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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Student arrested on public
urination, marijuana charges
Timothy Grinder, 19, of 446
Morrison Residence Hall, was
charged Saturday with possession
of marijuana and public urination,
reports state.
A resident advisor noticed
Grinder urinating off the fourth
floor balcony and said he appeared
to be intoxicated, reports state.
University police were called
to the scene, and upon entering
Grinder’s room they found the
student unconscious, according to
police reports. He was transported
to UNC hospitals.
University police discovered mar
ijuana and two smoking pipes in the
room, according to the report.
Vandals pilfer $6,000 viola
in Hill Hall locker heist
A UNC student’s viola, valued
at $6,000, was reported stolen
Sunday from the basement of Hill
Hall, according to University police
reports. The student said that the
viola was secured in a locker Saturday
and upon his arrival Sunday the
locker was open and did not appear
to be damaged, reports state.
CITY BRIEFS
Council sends downtown
projects back to boards
The Chapel Hill Town Council
referred the proposed 2005
Downtown Improvement Projects
back to three boards for review at
its Monday night meeting.
The Downtown Economic
Development Corporation, the
Downtown Commission and the
Community Design Commission will
review the improvement projects
and offer suggestions to the council.
Council members expressed
concerns about the proposed mast
arm traffic signals they said they
could be overbearing.
Members also addressed worries
about post-basketball victory cel
ebration hazards and construction
hassles during their meeting.
Projects would include chang
es to the corner of Franklin
and Columbia streets, the por
tion of Franklin Street adjacent
to University Square, and West
Franklin Street’s 500 and 600
blocks and would cost up to
$530,000 to complete.
Commissioners to discuss
school funding requests
The Board of County
Commissioners will hold a joint
work session tonight to discuss
capital funding issues with both
Orange County and Chapel Hill-
Carrboro City schools.
The meeting will begin at 7:30
p.m. at the Southern Human Services
Center on Homestead Road.
The commissioners will discuss
the issues related to 60/40 school
capital funding, equity fimding and
new school projects. County schools
are seeking funds for its third mid
dle school, and city schools need
funds for its third high school.
Town to accept credit cards
for myriad service fees
The town of Chapel Hill’s
Finance Department will now
accept credit cards as a form of
payment for town fees including
business licenses, inspection per
mits and zoning maps.
Finance Director Kay Johnson
said the move is a positive step
toward accepting credit cards in
all town departments, especially
public works, parks and recreation,
police and at the library.
There is a $lO minimum pur
chase with all credit card transac
tions and credit cards may not be
used to pay for public housing costs
or county taxes.
WUNC gets a record number
of awards for 2005 coverage
The North Carolina Public Radio
station, WUNC-FM, was honored
with a record-number of regional
and national awards for its first four
months of broadcasting in 2005.
The WUNC news department
received the regional award for
overall excellence award for the
second year in a row as part of the
Edward R. Murrow Awards given
by the Radio Television News
Directors Association.
The station also won the associa
tion’s regional Continuing Coverage
Award for its election coverage.
WUNC garnered 11 awards
from the Radio Television News
Directors Association of the
Carolinas, almost twice as many as
any other station.
CALENDAR
Today Chancellor James
Moeser will tibst an open house
for students from 4 to 5 p.m. in the
multi-purpose room of the Sonya
Haynes Stone Center for Black
Culture and History.
From staff reports.
‘Stand-up poet’ will read
Former laureate
to finish series
BY BECCA MOORE
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Former national poet laureate
Billy Collins, made famous by his
accessible and humorous canon
of poetry, will speak tonight in the
Great Hall of the Student Union.
The sold-out event, planned by
the Writers Speak committee of the
Carolina Union Activities Board,
will kick off at 7 p.m. and feature
an hourlong reading by the poet,
followed by a question-and-answer
session.
“His poems are accessible and
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current owner and pharmacist, John Woodard, bought the store in 1977 and has dealt out his fair share of hamburgers, hot dogs and medicine vials.
WHERE EVERYONE
KNOWS YOUR NAME
BY JULIA FURLONG
STAFF WRITER
Blenders are buzzing, burgers are sizzling
and oldies are drifting gently through the bright
booths of Sutton’s Drug Store at lunch hour.
Listen closely, though, and something more
can be heard within the photograph-littered
walls of the store that has stood on Franklin
Street since 1923.
“We’ve always said that everything that goes
through Chapel Hill floats through Sutton’s
first,” said manager Don Pinney.
“If we haven’t heard about it, it hasn’t hap
pened yet,” said the 27-year Sutton’s veteran.
Anyone who walks through its door can tell
Sutton’s is rich in history and tradition.
John Woodard, the store’s owner and phar
macist, said that when he bought Sutton’s in
1977, he promised then-owner Elliott Brummitt
that the drugstore wouldn’t be changed.
Brummitt bought the store from the origi
nal owners, Lynwood and Lucy Sutton.
Area to boost focus
on cuts to emissions
BY SAM SHEPARD
STAFF WRITER
Local experts shared perspec
tives on striving toward a healthier
community during an area work
shop Monday.
Community health and stabil
ity dominated discussions at the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of
Commerce's second annual sus
tainability workshop: Greening
Our Community, Businesses and
Homes.
“We feel the pressure to make
sure the community stays really
healthy,” said Virginia Knapp, asso
ciate director of the chamber.
The workshop was organized by
the chamber's 11-person Council
on the Environment, a group
organized to provoke discussion
about environmental preservation
and practice, economic vitality and
social equity.
Speakers touched on myriad
topics, ranging from improved at
home insulation to environmen
tally safe construction materials
and water-conserving gardening
techniques.
Each talk, whether environmental
or economic, showed how area resi
dents could make improvements to
their homes and businesses.
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reader-friendly,” said Michael
McFee, a creative writing professor
who advocated bringing Collins to
campus.
“They are humorous and often tell
a story. In some of them the situa
tion is very clear, playful and invit
ing. He’s really hilarious l’ve
heard some people describe him
as a stand-up poet.”
Collins, whose poems touch on
topics from pinup calendars to the
woes of turning 10, held the national
post of poet laureate from 2001 to
2003. The honor is awarded annual
ly by the Library of Congress, which
charges the poet laureate with pro
moting the study and appreciation
of poetry during his term.
“I’m not a poetry person, but I
“I was only 33 years old at the time, so he
felt if he sold it to me, I would keep it for a
while and keep it an independent drugstore,”
said Woodard, a 1968 UNC graduate.
“When you’re an independent business
PEOPLE AND
PLACES OF
FRANKLIN ST.
TODAY: Local
mainstay serves
basketball players,
taste of history.
why we’re here,” Woodard said. “We love our
people.”
Customers seem to reciprocate. David Lee
Austin has been a customer of Sutton’s for
about 25 years, and said he knows Woodard
a little too well.
“I really hope that the informa
tion presented is useful and prac
tical,” Knapp said early in the day.
“Hopefully, it will plant some seeds.”
As Research Triangle Park con
tinues to grow and Chapel Hill and
Carrboro see more daily traffic and
development, the environment has
become a considerable concern
for area residents, merchants and
leaders.
The Environmental Protection
Agency has classified the RTP area
as a nonattainment zone in terms
of air quality, meaning that pollu
tion quickly could become a prob
lem that impacts daily life.
Speakers stressed the importance
of using resources like the University
to bring such issues to light.
“This community has resources in
terms of expertise,” said Jim Ward,
a member of the Chapel Hill Town
Council and the chamber council.
Town Council members are
slated to consider a proposal
that would make Chapel Hill the
first municipality in the country
to adopt the Carbon Reduction
Project —a Britain-based effort to
decrease greenhouse gas emissions
60 percent by 2025.
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Former national
poet laureate
Billy Collins
will read in
the Great Hall
of the Student
Union tonight.
definitely wanted to bring all sorts
of writers to campus, and there
was a lot of support for him,” said
Clint Neill, chairman of CUAB’s
Writers Speak committee.
The committee was formed this
year to focus on planning events
and entertainment related to cre
ative writing in all forms. Neill
said he is pleased that Collins
will cap off the group’s calendar
owner, you become a real
member of the community,”
Woodard said.
“We offer (the customers)
a home away from home.”
In 1977, there were seven
independent drugstores on
Franklin Street, Woodard
said. Sutton’s is the only one
that still exists today.
“It’s not any big secret to
Wooded area gets less dense
BY JAKE POTTER
STAFF WRITER
Darryl Gless moved to the
Greenwood neighborhood 11 years
ago seeking refuge from the urban
atmosphere that bookends the
lush, forested area.
After a brief scare, a dean
in UNC’s College of Arts and
Sciences said, he now can con
tinue to enjoy his neighborhood’s
beauty thanks to the Chapel Hill
Town Council’s decision Monday
to prevent a local developer from
subdividing neighborhood lots.
The council voted unanimously
to approve the proposed rezoning
of the Greenwood area to meet
low-density standards —a move
council members said will help the
neighborhood retain the character
Gless described to them.
“It’s a garden. It’s a forest. It’s a
place of quiet, calm and reflective
ness,” Gless said.
Putting Greenwood under the
Residential-Low Density-1 zoning
standard also could become a bridge
for the historic neighborhood and
others to gain the classification of
neighborhood conservation district
“I wish we had a magic wand
and could do these neighborhood
conservation districts all at once,”
Town Manager Cal Horton said of
Greenwood, Coker Hills and Pine
for this academic year.
“One of the community goals was
to bring in a big speaker, a well
known writer.”
The event already has sold out
the Great Hall, which seats 500,
Neill said.
“It was important that this be
free to students, to give them a
chance to have interaction with a
well-established writer who made
a career for himself,” he said. “It’s
great that students have free
access to this.”
Judging from the ticket sales,
a balanced group of student and
community members will be in
attendance, he noted.
SEE COLLINS, PAGE 5
“He’s been married nine times and has 50
kids,” Austin said jokingly.
But as Woodard handed him a prescrip
tion, Austin showed his appreciation, saying,
“He’s fast, he’s quick, he’s smart.”
Sutton’s has made itself into somewhat of
an institution through a reputation that hing
es on its familiar and friendly atmosphere.
“The counter makes people talk to one
another,” Pinney says, “You can hear anything
from church to politics...”
“To sex,” offers a female patron at the coun
ter.
In addition to the playful banter between cus
tomers and staff, a striking characteristic of the
store is its extensive collection of photographs.
They’re pasted onto the walls, hanging
from the ceiling and even displayed digitally
on slide shows that air on televisions. The pic
tures feature everyone from students to town
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Katie Gilmore, 11, talks to her friend Mary Morrison, also 11, who lives on
Greenwood Road. Officials took steps to preserve the area Monday night.
Knolls, which all have asked to be
granted conservation district sta
tus, a moniker that includes spe
cial restrictions on development
aspects such as building height.
But Greenwood residents did not
wait for the conservation district,
pushing council members instead
to support the rezoning that, by
increasing minimum lot size to
more than 43,000 square feet,
effectively bans the practice of sub
dividing lots in the neighborhood.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2005
Group
to fight
against
the axe
Congress seeks
to get mobilized
BY JENNY RUBY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Student leaders are taking swift
steps to fight against a 4 percent
budget cut that they say could jeop
ardize the future of the University.
Today, Student Congress will
review a resolution condemning
proposed cuts that officials say
would result in the loss of 90 filled
and 80 unfilled faculty positions,
decrease the number of available
class sections and reduce the activity
of various student organizations.
“The resolution reflects that this
is the first step down the road to
a lower quality education,” said
Congress Speaker Luke Farley.
“People are afraid that if this cut
goes through, UNC might not be
the same again.”
The N.C. Senate could approve
the state budget as soon as May 10.
But the bill must be approved by
both chambers of the N.C. General
Assembly before going before the
governor for final approval, which
means it’s likely that students won’t
know the final situation until well
into summer or even fall.
Farley said that until recently,
many student officials didn’t real
ize how pressing the issue is.
“It seems like they’re very seri
ous about cutting us at 4 percent,”
he said. “It is a very real possibility.
Now, people are beginning to get a
lot more concerned than they had
been. For me, that’s come to light
within the last week and a half.”
Pending Congress’ stamp of
approval during the meeting
tonight, leaders plan to deliver
the resolution to members of the
General Assembly on Wednesday.
“I believe very strongly in not
just passing the resolution but
in promulgating it,” Farley said.
“The resolution is part of a larger
plan focused at advocating for
the University at the General
Assembly.”
He said students will target
specific representatives, but he is
unsure who they will speak with
because of the short notice.
“It’s been difficult to make
extremely detailed plans,” Farley
said. “We know who we want to
see, we just don’t know if we’ll get
in to see them.”
Student Body President Seth
Dearmin said he thinks the resolu
tion is a positive step in advocating
against budget cuts.
“The resolution is a great way for
students to speak out against the
increase,” Dearmin said. “Student
Congress is doing a good thing
there. I hope and expect when it
goes to Raleigh that leaders will be
effective in voicing our concerns.”
Farley said that in order for the
campaign to be successful, students
also need to get involved.
“Student government and other
leaders can do a lot, but this is
going to take a lot of popular sup-
SEE BUDGET, PAGE 5
Horton told the council he recom
mended rezoning Greenwood, add
ing in a memorandum that the pro
cess of tearing down current build
ings, separating lots and erecting
infill development would adversely
change Greenwood’s character..
Some residents outsiclt
Greenwood supported the pro
posal.
“This will not only benefit resi-
SEE GREENWOOD, PAGE 5
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