The Carolinian [October 25, 1994]

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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.
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