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to domestic drug traffic
Issue addressed
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BY SCOn SIMONTON
STAFF WRITER
President Bush vowed to fight
North Korea’s involvement in drug
distribution last week, but experts
say the administration needs to
focus on the increase in domestic
drug manufacturing.
President Bush addressed North
Korea’s involvement with metham
phetamine and heroin trafficking
to East Asian countries in a U.S.
government report released last
week.
He also cited 22 other countries,
including Afghanistan and China,
as drug trafficking and manufac
turing hubs.
While there is proof of North
Korea’s involvement in the distri
bution of drugs, there is no evi
dence that the country has pro
duced them within its borders.
With this instability surrounding
Bush’s claims, experts say, his focus
should shift to his home turf’s war
against drugs.
In the United States, finding
those manufacturing the drugs
seems to be the primary concern,
More graduates seeking comforts of home
BY INDIA AUTRY
STAFF WRITER
In the words of Thomas Wolfe,
“you can’t go home again."
If you’re UNC senior Nick
Wagner, you don’t want to.
The current resident of an
apartment on East Franklin Street
said he can't even imagine moving
back in with his parents after grad
uation.
Wagner, who hails from
Marietta, Ga., is most concerned
about preserving his autonomy.
“Even though my parents are
very liberal about the things I’m
allowed to do when I’m at home, I
certainly wouldn't have the degree
of freedom I have living on my
own,” he said.
Wagner hopes to begin medical
school next year. If he’s not accept
ed, Wagner said, he plans to work
a temporary job for a year or so
and live in an apartment.
But Wagner is in the minority,
as a growing number of graduates
are heading home after they walk
across the stage.
According to the 2000 U.S.
Census, 57 percent of males ages 18
to 24 and 43 percent of females
lived at home with one or both of
their parents.
“We haven’t seen young adults
living with their parents in these
numbers since the 19305,” said
Frances Goldscheider, a professor
of sociology at Brown University.
UNC senior Jack Vang, now
housed in Stacy Residence Hall,
said living with his family is his
ideal.
While awaiting acceptance to
medical school, he plans to work
and live with his family in
Taylorsville.
If Vang’s job after professional
school takes him away from his
hometown, his family will follow
him, so they can all live together.
“It’s a cultural thing," said Vang,
the son of Hmong parents. “I’m
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said Darrell Rogers, national direc
tor of Students for Sensible Drug
Policy.
“In the U.S., methamphetamine
is primarily not imported but pro
duced within the borders, like mar
ijuana,” he said. “Heroin is growing
in accessibility while its potency is
rising and price is dropping.”
U.S. policy for drug use and traf
ficking is based on law enforcement,
treatment, interdiction and preven
tion. Rogers estimated that law
enforcement intercepts 10 percent
of incoming drugs and inspects 2
percent of incoming cargo.
Rogers said that experts are
aware of these facts but that they
seem to look past them.
“Even with completely sealed
borders, the in-home production of
these drugs would increase and the
climate required for them to suc
ceed and reach the consumers
would evolve,” said William McColl,
director of national affairs for the
Drug Policy Alliance.
Rogers added that “trying to
stop the supply of a product where
demand exists is futile people
will find a way to satisfy their
demand.”
Even if there were a complete
focus on domestic drug traffic, the
problem could not be eliminated
trying to keep my tradition alive.”
But moving back home after
college graduation isn’t restricted
by cultural ideals.
The rising marriage age is one
phenomenon Goldscheider credit
ed for the increasing number of
young adults living with their par
ents.
Glen Elder, a UNC professor of
sociology and a faculty member at
the Carolina Population Center,
said marriage which pushes
people outside of their parents'
homes and forces them to form
their own families is being post
poned more and more often, espe
cially among the college-educated
population.
The trend applies mostly to
men, who, in Goldscheider’s opin
ion, are less likely to live alone
because they are not conditioned
by society to be domestically inde
pendent.
And because they generally are
expected to be the providers for the
households they eventually form,
they marry even later than women.
The other major cause of the
phenomenon is financial,
Goldscheider said. The restruc
tured economy has become much
more volatile and less hospitable to
vulnerable people.
“Last hired, first fired: this say
ing applies to minorities and
young adults," she said.
Asa result there are fewer jobs
available to college graduates,
especially those who have majored
in general studies such as the lib
eral arts and social sciences, said
Matt Montoya, a graduate student
in UNC’s Department of
Psychology.
Anna Kate Lewis, a 2003 UNC
graduate, can attest to that.
Lewis, who graduated with a
bachelor’s degree in Spanish and
political science, sent her cover let
ter and resume to approximately
150 employers.
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completely, he said.
Rogers said law enforcement
tries to balance between investi
gating the importation of drugs
and internal drug production.
He said this fact justifies Bush’s
foreign focus because he can insti
tute the same level of prevention in
the foreign areas mentioned in his
report without compromising the
level of domestic support.
There also is the notion that
drug trafficking in the United
States is an underground market
that is extremely difficult to moni
tor, said Martin Iguchi, director of
the Drug Policy Research Center at
the RAND Institute.
Iguchi said the nature of the
drug market keeps law enforce
ment at a distance from illegal
activity and forces officials to find
alternate solutions to end the war
on drugs.
McColl said that the country’s
drug war cannot be fought on the
front lines and that it should start
from the bottom up.
“I believe it would be more ben
eficial to focus on education and
rehabilitation rather than our lim
ited ability to enforce dnig laws."
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“I only heard back from two of
them, even though most of the
positions, I felt overqualified for,”
Lewis said.
Goldscheider said it’s not just
low' earnings but high expenses
that thwart college graduates. The
relative cost of housing is higher
then it’s been since the Great
Depression, she said.
The cost and length of educa
tion also are increasing, leaving
students with larger debts to repay
after graduation, said Lisa Pearce,
a professor in the UNC
Department of Sociology.
Living at home after graduation
might give young people needed
time to find their financial footing,
Pearce explained.
Tracy Handwerk, a 1998 UNC
graduate, said she has moved back
to her New Jersey home because
living there allows her to save
money while she establishes her
self in her career.
“I just think it’s hard for young
people to try to make it both ways
financially and professionally,"
Handwerk said.
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AP classes seeing increases
BY DAN PIERGALLINI
STAFF WRITER
Record numbers of students are
cutting college costs by placing out
of courses with exam credit, a
trend experts say likely will contin
ue as tuition rises and admission to
four-year institutions becomes
more competitive.
The Advanced Placement
Program saw an 11 percent increase
in participation last year, said
Jennifer Topiel, associate director
of public affairs for the College
Board, which runs the AP Program.
The College-Level Examination
Program also witnessed a 20 per
cent increase in the number of stu
dents taking their test, said CLEP
Director Ariel Foster.
Almost 1 million students took
1.7 million exams last year to try to
receive credit for college courses,
according the College Board Web
site.
North Carolina saw a participa
tion increase of 15 percent in the
AP Program, according to the Web
site. The number of N.C. students
taking the CLEP rose 18 percent,
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the $20.3 billion they have
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Foster said.
“Students and their parents are
becoming savvy consumers when it
comes to paying tuition,” said Paul
Hassen, a spokesman for the
American Council on Education.
“Demonstrating that they can do
high-level college work is certain
ly a part of it too.”
UNC awards credit for both AP
and CLEP exams. Students must
make a 3 or higher on AP exams in
most subject areas.
Foster said the rising cost of
education and the struggling econ
omy are key reasons more students
are taking the exams.
The AP Program exists in 60
percent of high schools across the
nation. Students take a yearlong
course in one of 31 subjects and an
exam at the end of the year.
Depending on the student’s
score, which ranges from 1 to 5,
and the respective university’s pol
icy, credit is awarded for the exam.
The CLEP exam is conducted
outside of high schools and covers
34 subject areas. Many who take
the exam are adults hoping to
organization running Iraq.
The report’s estimated cost of
rebuilding Iraq’s fire service,
including hiring and training
5,000 firefighters: $290 million.
At another point, the report
says the headquarters and three
regional offices of the border
police “will require complete ren
ovation.”
Two thousand new recruits
must be trained because the
agency previously used conscripts,
“almost all of whom deserted."
Reviving that and other border
protection agencies should cost
$l5O million, the report said.
The proposal was part of the
SB7 billion plan that President
Bush sent Congress on Sept. 7 for
Iraq and Afghanistan. The biggest
piece of that package w'as $66 bil
lion to finance U.S. military opera
tions in both countries and else
where.
“Expeditious approval of this
emergency appropriation is criti
cal for the coalition to lay the
groundwork for an Iraq governed
by and for the people of Iraq, to
serve as the model for democracy
return to college, Foster said.
“People who take the exam want
to go back to college but need to
find creative ways to finance their
education,” he said. “The cost of the
exam is really a bargain compared
to the cost of tuition.”
The College Board not only has
seen an increase in the number of
students taking pre-college exams,
they also have succeeded in attract
ing more minorities to the program.
Topiel said 15 to 20 percent
more minority students took the
tests during the 2002-03 academ
ic year. The board has made a con
certed effort to attract more
Hispanics and blacks to the pro
gram by working in minority com
munities and historically black col
leges and universities.
The AP program also is encour
aging high schools to hire minori
ties to teach AP courses, Topiel said.
“If the teacher is like them,
minorities will be more likely to
take an AP course.”
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in the Mideast and to help fight
the global war on terrorism by
providing an alternative frame
work for governance,” the request
states.
Congress, just beginning work
on Bush’s proposal, is expected to
approve it largely intact.
But the political soft spot has
been the $20.3 billion for recon
struction, because of record feder
al deficits facing this country and
demands by Democrats for
increased domestic security spend
ing.
“The administration fought
against a S2OO million boost for
America’s police officers, fire
fighters and paramedics,” Sen.
Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said
Monday at a Senate
Appropriations Committee hear
ing. “But Iraqi first responders
would get $290 million through
this” Bush proposal.
Byrd made his comments at a
hearing where L. Paul Bremer, the
U.S. administrator in Iraq, testified
that the plan would help prevent
terrorists from establishing a
foothold there.
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