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Trustees Give Resounding `Yes' to Master Plan

By Brook Corwin | Mar. 22, 2001

The UNC Board of Trustees gave unanimous approval Thursday morning to the University's Master Plan, launching a new era of campus growth.The Master Plan, a 50-year blueprint for campus development, was met with no dissent from trustees and granted swift approval, despite lingering concerns from many town officials and local residents.The rest of the meeting was spent discussing the plan's implementation.The BOT approved committee recommendations for contracting firms to begin initial construction projects.Chancellor James Moeser opened the meeting by emphasizing the importance of t

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Appeal to NRC Awaits Federal Support

By Robert Cummings | Mar. 22, 2001

Federal legislators are not sure what their role will be in the latest round of appeals between Orange County representatives and a local power company.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled March 1 to allow Carolina Power & Light Co.'s Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant to open its existing storage pools. The plant plans to open the first pool by this summer and the second one within the next 10 years.The latest appeal, a letter signed by Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange and Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, asked the NRC to review the process used to approve the plant's expansion.

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UNC Activist Fights for Worker Rights

By Megan Butler | Mar. 22, 2001

A week after many University students returned from various Spring Break locales, senior Kea Parker left Thursday for a trip of her own to Mexico.But the biology major from Berea, Ky., is not exactly going to spend a long weekend on the beaches of Cancun.Parker headed down to visit the Nike-contracted Kukdong factory in Puebla as part of a delegation of 10 students from across the nation.

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Board Clarifies Transfer Policy Guidelines

By Carolyn Pearce | Mar. 22, 2001

The Orange County Board of Education unanimously ruled to update the district's student transfer policy Monday night in an attempt to clarify the guidelines for the community. The board approved two proposed clarifications at the meeting. One will allow the principal and, possibly, the superintendent to approve all transfer appeals.

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Moscow: Bolshoi Brings On Ballet Revelation

By Brian Bedsworth | Mar. 22, 2001

The last thing I expected -- or wanted -- was to like it. That would be degrading to my manliness, wouldn't it? All those jokes about guys in tights kept running through my head, making me grimace about the grueling four hours that lay ahead of me.I was jolted out of my daydream by a sudden wall of people crushing against me and my friends. We were suffocating in a mass of bad fur coats and a noxious cloud of body odor, packed like so many little eggs of Russian caviar into a subway car in Moscow's metro.

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N.C. Politicians Wary of McCain's Finance Reform

By Ben DeSantis | Mar. 22, 2001

State political leaders are uncertain how reforms proposed in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, which hit the U.S. Senate floor this week, might impact elections in North Carolina.Officials from the state's Democratic and Republican parties agree that reform is needed, but neither could suggest what type of changes should be adopted."I don't think anybody disagrees that something needs to be done," N.C. Democratic Party Executive Director Scott Falmlen said. "But the devil's in the details."The McCain-Feingold bill, sponsored by Sen.

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Police Roundup 03/22/01

By Staff Editor | Mar. 22, 2001

UniversityWednesday, March 21UNC police responded to a complaint of drug use at Craige Residence Hall. A baggie of marijuana and a glass pipe were seized from 216 Craige.

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Easley's Budget Plan Earns Mixed Reviews

By April Bethea | Mar. 22, 2001

While UNC-system leaders said they are pleased with Gov. Mike Easley's two-year state budget, state legislators are divided over the proposal.The budget, which Easley proposed March 11, allocates additional funds to meet the growing needs of state universities but also recommends extensive cuts in operational funding for the UNC General Administration and other state agencies.A spokeswoman from Easley's press office said the governor is committed to improving public education throughout the state.

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Students Pitch Entrepreneurial Ideas

By Greg Steffensen | Mar. 22, 2001

"Launching the Company" is perhaps the only course at UNC in which the best students receive hundreds of thousands of dollars.But that's what was at stake for participating UNC business students when they pitched their ideas for startup companies to local business and industry leaders who served as judges March 7. Roughly eight of the 25 groups of students that presented business ideas as part of the entrepreneurial course will be invited to continue to the second half of the course, which is taught by Kenan- Flagler Business School Dean Robert Sullivan.

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Environmental Officials Seek Solutions to N.C. Smog Problem

By Talley Sergent | Mar. 22, 2001

On a clear summer's day one can see forever, right?Blink an eye, or even both, and fast forward to a hot, muggy summer day, typical of the North Carolina climate.Driving along Interstate 40 during rush hour, cars pack the lanes, inching along slowly from Raleigh to Chapel Hill. Traffic piles up, cars sit idly and the air fills with nitrogen oxide, or smog, making the horizon seem to disappear in the distance.

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Chapel Hill Police Work to Serve Hispanics

By Katie McNeill | Mar. 22, 2001

Year-round cultural diversity classes, four Spanish-speaking officers and community support are helping the Chapel Hill Police Department better serve the local Hispanic community.After March 12, when a federal marshal shot a Hispanic man whom he mistakenly believed to be a wanted criminal, there has been a heightened awareness for the need to break down language barriers, especially those between Spanish- and English- speaking individuals.But Chapel Hill police maintain that sensitivity training is not something new for the department and that cultural sensitivity has always been consid

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Match Day Hands Future To Med School Graduates

By Katy Nelson | Mar. 22, 2001

There was so much excitement in the air, Clinic Auditorium was about to pop.And Georgette Dent, associate dean of the School of Medicine, had not even handed out any envelopes yet.Four backbreaking years of medical school, four years of undergraduate study and countless hours of dedication come down to one envelope on residency Match Day.Thursday at noon, 155 graduating medical students anxiously opened envelopes to find out their addresses for the first three to seven years of their medical careers -- their residencies.The computed matches are determined by the National Resident M

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When a Tree Falls

By Cliff Nelson | Mar. 22, 2001

The mountains of North Carolina have beckoned hikers, campers and touring motorists for generations with the promise of natural beauty unequaled east of the Rockies.In 1999 alone, nearly 20 million sightseers drove the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina's most-visited tourist attraction and most scenic road.Each year, tourists from out of state decide to make the N.C.

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Tired Clich

By Michael Woods | Mar. 22, 2001

Exit Wounds2 StarsWhat's the easiest way to resuscitate the career of an over-the-hill action star? Apparently, the formula doesn't entail quality acting, exciting special effects and a plot to match. Instead, simply pair your aging actor with a white-hot, multiplatinum rapper who's building his movie career and just let it roll.In "Exit Wounds," Steven Seagal returns to the screen as Orin Boyd, a good cop in a bad situation (please insert ominous baritone voice-over).

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Panel Discusses Campaign Funds

By Metoka Welch | Mar. 22, 2001

A panel of legislators and policy advocates discussed campaign finance reform and the use of soft money in state and national elections Wednesday in Carroll Hall.The town-meeting-based discussion, which was followed by a half-hour question-and-answer session, was co-sponsored by the Common Cause Education Fund: Project North Carolina and the UNC program of Southern Politics, Media and Public Life.Common Cause is a nonpartisan organization that focuses on ensuring the political process serves the general interest, rather than special interests and curbing excessive influence of money on g

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Gymnastic Team Thanks Supporters, Looks to Postseason

By Staff Editor | Mar. 22, 2001

TO THE EDITOR:As our season comes to an exciting close, the UNC gymnastics team would like to thank everyone who so generously supported us this year. Your enthusiasm was inspiring and did much to make this one of the finest seasons in UNC gymnastics history.Our season will conclude at 6 p.m. this Saturday in the Smith Center with our conference championship meet. The event promises to be exciting, as some of the nation's top gymnasts will be here to compete. Eight teams will fight to become the 2001 Eastern Atlantic Gymnastics League champion.

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DMB, Ashley Stove Offer Borderline Discs

By Staff Editor | Mar. 22, 2001

Dave Matthews BandEveryday2 1/2 StarsIn the recent Rolling Stone profile of the Dave Matthews Band, there's a picture of Matthews with Midas-touch producer Glen Ballard, the man behind the boards for the band's fifth full-length studio release, Everyday. Ballard gives off a creepy, Siegfried-and-Roy vibe in the photo, clad in all white, seated at his white piano, ensconced in his white studio.

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