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Übr oaily (Ear MM Troops won’t see combat New deployments to stabilize Iraq BY COURTNEY BARKER STAFF WRITER Despite concerns about the number of troops engaged in ground warfare in Iraq, experts say troops deployed in the near future will focus on stabilizing the coun try rather than on hand-to-hand combat. Many civilians and military per sonnel have voiced concern about having an insufficient number of troops in Iraq. The United States has prepped an additional 100,000 troops for deployment to Iraq, according to The Associated Press. The dissenters say extra deploy ment will make for a better cam paign, but some experts say the war is going exactly as planned. Robert Powers, director of Asynchronous Engineering Programs at Old Dominion University, said the amount of ground warfare actually is less than anticipated. “We’ve encountered extremely light resistance,” Powers said. The possible deployment of troops could have to do with Iraq’s use of guerrilla tactics in the past week, said George Quester, profes sor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. “Part of the reason you need a lot of troops is because it looked like, last week, that the Iraqis were going to use guerrilla warfare, which requires more troops to deal with,” Quester said. Some experts said the troops ready for deployment will be used as stabilizing forces rather than for fighting purposes. The vast majority of the 100,000 troops would not be involved in the fighting but would be deployed for support reasons, said John Reppert, executive director of Havard University’s Kennedy School of Government/Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. “After the war is over, we will still have a huge job to stabilize Iraq," he said. Retired Army Maj. Gen. William Nash, director of the Center for Preventive Action in Washington, D.C., said the 100,000 troops will take care of the pockets of resistance that will remain when the war is over. “It will take more forces to sta bilize Iraq than to take it,” he said. Powers said these troops are part of a “follow-on force.” “Any war plan has an initial force and then a follow-on force,” he said. “The follow-on force is for reinforcements.” Powers also said there will be fewer troops deployed in this cam paign than in the first Persian Gulf War. He said the United States can afford to deploy fewer troops because there are fewer Iraqi forces than there were 12 years ago and because U.S. surveillance and intelligence are significantly better than they were in 199 L Reppert also said the military has improved during the last decade and no longer requires as many troops as it did in the last Gulf War. “The military has increased its reliance on technolo gy and standoff weapons like cruise missiles.” This enables troops to move faster on the ground toward Baghdad, he said, but does not mean the United States never again will have to face hand-to hand combat. Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. mark; AVON Job Opportunity For Fall 2003 Are you a beauty junkie? Are your friends even bigger beauty junkies? Are you looking for ways to make extra cash and learn new marketing skills? 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One hundred years later, Coker Arboretum is observing its centen nial and its rich history in a cele bration to be held Friday and Saturday. Mary Coker Joslin, Coker’s niece, has written a book, “William Chambers Coker: Passionate Botanist,” to commemorate the arboretum and its founder. “As the area was drained, Coker made curving paths and planted varieties of plants and trees,” she said. “By 1920 it was a really beau tiful place.” Wilson Library is showcasing the arboretum’s history in an exhib it called “William Chambers Coker: The Legacy of a Lifelong Botanist.” The exhibit includes Coker’s handwritten key of almost 300 species of plants he planned to bring to the arboretum as well as an initial blueprint. Today, the arboretum houses more than 500 species of flora from North Hospital shows art of patients Featured artists ha ve men ted illnesses BY MICHELLE JARBOE STAFF WRITER For patients, it’s about express ing and building self-esteem. For staff, it’s about connecting with patients on a more personal level. The Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program opens its firth art exhibition Thursday. Among the more than 80 works in the “Brushes With Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness" gallery are pieces by artists with schizo phrenia. bipolar disorder and depression. “Were hoping that (the exhibit) will decrease the stigma toward mental illness, that it will focus on the positive and the creativity. And, in that process, were hoping to educate people,” said Paula Mayence, registered nurse and co chairwoman of the STEP art gallery committee. The gallery, opened in December 2000, plays host to works created bv inpatients and outpatients of STEP, as well as to members of Club Nova, a Carrboro clubhouse for the mentally ill. Located on the third floor of the UNC Neuroscience Hospital, the gallery showcases sketches, photo graphs, paintings, poetry and fiber art, among other w-orks. The art on display changes every six to seven months. A UNC professor and co-chair woman of the STEP art gallery committee. Dr. Nancy Clay-ton said 42 artists are participating in the upcoming exhibit, which is funded by the hospital’s facility enhance ment budget. “I think it’s rewarding for (patients) to have their art dis played. I know it’s boosted the self esteem of a lot of patients," Clayton said. “It’s spurred them on to be more creative and trade more art work. ... It, for some patients, may allow more acceptance of their mental illness.” Mayence echoed these senti ments and said the display of art work reassures patients’ families that their relatives are in a nurtur ing environment. “I think it’s had a positive impact on the staff, too, because it reminds us that we are. working News Carolina and Asia. Charlotte Jones-Roe, assistant director for development at the N.C. Botanical Garden, said the arboretum has become a place everyone can enjoy. “It’s an island of tranquility on the campus: a place to enjoy, par ticularly during spring but all year long,” Jones-Roe said. In addition to providing a recre ational area, Coker Arboretum also aids Alan Weakley, curator of the UNC Herbarium, in his research. “The arboretum provides living collection material to study taxon omy and the biology of plants,” Weakley said. He said access to live, native flora makes it easier to extract DNA and run gene sequencing to research connections between N.C. plants and Asian plants. Biology Professor Pat Gensel reg ularly incorporates the arboretum in her classes, bringing students there for lab or taking small samples to study in the lab. “The arboretum is a wonderful asset, and it enhances courses a great deal,” Gensel said. The arboretum receives half its funds from the state government, and the rest come from friends of the arboretum, Jones-Roe said. During the recent budget crunch, the first items to be cut were University programs that didn’t with a whole person with creative talents and abilities,” she said. Participant artist Nancy Rose Bryant has shown work in the gallery since the second exhibition. A Durham resident, Bryant has been diagnosed with bipolar dis order and has been interested in both psychology and art since childhood. “I’ve always felt very connected with the field of psychology, but I’ve also been an artist since an early age, and the two have always gone hand in hand in expressing my interests," she said. Bryant's paintings are in the upcoming gallery exhibit, as well as in a STEP exhibit at the Raleigh- Durham International Airport. “I feel like I can play a part in making people realize that people with psychosis, for example, are not all psychotic killers,” she said. “I feel like I can play a part to help the general public understand things that are often misunder stood.” Bryant, who also has worked on the gallery committee, said she enjoys working with people who share common interests and pro vide support. "There’s an environment of encouragement and inspiration and understanding and accept ance and appreciation that is very appropriate and also very honest,” she said. “It’s not fabricated. It’s very real... and I’m all for it.” Contact theACjE Editor at artsdesk@ unc.edu. 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Coker realized the significance of the arboretum in 1916 when he wrote about it in the University of North Carolina Magazine. “Nothing could so distinguish us as the presence of these trees, and in their possession we stand with out a rival among the colleges of the country.” Contact the Features Editor at features@unc.edu. Chat aims to fix computer woes BY LIZZIE STEWART STAFF WRITER The popularity of America Online’s Instant Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger services has caught on at Academic Technology & Networks’ Information Technology Response Center. Computer consultants for the response center have incorporated the benefits of chatting into the troubleshooting services they offer to students and faculty at UNC. “The neat thing for us is you don’t need any special software,” said Bruce Egan, associate director for ATN services. “You can get it directly from our Web site.” The chat service is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at http://help.unc.edu. 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If consult ants have trouble understanding a problem, they can request to see the user’s screen and show the user how to solve the problem. If the user needs a Web site or a file, the consultant has the ability to make it appear on the user’s screen. The live chat service is particu larly useful when consultants have trouble figuring out what’s wrong while on the phone. “I see (con sultants who) have their chairs back and their eyes closed trying to visualize what’s wrong,” Egan said. Each session is recorded in a video log so customers and consult ants can see the solution to a recur ring problem. Also, at the end of a session, customers fill out a survey on how the service helped them. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003 ITRC consultants have used the service since December and have received positive feedback. “The feedback I've received so far has been from technicians using the product,” said Angela Self, remote services manager at the TTRC. “They... saw it as a big timesaver.” The service also allows someone outside the country to connect directly to the center without mak ing a long-distance call, Egan said. The service works by using a queuing system, so as' it becomes popular with users, more staff will be trained and available to use it. The chat is a viable option to get help, said Jeremy Buenviaje, a computer consultant at the ITRC. “It’s always good to give them an alternative to reach us another way.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. 9
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