Student Car Stolen, Recovered
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In A&E: Incubus returns with 'A Crow Left of the Murder' t -1?^ ^i HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY Campus Chronicle FRIDAY, March 26. 2004 HIGH POINT. N.C Student car stolen, recovered By Ali Akhyari on it as well as a social security number, operation from HPU Security, had re- Martinson named Staff Writer date of birth and a PIN number. They de- trieved the stolen vehicle, knew who two cided to take the check card to High Point of the thieves were, had a bead on the sto- HPU chancellor It was 4:39 a.m. on Feb. 25 when a Bank and try the PIN number and steal len merchandise and were discovering couple of young men were at a local High some money as well. Fortunately for the who the other two thieves were. After The board of trustees named Dr. Point Bank and Trust trying to withdraw card owner, the PIN number did not match some investigation and interrogation, they Jacob C. Martinson chancellor at a board some money at the ATM. About 40 min- the card. Afterwards, they drove the car learned that the group of thieves consisted meeting on March 17. Martinson, who utes earlier, the two of them along with around and gave it away that day when of young men from the Daniel Brooks has served as university president for 19 two others they realized that the police would be area and included Derrick Manning, Rico years, will continue his presidential du- had been looking for the vehicle. Hunt, Cedric Baker and Stacy Small. As ties until his successor has been named. shopping That same day, the HPU security of- of March 11, all but Hunt had been ar- Eventually, as chancellor, Martinson will at High fice answered call after call from students rested. Those in custody confessed to the be relieved of day-to-day responsibili- Point Uni- reporting their cars had been broken into crimes after being pinned against the wall ties but will continue as an overall leader. versity de- or stolen. The security officers took re- with evidence. They are being charged Under Martinson's tenure as presi- spite the ports and got information from the vic- with motor vehicle theft, six counts of dent, High Point has grown from being fact that tims along with the High Point Police breaking and entering of a motor vehicle, a college with 1,200 students and 31 ma- both the Department and shared that information three counts of misdemeanor larceny, one jors in 1985 to becoming a university C-Store with each other. Det. Terry Green and count of felony larceny, one count of with nearly 3,000 students offering 50 and The Det. Ron Meinecke worked the case. felony financial transaction card theft and undergraduate majors and 11 master's Point were After getting all the information, Det. one count of misdemeanor financial trans- degree programs. CEDRIC BAKES closed. Green went to work. He was able to trace action This, how- the stolen check card to the bank the card fraud. Coaches recognize ever, did not matter to them as they did thieves attempted to use it at and retrieve S o women runners for not plan on buying anything. Instead they pictures of two of the criminals. The in- what ^^^Sk planned on stealing what they could from formation on the stolen vehicle had been made m 1 outstanding GPAs as many student cars as possible. That shared with the police department, and High officers stopped it at 12:16 a.m. the fol- Point Uni- For the second consecutive year, the night they left the university with a car lowing night. However, the car was not versity a women's cross country team has been stereo amp, a digital camera, a wallet with inhabited by the thieves but by the indi- target for named an Academic All-American a check card, CD's and other items. At vidual they gave it to and three of his com- t h e Cross Country Team with Distinction by least six vehicles were broken into, and one was stolen. panions. They included Raydonta Will- thieves? the Women's Intercollegiate Cross iams, Javon McCall, Cordarius Wall and Fortu- Country Coaches Association. The stolen vehicle was driven around town by the group after making a stop by Kelvin Middlebrooks. The four of them nately, DERRICK MANNING The team's cumulative grade point were charged with felony possession of a Det. Green was able to get that informa- average of 3.43 ranks in the Top 40 na- the bank. They had stolen a wallet from stolen motor vehicle. tionally, is the highest GPA among Di- one vehicle which included a check card See Criminals, page 6 Within 24 hours the police, with co- vision I schools in the state and is the but also a piece of paper that had a name fifth-highest nationally among NCAA Division I schools that don't play foot- Program encourages Student recalls ball. "Our team takes academics very Serbian war seriously, and actually has higher GPA athletes' activity off the field goals than this for years to come. They By Melissa Caudill try have similar programs in their athletic By Selda Tahriovic want to lead the country in this cat- Staff Writer department. Perry got the idea from the Special to the Chronicle egory," Coach Al Barnes said. University of New Hampshire. She took Team members include: Stephanie Panther athletes are no longer just what she learned from its program and At LaGuardia Airport, my family of Cabarcas, Melissa Caudill, Jemissa competing on the fields with one another; adapted it to fit the needs and capabilities four anxiously waited to pass through Hess, Cricket Indra, Erin Kelly, they are vying for superiority in the class- of HPU. The program can be used in any customs on our way to a safer and hap- Catherine Lewis, Shawna Truelove, room, university and community. size school, from Division III to Division pier future. I thought about all the fam- Jamie Vetten and Tracy Warring. This year Melissa Perry, senior I. It is used to bring athletes' competitive ily and close friends I had left behind in woman's coordinator for athletics, has nature to other aspects of college life. Yugoslavia. The war tore families apart Lundy and Gathings implemented a program called the Com- Perry is the scorekeeper. Points can and turned a once beautiful country into petition Cup. The competition is among be earned on an individual basis or in con- a flat land full of corpses, sadness and are honored by the nine sports programs here and divided junction with team members. If 75 per- misery... into men's and women's teams. The stu- cent of the team, or 10 people, provide When I was 11, the war in my coun- collegeinsider.com dent-athletes compete in these areas— community service, then 100 points are try slowly started changing people. The Bart Lundy, men's basketball being an active role model and leader; added to the team total. If it is an indi- controversies over religion, freedom and coach, has been named the 2004 Na- acting as a team; encouraging fellow ath- vidual effort, then two points are added. land got worse each day. Friends started tional Rookie Coach of the Year by letes and overall academic achievement. The policy encourages team participation. parting ways, husbands and wives sepa- collegeinsider.com. This season, Lundy Perry said, "The goal of this program When athletes attend a sporting event of rated, and after a while, murders occurred helped the Panthers improve by 12 vic- is to encourage the athletes to have pride. another team, they add one point to the more than ever. Presidents and religious tories from last season, which was the Pride in their team and in university ath- team total for every teammate present leaders did not tolerate disputes. nation's biggest turnaround. letics. A student-athlete is a well-rounded provided they sign in at the sports mar- Even though my parents did a pretty Junior forward Danny Gathings was person who does all sorts of things." See Competition, page 6 See War, page 7 voted Most Valuable Player. Gathings Many universities around the coun- was also recently named to the 2004 Associated Press Honorable Mention Page 3 Page 5 Page 7 Page 12 All-America team, and the Big South honored the Winston-Salem native by Another Critiquing Student naming him the 2004 Player of the Year Basketball and Tournament MVP. In this issue: take on John Kerry's describes season Under the leadership of Lundy and Gathings, the team finished second in gay credentials surviving wraps the Big South and set a school record for season wins and road victories. marriage civil war « 3L- 2 Campus Chronicle EDITORIAL Friday, March 26, 2004 Staff Editorial ^^^= Censorship difficult, Americans need to take dangerous to regulate blame for eating habits By Josh Farrington Rush Limbaugh is obscene in many of his Staff Writer publicly expressed opinions. The House of Representatives re- The causes and effects of obesity have One could argue that these political cently passed a bill that bans class ac- led to an enormous market. Thanks to Janet Jackson and Justin obscenities are different than the sexually tion lawsuits that aim to hold fast food Maybe we are victims of a self-ful- Timberlake, there has been a backlash explicit obscenity found on television and restaurants responsible for the increas- filling prophecy. The more we are aware against all that is "obscene" by the Ameri- on the radio.