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UNC has been promising for years now to build more student dormitories. Until recently, there had been no new dorms built since the 70's even though enrollment grows every year. The result of this has been more and more students living off-campus, which has lead increasing housing prices as groups of students push working families out of affordable in-town neighborhoods.

With the new Campus Master Plan, UNC has finally begun to construct more housing for students. But lest we breathe a sigh of relief, some members of the UNC Board of Trustees are now proposing to demolish the biggest dorms on campus!

UNC-Chapel Hill's four high-rise dormitories have long been derided as the ugly ducklings of the picturesque campus.

Ever wonder where your state taxes go? How does the North Carolina budget impact your life? What programs are your state legislators voting for and against?

Women's Worth in the North Carolina Budget
a Women's Forum on the Budget
presented by Elaine Mejia
of the NC Budget and Tax Center

Following the presentation and Q&A,

State Senators
Ellie Kinnaird (23rd District)
and Verla Insko (56th District)

will be on hand to answer your questions.

This program is sponsored by
THE ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSION FOR WOMEN,
NORTH CAROLINA WOMEN UNITED
and
THE FRIENDS OF THE COMMISSION FOR WOMEN

This is a probably unnecessary last-minute appeal to anyone liberal to left who plans to vote in the Democratic Party “caucus” tomorrow (8am-noon, Chapel Hill Town Hall). The plea is to vote for anyone but John Kerry. The New York Times today described Kerry’s efforts to paint himself as a “centrist” which is newspeak for conservative. Sure, we’ll all hold our noses and vote for him in November since Bush is so repugnant. But how many of us did the same thing twelve years ago? I nearly threw up (literally!) voting for Clinton but I was even sicker of Reagan/Bush-I. Clinton ran to his left. Kerry doesn’t need to. He’ll run on his center-right record and cower away from media charges of “liberalism.”

How to get the foxes out of the hen house is probably beyond the scope of this blog but we do have a very local opportunity Saturday morning to deliver a small counterpoint to the voices of inevitability.