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Downgraded Dennis Hangs U-Turn Toward Coast
Tropical Storm Dennis put
much of Hatteras Island
under water, as Dare County
officials issued evacuations.
Staff & Wire Reports
KITTY HAWK - Dennis began
plodding back toward North Carolina’s
Outer Banks on Tuesday, this time as a
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Area Director Kym Orr (left) is working with University Police officer
Chris Burnette as part of UNC's community policing program.
Officer Aims to Mix
Policing, Personality
By Stuart Crampton
Staff Writer
His black Nikes have logged so
many North Campus miles that he
jokes about soliciting walk-a-thon
sponsors.
“Shoot, for my March of Dimes
they’d probably only gimme a penny
for 10 miles,” chuckled University
Police officer Chris Burnette.
For as long as 12 hours a day,
Burnette promenades down the
uneven brick paths framing Polk Place
and McCorkle Place.
Winding past illegitimate Davie
Poplars and ffisbee golf addicts,
through patches of sunbathers and
arboretum shade, his beat is the scenic
route.
But Burnette does more than roam
the heart of campus. Under the guise
of a cop, he’s working to lend the
University Police more personality.
“They say I’m a walkin’-talkin’
Students Donate Fluids
To Grab Quick Funds
By Walter Herz
Staff Writer
When the need for quick cash strikes,
today’s college student has anew option
besides working or calling mom.
Local health organizations offer
UNC students money for a few hours a
week and a few pints of body fluid.
And many students are taking advan
tage of it
Diane Tietz, manager of Sera-Tec
Biologicals limited Partnership - locat
ed at 109 1/2 E. Franklin St., said 80 per
cent of the company’s plasma donors
were UNC students.
Besides the opportunity to help oth
ers, the money Sera-Tec offers might
motivate students to give of their time
and their plasma. “A brand new, first
time donor receives $20,” Tietz said. “If
the donor donates again within seven
days, he or she gets $35.”
tropical storm, as barrier island residents
struggled to recover from the erratic
storm’s first visit.
The National Hurricane Center
downgraded the hurricane to a tropical
storm at 11 p.m., but warned that the
storm’s unpredictable winds are only a
few miles per hour below hurricane
strength.
Forecasters predicted Dennis, 105
miles east of Cape Hatteras at 11 p.m.
with 70 mph winds, would move slowly
kinda’ guy,” Burnette said with a grin.
“I talk to everybody.
“You know that commercial - ‘l’ve
fallen and I can’t get up?’ For me they
say, ‘he’s talkin’ and he can’t shut up.’”
The 28-year-old Burnette is part of a
newly-instituted community policing
program that centers permanent offi
cers in four substations across campus.
And like other officers, Burnette has
leads on University Police’s newest
most-wanted list: “BOLD” for
improved communication between stu
dents, faculty and officers.
Stemming from Chief Derek
Poarch’s March proposal, the commu
nity policing program is less central
ized than the previous department
structure.
With a swift walk under a relentless
four o’clock sun, Burnette showed
almost as much optimism for the new
program as he did sweat.
See POLICE, Page 7
After the first week, a donor receives
sls a visit and $25 if he or she donates
again within a week, Tietz said.
Female students between the ages of
21 and 34 also have the option of selling
something more valuable than plasma:
their eggs. The N.C. Center for
Reproductive Medicine in Cary offers
$2,000 to women willing to donate their
eggs to couples who cannot have chil
dren on their own.
The plasma donation process is less
time-consuming than egg donations,
however.
Before allowing a person to donate,
Tietz said Sera-Tec requests identifica
tion. Sera-Tec also did a pre-donation
medical background check and tested
the donor’s vital signs, she said.
“We do a pre-donation screening,”
she said. “We check their blood pres-
See FLUIDS, Page 7
Change must be measured from a known base line.
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west and then turn southwest
Wednesday night. That would take it
along the same path -but in reverse -
that it followed when it crept along
North Carolina’s coast Monday without
coming ashore.
On Tuesday night, Gov. Jim Hunt
requested that the Federal Emergency
Management Agency declare a state of
emergency.
As Dennis drifted westward at 3 mph,
gale-force winds and 14-foot waves
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Chapel Hill Street Blues
Community policing divides the campus into four districts to be supervised by University Police officers. The
headquarters for the North Campus substation is in Student Stores. The Mid Campus headquarters is in Kenan field
House. The South Campus headquarters is in Chase Hall, and off-central headquarters is in Abemethy Hall.
Lt.C.E. Swain Lt. Steven Thornton
supervises his team \ is responsiole for the
at the off-central \ safetv of North Campus
Lt. Lori Palazzo Lt Herbert Stubbs
patrols South Campus watches over Mid Campus
with her team of officers. with fellow officers.
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Chay Kroner of Carrboro donates plasma at Sera-Tec Biologicals Limited Partnership of Chapel Hill.
Regular donors can receive S4O a week for every two donations.
lashed the spaghetti-like Outer Banks, its
roads already awash in surf and drifted
sand. Hatteras Island was without power
and off-limits to traffic because beach
sand and water had made N.C. 12
impassable. A mandatory evacuation
order was issued for South Nags Head
and Kitty Hawk residents living along
N.C. 12, the beach road, because of
threatening waves.
Late Tuesday afternoon, the National
Hurricane Center in Miami elevated its
tropical storm warning from Cape
Lookout to Chincoteague, Va., to a hur
ricane watch. “At this point, forecast to
forecast is the way we’re going,” said
Dorothy Holt, spokeswoman for the
Dare County government. “It’s not
done, and we realize in the next 72
hours it could pose a problem.”
Nags Head Mayor Renee Cahoon
declared a mandatory evacuation
Tuesday of all of South Nags Head, a
densely populated area of rented beach
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houses, when ocean water flooded Old
Oregon Inlet Road south of Jeanette’s
Pier. The order will remain in effect until
Friday, Cahoon said.
Leanne Caulthan, an engineer with
the Outer Banks Division of the
National Parks Service who worked as
an emergency phone dispatcher
Tuesday night said rangers were out
making rounds and making last-minute
preparations for the storm.
See DENNIS, Page 7
By Shannon Snypp
Staff Writer
Many students’ first contact with
University Police this fall came in the
form of warning fliers posted in the wake
of two attempted sexual assaults.
Other noticed something different in
the air when police officers stopped to
offer them rides in the wee hours of the
night.
University Police Chief Derek Poarch
said actions like these had become the
norm since his community policing pro
gram went into effect July 5.
Poarch said the increase of police
interaction with students coincides with
his philosophy of community policing.
In Mardi, he called for the creation of
permanent police substation units around
campus so that officers could maintain
interaction on students in that region.
“The program will improve the
chances of people talking to the officers
by putting a name with the officer’s face
and allowing students to become familiar
and comfortable with the officers around
campus,” Poarch said.
The plan divides campus into four
regions: South Campus, North Campus,
Mid Campus, and off-central campus
with lieutenants overseeing each area
and assisted by a team of officers.
“The philosophy behind the plan is
that the officers in the substations will
serve as liaisons between students and
the rest of the Chapel Hill community,”
Poarch said. “If students or faculty need
help, they can talk to an officer 24 hours
a day at the nearest substation,” he said.
“We want students to feel they can
approach officers on issues that relate to
the quality of their lives or safety con
cerns they may have,” Poarch said.
See COMMUNITY, Page 7
INSUf,
UNC Kicks Off Season
North
Carolina
women's
soccer
team
takes on
Tennessee
at Fetzer
Field tonight in its opening game of the
1999 season. See Page 11.
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Today’s Weather
Rain;
Low 80s.
Thursday: Rain;
Low 80s.
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