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February 12, 2004
Volume LV, Number 19
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Within-mile residents get busted for illegal decals
Sarah Broders
News Editor
Parking and auxiliary services
has begun their routine parking
sticker investigation, making sure
that only students with daytime
parking decals are ones residing
outside of the one-mile radius.
Although the process is not a
new one (it’s been done the last
three years), many students are
not aware that it goes on.
“We are just trying to make
sure that those driving to campus
are outside the one-mile radius,”
said Dick Fauson, director of aux
iliary services.
Even though the number of
cars on campus has decreased a
little due to December’s graduat
ing class, Fauson still sympa
thized with students trying to find
a parking space between the
busiest hours of 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
“If we allowed students to vio
late the one-mile rule, we’d have
another 500 cars on campus mak
ing it impossible to find a parking
space for those students who are
living outside the mile,” Fauson
said.
Auxiliary services has three
tried and true methods of finding
the parking sticker violators.
Most often, when parking staff
members are checking cars to
make sure they are parked in their
designated color parking spaces,
they also make a note of which
cars have decals from communi
ties within the one-mile radius.
This costs the school nothing
extra because they are not sending
out extra employees, and it also
has proven quite effective. Fauson
said that most of the communities
within the radius require residents
to have parking decals on their
car, so whenever you see a car
with a UNCW daytime parking
decal as well as a decal from one
of these other communities, it’s a
dead give away.
The other two methods are
used less often. “Sometimes
we’ve been informed by other stu
dents ... and we also do a lot of
surveillance,” Fauson said.
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About 144 students have been caught to
date for illegally purchasing and using day
time parking decals. The maximum penalty
is a $172 fine and seizure of the sticker.
By surveillance, Fauson
means that on occasion auxiliary
services will send a vehicle to the
communities within the one-mile
radius to see if any of the cars
have both community decals and
UNCW daytime parking decals.
As for the rumor of cars leav
ing campus being followed home
by an auxiliary service employee.
Fauson laughed and said, “we do
not do that, we have never done
that, nor will we ever do that.”
There are mixed feelings
among the students as to whether
or not auxiliary services should be
revoking the illegal parking
decals.
“I think it should be allowed
even though there aren’t enough
spaces ... because it would be a
long way to walk in bad weather
and certain conditions for those
who are on the outskirts of the
one-mile,” said freshmen Allison
Hurley.
“I think it’s good, because you
do pay for those spots,” said fresh
men Kate Regan. “If you pay, you
should get a space.”
Auxiliary services sold approx
imately 5,580 daytime parking
decals. As of Monday, auxiliary
services has only had to send out
144 letters to individuals suspect
ed of violating the radius rule.
A mere 26 of the violators
came forward and turned in their
decal and walked away without so
much as a fine. However, the max
imum penalty is a $172 fine, a
revoked parking sticker and an
invitation to the dean’s office for
disciplinary action.
A few students have com
plained about getting the fine and
the revoked sticker, but no one has
been sent to the dean’s office as of
yet.
Campus hosts speaker to discuss controversial genetics
Ashley Parker
Staff Writer
On Feb. 2, Kenan Auditorium
hosted guest speaker Dr Gregory
Stock, a recognized expert on the
projected impact of the Human
Genome Project. He discussed the
implications of manipulating
human DNA in the areas of pre
ventative medicine, reproduction
and culture.
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courtesy of caltech.edu
Dr. Stock received his Ph.D. in
biophysics from John Hopkins
University and serves on the edi
torial board of the American
Journal of Bioethics. He has also ^
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written two books: The Book of
Questions and Redesigning
Humans.
With the mapping of the
human DNA sequence, called the
Human Genome Project, Dr.
Spock believes that we are on the
path to “taking control of our
evolutionary future...Within 10
years it will be possible to look at
your entire list of DNA...for
about $1,000,” Spock said.
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Dr. Spock says this newfound
knowledge will allow pharmaceu
tical companies to tailor drugs to
the individual, which will in turn
spur changes in drug develop
ment, FDA approval, life insur
ance and health insurance.
Life expectancy will increase
with the introduction of anti
aging drugs and the ability to pre
vent some of the ailments of old
age.
According to Dr. Stock, “many
experts agree that the first person
to live to 150 is already alive.”
Forthcoming drugs may double or
triple the human life span.
Parents will be able to select
certain traits for their children and
avoid genetic disorders by genetic
screening of the embryo. Stock
says the groundwork for this was
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