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April 3, 2003
AWARENESS
PROSPECTS TO
REDUCE SEXUAL
ASSAULTS
Many sexual
assaults are
never reported
to the police.
Serving UNC Wilmington since
Sarah Broders
News Editor
Experts hope that raising
awareness about sexual assauh
will help cut down on rape and
sex offense crimes in North
Carolina this year.
According to the Bureau of
Justice Statistics, “Rape or sexual
assault was the violent crime least
often reported to law enforcement
in the year 2000.” In light of this
statistic, Governor Michael
Easley has proclaimed April to be
sexual assault awareness month.
North Carolina currently has
7,177 registered sex offenders and
predators. Last year there were
115 convictions for first-degree
rape or sex offence and 160 sec
ond-degree convictions, accord
ing to Easley’s press release.
Tarsha Brown, a graduate
intern at Coastal Horizons Center,
said “This is such a problem
See ASSAULT, Page 3
Surfing within 500 feet of the piers at Wrightsville Beach is not allowed.
Jeff WunscMhe Seahawk
No surfing near the pier
Sarah Broders
News Editor
Attempts to increase surf zones
failed at last Thursday’s
Wrightsville Beach town meeting
when several local fishermen
spoke up about the risks of surfing
near the pier.
The town currently bans surf
ing within 500 feet of the piers, as
opposed to 200 feet in such other
area beaches as Surf City and
Kure Beach. The Wrightsville
Beach Board of Aldermen was
scheduled to decide if surfers
would be allowed to surf within
150 feet of the piers instead.
Alderman Trey Jordan urged
the board to decrease the surfing
boundaries. He said that “there are
too many surfers and the restric
tions are too great. Five-hundred
feet is almost two football fields.”
Opposed to Jordan were two
local fishermen who said that 150
feet was too close to the pier and
the surfers could be in the way of
the fishermen.
“The distance they have now is
sufficient,” said James Neil an
avid fisherman and surfer for the
past 40 years. “I can hit them
with a plug in 50 yards, not to
mention a four or six-ounce
sinker, and that can be just as
deadly as a bullet.”
These fishermen have paid to
have the privilege of fishing on
that pier, and that structure does
n’t move. Surf does.”
Jordan argued that if surfers
should not be allowed within 500
feet of the piers, than neither
See surf, Page 3
GRADUATION
APPLICATIONS
FOR DECEMBER
DUE IN APRIL
New deadlines
are encouraged.
Sarah Broders
News Editor
The application deadline for
graduation has been moved up to
make sure that all applicants will,
in fact, be able to graduate.
Students planning on graduat
ing this December are urged to
apply for graduation by the end of
April.
The deadline is being moved
because there has been a reoccur-
ring problem in that students
missing one class will not gradu
ate because there was not enough
time for them or their adviser to
catch it. This has led to advisers
and students scrambling to add a
directed independent study or a
last-minute class to their sched
ules long after the drop/add period
has ended.
“It is very anxiety-making for
the student and for me,” said
Kathleen Gould, undergraduate
coordinator for advising in the
English department.
Ron Whittaker, the university
registrar said, “If we can catch it
the term before, we can react and
See graduate. Page 3
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