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(03/10/06 5:00am)
Yet another campus fixture might be demolished in an ongoing effort to update a series of UNC buildings from past eras.
The proposed reconstruction of Davie Hall - which houses UNC's department of psychology - is one of several modifications to the 2001 campus construction plan.
If approved by the Chapel Hill Town Council on Monday, plans to demolish Davie will move forward, and a new building will be constructed to take its place.
The project - still in its beginning phases - will not culminate for several years, said Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and construction.
Plans to tear down Davie stem from the need to update the facade of the building, Runberg said.
The concrete edifice, built in 1967, is not in harmony with the surrounding historical buildings - such as Old East, South Building and Memorial Hall - that line Cameron Avenue, he said.
"During the '60s, there was a change in the philosophy for design for buildings," Runberg said. "Both the interior and the exterior are outdated."
The design of the area was large and "boxy." Runberg said many universities tried the style, some more successfully than others.
Some of the campus's other "concrete fortresses" from the era, such as Student Stores and Greenlaw Hall, are being renovated.
"It's really architecturally out of place," Runberg said.
Another motive for rebuilding Davie is to accommodate a growing population of psychology majors.
"We desperately need more space for research facilities and classrooms," said Karen Gil, chairwoman of the psychology department.
"Some of the research labs are old, and it would be helpful to update them, as well," she said.
More students are majoring in psychology than any other field in the College of Arts and Sciences. That is why updated and larger facilities are needed for the more than 1,500 undergraduate students in the program, Gil said.
If plans are approved, Runberg said a larger structure would be created in Davie's location. "There is additional space that could be gained on the same site with a different design for the facility."
Davie is just one of many ongoing construction and renovation projects that will go before the Town Council next week, he said.
Another project in the works will be the transfer of 1,000 future parking spots from the Bell Tower parking lot to Craige parking deck. Craige deck will gain three levels.
"As part of upgrading the campus overall, this is just one of many things being done."
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(02/21/06 5:00am)
Sean May. Raymond Felton. Rashad McCants.
Soon a lucky person will have the opportunity to take those former Tar Heel basketball standouts home with them.
The trio, along with others from last year's national championship men's basketball team are captured in action not on film but in paint in a portrait featured in the window of Studio 91, a local art gallery.
Created by renowned sports illustration artist Steve Parson of Durham and signed by Coach Roy Williams, the painting will be auctioned Saturday to raise money for the N.C. Children's Hospital.
"It is sort of a montage of that season, that moment, showing those guys doing what they do," Parson said. "It has them all doing their element."
The painting is so realistic and full of detail that some people actually didn't know it was a painting, said Tim Green, a partner of Domicile Realty, a sponsor of the auction.
"His work is so authentic that people really thought this was a lithograph or a photograph," he said. "It looks like someone took a collage of photos."
Parson, who has painted famous athletes such as Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali, said he captures this style through his emphasis on details.
"I paint really detailed," he said. "I go as far as putting beads of sweat on the face, veins in the arm, wrinkles in the uniform."
The players actually appear as though they are coming out of the painting, he said.
The work of art will be displayed at Studio 91 in Chapel Hill until it is auctioned off from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 12089 Morehead Road, an estate home in Governors Club.
Jeff Girman, co-owner of the studio, said several people already have expressed interest in the work.
"We have an opening bid of $10,000, but we think we can get as high as $50,000 for it," he said
In an ideal situation there would be a substantial winning bid, and the painting would be donated back to the hospital, Green said.
The inspiration for the painting came from Parson's passion for the Tar Heels.
"I have a love for the University of North Carolina," he said.
"I am first and foremost a die-hard fan."
Dedicating the piece for charity was an added bonus, Parson said.
"It doesn't get any better than that - a combination of sports and benevolence," he said.
Both Parson and his sponsors cited the possibility of similar acts of charity in the future.
"I would love to do something else along the same lines again," Parson said.
"I hope it can really benefit the hospital."
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(02/10/06 5:00am)
A coalition of seven Asian student organizations threw their support behind Student Body President hopeful Bernard Holloway on Thursday.
"Both candidates addressed what they would do in reaching out to cultural groups on campus," said Arman Tolentino, president of the Asian Students Association.
"But we felt that Bernard's platform better addressed the interests not only of Asian Americans but of other minority groups on campus," he said.
The endorsement was announced after a forum in which each candidate highlighted key points of his platform.
Although each contending pair of senior class officers was represented at the forum, the groups opted against issuing an endorsement for the race.
Holloway, who now is 4-for-4 at multicultural endorsement forums, focused on his plans for the creation of a first-year diversity-exposure convention.
"It would be a permanent diversity training to occur either at C-TOPS or during the Week of Welcome that would be a workshop that really challenges students with the idea of how to interact with individuals from different perspectives," he said.
Holloway used a recent diversity assessment of UNC students, faculty and staff to formulate the idea for this convention.
"Part of what the diversity assessment showed is that there is a thirst among students at this University to learn about others," Holloway said. "A part of this training is to provide an opportunity for people to gain that knowledge."
Another of Holloway's goals is to work to ensure that students taking cultural classes offered by the University receive perspective credit not just their cultural diversity requirement.
Holloway said he will work to make sexuality-related classes count for perspectives. He said that these classes "all have meaning deeper than diversity."
James Allred, Holloway's opponent, also spoke about diversity as an important part of his platform.
"We have a whole diversity part of our platform," he said. "We've talked a lot about diversity in student government. We've talked a lot about diversity outside of student government."
"We have a lot to offer Asian students specifically," he added.
Allred, like Holloway, mentioned the need for a diversity-training program.
"The idea is that students said they would like to better learn how to deal with issues of diversity on campus and in classes," he said.
Allred also elaborated on his vision for a reformed Student Health Service and his desire to improve the academic advising system.
The other six Asian student groups represented at the forum included: the Chinese Undergraduate Student Association, the Hmong Students Association of Carolina, the Korean American Student Association, the Vietnamese Students Association, Alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority and Pi Alpha Phi fraternity.
"I just hope the forum will be a good first step for the 'Asian coalition' to get on the same page," Tolentino said.
Leaders of the Asian student groups said that both candidates showed concern for minorities on campus, but that Holloway better represented their interests.
"Basically we overall felt that he could better address the cultural diversity issues on campus," Tolentino said. "He specifically knew what our concerns were."
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(01/20/06 5:00am)
Due to a reporting error, this article misstates when Ernest Green visited UNC senior Erika Barrera's high school.
Green came to Barrera's school in 2000 when she was a junior. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
Carrying Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream into the 21st century, Ernest Green - a pioneer of civil rights and desegregation - addressed UNC students Thursday night about King's legacy and racial issues in today's society.
(01/20/06 5:00am)
The truth about sexual assault on college campuses might be revealed by a local study involving UNC students.
The Campus Sexual Assault Survey - a comprehensive list of questions on dating, drugs and alcohol - was sent randomly to thousands of UNC students last week in an effort to compile information on college sexual assault.
"A unique feature of this project is that we will learn more about the magnitude of drug-facilitated sexual assault on college campuses, a problem on which very little data exist," said Christopher Krebs, senior research social scientist for RTI International, a nonprofit organization generating the survey.
The project is funded by a grant from the National Institution of Justice.
The same study will be conducted at the University of Cincinnati.
Survey results will be published this fall, at which time University officials plan to use them to reduce the frequency of sexual assaults on campus.
"Optimistically, I hope we can take this information and better do what we are doing," said Melinda Manning, assistant dean of students at UNC.
The survey results will be used to take steps toward preventing sexual violence.
"We hope to generate data that can be used to inform the development of prevention strategies and programs," Krebs said.
Reducing the number of sexual assaults on campus is the broader long-term goal, Manning said.
Undergraduate students were e-mailed randomly to participate in the study.
The students are enticed to take the test by a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com, and between 2,500 and 3,000 respondents are expected, Krebs said.
"The large majority are going to be female," he added.
Topics of questions range from frequency of alcohol and drug use in college to experiences with assault.
The identities of those taking the 15-minute survey will be kept confidential.
"By learning more about sexual violence, it will help us to prepare students better," said Sandra Martin, a professor in the UNC School of Public Health.
Martin, who is teaching a course called "Violence Against Women" this semester, will serve as a consultant for the study.
Martin predicts the results will show increases in sexual assault when alcohol is involved, and that more instances of rape occur in off-campus settings.
She hopes to provide women's organizations and health providers with information from the study.
"I think it will really help us to learn about sexual violence on college campuses."
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(10/10/05 4:00am)
About a half dozen students spent the better part of Saturday wading through a South Campus creek, looking for items long since forgotten.
(09/27/05 4:00am)
A University researcher warned members of the campus community about the detrimental effects of alcohol on the brain - but highlighted the possibility of rectifying the damage - during a seminar Monday.
(01/15/03 5:00am)
An agreement between the town of Chapel Hill and UNC that extended the jurisdiction of University police is proving useful for investigations, said Maj. Jeff McCracken of University police.
(03/07/01 5:00am)
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