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WIZARDS, FROM PAGE 1
will take advantage of several UNCW fa
cilities, including Trask Coliseum, Hanover
Hall, and the new Student Recreation Cen
ter.
The Student Recreation Center will have
a temporary schedule for hours of use dur
ing the Wizards’visit. Students, faculty, and
staff will only be permitted to use the facility
during the following times:
Tue. Oct. 3: 6:30 am.-8:00 a.m.
12 noon-4:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Wed. Oct. 4: Fall Break begins at
10:30 p.m.
6:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m
12 noon-4:00 p.m
Thu. Oct. 5: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Fri. Oct. 6: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sat. Oct. 7: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m
Sun. Oct. 8: 8:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
Mon. Oct. 9: 6:30 ajn. - 8:00 a.m.
12 noon-4:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m
Tue. Oct 10: 6:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
12noon- 11:00 p.m
Wed. Oct. 11: Back to regular schedule
For more information, call %2-3261
The Wizards will end their stay with an
exhibition game on Tuesday, Oct. 10. Doors
will open at 5:00 p.m at Trask Coliseum,
while the scrimmage will begin at 7:00 p.m.
The teams will consist of the Wizards split
ting their roster to make two squads.
Tickets for the contest will be only be
available for all UNCW students, faculty, and
staff, and will be provided free of chaige.
Each UNCW member may pick up two tick
ets at the Information Desk in the University
Union, or the OfBce of Housing and Resi
dence Life Activity Center. Tickets will be
available from Oct. 2-4 from 8:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m.
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SAFE RIDE, FROM PAGE 1
initial plans, buses would travel
routes determined by the location of
apartment complexes located within
the one-mile radius of UNCW on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights between 10:30 p.m. and 2:30
a.m. The buses would travel through
the university’s campus as well.
The SGA currently has $8,200 set
aside in an operations account spe
cifically for the program. This
amount, according to SGA Treasurer
Kyle Horton, was based on what a
single semester trial run would cost.
Horton believes this amount would
likely increase but the actual costs
are hard to estimate.
The Safe Ride Program received
a great deal of publicity and student
feedback when the plan was an
nounced last February.
Junior Lindy Johnson remembers
hearing about Safe Ride last year
and thought it was a great idea.
“It would be beneficial to people
trying to get home from the beach,”
she said.
Johnson added that it would be
nice to have a program that would
operate during the day as well.
“It would be good to just get to
the beach in general, even during the
day...It could be looked at like a
recreation aspect too,” she said.
Skipper Mervin, the junior class
president and Safe Ride committee
chair, said there are several reasons
why the program is not yet up and
running. According to Mervin, a
lack of student involvement is a big
problem.
“The main hang-up is student or
ganizations not cooperating,” he
said.
Since there isn't enough money
to hire staff for Safe Ride, Mervin
proposed that each of the 30 UNCW
student organizations funded by the
SGA should volunteer to drive the
buses and answer phones for one
weekend out of the school year.
Mervin also said that at the be
ginning of a new academic year it
is difficult getting things done be
cause of the new SGA members
coming in and the regular business
that must be addressed.
“We are overwhelmed,” he said.
Russell conceded that the pro
gram is a lot of work.
“It’s a bigger job than we thought
it would be,” she said.
Russell pointed to legal and
safety issues that must be dealt with
because of the potential involve
ment of alcohol and transportation.
“There’s a lot of red tape...we
have to go back and plan,” she said.
SAFETY, FROM PAGE 1
and absence of other people
“Any time there are bars, there
are the incidents that accompany
them, such as assaults,” Donaldson
said.
The lack of parking spaces down
town can often result in people
choosing to take shortcuts through
dark lots and/or alleys to get to the
downtown bars and clubs. Many
students said that this walk is the
most worrisome part of partying
downtown.
“I really don’t feel safe down
town at night by myself. The insuf
ficient amount of parking near our
destination often causes my friends
and I to walk through alleys that are
not very well lit,” junior Wendy
Green said. “I would also feel more
comfortable if 1 saw more officers
walking around the areas surround
ing Front Street, since so many stu
dents are intoxicated when they go
out to clubs downtown.”
According to Officer Brian
Gilmore of the Wilmington police
department crime prevention unit, to
lessen the chance of becoming a rob
bery victim when going to bars
downtown individuals never bring
more cash than they plan to spend
over the course of the evening.
“The biggest factor in individual
safety is the individual,” Donaldson
said. “Women, specifically, are go
ing to be safer if they stay with a
crowd. If someone you don’t know
attempts to get you away from your
party and into an isolated area that
should be a red flag that the attacker
has his own agenda.”
He also recommended that bar
patrons avoid taking any drinks
from strangers and to make sure that
they always keep their drinks with
them in order to prevent someone
else from slipping substances, such
as GHB, into an unwatched glass.
“For both males and females,
trust your instincts. If something
doesn’t seem right then it probably
isn’t,” Donaldson said.
Along with the chance of victim
ization, intoxicated individuals are
also the more likely perpetrators of
violent assaults, due lowered inhi
bitions, according to Atwood.
According to the Wilmington
Star-News on Friday, Sept, 15, a 25-
year old man suffered severe head
lacerations when an attacker
punched him in a parking lot on
North Front Street around 2 a.m.
Atwood said that the recently
passed drinking laws, which stiffen
fines and require community service
for underage drinkers and their over
21-year old suppliers, should be ef
fective in promoting safety down
town by increasing sobriety in un
derage patrons.
“[Safety downtown] has always
been a problem... However if every
one cooperates, including area mer
chants, then these laws will make a
difference,” Atwood said.