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4 FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 2005 Transit forum provides outlet for local worries BY GREGG FOUND STAFF WRITER Citizens with concerns about public transportation had the chance to air their feelings Thursday —and local officials were there to hear them. A lack of money for proposals, the effectiveness of a program for the impaired and a proposed tran sit transfer center all came up as points of concern at a forum put on by the Carrboro Transportation Advisory Board and the Chapel Hill Transportation Board at Carrboro Town Hall. The most common complaint: Board members and citizens alike were frustrated that a lack of funds has halted many proposals. “There’s always been a desire but not the funding,” said Carrboro board Chairman Chris van Hasselt. “Our board desires to move beyond that.” Many citizens also questioned the effectiveness of the EZ Rider pro gram, which provides free transpor tation for the physically impaired. Estelle Mabry, a frequent user of EZ Rider, was frustrated with the program’s new software, which gives riders a 20-minute window for their Easley to keep cabinet whole THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH Gov. Mike Easley said Thursday his 10-member cabinet will remain in their posts to begin his second term. Easley made the announcement two days before his inauguration for another four-year term. A week ago, he started sitting down with cabinet secretaries to determine whether they wanted to stay on the job. 2004-2005 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL KjrlfflgTH JPjg# JNP*M MIAMI SP Monday, January 17 11 Mm. @ 2:oopm ■I Carmichael Auditorium § ,Jjf Honor Mart i n Luther King, Jr. Day with the H 9 Tar Hee i s, Harmonics will be performing the National Anthem in pre-game. One Heart...One Pride...One Carolina For tickets or information, visit TARHEELBLUE.COM or call 800.722. HEEL Free admission for UNC Faculty/Staff/Students to all Tar Heel Women's Basketball games with valid UNC OneCard. DRAFTS T at Deep End Every Thursday 8 Friday Niyht 201 E. Franklin 1 (below East End) pickup instead of an exact time. “The 20-minute window makes me feel like my time is not valuable to them,” Mabry said. She was also worried that the new software puts van drivers on a stricter time schedule, which causes them to drive more recklessly. Resident James Carnahan spoke about a proposed transit transfer facility underneath parking lot 2 part of the planned redevelopment of downtown parking lots 2 and 5 where most of Chapel Hill’s buses would stop to allow transfers. He expressed concern that the additional stop could add five to eight minutes to a bus ride. “The riders, who are stakeholders in this ordeal, have not been brought into this process,” he added. Other voiced concerns included adding speed bumps to Hillsborough Street, designating one lane of South Columbia Street as bus-only and adding bike lanes to Estes Drive. Van Hasselt said the goal of the forum was to allow direct commu nication between citizens and board members. Comment was allowed by those who attended the meeting, as well as those who phoned in or sent “I am proud of the work of my entire cabinet,” Easley said in a news release. “They know the agenda and are committed to building on the progress we have made over the past four years. I am pleased to have the opportunity to continue to work with them.” The return of Easley s cabinet contrasts to shuffling by the state’s previous two-term governors _ Jim From Page One e-mails ahead of time. Also at the forum, Chapel Hill TVansportation Director Mary Lou Kuschatka updated the public on Chapel Hill Transit. “Before we introduced free fares we had about 3 million riders per year, but since free fares we’ve had over 5 million, and that will keep going,” she said. Kuschatka said that EZ Rider saw growth in ridership, which led to some of its constraints, and that the software is a work in progress. Patrick McDonough, transit ser vice planner for Triangle Transit Authority, mentioned TTA’s efforts to appeal to the UNC community by providing staff, faculty and non resident students riding passes for $lO a month or SSO a semester. McDonough said there is a nec essary overlap between his agency and Chapel Hill Transit. “Our goal is to provide urban to-urban trips,” he said. “There is a large area of land that we cover, but we also require other transpor tation services to fill in the gaps.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. Hunt and Jim Martin —as their new terms began. In an interview last week, Easley said he didn’t know at the time of any impending changes. He said he had started meeting with secretar ies to find out “whether what they want to do is consistent with what I want to do. “Frankly, I want to find out and make them talk about how long they want to stay,” he said. “If you do want to stay two years and not four years, then I know we need to get a strong assistant (sec retary) in there.” Easley said learning about each cabinet member goes a long way toward keeping them. UNC OneCard On Dll lllllllfe rum w IBH9I Mon-Wed loam-2am | Better Ingredients. Sundaynam-tam | fflgfr Setter Pizza. 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This work is part of a utility infrastructure upgrade to support UNC’s Northeast Chiller Plant and Parking Deck to be constructed behind the Center for Dramatic Art, Paul Green Theater and Cobb Residence Hall. *'op time Hon | 1 l— J t ft Ml 1 ' MMtnJtfTMH * —" 1 iS ills I Fpr njpre iti/yrnjqfiyr); Project information: “www.constructionwatch.unc.edu" Maps and further information: “www.dps.une.edu/dps" Chapel Hill Transit route changes: “www.chtransit.org” fTTI E UNIVERSITY II II 0/ NORTH CAROLINA Further Questions ? at CHAPEL HILL Email JTS@dps.psafety.unc.edu Daytime: (919) 962-5028 Emergencies: 911 CANDIDATES FROM PAGE 1 signed petitions to the BOE by Jan. 20. Public campaigning with materials and resources can begin Jan. 25. The elections will be held Feb. 8. Run-off elections will occur Feb. 15 if candidates in selected offices fail to obtain a majority of the votes. The BOE also made revisions to the dorm-storming policy. Candidates now are only permitted to campaign door-to-door Sunday through Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Campaign workers must wear badges identifying for whom they are campaigning. But before bombarding resi dence halls, candidates must estab lish a student organization bear ing the name of their campaigns. After establishing a president and a treasurer of their organizations, candidates will be given space for a campaign Web site. Sidden said she believes that the student elections are off to a good start with excellent candidates. “We’re looking for a nice clean campaign this year, which has kind of become our theme.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. ENROLLMENT FROM PAGE 1 funded schools in the 16-campus system. “I believe in adequate funding more than (this policy).” But while Broadwell gained some support, many board mem bers were adamantly against delay ing the punishment. “This is our policy and, in my judgment, really ought to be enforced,” said board member Ray Farris. “We either stand behind the policy or not. They knew this and had every opportunity to get down under it.” Though BOG Chairman Brad Wilson agreed with the nature of Broadwell’s request, he said the policy should be enforced. “You have to discipline those that you love. We should enforce this policy, as painful as it is.” Wilson also noted the wide spread interest in the enrollment cap debate and warned that if the committee truly wanted to change the policy, it should do so in “the MLK DAY FROM PAGE 1 believe that (King) was an extraor dinary leader, that he gave lead ers to a national movement that raised the conscience of America,” she said. “Even young people who were not bom yet understand the magnitude of his life.” Some might even remember that King has local ties. King visited the University’s Hill Hall, as well as the black community center, now called the TUITION FROM PAGE 1 committee also reviewed a report that stated how UNC-system schools spent the total sll2 million brought in by campus-based tuition increases and enrollment growth. Jeff Davies, UNC-system vice president for finance, said the cam puses used the revenue to address the board’s concerns, such as class size and faculty retention. BOG members are expected to use the report as a guide during the next few months while discussing campus-initiated tuition increases. Contact the State fit National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. cool of the evening not in reac tion to this.” “If we fail to enforce this policy, we will increase the chance we’ll have legislative intervention on a policy that should be left up to this board.” During the legislature’s short ses sion last summer, Rep. Alex Warner, D-Cumberland, co-sponsored a bill that would legislate a cap. His bill would have allowed legislators to take up the issue but ultimately was referred back to committee. But committee members were quick to point out that the devia tion talk would not evolve into a fundamental change to the out-of state enrollment cap. “This is not a review and debate about the validity of the 18 percent cap,” said Jim Phillips, the commit tee’s chairman. “That falls under the jurisdiction of the planning commit tee, and it is not on their agenda.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. (Lhp Sotly Oar HpH Hargraves Community Center, in May of 1960 as part of his tour of Southern college campuses. Chapel Hill has been celebrat ing King as an advocate for inte gration and breaking down the walls of segregation for about 30 years, Battle said. “(Martin Luther King Day) means a celebration ... of con tributions of one of the greatest Americans ever,” Hatley said. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1 finished with a 6-10 record last year. “It shows when teams really work together and stick behind each other in all phases of the game, they can be really successful.” But Reed, who has been the Steelers’ starting kicker for the past two seasons, didn’t even have a football scholarship entering his third season of eligibility in 2000. But he earned a scholarship and second-team all-ACC honors that season, and after a senior year in which he connected on 12 of 16 field-goal attempts, UNC coach John Bunting recommended Reed for a tryout with the New Orleans Saints during the preseason 0f2002. “We were able to work that deal out so Jeff was able to get expo sure and work with (Saints special teams coordinator) A1 Everest,” Bunting said. “And we knew based on Jeff’s talent level that he would be able to get much more expo sure. It was seen by both me and A1 Everest that this kid had talent to kick in the NFL. It’s just a matter of being in the right place.” That place, after a handful of tryouts in the early part of the 2002 season, ended up being Pittsburgh, where Reed won the kicking job in a four-man tryout in what he called the “worst conditions that I ever kicked in.” Two years later, including a 28- for-33 field-goal season, Reed has morphed from an NFL hopeful to one of the league’s top placekickers. “Nobody can get in my head,” Reed said. “You’re only as good as your last kick. If you miss one, you suck. If you make one, you’re back in with everybody.... If you don’t produce, (the fans) let you know about it. It’s all about confidence and being mentally tough, espe cially as a kicker.” But while Reed’s transition from college walk-on to starting NFL kicker in less than three years is atypical, his former and current teammate might have an even more improbable story. At the Peach Bowl in 2001, then sophomore Willie Parker rushed for 131 yards and a touchdown against a stingy Auburn defense. It looked as though Bunting’s team had found an explosive weapon to complement quarter back Darian Durant for the next two years. “I thought after that game it was going to be real good it was going to be a real good next year for me,” Parker said. “I thought it was basi cally the start of my career at UNC.” Instead, he started just five games in his final two seasons, being passed by Jacque Lewis on the depth chart in 2002. The next season, Lewis and freshman Ronnie McGill each more than doubled Parker’s rushing total; Parker accrued 181, the lowest total of his collegiate career. “It felt real bad,” Parker said. “It was real difficult for me and my fam ily not playing that much, knowing I should have been out there playing. I learned from that, being on the sidelines looking at the other guys playing. I learned a great deal.” Bunting said that a number of factors contributed to Parker’s reduced playing time but that his improved strength is what helped him earn a place on the Steelers’ 53-man roster. And with Pittsburgh having already sealed home-field advan tage in the playoffs along with inju ries to top backs Jerome Bettis and Duce Staley, Parker took advan tage of his opportunity to succeed against the Bills. “When he gets in the secondary, he has another gear,” Pittsburgh coach Bill Cowher said at a press conference after the Buffalo game. “He’s the fastest back we have.” High compliments for a player sharing the backfield with two household names. But with the veteran stars set to return for the playoffs, it’s doubt ful that Parker will play a role in the Pittsburgh running game. He said, however, that he has been practicing as a kick returner and on special teams, so expect to see his number 39 on Heinz Field at some point Saturday. And as for number 3? Depending on how the playoffs play out, it could be Reed appear ing in Sports Center highlights along with the team’s rookie quarterback. “Guys on this team are bound and determined to win,” Reed said. “I don’t care what it takes.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.
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