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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2006
Projects wrap, others begin
Officials planning
funding priorities
BY ASHLEE SADLER
STAFF WRITER
Five campus buildings are set to
be finished by the end of the semes
ter, but students shouldn’t expect the
University to be construction-free.
The Information Technology
Services building and the Global
Education Center will see comple
tion in December and January,
respectively, said Sid Stone, director
of construction management
Renovations to Beard, Brauer
and Wilson halls also will reach
an end before the spring semester
begins, Stone said.
Construction Manager Dana
Leeson said the ITS building is only
three weeks away from state inspec
tion. The project has stayed within
its $35 million budget he said.
“We’re doing inspections now of
the emergency generator system,
the fire pump and the fire sprinkler
system,” he said.
Students can look forward to
less congestion on Manning Drive
in the spring, as the road will be
back to normal within the next 30
days, said Bruce Runberg, associate
vice chancellor for facilities plan
ning and construction.
“It will still be three lanes for a
Art project to spruce up town trails
BY SHATARRA GIBSON
STAFF WRITER
Greenways in Chapel Hill will
get a creative facelift this coming
year, and the outcome is a mystery
to all.
The Chapel Hill Public Arts
Commission is asking for resi
dents’ opinions as to what their
new public art project should be.
The art project will help spruce
up town trails.
The choice to involve public
opinion is important, said Kate
Flory, executive director of the
commission.
“We purposely left the question
very broad and open,” she said.
Flory said she wanted people
to be creative and uninhibited in
their suggestions.
Arts commission member Haig
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Presentation of Proclamation
by Governor Easley &
Gifts to Provost
from Presidents of Native
Student Organizations
6 Fry bread Cookout 7 “What are the Correct P.C. 8 9 10 Union Reception for Artists including 11
ll:00-2:00pm Terms for Minorities!?! Should we be Senora Lynch
Near The Pit called Native Americans, African 4:00-6:00pm
Sponsored by First Nations Americans, Hispanic Americans...” 3 rd floor, Frank Porter Graham Student
Graduate Circle (FNGC) Public Forum Union
6:3opm American Indian hoop dancer Jackie Bird
Murphey 116 11:00-1:00pm (Location TBA)
Co-Sponsored by Carolina Indian Circle 6:30-9:oopm
(ClC)andPsi Cabaret, Student Union
Sigma Phi Fraternity, Inc. Co-Sponsored by FNGC, The Graduate School,
and Diversity and Multi-Cultural Affairs Office
13 14 15 Harvest Festival 16 Storytelling with 17 “Trail of Tears” 18 10:00-4:00pm
Traditional American Terri Sue May nor Native American Film Viewing The American Indian
Indian Meal 7:00-9:00pm 7:00-10:00pm Celebration at the NC
12:00-1:00pm Gardner 105 Manning 209 Museum of History in
Rotunda of the Law School Sponsored by Alpha Pi Omega Sponsored by FNGC Raleigh, NC
Sponsored by Native American Sorority, Inc.
Law Students Association Recniitment Weekend tor High School Juniors
(November 17-18)
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Screening and Discussion . .
3:30-s:3opm ThailkSglVlllg
Toy Lounge in Dey Hall
Annual Thanksgiving
6:00-8:00pm
Multipurpose Room, Student
Union (admission-2 canned food
items for charity)
Sponsored by CIC
27 “Health Issues Facing 28 29 LeAnne Howe, Elder in 30 LeAnne Howe, EIR [December 1 2
American Indians in North Residence (EIR) “Playing Pastime: LeAnne Howe, EIR
Carolina” and Traditional Public Film Presentation American Indian Fast-Pitch Native North American
Navajo food lunch “Indian Country Diaries: Softball and Survival” History Lecture
Ronnyßell Spiral of Fire” Public Film Presentation 12:00-12:50pm
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GO3O Bondurant Hall Hitchcock Room, Sonja Haynes Book Signing Readings from “Evidence of
Sponsored by Native Health Stone Center 3:00-3:30pm Red” and “Miko Kings”
Initiative (NHI), AMSA Sponsored by the American “The Story of Corn Woman Literary Seminar
Indian Center and Choctaw Literary l:00-2:30pm
Nationalism” Donovan Lounge in Greenlaw Hall, 2 ad floor
Public Lecture Co-sponsored by the American Indian Center
3:30-s:oopm and the Creative Writing
All in Toy Lounge in Dey Hall Department
while, but that’s progress,” he said.
“There’s been a lot of work done
that’s allowing the site work.”
Runberg said that while the
completion of buildings and infra
structure is good news, students
aren’t in the clear for future head
aches.
“We’re going to replace the steam
line that runs from the cogeneration
plant, and we’re putting an electri
cal duct bank along McCauley and
Pittsboro and Mason Farm roads,”
he said. “So, there is still going to be
more disruption, unfortunately.”
Renovations to Gerrard and
Smith halls and construction of a
music instructional facility that is
part of the Arts Common project
began in October and will continue
into the spring, Runberg said.
The second phase of the Science
Complex, which includes tearing
down Venable Hall, will kick off in
February. For the first five months,
the work mostly will be internal,
said Peter Krawchyk, assistant
director of facilities planning.
“From the outside it won’t look
like there’s much going on, but
from the inside there will be a lot
of work going on,” he said.
Anna Wu, director of facilities
planning, said it’s important for
students to be safe amid the work.
“We continue to have all of our
pedestrian safety plans reviewed
by public safety, as well as the sub
Khachatoorian said the project
was “another way to reach out to
the public and getting them to
participate.”
“We wanted very much to get
feedback from the public of what
they think would be appropriate,”
he said.
The project is funded by the
Chapel Hill Percent for Art
Ordinance.
Under the ordinance, 1 percent
of all municipal capital is given
to the Chapel Hill Public Arts
Commission for public art proj
ects. The funding helps to make
art accessible to all.
Flory said there are 400 towns
across the nation that have adopt
ed a percent for art program.
“It became a way in which com
munities fund their art program,”
November is American Indian Heritage Month
group of the pedestrian safety com
mittee," she said. “We have direc
tional signs that we post at all our
construction sites.”
While construction efforts on
campus continue, officials are pre
paring to ask the General Assembly
to help fund future projects.
The Genomic Sciences and
Dental Sciences buildings will be
the top priorities when officials
seek state funding, Runberg said.
UNC was allotted S2B million
for Genomic Sciences for 2007-08,
and officials will lobby for an addi
tional S6O million, approximately,
in the upcoming year.
For the Dental Sciences
Building, officials plan to ask for
S4B million for the upcoming year,
Runberg said.
“We’re hoping that next year the
legislature will be in a position to
allocate funds, meaning that the
economy is good and that the leg
islature will continue to provide
capital projects to the UNC sys
tem,” he said.
Officials also will put Carolina
North on the table for the first
time. The satellite research campus
being planned for development is
1.5 miles north of the University’s
main campus.
Runberg said the University
only can get one or two high-pri
ority projects funded each year, but
Carolina North should be a visible
Flory said.
Parks and Recreation Interim
Director Bill Webster said the
project will make a great contri
bution to the trails.
“It’s a wonderful amenity to the
trails,” he said “Hiking along you
can see things that make you think
and appreciate the way things
are.”
Khachatoorian said additions
such as functional sculptures,
that would serve as both art and
furniture or an artistic sign system
would be appropriate.
“It’s a matter of bringing atten
tion to a certain aspect of the land
scape,” Khachatoorian said.
Webster said although the trails
are used primarily for transporta
tion, there are those that use them
as recreational facilities.
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News
Construction
wrapping up
► Global Education Center. January
► Information Technology
Services Building: December
► Brauer Hall: December
► Wilson Hall: December
► Manning Drive: Within a month
Construction
continuing
► McCauley Pittsboro and
Mason Farm roads
► Gerrard Hall
► Smith Hall
► Arts Common
► Science Complex
request
“It’s a priority that’s on the hori
zon for ’O7-08, so it’s not too early
to be putting it into our budget
request,” he said.
Kevin Fitz Gerald, special assistant
to the chancellor, said getting money
from the state is always a challenge.
“The main rationale is we need
support to educate North Carolina’s
students and help strengthen the
economy of the state,” he said.
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There are both natural sur
face trials and paved trails. Paved
trails usually are more heavily
traveled, and they are wider than
the natural trails, which are used
more often for quiet nature walks,
Webster said.
Webster said that art is “good
for the soul” but that he doesn’t
think the art should overshadow
the trails’ natural beauty.
“With the trails, we do have
to have balance,” he said “I think
what people want is to not be over
whelmed with art.”
Anyone wanting to contribute
an idea can submit it by e-mail
to info@chapelhillarts.org or call
968-2750.
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New program to
combine system
online courses
Will aid in adding
degree offerings
BY JONATHAN TUGMAN
STAFF WRITER
A proposed program for offering
online classes would make it easier
for N.C. students and others around
the nation and world to take classes
at UNC-system schools.
University of North Carolina
Online is an online education sys
tem that would amass information
about the online programs of all 16
system campuses in one location.
The UNC-system Board of
Governors will ask the N.C. General
Assembly for $4 million through
2009 to develop and maintain the
system.
“This is not the beginning of
online education, but simply a
vehicle to make it easier,” said Joni
Worthington, UNC-system associate
vice president for communications.
“This is not going to do away
with the fact that UNC-CH and
ECU and UNC-G and all the other
campuses offer online courses.”
The reorganized system will
allow students to find out what
courses and degree programs are
available on each campus.
The 16 campuses combined now
offer more than 90 online degree
programs, although others are
planned.
By coordinating the online sys
tems of all campuses, advertising
and enrollment would be easier,
said Alan Mabe, UNC-system vice
president for academic planning.
He said the program could reach
a broader audience. The new proj
ect’s proponents are looking not
only within North Carolina but
around both the nation and world.
“We think the brand name of
the University of North Carolina is
a very strong one,” he said.
The University of North Carolina
Online would bring in additional
revenue for the UNC system, but
it is not yet certain exactly where
that money will go.
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“This is not the
beginning of online
education , but
simply a vehicle to
make it easier. ”
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“Mainly what we want to be able
to do is place more degree pro
grams online,” Mabe said.
All online courses at UNC-CH
now are run through the Friday
Center for Continuing Education,
and most likely it will stay that way,
said Tim Sanford, associate direc
tor for credit programs.
Because each campus within the
UNC system maintains its auton
omy, the role of the Friday Center
probably will not change.
“This will be merely an informa
tion source,” Sanford said.
“The efforts at the system level
are not creating programs or creat
ing courses.”
Mabe said that after the uni
versity finishes planning the infra
structure and the organization this
year, he hopes the system will be
ready to use in fall 2007-
Adult learners and community
college graduates are target groups
specifically mentioned in the pro
posal.
The N.C. Community College
System already employs a pilot
program called Curriculum
Pathways for Higher Education.
Also, through a program called
the 2+2 E-Learning Initiative,
community college graduates can
earn a bachelor’s degree online at
a UNC-system school, said Audrey
Bailey, public information officer
for the community college system.
“It’s supplemental; it’s an oppor
tunity; it’s convenient,” she said of
the online courses.
“But it does not replace bricks
and mortar.”
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