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Insurance Reviews Affect Two Stadium Projects
The annual Halloween bash on
Franklin Street drew a lot of scrutiny
from the town of Chapel Hill, which
decided to try to downsize it.
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Tuition could be headed upward –
that’s the indication in recommendations to
the chancellor from the Tuition Task Force.
Quail Hill, the chancellor’s resi-
dence, is getting more than $900,000 in
renovations for building
ONLINE code-required upgrades and
to accommodate Holden Thorp’s family.
The first building for the satellite
Carolina North campus, an 85,000-
square-foot Innovation Center more than a
decade in the planning, is off the ground
with design approval.
The annual Hettleman prizes for
Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by
Young Faculty went to
four professors in biology, political science,
philosophy, and microbiology and
immunology.
The N.C. Department of Insurance
recently reviewed campus construction projects at Kenan Stadium, Boshamer Stadium and Wilson
Library, resulting in delayed construction
for one project and altering plans and
upgrades for the others.
Willie Scroggs, senior associate athletics
director for facilities and operations, said
construction on Boshamer came to a halt
for five weeks after the Department of
Insurance required an unexpected review.
The expected completion date has
been pushed back from this fall. Michael
Bunting, assistant associate athletic director
of facility planning and management, said
officials now expect to have use of the
playing field by February.
Still, the delay in
construction will
add to the cost.
The athletics
department is trying
to avoid a similar
situation with the
expansion of Kenan
Football Center.
The expansion
project would add
one floor to the center on the west end
of the stadium. It
originally called for
two additional floors.
“It would make the building a high-
rise, and because of the already existing
floors, we’d have to condition the space
on floors one and two to meet the code
for the high-rise,” Scroggs said.
Construction could begin after the fall
football season; there were concerns the
extra work necessitated by a sixth floor
could stretch the project beyond the start
of the 2009 football season.
The Department of Insurance also has
made recommendations for updating Wil-
son Library to the current fire code.
Wilson was completed in 1929 and
received major additions in 1952 and
1977.
Related to code inconsistencies among
the three sections, the recommended
changes include new
exit stairways,
upgraded smoke
detectors and fire
alarms, new exit
signs throughout the
building, and additional fire sprinklers
throughout the
building.
The project
should take six to 12
Boshamer Stadium’s remake will be delayed months and should
after a Department of Insurance review, and have little effect on
the price will go up, but Boshamer is expected the public’s ability to
to be ready for the 2009 season. use the library.
Channeling
Carolina
Election to the Institute of
Medicine is one of the nation’s highest
honors for those working in health and
medicine. Dr. Etta Pisano of the medical
school and Dean Barbara Rimer of the
UNC Gillings School of Global Public
Health are in.
A research center to study disaster
and threat preparedness will be created
with an $8.5 million grant to the N.C.
Institute for Public Health.
The James M. Johnston Scholarship
is UNC’s most prestigious need-based merit
award. Thirty-nine freshmen and 16 nursing
students won the scholarships, which are
renewable.
ABC’s Good
Morning
America broadcast
from Polk Place on
a Saturday morning
this fall. UNC was
the only stop in
North Carolina for
“ 50 States in 50
Days,” part of the
network’s election
coverage. This was
the show’s third
broadcast from
UNC in recent
years.
PHOTOS BY DAN SEARS ’ 74
