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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2004
Dedication honors women’s studies founder
Centers reading room gets christened
BY MEREDITH LEE MILLER
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Remnants of Hurricane Ivan
brought gusty winds, gray skies and
pouring showers to Chapel Hill on
Friday.
But Mary "Rimer Lane still insist
ed it was a beautiful day because she
was being honored at the Carolina
Women’s Center, located at 134 E.
Franklin St
Dozens of family, friends and
supporters gathered at the center to
celebrate the dedication of its read
ing room to the founder of the cur
riculum in women’s studies at the
University.
“Look at all the women who
have benefitted from my passion of
equity” Lane said to the audience in
the newly named Marylhmer Lane
Reading and Resource Room. “It is
a beautiful day for me.”
Residents stand firm on IFC
Pine Knolls adds
banner to ammo
BY RYAN C. TUCK
CITY EDITOR
Terry Clark stood outside her
house off Merritt Mill Road on
Sunday afternoon and stared at a
large banner hanging between trees
in front of her neighbor’s house.
The banner read, “STOP the
shelter on Merritt Mill Road.”
Clark, of 107 Park Road, is
a member of the Pine Knolls
Community, a group that has been
making headlines recently for
its opposition to the Inter-Faith
Council’s interest in moving its
men’s homeless shelter to a site on
Merritt Mill.
She said the banner perfectly sum
marizes the neighborhood’s position
on the proposed relocation.
“All of us know each other.... It’s
nice and quiet here,” Clark said.
“Leave the shelter where it is.”
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Lane founded the women’s stud
ies program at UNC in 1977 and has
made significant contributions to the
center and for women in general,
said Diane Kjervik, the director of
the Carolina Women’s Center.
“Mary Thmer Lane fought for
what women needed on campus,”
Kjervik said.
Turner’s daughter drove down
with her family from Washington,
D.C. to witness the dedication cer
emony at the center.
“I’m just so proud of her,” Mary
Ellen Lane said. “She has made
women aware that they have to fight
for their place.”
She said her mother continues to
support women’s services.
Last year, Lane helped fund the
center’s renovation project
Parts of those renovations were
focused on the center’s reading room,
The banner Clark was admiring
was put up this weekend by Ted
Parrish of 7415. Merritt Mill Road,
who has been voicing opposition
on behalf of his neighborhood to
various organizations for the past
three weeks.
Parrish said he ordered the ban
ner, which is about 8 feet long and
3 feet wide, to let drivers on Merritt
Mill Road know that “we aren’t
changing our minds.”
Parrish said he also ordered the
banner because smaller signs the
community had made were stolen
between Sept 10 and Sept 12.
The signs, which were the size of
computer paper and printed with
the same message as the banner,
were reported stolen to Chapel Hill
police Sept 13.
There are a few of the original
signs on telephone poles along South
Merritt Mill Road, but Parrish said
the majority were stolen.
“We ordered the larger banner
and put it out of reach so nobody
would steal it,” Parrish said.
which acts as a gathering place for its
discussion groups.
Those at the center said naming a
room after Lane came naturally.
“I think it’s a great tribute to what
(Lane) has done,” said Emily Weiss,
a UNC graduate student who works
at the center.
Weiss is working to increase dona
tions to the library so it can obtain a
greater selection of books for local
women to utilize. The center also
wishes to add electronic resources.
Kjervik said the renovated room
is now a warm and inviting envi
ronment in which women can find
resources about women’s issues.
Several in attendance remarked
that the designers did a spectacular
job in transforming the once-dull
space into something special.
“It’s very welcoming” said Susan
Moeser, University organist and wife
of Chancellor James Moeser. “I hope
people will use this (room).”
Interior designers Melanie Woods
The banner is hung about 30
feet above the ground between two
trees in front of Parrish’s house.
Clark said the neighbors are
happy Parrish put up the banner
because they are scared about what
the shelter would do to the neigh
borhood.
Residents have expressed con
cerns that the shelter would bring
more crime to the area.
The IFC has been open about its
plans to move the shelter from its
current location at the comers of
Rosemary and Columbia streets.
Though the building recently
underwent a series of renovations,
Chris Moran, executive director of
the IFC, said that it is still inappro
priate and that a better facility is
needed to serve the homeless.
Moran said the IFC is pursu
ing its option on the location on
Merritt Mill Road as soon as the
organization has enough money to
relocate.
Pine Knolls community mem
bers met with Moran and Natalie
Ammarell, president of the IFC,
last Tuesday to discuss the con
cerns of both sides.
Parrish said that no future meet
ings have been set and that he
doesn’t know what is left to discuss
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“I don’t know what they think
they’re doing,” he said. “There’s noth
ing they can say to allay our fearsf
Parrish has petitioned the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Board of Education and the Chapel
Hill Town Council to oppose the
shelter’s relocation.
The group will petition the
Carrboro Board of Aldermen on
Ttiesday, Parrish said.
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and Vicky Bryant worked with Lane
to create an feminine environment
where women can study and learn.
“We wanted the room to have a
residential feeling,” said Woods. “We
wanted a place of importance where
women can gather.”
The center’s convenient location
on Franklin Street makes it acces
sible for both students and members
of the community, said Kjervik.
The center also works with other
groups in the area, such as the
Orange County Rape Crisis Center,
to strengthen its services for all
women in the community.
“Women have worked hard for
this center,” she said.
Lane said her goal in her career
was to let women know they must
achieve their full potential.
“All I ever wanted is for women to
have equal access to society.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
FBI gains unrestricted
access to student records
BY AMY THOMSON
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The U.S. Department of
Homeland Security gave the FBI
access last week to two databases
containing personal information
about international and exchange
students.
The FBI has always had access to
the databases through the depart
ment, but now, its access is direct
and unrestricted.
Government officials claim that
this move is another step in improv
ing communication between the
two groups, while some members
of the higher education community
worry the information will be mis
interpreted.
“Because several of the hijack
ers (involved in the Sept. 11 ter
rorist attacks) were in the U.S. on
student visas which they had over
stayed, (the department) felt it
was very important for the agency
investigating these circumstances
to have access to this information,”
said Dennis Murphy, spokesman
for the Department of Homeland
.Security. ,
“There could be cases where
people cojne in claiming to be stu
dents-an<fcnever go to school.”
The department created the
Visitor Immigrant Status Indicator
Technology and Student Exchange
Visitor Information System pro
grams after the Sept. 11,2001, ter
rorist attacks.
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that immigrants and foreign visi
tors are in the nation legally by
managing biographical and travel
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Mary Turner Lane (left) speaks with Judith Wegner, chairwoman of the
faculty, after a Friday dedication ceremony at the Carolina Women's Center.
“My only concern is that they
understand what they're looking at and
that they can interpret the data they see!’
ROBERT LOCKE, UNC INTERNATIONAL CENTER DIRECTOR
identifiers such as fingerprints and
photographs.
Congress requires that schools
file paperwork containing such
information on their international
students, which helps keep track
of those students’ immigration
status.
The databases were created to
keep this paperwork from becom
ing lost or disorganized.
Murphy emphasized that no
international student or foreign
visitor has reason to worry about
the private nature of their personal
information.
“Both the FBI and the
Department of Homeland Security
are required to follow the nation’s
privacy laws,” he said.
A member of the White House
staff who wished to remain
anonymous said the FBI works
very closely with the Homeland
Security Department.
The student databases, she said,
are sources the FBI uses to deter
mine if wanted terrorists are in the
country.
An FBI spokesman declined to
comment on how the bureau plans
to use the information from the
database.
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Robert Locke, director of the
International Center at UNC, said
he worries that the information
schools provide to the Homeland
Security Department could be
misinterpreted.
UNC provides the government
with data such as students’ majors,
the length of their academic pro
grams and the degrees they are
pursuing. Such information, Locke
said, easily could be misused by
federal workers:
“My only concern is that they
understand what they’re looking
at and that they can interpret the
data they see,” he said.
He said something as simple as
an international student going to
part-time status could be viewed
as an immigration.violation if
federal workers misinterpret that
student’s motives.
“There could be errors in
(the database) either because of
human or computer error, and I
hope if they see something that
they think’s amiss, they’ll investi
gate first what the cause of that is
before they take action.”
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■ Due to a reporting error, the
Sept. 16 article “Group releases
dispute report” misstated Nancy
Suttenfield’s tide. She is vice chancel
lor for finance and administration.
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