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Qir lailjj (Bar Mrrl BLOGGING FROM PAGE 1 see a bevy of responses from area politicos, is celebrating its second birthday Tuesday and has found its niche in this election through live blogging from candidate forums. Town Council candidate and UNC sophomore Jason Baker host ed a blog prior to the election sea son but now is hoping it will bolster support for his campaign. “It was nothing new to me to have a blog,” he said of http://www. jasonbaker.us. “It lets a lot of folks know what’s going on.” The driving force behind his blog? It attracts readership without RITA FROM PAGE 1 Houston and New Orleans. In Beaumont, trees of all sizes and power lines were down, street signs were shredded, and one brick wall of an office building had col lapsed. Said Dr. Gaylon Gonzalez, a surgeon who spent the night at Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth as Rita arrived: “It sounded like a power washer hitting the win dows.” Perry surveyed Beaumont by air Saturday. “Considering it was a Category 5 storm 48 hours ago, I think we’re probably pretty fortu nate,” he said. The Texas Department of Transportation dispatched a 30- vehicle convoy from Beaumont to clear a debris-covered high way to the north toward Lufkin. Authorities used military heli copters and a bus to move some nursing home residents who had been stranded since Friday at an elementary school without power in the small town of Fred. INFLATION FROM PAGE 1 ring to the concept of a Relative Power Index. “You don’t just look at the win-loss of the team, you also look at the difficulty of the sched ule.” Such a system could benefit stu dents taking difficult classes with harder professors, he said. “Right now all the incentive for students is to get higher grades regardless of really what that reflects,” Gordon said. “An A in the class where every one gets an A is the same as an A in the class where only five people get an A.” Provost Robert Shelton said he is familiar with the idea and that he thinks it merits further investi gation. “It’s interesting,” he said. “I’m always open to looking at new ideas, but you have to be very care ful to make sure that whatever you do is done broadly, that you don’t disadvantage your students here.” Leah McGinnis, committee member and undergraduate librar ian, said the committee has dis cussed the idea but that it remains in the preliminary stages. “I can see that there are definite issues there that need to be inves tigated,” she said, referring to the problem of grade inflation. “I can’t say at this stage that that’s the cor rect direction to take, but that’s something to look into.” One of the biggest problems at UNC-CH is that across the board, grades tend to be higher in the humanities than in the natural sci ences, Gordon said. A type of weighted GPA system might work to account for that imbalance. “Grades vary widely by depart ment,” Gordon said. “It would hopefully reduce the incentives to simply take courses because you expected that the course would be a good way to get a high grade.” Similar problems with grade inflation are occurring across the field of higher education, said Harvey Mansfield, professor of gov ernment at Harvard University. “I don’t know if any major uni versities are an exception to this.” It’s a problem that his own university has begun to address, Mansfield said. “It’s only recently that the faculty (at Harvard) became aware that we were giving 50 percent As and A-’s,” he said. Last year, Princeton University implemented a quota for top grades. The school is working toward a goal of awarding A’s only 35 percent of the time. In a report released last week, Princeton’s Faculty Committee on Grading reported an overall drop in A’s awarded from 46 percent in 2003-04 to 40.9 percent during the 2004-05 year. Whether the idea will ever make it beyond the Educational Policy Committee remains uncertain. “Before anything would be done to change grading, there would be a tremendous amount of discussion of the proposals,” Gordon said. “It would at least take a couple of years to implement.” “I don’t think it would affect people now, though I could be wrong.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. wasting paper, Baker said. “I think one of my goals was to cut down on the amount of paper used,” he said. “I can also look at my usage statistics, at (Internet Protocol) addresses.” About 50 of Baker’s recent hits have come from University dorms. “I was surprised to find the level of student hits,” he said. “I think a lot of them come from other people Unking to the site on their blogs.” Carrboro Alderman Mark Chilton, who is running for mayor this year, keeps readers updated on results of his door-to-door can vassing through his blog, at http:// markchilton.org/. “I started it back in the begin ning of July,” he said. “It’s intended for the experience of the campaign as opposed to substance.” As the season draws closer to Election Day, Chilton said he will use the blog more as a platform to PROTEST FROM PAGE 1 from Charlotte. He said that being a conserva tive does not mean he supports everything the president does. “We’re against the war and the detriment of common liberties,” he said. “War is supposed to be a last resort this is a war of choice.” Tom VanDerßeck came to the rally with a group of about 200 people from the Chapel Hill area. “I feel very strongly about this,” he said of the war protest. There were only a few counter demonstrations, but all conflicts ended quickly and peacefully. Police, armed with riot gear, lined the path of the march to maintain CHANCELLOR FROM PAGE 1 National University of Singapore announced their goal for making the school one of the leading uni versities in the world. They made it clear that they believe in the power of higher education to craft a suc cessful future for their country. And they had another message for us - the universities of Asia, especially in China and India, are prepared to compete head on with the United States and Europe for the best faculty and students in the world and to challenge our estab lished domination in the world of ideas and innovation. What is the role of this univer sity in helping its students and the state of North Carolina be com petitive in a global marketplace? That is one of the “big picture” questions I have been considering this summer. Another issue that has occu pied my time is diversity. It is a key component of our academic plan and we have made tremen dous progress in this area. The Duke University Medical Center The Genetics of Environmental Asthma Healthy non-smokers lU. ( a g e 18-40), with mild asthma M or allergies. And a few people without 188 asthma or allergies are asked to participate an asthma study. ■■ Three visits required. Compensation offered. Contact person: Catherine Foss 919.668.3599 •fossooos@mc.duke.edu IKK ttZjj/ Peace Corps at UNC - Chapel Hill Celebrate The Many Faces of Peace Corps Guest Speaker Henry McKoy, Peace Corps Africa Region Director followed by a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer panel discussion Wednesday, September 28 6:00 pm 105 Gardner Hall For information, contact Christine Bixiones at: pcacccorps@unc.cdu Peace Corps. Life is calling. How Ear will you go? 800.424.8580 peacecorps.gov News tackle issues. Baker’s blog, updated about once a week, mostly focuses on campaign news and announcements. Baker said other candidates’ blogs raise the bar for having a good online representation, pointing out fellow candidate Will Raymond’s blog, at http://willray mond.org/, as an example. “Overall, I’m pretty impressed with everyone’s sites,” he said. A list of candidate Web sites is available at orangepolitics.org/ elections-2005. Among the blog gers: Town Council hopefuls Baker, Raymond, and incumbent Mark Kleinschmidt, at http://klein schmidt2oos.blogspot.com/; and in Carrboro, Chilton and David Marshall, at http://mentevidebor. blogspot.com/. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. safety and control. A few people from the White House came outside as the protest ers chanted, increasing the excite ment of the crowd. Tom Palumbo, a veteran of the Gulf War from Norfolk, Va., arrived with two buses full of people —a significant number from a military town, he said. He said he was impressed with the turnout, and is confident the message to bring the troops home made it to the White House. He also said the fight wouldn’t end with efforts scheduled to con tinue until the troops come home. “It’s like a meeting of the tribes,” he said. “We’re not going away.” Contact the State ei National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. campus diversity task force has compiled some great information about this issue that will help us to develop our next steps. The complete report of the task force is now available at www.unc.edu/ diversity/assessment. Both of these issues require the involvement of every person that is a part of this university, including you, the students. I would be very interested in hearing from you about these subjects, and others that are of interest to you. Last year we started a series of open houses sponsored by the Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor, held at the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence. The next open house is today from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. There will be live music before hand, courtesy of jazz musicians Eric Bilbrey and Charles Cleaver. Refreshments will be served. Please stop by, listen to some great music and join in our discussion. I hope to see you there. Contact Chancellor Moeser at chancellor@unc.edu. Chancellor’s open house today Officials hope for mixed discussion BY LINDSAY MICHEL ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR While issues surrounding UNC’s relationship with Aramark Corp. dominated the last Chancellor’s Open House, leaders hope that today’s forum will elicit a more varied mix of topics. “I would definitely like to see a wider range of issues discussed at this meeting,” said Adrian Johnston, student body vice president and chairman of the Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor. The meeting, to be held in the Johnston Center lounge, will begin at 3:30 p.m. with jazz played by student musicians, and discussions with Chancellor James Moeser will run from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The committee solicited student opinions about Moeser through its “Stick it to the Meez” campaign which allowed students to stick Post-it notes to an oversized picture of Moeser in the Pit last week. 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But one proposed policy change to the way University housekeep ers do their work has the potential to turn today’s meeting into a one topic debate. Mike Hachey, a member of Student Action with Workers, said his group plans to give a presenta tion on team cleaning. This is the second time the stu dent activist organization will use the open meetings as a way to con front Moeser about campus worker issues, Hachey said. “I think that it has been use ful meeting with the chancellor because he’s the person who ulti mately has the decision-making power to make the changes we are interested in,” he said. 21 Large number 22 Stately tree 23 River inlet 25 No second chances 26 Felon, to a cop 27 Pose for shots 29 Outback runner: var. 33 Legally bars 35 Hoosegow 38 French actor Jacques 39 Ta-ta! 40 Building wing 41 Ooze quantity 42 Fit for drinking 2 S 6 8 ■■P? 10 111 12 13 BIS ~t fllf? 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Sometimes people assume Moeser feels a specific way about an issue before they have had the chance to hear from him directly, Johnston said. “People are on the same side of the issue a lot more than you think.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. (C)2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. 45 Pad occupant 46 Leb. neighbor 47 DDE's rank 49 Morose 53 Equals 54 Skull: pref. 55 Vandenberg and Wilhelm 59 A/C figures 60 Obtained 61 Mom-&-pop store grp. 62 Dundee topper 63 Period of time 64 Mil. unit 7
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