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3B LIFEy E(ie Clarlotte ^st Thursday, February 19, 2004 Children’s book makes etiquette fun It’s a great story and the illustrations are vivid and full of life. The story starts off with D.J. finding Book out that ws Review ""““S participate in the debutante ball. By Artellia Burch artellia.burch@thecharlouepost.com “D.J. and the Debutante Ball” by Denise Walker McConduit is a great chil dren’s book. However, D.J. is unaware that he’ll have to partici pate and go through some changes. I think it’s highly creative how McConduit uses this light and cute story to teach simple rules of eti quette. By the end of the short story D.J. and his cousin Alex has undergone a major transition from boy to young gentleman. McConduit shows the importance of young black men being mentored by their elders without being preachy or heavy. “D.J. and the Debutante Ball” is the third book collaboration between McConduit and Emile F.Henriquez. Henriquez’s pictures cap tures are very reflective of the black culture and each is remarkably detailed. I enjoyed the book and I think it’s a great read for young children especially young boys. Racial profiling not systematic By Jay Cohen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH - A study of state Highway Patrol traffic stops released Wednesday found no systematic racial profiling but researchers say some individual officers may be biased. Researchers from North Carolina State and North Carolina Central said their study showed that in 2000, blacks accounted for 21.2 percent of aU hcensed North Carolina drivers, but received 24.9 percent of all cita tions from troopers. However, that wasn’t enough of a gap to suggest a prevalence of racial profiling in traf fic stops and citations, they added. “We foimd nothing in the rules of the orga nization that encourages officers to target minorities and that’s consistent with the pat terns for citations and surveys,” said Donald Tbmaskovic-Devey, a professor of sociology at N.C. State. "This doesn’t mean that individual officers aren’t biased and that becomes a role for man agerial awareness and monitoring by the leadership of the Highway Patrol.” In the study, some districts and individual troopers were found to have higher rates of citing of blacks than would have been predict ed. Others had lower-than-expected citation rates. Researchers said several variables could contribute to differences between districts and across the state, including where and when troopers patrol and are deployed, as wen as the behavior of drivers. They declined to release data about individual districts or areas. Some troopers who participated in focus groups also said they beheve it is likely that some racial profiling occurs among their ranks. The analysis is based on data on citation and searches by the North Carolina Highway Patrol from 1997-2000. Matthew Zingraff, a sociology professor at N.C. State, said most of the citations, stops and written warnings were from 2000. The report also includes a survey in 2000 of just under 3,000 North Carolina licensed dri vers and focus groups comprised of citizens and Highway Patrol officials. Some researchers believe that the variables involved in the study make it hard to draw comprehensive conclusions. “You can see how many people the North Carolina Highway Patrol has stopped, but it reaUy becomes meaningless without knowing who is available to be stopped,” said Geoffrey Alpert, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina. Link between anger and smoking Continued from page 4B grams. Previous surveys had sug gested that TVpo A personali ties are more likely to be big smokers, especially when nervous or irritated. Also, some scientists have put smokers into brain scanners while infusing them with nicotine, to see what brain areas the drug targets. But Potkin’s study took the crucial step of adding non- smokers to the mix. And he asked 86 people to do various tests — such as computer games that showed who were the sore losers - while a PET scanner monitored their brain activity before and after receiving low- or high- dose nicotine patches or a sham patch. ‘No one has looked at nico tine in this way,” says Kenneth Perkins, a psychia try professor at the University of Pittsburgh who also is studying predictive traits of smoking. The PET scans showed no brain effects of nicotine on people whose personalities were more relaxed and cheerful. But in people rated as hav ing more hostile tendencies _ easier to anger, more impa tient or irritable - nicotine triggered dramatic changes in activity in brain regions important for controlling emotion and social response. For some people, nicotine increased energy metabo- hsm, for others, it decreased, depending on dose. But despite the common assumption that nicotine can be calming, actually “nicotine made them even more aggressive,” Potkin says. “They may smoke to feel bet ter, but they don’t feel better.” That’s a curious finding. Perkins says, hut it may be because the study used dif ferent doses. Low nicotine doses sometimes stimulate brain activity while high doses suppress other activity. 'The next step: Seeing how the brain reacts when people smoke instead of having carefully controlled doses of nicotine administered via a patch. For that study, Potkin can’t induce nonsmokers to start smoking, so he’ll com pare regular smokers to peo ple who puff a few cigarettes every so often. ^jychicReaci/i,^^ by Palm Reading MS. GABRIELLE Reader & Advisor Tdb Past, Present and Future 704-53.7-7518 Tarot Reading G^duate Studies and the New Start Program Opb\i House Tuesday, March 2,2004 Johnson Hall Lobby Drop-in 5:30 - 7 p.m. Inquire about Winthrop’s 82 undergraduate or 45 graduate programs. Meet faculty and staff. Ask about the competitive graduate tuition for Charlotte Regional Partnership’” counties. • In S.C.-MeckUnburg, Gaston, Union, Anson, Cleveland, Stanly, Uncoln, Cabarrus, Catawba, Rowan, Alexander and Iredell Counties. In S.C.-york, Lancaster and Chester counties. Graduate Studies, 209 Tillman Hall, Rack Hill, SC 29733 303/323-2204 or 300/411-7041 Visit our Web site: www.winthrop.edu/graduate-studies We Want To Know! The Charlotte Post is now publishing announcements the last Thursday of the month. 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