The Carolinian [September 8, 1995]

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Duke incident arouses
concern atUNCG
A rape incident in Durham involving two students
questions the safety of campuses everywhere
By ANNETTE POE
Senior News Writer
Campus safety is a rising con-cern
of many among the UNCG
community. Over the past year,
seven aggravated assaults and
four rape cases have been re-ported.
Sexual assaults are usually
the most under-reported crimes
committed on campus. They
are often inflicted upon incom-ing
freshmen. The new experi-ence
of being away from home,
dealing with new freedoms and
the easy accessibility of alcohol
and drugs are a few reasons that
make freshmen especially
vulnerable to these crimes.
"The key to prevention is
through education." commented
Director ofPublic Safety and Po-lice,
Jerry Williamson . Crime
prevention officers are offering
to present programs on date
rape and sexual assault issues
in the resident halls.
UNCG is cur-rently
operating an
escort service for all
students from 5:30
p.m.-7:30 a.m.
seven days a week.
Two vans are oper-ated
by students un-til
1:00 a.m. The
service is then
turned over to police
officers.
Phase II is a divi-sion
of the student
health center. It is
a referral service
which educates as
well as encourages
rape prevention.
Phase II can be contacted at 334-
3190. At 2:30a.m. Saturday
morning, two Duke University
students were kidnapped out-
"Sexual
assaults
are usu-ally
the
most un-der-
rated
crimes
commit-ted
on
campus."
,/'
side of a Durham apartment
building. The female student
was raped and then taken to an
ATM machine
where she was
forced to withdraw
an undisclosed
amount of money.
Her male compan-ion
was beaten and
was admitted to
Duke Hospital
later that day.News
of this tragic event
has left many
UNCG students
baffled "The
thought of being
out at night and
knowing that one
minute you are
walking along fine
and the next you could be lying
in the bushes dead is horrifying."
commented freshman Mike
Hawks.
National Science Foundation to
help open document center
UNCG professor, Dr. David Olson will use a $145,000 grant to study new democracies
By ADAM FULLER
Staff Writer
This fall, UNCG will be es-tablishing
a unique new center
called the Central European
Parliamentary Documents Cen-ter.
Its purpose is to help politi-cal
scholars from all over the
world in their studies ofthe new
democracies that have formed
in Central Europe since the col-lapse
of communism in the
USSR.
Headed by Dr. David Olson,
UNCG professor ofpolitical sci-ence,
the center will collect
documents issued by these new
governments, such as member-ship
directories and statistical
summaries of activity, which
are essential for studies of the
new democracies.
Working with Olson will be
Dr. Maurice Simon, professor of
political science at East Caro-lina
University, and Dr. William
Crowther, a UNCG associate
it
professor of political science.
Funding for the center comes
from the National Science Foun-dation.
They awarded Olson a
five-year grant of $145,000 to
pay for necessities. The money
is going towards buying equip-ment,
cost of acquiring docu-ments,
employing graduate re-search
assistants, and for travel
expenses to and
from Europe," Olson
said.
The documents
that the CEPDC
will be housing are
coming from coun-tries
like Estonia,
Poland, Hungary,
and Romania. They
will become the
foundation for any
future research in
the field of develop-ing
democratization
and will allow schol-ars
to appoint del-egates
to the gov-ernmental
sessions
and allow them to track activity
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"They are the foundation
from which serious re-search
can begin," said
Olson. "They are ofuse, po-tentially
to anybody in the
world who wants to do re-search
on the parliaments
or on the wider democrati-zation
process
in Central
Europe."
The center
is an out-growth
of an
international
research con-ference
held
in Prague,
Czech Repub-lic
last sum-mer
which
Olson orga-nized
and
chaired. Par-ticipants
in-cluded
twenty-five to
thirty social scientists from
the United States and East-ern
Europe who set an in-ternational
research
agenda on the new demo-cratic
governments and
See Document, page 3
...we
are
making
it avail-able
on
the
Internet-
•Dr. David Olson
Mo eourtMjr of Bob C.vin and UNCG Information 8oi»lco«
Dr. Stephen K. Mosier. Dr. William Crowther and Dr. David
Olson, examining some of the documents, (from left to right)
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