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27491
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North Raleigh was the site of major growth during the 1980s. As people flocked to the Research Triangle and Raleigh grew, many of its more wealthy citizens moved north to new subdivisions and the suburbs. Author Melinda Ruley was a teenager during that movement and experienced the move to Raleigh firsthand. Looking back, she suggests that life was good, but devoid of personality and life. Ruley looks back on that the growth, the changing of Raleigh, and the citizens who lived there.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 8 Issue 36, September 5-11 1990,
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27492
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is facing its third straight year of budget cuts and the effects are being felt. Many feel the quality of the university is decreasing. Others believe this negative point of view is a matter of perception. Faculty received a raise and is the fifth highest paid faculty in the South. Still, the pay is behind other nation’s universities and the cuts are affecting money for materials, library services, and graduate student stipends.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 8 Issue 37, September 12-18 1990,
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27495
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Shannon Ravenel, the editor of Algonquin Books in Chapel Hill, talks about the state of Southern literature. The Southern writer most frequently writes about nostalgia, the passage of time, guilt, and ordinary things. While Southern fiction is often criticized for not keeping up with the times, Algonquin Books has recently received national attention on behalf of some of its authors. The publishing house was started in attempt to give a voice to talented writers who were shut out by New York publishers.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 8 Issue 39, Sept. 26-Oct. 2 1990,
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27506
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The struggle over innovation versus tradition is playing out at Duke University. Duke’s chapter of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) opposes some of the “radical” ideas the English Department is teaching. While some say the argument is over curriculum, others suggest the NAS is more concerned with the salaries as they believe the English Department is taking money away from their programs. Regardless, the fight has made some professors nervous that the attention will make them justify and defend what they do and teach.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 8 Issue 48, Nov. 28- Dec. 4 1990,
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27522
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This photo essay shows the changes that development and time have brought the Triangle area. Photos from the past are paired with photos of the same places as they are in 1989. The locations include: Wonderland Theatre (1920), Watts Hospital (1909), IBM Site (1965), Hargett Street (1940), Fayetteville Street (1959), Carolina Barber Shop (1954), and Crook’s Fish & Produce Market (1951).
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 10, May 4-10 1989,
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6.Beach People, Mountain People by Ruley, Melinda Independent Weekly Vol. 7 Issue 11, May 18-24 1989
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27539
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Residents of Raleigh explain where they go on vacation and why. They typically split into two groups; some go to the mountains and the others go to the beach. Each group critiques the other group based on their ideas of what to do on vacation and why they do it. Mountain vacationers seem to criticize the morals of beach vacationers and beach vacationers tend to criticize mountain vacationers’ personalities.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 11, May 18-24 1989,
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27543
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Nancy Peacock is a Chatham County author known for her rough characters. Peacock recently won the N.C. Writer’s Network’s Fiction Syndicate Competition. She often writes about disappointment, sadness, frustration and says her material comes from observation. Working jobs as a waitress, carpenter, dairyworker, and bartender helped her gather material.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 15, June 15-21 1989,
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27552
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Leon Rouson finished runner-up for the NC Teacher-of-the-Year award. He teaches math, social studies, and theater at Holton Middle School in East Durham. A former theatre major, Rouson’s style is described as scolding and loving. Rouson not only teaches students typical school subjects, but how to live in the world and how they can obey rules and at the same time, be free to make decisions and express themselves.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 24, August 24-30 1989,
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27554
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The cocaine business is thriving in the Triangle area. Looking at the problem from all angles, law enforcement, ex-dealers, and addicts weigh in on what is driving the surge. Money is the primary reason for the increase in cocaine trafficking as the Triangle grows in size. Law enforcement is doing better catching dealers, but more drugs and dealers keep arriving as profits grow.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 26, September 7-13 1989,
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27562
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Michael Bleyman is the director of the Chatham County group the Carnivore Preservation Trust (CPT). The former UNCH Chapel Hill professor is trying to ensure the survival of endangered species affected by habitat destruction through a captive breeding program. The CPT holds several world breeding records and Bleyman has received awards for his work.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 37, November 16-22 1989,
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27565
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Jim Clark is the president of Save the Water, a Durham-based coalition of conservationists. Clark and the group are lobbying for watershed protection measures in the Triangle area. The area water supply is polluted and at further risk due to booming growth in the area. Clark proposed the “Triangle Express,” a light-rail system, that would be less harmful to the area watershed than the proposed highway thoroughfare plan that would send roads and spur growth in the Falls Lake watershed area.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 37, November 16-22 1989,
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12.So Long, Southern Style by Ruley, Melinda Independent Weekly Vol. 7 Issue 41, December 14-20 1989
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27578
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As the Triangle area and the South culture changes, funerals and funeral culture has stayed the same. The types of funerals people attend are categorized using the books of famous Southern authors. William Faulkner’s, Mark Twain’s, Reynolds Price’s, and Eudora Welty’s stories about funerals are used to determine whether a funeral will be about the motivations of relatives of the deceased, intense emotions of happiness, sadness, or humor, or exaggerations of the deceased’s life, personality, and accomplishments.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 41, December 14-20 1989,
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28367
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As development has increased in the Triangle area, so too has the noise from airplanes at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU). In 1989, a local citizen’s pressured the Airport Authority to adopt a Noise Abatement Policy, and the Noise Abatement Committee was formed to make recommendations on noise policy. While RDU’s noise regulations are stricter than the federal guidelines, they are vulnerable to abuse. Options which the committee may recommend to help solve the problem are detailed along with the effect noise has on residents’ lives.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 10 Issue 16, April 1992,
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28376
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The Rev. Linda Jordan and Rev. Mahan Siler are winners of the 1992 Independent Citizen Awards. Jordan’s and Siler’s Triangle area churches are the first to directly challenge the South Baptist Convention’s declaration against homosexuality. The two pastors practice tolerance, but have received backlash for their efforts. Congregation members have left; each pastor’s church has been expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention and the NC Baptist State Convention; and a campaign of hate has begun against the pastors and their churches.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 10 Issue 48, November 1992,
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28381
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The use of bail bondsmen in Durham courts is under debate. Many believe that there should be an alternative to bail bondsmen. Bondsmen argue that such alternatives would cost the taxpayers more money and reduce the court’s efficiency. They view their daily activities as a much needed service.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 10 Issue 49, December 1992,
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