4The Daily Tar HeelThursday, September 14, 1989
Citytod Campes
Campus Police Roundup
An external disk drive was stolen
from the computer lab at the Health
Sciences Library Monday. The equip
ment is valued at $312.
A Winston resident reported har
assment from a former boyfriend who
called her room around 12:25 p.m.
Monday.
About $45 was taken from a
woman's purse that had been left in an
unlocked room in Hamilton Hall
Monday.
Around 3 p.m. Monday, Kenan
residents reported that someone had
called their room. The caller did not
speak, but b-VH heav ly into the
phone.
Police found tables and chairs left
in the Arboretum at 1 :50 a.m. Sunday.
A television set in a common
room of Alexander was found on the
floor, destroyed, at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Transients were reported sleep
ing on a bench in the Arboretum Sat
urday around 12:30 p.m., but had gone
when police arrived.
A man who identified himself as
an SBI agent Saturday drove the wrong
way into the S6 campus parking lot
while attendants were collecting a
parking toll fee. An attendant ap
proached him with a request that he
pay, but he refused. When a police
officer contacted him, he paid the toll.
Later the parking attendants reported
that he directed threats and abusive
language to them.
A parking sign and a pine tree on
Hibard Drive were damaged in a
motor vehicle accident around 4:15
p.m. Friday.
At 9:25 p.m. Friday, police spoke
with a man whom witnesses had seen
strike a woman at a North Carolina
Memorial Hospital loading dock. The
man said he had had an argument
with his girlfriend, but had not hit
her. The woman was not found.
A locked Chevrolet Blazer was
entered last Thursday, and three guns
valued at $1,625 were stolen. The
thief relocked the vehicle after taking
the guns.
Someone reported that two people
were seen loading lumber onto a truck
near Mangum Residence Hall last
Thursday around 9 p.m. The wood
may have been part of a bed.
An 18-year-old woman reported
that as she was walking from the Pit
to Davis Library last Thursday around
1 1 p.m., an unidentified man started
following her. He stopped when she
approached the bike rack. He did not
assault her or say anything to her, but
she felt uncomfortable in his pres
ence. Police saw a man break the park
ing lot gate control arm off at Hill Lot
last Thursday. John Michael Garnett,
22, of 909 Brookrun Dr., Charlotte,
was arrested on charges of damage to
real property.
compiled by Jenny Cloninger
Phoenix
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the system. Groups endorsing the pro
posal include The Yackety Yack and
Student Television.
"I want to make sure that in 10 years
every student publication that wants to
use it (the system) can use it," Bagen
stos said. (
The issue of scheduling time for
different organizations to use the equip
ment is one Laakso and Davis hope to
address with fairness, they said.
Quarrels among campus publications
could also cause problems with using
the system, said Matt Lotspeich (Dist.
15).
Mark Bibbs (Dist. 12) questioned
the credibility of the endorsements from
some of the campus groups the Phoenix
editors have said support the proposal.
For instance, Bibbs said, The Black
Ink, the newspaper of the Black Stu
dent Movement, never officially en
dorsed the proposal. "I hate being given
false information. If the BSM wasn't
consulted, who else wasn't consulted?"
Davis said he had contacted Victor
Blue, editor of The Black Ink. Blue was
interested in the equipment and gave an
oral endorsement of the proposal, Davis
said. He presented members of con
gress with written statements from other
groups who had supported the pro
posal. In other budget business, congress
approved an appropriation of $21,980
to the BSM. Debate on the funding
focused on costumes for the Opeyo
dancers and the phone bill of The Black
Ink.
Student Office to aid town- reflations
By CHRISTINE THOMAS
Staff Writer
Bill Hildebolt, the new student liai
son to the Chapel Hill Town Council,
wants to use his position to encourage
a better understanding between stu
dents and town officials.
Public opinion in Chapel Hill is
geared to argue "that students capture
the place (the town) and that the stu
dents are ruining downtown," Hilde
bolt said in an interview Wednesday.
The new student liaison argues that
"downtown survives not in spite of the
students but because of the students."
After serving as designate student
liaison for five months, Hildebolt was
officially approved by the Student
Congress as the Chapel Hill liaison
during a meeting Wednesday night.
The liaison position was created in
1 988 to represent the student's voice on
the town council. The liaison is a non
voting position on the council, but
Hildebolt will be asked to speak on
issues concerning student matters.
"I think they (liaisons) hold a very
important position and the people that
have held the position in the last two
years have done a very good job of
settingxup good lines of communica
tion between the town and the Univer
sity," saidMayor Jonathan Howes.
The creation of the position has led
to other successes for the students in the
town government, Hildebolt said. These
successes include the appointment of
four students to three different town
board positions.
Hildebolt said his main interest as
student liaison concerned traffic prob
lems and downtown development.
As a member of the Consultation
Coordination Committee's (CCC)
transportation work group, Hildebolt
said he had defended student interests
in matters concerning traffic conges
tion. One of the concerns of the CCC
was a transportation work group aimed
at eliminating traffic problems in Chapel
Hill.
The focus of the work group is to
encourage students to ride the bus and
bicycles to campus, but he said this
encouragement is unnecessary.
The CCC work group is "barking up
the wrong tree" because University
students are riding buses and bicycles
to campus, he said. The group hopes
this will eliminate town traffic and
parking problems.
A student on the town council gives
members a person to call if a matter
comes up concerning students, Howes
said. This also allows the students to
keep proper lines of communication
open and convey the student interests
to the town.
As External Affairs Director of the
Executive Branch of the Student Gov
ernment, Hildebolt said he was cur
rently working with the town of
Carrboro to set up a liaison position
similar to the current working relation
ship in Chapel Hill.
"The idea of having a liaiso
Carrboro was an idea of mine in an
effort to continue to improve condi
tions with the city," he said.
When the idea of a liaison was pre
sented to the Carrboro Board of Alder
man, it was received enthusiastically
by the board. Hildebolt said he hopes
the board will accept the proposal made
by Student Body President Brien Le
wis and himself to establish the liaison.
Hildebolt said having a liaison to
both Chapel Hill and Carrboro will
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improve the public attitude toward
University students.
"Most of the town thinks of the stu
dents as a horde of individuals inter
ested in crowding the roads and drink
ing beers."
SAFE plans to expand escort availability
By MARCIE BAILEY
Staff Writer
Plans are under way to make SAFE
(Students Avoiding Frightening En
counters) a more effective and wide
spread campus service by expanding to
South Campus and stationing escorts in
libraries.
In past years, escorts could be called
at the SAFE office, located in Winston
Residence Hall, but they were only
available to escort on North Campus.
The service will be very different
this year, said Bill Craver, director of
SAFE.
The biggest change is the shuttle
system, he said. Regular parties will be
leaving from Morrison every 30 min
utes between 7 p.m. and midnight and
going to the Student Union. Escorts
will be posted at Hinton James and
Ehringhaus to walk people to Morrison
and meet the rest of the group.
A library service will post two vol
unteers at the exits of both Davis and
House Libraries. Women can request
an escort there instead of calling the
service and waiting for a volunteer to
arrive.
Women still can call the program
office, in Winston Residence Hall, for
an escort.
Associate Dean of Students Kath
leen Benzaquin, who is in charge of the
Rape Action Project, said she was glad
to see the escort service being organ
ized with more efficiency.
"I strongly support what SAFE is
doing," she said. "It is one of the best
services for students, and research has
been done showing it is one of the most
recognizable."
Benzaquin said she uses SAFE her
self to get to her car at night because the
service accommodates faculty and staff
as well as students.
"Anyone can use SAFE," she said.
"I enjoy meeting the escorts as students
and asking them why they volunteered."
Graduate student Robert McLean
agreed that SAFE is a good idea for
women who walk alone at night. "It
seems like having a guy walking with
you would deter anyone from harass
ing you," he said.
Craver said SAFE has been changed
because the former organization was
ineffective, and people didn't utilize
the service enough.
He said he hopes with the addition of
the shuttle system and expansion to
South Campus that more people will be
aware of the service and utilize it.
South Campus resident Michele
Nagle said she was aware of SAFE but
didn't know it wasn't available to her.
Although she has never used SAFE,
she said she believes it is a worthwhile
program.
"I think it's a good idea," she said.
"Most people have an attitude that it
(assault) won't happen this one time."
Nagle said she would probably call
SAFE knowing it is now available to
her.
Craver said he feels that most women
don't call the service because they feel
they are being silly or that they will
bother someone. But new volunteers
will be around campus regularly and
readily available to the students, he
said.
"Some people are anxious about
calling SAFE, but now escorts will be
more visible and more people will be
willing to use it."
Benzaquin said SAFE is "moving
away from the stereotype of man pro
tecting woman. It ensures a safer cam
pus environment."
The service is not in full operation
yet, but will start as soon as enough
escorts volunteer. Craver said, "Right
now we need volunteers, more because
of the new services. Then the emphasis
will shift towards publicizing for girls
to use SAFE."
A former escort, junior Rob Freeland
from Charlotte, said he volunteered for
SAFE because "it is a very valuable
service to the campus. It is a good
alternative to girls walking alone at
night. I felt like I was helping out."
Volunteers interested in working as
SAFE escorts are encouraged to con
tact Craver at 942-6585.
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