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f- 2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, August 28, 1 992 1 I Schools combat weapons with backpack restrictions ,.- By Jason Richardson , Assistant Sutc and National Editor The rising crime rate in N.C. schools ' has prompted three state high schools to ' implement new rules concerning back ' packs. An entourage of guns, knives and '" other weapons, paired with an increase '" of student theft, encouraged school of '" ficials to regulate the kind or presence of book bags and backpacks. Northeast High School, located in , Guilford County, banned the use of backpacks or book bags on campus entirely, while Eastern Guilford High requires students to use clear or mesh book bags on school grounds. Durham Hillside High School re quires students to keep book bags in their lockers. The rules are aimed at stopping crime on campus. T"ln mith nrinrinnl rf pnctrn fTnilfnrH CfliH thnt th rfoillatinnc rnm theft last year. Air Jordans stolen, and theft in general was on the rise." she said. Rumors circulated about weapons being present on school grounds, and nm MEGS TTiK 3 Most communications from the Registrar & other campus offices comes to you via the U.S. Mail. For this reason and FOR YOUR BENEFIT, PLEASE KEEP THE REGISTRAR (address input office) UPDATED before, during, and after each term regarding changes to your Local, GradeBilling,or Parent Address. Fall Semester Submit changes to the University Registrars Office, 1 0S Hanes Hall, Campus Box 2 1 00, UNC-CH, 27S99. Service Hours: 8 am-4 pm, Monday-Friday. Closed Thursdays 9-1 1 am. Thank You for helping us serve you better! book bags blocked classroom aisles, Smith said. Most students had leather book bags, which can conceal stolen or illegal items, she said. Countywide policy states that ad ministrators must have probable cause to search students' book bags, so gain ing access to the bags was problematic, Smith said. "There was no reasonable course to search all of the kids," she said. The Eastern Guilford school hand book states that only book bags or back packs of see-through or mesh material will be used at school, Smith said. The school sells the see-through and mesh book bags to the students at cost, she said. The bag policy was instituted on the grounds that students would not be in clined to steal if they could not easily conceal stolen items. Smith said. Smith said the program had been very successful in reducing the rate of thefts at the school. "A lot of the kids are just not carrying bags," she said. "The rest are pretty much getting used to it." Henry Alston, principal at Northeast High School, said his school did not allow any book bags. The ban on book bags began in re sponse to an increasing number of guns IIWiESTEll? changes due by September 2nd and knifes on campus, Alston said. The policy has been successful in eliminat ing a large percentage of the guns, he said. "There were complaints when it was first implemented," Alston said, "but now everything is business as usual." Richard Hicks, principal at Durham Hillside High, said his school allowed students to bring book bags to school but required them to keep the bags in their lockers during the school day. "The policy is designed to prevent any con traband from getting on campus," Hicks said. The school also has taken other secu rity measures, such as hiring a uni formed liaison officer to "be a buffer between the school and the violence someone might want to bring onto cam pus," Hicks said. "The staff is also cognizant that they must be alert at all times and that they must always be in a supervisory mood," he said. Hillside also has regularlockerchecks and does not allow students to use their own locks, Hicks said. "That makes us able to go into their lockers without permission." Campus Calendar UPCOMING The Office of General Education and Honors will hold a general information meeting about the Rhodes. Churchill and Marshall scholarship programs at 4:30 p.m. Monday in 431 Greenlaw. UNC Crew will hold its first meeting for returning members at 7 p.m. Monday in 106 Fetzer. People interested in joining the team may attend a meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday in 1 09 Fetzer. For more information, call 962-1013. The Society for Creative Anachronism will meet Monday in 226 Union. Time TBA. The Yackety Yack will hold an interest meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Suite 106 of the Union. Christine Weidinger, soprano, performs arias by Handel, Mozart. Schumann and Barber at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Hill Hall auditorium. General admis sion is $ 1 5; seniors $12 and students $3. All proceeds will benefit the music scholarship fund. The Black Ink will hold an interest meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday in 210 Union. Student Environmental Action Coalition will have its first general meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in 100 Hamilton. Carolina Cheerleading tryouts begin at 6 p.m. Sept. 9 in the Fetzer gymnastics room. Tryouts are open to all men and women. Show up dressed to practice. ITEMS OF INTEREST Rename-the-CGLA contest entries may be mailed to the CGLA at Box 39 Carolina Union or placed in 216B Union. The winner will be chosen at the Sept. 8 meeting. The UNC Vegetarian Club presents a free veg etarian dinner from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. every Wednesday in McCorkle Place. Andy's economic effect gauged The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. Hurricane Andrew's devastation at first will mean an economic boom to hard-hit areas then bust, predict those who studied Hugo's aftermath in South Carolina almost three years ago. "Florida is going to take this big, big surge," said Douglas Woodward, a research economist at the Univer sity of South Carolina. , "And,iftheyarcnotcareful,theyn say the economy is great, business is booming. Then all of the sudden ev erything will drop off ,"he said Thurs day. Hurricane An drew blasted through Florida and Louisiana this week, leav Visitation p1 STOW Area Director Kristen Davis, who served on the subcommittee that drafted the proposal, disagreed. She said she did not want to see the present rule changed. "By having the (present) rule, some people are going to abide by it, but if there is no rule, no one will abide by it," she said. "I would support the rule that ' s in place, but I do think we should look at it and see if it's the best policy." Thompson said many students thought the present visitation rule was too restrictive. SAT dent prepare for the SAT, Dornan said. Despite the 11 -point jump for the state average, North Carolina still ranked 48th in the nation for total SAT score. In 1 99 1 , North Carolina tied with Georgia for the 48th slot. Dornan said that school systems should not be held solely responsible for the low rankings. Low levels of education among children's parents and widespread poverty have affected N.C. scores for years, he said. "Statistically, a child of two parents who finished college and have a high income level do much better than a child who lives in poverty and whose parents didn't finish high school. "Being at the bottom of the ladder isn't always a symbol of what's going on in school, but in the home," Dornan said. Although enthusiastic about the state average increase, Dornan said North Carolina' s national ranking showed little change. "One thing that's sobering is (the state) ranked 48th in 1 983 too," he said. 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The same construction spurt will oc cur in Florida, Woodward said. "You can't ever think that disaster is a good thing because it creates jobs, but that's what it does," Woodward said. Test said she was pleased that black students scored higher than the national average. "They are able to go in (to the test) with a good foundation," she said. Baker added that Chapel Hill consis tently had high averages on the SAT. "It's certainly reassuring after the bad news we've been hearing all year," she said. "I think it's certainly a good start." SAT prep courses offered after school and attention from teachers and guid ance counselors helped raise scores, Baker said. from page 1 cade." The Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, designed to give students a "trial run" at the SAT, and testing workshops contributed only slightly to the state average increase but could aid the slump ing national average in the future, Trip let said. If schools encouraged more students to take the PSAT, the fear and nervous ness of taking such an important test would be eliminated, she said. "It's like a boot camp for the real thing takes the mystery out," Dornan said. SAT workshops help students by teaching basic test-taking skills and pre pare them for the "sometimes tricky" test format, Triplet said. "(The PSAT) makes students a little more alert about questions that are go ing to be asked and their wording," she said. Dornan said he admitted the N.C. system had "a long way to go" but the increase was a "step in the right direc tion." "We needed the good news," he said. ,0 We feature first quality brand merchandise, from a variety of manu facturers at 25-70 below retail prices everyday! So get yourself (and your folks) some financial aid at Triangle Factory Shops. For more'details, call 380-8700. On the other hand, construction work that would have normally been done two or three years down the road is completed right after the hurricane, leaving an "aftershock" of inactivity later, Woodward said. South Carolina budget forecasters got caught in the trap, he said. They painted a rosier-than-real picture of the state'srevenue collection:, for three years. This year, the state has cut its budget by S202 million. Miami and south Florida's 3.5 mil lion people about equal all of South Carolina's population and are more densely packed than Charleston and the South Carolinacoast, where Hugo smashed ashore. from page 1 Hoke added that almost 87 percent of the school's graduating seniors contin ued their education. "Many of our stu dents have the goal of going to college," she said. Orange County Schools students av eraged a combined total of 826 on the SAT. The average on the verbal section was 387, while the average on the math section was 439. Almost 58 percent of the students at Orange High School, the only high school in the system, took the test dur ing the 1991-92 school year. RobillSOIl from 1 Although tuition was increased, Robinson said he did not consider the year a failure. "We also got money to build the new social work building and money to wards a new business school building," Robinson said. "We were able to keep cuts to a minimum, which was the big gest success we had. Despite his hard work and the com mitment of other UNC representatives, Robinson said tuition probably would keep increasing in the future. "We're in a situation where we will probably have to keep raising tuition," he said. "You have to be pragmatic and willing to give in some places. We're trying to keep it as low as we can." Robinson said he would place spe cial emphasis on trying to get the UNC bond issue a package of bonds that would go to construction on UNC-sys-tem campuses passed through the General Assembly during next year's session. "We had really hoped and counted on a bond issue," he said. "It is top priority this (coming) year." name direct TRIANGLE SHOPS FACTORY
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