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BY VIRGINIA WOOTEN
STAFF WRITER
The debate in Chapel Hill over
renaming Airport Road in honor of
Martin Luther King Jr. follows a
line of similar struggles in towns
and cities across the nation.
Derek Alderman, a cultural
geographer at East Carolina
University, has extensively studied
the politics behind naming streets
in honor of King and said that the
events in Chapel Hill are not
unprecedented.
At least 650 towns and cities in
the United States have streets
named in King’s honor, 30 of them
in North Carolina. “Naming streets
for King has proven to be contro
versial in many places inside and
outside North Carolina,” he said.
He pointed to High Point as a
prime example of the struggles
such a proposal causes within a
community. Factions within the
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the status of U.S.-led international
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decision,” he said Monday, describ
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city have been trying to name a
street for King for over a decade.
According to High Point
Council member Bemita Sims,
advocates have repeatedly changed
the location of the proposed street
after encountering obstacles such
as the state government, the local
university and retirement homes
whose elderly populations can’t
afford the processes it would take
to change their address.
Some towns also opt for com
promise by naming only part of a
proposed street after King.
Such was the case in Greenville,
where only part of a major street
was changed, due to resistance
from business and residential
interests, as well as ECU.
Zephyrhills, Fla., renamed a
street for King, but after a change
in political composition the town
council reversed the decision. The
signs remain as an honorary dedi
cation, but the official address was
restored to its original name.
“In some ways, these struggles
are like an X-ray. They really
expose division within communi-
sovereignty is restored and to tack
le the country’s tenuous security
situation.
At the U.N. Security Council on
Thesday, the United States and
Britain circulated a revised resolu
tion that would give the interim
government control over the Iraqi
army and police and end the man
date for the multinational force by
January 2006 at the latest.
Critics of the plan namely
France, Russia and Germany
had said the previous U.S. resolu
tion did not go far enough in its
attempts to grant Iraqis genuine
power over their own national
affairs.
The new Cabinet will take over
day-to-day operations of govern
ment ministries immediately,
although the U.S.-run Coalition
Provisional Authority remains the
sole sovereign power in Iraq until
June 30.
ing the BOT’s action as “the most
financially viable decision.”
“All the students I talked to were
in favor of renovating the building
instead of tearing it down,”
Calabria said. “And the enhanced
suites... will really benefit students
in the future.”
Colin Scott, president of the
Residence Hall Association, said he
also was pleased with the board’s
decision. “(In a survey) students
said they wanted the enhanced
suite option. What (the BOT) sup
ported is what students wanted.”
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“Naming streets for King has proven
to be controversial in many places
inside and outside North Carolina”
DEREK ALDERMAN, EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY GEOGRAPHER
ties,” Alderman said.
“The fact that you have such a
progressive sophisticated place
such as Chapel Hill, and the fact
that this street naming issue is con
troversial really still speaks to the
many different ways that people
identify with King.”
He feels confident that most
Chapel Hill residents respect King
and his memory, but that the issue
lies in to what extent people per
sonally identify with his legacy.
Alderman attended the May 24
Chapel Hill Town Council meeting
at which citizens voiced their opin
ions on the proposed renamings,
saying that the Chapel Hill debate
is unique.
“One of the things that I saw
that was pretty important when I
attended the public hearing last
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increases approved March 19 by
the UNC-system Board of
Governors, many of which are
slated to go toward reducing class
sizes, increasing the number of
class sections offered and hiring
more full-time faculty.
It is unclear what the fate of the
governor’s other budget proposals
will be. For universities, they
included $64 million to fully fund
enrollment growth, a 2 percent
raise in faculty salaries and the
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Baddour, who is chairman of the
task force, has said in the past that
the corporate presence would have
as little effect on the University as
possible.
“I can’t imagine that we would
change the names of our facilities
... I think we’ll always be the Dean
Smith Center and Kenan
Stadium,” he said at a forum in
April. “We won’t use floor logos
like the McDonald’s one on the
Georgia Tech court.”
The task force assembled by
the BOT in October was
charged with the responsibility of
examining the possibility of sign
ing with corporations to allow per
manent advertising in Kenan
Stadium and the Smith Center.
The revenue from corporate
advertising in sports venues would
provide necessary funds to the
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week is that there does seem to be
some strong, veiy vocal, white sup
port for renaming the street for
King. You don’t always see that in
more conservative towns,” he said.
Alderman believes that these
street naming struggles can be
healthy for a town because they
open up dialogue.
“It forces people to talk about
race ... to talk about where
America is in relation to what King
was striving to build,” he said.
“King was not the only person
who advocated civil rights, but his
face, his name, his image have
become almost a metaphor for
talking about the larger movement
for civil rights.”
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removal of campus-based tuition
hikes.
The details of the House plan
now will be hashed out in appro
priations meetings, beginning as
soon as today and culminating in a
full committee meeting Friday.
For his part, Black said the
delayed process is not surprising.
“When the word came out that
there was a $195 million surplus,
we came up with $2 billion in
questions.”
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booster club that funds student
athletes’ scholarships. Due to
recent tuition increases, the club
failed to cover all its scholarship
obligations.
The funding alternatives to cor
porate signage included increasing
ticket prices, increasing student
fees and eliminating teams.
Judith Wegner, chairwoman of
the faculty, said that although she
was not happy with the idea of cor
porate signage and its effect on the
University, the task force did suc
cessfully explore other options.
“They really had talked about
how unfortunate it was to have to
go this route, but it was really
because they felt there would be
some serious shortfalls.”
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Staff Writer Lauren Harris
contributed to this article.
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2004
COMPROMISE
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tions:
■ renaming the Airport Road
to Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard effective May 9, 2005
(the 45th anniversary of King’s
visit to Chapel Hill);
■ establishing a task force to
look for further possibilities to
honor and maintain King’s mes
sage;
■ creating a body to rename
the current Martin Luther King
Street, located off of Legion Road;
■ changing the Chapel Hill
Town Hall address to Martin
Luther King Boulevard.
At the May 24 meeting, Council
member Bill Strom, who serves on
the committee, motioned for the
council to refer the item to the staff
and vote on it without further
committee discussion.
Wiggins quashed that notion,
immediately noting that citizens’
input should be taken into account.
She opened Tuesday’s discourse
with a statement to that effect.
“In all fairness to all the people
who have participated, we need to
get together again and talk about
all the options.”
Jan Cosby, a Chapel Hill resi
dent who was vocal in her disdain
for the renaming, said she was
pleased that Wiggins took her feel
ings into consideration, but could
not say the same for others.
“Some of the the committee
members other than Edith
Wiggins had their minds made up
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“Jablonski has a very impressive
record.
“She’ll have unusual demands
concerning campus development
and the master plan ... making
sure facilities and grounds are
optimal to student’s benefits,” he
said.
Bresciani has been with the
University since 1998 and he said
that reading, listening and learn
ing about the University’s history
and culture will help Jablonski
with her new post —a tip he said
he’s already told her.
“(UNC is) a unique and wonder
ful place, and you have to develop
appreciation for it,” Bresciani said.
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“Over time
a name means
something, and
a dedication can
lose its meaning.”
SALLY GREENE, COUNCIL MEMBER
and weren’t willing to open up to
any other suggestions,” she said.
After it was clear that simply ded
icating to road wasn’t an option.
Wiggins said the town should also
share in the cost and effort of going
through a name change. “We are
saying to the citizens who have to
endure the change that we are will
ing to do it as well,” she said. “I think
that’s tremendously symbolic.”
Others were pessimistic about
Wiggins’ effort of good faith to
change the town hall address.
“They’re not paying for it, we
are,” said Ellen Sorrells, who owns
a business on Airport Road.
“They’re just spending more tax
payers’ dollars.”
Wiggins said that the two public
meetings and the passionate feel
ings expressed outside of them
have been beneficial to the town.
“There’s probably been more
discussion about Dr. King in the
past few months than we have
around his birthday,” she said.
All four of the resolutions will go
before the full town council June 14.
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Jablonski earned her doctorate
from Boston University and her
master’s and bachelor’s degrees
from UMass-Amherst.
She taught education policy
courses while she was a visiting
assistant professor at UMass-
Amherst, and is the editor of the
National Association of Student
Personnel Administrators Journal.
“I want to take a few months to
get to know everyone, what the
priorities are and strengthen the
ties between student affairs and
academic affairs,” Jablonski said.
“I’m a product of public higher
education myself, and wanted to
join a public institution with high
academic caliber.”
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