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By Amanda AlbrightUniversity Editor
Chancellor Carol Folt is one step closer tocompleting her
administration.
On Thursday, the Board of Trustees votedto approve David Routh
as vice chancellorfor development, the Universitys top fund-raising
position.
Routh, who serves as managing directorfor U.S. Trust Bank/Bank
of America Private
Wealth Management inRaleigh, said in an inter-
view that he will approachhis new position similarlyto Folt, who
took officeJuly 1.
Folt has used the firstfew months of her chan-cellorship to tour
theUniversitys schools andhear from stakeholdersaround the
state.
She described it so wellas a listening tour, Routhsaid. Im going
to listen toour development profes-sionals, deans and com-
mittee donors and volunteers.Im confident that with the right
input
from those people we can develop the rightdevelopment
organization, and thats exactly
what Ill do for these first few months.The University has been
searching for
a head fundraiser for a year after MattKupec, former vice
chancellor for Universityadvancement, resigned in September
2012after questions arose concerning his use ofUniversity
foundation funds.
Kupec was found to have spent nearly$17,000 of that money for
personal use,and later returned the money he had
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By Brooke PryorSports Editor
North Carolina junior guard P.J. Hairstonhas earned the right to
join the NorthCarolina basketball team at practice whenit
officially opens today, coach Roy Williamsannounced at UNCs media
day Thursday.
Williams hasnt yet determined how manygames Hairston will miss,
but in the pre-season, Williams has punished Hairston
withadditional conditioning.
(Hairston) has done more conditioning inthis preseason than any
player Ive ever had,
Williams said. Hes done three times morethan any player Ive ever
had.
He hasnt asked me the question yet, butI know its in his mind,
hes wondering if heson a track scholarship, hes just done a
great
job with that.Hairston was not made
available for the teamsmedia day but issued anapology in a
release.
I am so sorry for themistakes I made that
brought such negativeattention to the team,the University of
NorthCarolina and my fam-ily, Hairston said in therelease. Thats
not howI was brought up and itscertainly not how coach
Williams expects us torepresent this program.
I know I let a lot of people down, includ-ing our fans and all
the people who love not
just the basketball team but UNC.Hairston has also apologized to
his team-
mates for his actions this summer and theresulting consequences,
and teammates saidhis actions show that he is trying to turnthings
around.
You can tell by his actions the way heworks hard in the gym, the
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Frank Craig is the president of the Historic Speedway Group. The
Historic Speedway Group began restoring the Occoneechee Speedway in
2006.
A sign advertising the Hillsborough Savings & Loan
Association once
hung on the grandstand at the race track.
The only unrestored building on the property is an outhouse.
The
words No Negroes allowed are visible on the side of the
building.
Group preserves early speedway in Hillsborough
By Brian FanneyDirector of Enterprise
At the intersection of race, religion andbooze in Orange County
lies OcconeecheeSpeedway in Hillsborough, the last of 52 dirttracks
from NASCARs inaugural season.
Though it was lost first to nature andalmost to a bypass, the
skeleton of the trackremains adjacent to Hillsboroughs Ayr
Mountplantation. The track, once clear-cut and riv-eted more by
tire tracks than tree roots, is now
wooded after 45 years of neglect, but the one-mile oval is
memorialized as a trail.Its a Mother Nature-meets-NASCAR
kind of thing, said Frank Craig, presidentof the Historic
Speedway Group, whichrestored parts of the track and adjacent
buildings.Though racing stopped at Occoneechee
in 1968 with Richard Pettys Hillsboro 150win, the Historic
Speedway Group is host-ing a car cruise-in and racers reunion atthe
speedway today and Saturday that Craigsaid hundreds will
attend.
But the tracks place in history was nearlyforgotten after nature
reclaimed the prop-erty, transforming it to just another part ofthe
forest around the Eno River.
Starting in 2006, the Historic Speedway
Group cleared the grandstands of brush,rebuilt the flag stand
and ticket office andcleared some of the trees at the tracks
cen-ter, among other improvements to the area.The groups work
followed an Ayr Mountinitiative to open trails at the track in
2003.
The property is owned by the ClassicalAmerican Home Preservation
Trust andmanaged by the Historic PreservationFoundation of North
Carolina.
All these buildings were down, they hadfell just all into
themselves. We rebuilt all ofthem just exactly like they were in
the samespot and matter of fact, used the same foun-dation, Craig
said. It was just woods andits still a lot of woods.
The property is open to the public, andwalkers and runners
frequent the track and
surrounding trails.Money came from more than 100 spon-sors and a
grant from HillsboroughsTourism Board. Craig said he hopes to
open
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Gov. Hunt calls for education focus
By Benji SchwartzStaff Writer
Former Gov. Jim Hunt deliv-ered the annual Lambeth Lecturein
Public Policy to a packedGerrard Hall Thursday night.
Hunt, a Democrat and thelongest-serving North Carolinagovernor
who held the positionfrom 1977 to 1985 and 1993 to2001, used the
45-minute lectureto emphasize the necessity ofeducation funding in
the state.
Public education is at the verycenter its not a piece of
policyto be debated with the legislatureor an interest group, its
at thecenter of things for us, Hunt saidin his speech.
Hunt said he made K-12 andUNC-system funding a priorityduring
his four-term stint in thegovernors mansion includ-ing Smart Start,
an initiativethat supports early educationthroughout the state.
We did many things for edu-cation in our state, but I would
say the accomplishment Im mostproud of came at the end of mylast
term we increased teach-ers pay to the national average,he said in
the speech.
The N.C. General Assemblyhas faced criticism from statepublic
education leaders in recentlegislative sessions for
educationfunding cuts, including a nearly$500 million reduction to
theUNC system since 2011.
Hunt devoted part of the lec-ture to North Carolinas
historicalaccomplishments in education,including the opening of
UNC,the nations first public university.He also mentioned former
Gov.John Ehringhaus, who instituteda statewide sales tax to fund
pub-lic schools in the 20th century.
Throughout the speech, Hunttied better education to anincrease
in the number of high-paying jobs in an area.
UNC sophomore BrittanyJordan Cole, who attended thespeech, said
she appreciatedHunts discussion of the econom-ics of public
education.
I thought Hunt did a goodjob talking about the heart ofthe issue
and not the politicsinvolved, she said.
Richard Andrews, a UNC
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on
Thursday night. Hunt was a four-term governor in N.C.
public policy professor and amember of the Lambeth
LectureCommittee that selected Hunt,said the committee took
Huntsnonpartisan approach to educa-tion into consideration.
I would not expect it to be apartisan speech, Andrews said.I
think education is much tooimportant for all of us in NorthCarolina
for it to be just a parti-san issue.
The former governor ended
the lecture with a warning not totake for granted the great
effortthe state has made for high-qual-ity public education.
Everyone here needs to under-stand that this progress can
beturned back in one generation,Hunt said.
It could be turned back, stu-dents, in your generation. Dontlet
that happen.
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