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Campus and City Reports
Campus
Friday, Aug. 30
AlexanderWhitmanof2600Port
' land Ave. was arrested by University
Police at 1:36 a.m. and charged with
' drinking while impaired.
Whitman, 21, was driving on Park
Place in Chapel Hill when he was ar
rested. He was given a sobriety test by
the arresting officer at the scene and
then a breathalyzer test, indicating that
his blood alcohol level was .08 over the
legal limit of .10.
An Ehringhaus resident was taken
by University Police to the UNC Hospi
tals emergency room at 1:41 p.m. The
officer responding to a call found him
passed out face down on the floor of his
room.
The UNC student had mixed alco
holic beverages and became sick, ac
cording to the report.
City
Monday, Sept. 2
A member of the 82nd Airborne
division at Fort Bragg was charged with
driving while impaired after his car
struck two utility poles at 3:20 a.m.,
according to police reports.
Mark James Pearsall, 2 1 , was issued
the citation, police reports stated. Three
passengers were in the car, and all four
occupants were taken to UNC Hospi
tals for treatment. The damage to the car
was estimated at $6,000. Pearsall will
stand trial Oct. 8.
Sunday, Sept 1
A Durham teen was arrested at
1:07 a.m. for carrying a concealed
weapon at Hardee's on West Franklin
Street, police reports stated.
Denis Dion Smith, 16, of 2914
Kanewood Dr., Durham, was stopped
' and frisked by an officer, reports stated.
The officer found a concealed, loaded,
; six-shot, blue .38 caliber handgun in the
waistband of his pants.
Smith was released to the custody of
his father, and will stand trial Sept. 19.
Saturday, Aug. 31
A UNC student was arrested for
assaulting a firefighter, police reports
stated.
Mark Ryan Paul, 19, of 210 Teague
Dorm and a resident of Goldsboro, was
arrested after he physically assaulted a
fire fighter during a fire alarm at about
4 a.m. Paul was later released from
custody after no probable cause was
found.
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Carolina Hispanic
By Shea Rlggsbee
Staff Writer
Students who need a break from
Chapel Hill and can't afford a trip over
seas will have the opportunity to im
merse themselves in a foreign culture
this month without leaving campus.
The Carolina Hispanic Association
is sponsoring six days of activities for
National Hispanic Month, which be
gins Sept. 15 and ends Oct. 15. Activi
ties will include dances, speakers, food
samplings and other events designed to
expose participants to Hispanic culture.
Co-President Yadira Hurley said the
events would be a good way to expose
students to CHISPA, which formed less
than a year ago.
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Architect's design
By Amber Nimocks
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill officials and local archi
tects are excited about the design for the
town's new public library, which will
incorporate state-of-the-art, energy-efficient
windows.
At the request of the Chapel Hill
Town Council, a local architecture firm
has incorporated energy-efficient win
dows into the design of the new build
ing. Construction on the 27,000-square-foot
library, estimated to cost $5.5 mil
lion, is expected to begin in spring 1 992.
By daytighting the building, the ar
chitects will make the best possible use
of natural light while minimizing the
passive heat allowed in through large
windows, Chapel Hill Town Manager
Cal Horton said.
The council's interest in daylighting
is a result of its commitment to design
ing new energy-efficient municipal
buildings, Horton said.
"We ve been working with the North
Carolina Daylighting Center and the
North Carolina Alternative Energy Cor
poration to find ways to make the (li
brary) building more energy-efficient,"
he said.
GG A Architects, the Chapel Hill firm
hired by the council to design the new
library, also is interested in exploring
daylighting as an energy-conservation
technique, firm member Josh Gurlitz
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you a feel for the flavor of Hispanic
life."
Dan Haworth
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The week's events include:.
A Latin American dance Sept. 16
in the Pit to initiate the celebration.
A presentation by Emily Arcia
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daylighting techniques in conjunction
with the library design, he said.
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make the library a project," he said.
"We've spent a lot of time on this project,
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Pit. Students will have the opportunity
to try different Hispanic foods.
A presentation Sept. 19 by Marife
Turner on the history of Puerto Rico.
The event will be held in room 208 of
the Union.
The grand finale, a Latin Ameri
can Dance Workshop, will be held in
the Union Cabaret Oct. 15.
Co-President Dan Haworth said stu
dents did not have to be Spanish to be a
member of CHISPA.
"(CHISPA) gives you a feel for the
flavor of Hispanic life," said Haworth,
who is not Hispanic.
Spanish is spoken at all CHISPA
meetings and events, but awareness of
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aperture windows specially designed to
maximize the amount of natural sun
light received while limiting the heat
gained through the windows in the sum
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"In order to make full use of the
Spanish language, you need to know
the culture behind it," Haworth said.
Haworth said each CHISPA meeting
focused on a different aspect of His
panic culture. This allows people to
sample the culture of an area that covers
more than a quarter of the land mass of
North and South America, he said.
Donna van der Dijys, publicist for
CHISPA, said the group was especially
helpful for international students.
The next CHISPA meeting will be
Sept. 10 on the second floor of
Carmichael Residence Hall. Dinner at
the Spanish House in Carmichael will
be held after the meeting.
"One of the problems with aDerture
windows is maximizing the amount of
indirect light and minimizing the amount
of direct light," he said. "Direct light
contributes to heat gain."
Glass used in aperture windows is
glazed, so it can act as a filter to further
minimize heat gain, Gurlitz said.
The design of the building also will
allow patrons to enjoy the park, which
will surround the library, he said.
"Normally, views are not very im
portant when designing a library,"
Gurlitz said. "But in this case, it's im
portant for people to be able to enjoy the
feeling of the park inside the library."
The council passed a resolution last
week to add $26,000 of daylighting
features to the children's section of the
library. Some town staff members ex
pressed concern that light allowed in by
the additional windows would damage
the materials in the section.
But public library director Kathy
Thompson said the additional windows
would not be located above any stacks,
but rather in readi ng areas and entrances.
Horton said thecouncil might be able
to finance the additional daylighting
with grants. The N.C. Alternative En
ergy Corporation has promised to grant
the council $5,000. Horton would not
reveal the other possible donor but said
the group may donate up to $25,000.