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The NSA cannot listen tothe content of phone

calls, but can collectdata on phone recordssuch as recipient, dura-

tion and location of thephone call.

The full extent of the NSA surveillance programis not publicly known. The recent whistleblow-ing scandal has revealed some of the forms ofcommunication the government has been col-lecting data from. Here are some of the medi-ums the government has access to in order tolocate and intercept possible terrorist threats.

Like with telephones,the NSA can access

information includingrecipients, sender andsubject, but cannotread the contents of

the emails.

Companies like Googleand Yahoo have asked

to disclose to thepublic when the NSAasks for records. They

have been barred fromdoing so at this time.

It is not k nown what fur-ther access to commu-

nications the NSA willhave. President BarackObama has met with

companies like Appleto discuss this issue.

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StudentStores

thefts maybe linked

By Hailey VestSenior Writer

If you are approached and asked to selltextbooks for someone, you might want tothink twice before saying yes.

UNCs Department of Public Safety sentout an Alert Carolina message Monday seek-ing information related to two incidents atUNC Student Stores: a larceny on April 4 andan attempted larceny on Aug. 30.

Jim Powell, senior business officer ofStudent Stores, said 18 books totaling$3,923.75 were identified as stolen followingthe April 4 incident, and officials have reasonto believe the same people are responsible forthe most recent attempt.

He said eight copies of a $328 textbookaccounted for half of the total money lost in

April. Several copies of three other textbookswere also stolen, Powell said.

Powell said Student Stores has surveillancefootage of three unknown men with back-packs entering the store separately.

They come in, look for the most expensivebooks that are the easiest to get without a lotof people seeing, he said.

He said the suspects, who he described asprofessional shoplifters, were able to steal thetextbooks by removing the loss preventiontag. Powell said he thinks they made at leasttwo or three successful shoplifting attempts.

The Alert Carolina message also said thesuspects have been seen on campus drivinga van or light-colored SUV with a Floridalicense plate.

Because a PID is required to sell textbooks

back to the bookstore, Powell said the sus-pects made up a story to solicit sympatheticstudents on Stadium Drive to sell the stolentextbooks after unsuccessfully attempting todo so themselves.

Powell said the suspects told students theywere from out of town and were trying to gethome, but the bookstore wouldnt buy the

books because they werent students.These folks will come in and try to make

out with the textbooks in backpacks and thenthey will approach students and ask them to

bring (the books) back and get cash refunds,said Randy Young, spokesman for DPS.

He said the suspects were identified inApril by a freshman who mentioned she wasselling the textbooks for someone else whenshe purchased the books.

They probably asked a lot of people butended up finding a freshman who was just

trying to help them, he said.With the help of that student, Powell said

A book larceny in April sharestraits with an Aug. 30 attempt.

Recruiting agency hired forKenan-Flagler dean search

Professor reacts tocriticism of her paper

WHOS

WATCHING

YOU?

By Neal Smith

Senior Writer

In the 12 years since the terrorist attackson the World Trade Center, the U.S.Constitution has not changed.

But now, the liberties the governmenthas been taking to protect the United Statesare being challenged in the name of theConstitution.

An ongoing scandal about the NationalSecurity Agencys collection of phone andemail data under sections of the Patriot

Act has attracted criticism about infringe-ment of data collection on Fourth and First

Amendment rights.Something like 9/11 happens, and cer-

tainly the NSA or another government orga-nization could see the justification for grow-ing their surveillance programs in the inter-est of national security, said Liz Woolery, a

UNC Ph.D. student who specializes in legaland regulatory issues in media.Woolery said even though Americans

communicate with each other millions oftimes a day, none of it is constitutionallyprotected.

Theres no right to privacy, theres noamendment or anything like that, and weknow that in order to achieve the goals theFirst Amendment has set out like freedomof the press, freedom of speech, freedom ofassembly, then we need to know that certaincommunications are going to be privileged,she said.

But the NSA is collecting data on millionsof Americans via telephones, said SarahPreston, policy director for the AmericanCivil Liberties Union of North Carolina.

That information is enough to reveal a lotof very personal information, like what doc-

tor youre seeing, what religion you subscribeto or none at all, whether youre calling yourlawyer, a support group for alcoholics or asuicide hotline, she said.

She said theres an unprecedented breadth

of knowledge the government can build onan individual based on whom that personcontacts.

This is information that I think mostAmericans consider to be private, that theydont want the government to be tracking andsaving indefinitely, Preston said. The fearessentially is that the NSA is able to track allof this information and other informationabout where people are going, who theyre call-ing, and you could put all of this informationtogether and the government would be able tokeep tabs on (its) citizens at all times.

And Natasha Duarte, a UNC researchstudent focusing on government surveillanceand the First Amendment, said the govern-ment claims it is not listening to citizensphone calls and defends its monitoring as

being content-neutral.One of the concerns with that if they

know who you call and for how long, thatcan tell you a lot about a person, she said.In June, the national ACLU filed a lawsuit

against the NSAs surveillance tactics underSection 215 of the Patriot Act.

Section 215 allows the government toorder individuals or companies to turn overany information the FBI says pertains toa terrorist investigation without showingprobable cause. The orders are issued by theForeign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Woolery said the NSA hopes to identifyterrorist threats by looking for patterns incommunications.

Then maybe they can use that informa-tion to foil a plot in the near future, she said.I think the idea is basically that the moreinformation the NSA has, the better chancesthey have of ensuring national security.

In the summer, Edward Snowden, a for-

mer employee of NSA defense contractorBooz Allen Hamilton, leaked documents and

NSA scandalsparks lawsuitsand debate about

Americans privacy

By Julia CravenStaff Writer

UNC is on its way to hiring a newdean of the Kenan-Flagler BusinessSchool.

Members of the search commit-tee assigned to find candidates havehired a recruiting agency to finda permanent replacement for JimDean, who left that position in Julyto become provost.

Susan King, dean of the School ofJournalism and Mass Communicationand chair of the committee, said it isa diverse group that includes businessschool faculty, business leaders, UNCalumni and a student.

The committee is searching for acandidate with a diverse set of skills.

King said members are lookingfor candidates who understand thespeed of change in business andhigher education and the globalmarketplace for education.

Kenan-Flagler is a very success-ful business school, she said. Theydefinitely want to stay on that trajec-tory of being on the cutting edge and

nationally recognized.Korn/Ferry International, one

of the largest search firms in thenation, was contracted last week tolead the recruitment process.

King said recruiting is projectedto begin in two weeks.

Kenneth Kring, who will leadthe recruitment process for Korn/Ferry, has recruited for some of thenations strongest business schoolsand has knowledge of candidatesthat would bring a range of expertiseto the position, King said.

Entrepreneurship professorLarry Chavis said Kenan-Flaglerneeds a leader who will help adaptthe schools curriculum to shiftingtrends in business education.

Education is changing veryquickly, and we need someone toguide us through that, Chavis said.

He also said the school needssomeone who can seek out newsources of revenue due to the tight-ening of the state budget.

How do we do the most we canwith new resources? How do wedevelop new programs or current pro-grams to keep us going? Chavis said.

He said he would like to see thescope of online programs grow.

The students can learn the materi-al in a very engaged manner, he said.

Dean, who led Kenan-Flagler forfive years, helped launch the onlineprogram MBA@UNC, which will

be his lasting mark on the school,Chavis said.

While there are programs hewould like to see continue, Deansaid he understands it is time to stepaside and let the new dean who

will report to the provost leadKenan-Flagler.

I dont want to constrain the newdean to do any particular thing thatI did, he said. Id like to see somethings continue but you have to bea grown-up and realize its someoneelses turn now.

The provost and Chancellor CarolFolt will make the final hiring decisionafter they receive two unranked rec-ommendations from the committee.

Theres been so much growth andstrength at Kenan-Flagler, King said.Theyre (the committee) looking forsomeone to take it even higher.

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A committee will startrecruiting candidates

in two weeks.

Ssa K is theden of the School ofJournlism nd MssCommuniction ndis chirin the com-

mittee to select thenext business schoolden.

By Haley WaxmanStaff Writer

Barbara Fredrickson, a UNCpsychology professor, said its neverpleasant to discover something that

youve published is inaccurate.But after receiving criticism of a

widely read paper she co-authored,Fredrickson found she had done

just that.Fredrickson is a Kenan

Distinguished Professor of psy-chology and a principal investiga-tor of UNCs Positive Emotionsand Psychophysiology Laboratory.

She has been doing researchin this field since she earned herPh.D. from Stanford University in1990. Fredrickson taught at DukeUniversity and the University ofMichigan before coming to UNCin 2006.

Her 2005 paper in AmericanPsychologist is titled Positive

Affect and the Complex Dynamicsof Human Flourishing, which sheco-authored with Marcial Losada, aChilean psychologist and consultant.

The paper described humans

ability to reach their full potentialby using a mathematical modelcreated by Losada.

The critical positivity ratio, basedon the model, determines if the ratioof positive to negative life experienc-es is 3-to-1, individuals will flourish.

Losada found that the ratiomust be above 2.9013 to flourish.

In November 2011, Nick Brown, agraduate student at the University ofEast London, questioned its accura-cy. He approached Harris Friedman,a psychologist at the University ofFlorida, and Alan Sokal, a physicistat New York University.

(Fredrickson) made a very strongclaim that a number called thecritical positivity ratio, taken to fourdecimal places, constitutes a factthat is applicable to all people acrossall time and place, Friedman said.

She claimed that it was a tip-ping point based on a notionthat below this number nothing

Barbara Fredricksonstands behind her

research, despite flaws.

BabaaFks, Kenn DistinuishedProfessor, is theprincipl investi-tor of UNCs PEPLb,

which studieshumn emotions.

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