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Wednesday, September 18, 2002
UNC Collaborates With Chinese on Beijing Olympic Study
By Arman Tolentino
Staff Writer
As city leaders in Beijing prepare to
host the 2008 Summer Olympics, facul
ty and students at UNC will follow their
every move.
They are part of “Beijing’s Olympic
Decade,” a project that focuses on the
10-year period that began in 1998 in
which momentous change is expected
to impact the city and the surrounding
area because of the Olympic Games.
Twenty researchers from the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
will collaborate with 30 UNC faculty
Orange County Coalition
Aims to Educate on Drought
By Teri Dombrowski
Staff Writer
With the region’s drought becoming
more severe, Orange County officials
have created a program to fight the
problem and prepare for future disasters.
H2orange, which went into effect in
is a coalition of agencies
and nonprofit organizations working to
educate the public about the severity of
the drought, both now and in the future.
Eric Griffin, H2orange chairman, said
the group hopes to improve conservation.
“H2orange was created because the
county wanted a coordinated response to
the drought,” Griffin said. “There were
many agencies doing stuff for the drought
that we wanted everything to be coordi
nated so they wouldn’t duplicate efforts.”
Although H2orange has been oper
ating for only a month, he said progress
has been made toward awareness.
“Once word got out, it took out on its
own,” Griffin said. “No other county is
doing this as far as I know.”
He said H2orange essentially is an
education campaign, with a drought
hotline and community outreach pro
grams teaching water-saving tips.
Another important part of H2orange
is its donation campaign, the Drought
Drive, which Griffin said allows nonprof
it organizations and private donors to con
tribute bottled water and paper products
to those who are unable to afford them.
He said this drive will give people
access to these products, which might be
required if the drought persists.
“People without finances do not have
the resources, so it is hard to reduce,”
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UNC professorsjudith Farquhar.Jim
Hevia, and Gang Yue are coordinating
the project which consists of a multidis
ciplinary group of studies designed to
explore the ways the Olympics will
transform Beijing and the Western
Pacific area.
“This study is unique,” Farquhar said.
“Past groups viewed the Olympics as an
international institution of politics. We,
on the other hand, are focusing on the
city and reaching out into all fields of
study to make it a multidimensional
effort.”
The study of China will be particu
Griffin said. “You can’t ask someone to
do something if they can’t afford it.”
H2orange also is working with the
Orange County Department of Social
Services and the Inter-Faith Council in its
efforts to spread information about ways
to save water and host donor drives.
Recently H2orange worked with Wal-
Mart to give 1,000 gallons of water to
organizations in the area through the com
pany’s “Disaster Relief” program, said
Wal-Mart representative Steve Dooley.
Dooley added that Wal-Mart plans to
stay closely in tune with the drought to
send relief to help the community.
Greg Feller, spokesman for Orange
Water and Sewer Authority, the water
supplier for the Chapel Hill and Carrboro
area, said H2orange helps provide
much-needed information throughout the
county. “H2orange is a good initiative by
Orange County and county agencies,” he
said. “H2orange’s efforts complement
OWASA and bring additional resources.”
Griffin said he foresees the program as
a long-term plan, adding that the drought
disaster will not be solved any time soon.
“H2orange is going to be a multi
hazard disaster planning group,” he
said. “Disasters have to be planned for.
We will talk about zoning, limiting
development and other solutions.”
Griffin said that although the organi
zation does not have a lot of direction as
to future activities, he is confident that
H2Orange will be around for a long time.
“It will still be needed to plan for any
future problems.”
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larly interesting because of the country’s
ongoing modernization process, Hevia
said.
“A massive amount of economic
growth is occurring right now, and this
will happen alongside the preparation
for the games.”
Hevia said the transformation of
China is one of the most astonishing
world events.
“The city of Beijing is going to be
totally rebuilt with a totally new infra
structure,” he said.
Farquhar said she hopes the project
will deepen and broaden the
University’s ties with scholars, policy
QURAN
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The judge has not yet set a date to
decide on the motion.
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STADIUM
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many people were around,” she said.
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Jon Watson of Rifenberg
Construction, the other company work
ing on the project, said he is concerned
about pedestrians. He said speeding
cars might be dangerous to pedestrians
whose sidewalk space has been dimin
ished. The crew is monitoring the situ
ation, but if it gets worse they might
alert the Department of Public Safety.
“Hopefully this phase of construction
will be the most disruptive on Stadium
Drive,” said Tim Saunders, transporta
tion planner for the DPS.
Saunders said he does not anticipate
further inconveniences, but he said
completion dates are tentative, delays
are possible and there soon will be sim
ilar construction on Ridge Road.
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makers, artists and the overall popula
tion in China.
“Part of the overall goal is to interna
tionalize UNC and make students aware
of issues going on in China and the rest
of the world,” Farquhar said.
Hevia said the study is an unprece
dented effort because of its focus on col
laboration.
“This is somewhat of anew idea,” he
said. “The project will help us know
more about rapid social change in a
globalizing situation.”
UNC is the best institution to take
part in this study, Hevia added.
“We have a broad and diverse faculty
BUDGET
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House Speaker Jim Black, D-
Mecklenburg, also said most appropri
ations are fair game again in considering
where to make additional cuts.
“There are a lot of varying ideas
about what we should do,” he said.
Lee also said appropriations conferees
have yet to determine precisely where
the cuts will be made but that education
more than likely will not be spared.
He said the general education budget
- including that of the UNC system -
will take about a s2l million hit. An
additional S2B million provided for K
-12 class size reduction -one of Easley’s
pet projects - likely will be removed.
But Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, said
House conferees are favoring a 0.8 per
cent cut across all departments to recov
er the lost lottery revenue.
The cut would remove an additional
sl4 million in funding from the UNC
system, which is already facing a 2.4
percent systemwide cut. The combined
cuts would bring universities’ total loss
es to $56 million.
Insko said 4-year institution will not
suffer alone, as the community college
LEE
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the universities, as well as community
colleges,” he said.
Gurlitz said losing Lee in the Senate
might negatively impact the UNC sys
tem because Lee has been a strong
advocate for the universities - especial
ly UNC-Chapel Hill - during the
process of trimming the budget.
Kinnaird said she hopes the
University will not be hurt by Lee’s loss
but recognizes that there will now only
with a comparative framework that they
can bring into the study,” Hevia said.
“We have many bright researchers who
can bring fresh questions to the views on
China.”
Students in the study abroad program
in Beijing also will work with CASS
social scientists.
“They won’t be researchers, but they
will have a snapshot view of Beijing,”
Hevia said. “At least one of the courses
in the program will be related to the
research study.”
Researchers will be traveling back
and forth between the United States and
China.
system stands to lose an additional $6
million and public schools could take a
$47 million blow.
The Department of Health and
Human Services might also be trimmed
by an additional S2B million, Insko said.
“I’m concerned about the cuts to
health and human services,” she said.
“I’m also concerned about the educa
tional cuts.
“Both of those cuts concern me
because they come on top of other cuts.”
A conference committee - composed
mosdy of Democratic leaders from both
chambers - has been working to recon
cile the differences between two budget
proposals since the House passed its
budget Aug. 13. The Senate passed its
version of the budget June 19.
Tuesday’s setback came as legislators
were nearing the completion of the con
ference report required to finalize the
state budget.
Despite the S7O million gap lawmak
ers are scrambling to fill, they still plan
to finalize a budget by the end of the
week, Black said.
“I’m ready to wrap it up and get out
of here.”
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be one regional advocate instead of two.
But Lee said he will continue to work
closely with the University and the state
government in other venues.
“I will continue to use my influence
at the legislature,” he said. “I will need
some healing time. There’s no question
that I’m hurting to have this gone.”
Lee said he has not ruled out running
for the Senate again in the future.
“Obviously, it depends on how well
(Kinnaird) performs.”
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So far, the project has held two work
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“There will be a sense of equal con
tribution,” Hevia said. “More impor
tandy, though, we want UNC students
to have an opportunity to see China in a
new way.”
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LOTTERY
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the lottery by today’s deadline by
including the lottery provision in the
budget conference report filed Monday
night. But the lottery was severed from
the report Tuesday morning when
House leadership determined the bud
get did not have enough support to pass
with the provision.
“I made the decision this morning to
send the conference report back to com
mittee (to remove the lottery),” Black
said. “I had discussions with a lot of
people and made that decision.”
The lottery referendum folded into
the budget conference report came
within two to three votes but never had
enough support, said Rep. Verla Insko,
D-Orange. “It was my impression that
they never had the votes,” she said.
Though lawmakers speculated that
the lottery never had the necessary sup
port, they said some representatives
were more likely to allow the lottery
provision’s passage when it was tacked
into the budget proposal.
“It lost favor when it was removed
from the budget,” said Rep. Edd Nye,
D-Bladen. “It was going to lose anyway.”
Although the lottery issue is dead for
this session, some said it will continue to
be a topic of debate in the future. “It will
come up next year,” Black said. “And the
year after that and the year after that.”
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