August 29, 2000

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No word from NCAA Two months have passed since Corey Maggette admitted accepting cash payments, but the NCAA has yet to take action. See page 23

Parking shake-up begins this week By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

Now that the Ocean parking lot has been eliminated, many students and employees say they must park their cars an ocean away from the rest ofcampus. After this summer’s start of the West-Edens Link construction, parking officials were left to scavenge for parking near

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LATER THIS WEEK, only students will be able to access the Blue Zone, guarded by these gates on Wannamaker Drive.

West Campus for employees, faculty members and on- and offcampus students. Four months, dozens of complaints and $598,000 later, parking regulators are awaiting a verdict on their new system. ‘This is supposed to be a long-range, strategic improvement,” said Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joe Pietrantoni. “We’re moving toward better parking arrangement; we’re moving parking to gated-type lots.” To replace the Ocean, officials created an undergraduate park-

ing area consisting of seven former RT-zone parking lots along Wannamaker Drive between Towerview and Duke University roads. With 1,400 spaces, this new area designed for on-campus undergraduates, called the Blue Zone, is expected to exceed demand, which last year reached a peak of 1,356 decals. Spaces cost $l6O for the year. Although on-campus students will park in the Blue Zone during the week, they will be fined $lOO unless they move their cars the day before home football games to make room for ticket-holding Iron Dukes and other fans. Administrators will provide shuttle service to satellite parking sites in the H lot on

Anderson Street and Medical Center Parking Garage One located near Trent Dormitory. Students may also park in nongated lots on these days. “I don’t think it’s a very good See PARKING on page 13

City-county Bryan Ctr. undergoes first costly facelift merger plan fails in Aug. By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

By SARAH McGILL The Chronicle

In Durham, history doesn’t wait long to repeat itself. Once again, the idea to merge Durham’s city and county governments has steadily built support, gained momentum—and died with little fanfare. Both the Durham City Council and the County Board of Commissioners—backed by a coalition of rural residents, black activists, the Democratic party and the county sheriff—voted in early August to kill a measure that would put the question ofmerger onto November ballots. “I think people had to make up their minds to go for it like it is or not go for it at all,” said council member Thomas Stith. Stith initially supported the merger but voted against including the proposal, designed by a 40-citizen committee, on the ballot. “There was no room for compromise.” According to the N.C. Office of State Planning, about 77 percent of Durham County residents live in the city of Durham, the county’s only municipality. And the push to See CITY-COUNTY MERGER on page 12

Students flocking to the Bryan Center to buy books for classes may have been surprised to notice a change in their information source. This summer, as a part of a continuing plan to renovate the Bryan Center, University officials came closer to the goal of adding life to the center’s upper level with the addition of a new ticket and information booth. The new complex, located near Reynolds Auditorium on the third floor of the center, was completed approximately two weeks ago at a cost of $200,000, said Janet Bailey, the project’s manager. “The visibility of the new information desk and ticket box office help make the Bryan Center more welcoming to visitors and help to bring life to an area of the Bryan Center that was once a bit bare,” said Duke University Union President Pam Wells, who presides over the Union board, which has ultimate purview over the center. Officials merged the Page Box Office and the information desk, which was formerly located near the main entrance of the Bryan Center. The Graduate and Professional Student Council moved from its bottom-level office space to the top level, filling the vacancy that the departure of the information booth created. The former GPSC office will be used as a classroom for the Crafts Center. The changes throughout the Bryan Center are a part of a larger University effort to revitalize the center’s top floor. A number of follow-up ideas have been suggested, but the boldest and most probable remains a plan to add a floor to the top of the center. In this plan, the Bryan Center student offices would be relocated to the newly constructed top floor, freeing up space behind the old information desk for a student social area. The walls of the current offices would be tom down and replaced with glass to open up the center’s cavernous walls. In addition, officials are also considering moving See

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THE NEW INFORMATION DESK AND BOX OFFICE, opened late this summer and carried a $200,000 price tag.

U.S. Open Match-ups, page 24


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