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VOLUME 113, ISSUE 140 Evolving face of downtown Several projects in pipeline to alter skyline BY BRIANNA BISHOP CITY EDITOR In November 2003, a group of Chapel Hill residents gathered at the Franklin Street post office to hear the ideas of a consultant who would guide the town in a new direction for development John Stainback prepared residents to embark on a revi talization project that called for the redevelopment of town parking lots 2 and 5, laying the groundwork for a flurry of new life downtown. The pub lic-private partnership includes a two-phase INSIDE Carrboro's look to get makeover with development PAGE 6 initiative beginning with the construction of a mixed-use facility on lot 5, across from University Square, and the expansion of the Wallace Deck on Rosemary Street. Phase 2 will bring the devel opment of lot 2 behind Spanky’s restaurant, the creation of a transit transfer center under neath the lot and the construc tion of a parking deck on the site of the Rosemary Street RBC Centura bank. Though the town hasn’t yet broken ground on the project, the skyline of the downtown already is markedly different. “There’s been changes, but I don’t think (there will ever be) anything as big on Franklin Street as is being proposed right now,” said Betty Kenan, owner of University Square and a down -SELSKttINOAGtfi. ...it, <\t<v->.>,-,-?v- ■ .■&-; „,', ~ ;•_. IL. **. J^RnSi DTH/WHITNEY SHEFTE Guard Alex Miller celebrates after UNC's dramatic 74-70 win over Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday. Miller scored four in the win. Wilco will come to UNC BY JIM WALSH ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR The Carolina Union Activities Board announced Friday that rock band Wilco will headline two shows at Memorial Hall this March, marking the second time in six months that a marquee act will have come to campus. The performances, slated for March 5 and 6, are a joint effort between local music venue Cat’s Cradle and CUAB. It is the first time in four years that Cat’s Cradle has collaborated on a show with UNC and the first time the venue has brought an act to Memorial Hall under its current ownership. “Hopefully this show will serve as a CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the Monday front-page story, “Traffic deaths shock town,” incorrectly suggests that Chapel Hill police spokes woman Jane Cousins said that pedestrians were at fault dur ing five recent car accidents. Cousins only was referring to four accidents, not the one on campus involving a UNC law student. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ohr laiUt (Bar lUrri The sky is the limit With major projects already under way and several more in planning stages, the face of downtown Chapel Hill is changing. In 10 years, the skyline of Franklin and Rosemary streets will be speckled with new architecture. ROSEMARY VILLAGE 400 W. Rosemary St. ! • • ~— * — Near completion, the four-story, four building luxury condominium facility located on West Rosemary Street has 38 units ranging in price from $350,000 to $700,000 as well as seven units on the ground floor for commercial space. PARKING LOT 5 141 W. Rosemary St. ———. —-—~r 2 ...kjfltfjb- In Phase 1 of a two-part project, the town will develop a mixed-use facility on town parking lot 5, across from University Square. Proposed plans for the first phase include 233 residential units and some 31,000 square feet of retail space. SOURCE -.TOWN Of, ARCHIVES blueprint for future collaboration between Frank and CUAB,” said CUAB President Jonathon Benson, referring to Cat’s Cradle owner, Frank Heath. Student tickets are $lB and go on sale at the Memorial Hall box office Feb. 6; tickets for the general public are $26 and go on sale Feb. 8. Student tickets must be bought in person and with a valid One Card. CUAB is subsidizing the cost of stu dent tickets. If they sell out before going on sale to the public, Benson said, CUAB will pay the $8 difference on each ticket. Details of the complete cost to CUAB were SEE WILCO, PAGE 6 online j dailytarheel.com HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Cameron Park Elementary plans 50th birthday events SURGE OF SYMPATHY Environmental group memorializes Chapel Hill student STYLE, NO SUBSTANCE Memorial Hall performer brings vapid image show www.dailytarheel.com SHORTBREAD LOFTS West Rosemary Street Concept plans presented to the Chapel Hill Town Council on Jan. 18 call for the con struction of a facility with 168 residential units and 229 parking spaces. Ihe project will require the demolition of an office building and a 20-unit residential facility. PARKING LOT 2 AND WALLACE DECK 100 E. Rosemary St. Expansion of the Wallace Deck will be included in Phase 1 of the initiative. Phase 2 includes developing of lot 2; building a transit center underneath the lot; and building a parking deck at the site of the Rosemary Street RBC Centura bank. ALONE AT THE TOP BY JACOB KARABELL, senior writer DURHAM To defeat on the road what many observers consid ered the best team in the country, a team needs a lot of things to go right. Tack on a 16-point deficit at a raucous, sold-out Cameron Indoor Stadium and the margin for error shrinks infinitely close to zero. If everything goes right, that team might have a chance. And for No. 3 North Carolina, just about every thing seemed to go right in the second half. La’Tangela Atkinson, Ivory Latta and Erlana Larkins were among those who turned in monumental perfor mances as the Tar Heels stunned No. 2 Duke 74-70 Sunday night The win essentially guaranteed UNC (20-0,7-0 in the ACC) the No. 1 ranking in the polls, as it emerged from Durham as the nation’s lone undefeated team. And it was an oft-forgotten player Atkinson that propelled the Tar Heels in the game’s final minute. After Duke’s Mistie Williams converted a layup to cut the UNC advantage to one with 44 sec- Officials close book on freshmen reading pick BY ERIN ZUREICK ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR When new students arrive at UNC in August, they will sit down to discuss Jhumpa Lahari’s “The Namesake” marking the first time a work of fiction has been chosen by the University’s summer reading selection com mittee. The novel follows the path of an Indian immigrant family as they adjust to life in the United States. Lahiri details the life of the fam ily’s son, Gogol, as he deals with life as a first GREENBRIDGE DEVELOPMENT West Rosemary Street between Graham Street and Merritt Mill Road Developers plan to build a mixed-use residential and retail space with parking underneath the structure. The nine-story building project indudes many eco-friend ly features. Plans have been presented to ffie community design commission. THE FRANKLIN West Franklin Street ' "" 'if 1 ' The hotel is planned to be two stories tall on the street front and five sto ries tall farther back from the street. It will contain 66 boutique-style rooms. Officials say the hotel will offer visitors easy access to downtown. DTH/FEILDING CAGE onds remaining, an entry pass to Larkins drew a Blue Devil double team. Larkins found Atkinson alone under the basket for a layup to restore a three-point lead. Duke (20-1, 7-1) then went to its player-of-the-year candidate, Monique Currie, to tie the game. Currie misfired on her shot, but Williams secured the rebound and was fouled by Camille Little. When Williams purposely missed her second free throw, it was Atkinson that cut in front of the shooter to grab the rebound. And after a Duke timeout, the generation American. As he grows up, Gogol becomes increasingly embarrassed about his name and, in an act of independence, changes it when he goes to college. Gogol’s search for identity is a theme stu dents will relate to, said sophomore Matt Pagett, a member of the committee. “It talks about his experience living in two different worlds,” Pagett said. “We think it will resonate very well with students here.” SEE READING, PAGE 6 Sports | page 12 UNEVEN PERFORMANCE The Tar Heels gymnastics team takes third in a four-team meet at home this weekend. Junior Christine Robella took first in the all-around event. UNC provost heads west for big promotion BY BRIAN HUDSON NEWS EDITOR Provost Robert Shelton was tapped Friday afternoon to be the next president of the University of Arizona. “It wasn’t a difficult decision, and it definitely wasn’t a con flicted one,” said Benjamin Graff, the voting student regent on the Arizona Board of Regents. The governing board of the state’s university system picked Shelton during a special ses sion. “We needed someone that could lead with our university medical 5ch001.... That had to be someone who was an innovative leader,” Graff said. “They need to be someone that knows how to work and run a large organiza tion, a large business.” At UA Shelton will reap a $550,000 compensation pack age, which will cover all of his finances, including housing, Graff said. UA President Peter Likins will step down June 31 after nine years. Shelton, who said he was excit ed by the announcement, said he likely will head to Arizona before that time. “You like to have a few weeks between jobs.” UNC Chancellor James Moeser said Friday that top administrators will be meeting this week to discuss Shelton’s departure. He said he hopes to have an interim provost selected by the end of the week, although the process of selecting a permanent replace ment will take much longer. “I would like to think it senior calmly stepped to the free throw line and sank both shots to seal the game. “I was just focused,” Atkinson said. “I’ve been working on my free throw shot... and it came down to that just me practicing and hav ing that confidence.” Yet prior to the action-packed finish, it was the calming steward ship of Latta that helped UNC crawl back. After 12 turnovers in the first half, the Tar Heels only lost the ball twice in the second —and none in the final five minutes, even after Latta backed directly into a screen by Williams near midcourt. Latta came away from the colli sion dazed and shaken, but appar ently not shaken enough for Duke as the point guard managed to con vert a driving layup with the shot clock expiring that gave UNC a 70- 67 lead with a minute to play. “They started playing a weave back and forth,” said Duke guard Lindsey Harding, who guarded Latta for all of her 40 minutes of playing time. “That kind of today in history Jan. 30,1991... Student Congress votes to deny Students for the Advocacy of Race Relations the right to sell T-shirts with "UNC Knows Racism" printed on them. MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2006 could be filled a year from now,” Moeser said. “That depends on how rapidly we could move with commencing that process.” Shelton surmised that the search could attract a broad range of prospects. “I think we could have a lot of strong internal candidates,” he said. “But with Carolina’s reputation, there could be strong external can didates.” Thus far Steve Allred, executive associate pro vost and the highest rank ing member of Shelton’s Cabinet, has Provost Robert Shelton was named the new president at UA on Friday. refused to speculate on the possi bility of applying for the vacancy. When Moeser brought Shelton in as provost in 2001 it was his second major hire as chancellor. The first search process for a provost was challenging to some extent, Moeser said, because the position was not as defined then as it is now. “I think there was a much greater sense of uncertainty about where we were headed,” he said. “I think we have a much clearer course.” Shelton was up for the UA position against three other can didates, all of whom were rank ing administrators from nation- SEE SHELTON, PAGE 6 freed up the lane a lot for them to penetrate. In the first half, I was denying (Latta) a lot. In the sec ond half, she held onto the ball a little bit more.” And credit the unexpected long- range shoot ing of Larkins, who seldom shoots from farther than four feet from the basket, for bringing the Tar Heels back after trailing by 13 at halftime. She hit two 3s at the start of the second half WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UNC 74 Duke 70 INSIDE Tar Heels show poise, commit only 2 turnovers in 2nd half PAGE 12 to trim the Duke lead to eight. “I just had to get the confidence to shoot the shot, and for some rea son I just shot it,” Larkins said. The sophomore forward also scored many of her season-high 23 points from her usual spot SEE UNBEATEN, PAGE 6 the namesake itimpa lahiri * wtvtttm a* r* *tHt*#* run ttf ****** o' *****m "**•>** ** ******* m M jMwMhwi IMAGE COURTESY OFAMAZON.COM "The Namesake' by Jhumpa Lahiri weather ; % P* X Partly Cloudy 'W H 67, L4O index police log 2 calendar 2 crossword 5 edit 8 sports 12
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