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local gang activity
BY DIONI L. WISE
STAFF WRITER
“I’m a Southside crip with a c life
of a tray.”
That confession of gang mem
bership recently was written by a C.
W. Stanford Middle School student
on a test paper.
Residents learned about that
and other gang-related codes and
activity in the community at the
East Chapel Hill High School audi
torium Sunday afternoon.
“If we don’t get behind this
problem as a community, as police
enforcement, this problem will
increase,” Chapel Hill police officer
Mitch McKinney said.
McKinney, the town’s gang intel
ligence officer, provided history of
well-known gangs and outlined
ways to deter gang-related activity.
He said eight police-identified,
hybrid gangs reside in Chapel Hill.
A hybrid gang, according to
McKinney’s definition, is a gang that
loosely follows a traditional structure
hut incorporates ideology and man
nerisms unique to that gang.
McKinney said gangs are being
formed by local residents, while some
older gangs, from Orange and the
surrounding counties, are recruiting
from within the community.
Linda Carver, of Carrboro, was
one of more than 20 people who sat
in the 562-capacity auditorium.
“I’m just really concerned
because I have grandchildren, and
I’m concerned about what’s around
in iiiy neighborhood,” she said.
Carver said that she has seen sev
eral graffiti tags around Carrboro
but that at the time it didn’t cause
her alarm.
"I didn’t know it was gang-relat
ed activity,” Carver said.
McKinney said that residents
should educate themselves on
gang hand signals and graffiti tags
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Chapel Hill Police Officer Mitch McKinney discusses local gang activity
against the backdrop of a fictional gang of Sesame Street characters.
by surfing the Internet and that
parents should be involved in their
children’s lives and notice extreme,
gang-like behavior.
He also advised audience mem
bers to call the police department
about graffiti and other gang-relat
ed activity in their neighborhoods.
“Don’t just look at it and just
say, ‘Well, I don’t want to get
involved,’” McKinney said. “We
have a responsibility as a commu
nity to all do our part to try to get
ahead of this issue.”
Jerry Whortan, executive direc
tor of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
YMCA, which co-sponsored the
presentation, said his organization
is committed to serving children at
risk for joining gangs.
The YMCA hosts “Middle School
Madness” to allow local teens to
play sports and dance to music in
a safe area for a $5 entrance fee.
“These children are dying for
something to do,” he said.
Miguel Figueroa, a member of
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Sunrise Rotary
Club, said the presentation made
him realize there is a problem that
the community needs to solve.
“I really believe that if we all
provide our grain of salt, we could
... improve this outlook.”
Whortan agreed with Figueroa.
“The problem is either solved or
lost by the involvement of the com
munity.
“This is too good a community
for issues like this not to be solved.”
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Libraries to examine
digitizing documents
BY BLAIR BYRUM
STAFF WRITER
Librarians and curators have
just received anew tool to keep
history up to date.
Judith Panitch, director
of library communications,
announced last Thursday that
the University library has been
awarded a $216,000 grant
from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
The grant, which will be dis
tributed over two years, will
investigate ways to perform large
scale digitization of manuscript
collections.
Laura Brown, an associate
librarian in the manuscripts
department, will become direc
tor of the project, said Tim
West, director of the Southern
Historical Collection.
West said archival collections
contain items such as maps that
are challenging to digitize because
of their shape and fragility.
“There’s always going to be
quite a bit of custom work that
goes into it,” he said, adding that
finding equipment capable of such
varied digitization is one aim of
the grant.
Richard Szary, director of the
Wilson Library, said another goal
is to determine which materials
are most needed in an online for
mat.
The library system is holding
an invitational conference in April
2008 to collect ideas from librar
ians, technologists and curators
about how the grant money can be
used most effectively.
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2007
West said the size and impor
tance of the UNC libraries’ col
lections made the University an
ideal place to conduct digitization
research.
“Scholars don’t have any place
else to look for this material but
here,” he said.
Szary said the University
already puts vast resources into its
collections of historical documents
many of which are contained in
Wilson Library.
“I think we have to find ways
of making them easier to use
whether it’s in the digital format
or whether it’s in the original for
mat,” he said.
“We’re in that process now of
thinking very carefully about how
to make the collections in Wilson
a lot more usable and a lot more
visible.”
Sarah Michalak, associate
provost for University libraries,
said she wants students to view
Wilson as more than a vault for
rare valuables.
“We want to do things in Wilson
Library to make it clear that people
are welcome,” she said, adding that
digitization is one way to accom
plish that.
She cited the library’s collec
tion of historical letters as an
example.
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ates, the letters date from 1795 to
the beginning of the Civil War.
They are echoes, she said, of
what students today might write
home about complaints about
the living conditions, the aca
demic workload and problems
with girls.
Librarians recently have made
those letters available online at
docsouth.unc.edu.
“When we digitize something
that’s antique, it doesn’t mean we
get less use of the library, it usu
ally means we get more use of the
library,” Michalak said.
She said the University library
system already has started to con
vert many books to an electronic
medium.
“One of our overall goals is to
acquire as much academic, high
quality electronic information for
our users that we possibly can,”
Michalak said.
“Everybody wants things to be
electronic. It’s just easier.”
Michalak said the library con
tinually strives to modernize and
improve.
“We tend to be influenced by
the past,” she said. “We’re going
to try to change our services a
little bit.”
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
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