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Volume LVI, Number 16
Serving UNC-Wilmington since 1948
January 20, 2005
UNCW plans
improvements
for campus
Ben Wimmer
Staff Writer
Chancellor DePaolo has appoint
ed a UNCW Master Plan Update
Advisory Coinmittee to begin
planning new projects to improve
the campus at UNC-Wilmington.
The committee is working with the
planning firm of Wallace, Roberts
and Todd, LLC (WRT) to develop
the Campus Master Plan Update.
The update is aiming to improve
on-campus facilities by making
them more efficient and to improve
the overall physical appearance of
the campus.
In an interview with Dr. Ken
Spackman, appointed member of
the Master Plan Update Advisory
Committee and Director of
University Planning, he said, “This
time the master plan effort is differ
ent and much more comprehensive,
it’s tied much more to what we’re
trying to accomplish academically,
including planning and controlling
growth to maintain academic qual
ity.”
From Jan.10-13 the UNCW
Master Plan Update Advisory
Committee and WRT held several
town hall meetings open to stu
dents, faculty, and staff to gather
input and ideas, as well as to inform
attendees about the status of the
Campus Master Plan.
Key issues outlined at the meet
ings included athletics and recre
ation, campus buildings, circulation
and parking.
More information on the
Campus Master Plan is available
at:
http://www.uncwil.edu/ba/
facilities/masterplan.htm.
Parking tickets are big business
Photo illustration by Nicole Smrth I THE SEAHAWK
Bobby Leitch places a parking ticket on the windshield of a vehicle.
While viewed by the many students who receive ticktes as the bane of
their transportation lifestyle, the parking control officers provide a
valuable service to the university.
Barbara J. Twigg
Assistant News Editor
They’re out there rain or shine
just doing their job, but they are
probably the least popular people on
the UNCW campus.
They are the parking control
officers, better known as the “ticket
team.” The seven, bicycle-riding
men and women on the team do an
efficient job. In 2004, they wrote
32,360 tickets on campus.
Tickets cost $25, $50 or $172.
The $25 ticket is for an overtime
meter or not having a parking decal,
the $50 ticket is for parking in a
reserved spot and the $172 is for
altering the color of your decal.
Forty students were caught and tick
eted for attempting to alter their
decal last semester.
Parking Control Supervisor
Norman Johnson is out there writ
ing citations five days a week. After
four years on the job Johnson is still
an extremely affable man with a
wide smile and an easy going man
ner. But aren’t all the ticket people
scowling, mean and heartless? “No,
no,” Johnson said, shaking his head
and laughing at the suggestion.
Does he like his job? “Oh, I
love it. I love it,” Johnson said. “I
get to meet new people. And I’m
educating them and correcting bad
behavior.”
But don’t people get mad at you
for ‘educating’ them? “Oh sure, they
get mad all the time,” he said. “I
don’t mind...they know they were
doing the wrong thing.”
Johnson, who before coming to
UNCW caught shoplifters at Harris
Teeter, has a philosophy why most
people park illegally. “Some just
take a chance they won’t get caught,
some just want attention, some just
test the system, and some simply.
don’t care, because their parents or
their financial aid pay the fines,”
he said.
But Johnson is an officer with a
heart and once in a while he even
gives a person a break, or tries
to. “This morning, I saw a young
woman parking on the grass in a
no-parking zone. So, I went up to
her and told her to do herself a favor
and park somewhere else,” he said.
see PARKING page 2
Student organizations unite to inform students
Ashley Murphy
Staff Writer
A large number of student organi
zations turned out for The Center for
Campus Activities Spring Student
Activities Fair Thursday Jan. 13.
The fair gave many different
UNCW organizations the chance
to inform students about their orga
nizations. Many groups on campus
were able to show the student body
what they had to offer by setting up
booths and offering pamphlets and
information to interested students.
"Its our Opportunity to
show what's on campus
and how to get involved."
-Campus Activities Coordinator
Larissa LaCour
According to Ashley Adams,
the Vice President for the campus
chapter of Habitat for
Humanity, the fair
was “a one stop shop”
for students interested
in getting involved on
campus.
A variety of dif
ferent organizations
mrned out for the event
including Habitat for
Humanity, Lumina
Dance Club, the
see FAIR page 2
Kal» Kaizer I THE SEAHAWK
Members of 222 receive information concerning
membership in the various campus organizations
at the Activities Fair on Jan. 13.
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