The Carolinian [October 18, 2005]

              IN THIS ISSUE
CARING FOR
KATRWA'S KIDS
UNCG Teaching Fellows
have launched a huge
fundraiser to get schools
up and running in Katrina -
devastated areas.
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BLOGGING
BOUNDARIES
Melissa Westmoreland
talks about being a
reknown figure - in the
world of Internet blogs.
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MEN'S SOCCER STILL
ROLUNG
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NEW BAR; OLD BAR
BORN AGAIN
Staff Writer Charles Wood
tries out Lager Haus and
the revamped College Hill
Sundries.
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'I CANT BELIEVE I
HAD A KIDNEY
STONE"
As bad as giving birth?
Worse, says recent victim
Luke Mclntyre.
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DIRECTORY
News 2,12
Classifieds 2
Opinions 4
A&E 6,13
Sports 8
Life 10
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UNCG Police release yearly crime report
Sarah Richardson
Staff Writer
Students might hear about how so-and-
so was mugged or how a creepy
guy sneaked into a dorm hall one
night, but who really knows what's
going on?
The UNCG Police Department has
the information, and they want you to
be aware. They recently published
the 2004 calendar year crime statis-tics,
which covers activity on the
property of and surrounding UNCG.
The report releases the number of
criminal incidents including sex
offense, burglary and aggravated
assault. It also provides the number
of arrests and referrals of weapons
violations, drug violations and liquor
law violations.
This release is in compliance to the
Clery Act, which requires all schools
by federal law to publish an annual
report that discloses information
about campus security and the crime
statistics of the past three years.
The Clery Act was named in mem-ory
of a Jeanne Clery, a college fresh-man
at Lehigh University, who was
raped and murdered in her dorm
room. Her parents discovered that in
the previous three years, there had
been 38 violent crimes on campus.
The school had not disclosed this
information to its students.
"We're proud that we have very
few violent crimes," said Captain
Paul Lester. "We're fortunate that
major crimes are very rare, and when
do have them, we're usually very suc-cessful
in solving them."
In the past three years, there have
been no murders, two incidents of
forcible sex offense, five robberies,
one act of arson and no hate crimes
recorded in the area.
"I think it's discouraging to see so
many police in such a small area,"
said Lester. "If I was a criminal, I'd
go somewhere else."
When the definitions of crimes
change, comparing the statistics of
different years can be difficult. For
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UNCG Police can be seen keeping an eye on things around campus during all hours of the day. Check out their
annual campus crime report at http://polke.uncg.edu.
PRIDE! members share their
ucoming out stories
Elliott Laffey
Staff Writer
On Tuesday, Oct. 4, a lone door
stood in a frame near the fountain. It
represented the closet door for gay,
lesbian, and bisexual students, cele-brating
National Coming Out Day.
But the door in the frame is a light-hearted
representation of a national
controversy. Two fronts have
emerged since the millennium
passed, which were nationally cov-ered
in an October issue of Time
magazine. The first is the steadily
increasing gay youth. Its opposite,
mostly a Christian movement, is
called the ex-gays.
, Ten years ago, they reported,
churches closed their doors to the
homosexual world. That was their
answer to, as UNCG student Matt
Hill said, "the epidemic." Today,
however, those doors have opened,
and arms are widespread. Hill,
describing the ex-gay movement,
said, "Their ideology is: being gay is
not natural, it is a sin, but not an
abomination that can't be changed;
homosexuals need healing."
Hill, 19, is business manager of
PRIDE! and in his second year as a
history major. He came out to his
mother at age 14, in April 2000.
Shortly after, he whispered to his
friend in class that he was gay.
Though Hill had planned to come out
slowly, his friend's reaction was not
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UNCG sophomore Matt Hill, business manager of PRIDE!, came out at 14.
Now he encourages others to become comfortable with who they are.
example, the definition of burglary
has changed. Upon examining the
incidents of burglary, one will notice
that there were 121 acts in 2002, 131
acts in 2003 but only 45 acts in 2004.
The problem you have is there are
different definitions in SO states.
This last year, they issued guidelines.
It's not necessarily that there are
fewer crimes, although we hope that's
true," said Chief Roll in Donelson.
Because the guidelines are estab-lished
by the federal government,
some basic crimes, such as larceny,
disorderly conduct, and driving while
impaired are not included in the
report. A frequently updated crime
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Idol judges
hear from
UNCG
vocalists
Rachel Brown
Staff Writer
The Coliseum was cut in half by a
wall of one dozen booths. People
were lined.up like horses at the gate,
waiting to race behind these booths,
preparing to sing the song that would
make or break, their dreams. They
were all hoping for that yellow ticket,
sending them to the next round of the
hit reality TV. show, American Idol.
On Monday, Oct. 3, roughly
15,000 people stormed the
Greensboro Coliseum Complex to
audition for the fifth season of
American Idol. Singers were asked to
arrive at the door no earlier than 6
a.m. The doors did not open until
after 9 a.m.
"We didn't get inside until 9:30. So
I was there from 6 to 9:30 just wait-ing.
It was ridiculous," said junior
communications major Ashley
Holyfield.
Once inside, the singers were
divided into sections. Each section
was subdivided into groups of four,
who would all enter a booth at the
same time to sing.
"Basically you went up there and
sang to two judges who said that they
were producers. But, I don't know
really who they were," Holyfield
said.
Senior Morgan Dickey, a student
who went to the audition to support
friends, disagreed with the audition
format.
"It should've been done on an indi-vidual
basis, instead of going four
people in front of two judges,"
Dickey said.
Allison Hecker, a UNCG student
who is taking a semester off from
school, also had mixed feelings about
the producers.
"The producers were mean. They
didn't smile. They just sat there and
nodded at you," Hecker said.
After watching the booths for sev-eral
hours, Holyfield and Hecker
both came to the conclusion that
"Booth 2" held the strictest judges.
"The entire time we watched, the
second booth probably passed like
four people. I was like, with my luck
I will probably get in Booth 2, and 1
was," Holyfield said, laughing.
During her eight-hour wait to sing,
Holyfield had the chance to converse
with other singers.
"You'd go to the bathroom and the
girls were singing," Holyfield said.
"People were basing their futures on
this audition."
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