NASCAR Technical Institute Mooresville, NC’s high-profile school that attracts would-be automotive and race car technicians from across the country is battling stormy public relations in its own hometown. The school’s students have been keeping Mooresville police busy over the past several months. From Nov. 14, 2002 to June 27, 2003, police received 176 calls involving NTI students from traffic infractions and noise disturbances to reckless driving, property damage, harassment, burglary, DWIs and assault. NTI Director Mike Fritz said he distributed a letter on May 9 “right after the meeting with Capt. Hillard” to be read aloud to students in each NTI class. “It was reminding them of the student code of conduct in the student’s success guide,” Fritz said of the letter, adding that it also reminded students that their actions “on and off campus can and will be dealt with by the school.” He told the Tribune on Monday that the letter “seems to have curbed (the police calls involving NTI students) to Capt. Hillard’s satisfaction.”( Mooresville Tribune – maybe the future ‘home newspaper’ of Jayski)(7-5-2003)
