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3B LIFE/tCit Clatlsttt $o«t Thursday September 29, 2005 MP3 players taking over lives and hearing | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOUI^DER, Colo. — Ryan Cusick says he spends more time listening to his iPod than he is awake. That’s because he goes to sleep listening to music. ^\^thm minutes of waking up, Cusick, 18, clutches his iPod, pops in his earphones and plays some fast-paced music to get his day rocking. Something with strong drum beats—maybe MetaUica, said the University of Colorado freshman. He falls asleep listening to slower, alternative rock, and he usually wakes up in the middle of the ni^t to pull the plug on the music. By then, songs are stuck in his head and play in his dreams. The digital audio players are almost essential acces sories for h^i school and col lege students. If a visitor from another planet were to land on CU’s campus, it might wonder what the white tenta- de-like things are that seem to hang from young people’s ears. One professor says the iPod addiction isn’t much different from the Walkman fad of the 1980s. A hearing expal says much like the Walkmans, the pulsating beats thumping into people’s ears through iPods could lead to hearing loss. For Cusick, thou^, silence is a distraction. “It becomes second nature to have music playing all the time,” he said. “I feel uncom fortable wh^ it’s quiet. It’s like silence is deafening.” Disco music accompanies him while he jogs and in lai^e lectures with 300-plus stu dents, he leaves an earplug in his right ear to listen to Radiohead and uses his left ear to listen to his professor. ‘Tou walk around campus, and it’s like every third per son has the white earplugs in,” Cusick said. ‘Tou’U see a group of friends, and none of them are talking. It’s like they are off in space.” Adam Pasha, a CU fi^h- man who listens to music on his iPod only a couple of hours a day notices the same trend. “Everyone seems to have one,” he said. ‘It’s like an iPod and a Nalgene bottle are col lege necessities.” Lauren De La Cerda, also a freshman, is going through iPod withdrawal. Her unit feU from her desk and broke. She had downloaded about 1,200 son^ downloaded on her iPod, including classic rock and country music. ‘Tm really bummed,” she said. “That was like all my music.” James Brody, a CU profes sor who teaches a course titled Music in the Rock Era, and has been teaching at the university for about two decades said that what goes around comes around. “There’s been a cycle, in my view, of portable electronic equipment,” Brody said. ACLU says race motivated S.C. police background checks THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. - The leader of the state chap ter of the American Civil Liberties Union says assump tions that led to South Carolina’s criminal back ground checks of Hurricane Katrina evacuees are racially motivated. “The assumption that when you go out to rescue a bunch of poor, black people, that they are going to be crimi nals, is racist,” said Kevin Gray, president of the S.C. chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “The only plan they ever seem to have for poor people is a jail plan.” ‘We want to uphold every one’s constitutional rights,” State Law Enforcement Division Chief Robert Stewart said. “But if someone is coming into a home with a family, they would probably ' want to know ifthat person is on the sex offender registry or is a violent criminal.” SLED estimates blacks accounted for 80 percent of the evacuees screened. Stewart says his agency had no part in choosing who fed eral officials loaded on planes boimd for South Carolina. “Our only intent was the safe ty of the survivors and the cit izens of this state.” SLED screened 547 evac uees and found 301 with criminal records for minor and mqjor offenses, including bursaries, assaults and rape, SLED Inspector Richard Hunton said. “Most of it was old and minor offenses, larceny and drug charges from the ‘70s and ‘80s,” Stewart said. Screenings turned up two men with warrants outstand ing for burglaries in other states. But they were released because Oregon and Washington state didn’t want to extradite them, Stewart said. The screening involved only those evacuated by federal authorities to Columbia and Greenville. That’s only a frac tion of the estimated 6,000 Gulf Coast residents now staying in South Carolina. “What we don’t know about are (evacuees) who have come into the state on their own or had some church or civic group bring th^n in,” Stewart said. The screenings were “done for everyone’s protection,” Hunton said. ‘It was done both to allow the evacuees to know they may have some one dangerous in their midst as well as for the benefit of the community assisting them,” Hunton said SLED used whatever iden tification or information the evacuees could provide. Other states fingerprinted those without identification so criminal record checks could be run and photo IDs issued. In West \fiiginia, only one of the 350 evacuees had a valid identification card. State police there found near ly half of the evacuees had a criminal record, includiig 77 people who had been convict ed of at least one violent offense, state police Lt. Col. Stephen Thcker said. In Massachusetts authori ties found a man wanted on a rape chaige among the 200 Katrina evacuees who landed at a military base on Cape Cod and took him into cus tody Katie Ford, a spokes woman for the Massachusetts public safety office, said two otha^ left the state while authorities were reviewing whether they needed to register as sex offenders. The evacuees likely would have faced checks when they sought housing. For instance, some building owners are requesting checks as they provide housing, the Irident United Way in Charleston said. And the Charleston Housing Authority, now help ing 32 families, regularly con ducts criminal backgroimd checks on all prospective ten ants. After-school Broadway Junior Tour By HIE E CHARLOTTE POn- When the Blumenthal Performing Arts Education Institute and Music Theatre International partnered to kick off the 25-week national tour for MTT s After School- sical Special “Broadway Junior on Tbur”, seeds were planted Then dreams came ahve in nearly 1,000 elemen tary and middle school kids, to become Broadway actors or theatrical technicians. In a live stage show, teach ers and student were intro duced to elements of three mi^icals from the MTT Education Collection. Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man Junior, Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler’s, “Dear . Edwina Junior” and the Stephen Sondheim-James j Lapin musical, ‘Into the jWoods Junior.” The tour is ^designed to educate, empow- and entertain parents, achers and students about 'the process of putting on a usical. The tour started this ■week in Chailotte and will isit more than 100 U.S. ^^ties. ^ “In this audience you may the next big actor, big pro- ucer, the next big director, le next big writer, the next lig composer, set designer and lighting designer,” says Tim McA|^d, MITs direc tor of edi9i|ion, “They are getting to se^^l the magic and how it works a little bit. That’s going to spark some one’s interest.” Children learned the impor tance of teamwork and self esteem as the musical showed that everyone’s contribution to the show whether on or off stage makes the show a hit. Tb grab the children’s inter est, the wpters and producers spiced the show up with con temporary terminology and situations. ,‘T think if you start with something contemporary, they c£ui enjoy something classical. So by speaking the language of vocabulary, whether it’s dance or rhyme I think you get them hooked,” said McDonald. ‘We decided to write a story that went over the whole thing. It was through the story of the kids arguing over whom was going to play the lead, the actor thinking that the tech support was not important. We set up these conflicts to demonstrate' that not one person can do, all these diings. It takes every body working together,” said producer Steve Gabriel. Morenga Hunt, Blumenthal’s vice president of Please see AFTER /4B PHOTO/BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Charlotte hosted to Broadway Jr.’s kick off Tuesday, marking the first time a national tour launched here. "They come and go. Tve been around since the ei^t-track.” Deanna Meinke, a doctoral candidate at CU in the speech, language and hearing sciences, said two factors determine whether the listen ing can contribute to hearing loss: How long people listen to music and how loud. He said recommended max imum ejqxDsure time is eight hours if somebody is listening to music at 85 decibels, which is the equivalent of a noisy restaurant. If somebody lis tens to music at 100 decibels _ which could be compaied to a woodworking class _ the rec ommended exposure time is 15 minutes. I I I I I I I Advertise with a winner and you can’t go wrong, 2004 National Newspaper Publishers Association honors in Community Service, Religion and Sports Call us at (704) 376-0496 Cl^arlotte $oiit Center City Streetcar PUBLIC MEETINB Please make plans to attend as CATS Center City Streetcar team unveils the recommended system plan for your corridor! We need you to take this opportunity to provide feedback on the draft piani September 27, 2005 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center 600 East Fourth Street Room CH-18 6:30 pm i», , I I' ■: ^mgAhtad.f . riH[f bThtET «> % ' Please consult the CATS Trip Planner at mivi.rltletranslt.org for bus routes nearest the meeting locations. For more information, call (704) 336-RIDE or visit mw.ridelransit.org. The Presbyterian Health Pavilion at Charlotte Shout’s Culinary Experience will feature a full schedule of healthy CHARLOTTE talks arui demonstrations. Topics include women and heart' SHOUT disease, the Mediterranean-American diet, cholesterol and cancer- CULINARY proofing your diet. Test your nutrition knowledge and your health EXPERIENCE tbg Wheel of Nutrition, blood pressure screenings and BMI ^ checks. Enjoy massages, kam about Presbyterian's Eat Your Heart ■ Out cookbook and get exercise tips. 9/23-9/24, Gatewc^ Village. Call 704-384-CARE to register for aU classes unless otherwise indicated. Help for Knee & Hip Pain Advanced treatments, nutrition, medications, exercise. Free. Tkurs., 9/8, 10-11 a.m., PHM Weight Loss Surgery Learn about surgical wei^t loss options. Surgical Solutions, Wed., 917, 6-8p.m., PH Lap Band, Wed., 9121,6-8p.m., PH Gastric Bypass, Tues., 9127, 6-dp.m., PH Update on Prostate Cance r Treatments Panel discussion with physicians and [Jiarmacist. 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