The man killed by Duke U. Police officers in a March incident outside Duke Hospital was shot once in the head, according to the autopsy report released Friday.

The single gunshot wound caused severe damage to Durham resident Aaron Lorenzo Dorsey’s skull and brain, according to the report by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill. Dorsey, 25, also had a laceration and abrasion on the inside of his lower lip.

Medical tests did not find alcohol or drugs in Dorsey’s system. No weapons were listed among Dorsey’s possessions, but two bus brochures were found with Dorsey’s body.

Dorsey was not identified as the victim of the March 13 incident until March 17. His fingerprints were submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in order to identify him.

The report describes Dorsey as a 5-foot-four-inch, 180-pound black male with black hair and a beard. He was wearing a black jacket, gray sweatshirt, white buttoned shirt, blue T-shirt, blue jeans, black belt and black shoes, according to the report.

The shooting occurred March 13 at about 1:09 a.m. when Duke University Police Department officers Larry Carter and Jeffrey Liberto responded to a report of a suspicious person outside of Duke University Hospital’s main entrance. Dorsey attacked the officers and tried to obtain control of one of their guns, DUPD Chief John Dailey said in a statement March 17.

When other efforts to stop Dorsey failed, one officer fired his gun once, fatally wounding Dorsey, Dailey noted in the statement. Dailey declined to say which officer fired his weapon.

Although the State Bureau of Investigation is still investigating the incident, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said May 24 that DUPD has completed its inquiry.

Noelle Talley, public information officer for the North Carolina Department of Justice, declined to say when SBI will release additional details about the case.

Calderbank, who will take on the position July 1, taught electrical engineering and mathematics at Princeton, in addition to his administrative responsibilities. While at Duke, Calderbank will also be a full professor in the department of computer science, with joint appointments in mathematics and electrical engineering.

Calderbank succeeds Alvin Crumbliss, the Bishop-MacDermott chemistry professor who will serve as interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and dean of Trinity College for a year. George McLendon, the previous Trinity dean, left the post in May to become provost at Rice University. On McLendon’s departure, Duke announced that it would begin a national search for a permanent replacement for McLendon.

“We are pleased that our natural sciences will be led by a scholar of the caliber of Robert Calderbank,” Crumbliss said in the news release. “Robert has made important contributions in applied and computational mathematics, as well as interdisciplinary programs. In addition to his leadership, we look forward to his academic contributions and research efforts to help us further advance our undergraduate and cross-school programs.”

At Princeton, Calderbank took an interdisciplinary focus as director of its Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. According to its website, the program is “an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental program that provides a home for people from many fields and directions, who share a passion for mathematics and its applications.”

“I am excited about becoming part of the interdisciplinary culture at Duke and about the role the natural sciences can play in transforming education and research,” Calderbank said in the news release.

Before joining Princeton’s faculty in 2004, Calderbank was vice president for research at AT&T, according to a Duke news release. At the communications giant, Calderbank was responsible for a research lab focusing on large-scale data, according to the release.

Calderbank holds both a masters degree and a Ph.D. in mathematics and was elected to to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.

Bulgarian journalist Anna Moya was found dead in her apartment in Brussels, Belgium, following an apparent stabbing, the Bulgarian newspaper The Sophia Echo reported Friday. Moya was a correspondent in Brussels covering European Union affairs for Iranian television network Press TV, according to the network’s website.

Moya was found after her husband, Adrian Moya, fled to Luxembourg, where he confessed to having killed her. He was subsequently arrested by police and extradited back to Brussels, according to Belgian news outlet, Le Soir.

Anna Moya, nee Parachkevova, was a sociology major with a Spanish minor while at the College, as well as a staff writer for The Dartmouth.

Friends said they had observed no tensions between the two prior to the murder, according to media reports.

Which would you rather do after graduation: Be up to your ears in student loans for the majority of your life or declare bankruptcy at a young age?

Likely, your answer is neither, but those could be your only options if you find yourself in student loan debt that you can’t crawl out of.

For many students, taking out loans is the only option they have to get an education.

Even those who receive scholarships or financial aid need to take out loans sometimes to help cover the cost of living, tuition and text books.

That’s when the loan fairy comes and drops $2,500 or so in your bank account after you sign a contract we’re pretty sure is written by Satan himself.

But who cares, really?

The banks and/or government give loans out like candy, interest rates for them are generally low and you wouldn’t even have to think about paying them back until about six months after you graduate, when you’re the CEO of Google living in a golden penthouse and going to bed on a pile of money every night.

But what if you don’t land that dream job when you graduate?

What if you’re still stuck at your dead-end part-time job, which you could do half-asleep, hung-over and backward but doesn’t cut it when you have loans to repay?

Congress and Senate are looking into bills that would make repayment options for private loans less strict.

In 2005, a law went into effect that made it nearly impossible to file bankruptcy from student loan debt.

This bankruptcy law was unknown to many students who took out student loans, and the laws weren’t directly advertised by the institutions giving out the loans.

But now, Congress wants to make it easier for people who are swamped in debt from student loans — particularly private ones — to file for bankruptcy.

The government can easily do this now that they’re taking over banks left and right, but we’re not sure if it’s a great approach.

Here’s a quick run-down. There are two types of student loans: federal and private.

Federal loans are issued by the government. Generally, it is easier for borrowers of this type of loan to default, because they are backed by the government which is backed by taxpayers.

In other words, if you can’t pay, then everyone else will.

Next, we have private loans, which are issued by banks and will be most affected by the possible new laws.

These are the loans where it is difficult to default, but are also the type more students have been leaning toward to offset rising tuition costs, because private loans dish out the big money.

Here’s our beef with these possible new laws. We want to know who pays. Who pays when students are lining up in front of judges a couple years after graduation begging for bankruptcy? Taxpayers, that’s who. Even the person declaring bankruptcy is technically paying back their loan by paying higher taxes.

Also, what incentive would banks have to give out student loans if there was a stronger possibility they would never see that money?

Better yet, what would stop them from making crazy-high interest rates as a result? We’re pretty much against the idea of any changes that would make it harder for a student to get money.

Imagine this: You lend five friends money and each one has to pay you back with interest. Now, if only one of those five friends is unlikely to pay you back, you’re more likely to keep that interest rate low because hey, it’s only one of the five.

But if there’s a strong possibility three of those five friends are not going to pay you back, you’re going to want to charge a higher interest rate. Those three jerks just made it worse for everyone.

It is unlikely that mounds of college grads are going to immediately file bankruptcy to get off the hook, but these laws would make it much easier for them to do so.

Bankruptcy is bad and can screw up your financial life. But if you’re a young person who isn’t married and has no kids and no intentions of buying a house any time soon, then it sure would be mighty tempting to eliminate your student loan debt through bankruptcy.

We want students to be able to take out as much money as they need, so instead of focusing on ways out of paying loans back, perhaps the government needs to fix repayment options.

A longer grace period between graduation and pay-back time would help. Or maybe even smaller payments with more time to pay. Or how about fixed payments based on your current income.

Either way, all we ask is that our government not tempt us with a not-so-easy way out of paying up.

Although it has been a week since our three-day weekend, and in light of the anniversary of D-Day on Sunday, we feel as though it is imperative to mention Memorial Day and pay a tribute to those who have sacrificed it all — and still are.

To some, Memorial Day weekend was just a mini-vacation filled with barbecues, swimming and big car sales.

But to many, Memorial Day signifies a reminder to those lost in the line of duty. It is also yet another day of grieving to the loved ones of soldiers who died at war.

Last weekend, there were mothers who had to up and move off a military base because their husbands will not be coming home.

Somewhere, a child was told that their father or mother died for a reason that probably sounds illogical or meaningless. At the same time, a comrade is watching a fellow soldier die, praying that he or she isn’t next, or maybe wishing it had been him or her instead.

This is why we feel this Memorial Day is especially important.

There are members of our student body who are, or were, part of the armed forces, and that makes us more inclined to ask that you remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

You may even know one of these people.

Among all the political debate and noise, we feel as though sometimes the fallen become forgotten.

We are still at war, and soldiers are still losing their lives. Yes, there was a massive oil spill in the Gulf, we still have a national deficit, the unemployment rate is still rising and there are NBA playoffs to watch.

But no matter your opinion or political party, let us not forget that our soldiers have been the ones helping preserve our freedom so that we can have these kinds of problems to fix in the first place.

On May 28, NBC reported that the American death toll in Afghanistan has now reached 1,000.

That number is a far cry from the number of American deaths that have occurred since Operation Iraqi Freedom, and it doesn’t even tip the scale when looking at the 1.5 million

Americans who have lost their lives in uniform throughout our nation’s history, but is still worth noting nonetheless.

It means that war isn’t sitting idly in history books or our memories. It’s going on now, fresh and alive.

The only experiences in my life that could have possibly contributed to me choosing a major that is related to the subject matter of a few of my classes was either sitting on a clearing in the grass as a child with a hose making mud pies or, when I was 4, looking down between my legs and seeing a frog sitting in the toilet that my cousin had so sweetly placed inside for me to find.

Subsequently, that has forced me to look into the toilet every single time since then to make sure it’s frog-free.

Is that enough to land me in classes all about waste?

Life is a series of small choices — the majority of which are seemingly insignificant — that, when combined, become “your life.”

And our choice of a major can be — but hopefully isn’t — a combination of silly little things that lead to one major mistake.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the majority of my engineering classes, but some are most assuredly not for me.

I am currently studying for the Law School Admissions Test —the law school entrance exam — as I have quite recently been seriously considering becoming a lawyer.

The decision to go into law can be influenced by many things, but my reason is certainly something that has never influenced anyone ever before.

Fighting for justice? Naw.

Money? Nope.

Wearing fashionable clothing as opposed to construction boots and a hard hat? Possibly, but the most significant reason is that it seems to be the most logical way I can avoid river rapids of poop.

Last semester, when my professor announced that we were taking a field trip to a waste-water plant, I naively said “Yay, field trip!”

Oh, how sweet life was back before my trip to the waste-water plant, before I knew such places existed.

Well, I knew they existed, but I never really gave them much thought. And I certainly didn’t think of them as being as animatedly revolting as they truly are, like a wonderland of grossness.

Looking back I should have realized something was wrong when our professor decided to stay in the office at the plant, sending all of us on the grand tour.

When we arrived, the smell was bad enough, but as we climbed the staircase, with each step it became more pungent.

We got to the top, and that’s when the image was forever burned into my mind.

It was actually river rapids of poop — no Mississippi-like lazy river here. There were real life foamy waves, which appeared to be painted a cartoon-like bright shade of brown.

I noticed a life saver hanging on the railing, and immediately visualized the situation that caused someone to say, “Man, that would have turned out so much better if we had had a life saver handy.”

We walked on a see-through steel grate directly over top of the rapids or over a 20-foot drop to the cement below.

I made sure to walk where if it gave away, I would fall the 20 feet and break both of my legs, which is certainly preferable to falling, like Augustus Gloop, into this not so chocolaty river.

The wind was blowing the crests of the truly man-made waves, and every so often you would feel a drop hit your skin.

Granted, attending the field trip did count as a full-credit lab grade, but with the “April showers” I was thinking the trade may not have been so even.

I made sure to keep my mouth closed and my inhalations at the bare minimum as I fought my way to the center of our group in order to use all of my fellow classmates as human shields.

Ooohhh, but I’m not going to let my engineering degree go to waste.

Not only can I apply it to numerous branches of law, but I’m going to personally install new plumbing at my house to divert the flow to the ocean, so that I have nothing to do with that wretched place.

BP can clean up my mess too.

With the UCF men’s basketball team being one of the youngest squads in the nation last season, it’s easy to see why point guard A.J. Rompza is looked up to as the leader of the squad.

Rompza is coming off a solid sophomore campaign in which he led the team in minutes and assists, as well as finishing ninth nationally in steals with 2.6 a contest.

However, UCF still turned in a subpar year with a 15-17 record that included going 6-10 in conference play and getting ousted by UTEP in the Conference USA quarterfinals.

That’s why this year he’s hungry.

Rompza is determined to improve his game and has been working furiously during the summer in order to ensure progress.

“I’ve been working out pretty much Monday through Friday. I already put seven to eight pounds on, and I want to put 15 on the whole summer,” Rompza said. “I’ve been lifting every day, and [I] shoot after practice for an hour. I’ll come back and work with one of the managers and do a bunch of full-court drills and more shooting.

“Every day I’m doing a lot of basketball and a lot of weight lifting.”
The junior point guard has also added a healthy diet to his offseason workout regime, which has really helped with his development.

“People don’t realize how important it is to eat healthy, and there was an article I saw about [Phoenix Suns’ guard] Grant Hill and his diet and that’s probably why he is still in the NBA,” Rompza said. “A lot of people just fill their bodies with anything, and I’m not going to lie, that’s how I always was.

“I never gained weight, and just by eating healthy, I feel so much better. You know, you can go longer throughout the day and you have a lot more energy. I could have started when the basketball season started, but I just wanted to get used to it. I’ve already seen a huge difference.”

Rompza is really pushing himself, especially after suffering from a seizure early last month.

He was released from the hospital days later and is now fully recovered.

“They thought something was wrong with my heart, so they did CAT scans and all that stuff,” Rompza said. “There was nothing wrong, and they said it was better than normal. The doctors said it was probably just a one-time thing.”

Along with a strong work-out plan and a refined diet, Rompza has been employing his Twitter account recently to hype up the upcoming season.

He said it’s a great way to connect with fans and get them excited about UCF basketball.

“I definitely use it to interact with my fans,” he said. “There’s a lot of people that look at that stuff, and I’ll let them know if I’m going to do something with the team or if I am going to work out. I think fans like stuff like that. It prepares them for the season.”

With two years of experience behind him, Rompza knows it’s time to step up and be a leader on and off the court.

“I am junior now, so I’m putting everything on my shoulders,” he said. “Because my freshman and sophomore year, I wanted it on my shoulders, but I don’t think I really knew how to deal with it. I tried to lead, but it’s just that thing people look at you as a freshman and you need to learn first.

“I want everything on my shoulders this year. I want to be the leader of the team, and I want people to follow me. When things don’t go right, I want it to be put on me, because I just think it’s that time.”

With all the advancements that Rompza has made in his game and with all the development he has seen, the guard has high expectations for next season.

In addition, the Knights benefit from having almost their entire core returning, another strong recruiting class, some big-name transfers and a well-known new head coach in Donnie Jones.

“Expectations are very high,” Rompza said. “I mean, you have pretty much everyone returning and you have a bunch of great guys coming in. If you don’t set the bar high as possible, then you’re not going to exceed expectations.

“There are not too many college teams that are here for the whole summer, working out every day, and improving their games, so that is really important.”
And with Rompza making huge strides in his game as well as firmly taking over the reins, UCF could really be a force.

Rompza will do everything in his power to see his team succeed, and he thinks the Knights benefit greatly from the chemistry they have both off and on the court.

“I think the most important thing is that we hang out with each other constantly, because when you have chemistry not just on the court, but also off the court, it’s huge,” he said.

“It’s just going to make things on the court that much easier.”

Add another accolade to the historic seasons of UCF baseball players Chris Duffy and Shane Brown.

The pair of seniors were both named Louisville Slugger All-Americans on Thursday, becoming the eighth and ninth All-Americans in UCF baseball Division I history, dating back to 1985.

The last time a Knight was selected as an All-American was back in 2004 when pitchers Matt Fox and Kyle Bono were given the honor.

UCF was one of five teams in the nation to have two players selected, joining Arizona State, Cal State Fullerton, Tennessee Tech and New Mexico.

Duffy, who was named to the second team, finished the season with 21 home runs, setting the school record, to go along with 81 RBI. He set a C-USA and UCF record with a .447 batting average.

Brown, who was named to the third team, had another successful season in a Knight uniform in 2010, hitting .428 with a .541 on-base percentage.

Brown’s successful senior campaign etched his name in the record books, as he hit at least .340 and drove in at least 43 RBI in each of his final three seasons.

Volleyball
Known for his recruiting skills, UCF volleyball head coach Todd Dagenais once again was honored for bringing top talent to UCF.

Dagenais’ 2010 recruiting class was recently recognized by Prepvolleyball.com as one of the top 100 recruiting classes in the nation.

It’s the first time the program has been mentioned by the site.

“It is an honor to be mentioned on the 2010 recruiting rankings list,” Dagenais said in a release. “While it is always nice to be recognized, especially for the first time, the true measure of a recruiting class is in the final results, not their initial ranking.”

The 2010 class also was ranked fourth among Conference USA with top talent.
Members of the new recruiting class include Katie Tatum, Marie Reiterova, Roxy Mendez, Allison Rinderknect, Kaye-Alese Green and Rachel Vukson.

Men’s soccer
The UCF men’s soccer team will play 17 games in 2010 — seven at home — and will play three games against NCAA Tournament teams, according to the new schedule that was released Friday.

The Knights will open the season with back-to-back home games on Sept. 1 and Sept. 6 against Jacksonville and Florida Atlantic, respectively, but will have just five more games at home during the final 15 games of the season.

The Knights will play UNC Wilmington, Stetson and C-USA rival Tulsa during the regular season.

All three teams went to the NCAA Tournament last season.

Students looking to take office may no longer need to solicit NIDs from their classmates but rather the last eight digits of their student ID numbers to establish candidacy when running in Student Government Association elections.

Early last week, new legislation was submitted to the senate proposing to replace NIDs as a means of verifying the authenticity of a student’s signature on election qualification petitions because SGA found that few students knew their NIDs.

An NID, or Network ID, is composed of the first two letters of a student’s first name and a randomly generated six-digit number.

A PID, or Personal ID, is composed of the first letter of a student’s first name and a randomly generated seven-digit number.

Student ID numbers are the 16-digit numbers on student’s UCF identification cards.

“Using IDs will be so much easier for students than the NIDs,” said Dan Compte, the regional campus senate seat No. 1 and human resources management major. “I know so many people who don’t know their NID because they don’t need it to get on webcourses or anything; they just go through MyUCF. But you always need your ID.”
Instead of NIDs, some students would put down their unsolicited PID, a series of random numbers or simply leave the spot blank.

If a student provides incorrect or irrelevant information on the SGA candidates forms, such as a false NID or their PID, the Elections Committee and student government advisers have no way to verify the signature and it is rendered invalid.

To avoid this, SGA has offered the alternative solution in the hopes that although most students do not know their student ID number, they should, as mandated by the university, carry their UCF ID cards with them.

“The student ID number is more convenient for students,” said Josh Miller, senate president pro tempore. “If they don’t know it, all they have to do is look at their card. It’s broken up into four sections of four, making it really easy to figure out the last eight numbers. All you do is just look at the last two sets of four.”

Miller is confident that students will be willing to take the time to stop and find their ID before signing.

“Most students carry their cards around,” Miller said. “From my experience of doing this for three years now, if you talk to students, most will gladly take a second out of their time to get the card and figure out the number. They won’t blow me off. I had people who would go and look up their NID, which takes a lot longer and requires a computer.”

Initially, when Miller began looking into a replacement for the NIDs, he tried PIDs and using birth date with the last four digits of the PID.

The Registrar’s Office rejected both ideas for security reasons, finding the PID and birth date information too personal to be given out.

“We had to find a number that was not personally identifiable, that wouldn’t allow someone to pull another student’s records or get their information,” said Shane Juntunen, adviser to elections commission and Office of Student Involvement associate director of programming and service.

The ID number does not come with such security factors allowing it to be used.

“Everyone has an ID,” Miller said. “You need them for so many things: to get a scantron, go to the gym or the computer lab. It just seemed like the best alternative.”

Before deciding on the ID number, SGA ran a brief survey through its front desk for two days asking all students visiting the office if they had their UCF ID on them. Most said yes, according to Juntunen.

The new legislation must be read through this week before moving on to the Election and Appointments Committee.

Miller expects the idea to meet little opposition. If the senate and the president approve of the change it should be passed in late July by the end of summer B  and be in effect for fall semester.

Jasmine Rosa, a 20-year-old senior in the business administration program, was recently chosen from a large pool of applicants from across the nation to participate in the National Hispana Leadership Institute’s Latinas Learning to Lead summer youth program.

The LLL program is designed to help women of Hispanic origin gain leadership positions in their communities, address the lack of Latinas in the political and corporate worlds and prepare young Latinas to be successful after college, according to the NHLI’s website.

“We’ll be learning about leadership, like what makes a good leader, and how we can become better leaders and better role models,” said Rosa.

“We’ll be bringing back everything we learn there to help get other students, specifically Latinas, to pursue those higher roles in businesses, government and non-profits.”

The 22 chosen fellows will attend seminars and meetings each day where they will be taught useful skills for entering the work force, such as resume building and interviewing skills.

The LLL program will also provide options for life after college, including the names of several graduate schools, Hispanic organizations, and volunteer organizations, including the Peace Corps.

Rosa will arrive in Washington, D.C. on June 12 and stay until June 19.

During the eight day trip, the young Latinas will meet several influential members of the Latin community, including past fellows from the LLL program.

Each of the current fellows will be assigned a mentor by the end of the program.

They will also be given the opportunity to explore the nation’s capitol and immerse themselves in the city’s culture while learning about the important governmental processes that take place there.

This will be Rosa’s second trip to D.C. Last year she completed an internship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

“I interned for Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, she’s the congresswoman from California,” said Rosa.

“I worked really close with her. I got to learn everything you need to know about government, like how they make bills. I got to go to briefings where she would have meetings with other senators and other congress people,” said Rosa.

The NHLI chooses 22 college-aged Latinas annually to participate in the LLL summer program. They seek young women who possess leadership qualities, are highly involved in their campus community and are aware of issues in the Latin community, according to their website.

“Jasmine Rosa exemplifies the values NHLI fosters and she is an example of the talented youth serving our communities. She was chosen for impacting her community through volunteering and her commitment to helping develop disadvantaged inner city youth in the future,” read a statement issued by the NHLI.

Rosa is involved with several UCF organizations. She is currently president of the multi-cultural sorority Sigma Lambda Gamma, vice president of UCF Circle K International, which is a community service based organization, member of the Hispanic American Student Association and a member of the American Humanics’ Student Association.

“I think, for Jasmine, it’s her passion and dedication and her ability to be self-motivated that help her achieve opportunities like this in hopes of giving back to female minorities in the future,” said Oluwaseyi Aladeselu, UCF student and fellow member of SLG.

Rosa is keeping her eyes open for more opportunities to get involved on campus and to raise awareness of issues affecting the Latin community both nationwide and at UCF.

The half Chinese, half Puerto Rican student plans to work for a non-profit Hispanic organization in the future.

“I really think people at UCF need to know there’s programs like this [LLL], especially if Latin women are reading this they can know there are programs like this and that there are Hispanic students in the school as well, because a lot of times we don’t get represented even though there are Hispanic students here,” Rosa said.