VOLUME 113, ISSUE 150
Campus parking less than fine
Availability decreases; fees persist
BY ERIN ZUREICK
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Finding a parking spot on cam
pus requires ingenuity, resource
fulness and a healthy sprinkling
ofluck.
Drivers often circle parking
lots for what can seem like an
eternity only to be thwarted by
another driver.
Fewer permits
are available to
students this
year as construc-
MONDAY
SPOTLIGHT
tion projects eliminate parking
spaces in blocks, forcing drivers
to be creative when they search
for spaces during peak hours.
And for every person who
evades the scrutinizing eye of a
patrolling officer, there is some
one who hasn’t been so lucky.
Hundreds of citations can be
issued each day, and drivers can
rack up fines if they aren’t care-
UNC
names
newest
officer
EO/ADA leader
announced Friday
BY KERRY CANNITY
STAFF WRITER
Another empty seat in the
University’s administration has
been filled.
Ann Penn was chosen as
the University’s new Equal
Opportunity/Americans with
Disabilities Act Officer, campus
officials said Friday.
The new hire will be officially
announced today, said Lisa Katz,
director of
UNC’s news
services.
Penn is the
director of the
office of Equal
Opportunity
and Affirmative
Action at Kent
State University
in Ohio.
The respon
sibilities of
the EO/ADA
officer include
monitoring the
■
Ann Penn
comes to UNC
from a similar
post at Kent
State University.
hiring process of other University
employees to ensure equal oppor
tunities for minority groups and
investigating complaints of harass
ment or discrimination.
The position also includes
ensuring that the campus is com
pliant with the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
“There’s an education compo
nent to the position, helping the
campius understand the impor
tance of diversifying our faculty
and staff and dealing with issues
around discrimination,” said
Margaret Jablonski, vice chancel
lor for student affairs and chair
woman of the search committee.
“There’s a compliance side
investigating particular complaints,
be they based on race or gender.”
The hiring process began in
September after the previous EO/
ADA officer, Robert Cannon, said
he would be leaving after 21 years
on the job.
“We look for candidates that have
knowledge of equal opportunity and
SEE EO/ADA, PAGE 4
CORRECTION
Due to an editing error the
Friday front-page graphic
accompanying die “Downtown
sees multiple vacancies”
story contains an error. The
Carolina Population Center is
not closed, it’s relocating from
its 123 W. Franklin St. site.
The Daily Tar Heel apolo
gizes for the error.
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About s9oo,oooworth of park
ing tickets from about 34,000
individual citations was issued
in 2005, according to records col
lected through early December by
the UNC-Chapel Hill Department
of Public Safety.
The fines ranged from $5 to
sllO, and February registered as
the peak month with 4,042 cita
tions distributed.
Central areas of campus such
as South Road, Stadium Drive
and Davis Drive seem to be mag
nets for violations.
Those areas, along with Cobb lot
and the parking lot in front of the
Raleigh Street ATMs, accounted
for almost 20 percent of all fines.
Violations ranging from park
ing without a permit to parking
in a fire lane occur every day, and
SEE PARKING, PAGE 9
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After waiting in a line that wrapped around the restaurant, senior Ryan Wiedenman places his order at Hector's about 3 a.m. Sunday,
the restaurant's last night open before it relocates. "We've been coming her.e for four years," Wiedenman said. "We're kind of sad."
HECTOR’S CLOSES SHOP
LAST NIGHT A MIX OF NOSTALGIA, TYPICAL CROWDS
BY SHERA EVERETTE
STAFF WRITER
As soon as Hector’s opened
Saturday morning, customers
were coming in to order food.
The store owners predicted that
it would be a busy day.
And after a 37-year stay at
201 E. Franklin St. it should
have been Saturday was the
last day in business for Hector’s
at that location.
“Yesterday it was crazy, and
today it will be the same,” co
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2005 parking violations on campus
The UNC Department of Public Safety issued 34,287 parking citations from Jan. 1,2005, until early December. A
total of 13,000 violations occurred due to cars missing a valid permit; 5,216 violations resulted from expired meters
with one offense; and 4,359 violations were the result of a patron parking in a reserved space. About $902,595 in
revenue will be accumulated after all parking violations have been paid. ‘
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owner Juan Bautista said.
“With it raining right now, I
don’t know if they’ll come out
for the day, but we’ll have lots of
people for the night.”
Bautista’s prediction held true
as the late-night eatery filled with
customers Saturday night.
“It was so packed around 2
(a.m.) that I couldn’t even order,”
said Richie Price, a Chapel
Hill resident and a regular at
Hector’s.
“I was going to just wait and
SBP hopefuls share stormy history
BY CHRIS COLETTA
AND BRIAN HUDSON
SENIOR WRITER
The headline on the lead story
in the Sept. 21, 2004, edition of
The Daily Tar Heel told readers
that something pretty important
had just happened: “Student body
secretary gives up post.”
A few weeks later, on Oct. 11,
another story of import hit the
DTH: “Allred chosen to fill office.”
The articles explained how
Bernard Holloway had left the
office of student body secretary
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CAROLINA VALENTINES
Many couples shared first
kisses during undergraduate
years at UNC. Former Sen.
John Edwards is among those
Carolina couples.
come back later, but then I found
out there wouldn’t be a later, at
least not here.”
Bautista said Saturday was a
bittersweet day for him because
he has been at the restaurant
since 1989, first as a worker and
then as co-owner with his broth
er-in-law Jose Constantino.
“I feel a little bit bad, but
at the same time, I feel good
because we have so many prob
lems here,” he said.
He added, “We have leaks and
and how James Allred had filled
the open spot. They explained
that Holloway left the office due to
personal reasons and that Allred’s
positive attitude enabled him to
get the post.
They explained
how the moves
affected the
student body.
But there
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ELECTIONS
2006
was just one problem: They didn’t
explain what really happened.
The real story is one of deceit
and loyalty, of pride and hurt feel-
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LOOKING TO EMPOWER
Empowerment Inc. looks to
the Downtown Partnership to
help with its intern program,
which pairs high school
students with local businesses.
sometimes at night, the guys come
in here and make a mess and leave
it for us. That’s not fair.”
Hector’s is closing to make
its second move since opening
in 1969.
The restaurant originally
was located downstairs at 201
E. Franklin St., but it moved
upstairs after a fire in 1990.
Shelton Henderson, owner of
the Shrunken Head Boutique, a
SEE HECTOR'S, PAGE 4
ings. The main characters don’t
agree on its details.
And 24 hours before polls are
set to open in this year’s campus
elections, it could shed a whole
new light on the race between
Holloway and Allred for student
body president.
Calabria and his officer corps
say they couldn’t trust Holloway
and had to ask him to resign for the
good of the student body. Allred
faces questions about his closeness
SEE SBP RACE, PAGE 4
today in history
FEB. 13,1795
UNC's first student, Hinton
James, enjoys his first full day
on campus after walking from
Wilimington to Chapel Hill to
enroll at the University.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2006
Hikes
clear
system
hurdle
Future parameters
left undetermined
BY ERIC JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
The UNC-system’s one-year
experiment with a defined tuition
framework culminated Friday in the
quick approval of tuition increases
at all 16 universities, just as system
officials and campus administrators
had hoped.
“I think it was a great lesson,” said
Hannah Gage, who leads the UNC
system Board of Governors’ budget
and finance committee.
Gage has championed the use of
guidelines which allow campuses
to count on approval for hikes that
fall within a set limit —as a way of
bringing order and predictability to
the annual process.
“The campuses deserve a lot of
respect for showing that they can
work within a system and frame
work,” she said Friday, following the
board’s near-unanimous vote in favor
of increases at every campus. “I think
they accomplished what we hoped
they could accomplish.”
The only dissent voiced during the
vote came from board member Ray
Farris, who objected specifically to
UNC-Chapel Hill’s proposal to raise
nonresident tuition by $l,lOO. Farris
forced the board to take the unusual
step of making UNC-CH’s request
a separate motion so that he could
register his opposition.
“I think they have increased too
much too soon,” Farris said, refer
ring to the University’s Board of
Trustees.
“It gives the impression that that
University is going to charge just
as much as it can. I think that’s the
wrong impression.”
The policy outlined by the
University trustees does, in fact, call
for raising nonresident tuition as
high as the market will bear, and the
BOG largely has been supportive of
that approach.
But Farris said the rate of increase
has been unreasonably quick, and
two other board members joined him
in voting against the hike.
“They have increased so rapidly
for students already in school,” Farris
said, noting that nonresident tuition
at UNC-CH has increased about
$6,000 since 2001.
For undergraduates at UNC-CH,
the tuition and fee hikes passed
Friday amount to $360.80 for resi
dents and $1,210.80 for nonresi
dents.
Despite widespread praise among
board members and campus officials,
plans to permanently adopt a more
streamlined tuition policy are far
SEE TUITION, PAGE 4
■
Candidate
James Allred
assumed the
student body
secretary post
after Holloway.
Candidate
Bernard
Holloway
resigned from
the position in
Sept. 2004.
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