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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2008
National and World News
FROM THE
CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Thompson will
rebuild military
AIKEN. S.C. (AP) -
Republican presidential can
didate Fred Thompson empha
sized his plans for national
security Monday as he con
tinued campaigning in South
Carolina, a state he has said
is critical for his White House
hid.
The former Tennessee sena
tor and actor said the U.S. must
rebuild its military. He will sit
down with congressional lead
ers. but if that doesn't work
Thompson said he'll simply go
over their heads.
Edwards opposes
coal-fired plants
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C.
(AP) Democratic presiden
tial candidate John Edwards
on Monday said a proposed
coal-fired (lower plant shouldn't
be built in northeastern South
Carolina, continuing his call for
a ban on those facilities.
“Mv view is that needs to
stop." Edwards said of the $1 bil
lion. fiOO-megawatt plant set to
be built along the Pee Dee River
in this early voting state. Santee
Cooper officials are awaiting a
final permit from state environ
mental regulators.
SETTLEMENT
FROM PAGE 1
The UNC Department of
Athletics stated in a press release
that the money is meant to reim
burse Jennings for her attorney fees
over the near decade-long debacle
of the suit, not to indicate guilt.
But Dan Konieek. Jennings' law
yer. said the agreement terms were
ones Jennings had been advocating
for years. He said the reason they
held out so long was because the
University didn't want to pay.
“The way the case had progressed
for the nine years was a complete
denial of the facts." Konieek said.
“Melissa is very happy."
And Dorrance said that while he
had wanted to dear his name on trial,
he is happy that the case is Fiver.
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Threatening radio message from
Iranian ships may have been a hoax
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) A threat
ening radio message at the end of
a video showing Iranian patrol
boats swarming near U.S. war
ships in the Persian Gulf may have
come from a prankster rather than
from the Iranian vessels, the Navy
Times newspaper has reported.
A video and audio of the Jan. 6
incident in the Strait of Hormuz
featured a man in accented English
saying "I am coming to y0u.... You
will explode after... minutes."
Cmdr. Lydia Robertson, spokes
woman for the Fifth Fleet in
Bahrain, said the Navy was still try -
ing to determine the source of the
More cocaine is
getting into U.S.
MIAMI (AP) - U.S.-direct
ed seizures and disruptions of
cocaine shipments from Latin
America dropped sharply in
2007 from the year before,
reflecting in part a successful
shift in tactics by drug traffick
ers to avoid detection at sea,
senior American officials dis
closed Monday in releasing new
figures.
Drug cartels are finding new
ways of eluding detection at sea,
such as shipping drugs in semi
submersible vessels, and are flying
drug routes from sites in western
Venezuela that are harder to stop,
officials said.
“Since August 1998, 1 have
looked forward to clearing my
name in court. That is still true
today," he stated in a press release.
Dorrance's apology included an
acknow ledgement that he had par
ticipated in “inappropriate and unac
ceptable" conversations about sexual
activities and an acknowledgement
that they offended Jennings.
The athletics department will
pay the settlement from its 2007-08
operating budget, which does not
draw from state or tuition money .
The suit also named three assis
tant coaches, a trainer, University
officials including Baddour. the
deceased Chancellor Michael Hooker
and the University itself.
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transmission but believed it was
related to the Iranian actions.
The Navy Times quoted sev
eral veteran sailors as speculat
ing the transmission could have
come from a radio heckler, widely
known among mariners by the
ethnically insulting term "the
Filipino Monkey."
The newspaper, which serves
the Navy community, said U.S.
sailors in the Persian Gulf have
heard the prankster possibly
more than one person trans
mitting "insults and jabbering vile
epithets" on unencrypted frequen
cies.
Bush seeks Saudi
favor with arms
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP)
President Bush delivered a
sophisticated weapons sale for
Saudi Arabia on Monday, try
ing to bolster defenses against
threats from U.S. adversary Iran
and muster support in this oil
rich kingdom for a long-stalled
Mideast peace agreement.
Saudi Arabia holds the
world’s largest oil reserves and
surging fuel costs are putting a
major strain on the troubled U.S.
economy. But White House offi
cials said it was unclear if Bush
raised the subject with the king.
The issue has come up in earlier
stops on Bush's eight-day trip.
about their sexual activities."
The veracity of those claims is
not established in the settlement.
“So many of the comments that
were attributed to me were simply
not true." Dorrance said in a 2004
statement. “I apologized before for
making some inappropriate com
ments. but none of them reached
the lewis that were claimed."
A trial had been scheduled for
April 7 in U.S. District Court.
Still, Konieek counted the cash
figure, the external policy review and
the written apology as a win.
“Melissa took on a University
and frankly made them change
something," he said. “That just
doesn't happen every day.’
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Beer prices impacted by
worldwide hops shortage
BY HEATHER CALDWELL
STAFF WRITER
You might have noticed a hop in
the price of your favorite beer on
Franklin Street.
A worldwide hops shortage and
malting barley price increases haw
forced one of Chapel Hill's renowned
breweries to raise its prices.
During the past year, hops prices
increased an eye-popping 300 per
cent from $5 per pound to S2O.
Combined with a 30 percent
price increase for malting barley.
Carolina Brew ery had to up the cost
of a pint by 25 cents to break even.
“Increasing the price is the last
thing we wanted to do," said Jon
Connolly, director of brewery oper
ations at Carolina Brewery.
But the shortage and price hikes
have not affected the Brewery’s
sales or recipes, Connolly said. And
Carolina Brewery continues to blew
its Flagship India Pale Ale. the most
highly hopped beer that they serw.
“I think the hop and malt crisis
is highly known, and people under
stand. just like if there was a gas or
milk shortage," Connolly said.
Beer Is made from just four ingre
dients: barley, water, hops and yeast.
In 2()07 significant price increases
for two of the ingredients had an
impact on the brewing industry.
John Withey, brewmaster at
Top of the Hill restaurant said that
although ingredient prices have
increased slightly, the restaurant has
not raised its beer prices because it
buys supplies years in advance.
DUKE TICKETS
FROM PAGE 1
Elisia Smith, assistant manager
of registration and student services,
said seniors who were left ofT the list
did not have any graduation infor
mation listed on Student Central.
“They didn't have any date for
graduation in the system," Smith
said, noting that students can update
the information themselves.
Graduation status also can be
determined by degree applications.
Journalism majors were required
to submit their applications to the
journalism school in October, but
Sharon Jones, director of student
services and assessment iti the
have tabe sani to the Office of the
“We had contracted forward for
these raw materials, which a lot of
people have neglected to do in this
country, and they’ve been caught,"
Withey said.
The hops crop was direct
ly affected by bad weather in
Europe, extreme heat in the
Pacific Northwest and a drought in
Australia, leading to a lower yield
than past harvests.
The barley price increase is
more modest, but it still can affect
the price of your beer.
One of the causes of the price
increase is a trend among Midwestern
American farmers to replace barley
with more profitable biofuels such as
ethanol, said Carl Griffey, professor
of crop and soil environmental sci
ence at Virginia Tech.
Adding to problems with har
vests, the methods breweries use to
contract for ingredients have also
affected hops and barley supplies.
Beer ingredients used to be pur
chased on a forward contract, said
Stephen Kenny, a research scientist
at Washington State University.
Under this system, breweries
would tell suppliers how much of
a certain ingredient, such as hops,
they would need for future years,
allowing the supply and price to be
set ahead of time.
Recently, instead of paying a set
price for a number of _veare, brewers
took advantage of lower prices.
Now farmers are taking steps to
combat the shortages and cash in on
the situation.
University Registrar until February.
Students have been lining up
at Jones’ office because the e-mail
was sent to students telling them to
present proof of graduation status.
Ticket office officials also have
seen many students trying to con
firm their senior status, said Clint
Gwaltney, associate athletic direc
tor for Smith Center and ticket
operations. He said juniors with
senior status also have come to the
office to get off the list of graduat
ing seniors so that they can attend
the game next year.
The ticket lottery process works
differently for the F’eb. 6 Duke bas
ketball game. Graduating students
m Thasame process for detennia-
ELECTIONS
FROM PAGE 1
decides. Those consequences can
range from a simple warning to
the suspension of the use of cam
paign materials, which would be
detrimental to most candidates'
campaign efforts.
Capriglione said the board will
investigate charges of wrongdoing
after informing the candidate of a
potential violation. Punishments
are determined when the elections
MICHIGAN
FROM PAGE 1
months we’ve had a steady stream
of the presidential candidates on
the Republican side.”
And the fact that all major
Republican candidates are still on
the ballot shows that the state is
important to long-term GOP elec
tion strategy, Nowling added.
Hillary Clinton is the only
Democratic frontrunner still on
the ballot in Michigan.
The four states that were granted
early contests by the Democratic
National Committee lowa New
Hampshire, South Carolina and
Nevada wrote a pledge asking
candidates not to compete in states
that set early primaries in defiance
of the national party rules. The DNC
was not involved in the pledge.
Dominick Quinney, assistant
communications director for the
Michigan Democratic Party, said that
the lad* of Democratic frontrunners
on the ballot is disappointing but
CONCERT
FROM PAGE t
try-folk musician Mary Chapin
Carpenter was scheduled to perform
to a sold-out crowd in Memorial
Hall on Feb. 15 as the last segment
of CPAs 2007-08 “American Roots’
concert series.
But in December, Carpenter
unexpectedly —and without
explanation canceled her entire
tour, leaving CPA with a canceled
sold-out show for the second time
this season. Aretha Franklin, CPAs
original season-opening perform
er, also nixed her show and was
replaced by soul singer Al Green.
After Carpenters exit from the
series, a staff member at CPA heard
of a tour being put together featuring
four country and folk musicians and
the organization was able to book the
“Three Girls and their Buddy’ tour.
“We think that it’s our respon
sibility, having offered a perfor
mance, that there's a replacement
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Carolina Brewery raised its beer
prices after a shortage of hops, an
ingredient in beer, caused hops
prices to increase drastically.
‘ln response to higher prices,
more growers are planting hops,
but that won’t really be able to help
the situation until 2008 or 2009,"
Kenny said.
Although the crisis seems alarm
ing, local brewers said they are
optimistic about future harvests.
“The crop outlook for 2008 is not
the best." Connolly said. “We think
prices may go down for 2009 ’
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ing senior status was used in last
year’s distribution.
‘We had a lot of positive feed
back," Gwaltney said. “We’re trying
to do that again this year."
Carolina Athletic Association
President Colby Almond said that
last year, some students had simi
lar problems. “This happens every
year," he said.
Although senior Molly Malloy, a
journalism major, said she was angry
about the extra steps she has to take
to get a Duke ticket she hopes the
added work will increase her chances
of getting the coveted tickets.
“If it weeds people out, that's
great," Malloy said.
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board members meet.
Carson, who had some cam
paign infractions during last
year’s election —one of which
included a $25 fine had an
important piece of advice for this
year’s candidates about following
rules.
“I'd say to everyone running,
keep Mitchell Capriglione on
speed dial."
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that the party set an early primary
in order to improve the system.
“That was a way of reforming
lowa and New Hampshire's monop
oly over the primary election date.'
Michigan is the first large indus
trial state to hold a primary in the
2008 election cycle, a fact that
could force candidates to narrow
their focus on the issues.
“They're going to have to focus
on economics and jobs that is
the only issue in Michigan right
now," Nowling said.
The N.C. primary, set for May 6,
will focus more on choosing nomi
nees for the U.S. Senate and the
N.C. gubernatorial race.
But Brent Wood cox, communi
cations director for the N.C. GOP,
said even the presidential race
could be important come May.
“North Carolina does have a fair
amount of delegates to award,' he
said. ‘lt could be a big race still.’
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performance that people are going
to be excited and happy about,' said
Kara Larson, director of marketing
for CPA.
“Most of the feedback we got
w hen we announced that there was
a replacement was a mixture of dis
appointment because they wanted
to see Mary Chapin Carpenter, but
there was also a lot of enthusiasm
about the number and quality of
artists in this concert"
After the standing ovation and an
encore performance, any feelings of
disappointment were absent as the
curtains closed on Monday's show.
“That was everything from
Appalachian gospel to blues,"
said Gene Shelton, a Chapel Hill
resident who originally purchased
tickets for Mary Chapin Carpenter
and attended ‘Three Girls and
their Buddy.”
“How can you beat that?"
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