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OCTOBER 24, 2000
Crime report shows increase in crime
Heidi Bing
News Editor
Reports of crimes and arrests on campus
increased significantly during 1999, accord
ing to the UNCW Police Department’s yeariy
report. The report shows a notable increase
in alcohol, drug, and weapons-related arrests
and reports of bui^ary.
“We feel like the crime report is an accu
rate representation of crime on campus,”
Captain David Donaldson of the UNCWPD
said.
Donaldson said that the increase in arrests
on campus can be attributed in part to an in
creased police presence on campus.
Property Crimes
The crime report cited 44 cases of bur
glary, while only 26 incidents were reported
in 1998. The report follows the federal defi
nition of burglary which is, “the unlawful
entry of a structure to commit a felony or a
theft. For reporting purposes this includes:
unlawful entry with intent to commit a lar
ceny or a felony ; breaking and entering with
intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking;
safecracking; and all attemj)ts to commit any
of the aforementioned.”
Donaldson said that the majority of these
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burglaries were “crimes of opportunity” that
occur in residential areas and involve non-
forcible entry when students leave their doors
unlocked. He said that most crimes are per
petrated by other students and that the po
lice expect a significant number of property
crimes to occur at the beginning of a new
school year.
“As the year progresses there have usu
ally been enough crimes that people under
stand that they need to lock their [property]
up,” Donaldson said. “Unfortunately about
the time that understanding is reached the
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year’s over and 1,300 new fieshmen move
in August and the cycle starts again. Its a
constant education effort from our end.”
Drug and Alcohol Arrests
The were 42 alcohol-related arrests in
1999; up from only 26 arrests in 1998. Simi
larly, 53 drug arrests were made in 1999 while
only 14 were reported in 1998. Donaldson
said there were many factors influencing this
trend, notably the increasing number of vet
eran police ofiicers on the force and an in-
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with the response from everyone when she
presented her views about the project.
“Everyone I talked to was willing to woik
on the idea,” Wallace said.
Jessica A. Maher, a senior and a member
of SGA, is interested in doing something
other than another campus beautification
project as a gift. She would like to see se
niors begin a new tradition of contributing
to a “specific philanthropic or social cause.”
Seniors voice criticism of senior gift choice
Todd Vdlkstorf
STAFF WRITER
Discussions concerrving the senior class
gift, graduation and other senior related is
sues took place last Wednesday night in the
living room at University Union after criti
cism surfaced regarding the proposed senior
gift.
Senior class President Aaron L. Davis,
organized the meeting.
The original gift idea was to build a small
patio near the commons area, which will have
benches, flowers and “UNCW’ written in
stone letters. Acconiing to Davis, the ar»a
would serve as a place to take photographs.
The estimated cost is approximately $30,000.
During the Tuesday, Oct. 17 SGA meeting,
Davis reported that the idea had been final
ized.
Some seniors said that the idea is not an
appropriate gift, and that very few seniors
were involved in the process of selecting it.
Rachel S. Wallace, a senior biology ma
jor said she did not personally like the idea
of another monument on campus. Her big
gest concern was that seniors were not in
volved in the process.
“Decisions were being made without se-
niras being a part of it,” Wallace said.
She did point out that she was impressed
“Decisions were being
made without seniors being a
part of it.”
-Senior Rachel Wallace
“I’m proposing we change our idea of
what a senior class gift is,” Maher said. She
added that there was nothing inherently
wrong with the current idea, but that UNCW
would probably do the project on its own,
without it being “a gift.”
“I would like to make the world a better
place, not the UNCW campus,” Maher said.
Davis said he disagrees with the criticism
and feels that a senior gift should be some
thing given directly back to the university,
but he is not entirely opposed to the idea of a
philanthropic gift
‘1 just want to give something back,” he .
said. ‘This school has changed my life.”
The group discussed the possibihty of
combining the two ideas but would like in
put from the senior class before a final deci
sion is made.
Issues concerning graduation were also
discussed at the meeting. Among the ideas
proposed were suggestions about “splitting”
graduation into two ceremonies, and chang
ing the number of tickets each graduate is
allowed. The group also discussed who the
speaker will be during the ceremonies and
whether caps and gowns should be school
colors or standard black.
Shaun E. Uoyd, a senior business man
agement major, be graduating in Decem
ber. He said he was somewhat disappointed
when he picked up his black cap and gown
on Wednesday.
“It would make me feel proud to gradu
ate in the school colors,” Lloyd said.
Further discussion at the meeting revealed
that university officials are ready to propose
that graduation ceremonies f)e “split,” which
would be done by combining the schools of
nursing, education and business into one cer
emony and the rest of the university in an-
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