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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2004
“People will take such an insignificant
item that it makes you wonder why they
wouldn’t just pay thefive dollars for it in
the first place. ” deborah miller, a southern season
Police provide
training to stop
local shoplifting
BY SPENCER GIPPLE
STAFF WRITER
With Black Friday approach
ing, the Chapel Hill Police
Department is trying to advertise
its training and shoplifting pre
vention program for local busi
nesses.
Lt. Chris Blue of the com
munity services division of the
department said he encourages
any business concerned with shop
lifting to set up an appointment
for a Shoplifting Awareness and
Prevention TYaining session.
“It’s certainly a time of year that
businesses have more traffic,” he
said.
“It’s important to remind
employees to keep their eyes open
and know that any business is vul
nerable.”
Blue said the program alerts
business owners and employees
to potential shoplifting techniques
and ways to prevent them.
“I think good customer service is
the best deterrent of all,” he said.
If employees greet customers
and talk to everyone who comes
into a store, potential shoplifters
will be less likely to try to steal
because of a fear of being identi
fied later, Blue said.
Deborah Miller, director of mar
keting and communications for A
Southern Season, is familiar with
that technique.
She said store employees go
through the training session each
year before the holiday season and
already have done so this year.
“We have lots of new seasonal
employees every year, and we want
them to know what to look for,”
Miller said.
She added that she thinks most
retail stores see an increase in
shoplifting around the holidays,
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and she pointed out that people
will steal anything.
“It’s weird,” she said. “People
will take such an insignificant item
that it makes you wonder why they
wouldn’t just pay the five dollars
for it in the first place.”
Miller stressed that the store
prosecutes shoplifters to the ftdl
est extent of the law.
Autumn Spencer, manager at
Time After Time Vintage Thrift
Shop at 414 W. Franklin St.,
said her store is not particularly
concerned with the threat of an
increased number of shoplifters.
“I think we have it under con
trol,” she said.
“Generally, we just keep an eye
on the store and watch the dress
ing rooms. If it gets really crowded,
we’ll make people leave their bags
at the door.”
She added that the store deals
with about the same number of
shoplifters regardless of the time
of year.
Chapel HOI police spokeswom
an Jane Cousins said that last year
there were 151 reported shoplifting
cases in the city.
Of those, she said, 14 reports
were made in November and 19
were made in December.
“I think it’s a pretty unreported
crime,” she said. “It’s one of those
things where after the season,
shop owners will look at what
they did and didn’t sell and say
‘oops.’”
To set up a shoplifting aware
ness training appointment, con
tact officer Danny Lloyd or Lt.
Chris Blue at the CHPD’s com
munity services division at 932-
2929.
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UNC plans for steady growth
Expansion key to
other UNC schools
BY JAVAERIA QURESHI
STAFF WRITER
As the UNC system calls for the
N.C. General Assembly to guaran
tee annual funding for enrollment
growth, University officials are
considering plans for expanding
the student body.
“UNC-Chapel Hill is on a slow
but steady growth path at the
undergraduate, graduate and pro
fessional level,” said Jerry Lucido,
vice provost for enrollment man
agement and director of admis
sions.
The Office of the Executive Vice
Chancellor and Provost has pro
jected that there will be a total of
468 more undergraduate students
on campus two years from now.
UNC-CH will enroll 16,652
undergraduates in fall 2005,127
more than it has now. In fall 2006,
officials expect to educate 16,933
undergraduates.
The numbers represent UNC
CH’s plans for a steady increase in
growth.
The University lacks excess
capacity for the new students,
unlike other system schools, which
are focused on rapid-growth paths,
said Steve Farmer, director of
undergraduate admissions.
“There are other schools in the
university system that are planing
for a much more rapid growth,” he
said.
Officials craft shelter’s policies
Begin review of operations manual
BY TED STRONG
STAFF WRITER
At a meeting Tuesday night,
county officials indicated a will
ingness to ignore a state statute
in order to ensure that what they
said is a sensible policy on when
to euthanize animals in the coun
ty’s shelter.
The Orange County Animal
Shelter Operations Task Force
met to begin reviewing the inter
im operations manual for the
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And unlike those schools, the
University isn’t dedicated to tak
ing such a track.
“I think the number of students
that we prepare with bachelor’s
degrees, master’s degrees, Ph.D.s
and professional degrees is one
of the ways to meet our mission,”
Lucido said. “It’s certainly not the
only.”
The combination of statewide
enrollment pressures, a lack of
state funding and a campus already
at its physical capacity requires that
UNC’s enrollment increases only
modestly and that it maintains and
enhances academic quality.
“We continue to grow as long as
we can maintain the kind of quality
and character that students have
come to expect from us,” Lucido
said.
“We should only grow as much
good strong quality education
allows. We should do good what
we do.”
The University’s Academic Plan
states that expansion should occur
only as adequate infrastructure,
faculty, staff and funding become
available.
“When we enroll the few new
students each year, we do after
making room for them,” Farmer
said.
One way campus administra
tors are trying to address the
space crunch is the University’s
widespread construction of build
ings including classrooms, the
Ramshead Center, the Sonja Hanes
Stone Center for Black Culture
and History and housing on South
Orange County Animal Shelter,
which the county took over from
the Animal Protection Society
last summer after allegations of
mismanagement.
The county is in the process of
consolidating animal shelter and
animal control services into one
county department or bureau.
County Commissioner Moses
Carey Jr. emphasized Tuesday
that the operations manual need
ed to be amended quickly and
that the policies would evolve
from there.
“We’re going to learn as we
go; we’re not going to be perfect
from day one. We’re not going
to be perfect in year one,” Carey
said.
Joe Pulcinella, the shelter’s
director, outlined some of the
features that had been added to
the shelter’s standard operating
procedures.
Judgements that used to be
made by staff now will be made by
management, and an extra series
of checks was added before an ani
mal is allowed to be euthanized.
The meeting also addressed
policies task force members
County hears noise concerns
Residents offer
varying opinions
BYARLEYWOLBER
STAFF WRITER
Orange County residents had
a chance to sound off about the
county’s noise ordinance at a public
hearing Monday.
Members of the Orange County
Board of Commissioners fielded
questions, listened to public mur
muring and heard official sugges
tions for amendments to the ordi
nance.
County Planning Director Craig
Benedict, who said clarifying the
20-year-old ordinance would be
helpful, noted that it has been
changed in the past.
The biggest change Benedict
proposed involved shifting the start
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Junior Ashley Kennedy leads a tour of prospective students. Officials project
that UNC will have 127 more undergraduates in fall 2005 than it has now.
Campus.
“The number of students won’t
have near the influence which our
preparations to serve them will,”
Lucido said.
Officials said that despite the
accommodative changes, the
University is committed to retain
ing the true essence that defines
UNC the quiet of a peaceful col
lege town, the beauty of the green
spaces.
“It’s important that as we grow
modestly, we do not grow in such a
way to lose what we treasure about
Carolina,” Farmer said.
Doug Shackelford, senior asso
ciate dean for academic affairs
wanted to alter.
Those policies included crite
ria for dealing with aggressive
animals, the way that statistics
for shelter operations are report
ed at the end of each month and
the length of time animals are
kept in the shelter.
Discussion about length of stay
generated the most controversy.
Pat Sanford, a former director
of the shelter, and Elliot Cramer,
a vocal critic of APS’ management
of the shelter, said there needs to
be a set duration after which an
animal would be euthanized.
They said a state statute set to
go into effect Jan. 1 states that
animals may not be sheltered
for more than 30 days without
socialization with their own spe
cies something not possible in
the current shelter building.
They also said the Humane
Society of the United States advised
limiting length of stay in an opinion
that the county solicited.
County officials took a differ
ent stance.
Pulcinella said he called coun
ty shelters in the area and found
no fixed policy on length of stay.
He said a decision on how
long an animal stays in a shel
ter is complex and should be
time for the lowered nighttime noise
hmit of 50 decibels from 11 p.m. to
7 p.m.
Benedict also suggested reduc
ing the nighttime noise limit to
45 decibels and changing the 60
decibel daytime limit to 50 deci
bels. *
The county should provide bet
ter definitions of what violations
of the ordinance are, Benedict
said, suggesting that the county
add a section to the ordinance
explaining what nuisance noise
is.
Commissioner Barry Jacobs
agreed that the definitions needed
some work.
He asked if it would make sense
to have a more generic definition
regarding noise violations.
The first resident to voice con
cern at the meeting was James
Singleton, who lives near the inter
section of Lawrence Road and U.S.
Highway 70.
He has been fighting truck noise
on Lawrence Road for five years, a
battle he said has produced little
success.
Singleton remarked that he
would have gotten more help from
Spongeßob Square Pants than he
has gotten from the state.
“I’m asking for a real response
from the county that I’ve been
paying taxes to for 20 years,” he
said.
But commissioner Moses Carey
Jr. pointed out that the commis
sioners do not have the authority
to ban trucks from roads.
While most residents who spoke
at the meeting focused on noise
problems created by other people,
Steve Chambers, who lives on
White Cross Road, was more wor
ried about his own right to make
noise.
Chambers and his family race
(Ttye Sattg (Ear HM
in the Kenan-Flagler Business
School, said enrollment increases
at his school would bring in more
brilliant students.
He said there were a large num
bers of qualified business school
applicants who were turned away
because of the constraints.
“We would like to expand, but
it is a little more complicated than
that,” Shackelford said.
“For one thing, we have a space
problem. The second thing is for
faculty and staff to take more stu
dents.”
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based on a variety of factors, like
an animal’s temperament and
adoptability and the amount of
available shelter space.
County officials said the coun
ty was in no way bound by the
report from HSUS and should
customize the report to fit its
specific needs.
“It was never the intent of the
HSUS to just take that and plop
it down on Orange County,” said
Gwen Harvey, assistant county
manager.
Carey also emphasized that
the county has a history of doing
what it thinks is appropriate,
sometimes surpassing state law,
sometimes doing other than it
dictates.
“They’re not going to come
out here and haul anybody away
if a few animals stay in a shelter
more than 30 days,” Carey said.
“We’re going to do what we
think is in the best interest of
our citizens and our animals in
Orange County.”
But Cramer disagreed with
this idea. “I was appalled. I was
appalled to hear it said that the
county may ignore state law.”
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“A lot of people
move to the country
because they can
make noise ”
STEVE CHAMBERS,
ORANGE COUNTY RESIDENT
motorcycles in their spare time.
He said he is worried that the
noise ordinance will not make pro
visions for those who make noise
during their free time.
“A lot of people move to the
country because they can make
noise,” Chambers said.
Orange County Sheriff Lindy
Pendergrass, whose office is in
charge of enforcing the noise
ordinance, informed the commis
sioners that the county has not
had many problems with noise
complaints.
Jacobs told the residents who
attended the hearing that they
will be notified about the newest
permutation of the noise ordi
nance as soon as information is
made available.
No changes have yet been made
to the ordinance, and the county
has not set a date for further dis
cussing potential amendments.
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