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Adam Bennett
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Committee
approves sliding scale parking fees
UNC-CH - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of
Trustees Finance Committee on Wednesday unanimously passed changes
to the university’s ordinance regulating traffic and parking
for the next few years.
In the only concrete action taken by the committee, changes to the
ordinance regulating traffic and parking were approved to help stabilize
the Department of Public Safety’s funding for the next five
years.
The most crucial change to the ordinance involves the implementation
of a sliding-scale policy, which will determine the cost of parking
permits according to income.
Under the new policy, employees earning less than $50,000 per year,
as well as students, will face a 5 percent increase each year added
to the price of permits.
Permit pricing will increase by 10 percent each year for employees
of the university earning between $50,000 and $100,000.
Those who earn more than $100,000 per year face a 20 percent increase
every year for the next five years.
Another change in the ordinance involves evening parking in the
North Campus area. Some parking lots now will be pay lots on weekdays
from 7:30 a.m. until midnight and on weekends from 3 p.m. until
2 a.m.
The lots will charge $1 per hour unless a valid UNC ONE Card is
presented, in which case there will be a $0.75 per hour parking
fee.
Director of Public Safety Derek K. Poarch said changes to the ordinance
were in the works for more than a year and that he was pleased to
see the work come to fruition.
New chancellor aboard
UNCW – University of North Carolina at Wilmington’ s Warwick
Center Ballroom was almost filled to capacity Friday as students,
faculty, staff and community members gathered to welcome and meet
UNCW’s new chancellor-elect.
Dr. Rosemary DePaolo was picked by the UNC Board of Governors out
of about 130 applicants to be UNCW’s new chancellor. DePaolo
will replace current Chancellor James R. Leutze, who announced in
July that he would be retiring at the close of this academic year.
DePaolo seems to be the No. 1 choice for UNCW. She has been described
as tenacious, creative, timeless and focused.
“I will not rest until UNCW is not only recognized as one of
the top 10 universities, but until we are pre-eminent, in the Southeast
at least,” DePaolo said.
DePaolo earned her bachelors’ degree in
English from Queens College of the City University of New York,
and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Rutgers University where she
earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in 18th-century English
literature. She was president of Georgia College and State University
for six years.
Assault raises NCCU campus safety issues
NCCU – A North Carolina Central University student was abducted
and raped Feb. 20.
The recent assault raises questions about the safety at NCCU. A
lack of parking spaces close to the school forces students and faculty
to park in neighborhood streets, something that worries some students,
because the areas are not in the NCCU campus police jurisdiction.
NCCU sophomore English major Temple Cunningham said officials need
to take action and expand the campus police’s territorial range.
“Students park in these areas all the time and are always at
risk,” Cunningham said. “There is no excuse for rapes
or assaults in the middle of the day.”
But campus police Sgt. Jerry Anderson said officers regularly patrol
areas that are not designated as campus property.
Anderson said the assault is unfortunate, but all students have
the opportunity to buy parking decals that enable them to park in
NCCU parking areas.
Kristy Caldwell, office manager of NCCU’s student-run radio
station, WNCU, said parking in that area is not safe at all.
“I work late hours, and, being a lady, I feel uncomfortable
walking down a dark street by myself,” Caldwell said. |
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