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Handfuls of student groups are jockeying for space on campus, but the Duke’s Muslim students are now asking for it to suit a unique need—prayer.

Muslims are required to pray five times a day, and although students typically perform both the dawn and night salats at home, they find themselves searching for appropriate prayer spaces during the day.

“For the Muslim Duke student, salat during the day is at best a frustrating inconvenience, at worst, virtually impossible,” Muslim Student Association President Hoda Yousef, a senior, wrote in a proposal on the issue.

“Some of us have found ourselves praying in the Perkins [Library] stacks or in empty classrooms.”

At least 75 universities have special prayer rooms for Muslim students, and Yousef is now working with administrators to find such a space on West Campus.

Salat is required at dawn, between midday and midaftemoon, between midafternoon and sunset, after sunset and after nightfall. The prayers range in length from 5 to 20 minutes and are encouraged to be performed in congregation.

Muslim students have been searching for a prayer area for at least three years, said Judith White, who chairs a committee studying space for multicultural groups. Two years ago, Muslim students could pray where The Loop is See PRAYER on page 8 �

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‘Flutie factor’ still in contention

By BRODY GREENWALD

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Tomorrow, Duke’s men’s basketball team will play on national television for the 26th time this season, presum-

ably increasing the University’s national prominence. But whether this exposure translates into a greater undergraduate applicant pool remains unclear, despite the widely held belief that athletics add to a school’s prestige.

The debate about the correlation between athletic feats and the flux of high school applicants has been ongoing since 1984, when a single football pass supposedly boosted Boston College’s pool of applicants by 25 percent. That football season, Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie launched the Eagles back into the limelight with a “Hail Mary” touchdown pass that shocked defending national champion University of Miami on national television.

For more than 16 years, dramatic rises in a university’s applicant pool following well-publicized success of an athletic program have been attributed to the so-called “Flutie Factor.” Last week, however, that concept was directly challenged by a research group in Baltimore, Md. In an article published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a telephone survey of 500 college-bound seniors conducted by the Art & Science Group claimed to have refuted the Flutie Factor. The survey asserted that more than 70 percent of college students are not at all influenced by the accomplishments of their school’s athletic programs.

At Duke, skeptics of the Flutie Factor have pointed out the University’s admissions numbers from 1993 and after, when the applicant pool dropped

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following the basketball team’s only two national championships. In fact, no noticeable increase in undergradu-

ate applications to Duke has occurred since the basketball team won its first national championship.

“I think the factors that affect a student’s decision to apply to a school

are incredibly varied,” Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said. “It’s very hard to quantify, except in very unusual cases, just how great [the Flutie Factor] is. But I think it’s much more an exception than it is a rule.”

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Trian le growth poses several environmental threats This is the first story in a three-part series exploring the consequences of growth in the Triangle.

By TREY DAVIS The Chronicle

the of PROJECTS SUCH AS SOUTHPOINT MALL (above) create new opportunities for business, sometimes at expense the environment. Forest and farmland continue to fall to suburban developments across the Triangle.

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The buzz of chainsaws and rumbling of tractors are replacing the sounds of songbirds as the Triangle grows outward from city centers into once-quiet forest and farmland.

Since 1950, the population of the six counties comprising the Triangle has nearly tripled. Much of that growth has taken place in the suburbs, leading to the construction of new houses, roads and businesses. According to a report by the Triangle Land Conservancy, between 1987 and 1997, suburban development consumed 190,500 acres of forest and farmland of this area—reducing farmland by 23 percent and forest lands by 8 percent.

In this same time period, only 146,068 acres have been placed under some form of protection. “The development here is very rapid, and the quality of life we all enjoy here will disappear unless we make sure we protect our rivers and streams, important natural areas and wildlife habitat, farmland and other important cultural lands,” said Kate Dixon, executive director of the Conservancy.

While residents might see plenty of trees along roadways, these narrow tracts do not necessarily indicate healthy forests. These small patches of land cannot support the diversity of animal life sustained by nearby counties “The amount of forest is still high in the Triangle, but it is deSee GROWTH on page 6

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Captain takes blame for submarine accident Cmdr. Scott Waddle, the captain of the U.S. submarine that sank a Japanese trawler, took the stand and blamed errors by himself and his crew for the accident.

Blackouts hit California for second straight day For the second straight day in California, the electricity went out in a half-million homes and after the businesses keepers of the state’s power grid ordered the blackouts due to dwindling electricity reserves.

Oil rig sinks off Brazil, fuel begins to leak The world’s biggest

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Federal Reserve cuts interest rates

The one-half percentage point cut failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations

By RICHARD STEVENSON New York Times News Service

The Federal WASHINGTON Reserve cut interest rates Tuesday by half a percentage point, continuing its aggressive effort to resuscitate the faltering economy but disappointing investors who had hoped for more.

Stock prices fell sharply after the Fed’s announcement. The Dow Jones industrial average and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index both dropped more than 2 percent, while the Nasdaq composite index lost more than 4 percent.

In explaining its decision, the Fed cited threats to the economy from declining corporate profits,

cutbacks in capital spending by companies and the likelihood that consumers will spend less because of the steep drops in stock prices.

The central bank suggested that in some ways the worst might already be past. It said in particular that companies had gone a long way toward reducing their inventories of unsold goods and unneeded supplies, a necessary step before companies increase production again.

But it noted that companies could continue to be plagued by overcapacity for some time—especially with Japan’s economy in deep trouble and other big industrial nations slowing as well.

While the Fed did not give Wall

Street the three-quarters of a percentage point reduction that many investors had been calling for, it signaled that it was ready to cut rates again, perhaps well before its next scheduled meeting on May 15.

“In these circumstances, when the economic situation could be evolving rapidly, the Federal Reserve will need to monitor developments rapidly,” the central bank’s

statement said.

This was the third half-point reduction in the central bank’s benchmark federal funds target rate on overnight loans among banks since the beginning of the year. It brought the federal funds See INTEREST RATES on page 7 �

Senate adopts campaign finance plan

By ALISON MITCHELL

New York Times News Service

Ignoring objections from DemoWASHINGTON cratic leaders that lawmakers were undercutting efforts to limit the influence of money in politics, the Senate voted Tuesday to assist candidates who face wealthy challengers who pay for their own campaigns.

The proposal, adopted 70-30, was the first successful amendment to a bill sponsored by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russell Feingold, D-Wis., to overhaul the campaign finance law. Its popularity showed just how personal the campaign finance debate is and how concerned senators have become about the increase in millionaire candidates in recent years.

McCain later dismissed the provision allowing larg-

er contributions to candidates facing wealthy opponents as “not the critical issue here.” He said the biggest battles would be in pushing through the Senate a ban on the large, unregulated donations to political parties known as soft money.

He said he had long expected such a provision to pass because “everyone is scared to death of waking up one morning and reading in the newspaper that some Fortune 500 CEO or heir or heiress is going to run against them and spend $l5 million of their own money.”

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Stover brings black culture, pride to local community This story is the first in an occasional series featuring influential people in the Durham community.

By SARAH McGILL The Chronicle

Darrell Darius Stover doesn’t like limitations.

ing such noted artists as poet Amiri Baraka and blues singer Shamika Copeland.

“North Carolina has a lot to celebrate,” said Stover, whose small office is papered in posters and news clippings. “I mean, when you start talking about black music, you talk about the blues and jazz musicians from this state alone—John

“Art doesn’t necessarily take place in Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Nina Simone, the confines of an institution or building,” Roberta Flack—it’s just a fantastic opporStover explained, his head, topped with tunity. My job is very easy because of the an African kinte hat, leaning back in richness that exists.” thought. “It goes beyond structure.”

Stover’s path to Durham and arts adIt’s an unusual sentiment for someone ministration was not direct. A native of whose job requires him to fill a particular Washington, D.C., he grew up on science ficstructure in tion, soccer and soul food, and took his Stover’s case, the childhood love for science to the University almost-restored of Maryland at College Park, where he maperformance hall jored in microbiology and became the of southDurham’s school’s first black student body president.

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But then again, Stover’s own life is difficult to confine in any type or classification. He has studied retroviruses in a National Cancer Institute lab, has shouted poetry on the streets of Washington D.C., and has known the drudgery of paperwork that comes with being an arts administrator.

Stover came to the Hayti Heritage Center in 1998. Since his arrival, he has expanded the center’s programming, adding a monthly poetry reading and strengthening such staples as the annual Black Diaspora Film Festival, said Dianne Pledger, the center’s president. “He’s been very good at presenting the African-American performance and enlightening the community on the contributions ofAfrican Americans,” she said.

The Hayti Heritage center was founded in 1975 in the historic St. Joseph’s church to celebrate the once-thriving black community of Hayti. And though Hayti may have received its death knell when the state paved the Durham Freeway through its central business district, Stover has helped to boost the center’s visibility, bring-

become a medical doctor, Stover followed school with a stint at a lab in Bethesda’s National Cancer Institute.But Stover was

writing poems, too, and making friends within D.C.’s black artist community. In 1988, while working as a science writer, for Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, he pulled together seven other poet-friends to celebrate the release of his first book of poetry. The group became The Spoken Word poetry ensemble.

There is an image taken by a Washington Post photographer taped to Stover’s wall. Stover is atop a trash can, on the corner of D.C.’s 14th and U Street, speaking to an audience of attentive passers-by.

“The community was challenged—there was a red light district, a heroin shooting gallery,” recalled Stover. “My whole thing was to take art, to take poetry, to where people are.”

The performance by The Spoken Word was the first in a series of programs called A Poet on Every Corner. The group moved from corner to neighborhood corner, speaking their poetry of black heritage and personal triumph. In a tribute to then-incarcerated Nelson Mandela, the group began speaking at the park across the street from the White House and ended at the South African embassy.

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DARRELL DARIUS STOVER is pictured here in front of the Hayti Heritage Center. Alongside of him is one of many pieces of cultural art located at the center.

“I look back on those particular experiences, and say that they made me who I am,” said Stover. “It contributed to that resolve of the role of an artist as serving one’s community.”

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Study critiques doctors’ practices

The American Academy of Physicians and the American Society of Internal Medicine issued a set of guidelines for proper treatment of healthy adults. The experts warned that overuse of antibiotics lowers their effectiveness against infections.

While doctors are inclined to prescribe antibiotics because their patients demand them, the group claims that the best remedy for bronchitis, most sinus infections and colds and coughs is over-the-counter medication.

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A study published in this month's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association found that dieters who used an interactive website lost three times more weight than those who visited a website stocked with relevant information. In addition to educating its visitors about weightloss, the interactive website offered feedback on an online self-monitoring diary, a weekly weightloss lesson and a bulletin board that allowed participants to exchange tips with other dieters.

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Breast cancer drug heals men’s hearts

Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England reported in the journal Circulation that tamoxifen, a drug used to treat breast cancer, displayed promising effects when given to men with cardiovascular disease. Tamoxifen increased the ability of the patients’ arteries to expand when the amount of blood flow rose and boosted the effectiveness of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

*Flawed gene may cause schizophrenia A team of German scientists believe they have identified a gene that may govern the inheritance of schizophrenia in large families. The team found a mutation of a previously unknown gene-named WKL1 —in the seven family members with the disease, but not in the six without symptoms. If the study's findings are substantiated by further research, they would be the first to link a specific genetic mutation with the onset of schizophrenia.

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Researchers from Denmark’s Odense University and the University ot Sydney discovered byproducts ot bacterial organisms that inhabited the earth 3.5 billion years ago. Although chemical traces of life date back to 3.8 billion years, nothing was known until now about the feeding patterns of Earth’s inhabitants older than 2.75 billion years. By studying sulfur compounds found in rock samples from western Australia, paleontologists have figured out what the ancient bacteria consumed and excreted. This information gives scientists further clues about conditions under which Earth’s first lifeforms evolved.

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There is a lot of information about tea drinking’s ability to protect the body against disease. A study of 35,000 tea drinkers in the U.S. found a lowered risk of cancers of digestive and urinary tracts while a study of elderly women found that tea drinkers usually have stronger bones and a lower incidence of arthritis. In addition, some studies found that patients who drank a cup of tea per day halved their risk of a heart attack. Still, experts warn that drinking tea may be just an indicator of a healthy lifestyle—other unmeasured factors in the diets or habits of tea drinkers could account for the observed benefits. So while it is true that tea is a fine beverage, you should not count on it to protect your health.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2001

Scientists convert fat cells to cartilage

By JENNIFER SONG The Chronicle

Duke researchers have engineered a method of converting human fat—a virtually limitless source—into functional cartilage, which may be used in the future to replace damaged tissue.

“There’s been a growing interest in tissue engineering because it involves regenerating necessary tissue [using cells from a host] and re-implanting it back into the host,” said senior research team member Dr. Farshid Guilak, Duke associate professor of medicine. “Since fat, bone and cartilage all come from the same tissue, they are interrelated, and we hypothesized that the cells making fat could probably be retrained to make other cells [under different conditions].”

Using a biochemical cocktail of growth factors and vitamins, the re-

searchers were able to turn specific, undifferentiated cells that normally form adipose cells, or fat, into cartilage. The researchers were also able to grow these cartilage cells for the first time in a three-dimensional matrix, a strong indication that they may be successfully used in replacing human cartilage.

Cartilage is connective tissue that lines many joints in humans but cannot regenerate or repair itself after damage because it has poor blood supply and nerve infrastructure.

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Guilak and biomedical engineering graduate student Geoffrey Erickson, worked in conjunction with Artecel Sciences, a Durham-based company that holds the patent on growing purified, undifferentiated cells from fat tissue.

These stromal cells are multipotent and can develop into various types of specialized cells. While it is too early to define the exact mechanism underlying the formation of cartilage from these cells, researchers believe they have some clues.

“In general, we have created a mini-environment for the cells that gives them cartilage-fdfming signals rather than fat-forming signals,” said Dr. Jeff Gimble, vice president of Tissue Engineering

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FARSHID GUILAK AND GEOFFREY ERICKSON examine cells in their laboratory. The researchers utilized a biochemical “cocktail” of growth hormones and vitamins to turn fat into cartilage. at Artecel Sciences. “In addition, the cells “This finding is a step in the right dineed to be kept in relative isolation from rection, especially when current treateach other so they need to be suspended ments for cartilage damage possess variin an artificial matrix. This combination ous limitations,” Erickson said. “Younger of microenvironmental cues is probably athletes with knee injuries, for instance, responsible for our findings.” currently have limited options and may The researchers have also started pre- have to wait years before their doctor will liminary studies where stromal cell-in- order a knee replacement.” duced cartilage has been implanted into Researchers are optimistic about the the backs of mice. Although preliminary, possibilities that this finding provides. “If the results seem to show that animals [the clinical trials are positive], we will will support the chemically synthesized have found an unlimited source for tissue cartilage. Among other plans, the re- repair,” Guilak said. “If finding cells is no searchers are interested in optimizing the longer the limiting factor, then we will be growth medium and conditions of the lab able to make permanent living tissue reprocedure and ensuring that the stromal placements in the long-term.” cell-induced cartilage has the same propA report is currently being reviewed erties, durability and biomechanics ofreal for publication. Erickson presented the cartilage. If these goals are met, re- research team’s results earlier this month searchers plan to start clinical trials as at the annual meeting of the Orthopedic soon as possible.

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Blood thinner prevents mild heart attacks

By DANIEL HANEY Associated Press

ORLANDO A blood thinner already used after angioplasty has been shown to be a highly effective treatment for people with ominous chest pain or mild heart attacks and could prevent 100,000 heart emergencies each year in the United States.

A major study released Monday found that the drug, called Plavix, reduced the risk of death, strokes and new heart attacks in these people by 20 percent, making it probably the most significant advance in their treatment since the introduction of aspirin.

“This is a breakthrough,” said Dr. Valentin Fuster of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. “It will change the practice of medicine.”

Some 2 million Americans are hospitalized with mild heart attacks and bad chest pain annually. Experts said the drug’s impact will be even greater if it becomes routine treatment for the addi-

tional 1 million Americans who have full-blown heart attacks.

“Everyone will be put on this,” said Dr. Christopher Cannon of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “It’s relatively cheap and has monster benefits. This is what we have all been waiting for.”

Heart attack patients are already routinely sent home with aspirin, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors and cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Currently, Plavix, which was introduced in 1998, is given primarily to

prevent dangerous blood clots after balloon angioplasty. But doctors say it will soon become a regular pill for many more heart patients.

The study, which was directed by Dr. Salim Yusuf of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was presented at a meeting in Orlando of the American College of Cardiology. The study was financed by Plavix’s makers, Sanofi-Synthelabo and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

The study was conducted on 12,562 patients at 482 hospitals in 28 countries.

All victims had what doctors call acute coronary syndrome. This is either mild heart attacks—known technically as non-Q-wave attacks because of their appearance on electrocardiograms—or unstable angina, which is chest pain that is especially severe or unpredictable.

All patients got their standard treat-* ments, including aspirin, which has a

similar effect as Plavix on the clotting cells called platelets. They were randomly assigned to get either daily Plavix or dummy pills within a day oftheir symptoms and stayed on the drug for periods ranging from three months to a year.

Doctors began to notice a benefit of the drug within the first two hours of treatment. They calculated that after a year, 9.3 percent of patients on Plavix had suffered a stroke, a new heart attack or died of cardiovascular disease, compared with 11.5 percent of those getting standard treatment.

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Asians seek to Gift pushes Beaufort’s revitalization up enrollment

By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

By NEIL VAISHNAV The Chronicle While the University’s undergraduate ethnic diversity has increased over the last few years, several representatives of cultural groups argue that the administration has still not done enough to bolster minority student enrollment. In particular, the

Asian Student Association is pushing for more active recruitment ofAsians and Asian-Americans.

When compared to most of its peer institutions, Duke lags somewhat behind in attracting Asian and Asian-American students to its campus. Students of Asian descent make up 13 percent of Duke’s undergraduate population, similar to numbers at Harvard and Brown universities, but far behind the approximate 25 percent boasted by Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.

Duke’s own numbers have improved over time—in 1987, for example, only 876 students of Asian descent applied, as compared to 2,446 in 2000. Still, Duke’s matriculation rate remains relatively low: Last year, only 185 accepted applicants decided to attend Duke.

When asked about the fact that several Ivy League schools have numbers similar to Duke, Ray Tan, vice president of political affairs for the ASA, said that “what we’re really trying to do is alter the perception that Duke isn’t a place where most Asians want to go.”

Patty Chen, president of ASA, cited a report by A-Magazine, a publication geared toward the Asian-American community, that ranked Duke 43rd on a list of schools with good environments for Asian and Asian-American students. “[The report] shows that there’s a wide gap between where Duke is' and where it should be,” Chen said.

Chen speculated that Duke has difficulties attracting Asian and Asian-American students for several reasons—particularly its location in the South.

“Most Asians don’t pick Duke as their first choice, since the atmosphere in the South is predominantly white,” she said. “The most qualified Asian students aren’t even bothering to apply” Christoph Guttentag, director of undergraduate admissions, agreed that Duke’s location might be a detractor. “Many families do have a problem See

A multi-million dollar gift to the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences is the most recent development in a series of events and initiatives that have contributed to a renewed effort to improve the school’s Beaufort Marine Lab. Following the marine lab’s long-range plan, the gift will attempt to aid in efforts to counter years of alleged neglect of one of the University’s most prized research facilities. The school’s plan focuses on increasing the size of undergraduate enrollment and faculty and improving the research and housing facilities.

“The ultimate goal is to make the lab the true East Campus of Duke University,” said Michael Orbach, director of the marine lab and Nicholas School professor of the practice.

Last week’s announcement of a $3 million gift from the Oak Foundation will contribute to an overall plan to strengthen the quality of the faculty at the lab. The gift will increase the size ofthe lab faculty from nine to eleven members, with the two ad-

ditional professors required to conduct all their work and research at Beaufort. Nicholas School Dean Norman Christensen said that in the past the school has struggled to recruit faculty members who have been interested in residing on the coast. But by targeting searches in marine conservation biology and marine affairs and policy—areas of study where field research is essential—Christensen said recruitment will be less of a challenge.

Recruiting coordinators will also try to attract faculty by allowing more opportunities for interdisciplinary work. Orbach said that discussions are already underway to create more collaborative opportunities with other schools within the University, notably the Fuqua School of Business, the Graduate School and the Pratt School of Engineering. Last week, the school bought its first telecommunications link which it plans to use with Duke’s program-in-Bermuda.

Administrators also hope to use telecommunications technology to make the campus feel more connected with Durham. James B. Duke Professor of BiSee BEAUFORT on page 9 �

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Council creates ‘greenprint’ to protect wildlife, forest � GROWTH from page 1 clining and probably becoming more fragmented,” said George Hess, assistant professor in the department of forestry at North Carolina State University.

But environmental degradation is not always hard to spot. “Two ways that many residents see these problems easily are in polluted water and in fewer species of birds at their bird feeders,” Dixon said.

Some preserved areas are almost completely surrounded by urban development, which can interfere with species such as pileated woodpeckers and wood thrushes that require large continuous areas of hardwood forest to thrive.

“The reason that forest-interior, largely ground-nesting birds suffer under fragmentation relates to increased exposure to nest predators, which tend to be more abundant near forest edges,” said Loraine Kohorn, research associate with the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

Fragmentation also disturbs mating

patterns of some organisms, such as beetles and salamanders, and can lead to genetic isolation. “Interstates, and all roads to some extent, are barriers to movement of many species,” Kohom said.

To alleviate this problem, planners are trying to create pathways of green connecting preserved areas to allow for species migration.

“Considering and planning our green infrastructure in the same way we plan roads, water and sewers is a good way to make sure our green systems continue to function,” Hess said.

Hess and others are working on a “greenprint” to organize the protection of these areas before they are developed.

“Through the greenprint we hope to create a linked network of green space regionally and maximize the value of the investments that individual jurisdictions make in protecting our natural areas through coordination,” said Durham County Commissioner Ellen Reckhow, who also serves as chair of the Triangle J Council of Govern-

ments. The council just received a $35,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to aid in the creation of the greenprint.

Dixon, who is also working on the greenprint, noted that this does not mean growth will or should stop.

“We can’t protect all land, and we probably don’t want to, so we need to decide what land is really critical to protect for our own quality of life and that of the other plant and animal species who share this special place with us,” she said.

The Triangle Land Conservancy has chosen five areas as their top priorities to purchase and protect. Dixon said these tracts, including New Hope Creek in Durham and Orange counties, are important in their own right and also connect larger reserved areas.

Another problem facing the Triangle is diminished air quality, resulting partially from higher traffic volumes. Reekhow noted that under new Environmental Protection Agency standards upheld by the US. Supreme Court, the area will

probably be out of compliance with airquality measurements.

“We will need to emphasize alternative modes of transportation, alternative fuels, travel demand management and other strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled and reduce air pollution,” she said.

As of yet, it is hard to say just what the effects of increased levels of carbon dioxide and other gases have been.

“We know on a global level that ecosystems are responding [to development],” Kohorn said, adding that there is no control standard by which scientists can compare today’s atmosphere.

While the environmental problems facing this area might seem overwhelming in the face of rapid growth, Kohom and others are confident that responsible planning will help preserve the most crucial natural areas.

“We still have a lot of forests here,” she said. ‘What happens to that land is determined by public policy as well as transportation policy.”

Duke administrators highlight Asian Studies, faculty hires ASIAN MATRICULANTS from page 5

with theTact that we are in the South,” he said, noting the lack of Asian-American communities in the region. He emphasized that schools in large urban areas tend to attract much higher numbers of Asian and Asian-American -applicants.

Chen added that the dominance of fraternities on campus also tends to drive Asians away. “Most Asians aren’t comfortable in that atmosphere. If you look at Trent, you’ll see that it’s 30 percent Asian, while there are much fewer Asians on West.”

To attract more Asian and Asian-American students,

ASA has proposed several initiatives: adding more Asian and Asian-American professors to the faculty, establishing an Asian Studies major and holding an ASA luncheon during Blue Devil Days. Currently, Asians and Asian-Americans represent 8 percent of Duke faculty, more than Harvard’s estimated 6.8 percent.

In response, Mavis Mayer, administrative coordinator for the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, noted that Duke now offers programs in East Asian Studies at the graduate level, and that Asian representation in the faculty has increased. “The number of professors who are Asian or who teach specifically about

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Asia has doubled since 1990 in response to student demand.” She had no information or comment on the prospect of an Asian Studies concentration at the undergraduate level.

ASA is also pushing for a student recruitment weekend similar to those put on for black and Latino students. Guttentag, however, said that coordinating this type of event depends on the availability of manpower. “While I have no philosophical objection, creating and running recruitment weekends is incredibly labor intensive,” he said. “The Latino weekend took lots of time.”

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rate on overnight loans among banks since the beginning of the year. It brought the federal funds rate to 5 percent, where it last stood in the summer of 1999, when the Fed was beginning to raise rates to cool off what it then judged to be an overheating economy.

The Fed also reduced its less frequently used discount rate on loans to banks from the Federal Reserve system to 4.5 percent from 5 percent.

The move was intended to put downward pressure on the interest rates paid by businesses and consumers, and therefore to give the economy a boost by stimulating more borrowing.

“Persistent pressures on profit margins are restraining investment spending and, through declines in equity wealth, consumption,” the Fed’s statement said. “The associated backup in inventories has induced a rapid response in manufacturing output and, with spending having firmed a bit since last year, in-

ventory adjustment appears to be well under way” The statement said “current developments do not appear to have materially diminished the prospects” for the economy over the long haul. Still, it went on, the “possibility that this excess could continue for some time and the potential for weakness in global economic conditions

suggest substantial risks that demand and production

could remain soft.”

The move came against a backdrop of a sharply declining stock market, worries about mounting financial problems in Japan and increasing uncertainty as to whether the decade-long expansion in the United States is coming to an end or has already expired.

It reflected the belief ofAlan Greenspan, the Fed’s chair, that in a fast-changing economy he no longer has the luxury of adjusting interest rates in small steps over a long period, the approach he took through most ofthis business cycle.

In choosing to hold its rate cut to half a percentage

point, the Fed seemed to be signaling that it is intent on arresting a slide in sales, production, investment and consumer confidence, but without showing signs of panic or giving in to pleas from Wall Street for a lifeline for stock prices.

But in deciding not to cut rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, the Fed left the financial markets off balance.

Although it has been clear almost since the last policy meeting on Jan. 31 that the central bank would cut rates again Tuesday, the meeting was clearly among the most pivotal in the Fed’s recent history, with the economy apparently teetering on the brink of recession and the stock market in full-scale retreat.

At stake is not only the continuation of the long period of prosperity and the health of Wall Street, but Greenspan’s own reputation as the master of the economy and the role of the United States as the world’s most reliable engine of growth.

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Distance, size make Hospital chapel inadequate for Muslims PRAYER from page 1

currently located while that area was being changed from the University Room to Han’s Fine Chinese Cuisine.

Since then, students have sometimes used a room in Perkins that is only occasionally available.

This issue was highlighted at a Nov. 7 diversity luncheon where MSA and other minority groups presented their goals to administrators, students and faculty. This was the first time that many community members became aware of the problem, and a number of administrators have teamed up with MSA to assist it in drafting a proposal and searching for space.

Administrators say the problem with MSA’s request, as with many similar ones, is a general lack of space at Duke, especially given the availability, location and specifications that Muslim

students need.

MSA leaders are requesting a carpet-

ed West Campus room available for daily prayer from noon until 8 p.m. It would also need to be near a restroom, because

Muslims must perform a ritual cleansing with water before praying. Unlike other religious groups, Muslims cannot use the Chapel or its basement for prayer because the Chapel houses tombs.

MSA also would like this space or another room for a congregational service, called jummah prayer, performed Friday at midday. Currently, about 40 students meet at Duke Hospital’s chapel for jummah prayer, though many are unable to attend because of the distance from campus and the limited space.

But the search for dedicated space is not unique to Muslim students.

“There are minority groups, graduate groups, all sorts of social groups searching for social space,” said Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Jim Clack.

“But the facihties may not be available.”

Even when space is available, though, people often find it difficult to determine who it belongs to and how to reserve it.

“We need a more centralized space reservation policy,” said Clack, “so that we know what is available, when it is available, and what rules govern it.”

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CURRENTLY MUSLIM STUDENTS meet every Friday in this small chapel for jummah, a traditional congregational service. Leaders say the walk to the building discourages attendance.

Hayti Center leader works to invigorate performance hall STOVER from page 3 “There, it wasn’t about creative writing, it was about rapping and writing,” said Stover, who volunteered at the center six days a week for over a year.

Stover played rap and talked with his D.C. students about the lyrics, about rap as poetry, history, culture, and then encouraged them to write their own poetry or perform their own raps.

“My craziness was about a commitment to the real responsibility of the artist,” Stover said of that time.

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In 1996, Stover followed his wife, who works as vice president of communications and marketing at the Triangle United Way, to the area. After working as a science writer in Research Triangle Park, he planned on moving back to Maryland as head of the infant Black Cultural Center at College Park. But a boss plugged him into the job opening at the Heritage Center.

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But Stover’s personal and professional mission is the same—to take black poetry and art off the static confines of the page or the canvas and make it alive and personal to his community.

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Nicholas School strives to increase Beaufort enrollment BEAUFORT from page 5 ology William Schlesinger, who will succeed Christensen in June, has proposed a series of tele-linked seminars that would allow faculty at one campus to perform lectures at the other.

Schlesinger has also proposed holding a series of Nicholas School retreats and symposiums, probably to be held at Beaufort.

In other efforts, the lab has also begun to invest in its facilities. The school will start construction on a new maintenance building later this month. Later in the year, the school

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and seminar space.

The school also hopes to continue to attract more undergraduates to Beaufort. About 55 graduate students and 25 to 30 undergraduate students currently study at the marine lab. Although Christensen said they are pleased with the number of graduate students, he hopes to investigate how to increase undergraduate enrollment to 40.

“The numbers could be better, but I’ve been satisfied with recent trends,” Christensen said. “We’re definitely headed in the right direction.”

Administrators have already begun meeting with the biology department to allow more majors to perform research at the lab. The lab has also began classes such as physics that may ease concerns that studying at Beaufort could set a student back in fulfilling major requirements.

Last year, an external review of the marine lab argued that intentional administrative neglect has allowed the

lab to decay. Administrators in the Nicholas School insisted that no neglect was ever intended. The report cited a decline in faculty size and undergraduate enrollment as evidence.

The report also pointed to the neglect of many of the campus’ facilities, such as dorm spaces that have not been re-

paired since Hurricane Floyd damaged the dorms in Sept. 1999.

“The Marine Lab is in a healthier position than it has been in many years,” Christensen said. “Everyone in this school is dedicated to making sure that the lab is successful.”

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the plan for a Durham meals tax is off the table for a while, the community wiU be better for it. The idea ofcharging a 1 percent tax on all prepared meals, which has floated on the city’s agenda for many years, is fine in theory but impractical in reality, as shown by current economic conditions, Durham’s history of irresponsible behavior with tax revenues and a lack of proper purpose for the tax. Before the revenues of a meals tax can be targeted for some worthwhile venture, neither visitors nor residents should lose any pocket change.

In theory, a meals tax has its benefits. Unlike other forms of taxes, a meals tax spreads to visitors, temporary and permanent residents alike, This way, the costs of city services, many of which are used by visitors, too, can be distributed more evenly. In addition, coHege students, a majority ofwhom do not pay any local taxes, will also be forced to help out in the city’s attempt at revitalization.

And since lower-income families eat out less often than their wealthier counterparts, the tax will not affect Durham’s poor to the extent that some other taxes might.

But the merits of a meals tax do not necessarily merit the implementation of one. Durham has a long history of coming up short on its plans for increased city services and expanded infrastructure. In years past, the local government has also deviated from the thoughtful and responsible use of community funds. More importantly, though, due to a potential national economic decline and North Carolina’s recent budget deficit, the misuse of private tax dollars cannot be tolerated.

The present situation requires that any additional taxes be earmarked for a certain cause and be spent only on that cause.

Ideas for the possible revenues received from the meals tax currently on the table represent inadequate and a reckless uses of taxpayer dollars. One idea, to build a 5,000-seat performing arts theater, seems foolishly large. At this point in time, Durham, let alone larger cities, cannot draw enough people to fill such a venue.

Another idea, to build parking for the redevelopment of the American Tobacco warehouse, is also a poor one. True, for a shopping complex to thrive there must be accessible parking. However, the investors behind American Tobacco should be charged with the duty ofsupplying parking for their complex, not the city.

Durham’s city council should consider reconsidering this tax in the future. A small meals tax could greatly benefit the city, as long as it has a purpose and will not be squandered by dishonest city officials.

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For the Muslim Duke student, salat during the day is at best a frustrating inconvenience, at worst, virtually impossible.... Some of us have found ourselves praying in the Perkins [Library] stacks or in empty classrooms.

Muslim Student Association President Hoda Yousef, a senior, commenting on the availability of space provided for religious purposes, (see story, page one)

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President hopes ad brings constructive dialogue The advertisement “Ten States from Alexis de those who have never taken Reasons Why Reparations Tocqueville through Gunnar the trouble to understand to John Hope the intricate dimensions of a for Slavery is a Bad Idea and Myrdal Racist Too,” in the March 19 Franklin have pointed out social, economic and political issue of The Chronicle, raises that the stains and poisons of system that still embodies issues that deserve serious slavery run deep. Slavery has prejudice and racism in discussion on this campus. left scars not only on those countless ways.

Many people on this camwho were enslaved and their The ad includes some quesfor students as well as faclong but afterpus, enslavers, and controversial tionable ulty members, have taken historical claims; if will be ward on all who live in a system shaped in profound ways the time to become knowlhurtful to a number of members of our community. The by the legacies of a system so edgeable about these issues.

I hope they will step forbest recourse on a university harsh and inhumane.

That some “individuals ward to provide their own campus is to use free speech to deal with speech that is could and did overcome” the perspectives, and that you offensive and in many hardships of slavery, as the will allow ample space for respects, I would argue, ad points out, is testimonial rebuttals to the claims of to the amazing resilience of the ad. If the printing of this deeply misguided. occasions Reparations is a non-issue the human spirit and to the advertisement vigorous and enlightening indomitable will, strong famfor most people in our country nowadays, but some ofthe ily relationships and deep debate and education on assertions in this advertisereligious faith of those who this topic, within and outment cut very close to home survived—not proof that side our classrooms, then for people whose ancestors slavery was somehow not so free speech will indeed have were enslaved, and for all bad, after all. The claim that triumphed. who are concerned about the “present economic adversity social and political health of is the result of failures of Nannerl Keohane President, our country today. Thoughtful individual character” is a Duke University observers of these United tired canard pronounced by

Both Horowitz and The Chronicle offend readers Anyone

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enough to fumble upon the second-to-last page of the March 19 issue of The Chronicle was in for a shocking and disconcerting glimpse of what an apparently inappropriate advertising policy can produce. The striking fullpage spread of David Horowitz’s isolated political agenda troubled and bewildered me as well as others to whom I have spoken. How can anyone actually claim that

African Americans are better off because of slavery?

Horowitz entirely overlooks the point of reparations. It may come as a surprise to him that slavery has had more substantial effects on African Americans than simply economic ones. The compensations awarded to

Jewish Holocaust survivors, Japanese Americans and other groups have, in actuality, done little to alleviate or remedy the resonating finan-

cial blows of their oppressions. Indeed, although reparations have effected essentially monetary gain in the past (for example, Germany’s payments to the Allied forces after World War I), when dealing with the oppression

Equally disreputable as Horowitz’s opinions is the publishing of such material in this university’s newspaper. I would only hope that The Chronicle is not in the business of overtly promoting any single political agenda. Surely I will never see an advertisement paid for by the Ku Klux Klan greeting me in an issue of the paper, as such a piece would undoubtedly offend and distress many. And if I were to be bombarded with radical political doctrine, at least I would see more of a disclaimer than “paid advertisement” in minute letters across the top, right? The Chronicle must, in the future, be more cautious of

of a race or people, the more immediate motivation for a reparation is less about reimbursement than it is about admission of guilt. To award reparations as a country is to formally apologize and admit that there was an indelible and egregious offense committed by us as a nation.

Furthermore, the payment of reparations to African Americans is not an issue of white versus black.

Contrary to many critics’ opinions, reparations are not payments from one race to another. They are compensations from an entire country to those who have been devastated by a country’s mistakes.

what it commercializes; the advertisement against repa-

rations was offensive and inappropriate.

Danny Smith Trinity ’O4

University’s mature reaction to ad deserves praise As I walked down the Bryan Center walkway reading Monday’s edition of The Chronicle, I was taken aback by the full-page advertisement by David Horowitz on the second-to-last page of the paper. After first glance, the page appeared to be no more than racial propaganda from a David Duke figure.

Many people view Horowitz’s ad as a racist attempt to promote an antireparations perspective.

However, I find that the advertisement proves to be a

clever test offreedom of press, Many university publications across the nation, including Harvard University’s newspaper, The Crimson, chose not to run the advertisement.

Running such a radical and perhaps racist advertisement was definitely gutsy for The Chronicle.

Brown University’s newspaper decided to ran the advertisement last Tuesday; it was one of the first universities to do so. Unhappy with the authoritative decision to accept and ran the advertise-

ment, Brown students maliciously confiscated nearly the entire press run later

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I applaud The Chronicle for running Horowitz’s advertisement in a professional and unbiased manner, Also, lam happy that Duke students can read Horowitz’s writing for what it is worth in an educated manner without running around campus and stealing newspapers.

Michael Oles Trinity ’O4

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Why The Chronicle ran the reparations ad Editors column Gre Pessin Academic discourse and intellectual

interchange are at the heart of the values of this nation and any university.

Especially in controversies, opinionated exchange and open debate must not be sacrificed for comfort.

In its advertising practices just as in its news reporting and editorial pages, The Chronicle strives to be as open and free to as many ideas as possible. The editorial staff h, ias spent 't many hours this year at aggressively debating questions about con-

Horowitz’s ad is one of opinion and by this advertisement are sure to offend interpretation that injects a new permany and should provoke responses spective into a debate that has appeared from people on both sides of this issue. on The Chronicle’s editorial pages.

Unfortunately, students at other camAlthough Horowitz’s opinions might puses have squandered the opportunity weigh in on our decision. These editors offend some people, we should be loath to explore the issue and Horowitz’s all agreed that The Chronicle should to allow the radical nature of his ideas viewpoint, choosing instead to focus on publish Horowitz’s ideas. to prevent them from being presented whether his voice should have been The Chronicle has always been comto the community. heard in the first place. mitted to running advertisements regardJournalist and author A.J. Liebling In fact, the free exchange of ideas less of their political content. For examsaid, “Freedom of the press is limited and the academic freedom so dear to ple, in November 1991, The Chronicle to those who own one.” In other words, our university cannot be realized unless accepted and ran a Ml-page ad from The Chronicle decides who gets a voice all voices, regardless of controversy, are Holocaust revisionist Bradley Smith. The in its pages and in our community. The heard. It is equally important that advertisement urged people to consider Chronicle believes that in a community members of the community respond to whether the Holocaust ever happened. dedicated to academic discourse, as the ideas in question. As always, The Early this semester, The Chronicle many opinions as possible should have Chronicle is open to publishing letters ran a four-part anti-abortion advertisthe opportunity to be heard. to the editor, advertisements and, as ing campaign.

As The Boston Globe wrote on this space is available, columns in response And last semesmatter yesterday, “It is essential [for to the advertisement. ter, the paper universities] to be welcoming places for To submit a letter or to inquire a women, minorities and others not about a column, call 684-2663 or epublished ad among the traditional elites. But the mail letters@chronicle.duke.edu. For full-page from the Duke pursuit of diversity cannot come at the advertising information, call 684-3811 Conservative expense of open debate, especially in an or e-mail sales@chronicle.duke.edu.

Union urging academic setting. Civil rights cannot GregPessin is a Trinity senior and ediadministrators exist without civil liberties.”

The controversial opinions presented tor of The Chronicle to continue to sameto on prohibit sex unions in the Chapel.

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Students other campuses have squandered the opportunity to explore the issue and Horowitzs viewpoint choosing instead focus whether his voice should have been heard in the first place. ..

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Thursday, March 9. Advertising staffers called me, as they sometimes do, to review the ad. News department heads were invited to read the ad, research it and other schools’ reactions to it, and

ing and coverage, and has convincingly sided in favor of an open press.

In this spirit, The Chronicle decided to publish March 19 a full-page paid accuracy—for advertisement opposing reparations for example, do the ads make libelous or unsubstantiated accusations? slavery.

Yesterday, many people inquired Earlier this year, Smith wanted to about this decision, and I want to explain advertise again. The ad he submitted directly accused an organization of docour rationale.

From a policy standpoint, The toring a photo but presented no factual Chronicle evaluates advertisements on a evidence to prove it. (The ad showed case-by-case basis, with the president of two different versions of the photo in Duke Student Publishing Company, who question, but offered no proof that it is also the editor, empowered with the was “airbrushed” in the first place, or, final decision. just as importantly, that the group in David Horowitz and The Center for question did it.) As a result, The the Study of Popular Culture sent The Chronicle chose not to publish the Chronicle the full-page ad late advertisement. ,

Cheesy Durham politics Beyond the wall Michael Peterson Is perseverance a virtue, or a sign of insanity? Like everything in life, it depends.

“Try, try again” is a refrain we grow up with. As children, we’re admonished that if at first we don’t succeed, we should keep trying. Good advice. Sometimes.

Other times it’s best to throw in the towel right away. When you start down the wrong path, to continue often means you’re just going to get deeper in the dark woods. Any guy who has been lost and won t ask directions can affirm this Sisyphus was doomed to roll that rock up the hill, but he was never going to succeed because the gods had decided against him. Sisyphus had no choice in the matter, but the rest of us often do, so choosing when to continue against all odds is tricky business. Sometimes we’ll succeed, sometimes we’re wasting our time. We have to analyze each situation.

My own definition of insanity is that it s insane to continue to do something with the expectation thatthe result will be different. To keep butting your head against a wall will not knock down the wall, it will just get you a severe headache.

Probably the dumbest book I’ve ever read is a little tome that is the bible ofmodem corporate America and has sold millions of copies (and which might explain the Dow and Nasdaq implosions)— Who Moved My

Cheese? Basically it says that smart mice know that when their pile of cheese disappears, they look for cheese somewhere else. The moral is that we need to be flexible in our own human lives, that when a situation changes, we should change with it.

Anybody who doesn’t know this is dumber than mice.

I have decided to give my copy of the cheese book to the Durham City Council, because apparently its members are dumber than mice. They need to learn that continuing to pursue unsuccessful policies is stupid. Unfortunately, they aren’t the only ones in town who need the lesson. But since these other people (Capitol Broadcasting, for instance) are tossing away their own money instead of my tax dollars, I can’t muster sympathy for them. Let them buy their own copy of the mouse book.

For two years now, we’ve been told downtown is on the verge ofrevitalization. Momentarily it will become a center of commerce that includes a 5,000-seat auditorium and a massive office/condo/hotel complex down at the American Tobacco site across from the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Groundbreaking should begin any day. Another hip-hip-hoorah story about this appeared in the local paper two days ago.

The expectation is that corporations and individuals will invest millions to locate downtown.

If you have five extra bucks to invest, go downtown and decide for yourself whether or not you’d risk it on an area of high crime, derelicts and panhandlers in the shadow of an 11-story jail—the area’s largest building.

Now, if you decide to take the chance, consider this added information: The city has decided to turn downtown into a “human services” campus with an enhanced homeless shelter, welfare offices, a mental

health clinic and public housing. This is the proposed “anchor” for downtown. Malls have stores. Downtown will host a homeless shelter, a mental health clinic and a new ghetto to go along with the jail.

Not surprisingly, no one has decided to invest in the American Tobacco site; downtown remains stagnant.

Yet hope springs eternal among city leaders. Surely investors will change their minds. Keep butting your head against that wall!

Currently there are 2.9 million square feet of office space under construction in the Triangle. Another 1.2 million square feet are available for sublease because corporations are laying-off workers and downsizing.

The economy is in a downward spiral. Even Nordstrom’s, the proposed savior of Southpoint Mall, is reconsidering its commitment.

So what are Durham’s plans? Build another million square feet of office space, add $35 million parking decks and build a 5,000-seat auditorium despite the fact that the city is in severe financial trouble, being millions short in the budget, with citizens facing huge tax increases.

Do you need a degree from the Fuqua School of Business to see where this is going?

No. All you need is to read the dumbest book in the world—the cheese book: If it hasn’t worked for the last 20 years, it ain’t gonna work this year. Or next. Or the ones after that. Try something new! Rethink the entire concept of downtown!

If mice can learn, surely our leaders and planners can learn.

Or am I nuts? Am I butting my head against the wall?

Michael Peterson, Trinity ’65, is a Durham resident.

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Men’s lacrosse faces North Carolina tonight Sentinel, lawyers with Earnhardt in mediation

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In one of its most important games of the year, the No. 9 men’s lacrosse team travels to Chapel Hill tonight to renew its rivalry against 13th-ranked North Carolina.

Like all Duke athletes, every

� Lawyers for Dale Earnhardt’s widow and the Orlando Sentinel are at odds about access to autopsy photos after new information was revealed.

member of the lacrosse team relishes the opportunity to play the hated Tar Heels, and will approach the game with the utmost enthusiasm, Blue Devils co-captain Hunter

Henry said.

“Playing against Carolina is one of the reasons anyone comes to Duke,” he said. “They have a good team, and when we play them, they always play their best.”

Fellow captain Michael Keating agreed with Henry.

“This is the biggest game of the season,” Keating said. Tm not getting much sleep the night before.”

Adding to the pure exhilaration the Blue Devils always feel when competing against North Carolina will be the vital importance of this game to both teams because of its many far-reaching implications.

“Every year this game has so much significance to it,” Duke head coach Mike Pressler said? “There’s so much at stake here. It’s an ACC game, it’s a Carlyle Cup game, it’s a recruiting game and it’s a bragging rights game.

The winnerreceives a lot.”

This season’s North Carolina squad should be very different from the Tar Heels of years past. John Haus replaces Dave Klarmann as See DUKE-UNC on page 19 �

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DAN HAUBER slides past a defender during Duke’s victory over Brown last weekend

Lawyers for Dale ORLANDO, Fla. Earnhardt’s widow and the Orlando Sentinel were headed back to mediationfour days after they reached an agreement over access to the racing star’s autopsy photos.

The mediation will allow the newspaper to address its concerns about a Daytona International Speedway doctor having viewed the photos before they were sealed, Sentinel attorney David Bralow said yesterday.

Bralow emphasized that the agreement was still in place. The meeting will take place in the Daytona Beach office of mediator John Upchurch tomorrow morning.

“Both parties can always change the agreement,” Bralow said. “You can always modify a contract by a meeting of the parties.”

Dr. Steve Bohannon, a NASCAR medical expert, looked at the photos three days after Earnhardt’s fatal wreck Feb. 18 at the Daytona 500. The next day, a Volusia County judge temporarily sealed them from public viewing at the request of Teresa Earnhardt.

The deal reached last week limits access to the photos, which are public records under Florida law.

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Schwartz, Agrawal highlight Duke’s performance at NCAAs

By CRAIG SAPERSTEIN The Chronicle

After competing in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. last weekend, senior pole vaulter Jillian Schwartz and sophomore distance runner Sheela Agrawal were both honored as All-Americans for their finishes in their respective events. A third Duke competitor, junior Katie Atlas, also contended for a national ranking at the meet, but she was unable to finish her one-mile run due to sickness “[Having two All-Americans] is so helpful to us on a national level,” women’s track and field coach Jan Samuelson-Ogilvie ian Schwartz said. “It helps us not only as far as the team goes, but it helps us in recruiting and in a variety of other ways.”

Schwartz placed the highest of all Duke participants, recording a top vault of 13-1.5, tying a previous Duke record that she broke two weeks ago at the

Correction In yesterday’s article about the women’s tennis team.

The Chronicle’s headline misidentified Duke’s two wins as Stanford and Arizona. Duke defeated Washington, not Stanford

ECAC/IC4A Invitational and earning her a seventhplace finish. Samuelson-Ogilvie was pleased with the senior’s performance, even though the Illinois native was unable to eclipse her vault of 13-5.25 at the ECAC event. In addition, she felt that Schwartz’s indoor season was very successful, despite the slight blemish at the end.

“The bottom line is that Jillian jumped higher and higher every single weekend this season and she won every single competition she was in this season, with the exception of one meet,” SamuelsonOgilvie said. “The pole vault itself is growing in leaps and bounds, and in any other year previous to this, she would have scored much higher than this in the NCAAs. On this particular day, five women had personal bests and jumped over 14 feet. Jillian could have done that.”

Agrawal, who entered the 3,000-meter run ranked 10th in the country, registered a ninth-place finish with a time of 9:24.92. Samuelson-Ogilvie was pleased with Agrawal’s NCAA performance and expects her solid finish to carry over into the outdoor season.

“This was a good performance for her,” SamuelsonOgilvie said. “She ran right at where she ran to quali-

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Georgia Schweitzer and Alana Beard were named Kodak District II AllAmericans. The total of 48 will be narrowed to 10 March 29 in St. Louis.

Tennessee men’s basketball coach Jerry Green accepted a $1.25 million buyout yesterday after four straight trips to the NCAA tournament. the latest a first round loss to Charlotte.

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While Agrawal prepares for a promising outdoor season, Atlas hopes to recuperate from an illness that has plagued her for much of the past three weeks.

Coming off a solid outing Feb. 17 in the 800-meter run in the ACC Indoors where she broke an ACC record, Atlas was forced to withdraw from the one-mile event last weekend with only one lap remaining because of her sickness.

Despite Atlas’ disappointing conclusion to a recordbreaking indoor season, Samuelson-Ogilvie feels that her team is in good shape heading into the outdoor season, which commences this weekend at the North Carolina Quad Meet in Chapel Hill.

“I think we’re in much better shape [going into the outdoor season] than we were going to indoors,” Samuelson-Ogilvie said. “I think we’ve had a tremendous amount of sickness and a number of injuries in our freshman class. There are people that did not compete for us at all indoors that are healthy again.”

Henson weighs options The Michigan quarterback was traded to the New York Yankees by Cincinnati.

Henson has not decided if he will forego his final year of football eligibility with the Wolverines.

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At the time, Ashworth claimed that Biro had not only broken team rules, but that she had a bad attitude and a poor work ethic.

Finding a player to replace Biro’s attitude would not be a problem, but finding someone so late in the recruiting process to match her impressive 67-20 career singles record and her position at No. 1 doubles was a completely different matter.

However, through a chance meeting last summer, Duke was able to land 5-foot-7 freshman Amanda Johnson from Bettendorf, lowa. Johnson has more than compensated for the loss of Biro by compiling a 21-3 record at No. 2 and 3 singles and teaming with senior Megan Miller for a 21-5 record at No. 1 doubles.

Johnson, who graduated six months early from a Florida sports academy to play professional tournaments full time, met Duke sophomore Katie Granson at a challenger event in South Carolina at the end of June, “I overheard Katie talking about an opening on the team,” Johnson said. “I talked to her about it, and I also talked to [freshman Ansley Cargill] at that same tournament because I knew that she had committed early.”

With the encouragement of Granson, Cargill and some former Duke players on the pro tour, Ashworth aggressively pursued Johnson throughout the summer, After phone calls from co-captains Kathy Sell and Miller and a visit to the campus in July, Johnson decided to attend Duke just two weeks before the start of classes.

“When I graduated early from high school, I really just wanted to focus on playing pro tournaments, not on going to college,” Johnson said. “But by the time I met Katie in the summer, I was getting a little bit tired of the very lonely, very competitive atmosphere on the pro tour. I also knew several players on the team and felt like I would get along well here.”

Johnson has indeed gotten along well at Duke, earning herself a singles ranking of No. 17, which is second in the nation among freshmen next to her teammate Cargill.

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“I am impressed with the way sh e has won so much already,” Sell said. “She’s playing some of the best players in the country and still undefeated in singles in our dual matches.”

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Blue Devils’ 10-1 record, it is doubles play that has given team its biggest boost.

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Ashworth has not talked to Johnson about this highly personal decision, but h6 clearly thinks she would benefit from a full college experience.

“I hope she realizes how much better she’s getting here,” Duke’s coach said. “She’s going through an important maturation process that will definitely help her at the next level.”

For now, though, the likely environmental science policy or biological anthropology and anatomy major is just enjoying the college atmosphere.

“It’s difficult to predict what I’ll do,” Johnson said.

“I really want to play professionally, but I think it’s important to get my degree and I love it here. Duke is the best thing that could have happened to me.”

And, after the tumultuous relationship between Biro and the women’s tennis program, Johnson is probably the best thing that could have happened to Duke. jstion

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2001

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The Big Dance: A big disappointment for the ACC Is your bracket as screwed up as mine is?

What a first round! Utah State,

Indiana State, Hampton, Georgia State, Temple, Butler, Kent State, Gonzaga—but after a trip to the Elite Eight two years ago and a trip to the Sweet 16 last time around, bet against Gonzaga at your own risk.

That’s not even considering the feisty teams that almost nabbed an upset: Hofstra, George Mason, Hawaii, Western Kentucky, Holy Cross.

Of course, now the ship is back on course and it is indeed the power teams from the power conferences that remain on top: Michigan State and Illinois from the Big Ten, Kentucky from the SEC, Kansas from the Big 12 and Stanford and Arizona from the Pac-10.

But where, in this round of 16, is the ACC that everyone promised would be so dominant this season, with its veteran leadership and developed talent?

As expected, the ACC has two teams in the Sweet 16, a consecutive record that dates back to 1980.

Well, there’s Duke. And Duke remains highly favored to make it to the Final Fou and possibly win a national championship. If there’s any sign as to why Duke will go all the way, look at the first-round games from last season and this season. Last season, Duke, a Sweet 16 team, struggled with a feisty Lamar. The Blue Devils led only 44-33 at the half before pulling away to a 82-55 victory.

Not so against Monmouth. There was no drama, no scary moment when the score was 27-23. The only drama

was whether Jason Williams’ ankle would be better. Duke’s 11-0 run in the first 1:25 answered that question with a 95-52 rout.

Obviously, Duke is very dominant.

Maryland, however is the only other team to advance to the Sweet 16 out of the six teams that made it to the tournament from the ACC this year. In fact, Gary Williams had enough chutzpah to announce on ESPN last Monday that his team would not only make it to the Final Four, but to a national championship as well. Pretty tough talk for someone who has been to the NCAAs seven times and still has not seen the Final Four.

Who knows? Maybe Williams is due for it—Maryland has given Duke the toughest time this season. It did not look like it last Thursday, however, when the mighty George Mason Patriots almost downed the Terrapins in Boise. But just ask Billy Donovan, whose last-minute overtime win over Butler last season Was the toughest game Florida had before facing Michigan State in the final game—survive and advance with a capital A. Speaking of Butler, perhaps the worst moment for the ACC in the NCAA tourney’s history occurred Friday as Butler had its way with Wake Forest. This was the team that beat Kansas by a blowout 30-point margin? The same team that trailed Butler 43-10 at the half?

It was a black eye for Dave Odom, who had all the postseason mojo last year, knocking off North Carolina in the ACC tournament and going on to defeat Matt Doherty’s Fighting Irish in

ly anorexic Penn State in the second round, making the Tar Heels 5-5 in their last 10 games. A year after an review uninspired regular-season squad made an inspired Final Four run, an inspired ACC regular-season team looked out of Kevin Lees sync and uninspired in the NCAAs. Is this the same team that beat Duke in the NIT. Somewhere, after starting Cameron? That went a perfect 8-0 in this season 9-0, Wake lost its mojo. the first half of the ACCs? That was “They came out with all their guns the first seed in the conference tournament in Atlanta? loaded,” said Odom in the understatement of the year. “They unleashed John Swofford might as well have put “Six Teams in the NCAA” on every ACC quite a barrage against us.” publication this season, because after It was more like a Looney Toons cartoon starring Daffy Duck and Elmer getting shafted with three teams last Fudd during duck season. Eventually, year and the year before, that was the Elmer finds Daffy and shoots him. mantra everyone repeated. From coachDaffy kind of disintigrates except for es to the players to even the media, his orange beak and two bouncing everyone said this would be the year the eyes. That’s kind of how I felt about ACC (now ranked fourth among conferWake Forest Friday. If Robert O’Kelley ences in the RPI) would return to its glo-

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After the past week, ACC fans canVirginia can be forgiven for losing outside of Charlottesville 86-85 to not help but be a little disappointed.

They can, however, begin to underGonzaga, a team that had scored a stand why the selection committee was recent upset against every major conference except the ACC. Give Gonzaga so hesitant to give the ACC more than a lot of credit: instead of shying away three seeds last year. from Virginia’s high-octane offense, This was the conference’s chance to the Zags met the Cavs with just as prove it deserved those six tickets to the Big Dance. But that chance went much offensive firepower.

Georgia Tech, in Paul Hewitt’s first unheeded and ACC fans, despite packyear there, won top-notch games ing the Georgia Dome for a very sucagainst UCLA and Kentucky before cessful ACC tournament, have to be a surviving in the ACC. They played a bit distraught after this season’s heck of a game against St. Joe’s, a NCAA losses.

Unfortunately, it might be a long great team itself that narrowly missed time before the ACC gets six more an upset over Stanford.

But North Carolina? I’m sure most teams in the NCAA tournament.

Next time, just go ahead and give Duke fans are more than relieved to Richmond the at-large berth instead. see their archrival fall to an offensive-

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Sentinel investigates lap Guttentag says hoops has belt, seeks autopsy photos low impact on admissions P EARNHARDT from page 15

agreement, an independent medical expert will look at the photos and then submit a report to the newspaper and the Earnhardt family explaining both the cause of death and certain head injuries. The photos then will be permanently sealed as requested by Teresa Earnhardt because of privacy concerns.

“Do you think we would have been as

accommodating had we known that NASCAR had an opportunity for its own expert to review them?” Bralow said yesterday. “As far as I’m concerned, when something is private, it’s private.”

But Earnhardt attorney Thom Rumberger said the Sentinel should think twice before trying to get out of

the agreement.

“As far as I’m concerned, the Sentinel has pledged their honor, their faith and their fortunes to that agreement,” Rumberger said.

Volusia County officials contended that nobody other than the medical examiner’s staff has viewed his autopsy photos. But a visitor’s log obtained by the Sentinel showed that Bohannon looked at the photos for 35 minutes Feb. 21.

Bohannon is director of emergency services at the speedway; he accompanied Earnhardt in the ambulance to the hospital where the NASCAR hero was pronounced dead.

The day after Bohannon viewed the photos, Volusia County Circuit Judge Joseph Will granted a temporary injunction requested by the Earnhardt family that sealed the photos from public viewing.

A day later, Bohannon said at a NASCAR news conference in North Carolina that Earnhardt might have survived the crash if his lap belt had not broken. Earnhardt probably was thrown into the steering wheel because he was not fully supported, Bohannon said.

The Sentinel is investigating whether safety devices available to

stock-car drivers could have saved Earnhardt in the wreck.

NASCAR president Mike Helton said Saturday that a NASCAR medical expert reviewed the autopsy photos as part of the circuit’s investigation into death.

NASCAR Earnhardt’s spokesman John Griffin confirmed yesterday that the medical expert was Bohannon, but said “he went to view the pictures as an extension of his duties as the attending physician.”

Bralow disputed that conclusion.

“Bohannon is talking about seat belts as a NASCAR expert, not as Earnhardt’s personal physician,” he said.

Bohannon does not have a published home phone number and Kate Holcomb, a spokeswoman at Halifax Medical Center where he works in the emergency room, said Bohannon was not granting interviews.

Rumberger said he was not sure when Earnhardt’s widow found out that Bohannon had viewed the photos.

The lawyer said he was under the belief that Bohannon viewed the photos in his role as the attending physician, not a NASCAR medical expert.

“I have no reason to believe that she would be concerned,” he said. “It was done by the attending physician and not an intruder or outsider [or] someone trying to invade Mrs. Earnhardt’s privacy.”

Sentinel executives had said repeatedly they had no intention of publishing the photos, but only wanted a medical expert to review them for an investigation into NASCAR safety.

But Teresa Earnhardt’s attorneys

argued that other news organizations would be able to have access to the photos if the Sentinel was granted permission.

An independent student newspaper at the University of Florida, the Independent Florida Alligator, and a website are pursuing their own cases to gain access to the photos, but they are not part of the agreement.

p~ FLUTEE FACTOR from page 1 Although the University received as many applications in 1988 as it does today—around 14,000 each year—a Flutie-like effect took place in 1987. The previous year, the men’s basketball team advanced to the Final Four for the first of its seven trips in nine seasons. In 1987, applications to Duke rose dramatically to 15,120—its highest ever—in a spike that marked a 19 percent increase from the year before.

ESPN analyst Jay Bilas, who started at center for the Blue Devils on the 1986 squad, said he had never considered that his team’s success had an influence on eventual applicants. However, he added that coverage of the NCAA tournament certainly brought more attention to the University.

“Of course. How much advertising would Duke University have to do to get the amount of positive publicity that it gets from basketball?” Bilas said. “It would be an enormous amount

of money.”

Guttentag admitted that the 1987 leap provided an interesting angle to the Flutie hypothesis, but he refrained from commenting specifically on that pool of applicants because he was not at Duke then. He said he has not since looked at the 1986-1987 applications to determine why the increase took place.

The University saw a similar trend to what occurred after the 1986 season when former coach Bill Foster led the men’s basketball team to the Final Four in the late 19705.

“I remember very clearly in ’77-’7B when our basketball team came out of nowhere to go to the Final Four. We hadn’t been very good in a long time

and there was a spike in applications,” said Chris Kennedy, an associate athletic director who works with Guttentag. “You can’t tell me that was entirely a coincidence.”

Skeptics still remain, though, even at universities whose applicant pools have been seemingly boosted by their athletic programs. At Clemson University, the number of applicants has increased to 11,140 this year, up 17 percent from 1999, the year Tommy Bowden arrived on campus and reinvigorated the Tigers’ football program. Robert Barkley, director of undergraduate admissions at Clemson, nonetheless attributed the increase to the university’s in-state scholarship program and its recent award from Time magazine for public college of the year.

A few years ago, Gonzaga University Dean of Admissions Philip Ballinger would also have discounted the Flutie Factor. Ballinger said that after conferring with Boston College admissions directors who tried to sell him on the phenomenon, he still found it difficult to believe that something like athletics could convince a high school student to apply to, much less enroll at, a particular university.

But then a three-year run by the Zags’ basketball team in the NCAA tournament turned a little-known Jesuit school in the state of Washington into everyone’s favorite “sleeper team.” Meanwhile, Gonzaga’s applicant pool surged by 72 percent in three short years.

“I still couldn’t accept that something like that would matter when it comes to such an important decision, but I’ve become a believer,” Ballinger said.

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New UNC coach hopes to rejuvenate Tar Heels P- DUKE-UNC from page 15

head, coach, importing a brazen new attitude to the Tar Heels.

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Fifth-ranked Duke (4-1) will face the No. 4 Princeton Tigers (2-1) today at 3 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium. The Tigers got off to a slow start, but impressed by defeating No. 9 Virginia 9-6 last week. The Blue Devils are coming off two wins last week, one against Vanderbilt and a 10-9 thriller against North Carolina. Lauren Gallagher’s goal with 14 seconds remaining was the deciding factor against the Tar Heels.

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revamped Carolina team tonight, one that should be less predictable than in years past.

“It’s a little different playing Carolina [this year],” Duke senior defenseman Stuart Schwartz said. “Typically we’ve known everything that they’ve done. We know their personnel, though. We know what we need to do to take away their strengths.”

One of North Carolina’s offensive strengths is attackman Jeff Sonke, a preseason first team All-American.

In an intense battle that will also be personal, Schwartz will draw the assignment of covering Sonke, who is one of the nation’s elite goal scorers.

“He’s from my home town, so I’m very excited to match up against him,” the Bloomfield Hills, Mich, native said. “He’s one of their big threats.”

In a close, physical contest like the one expected in Chapel Hill tonight, face-offs will be a critical element. Led by preseason All-American Scott Bross, the Blue Devils have won an outstanding 72 percent of their face-offs this year. As the Tar Heels have won less than half

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of their face-off attempts, Bross will look to continue Duke’s

face-off success.

“I’ve got to go in thinking I’m going to do it,” Bross said.

“That’s my job. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t dominate [the face-off]. We have better

athletes than most teams.”

Accordingly, Duke will look to use its athletic edge in every facet of tonight’s game.

“Last year, I think we beat

Carolina because we made it a physical match,” Keating said.

“We’re at our best when we’re scrapping toe-to-toe and going in shoulder first.”

With Keating, Bross and their fellow upperclassmen intently focused on physically intimidating the Tar Heels, tonight’s game will undoubtedly feature the fierce intensity that has become characteristic of the contests between the two schools.

That approach has helped Duke win five of the last six contests against the Tar Heels, a streak Pressler would love to see extended.

“Our seniors are 4-1 against North Carolina,” Pressler said.

“There aren’t a lot of Duke athletes that can say that. To go out 5-1 against the Tar Heels would be a great accomplishment for the senior class.”

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