April 24, 2001

The Chronicle Keohane responds to student movement demands

By AMBIKA KUMAR

tention to a number of things,” tiative, which began in 1988. said Provost Peter Lange. “We Since 1993, the University has President Nan Keohane rewere latently aware of those to raised the number of regularleased a report yesterday adsome extent, and this has prorank black professors from 44 dressing minority student convided us with a good opportunito 79 and the number of tenurecerns in response to the five ty to mobilize our thinking.” track faculty from 36 to 50.

March 29 demands made by the Members of the Duke Stu“We recognize the need to Duke Student Movement. dent Movement could not be make additional gains in Among other things, Keohane reached for comment yesterday. tenured and tenure-track facpromised to strengthen recruitThe students, who originally ulty across the University,” ment of minority senior-level protested The Chronicle’s deci- Keohane wrote. administrators, to better supsion to run a Feb. 19 advertiseIn addition, she will create a port cultural groups and to beef ment opposing reparations for task force including Lange and up the African and African- slavery, were concerned espeExecutive Vice President Tailcially about the paucity of man Trask that will develop American Studies Program.

“From the statistical point of black faculty and senior-level strategies to attract senior-level view, we seem to be doing pretadministrators. They demandblack administrators. Following ty well, not great, but definitely ed that Keohane establish a that task force’s Nov. 2001 reThe task force to address the issue. port, Vice President for Institumaking progress. protests... showed that we Keohane’s report referred to tional Equity Sally Dickson will needed to pay some greater atSee DEMANDS on page 8 the Black Faculty Strategic Ini,

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Council gets ball rolling on bond bill

By JAMES HERRIOTT and SARAH MCGILL The Chronicle

Durham County Commissioners last night got the ball rolling on a $74.4 million bond issue that could appear on the ballot as soon as November.

THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM met another national champion of sorts—President George W. Bush—in Washington, D.C. yesterday. After hobnobbing with the president, the team came back to Durham for a ceremony where they received the key to the city in front of an adoring throng.

Red, White and Blue Devils with President George W. Bush and Durham’s elected officials in Washington. Bush spent the day with the women’s basketball champions from the University of Notre Dame and Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils, who last hung out at the White House when to a crowd of turned home last night several hundred fans gathered out- Bush’s father welcomed the team to the White House in spring 1992. side the Durham Civic Center Plaza.

During its visit to the nation’s capiarrived with The Blue Devils, who the pomp of sirens and flashing lights tol, the basketball team had lunch with from their high-speed Sheriffs escort, the younger Bush, North Carolina Senwere greeted enthusiastically only ators Jesse Helms and John Edwards Helms hours after spending the afternoon and Congressman David Price.

By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle After parading through Washington, D.C. “like royalty,” Mike Krzyzewski and his national championship men’s basketball team re-

recessed a session of the Senate to give the team a chance to spend some time on the chamber floor, and Bush encouraged the players to take turns sitting in his chair in the Oval Office.

“I understand you were up in Washington to visit [Shane Battier’s] future home,” Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom White said as Battier, who Krzyzewski describes as a future president, and the team made its way up the steps in front of a crowd

of well-wishers.

See BASKETBALL on page

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At the public meeting, the commissioners approved a preliminary resolution to offer bonds that would provide funding for schools, libraries, the Museum ofLife and Science and a new Emergency Medical Services facility.

The most controversial part of the bond issue is the $52 million allocated to school improvements. Although additional major bonds are in the pipeline for 2003 and 2005 referenda, some Durham leaders had hoped that this one would allow for the construction of two new elementary schools and a middle school in southern Durham—not just one elementary school.

“I was one of the original proponents of adding additional school funding to this bond, but there wasn’t sufficient support to pass that,” said County Commissioner Ellen Reckhow. “We’ll have to wait until 2003.”

Durham City Council member Floyd McKissick, who chairs the city-county Adequate Public Facilities Task Force—a group that in March asked the county commissioners to increase the school bond amount —said the county has a desperate need for the additional schools now. “It does not appear that the current issue fully addresses our current needs or our need for expansion,” he said. “In my opinion we needed to make certain the overcrowding in our schools is addressed in a meaningful and significant way.”

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U.S. submarine skipper receives reprimand The skipper of a U.S. submarine that rammed a Japanese fisheries ship saw his career end with a letter of reprimand. Cmdr.

Scott Waddle received the reprimand at a hearing before the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Consumers confront rising gas prices American motorists are again confronting skyrocketing gasoline costs in the midst of a price hike, 13 cents per gallon in the past two weeks, that some predict will be worse once

than the one drivers faced last summer.

Election results raise concern in Montenegro Election results showed Montenegro divided over the question of independence, raising fears of violence if the government moves forward with plans to split from Yugoslavia.

Japan moves closer to electing new leader Junichiro Koizumi, a reformist lawmaker of Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party, was virtually assured election as the next prime minister after scoring a landslide victory in the party’s local primary elections.

Mississippi settles desegregation lawsuit Mississippi will spend

an extra $5OO million on its three historically black colleges to settle a

26-year-old desegregation lawsuit, according to a deal announced between

the state, the Justice Department and plaintiffs.

Flooding Mississippi plagues Midwest Floodwaters covered a minor league ballpark almost to the top of the outfield fence as the river breeched its levee in Davenport, Iowa; flooding continued across the region.

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By RON FOURNIER Associated Press

In a decision WASHINGTON closely watched by rival China, President George W. Bush rejected Taiwan’s request to buy U.S. destroyers equipped with high-tech combat radar, but left open the possibility of future sales if Beijing’s military threats against the island persist, administration officials said.

The president approved the sale offour Kidd-class destroyers, a less potent weapon than the Aegis system sought by Taiwan, said several U.S. officials and lawmakers briefed on the decision. The sales would quickly improve Taiwanese defenses against an increasingly

belligerent China, the White House said.

Beijing had warned that the Aegis sale would worsen U.S.China relations already strained by the April 1 collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese jet that led to the 11-day detention of the 24-member American crew.

Saying the president did not bow to Beijing’s pressure, a senior White House official told reporters that Bush agreed to sell Taiwan up to eight diesel submarines after the island upgrades its navy to handle the systems. Taiwan also could buy 12 P-3 Orion submarine-killer aircraft.

Reaction from Congress, though generally muted, cut against tradi-

tional ideological grains. Republicans normally hawkish on China seemed to give Bush the benefit of the doubt, while a Democratic

leader accused the president of being soft on the communist regime.

Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, praised the Bush decision, although he said he still believes “that the sale of Aegis destroyers is also justified in light of the outrageous actions of the leaders in Beijing.”

Meanwhile, House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., questioned the Bush decision in light of what he called a “sizable buildup of military force” in China.

U.S. and Peru debate over air crash “Roni” Bowers, 35, and her 7-month-old daughter,

By RICK VECCffIO Associated Press

Charity, were killed.

“The only thing I can tell you is that the air force LIMA, Peru Peru’s air force denied suggestions from the White House Monday that its jets failed to followed the procedures. It regrets this lamentable acfollow the rules of engagement before they fired on a cident in which two people died,” Roca said.

His comments came after White House spokesperplane carrying American missionaries, thinking it was a drug flight. son Ari Fleischer told reporters that a joint U.S.-Peru Survivors of the attack maintain they were fired anti-drug program had been suspended with President upon without warning and that Peruvian air force jets George W. Bush’s approval because “there are quescontinued to strafe them even after they had crashtions about the way the mission was carried out landed into the Amazon River in Peru’s northern junHe said information received by the White House ingle, according to relatives. dicated that standard rules of engagement—which inAir force spokesperson Cmdr. Rommel Roca said clude checking the plane’s registry, attempting to raise top air force officials were behind closed doors dis- the pilot by radio, and firing warning shots—were not cussing the Friday downing, in which Veronica correctly followed before the plane was shot down. ”

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By JENNIFER SONG The Chronicle The Duke School of Medicine placed third in research in this year’s annual US. News and World Report graduate school rankings published three weeks ago. But in the same issue of the magazine, Duke ranked 21st in primary care. “[These rankings] do not mean one area is better than the other, but I think there are differences [in the rankings] because there are differences in the two programs. How accurate they are, I don’t know, but few schools would excel at both ends of the spectrum,” said Dr. Dennis Clements, medical director of primary care for the Private Diagnostic Clinic and vice-chair of the Department of Pediatrics.

Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins Medical School were named one and two, respectively, ahead of Duke this year in research. The magazine listed the medical schools of the University of Washington, Oregon Health Sciences University and the University of New Mexico as the top three primary care schools.

The research and primary care rankings were based on a weighted average of seven indicators, six of which were common to both models. These six categories included two surveys of reputation, student selectivity, faculty resources, overall rank and “specialty

rankings.” To determine research rankings, US. News and World Report used research activity as the seventh criteria.

In contrast, the criteria used to deter-

mine primary care rankings was the

rate of students who entered primary care specialties over a three-year period.

Some are skeptical of the ranking’s methodology. For instance, the primarycare rate reflects the percentage of students who do a primary care-related residency. “The percentages used [to rank] primary care may be spurious since just because someone does a pediatric residency does not necessarily

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mean they will go into pediatrics,” explained Kay Singer, associate dean in Trinity College and director of the

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Health Professions Advising Center.

“Someone who is never intending to go into primary care may have to do a primary care residency in order to go into a subspecialty. It may appear from the statistics that a student is going into primary care when they have no intention of entering it.”

Using a school’s primary care rate as a ranking criterion may also be skewed depending on a school’s primary goal.

For example, the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, ranked 17th in primary care, operates with the specific mission of training people to go into primary care. “[Brodyl was created with a legislatively-mandated mission to train physicians and [attention! swung our way when primary care in medicine became a national hot topic in the mid-’9os,” said Dr. James Peden, Brody’s associate dean of Admissions.

Although Peden did not know what rate of students actually went into primary care practice, the percentages of students doing primary care residencies has consistently hovered around 60 percent. The percentage of Duke students doing primary care residencies between 1998 and 2000 was 44.8.

Ranking differences between research and primary care are not unique to Duke alone—Harvard, Johns Hopkins and University of Pennsylvania are all among top-tier research medical institutions that do not have comparable

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difference in the quality of our primary care, or of their research and educational programs, but the ratings do reflect the difference in size ofthe primary-care and subspecialty program,” said Lloyd Michener, Chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine.

Although U.S. News and World Report has used a dual ranking in the past, it originally did not score medical schools in primary care.

“We changed the rankings because readers were criticizing us for making the tacit statement that the best medical education can only come from the research-intensive institutions,” said Gayle Garrett, project director of

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Despite the rankings, few people believe dual rankings will affect future applicants to the School of Medicine. “Students tend to have a sense of what different schools focus their training on so those individuals who have a desire to practice primary care will self-selectively go to those schools,” said Dr. Ralph Snyderman, chancellor of health affairs and interim dean of the medical school. “We tend to draw students nationally who want to come to Duke for its research, whereas schools involved in primary care have little clinical setting.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2001

Even rain on the parade can’t stop graduation rites

By ANA MATE The Chronicle

If it rains for this year’s graduation, seniors had better be prepared with their umbrellas.

Short of severe weather, nothing will stop the ceremony from continuing as planned.

It has been University policy for several years that in the event of rain, graduation ceremonies will still take place in

Wallace Wade Stadium.

Despite damp weather in 1995, the University decided not to m6ve the ceremony indoors, and graduates and guests endured the rain as the show went on.

Senior Rashelle Brown greets this policy with optimism. “All the rain is symbolic of the hard-

ship that we’ve gone through, and to graduate despite it is something,” Brown said.

Cameron Indoor Stadium used to be the alternative venue for graduation.

However, “Cameron is no longer large enough to hold everyone from Wade,” said Debra Cash, program coordinator for the Office ofthe University Marshall. Wallace Wade can seat about 35,000 in comparison to people Cameron’s seating of 8,564.

Rescheduling the graduation ceremony in the event of rain is impossible, said Allison Haltom, University secretary and vice president.

For example, she pointed out that many guests have set travel plans and would be unable to

attend a rescheduled ceremony.

If more than rain hits the Durham area, and safety of guests becomes a concern, the University will cancel the ceremony altogether. In that instance, departmental ceremonies will push through as normal and diplomas will be distributed as planned.

Seniors responded to this with mixed reactions. “[lt] sounds fine to me. I’m not big on ceremonies anyway,” said senior Dan Wang.

But senior Dan Nelson disagreed. “I would go postal,” said Nelson. “It’s the last celebration of my time here at Duke, and I don’t want to go away with memories of a rain cancellation.”

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GRADUATION LAST YEAR was nice and sunny—in fact, visitors were drenched in sweat afterwards. A little rain this year won’t stop the party either.

Alpha Phi revitalization appears to be right on track

By JENNIFER WLACH The Chronicle

In December, the Alpha Phi sorority announced its plan to “revitalize” Duke’s chapter—a process that entailed retiring all current members and starting a new Alpha Phi chapter through informal rush.

With spring semester nearly complete,Alpha Phi officials say the new group is on its way to rebirth here at the University.

The revitalization began this semester, and Allison Mills, Alpha Phi’s adviser said “everything is going ac-

cording to plan.”

The recreation of Alpha Phi is centered around two components: marketing and informal rush. Mills describes the marketing procedure as “spending one-onone time with the [Panhellenic Council] and [lnterfra-

ternity Council] in attempts to get to know the two groups better.”

Informal rush has been successful so far. Representatives declined to give names, but said the new chapter has already extended a fgw bids to prospective members.

Educational Leadership Consultant Beth Spooner said the informal rush process will continue through all of next year, with “aggressive recruitment of sophomore and junior girls.” Spooner added that the new Alpha Phi chapter has yet to decide whether it will take part in Panhel’s formal rush process in January 2002.

As the new Alpha Phi chapter has found early success, so has the alumnae chapter that formed in order for therevitalization to take place.

Brianne Barker, a member of the Alpha Phi alumnae chapter, said the group is “more relaxed” and that the

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members get to spend time getting to know one another.

“We’re not constantly working for recruitment,” she said.

The alumnae group still holds weekly meetings and social events, but it operates independently of the new Alpha Phi chapter. “We are really happy with the way things are going for us,” Barker said. ‘We’ve gotten everything we hoped for.”

But she cannot yet predict the success of the new sorority group.

“It’s too early to tell how the new chapter will be.

We’ve given up a lot for the revitalization process, so we’re hoping it will be successful,” she said.

The next step for Alpha Phi involves continued marketing and recruitment of new members. An Alpha Phi consultant will be on hand throughout the next academic year to help the new chapter along.

TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2001

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Bush enforces law linking drugs, aid

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SO HELP THEM GOD Duke Student GovernmentPresident C.J. Walsh (left) was sworn in last night along with the rest of his cabinet.

By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle More than 50 student governments across the nation have protested the George W. Bush administration’s recent decision to enforce a law that deniesfinancial aid to students with prior substance abuse convictions, but debate at Duke has remained relatively quiet.

“I don’t think it will have any impact, assuming that a student meets the federal standard,” said Jim Belvin, director of undergraduate financial aid. “Certainly, we expect virtually all our students will.”

The Education Department enforces the law by randomly auditing student responses to the question about drug convictions on the Free Application for Federal StudentAid. Although Belvin did not have Duke-specific figures, about 300,000 students nationwide did not fill out that part of the FAFSA last year, and nearly 9,000 were denied aid because of convictions.

“Congress passed legislation and our department is obliged to carry out that legislative direction,” Education Department spokesperson Lindsey Kozberg said last week.

Under the law—a provision of the Higher Education Act of 1965—students convicted of drug possession are denied aid eligibility for one year from the time of their first drug conviction, two years from their second and permanently for the third. They can regain their eligibility if they complete a rehabilitation program or if their conviction is dropped.

Duke Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education William Chafe said he did not agree withsuch an acrossthe-board policy. “It seems to me that given the number of temptations young people in our culture have to experiment... with drugs, it’s important to look at the overall [individual] circumstance.”

Rep. Barney Frank, D Mass., has introduced legislation that would repeal the provision. He said that the law is unfair and cited the lack of such penalties for other categories of crime.

“Someone who commits murder or armed robbery is not automatically barred from financial aid ability,” Frank said in a statement. “[My bill] would allow some people, who may have had difficulties with drugs but are now taking steps to improve their fives by pursuing higher education, to continue to be eligible for aid.”

Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, a national advocacy group, has also actively protested Bush’s decision.

The group claims that the law disproportionately affects lower- and middle-income families and encourages those students with convictions to fie on their applications.

“This is an example of the War on Drugs going too far,” said Shawn Heller, SSD director. ‘We were the students and children who grew up in the ’Bos and ’9os and constantly when we upped the drug war, [officials said] We have to save the children.’ We are those children, and we haven’t been protected.” :

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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2001

Even rain on the parade can’t stop graduation rites

By ANA MATE The Chronicle

If it rains for this year’s graduation, seniors had better be prepared with their umbrellas.

Short of severe weather, nothing will stop the ceremony from continuing as planned.

It has been University policy for several years that in the

event of rain, graduation ceremonies will still take place in Wallace Wade Stadium.

Despite damp weather in 1995, the University decided not to m6ve the ceremony indoors, and graduates and guests endured the rain as the show went on.

Senior Rashelle Brown greets this policy with optimism. “All the rain is symbolic of the hard-

ship that we’ve gone through, and to graduate despite it is something,” Brown said.

Cameron Indoor

Stadium

used to be the alternative venue graduation.

However, for “Cameron is no longer large enough to hold everyone from Wade,” said Debra Cash, program coordinator for the Office of the University Marshall. Wallace Wade can seat about 35,000 in people comparison to Cameron’s seating of 8,564.

Rescheduling the graduation

ceremony in the event of rain is

impossible, said Allison Haltom, University secretary and vice president.

For example, she pointed out that many guests have set travel plans and would be unable to

attend a rescheduled ceremony.

If more than rain hits the Durham area, and safety of guests becomes a concern, the University will cancel the ceremony altogether. In that in-

stance, departmental ceremonies will push through as

normal and diplomas will be distributed as planned.

Seniors responded to this with mixed reactions. “[lt] sounds fine to me. I’m not big on ceremonies anyway,” said senior Dan Wang.

But senior Dan Nelson disagreed. “I would go postal,” said Nelson. “It’s the last celebration of my time here at Duke, and I don’t want to go away with memories of a rain cancellation.”

GRADUATION LAST YEAR was nice and sunny—in fact, visitors were drenched in sweat afterwards. A little rain this year won’t stop the party either.

Alpha Phi revitalization appears to be right on track

By JENNIFER WLACH The Chronicle

In December, the Alpha Phi sorority announced its plan to “revitalize” Duke’s chapter—a process that entailed retiring all current members and starting a new Alpha Phi chapter through informal rush.

With spring semester nearly complete,Alpha Phi officials say the new group is on its way to rebirth here at the University.

The revitalization began this semester, and Allison Mills, Alpha Phi’s adviser said “everything is going according to plan.”

The recreation of Alpha Phi is centered around two components: marketing and informal rush. Mills describes the marketing procedure as “spending one-onone time with the [Panhellenic Council] and [lnterfra-

temity Council] in attempts to get to know the two groups better.”

Informal rush has been successful so far. Representatives declined to give names, but said the new chapter has already extended a %w bids to prospective members.

Educational Leadership Consultant Beth Spooner said the informal rush process will continue through all of next year, with “aggressive recruitment of sophomore and junior girls.” Spooner added that the new Alpha Phi chapter has yet to decide whether it will take part in Panhel’s formal rush process in January 2002, As the new Alpha Phi chapter has found early success, so has the alumnae chapter that formed in order for the revitalization to take place.

Brianne Barker, a member of the Alpha Phi alumnae

chapter, said the group is “more relaxed” and that the

Mark Sterner "Dili: A Powerful Lesson"

Spring Break.

Five fraternity brothers.

One terrible decision changed that forever their lives.

Tuesday, April 24 9:00 PM Clocktower Quad •

(Rainsite: Love Auditorium, Levine

Science Research Center) Presented by the Division of Student Affairs,

the Event Advising Center, Sigma Nu Fraternity, and Pi Beta Phi Sorority

members get to spend time getting to know one another.

“We’re not constantly working for recruitment,” she said.

The alumnae group still holds weekly meetings and social events, but it operates independently of the new Alpha Phi chapter. “We are really happy with the way things are going for us,” Barker said. “We’ve gotten everything we hoped for.”

But she cannot yet predict the success of the new

sorority group.

“It’s too early to tell how the new chapter will be.

We’ve given up a lot for the revitalization process, so we’re hoping it will be successful,” she said.

The next step for Alpha Phi involves continued mar-

keting and recruitment of new members. An Alpha Phi

consultant will be on hand throughout the next academic year to help the new chapter along.

TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2001

The Chronicle

Bush enforces law linking drugs, aid

By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

More than 50 student governments across the nation have protested the George W. Bush administration’s recent decision to enforce a law that denies financial aid to students with prior substance abuse convictions, but debate at Duke has remained relatively quiet.

I don t think it will have any impact, assuming that a student meets the federal standard,” said Jim Belvin, director of undergraduate financial aid. “Certainly, we expect virtually all our students will.”

The Education Department enforces the law by randomly auditing student responses to the question about drug convictions on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Although Belvin did not have Duke-specific figures, about 300,000 students nationwide did not fill out that part of the FAFSA last year, and nearly 9,000 were denied aid because of convictions.

“Congress passed legislation and our department is obliged to carry out that legislative direction,” Education Department spokesperson Lindsey Kozberg said last week.

Under the law—a provision of the Higher Education Act of 1965—students convicted of drug possession are denied aid eligibility for one year from the time of their first drug conviction, two years from their second and permanently for the third. They can regain their eligibility if they complete a rehabilitation program or if their conviction is dropped.

Duke Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education William Chafe said he did not agree with such an acrossthe-board policy. “It seems to me that given the number of temptations young people in our culture have to experiment... with drugs, it’s important to look at the overall [individual] circumstance.”

Rep. Barney Frank, D Mass., has introduced legislation that would repeal the provision. He said that the law is unfair and cited the lack of such penalties for other categories of crime. :

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“Someone who commits murder or armed robbery is

not automatically barred from financial aid ability,” Frank said in a statement. “[My bill] would allow some people, who may have had difficulties with drugs but are now taking steps to improve their fives by pursuing higher education, to continue to be eligible for aid.”

Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, a national advo-

cacy group, has also actively protested Bush’s decision.

The group claims that the law disproportionately affects lower- and middle-income families and encourages those students with convictions to fie on their applications.

“This is an example of the War on Drugs going too far,” said Shawn Heller, SSD director. ‘We were the students and children who grew up in the ’Bos and ’9os and constantly when we upped the drug war, [officials said] We have to save the children.’ We are those children, and we haven’t been protected.”

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Speeches to address drinking problems on campus ByAMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

Over a year after her son Raheem died of aspiration pneumonia following a binge drinking incident, Catherine Bath is returning to Duke.

Tonight, Bath will take part in a presentation given by Mark Sterner, a man who served two years in prison after three of his best friends were killed in a drunk-driving accident.

“I don’t want Duke to ever think this is something that’s going to go away. It’s a problem that needs to be dealt with,” Bath said. “I’d like to see Duke take a major part in that nationwide.” She plans to focus her speech on the effects of alcohol advertising on young people.

Bath approached administrators about bringing Sterner to Duke because she wanted to impress upon students that driving under the influence can have serious consequences. She said about 20 to 30 percent of students drink and drive and more than 30 percent get in a car with a drunk driver.

Sterner will speak at 9 p.m. tonight on Clocktower Quadrangle. On the last day of his 1994 spring break,

Sterner drove four of his friends home because he was the least drunk—despite having a .17 blood alcohol level.

He drove off the road and hit a tree, killing three of the passengers.

Tonight he will show students a video made the night of the accident and will try to show students that such tragedy can happen to anyone.

“I’m not here to preach. I’m not here to tell [studentsl what to do. I’m here to tell [them] my story,” Sterner said.

“There are people that feel they’re luckier and smarter. Maybe they’re right. But then again, maybe they’re wrong. If you would have asked me seven years ago where I’d be right now, I never would have guessed.”

Administrators hope that students will pay special attention in light of the likely heavy drinking that will take place tomorrow, which is the last day of classes. “We know a lot of alcohol consumption happens around the last day of classes and before finals, so we thought it would be appropriate,” said Rick Gardner, a program coordinator at the Event Advising Center.

Since her son’s November 1999

death, Bath has devoted her life to al-

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STERNER spent two years in prison after hitting a tree and killing three of his friends, Sterner will speak on campus tonight with CATHERINE BATH (LEFT), mother of Raheem Bath, a student who died last year of alcohol-induced aspiration pneumonia. cohol awareness and legislation.

Now'a program director at Security on Campus, Inc., Bath will soon start directing her efforts to the issue of alcohol advertising.

“It is a growing consensus that alcohol advertising... is subliminally programming our young people, especially young men, to think that alcohol has some positive benefit for them,” Bath wrote in an e-mail. “As awareness of this insidious programming is raised, it should be possible to enact legislation limiting advertising tied to such negative results.”

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Friends of Vara to hold Chapel ceremony at 9 p.m.

From staff reports At 9 p.m. today, friends of Krishna Vara, who died of cancer last week at the age of 20, will hold a candlelight vigil in the Chapel. In Hen of flowers, friends and family ask that donations be made to the Krishna D. Vara Fund at Wells-Fargo Mercer Island Office, 3001 78th Avenue,

Southeast Mercer Island, Wash., 98040.

Fitzpatrick Center partners with company;

OptXCon Inc., a Research Triangle Park-based company developing optical communications products, has become an associate partner in the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems. The center, a part of the Pratt School of Engineering, will focus research and teaching of light-wave communications systems and components and other advanced technological systems combining light and electronics.

In announcing the alliance Monday, Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson said OptXCon will contribute $150,000 over three years to the center.

As an associate partner in the Fitzpatrick Center, OptXCon will have representation on the center’s Industrial Advisory Board. It will also assist in setting the strate-

gic direction of the center and support faculty and stu-

dentresearch.

Forum to discuss nursing: A series of speakers and experts will discuss the growing field of parish nursing at a conference Monday, April 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Searle Center.

The meeting—targeted at parish nurses, clergy, church leaders, physicians and other health-care providers—will address how churches and other faith communities can provide health ministry that is sensitive to the needs of XJuTTTri various ethnic and racial groups.

11£j W IS The conference is sponsored by Dnyrrin the Health and Nursing Ministries -D Kill<F J Program at Duke University.

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Students win Goldwater Scholarships:

For their excellence in undergraduate research, four University students—juniors Luke Bergmann, Andrew Chatham and Samuel Malone and sophomore Melanie Wood—were awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships.

Since the first awards were given in 1989, 44 Duke

students have earned the honor, which awards $7,500 for tuition and other expenses. The scholarship targets students intending to work in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Mellon Foundation announces student grant: The Andrew Mellon Foundation announced that it will fund one year of graduate study for senior Kelvin Black, an English major from Fayetteville. The Mellon grant, which covers graduate tuition and provides a $17,500 stipend, targets students planning careers in college teaching and research in the humanities.

Black is a Benjamin N. Duke Scholar and a Reginaldo Howard Scholar at Duke. Ninety-two students across the country received the fellowships this year.

Math major wins Churchill award: Pratt senior Daniel Neill has been selected as a 2001 recipient of a Winston Churchill Scholarship. Neill, an Angier B. Duke Scholar, is a double major in electrical engineering and computer science. In addition, he was on the four-member Duke undergraduate team that recently placed at the top ofthe Mathematical Contest in Modeling.

Schools may have to wait until 2003 for more funding I®

BOND from page 1 There was strong concern among the

county commissioners that offering the public a larger bond would lead to disappointment in November. “If you get this bond issue too big, the voters will not approve it,” said County Commissioner Becky Heron. Additionally, attempting to issue a larger bond could hurt the county’s credit rating, she said. “We can only issue so much debt in a year’s time to keep a triple-A bond rating.”

Heron noted that because the state legislature has made it difficult for the

county to pass school costs to developers through impact fees, the only other feasible funding method is raising property taxes—which is also politically undesirable. Because the only two available

But Gail Heath, vice chairof the school board, said she thinks a larger bond is necessary. “If I had my way, I think we should have asked for more money quicker, because I think we are behind in funding methods are politically inviable, growth..., but [the county commissioners] she said additional funding would have hold the purse strings,” she said. to wait until 2003.

It is still unclear how much the $74.4 “The school board is satisfied with million bond offer will raise taxes. this bond issue, and in 2003 there will Durham County Director of Budget and be another bond issue and another in Management Services Pam Meyer esti2005,” Herron said. “[The schools! will mated that a one-cent tax increase would generate about $l.B million of eventually end up with about $175 [million] to $lBO million.” revenue.

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From here, the bond issue will go before a public forum on a date yet to be determined. Then the issue will be considered by the state’s Public Government Commission, which generally gives the final rubber stamp of approval for bonds to go to public referendum.

During the meeting, Reckhow said the board needed more information on

how the bond resolution would actually affect tax rates. She noted that with the issue of impact fees up in the air, the bond’s burden on taxpayers is also unknown.

Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life will be reading from and signSaturday, ing his latest May 5,1:00

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AAAS Program may get 5 new professors, new name i*

DEMANDS from page

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head a committee overseeing the University’s implementation of any proposals.

Dickson will also now serve on all search committees for senior-level positions.

Keohane set ambitious goals for the AAAS Program, which in 1998 was extended tenure-track faculty lines. She endorsed changing the program’s name to the “Department ofAfrican and AfricanAmerican Studies.” She also said the program will try to raise the number of core appointments from nine to 14.

“We believe that African and AfricanAmerican Studies at Duke can be a topfive program in the nation, and we aspire to make that goal reality,” Keohane wrote, adding that the program would also likely receive more physical space.

Lange said that although he does not know if the demand for a large increase exists, a better offering of courses will interest more students. “It’ll be a push, which is what it should be,” Lange said.

“In part, the supply feeds the demand, and as we diversify the faculty and strengthen the faculty, we’ll get a larger set of courses and the demand will grow.”

Keohane’s report also included several provisions directly supporting minority students. As protesters had demanded, she established a task force co-chaired by a senior administrator in student affairs and another from academic affairs. The group, which will include Dickson and a representative from the President’s Council on Black Affairs, will publish a yearly progress report on treatment of minority students.

“The task force is a good idea because the more inequities we can bring to our attention, the better chance we have of rectifying some less-than-satisfactory conditions on campus,” said Jim Clack, interim vice president for student affairs.

In response to another student demand that the University provide a

“permanent, space-appropriate, visible center for African-American cultural, academic and social programming,”

Keohane said a new multicultural center will likely be housed in the Bryan Center and that the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture will be expanded. She added that the Mary Lou Williams Center should be relocated close to the Bryan Center in a prominent and distinctive location.

The president also detailed new policies providing additional financial support for cultural groups. Those policies

include the annual allocation of $lOO,OOO to student organizations sponsoring cultural events and the designation of a Student Affairs office as the main point of contact for accessing these funds.

In addition, Keohane said a representative in the Development Office will work to attract outside money from donors, corporations and foundations to add diversity initiatives and fund cultural programming.

“I think that’s great,” Clack said.

“The significant part of the financial support means those students no longer have to go around to many offices and beg for money in order to support social

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I KNEW I SHOULDN’T HAVE STARRED IN “RUNNING MATES” Tom Selleck is on campus rehearsing for his new Broadway musical, A Thousand Clowns, which wilt debut in July. He took some time out last night to answer questions from students.

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Students in this seminar will explore and document the history, culture, and struggles of the fishing and maritime communities of the American South. Special topics will include the struggle for self-determination among the Gullah peoples of the rolina Low Country; the saga of the last oystermen on Chesapeake Bay; the historic evolution of boatbuilding and other maritime trades along the Outer Banks; and the unsung stories of the oyster shuckers, crabpickers and shrimp peelers who still make a living along the Pamlico Sound of North Carolina. Throughout the seminar, there will be a strong emphasis on the interrelation between the region’s social history and natural history, as well as an African American maritime heritage that has

for Nominations: The Duke Humanitarian Service Award was conceived by a group ofDuke faculty, students, and campus ministers who felt an exemplary life might serve as a challenging role model for Duke students. The winner of this award should be a member of the Duke community who presents a clear example of a life committed to lifting up the lives of others.

Call

Criteria for Selection: Personal Service to Others. The nominee should evidence personal involvement and service which directly benefits others. This may include organizing and oversight, but should be thought of more in terms of personal work and direct involvement. The nominee could be an advocate, mentor, or worker. Some sacrifice of time and energy as well as going above and beyond the call of duty ought to be evidenced. This award is not for nice people. Instead it is for exceptional service, commitment, and dedication.

2. Sustained Involvement. The nominee should evidence a long-term commitment to service. We are not looking for someone who has !•

often been overlooked. The seminar’s fieldwork will focus on the North Carolina coast.

participated in something for a weekend, but rather for a person without whom, a program or the recipient of their service would be greatly diminished.

3. Simplicity of Lifestyle. Phrases that come to mind to describe our

n Brady Professor ies. He has written :oastal history. His

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Classical Studies

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Established 1905,Incorporated 1993

Do not downsize DSG

Trying

to resolve long-standing complaints ofinefficiency and unaccountability in Duke Student Government, several legislators introduced proposals this month to reduce the size ofthe Legislature. Although such complaints can sometimes be valid, cutting out legislators is a step in the wrong direction.

The proposals were based on the assumption that a smaller number of legislators would be better known, and therefore more accountable to undergraduates. However, true accountability does not derive from more concentrated power, but rather more interaction between legislators and students. Having a legislator living down the hall is how students develop an attachment to DSG, and having fewer legislators can only hinder this.

Efficiency is the only argument for reduction that could possibly be valid, but even this suggestion signifies misplaced values. A smaller body is likely to be less diverse, and could cut out some very effective legislators because elections are rarely based on merit. Nor is lack of attendance a valid objection since most Legislature meetings tend to be well-attended. In addition, DSG often pursues projects—such as SafeKarts —that require significant manpower and might be less likely to succeed with a reduced Legislature.

If DSG is serious about improving efficiency and accountability, minor tinkering such as this misses the larger picture. The organization obviously lacks a balance of power and an effective system of checks and balances. Many positions in the DSG cabinet overlap with each other and with legislator roles. Power relationships are often unclear. DSG should consider a more thorough overhaul to create a structure that is more logical for a governing body.

Fixing ICC

The

Intercommunity Council is a group of leaders with perhaps the most disparate interests in the University. Get the Undergraduate Publications Board chair together with the president of the Duke University Union and the Campus Council president and you’ve got a room with two programming specialists—one ofwhom concentrates on the whole community, one on the students—and a publisher. Expand this committee to 12 members and you’ve got a group that can talk all day and not really understand or identify with one another.

The potential for this group is great—it’s the conference of Duke’s top student leaders. But only a handful of agenda items can truly unify this group—giving input on key initiatives and lobbying for a few common interests, for example. Duke Student Government last week nixed class presidents as ICC members, replacing them with representatives from the Women’s Center and the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life. The change seems to make sense, but it’s only a start.

More than anything, ICC needs a strong, sophisticated and compelling leader. The DSG vice president for community interaction, now the ICC chair, is too often learning to lead on Duke’s top leaders.

Furthermore, he usually does not have sophisticated understanding of Duke to understand what could unite these people. And these leaders, who are already strapped for time, do not have the patience to wait for something to happen. They should be empowered to elect a leader from among themselves and build the ICC into a truly productive body.

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Letters to the Editor

Hideaway provided years of fun and convenience What sad times are these!

Travelling through the Triangle this past weekend, I decided to stop briefly at The Hideaway, my favorite and most frequently visited Duke University haunt. As the innumerable afternoons and evenings that I spent there are among my most valued Duke memories, I was saddened to learn that this year

the has proved to Hideaway’s finale.

The Hideaway provided a safe, convenient location for students to meet, professors to sometimes hold seminars, and living groups to host charity fundraisers.

Over time, the Hideaway became for many a cherished part of the University, with more character

patrons

than any of the similar

University’s

“cre-

ations”—the Pub, the Kudzu, and the Devil’s Den. When I return to Duke next year for my five year reunion, where will I tell my friends to meet me? The Oak Room? Is it still even there?

Michael Dean

and loyal

Trinity ’97

U.S. should see through Chinese military’s rhetoric The examination of the

China situation by The Chronicle’s April 11 editorial exemplifies rational military

justification.

Sure, American military had the right to fly there, but it also initiated the aggression by spying in the first place. Had this incident not happened, the military would publicize a public outcry if China had their Commie planes flying off our shores, likely ready for attack. Not only could I care less about what Chinese radar and radio are transmitting, I bet the Chinese military would find away to

for referenced editorial,

nity. I hope that people can

say it secretly if they did not want us to hear it. Moreover, I do not want my money paying for it, especially when we supposedly do not have the resources for environmental protection, universal health coverage, or decent education for marginalized rural and inner-city kids.

The Chronicle criticizes the Bush administration for rhetoric without true diplomacy. But this is exactly the plan. If President George W. Bush is to push our nation’s spending on military over the one-third mark, we need a tense situation to spend it on. What a perfect opportusee http: / / www.chronicle.duke.edu

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see through the media coverage of the Chinese doing this and that

It’s not the Chinese but their military. Hopefully both of our nations can see through the rhetoric of military leaders and not connect it to the populace, but to the leaders, lust for “war-gasm” and ability to trick the public

through media. Maybe Bush can just say we will stop spying. And maybe that money from spying can go to something a bit more worthwhile.

Stephen Tinnin Trinity ’O2 story.php?articlelD=22s6s

By ignoring ad, students choose to ignore issue A number ofDuke professors, graduate students, and undergraduates took part in a constructive reaction to the David Horowitz adver-

tisement regarding reparations for slavery.

The teach-in held in Trent Drive Hall on April 10 allowed diverse voices to make strong statements regarding the history of American (and world) slavery, the current issues involving American race

relations, and the prevailing

topic of reparations.

It would be incorrect to think that the teach-in creatEd any specific set of answers regarding reparations, and there was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a consen-

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sus reached. The questions answered by the professors at the teach-in involved matters of history and of fact, and for many—hopefully all—of the individuals present, it provided an arsenal of knowledge with which to raise new questions and to answer others.

Knowing the facts of American history, even those facts some prefer to forget, abolishes ignorance. The first step in attacking a difficult question like reparations is

to educate oneself.

Many individuals on this campus and across the nation have chosen to ignore David Horowitz, and even many who disagree with Horowitz have chosen to

ignore the issue in its entirety. Choosing to ignore promotes ignorance. I challenge the individuals of the Duke “community” to battle ignorance. Enlighten yourselves

about

the

history

of

American slavery, acknowledge that a wrong was committed, and use an arsenal of facts to create your own questions, answers and ideas. Only with continuous, enlightened discussion will the idea of reparations grow beyond the editorials page, leap the campus wall and

become part of the American consciousness, where it

belongs.

Erik Simpson Trinity ’O3

the record

I would go postal. It’s the last celebration ofmy time here at Duke and I don’t want to go away with memories of a rain cancellation.

Senior Dan Nelson talking about the possibility ofrain on graduation day (see story, page four)

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Commentary

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On the brink... again

Four things I’ve learned since my freshman year

Inside out Mary Carmichael During my freshman year I wrote a column called “On the Brink” for America Online. In the beginning, I had envisioned it as a web diary, away to let future fresh men find out about what they were getting into. But as things written by 18year-olds tend to dio, 1t quickly kh devolved into a -

series of musings on the meaning of life. At the time, I thought it was terribly wise.

“On the Brink”

was sponsored by

the College Online channel, which went defunct dur-

I miss my parents.

I never thought moving 350 miles away from my family members would bring me closer to them. At first I was too distracted by my shiny new life of working hard and playing hard to notice that Mom and Dad weren’t around anymore.

But the luster of stereotypical college life faded, and in the last three years, there have been so many times when I pined for home. When I left for college, my sister had a baby boy. He’s four now, and he has a new sister named for me. How many smiles have I missed? I suppose that, like most things, a wonderful family isn’t something you appreciate fully until it’s gone.

The column was ridiculous. My advice read like something out of Chicken Soup for the Teenage 50u1...

ing my sophomore year. Some months later, I stumbled across the column on a Geocities site. It was all there, with a nifty little preface: “Four college freshman [sic] picked to have their first year college experience chronicled, charted, detailed, and scrutenized [sic] before the whole internet [sic] world!” In the days before reality TV, this seemed very cool indeed.

The column was ridiculous. My advice read like something out of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, supplemented with Garth Brooks quotations. No joke; My final deep thought was “things really do work out for the best.” But for whatever reason, a few of the things I said in that column remain true today. I’d like to pass them on now.

Everything has been in a constant state of change,

and keeping myself

stable throughout

claimed to be my friends but refused to open their doors when I needed friends the most. Others saw me as a project, not a person. Still others showed a superhuman tolerance for my shortcomings. One loved me beyond human reason.

I’m glad I knew them all.

Working for The Chronicle this year has been one of the best experiences, if not the absolute best, of my time as a freshman. And I’m not leaving until they make me (i.e., until I graduate).

Most of the things I wrote as a freshman made me laugh. When I reread this one, the Chapel bells were ringing and the staff was gathering in the office lounge, as it does at 5 p.m. every day. I was sitting at my desk and I started to cry. I sat there for 30 minutes, waiting for the bells to stop ringing. In all the excitement of graduation, it hadn’t yet occurred to me to be sad.

I’m on a very different brink now. In

a little more than a month I’ll be living in New York (I’ve never been there) and working for Newsweek (I grew up with Time). It’s slightly more intimidating than Duke was—by the time I moved into Gilbert-Addoms I’d already been on campus at least six times. But I’m not at all scared.

Many, many times, I’ve questioned my Duke education. I’ve often thought that if I’d done more of my reading or scheduled fewer 9:10 classes, I’d have learned more.

But looking back on how silly I was as a freshman, I know I must have learned something since then. Maybe these four things are it. I think they’ll carry me through the future just fine.

Mary Carmichael is a Trinity senior and executive editor of The Chronicle. You can read the original “On the Brink” at http: / / www.geocities.com / CollegePark / Lab / 9396 / mary.html.

it has been a real challenge.

1m not sure 1 had my priorities in order when I got to Duke. In fact, Fm not sure I ever had priorities at all—l just threw myself into everything with equally reckless abandon. Thank God I didn’t try to keep that up for long.

It was fun, but it didn’t give me stability in a sea of change. Only prioritizing can do that. Sometime between sophomore and junior year, I made the choice to dedicate myself to the things that made me enormously happy—The Chronicle, my studies and a small group of people who cared about me.

Unsurprisingly, they turned out to be the things I treasure the most today.

Forgive. Forget. Move on.

I met a lot of people here. Some

To the teachers On the prowl Kelly Woo In the minutes before my first day of kindergarten, I remember rehearsing the few words I knew in English: “Cat, dog, mother, father.”

I’ve come a long way since then. It’s kind of amazing to think that at the start of my schooling, I knew barely a handful of English words. Now, at the end, I plan to make a living out of using those words.

It didn’t happen with ease, or without help. And that’s what this column is about.

From my freshman year, I’ve been planning what I write now. Many topics have come and gone, have died slow deaths and experienced brief revivals. Up until a few weeks ago, I genuinely thought I would use this space to rant about all the things wrong

with Duke.

But I decided I didn’t want to waste such a precious opportunity on bitterness, especially when I leave with so little of it. Instead, I realized that this was the best, and perhaps only, chance to do something I’ve always wanted to do: thank my teachers.

The very best teachers often make the greatest sacrifices. I don’t understand how our country can holler about boosting test scores and grades without raising teacher pay. And I mean raising it a lot. How is it possible that teachers, entrusted with the delicate and difficult task of molding young minds, are still among the lowest-paid professionals in our country? No wonder students don’t make the grades or the test scores. No wonder they drop out of school, don’t go to college. Why should students strive, if their teachers don’t?

Teachers are less likely to inspire when they are ground down by little pay, overcrowded classrooms, no support staff and few resources.

So I’d like to thank the teachers who inspired despite the obstacles, the teachers who went out of their way to engage their students, the teachers who really cared about teaching.

It’s a rare thing, and not just in public schools.

Here at Duke, of the many professors I’ve had, I would say that that five or six to’uched my life—

I don’t understand how our country can holler about boosting test scores and grades without raising teacher pay. And I mean raising it a lot. though that statistic is not surprising if you know anything about tenure, which values research over teaching. Most ofthe professors I had breezed in and out of class, with cursory statements about office hours and open doors. They seemed to be reciting the same lecture that they had given for the past 15 years. Teaching was a routine that had to be done, though not enjoyed, sort of like doing laundry.

I decided long ago that in the unlikely case I ever got rich enough to make a sizable charitable donation, I wouldn’t give it to Duke. So, Annual Fund—don’t bother to call. I would give it to my high school alma mater Needham B. Broughton in Raleigh, N.C., in the form of a scholarship, perhaps to a student who excels in writing

or journalism. Duke was worth every penny, but I paid nothing for an excellent high school education.

So I thank Kay Floyd, who pressed extra books into my hand after the bell let us out of 10th grade English.

She saw that I was ready to explore the wide world of literature and introduced me to particularly mindopening texts. I must also pay respect to Doctora Pagina (Dr. Paige) who taught me to love my third language, Spanish, and its literature. There are others— Sharon Winzeler, Mrs. Nichols, Mr. Page, Mr. Baker—who I will always fondly remember.

And though I may criticize Duke for not valuing teaching enough, I would be remiss if I ended this column without thanking those few memorable professors.

Unfortunately, two of them will never see this, as they were visiting instructors—Louis Ruprecht, who renewed my interest in film, and Mary Ann O’Farrell, who taught all my favorite books. Of the professors still here, Joe Ashby Porter and Cannon Schmitt led two very different seminars, one on narrative writing and the other on Victorian literature, that were the highlights of my senior year. Christina Askounis leads excellent writing classes and has been a helpful reader of my work. Lastly, I must thank Ariel Dorfinan, whose sterling example as a writer and teacher I hope to follow.

Ah, you probably thought it was over, but it’s not.

We often look to learn from those older than us, when our peers usually make the best teachers. To my colleagues at The Chronicle, thank you for putting up with my sharp tongue and proving that journalists are made, not bom. To my classmates, particularly those from Porter’s fall 2000 seminar, thank you for showing me that writers come in many forms and that stories have many purposes. And last but never least, to Adam, who taught me that what I do is not who I am.

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Kelly Woo is a Trinity senior and senior editor, of The Chronicle. She also thanks her Mom and Dad.

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7:00 p.m. 4019 N. Roxboro Road, The Duke University English Department Durham. presents Marjorie Levinson, of the Univerof Michigan English Department, who Readings in the Garden with Gardens sity a talk entitled, ‘The Picture of the will give staff. Bring lunch and a poem or story and Mind Revives Again" at 4:00 p.m. in the share the written word in the Asiatic Aron the second floor Boardroom Carpenter boretum, 12:00 noon, Duke Gardens.

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Playwriting Workshop/Open Session: The public is invited to hear and give feedback on plays in progress written by Duke students. For information, call 660-3343. 7:30 p.m., Branson Theater, East Campus.

WEDNESDAY leer House Healthy Happenings: “AARP 55 Alive Mature Driving Course, two-part series.” with Debra Carter and Janet Robinson. Fee. To register, call 4163853. 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 4019 N. Roxboro Road, Durham.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2001

Men’s golfplaces 7th at ACC tourney Hornets take

By THOMAS STEINBERGER

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. The men’s golf team came.into this weekend’s ACC championships with a specific goal; secure an NCAA tournament berth.

Unfortunately for the No. 24 Blue Devils, putting woes left them in seventh place behind two teams—North Carolina and Virginia—that coach Rod Myers felt they needed to beat to lock up a spot in next month’s NCAA tournament.

The Blue Devils, led by 2-over performances from seniors Paul Tucker and Kevin Streelman, struggled to shoot plus-10 at the Disney Resort’s relatively unthreatening Magnolia Course. Despite often windy conditions, four teams finished under par, but Duke was unable to take advantage of the course’s generous greens.

“I’m not pleased, especially coming off the last [tournament’s victory at Chapel Hill],” senior Paul Tucker said, despite shooting a team-low 71 Sunday. “The team putted terribly. It’s frustrating when you hit the ball like a tour player and putt it like a 30-handicap.”

No. 2 Georgia Tech won the team competition by eight strokes, shooting an impressive 19-under par for the weekend. The Yellow Jackets were led by star senior Bryce Molder, who shot a final round 66 to finish at 11under. Molder finished two strokes back in the individual competition to Clemson’s John Engler, who led the Tigers to second place.

Duke ended up just one stroke back of North Carolina and four back of No. 8 N.C. See MEN’S GOLF on page 19 £*•

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Two Charlotte 102 MIAMI games, two mindMiami 76 boggling blowout wins for the Charlotte Hornets.

And they have not even played at home yet.

Duplicating their dominating performance of Game 1, the Hornets routed the hapless Miami Heat 10276 last night for a 2-0 lead in the bestof-five series.

Jamal Mashburn again tormented his former team, trading barbs with Tim Hardaway and Dan Majerle, sticking out his tongue at heckling fans and scoring 22 points.

David Wesley added 18 and Baron Davis 17.

“Everybody else has been a little surprised; we haven’t,” Mashburn said. “We’re a loose bunch and a close-knit group. That comes alive in the playoffs.”

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Duke-ECU baseball game to be televised tonight The streaking Blue Devils will visit the East Carolina Pirates tonight at 7 p.m. for a televised baseball game on Fox Sports South. *

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This past weekend, the Duke baseball team demonstrated its significant improvement from last season by taking 2-of-3 games at archrival North Carolina after being dominated by the Tar Heels in last year’s threegame set.

Tonight, the Blue Devils will be hoping to turn the tables in a similar manner at nationally ranked East Carolina, which beat Duke on three occasions last season. The matchup will be broadcast on Fox Sports South at 7 p.m., a rarity as far as Duke baseball goes.

While the visiting Blue Devils enter the game playing some of their best baseball of the season—especially in terms of their defensive execution —the Pirates are certainly on a hot streak as well. East Carolina has won seven of its last eight contests, six of which came by margins of five runs or more.

Incidentally, the only loss ECU has incurred

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Despite only putting up three runs against North Carolina, scoring has not been a problem for East Carolina, which boasts a starting lineup with seven players who are hitting over .300. The most prolific hitter on this balanced squad is shortstop Lee Delfino, who leads the Pirates with 11 home runs and is second on the team with 48 RBIs. The junior has been hitting .556 over the past week; he brutalized ECU’s most recent opponent, Old Dominion, with two home runs and eight RBIs during a three-game series.

Meanwhile, the Blue Devils have also been hot at the plate, scoring 20 runs in their series against North Carolina last weekend, not to mention 13 runs in a game against North Carolina A&T a week ago. But the most noticeable improvements have come on the defensive side, where Duke’s inexperienced bullpen is beginning to show more poise and its fielders have become more proficient at handling routine groundballs and flyballs. The error-free 4-0 victory over UNC Sunday displayed this improved fielding, as

Duke stood in eighth place in the ACC in fielding percentage coming into the matchup.

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Three little words that make a big difference It’s amazing the power and meaning that can be packed into three little words. I mean, these are utterances that, once declared, are irreversible.

For once the words are spoken, the speaker is committed to a rather serious relationship.

Now, this is a senior column, but it’s still a sports column, so you know I’m not talking about the L-word. I’m talking about the T-word, or the Th-word if you prefer to distinguish words beginning with only the letter “t” from those starting with “th.” The sacred statement that means commitment in the passionate relationship between spectator and sport: “I was there.”

“There” could be either Cameron or

Koskinen Stadium, or, for that matter, Carmichael Auditorium, Greensboro Coliseum or a bonfire-blazing West Campus. I’ve realized that when I say, “I was there,” about a sporting event, I say it not only as an admission, answer or boast, but also as an acknowledgment that yes, I was there—and others were not. For every event about which I can say the three magic words, there are hundreds more about which I wish I could stake my claim.

My lucky father not only got the chance to be there in Minneapolis in early April, but he spent the following weekend at the Masters in Augusta, Ga. He was there and can say so.

Meanwhile, I have spent this semester student teaching in a Durham public high school. Instead of being there at many of the fun, carefree events promised to spring-term seniors, and instead of being here at the Chronicle

Future Hamburger Andrea Bookman office, I’ve graded essays and made up Internet hunts on scavenger Shakespeare. Although at times I’ve felt as I imagine a baby must when it gets its first whack on the bottom and then its first breath of unfiltered, real world air, I would not trade my student teaching experience for a more “normal” senior spring. And I have not missed everything. When my students came into English class the morning of April 3 and asked about the legendary flames that consumed West Campus the previous night, I told them I was there.

I first realized the capacity of this little trio my freshman year at Duke, when I felt it was crucial to connect with as many people on as many levels as possible. When in doubt, or failing to find literary, cultural, geographical, religious or culinary links, it was my

defense mechanism to resort to sports

(this was an especially effective tactic with males —go figure). A typical freshman-year conversation with any random guy in my dorm is recreated here for your illumination of a lightbulb moment for me.

Me: “So, I see you have a nice wristband. Have you always been into Duke

basketball?”

He: “No, actually, if you remember the Duke-Kentucky game back in 1992,

I was at a Bar Mitzvah watching on TV and was totally cheering for Kentucky.

I was so mad about that game, and God, I hated Christian Laettner.”

Me; “Oh yeah? I was there.”

He; “Really? No way! You were at

that game?!”

The conversation that would otherwise have dead-ended would then continue for minutes, sometimes even into double-digit minutes. “I was there,” used to modify a notable sporting event (there were others besides the 1992 classic), became my new favorite line until sorority rush, where it did not quite have the same power illustrated in the previously simulated colloquy.

You see, my relationship with sports is long and complex.

I’ve always been a spectator and never an athlete. But perhaps because I cannot relate to the unscripted exposition, climax and denouement of the game or the season through the eyes of the player, I find sports alluring, fascinating and perhaps a bit overzealously, I find them allegorical.

I’ve been a good spectator. A former high school cheerleader, I joined The Chronicle sports staff in the fall of my freshman year. While my contributions have been sporadic, being a member of the sports staff gave me the opportunity to be there often, and to enjoy sports (and others who also enjoy them) even more often.

The national championship bonfire is among my favorite “I was there” moments from my soon-to-expire tenure as a Duke student. Another is the one-minute miracle comeback and

overtime win at Maryland in January.

Thanks to The Chronicle, I was there.

Beyond that, the triumphs of the women’s basketball team are some of my most cherished memories. I sat on press row for women’s hoops more than for any other sport; a road trip to Virginia freshman year was my first basketball game story. The real threespecial-words times, though, were when my microcassette recorder and notepad were at home and I was simply a fan of the game and a friend to

the team.

During my freshman year, Rochelle Parent lived down the hall from me and between then and now, she’s been both a roommate and a neighbor, and always one of my closest friends. Other players, past and present, are also on the short-list of people I would call if my car broke down in a ghost town and I wasn’t a member of AAA. So I was glad that I could scream and yell and joyfully cry when Duke beat Tennessee in the East Regional final in Greensboro in 1999. Also in Greensboro, I saw the Blue Devils win their first ACC tournament championship in 2000, defeating North Carolina by only three points. For both milestones, I was there.

In May, I’ll leave Duke. But what will I say when someone mentions that Senator Battier or Dr. Schweitzer used to be one hell of a basketball player, or asks if anyone knows where the WNBA star Alana Beard played college ball?

Til say, I was here.

Andrea Bookman is a Trinity senior and senior associate sports editor.

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The bells.

For the last four years of my life, the ringing of the Chapel bells has meant deadline. Recently, as my time at Duke has become more conveniently expressed in months, then weeks and now days, deadlines are becoming away of life.

It’s late now, midnight passed by hours ago and night is about to pull itself apart on the pink seams of another sunrise. It’s silent outside, but in my head I hear the bells ringing like the gentle pitter-patter ofrain reminding me that one final deadline is drawing near.

Seven years ago when I had my first deadline, I didn’t know why sports had been so important to me growing up. In Warren County, a two-stoplight Pepsibench nook of northern North Carolina, still more dust and tobacco than anything else, it’s simply what you did. The best days of my youth were watching the World Series with my grandfather, lying on the floor and pushing up baseball cards as runners advanced. He was a simple man, but he always had a smile about him that let you know he knew something about the world you didn’t, and damn it was good. That smile was never bigger than those nights.

I didn’t realize the significance of the great American ritual until years after he died. We loved each other, but there were 50 years between us, 50 years that kept us from being able to talk. In 50 years his world had left him behind, but baseball was unchanged. Sports were the only way he knew of including me in his life.

When I got to Duke, after a threeyear high school stint as a sportswriter in Warrenton, N.C., I kept the profession. And while my job here took me to

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One last deadline gone by Magic 8-ball

Show me Monet or read from Gray,

Big Beer night at Satty’s, a million more to the gardens and I’ll remember sitting up with my friends wondering if we’d down all our beer before the sun came up, running from the world jusiTto discover that we’d tripped up and found it.

And I’ll remember sitting on the steps of my Central Campus apartment in the middle of my last spring talking with friends, talking when all of Duke and all of the night belonged to us, the lone watchmen of a sleeping world. We talked openly and honestly, leaving words that would hang like Spanish moss around the edges of memories I don’t think I could ever forget.

They were the rare times in life that fear took a back seat to truth and personal defense took a back seat to openness. I learned then that the only mistakes you can ever make aren’t those you live to regret, but those you regret having lived. Those moments, like the beauty of sports, were the times that I was part of something special, something bigger than a hack writer from the sticks of North Carolina.

It’s late and it’s time to move on. But I’ll smile, because somewhere out there in the darkness I know my grandfather’s rooting for me and pushing my baseball card up one more base.

Safe at second.

Off in the distance the bells are ringing, less like raindrops now and more like the battle drums of time’s unstoppable army.

So I will say only thank you all. And goodbye. The bells are ringing. It’s deadline, one last time.

Ray Holloman is a senior associate editor and future sportswriting legend.

but you’ll never show me anything more beautiful than Jim Valvano running around the floor of The Pit in 1983, eyes wide and arms spread like he wanted to hug the whole world and was just Ray Holloman searching for the person to start with.

He understood the power that sports Sports Illustrated and now to ESPN The has, the ability to bring together a sociMagazine, I kept writing sports not ety too hip for its own good, too deeply because it was my career, but because it scarred—wise, I believe, is our preferred was what I loved. word—to let our guards down and conIn a dot-com world where even wars nect with other people. Sports does that are no longer romantic, the only thing in those wonderful moments when the world knows of romance is sports. flashbulbs pop like a million stars and There are no clashing swords or great an entire campus or city or nation causes to fight. Dulcinea died long ago stands together in celebration. They’re and Donna Julia followed shortly therepart of something bigger than themafter. We became too sophisticated about selves, part of something special, part of life, it became an art of thinking, not something that’s simply beautiful. feeling. Sports is the one burning ember I wish I could tell you something about the world has left.

Duke, but the only thing I ever learned at Complain about the money athletes Duke is that there’s a lot more to life than make and the commercializing of the just living. I’ll never remember what I games they play and you miss the point. made in a single class, I’ll probably forget Between the lines, Alex Rodriguez most of my professors’ names and I guarmakes just as much as Luis Sojo, and antee you I will forget where I lived withthat’s the beauty of sport, a beauty that in the next year. neither man nor money nor Scott Boras But I’ll remember the time I fell in can destroy. When nets come down and love, the way my girlfriend’s eyes stared teammates embrace, be it as Mike back at me as I propped myself on my Dunleavy and Shane Battier did in vicelbows above her, so deep and beautiful tory or as Will Avery and Mike and endless, like the desert floor Krzyzewski did in defeat two seasons beneath a dark night sky. I’ll remember ago, something—victory or defeat or the the first time I met my best friend and mixed bag in between—is affirmed. future roommate as freshmen (who, for Sports has nothing to do with Allen those who know him, it should be added Iverson’s tattoos or Albert Belle’s that he made a remark about Star Wars, mouth, and if you think they make the to which I then, as I do now, rolled my game less than it was, then strike three eyes, knowing that there had to be blew by you a long time ago and you something more to that kid. I was might as well leave the plate. right.). I’ll remember a million trips to

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Pens eliminate Fans boo Heat after 2 lopsided losses Capitals in OT P HORNETS from page 15

was a 24-5 run after halftime to make the score 78-57. Charlotte held Miami to seven points in the

By ALAN ROBINSON Associated Press

Martin Straka Penguins 4 PITTSBURGH stole the puck from Sergei Gonchar 3 to score at 13:04 of overtime and Capitals the Pittsburgh Penguins held off two Capitals comebacks for a series-ending 4-3 victory last night.

With the Penguins dominating play in overtime in a desperate attempt to avoid a Game 7 on visiting ice, Straka grabbed the puck off Gonchar in the Capitals’ zone and beat Olaf Kolzig inside the near post for his first goal of the series.

The Penguins opened a 2-0 lead on goals by Mario Lemieux and Robert Lang, then lost it during a frantic three-and-a-half-minute stretch in the second period. But they avoided a potentially seriesswinging collapse with one ofthe timeliest goals in their playoff history—Alexei Kovalev’s score with one second left in the second period.

Calle Johansson tied it with 2:40 left in regulation, but the Penguins recovered to win for only the second time in their last seven playoff overtime games.

Beating the Capitals for the sixth time in seven series since 1991, Pittsburgh advances to its first playoff series against Buffalo since 1979. And not without a long sigh ofrelief.

With the Penguins confidently dictating the play with a 2-0 lead, defenseman Brendan Witt scored a fluky bad-hop goal from the blue line at 14:07 of the second, and Jeff Halpera lifted a shot over Johan Hedberg’s blocker to tie it at 17:28.

The momentum now swinging the Capitals’ way and the Penguins suddenly in danger of being forced into a Game 7 today in Washington, Andrei Nikolishin and Ken Klee drew penalties 1:21 apart to give the Penguins a two-man advantage.

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third quarter—a franchise playoff record for both teams.

In successive games, the Heat have endured their two most lopsided losses of the season and their two most lopsided home playoff defeats.

“Are we really playing that bad, or are they playing that good?”

Miami forward Anthony Mason said.

“I don’t know.”

The Hornets need one more victory to reach the second round of the playoffs for only the third time since the franchise was founded in 1988.

Game 3 is Friday at Charlotte, where Miami is 0-2 this season.

“We have to gather ourselves,” Heat coach Pat Riley said. “Thank God we have four days. Even though it’s a daunting task in front of us, it’s been done before.”

Five teams have rallied from an 0-2 deficit to win a best-of-five series.

Denver did it most recently against Seattle in 1994.

“Anybody who knows Pat Riley

knows it’s not over,” Mashbum said.

Hardaway again started despite a bruised left foot and again failed to keep up with the Hornets’ quicker guards. He scored two points in 19 minutes, and by the third period frustrated fans were chanting for rookie point guard Eddie House to replace him.

Adding injury to injury, Alonzo Mourning played with back spasms

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that had him wincing and stretching on the floor when he was out of the game. He had nine points and four

rebounds in 26 minutes.

It was Mourning’s 15th game in a comeback from kidney disease, and the storybook ending he had hoped for looks increasingly unlikely.

“We haven’t gotten it done,”

Mourning said. “We have to find a way to win three games. It’s not impossible.”

The crowd showed no sympathy

toward the Heat. Boos in the second half were even louder than Saturday, and fans began streaming for the exits with nine minutes left and Miami trailing 87-61.

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State. The Blue Devils played solid golf most of the weekend, including a 3-over first round and a final round score of 2-over.

But Duke did not make enough birdies to threaten the leaders, as no Blue Devil shot higher than 76 or lower than 71.

“When the wind was up, it made the golf course more difficult,” Myers said. “We didn’t quite take advantage of the opportunities and get under par. That’s the difference, everybody’s shooting 73s and 74s and we needed to do a little better than that.”

Myers was pleased with the team’s play from tee to green, but said putting problems and a struggle with the final

round’s windy conditions led to the seventh-place finish. The Magnolia Course’s Bermuda greens may have had an impact as well, with some players having difficulty adjusting to the

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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CEO TOM WHITE (RIGHT) presents the team with photos from its three White House visits

Williams: ‘l’ll be back next year’ BASKETBALL from page 1 In a brief welcome-home celebration, Mayor Nick Tennyson presented the team with keys to the city and read a resolution passed by the Durham City Council congratulating Duke on its national championship season. Tennyson said that although the keys do not have the ability to open any lock, they serve as a symbol of the way

the basketball team “unlocked the hearts” of Durham’s residents throughout the past year.

Krzyzewski responded by thanking Tennyson and the citizens of Durham for their continued support of Duke University and its basketball program.

“Today was a fabulous day, but the best part ofthe day was coming home,” Duke’s coach said.

“If you could have seen the team on the plane..., all of them had their eyes closed and were a little bit tired. But when they walked out here and saw the smiles on your faces, quickly they had the biggest smiles on their faces. They were actually a lot like the smiles they had on their faces on that Monday night when we beat Arizona to win the national championship.”

The Duke-Durham Partners for Youth Program would like to THANK the following Duke students who volunteered as tutors this fall: Candace Martin Kiku McMahan Paul Mehta Jessie Pinkrah Katherine Porter Emily Gray Kristen Prude Katie Gres Daniel Robbins Mary Haynes Jane Hetherington Ross Rocklin Kristina Roddy Ashley Jayce Lesley Ledwell Ashley Smith David Marks Lindsay Warner

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In a series of speeches that began with those of Krzyzewski and seniors Battier and Nate James, the Blue Devils told their audience that the national championship season would not have been possible without their loyal fans. Sophomore Jason Williams then drew a loud round of ecstatic cheers when he reiterated his promise to return as captain of the Blue Devils next season.

“I feel sorry Shane doesn’t get to come back, but I’ll be back next year and I look forward to doing this again,” Williams said.

Although the basketball team already was welcomed home in Cameron Indoor Stadium the day after winning the national championship, Tennyson decided to coordinate yesterday’s rally afterreceiving requests from citizens who wanted to demonstrate their appreciation to the team.

Tennyson emphasized the main reason for organizing the event yesterday was the need to keep a close tie between the city and the basketball team.

“Everything about Durham is improved by having the Duke basketball team show what it can do,” the mayor said.

long-grained putting surface.

“I was pleased with our effort, not pleased with our results,” the coach said. “We needed to beat UNC and UVa, which we had been doing most all year long. But we were striking the ball very well.”

The Blue Devils might be able to take comfort in the fact that the ACC tournament traditionally has as strong a field as any conference championship. This year was no exception, with three schools coming in ranked in the top 10; nonetheless, the Blue Devils had at least expected to beat the unranked Tar Heels and Cavaliers.

Now the NCAA seeding committee will have to look favorably on the Blue Devils’ two tournament victories if they are to get a berth. Tucker emphasized that the Blue Devils’ can beat top-10 participants Georgia Tech, Clemson and N.C. State if the team sinks a few more putts.

“I was close, nothing justreally took shape out there,” Tucker said. “For the team to finish seventh is really disappointing. The thing is, nobody on the team had a great week out here and it’s hard to do well when that happens. We should still have a really good chance to make [the NCAAs] with our two wins.”

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