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Telemarketers target students on campus
Dan Guy
Assist. News Editor
According to the UNC
Wilmington police department, sev
eral students living on campus have
recently been targeted by
telemarketing promotions. Ques
tions concerning the legitimacy of
these promotions prompted
UNCWPD to investigate the promo
tion and make an attempt to inform
students of potential telemarketing
scams.
According to Captain David
Donaldson, UNCWPD received two
calls within just a couple of days
from students who were wary of
telemarketers that contacted them.
“The students said, ‘A company
just called me and told me I won a
$3,000 shopping spree, but it’s go
ing to cost me $69.95 to actually
receive my prize. They need my
credit card number, and then they
will give me my prize,”’ Donaldson
said.
The students were actually asked
to pay $69.95 for a book of coupons.
valued at $3,000. According to
Donaldson, in both situations stu
dents were uncomfortable with the
sale because it was presented to
them as a prize but cost them money.
“If they are selling something, it
needs to be presented as a sale and
not as a prize,” Donaldson said.
“According to university policy, the
telemarketers can conduct their
business as long as the invitation to
come onto campus and have the
transaction is initiated by the stu
dent. If the telemarketer or courier
appears and then gives the solicita
tion, that’s when it’s a violation of
the policy.”
Excell marketing offered the pro
motion to students and was very co
operative with the investigation,
according to Donaldson.
“They provided me with a script
that the telemarketers use and it
shows that the manner in which the
dialog is presented to the student is
legal,” Donaldson said.
He warned that with Excell’s
script, and scripts of other
See Scams, Page~
Fellowship fiinds students’ literary pij^rimages
_ provide funding for students to travel to the sites that inspired authors mey re
Heather Grady
Staff Writer
Enghsh students have been given the
opportunity to receive funding in order
to travel to destinations significant to
their Uterary interests. The new Michael
D. Wentworth Travel Fellowship will
provide funding for students to travel to
destinations associated with significant
works of literature.
University alumni and benefactor
Charles E Green recently established the
fellowship through the English depart
ment. The fellowship provides $10,000
annually to UNC Wilmington so that a
select number of students can travel to
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The road to opportunities is open for English majors interesfea
receiving literary travel grants from the English department.
the sites that inspired authors they re
spect. Unlike study abroad programs,
there are no predetermined sites. Stu
dents will determine their own destina
tions and justify their rationale for trav
eling there.
“(The English department is) abso
lutely delighted. We couldn’t think of a
better way for a benefactor to benefit
the university,” said Richard Veit, En
glish department chair.
Green honored English professor
Michael Wentworth with the fellowship
for Wentworth’s service to the univer
sity.
Wentworth has been the recipient of
numerous teaching awards such as the
Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence
Award, the Board of Trustee’s Teaching
Excellence Award, a UNCW Distin
guished Teaching Professorship Award
and the Board of Governor’s Award for
Teaching Excellence.
“Mr. Green has been totally selfless
and interested in the student. He’s been
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See Travel, Page 5