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6The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, September 6, 1989 Commottee exam Dimes dowratowmi parkoong deck By JESSICA LANNING Assistant City Editor A committee of four town council members is, compiling a preliminary report on a proposed downtown park ing deck that would take the place of the failed Rosemary Square project. Rosemary Square, the controversial hotelcondominiumparking complex developed by the Chapel Hill Town Council and the Rosemary Group, Inc., was abandoned in April after five years of debate. The project would have been located behind the Franklin Street Post Office on the corner of Rosemary and Henderson streets, but the development firm in charge of the project could not meet established contract deadlines. Council members Nancy Preston, Julie Andresen, Jim Wallace and Art Werner make up the parking commit tee. All committee meetings are open to the public. The committee is seeking an archi tectural firm to design a parking deck to occupy the space set aside for the Rose mary Square project, said Wallace, chairman of the committee. The com mittee has narrowed the number of firms from 13 to five and is waiting for a second response from the remaining contenders. The architects have until Sept. 1 1 to provide more detail about the structure including size, number of parking spaces, available commercial space and the amount of the structure that will be above and below ground, Wallace said. "We have yet to name an architect, but we are getting closer to it all the time," he said. After the committee receives second responses, it will make a recommenda tion to the council. Wallace said the full council would make decisions concern ing design, construction and financing in late September or early October. Werner said the proposed parking deck was preliminary, and the specifics would be worked out later. "This is not something we want to jump into." There are certain criteria the com mittee wants in the plans, Werner said. The committee members want an at tractive structure to provide parking spaces and some public and retail space. The committee also wants the structure to be financed using bonds. "I think this thing needs to be more than a parking garage," Werner said. "Part of what we need to do with this project is to get people downtown." Jack Tomkovick, owner of the Gold Connection, said he supported construc tion of a new parking deck. "I'd love it. The sooner the better." Tomkovick said the new project was what the town should have done in the beginning instead of Rosemary Square. "It took a lot of time and effort, and now we're back to square one." More parking is Tomkovick's pri mary concern and goal, he said. "If the town and University will work together and do their thing that would be fabu lous. "There is no way it can be anything but a good thing, and we're ready for it." Grange deck coostryctioim to beam By TERRI CANADAY Staff Writer Construction of the parking deck at Craige Residence Hall will begin in two to three weeks if all goes as planned, said John DeVitto, trans portation and parking director. Tom Shumate, consulting archi tect for facilities planning and de sign, said the new five-level deck would provide 1 ,400 new spaces, as well as 200 surface spaces. The lot now has 500 spaces, so there will be a net increase of 1,100 spaces, he said. The project, which will cost $10,050,000, will take 18 to 20 months to complete. DeVitto said the parking lot at Craige has been recently labeled a PR lot so the 500 drivers now there will have the option of parking in an other PR lot during the deck's con struction. The Department of Trans portation and Parking added 500 spaces to the PR lot at the airport to compen sate for the need for spaces. Colleen McGowan, a senior from Wilmington, said she was excited about the project. "We definitely need some thing to alleviate the parking crunch. It's ludicrous to have students waiting in line all night for a parking permit. Even if it means an increase in our student fees by a few dollars, I think it will be worth it in the long run." The transportation fee that passed recently goes to the transportation sys tem, not parking, DeVitto said. The transportation system has already im proved, he said. Improvements include a 30 percent increase in bus routes, the point-to-point shuttle and the taxi serv ice. Jim Barrow, a junior from Glen wood, Md., expressed some concern about the location of the deck. "It should be closer to campus. The only reason they put it at Craige was because of the Dean Dome for basketball games. It would have made more sense for stu dents and for faculty if it was closer to campus." Consultants chose Craige for the deck's location, DeVitto said. This site will place minimum impact on the environment, and it is convenient to the Smith Center and the hospital, he said. DeVitto explained there is more to building a parking deck than actually building the structure. Consultants now are dcing a transportation study, planning three to five more parking structures. John Carey, a sophomore from Connecticut, said he thought the new deck would help alleviate UNC's parking pioblem. "The new spaces that will be provided by the deck shouldn't be specific to faculty or students. They should be thrown in the lottery." The spaces will be allocated through the lottery system, DeVitto said. The students will get a portion of the lots as decided by the transpor tation committee of student govern ment, he said. School of Dentistry names acting dean Additional student aid available By SARAH CAGLE Staff Writer Students who think they may be eli gible for more financial aid because of this year's tuition increase can file for additional assistance for the fall semes ter, officials at the Office of Scholar ships and Student Aid said Monday. The N.C. General Assembly voted near the end of the. legislative session to increase tuition beginning this fall by 20 percent for in-state students and 15 percent for out-of-state students. This is costing in-state students an extra $100 annually, and out-of-state stu dents are paying an additional $669 annually. , "All awards were made without full knowledge of tuition costs," said Eleanor Morris, director of financial aid. "We did calculate for the 8 12 percent increase in out-of-state tuition proposed by General Administration, but we missed it by 6 12 percent." As a result, current aid packages are $100 less than necessary for in-state students and between $250 and $300 less for out-of-state students. Students already receiving aid may qualify for more assistance, and students who were not considered needy before may now be eligible for aid, Morris said. 'The tuition increase might make a difference, especially if you're on the borderline," Morris said. Forms are available at the student aid office in Vance Hall. The office will begin evaluating requests at the end of September and will make assistance available in early October, Morris said. There is no formal deadline for application. "As long as funds hold out, we will consider applications," Morris said. No scholarships or grant money will be available, but qualified students may receive loans or an increase in work study hours. Loans may come from the student aid office or from an outside source. Typical work-study programs require about 10 hours of work a week. For each additional $100 needed, a student would have to work one more hour each week. Students are being asked to apply for more assistance rather than automati cally be re-evaluated because some stu dents may not want a loan or additional work hours, Morris said. The assistance will not -be distrib uted before the Cashier's Office sends students a second bill for tuition. The bills will be sent out Sept. 1 1 , said Sam Barnard, a University cashier. Although officials at the financial aid office said they assumed students would be able to defer payment of the second bill, Barnard said students ex pecting assistance would not be able to defer the costs. By WILL SPEARS Assistant University Editor Theodore R. 'Ted" Oldenburg, pro fessor of pediatric dentistry and assis tant dean of the School of Dentistry, has been named acting dean of the school. The length of Oldenburg's term as acting dean is unclear, but may be as little as three or four weeks, he said. A search committee chaired by Ernest Schoenfeld, associate dean of the School of Public Health, will forward its rec ommendations to Chancellor Paul Hardin in the near future. The nomina tions then will go through the admini stration and Board of Trustees for approval. Final approval will come from the Board of Governors. Oldenburg's appointment, effective Sept. 1, has been approved by the Board of Governors Personnel Committee. The search for a new dean started when Ben Barker, dean from 1981 to 1989, announced his plans last year to retire. Hardin announced the appointment in a memorandum to dental school faculty and staff. "Following discus sions with Vice Chancellor (H. Gar land) Hershey and others, Dr. Old enburg has agreed to serve as acting dean of the school until the permanent dean is in place," Hardin said in the memo. "I know all of you share my pleasure in Dr. Oldenburg's acceptance of this important role. He will perfrom admirably." Hershey has said Oldenburg would be more than capable of performing as I - j . ' f f Theodore R. Oldenburg acting dean. "I have every confidence that Dr. Oldenburg will lead the School of Dentistry effectively during this tran sition period. As a senior administra tor, he has a broad perspective of the school's programs and operations that well qualifies him to fill this position until the search is concluded." Oldenburg served as chairman of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry for 15 years, with his term ending in 1985. He has continued teaching since, Her shey said. Oldenburg downplayed the signifi cance of his appointment as a news item. "This is getting much more press than it deserves." Study finds shortage of intensive caire facilities for infants By K. PAPAS Staff Writer A study by two UNC professors revealed a severe shortage of intensive care units (ICUs) for the care of new born infants in North Carolina. A study conducted by Watson Bowes, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and Alan Stiles, assistant professor of pediatrics, showed most of North Carolina's 1 1 infant ICUs oper ate at more than 100 percent capacity. The overcrowding of ICU facilities often results in the early release of considerably underweight babies, said Edward Lawson, the director of neonatal-prenatal medicine at N.C. Children's Hospital in Chapel Hill. Other hospi tals lacking intensive care facilities (Level 2 hospitals) that receive the premature babies are ill-equipped to handle the complications that could arise. "Premature infants sometimes lose their respiratory control and stop breath ing," Lawson said. The system of "back transport," in which infants released to Level 2 hos pitals become ill and need further ICU attention, does not work very efficiently, he said. Hospitals are reluctant to re ceive these babies again because ICU care is expensive. 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