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Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Tip Helps Catch
IINC-G Prostitutes
By Jennifer Hag in
Assistant State & National Editor
UNC-Greensboro police arrested
two students and charged them with
prostitution Friday after receiving an
anonymous Crime Stoppers tip.
Anthony Harvath, 20, was arrested in
Ragsdale Hall on the UNC-G campus
and charged with one misdemeanor
count each of crime against nature, pros
titution and procuring for prostitution,
according to police reports. Harvath is a
resident of Phillips Hall on the campus.
Christy Thigpen, 19, was arrested at
Spencer Station on the UNC-G campus
and charged with one misdemeanor
count each of prostitution, maintaining
a place of prostitution and procuring for
prostitution, reports state.
The alleged acts occurred in
Thigpen’s room in Ragsdale, reports
state.
UNC-G Police Lt. Paul Lester said
Harvath and Thigpen made their pros
titution arrangements on the Internet.
Campus Calendar
Thursday
5 p.m. - The Philosophy Club will
discuss an article by David Lewis that
is titled “The Paradoxes of Time
Travel."
It will take place in the Common
Room of Caldwell Hall.
5:30 p.m. - The Carolina Athletic
Association will hold an information
forum in 431 Greenlaw Hall.
Students can ask questions or com
ment on ticket distribution and
Homecoming week.
5:30 p.m. - The Institute for the
Arts and Humanities, in collaboration
with the Center for Health Ethics and
Policy, will hold a briefing on the new
University-wide Ethics Program.
The briefing is scheduled to take
place in the auditorium of School of
Social Work.
8 p.m. - The National Society of
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“They had encountered some people
on AOL in a chat room and set up a
meeting,” he said.
Lester said police began an investiga
tion about three weeks ago in response
to the Crime Stoppers tip, which he
thinks was made by an off-campus
source.
He said the students have been
removed from their residence halls and
face campus disciplinary procedure.
They are scheduled to appear in
court Nov. 21, reports state.
Lester said students living in
Thigpen’s residence hall were not aware
of the alleged prostitution.
Lester also said he does not think this
was a recurring action by Harvath and
Thigpen or by UNC-G students in gen
eral.
“(The prostitution) is not only an iso
lated incident here at the university but
for them as well.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Black Engineers will hold “Spoken
Word/Poetry Vibe Nite.”
It will take place in the Union
Cabaret.
Cost is $7 but is only $5 with a book
donation geared toward 13- to 17-year
olds.
For The Record
In the Oct. 29 elections page titled
"Local Candidates to Face Off,” Chapel
Hill Town Council candidate Larry
Daquioag’s name was misspelled.
The Oct. 29 article “Endowed Posts
Draw Professors” incorrectly stated
that there are 700 faculty members at
UNC.There are 700 faculty members in
the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Oct. 30 article “Explanations
Abound for High Crime Rates in the
South” incorrectly stated that if the
murder rate holds, it would mean a 700
percent drop. The drop would be 87.5
percent.
The Oct. 30 graphic “Not a Lot of
Parking" incorrectly cited several park
ing lots as parking lots for on-campus
students. Lots N4, S4, CD and N5 are
student and employee lots and there
fore might not be eliminated, and N7 is
an employee lot.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors.
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After a chilly weekend, sophomore Jacalyn Barnes enjoys a warm Tuesday afternoon by grabbing some cotton candy in the Pit. Barnes,
an international studies and political science major, succeeds in getting as much candy on herself as she does on her stick.
The cotton candy machine was for a fund-raiser sponsored by cONcEpts (of color) in the Pit on Tuesday afternoon.
Construction Error Blocks Residence Hall Heat
By Lizzie Breyer
University Editor
Students waking up on North
Campus were greeted with cold showers
Tuesday after a construction error
knocked out hot water and heat to many
residence hall rooms.
Richard Marks, area director for the
Olde Campus Upper Quad, sent an e
mail to all students living in his area
Tuesday afternoon telling them about
the situation, which is related to North
Campus construction.
Crews are working along Raleigh
Street to replace the steam line that pro
vides hot water to many North Campus
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residence halls. “A lot of this is due to
the construction on North Campus,”
Marks said. “It’s not anything intention
al; it’s just due to the construction.”
Marks said he wasn’t sure of the exact
nature of the construction error. But he
said workers were trying to restore hot
water and heat as quickly as possible.
“We’re just asking the residents to bear
with us and be patient,” Marks said.
He said the error was not limited to
the residence halls immediately sur
rounding the construction. “The whole
northern region was affected,” he said.
“It wasn’t just the upper quad.”
Rebecca Casey, assistant director of
housing and residential education, said
she was unaware of the lack of heat and
hot water as of 4 p.m Tuesday.
Casey said she would gather infor
mation and address student concerns
once she became aware of the situation.
Anna Carlton, a sophomore who
lives in Ruffin Residence Hall, said she
was distressed about the lack of heat in
her room. “My room has no heat, and I
refuse to sleep there,” she said. “It’s cold,
and my roommate is whining.”
Freshman Matt Zachek, a resident of
Mangum Residence Hall, said he was
particularly upset the error was a result
of the construction, which he said
already is inconvenient.
“I got in the shower, and normally it
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heats up pretty fast, but it was freezing -
I jumped in, felt it and jumped right
back out,” Zachek said. “I got the e-mail
about how they made a mistake, and it
kind of pissed me off.”
Marks said he hopes this kind of
problem will not occur again but he said
the only solution is to keep students
aware and ask them to be patient.
“We don’t know what will happen in
the future,” he said. “We didn’t expect to
have this problem now.
“We can try to prepare the students
by letting them know.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.