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meet-and-greet to improve relations with students and employees. Moeser had lunch with Justin Young
and Sue Kitchen, vice chancellor for student affairs, before meeting students and employees.
Explanations Abound for High Crime Rates in the South
Bv Jonathan Owens
Staff Writer
Southern states account for 41 per
cent of more than 11 million total crim
inal offenses committed in the United
States, according to a report released by
the FBI this week.
The western United States has the
second highest rating, at 23 percent of
total offenses.
Many Southern cities also topped lists
for numbers of reported crime in all cat
egories.
The highest ranked city in terms of
property crimes in metropolitan areas
was Tuscaloosa, Ala. Greenville was the
fourth-highest ranked city in terms of
per capita property crime rates.
Rodney Engen, professor of crimi
nology at N.C. State University, said he
thinks there is no definite cause of the
South’s high crime rate. He said there
are many different opinions as to why
the percentage is so high.
Popular explanations include the
presence of a subculture of violence in
the South, as well as economic factors
Boy Scouts Aid EMS With
Disaster Training Exercise
By Breti Garamella
Staff Writer
A disaster training exercise had 38
Boy Scouts and troop leaders faking
injuries Saturday for Orange County
Emergency Management Service per
sonnel.
EMS spokesman Kent McKenzie
said the drill, held at Camp New Hope
off N.C. 86, involved more than 11
organizations, including UNC
Hospitals, EMS, the Chapel Hill Fire
Department and New Hope Boy Scout
Troop 449.
“The overall goal is to give EMS
workers practice in handling a mass
casualty incident in a controlled envi
ronment,” McKenzie said.
Robert Bosworth, operations chief for
the Chapel Hill Fire Department, said
the department sent firefighters to take
part in Saturday’s simulation of an
exploding propane gas tank.
“Since we don’t run mass casualties
everyday, we had to make sure different
agencies could interact together,”
Bosworth said.
Eagle Scout candidate Jason Dunn
volunteered his troop to be victims of
the explosion as part of earning his
Eagle Scout badge.
Dunn said he learned organizational
and management skills while preparing
his troop for Saturday’s mock crisis.
“The disaster shows that these things
can happen, and this shows the steps in
place the county has in case these events
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like the strong correlation between
poverty and economic inequality in
crime rates.
Maj. Kevin Smeltzer of the
Greenville Police Department said it.is
important to note the crime index
depends on the amount of crimes actu
ally reported. He said his department
actively encourages victims to report
crimes.
“I have trouble with comparing crime
statistics from jurisdiction to jurisdic
tion,” he said. “Things vary from area to
area.”
He also pointed to the difference in
size among metropolitan areas as a rea
son for Greenville’s high ranking. The
city has 60,000 residents within city lim
its. He said there are 120,000 residents
in the Pitt County metropolitan area.
Smeltzer said Greenville had eight
murders last year and only one murder
so far in 2001. If the current rate holds,
it would mean a 700 percent decrease.
He pointed out that if the amount of
murders dropped by seven in a larger
city, the impact would be less notice
able.
do happen,” he said. “I’ve been going to
planning meetings sincejuly. I’ve been
talking to my troop, e-mailing them and
calling them to join the activity.”
After receiving a call of mass casual
ties, Bosworth said a paramedic would
arrive on the scene first and be estab
lished as the incident commander.
The incident commander’s job is to
make sure the proper resources are uti
lized in a hierarchi
cal structure, he
said.
“The incident
commander takes
the scene and
makes it manage
able, and what
makes it work is
how good the inci
dent commander
thinks strategical
ly,” Bosworth said.
“The overall goal is to give EMS
workers practice in handling a
mass casualty incident in a
controlled environment. ”
Kent McKenzie
EMS Spokesman
He oversaw the incident commander
during Saturday’s simulation, but
Bosworth said normally a fire depart
ment official would fill the position.
“Just because you don’t function as
an incident commander, if you under
stand the complexities of it, it makes you
better in functioning in other tasks
under incident commander,” Bosworth
said.
The scouts tied black, red, yellow or
green tags around their necks to stand
for different injury conditions.
Two of the five red-tag victims suf
fered life-threatening injuries and were
Smeltzer also said one-third of report
ed crimes are larceny of less than SIOO,
including bicycle thefts. Gas drive-offs
account for 20 percent of crimes.
But Smeltzer was quick to add that
there are crime problems in Greenville
that need to be addressed. He said
Greenville has doubled in size in the last
15 years and still feels growing pains.
But Sgt. Shari Bynum of the East
Carolina Police Department reiterated
that crime at the university is not as bad
as the index makes it appear.
The campus is located in Greenville
but had fewer reported incidents of vio
lent and property crime than several
other UNC-system schools.
She said the majority of crimes on
campus are petty offenses, though
many of them do not originate from
students.
“Our biggest problem is larceny,”
Bynum said. “4 expect that 75 percent of
it comes from off campus. Most bikes
stolen end up downtown.”
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taken to UNC Hospitals via heli
copter.
The other three red-tag victims were
transported to the hospital by ambu
lance.
During the demonstration, Chapel
Hill fire fighters arrived at Camp New
Hope on one truck and identified a safe
helicopter landing area.
Although the event was open to the
public, Bosworth
said only agency
members attend
ed.
“No one was
excluded, but the
number of people
you have driving
by Camp New
Hope at six o’clock
in the morning is
pretty slim,”
Bosworth said.
The entire drill took just under two
hours, and, overall, officials said the
event was successful.
McKenzie said, “This will help us in
the future because most of the para
medics have never responded to an
incident with more than four or five
people.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Stress Costume Creativity
By Jenny Huang
Staff Writer
UNC freshman Colin Anderson says
he will be decked out in full Scottish
attire Wednesday, complete with a
wrap-around kilt, to celebrate
Halloween and to pay homage to his
family’s homeland.
“My family is originally from
Scotland, so I’m going to be William
Wallace,” Anderson said. “I’m just going
to have a full wrap-around kilt, blue face
paint and maybe a baseball bat wrapped
with cloth for a weapon.”
While Anderson already has planned
the details of his costume all the way
down to his underwear - or, in his case,
lack thereof - many students say they
are still deciding on their costumes.
But local costume stores say they
have a variety of options for last-minute
Halloween shoppers.
“Our store is basically divided up into
different zones of costumes,” said
Darren Skeen, manager of Halloween
Zone at Eastgate Shopping Center.
“We have your classic zone with the
priests, pirates, etc., a fight zone with
A report recently released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation listed the total incidents of reported crime on college campuses in the state. Duke
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Group to Advise Organizations
By Brad Chiasson
Staff Writer
Anew student organization is
attempting to reach out and aid other
campus groups.
Students with the Carolina
Consulting Solutions, anew campus
organization that strives to financially
advise student groups and help them
run more efficiendy, say the group is still
in its initial stages.
Justin Cunningham, the president
and founder of CCS, said the group’s
main goal is to provide student groups
with consulting services free of charge.
It will most likely begin administering
financial advice next semester.
“We plan to provide a service to stu
dent groups by helping them think
through business issues and provide
solutions to the problems they have,”
Cunningham said.
The main target group of the organi
zation is primarily student groups, but
Cunningham said the CCS plans to
expand and include local nonprofit
organizations in the near future.
He said the CCS will split organiza
tions into two groups.
One group will be concerned with
start-up organizations, and the other will
be for existing ones.
The CCS has began informal talks
with several student groups on campus,
Cunningham said, and every organiza
tion has expressed interest in the com
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Hollywood zone and then a makeup
zone where you can accessorize.”
Annie Jackson, co-owner of Time
After Time vintage thrift shop, said spe
cialty shops like Time After Time allow
student shoppers to be imaginative in
picking their costumes.
“You can really be unique here,”
Jackson said. “We offer everything you
need - the right gloves, the right pants,
the right dress, the right makeup - it’s
like putting together your own cos
tume.”
Students also say creativity and indi
viduality are the key ingredients of a
memorable Halloween costume.
“Creativity is important," said senior
Michelle Allen. “You have to be some
thing that no one else would think of.”
Senior Kathryn White said she and
four of her friends are planning to dress
as the Backstreet Boys.
“We’re just capitalizing on pop cul
ture,” White said.
“We’re going to have really stylish
clothing, headsets and even a screaming
fan to follow us around.”
Butjackson said that despite a trend
mittee.
The group hopes to recruit students
from the Kenan-Flagler Business School
to act as consulters next semester.
Cunningham said the committee also
will attempt to enlist business school
professors to act as trainers for the con
sulters.
The committee hopes to get practic
ing consultants from the business world
to teach members of the committee real
life professional tactics.
“We are trying to mimic a real con
sulting firm and recreate the experience
on campus,” Cunningham said.
Daniel Johnson, a co-founder of the
CCS, said several efforts have been
made in order to recruit students. He
said fliers have been posted at the busi
ness school as well as e-mails sent to cer
tain group listservs.
“We want to take on some clients and
work the kinks out of our system,”
Johnson said.
Cunningham also said seven execu
tive positions are still open.
Applications are available on the
group’s Web site at
http://www.unc.edu/ccs and are due
Monday by midnight.
One of the main jobs of an executive
is to train future recruits of the CCS,
Cunningham said.
He said another goal of the executive
committee is to work on problems pre
sented by clients on a case-by-base
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toward creativity in costumes, she has
noticed common themes among
Halloween shoppers.
“People are getting more specific and
detailed with their costumes now,”
Jackson said. “People used to want to be
fairies and witches, but now someone
wants to be Glenda the Good Witch. It’s
basically a costume with a twist”
She also noted that several specific
costumes have become popular among
college students.
“We still have your usual witch,
down or devil, but die ’7os look, cross
dressing and the ‘pimp’ look are all real
ly ‘in’ right now,” Jackson said.
Whether their costumes are tradi
tional or unique, some students say
Halloween is an opportunity to express
their creativity and become a different
person for one night.
“(Halloween) gives you a break from
being what you normally are,” said
freshman Logan Davis. “You can be
something completely different and out
of the ordinary.”
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Cunningham said another goal of the
group is for student organizations to be
able to submit requests for assistance
through the Web site.
“Our goal is to strive to have other
groups succeed,” Cunningham said.
John Curtis, the faculty adviser for
the CCS, said he thinks it will be a pos
itive addition to UNC.
“It sounded like something worth
while," he said.
“I happen to strongly adhere to stu
dents learning from students. It’s a great
manifestation of it.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
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