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University police identified, located and arrested one of the three suspects from the armed robbery reported 12:05 a.m. Tuesday. According to the crime warning issued by campus police, police charged the suspect with armed robbery. They did not specify whether he was the suspected armed robber or a suspected partner. The police have yet to announce the suspect’s identity. Tuesday morning, campus police sent a WolfAlert describing, “a black male wearing a black toboggan and navy blue jeans.” The male allegedly held a silver colored handgun at a male student on Dan Allen Drive and demanded the student’s personal belongings. According to the report, the suspect then got into the blue or purple vehicle from which he came, and rode away with two other black
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A happy ending for Dirty Bingo Jessica Hatcher Staff Writer
After much controversy, the Dirty Bingo event hosted by the Union Activities Board, went off without a hitch Tuesday night. Originally marked as an event to protest, students let the event take place without any complications once the board made changes to the specifics of the event. Once the controversy reached higher media attention, the Union Activities Board was informed that bingo laws prohibit giving away prizes worth more than $10, so it reformed the prospective prizes. Due to the gratuitous amount of complaints, the Union Activity Board ended up spending more money to have attendees wanded as they entered the auditorium. Originally, the prize repertoire contained a wide variety of sex
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Asia Buss, a sophomore in psychology, is scanned by the N.C. State police at Dirty Bingo on Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. The goal of the program was to educate students about sex. “I came because I heard about it from a friend,” Buss said, “I think it will be fun.”
Event addresses the future of the Euro Tim Gorski Staff Writer
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A renovated crosswalk button waits for pedestrians at the intersection of Hillsborough and Enterprise streets.
New button aims to keep pedestrians safe Liz Moomey Staff Writer
Along Hillsborough Street and on a few other Raleigh streets, pedestrians no longer have to listen to chirping crosswalk signs, as the city has installed new buttons which instead say, “Wait.” Chelsea Pierce, a North Hall resident and junior in English, said she believes the change comes from the possibility of preventing jaywalking. According to highway safety researchers, distracted walkers are just as much to blame for the high number of pedestrian collisions in the state as distracted drivers. Pedestrians sometimes put themselves in danger by ignoring traffic circles, failing to use crosswalks or being distracted by technology. “People walking across the street are the problem,” Caroline Higgins, a sophomore in management, said. Pierce said she doesn’t think the implementation of the new crosswalk will fix this problem. “People will cross whenever they get the chance to,” Pierce said. Many pedestrians cross whether or not the sign tells them to.
The Triangle is often ranked as members hope the organization one of the most dangerous places grows to be statewide. The profor pedestrians, according to the gram coordinates with the NaRaleigh Public Record. About 400 tional Highway Traffic Safety pedestrians are hit annually in the Administration. Triangle, and 350 are killed or inHiggins said she did not prejured. fer the new crosswalk buttons to Wake County, specifically Ra- the old ones because it is unclear leigh, is ranked second in the state whether or not the button regin the number of annual crashes isters once it has been pushed. involving pedestriShe also said ans. Mecklenburg she did not like County, specif ihow pedestrically Charlotte, is ans have to pay ranked first. attention to the Police have tried signs to know several methods to when to cross decrease the numrather than lisCaroline Higgins, sophomore ber of pedestrian ten to beeps. in management crashes. Sgt. J.J. P ierc e s a id King of the Raleigh she thought the Police Department said police are new crosswalk took away from focusing their efforts on the most the classic feel of Hillsborough dangerous intersections in Raleigh, Street. However, Pierce said she especially the crosswalk in front of likes how the new crosswalk butthe John M. Alexander YMCA on tons fit in with Avent Ferry Road. Hillsborough Street. “If you are normally on HillsA campaign called Watch For Me borough Street, you know what NC, which was started in August to do,” Pierce said. “I don’t ex2012, aims to reduce the number of pect [the street] to change.” vehicle-pedestrian collisions. Currently, Watch For Me NC is directed towards Triangle communities, but
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According to many economists, the Euro has been on the brink of collapse in recent years. Although the European Union managed to steer clear of economic meltdown at the hands of the unfolding Eurozone debt crisis, its future still remains uncertain. Three professors led a forum for discussion about the history and future of the Euro, as well as contemporary issues faced by the global market due to the Euro’s shortcomings 6 p.m. Tuesday in Withers Hall. The speakers included Mark Nance, assistant professor at the School of Public and International Affairs, and Doug Pearce, former department head of Economics. The Euro, established in 1992, is the currency of the European Union. It is the second most traded currency in world markets behind the United States dollar. Although the Euro has many advantages, typically maintaining a higher value than the United States dollar, in recent times it has encountered a number of problems, which contributed to the debt crisis, according to the three professors. One problem the Euro poses to individual European states is monetary policies such as interest rates. The regulation of interest rates allows countries to adequately deal with problems such as inflation and unemployment. As stipulated by the European Union, the European Central Bank
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keeps currency rates at approximately two percent, a relatively low rate compared to other countries. According to Nance, the stable interest rates established by the European Central Bank led many countries to borrow and spend at a rate not typically afforded by their Gross Domestic Product. This occurs despite the fact that the European Union implemented legislation to assure the impossibility of this problem. The problem with this legislation, according to Nance, is that it allowed the countries, which were presumed guilty of spending more than they produced, to vote on whether or not they violated the aforementioned agreements. It is not difficult to imagine that countries did not have an adequate incentive to condemn themselves to paying fines to compensate for their actions, Nance said. Pearce said one of the defining characteristics among states with a common courtesy is a good degree of capital mobility. The European Union has a number of barriers in this regard such as language and cultural differences. Students contributed to the discussion, and offered a variety of opinions about the best measures that states in the European Union should take to ensure a fiscally stable Europe. “I enjoyed the overall presentation,” Gavin Harrison, a sophomore studying biology, said. “Especially the history of the Euro and how it’s influenced monetary politics today.”
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