VOLUME 115, ISSUE 84
Campus security report released
Liquor law arrests increased in 2006
BY MATTHEW PRICE
STAFF WRITER
The University’s annual securi
ty report was released Monday by
the Department of Public Safety,
showing an increase in some
campus assaults and liquor law
arrests.
The report details criminal
activities committed on campus
and in residence halls in 2006. It
also includes statistics from previ
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A row of cars, parked near the Colonial Village at Highland Hills apartment building in Carrboro, which
burned down early Sunday, had headlights, hoods.and front bumpers melted by the heat of the fire.
Leaders begin
tuition talks
Discuss 2008-09
campus priorities
BY WHITNEY KISLING
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
UNC’s tuition and fee advisory
task force members got this year’s
tuition talks off to as much of a
start as they could at their first
meeting Monday.
Without tuition increase caps
in place or details of what will be
considered part of the University’s
operating budget, the task force
could only preliminarily discuss
next year’s tuition costs.
"We’re going to need to start our
discussion without knowing,” said
Provost Bernadette Gray-Little,
who serves as co-chairwoman of
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Sir Mark Malloch Brown, a
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Gordon Brown's Cabinet delivers
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ous years for comparison.
The report shows an almost 21
percent increase in the number of
liquor law arrests on campus from
2005 to 2006.
It also indicates a 220 percent
increase in the number of aggra
vated assaults on campus, up from
five in 2005 to 16 in 2006.
DPS spokesman Randy Young
said most of the assault reports
resulted from an incident in March
The increase process
1. The tuition and fee advisory
task force determines the
priorities and model for
increasing tuition.
2. The task force votes to
recommend tuition increases to
Chancellor James Moeser.
3. Recommended increases go
before the Board of Trustees’
audit and finance committee
meeting, then the full board.
4. Trustees will either support
the recommendations or deter- *. .
mine their own.
5. Those recommendations will
go to the UNC-system Board of
Governors for final approval.
6. Increases are implemented in
the 2008-09 academic year.
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DEVELOPMENT PULLED
A proposed shopping center
for Jones Ferry Road that
would have included a Harris
Teeter is scrapped after a
dispute over an entryway.
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2006, when a UNC alumnus drove
through the Pit, striking nine peo
ple with a sport utility vehicle.
But Young said the numbers in
the report are not representative
of the number of crimes within
the DPS jurisdiction, as it includes
Granville Towers, fraternity housing
and University properties in Chapel
Hill as “on-campus” locations.
Those locations are in the juris
diction of several law enforcement
organizations.
“For instance, the report lists
11 forcible sex offenses,” Young
Shooting investigation ongoing
BY TED STRONG
SENIOR WRITER
The management of a Chapel Hill dub is hop
ing it can remain open after a man wounded six
people with a handgun early Monday before
melting into the crowd and escaping.
“We’re not going to tolerate this kind of
behavior, and establishments that encourage
or permit it are not welcome,” Mayor Kevin
Foy said. “I don’t know whether they did or
not, but we’ll find out.”
The management of Visions Night Club,
located at 136 E. Rosemary St., moved quickly
to distance itself from the violence, saying it
was an aberration on an otherwise dean record.
Town response will depend on an ongoing police
investigation, Foy said.
"When there’s a shooting, it sends up a real
strong alarm,” he said.
Russell Doulla, who was on the scene and
who manages sister establishment the White
Bar, said the shooting was sparked when dub
security tried to expd two fighting men.
“As we were moving the guys outside, one of
them apparently pulled a gun,” he said. “It just
went off like that.”
Police haven’t identified a definite suspect,
and Chapel Hill police Capt Bob Overton said
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said. “Only two
of those were
reported to
DPS.”
Many types
of crime report
ed on campus
in 2005 were
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reported less frequently in 2006.
The number of burglaries
filed from breaking and entering
decreased from 41 to 29, and motor
vehicle thefts on campus decreased
from four to two.
Larceny remains the most prev-
STUDENTS
STABLE AFTER
DEADLY FIRE
2 from UNC treated for leg injuries
BY ANDREW DUNN
SENIOR WRITER
The two women injured in a
fire that consumed a Colonial
Village at Highland Hills apart
ment building are UNC students,
and both are listed in fair condi
tion, UNC Hospitals officials said
Monday afternoon.
A woman, age 55, was killed in
the blaze, Carrboro Fire-Rescue
Department Chief TVavis Crabtree
confirmed. Her name is not being
released until the family is noti
fied and an autopsy performed.
Kristin Elizabeth Pietrowicz,
a special undergraduate in
the School of Education, and
Suzanne Robbins Thorne, a
second-year Master of Business
Administration student, were
taken to UNC Hospitals after
jumping from a second-floor bal
cony to escape the flames.
One broke her leg in the fall,
and the other suffered a broken
leg and spinal injuries.
Twenty residents also were
displaced. They are now residing
in previously vacant apartments
on the premises.
The local Red Cross chapter is
accepting cash donations, and the
apartment complex is accepting
clothes, food and essential items.
The Highland Hills apartment
complex does not have sprinklers.
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Police escort a woman under the caution tape at Visions Night Club early Monday. No sus
pects have been named in the shooting, which occurred at the club about 1:10 a.m.
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SUSTAINABILITY MONTH
Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy
declares Sustainability Month,
as several environmentally
friendly developments and
initiatives come to the forefront.
alent crime reported to DPS.
“We target larceny by having bet
ter partnership with the University
community,” Young said. “It’s a
crime of opportunity.”
The report also touts successes
in improving pedestrian safety.
The' Traffic and Pedestrian
Safety Unit issued 23 citations to
student and staff pedestrians. The
unit cited more than 187 campus
drivers for speeding.
The report also gives tips about
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According to Carrboro fire
code, buildings that are used as
multifamily residences must have
those fire prevention devices.
But because the Highland Hills
buildings were built before amend
ments to the code were added, they
did not have to comply.
State laws for University prop
erties are similar to Carrboro’s
fire code. Sprinklers are required
with new construction.
About 15 of the University’s
33 traditional residence halls
including the Hinton James,
Craige and Ehringhaus buildings
do not have sprinkler systems.
All Greek houses and apart
ment complexes within Chapel
Hill town limits had to be retro
fitted with sprinklers by 2001.
The Chapel Hill Town Council
sought out and gained from
the N.C. General Assembly the
authority to require those mea
sures after a 1996 fraternity house
fire killed five UNC students.
“I’m glad they are required,”
said senior Krista Pool, who lives
at Chapel Ridge Apartments. “We
definitely thought about it.”
But the laws don’t apply to
houses or University buildings.
Senior Lauren Beasley, who
lives in a house off campus, said
the incident made her aware that
she has no fire emergency plan.
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By the numbers...
Aggravated assault:
Increased by 11 from 2005 (this
includes all reported assaults from
the March 2006 Pit incident).
Campus liquor law
arrests: Increased by almost
21 percent from 2005.
Burglary: Incidents decreased
Drug-related arrests:
Decreased by 8.
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“I probably should develop one
of those,” she said.
Beasley also said apartment
complexes should make more of
an effort to put sprinklers into
old buildings.
“I think everyone should have
the same standard, especially
when it comes to safety.”
But junior Phil Wein, who
lives in Horton Residence Hall,
said fire precautions have gone
too far on campus.
“I’ve heard so many fire alarms
that were fake,” he said. “I take
my time.”
Assistant City Editor
Catarina Saraiva contributed
reporting.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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