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2 Thursday, August 29, 2002 Carrboro Resident Fights Town on Traffic Pole Installation By Jamie Dougher Assistant City Editor Carrboro officials want to build traf fic signals at the crossing of Rosemary and Main streets to make the area safer and more pedestrian-friendly, but one resident has voiced opposition. Ted Bleecker, the owner of Bleecker Street Studios at 406 E. Main St. in Carrboro is upset because the town wants to build one of the traffic signals in front of his property. The other two signals will be located INVESTING From Page 1 Yusko said. This year any endowment that comes out positive or even stable will outper form most funds, said Damon Manetta, a spokesman for the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Manetta said that nationwide he expects endowments to drop between 1 and 3 percent, although official numbers for 2001-02 are not yet available. “If there are any increases, they will be so slight that they won’t make much of a difference,” he said. According to the fiscal year 2000-01 survey, funds in college endowments fell on average by 3.6 percent. The size of UNC’s endowment that year went from about sl.l billion to about $1.05 billion - roughly a 5 per cent decrease. UNC is one of 43 schools that invest ed more than $1 billion dollars in the 2000-01 fiscal year. Jud Koss, managing director at Commonfund, which oversees two pri vate funds for UNC, said endowment losses nationwide are reeking havoc on campus projects. us at 7 Growing Up Hyphenated: our opening Seeking Meaning and Identity in 2 forum! \ the Globalizing American South a Rockefeller Foundation Program Kevin Foy, Mayor, Chapel Mill Sarnia Serageldin, Writer, dowel Ist, Community Activist flolo Martinez, Director of Mispanic/Latino Affairs, Governor's Office Maria Palmer, Pastor, Iglesia Unida de Cristo Roger Spencer, Professor of Psychiatry Jim Peacock, UCIS Director and Professor of Anthropology Sigma [fly] Alpha Just like any fraternity or sorority, Army Institute of Leadership offers MSjJTIKB teamwork, camaraderie and friendship. Plus, you'll get to do chal lenging stuff like this that'll help prep you for the real world. Stop by the Army Institute of Leadership department We won't rush you. Ifet ?'fmCEjl ARMY INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP Unlike any other college course you can take. For more information call 962-5546. near the Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Performance Bike Shop. “I’ve put a lot of effort forth, so I don’t want this great, big ugly pole there,” Bleecker said. “I don’t like poles.” Bleecker said he wants town officials and the N.C. Department of Transportation to consider building the pole directly across the street from his building, an art studio. “I find it aesthetically very disturb ing,” he said. “It’s a 35-foot pole when my building’s only 28 feet.” Carrboro Town Manager Bob “Shoot-for-the-lights-out returns from past years are now at negative levels,” Koss said. At UNC, officials didn’t have trouble allocating 5 percent of the interest used to fund campus improvements and scholarships. But Koss said, “Most investment committees are experiencing their first bear market in a long time, or the first time ever.” But Yusko said the University’s Foundation Investment Fund board of directors anticipated the downturn. He hopes to look past the recent trou bles of the market and pull even with long-term endowment increases. Over the last five years the fund has increased 9 percent, and over the last 20 years it is up 14 percent. “We are still plunging forward and continuing to invest,” Yusko said. Manetta, the association analyst, said universities have adapted their invest ments to reflect the state of the economy and are being optimistic about this fiscal year. “2003 is off to a choppy start,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a positive year.” The University Editor can be reached udesk@unc.edu. Join UCIS as we launch a year-long series of seminars, community forums and workshops looking at issues affecting immigrants in our local community and throughout the South. August 29th Toy Lounge, Dey Hall 7:oopm to 9:oopm reception with light refreshments to follow aU/a UCIS University Center for International Studies www.ucis.unc.edu Morgan said the town is replacing the traffic signal because business owners expressed concern about the safety of pedestrians crossing the street in a busy downtown area. “The other alternative is to cut down our oak tree,” he said. The oak tree Morgan refers to is locat ed across the street from Bleecker’s prop erty and is about a foot in diameter and 25 feet tall. Bleecker said the tree is a white oak tree under power lines that the town has to trim to keep the tree from getting too tall. “They’re destroying the whole essence of the tree,” he said. TENURE From Page 1 they can be sued for it. That’s chilling.” Tenure is designed to promote free dom of teaching and research while guar anteeing economic security, she said. Tenure at UNC is a guarantee of employment and protection from loss of position on the basis of academic free dom, said Executive Associate Provost Bernadette Gray-Little. “Historically, the idea was to guaran tee employment so a faculty member couldn’t be fired for teaching some thing,” she said. “The idea was to pre serve the freedom and the diversity of professors and the university.” According to last year’s records, there are 945 tenured professors at UNC, 406 SAT From Page 1 within a couple of weeks.” Dishmon said the setback will not deter Orange County High School’s dedication to excellence. “We will con tinue to push forward and look to increase our scores year after year.” In the Chapel Hill-Carrboro district, officials say the gains made by black stu- News Bleecker suggested the town cut down the tree and landscape the area or cus tomize a more expensive pole that could go around the tree. “You can build a pole that’s going to do anything,” he said. At die Carrboro Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday night, Bleecker asked for compensation if the traffic light is built on his property. He wants the town to either relieve him of paying his property taxes for 10 years or simply offer him $50,000. “I don’t want the damn money, I just don’t want the pole,” Bleecker said. tenured associate professors and three tenured assistant professors. The latter are a rarity at all universities. Typically, a faculty member can opt for the tenure act after working at UNC for about 12 years, Gray-Litde said. A professor’s request for tenure goes through three UNC committees, the third being the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, she said. Gray-Litde said that once a professor is tenured, it is permanent. “Practically, it means a faculty mem ber is guaranteed security of employ ment on the basis of good perfor mance,” she said. “That’s why it’s know as ‘permanent tenure.’ It’s rare for a fac ulty member to lose tenure.” But they undergo a post-tenure review every five years, Gray-Litde said. UNC faculty members can lose dents legitimize the system’s efforts to decrease the disparity between the per formance of white students and minorities. “It’s a positive sign,” said Diane Villwock, director of testing and pro gram evaluation for Chapel Hill- Carrboro schools. “There are other signs we measure by, but we’re thrilled.” Villwock attributed the scores to the effect of a program called Advancement Via Individual Determination. “AVID has over 50 percent African- American students,” Villwock said. “We gear the program toward B/C students and teach them study and note-taking skills, tutor them and have a SAT prep course once they get to the right age.” AVID, which serves 280 students, is an elective course that is first offered in the seventh grade, although it has only been around long enough for the recendy grad uated seniors to have been involved with AVID for four years. “We are going to see improvement as more kids come through the program,” Villwock said. “When you have that kind of assistance for that length _ lt4 tHt ■;]& carclina jdlL DtehjTEif DINING SERVICES VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.DINING.UNC.EDU FOR MEAL PLAN DESCRIPTIONS AND PRICES. SIGN UP ONLINE AT WWW.ONECARD.UNC.EDU OR IN PERSON ATTHE ONE CARD OFFICE. Morgan said that the DOT is required to offer Bleecker some form of compensation but that it will be closer to market value and nowhere near $50,000. “The DOT has to buy a por tion of his land to build the poles,” he said. “He’ll be given fair market value.” Morgan said Carrboro will not pro vide any further compensation for the land beyond what the DOT offers. Bleecker said that when the DOT ini tially approached him about building the pole, he was told it would be 6 to 8 feet high and would not be a traffic sig tenure for gross misconduct, incompe tence or neglect of duty and can be either discharged, suspended -with or without pay - or demoted. The UNC Provost’s Office formed a special task force last year to look into possibly revamping the tenure process. The Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Task Force, formed at the request of Faculty Council Chairwoman Sue Estroff, is expected to present a report to the Faculty Council and the provost as early as September. Estroff said the firing of a tenured professor at UNC is not a common occurrence - she knows of only one such case. She declined further com ment on the issue. The State & National Editor can be reached atstntdesk@unc.edu. of time, you are going to see results.” Villwock did say that SAT scores are not the end-all indicator for achievement “We have several things we pay atten tion to,” she said. “We look at other stan dardized tests. In third through eighth grade, kids take the end-of-grade tests, and in high school they take end-of-course. We take all that into consideration.” The average SAT score for the city sys tem overall remained first in the state at 1177, down eight points from last year with more than 90 percent of seniors taking the exam. Chapel Hill High School remained first in the state among neighborhood high schools with 1182, while East Chapel Hill is ranked second with 1172. Villwock said the eight-point decrease in the average was not unusual or even unexpected. “If you look at the trend, we have a couple years of scores going up a little, then they go down some, but they always come back up more than before.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. Sailij (Ear Hppl nal, so he agreed. But he said when workers came to put in the pole, they dug a hole for the 35- foot-tall traffic signal instead. “It’s manip ulating and lying - deceit,” he said. “The DOT is the biggest gorilla in the state.” Alderman Mark Dorosin said the board requested a report from the town staff to be presented at next Tuesday’s meeting so the aldermen can have all die information available to discuss the issue. The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. House OKs Continuing Resolution Staff Report The N.C. House passed a resolution Wednesday prolonging the state’s oper ation under the 2001-02 budget, simul taneously delaying a provision cutting off lawmaker’s expense allowance. The N.C. Senate passed a similar res olution Tuesday continuing state spend ing at last year’s level until Sept. 30 or until a budget for the 2002-03 fiscal year is approved. The Senate resolution also contained a provision severing lawmakers’ $lO4-a -day allowance starting Sept. 1. But the House version of the resolu tion set the end date at Oct. 1. Because the House altered die resolution, it will return to the Senate for another vote. If the resolution is not approved by Sept. 1, state spending could halt as the two chambers have yet to agree on a budget for this fiscal year. The budget proposals contain signif icant differences - both in revenue cal culations and suggested appropriations. But the two chambers must reach a consensus in conference committee in order to craft a final budget. tTlfp ioily SJar Hppl RO. Box 3257. Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Kim Minugh, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. © 2002 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved
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