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Friday, August 23, 2002
2 Fraternities Lose Houses,
1 Closes Doors for Sprinklers
Renovations result of Chapel Hill mandate
By Jennifer Johnson
Staff Writer
Three houses in Fraternity Court are
now sporting boarded-up windows
while repairs are being made, but when
the boards come down, new renova
tions won’t be the only change for some
of them.
Due to the high cost involved in
installing new sprinklers and revamping
old houses, some fraternities have had
to give up their homes.
The Chapel Hill Town Council
passed an ordinance in 1996 mandating
that all fraternity and sorority houses
install sprinkler systems by November
2001. The requirement was prompted
by a 1996 fire in the Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity house that killed five students.
As of now, all houses not under con
struction have met the requirements.
Jay Anhom, director of Greek affairs,
said that the sprinkler systems themselves
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and that the renovations can bring the
total for each house to about $1 million.
The Sigma Nu fraternity house at 109
Fraternity Court is closed, and the chap
ter is inactive. Anhom said the Sigma Nu
alumni decided to close the house and
the chapter but hope to reorganize in fall
2003. He said the house will probably be
rented out to other fraternities until then.
The Pi Lambda Phi fraternity has not
lost its chapter but has lost its house,
located at 107 Fraternity Court. The
house has been sold to Guy Solie, head
of the realty company Trinity Properties,
who owns several houses around Duke
University and N.C. State University.
Solie plans to divide the house into six
air-conditioned suites with amenities like
Internet connections. He said the house
will not be a fraternity house but could be
rented by individual fraternity members.
“The dorms are deplorable, and I’m hor
rified that all the dorms don’t have air
conditioning,” Solie said. “1 have a vision
for University housing in 2002.”
Construction on the house will prob
ably be finished this fall, but the house
will not open until the spring, Solie said.
Pi Lambda Phi is still an active chap
ter, even though it had to give up its
house. The members are living around
Chapel Hill, said K.C. Carter, the fra
ternity’s president.
The house occupied by Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity at 106 Fraternity Court is
being completely remodeled after the
new sprinkler system is installed.
Anthony Wood, a representative of
Resolute Building Cos., the company
doing the work on the house, said that the
building has been gutted and that new
construction will begin in September.
Wilder Harvard, the president of Pi
Kappa Alpha, said the fraternity alum
ni, who provide the majority of the
funds for the construction, decided to
completely redo the house while new
sprinklers are installed. “Part of being a
(member) is the house, and the alumni
love coming back to the house,”
Harvard said. “We’re very fortunate.”
The Pi Kappa Alpha house is sched
uled to be finished in January. Until
then, Harvard said, fraternity members
are meeting in houses around Chapel
Hill that have been passed down to the
brothers over the years.
“Last year it was almost depressing
because we didn’t have a house, and
there were so many unknowns,”
Harvard said. “But this year, we know
we’re going to get it.”
Harvard said he is looking forward to
the opening of the houses in Fraternity
Court because it hasn’t seemed the same
with so many houses under construction.
“It honestly can’t be called Frat
Court right now.”
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Town Aids UNC Development Plan
Officials approve
several new projects
By Jon Dougherty
City Editor
Chapel Hill and UNC relations
appear to remain amiable as the town
recently approved building permits
allowing the University to begin work
on several projects.
In mid-July, Chapel Hill Planning
Director Roger Waldon gave his staff’s
approval of the first projects laid out in
the University’s Master Plan.
The Chapel Hill Town Council gave
the first part of the plan - the
Development Plan - its stamp of
approval last October, although specific
blueprints were not reviewed by town
staff until just prior to construction.
The first projects in line axe a $lO mil
lion dollar renovation of Alexander,
Connor and Winston residence halls
and the $64 million construction of the
Ramshead project, which will house a
cafeteria, a parking deck and student
recreational facilities.
Both construction projects already
have begun.
Bush Continues to Back Pakistani Leader
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Despite his
abrupt move to grab more power,
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is
“still tight with us in the war against ter
ror,” President Bush declared Thursday.
Bush promised to be in touch with
Musharraf “in more ways than one”
about Musharraf’s decision to amend
Pakistan’s constitution and greatly
expand his authority. But Bush said he is
not inclined to pull his support from
Musharraf because the Pakistani leader
has lent vital help to the U.S. effort to
nab Taliban and al-Qaida fugitives who
These projects will be the campus
community’s first introduction to the
University’s Master Plan, a document
town officials and University adminis
trators labored over for more than a
year.
Waldon said the town has a regulato
ry role in the process now that con
struction is beginning.
“Each building plan goes through a
three-week review process,” Waldon
said.
“State law mandates that any building
built on state property must also meet
local codes.
“We have engineers that look at the
blueprints and make sure the codes are
being met. The planning board then
considers the recommendations and
issues a site planning permit.”
Once the town gave its approval to
the Development Plan, it accepted a
position of minimal control over the
proceedings to follow, said Richard
Ducker, an professor at UNC’s School
of Government.
“The town has the right to review the
blueprints, make suggestions and raise
concerns over the effect to the commu
nity, but they essentially cannot halt
construction.”
The town and University’s relation
fled to his country from Afghanistan.
“He’s still tight with us in the war
against terror, and that’s what I appre
ciate,” Bush told reporters while visiting
Squires Mountain in Oregon. “He
understands that we’ve got to keep al-
Qaida on the run. ... And I appreciate
his strong support.”
Deputy Secretary of State Richard
Armitage is due to arrive in Islamabad on
Saturday to talk with Musharraf about
the constitutional changes announced
Wednesday, said State Department
deputy spokesman Philip Reeker.
U.S. officials will make sure that
Musharraf, a military general, is aware of
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ship has become a hot topic in recent
years as the University looks to expand
its boundaries and facilities while the
town looks to spare its residents some of
the ills associated with being a college
town.
The University has drawn fire from
some businesses and residents for pur
chasing property in the downtown busi
ness district.
This can reduce retail floor space and
take the buildings off the town’s tax
rolls.
Robert Humphreys, executive direc
tor of Chapel Hill’s Downtown
Commission, has said he isn’t concerned
so much about the University buying
property in the business district.
He said he is more concerned about
the loss of store front locations, which
means fewer businesses move to the
area.
But for now, UNC has a green light
to begin several other projects in coming
months.
Among those are the SB7 million sci
ence complex that will house lecture
classrooms, student laboratories and an
astronomy observation deck.
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the importance of restoring civilian rule,
Bush said. “Obviously, to the extent that,
you know, our friends promote democ
racy, that’s important,” the president said.
Musharraf seized power in 1999
through a bloodless coup. The United
States initially treated him as a pariah,
but Musharraf managed to turn that
around after Sept. 11 last year by cutting
support for the Taliban in Afghanistan
and joining the anti-terror effort.
Musharraf announced Wednesday
several steps that would allow him to
dissolve the elected parliament and
appoint military leaders and Supreme
Court justices.