Volume LVI, Number 3
"It's like -
winning an
Oscar"
Kacey Gaumer
Staff Writer
The results are in. At the fall fac
ulty meeting on Aug. 17, UNCW’s
top three teachers were announced.
Bob Blundo, Bill Bolduc and
Lou Buttino were the recipients
of the Distinguished Teaching
Professorship Awards. Blundo also
received the top honor, the Board
of Trustees’ Teaching Excellence
Award.
Several professors were nomi
nated by colleagues, students or
themselves. Professors were then
notified of their nomination and
were requested to submit a portfolio
to be considered for the awards.
The provost’s office selected
five recent recipients of these two
awards to serve on the selection
committee. According to Faculty
Assistant to Provost Carol Ellis, the
committee recommends four pro
fessors to the chancellor. Chancellor
Rosemary DePaolo selected three
of the four professors to receive
the Distinguished Teaching
Professorship Awards and one to
be given the Board of Trustees’
Teaching Excellence Award.
“It’s hke wiiming an Oscar,” said
Blundo, a social work professor, on
receiving the Board of Trustee’s
Teaching Excellence Award, mak
ing him the top professor at UNCW.
“Most of us are here to teach. If
that’s our goal and our primary
focus, then I want to do well.”
Arthur Frankel, the head of the
social work department spoke high
ly of Blundo and his teaching style.
He believes Blundo’s projects enrich
the classroom beyond textbooks,
and he brings an abundance of cur-
rent experience to his classroom.
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September 9, 2004
Parking spaces disappear in droves
Kiara Jones
News Editor
The age-old question has been
the topic of students’ conversation on
UNCW’s campus for years. “What’s
the deal with parking?” With the
many gripes and complaints also
comes speculation. The following
addresses every day questions that
students may have when it comes to
parking.
According to Richard Fauson,
Director of Auxiliary Services,
UNCW students will lose 300 to
500 parking spaces over the next
few years. Construction, an ongoing
project, and the fact that the campus
has switched from an open parkmg
system to a three-zoned parking
system are the major factors playing
a part in how parking has changed
from last year. Spaces are sold based
on an oversell rate. In the residence
halls area, one decal is sold per space
because parking there is essentially
24 hours a day. In contrast, in
commuter parking, where students
come and go throughout the day,
more than one decal is sold per
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Students and faculty jockey for parking spaces in late August. Parking continues to be a major
issue with the influence of construction iqipeding on already scarce parking spaces.
space. “You have to figure out
how many decals you can sell. The
need for parking is different per
individual, per day of the week for
different hours.”
The old system allowed students
the “license to hunt” for a space. The
zoning method “probably raised
expectations that you will have a
space to park,” Fauson said. “With
that logic, parking in a zoned system
has to be more controlled than an
open [one].”
The root of contention comes with
smdents who have been assigned
to zones they are not happy with.
Students in zone three are not thrilled
about the fact that they have to ride a
shuttle to campus, and then walk the
rest of the way to their buildings.
Those in zone two dislike the walk
they have to make from parking lot
K to the academic areas of campus.
However, students who signed up
on time and who went through the
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UNCW background checks considered
Alisha Gore
Senior Staff Writer
This spring, UNCW students Jes
sica Faulkner and Christen Naujoks
were murdered by fellow students
who lied on their admissions appli
cations about their past criminal
history. For the most part, the
University community remained
unaware of these students’ past
criminal activities until they had
committed murder
Currently, there is no manda
tory criminal background check
on incoming students in place at
UNCW. UNCW, as well as other
UNC campuses, rely on the honor
system to evaluate the criminal his
tory of applicants. This means that
it is up to the applicant to state on
their application if they have com
mitted a crime.
In the aftermath of the murders
of Faulkner and Naujoks, it has been
suggested that the UNC system be
gin to conduct mandatory criminal
background checks on all incoming
students. Those who support this
plan hope that it will decrease the
chances of violence and murder on
UNC campuses.
There are some opponents to
the idea of doing criminal back
ground checks on all incoming stu
dents to the UNC system. Thomas
Conway, a vice provost at N.C. State
University, believes that it would
be virtually impossible to conduct
background checks on all incoming
students to UNC campuses.
“What we’d probably end up
doing is bogging down the system
well beyond what the public would
tolerate in terms of our admissions
processes,” Conway said.
Curtis Dixon, who is accused
of murdering Faulkner in early
May, failed to state on his admis
sions application that he had plead
guilty to a charge of misdemeanor
larceny in 2000. Dixon also did
not state that he was enrolled in
two other UNC institutions prior to
applying for admission to UNCW.
Dixon had been previously enrolled
in UNC-Charlotte and the N.C.
School of the Arts.
John Peck, who was accused of
murdering ex-girlfriend Naujoks in
early June, lied on his admissions
application as well. Peck did not
state on his application that he had
plead guilty to two felony charg
es and one misdemeanor charge of
rape against an ex-girlfriend in 2001.
Peck was initially charged with first-
degree rape in the case. As punish-
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