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Phase I Complete; Student
Union Addition Open for Use
Renovation of the old Union
building to begin in December
By Meredith Nicholson
Assistant University Editor
With the snip of a pair of giant scissors over a Carolina blue
ribbon, officials declared the new addition to the Frank Porter
Graham Student Union formally open to the public Monday.
Union Director Don Luse, Chancellor James Moeser,
Carolina Union Activities Board President Charles Phaneuf
and Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Dean
Bresciani addressed a crowd of nearly 100 students, faculty
members and staff members.
The addition originally was scheduled to open June 13,
2001, but it was delayed eight times due to problems with the
contractors.
Phaneuf said that students were disappointed with the delays
but that they did their best with the resources that were available
to them. He said the addition will allow CUAB to serve the stu
dents better and that the Union was designed with the help of
student focus groups to make it as student-oriented as possible.
Luse called the building a symbol of the Union’s rich his
tory and promising future.
Moeser said the ribbon cutting was the culmination of an
exciting day at UNC, including the opening of the
Undergraduate Library and the contested summer reading
discussion sections.
“I’ve never been more proud than I am today,” he said.
Moeser quoted a speech given by Frank Porter Graham at
the opening of the Student Union in 1968 in which Graham
encouraged students to use the meeting space to play but also
to fight problems such as war, poverty, discrimination and
personal and moral degradation.
Bresciani said the culture of student life at UNC is unique
among higher education.
“And what could be a more fitting symbol of student life?” he
asked, indicating the new Union addition.
The addition - which includes a computer lab and copy
center - will be open 24 hours a day.
After the plagued Phase I delays, officials evaluated the per
formance of the contractors and decided it would be best to
repackage the remaining work and bid it out to new contrac
tors, said Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for plan
ning and construction.
Runberg said Phases II and 111 - the renovation of the old
Union - will be packaged as one 10-month project rather than
two six-month stages.
Preliminary work on the phases is expected to begin after
the semester ends in December, and actual construction will
begin in January. Luse said that the new Union addition
passed all state inspections and that people began moving in
last month. There is still some final touches to be done, includ
ing hanging some signs, he said.
Though parts of the Union are still being finished, most of
the building is fully functional.
Union officials are still working to wire a meeting room in
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Previously, construction on the Union was divided into three phases.
With Phase I finished, officials decided to combine Phase II and Phase
111 each slated to take six months into one 10-month phase.
June 2001: first projected completion date
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-j December 2001: third projected completion date
• February 2002: fourth projected completion date
May 2002: fifth projected completion date
June 13: sixth projected completion date
July 2002: the Union opened
late December 2002: preliminary work for Phase II begins
January 2003: construction for Phase II begins
October 2003: the Union opens
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Dean Bresciani, interim vice chancellor of student
affairs, speaks at the new Union ribbon cutting.
the basement to the campus network so Student Congress
meetings can be broadcast on Student Television.
Luse said he will be working with student government offi
cials in the upcoming weeks to determine what equipment
needs to be purchased.
The orange construction fence that surrounded the build
ing during construction is down, and bus service resumed last
Friday. Signs indicating the new bus stops in front of the
Union will be installed soon, Luse said.
There is a person staffing the information desk, and meet
ing space is already reserved. The copy center is up and run
ning as well.
Student Body Vice President Aaron Hiller said student gov
ernment’s transition from Suite C of the old Union into the
new offices went smoothly.
Hiller also said he thinks it is beneficial for the University
to have anew Union that is functional because it is one of the
public faces of the University.
The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu.
University
Budget Woes Slow University Hiring
By Meredith Nicholson
Assistant University Editor
UNC is looking to hire two vice
chancellors and three deans at a time
when budget deliberations are making it
difficult for University officials to predict
resources available for filling adminis
trative vacancies.
Positions that are empty now or that
will be vacated in the next year are the
vice chancellors for information tech
nology and student affairs and the deans
of the education, pharmacy and social
work schools.
UNC Provost Robert Shelton said
officials are forming small groups to
determine what to look for in the search
committees for the vacant vice chancel
lor positions.
Shelton said officials are not begin
ning the search right now partly
because of state budget concerns.
“We need to know what our budget is
going to be before we can start our
search,” he said. “We have to be able to
tell the successful candidate what kind of
resources they are going to have.”
Shelton said the University is not
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didates what to expect for some time, so
officials made it clear from the begin
ning that the interims would be in place
long term.
He said he is very confident in Dean
Bresciani, interim vice chancellor for stu
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chancellor for information technology
Bresciani said his progression from
associate vice chancellor for student ser
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“It’s not as if there was a lot going on
that I wasn’t already aware of or
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Bresciani said that Shelton’s and
Chancellor James Moeser’s support has
made it clear to him that they trust him
and that he doesn’t feel overwhelmed
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Shelton said officials plan to start the
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searches will last six months to one year,
Shelton said.
He said the new vice chancellors
could be in office as soon as next fall,
but officials will not rush for the sake of
permanency.
Shelton said it is not uncommon for
simultaneous searches to be conducted
and added that having five searches for
top-level administrators at the same time
is “a little high but not unusual."
The University is close to hiring a
dean for the School of Social Work. The
name of the final candidate will be sub
mitted to the UNC Board of Trustees
soon, and if all goes well, the new dean
could start as early as October, said
Shelton.
The search for the dean of the School
of Pharmacy is well under way, and
there are 24 active candidates, he said.
Shelton said the search for a dean of
the School of Education has just begun.
Madeleine Grumet announced this sum
mer that she will vacate the position in
June 2003.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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