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4 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008 Oct. date for music building construction Part of comprehensive Arts Common BY LINDSAY RUEBENS STAFF WRITER The music building emerg ing from the ground on South Columbia Street aims to launch the University’s arts program into the future. The masterminds of the Arts Common envision a landmark entrance into campus from Porthole Alley on Franklin Street. It would serve as a welcoming gateway into the University and immediately connect visitors to the availability of UNC's arts facilities. But that's all tentative, and fur ther plans will not be definite for a long time, said Emil Kang, execu tive director for the arts. Tim Carter, head of the Department of Music, said that while the arts have always been strong at UNC, he sees this new New service connects parents and baby sitters BY ROBERT C. GUNST JR. STAFF WRITER Freshman Sarah DuPre has baby-sat since the sixth grade. And the Atlanta native is look ing to acquire Chapel Hill clients through Mommy Mixer. “I want to hang out with kids, get to know people and make a few extra dollars." DuPre said. Mommy Mixer, a service that pairs families in need of child care with college students who are look ing to baby-sit. opened this month in Chapel Hill. The group collects resumes from prospective baby sitters and allows moms and dads to meet the candidates at events called mixers. “Mommy Mixer will allow me to meet parents face-to-face, which is important for mothers," said Calvert Coley, a senior from Winter Park. Fla. Upon arriving at a mixer, par ents are given “The Babysitter Book," which is filled with the resumes of the baby sitters in ■ - j * k - •• -- -* - Great off-campus living is just minutes awayl jj WIJ. STZL™ APARTMENT HOMES 1105 Hwy. 54 Bypjvs • 888-329-1784 WITH University Lake NEWLY RENOVATED INTERIORS No roommstes required! 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Edward Short associate director of construction management, said attendance. Parents can mingle with prospective baby sitters and discuss employment opportuni ties, said Melissa Graunke, the UNC campus representative to Mommy Mixer. The company operates out of 22 cities nationwide and is looking to expand further. “We look for communities with large universities," said Catherine Tiirissini, public relations for U.S. Mommy Mixer. “Chapel Hill was a good fit because of its ability to pro vide many baby sitters and families who need baby sitters." CEO and “founding mama" Mary Sullivan Cooper created Mommy Mixer in 2003, and she hosted the first mixer in Austin, Texas. “Parents have trouble finding great sitters, and at the same time college girls don’t have a comfort able, safe means for meeting local families to baby-sit for," Cooper stated in a press release. A parent has to pay SIOO to attend a mixer, but the process is the new three-story facility will cover 43,500 square feet. He said the project’s estimated cost is $23.7 million. Construction is slated to be finished by October. The project is about halfrvay done, and sl2 million of the allocated budget has been spent. Short said the estimated cost only covers the price of construction. "Costs could grow a little other funding like design fees aren’t included in that," he said. Dianne Bachman, facility archi tectural supervisor, said that fund ing for the construction has come from the Capital Improvements Program and private donations. “The funding is only in place for the music building," she added. Kang said the next phase of construction, with a start date yet to be determined, will address per formance space something that has been in short supply recently —with the addition of a recital hall. free for student baby sitters. “The process of meeting sitters is an idiosyncratic process," said Beth Mayer-Davis, a Chapel Hill parent with five children who uses child care service. “I could see young parents using the service," Mayer-Davis said. Parents can register by clicking on the ‘looking for a baby sitter" link at the top of the Mommy Mixer. com Web site. Students must submit their resumes on the site under the “looking for a job" link up at least one week before a muter to be con sidered by parents. Mommy Mixer plans to have one mixer every month, with the first one to be held at the end of this month in Chapel Hill. The service has received many replies and queries from prospec tive baby sitters through a Facebook group, Graunke said. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. News The new hall will replace Hill Hall, which will in turn be converted back to its original form as a library. “For us, it's an issue of facilities," senior Emily Ingram, who works as a producer at Company Carolina, said. ‘Our main issue is not finding places to perform but to be able to rent them and then use them how we want to." She said that if UNC contin ues construction to improve and expand performance spaces, the problem will be successfully addressed. Carter noted the importance of adequate facilities for arts students. “For students in the arts, space is equivalent to laboratories in the sciences," Carter said. “If we have the best students at Carolina, we need the best facilities in which to work." Context the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. Laundrymen clean UNC Give universities a drop-off option BY DAN BYRNES STAFF WRITER The idea came to Howard Wood one night in October 2004 while eating dinner with his family in Durham. Because Wood’s day job as a fraternity cook at N. C. State University left large gaps in his day, he decided to start a laundry pickup and drop-off service for N.C. State similar to Devil Laundry at Duke University. Though he began by advertis ing to his fraternity market in the spring semester 0f2005, Wood soon extended the service to Meredith College, Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh and finally UNC. “There is such a concentration of colleges and universities in the entire Triangle area, I decided to expand," Wood said. “I get to live and breathe by a college calendar again, where summers aren’t as busy and I get holidays off." When the service called the Laundrymen first came to the University in September 2006, two UNC juniors already had a small laundry service in action. CAROLINA FOOTBALL Walk-On Try-Outs Howto Fofermry m. Q Mi ml At - * Mandatory NMttag In the KmmHbM Drum teeatai at tea Eastern End of KMaßtteMvn v • t ttttsHwatlnß,yMMßSTßmMo: FraaffatewimnioalN—war ■ Wh daetarwateryand Exam) wta* On laat 8 awatet ar ana Boat fey m Saarti Modteteo aadFraalaflaaMiteaaraaoa mforioiftt oitfn tihokit. roiioni m Ivon l-l mv Whirftifiiir ttfnfl mft riiffdtfmißU MliMi mt 1 mhmmmrnm* | ; i 4 I w i^flMß UUpTw | WJKft DTH/SAM WARD The new music building, extending from the south side of the Ackland Art Museum, is part of plans for an Arts Common for music students. But after the duo graduated last spring, they began referring cus tomers to Wood’s service. Now the Laundrymen’s UNC clientele has grown from about 25 customers to more than 100. And although only a fraction of the 8,100 students who live in residence halls at UNC utilize the service, Wood said he thinks it is a good start. Wood said his customer base has doubled each year since 2004. Last fall he began advertising to UNC students through Webmail and by mailing brochures to parents of ris ing freshmen. A semester-long membership to Wood’s service costs $260 (S2O per week) for a weekly service and $175 ($25 per week) for a biweekly service. Wood promises to deliver the laundry folded and shrink wrapped within 48 hours. “I don’t want them to feel like they are putting their clothes into a black hole and crossing their fingers that they get them back alright," he said. Wood Is able to run his company with the help of his brother-in-law, £hf Daily (Ear Hrri who owns a dry cleaning store and laundromat in Durham. Though the service started out as a one-man show, Wood now has hired a route manager who makes runs to the laundromat five days a week for the N.C. State market “I envision that one day I’ll have a route manager at each school," he said. “I am in discussions with Duke University to expand there next year." UNC freshman Spenser Jacobson said her mom. after seeing a messy 7 room while visiting her daughter last semester, looked into the service and signed her up. “I’m satisfied because it's so easy," Jacobson said. “They pick up and drop off right from your door." But for some students, the wash ing and drying machines in the res idence halls where one wash load costs $1 and one dry cycle costs 50 cents are more than enough. “I keep it real and do it myself because it’s not that hard or expen sive," said Diem Nguyen, Jacobson’s roommate. “You’re going to have to learn how to do laundry some time." Contact the Features Editor at features@unc.edu.
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