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Adam Bennett
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Police
following leads in serial rapist case
UNCG –Greensboro police, students and surrounding
University of North Carolina at Greensboro residents are hoping
increased awareness, extra safety measures and old-fashioned vigilance
will help them flush out a rapist who has assaulted at least seven
women near campus since December, according to The Seahawk.
“People are on alert now, they’re being more cautious
and noticing things,” Greensboro police detective M.D. Matthews
said. “We’re getting a lot of leads in the case and working
closely with the UNCG community.”
Matthews said the police, who have been criticized for slow action
in the 4-month-old case, now have “a lot of manpower invested
in this” and are keeping up their guard.
Though there have been no new attacks for almost a month, Matthews
said he would not say the rapist has gone underground completely.
“I wouldn’t want to put a timeline
on it,” Matthews said. “I don’t want people to say
that just because a couple of weeks or months have passed and nothing’s
happened, it’s safe. I don’t want people to just forget.
He hasn’t been captured yet and we’re not operating on
the assumption that it’s over.”
New tactics used to recruit student voters
NCSU - With only 15 percent of the student
body voting in the 2002 spring elections, the need to increase turnout
is crucial to each campaign season.
This year that need was met, gaining nearly 2,000 more voters than
last year, according to the North Carolina State University Technician.
The elections commission did many things to gain voters, resulting
in 6,019 votes cast last Monday and Tuesday. In return for those
votes, many students received free T-shirts, coupons and cups.
The commission also attempted to make no excuse for a person not
to vote. In addition to the at-home voting option, students had
the use of several voting kiosks.
“I think the voter turnout was great. It’s a record turnout
and I hope to see it continue to rise,” NCSU presidential candidate
Jamie Pendergrass said. “Students showed this year that they
want active and involved student leaders, and I’m sure it will
continue to stay that way.”
Travis Little, a freshman in mechanical engineering said, “It
is so easy. You sit at your computer in your room and it takes like
a minute to do. Plus, you get to do cool things like bash a car
in the Brickyard.”
“I don’t think I would have voted if
I hadn’t known about the shirts,” sophomore business major
Josh Miller said.
Early stages of $300 million campus makeover
UNCC – The University of North Carolina
at Charlotte has embarked on a $300 million campus makeover, according
to The University Times.
More construction at UNCC will be taking place next year than has
occurred in the past 15 years, UNCC Associate Vice Chancellor for
Facilities Management Philip Jones said.
The new academic buildings include: a new humanities building to
house the music, dance and theatre programs; a new science and technology
building to hold biology, electrical engineering and the School
of Information Technology; a new College of Education building;
and a new College of Health and Human services that will house UNCC’s
nursing school.
Other additions include two regional utility plants, which will
provide heating and cooling to these new buildings.
The chancellor’s residence is under construction and a new
residence hall that will be primarily a freshman community is under
construction. It will provide the university with 500 additional
beds.
There are many additions that are still in the design phase: a new
alumni center, the student union, a new Brocker Health Center and
a building to house Facilities Management and the University Police.
All of the buildings that are under construction or currently in
the design phase should be completed by late 2006, Jones said. |
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