Monday, August 30, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 7
Nation
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Carolinas prepare for hurricane
The Associated Press
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C.
— Hurricane Dennis headed close, to North Carolina's beaches Sunday night, paralleling the coast in a path expected to keep the brunt of the storm away from land.
The hurricane prompted evacuation orders for the Outer Banks and other barrier islands further south as conditions were expected to worsen overnight.
By 11 p.m. EDT, Dennis was 125 miles south of Wilmington, with its top wind at 105 mph, and it had edged slightly toward the east. A hurricane warning was posted for much of the coast of North Carolina.
Winds were gusting 30 to 45 mph along the southern coast of the state by early evening, and rain pelted some coastal areas of the Carolinas. By midnight, winds there should reach up to 60 mph, forecasters said.
Dennis was moving north-northeast at 14 mph and expected to take a gradual turn to the northeast on Monday. The storm's track was far from certain, but the National Hurricane
Center said it did not think the storm would cross the coast.
"It weaves and bobs as it goes along," said Jerry Jarrell, the center's director.
He also cautioned that because of the hurricane's size, with tropical storm-force wind extending 200 miles from the center on Sunday, it doesn't have to come across the coastline to cause pretty strong winds.
Forecasters said winds approaching hurricane force could pass off the coast of Cape Fear near North Carolina's southernmost tip at sunrise Monday. Hurricane force winds were expected to remain offshore.
Shelters remained emptier than in previous seasons, as many residents decided to board up their homes and wait out the storm. Trask Middle School, an acting Red Cross shelter in Wilmington, held 95 evacues at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, said Judy Saunders, shelter manager. "It's just been a trickle," she said.
In South Carolina, officials closed 13 shelters around Charleston after just 40 people showed up.
In Myrtle Beach, S.C., Johnny and Kim Sizemore went bowling
HURRICANE DENNIS
Sunday night as the fringe of the storm dumped heavy rain on the area. They joked about the 4 feet of water that filled their home when Hurricane Hugo slammed into the area 10 years ago.
Given that, Sunday night's rain — more than a half-inch fell at North Myrtle Beach during the first couple of hours — was not a concern, he said.
"I can't worry. I've got too much to lose," said Sizemore, 36, who rents a couple houses in the area.
Well in advance of the storm,
North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt declared a state of emergency and a state of disaster, which allowed him to activate any resources necessary to cope with the storm.
Wrightsville Beach declared an 8 p.m. curfew Sunday, and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base sent aircraft to bases in Ohio to escape the storm. New Hanover County at Wilmington said schools, courts and offices would be closed Monday.
A hurricane warning was in effect from Little River Inlet, S.C., on the North Carolina-South Carolina line to Oregon Inlet, N.C. A hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning were in effect from Edisto Beach to Little River Inlet, S.C.
Along North Carolina's sandy, low-lying Outer Banks chain of barrier islands, evacuations started at 1 p.m. south of Oregon Inlet and at noon on Orcacock Island.
Dennis blew through the northern Bahamas on Saturday. Few homes were severely damaged, but several boats sank at marinas, said James Sweeting, assistant manager of the Divers down dive shop on Treasure Cay.
Penn State begins anti-drinking fight
That means alcohol-free dorms and parties, agreements with local bars, advertising blitzes, notification of parents when their underage children are caught drinking — anything to get across the message that drinking can be dangerous.
EAST LANSING, Mich.— After too many drinks, a Cornell University student falls down a gorge and dies. At Michigan State University, a birthday celebration turns tragic after a student downs two dozen shots of booze. A Penn State University student is found clinging to life on her 21st birthday, her blood-alcohol level nearly seven times Pennsylvania's intoxication limit.
Jolted by such recent alcohol-related tragedies, colleges and universities around the country are planning aggressive campaigns this fall to curb heavy drinking among students.
The Associated Press
A measure of Spanier's commitment will be seen Sept. 10, when an ad campaign coordinated
"Our goal is not to do away with alcohol consumption — that's not a realistic goal — but to bring a level of social responsibility to alcohol," Penn State President Graham Spanier told the National Press Club last week.
That's the message that many schools are trying to convey to students: Excessive drinking isn't the norm among their classmates and abstinence is cool.
A 1998 Harvard University study found that 42.7 percent of students had been binge drinking in the two weeks before they were surveyed, down only slightly from 44.1 percent in a 1993 Harvard study.
"We hope this can help reassure students that they don't have to drink in order to fit in at Carolina," said Sue Kitchen, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of North Carolina.
The recent study's author, Henry Wechsler of the Harvard School of Public Health, said that binge drinking rates varied widely depending on the campus, from 1 percent to nearly 80 percent of students. But one constant, he said, is that students usually believe drinking rates are higher than they actually are.
In Michigan, where last year two people died at Ferris State University and one at Michigan State, the state is training 1,600 resident assistants in alcohol intervention. Italo has granted $433,000 to 15 state universities for mentoring programs that pair older students with freshmen for non-alcoholic activities.
A University of North Carolina study released in August found that on the most popular nights to party — Thursday, Friday and Saturday — about two-thirds of the 1,790 students tested had no alcohol in their blood. Only one in 10 tested had a blood alcohol content that was at or above .10 percent.
Although statistics indicate that college drinking is down from a decade ago, several recent studies show that binge drinking — five or more drinks in one sitting for men, four for women — remains a serious problem.
by Penn State debuts in 20 national newspapers and on 113 campuses to call attention to the problem of heavy drinking.
Throughout the school year, other materials will focus on drinking's possible consequences, including drunken driving, missed classes and increased risk of sexual assault and other crimes.
Students returning to Dartmouth College will see ads describing a campus survey that showed 58 percent of students don't think alcohol is important at a party. The University of Arizona is also spreading the word that most students have four or fewer drinks when they party.
Those findings are touted in stickers and posters placed in students' dorms. Freshmen who display the posters in their room can get $50.
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