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w Shows to Know,W W pages I Thursday | October 27, 2005 eahawb 4 A Serving UNC Wilminffon since 1948 Volume LVII I Number 8 ACLU combats abstinence-only education Benjamin Mahan Staff Writer The American Civil Liberties Union kicked off “Not In My State!” a nationwide campaign urg ing 18 states to reject abstinence- only-until-marriage curricula in schools last week. North Carolina public schools are required to offer abstinence- only courses, though the N.C. affil iate of the ACLU did not participate in the campaign. “We certainly support the efforts of the ACLU in its efforts on this front,” said Shelagh Kenney, Staff Attorney for the ACLU of NC Legal Foundation. “Unfortunately, we are a very small office and did not have the staff and resources to participate in the campaign with some of the other sJitoftiliates.” “According to congres sional report, these programs are among the many abstinence-only- until-marriage curricula that con tain false and misleading informa tion and perpetuate harmful stereo types,”. said the ACLU in a letter recently sent to local school officials. The report “The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs,” by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif, cited inaccu racies in federal abstinence-only programs such as curriculum that teaches condoms only protect against HIV infection 69 percent of the time and that condoms attribute to the spread of sexually transmit ted diseases. However, the Waxman report references a study published in the “New England Journal of Medicine”, in which couples con sisting of an HIV positive and an see ABSTINENCE page 2 f9 PARKING DECK CANCELLED Courtesy of UNCW Business Affairs QraphK by Liana Pesci I THE 5EAMAWK UNCW to buy land for more off-campus parking Hollan Peterson Assistant News Editor The University Cabinet finalized the decision to cancel construction plans for an on-campus parking deck, which would have cost $12 million and created 600 new park ing spaces. Instead, the university has opted to purchase more land off-campus to be used for another commuter lot. “I’m personally disappointed because we spent’ a significant amount of time evaluating deck operations and planning the pro posed facility, but 1 support the current university position not to increase students’ costs any higher than necessary,” Richard Fauson, director of auxiliary services, said. Since UNCW’s parking oper ations are self-supporting, it was expected that students were going to have to pay $120 more per year for a parking permit. “A deck parking space costs over five times of that of a parking space on the ground,” Fauson said. Several other options have been considered. Among these include expanding the one mile radius to two miles, or moving resident park ing to off-campus. At this time, however, it appears that making students park off cam pus and ride the shuttle back to their dormitories is not a likelihood. “Going to this option creates some nighttime security concerns that we would need to address through some type of shuttle ser vice, security in the lot, enhanced lighting, etcetera,” Fauson said. For legal reasosns neither the cost nor the location of the land to be purchased can be released at this time. But it will be significantly less expensive and result m a smaller increase in parking fees. The new off-campus lot will be ready for the Fall 2006 semester. Plans to increase the number of shuttles, which service the com muter lots are being examined. Two shuttles will transport students from each lot, and there are plans to increase service hours by including an evening shuttle for all off-cam pus lots. “I am glad that they cancelled the parking deck because I think it would have been a waste of money, we don’t need it,” student Emily Jones said. Construction for 200 new park ing spaces at the comer of Randall and Reynolds Drives, to replace the spaces lost to the new School of Nursing building, will begin Summer 2006. Current plans to significantly increase enrollment at UNCW guarantee that the issue of a parking deck is far from over. The Campus Master Plan inchides several park ing decks to accommodate the rap idly growing student population. UNCW attempts to bridge the gap between campus and community Amanda Hutcheson Staff Writer With the return of students to college campuses, back-to-school parties are likely to cause noise and irritate neighbors. Balancing the interests of students who want to enjoy their college years with those of residents who have other responsibilities is difficult. UNCW has created a University/ Community Relations Task Force with Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo and Wilmington Mayor Spence Broadhurst to deal with these prob lems. The task force includes staff from UNCW, the city manager’s office and students, and holds public forums where residents can speak. Cape Fear Community College was invited to join as well. The task force has been functioning for a year and a half and deals with prob lems that arise when students live in neighborhoods with non-students. Examples of problems reported to the University in the past include noise, disposing of trash, urinating in yards, and damaging of mail boxes and bushes. Another com mon problem is students charging friends to park in their neighbors’ designated parking areas. However, recent reports that noise complaints are increasing may not be completely accurate. While police reports show an increase in the number of noise complaints received. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Patricia Leonard said that this year the university has received -iSfc ‘barely any” noise com plaints and was never I see PARTIES page 4
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