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Friday, September 12, 1 980The Dally Tar Heel3 ill I,'. r- c3 Cy i:oann c:s::o? Shoplifting is one of the most common crimes in Chapel Hill, and it's - pushing - up prices for all consumers even students a local public safety officer said recently. "When the student pays 20 percent more for goods this year than he paid two years ego, he can blame it on shoplifting as a major factor," said Richard Butler, an officer in the Crime Prevention Office of the Chapel Hill Police Department. Area merchants are losing as much as SI 3,O0O-J2O,0O0 every year from shoplifting. Cutler said. According to a recent report by Dan. Robertson, director of marketing at Georgia State University, nationally shoplifting losses arc costing consumers approximately $16 billion each year. "Every household in America gets a bill of $200 per year for shoplifting in the form of higher prices in the store," Robertson stated in the report. "Shoplifting is a major crime in Chapel Hill," Butler said. "If we worked routinely checking stores, we'd have to hire a whole additional police department." Retail and drug stores are hardest hit because they have larger merchandise inventories and larger crowds, he said. . Items of merchandise which most often appeal to shoplifters are clothes, jewelry, small appliances and food, he said. , John Griffin, assistant er of Kerr Drugs in University Mall, said that his store was losing between $2,000 and $3,000 a year in shoplifting costs. "We have to raise our prices 20 cents on the dollar to balance the shoplifting costs of cur store," Griffm said. . ' -There are no stereotypical shoplifters, Butler said. They vary from the bands of professional shoplifters that pass through towncalled tribes to students and professors. Shoplifting is defined under North Carolina law as the "willful concealment of goods or merchandise at a store, without authorization, w ithout having purchased a good or merchadise, while still upon the premises Of the store." , The penalty for a first offense is a $1 00-1500 fine or six months to one year imprisonment or both. 8; And the punishment for a first offense is the same if s ! a shoplifter has stolen $5 worth of merchandise or : $5,000, Butler said. Some offenders, he said, don't realize that they have a problem. "There are professional shoplifters who steal for profit, but there are others who steal that don't realize they're breaking the law," Butler said. "These people can get help, but they must first recognize their problem. Many times this means that they must first be caught." The Mental Health Service at North Carolina Memorial Hospital or the Mental Health Center on 333 McMasters St. offer services to shoplifters in this area. Local merchants employ several tactics to deter shoplifters, such as mirrors, turnstiles, surveillance and electric indicators geared to sound when unpurchased merchandise is removed from a store. Chepliftlng a ir.rjcr crima in srea .stores losing $1 8,000-$20,000 But Robertson said in his study that the most effective means of cutting the shoplifting rate is education. . "We're starting to get through to them, especially in TV and radio commercials," Robertson said. Because of the growing concern about shoplifting crimes by both merchants and consumers, local authorities are cracking down .on shoplifters, Butler said. Many of the local merchants interviewed said that they didn't hesitate to prosecute if a shoplifter was caught in their stores. " T"0 ) PI M 0 By KETJIY DLHOCIII Stsff Writer ' Intramural floor managers will not be paid this year, Charlie Brown, chairman of the IM-REC Council, said Thursday. Brown said the council decided at its first meeting Wednesday night that area managers will still be paid but the individual floor workers will work on a strictly volunteer basis. Floor workers organize teams from individual dorm floors while area managers handle districts. This way one person will be paid a little more to do a little more work," Brown said. "In the long run it's better because a lot of dorms had floor managers who didn't do anything but still got paid." Student Body President Bob Saunders said the position of floor manager may become an elected position. "They are replacing the reward of fsmn,r piid rrfvinn i an elected position," Saunders said. "It remains to be seen whether the plan will work or not." ; Three subcommittees were formed at the meeting Wednesday night. The Bylaws Committee will be headed by Brown and will write bylaws for the council to explain its duties. Chuck Garner, president of the Sports Club Council, will be chairman of the Facilities Use' Committee, which rill serve as a complaint board. A Budget Committee was established to review the intramurals budget of last year and. compare it with this year's budget. I Jeanne Pemberton will be chairman of the Budget Committee. The IM-Rec Council was formed last year to serve in an advisory capacity to the Sports Club Council. Brown, who also is president of the Carolina Athletic Association, said he feels the council should be consulted on many matters this year. r Fragile Mark Ehrlich, a graduate student in marine sciences here, gently balances this friendly butterfly on his finger. The butterfly appears to be perfectly comfortable on his perch and in no hurry to leave. It's a picture of peace and serenity things we all need at one time or another in this frantic world of ours. i DlH,swa Cooper M ""I J '" V I I'l'F Noisy party leads to one 'arres. By CHARLES HERNBON ' , Staff Writer Deregulation of the cable television industry over the summer should result in an increased demand for cable services nationally, but the two cable companies in the area said this week there will be no immediate programming changes. .. ' "Any regulation that gives the consumer more choice is a good thing," said Treff Faubert, general manager of Alert Cable Co., which serves about 3,000 customers in Carrboro and Hillsborough. "The more options he has, the better off he is," he said. , Last summer the Federal Communications Commission made it possible for cable services to compete more easily with commercial broadcasters by removing restrictions on the airing of syndicated shows and the importation of distant signals. Though the ruling will not take effect until the next release of the Federal Register,, the deregulation will allow cable systems to broadcast some syndicated shows which previously had ,' been blacked out. The register is due sometime within the next two weeks. "The cable industry will benefit from the ruling because it will provide more diversity to its customers," said Cynthia Jeffries, chief of the FCC's Information Bureau. Jeffries said appeals will be filed by commercial broadcasters to prevent the ruling from taking effect, but the impact on the broadcasting industry would be unclear. "Less than 25 percent' of the broadcasters asserted their rights to complain about the ruling. Therefore we are not sure how the broadcasting industry feels because evidently close to 75 percent of them have not bothered to object," she said. Locally, spokesmen for both Alert and Village Cable Service said deregulation would help the industry and consumers. However, they said no programming changes were planned. "It is not official until it appears in the register," Faubert said. "We are examining different programming and we will implement any decisions to carry more programming when we are able," he said. , Lu Stevens, general manager of Village Cable, which serves about 1,000 customers in Chapel Hill, said programming on Village's 35-channel system would remain unchanged until "studies indicated that new programming would be marketable. "Our system has more programming than most cable systems, so we are not anticipating any changes," she said. Neither Alert nor Village Cable expected any increase in the number of customers as a result of the deregulation. "There will be no immediate effect on customers," Stevens said, noting that Village expects to serve ,6,000 to 7,000 people by December. Both companies said rates would not be affected by the ruling though it was too early to tell how future rates might be affected. Faubert said he did not know how it might affect Alert's rates, ($6 a month for the basic package), and Stevens said the rates Village ' Cable charges ($7.95 a month for the 35-channel standard) are set for two years and thus not subject to change. CG.C -diotrict petitiono 'available Petitions for students interested in serving as representatives to the Campus Governing Council for district 17 or 19 will be available in Suite C of the Carolina Union through Thursday. Applications for Elections Board members are. available in Suite C today. Deadlines for ' these applications are Monday. w i'j.f: . A non-U NC student was arrested and fined'$27 early Thursday morning at the Sigma Alpha EpsHon house when a "disco machine" that was running was determined to be above the decibel level allowed by the noise law. Chapel. Hill police arrested David Morrison Haw at 3:30 a.m. when the machine was recorded at 65 decibels, 10 decibels over the legal 55 decibel limit. . 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