum
will continue to explore the viability of
using forfeited faculty salary increases to
fund employee salaries.
“Our role is to look into every possi
ble avenue to protect our staff, and we
have to find out whether it would be
permissible to accept voluntary faculty
pay cuts,” Heuer said. “We may not
have the legislative authority to do this
now, but this is something we should
look at for the future.”
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there are too many buildings surround
ing the area to make an open space
work.
“There’s a major flaw in the plans,”
Gaertner said.
James Morgan, founder of Art on
Weaver, spoke on the benefits of putting
a public work of art in the space.
“Public art has the ability to make a
space special and memorable,” Morgan
said.
UNC Professor Greg Gangi, former
chairman of the Sierra Club, said creat
ing a town plaza would help residents
get to know other residents.
the long nature of the naming process,
the housing department is recommend
ing that the University give interim
names of Morrison-South, Ehringhaus-
South, Hinton James-North and Craige-
North to the buildings,” she said.
Wells said the halls will have air-condi
tioned suites with every two rooms joined
by a private bathroom. Each floor will
offer study lounges and common areas.
A campuswide rate increase for resi
dents in air-conditioned rooms will
absorb the costs of air-conditioning the
new buildings. Current rates are $1,400
per semester for a non-air-conditioned
room and $1,585 for an air-conditioned
room, but the new halls will widen the
differential between the two.
The University plans to give current
South Campus residents priority for the
new halls during the housing assignment
process. “We asked students in a survey
what their thoughts were on the assign
ment process,” Wells said. “Our recom
mendation at this point is that assignments
HIDDEN ART
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Farrow is the featured artist in the
Center, and her work reflects a recent
spiritual journey to India, said Tessa
Dean, who guided the center’s part of.
the tour.
The guides at each location were eager
to inform the group of future exhibits and
gallery visiting hours, expressing the lack
of attention paid to campus art.
“We get 12,000 visitors a year, but most
of them are school groups or retired peo
ple,” said Laura Baxley, assistant keeper
of the North Carolina Collection Gallery.
Baxley met the tour in Wilson Library.
Perusing through the new exhibit of nat
uralist studies, the tour group got a priv
ileged look at several pieces not usually
available for public viewing, including a
watercolor by Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of
writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
ADVISING
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especially during slower times of the year.
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“(Open space) would help (residents)
meet new people and learn new things,”
Gangi said. “F*ublic space provides a
sense of wonder. People would experi
ence diversity.”
The forum comes on the heels of an
Oct. 10 council meeting where several
SEAC representatives shared their ideas
for the parking lot with town officials.
At that meeting, the council chose to
wait on the measure and passed two res
olutions -one stating members’ goals
for the downtown area and the other
approving the process of putting togeth
er the workshop.
should be made based on academic class,
with students who lived through the con
struction for two years getting priority."
Some students said they want to live in
the new halls but aren’t sure of their
chances. “I’m interested in living in the
dorms, but I can’t control the fact that I
came here this year,” said Justin Pentz, a
freshman living in Ehringhaus. “But I’ve
had to suffer through the construction as
well.” Jennifer Stone, a freshman from
Cary, expressed concern about the pro
posed rate increases. “I think people living
in the dorms should have to foot a little bit
more of the bill because they are getting to
live somewhere nicer than the other stu
dents - it’s almost like Granville,” she said.
But freshman Roba Ghanayem said
she was hopeful about the prospect of
living in anew hall. “If I have a chance,
I’d really like to live there next year,”
she said. “They’re really nice dorms.”
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As many of the tour’s artwork was
“found,” so were several of the
University’s galleries.
“I’ve never been up to Wilson
Library," junior Kinsey Christiansen said.
“I just never knew how much they had.”
Wrapping up the tour, the attendees
gathered in the Union Art Gallery for
refreshments and a look at the latest stu
dent exhibition, an off-beat collection of
collage works by David Townsend.
Townsend, now an artist displayed on
campus himself, expressed many of the
feelings that prompted the tour.
“1 check out the art here (in the Union
Art Gallery) and at Hanes Art Center,
but other than that, 1 don’t know where
to look for the art on campus,” he said.
To that statement a tour participant
replied, “See, you should have gone on
the tour.”
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Although only about 30 students and
advisers attended, Sexton and Cannon
said they were pleased with the event.
Cannon said a great deal of information
and a variety of topics were discussed.
“We are available for them - we
encourage students to come see us,"
Cannon said. “Students are our business.”
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No official action has been taken at
this point to determine the parking lot’s
future.
Gangi also said public space would
increase the interaction between Chapel
Hill residents and UNC students.
“Public space has the opportunity to
fuse town and gown together,” Gangi
said. “Public spaces encourage public
conversation.”
Council member Pat Evans said one
of the problems of making a town plaza
is that local residents live far from the
downtown area.
“Most people don’t live within walk
Freshman Seizes Seat
In Congress Flection
By John Frank
Staff Writer
A week after technical problems
forced the postponement of the District
17 special election, freshman Anthony
Stokes was elected Tuesday to Student
Congress.
Stokes received 52.5 percent of the
vote over freshman Natalie Russell, who
garnered 40 percent. There were also 16
write-in votes, said Emily Margolis,
Board of Elections chairwoman.
“It feels great to win,” said Stokes, a
journalism major. “I really wanted to be
involved in student government.”
Margolis said District 17, which
includes Craige and Ehringhaus resi
dence halls and Odum Village, was the
only election pushed back because of a
computer “fluke.” The other five dis
tricts up for election were decided last
Wednesday.
Despite Student Congress officials’
concern about the possibility of low voter
turnout, a total of 160 people voted on
Tuesday - the largest voter turnout for
any districts involved in last week’s spe
cial election. “We had very active candi
dates, so 1 figured we would have (a
good turnout),” Margolis said.
Speaker of Student Congress Mark
Townsend was not as optimistic about
the level of participation before the elec
tion. “There is usually low voter turnout
because a lot of people don’t know
about us and what we do,” he said.
Stokes said the election’s delay proba
bly hurt his campaign, even though it
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ing distance,” Evans said.
Robert Humphreys, executive direc
tor of the Chapel Hill Downtown
Commission, said downtown Chapel
Hill already is a place for people to meet
each other.
Humphreys said he thinks the town
should hold forum to come up with an
alternate use of the space.
“This is a community-wide effort,” he
said. “We need to figure out what will
draw people there.”
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gave him more time to hand out fliers at
Ehringhaus Residence Hall, where he
lives, to inform students about the new
election date.
“It was a lot more work having to go
back and redo what we had already
done,” Stokes said.
Margolis said problems in one of the
three Student Central servers caused
errors for students logging on to vote
between 7 a.m and noon in all races last
Wednesday. Margolis posted a notice on
Student Central announcing the post
ponement of the District 17 special elec
tion at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
She said the early notice of the post
ponement helped make Tuesday’s
turnout strong.
Although the election filled six empty
congressional districts, five seats remain
open because of students’ lack of inter
est in running for the positions.
These districts are for graduate stu
dents, and Congress officials said they
usually remain unrepresented.
Despite congressional by-laws that
require a special election every month
to fill the vacant seats, Townsend said
there will not be any more elections
until February.
Both Stokes and Russell said the cam
paign was exciting, and the competition
helped to bring out more participation
from students. Russell said, “I wish we
could both be on Congress because we
both wanted it so bad.”
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