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Volume 74, Iaaue 15 xxmm est. 1919 Hie University ofNorth Carolina at Greensboro at c/ Tuesday, October 25,1994 UNCG ranks top for safety By CHEHIE REYNOLDS Staff Writer According to Jerry Williamson, Director of Public Safety and Police, students at UNCG are "... safer here than anywhere else in Greensboro." Last year, a team of three ex-perts from the International As-sociation of Campus Law En-forcement Administrators spent one week on campus evaluating the UNCG Police Department. The group ranked UNCG in the top 10 percent of campuses in the nation with regards to safety. The most recent development in the safety ofthe campus is the installment of a computerized monitoring system, which is con-nected to all of the fire alarms and panic buttons situated throughout the campus. With this new technology, officers can send help to the scene of an emergency almost as soon as the alarm system is triggered. There are panic buttons lo-cated in every women's bath-room in the Student Recreation Center, the Health and Human Performance (HHP) Building, and the practice rooms in the Music Building. "If we get an emergency call, our response time is a minute or less," Williamson said. The majority of assaults that do occur happen in areas around UNCG rather than on campus itself. According to Williamson, there has not been a reported case of a stranger rape on cam-pus since 1984. The rapes that are reported are date and ac-quaintance rapes. With the Mutual Aid Agree-ment Contract, which was re-cently renewed with the Greens-boro Police Department, the area covered by UNCG police will increase. The new policy, which will go into effect soon, will extend the jurisdiction bor-ders to Mendenhall Street to the east and Mayflower Drive to the west. Beginning this week, the brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon will work with the evening po-lice squads on anti-theft surveil-lance, including patrolling bike and parking lots. According to Williamson, calls to the Student Escort Service See Safety, page 2 JOSEPH CKSTARCVTW C^Wi-i., Sophomores Richelle Smart and Kathryn White leave the Stu-dent Health Center, which is located next to Ragsdale/ Mendenhall Residence Hall. The SA.L.S. program training session will be held at the Health Center on November 5. Inside... Features, page 5 Opinions, page 4 Sports, page 7 In the next issue... Everything you need to know about Halloween. JOSEPH CBSTAHO/Th* CoraUiUaji Freshman Jill Fored sits in a Student Escort Service van while sophomore LaChandra Battle gets out of the van near the Caf. TheStudent Escort Service can be reached at 334-5919. The hours of operation are 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., seven days a week. S.A.L.S. teaching ins and outs of sex New program provides education about safe sex, constant supply of condoms to student participants By COURTNEY SCHMIDT Assistant News Editor Students Advocating Life Skills (S.A.L.S.) is a new peer leadership program sponsored by the Student Health Center and coordinated by Shelly Wa-gers, a Health Educator. The S.AL.S. program is de-signed to create a peer education group. Wagers hopes that this peer group, which will be formed out ofthe training session, will then go out and educate their friends, organizations, dormmates, and others about what they have learned. "The topic ofsex always comes up. I don't care who you are, it comes up, and lots oftimes ques-tions are asked and no one re-ally knows the correct answer. Everyone kind ofguesses. Well, ifa person who has been through S.A.L.S. is sitting there, the cor-rect information will be given," Wagers said. The S.A.L.S. program will educate the participants in a va-riety oftopics related to safe sex: education on and prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) on the UNCG campus, the pros and cons of different forms of contraception, and the risks of different kinds ofsexual behavior. This information will be re-lated by using a unique method of education. A lecture format will be alternated with small group discussions and role-play-ing activities. This active form of education is designed so that participants will receive all the straight facts they will need to educate others, while at the same time learning how to translate that informa-tion effectively. "In doing role play, it will help them advise their friends," Wa-gers said. Students will receive training manuals full of statistics on STDs, contraception, and other information, as well as a supply of condoms. Students will be able to distribute the condoms in their residence halls. Wagers explains that stu-dents will also receive informa-tion on how to communicate ef-fectively and on self-esteem is-sues. "We don't just want to teach about condoms; we want to teach about life skills. Teaching [stu-dents] all the things that relate into their decision-making skills and how those decisions affect them 20 years from now," Wa-gers said. Wagers feels that one of the unique features of the S.A.L.S. program is that in the future, with student feedback, the manual and the program itself will be written for students by students. Wagers feels this is important because students know how to best reach other students, and See SAJJ3., page 2 Briefly Speaking ...Report on schools lists 6,937 violent acts North Carolina's firstAnnual Report on School Violence re-ported 6,937 acts of violent or criminal acts on public school campuses during the 1993-94 school year. The report listed five rapes, four armed robberies, and two kidnappings. The majority of incidents occured in middle schools (40 percent) or high schools (43 per-cent), with only 17 percent of incidents happening in elemen-tary schools. The largest categories of criminal offenses were posses-sion ofa weapon and possession ofa controlled substance. According to the Department of Public Instruction, only six-tenths of one percent of public school students were involved in violent or criminal acts on school grounds. _____ Pnm ssa/psaw *»
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Title | The Carolinian [October 25, 1994] |
Date | 1994-10-25 |
Editor/creator | Mills, Heather S. |
Subject headings | University of North Carolina at Greensboro--Newspapers;College student newspapers and periodicals-- North Carolina--Greensboro;Student publications--North Carolina--Greensboro;Student activities--North Carolina--History |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The October 25, 1994, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
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Full text | Volume 74, Iaaue 15 xxmm est. 1919 Hie University ofNorth Carolina at Greensboro at c/ Tuesday, October 25,1994 UNCG ranks top for safety By CHEHIE REYNOLDS Staff Writer According to Jerry Williamson, Director of Public Safety and Police, students at UNCG are "... safer here than anywhere else in Greensboro." Last year, a team of three ex-perts from the International As-sociation of Campus Law En-forcement Administrators spent one week on campus evaluating the UNCG Police Department. The group ranked UNCG in the top 10 percent of campuses in the nation with regards to safety. The most recent development in the safety ofthe campus is the installment of a computerized monitoring system, which is con-nected to all of the fire alarms and panic buttons situated throughout the campus. With this new technology, officers can send help to the scene of an emergency almost as soon as the alarm system is triggered. There are panic buttons lo-cated in every women's bath-room in the Student Recreation Center, the Health and Human Performance (HHP) Building, and the practice rooms in the Music Building. "If we get an emergency call, our response time is a minute or less" Williamson said. The majority of assaults that do occur happen in areas around UNCG rather than on campus itself. According to Williamson, there has not been a reported case of a stranger rape on cam-pus since 1984. The rapes that are reported are date and ac-quaintance rapes. With the Mutual Aid Agree-ment Contract, which was re-cently renewed with the Greens-boro Police Department, the area covered by UNCG police will increase. The new policy, which will go into effect soon, will extend the jurisdiction bor-ders to Mendenhall Street to the east and Mayflower Drive to the west. Beginning this week, the brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon will work with the evening po-lice squads on anti-theft surveil-lance, including patrolling bike and parking lots. According to Williamson, calls to the Student Escort Service See Safety, page 2 JOSEPH CKSTARCVTW C^Wi-i., Sophomores Richelle Smart and Kathryn White leave the Stu-dent Health Center, which is located next to Ragsdale/ Mendenhall Residence Hall. The SA.L.S. program training session will be held at the Health Center on November 5. Inside... Features, page 5 Opinions, page 4 Sports, page 7 In the next issue... Everything you need to know about Halloween. JOSEPH CBSTAHO/Th* CoraUiUaji Freshman Jill Fored sits in a Student Escort Service van while sophomore LaChandra Battle gets out of the van near the Caf. TheStudent Escort Service can be reached at 334-5919. The hours of operation are 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., seven days a week. S.A.L.S. teaching ins and outs of sex New program provides education about safe sex, constant supply of condoms to student participants By COURTNEY SCHMIDT Assistant News Editor Students Advocating Life Skills (S.A.L.S.) is a new peer leadership program sponsored by the Student Health Center and coordinated by Shelly Wa-gers, a Health Educator. The S.AL.S. program is de-signed to create a peer education group. Wagers hopes that this peer group, which will be formed out ofthe training session, will then go out and educate their friends, organizations, dormmates, and others about what they have learned. "The topic ofsex always comes up. I don't care who you are, it comes up, and lots oftimes ques-tions are asked and no one re-ally knows the correct answer. Everyone kind ofguesses. Well, ifa person who has been through S.A.L.S. is sitting there, the cor-rect information will be given" Wagers said. The S.A.L.S. program will educate the participants in a va-riety oftopics related to safe sex: education on and prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) on the UNCG campus, the pros and cons of different forms of contraception, and the risks of different kinds ofsexual behavior. This information will be re-lated by using a unique method of education. A lecture format will be alternated with small group discussions and role-play-ing activities. This active form of education is designed so that participants will receive all the straight facts they will need to educate others, while at the same time learning how to translate that informa-tion effectively. "In doing role play, it will help them advise their friends" Wa-gers said. Students will receive training manuals full of statistics on STDs, contraception, and other information, as well as a supply of condoms. Students will be able to distribute the condoms in their residence halls. Wagers explains that stu-dents will also receive informa-tion on how to communicate ef-fectively and on self-esteem is-sues. "We don't just want to teach about condoms; we want to teach about life skills. Teaching [stu-dents] all the things that relate into their decision-making skills and how those decisions affect them 20 years from now" Wa-gers said. Wagers feels that one of the unique features of the S.A.L.S. program is that in the future, with student feedback, the manual and the program itself will be written for students by students. Wagers feels this is important because students know how to best reach other students, and See SAJJ3., page 2 Briefly Speaking ...Report on schools lists 6,937 violent acts North Carolina's firstAnnual Report on School Violence re-ported 6,937 acts of violent or criminal acts on public school campuses during the 1993-94 school year. The report listed five rapes, four armed robberies, and two kidnappings. The majority of incidents occured in middle schools (40 percent) or high schools (43 per-cent), with only 17 percent of incidents happening in elemen-tary schools. The largest categories of criminal offenses were posses-sion ofa weapon and possession ofa controlled substance. According to the Department of Public Instruction, only six-tenths of one percent of public school students were involved in violent or criminal acts on school grounds. _____ Pnm ssa/psaw *» |