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Duke starts Fla. legislators may name electors to evaluate Ph.D. units

By DAVID BARSTOW N.Y. Times News Service

By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

As the Graduate School explores the addition of new Ph.D. programs during the course of its long-term planning, it will also re-examine the justification for the existence of all its programs, and will focus mainly on those that are suffering from the lowest enrollment levels.

A planning document outline obtained

by The Chronicle this month indicates that the departments of art history, classical studies, earth and ocean sciences, German studies, microbiology, music and

pathology draw small applicant pools, sacrificing opportunities for seminars and group learning and forcing an unwanted

dependence on one-on-one teaching.

“It could be argued that the University cannot afford to offer marginal graduate programs, but some ofthese departments represent core intellectual fields,” the document reads. “The challenge, then, is to determine... what steps might be taken to ensure the ongoing viability of these programs or, in some cases, to take extreme steps... to drop some of these Ph.D. pro-

grams altogether.”

Several department chairs and graduate studies directors expressed surprise at the latter possibility and criticized strictly numerical evaluations.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Taking its first formed step to intervene in the outcome of the presidential election, a select committee of Florida’s Republican-dominated Legislature recommended Thursday that a special session be held “as soon as practicable” to name Florida’s 25 electors.

Based on the recommendation, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and the president of the Florida Senate were expected to summon lawmakers to the state Capitol next week, possibly as early as Tuesday. It was unclear how long the special session would last, but Republican legislators said Thursday that they were determined to ratify Texas Gov. George W. Bush’s slate of electors before Dec. 12, the deadline for naming electors to the Electoral College.

“He who hesitates is lost,” Rep. Johnnie Byrd, co-chair of the selection comFLORIDA SENATOR USA CARLTON and Florida House Rep. Johnnie Byrd sign a motion recommittee, said shortly before the party-line mending the Florida legislature hold a special session. vote to recommend a special session.

Racing the same deadline, lawyers for Vice President A1 Gore asked the Florida Supreme Court Thursday to oversee the counting of 14,000 disBy JAMES HERRIOTT counts, recounts and chad, some have The Chronicle puted ballots among more than 1 milwondered whether any of North CarIn the mid-1980s, political defection olina’s 14 Republican electors might lion ballots trucked to Tallahassee from Palm Beach and Miami-Dade meant fleeing the Soviet Union for the feel that Vice President A1 Gore should

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Counties. The Florida Supreme Court did not immediately respond, further frustrating Gore’s desire for a speedy resumption of ballot counting as he See LEGISLATURE on page 14 P::

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The 538 members of the electoral college, who were nominated to represent their states’ voters, will meet Dec. 18 to See ELECTORS on page 9

Blue Devils meet familiar foe tomorrow in Philadelphia

By EVAN DAVIS The Chronicle

Only eight days after squeaking out a 63-61 victory over Temple in the preseason NIT final at Madison Square Garden, No. 1 Duke (6-0) will play in Philadelphia tomorrow for a rematch against the No.

17 Owls (4-1).

While the teams remain the same, the change of scenery may be a huge boost for Temple; Philly’s First Union Center, while not the Owls’ usual home venue,

SHANE BATTIER finishes off a drive against a double-team during Duke’s thrilling one-point victory over Illinois. The Blue Devils face their third ranked opponent in eight days when they rematch Temple tomorrow night in Philadelphia.

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is a lot less neutral than New York.

Tomorrow’s game will be Duke’s third against a nationally ranked team in the past eight days; the Blue Devils narrowly defeated No. 9 Illinois Tuesday night.

Such a schedule can be demanding, but Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski would not have it any other way.

“During November and December, you want to play tough games,” Krzyzewski said. “There are a lot of teams that aren’t playing tough games right now and it’ll pay off [for us] in March.”

The NIT final was, indeed, a tough game. It marked Duke’s lowest point total so far this year, a tribute to Temple’s methodical offense and defensive intensity.

“They put game pressure on you,” Krzyzewski said.

“They make you play possession to possession. We like to play a faster game.”

Duke has thrived on its up-tempo style this season.

In Tuesday’s victory over Illinois, the Blue Devils forced 26 turnovers, including a game-high six steals by freshman guard Chris Duhon.

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of Irian Jaya province.

Military downsizes anthrax vaccinations For the second time in

five months, the Pentagon scaled back its troubled plan to inoculate all military personnel against anthrax because of dwindling supplies of the vaccine, senior military officials said.

Study shows inequality in college preparation A national survey found vast inequalities in how individual states prepare students for a college education, help them pay for tuition and ensure that they graduate.

Pakistan receives loan to pay debts The military government of Pakistan announced that the International Monetary Fund approved a $596 million loan that will help Pakistan avoid defaulting on the gargantuan $36 billion it owes foreign lenders.

California anti-smoking polices yield results California’s tough antismoking measures and public health campaigns have resulted in a 14 percent decrease in lung cancer over the past 10 years, the federal government reported.

Wind change eases oil spill cleanup efforts A wind shift pushed a half-million gallon oil spill in the Mississippi

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ment of Palestinian refugees.

Seemingly abandoning his quest for an all-inclusive “end to the conflict,” Barak suggested in a speech to Israeli newspaper editors that the Palestinians might agree to an Israeli annexation of major Jewish settlements in the West Bank in re-

Mad cow scare spreads across Europe

By SUZANNE DALEY

another’s beef, trying to reassure consumers that the meat they are buying is free ofcontamination.

But these efforts are doing little to calm consumers’ fears. Europeans are not letting beef pass their lips. They are even inspecting their cosmetics and candy to see if they are made from a base of beef gelatin. Wholesalers from Spain to Germany report a drop in beef sales of about 50 percent. Butchers have seen their businesses devastated. And just this week, dozens ofItalian farmers blockaded the French-Italian border, inspecting French trucks for outlawed meat and animal feed, which ifmade from animal parts could transmit the disease.

“It’s as if we were suddenly facing bubonic plague,” said Pietro Stecchiotti, a butcher in Rome whose clients include the Italian presidential palace.

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PARIS It is not only the French who are in a frenzy about mad cow disease. A panic that began here several weeks ago has now spread throughout Europe.

In Germany, a hotline set up to answer questions from the public about the disease collapsed because of too many calls. In Italy, celebrities have gone on television to offer their favorite vegetarian recipes. And in Athens, angry butchers threatened to close their shops unless they were assured that the meat they were selling was safe.

Everywhere, the subject is dominating the headlines and governments are promising action. Many countries are setting up new testing programs and banning one

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Saeb Erekat, a leading Palestinian negotiator, said that Palestinians would return to the bargaining table only for “full permanent-status negotiations—Jerusalem, settlements, refugees, and borders.”

Barak’s feistily delivered speech was not aimed primarily at Palestinians, however. He is seeking to convince challengers on his left that he is still pursuing negotiations, while reassuring the centerright that he does not intend to surrender East Jerusalem and other major settlement blocs.

turn for a recognition of independence. Israel would give the Palestinians “another 10 percent of the territory to create continuity, so they don’t have to pass so many roadblocks,” he said, Palestinian officials swiftly rejected Barak’s proposal, The Palestinians have autonomy in most of the Gaza Strip, but in just 40 percent of the far larger West Bank with more than a dozen segments separated by land under Israeli control. Making major Palestinian population centers contiguous would require turning over much more than half ofthe West Bank.

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JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that he now favors an incremental peace deal with the Palestinians, with an immediate handover of more territory and a possible recognition of statehood, but a postponement of up to three years of the critical issues of Jerusalem and the resettle-

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TTA gives up on Erwin Road site ByAMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle Following two meetings this Wednesday, the Triang e Transit Authority and Duke appear to have resolved a year-long stumbling block in talks about a proposed regional rail system. But discussions have now reached an impasse with the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Although TTA officials originally proposed an elevated train station on Erwin Road near the Medical Center, they have backed down following serious aesthetic objections raised by Duke officials.

“We have been working very well with [Executive Vice President Tallmanl Trask, and I think we are going to come up with solutions that can get the regional transit close and convenient for Duke employees and Duke students, but not have the impacts that Dr. Trask and hospital officials are concerned about,” said Jim Ritchey, TTA general manager.

Although the initial proposal is still on the table, there are two alternative proposals; both would require considerable further study.

One would place a station on Fulton Street near Hillsborough Road, a location that would require a shuttle service from the Medical Center. The other would place a regional rail station near the helicopter pad at the Medical Center.

Trask could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Ellen Reckhow, Durham County commissioner, said she was pleased TTA was seriously considering other alternatives, adding that it is important to attract the thousands of potential riders from the Medical Center.

Mayor Nick Tennyson cautioned that the implementation of a regional rail system is still a ways off.

“We’re going to have to consider how we reach a broader regional context,” Tennyson said. ‘There’s substantial commercial property we’ve drawn lines through. Everybody needs to [blow] how that’s going to disrupt people’s lives. The neighborhoods around there are going to be... advantaged, but how to maximize those advantages [needs to be determined].”

Ritchey agreed, estimating that Phase I construction-building the system between Raleigh and Durham—may not start until 2003.

In the meantime, preliminary discussions regarding Phase II construction—between Durham and Chapel Hill—are still hitting snags. The Wednesday meeting revealed a point of conflict between the town of Chapel See

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Bruce Lee film festival called Honoring the Dragon kicked off Monday night with _a showing of “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story,” which played on seven big screen televisions in a darkened Devil’s Den. The week of events was organized by two members of the Duke Hap ki do club who wanted to celebrate Lee’s life while teaching the community about the martial artist.

“People think of [Bruce Lee] as just an actor or as just a fighter. For me, he’s a teacher, first and foremost,” said sophomore Nick Vaughan, the vice president of Duke Hap ki do club. “Bruce Lee was also a civil rights leader who broke thousands of years of tradition to teach anyone of any race who wanted to leam [martial arts].”

Lee founded a martial arts form called jeet kune do—“the way of the intercepting fist”—which Vaughan said inspires him. “His style is based upon using the strengths of the individual,” Vaughan said. “Other styles have strict rules that have to be followed.”

Every night this week has brought a screening of one of Bruce Lee’s films—including “Fists of Fury,” “Enter the Dragon” and “Game of Death”—in different locations around campus. The festival continues tonight with a showing of “Chinese Connection” at 7 p.m. in the Biological Sciences building, room 111. A performance by the martial arts entertainment group SBL Orange Lightning Demo, which also performed after Monday night’s movie, will take place on Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Brodie Recreation Center.

After the cancellation of the Alcohol Task Force’s programming at the beginning ofthe semester, the remaining funds were allocated by a committee of students and administrators. The committee gave $l,OOO to the Duke Hap ki do club for the celebration of Lee’s work. Julian Sanchez, director of the Office of Inter-

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But Honoring the Dragon has been plagued by low attendance so far this week, raising questions about how the leftover ATF money should have been allocated.

Student organizer Komo Davis, a sophomore, said Monday’s handful of audience members was “disappointing, but not surprising.” Davis pointed out that students are increasingly busy as final exams approach, adding that in general, Duke programs are rarely well attended.

Rick Gardner of the Event Advising Center, who chaired the fund-allocating committee, explained that he had hoped for “healthy attendance” when the task force helped fund the festival. However, he said that his job as an event coordinator is “to support all student groups in their programming efforts”—regardless of how many students attend these programs.

The students who attended the events seemed to enjoy the door prizes and the films’ spectacular fight scenes, which showcased Lee executing his famous “one-inch punch” and featured the strength of the man who could do two-finger push-ups. “I’m not the most intense Bruce Lee fan,” said Christopher Galik, a graduate student at the Nicolas School of the Environment. “But ‘Enter the Dragon’ is a classic.”

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1,2000

Canadian prime minister prepares for talk at Duke

By KEVIN LEES

The Chronicle

Buoyed by a sweeping re-election mandate only four days ago, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien will arrive at Duke University this Sunday to deliver his first public lecture since election night. Sponsored by Duke’s von der Heyden Distinguished International Fellows Program, the 5:30 p.m. lecture at Reynolds Theater will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

“We are honored that Prime Minister Chretien is coming to Duke to give the von der Heyden lecture,” said Bruce Kuniholm, vice provost for international affairs. “His party’s major victory in this week’s election is a testimony to his tremendous record as

prime minister.”

Although the recent federal elec-

tions may have placed Chretien’s attention on domestic issues, including

health care, crime, the budget and questions of national sovereignty, Canadian consul Denis Langlois said Chretien’s speech Sunday would take a more international tone.

“I think some of the topics that will be covered during this speech will relate to North America as a continent,” Langlois said. “Obviously, Canada and the United States do enjoy a very long history of friendship and trade relations. In recent years, we have gone into this trend of having a North American approach to things.”

Interestingly enough, the speech comes not only six days after the Canadian elections, but also two days after the inauguration of incoming Mexican

President Vicente Fox and amidst the United States’ own election turmoil.

“We are entering a phase where there will be two new presidents in North America, whoever will replace President Clinton and President Fox in Mexico,” Langlois said. “On the Canadian side, we have a renewed government with the election of the prime minister. There will be two new kids on the block and the prime minister of Canada.”

Chretien’s Liberal Party won 172 Parliament seats in the Nov. 27 election, boosting his party to its third consecutive majority government and allowing Chretien to serve as many as four more years as prime minister. Some pundits speculate that Chretien will step down before the end of this term to make way for a successor like finance minister Paul Martin, although after Monday, the newly elected prime minister did not rule out seeking re-election in 2004.

Chretien was first elected to the House of Commons in 1963 and has served in Parliament ever since. He was elected leader of the Liberal Party in 1990 and became prime minister after the Liberals won 177 seats in the 1992 election.

With the right wing ofCanadian politics divided and in disarray, Chretien’s government has easily held power for nearly a decade. Under Chretien, Cana-

da adopted the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. It also saw its budget deficit transform into a surplus, most of which Chretien will use to begin paying down national debt and strengthening Canada’s public health care system.

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CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JEAN CHRETIEN delivers an acceptance speech as his Liberal Party maintained its majority status in the Nov. 27 election. He will speak at Duke this Sunday. meet with students and faculty connected with the Canadian studies program and attend a dinner hosted by President Nan Keohane.

“His visit to Duke, where we expect a speech of major importance, highlights not only the close relations between

Canada and the United States, but also the close ties between our academic communities,” Kuniholm said. “Duke has one of the premier programs in Canadian studies, and our Center for North American Studies is the only one of its kind in the United States ”

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Bus route from Edens to Science Drive attracts few riders

By DEBO ADERIBIGBE The Chronicle

Students living in Edens Quadrangle be spared the long morning walk through construction, small paths and flights of stairs on their way to Science Drive—given that they are willing to be up and ready before 9 a.m.

For a limited time, Duke has added a bus route from Edens to Science Drive.

The temporary service started Oct. 18 and will terminate at the semester’s end. The bus route only runs once a day for those who choose to show up at the Edens service lane, between the Edens B and C parking lots, at 9 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The idea originated from student suggestions to ameliorate the annoyance of having to pass construction obstacles on the already long walk to Science Drive.

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STUDENTS BOARD THE BUS that will take them from Edens Quadrangle to Science Drive. Despite initial student demand, few people use this early-morning service.

a bus that was both near Towerview [Drive] and had a schedule that permitted this one time trip by Edens at 9

a.m.said Steve Burrell, director of Duke University Transit. “However, due to class change schedules and the other routes that we must serve throughout the day, [9 a.m.] is the only time we could provide service from the Edens area to Science Drive.”

The cost of the route is $33 per day—based on the $67 average hourly rate of operating a bus. Duke transport services has hired no extra drivers or buses to provide for the new route, and instead has integrated the service into existing routes.

Although the complaints of Edens residents spurred the route, ridership so far has been low. Most days, not more than four riders use the service, and on several occasions the bus has had no riders.

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Academic Council hears latest draft of long-range plan

By DAVE INGRAM

ciplinarity and building an excellent faculty in every school—others are more targeted; the plan includes, The creation of the University’s newest long-range for example, a focus on investment in the natural scistrategic plan took another step toward its completion ences and information technology. Altogether, the proThursday, as Provost Peter Lange presented his latest posal suggests $660 million in appropriations, about draft to the Academic Council. half of which will go to the natural sciences.

The wide-ranging plan, incorporating 18 months of Facilities and maintenance will account for $503 work, will serve as a blueprint for the growth of the million ofthe spending. “Perhaps no issue has emerged University over the next five to 10 years. Like the longas powerfully as the inadequacy of our facilities,” range plans that have preceded it, the proposal states Lange said. In addition to $260 million in funding goals and priorities that promise to influence nearly sources already identified, Lange hopes to add another every aspect ofDuke life. $255 million from The Campaign for Duke, “quasi-enAlthough some of the plan’s goals are very broad—- dowment” money and bond issues. integrating teaching and research, promoting interdisLange will present the long-range strategic plan to The Chronicle

the Board of Trustees this weekend. He expects the final draft to be completed for February’s final votes by the Academic Council and the trustees.

Stuart Rojstaczer, associate professor of earth and ocean sciences, expressed disappointment in the plan, calling it “unintellectual” and biased toward moneymaking research. “Why universities are engaging in this arms race so that we have boys with more toys is really unknown to me,” he said.

Lange declined to respond to Rojstaczer’s comments, saying Rojstaczer’s assertions mischaracterized the plan’s motives.

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Board of Trustees to hold private weekend retreat From staff reports

The Board of Trustees meeting this weekend will take a unique format, with the trustees starting their work at Duke and then traveling to WinstonSalem for a two-day- i iEj W a long retreat. In |> DII7 I7 C Winston-Salem, PKiiLr u they will focus on evaluating the proposed long-range academic plan.

As usual, the meeting will begin Friday morning in committees, but the afternoon session will be entirely closed.

At this brief, two-hour-and-15-minute meeting, they will discuss approving

steps in several construction projects, a proposed name change to the Nicholas School of the Environment and they will hear reports from each committee.

The trustees will then board busses for their retreat, which is also a closed meeting. President Nan Keohane will release information about the critique Monday.

Food drive begins:

Facilities Management and Duke Student Government are sponsoring a food drive from Dec. 4 to Dec. 8 to help ameliorate North Carolina’s holiday season hunger problem. With a goal of 20,000 cans—one from each student and faculty member—the campaign will have bins in the

Sir Christopher Meyer will discuss “The Role of an Ambassador” at 5 p.m.

Dec. 4 in the Commons Room of the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in the Graham Memorial Building at UNC. Lady Catherine Meyer will discuss “International Child Abduction and the Hague Convention” earlier in the day at 3 p.m. in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building auditorium in UNC’s School of Social Work, located at 301 Pittsboro Street.

Both lectures are free and open to the public. There will be a brief reception between the talks at 4:30 p.m. in the Morehead Lounge of the Johnston Center.

Marketplace, the Bryan Center, the West Union Building and Trent Dormitory. Organizers will also go doorto-door soliciting donations. For more information, contact Emily Grey, DSG vice president for facilities and athlet-

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Ambassador to speak: British ambassador to the United States Sir Christopher Meyer and his wife Lady Catherine Meyer will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill next week, as part of an effort sponsored by many Triangle-area schools and corporations, including Duke.

Duke creates certificate program in info sciences and studies In addition to course work, the program —which would be offered to both undergraduate and graduate How has the improved efficiency ofinformation flow students—would include a skills requirement, communiaffected the political process? How has the emergence ty service to narrow the digital divide, and partnerships of digital music and photography changed the face of with various businesses. Students will have the opportuthe entertainment industry? These are the types of nity to test new products from businesses and provide questions students may have an opportunity to explore feedback, keeping the program at the cutting edge.

Davidson said she was particularly excited about the through a certificate program in information science capstone course, which would require teams of students and information studies.

The certificate, being developed by Vice Provost for in different majors to complete a major project with the Interdisciplinary Affairs Cathy Davidson and Dean of knowledge they have gained. Projects could range from developing software to creating Internet companies.

Trinity College Robert Thompson, will feature an introThe group developing the program includes faculty ductory course and cluster courses around several areas, from across the University, ranging from Pratt School focusing the shared of on together... aspect “It brings how information and how new methods of gathering of Engineering Associate Dean for Education Phil and communicating information are changing many Jones to Associate Professor of Music Scott Lindroth.

“The computer has not only changed the musical fields,” said Robert Wolpert, a member of the ISIS curricular working group. The professor of statistics added sounds we work with, but also the way music is notatthat he brings an understanding of how different kinds ed, recorded and distributed,” Lindroth wrote in an email. “Publishers and performing rights organizations of information can support statistical inference.

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are struggling to come to grips with Napster.... The business of being a musician has changed.”

Davidson said a firm curriculum has not yet been formulated and that the working group wants as much feedback as possible from students in the development phase. The group has launched a website—www.duke.edu/web/isis —to facilitate such feedback.

The introductory course could be offered as early as fall 2001. Davidson emphasized that there are no plans to develop the program into a major. “[Students! don’t see this as an expertise in and of itself....,” said Dan Vallero, a working group member. “It is an integral part ofwhatever they do.” Vallero, director of the Program in Science, Technology and Human Values, added that students’ intimate understanding of technology necessitates feedback from potential participants. Vallero also said he hopes the program adds to education already provided by STHV, which teaches students about the links between science, technology and engineering, and society.

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Trask, OIT examine local, long-distance phone rates

By TESSA LYONS The Chronicle Bothered by high phone bills across campus, Executive Vice President Tail-

Poe said OIT is always open to suggested changes to its rates and services, and that in the past it has worked effectively with groups like Duke Student

man Trask has begun an investigation into local and long-distance phone rates and the way other technology costs af-

fect those rates.

Trask said his investigation will not necessarily result in decreased rates, but that it will focus on separating the long-distance rates from local access charges and network access, allowing Duke to determine whether it is offering rates comparable to those in the private sector. “Although our current rates appear on the surface to be high... since phone charges subsidize free network access, it’s not that simple,” he said.

Duke, like many universities, subverts the private sector by controlling all on-campus phone systems. Around the 1930s the University equipped itself to bypass local telephone switchboards and provide its own unique service—and its own rates—to University offices and residential students.

These methods do not necessarily counter good economic practices. Christa Stilley Poe, manager of residential and business operations for the Office of Information Technology, said that because universities are large businesses with particular needs, they can only leverage their buying power by aggregating their

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HIGH PHONE BILLS have prompted Executive Vice President Tallman Trask to launch an investigation of the the University’s phone rates. services. She added that because students move each year, they would not necessarily be able to take advantage of the very best rates the market has to offer.

Pointing to OITs new cell phone services and new rate plan, as well as its

ability to combine both local and longdistance bills, Poe said she is confident that OITs services are equal to, if not better than, the best in the private sector.

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An early CELEBRATION Although Kwanzaa is held from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1 each year, students gathered in Von Canon last night to dance, eat and celebrate a few weeks early. The AfricanAmerican holiday, created in 1966, focuses on the traditional African values of family, community responsibility and self-improvement.

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ways try to adjust to student requests if it’s possible Sophomore Elizabeth Ralston, an Edens resident, for us to do so.” He added that with construction ocsaid ridership could grow if the service were expanded. curring soon in various spots around campus, perhaps “It’s a good idea, but for it to be a truly useful service, even at Science Drive, more concerns about bus transit should make regular stops at Edens about 10-15 port will inevitably arise. minutes before each class Monday through Friday,” Bill Burig, assistant dean of student development, she said. has encouraged students to take the bus because with But Burrell voiced concern that if expansions are current ridership and the fuel costs associated, the bus made to the Edens route, other groups may be denied route might not be feasible to continue. the service that they want. “At this point in time, we “If there are not enough students who use this don’t plan to change our primary route structure beroute, the bus will be assigned for something else,” tween now and next May,” Burrell said. “We will alhe said.

Group OKs new name for NSOE � ACADEMIC COUNCIL from page 5 gy, and Barbara Shaw, professor of chemistry, both voiced concerns about how new research funding

will affect faculty. Specifically they asked whether encouraging more grants and creating new research positions would alienate senior faculty or those in areas where research grants are less available. Lange assured faculty that money and grant productivity will not be factors in determining privileges such as space allocations.

IN OTHER BUSINESS: The council unanimously passed a resolution on the structure and new name of the Nicholas School of the Environment, although the preceding discussion was far from harmonious. Continuing debate from the council’s Nov. 16 meeting, Rojstaczer criticized the integration ofthe division of Earth and Ocean Sciences into the school.

“What we are doing with the division of Earth and Ocean Sciences in the NSOE is something that no other major university is doing and it’s perpetuating mediocrity in EOS at Duke University,” he said.

Lange and NSOE Dean Norm Christensen defended the proposal, citing feedback from faculty and increased enrollment in EOS classes and in the number of majors. “The notion that we are singling out EOS for scapegoating for the impoverished natural sciences is ludicrous,” Lange said.

“There are historical reasons for all of this.”

If passed by the Board of Trustees this weekend, the plan will structure the school’s faculty into three branches, include all faculty in tenure decisions and will rename the school the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

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Electors could become political pariahs if they defect ELECTORS from page

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officially vote for president. Although electors traditionally vote according to their state s popular vote, they have been known to defect. ‘There have been sporadic occasional faithless electors,” said Professor of Political Science John Aldnch, adding that the first instance occurred in 1820, when a New Hampshire elector failed to vote for James Monroe, despite his home state’s popular vote.

But Aldrich said such switches in past history have not been Republican to Democrat, or vice versa. “It’s typically not cross-party, but more likely to [go to]... a third-party candidate,” he said.

In 1968, a North Carolinian Republican elector broke ranks and voted for

States Rights Party candidate George Wallace rather than Republican Richard Nixon.

Ted Arrington, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, was doubtful that anyone would defect in an election this close. “I’ll believe it when I see it,” he said. “Their vote would make a difference in this election. In the past when somebody had defected it was when their vote didn’t matter.”

Steve Rader, an elector from Washington, N.C., said he thought it would be dishonorable for him or others to defect.

“It’s a matter of trust when you are selected, and I think it would be wrong to breach that trust,” he said.

At-large elector Fran Barnhart, of Charlotte, agreed that crossing party lines' would be unethical, and added that after the 1968 election, the state established a statute to impose penalties on an elector who defected.

This year, Barnhart said she had heard that one North Carolina elector had briefly considered defecting; she could not recall the elector’s name.

“There was a man who was trying to do this, but as far as I know [the party] did not get a call about this because he found out it wasn’t possible,” she said.

Dan Gurley, political director of the state Republican party, said he had not heard of anybody considering such a switch. Aldrich and Arrington, howev-

er, said restrictions on who electors could vote for were legally questionable. “Most constitutional scholars believe that the Supreme Court would refuse to impose a penalty for being unfaithful,” Arrington said.

Aldrich added that the state’s penalties for defection would basically consist of minor fines, but the state Republican party would be able to impose penalties that would likely be more costly to these long-time party faithfuls. “Being an elector is one of the highest honors a party activist can receive,” Gurley wrote in an email. “Anyone who violated that trust would probably be removed from the party and never again be allowed to participate in any way.”

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But Graduate School Dean Lewis Siegel cautioned against unnecessary panic and said that in many cases, departments simply need to find away to boost their applicant pools. Boosting applicant levels often means adding faculty members, a measure the Graduate School can suggest but does not control.

Gregson Davis, chair of classical studies, said conducting seminars and maintaining classroom size are important goals, but that some areas of study are so important to the intellectual vitality of a university that they should never be cut. “It would be insanity. If Duke aspires to maintain... some kind of a place of eminence in the humanities and wants to compare itself to Harvard and Yale and Princeton, there can be no question about the importance of German and art history and classics,” Davis said. ‘You have to make a choice and decide what’s important and what’s not. You can’t do it by strictly mechanical quantitative material.”

But German is the department that faces the most critical issues, Siegel said. The department, which in-

eludes 17 graduate students and took in just one this year, faces a small and shrinking applicant pool. “We’ll work with the department to see whether there are ways we can improve the applicant p001.... If they can’t, we may have to decide this is just never going to work,” Siegel said. “It sounds like an ax hanging over their head. It’s not like that. It’s a question as to whether they can find ways to make the German program at Duke University... viable.”

Siegel said the department will undergo a routine external review next February and that the results will play a role in upcoming decisions.

Thomas Pfau, director of graduate studies for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, said he had not heard of any potential plans to cut the program and that doing so would eliminate an important field. Department chair James Rolleston agreed. “It is absolutely a core field of knowledge. You would lose an advanced interdisciplinary program which also keeps alive very great names like Hegel, Marx, Nietzche, Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Thomas Mann...,” he said. “At the

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graduate level, we’re not talking about language anymore. You really are talking about a civilization.”

Rolleston added that the department has vowed not to accept low-quality students and is competing with a number of institutions for very few students.

Siegel admitted that there are non-numerical considerations involved, but said the size of a department’s applicant pool and annual enrollment is still critical. “When the pool gets too small, you begin to have to go pretty far down your list, or you don’t get a reasonable-sized class,” he said. “Duke doesn’t want to get into the business of having to take poor-quality students to maintain a program.”

Richard Powell, chair of art history, defended his program in spite of its average two-student-per-year enrollment.

“All departments at Duke should be looked at and evaluated,” he said. “I just don’t know ifquestions that have simply to do with the number of people who enroll in a program, if that’s sufficient for raising questions about the viability of a program.”

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Duke Student Government proposal to extend fall semester’s reading period by a day is well intentioned but tackles the problems with finals week inefficiently. Many students by mere coincidence find themselves taking three finals in two days, while competing with students in each ofthese classes who are taking three spread across five days. This situation is no one’s fault, but it is an inefficiency in any exam scheduling system. Extending reading period by one day would give all students an extra day to study, but would do little to level the playing field or to make finals an experience where every student is equipped to do her best.

As a result, the University should adopt a two-fold approach targeted at this specific problem.

The week preceding finals should be a free-zone, when tests and papers are prohibited. This provision should place emphasis on professors using the last weeks to synthesize entire semesters and would allow students to get a head-start on studying.

The University should become more flexible in allowing students to adjust their finals schedules. If a student approaches a professor and says her assigned finals schedule prohibits her from excelling on a final, that professor must allow the student to take the test at a different time. This practice is in the interest of learning, fairness and the trust/honor that this University so often likes to talk about.

Eventually, Duke should work toward a system that allows students to take finals whenever they like—to pick one up from a professor or department office and return it three hours later. Until the necessary trust is built between faculty and students, though, Duke should build toward this mature and appropriate system with baby steps designed to solve inefficiencies in meaningful ways.

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opening of The Loop has been continually delayed, and Dining Services officials still do not know when the pizza and burger joint will finally open. This is not the first time that an on campus dining option has opened late, and it’s time that Dining Services start thinking more critically about how and when to plan additional eateries.

Every year, the planning efforts for a new dining option start too late. After this third missed deadline, it is clear that the University cannot expect to negotiate a contract and construct an eatery during the three months of summer break. Every existing eatery should be evaluated well before second semester ends, and builders should be ready to break ground the first day of summer.

When Dining Services sets a deadline, it should do everything in its power to make sure that the deadline is met and not just an ad hoc projection. That is not to say that every construction project will not hit a few snags and potentially delay the opening of an eatery by a few days, or even a couple weeks. But to delay the opening of one of the few West Campus eateries by several months —which eventually becomes an entire semester—is unacceptable.

It cannot be stated more simply: Early planning is the key.

When Dining Services is slow to open an eatery it significantly limits students’ dining options. With there being so few place available already, long delays are not an option.

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Remember victims of AIDS by practicing safe-sex Today marks the 13th annual World AIDS Day. World AIDS Day is a day to reflect on the impact of HIV/AIDS both globally and locally. In recent years, it seems that dialogue and publicity about the AIDS epidemic had decreased; yet, this decrease is both misleading and dangerous—especially for young people.

The Centers for Disease Control estimate that at least half of all new HIV infections in the United States are among people under 25, with the majority of these people infected sexually. As college students, many of us feel invincible, that such a disease could never happen to us or that we would never choose a sexual partner who would have a sexually transmitted disease, let alone HIV. This attitude of invincibility com-

bined with a lack of education leads to many unnecessary cases of HTV each year.

Some may think that acquiring HIV is less threatening now due to the avail-

ability of “drug cocktails.”

However, it is important to remember that there is no cure and that such treatments

various forms; abstinence, monogamy (in a strict, clinical sense, not with a different person each month) or by using barrier devices such as condoms and dental dams for all

forms ofvaginal, oral and anal intercourse. In addition, we can talk to our sexual partners and friends about risk are exorbitantly expensive, reduction to spread the word.

For as much as we like to cumbersome, and ineffective for many individuals. Risking talk about sex at this univerinfection with HIV because sity, the dialogue on safety there are now drugs available and disease prevention is to treat it is both foolish and often absent. If you have irresponsible. The threat of questions about testing or safer sex please call the HIV/AIDS is relevant today.

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Electoral College causes candidates to abandon states lam writing in response Indiana. If the president If the candidates ignore a certain area of the country, it to Marko Djuranovic’s Nov. were selected by direct popu-30 column entitled “The lar vote, the candidates does not mean that the peoneed for the Electoral would have had incentive to ple there get less of a say in in College.” The arguments campaign Indiana, the election. Their vote will Djuranovic used to support because they could swayed be just as important as peohis positions are unconvinc- the undecided voters who, ple who shook the candidates’ ing and misleading. under the Electoral College hands. And I also pose that First, he argued that the system, did not matter. they will be just as informed Electoral College forces can- Using the Electoral College about the candidates as peodidates “to spend some time does not mean that candiple in densely populated in every state because the dates will pay more equal regions—the majority of our risks of completely ignoring attention to all states, information about political small states can add up.” Instead, it merely shifts the candidates comes through This statement assumes that focus to different areas—in the mass media, to which the only reason for a candi- particular, under a direct farmers in North Dakota date to ignore a state is how popular vote system, candihave as much access as soccer many electoral votes the dates would campaign in moms in Connecticut. state had.

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SANDBOX Chaiktoan Speaks We're dreaming of a dial-white Christmas, And Kate Hudson

America still doesn't have a president. Al Gore still doesn t have a personality. Dubya still doesn't have a brain. If you take a gander at the two goons still squabbling over who gets to sit behind the big desk next year, you get the sense that maybe there's a need for change in this country. And if you strolled down the Bryan Center walkway in recen' you saw that somebody else at Duke wa . the exact same thing—and scribbling it oi walls in colored chalk.

Until now, the phantom kook respons, for those pastel anarchist chalkings has been an enigma—like Zorro, only not as cool. But we here at Recess aren't afraid radical Ideas space in our mag. So here an exclusive chat with Chalkman, whos remains a secret even to us.

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Let's talk about this year's election Does this go anywhere toward legitim democracy, or is the country still going porate-financed Hell?

Whatever the outcome, a corporate-spo candidate will be in the White House in Ja the anger about the electoral system we now would have been more useful if it ha directed against the corporate-financed el before they actually took place.

Is the Bryan Center walkway your preferre medium of political discourse? Why not just send an irate letter to The Chronicle?

We're trying to create more political space on campus. We want a discourse not limited to classrooms or The Chronicle.

Some dude wrote into The Chronicle saying that chalk removal comes at great expense to the University. Do you think the University should consider your work an art form?

If the University wants to clean it up, it can. So far nothing has been removed so I don't see where this people get off saying that we're raising their tuition.

We're currently looking into University funding for more chalk.

Are there more like you out there at Duke, maybe just "searching for their inner chalk?"

Since our first chalking, there's been more and more stuff showing up. We don’t know who these peo're as anonymous as we are. This just iat people have been inspired, that find this to be a valid and empowerig means of political participation.

Do you object to the gender-specific moniker "Chalkman?" How t Chalky? BC McChalk-A-Lot? e are a lot of people who've taken up 1 of expression, males and females like. Of course patriarchy exists not >nly in our social system but within ■*ach person’s mind as well. That's why <en the image of one person tagging walkway with chalk was created, that is a male. /an" sounds like a pretty wussy What would your superpowers be? 'e the power of our voice. People we have to say. That's a powerful country where most powerful, il speech is bought and sold in the media. xhist Fashion Quiz: What's your preferred wardrobe for your utopia—the rags 'n' loincloth aesthetic or post-apoc Mad Max biker chic?

Style and fashion have little meaning in an anarchist society. People choose what they will wear not based on social pressures like advertising, but rather based on their own individual preferences. Comfort and practicality would certainly take precedence over "looks." I also imagine that clothes would be worn only when necessary—as protection from the ele. ments for instance.

What's the first rule of Fight Club?

There is no Fight Club.

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Talking ffliout Coming at the end of a particularly tepid year for movies, Traffic has been building anticipation with its controversial War On Drugs theme and its pairing of newlyweds Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Recess Associate Film Editor Greg Bloom caught up with screenwriter Stephen Gaghan as he was driving in his '66 GTO convertible through the mean

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Your movie Traffic has been getting some serious buzz about its drug war politics. Do you think of your script as a political piece?

You know, Lyndon Johnson said that all politics are personal. On some weird level, particularly with drug consumption, the personal is the political. At the end of the day, [a movie] is not a policy paper—it's entertainment, and hopefully good entertainment.

Do the politics or the characters come first, especially in this story?

Well, I've done a lot of research at the Pentagon—it's this big undertaking, with lots of points of view. And you get all this information, and all that's fine —very dry—but at some point you have to sit down and get the voices out. Stuff just pops in your head. had researched for like a year and read like 50 books, and one morning in my beach house in Malibu, at 10:30 in the morning just sat up in bed and there was this voice in my head, and it just said "Duck salad? You never eat duck salad."

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I couldn't go back to sleep so I wrote it down and I realized it was from the Catherine Zeta-Jones character having a conversation while being served at a country club. That ended up being the first scene of the movie I wrote, although it doesn't happen until 20 minutes into it.

Your last movie, Rules of Engagement, also has some serious political issues in it. Do you find that Traffic and Rules of Engagement have And

conflicting politics?

[They are] very different situations. Rules of Engagement was about a situation in which a highly trained marine was put in a war environment where he had to make a decision. He didn't make the best choice a human could make. And that's the nature of a $290 billion military, the nature of having such a gigantic army. It begs the question: What should we be doing with it? Without question, a third of every tax dollar goes-to the military. Why

do we have it?

The same question could be asked of the drug war. think the parallel with this [and Rules of Engagement] is that they're asking macro questions. Traffic doesn't take a stance and say "The drug war is bad." However, I think it will be impossible to watch the movie and come out without saying to yourself, "Jeez, we really have to change that."

During my research, never met one person who thought that the drug war was working. They felt despair. They felt like they'd disappeared down a rathole and couldn't get out. think with [the drug war], there's such a drastic social cost that it's not really an abstract thing.

Alaska's recent ballot had a proposal to legalize marijuana. Do you think that the country is coming close to redefining its emphasis? think that certain places are coming close to it. think we're limping toward tolerance. Putting people in prison doesn't work—the only thing that does work is treatment. Hopefully we'll move away from finger-pointing and making addiction a moral failing, to tolerance and empathy. When hear someone like Jesse Helms babble on about the war on drugs, it's like dealing with a space alien. He has no relevance to the issue. The people left to carry this debate forward are going to be people like you and me, and think we have very different attitudes towards it. don't know anybody under the age of 40 that doesn't think the war on drugs is moronic.

Start trying to help people—it's much cheaper.

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One more question about Traffic: The trailer didn't once mention drugs or anything related to the subject. Do you think the studio is trying to distance the movie from its politics?

I'm not sure actually.... don't really know much about marketing movies.

They might be. Hollywood is a place that is very reactionary. Let's just be straight about it—there was never a single movie made indicting the Vietnam War until long after the Vietnam War was over. Hollywood was not out in front saying, "Hey, let's make a movie about Jews getting killed out in ovens in Germany." Instead they say, "Let's not ruffle any feathers."

Hollywood is generally thought to be very liberal.

It's a mixed bag; it's a reflection of America. America gets the Hollywood it deserves, not vice versa.

Speaking of Hollywood, this past season has been pretty weak. Is there one script that you've seen this year that you wish you could take credit for? really liked Dancer in the Dark and Best in Show, which was very funny and profound in away. sorta lilted The Contender. didn't think it was a perfect film, but thought it was interesting. And enjoyed Requiem for A Dream. It's like the world's greatest drug statement. It's almost the polar opposite of Traffic—wery much style over story, while our movie is story, story, story. 1 think it makes a nice companion piece to Traffic in a weird way—the two films taken together give you a real interesting overview of the whole emotional experience of the world of drugs.

I see that you are planning to direct one of your screenplays [Havoc], How is it different to write a film that you are also going to direct?

Most directors start out as writers. It happens a lot. Steven Spielberg, Ingmar Bergman, Steven

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themselves to make a movie. It's what all the training has been about—all the writing is a kind of training.

So your ultimate goal is to be a director?

If I get lucky and everything goes right, I'd like to direct movies and also write novels. I can't imagine anyone aspiring to be a

screenwriter. Turning something very personal to you over to someone else to take over the goal line and interpret is a very hard process. I think that if you have the opportunity and have the skills,

you can become a filmmaker and then work the art from beginning to end.Q

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Recess Associate Arts Editor Faran Krentcil talked to Vogue Contributing Editor Marina Rust about her Duke experience, her novel and her take on this year’s fashions.

THE "IT' GIRL Marina struts her stuff.

s a Vogue contributing editor, author and fashion expert, Marina Rust shows up on a lot of lists.

Along with the Vogue masthead, she's graced the pages of People magazine in their catalogue of the fifty most beautiful people, along with the countless guest lists for dinner parties, galas, charity balls and premieres that go along with her position. Rust also pops up on page six of The New York Post next to partners-in-crime like Brooke De Ocampo and Aerin Laude, and she's been enrolled in "The Bret Pack," a clique headlined by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis. She snagged a more dubious honor when she made one list of New York's 50 most annoying people, places and things. In better news. Rust was bagged and tagged as simply "It" by Vanity Fair. But long before she took her place among the glitterati with Audrey Hepburn, Jackie 0 and our girl Gwyneth, Marina Rust was on a different kind of list: the Duke University enrollment list.

"I love Durham," she exhales breezily. "I grew up in D.C., and I'd always wanted to go south for college.... I found out about Duke from the Yale Insider's Guide, and I went down there... even the airport, RDU airport, it moved me. 1 loved it."

Rust describes her post-grad years in equally windswept tones. "I had fun, and I didn't want to leave Duke. I think that's why I decided to become a writer—it was a great excuse to hang out in Durham. My senior year, I took this short story class. My stuff got a lot of encouragement from the class, and the teacher, my friends."

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Gatherings. The tale of a privileged family, which has been compared both to Ellis and Jane Austen's Emma, received mild critical acclaim —and lots of press. Magazines began to profile the D.C. debutante from Duke, and Rust's rep began stretching from coast to coast. After getting a New York pad in 1988, she headed to L.A. in 1993 and waited for The Gatherings to garner a reaction.

"It was really easy to write," she muses. "I mean, I did it in a couple of months. Revising took

9f 9 weAe. in college,, 9 think 9'Vt we&A. loti of KcUe SfxcuHe. much longer. I didn't write it with anyone else in mind, and people reacted very differently... but you can't write something worrying about how other people will react." Look for a second wave of public opinion on August 1, when The Gatherings gets reissued in paperback. As for her next book? "Well, it's a mystery. That's all I can tell you."

Her lips may be sealed about her next novel, but Rust is more than happy to talk about writing for Vogue. After famed Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour praised her first novel, Rust was invited to her house. That led to the two attending a dinner party for Armani, followed shortly thereafter by a meeting. As the two ladies lunched, they planned a column. "We talked about what 1 might like to write.

In August '93, my first article came out."

Rust landed on the Vogue masthead as a contributing editor by 1994, and has remained a name for seven years since. "I do articles, I propose

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this Pat Bennetar thing," instructs Rust. "1

was there, and it didn't work.” Expect this

fad to disappear as soon as magazines feature it.

Perforated Leather, instead, invest in something classic, like wefi-cut pants or an A-line leather skirt.

Frosted Pink Lipstick. If you must, a tittle gloss. "And no blue mascara, either!” laughs Rust, adding, "I admit, in college, 1 was guilty!"

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Clothes that m model. Someti get the trends own the room beaded bell-ba get out there a strut your stuff After all.

Sling-back IVlanofo Blahniks. in black. brown, beige or clear. "They're a very demure, low heel, and they go with everything." Note to those that can't get $BOO shoes; Guess and Chinese Laundry are great brands that feature similar (and cheaper} styles.

Weil-cut, deeply colored Jeans. "I wish 1 wore more jeans in college," says Rust wistfully. We agree: Earl Jeans are best, but Mavi and (yes) Gap come in a close second. tong, vintage {"disco"} earrings. "They came in last spring, but they're still here"

"Everyone's 'lt' in their own world"

ideas.... It's a really good job." Surprisingly, Rust says the free clothes aren't the best part. "Actually, the best part of my job is that I don't have to figure out what to wear to the office. The reason I'm still a writer is because I can dress like I'm still in col-

lege! "she giggles.

And how should girls who are still in college dress?

"Well, when I was there, we got some Lily Pulitzer material for our sorority sweatshirt. And... oh, gosh, there was this poofy blue Laura Ashley dress. Long pleated skirts, peter pan collars, cashmere sweaters, Benneton —this was the 'Bos, remember!"

To find something more current, the "It" girl obliges, chiming "Hang on, I’m running to my closet!" Some of Rust's list: "Honestly, I'm not fun.

I've lost my sense of humor about clothes. But if I were in college, I think I'd wear lots of Kate Spade I have a few of the winter bags, and I love the wicker bags for summer. I'm curious about her new shoes, I just saw a pair and they were adorable."

Unfortunately, Rust says that fashion editors have to ship all the free clothes back after they are done with them—you can't have it all. Even if you're It. ."Actually, I'm really astounded that I'd be It at this point," she remarks. "It was really strange for my husband [banker lan Conner]. But it's not that big of a deal. I mean, in their own lives, everybody's "it."

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Y2K wasn’t a very good year for film. Still we have our favorites—and least-favorites—to share.

By Dan Mallory delivers the breakthrough performance of the year.

TT(h© In the list-happy spirit of High Fidelity, the top three signs it's been a bad year for movies 1. The best titles The Exorcist, This Is Spinal Tap, The Nightmare Before Christmas are re-releases.

2. The worst were the handiwork of such respected auteurs as Robert Zemeckis (What Lies Beneath), John Frankenheimer (Reindeer Games), and Robert Redford (The Legend of Bagger Vance).

3. By this point last December, Spike Jonze, David O. Russell and Doug Liman had announced themselves as directors to be reckoned with. Twelve months later, the hottest talents behind the camera are the Wayans Brothers (Scary Movie).

All told, only a handful of films managed to distinguish themselves —each one, coincidentally, a character-driven ensemble piece: Almost Famous Cameron Crowe's shaggy follow-up to Jerry Maguire tracks the coming-of-age of a very young Rolling Stone reporter (Patrick Fugit) in 1975, but the movie ultimately chronicles the fruition of an era gilded with decadence and drugs. Genially artless and teeming with heart, this sweet-spirited saga loves its characters even as it faults them; and Kate Hudson, playing a self-effacing (and deluding) groupie,

High Fidelity Wryly observed and crisply written, this beautifully unforced adaptation of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel hums with the natural rhythms of comedy, truth and loss. As a lovelorn pop devotee scrutinizing his storied romantic past, John Cusack gives an instantly iconic performance; he's bolstered

by Catherine Zeta-Jones and the marvelous Jack Black. The most confident and honest date movie since well before Jerry Maguire.

Wonder Boys Michael Douglas is a corpulent Pittsburgh professor whose thousand-page novel-in-progress charts the vagaries of equine orthodonture.

Tobey Maguire plays his prize pupil, a pathological liar with a sexuality as flexible as his principles of honesty.

Together, they smoke marijuana, mock litterati and shoot blind dogs. From such precious elements, Curtis Hanson's bemused dramedy wrings sophisticated, delectably dry humor, and features an unusually assured Robert Downey Jr. (between

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You Can Count On Me An acutely affecting slice of domestic strife, this sincere, generous, rewarding film achieves in its small scope a transporting perfection. As a single mother and her shiftless brother, Laura Linney and Mark Buffalo offer two of the year's strongest performances, and Matthew Broderick dexterously shifts gears as Linney's unctuous boss. Quietly luminous.

ftlh® The Skulls and Battlefield Earth are the easy answers. Herewith, the more high-profile disappointments; Gladiator The year's most overrated film, a

dreary, humorless, just-add-water battle epic, indifferently acted and

THE BEST THING OF THE SEASON: Casting Goldie Hawn spawnKate Hudson in AlmostFamous was almost a great enough feat to forgive the terrible blunders of the film industry this year. fervidly overdirected —even the combat

scenes are edited without a nod to coherence. Russell Crowe smolders, but Joaquin Phoenix underwhelms as a villain. Note to Ridley Scott: Pretentious camera angles and inauthentic sets do not a Spartacus make.

Reindeer Games A movie in dire need of Ritalin. As a trio of conniving lowlifes, Ben Affleck, CharlizeTheron, and a hirsute Gary Sinise undergo so many protean (and pointless) character shifts and plot such piddling larcenies, it's no wonder they're stuck robbing Michigan casinos. Notable only for the sheer number of corkscrew twists that clog its nonsensical finale.

What Lies Beneath This handsome but ludicrous supernatural psychothriller kicks off with a 45-minute red herring and concludes in a half-hour bathtub setpiece. It's like a Herculean marathon of endurance, all karmic dialogue and ravishing interior design. The identity of the villain will shock anyone—that is, anyone who has never seen a movie before. □

I AM INDIE. I AM COOL John Cusack's character in High Fidelity is a record store hipster who reads Magnet. It's a cool magazine. But Recess is still funnier.

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It is only too rare that a movie unflinchingly batters open the limitations of its medium to achieve such a profoundly affecting result. Forget entertainment or escapism—this film shoots its stuff right into your aorta, a visual injection of such visceral p° wer that by its end you too GRADE: will feel like you are lying on a hospital bed, breathing only through a machine The drug-movie genre has proven particularly rich, with films like Trainspotting, Drugstore Cowboy, Jesus Son and others. Requiem goes beyond the lines and needles into the very psyche of the addict. It's within that splintered, desperate mindscape that the center of conflict emerges. This is a horror movie, with the monster of addiction mercilessly hound-' ing its prey.

The story follows four characters and their descent into madness; Harry (Jared Leto, redeeming himself from years of mindless teenage fawning), his girlfriend Sara (Jennifer Connelly), his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans, excellent as an aspiring drug dealer in a role far removed _

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OUT OF THE PICKUP AND ONTO THE STAGE These gentlemen are kicking ass Skynyrd style. Word to their mothers.

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Story by Robert Kelley and Kelly McVkker Photography by Kelly McVkker

s Recess music editors and two of the biggest music fans at Duke, we set out to discover Durham's music scene. We picked up a copy of the Independent Weekly, turned toward the back and found the listings for live music in Durham; a Monday open mic night, Wednesday night traditional Irish music at the James Joyce and a weekend stocked with jazz. How were we ever going to balance our demanding coursework with the time it would take to research this thriving scene?

Easy. The Indy was simply wrong. Monday's open mic night had long been cancelled.

The lads at the Joyce had no knowledge of any live music, traditionally Irish or otherwise, on Wednesday night. Instead, we had all week to listen to records, write papers and chuckle about another "open mic night" at some bar called The Basement on Thursday.

The chuckles grew to a roar when we descended the cement staircase to the appropriately titled concrete-floored sleazefest on Broad Street, just a short walk from East Campus. We entered the room, glanced at the large, vacant stage to our right and walked

past the pool table that served as the room's centerpiece.

The crowd was small, sparse and overwhelmingly male. Thirty minutes, we said, and we would have enough material to ridicule the sorry sight. In the meantime, we approached the bar, which carried the full line of Aristocrat liquors and offered $1 draws of Anheuser-Busch's budget brew, Natural Light.

The first —and unnamed—band we saw take the stage played a respectable take on southern rock. During their three-song set, the crowd grew to a couple Duke students, some men with guitars and a host of Durhamites enticed by the aforementioned Natty Light special.

Taking their lead from ex-House of Pain DJ Everlast, two white guitarists played a bluesy riff while a young black man in a football jersey and commodious pants spewed forth a rather impressive rap. We admit it—we didn't expect that sort of diversity at open mic night. The next band brought the crowd to its feet with a blues-funk combo set, and the following act —a woman with a sultry soul voice—forced us sit down again, firmly under her spell. How could so many acts come out of Durham's sleepy woodwork? And why weren't more people there to enjoy it?

Local musician and record label promoter Ken Daye thinks it’s all about the venues. "The only reason Chapel Hill has a music scene and Durham doesn't is because Chapel Hill has the advantage of having great venues for musicians to play at, whereas Durham has nothing."

For the past few weeks, Daye has been trying to change that. The venue recently played host to a record release party for artists on Daye's local record label, Replay Records. After the success of that party, they decided to dedicate Thursday nights to performances by local artists in the open-mic format, and Daye took over the job of coordinating and promoting the event.

The Basement doesn't seem to have too much trouble competing with other venues for the talent and time of local musicians, yet its open mic performances don't exactly pack the floor. According to Daye, by the event's second week, the size of the audience had more than doubled. If what we witnessed on Thursday night at The Basement was "double," the Durham scene is in worse shape than we thought.

In an effort to change this, Replay Records is currently working on getting a solid base of musicians to come to The Basement on a regular basis, with hopes of eventually being able to put on bigger shows featuring acts from all over the country. The goal of this effort is to ultimately create.a place where locakmusicians have a chance to play to a large audience.

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Entropy has responded to the problem of limited Given this community's noticeable separation venues by taking their music to more unconvenbetween the local and university populations, intetional arenas. "Besides playing on campus and in gration of the two groups could be the key.

Unfortunately, Duke students that do travel off-camthe few local clubs that host bands here in pus in search of a social scene rarely include places Durham, we have played everything from student like The Basement in their nightly route. functions to house parties, basically anything we can have fun doing," Soman said, To those students, Daye presents a challenge: Although the City of Medicine's options for live "Give us a Thursday to change your mind about music may be limited, Soman says the small size is how the local scene in Durham is. We would love deceiving. "There are a pretty good number of to have some Duke kids come in and add some element to what is going on and help create a accomplished musicians from all over the country that settle down in Durham. One of the reasons is new scene. There are a lot of Duke students with talent, and we want to give them a chance to because of the [larger] Triangle music scene, center, Durham isn't the it is a real come out here and perform, to help us create a Although easy and be close place to live really community of music together and integrate as to all of the clubs and studios in Chapel Hill and Raleigh." much as possible." what of us who hear just want to But about those Sounds like a start, anyway. â&#x2013;Ą

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Another option for live music in Durham is closer than you might think. The Coffeehouse on East Campus has some of the best live shows in all of Durham and consistently hosts student performers throughout the week. Entropy, a band formed in 1999 by a combination of current students and recent graduates including Taylor Pendergrass, Neill Wallis, Jim Iseman, George Spanos and

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In his November 21 Chronicle column, entitled "And the band played on," former Recess Editor Kevin Pride wrote about his band's appearance at the Basement's open mic night. Although we've got nothin' but love for Kevin, we feel it's only our duty to correct some of the errors In his column.

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"Unfortunately, the instruments that we had borrowed from some other musicians were a little out of tune, and our sound was a little off."

The Dupas had to borrow instruments because they had none of their own. However, Kevin deserves credit for acknowledging that his band was out of tune. From their songs, we had assumed they were simply tone-deaf.

"We are more like artists than 'musicians,' and the basis of our art is

improvisation."

They are also more like jackasses than musicians, or plumbers than musicians. In fact, they're more like almost anything than musicians And the basis of their art is $1 glasses of Natty Light.

"Dupa Nice was certainly misunderstood by a public unprepared to hear something new, something fresh, something clean."

Dupa Nice certainly were understood by a public tired of hearing a guitarist strumming a total of two chords while four other drunk guys tinkered with instruments they had no idea how to play.

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6. Paul Van Dyk Out There and Back On this album. Van Dyk seems to have finally figured out the evasive balance between the hardcore and the candy-coated, bringing brilliant tracks that deliver haunting vocals and melodies without skimping on the trance sounds and beats.

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Z Radiohead Kid A Although it’s probably not Radiohead's best album ever, Kid A is still leaps and bounds above most of the doody that's out there these days. Proclaimed early on to be the ‘album of the millenium’, Kid A brings rock and techno together in a beautiful, futuristic blend.

7. The Sea and Cake Oui What makes Oui so enjoyable? As Louis Armstrong put it, "If you have to ask, you'll never know." It's jazz, it's rock, it's easy listening, it's art-rock, and it's perfect for both pretentious music lovers and fans of simply gorgeous tunes. And who doesn't fall into one of those two categories?

3. Ween White Pepper Words alone cannot describe the fuzzy feelings you'll get when you hear Gene Ween coo about being stranded in Mexico "living on bananas and blow." White Pepper combines Beatlesque ballads like “Flutes of the Chi" and "Stay Forever" with songs about cocaine addiction and neurotic girlfriends, creating stylistic juxtapositions that go far beyond Ween’s stoner-rock image.

8. Badly Drawn Boy The Hour of Bewilderbeast This debut album mixes dreamy songs about nature with a wide array of sound effects and instruments, creating a carefully orchestrated masterpiece. Besides the album becoming a huge hit throughout Great Britain, the song "The Shining" is currently being featured in a Gap commercial. How's that for success?

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9. LeTigre LeTigre Their self-titied debut album garnered worldwide acclaim, but their label —Mr. Lady Records —is based here in Durham Riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna sculpts ironic-but-still-danceable beats and punky guitars as theTigres rail against Rudy Giuliani and debate John Cassavetes. Remember this band, because you'll be hearing a lot more from them next year.

5. Sleater-Kinney All Hands on the Bad One The acclaimed Olympia grrrl-rock trio gets better with every release. All Hands On the Bad One is all of the political and emotional complexities associated with modern-day feminism, wrapped up in a ferocious guitar attack and topped off with a ribbon of blissful three-part harmonies.

10. U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind Bono and his crew get back to the basics on this beautifully constructed, simply melodic album. Songs like "Wild Honey" and "In a Little While" are enough to silence those who would have U2 retire to the annals of rock history.

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By Martin Barna posed to be a showdown between The West Wing and The Sopranos, and as fans of the New Jersey mob drama would have liked, the results were a bloodbath. The battle ended with Wing clipping television's best show in nine of 18 categories Wing is like the old shoe of television drama. It's worn, comfortable, cozy, trustworthy and always there for you. It is everything that good television is not.

After 50 years of broadcasting, the boys behind the little screen have stalled out.

Every plotline in Wing has been done a dozen times by a dozen shows (usually it's a sort of president-themed Law and Order, but without the wit and the intensity of Sam Waterston or Jerry Orbach).

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West Wing leaves you feeling badly for the real president, who Sheen's undynamic character is supposedly based on. If he is to be the second coming of Bill Clinton, then Pat Buchanan is the second coming of Mother Theresa.

With the exception of the stellar—and gorgeous—Allison Janney, the ensemble cast is one large lump of lame. John Spencer is acceptable as the chief of staff, but he played nearly the same character on LA. Law. The rest of the cast play interchangeable roles, and if you watch Wing on mute, it basically looks like a team of bureaucrats passing notes and making tired faces. Maybe it is realistic.

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College students are notorious for their instant message and chat marathons on their computers.

Whether it's with the popular ICQ or AOL IM services, many students seem to think that wireless messaging is a faster and more convenient way to keep in touch with friends.

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Nike’s new kicks put a spring in your step—literally.

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The Shox concept is simple. The shoes purport to not only cushion your foot, but take the energy absorbed in the impact of your heel hitting the ground and return the energy like a spring would, providing not only impact protection but also a boost to your gait.

This idea isn't new, either—Nike engineers started the Shox project 16 years ago.

However, Nike was also doing research on using air for cushioning at the same time and decided to focus on that instead. Nike "Air" was born, and the company focused on air technology for the next 16 years.

While kids grew up on Nike Air and its various implementations (Air Max, Air Jordan, etc.), the idea of spring-loaded sneakers never left Nike engineers' minds. The company continued to develop Shox technology, and it finally unveiled the fruits of its labor at this year's Olympics.

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mer UNC superstar Vince Carter, whose famous dunk over a seven-foot-two man will forever be etched in people's minds. Undoubtedly, it will also be the image Nike projects in its new multimillion dollar Shox-ad campaign.

The concept of Shox is the same as it was 16 years ago, but the shoes look radically different. Instead of actual metal springs, Nike uses high density polyurethane foam columns, which essentially do the same thing without the possibility of creaking or rust. Called "footrockets," they absorb the energy of impact and return it to the wearer on the transition from heel-strike to toe-off. While the energy return isn't nearly as dramatic as some have hoped, Shox nevertheless represents a new standard in athletic shoe design.

Nike is releasing three different kinds of

Shox shoes in stores this month. The 884 model for basketball, R4 for runners and XT4 for crosstraining should be here just in time for the holidays. Of the three, the running shoe has the most noticeable "boing effect," as well as the coolest looks. They're likely to draw lots of attention to their wearers, even without the red foot rockets.

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On intial inspection, theT9oo looks like a regular pager. Flip it open, however, and there's a miniature QWERTY keyboard and a four-line, 80-character backlit display for reading content. There are also a whopping 13 different alert (or annoy, depending on who you talk to) features, including vibrate, as well as 128K of memory, which is enough to store up to 250 contacts in the built in address book.

But is it worth it?

Motorola sent us twoT9oo units to put to the test. Since the unit sends and receives information over a wireless network, it takes about 60 seconds to receive a message. IM and ICQ fans may be disappointed by the lag time, but it should be sufficient to satisfy most general users. Being able to read new e-mail immediately is a plus, though the messages are cut short. The display on the unit is very clear, and the small keyboard proves surprisingly easy to use.

For $179 plus a $19.95 monthly service fee, the T9OO is probably not for everyone. Considering the rising popularity of cell phones on campus and the übiquity of computer terminals with e-mail, there doesn't seem to be much of a reason to buy one unless you want to send messages to someone from long distance. It's much better suited for mobile professionals or med students.

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The Bom-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2000 states that the words person, human being, child and individual shall include every infant member of the species Jwttw sapiens who is bom alive (as defined in this act) at any stage of development. After passing the House, the bill is currently in the Senate. Designed to keep doctors from withholding medical treatment from premature babies, it is representative of the disconnect between truth and law. Few reasonable people would dispute that a baby bom alive is a person, but by our muddled legal definitions, doctors must often leave these most vulnerable people to die, simply because the mother’s choice labels the child as non-human. Realize that you are reading these words now because someone chose to define you as a human being under the law. You have no inherent self-worth.

At Duke Hospital, there are doctors and nurses who work every day to save the lives of premature infants, even when the chances of survival are slim. These babies are wanted. Now read this; On April 10, 1999, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that an aborted baby at Darwin Private

The only one who cared about that baby girl in her time of need was a nurse without means to help.

Hospital had survived. Not only did she survive the abortion, but she suffered for 80 minutes before her heart ceased to beat and her breath ceased to come.

After having grown in her mother’s womb for four

months, she was deliberately delivered prematurely with the intent to abort her. She was unwanted.

Unnamed, she was called “Baby J.” The abortionist left Baby J to die, and the enormous burden ofthe baby’s short life was thrown into the compassionate but helpless hands of a nurse. She was never instructed on what to do in the event of a failed abortion. When she frantically called the director of the obstetrics and gynecology department to relate the situation, the director asked, “So what?”The nurse was left there with a tiny baby girl who desperately needed help.

All the nurse could do was cover Baby J to keep her warm. Returning every few minutes to check on her condition, the nurse watched as Baby J crept closer to death. Surely those 80 minutes must have been the longest and hardest of their entire lives.

If this were just a synopsis of a script from ER, I might be able to walk away from the commons room TV set just a little teaiy-eyed, but comforted in knowing that the story was a writer’s fiction. But this story relates the actual events at that hospital in July 1998.

The coroner described the situation as a “responsibility vacuum.” No one wanted the child, and as far as they were concerned... well, they were not concerned. The only one who cared about that baby girl in her time of need was a nurse without means to help. Only she recognized Baby J as a person. Only she saw Baby J struggle for breath and life in the frigid hospital room. Baby Ts mother wanted her child aborted. She did not value her baby’s life enough to give birth to her and raise her up as her daughter.

Considered an aborted fetus, premature and nonviable, Baby J was labeled non-human. But she is not alone in her rejection. According to reports from the Centers for Disease Control, 8,862 babies the same age as or older than Baby J were aborted in the United States in 1995. Most ofthem did not die as long a death as Baby J did. Some felt the coldness of a blade in their final moments.

Is this a story about a rare abortion that went wrong? No, they all are; they all do.

Steve Hong is a Trinity junior.

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captivity during his pseudo-victory speech on Sunday.

But Bush is not the point—it is A1 Gore who is responsible for making this the longest U.S. election ever. And as though history had not already been made several times over in this election, A1 Gore decided to break another record by taking the unprecedented' and undignified step of contesting the certified results of a presidential race.

There is good news and bad news in the fact that almost three weeks have passed since the election and we still do not have a new president.

The good news is that the country is still functioning, people are still going to work and the military is not occupying the streets. The bad news is that it is almost three weeks since the election and we still do not have a new president. As an American, I find it really embarrassing that even

My father called me a few days after the election and asked me a funny question he probably picked up from talk radio. “Do you think A1 Gore has the character to pull out the way his father should have 52 years ago?” He was not looking for a sincere response, but almost three weeks later, my dad’s one-liner does raise an interesting point. Ever since he stepped onto the national stage, A1 Gore has had serious doubts raised about his truthfulness, his credibility and, thanks to the dubious behavior of his boss, his character. He has also been dogged *by the widespread perception that he will a country like Canada can hold a say anything to get elected and that national election and know the he will do anything to win. results by the next day.

Gore’s actions in the past twenCome on guys, we’re starting to ty-four days have served only to make Canada look good, and if we reinforce these notions in the allow this charade to drag on minds of the American public. On much longer, who knows what the other hand, that is not to say might follow? Great Britain could that George W. Bush has helped his elect a woman prime minister or image any with his Yeltsin-esque South Africa might choose a black retreat to his ranch, his overpresident. reliance on his father’s rolodex or Before this mess is over, I would his imitation of a hostage in enemy like to defend Florida’s secretary of

state, Katherine Harris. In certifying a Bush win in the Sunshine State, she not only displayed grit but also respect for the laws of Florida. I find it amusing that liberals are so incensed by a strong, assertive woman in a position of authority acting in a firmly partisan manner. It’s as if they have never heard of such a thing.

Also, I would like to refute the

preposterous idea that Gore wants a “fiill, fair and accurate” count. In no way is it either full or fair to recount the ballots in only four heavily Democratic counties that went 2-to-l for Gore. If he really wants a full count, then why are his Democratic operatives disputing any and every military overseas

ballot they can?

Gore has blown his chances to make a comeback in 2004, and for the good of the country, he needs to let go of 2000. Gerald Ford’s son, Jack, gave his father a brilliant piece of advice when he lost narrowly in 1976. “When you come so close, it’s really hard to lose. But at the same time, if you can’t lose as graciously as you had planned to win, then you shouldn’t have been in the thing in the first place.” If only someone would pass that on to Gore.

Thomas Bowman is a Trinity senior.

A tale of two presidents Inside

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“The whole campaign is just emotionally draining, and to have to go through this again—this is horrible,” said the presumptive president-elect. “At this point, to my knowl-

edge, there’s no set date for the election.”

Sound familiar? It should. After campaigning against a formidable slate of opponents, the person who said it appeared to have won the presidential race. The affable winner ran on a platform of socioeconomic unification and triumphed over the opposing candidate, a shrewd political animal. Thinking victory was in hand, the heir apparent celebrated and the loser wallowed in puzzled defeat. The media called the election.

But the real stoiy broke later. The ballots were tainted, the margin ofvictory was artificially inflated and the will of the voters was unclear. One polling station showed evidence of voter fraud. Broken ballot-counting machines delayed the results. “To my knowledge, such an incident has never occurred,” said the election chair, who added that he would investigate his own poll workers. Next time, he said, he’d invite outside observers. The loser lashed out at the president-elect, privately telling supporters he was “pissed off.” The winner volleyed back in turn. With 500 disputed ballots at its center, the election echoed the “petty, political, micro-Washington wannabe games” that had threatened to paralyze the government just a few years before. The judiciary stepped in.

“Having won the election the first time, I took a day to celebrate, took another day to settle down and then I started looking towards the future,” said the frustrated president-elect. “Now I need to start putting together a cabinet.”

Valuable time slipped by as the judiciary wrangled with questions of voter fraud, obscured intent and election law violations. Bylaws required quickresolution, but how could that happen? An appeal was filed, but the plaintiff backed off before the judiciary could hear his complaint. “People seemed to be tired of dragging out the election,” he said. “I didn’t want to prolong it.”

But the uncertainty continued, and nasty rumors swirled. The news screamed from the front page. The future was in doubt.

“I’m concerned that this will change my race, but to tell you the truth, I’m not that stressed about it,” said the weary president-elect.

The president-elect ignored the fracas and returned to normal duties. It was in the judicial branch’s hands now, and the judiciary seemed to be leaning in her favor.

Yes, her. The president-elect—for our purposes—is not Texas Gov. George W. Bush. It’s Lisa Zeidner, Trinity ’OO and immediate former Duke Student Government president. The quotes are taken from interviews I conducted at the time as The Chronicle’s DSG beat reporter.

Zeidner eventually won—again—after the judiciary decided a revote was in order. No such luck in Florida, but it’s starting to look like Bush will join Zeidner as one of the few presidents to withstand this particular brand of double jeopardy and emerge with an intact political career. We at Duke are uniquely able to say we’ve been through this before.

There are a few minor differences. The Cambridge Inn polling station, like its Palm Beach County counterpart, was home to several scandals (and bagels), but it wasn’t as much of a mess. Amit Shah, the candidate who filed the appeal and then dropped it, was more statesmanlike than A1 Gore. Election Commission Chair Adam Berg avoided heavy makeup. And when Zeidner won the second time, she informed the entire student body that even her dog was excited. Dubya has yet to speak for Spot.

Still, the similarities are both chilling and instructive.

If a bunch of supposedly bright Duke students can’t run a nonpartisan election for 3,000 voters, how can we expect a bunch of average Joes to run a bitterly partisan election for 30,000 times that many? And if a revote was needed to resolve Duke’s trivial trials, why didn’t we see one for the election of a rather more important president?

The Duke paradigm doesn’t bode well for 2004. In the next DSG presidential election, the losing candidate— Jim “Laz” Lazarus—sought a revote. He said a confusing and misleading ballot prevented his supporters from voting for him. Sound familiar? It should.

“I was so excited to see DSG starting the year with a huge turnout, with a president who so much of the campus was behind,” said the embattledpresident-elect. “This is just a bump in the road, but I don’t think this does great things for the organization.”

Here here, Ms. President.

Mary Carmichael is a Trinity senior and executive editor of The Chronicle.

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By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

There is a four-star recruit coming to Duke, but this time it is for the football team.

Jay Davis, a native of Clearwater, Fla., is making his official visit to Duke this weekend after the staff paid him an in-home visit Wednesday night.

The 6-foot-3, 190-pound quarterback is the best recruit to be seriously considering the Blue Devils at the moment. If coach Carl Franks and his staff to hook the blue-chipper, Davis would be the gem of Duke’s class

By HAROLD GUTMANN The Chronicle It is unusual to read about a punter (quick, name any two punters in the NFL). Usually,

punters are the least-recognized players on a football team. But not at Duke, where punter Brian Morton received more acclaim than the skill

of 2005.

“Jay Davis is one of the top quarterbacks in the South,” reports Rivals.com, one of the country’s most reliable recruiting sources.

“He possesses a very strong arm and has great size. [He is] a polished high school quarterback who can throw equally well rolling either direction. He is a good scrambler, shows escapability, gets squared up when he throws and is very accurate with short and medium passes. His real strength may be his instincts; he reads defenses very well and can deliver the ball with great timing and improvising when necessary.”

players this season.

But that is not the only unusual thing about Morton’s case. Here is something else—his accomplishments are contin-

After this weekend’s visit, Davis, whose father John is also his head coach at Clearwater Central Catholic, will go to N.C. State and visit coach Chuck Amato and offensive coordinator Norm Chow. Chow visited Davis at home just before Duke did and is probably the best bet aside from the Blue Devils to snag him.

Aside from the two ACC schools, Colorado is also looking into the Florida phenom.

According to his father, Davis may also visit Oklahoma and Clemson, but that is some-

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gent on his team fading. Morton set the conference record for punts in a career, but only because the Duke offense was stopped more often on third down than any other team.

“Unfortunately, we punted way more times than we would have liked the past four years,” Morton acknowledged. “The only thing I can say is that I’m glad I was able to get the [record for punt yardage] along with it. The number of punts was out of my control. It just means nobody has beat me out in the past four years and I haven’t been injured.”

But Morton is special for See MORTON on page 18

Duke begins month-long road trip in Fairfax our focus. We can’t be a championship team if we can’t sustain our focus for 40 minutes.”

That is a mistake Duke is very unlikely to make again Sunday.

Goestenkors, however, is proud of the way the team has responded thus far by going 8-0 including

By FOZABLALVI three victories against ranked The Chronicle opponents and its ninth consecuThird-ranked Duke scored 78 tive and Duke Classic title. points on 55 percent shooting and “It’s been really tough, but it’s 24 assists. It held its opposition to been really good for us,” under 60 points. It also snagged 18 Goestenkors said. “We had to pull steals and forced 30 turnovers. together as a team on the road, And yet the only stat that matespecially for some of the teams tered to coach Gail Goestenkors with big crowds against excellent win over competition. Now we know we after Wednesday’s Charlotte involved the number 26, can play against great competias in the number of turnovers her tion in front of a large and hostile team committed in the game. crowd and still maintain our “Well be running for all our poise and composure and come turnovers,” Goestenkors said, “so away with a win.” we will be running quite a bit.”

Duke’s balanced attack on both Despite handling the 49ers on ends of the ball have led to that the stat sheet en route to this early success. With nine high week’s victory, Duke played a sub- school All-Americans of the 14 par first half and had to rely on players wearing Duke jerseys, mistakes by turnover-prone 49ers. Goestenkors has constructed what This weekend, Duke looks to many observers believe to be the regain focus Sunday afternoon best team in the history of the when it travels to the Patriot Blue Devils women’s basketball Center in Fairfax, Va. to face undeprogram. In turn, it has taken a feated George Mason It may be great deal of scoring pressure off the first real test for Duke since reigning ACC player of the year Penn State. and All-America candidate “We took [Charlotte] too lightGeorgia Schweitzer. ly,” freshman sensation Alana “Any one of eight different playBeard said. “I don’t think anyone ers can be our leading scorer. It’s came prepared to play. We just lost See WOMEN’S HOOPS on page 17 �

The women’s basketball team looks to remain unbeaten when it travels to Fairfax, Va. for a game against George Mason Sunday. '*

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Basketball faces rematch of last week’s NIT finals � REMATCH from page 1 Last week’s game against Temple,

however, did not produce such numbers.

Duke forced only 11 turnovers, thanks to the ball control skills of Temple guard Lynn Greer.

“Lynn Greer controlled this game as well as any guard has controlled a game

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Duke paced the Owls to what was nearly a huge upset. The junior played all 40 minutes and, for the majority of the

Temple Series record: Duke leads 10-9 Last meeting: Duke defeated Temple 63-61 last week in the Preseason NIT No. 17 Temple 4-1 Coach John Chaney (411-167 overall)

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against us in a very long time,” Krzyzewski said following the NIT final, “He’s a very poised player—l think he’s just a great player.”

Greer’s team-high 15 points against

game, was able to penetrate Duke’s stingy defense.

Duke’s Jason Williams, however,

believes that the Blue Devils found a way to rattle Temple’s leader.

“We went to trap on Greer,” the sophomore point guard explained. “He got a little bit frustrated—we made him make decisions.”

While Greer provides Temple’s oncourt leadership, Duke will again look to a variety ofplayers on the offensive end.

First and foremost will be Carlos Boozer. Duke’s center lit it up in the NIT final, going 10-for-14 from the floor en route to his game-high 26 points. Boozer provided most of the Blue Devils’ offense that game; no other Duke player managed to score double-digits.

This season big games from Boozer have been the norm. The sophomore

leads the team in shooting percentage (.627), points (110) and rebounds (38).

He will need to continue that production as Duke hopes to break down Temple’s zone defense and chalk up its seventh victory.

Trying to stop Boozer will be Temple’s Kevin Lyde. The 260-pound center pulled down 10 rebounds and blocked four shots in the NIT final. Tomorrow, he must find away to shut down Boozer if the Owls hope to make the most oftheir second meeting with Duke.

Both Krzyzewski and Temple coach John Chaney know what they need to change following last week’s matchup.

While such adjustments are mostly basketball related, Chaney offers one other thing he will do differently.

“This time I’ll buy a whole box of Tylenol,” Chaney said.

THE NOD

Carlos Boozer dominated the post against Temple last week, scoring 26 points and pulling down six boards over Temple’s Kevin Lyde. Preseason player of the year Shane Battier and sophomore Mike Dunleavy add an outside presence to Duke’s inside ability, while Temple’s forwards are largely under-used. Look for Duke to dominate the post again.

The two teams are extremely talented at guard. Jason Williams is coming off a phenomenal offensive game against Illinois, while Chris Duhon added defensive intensity with six steals. Temple’s Lynn Greerand Quincy Wadley, however, should be up to the challenge. Greer showed his leadership ability against Duke last week as he withstood much of the Blue Devils’ defensive pressure

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Hard to tell. Any team gets psyched up to beat the number one team in the nation, especially after losing to the same team only a week ago. Duke, however, seems eager to prove itself after two narrow victories in their past three games. Last week Duke overcame a six-point

deficit at the end to win. You just can’t keep them down.

Duke has made heavy use of the three-point shot this season, and narrowly escaped with a victory against Temple a week ago after their outside shooting went cold. Lynn Greer and the Owls would no doubt like to avenge their earlier loss, but Duke wants to firmly establish itself as the nation’s best team. Duke 74, Temple 65.

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Unbeaten teams battle in Va.

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where she knows she doesn’t have to be our leading scorer every night,” Goestenkors said of Schweitzer, whose scoring has dropped from a clip of 15.6 points per game to 10.5 this season.

George Mason is also off to a quick start thus far, posting a 5-0 record and its best start in school history, a far ciy from the 10-19 team which placed eighth in the conference last season.

The well-balanced team is led by senior guard Jen Surlas, who was a preseason pick for All-Conference in the Colonial Athletic Association, and freshman guard Jen Derevjanik, who leads the team in points and assists.

“They just have really balanced scoring, very really similar to us,” Goestenkors said. “They have five players averaging double figures. They don’t really have one superstar, just five really good players that play well together.”

The Patriots are fresh off their tournament title of their own last weekend.

Senior forward Tish Wescott was named the CAA’s player of the week for her play in the tournament, setting career highs in points, rebounds, field goals and assists en route to earning tournament MVP honors.

Wescott is by far the Patriots’ strongest post player, averaging a doubledouble with 12 points and 10 rebounds a game thus far this season.

However, the Blue Devils will counter with one of the most versatile teams in the nation on the defensive end.

Charlotte was blitzed by the 1-3-1 press

by Duke to begin the second half and never ended up recovering.

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Game time: Sunday, 2 p.m.

Place: Patriot Center, Fairfax, Va TV; none No. 3 DUKE 8-0 Coach Gail Goestenkors (184-74 overall) Guard Alana Beard, Fr. (14.6 ppg) Guard Sheana Mosch, So. (7.6 ppg) Forward Georgia Schweitzer, Sr. (10.5 ppg) Forward Iciss Tillis, Fr. (9.1 ppg) Forward Rochelle Parent, Sr. (4,1 ppg)

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Just what the rest of the nation’s coaches were afraid she would say.

THE NOD

With no one in the regular rotation taller than 6-foot-2 after a move to its three-guard lineup, George Mason will have its hands full trying to contain Iciss Tillis on the boards. Georgia Schweitzer also looks to pick up where she left off last season versus George Mason: en fuego. Tish Wescott is poised for a big season for the Patriots, averaging a double-double so far.

VICKI KRAPOHL takes the ball up the court, “We want our defense to intimidate people,” Beard said. “We want to bring it out to full-court. When we’re able to do that, then we’ll be a tough defensive team.”

George Mason is sure to see much the same sort of trapping, as Goestenkors insists her team is just getting started.

“We want to become a full-court pressing team,” Goestenkors said. “We haven’t put in all our full-court presses yet, so Oast game] we only went with the half-court press. As the season goes on, you will probably see us press more

Series record: 3-0, Duke Last meeting: Duke defeated George Mason 95-56 at Cameron in 1999.

George Mason 5-0 Coach Debbie Taneyhill (33-43 overall) Guard Jen Surias. Sr. (10.6 ppg) Guard Jen Derevjanik, Fr. (12.8 ppg) Forward Tish Wescott, Sr. (12.0 ppg) Forward Jill Regan, Sr. (10.4 ppg) Forward Vemessa Neamo, Fr, (11.8 ppg)

man sensation has a knack for the ball, leading the Blue Devils in scoring, assists and steals.

For the second straight game, Duke and its opponent alike count depth as a major strength. Both have three players off the bench who tally more than 10 minutes per game and contribute to the team. However, Duke’s bench is one of the deepest in the nation and is chocked full of enough All-Americans to sport another competitive NCAA team.

Duke blasted George Mason last year by nearly topping the century mark. Even though this year's game will be played on the Patriots' home floor, Duke has had plenty of experience playing in front of opposing crowds, as eight of its first 12 regular-season games will be played away from home.

For all you George Mason fans out there, do not get your hopes up. Gail Goestenkors was livid with her team’s poor play against Charlotte, and that was after a 19-point victory. Look for Duke to come out crisp offensively, harassing on its press and playing hard to make sure Compiled by Fozail Alvl it does not have to run more laps. Duke 88, George Mason 65

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Boomer time: Morton voted first-team All-America � MORTON from page 15 more reasons than that. The 6-foot-6,227-pound senior breaks the mold of the stereotypical kicker. It might be unusual to hear about a punter going through weighttraining with the rest of the team, but this story is

nothing if not unusual.

“I do the same workouts that everybody else does,” Morton said. “I never thought of myself as a kicker, I think of myself just as a football player who can kick.

We participate in all the workouts with the other guys, the only thing we don’t do is go out there and hit.”

Working out 10-12 hours a week in the offseason and 20 hours a week in season, but only 30-45 minutes a day on punting, may seem unusual for a player whose sole responsibility is to punt. But that is the life of Brian. Despite what Monday-morning quarterbacks will have you believe, punting is not the easiest way to a free education.

“Punters and kickers are isolated by the pressure on them,” special teams coach Joe DeForrest said.

“Defensive or offensive players play 60 or 80 plays, and a player can screw up one play and nobody would notice unless he’s the quarterback. But kickers make maybe eight or nine plays, and if a kicker screws up one time everyone will see it.”

Morton realizes that punting is not a profession that makes career counselors smile.

“It’s a very difficult position to go on because each team only carries one punter,” said the senior. Tm not basing my career plan around it. I love punting.... IfI get the chance to get paid to do something I love to do that would be a dream come true.”

Despite his conference records (282 punts for 12,000 yards) and awards (first-team All-ACC and Football Writers Association of America All-American), Morton maintains his modesty. When he won the All-ACC honor with 54 first-place votes, 50 more than secondplace finisher Keith Cottrell of Florida State, Morton only found out by accident.

“Originally, I was just trying to see how the basketball team did last week when I was in London,” Morton said. “I went to GoDuke.com and it came up.”

The punter is quick to acknowledge his blocking line, especially long snapper Seth Carter.

“I’ll give Seth this compliment,” Morton said. “I caught snaps from Patrick Mannely [of the Chicago Bears] my freshman year and Seth is as accurate as he is and very comparable in speed. I can’t say enough about how well he did this year. One of the keys for my

success was his success.”

For the year, Morton only had one kick blocked (“it still went 35 yards,” he chuckles) and one mishandled snap, which the punter blamed on himself..

Morton found other ways besides punting to help the team out. Since he was the backup quarterback as well as the punter for Auburndale High School, he acts as the scout team quarterback and also throws balls to the defensive backs in practice. But most importantly, he acts as a leader to the kicking unit.

“He was willing to do whatever it took to make us

the best punt team in the nation,” Carter said. Morton would often help the true freshman look at tape of upcoming opponents and discuss blocking technique and work ethic.

Morton even roomed with Carter on road trips to bolster their on-field relationship. ‘Ton don’t see that often with a senior and a freshman, but I asked to be his roommate,” Morton said.

This bond helped Morton become the second-ranked punter in the NCAA with a 45.17-yard average (.05 behind Minnesota’s Preston Gruening). In six of Duke’s 11 games, a Morton punt went at least 60 yards.

But Morton is quick to dispel the myth that the reason for his success was the amount of times that he was called to duty due to Duke’s lackluster offense. He punted the least against N.C. State (four times) and averaged 47.5 yards, while against Florida State he punted 10 times for only 421 total yards.

Morton’s greatest punt happened last year, when Clemson saw first-hand what an 80-yard punt looks like.

“A play like that is like a Mark McGwire 520-foot home run—everything just goes right,” Morton said. “A difference of half an inch is the difference between a 60-yarder and an 80-yarder.”

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“Everyone in the back of their mind wants to be the quarterback,” said Morton, who described his dream play as throwing a touchdown pass on a fake punt. In reality, he has thrown four passes for Duke on fakes.

But only one pass went for a first down, and one was an interception against North Carolina last year.

“He has an outstanding arm,” said DeForrest. “But we like to concentrate on what he does best, and that’s kicking the football.”

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what unlikely because his goal is to make a decision by the end of the year. Currently the Wolfpack appear to lead by a nose, although many experts thought he would be a lock there by this time.

“It is pretty much down to N.C. State, Duke and Colorado,” Davis said. “I took an official visit to Colorado last week. It was a little cold but I had a nice visit. I like the offense they run. All three schools have offered and N.C. State still leads, all the schools know this. I have Duke scheduled for Dec. 1 and N.C. State Dec. 8.”

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scored less than 20 points and went over 30 points six times.

During his junior year, which was shortened by nearly five games due to a broken collarbone, Davis threw for 1,350 yards and 10 touchdowns.

He also managed to lead his high school to a 9-1 regular-season record and a berth in the highly coveted Florida state playoffs before losing in the second round. However, Davis still gathered both AllState and All-County awards his sophomore and junior years.

With all that, Davis is a consensus top-20 quarterback and given four of five stars by all recruiting sources. But for now, his decision waits until after his final two visits to Tobacco Road.

Tm just waiting and seeing what is going to happen,” Davis told Rivals.com a few days ago. “I would like to have a decision before Christmas.”

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Lecture Sunday, December 3, 5:30 pm Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center Duke University For information contact Doug Sershen, 919-684-2910 doug.sershen@duke.edu