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Forty-three students have been sent to the emergency room for overconsumption of alcohol this academic year. But the task force set up to address the issue of dangerous drinking has not met in over two months, and a recommendation to change the alcohol policy is not due until mid-February, leaving some members of the community questioning whether the University has done anything to combat alcohol abuse effectively.

Meetings of the Alcohol Task Force, created last spring after news of a student’s alcohol-related death became public, consisted primarily of group discussions about how to change Duke’s drinking culture.

Although the 50-person committee did come up with several small-scale ways to address overconsumption—such as the distribution of an informational pamphlet, the provision of optional treatment for students, and the start of an alcohol education campaign for freshmen—the group suggested no wide-ranging initiatives. The group’s most ambitious effort—allocating funds for nonalcoholic social programming—flopped after a few weeks.

But some task force members, citing insufficient support from high-level administrators, say their discussions could never spark change.

“I have not seen any evidence that Duke as an institution has a strong will to really deal with this problem,” said ATF member Scott Swartzwelder, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sci,

By MARKO DJURANOVIC The Chronicle

More than three months after the nurses voted not to form a union, Duke Hospital officials have started to address the numerous issues that

sprang into the limelight during the unionization campaign.

While some nurses think these actions are too little, too late, others believe the moves signify the start of an improved relationship between the registered nurses and

management.

Chief Nursing Officer Mary Anne Crouch said she believes hospital administrators learned that they must tackle three key issues—communication, the competitiveness of nurses’ benefits and staffing levels.

To address the specifics of these three issues, Crouch will help form a council of registered nurses.

“We believed we had good communication channels,” Hospital CEO Mike Israel said. “[But] you shouldn’t make assumptions that the mechanisms you set up to communicate with employees are adequate.”

Israel also said it may have been intimidating for employees to speak up at the regular forums administrators used to host. He said he will concentrate on making sure employees can air their concerns in more See NURSES on page 8

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PRESIDENT NAN KEOHANE addressed the Alcohol Task Force in fall of last year. The committee, composed of 50 people, has ceased meeting, despite the campus’ continuing alcohol problem. ences. “There’s only so much the Alco- ticularly after the details of student hoi Task Force can do. It can make all Raheem Bath’s death from aspiration the recommendations it wants, but if ' pneumonia became public, “I certainly believe I have been the institution isn’t going to make a deep commitment to tackle an issue, deeply involved in trying to combat alcohol abuse,” said Keohane, who has it’s not going to be tackled.”

Senior-level administrators, howev- discussed the matter with trustees er, say they are serious about address- and kept close tabs on alcohol initiaing dangerous drinking. President fives. “I’m sure there are some faculty Nan Keohane has made numerous members and students and adminisSee ATF on page 8 public statements about alcohol—par-

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Economics department examines class sizes, offerings ByAMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

his class in econometrics. Administrators hope that creating PATRICK WALKER, a fifth-year graduate student in economics, lectured seminars. more to create larger classes in upcoming years will free up teachers

Economics 149, section five, full. You will be number 10 on the waiting list.

To economics majors, this message is familiar.

While the number of majors has skyrocketed in the last five years, the faculty size has remained about the same, leaving the understaffed department with long course waiting lists.

But in within the next three years, the economics department plans not only to add at least five faculty members but also reorganize its curriculum to standardize core requirements and facilitate more diverse course offerings. “Increasingly, we’ve had to put a lot of visiting professors and graduate students into [core] courses,” explained Associate Professor of Economics Tom Nechyba, chair of a committee studying the curriculum change. “We’ve found that we’ve lost control of exactly what is being taught in those courses and what can be assumed that students know in later courses.”

As a result, the department has developed a threeyear plan that calls for a new teaching center located in the Social Sciences Building. The center would provide rooms for technical support staff, space for teaching assistants to hold office hours and managerial support for faculty teaching large courses.

The department also plans to streamline the teaching of the intermediate core courses—Economics 149 and 154. Instead of the five or six sections of each See ECONOMICS on page 14

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2001

Senate committee OKs Ashcroft

By NEIL LEWIS and DAVID JOHNSTON

New York Times News Service

The Senate WASHINGTON Judiciary Committee voted 10-8, largely along party lines, to approve the nomination of John Ashcroft as

attorney general Tuesday.

The nomination of Ashcroft, who has faced the most serious opposition of any of President George W. Bush’s Cabinet choices, was quickly rushed to the Senate floor Tuesday evening by Republican leaders in hopes of a full Senate vote by the end of the week.

“I would just hope there are no further delays,” the president said at the White House.

As it stands now, Ashcroft is expected to be confirmed, but not before the conclusion of the pitched debate that began briefly on the floor Tuesday night and is expected to continue at least through Wednesday.

All nine Republicans on the committee voted in favor of Ashcroft, a former senator from Missouri, who until his recent de- ATTORNEY GENERAL-DESIGNATE JOHN ASHCROFT addressed the Senate Judiciary feat at the polls had been a member Committee earlier this month. The committee voted 10-8to approve his nomination Tuesday. of the committee.

Of the nine Democrats, only battle turned to how many of the who had earlier hinted he might Sen. Russell Feingold ofWisconsin Senate’s 50 Democrats would vote seek to mount a filibuster to block voted in favor of the nomination, against the nomination. the nomination, said Tuesday he saying he was offering “an olive 50 are exhad decided not to do so.

Republicans While all branch” but not a white flag to the pected to vote for Ashcroft, only four The Ashcroft confirmation batnew administration.

Democrats have so far announced tle may also signal how much of a As Ashcroft’s confirmation is now their support. fight Bush can expect from the considered all but inevitable, the Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., See ASHCROFT on page 7

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Reviewers praise classical studies’ faculty, research

By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

A three-person external review committee of the Department of Classical Studies found what many scholars and administrators already knew; the classics department is one of the nation’s best. With praise and a few suggestions, the review mostly complimented the department, “This is a strong department that deserved a good review and received one,” said William Chafe, dean of the faculty ofArts and Sciences.

The confidential document, made available only to senior administrators and department faculty this summer until it was obtained by The Chronicle last week, praised the department for its renowned scholarship and publications, but stressed that the administration should devote more resources to the department’s facilities and faculty.

The report specifically recommends faculty hires to replace two anticipated retirements, an increase in the size of introductory classes and additional office space. , “The department boasts a talented faculty with a distinctive research and pedagogical profile. It offers excellent educational opportunities to its undergraduate and graduate students. It clearly plays a number of important roles both at Duke and in the national and indeed international classical profession as a whole,” reads the report. “It is doing all this on relatively slender resources, and anticipated staffing changes due to retirement could, if not handled carefully, threaten the department’s ability to continue to function on such a high level.”

The document noted the collective talent of the 11-member classics faculty, but, because of pending retirements and possible departures, urged administrators to boost the number of its junior classics faculty by two. Reviewers specifically urged the addition of a full-time ancient historian—a suggestion which administrators and department faculty have embraced.

“Having an ancient historian would be a major boost for us,” said Professor Gregson Davis, chair of the clas-

sics department. “It’s something I think we need.”

Chafe said the University has already begun a search for someone to fill the position, which the report argues would strengthen the humanities faculty as a whole.

The department is also considering the benefits of consolidating smaller courses into one larger introductory class. The report argues that such feeder classes would offer a more general experience of the classics field and could increase the number of majors.

EXTERNAL REVIEW OF THE CLASSICAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT The following are excerpts from the report issued by the external review: Q [The Papyrology room] represents a major investment of space on the part of the library. On the other hand, the library has not invested as much in this room as have

other libraries that house major papyrological collections. If Duke's involvement in papyrology is to continue, as we believe it should, then the facilities that are required to support such activity simply must be maintained.

The size of the department should not be allowed to decrease through attrition caused by impending retirements. Any reduction in staff size would materially alter the character of the department by seriously weakening one or both of its current areas of strength, which together give the department its distinctive character.

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Q In view of the age gap between junior faculty and all tenured members of the department, future hires should in general aim to bring more youth into the department, although the appointment of one tenured associate professor might be advisable.

Q The undergraduate and graduate curricula should be reviewed with a view towards regularizing course offerings. A few large introductory courses, taught by members of the faculty rather than by graduate students, should be developed as away of attracting more students to the major. At least some graduate seminars on more commonly taught subjects should be taught in a predictable rotation in order to enable students to make plans in advance and to support their work on their reading lists.

Q The department's space requirements should be attended to as soon as possible.

Certainly there should be no further encroachment by nondepartmental operations into the space available on the floor.

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SOURCE: EXTERNAL REVIEW OF THE CLASSICAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT

Although Chafe said he supported the idea, some classics professors are hesitant to fully embrace the

proposal.

“I think we are ambivalent about going into the business of going into large classes,” said Davis, who noted that the department will begin offering such classes, experimentally, in the fall.

As it does for many other departments, space continues to be a significant hurdle for the classics faculty. Professors complain that they have run out ofoffice space and are forced to consider closing the departmental library to create room for new faculty.

“It is clear that there is no room for expansion..,.

The development office is beginning to encroach on whatever breathing room there once was,” the report

reads. “This is really an unfortunate situation, and we would urge the administration to work with the department to find a better solution .”

Departmental officials hope that the space in the Bursar’s and Registrar’s offices will be reserved for classics if those two offices are ever relocated. Such space has become especially important in light of the recent hire of Grant Parker from the University of Michigan.

“The plan is to continue to whine to the administration to give us more faculty offices,” said Professor of Classical Studies Kent Rigsby, acting director of undergraduate studies. “The space situation is desperate.... Our plan for new faculty is to find them some small place in the basement.”

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A class of drugs used to increase post-surgery blood flow and thought to be more effective than aspirin in warding off heart attacks is proving to be a colossal failure. Five large studies conducted over the past half-decade have shown that, in addition to not stopping heart attacks, the drugs actually kill patients. Some experts speculate that as many as 200 volunteers have died from the treatment itself. The debate now rages on whether the companies, who have so far spent millions of dollars attempting to prove that the drugs work as well in practice as in theory, should stop the testing process altogether.

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Reports of a high number of cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis —also known as Lou Gehrig's disease—have prompted scientists to carefully examine the environmental conditions on and around Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio. The research team charged with finding the cause of the increased incidence of the disease suspects that industrial solvents and jet fuel discarded from the base may have been a factor.

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Already threatened by deadly collisions with boats, the Florida manatees, also known as sea cows, now face a natural enemy—chilly waters. So far this year, biologists have found 43 dead manatees, more than double last year’s total. Roughly two-thirds of these sea mammals died from having spent too many weeks in the cold water.

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Breast-feeding halves risk of cancer

A study of medical histories of over 800 women in China concluded that mothers who breast-fed their babies for two years or longer reduced their risk of breast cancer by 50 percent. Researchers from Yale University who conducted the study hope this latest finding will help change negative cultural attitudes about breast-feeding in the United States.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2001

Study finds new causes of mutation � Factors that do not directly stress DNA may provide an explanation for high rates of mutations in tumors.

By MARKO DJUKANOVIC The Chronicle

In a study that will be published in the upcoming edition of Cancer Research, scientists in the Medical Center have made a discovery that runs contrary to existing paradigms about tumor cell growth.

“It’s a common belief that to cause mutations in the cell you have to havedirect damage to the DNA,” said ChuanYuan Li, assistant research professor of radiation oncology and the study’s lead author. “[We found! that if you have other stresses not known to be directly damaging to the DNA—such as heat or a lack of oxygen—these also tend to increase the mutation rate in cancer cells.”

Li explained that this finding is important because it could help explain increased incidence of mutations in cancer cells and potentially help improve chemotherapy treatments.

“People have known that tumors start out benign, turn malignant and then get worse,” said Mark Dewhirst, professor of radiation oncology and the study’s co-author. “But they haven’t understood this progression or why [the tumors! become genetically unstable.”

Although the research team is still far from understanding the intricacies of the mutation process, the latest finding sheds some light on why cancer cells have such high mutation rates.

Currently, scientists have pinpointed causes ofhigh mutation levels for only a handful of cancer types—those in which the cell’s ability to repair its own DNA has been lost. When a cell can no longer repair its own DNA, the chances of a mutation during cell division jump from one-in-a-million to one-in-a-thousand.

MARK DEWHIRST pointed out an area of reduced bloodflow in this tumor. Scientists believe that a lack of oxygen within a tumor contributes to its high rate of genetic mutation.

But in many cancers, the cells have cant impact on the overall understanding retained this self-repair ability, leading of how some cancer cells develop resistresearchers-to believe that there is more ance to common chemotherapy proceto cancer than chance alone. This latest dures. Scientists currently believe that discovery may very well prove to be one cancers become impervious to certain drugs because the only cells that continue of the missing pieces of this puzzle.

Tumors grow so fast that the blood to reproduce are the resistant ones. But vessels cannot keep supplying them Li’s and Dewhirst’s research may prove with the necessary oxygen, first creating that these mutations develop during the flow instabilities and eventually leading treatment as a result of certain stresses to a lack of oxygen—a condition known such as heat or oxygen deprivation.

Li said that the research team can as hypoxia. When the cell finally receives the necessary oxygen the chemitake several directions in future recal interaction releases free radical molsearch, either identifying the genes that ecules that, in turn, cause genetic may be responsible for the mutations or mutations within the tumor. attempting to induce cancer in normal The research could also have a signifi- cells with use of these DNA stresses.

NASA makes primordial ooze in vacuum A discovery suggests a greater impact of space debris on the beginnings of life on Earth

By MIKE TONER Cox News Service

ATLANTA NASA researchers have found stunning new evidence that interstellar space may be a kind of cosmic incubator for some of the essential chemical building blocks of life, a discovery that heightens the chances that life could exist elsewhere in the universe.

Scientists at Ames Research Center at Mountain View, Calif, reported Monday that by combining simple organic chemicals inside a cold vacuum chamber that replicates the harsh conditions of deep space, they have created primitive cells that mimic the membrane structures found in all living things.

‘This discovery implies that life could be everywhere in the universe,” said Louis Allamandola, head of the research team. “This process happens all the time in the dense molecular clouds of space.”

Scientists have theorized for years that a primordial rain of comets, meteorites and interplanetary dust may have

seeded the ancient Earth with chemical ingredients that, in the presence of water and sunlight, led to the emergence ofterrestrial life.

But the NASA research reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that interstellar space may be more of a chemical crucible than previously thought, and that the rain of cosmic debris in Earth’s early history may have played a bigger role in starting life on the planet.

By exposing chemicals known to exist in the swirling interstellar clouds that are the birthplace of stars and planets—water, methanol, ammonia and carbon monoxide —to ultraviolet radiation, NASA scientists created primitive proto-cells similar to those found in all living things on Earth.

Even though they were formed at temperatures close to absolute zero, minus 441 degrees Fahrenheit, when the cells were immersed in water, they spontaneously formed simple mem-

brane structures that contained both an inside and an outside layer.

“The formation of these biologically interesting compounds by irradiating simple interstellar ices shows that some of the organics falling to Earth'in meteorites and interplanetary dust might have been bom in the coldest regions of interstellar space,” Allamandola said. “The delivery of these compounds could well have been critical to the origin of life on Earth.”

In contrast to generally accepted theories of the origins of life, the latest discovery suggests that some ofthe critical steps that preceded the emergence of life are widespread in space and may only need a hospitable planet like Earth—not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to exist—to go forward.

NASA’s new research also suggests that the first steps in the chemical process leading to the emergence of life can occur in space—even in the absence v of a planet.

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Student caught New club builds underwater robot scalping tickets

By ANA MATE The Chronicle

� When Duke officials recently scanned webbased ticket outlets, as they do regularly, they came upon a graduate student section ticket up for grabs.

By MOLLY JACOBS The Chronicle

While graduate students are not highly paid, a few have tried to make some extra money by scalping their basketball ticket passes.

Last week, the Athletics Ticket Office discovered an Internet ad placed by a Duke graduate student, whose name was not released, selling the use of his game pass and student ID for any Blue Devils basketball game.

The athletic department, which frequently screens printed and web-based ticket-selling outlets, discovered the ad shortly after it was placed and informed the student of the policy regarding the sale of student passes—which can be sold only to full-time graduate or professional students at Duke.

While there was no price listed on the ad, the athletic department prohibits selling tickets for more than face value, and a sale more than 15 percent above this value is legally considered scalping.

When the student was notified, he claimed to be unaware of the regulations. He willingly removed his ad and was allowed to retain his pass, “Had the student been aware of the policy, his card would have been deactivated and he would have lost his right to receive tickets,” said Mitch Moser, business manager of the Duke University Athletic

Association.

The quick discovery of the infraction illustrates the athletic department’s recent efforts to control ticket scalping.

“We had a ticket task force restructure the ticket policy, rescale the seats in Cameron and change the pricing structure,” Moser said. “They wrote up a set of guidelines that explicitly stated their policies and stressed that tickets to University sporting events cannot be sold for more than face value.”

Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department said scalping is classified as a class II misdemeanor and is punishable with a maximum fine of $l,OOO and up to 60 days in jail.

“There is always some form of scalping year in and year out,” Dean said. “But policing that is one of the many jobs we try to do on game days.”

While the athletic department, which enforces all violations of the ticket policy, admits that scalping does occur, graduate students rarely abuse their ticket privileges.

“There haven’t been an inordinate amount of problems with this,” said biology graduate student Louis D’Amico, co-chair of the Graduate and Professional Student Council basketball ticket committee.

“Anyone with a season pass knows there are rules that need to be followed, and the athletic department routinely scans for selling.”

The discovery of the scalping incident prompted the GPSC basketball committee, at the recommendation of the athletic department, to send an e-mail to all graduate and professional students alerting them about the scalping policy.

“The requirements for using the ticket pass is that they must be a full-time graduate student at Duke University and have valid student ID,” said divinity graduate student Sam Jones, co-chair of the GPSC basketball committee. “All students who received tickets in the lottery were given a copy of this policy along with Iron Dukes and season ticket holders. This was an effort to increase awareness overall for scalping to ensure the policies and procedures were followed.”

The policy is designed to protect graduate and professional students by ensuring that ticket prices remain reasonable.

“We don’t want students paying an inordinate amount of money for tickets to basketball games,”

D’Amico said. “It is fine for students to lend their games passes to other Duke graduate students, but selling them for large amounts of money is against our policy.”

It sounds like a project for top-notch engineers; creating an autonomous underwater vehicle that can find an underwater beacon that emits both light and sound frequencies, grab it and bring it back to a home base. But this $25,000 project does not fall to professionals; instead, a group of students—members of the newly formed Duke Robotics Club—are working to debut this creation at an international competition this summer.

Organized last semester by three engineering

students, the Duke Robotics Club has continued to work on the founders’ original autonomous underwater vehicle, which will be ready to compete in

the Fourth International AUV Competition, with financial support from several corporate sponsors.

“This is the type of open-ended project where students don’t know the answer,” said club adviser Jason Janet, adjunct assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Along with the AUV project, the club is also involved in an outreach program entitled FIRST—For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. FIRST is a competition that enables universities and corporations to work with high school students in building different robots.

“The Robotics Club is currently working with students of Orange County in building a robot that See ROBOTICS on page 14 �

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31,2001

EMS aids 3 underage students From staff reports

On Jan. 23, Duke University Police Department, Duke EMT and Durham EMS responded to a call about an intoxicated 19-year-old student in Wannamaker Dormitory, Dean of DUPD said.

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At 11:51 p.m. Jan. 27, Campus Police, Duke EMS and Durham EMT found an intoxicated, vomiting 19-year-old student in Round Table Dormitory, Dean said.

All three students were transported to the Emergency Department for treatment.

Bag nabbed: Between 10:37 and

10:52 a.m. on Jan. 26, someone stole a visitor’s $l5O Coach bag containing a

$75 Voice Dream cell phone, several credit cards, $lO in cash, a checkbook, a $3O red and white makeup bag, a $5O black plastic Versace glasses case and a driver’s license from an unsecured room on the second floor in the East wing of the Fuqua School of Business, Dean said.

Backpack swiped: A student reported that between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Jan, 24, someone stole his $2O Jansport backpack containing a $l4O TI-89 calculator, $l5O Sprint cell phone, papers, pens and pencils from a table next to his as he ate lunch in the Armadillo Grill, Dean said.

Stereo equipment stolen:

Between 8 p.m. Jan. 23 and 6:30 a.m. Jan. 24, someone stole a $lOO CD player and two stereo speakers worth $lOO total from an unsecured rowing machine room on the second floor ofCard Gym, Dean said.

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stole a student’s $3O purse containing a $25 wallet, credit cards and a driver’s license from her unlocked room in Bassett Dormitory, Dean said.

Student assaulted: At 1:36 a.m.

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police that another student had scratched and kicked her and bruised her forehead; she was transported to the Emergency Department for treatment.

The accused student, 18-year-old Lauren Wilson, has a court date Feb. 23.

Wilson said she has filed a harassment complaint against the victim.

Students charged: Campus Police charged two students with underage drinking at the unauthorized bonfire on the evening of Jan. 27.

At 11:20 p.m., police charged a 19year-old sophomore with underage possession of an alcoholic beverage, Dean said. The student, Gordon Smith, was found in Clocktower Quadrangle with two cans of beer; his court date is March 14.

Smith said he was at the bonfire at the time and that he was singled out by a police officer dressed in plain clothes. He said a number ofother students with alcohol were not stopped.

At 11:50 p.m., Campus Police charged a freshman at the unauthorized bonfire with underage possession of an alcoholic beverage, Dean said. The student, 18-year-old Gabriel Githens, declined to comment.

Student faces charges: At 2:10

a.m. Jan. 28, police charged a 19-year-

old freshman with underage possession ofbeer and spirituous liquor, Dean said.

Police saw the student, Terry Vanek, holding a can of beer and a flask containing fluid with a spirituous odor in the second floor commons room of Kappa Sigma Dormitory. Vanek could not be reached for comment.

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Ashcroft vote falls along partisan lines � ASHCROFT from page 2 Senate over future judicial nominees and proposals on emotionally laden social issues.

The debate in the committee replayed many of the issues that have been raised about the nomination in the last few weeks. Republicans depicted Ashcroft as an honorable man of great experience in government who should be given the benefit ofany doubt over his fitness for the job and especially over his pledge that he would enforce even those laws with which he disagreed.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who is the committee chair, said Ashcroft’s opponents had conducted a dis-

graceful campaign. “Having heard the relentless drumbeat of accusation after accusation in recent weeks, I can fairly say that there has been an unyielding effort to redefine this man of unlimited in-

tegrity,” he said.

But Democrats on the committee and on the floor assailed the nomination as a poor choice because of Ashcroft’s long and resolute record in taking starkly conservative positions. They asserted the nomination produced the opposite effect of what was promised in Bush’s pledge to unite and not divide the nation following the closely contested presidential election.

Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Democratic floor leader, outlined his opposition to the nomination in a floor speech, saying: “Because of his enormous authority and discretion, the attorney general, more than any other Cabinet member, has the power to protect or erode decades of progress on civil rights in America. John Ashcroft has shown a pattern of insensitivity throughout his career.”

Kennedy said Ashcroft’s guarantees during his two days in the witness chair last week that he would enforce all the laws amounted “to a remarkable revisionist remaking of his record.”

Hatch disputed the assertion that Ashcroft had undergone a “confirmation conversion.” Instead, he said, “the true metamorphosis of John Ashcroft is in the misleading picture painted of him by narrow left-wing interest groups.”

In what both Democrats and Republicans seemed to regard as an odd moment, Feingold cast his vote in favor of the nomination after delivering remarks in which he castigated Ashcroft’s behavior, expressed deep doubts about his character and summed up the arguments against him as harshly as did any Democrat on the committee.

After saying he would vote to confirm Ashcroft, Feingold added: “For many of my colleagues, friends, supporters and constituents, this is not easy to understand.”

After mentioning two issues on which he praised Ashcroft—his stated repugnance for racial profiling and his commitment to maintain a Justice Department study on the death penalty—Feingold cataloged a far lengthier list of particulars against the nominee.

Like other Democrats, he questioned Ashcroft’s pledge to uphold laws with which he disagreed, including those guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion. He questioned Ashcroft’s sensitivity to racial issues, citing an interview he gave to Southern Partisan, a magazine often described as neo-Confederate, in which he said it was important to let future generations know that the South did not fight the Civil War for “some perverted agenda.”

He criticized Ashcroft’s appearance at the Christian fundamentalist Bob Jones University and was especially harsh about his role in opposing a voluntary desegregation plan in St. Louis when he served as attorney general in Missouri.

Feingold also said Ashcroft’s role in undermining the nomination of Ronnie White to be a federal judge would be enough reason to vote against him. White, the first black member of the Missouri Supreme Court, was defeated on the Senate floor after Ashcroft

described him as soft on the death penalty and as bringing a pro-criminal agenda to the bench.

In the end, Feingold said he was voting in favor of the nominee largely in hopes that the Ashcroft confirmation would be a kind of turning point in which both Democrats and Republicans would become more cooperative.

“I believe the American people desperately want us to conduct ourselves, where possible, in a bipartisan manner—with civility, with give and take—and act as if those terms have real meaning and are not just empty rhetoric,” he said.

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trators whose [consciousness] has been raised on this issue in a very productive fashion.... We hope to reach more and more people so they become conscious of the dangers of these practices and think more carefully.”

Still, some ATF members say campus interest in the issue has fizzled since it became a hot topic last year.

“The University as a whole shifted focus from [alcohol],” said senior Jim Lazarus, the committee member who headed the ATF’s effort to provide alcohol-free programming. “At some point you need to stop making it your number-one focus. [But] it’s dropped off too much.”

The ATF’s discussions may have lost momentum when Duke lost its vice president for student affairs to Prince-

ton University this summer. A replacement will not be announced until the end of this academic year, and the new administrator will not necessarily implement any recommendations issued before then. Still, some members ofthe committee say their efforts have been worthwhile.

“If we’re talking about the approach that the University needs to take related to alcohol, it definitely needs to be a long-range plan and a long-range approach with many, many steps in between,” said Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Sue Wasiolek.

“I think that during [lnterim Vice President for Student Affairs] Jim Clack’s tenure... we have begun to make those steps. We have many more to take—and the new vice president may in fact move us in a different di-

rection once he or she arrives—but I believe the work we’ve done this year has [been productive] and has moved us ahead.”

However, neither the numbers of students sent to the Emergency Department nor the secondary effects of dangerous drinking have declined significantly this year, said Assistant Dean for Judicial Affairs Stephen Bryan.

“Overall, the University is slow to change,” he said. “Most of our judicial incidents probably have alcohol as a root cause.... I don’t think students know how to responsibly use alcohol here, and if we can teach them that, then we’ve come a long way.”

But Bryan added that he is content with the group’s ability to spark deep and thoughtful discussion among people from across the University.

“It fostered a lot of discussion around an issue that is obviously very important,” Bryan said. “It helped bring to light a lot of the problems that this campus faces almost daily... If anything, we were able to share information with each other, and it exposed how complex the problem is.”

In the meantime, Clack said the 16member policy review committee he appointed last month is making significant progress; he expects the group to issue a recommendation Feb. 22. The committee is likely to address issues regarding clarity of the policy and parental notification of alcohol abuse, Donna Lisker, chair of the policy review committee, said the group will not solicit formal input but that members are responsible for consulting their re-

spective constituencies.

Nurses still await changes to benefits, communication � NURSES from page I familiar and comfortable environments—the forums used to draw as many as 200 people.

While most nurses seem to be taking a wait-andsee approach, many are disappointed with the relative lack of speed with which Duke is implementing its changes.

“I’m not discouraged [by what I have seen so farl, but I also have not seen anything concrete done,” said Connie Donahue, a trauma unit nurse and a past union or-

ganizer. “They’ve done nothing bold and concrete.”

For example, Donahue said she is wary of the nursing council idea, which she thinks has failed in the past. “We’ve tried it before and the minute [an idea] comes up against someone who doesn’t agree, it’s shut down or altered to fit the management’s needs,” she said.

But some nurses also see these latest developments as positive first steps; they say they believe that Duke is making an honest effort to appease them.

Clinical nurse Susan Simpson said that on her floor the nurse-to-patient ratio has dropped from sixto-one to five-to-one since the union vote, which she says is a “huge difference.”

“But it took the threat of a union to start it,” added Connie Pierpoint, a medical inpatient nurse.

Still, even those who are optimistic about future completely eliminate the need for mandatory overchanges within Duke Hospital agree that there is a time—one of the nurses’ major concerns during the unionization campaign. lot of work to be done.

To aid them in this re-evaluation, Hospital lead“Councils and [increased] communication are a ers are currently employing the services of Mercer good start but the [issue of] pay still has not been addressed,” Simpson said. “If we become complacent Management Consulting.

Dot Taylor, nurse manager in the neurology diviagain, will things go back to the way they were?”

But Duke has already taken some steps toward sion, said that although her department has always been conscious of staff input in overtime requireaddressing nurses’ concerns about pay. Human Rements, its new plan will emphasize voluntarism sources fixed a system glitch that caused recently hired nurses to accrue benefits at a rate greater than rather than requirements. that of veteran employees. The Hospital recently “We [will] go to people and ask them to pick up an paid out the accumulated difference to some 1,900 extra shift if there was a hole in the schedule that affected nurses. needed to be filled,” she said.

“It was the right thing for us to do,” Israel said.

While the Hospital has not assessed the effect of the union campaign on nurse recruiting, Crouch Hospital officials were informed of the discrepancy early last year, but fears of unfair labor practice said, the current number of vacancies is unchanged charges prevented them from taking action, Israel since last summer. To overcome this shortage—of apsaid. Under federal labor rules, employers are forproximately 190 nurses—the Hospital has been bidden from adjusting their workers’ benefits during forced to hire temporary nurses, a very expensive remedy.' Crouch said the Hospital hopes to hire more an ongoing unionization drive.

Additionally, Crouch stressed the importance of permanent RNs when nursing schools begin graduating their classes in upcoming months. making each solution to staffing problems departEven Donahue acknowledged Duke’s concerted efment-specific. She said several departments, like urology and neurology, are currently testing alterfort to hire more traveler nurses and to adjust the nate scheduling structures that will cut down or error in pay.

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Phi Psi flunks

Cameron Crazies demonstrate fine sportsmanship

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announcement this week that the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity will be kicked off campus for failing the annual review was welcome news. But it also illustrated the total bankruptcy of Duke’s enforcement of community standards Residents of the Duke campus, both individually and collectively, have one fundamental responsibility: To be good neighbors. Any student who repeatedly disturbs his or her neighbors or damages University property should not be entitled to live on campus. A self-selecting group of students that behaves in a similar manner should be treated the same way.

Despite its sordid history of judicial violations that includes three social suspensions, three citations for disorderly conduct and two citations for alcohol distribution in the past four years alone, Phi Psi was ultimately not kicked off campus for poor citizenship. Rather, Annual Review Committee chair Ben Ward cited the group for its failures in faculty interaction and educational and cultural programming—three of the annual review’s seven categories. Currently, selective living groups must pass five of the seven categories to remain on campus That a group whose presence has been as noxious as Phi Psi’s was ultimately removed for these less significant social failures is a disgrace to Duke’s judicial process and an insult to the students who have suffered from Phi Psi’s antics. While the justification ofthe ARC is reasonable—selective living groups enjoy privileged housing and other benefits not accorded the average student, after all—the priorities ofits process ciy out for change. Citizenship, the annual review category that assesses a group’s judicial violations, should be a mandatory requirement for passing the ahnual review, irrespective of how a group fares in other categories. If Phi Psi had the cleanest section of any fraternity and a faculty luncheon every week, that still would not excuse its appalling antisocial behavior.

Phi Psi should never have made it this far. The group’s egregious behavior should have been punished by Judicial Affairs and its various arms ofenforcement long before it made it to the annual review process this year. The annual review should be used to encourage positive community efforts—not to punish groups who offend basic social norms.

Phi Psi has a residential advisor, as does every living group around it.

That these individuals, and the RA system, failed to curtail Phi Psi’s antics illustrates a complete lack of courage and an abandonment of duty on the part of the RAs and those to whom they answer. If Phi Psi was holding unauthorized events—such as the infamous “Not A Party” party last year—an RA or Area Coordinator should have seen it and reported it. Duke should not be a police state, but groups already on probation necessarily give up some of their social freedoms in penance for their past actions.

That Phi Psi remained a member of the Interfratemity Council throughout its recent travails demonstrates the impotence and abdication ofresponsibility of IFC on this issue. Though far from the primary culprit, IFC should have pursued stronger measures to punish Phi Psi. Worse still is Phi Psi’s national body, which made a mockery not only of its own organization but ofthe institution of fraternities as a whole for its failure to correct this chapter’s decline.

No living group—irrespective ofits fundraising for charity, national backing, alumni connections or even leadership in community service—should ever be allowed to flagrantly violate community standards on campus for as long as Phi Psi has. While we applaud the administration’s final decision, its tardiness and its reasoning speak poorly of its efforts to improve residential life in this community.

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because of you, the some students from the University of Maryland.

Cameron Crazies.

Duke University students, Throughout the game, they you make it fun, you make it threw newspapers, cups, loud and you make it exciting. gum, ice and batteries at us.

The level of loyalty, intensity And after the game, they and confidence in our team is added bottles of water and amazing. At the beginning of sodas to that list, resulting in the season, all I heard from injury. I was shocked and Thomas, Chris’ little brother, hurt that anyone would take is “I just wanna be a Cameron it that far. I feared for my Crazie.” He stands with you, life. Boy did that make me he yells with you and he appreciate you more.

I am glad that I didn’t bring paints his face. He loves it, he loves you and he is having a Thomas with me to that game. blast. He would be right there Tm glad that he will continue camping out with you if I’d let to view the love ofthe game as him. You handle him with care a Cameron Crazie. and make him feel like he is a Hats off to you, Cameron part of it all—even though I Crazies! You’re the best! still get a little nervous as he Vivian Harper is crowd surfing.

Durham, N.C. I’m sure by now you have heard that a few of us were The writer is the mother of men’s assaulted last weekend by basketball player Chris Duhon.

During the recruiting process of my son Chris, one of the main things that the Duke basketball staff kept sending us were pictures and articles about the Cameron Crazies. I often wondered what would make you want to sleep in a tent for weeks at a time in this

its

cold sometimes-blistering weather. But after the first few games I knew... you are crazie—Cameron Crazies.

As I continue to keep in touch with friends and family back home in Louisiana, I tell them how awesome Duke basketball is—the intensity, the excitement, the noise, the fun! They’re excited for Chris and are so very proud to see him on TV, but I often echo the words, “there’s nothing like watching a game in Cameron” and

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realize he won a Pyrrhic victory

I was puzzled by Thomas fact that he is the least qual- insensitive to the valid concerns of the AfricanBowman’s column in the Jan. ified individual ever nomi-23 issue of The Chronicle, nated by a major political American and Jewish voters Bowman argues that all party to run for the highest in Florida whose rights were trampled upon. During the Americans should—in the office in the land. It has nothbest interests of the country— ing to do with the fact that he five weeks leading up to the unite in support of our new is not, in Bowman’s words, U.S. Supreme Court’s decipresident. I’m not sure what “left-wing” enough for my sion that handed him the Bowman means by “support.” tastes. If all I wanted was a White House on a silver platIf he means that we should left-wing president, I would ter, Bush took every opportuacknowledge that we live in a not have voted for former nity to delay or prevent an nation governed by laws and vice president A1 Gore, accurate counting of the votes I am troubled by the fact in Florida. Even when Gore that we must therefore accept suggested that the two sides the fact that George W. Bush that all of Bush’s “accomis going to be our nation’s plishments,” including the come together in support of a leader for the next four years, White House, have been statewide hand recount of then I agree. But if Bowman handed to him by his father’s every vote, Bush declined. feels that we should “support” GOP allies, business associ- Obviously, our new president Bush by ignoring the blatant- ates and political appointees, doesn’t care if he is viewed as ly undemocratic process that But more importantly, lam a legitimate leader, so why led to his “victory,” I must deeply concerned about the should we treat him as one? fact that our new president is emphatically dissent.

John Lasater My refusal to support openly contemptuous of Trinity ’9B Bush has little to So with the democracy and completely /chronicle /2001 /01 /23 09Allamericans.html see www.chronicle.duke.edu column, http: for referenced /

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Nomtenting students can go to the UNC game As Thursday’s big game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approaches, I’d like to encourage all students to participate in the Duke basketball experience and consider attending the game.

There is a popular myth around campus that you can’t go to the UNC game unless you have spent weeks and weeks in a tent. However, this is far from the truth, as we haven’t even filled the undergraduate allotment of space for the last two home UNC games, and we expect to admit hundreds of students from the walk-in line.

On

The walk-in line will form on the sidewalk bordering the north edge of the Cameron Indoor Stadium parking lot.

We will not begin distributing wristbands to this line until 5 p.m. the day of the game.

These wristbands will ensure that students cannot sneak into the front of this line without a time commitment during the day.

This line will be self regulated; I will not be conducting checks.

Tenters should expect to be packed into the stadium very tightly, as line monitors want as many students as possible to have the privilege of

attending a Duke-Carolina game. Please excuse your lack of space, as every last person will add to the atmosphere Thursday night.

Finally, all tenters, nontenters and other members of the Duke community are invited to hear Coach Mike Krzyzewski speak at 10 p.m.

Wednesday outside of the Schwartz-Butters Building.

This is always a well-attended and entertaining event.

Norm Bradley Pratt ’Ol The writer is Duke Student Government head line monitor and a senior associate sports editor of The Chronicle.

the record

At some point you need to stop making it your number one focus. [But] it’s dropped off

too much.

Senior Jim Lazarus, a member of the Alcohol Task Force, commenting how the issue of alcohol has slipped off the radar (see story, page one)

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To burn or not to burn

Students should behave responsibly during a bonfire and avoid repeating the riot of 1998 Giuliani’s corner Dave Nigro On Saturday, I witnessed the greatest men’s basketball comeback of my Duke career thus far. Although I rank the 7775 1998 home victory over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the most special Duke victory of my time, this victory was more impressive Few teams could we score 10 unanswered points in on under a minute.

Few teams have

(myself included) left Cameron, we were greeted by a “foam party” which turned out to be a lot of soapy mud. Later that night was one of the most surreal and scary times of my Duke experience.

With all West Campus under bright lights, students roamed the quads, avoiding Darth Vader-like riot police and waiting for the start of a bonfire. A crowd would form around a bench and some flames would shoot up. In an instant, the closest students were pinned down and led away while the flames were extinguished. We would then wait for the

Provided beat the Tar Thursday, Heels something will burn

players like Jason Williams who can play inspired basketball despite being in a slump for the first 39 minutes of a contest. Few teams can spark an emotional explosion on their home campus even while hundreds of miles away. It is that last quality that led us into trouble Saturday night.

The illegal bonfire of this past weekend placed our bench-burning tradition

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uprising.

Police made 23 arrests that night.

We were lucky there weren’t more injuries.

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deal. Thankfully, we reached a compromise in time for tomorrow’s game.

No one wanted a return to 1998—not

students, not the administration, not the police. The simple fact is this: Provided we beat the Tar Heels on Thursday, something will burn, whether it is benches, couches or the studentadministration relationship. Let us celebrate within the guidelines of the bonfire permit and undo any harm done to this valuable relationship.

The fire marshal rightly restored our permit. To thank him for a second chance, we can show our enthusiasm for the basketball team without breaking any local ordinances or clashing with law enforcement officers. In the future, we do not want riot-geared police officers enforcing the no-bonfire rule game after game. The

benches were ordered to be removed from campus. Four days later, students executed a plan that drew police away from Clocktower Quadrangle, allowing them to start a fire.

By the end of the night, most of the benches on West went up in flames while students cursed the administration in Cameron-like chants. Student-adminisin jeopardy. tration relations were, to say the least, The Durham fire marshal nearly susless than ideal. pended our permit for the Carolina In the years since, we have rebuilt game. On some level, I do not blame that relationship. Through fire permits him. As a public officer concerned with and a less imposing police presence, the safety, I am sure, he never wants a large administration has allowed students to fire so close to dormitories. This latest have bonfires. The University lessens its display challenged his authority and he legal liability for having sanctioned burnresponded to that challenge. He may not ings while students get to celebrate in the traditional Duke way. All the fires realize it, but this was almost extraordinarily bad. have been relatively safe and orderly. No In 1998, the University did not have one has been seriously injured; all have a bonfire permit. Instead, as students had fun. On Saturday, we broke that

Citizens An unexamined life Edward Benson So now we have President George Walker Bush.

We saw and heard the campaign ads and the rhetoric labeling him either a great man or a terrible one.

So will he live up to his billing, or down to it?

During the campaign, Bush was characterized as the embodiment of a “kinder, gentler” candidate, the “uniter.” It would be a good thing if that characterization proves true —for even with that narrow 537vote margin in Florida, he won the election with 271 electoral votes, one more than the minimum, and lost

the popular vote by 500,000 ballots.

It’s possible: Bush does surprise at times. Time and again, he was nasty and wildly inaccurate on the stump (denigrating reporters, stating Social Security was not a federal program). Nonetheless, his major addresses to date—at the Republican National Convention, and his inauguration—have been striking for their apparent moderation, inclusion and outreach.

His inaugural address, in particular, spoke openly of those who are left out and ofthe need ofthe nation to reach out to those people. At the least, he’s got good writers.

Further, Bush must be smarter than his reputation. If one is to survive, let alone thrive in politics, one cannot be an idiot: political coups lurk for the inadequate, even for those with family connections.

In fact, though Bush takes office with less experience than any other president in history, he does know politics: having failed in his first race (for a U.S.

to

situation could easily degenerate into a replay of 1998 or worse.

Of course, all this talk could be for nothing if the basketball team loses tomorrow, which is a real possibility considering the quality ofboth teams. In the event that we do win, I hope we can celebrate in our customary way, without breaking the law. I hope all students will have the common sense not to challenge or provoke law enforcement officers. I have faith in our student body to act responsibly and to show their opposing viewpoints through words and not through violence. At the end of the day, this is about supporting our team and taking joy in its success.

Please remember that.

Dave Nigro is a Trinity senior.

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Bush: Who are you?

House seat) because he was seen as too lofty, he was was heard to say, “I will never be out-country-boyed again.” And he hasn’t been.

For even ifBush does not have the intellectual skills of Clinton, he attempts to project an air of earnestness that, while not the genuine charm of Reagan, is still perhaps enough to win allies. (Indeed, it seems we choose to elect the charmer in any race—Carter beat Ford, but Reagan beat Carter. Bush senior beat Dukakis, but Clinton beat Bush.) We like friendly fellows, and success in the presidency, as in life, does not clearly correlate with intelligence.

be seen if compassionate conservatism” might better be termed u social Darwinism with a human face” It remains

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Meanwhile, there’s that pledge to “change the tone.” It’s a curious one that implies both an unlikely and ironic turn-about. First, Washington is about conflict and always has been. It’s the seat of power of a massive democracy. Conflicting interests clash with regularity there: That’s sort of the point, and those interests will always have their champions.

Second, the irony in Bush-as-tone-changer: Clinton got into (and stayed in) office as an upbeat, “best days of America lie ahead” politician. It was all the folks he ticked off who really lowered the tone: Newt Gingrich et al., who in their anger actually attempted to impeach Clinton because he lied in a deposition about a sad little affair. Only after the

Republicans in Congress were soundly rebuked by the electorate did Newt suddenly decide that he could no longer lie about his own secret affair and vanished from public life. Any reversal in tone would actually be contradicting Bush’s own party’s behavior for the past eight years.

So is Bush’s collegial tone genuine?

Texans seem split. While many support Bush, one has termed him “the most devious politician I’ve ever seen. He’ll say something reasonable and moderate, then smile and look sensitive for a moment. Later, he’ll go offand do the opposite.”

We don’t know yet if his empathetic rhetoric will be matched by his policy decisions: It remains to be seen if“compassionate conservatism” might better be termed “social Darwinism with a human face.” As Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell said in 1969, “Watch what we do, not what we say.”

On that point, unsettling facts are beginning to come in. On his first day on the job, Bush stopped U.S. funds to foreign birth control agencies that might provide or mention abortions, even though those funds could not have been used for such services and even though birth control surely reduces abortion. He also suspended a Clinton executive order that provided AIDS drugs at lower costs to African nations—surely not a partisan issue.

As for tone, Senator Trent Lott dismissed as

“extremists” those who opposed John Ashcroft, whom

Lott said was needed to clean up the Justice Department “cesspool.”

CNN dead-panned, “Lott’s comments came several minutes after he noted an improvement in the overall tone... in Washington since President Bush was elected.”

We’re waiting, President Bush. Who are you?

Edward Benson is a Durham resident

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Proposed center could improve graduate teaching ECONOMICS from pagt I course that exist today, the department will offer one large lecture that breaks into small discussion groups.

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“We’ve had fairly scanty offerings in some areas, and really our faculty have been stretched, so it’s hard to cover everything the way we should,” said Professor Marjorie McElroy, chair of the department. In particular, there will likely be an

increase in finance courses and special topic seminars.

But students and faculty alike acknowledge that larger courses may

come at the cost of less interaction between professors and students.

“I like having a smaller class so you can have more interaction with your professor,” said junior economics major Bob Thomas. “These classes are so hard.... People get lost in the shuffle and don’t get as much attention.”

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ics, said that although he feels streamlining the courses is a good idea, the department may actually benefit from diverse teaching in the core courses.

“There’s always a variety of sections taught, and they’re very different,” Graham said. “Students vote with their feet and take the best section that’s best suited for them. That’s a

price we’ll be paying in moving to the single sections.”

The proposal must be approved by Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson. Freeing up space for a center in Social Sciences would require moving offices—which currently house the cultural anthropology and the economics depart-

professor ofeconomics. “We have no particular way of knowing this in advance....

Undergraduate students would like to know there is some quality control.”

Professor Henry Grabowski, director of undergraduate studies in economics, said graduate student evaluations are comparable to those of professors, but that there is more variation in these evaluations.

Most students said they have enjoyed courses taught by graduate students but that there is more continuity in quality of teaching among professors. “I just want a good teacher,” said economics major John Alexander, a sophomore. “I don’t care if it’s a professor or a graduate student as long as I learn the material.”

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Professors say the creation of the center would also bolster the department’s development of graduate students into talented teachers. Right now, there is no standardized way to evaluate graduate students who want to teach courses.

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For now, though, the club’s priority is a successful run in the AUV competition, which is presented by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and the US. Office of Naval Research. Members have worked closely with two graduate students from North Carolina State University and representatives from Nekton Technologies, LLC, in order to build the robot.

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UMd officials chide students for post-game behavior

By GREG PESSIN with BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle

The hailstorm of batteries, bottles and gum Maryland fans threw onto Duke players’ families at Saturday night’s men’s basketball game has produced a firestorm of controversy on the College Park campus. On Monday, Maryland President C.B. Mote, athletics director Debbie Yow and coach Gary Williams issued separate statements condemning the students’ behavior and announcing that new

regulations will be in place by Sunday’s matchup with Clemson.

Minutes after Duke’s stunning comeback last weekend, Renee Boozer, mother of Duke center Carlos, was hit by a full water bottle and required medical treatment from team doctors. She suffered a mild concussion and was helped from the stadium. The mothers of Chris Duhon and Jason Williams were also struck with debris.

“I think because she got hit and she got hit hard, she was scared and nervous; she was crying,” Duhon’s mother, Vivian Harper, said of Renee Boozer. “I know I’m never going back and I’m so glad I didn’t bring my [younger son] Thomas with me.”

Harper said members of Maryland’s student section hurled various objects,

mostly rolled up newspapers, at the Duke family members, who were guarded by roughly 10 stadium officials and five police officers during the game.

Once overtime ended, however, 13 of the 15 security officials assigned to Duke’s cheering section disappeared.

Left to fend for themselves, Harper and the rest of Duke’s fans faced a much more furious onslaught from a shocked and angry Terrapins crowd, which began throwing everything from bottles full of water to smaller, weightier objects like coins and batteries.

Although Boozer’s mother was the only person to sustain serious injury, Harper noted that she was hit with bottles both in the back and in the head when she tried to stand up.

Harper said Nate James’ father implored one of the two remaining police officers to assist them, but that the officer made no effort to help. At that point, she said, the other officer instructed the family members to get down on the floor until it was safe to escort them to the players’ exit.

“I offer my sincerest apologies to those Duke fans who were assaulted,” Mote said. “I apologize to those Maryland students, staff and faculty CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO who are embarrassed by this brutish and violent behavior. No one can find THE DUKE BENCH, shown here in last year’s game at Cole Field House, has been known to be peltSee MARYLAND on page 18 � ed with thrown objects during games at Maryland.

Women fencers win St. John’s hands UConn sth straight loss St. John’s freshman point guard Omar once at Penn State Cook, who struggled from the field for most Over the weekend, Duke’s fencing teams competed in their first matches ofthe new year, as both the men’s and women’s squads challenged many of the nation’s elite teams in a series of dual meets.

Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, the collection of squads at Penn State—Stanford, St. Johns, Ohio State, Penn and the host team, Penn State—proved too strong, as the Duke fencers suffered a string of defeats. The women’s team provided Duke with its only victory of the meet, as the unit posted a 17-10 victory over Ohio State, thereby saving Duke from a collective shutout.

Despite the results, coach Alex Beguinet looked positively upon the Blue Devils’ efforts in

Saturday’s competition.

“I think [the meet] was good,” Beguinet said. “I think we played some very good teams.”

In a dual meet, each team competes in all three different categories of weapons—foil, epee and sabre—-

with three members ofeach team competing in each weapon. Hence, each team competes in nine individual bouts, which are then tabulated to compute an overall score.

Duke’s win over Ohio State resulted from the excellent performances of the women’s epee and foil units, which defeated their opponents 8-1 and 6-3, respectively.

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Omar Cook’s stats St. John’s 60 NEW YORK certainly were not impressive, but UConn 55 they were the numbers of a point guard who led his team to a big win.

The freshman had 17 points, nine assists and three big plays in the final 1:15 last night as St. John’s beat Connecticut 60-55, the Huskies’ fifth straight loss.

Cook was 7-for-21 from the field, including 3-for-15 from three-point range.

“What the stats won’t tell you is that the threes he made were big and the threes he made set up driving and assist opportunities,” St. John’s coach Mike Jarvis said.

Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun was quick to praise Cook.

“He’s just a great basketball player,” he said. “He can be 7-for-21, 3-for-15, but when the game was on the line, he made the plays to win the game and that’s what you have to do.”

The Red Storm (12-7, 6-2 in the Big East) won for the eighth time in 10 games and did it on a night when former coach Lou Camesecca was honored.

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A banner with Carnesecca’s name and victory total—s26—was raised to the ceiling in a halftime ceremony at Madison Square Garden. Among those in attendance was former president Bill Clinton.

“I reminded him we are 2-0 when he is in the house, so hopefully, he will come back and make it 3-0,” Jarvis said ofClinton. “Louis will always be more than a basketball coach. Louie is the best, the very best that America has to offer young people and fans. I hope that Louis will be able to come to the Garden many,

many more nights and look up toward heaven and see his name and fame. They don’t come any better.”

Connecticut, which won the earlier meeting of the teams this season 82-80 in overtime, last lost five in a row when it dropped the final five games of the regular season in 1996-97 and finished 18-15.

The Huskies (13-7, 2-5) dropped out of the top 25 this week, ending a run of 67 consecutive poll appearances, dating to the preseason poll in 1997-98.

“We have a nine-game season left and we have to finish games off” Calhoun said. “Over the years we have seen a lot of teams that have not been able to finish games off and we were able to take advantage of that. Right now, we are one of those teams.”

Cook drove the lane and found Donald Emanuel alone for a dunk with 1:15 left to give St. John’s the lead for good at 56-54.

After a turnover by Connecticut, Cook again drove down the lane, and this time he kept the ball and laid it in to give the Red Storm a four-point lead.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31,2001

Grieving Oklahoma State returns to practice after crash

By AARON COOPER Associated Press

STILLWATER, Okla.

Coach Eddie Sutton, hoping a positive can emerge from a tragedy, had his basketball team practicing for the first time since a plane crash killed two players and eight other members of Oklahoma State’s traveling party.

Then he sat and talked with the media yesterday about how he and his players are handling the aftermath of the crash Saturday in Colorado.

“I told our team that life is so precious and sometimes we take it for granted,” Sutton said. “One thing they must understand is they better live every day like it might be the last. They certainly understand that.

“Out of this may come something that will help all of them, and that is to be a better person, do a better job in playing basketball or their studies or whatever it might be.”

Sutton, wearing an Oklahoma State warmup suit, looked tired but spoke in a firm voice throughout the 35-minute news conference that followed a closed practice, one he said went quite well given the circumstances.

“I thought it was a very spirited practice, one of the best practices we’ve had in a long while,” he said. “The guys really focused in. I think we are making progress.”

Sutton was joined by players Fredrik Jonzen and Andre Williams, who also were composed from start to finish.

“I think these past three days have been like a long nightmare for all of us,” Jonzen said. “It feels like every day, you’re going to wake up and Nate and Dan [arel going to be there. I think the most important thing right now is to get back in our normal routine. It was great to be back in practice.”

Reserve players Dan Lawson and Nate Fleming were killed when the Beechcraft King Air 200 went down near Denver. Also killed were sports information employee Will Hancock, director of basketball operations Pat Noyes, trainer Brian Luinstra, student manager Jared Weiberg, broadcast engineer Kendall Durfey, KWTV broadcaster Bill Teegins, pilot Denver Mills and co-pilot Bjorn Fahlstrom.

“The toughest thing I’ve ever encountered... was when I had to call those parents and call those wives and tell them what had happened,” Sutton said. “I certainly have shed a few tears.”

Williams, who shared an apartment with Lawson, said it is difficult knowing his roommate will not ever walk through the door. But he said the team must move forward.

“I think everybody’s starting to realize, we’ve got to make it work,” Williams said. “We’ve got to get through it.”

A public memorial service is planned today with Sutton and Williams among the speakers.

“I’m not sure exactly what I’ll say tomorrow,” Sutton said yesterday. “I want it to be some-

thing that they understand these people were wonderful human beings. And being a Christian, I believe they are with God right now.

“At the same time, I want everyone to understand life goes on. We have to pull ourselves together and go forward and become stronger.”

The Cowboys’ game scheduled for last night against Texas Tech has been postponed indefinitely. OSU was to return to the court Saturday at home against Missouri, but the Big 12 announced yesterday the game had been pushed back to Monday night.

Sutton said Luinstra’s funeral is planned Saturday, and he did not feel it would be possible for his team to attend the funeral and play a game the same day.

Oklahoma State’s next road game is Feb. 7 at Nebraska, after being pushed back one

day. The Cowboys usually travel in small planes that are donated by alumni and friends ofthe program.

“It’s going to be a while TODD WARSHAW/ALLSPORT before any one of us want to get on a smaller plane, I think,” COACH EDDIE SUTTON held basketball practice yesterday for the first time since a tragic plane crash killed two of his players and a trainer, among others.

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Krzyzewski does not allow family to travel to Maryland � MARYLAND from page 15

In Their Own Words: Responses from the Maryland Administration "Unfortuantely,this was not an isolated

incident. When visitors

C.D. Mote Maryland President

cannot come to our athletic events without fear of assualt, or actually experience assualt, something is very wrong

"As upset as I am about the outcome of our Duke game this past Saturday, I am more upset about the actions of some of our students, before,

during, and after the game."

Gary Williams Maryland Coach

"The behavior of a number of Maryland students... was an embarrassment to all who... love this great

this acceptable. Unfortunately, this was not an isolated incident. When visitors cannot come to our athletic events without fear of assault, or actually experience assault, something is very wrong.”

Motecalled Duke University officials this weekend to apologize for the event, and Maryland athletic officials are in the process of apologizing to all three Duke mothers.

Duke Athletic Director Joe Alieva, who spent the last two days talking with Maryland and ACC officials about the problem, said this is only the most recent incident in a long series of unsportsmanlike acts at Cole Field House. Two years ago, for example, a fist-fight broke out between Terps fans and Maryland-native Nate James’ family after they were pelted with soda and ice throughout the game.

After the 1999 incident, an ACC committee investigated the matter but did nothing, and Maryland officials attempted to prohibit the band from playing songs that were perceived to inflame the problem.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said after the January 1999 incident that he would no longer take his family to games in College Park.

“We cannot tolerate fans throwing things,” Alieva CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO said. “I think they’re working on it and I hope they’ll THOUGH MILD-MANNERED in this photo from last year’s Duke solve it. It concerns me that they let it go on so long, game, Maryland fans were not so docile Saturday. really. They have in the past said they were going to solve the problem.... The mentality up at Cole Field Over the past few years, Yow has met with stuHouse has not been appropriate for the things we try dents to discuss their behavior: In these negotiato promote in the ACC, such as sportsmanship and tions, she agreed to allow them to continue throwing good conduct.” newspapers onto the court as opposing players are The ACC has launched an investigation into the being introduced.

Recently, though, fans have been wrapping ice or incident, but conference officials could not be reached for comment yesterday. Associate Commissioner Fred batteries in the wad before throwing it.

Unlike Krzyzewski, Maryland coach Gary Barakat told the Maryland Diamondback that the Williams rarely chastises his fans when he thinks ACC is blaming fans, but not the school.

Over the last few days, Maryland officials have their behavior is inappropriate. Alieva said this is an been spurred into action by a barrage of letters from important part of maintaining decorum during games, and Harper said she thought Williams could Blue Devils and Terrapins fans, some of whom threathave done more Saturday to calm the situation. ened to stop donating to the school.

But in his strongest response to this behavior yet, In his statement, Mote demanded that Yow issue the Maryland coach said in his statement that he is more severe regulations than simply ejecting fans and announced that campus police will work to identify more upset about the fans’ actions than about the and charge all students involved. game’s outcome. He asked them to stop throwing any “What happened Saturday night took the great objects onto the court and to cease chanting “F leap from boosterism to hooliganism that we cannot Duke.” Yow has asked fans to stop wearing shirts bearing this motto. condone or tolerate,” Mote said.

11l her letter, Yow chastised the student fans for “No arena in the country allows [fans to throw their behavior and unwillingness to compromise on objects],” Williams said. “It antagonizes the referees the issue. “I wish I could say this behavior was isolatbefore the game begins and hurts our team.... If you ed. It was not,” she wrote. “This behavior cannot and care about the success of our team, you will help us make Cole Field House a better place to watch a game,” will not be tolerated.”

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From wire reports The Philadelphia 96 TORONTO Raptors 76ers’ road winning streak is over, 89 and the Toronto Raptors did not 76ers even need Vince Carter to end it.

Carter played less than four minutes before aggravating a knee injury, but Morris Peterson scored 22 points as the Raptors ended Philadelphia’s 13-game road winning streak with a 96-89 victory last night.

The 76ers had not lost on the road since Dec. 5 against the Lakers.

Dell Curry scored 17 points, Alvin Williams had 16, Mark Jackson 15 and Antonio Davis 11 for the Raptors, who also beat the Sixers Jan. 21 in Philadelphia.

Iverson led the 76ers with 38 points.

Carter, the leading vote-getter for the All-Star Game for the second straight year, has been bothered by “jumper’s knee” since November. Just before the game, Carter said he could not push off on it. He started but left with 8:22 remaining in the first.

Philadelphia’s Tyrone Hill made two free throws, narrowing Toronto’s lead to two points with 2:53 remaining, but Peterson followed with a layup. After Williams made one of two free throws, Iverson made a layup and Davis had a layup, giving Toronto a 9287 lead with 1:10 remaining.

Hill followed with an 18-foot jumper, but then missed a wide open three-pointer—his first attempt from behind the arc all season.

Jackson made two free throws, giving Toronto a 94-89 lead with 16.6 remaining, and Curry made two to seal it with 11.6 seconds left.

Iverson scored 21 points in the first half, but one of Carter’s replacements, Curry, had eight of his 12 points in the last six minutes as the Raptors narrowed an 11-point deficit to one.

Lakers 102, Cavaliers 96 Once Shaquille O’Neal gets back to Los Angeles, he is going straight to the doctor’s office.

O’Neal missed his second straight game with an injured foot last night as the struggling Los Angeles Lakers got 47 points from Kobe Bryant and defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 102-96.

The Lakers said O’Neal will also sit out tonight’s game at Minnesota, and when the team arrives back in Los Angeles, he will see a foot specialist and undergo more tests tomorrow.

O’Neal, last year’s NBA MVP, has plantar fascitis, a tendon ailment, of his right arch, and has difficulty pushing off the foot. He has missed three games due to injury this season.

O’Neal will see Dr. Phil Kwong, a team foot specialist, and will undergo a CAT scan and MRI. O’Neal did not dress for last night’s game and instead watched on TV while getting treatment in the Lakers’ locker room.

O’Neal did not participate in the team’s morning shootaround yesterday so he could get treatment, then spent nearly an hour on the trainer’s table before the game being worked on by a team doctor.

With O’Neal out, Lakers coach Phil Jackson said he needs more production from big men Greg Foster and Horace Grant. Foster started at center.

“We need to pick up the scoring and rebounding and we haven’t done that at all,” said Jackson.

Grant finished with 19 points and 14 rebounds as the Lakers won for just the second time in five games.

The 7-foot-2 O’Neal’s foot has been bothering him for more than a week and he aggravated it during the Lakers’ victory over New Jersey Friday. The injury forced him to miss Sunday’s game, a 91-81 loss in New York against the Knicks.

“We’re not executing very well right now, but we hope to get it back,” Jackson said.

“We didn’t play well on Sunday and we weren’t happy with the way we played. It’s a matter of getting ourselves energized to play the way we want to play.”

The Lakers are 2-2 without O’Neal this season, and 40-26 with him out of the lineup since he joined them in 1996.

“Of course we want him back,” said Rick Fox. “He’s a great player and you want him on the court.”

Huskies with 16 seconds left and Emanuel missed the front end of a 1-and-l two seconds later, giving Connecticut a chance at a tie.

Cook came up big again when he helped strip the ball from Albert Mouring as he was starting to shoot just beyond the three-point line. Cook then fed the ball over his head to Reggie Jessie who laid it in with .4 seconds left for the final margin.

“I was just trying to make him go to the basket and Sharif [Fordhaml actually got the steal and I just grabbed the ball,” Cook said.

The Red Storm were coming off a loss at Virginia Tech that saw them shoot a season-low 36.4 percent, including 2-for-19 from three-point range.

The long-range shooting was not much better against Connecticut as St. John’s missed its first 10 three-point attempts, eight of which were by Cook. But

he made three treys over the final 12:13 and the Red Storm finished 3-for-19 from beyond the arc.

“I think it just comes down to confidence,” Cook said. “I really struggled early in the game shooting and really got myself together and composed and ready for the end of the game.”

Caron Butler and Mouring each had 14 points for Connecticut, while Edmund Saunders added 12.

“We played hard enough to win but we didn’t play well enough to win,” Calhoun said. “They had a kid named Cook who stepped up and made plays and that’s the way you win.”

The win was the 13th in a row at Madison Square Garden over Big East competition for the Red Storm.

In only a few weeks, St. John’s will take to Madison Square Garden to face a non-conference foe—No. 2 Duke. That game will feature the matchup between Cook and Blue Devil sophomore Jason Williams.

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