[en] A quark model suggested by QCD with strong spin-dependent forces of magnetic dipole-magnetic dipole character perturbing a flavor independent confinement potential is applied to low lying positive parity excited baryons. SU(3) is broken only by quark masses and this leads to a new choice of basis states in the hyperon sector; couplings to anti-KN are especially transparent in this basis. The results, which are largely determined by previous analyses, are in good agreement with the known properties of these states. Spin orbit forces are once again found to be negligible. (author)