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2 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2004 Hip-hop poet to tout message of democracy BY AYOFEMI KIRBY STAFF WRITER Republicans have Bush. Democrats have Kerry. Hip-hop the ater has Aya de Leon, and you won’t hear a campaign speech like hers. Ayade Leon, ahip-hop activist and poet, will present her one-woman show “Aya de Leon is Running for President: A Campaign Speech Remix in Stand-Up Poetry and Hip Hop Theatre" at 7 p.m. Friday at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. Known for her humorous politi cal commentary, de Leon said the goal of her work is not to endorse candidates, but to send a message of encouragement to her audiences. “I want folks to feel hopeful that we can take back real democracy in this country,” she said. “I want folks to understand the importance of this election, electoral politics in gen eral and the importance of political action beyond this election.” De Leon is the current artist-in residence and the University’s first Pamela Nicole Cummings Visiting Artist of the Stone Center. She is also the second artist of the center’s fall performance and lecture series. For-profit schools offer alternative Accreditation worries hold some hack BY ALEX GRANADOS STAFF WRITER In addition to public and private universities, aspiring students have the option of attending a growing number of for-profit colleges. But accreditation problems might sway some eager learners away from corporate education. Schools such as ECPI College of Technology, ITT Technical Institute and the DeVry Academy say they offer alternatives to traditional aca demia and a path into the nation’s workforce. “We are primarily training workers for entry-level jobs,” said David Treier, corporate relations spokesman at ITT headquarters in Indianapolis. For their money, Treier said, students get classes with practical goals. “They are more tied to work force objectives.” Despite their practical approach, for-profit schools also have prob lems with transfer and accredita tion credentials that are out of sync with those of traditional colleges and universities. RU F ? r U; f . .. . . (qK .u;.n t - c -H. <3 ,pe. .J / •/. •. h i.. 1. Smile with Dr. T by Peter A. Tzendzalian. DDS Q: Is nail-biting bad for fl your teeth? Jl llPßlff A: Unfortunately, yes. Nail-biting and finger-biting are habits for thousands of adults and children, but that doesn't mean they are good habits. 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Call me. www.drpetert.com • 402-9200 So What Happens When Your Organization Is No Longer Officially Recognized At Carolina? YOU LOSE your room and equipment reservations made through the Union. YOU LOSE your homepage on the University's web space. YOU LOSE your list serve and group email accounts. YOU LOSE your Union office space. YOU LOSE your SAFO account. YOU LOSE. PERIOD. Don't delay! Application forms for 'O4-'OS Official University recognition of student co-curricular organizations are available from Room 2501 A of the Union. For continuous recognition, you must submit your Agreement at a meeting with Jon by Friday, September 24, 2004. Questions? Concerns? Contact Jon at jon@email.unc.edu De Leon addressed more than 100 students Wednesday at the Black Student Movement’s weekly meeting, where she performed her poems “Cellulite” and “Icon” and shared her political message on the importance of voting. “Things aren’t going to get bet ter until we make them better,” she said. “We in the older generation are counting on you all, the younger gen eration, to continue on.” Paul Baker, program coordi nator for the Stone Center, said de Leon was selected as the first Cummings visiting artist because of her diverse talents, political interests and background. “We like to think of (the Stone Center) as a diverse organization,” Baker said. “Aya falls under that same bill. “She pulls together a lot of differ ent genres and brings a whole lot of different things in,” he said. “I want all students here to get exposed to things that are new and different and a variety of people. That’s what the Stone Center is about” De Leon was horn in Los Angeles to an African-American father and Puerto Rican mother. She later Corinthian Colleges Inc., which owns the private Florida Metropolitan University, could be facing court action because of accreditation issues, accord ing to a Securities and Exchange Commission report dated March 2. The report states that Adrienne Travis, an student at FMU, alleges that because the school is not accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, her credits are not trans ferrable to other institutions. Corinthian Colleges has not yet received an official complaint from Travis. But the company states in the SEC report that a different group, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, validates EMU’s programs up to the master’s level —a fact made aware to incom ing students at Corinthian schools. Corinthian also states in the report that students are informed that transfer credit depends on the policy of individual schools. Despite the hurdles facing for- IF YOU GO Date: Friday, Sept. 10 Time: 7 p.m. Location: Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. Info: http://ibiblio.org/shscbch attended Harvard University, where she majored in American history and minored in African history. Since then, de Leon has been involved with numerous nonprofit organizations and studied under actors such as Whoopi Goldberg. Most recently, she has been on the hip-hop theater and spoken word circuit with her award-win ning show “Thieves in the Temple: The Reclaiming of Hip-Hop.” De Leon has won numerous awards and fellowships for her work and is working on her first novel. She continues to motivate audiences nationwide with her political message, which she echoed at the meeting Wednesday. “Our strongest weapon is our hope and higher expectations.” Contact theA&E Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu. profit schools, some employers say a degree from a corporate-run institution is enough to get an applicant an interview. “It gets them in the door,” said Sid Mitchener, Raleigh branch man ager for Robert Half Technology, which recruits and places workers on various rungs of the IT ladder. “We know what the training is and what the classes are, and they are a little more hands-on.” Still, the spectrum of for-profit colleges is a large one not easily pigeonholed. But as businesses, the schools experience closer scrutiny than traditional colleges. Herschel Elkins, special assistant attorney general for consumer pol icy coordination and development in California, is investigating the veracity of some for-profit schools’ self-promoting statements. “We discovered a number of problems with statements made to consumers statements as to the success that students were likely to have,” he said. Elkins said that the investigation continues and that he does not know when charges will be brought Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. Is that a zipcard in your pocket? UNC membership only S2O/year! Join Zipcar and get access to VW Beetles on campus 24/7. Rent by the hour or day. Even includes gas, insurance and parking. Reserve online, let yourself in with your Zipcard and drive away. Students, faculty & staff 21+ can _ drive for only $5.00/hr & $55/day. Visit zipcar.com/unc ■ or call 866.4.zipcar ZI DCO T I wheels when you want them News ANALYSIS Intelligence proposal elicits mixed reaction New position, agency may he created BY KAVITA PILLAI ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR After the 9-11 Commission report shook the U.S. intelligence com munity to the core, members of the U.S. House and Senate introduced legislation to address the problems that led up to the terror attacks. But the plans have raised con cerns that partisan politics could interfere with the nation’s safety. The most notable aspect of the Senate bill, introduced Tuesday, is the creation of a national intelli gence director who would have full budgetary control over the foreign intelligence community, including the CIA and 14 other agencies. “The point of the intelligence director is to have someone oversee ing what everyone else is doing so we don’t make the mistakes that we made before September 11 in fail ing to connect the dots,” said Leslie Phillips, press secretary for Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., on the Governmental Affairs Committee. Lieberman, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and two others proposed the legislation. President Bush threw his weight behind the bill Wednesday, specifi Bill seeks to revamp runoffs Luebke to propose instant voting law BY ALEXANDRA DODSON STAFF WRITER A bill designed by a state leg islator might simplify the process and cut the cost of state primary elections and their subsequent runoffs. Rep. Paul Luebke, D-Durham, plans to introduce legislation next year that would give voters the option of ranking their choices when they vote in primaries with more than two candidates. Voters would cast a vote for their preferred oandidate but also would cast a conditional vote by ranking the remaining candidates in order of preference. If no candidate finishes with 40 percent of the vote, vote counters will look at the second choices on all ballots and add them to the origi nal tallies. This process will continue as cally supporting the director’s ability to control the intelligence budget The bills seek to improve infor mation sharing between agencies, widely viewed as a major factor in the failure to foresee the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The Senate bill also calls for increased foreign aid to Afghanistan, funding for U.S. broadcasts in the Muslim world and increased border security. The legislation would create a National Intelligence Authority, a free-standing agency, as well as a National Counterterrorism Center. But some worry that the new agency and its director would only add more obstacles in an already cluttered system. “Often, when you add another layer of bureaucracy, the result is slowness, lack of precision and a generic product,” said Lee Strickland, director of the Center for Information Policy at the University of Maryland-College Park and former CIA senior intel ligence officer. “Intelligence is not that certain. It works as a process of providing estimates and judgments of what’s going to be. There’s something to needed with third and fourth choice selections until a candidate is select ed with 40 percent of the vote. The system would eliminate the need for separate runoff elections. Luebke said he plans to intro duce the bill when the N.C. General Assembly reconvenes in January. “It’s called instant runoff,” Luebke said. “You do all your vot ing the same day.” The plan will apply in any pri mary in which there are more than two candidates, he said. But voters will have the option of voting for only one candidate. In this case, the voter would not cast a second-choice vote in a runoff. Luebke said benefits of his plan include cutting costs to the state, which average $3 million per elec tion. The plan also would ensure that the Same people vote in both ©f* iatlg (Tor Hprf be said for having a diversity of opinion.” Strickland added that the director will be effective only if he remains truly independent from the White House, as the current legislation requires. The original recommen dation from the 9-11 Commission asked that the director be located in the executive office of the president “(Having the director in the executive office) could politicize the intelligence process, making it too close to the White House,” Strickland said. “So that rigorous, untarnished intelligence may not be provided.” Michael Smith, professor of intelligence and space studies at American Military University and a retired CIA analyst, also said the position should not become anoth er arm of the president. “(The director) should be the adviser to the president on intelli gence issues, and that’s it,” he said. Smith added that while the bills are receiving support, they likely will be heavily debated. “There are too many entrenched interests for it to be simply adopted without modification.” Contact the State Of National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. the primary and the runoff. Because runoffs typically are held weeks after the initial pri mary, Luebke said, turnout tends to be lower. He cited last month’s Democratic runoff for state superintendent, where only one-seventh of the number of voters in the July pri mary returned in August to nomi nate June Atkinson. Gary Bartlett, executive director of the N.C. State Board of Elections, said low turnout for runoffs is com mon. “I would say that for the first pri mary, (turnout) was exactly what we thought it would be,” he said, pointing out that 15.5 percent of registered voters came out in July. Bartlett said turnout during the runoff election was low for the Democrats, although turnout among Republicans voting for con gressional candidates was better. Instant runoff plans like Luebke’s have been instituted in about 30 jurisdictions in the United States, he said, most notably in San Francisco. When instituting a voting process like instant runoff vot ing, Bartlett said, there are three main things that should be con sidered. First, he said, parties and their candidates must be comfortable and educated about the system. “Any time you have any type of change, they have to have a com fort level,” he said. Next, voters must be familiar with the way the process works so they cast their ballots correctly. Finally, Bartlett said, voting offi cials must work with the new sys tem to ensure that precincts have the right equipment and that bal lots will be counted correctly. But no matter what the pro cess is, Luebke said, he thinks it is important that the winning candi date always receives at least 40 per cent of the vote in the primaries. “(This percentage) demonstrates that the person has substantial sup port in his or her party.” Contact the State £2 National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. (Hfjp lattg alar P.O. 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