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4 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008 ASIAN STUDIES FROM RAGE 3 ing the course requirements to four hours per week. Enrollment for 101-level classes will be capped at about 19 students, Yue said. “These are changes we’ve want ed to make for a while, but we’ve never had a handle on this until this year,” Yue said. “We haven’t had the resources until this year because Chinese and Japanese are just now stabilizing.” Sahar Amer, director of the Arabic program, said she hopes to add a tenure-track Arabic profes sor in addition to the two introduc- BLACKBOARD FROM PAGE 3 said the company prioritizes service and that the bar will keep climbing. “The expectations are always going to rise ... what was good enough last year isn’t good enough this year,” Chanoff said. The alternatives to Blackboard are free, but the programs ITS is considering come without techni cal consultants and support. University of California at Los Angeles is one major public uni versity that is moving away from Blackboard. The school began a rollout of a program called Moodle about eight months ago. UNC has considered that pro gram, although Green said ITS is leaning toward another called Sakai because it draws on a more familiar programming language. At UCLA, individual departments decide what they will use, said Curtis CLIENT APPRECIATION WEEKEND • SEPT 12-14th Rolling Back the Prices to 1985 3 Days Only * $3.00 TANS Purchase any package at regular price and get the 2nd one for $3 * Call for details Register to win "1 Year Membership" at Ladies Fitness & Wellness - 2 locations ~ SATURDAY SEPT. 13 MUDS LIVE ON STAGE: MICKEY MILLS _ „ , AND STEEL dinar ALSO ON STAGE: ttonlc* CAYENNETHE LION KIN# j j ARIF OFTHEANCHANTSf K aMHM|IgM Bod jf j DOORS OPIJ BPM WK/ f| ' sHowTiwrar •*•■- 9PM j sls AT THE DOOR mickeymills.com catscradle.com @ THE CATS CRADLE 300 EMAIN STREET, CARRBORO, NC FOR TICKETS OR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: 919.967.9053 “The reason is simple: We don’t have room. The growth has gone up so much that we cannot keep pace” GANG YUE, CHAIRMAN OF THE ASIAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT tory-level lecturers. Introductory Arabic classes are also available during the summer and are rarely full. Amer said the interest in Arabic has really been on the rise since Sept. 11,2001, going from just one section of 101 to four. “Of course 9/11 has made a huge interest in anything having to do with the middle east including Fomadley, a coordinator in the Office of Instructional Development. He said he expects the departments to consider programs other than Blackboard. “When their license agreement comes up ... they’re likely to look at the alternative, just from an eco nomic point of view,” he said. Although most UNC classes use Blackboard, some professors opt to use traditional Web sites or other project management systems. Mike Schmidt, a UNC visual communications professor, said he uses the alternative Base Camp because Blackboard doesn’t trans late to the professional world. “I don’t even know how to use Blackboard. I’ve never used it, but frankly, I don’t want to know how to use it because it’s not used in the real world,” he said. Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. Arabic and Islamic culture,” Amer said. “There is information that gov ernment jobs have been interested in the ability to speak a second language, particularly Asian lan guages like Arabic, so people take our classes.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@ync.edu. BUSINESS FROM PAGE 3 what she has seen in past years. “I’m missing two of my busiest hours of the week,” she said. She’ll close at 10 p.m. instead of mid night. Results also indicate that local businesses think other downtown festivities have a better effect on revenue in the area. Thirty-nine percent of down town respondents said events such as Locally Grown or UNC basket ball wins have a good effect on rev enue, compared to 24 percent for Halloween. The results from two free response questions about which elements of Halloween should be preserved and which should be changed are being compiled. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. • $3 Tans in Our Premium Beds • 1/2 Price Upgrades • EZ Tan Members Tan Free in Any Bed • Airbrush Tanning $14.99 (tailed number so book soon by oopotaM only) • Great Specials on Lotions & Packages • Door Prizes & Refreshments • Ask How You Can Enjoy Our Exclusive Hydration Station, Which provides the Ultimate in Skin Care & Tanning FOR FREE (Value $25) 919-968-3377 News National and World News FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Bill Clinton meets with Sen. Obama NEW YORK (MCT) - At a private lunch with Barack Obama on Thursday, former President Bill Clinton made a prediction about the outcome of the closeljffought race for the White House. “I predict that Sen. Obama will win and will pretty handily,” he said as he stood with Obama in his Harlem office. “President Clinton and Sen. Obama had a great conversa tion in Harlem today,” a joint statement released by the former president and Democratic presi dential nominee said. Presidential race is getting closer WASHINGTON, D.C. - John McCain and Barack Obama are neck and neck, according to a Ipsos/McClatchy poll. The poll finds Republican McCain with 46 percent of voters and Democrat Obama with 45 percent With the race so close, sev eral factors could prove pivotal, including how the two campaigns do in winning the support of the roughly 15 percent of voters who could go either way, and how well Republican vice presidential nom inee Sarah Palin does in assuring skeptics that she’s up to the job. 919-929-0213 www.thebicyclechain.com Durham :639 Broad st. ■ Sales, Service, Rentals 919-286-2453 ■ Lifetime Free Maintenance raleigh 9000 Gienwood ave. ■ Trade In Program 919-782-1000 ■ Price Match Guarantee open 7 days a week SPECIALIZED TJREK cannonda/e GARY F/SHFR S' NO, THIS ISNTA~^\ \m&- Home- iNWKviewri Y.U CMI MAKE UP After-grad careers, part-time jobs, and internships START BUILDING CbcAmpus™ 2,500 displaced Iraqis take refuge under stands in a soccer stadium KIRKUK, Iraq (MCT) - Qader Abdullah Rasoul lives in the Kirkuk Stadium along with 2,500 others, mostly Kurds. They inhabit mud and cinder-block huts beneath the stands, in the parking lots and the luxury boxes, and it’s no longer beautiful. It’s a dirty, sewage-ridden slum and Rasoul is the unofficial mayor. “We apologize to the youth of Kirkuk, because this is a place for sport,” he said. “But where else can we go?” The answer is nowhere, for the time being. Five years after the birth of anew Iraq, Kirkuk NASA pushes to buy Russian craft CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (MCT) NASA officials have decided that they must con vince U.S. Congress to allow the agency to buy Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The space craft will serve as transport vehicles and lifeboats for U.S. astronauts and their interna tional partners. Without the Soyuz, NASA said in a congressional briefing, it will have to abandon the sta tion when the current contract with Russia ends in October of 2011. They will then have to cede control of the SIOO billion facility to Moscow. Sailg ©ar is under Kurdish control, at least for now, and at the center of national debate over whether it will join the semiautonomous Kurdistan region or remain under federal control. Members of the Kirkuk pro vincial council say the people living in the stadium are the responsibility of the federal Ministry of Displaced People and Migrants. Ali Mosawi, the deputy minister, said this week that he knew nothing about the situation. “If they are displaced, of course we will have some ideas about helping them.” Economy hasn’t healed in Georgia POTI, Georgia (MCT) - It has been nearly five weeks since a Russian bombing raid killed workers and pockmarked buildings and storage tanks at the Black Sea port. A two-day shutdown followed, but since then the Georgian port has been ready for traffic. So far, however, the freight traffic that Poti is accustomed to has yet to materialize. Shipping companies remain skittish about the lack of a resolution to the ongoing crisis between Georgia and Russia, and about clusters of Russian soldiers in fields just outside Poti.
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