Tag: UNC
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Two Neighborhoods Revisited, Church St. Mugging Victim Recovering
Not quite sure where on Church St. Eric Dawkins was when he was assaulted but the location caught my eye reading Wednesday’s Chapel Hill News police blotter. According to the blotter, the two attackers (since described as two black males, 5′ 10″ wearing black hoodies) beat Dawkins when he resisted and then fled in a […]
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Madison: Some Smoozing, No Snoozing.
At least, not much snoozing as participants have reported on local ‘blog OrangePolitics.org. I appreciate the time and effort Mark Chilton, Gene Pease, Fred Black and Dan Coleman put into real-time reviews. I hope some of our other “known” blog commenters (Anita, Linda, Aaron, Andrea, Diane ?) get in to the act. [UPDATE:] Anita and […]
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UNC’s Board of Trustee Roger Perry: You’re Insulted?
UNC trustee and local developer Roger Perry said his sense was that UW-Madison officials essentially tell the community that the university’s mission requires it to do a certain project, and then everyone goes to work on preventing negative impacts, without trying to stop the project in general. He said he’d like to get to that […]
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Chancellor Moeser’s “Freelance dissenters”
Freelance dissenters? What an odd turn of phrase, Chancellor Moeser. From today’s soon to evaporate HeraldSun, a story from the Madison smoozefest. Alan Fish, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s (UWM) associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management, describing UWM’s “Good Neighbor” policy: In many instances, the university now goes to residents to talk before it even […]
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Madison Smoozefest: Aaron Nelson’s “Phone Call”
Fred, one of the Madison attendees, over on OrangePolitics said he didn’t like my suggestion, given the organizer’s professed desire to “build relationships” – establish “synergies” amongst the group, that, for a few folks, there was a bit more to the Madison trip than simple learning or altruistic desire. Chamber of Commerce director and trip […]
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Hillsborough425: Daily Tar Heel Says “Scrap the Plan”
That’s the Daily Tar Heel’s Editorial Board. The concept plan to tear down the 111-unit Town House Apartment complex and build 322 new nonrental luxury units called the Residences at Grove Park should be scrapped before any more money is wasted investigating the issue. They share some common concerns: traffic and affordable housing.
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$337,800
Fresh in from Kirk Ross’ ExileOnJonesStreet. Today’s UNC Board of Governors meeting yielded significant raises for the Chancellors in the UNC system, including a hefty $32,000 increase for UNC-Chapel Hill’s Chancellor James Moeser. Fayetteville State University’s T.J. Bryan(t) [sic: they even misspelled her name] must be bumming as her “paltry” %3.8 increase was not enough […]
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Carolina North’s Evans: Don’t pin me down…
A third of the way through my second “live” LAC meeting – the second with Evans as UNC’s point man – and a nascent theme from the last meeting has emerged full-blown: “Don’t pin me down…” Last week [PDF], when questioned on specific environmental goals for Carolina North, Evans dismissed specific language. Dan Coleman: Can […]
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Crawford-Brown: “I’ll take the brickbats from both sides…”
Dr. Crawford-Brown claimed at today’s LAC meeting that he feels he does more work on behalf of Chapel Hill’s Town Council than for the University even though he’s a member of the University’s delegation – and the director of UNC’s Carolina Environmental Program. Trying to clarify his role, Crawford-Brown said he’s here as a scientist, […]
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Greenwashing?
One curious reader asks “What is greenwashing?” From the Center for Media & Democracy’s Sourcewatch project, greenwashing is defined thusly: “Greenwashing is what corporations do when they try to make themselves look more environmentally friendly than they really are.” [1] (here) “Greenwash†is defined in the 10th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as […]
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Carolina North: Moeser Tirelessly Seizing Future Territory
The October 1st, 2007 can’t come soon enough for some of UNC’s Board of Trustees. Yesterday, Chancellor Moeser once again disingenuously affirmed the absolutely critical role Carolina North’s development plays. Important? Maybe. Critical? How can we assess that before we see a real evaluation of its business, educational and community-oriented impacts? Leaning on previous assertions […]
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Chancellor Moeser: It’s good to be good
Chancellor Moeser’s main thesis from his September 6th State of the University remarks [via WCHL1360]: …we can aspire for greatness … move from good to great … and be both great and good… The speech was replete with references of being good, of moving from good to great both as an University and community member. […]
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Carolina North: Crawford-Brown’s Counter-principles
Rather than expanding upon the published principles created by Chapel Hill’s (now defunct) Horace-Williams Citizens’ Committee (HWCC) or integrating their newer environmental recommendations (which I championed), UNC’s green representative to the LAC (UNC’s Leadership Advisory Committee) offers a counter-proposal. Why? Why follow Chancellor Moeser’s lead and continue butting heads? To: LAC (9-3-06) From: Doug Crawford-Brown […]
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What is it with Moeser, Carolina North and Quarterbacks?
I thought Dean Jack Evans was UNC Chancellor Moeser’s first Carolina North QB. From today’s Daily Tar Heel: “(Suttenfield) had been in many ways a quarterback for town relations,” Moeser said. “I thought we weren’t on our side well-organized or properly organized.” Nancy Suttenfield, former vice chancellor for finance and administration (and Moeser’s first big […]
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Carolina North: Evans Conducting an Intellectual Exercise?
“the book says, we might be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.” Dr. Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense as bowdlerdized in the fantastic movie Magnolia UNC’s current Moeser administration likes to announce major modifications to their developmental plans and strategies either in the deep doldrums of summer or […]