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New political group
Ethos Percussion
group at Kenan/ 7
Women's volleyball team
comes up short/15
INDEX
News
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OP/ED
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UNCW Life
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The Scene
8
Classifieds
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Sports
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University on guard against threat of Antlirax
Wes Melville
University officials have de
cided to install campus guide
lines for protecting the univer
sity from any potential danger
due to the national threat of
Anthrax contamination.
The Department of Environ
mental Health and Safety is
working closely with the
UNCW post office, as well as
tfie Wilmington Fire
Department’s hazardous mate
rial team. Together, they have
agreed upon and set up a list of
guidelines and procedures that
the campus will follow if con
fronted by the ominous sub
stance.
Stan Harts, director of envi
ronmental health and safety, in
sists that the odds of Anthrax
invading our campus are “ex
tremely low.” At the same time,
he said, having proper knowl
edge of what to do in the event
of an attack is necessary.
“We want everybody to be
cautious and suspect of any
thing suspicious,” Harts said.
Preparation begins with the
post office, where employees
handle thousands of letters and
packages daily. The post office
has been put on full alert so that
they can identify what is being
called “suspicious mail.” Gen
erally, any mail that is deemed
suspicious is any that lacks a
return address, has incomplete
address information, has exces
sive postage or taping around it
or has stains or oily substances
on its exterior.
It may sound like an ambigu
ous process, but Doris Moore,
manager of the post office, says
that her staff has responded
well to the increased pressure.
“They know what to look
for,” said Moore.
When any of the postal work
ers - who are all clad in rubber
gloves when sorting through the
mail - run across a suspicious
looking package, the initial
steps of a thorough university-
designed procedure are imple
mented. Assuming the piece of
mail does not pose an immedi-
See Anthrax, Page 4
Haiardous materials ctBW wash off following anthrax ir
tions in the Longworth House Office Building in Washington,D.C.
Students protest celebration honoring Charlie Daniels
Heather Grady
ity is just another
lifestyle when the
About 24 protestors—including that it is an abomi-
several UNCW students—stood in nation of God,”
quiet defiance ofthe induction of coun- said an article by
try music’s Charlie Daniels to the Daniels.
Wilmington Walk of Fame. The article gave
The protestors clustered on the side- rise to whether
walk near a crowd of Daniels’ fans, Daniels was a wor-
holding religious signs and expressing thy figure for ccMn-
that the singer was a bigot with regard munity recognition,
to homosexuals and others. jsotestors said.
ProtestcMs objected to information “Yes, I do want
fiom Daniels’Web site, which detailed to have fiw speech,
the siJiger’s feelings on the societal cata- But I don’
lysts for the Sept 11 attacks. “ *■ '
“As an executive field. Protestors say these criteria ai
board officer (I) re- not stringent enou^.
ally had a duty to ap- Executive Director of the Arts
pear at this peaceM Council Don Fishero said the problem
protest,” said Pnsston arose when attempting to find a uni-
Craddock, the" fied definition of good character and
organization’s presi- politically correct behaviw.
dent “What is politically ccwrect to one
Protestors also person is not politically oxrect to an-
said they held the other,” Fishero said.
Alts Council of the He added he did appreciate the
Lower Cape Fear re- ideas expressed by the protestors, and
sponsible, since the he said he would continue to present
entity was coUabo- those ideas to the executive board of
rating with UNCW die Arts Council for consideration as
in the Celebrate he had done in the past.
^ honor bigotry and that’s what (the Wilmington! effort, and therefore was Daniels said while he too appreci-
‘Why has (the Sept. 11 attack) protesters) felt was happening here to- responsible for approving honorees for ated that the protestors expressed their
happened?... We’ve shaken ourfists in day,” said Michael Moore, coordinator theWalkofFame.Tbepartnership'
Charlie DanieTs”'^
God’s face far too long... We have of the protest
munlered untold millions of unborn Several members of the university’s
children and tolerated an immoral presi- Bisexuals, Gays, Lesbians and Allies
dent in the name of a good economy, of Diversity smdent oiganiztion were
We have proclaimed that homosexual- on hand as well.
ideas peacefully and that he hoixjred
created to promote and expand multi- their right to do so, the protesters were
cultural arts in the region.
The Walk of Fame inductees i
be natives of Wilmington, and are cho-
wrong in their understanding of his
“I don’t hate anybody. People mis-
:n according to prominence in their construe things sometimes,” Daniels