The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, December 1, 19923
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Award-winning UNC
professor emeritus dies
Dr. Augustus "Gus" Taylor Miller
Jr., a winner of the UNC School of
Medicine's Distinguished Service
Award, died Friday at Carol Woods
Retirement Community in Chapel Hill
after a long illness. He was 82.
Miller, who retired from the Univer
sity in 1975, came to Chapel Hill as an
instructor in 1939 and was named a
professor of physiology in 1950. At
various times, he served as assistant
dean of the School of Medicine and as
acting chairman of his department.
Miller was awarded the Distinguished
Service Award in 1 982. He also authored
"Exercise Physiology," with Dr. L.E.
Morehouse.
A native of Arlington, Texas, Miller
earned his bachelor' s degree and gradu
ated at the top of his class in 1931 at
Emory University, where he also earned
his master's degree in physiology. In
1 939, he received his doctorate in physi
ology from the University of Michigan.
He received his medical degree from
Duke University in 1953.
Miller is survived by his wife,
Adeline; a son, Dr. Robert Miller of
Denver; a brother, William Miller of
Lindale, Texas; and a sister, Helen Wil
liams of Moultrie, Ga.
A memorial service will be held to
day at the Holy Trinity Church.
First candidates info
meeting set for today
Students considering running for
elected office next semester should at
tend a candidates' interest meeting to
day in 209 Union.
The meeting, which will be held at 5
p.m., will be an opportunity for inter
ested candidates or students just con
sidering running to pick up candidate
packets and petitions. Elections Board
officials will be on hand to help answer
questions about the UNC election pro
cess. The meeting is open to all potential
candidates for Student Congress, Stu
dent Body President, Residence Hall
Association president, Carolina Ath
letic Association president and senior
class president and vice president.
Students unable to attend the meet
ing should contact Elections Board
Chairman Ron Barnes in Suite A of the
Student Union.
GPSF writing award
winners announced
Mark Dorosin, a second-year gradu
ate student in the law school, and Karen
Stohr, a doctoral student in philosophy,
are the winners of the first Fletcher
Green Graduate Writing awards.
Dorosin and Stohr each will receive
a $250 scholarship from the Graduate
and Professional Students Association.
Entrants in the contest were asked to
write a 1,000-word essay on either the
black cultural center debate or the great
est problem facing the University as it
enters its third century.
Cellar Door to hold
reading from first issue
Students are invited to attend a read
ing of contributions from this semester's
issue of Cellar Door, UNC's creative
writing magazine, Thursday at the Hard
back Cafe and Bookstore.
Contributors to the magazine will
read short stories and poetry from 4:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to celebrate release of
the publication.
Cellar Door Co-editor Mark
Cunningham said he hoped many people
would attend.
Students should look for further is
sues of Cellar Door next semester,
Cunningham said. The magazine also
will be released in smaller, biweekly
issues, he said.
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Lee: Lt.
By Adrienne Parker
Staff Writer
During the next General Assembly
session, N.C. Sen. Howard Lee, D-Or-ange,
plans to tackle the state govern
ment system with his proposals to elimi
nate the office of lieutenant governor,
set term limits and obtain the veto power
for North Carolina's governor.
The omnibus bill includes several
proposals that would redefine the office
of lieutenant governor, including con
solidating the powers of lieutenant gov
ernor and secretary of state.
"My primary interest is to redefine
the office of lieutenant governor; that
is, to move it from the legislative branch
to the executive branch," Lee said.
Elliott Wamock, director of commu
nication for N.C. Secretary of State
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6 UNC students vying
By Gary Rosenzweig
Staff Writer
Six UNC students are hoping to hit
the Rhodes to London soon.
Maurice Drayton, Ganesh
Gunasekaran, Johnathan Robertson,
Malcolm Turner, Scott Wilkens and
Serena Wille have been selected by a
UNC committee and will interview at
the state level Wednesday for the pres
tigious Rhodes Scholarship.
"It is probably the most prestigious
graduate scholarship that is open to
American students," said Robert Allen,
associate dean for honors students in
the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Rhodes Scholarship is awarded
to 32 American college seniors every
year. Selected students spend two to
three years in a graduate program at
Oxford University in England. The
scholarship pays for tuition, fees and
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governor post uflmeceairy
Rufus Edminsten,
said the secretary
of state could
handle any duties
given to him, pre
suming Edminsten
had the right size
staff and the right
budget.
Lee said his
motivation for the
changes was partly
financial. Lee said
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he was not certain that the duties of the
N.C. lieutenant governor justified the
office's expenses. The only constitu
tional duty of the lieutenant governor is
to preside over the Senate, he said.
"We are at a point where we must
look for ways to reduce government
expenses. We must review the way all
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UNC ranks
third among all
universities for the
highest number of
Rhodes Scholar
ships awarded,
Allen said. There
have been 17 UNC
winners since
1965, including
three winners who
are currently at
Robertson
Oxford, he said.
Six students were nominated by the
UNC Rhodes Scholarship Nomination
Committee to interview on the state
level. Four will interview in North Caro
lina, one in Missouri and one in Wash
ington. Candidates have a choice of
competing in their home state or in the
state where their school is located, Allen
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the offices function," Lee said. "We
must ask the hard question: Are citizens
getting their money's worth?"
Lee ' s bill also includes other reforms
such as joining the governor and lieu
tenant governor on one ticket and limit
ing their time in office to a single, six
year term. The changes would not go
into effect until the year 2000, he said.
"I definitely think the lieutenant gov
ernor and governor should run on the
same ticket after the primary," said
former N.C. Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan. "Hav
ing served under other circumstances, I
understand the pitfalls."
Despite General Assembly revisions
three years ago, Lee said the lieutenant
governor's tasks needed redefining.
Until the 1989-90 session, while serv
ing as president of the senate, the lieu
tenant governor had the power to assign
University Station plan
pleases environmentalists
By Paul Bredderman
Staff Writer
Portions of a proposed housing de
velopment that might allow for greater
protection of county open spaces and
expanded use of mass transit has ex
cited local environmentalists, although
many still are hesitant to endorse the
plan.
The University Station proposal, one
of the largest proposed developments in
Orange County history, has forced
county government officials to think
about the adequacy of existing land-use
policy.
County officials will hold a public
hearing tonight at 7:30 at the Orange
County courthouse in Hillsborough.
The plan, which differs from tradi
tional developments, calls for higher
density housing than the traditional de
velopments would in the same space.
The plan proposes a "rural village" de
sign in which stores and services would
be centrally located.
University Station, as proposed,
would be built on Old N.C. 10 between
Interstates 40 and 85 in Orange County
and would span 630 acres.
"We're not examining the specific
proposal yet," said Orange County com
missioner Don Willhoit. "The qut -tion
is, do we prefer a rural village plan to
what the existing ordinances could pro
vide." The proposal has been lauded by
environmentalists and county govern
ment officials for its preservation of
open spaces and its effort to reduce
"urban sprawl."
Present county zoning patterns allow
for larger acreage on individual lots and
low-density housing.
Bill Bracey, a member of the local
Sierra Club chapter, said environmen
for Rhodes
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nominated by a
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committee. All six
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nated were chosen
by the states they
selected.
Thomas Sor-
Drayton
rell, a chemistry
professor, is chairman of the UNC
Rhodes Scholar Nomination Commit
tee. The committee consists of faculty
and alumni, about half of whom are
former Rhodes Scholars.
The process began early this term,
and 23 students applied to the commit
tee for nomination, Sorrell said.
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committee chairmen and members and
to assign bills to committees.
During the 1990 session, with Re
publican Jim Gardner as lieutenant gov
ernor, the Democratic-controlled Gen
eral Assembly returned many of the
lieutenant governor's powers to the
president pro-tempore of the senate,
Lee said.
"When they took those powers back,
they really changed the character of the
office," Jordan said.
Before 1990, North Carolina's lieu
tenant governor had more power than
90 percent of similar officials in other
states, Jordan said.
Despite the loss of governmental
power, Tina Wilson, Gardner' s director
of communications, said the lieutenant
governor still can be influential.
Wilson cited Gardner's accomplish
talists were enthusiastic about the fu
ture of high-density housing in the
county because of the potential of rural
village construction.
"Unless we take some initiative and
make some changes in the way we de
velop, we're just going to end up with
more and more and more of what we
have now," Bracey said.
High-density housing also would fa
cilitate mass transit and preserve open
spaces, bp added.
Bracey said extending the bus sys
tem to reduce automobile traffic was a
foreseeable benefit of higher-density
housing in the development. Project
developers said light rail service to the
neighborhood was a possibility, he said.
"If we plan now, there can be options
in the future," Bracey said. "If light rail
is developed along existing rail lines
there could conceivably be student
housing all the way up into
Hillsborough.
"That may be 20 years away," he
added. "But (the plan) indicates a change
in the development patterns, which is
necessary for us to get out of cars."
But reaction to the proposal isn't all
positive.
Willhoit said he was concerned about
traffic that a high-density development
like University Station would create.
, "I think the developer has to demon
strate that the road system will handle
the extra traffic," he said. .
But Willhoit added that the develop
ment was not contingent on availability
of mass transit.
"I think more the focus is how do we
serve the people that are here, and how
(are we serving) them through our cur
rent development ordinances," he said.
While the proposal offers environ
mentally positive precedents, Bracey
says the local Sierra Club does not en
Volunteers look to bring
holiday joy to hospital
By Chris Robertson
StaffWriter
Santa Claus is coming to to wn soon ,
and he'll also pay a visit to the hospital
thanks to the Campus Y's Umstead
Committee.
The Umstead Committee, a group
of student volunteers who work with
hospital patients, once again is spon
soring Operation Santa Claus, an out
reach program to help patients in the
John Umstead Hospital in Butner en
joy Christmas even though they can't
be home with family and friends.
The committee, headed by Ross
Taylor, a senior from Huntersville,
and Laura Aycock, a senior from
Greensboro, sponsored the program
for the first time last year. Taylor and
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ments as chairman of the N.C. Drug
Cabinet and his participation in other
state organizations as examples. "The
office is whatever the person makes of
it," she said.
In addition to limiting the terms of
the governor and lieutenant governor,
Lee's bill also offers term limits for
legislators and veto power for the gov
ernor as in other states.
"I think the governor should have the
veto power. I think things pass embed
ded in the legislation that should not
pass," Jordan said. "Forty-nine states
can't all be wrong."
Lee also said he would like to change
state legislators' two-year terms by al
lowing them to serve four-year terms.
Lee also proposes limiting legislators to
serving only three terms or a total of 14
years.
dorse the development because of other
aspects of the proposal.
A golf course is part of the plan,
offered as protected open space by the
developers. "It's being presented as open
space, but it's really not," Bracey said.
Willhoit said, "I understand why
people say that it's not really a shared
open space, because you really can't
use it unless you're playing golf."
Nearby residents also have voiced
disapproval about the proposal.
"The people that live near it are not
very excited about it," Bracey said. The
density for the proposal is larger than
normal for rural Orange County.
Willhoit said a recent committee set
up by the Orange County Board of
Commissioners hoped to bring together
neighborhood residents and developers
to agree on a workable plan.
"A lot of people are comparing the
University Station development to what
is there, as opposed to what is allowed
by the current ordinances," he said.
"We haven't made the decision about
whether we want rural villages or not,
and here we are faced with a rural devel
opment proposal."
A committee was set up by the com
missioners five years ago to begin look
ing at ways to improve land develop
ment and has recently recommended
six strategies, Willhoit said.
The rural village model is one of
them. "I'm intrigued by it," Willhoit
said. "But the issue is whether Univer
sity Station is the right location and
right form of the rural village."
Willhoit said that the commissioners
would apply land-use standards in ex
amining the proposal but that the group
could prevent development of the land.
"You can't prevent the person from
using their land, unless you're going to
buy it from them," Willhoit said.
Aycock said that the first effort had
been a success, and that changes had
been made to ensure this year's pro
gram would be even better.
Last year, committee volunteers
manned tables in the Pit and on
Franklin Street just before Christmas
to take up gift donations for hospital
patients. The students men distributed
the gifts at the hospital.
In an effort to make the program
more successful, Taylor and Aycock
want to take both monetary and mate
rial donations this year. They will
propose the change in the program at
a meeting today.
Taylor and Aycock want to place a
table in the Pit and a bin in the Campus
; Y to accept gifts. Financial donations
could then be made at the Pit site.
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