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Thursday | March 16, 2006
Serving UNC Wilmington since 1948
Volume LVIII Number 19
CARE becomes a vital part
of Campus Safety Initiative
Kai Oliver-Kurtin
Assistant Lifestvles Editor
UNCW’s Collaboration for
Assault Response and Education
is part of the new campus safety
initiative which offers an array of
programs, education and training
has established a substance abuse
prevention program within a higher
education setting.
“It’s been fun and interesting
developing a department from
scratch,” Caldwell said. “The univer
sity has done a great job responding
to violence. We hold awareness pro
grams, do classroom
presentations and host
guest speakers as part
of the CARE program.
We’re on-call 24 hours
per day through the
University Police and
our office is open 20-
plus hours per week.
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in sexual assauh, relationship vio
lence and stalking.
CARE helps students by pro
viding supportive services includ
ing crisis response, consultation
and individual advocacy. The cen
ter works closely with resources
on-campus such as the University
Police, the Office of the Dean of
Students, CROSSROADS, Health
Services, Housing and Residence
Life, the Women’s Resource Center
and Counseling Services. The
Rape Crisis Center and Domestic
Violence Shelter and Services are
agencies CARE utilizes in the
greater Wilmington area.
CARE is the expansion of a
group formerly known as the A-
team whose goals were to reduce
sexual assault and harassment in
the hopes of eliminating them. Now
headed by Rebecca Caldwell and
Dee Casey, CARE is an outreach
program available to both women
and men.
Rebecca Caldwell serves as
the coordinator for prevention and
education services of CARE and
is the director of CROSSROADS.
With her hard work, the program
ters the crisis response, intervention
and training components of CARE.
She also spends time in Counseling
Services, working with students to
resolve issues including substance
abuse, family relationships, sexual
assault and other traumas.
“If students feel like they don’t
need formal counseling, they can
contact us anonymously over the
phone,” Casey said. “Sometimes
students don’t know how to label
a kind of situation they’ve been in
and it’s hard for them to ask for
help. Although a situation’s solution
may seem black and white from the
outside, you have to take outside
factors into consideration as well.
There’s only so much a helpful
friend can do.” Casey stressed how
well-trained, sensitive and compe
tent the University Police have been
in dealing with the UNCW com
munity.
CARE and Counseling Services
are located on the second floor
of Westside Hall, as are Health
Services and CROSSROADS. For
more information, call 962-CARE
or visit www.uncw.edu/stuaff/care.
Student entrepreneurs market
‘Dubtown’ sweatshirts
Elizabeth Hughes
Correspondent
A not-so-new phrase seems to
be catching on lately at UNCW, as
seen in the ever-increasing num
ber of people sporting the new
Dubtovm sweatshirts.
The word “Dubtown” stands for
Wilmington or UNCW, or as some
like to call it, “UNC-Dub.” It is
simply just another catchy phrase to
nickname our community.
Sophomores Mark Roberts,
Michael Ray and Brad Cockrell are
responsible for selling the Dubtown
sweatshirts and are equal partners
in their own company-in-the-mak-
ing called “Dubtown Designs.”
They are currently in the process of
licensure for their company.
DUBTOWN
see DUBTOWN page 2
Courtesy of www.angeltire.com/planet/dubtown
Displayed are different styles of Dubtown' sweatshirts (above).
UNCW sophomores Mark Roberts, Michael Ray and Brad Cock
rell market the shirts on their website.
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Parking fees in Wrightsville Beach for single spaces and public beach
access are to increase this summer. The increase is expected to gener
ate about $130,000 in 2006-2007.
Katherine Epstein
Correspondent
This summer, visitors will have
to pay more to park at Wrightsville
Beach. The Wrightsville Beach
Board of Aldermen has voted to
increase the rate for on-street park
ing lot spaces from $1.25 per hour
to $1.50. New meters will also
be placed on Nathan Street and
South Lumina Avenue but not on
Old Causeway Drive and Marina
Street, and rates for parking lots will
remain the same at $8 per day.
Parking fees
to increase at
Wrightsville
Beach
“Parking fees are designed to
move traffic and make spaces avail
able for everyone,” said Wrightsville
Beach mayor Bob O’Quinn. “A col
lateral benefit from the fees is rev
enue to keep the beach clean, main
tain the public restrooms, provide
adequate paramedics and police,
supplement lifeguard and ocean res
cue expenses. 1 believe our visitors
understand the joint effort it takes to
keep Wrightsville Beach beautitiil
and safe. The cost of a six-hour stay
on the beach for you and a friend
will be $9, less expensive than two
movie tickets.”
Town Manager Bob Simpson
see PARKING FEES page 2