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Patrick Ballantine, the Republican candidate for N.C. governor, catches a cab ride in New York on Wednesday morning after eating breakfast with the North Carolina delegation to the
Republican National Convention. Ballantine, who will challenge Gov. Mike Easley in November, visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Madison Square Garden, site of the convention.
BY EMMA BURGIN NEW YORK
STATES NATIONAL ttJITOR r-
Gubernatorial candidate Patrick
Ballantine celebrated his endorse
ment by the State Employees
Association of North Carolina on
Tuesday with a trip to the 2004 Republican
National Convention.
The former N.C. Senate minority leader,
who will face off against Democratic incum
bent Gov. Mike Easley in November, took a
stop at New York’s Metropolitan Museum
of Art before heading to Madison Square
Garden to check out the convention hall.
Ballantine also joined the North Carolina
delegation on a cool Wednesday morning for
breakfast at the 24-hour outdoor restaurant
Maison.
Despite facing other Republicans in a high
stakes primary in July, the man who came
out on top after former candidate Richard
Vinroot opted out of a runoff election was
SEE BALLANTINE, PAGE 4
Workers to get shot
at better education
BY BRIAN HUDSON
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The University’s Employee Forum
recently has taken strides to enhance
the access UNC’s state employees
have to an education.
Marking their most recent effort
toward this end, forum members
passed a resolution Wednesday
aimed at increasing the availability
of college courses for employees.
“It’s just a great feeling to know
that people have an opportunity,”
said Employee Forum Chairman
Tommy Griffin. “We’re giving people
opportunities to move up.”
The resolution, passed unani
mously on its first reading, allots
additional funds to the Educational
Assistance Program. It also allows
employees to choose from a wider
variety of classes.
The Educational Assistance
Program reimburses University
employees for classes at any accred
ited university, college or community
college.
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Speakers attack Kerry’s record
BY LAURA YOUNGS
SENIOR WRITER
NEW YORK Delegates cheered and
waved signs Wednesday evening as Vice
President Dick Cheney accepted his party’s
nomination for the nation’s No. 2 job at the
2004 Republican National Convention.
Standing in front of a digitized U.S.
flag in Madison Square Garden, Cheney
thanked the crowd for its support as signs
stating “4 More Years” waved frantically.
Cheney was introduced by his wife,
Lynne, who spoke to the crowd about
her growing family and how she met her
husband, whom she said has been as fit
for office as President Bush.
“These men are strong, they are stead
fast, they are exactly the leaders we need
at this moment in our history” she said.
Playing on a theme common through
out the convention, Cheney emphasized
the divide between Bush and Democratic
nominee John Kerry, mainly focusing
on what Republicans have called Kerry’s
tendency to “flip-flop.”
SEE CONVENTION, PAGE 4
Employees previously could have
taken as many as nine credit hours
in job-related classes and be reim
bursed for as much as $250.
Wednesday’s resolution, which
is effective immediately, allows
employees to be reimbursed for as
much as $350 for both job-related
and non-job-related classes.
Katherine Graves, vice chairwom
an of the Employee Forum, said she
hopes the new guidelines will allow
employees to improve their educa
tion and skills.
“I hope there’ll be more people
taking classes that don’t pertain to
their jobs,” she said. “All of us have
a thirst for knowledge. We all have
to be able to go to the fountain of
knowledge to drink from it”
The program is a part of the learn
ing initiative of the Chancellor’s Task
Force for a Better Workplace.
During their meetings last year,
task force members drafted a 34-
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Vice President Dick Cheney waves to delegates at the 2004 Republican
National Convention. In his speech Wednesday, the vice president adopted
an aggressive tone toward Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
Rosemary Village set to break ground
4-story project could boost downtown
BY RYAN C. TUCK
CITY EDITOR
All that stands on the patch of
grass and dirt on West Rosemary
Street across from the Skylight
Exchange now is a billboard.
But in less than a month, con
struction will begin on a project
that local business officials are
saying might be the trigger in the
revitalization of downtown.
Rosemary Village —a mixed
use, four-story building that will
have both retail and residential
space will break ground within
a month, said Chris Ehrenfeld,
a partner in the project and co
owner of Build Ex Inc., the group
doing the construction.
More than two years after receiv
ing a special-use permit to build on
the property from the Chapel Hill
Town Council, Ehrenfeld said, the
project finally can move closer to
becoming a reality.
“This is going to revolutionize
West Rosemary Street,” he said.
“West Rosemary Street will be the
town center.”
The property will contain four
separate four-story-brick build
ings. There will be luxury condo
miniums in all four buildings and
5,000 square feet of retail space.
There are five businesses —a
dessert shop, a day spa, a cof
fee shop and two specialty shops
—and 21 tenants now attached to
the property.
There will be 38 condomini
ums when the project is complete.
Each condo will sell for between
$300,000 and $500,000.
Sandwiched between a parking
lot and Mama Dip’s and across the
street from Skylight and The Fuse,
the brick building will be part of
the revitalization of downtown,
Ehrenfeld said.
Ehrenfeld’s project is one of a
few planned developments that
officials hope will revitalize down-
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ROSEMARY VILLAGE
Rosemary Village will brain construction next month. The mixed-use project will occupy the space
of the former Lost City Video on West Rosemary Street across from Skylight Exchange.
SOURCE: ROSEMARYVILLAGE.NET
town.
Josh Gurlitz of GGA Architects
has been planning an up-scale hotel
on the site of the old Greyhound
bus station on West Franklin Street
for almost as long as the partners at
Rosemary Village have been plan
ning their project
Ehrenfeld said that thanks to
Rosemary Village, the hotel and
the town’s proposed makeovers to
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Congress
prepares
to work
with CAA
Committee seeks
to aid discussion
BY CLAIRE DORRIER
STAFf WRITER
After a campus wide critique of the
handling of this year’s Homecoming
concert, members of Student
Congress are set to combine their
efforts with those of the Carolina
Athletic Association.
Congress members passed a reso
lution Thesday that establishes a sub
committee to evaluate how the CAA
can better work to serve students.
The subcommittee, which will be
composed of four representatives,
was charged with several tasks,
including working with the CAA to
“pursue goals consonant with the
interests of the student body.”
Speaker Charlie Anderson said
the action was needed because of
the Communication gap that has
grown between the groups during
past years.
“We are evaluating existing organi
zational relationships and how CAA
interacts with student government,”
Anderson said. “The relationship has
been pretty nonexistent.”
CAA’s organizational efforts have
been called into question after the
recent cancellation of Sister Hazel’s
booking for the Homecoming con
cert.
CAA President Will Keith has
been critiqued by those who say he
single-handedly selected Sister Hazel
as the band for the concert before
consulting the student body.
Plans for the concert were can
celed after sound and security fees
added an extra SB,OOO to the already
$20,000 price tag for Sister Hazel’s
performance.
Keith said he hopes that, with the
new effort to bond with Congress,
students’ needs will be met more
efficiently.
“I encourage them to make the
working relationship better between
the two organizations,” Keith said.
“The past three years the groups have
been working separately.”
The subcommittee members’
work will lead them to aid athletic
organizations including the CAA
and club and intramural sports.
The subcommittee also will evalu
ate field space for club and intra
mural sports.
This is not the first time that a
decision to change the relationship
between Congress and the CAA has
been made.
In March 2001, in response to
concerns about rigged ticket dis
tributions, Congress amended the
CAA’s constitution and placed the
organization under the supervision
of future congresses.
In the 2001 decision, Congress
SEE CONGRESS, PAGE 4
downtown parking lots 2 and 5, the
area will be vibrant again.
“There’s opportunity for other
large projects,” he said. “I envision
Rosemary Street being all large
buildings in five to 10 years.”
Extensive building regula
tions and zoning requirements
have kept the project in the plan-
SEE VILLAGE, PAGE 4
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