June 14, 2001

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Martina Weber, a 6'5" center from Germany, enjoyed her visit to the Duke campus earlier this week. See page 17

Duke seeks top-5 AAAS program

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

In her response to the Duke Student Movement’s demands last spring, President Nan Keohane called for a more stable and well-supported African and African-American Studies Program as one of five goals for improving diversity.

Since the March 28 report’s release, AAAS has been engaged in an intradepartmental study, culminating in a longterm plan that may be completed as early as the fall.

Perhaps the most fundamental yet symbolic issue discussed in the president’s report is that of nomenclature.

Keohane noted that she and other senior-level administrators “endorse formally recognizing the departmental status of AAAS.” Although the AAAS program—which began in May 1969 after black students staged a massive protest by taking over

the Allen Building—holds departmental status, it is still called a program.

Typically, programs are much more interdisciplinary and have smaller core faculties, with many professors holding primary appointments in other departments. Although programs do not necesSee

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Campaign hits $1.5 billion mark

By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

On the way to its $2 billion goal, the Campaign for Duke passed a major milestone last week as it exceeded its original target of $1.5 billion two and a half years before deadline and just six months after raising the goal.

With an official total of $1,504,180,704 raised as of Monday, the University—despite the economic downturn—shows little sign of slowing down in its effort to ensure financial backing for current and planned initiatives.

“Achieving this benchmark is the result of the hard work and dedication of many volunteers and staff members in development offices across the University,” President Nan Keohane wrote in an e-mail. “It also says much about the love and support that alumni, parents and friends around the world feel for Duke, and their faith in our future.”

The campaign reached the milestone despite continuing concerns that the slowing national economy and slouching stock market would deter donations. In fact, the money was raised several

weeks ahead of the University’s projection from a year ago, which predicted passing the mark sometime in July, said Peter Vaughn, director of communications and donor relations for the Office of University Development.

“We’re certainly aware that the economy isn’t racing along as it did during much of the campaign,” Vaughn said.

“We have noticed a slight decrease in security gifts.”

Security gifts, such as donations of stocks or bonds, are about 9 percent below See CAMPAIGN on page 15 P~

University hires Merkx, plans to extend global reach Merkx said he will make few changes to Duke’s long-term plans to internationalize

Duke hopes to make strategic links with institutions worldwide to better its reputation

By KEVIN LEES

By KEVIN LEES

Duke University has lured long-time academic veteran Gilbert Merkx of the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque to become the next vice provost for international affairs. Merkx, director of New Mexico’s Latin American and Iberian Institute, will begin July 1.

“He is an excellent scholar and a good administrator,” said outgoing vice provost Bruce Kuniholm, who will continue his work at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy after going on sabbatical. “He’s had a lot of experience with federally-funded Title VI centers. I think he’s going to be a very good vice provost.”

International education is funded by Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which provides government funding for programs such as Duke’s own Center for North American Studies.

Merkx, whose primary discipline is sociology, said Duke offered him a chance to work on a broader scale.

“It was just... that I had done as much as I could in New Mexico, as much as I could for the university,” the new vice provost said, noting that Dukes offer was particularly appealing because it also gave his wife a faculty appointment in the political sci-

Research at the Medical Center and commitment to academics transformed the University from a regional school to a national one. Now, Duke wants to make another leap—from a nationally respected school to an internationally respected one.

A top goal of the University for the next five to 10 years—and Gilbert Merkx’s top priority when he arrives July 1 to serve as vice provost for international affairs—is to extend Duke’s global reach by attracting more international students and forming strategic interests throughout the world.

The International Affairs Committee fleshed out these goals in a report released in spring 2000. “The implications of [globalization] are that students and faculty should have greater interaction with other peoples, knowledge of other languages and familiarity with other cultures,” the report said.

The report said Duke should especially focus its efforts on forging worldwide links, bettering student experience and developing faculty and resources.

In particular, the report stressed that Duke can improve its global image by forming strategic alliances with other world-class institutions to facilitate shared research and address curricular concerns.

Most recently, Duke signed an agreement withPeking University. “[Peking] is the best university in China,” said Bruce Kuniholm, the outgoing vice provost for inSee GLOBAL on page 16 P-

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“In five years, Duke should be one of a handful of four or five internationalized institutions in America that springs to mind as a university with a strong inSee MERKX on page 7 >

INTERNATIONAL FLAGS now fly inside the Fuqua School of Business. Officials hope the Duke flag will soon be flying worldwide.

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Regulators may widen energy price controls Facing growing political pressure, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is poised to expand its price restrictions on wholesale electricity sold to California, sources within the agency said.

Violent crime drops 15 percent, survey finds The Justice Department

announced that violent crime fell 15 percent last year, the largest drop on record. The finding was puzzling, coming only two weeks after the FBI reported that serious crime had not declined in 2000.

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BRUSSELS, Belgium NATO leaders clashed Wednesday over President George W Bush’s challenge to three decades of conventional wisdom about European security, with the heads of France and Germany contradicting Bush’s declaration of a “new receptivity” to his plan for a missile defense shield.

Although Bush said he had made “good progress here” on the plan, the reactions ofthose two key allies showed that he is still confronting profound apprehensions about abandoning the 1972 Antiballistic Missile treaty between Washington and Moscow.

By DOUGLAS FRANTZ

New York Times News Service

Palestinians and IsRAMALLAH, West Bank raelis began the delicate search Wednesday for ways to carry out the American-brokered agreement to extend the truce that has reduced Mideast violence over the past 12 days.

The formal cease-fire went into effect at 3 p.m. local time Wednesday. In the next 48 hours, the two sides are required under the agreement to begin serious cooperation on security issues and to enforce a complete cessation of violence, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials who participated in the negotiations.

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Administration officials cited a long list of allies whose leaders had indicated an interest in the plan

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“If I could capture what we were hearing,” said one senior administration official, “it was: We very much appreciate the president’s decisions to consult fully, we understand that there is a threat, we want to work with the United States.’”

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North Korean, U.S. diplomats open talks Diplomats from the United States and North Korea met in New York for the first session of negotiations since President George W. Bush decided last week to resume talks with North Korea.

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Israelis must begin to ease their tight restrictions on Palestinian villages and cities and start withdrawing their soldiers to positions they held before the violence started in September.

Both sides also agreed to participate in a cease-fire committee, which will be directed by a U.S. intelligence official, according to Palestinian and Israeli officials.

The Palestinians interpret the U.S. role as monitoring the cease-fire, but the Israelis said it would not involve observers on the ground. The committee is expected to meet Friday.

The initial timetable was finalized at a meeting Wednesday of security officers from both sides. George Tenet, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, conducted the meeting to develop steps for carrying out the agreement reached Wednesday morning.

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ABC bickering leads to firings

By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle

The Durham County Board of

Commissioners

dissolved the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in a 3-2 vote Monday night, stressing that infighting has rendered the group ineffective.

All three board members—Chair Mary Ellen Williams, Vice Chair John Horton and James Randall—will be removed, effective June 25. The commissioners hope to replace them by the end of the month, said Ellen Reckhow, a county commissioner.

The ABC Board, which oversees all county liquor sales, has recently been plagued by conflicts between Randall and the other two board members, such as allegations by Randall that the other two had held secret meetings and voted without him—although Williams has denied those claims. Randall could not be reached for comment.

After hearing eight hours of testimony on the disputes, county commissioners Mary Ann Black, Becky Heron and Reckhow voted for the board’s dissolution, while Joe Bowser and the Rev. Philip Cousin opposed the decision.

“There was evidence that the board could not work together effectively,” Reckhow said. “For example, they could not agree on the minutes of meetings, and so they had their meetings transcribed by a court reporter at a cost of hundreds of dollars.”

Reckhow added that when the county commissioners ordered the members to meet with a mediator in January, the mediator decided the disagreements were too severe for mediation to help.

Bowser and Cousin had favored removing Randall alone, saying Williams and Horton had done their jobs effectively despite the personality disagreements. Bowser credited them with reducing debt incurred by former ABC Board members who resigned under pressure in 1997.

“It was obvious from the testimonies that Mr. Randall was the cause of the problem,” Bowser said, adding that Randall had missed nearly half of the board’s meetings.

But a motion to remove Randall and leave the other two ABC commissioners in place failed 23. “We felt there was evidence that the other See

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University begins search for OIT head

Former chief information officer Betty Leydon left last month for a position at Princeton

By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

When Betty Leydon came to Duke in 1995 as vice provost and chief information officer, she was charged with revamping long-outdated campus technology. But as the University searches for her successor, the mission for the Office of Information Technology has changed.

After what many consider to be a successful term, during which OIT met challenges in all facets of campus technology, ranging from inadequate information systems for administrators to a lack of hardware in computer clusters, Leydon left this month to take a similar position at Princeton University.

Now, a newly formed search committee, which met for the first time this week, must evaluate how campus technology should develop under the next information officer.

The new search committee, chaired by Professor of Sociology Philip Morgan, will look for someone to focus on smaller-scale projects for classrooms and professors, and to better educate the faculty on technology.

“The focus will be more on academic computing matters and less on administrative computing matters,” said Robert Wolpert, a statistics professor who is a member of the current search committee. “Faculty don’t all have a clear idea of how to use technology in the classroom, to enhance the classroom experience but also the experience outside the classroom itself.”

In particular, the search committee hopes to improve library equipment, enhance websites and classroom equipment and increase wireless use.

“We want people to be able to take a laptop anywhere on campus,” said Wolpert, who also served as chair of the search committee that hired Leydon and founded OIT. Executive Vice President Tollman Trask, who met with the committee Monday, noted that the University’s technological needs have changed. “These things tend to go in cycles, in terms of what needs to happen in the next five years,” he said. “We’re in a very different situation from five years ago, when we needed to strengthen the administration. Now it’s See OIT SEARCH on page

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Regulators may widen energy price controls Facing growing political pressure, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commismilitary exercises and sion is poised to expand aerial bombing runs on its price restrictions on the Puerto Rican island wholesale electricity sold of Vieques by May 2003, to California, sources senior officials said. within the agency said.

Violent crime drops 15 North Korean, U.S. percent, survey finds diplomats open talks from the The Justice Department Diplomats United States and North announced that violent Korea met in New York crime fell 15 percent last year, the largest drop on for the first session of negotiations since President record. The finding was George W. Bush decided puzzling, coming only two last week to resume talks weeks after the FBI reported that serious crime with North Korea. in 2000.

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By FRANK BRUNI

New York Times News Service

NATO BRUSSELS, Belgium leaders clashed Wednesday over President George W. Bush’s challenge to three decades of conventional wisdom about European security, with the heads of France and Germany contradicting Bush’s declaration of a “new receptivity” to his plan for a missile defense shield.

Although Bush said he had made “good progress here” on the plan, the reactions of those two key allies showed that he is still confronting profound apprehensions about abandoning the 1972 Antiballistic Missile treaty between Washington and Moscow.

By DOUGLAS FRANTZ

New York Times News Service

Palestinians and IsRAMALLAH, West Bank raelis began the delicate search Wednesday for ways to carry out the American-brokered agreement to extend the truce that has reduced Mideast violence over the past 12 days.

The formal cease-fire went into effect at 3 p.m. local time Wednesday. In the next 48 hours, the two sides are required under the agreement to begin serious cooperation on security issues and to enforce a complete cessation ofviolence, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials who participated in the negotiations.

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The strongest expression of that opinion came from the French president, Jacques Chirac, who said after a NATO meeting in Brussels that a missile shield represented a “fantastic incentive to proliferate” weapons because terrorists or hostile states would build more arms in an attempt to trump the new defenses.

The German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, also indicated skepticism about the missile project.

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Administration officials cited a long list of allies whose leaders had indicated an interest in the plan Wednesday, ranging from an openminded curiosity to support.

“If I could capture what we were hearing,” said one senior administration official, “it was: We very much appreciate the president’s decisions to consult fully, we understand thatthere is a threat, we want to work with the United States.’”

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Israelis must begin to ease their tight restrictions on Palestinian villages and cities and start withdrawing their soldiers to positions they held before the violence started in September Both sides also agreed to participate in a cease-fire committee, which will be directed by a U.S. intelligence official, according to Palestinian and Israeli officials.

The Palestinians interpret the U.S. role as monitoring the cease-fire, but the Israelis said it would not involve observers on the ground. The committee is expected to meet Friday.

The initial timetable was finalized at a meeting Wednesday of security officers from both sides. George Tenet, director ofthe Central Intelligence Agency, conducted the meeting to develop steps for carrying out the agreement reached Wednesday morning.

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ABC bickering leads to firings

By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle The Durham County Board of

Commissioners dissolved the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in

a 3-2 vote Monday night, stressing that infighting has rendered the group ineffective.

All three board members—Chair Mary Ellen Williams, Vice Chair John Horton and James Randall—will be removed, effective June 25. The commissioners hope to replace them by the end of the month, said Ellen Reckhow, a county commissioner.

The ABC Board, which oversees all county liquor sales, has recently been plagued by conflicts between Randall and the other two board members, such as allegations by Randall that the other two had held secret meetings and voted without him—although Williams has denied those claims. Randall could not be reached for comment.

After hearing eight hours of testimony on the disputes, county commissioners MaryAnn Black, Becky Heron and Reckhow voted for the board’s dissolution, while Joe Bowser and the Rev. Philip Cousin opposed the decision.

“There was evidence that the board could not work together effectively,” Reckhow said. “For example, they could not agree on the minutes of meetings, and so they had their meetings transcribed by a court reporter at a cost of hundreds of dollars.”

Reckhow added that when the county commissioners ordered the members to meet with a mediator in January, the mediator decided the disagreements were too severe for mediation to help.

Bowser and Cousin had favored removing Randall alone, saying Williams and Horton had done their jobs effectively despite the personality disagreements. Bowser credited them with reducing debt incurred by former ABC Board members who resigned under pressure in 1997.

“It was obvious from the testimonies that Mr. Randall was the cause of the problem,” Bowser said, adding that Randall had missed nearly half of the board’s meetings.

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University begins search for OIT head Former chief information officer Betty Leydon left last month for a position at Princeton

By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

When Betty Leydon came to Duke in 1995 as vice provost and chief information officer, she was charged with revamping long-outdated campus technology. But as the University searches for her successor, the mission for the Office of Information Tech-

nology has changed.

After what many consider to be a successful term, during which OIT met challenges in all facets of campus technology, ranging from inadequate infor-

mation systems for administrators to a lack of hardware in computer clusters, Leydon left this month to take a similar position at Princeton University.

Now, a newly formed search committee, which met for the first time this week, must evaluate how campus technology should develop under the next information officer.

The new search committee, chaired by Professor of Sociology Philip Morgan, will look for someone to focus on smaller-scale projects for classrooms and professors, and to better educate the faculty on technology.

“The focus will be more on academic computing matters and less on administrative computing matters,” said Robert Wolpert, a statistics professor who is a member of the current search committee. “Faculty don’t all have a clear idea of how to use technology in the classroom, to enhance the classroom experience but also the experience outside the classroom itself.”

In particular, the search committee hopes to improve library equipment, enhance websites and classroom equipment and increase wireless use.

“We want people to be able to take a laptop anywhere on campus,” said Wolpert, who also served as chair of the search committee that hired Leydon and

founded OIT. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, who met with the committee Monday, noted that the University’s technological needs have changed. “These things tend to go in cycles, in terms of what needs to happen in the next five years,” he said. “We’re in a very different situation from five years ago, when we needed to strengthen the administration. Now it’s See OIT SEARCH on page 16 P-

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Studies downplay risks of Lyme disease

Surgeons use remote-controlled box to deliver high doses of radiation to remove tumors

By JENNIFER SONG The Chronicle

Last month, Duke surgeons successfully removed a tumor from the nasal passage of a five-year-old, marking the

Tuberculosis cases drop nationally

The rate of tuberculosis in the United States has fallen to an all-time low because of improved diagnosis and treatment, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The 2000 rate was 5.8 cases per 100,000 people, compared with 10.5 per 100,000 eight years earlier. Among the 12 states with the highest tuberculoisis rates, eight are located in the Southeast, Around the world, the disease kills several million people each year, and nearly half of the cases in the nation are in individuals who have immigrated from high-risk countries.

«Umbilical cells could treat leukemia Adults suffering from leukemia now have a remedy previously available only to children; blood cells from umbilical cords. These stem cells, which have the potential to develop into any type of blood ceil, can help create new immune systems in adults after a transplantation procedure. A study showed that one-third of adult leukemia patients survived longterm after cord blood transplantation; this rate is comparable to those receiving bone marrow transplants. Doctors say this procedure may benefit more patients than bone marrow transplants because it is easier to match stem-cell donors.

•Earth may have originated as ball of ice A rising tide of evidence suggests thatthe earth may have been frozen over—at least twice and as many as five times—and encased in a solid cover of snow and ice, perhaps for millions of years. Now, researchers are trying to learn the details of how, why and when the planet was suddenly plunged into the deep freeze, why the earth thawed just as suddenly and how life was able to survive. The idea was first presented in computerized climate models and is consistent with the planet's geology and climate.

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Device localizes radiotherapy

Lyme disease is harder to catch and easier to treat than originally thought, according to a series of studies to be published next month in the New England Journal of Medicine. Although some physicians treat patients with prolonged courses of antibiotics, researchers say a single dose of doxycycline is enough to prevent an infection. Of two groups of patients who found deer ticks on their bodies, the group treated with the antibiotic had a Lyme disease incidence rate of 0.4 percent compared to 3 percent for the untreated group.

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first use of a remote-controlled radiation device in a pediatric case.

“What made this operation so successful is that it took a lot of work from a team of people,” said Dr. Greg Hulka, chief of pediatric otolaryngology and assistant professor of surgery, “[The procedure is] complicated... and yet, everything worked out perfectly in the end.”

During tumor removal operations,

microscopic pieces often remain even after the bulk of the tumor has been excised. In order to eliminate these tiny pieces without harming internal organs or tissues, Duke surgeons use a technique known as intraoperative radiotherapy.

“This method of radiation provides two advantages [over external radiation],” said surgeon Dr. Edward Halperin, L.R. Prosnitz professor and chair of the department of radiation oncology. “It provides the [surgeon with the] ability to identify a specific, localized area for radiation and the ability to avoid complications caused by external radiation by moving normal tissue out of the way.”

In this procedure, a large box connected to a computer console delivers high doses of radiation via plastic catheters to a localized area in the patient’s body. A small piece ofiridium—no larger than a grain of rice—serves as the radiation source. Duke surgeons have used intraoperative radiation on 10 individuals over the past year.

“In certain situations, it’s very difficult for a surgeon to get an adequate margin of area around a tumor [site], so this device provides a neat way for surgeons to improve the ability to give more radiation safely,” said Dr. Christopher Willet, a radiation oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

RADIATION PHYSICIST BEVERLY STEFFEY holds the plastic catheters that are used to deliver radiation in a procedure that removes tiny tumors remaining after an initial operation. This treatment, known as intraoperative radiotherapy, minimizes damage to normal tissues.

“This type of therapy is another tool to facilitate and improve outcomes of treatments that have been combined with other forms ofradiation and surgery.”

After radiation, the patient is taken back to an adjacent operating room to complete the surgery. However, because patients are exposed to radiation and require additional operative time under anesthesia, surgeons have taken several safety precautions. “During the procedure, we use special monitoring devices and television cameras to watch the patient’s progress,” Halperin said. “We can also control the robot remotely to stop if there are problems.”

The treatment is used primarily for those with advanced carcinoma ofthe rectum or sarcoma of the back of the abdomen, and it may broaden available

therapies for a select group of patients in the future. “A surgeon might be willing to take on cases of larger adherent carcinomas that they normally wouldn’t tackle,” Halperin said.

However, since the technique can be used to treat a limited number of cancers, physicians estimate they will use the device once or twice a month. Researchers are interested in conducting other tests with the device to maximize its usage.

Duke is one of seven institutions that provides intraoperative radiation in the

United States; Massachusetts General is another. “There has been rising interest in this type ofradiation here because a surgeon can control and direct radiation to areas that are of most concern and not have to radiate surrounding tissues,” Willet said.

Researchers link marijuana use with heart attack risk

By ANNE BARNARD The Boston Globe

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Their kids rebelled and became stockbrokers. The pharmaceutical industry views them as a massive market for drugs to fight hair loss and impotence. Now, age is bringing baby boomers yet another indignity.

Smoking a joint may increase the chance of a heart attack, especially in someone already at risk, according to a study by Boston researchers published in the current issue of the journal Circulation.

For the first hour after smoking marijuana—a period longer than some highs—a person’s risk of a heart attack is five times greater than usual, the study declared, adding marijuana use to a growing list of pleasures that may trigger heart attacks, including sex and big meals.

For the largest group of marijuana users—those between 18 and 25 years old—the risk does not mean much, said Dr. Murray Mittleman, an epidemiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and one of the study’s authors.

“A 20-year-old has a baseline risk of heart attack that’s close to zero, so five times something very close to SMOKING MARIJUANA can increase the risk of a heart attack by zero is still very close to zero,” he said. Marijuana does five times for the first hour afterwards, according to a new study not pose a significant increased risk for a healthy 50' ' publishedln fhe]oumaTCrrcuTafion.‘ year-old either. """' *

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But for older people with conditions that make them prone to heart attacks, such as coronary artery disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, Mittleman said, “the fivefold increase in risk may pose enough of a problem that should make them pause and think.”

The increased risk, though still small, could prove significant as the population bulge ofthe baby boomers moves into the age group most at risk for heart attacks, Mittleman said. Surveys suggest President Bill Clinton’s generation is still inhaling: As the youths of the 1960s age, marijuana use increases among older adults.

His results hold no overwhelming victory for drug warriors,, or for pot enthusiasts.

“It’s still an unanswered question as to whether there is a long-term risk [in smoking marijuana],” he said. “There’s no strong evidence that there is a risk, but I think we need more research to have a definitive answer.”

Mittleman and his colleagues did not look at whether marijuana users are more likely to have heart attacks than the general population. Rather, their work was part of an investigation that studies events or environmental factors that can trigger a heart attack in a particular individual at a particular time.

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Court sets trial date for Malone New Testament

A trial date was set at a Durham County Superior Cigarettes seized: A visitor reported that between Court hearing Wednesday for accused gunman David 10:30 and 11:15 a.m. June 11, someone entered a tractor Patrick Malone, who allegedly entered President Nan trailer that he was operating and stole two boxes conKeohane’s office last Sept. 6 with a loaded gun and 40 cartons of cigarettes worth $1,060, Dean said. taining threatened to kill himself if he could not speak to her.

Malone is on trial for three counts of first-degree The visitor said he left the unsecured vehicle in front of Uncle Harry’s General Store. kidnapping and one count of having a weapon on camGolf gear grabbed: A visitor reported that pus. The trial will begin Oct. 8 and between 3:50 and 3:55 p.m. June 5, someone stole his will likely last at least a week, said n $5O blue golf bag, containing a $250 black and silver Assistant District Attorney X OLICE Mitchell Garrell. set of irons, a $25 putter, a $25 driver and 10 golf balls rj He said that the court denied two and tees worth $3O, Dean said. The items were stolen defense motions to suppress evifrom the drop off area of the Washington Duke Trm dence at Wednesday’s hearing. Malone’s lawyer, Shanrear parking lot. non Tucker, had filed motions to exclude tangible eviPocketbook stolen: An employee reported that dence from the scene and oral statements made by the between 2 and 4:30 p.m. June 11, someone stole her defendant prior to his arrest.

The court took no action on a motion for a change of $3O pocketbook, containing a $l5O in cash, $3O wallet trial venue, said Garrell. This motion will be considered and a $2OO Samsung cellular phone from the Duke at another hearing Friday morning. Malone’s lawyer has Pediatric Clinic on North Roxboro Road, Dean said. requested that the trial be moved from Durham because Cash taken: A Talent Identification Program stuof jurors’ possible “deep-seeded loyalties to Duke Univerdent reported that between 1 p.m. June 10 and 6:50 sity* and an interview with Malone published by The p.m. June 11, someone stole $2OO in cash from her walHerald-Sun of Durham. let, which was in her Brown Dormitory room, Dean Also at the Friday hearing, the court is expected to said. There were no signs of forced entry. consider a defense motion that would force the state to Cash snatched: A visiting student reported that release certain evidence and a state motion to obtain a between 11:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. June 9, someone copy of a psychologist’s report on Malone. entered her unsecured room in Trent Drive Hall and Laptop stolen: A student reported that between 5:45 stole $lO5 in cash from her purse, Dean said. and 7:30 p.m. June 7, someone entered her unsecured Cash stolen: A student reported that between 1911 Yearby Street apartment and stole her $3,000 Dell 8:10 and 8:50 p.m. June 11, someone entered his lockLatitude laptop computer, said Maj. Robert Dean of the er in the Wilson Recreation Center and stole $lO2 in Duke University Police Department. Although the vic- cash, Dean said. The student did not know if he tim was not in the apartment at the time, her roommate secured the locker. reported that she heard the front door slam but thought Employees burgled: Two Duke Stores employees the victim had returned and taken the laptop with her. reported that someone entered a storage room between Projector pilfered: At 4:30 p.m. June 8, someone 6 and 7:30 p.m. June 12 and stole $6O in cash from their stole a $4,000 Multi-Sync NEC projector from a first wallets, credit cards and a $25 blue and green plaid floor room in the Fuqua School of Business, Dean said. purse with a zipper, Dean said.

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Davies retired in 1981 after 20 years as a member of the Divinity School’s faculty and was known as an eminent New Testament scholar.

Bom in Wales, Davies was educated at the University of Wales and later studied at Cambridge University. He also worked with the prominent Jewish scholar David Daube, who became his lifelong friend.

Davies is survived by his wife, Eurwen Davies, and daughter, Rachel Davies, both of Durham.

A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, June 24, at 2 p.m. in Duke Chapel. In lieu of flowers, the family asked that contributions be made to the W. D. Davies Memorial Fund at the Duke Divinity School.

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First Union officials claim that current law unfairly favors hostile bidders.

They seek to block SunTrust Banks, Inc., in its quest to take over Wachovia Corp. In May, Sun Trust bid $14.7 billion, 17 percent higher than First Union’s bid; Wachovia’s board of directors rejected the Sun Trust offer.

SunTrust is now trying to persuade Wachovia shareholders to change their bylaws so they can call a special meeting to reconsider the bid.

Wachovia executives oppose such a meeting and support the legislation.

Blue may run against Helms for U.S. Senate seat: Dan Blue, a Democratic state representative from Wake County, said Tuesday that it is “highly likely” he will seek Republican Jesse Helms’ U.S. Senate seat in the 2002 elections, but he will not make a

formal announcement until the state budget is completed.

“It’s proceeding quite well,” Blue said of a potential campaign. “We’re in the inquiry stage, but pretty soon we’ll have to make a decision.”

North Carolina House passes Ten Commandments legislation: State legislators passed a measure Tuesday that would allow teachers to post the Ten Commandments on their classroom walls, despite criticism that it violates the First Amendment.

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Community groups submitted proposals, and funding has been granted for five-year intervals.

Pratt school receives award: The Pratt School ofEngineering was one of 13 groups recognized June 8 by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development for its “outstanding entrepreneurial infrastructure initiative” in the creation of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems.

Formed in 1984, CED is a private, nonprofit organization that aims to stimulate the development of high-impact companies in the Triangle.

Duke announces scholarship recipients: Rachel Hoffer of High Point, N.C, was selected to receive the 2001 Herman W. Bernard Trinity Scholarship, which is awarded annually to one student from the greater High Point area. The scholarship covers the full four-year cost of attending Duke.

Additionally, 10 recent high school graduates have been selected as winners of the prestigious Benjamin N. Duke scholarships. The 2001 B.N. Duke Leadership Scholarship includes full tuition, as well as an in-school leadership program. The awards are presented annually to North and South Carolina students who demonstrate strong academic performance, outstanding leadership ability and community involvement.

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The keynote speakers include Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Dean-elect and James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry William Schlesinger, Kenan Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences Hans Paerl from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and William Neal Reynolds and Distinguished University Professor Wayne Skaggs from North Carolina State University.

Minority mathematics conference commences: This year’s annual

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Commissioners split on ABC Board decision ABC BOARD from page 3

commissioners could have done something to facilitate board relations that they didn’t,” Reckhow said. “Our feeling was that it might be best to just start with a clean slate.”

Williams accused at least one of the commissioners of voting in favor of the dissolution in order to have more control over the board, particularly over the fate of ABC general manager Randolph Mills.

Although its members are appointed by

the comity commissioners, the board is an independent state agency.

“One or more board members wanted me to fire the manager, and I didn’t have a reason,” Williams said.

Her comments echoed similar statements by Bowser, who said Heron pushed for the ABC Board to fire Mills, with the threat of removing Williams from the board otherwise. Heron could not be reached for comment.

Reckhow, however, said she had no

such intentions when she voted to remove the three members.

“I can’t speak for the other commissioners; I can speak for myself” Reckhow said. “I have absolutely no interest in attempting to [take over the duties of the ABC Board].” She added that she had no opinion on whether to fire Mills.

Mills declined to comment on either the dissolution of the board or his future prospects.

Complicating matters for the ABC

Board were allegations that Williams and Mills had improperly solicited and accepted a champagne donation from Bacardi USA to a charity at the Duke Medical Center, where Williams volunteers. Those claims are under investigation by the county sheriff’s office, but no charges have been filed.

Reckhow said the donation controversy had not been as important in the decision to dissolve the board as the degree of infighting among the members.

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ternational role,” Merkx continued, comparing Duke to such institutes as Harvard University and the University of Washington.

Merkx’s priority will be to extend Duke’s global reach—which the Uni-

versity labeled as a primary goal in its long-range plan.

He said he intended to follow the plan’s general approach to increasing Duke’s international impact. “I’m convinced Duke has done a lot of things right,” Merkx said.

“Duke has really been on an upward trajectory in international education the last 10 years,” he added.

The new vice provost said his first step towards his goal would be to talk to faculty, students and others throughout the University community

with a link to international education.

Merkx made a name for himself and New Mexico’s Latin American Institute through his long history of defending international academic programs. Soon after he took over the institute in 1980, he discovered that President Ronald Reagan wished to cut such programs—but Merkx enlisted the help of several Congress members to save programs like his.

“The Reagan administration tried to kill support for international education for seven years in a row, and we stopped them in Congress every time,” Merkx said.

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Page Auditorium, West Campus. For tickets: (919) 684-4444 or tickets.duke.edu Triangle Gay Men's Chorus»The locally based chorale group stages their spring concert "Our Stories, Our Lives." Songs include selections from The Scarlet Pimpernel and Sometimes When We Touch." Make your own joke here. Sat. 8 p.m.

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Cat's Cradle»3oo E. Main St., Carrboro. (919) 967-9053. Culture featuring Jospeh Hill, Tonight 10 p.m.

Alkaline Trio w/ Dashboard Confessional, Hot Rod Circuit and No Motiv, Fri. 10 p.m. Scott Miller w/ Poor Valentino, Sat. 10 p.m. Carrboro Fete de la Musique, Sun. 3:30 p.m.

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By John Bush and Steven Wright

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are the voyages of the Star Trek convention on its continuing mission to explore sci-fi, to seek out new fans and product lines and to boldly go where no television show's revenue stream has gone before.

The convention returned to the Triangle—the Durham quadrant —for the first time in over three years. This year's low attendance, far smaller than Raleigh's 1998 convention, was not surprising considering fans were required to pay a $2O general admission fee and forced to endure poorly edited film clips, bad acoustics and forgettable guest stars like Barßara Luna—the lucky lady whom Captain Kirk "stunned" in Episode 39. (You don't remember!?!) Hey, if the captain didn't want to keep her around, why should we? We don't take sloppy seconds from anyone, even James T Kirk. The convention attracted good old American families—and plenty of individuals who weighed nearly as much as the average American family—to the Marriott Civic Center for opportunities to exchange autographed memorabilia, franchise expansion gossip and pornographic Trek fantasies.

Luckily only half these fantasies involved the Borg queen.

Tve been asked questions by people who clearly didn't understand the difference between fiction and reality," said convention host Richard Arnold, who served as Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's personal assistant for several years.

For some, the convention was a chance to boost self-esteem by engaging in a Star Trek trivia pissing contest. For others, the weekend served as an opportunity to sucker children, their parents and potential stalkers into buying autographed memoriabla not sold even at the tackiest of stores ending in "-mart."

If the casual observer learned anything from the two-day Trek fest, it was the power of the series as a commercial enterprise. In a purest form of a market economy, two auto-

graphed posters were auctioned for over $1,250. The posters, which featured the full casts of the next generation and original series, found themselves at the booth of dealers THESE KLINGONS get it half-right. Angry expression, check. Supreme intellect... with a 100 percent within the hour. markup With such a captive audience, the organizers were also able to sneak in irrelevant collectibles of a scantily-clad Xena: Warrior Princess and professional football player Lawrence Taylor: Onetime Wrestling Warrior Prince. What a country!

Most fans, however, swallowed their disdain for the commercialization of the television series that inspired them to "boldly go where no man has gone before." The conventions continue to bring in hundreds of admirers who returned to demonstrate their loyalty in star fleet uniforms and exotic alien garb.

"After 20 conventions, you lose count," said Lt. Commander Komat Vestai Septaric, one of the four Klingons in attendance—who moonlights five-days-a-week as a mechanic.

Fans were overwhelmed with joy about news of the upcoming tenth Trek movie and newest Trek series, Enterprise, but for everyone, discussions with Next Generation legends Marina Sirtis (Counselor DeannaTroi) and Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf) kept the 300person audience in awe for 90 minutes. The duo's recollection of their seven-year stint on the most popular of the star trek series would bring a nostalgic tear to even a Vulcan's eye. But perhaps Dorn expressed the feelings of the general audience best with the choice words, "I love this Star Trek she!'

□ In the premiere of HBO's praiseworthy new series Six Feet

Under, Nate Fisher (Peter Krause) flashes back to the first time he

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saw his mortician father exhuming a corpse. The five-year-old child stares at his father—and the corpse—with eyes as big as saucers.

The father superb Richard Jenkins) explains to his son what he is doing, and when the explanation fails to placate the child's expression, the father offers young Nate an industrial strength rubber glove and says, "You can touch him if you wear one of these." Nate flees.

In many ways, the scene summarizes the entire experience of Six Feet Under, a series from American Beauty author Alan Ball. Death on television is usually reserved for crime victims or overly dramatic ER patients. Like the corpse in the aforementioned scene, the theme of death is difficult for television to truly grasp. Six Feet Under offers the audience a chance to indulge its most creepy and graphic curiosities about death, with the comfort of the most industrial of rubber gloves—television. HBO hopes that the program will become its next Sopranos—that may be wishful-thinking, but after just one episode, Six Feet Under will win you over.

The Fisher family—Nate Sr., Ruth, Nate, David and Claire—operates Fisher and Sons funeral parlor in suburban Los Angeles. To call the family dysfunctional suggests that at some point in the past or the future, the family possessed or will possess a level of functionality—it's a misnomer. This family is /mfunctional. For example, in just the first two episodes, Nate Sr. is killed when a bus broadsides his new hearse; his wife Ruth (Frances Conroy) admits to her children that she has been having an extra marital affair with a hairdresser from church; son Nate meets his younger sister, Claire (Lauren Ambrose), for the first time while she is high on crystal-meth; and

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son David (North Carolina native Michael Hall) tries to hide two things: his emotions about his father's death and his sexuality.

In addition to the family, Rachel Griffiths plays new-ager Brenda, Nate's girlfriend who he met and slept with on a flight from Seattle to Los Angeles, and Mathew St. Patrick plays David's boyfriend—both add a lot to the show and their non-Fisher-family perspectives amplify the program's effectiveness. The deceased father frequently appears as well—as a Macßeth-quality ghost.

The acting is all-around excellent, although in the pilot, written by Ball, much of the dialogue for the female characters seemed forced and disjointed—similar to the problems that Ball faced with American Beauty.

As a matter of fact, from the eerie theme music (by American Beauty composer Thomas Newman) to the characters, the series could be described as American Beauty: The Series. Judging by the film's success, maybe HBO's projections for Six Feet Under are not so far-fetched after all.

—By Martin Barna

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that time again. The weather is getting hotter, the days are getting longer, and the kids are out of school.

It can only mean one thing: It's time for Disney to release their annual animated film. This year, parents will be dragged to the theater to see Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Instead of being treated to the memorable characters and big laughs that Disney was once known for (remember Aladdin and The Lion King), adults will suffer through 90 minutes of the same tired formula that's made recent Disney films so forgettable. Kids will be entertained, but don't expect them to come back to the theaters to see it again.

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"YOU SEE, my ancient princess friend, it says right here that every Disney animated film must have a hero who overcomes his shortcomings and a princess who plays hard to get," said Milo, the hero

by Michael J. Fox), whose life is spent in pursuit of finding the lost city of Atlantis. When his research finally pays off, Milo is shipped off on an underwater adventure with a motley crew of typical Disney sidekicks.

These characters provide a few humorous moments, but most attempts at comic relief fall short. There's some action, adventure, a few impressive animation sequences and a happy ending (hope I'm not giving too much away).

But it's all been done before. What makes this movie different from other Disney films is the PG rating (it might be too intense for younger kids) and the welcome absence of cute musical numbers. Rather than wasting your time on Atlantis, stay home and rent a Disney classic.

Atlantis sinks. □

Evolution DIR: IVAN REITMAN. WITH: DAVID DUCHOVNEY, JULIANNE MOORE, SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT.

In all likelihood, Evolution has Charles Darwin wishing he never went to the Galapagos.

David Duchovny plays Dr. Ira Krane—a spoof on his own charaoter of Fox Mulder from the X-Files. Ira discovers an GRADE: extraterrestrial meteorite containing extraterrestrial D+ life that evolves at an exponential rate. Harry Block (Orlando Jones) assists Ira and executes more rectal humor than an entire season of Queer As Folk.

Faux firefighter Wayne Gray (Seann William Scott) is a moron who sobers even the thickest of skull, and scientist Allison Reed (Julianne Moore) stumbles clumsily, not unlike Moore's reputation, after this career choice. (Mind you, she's already pulled-off a coke-addled prostitute.) Any

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The movie, directed by Ghostbusters' creator Ivan Reitman, is false advertising —a paradox. The title of the film alludes to what Hollywood needs to do in order to retain any redeeming qualities—or a promising future.

Instead of evolving, this flick is just another movie, not a film, created for an audience of stereotypes rather than for a progressive population.

This movie's 105 minutes would be better spent brainstorming ways to save Hollywood from further predetermination. Evolution evolves not.

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7-UP SPOKESMAN Orlando Jones was tricked by co-star David Duchovny into drinking alien bile. Ahhh, the irony.

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Uncertain priorities Administrators have failed to communicate their intentions to Primate Center employees for the center’s future direction and existence

Following

two separate reviews, the University recently declined to renew the contract ofthe Primate Center’s director as administrators reconsider the center’s mission.

Officials have long pondered the center’s relevance within the University, and most recently their questions have targeted the center’s competing pursuits ofresearch and conservation.

Unfortunately, the administration has poorly communicated its concerns to the Primate Center’s staff.

Some employees first discovered the director’s dismissal by noticing that his salary was absent from next year’s budget.

Meanwhile, others learned through a late afternoon memo sent just as the rumor of the director’s departure began to circulate.

With such haphazard communication and the confusion that was sure to follow, employees are understandably concerned about their futures with the center.

Clearly the administrators need some confidentiality to work productively, but the degree of secrecy in this case has hurt more than it has helped. What little information the employees have been given, has indicated that administrators plan significant changes based on the reviews, which they have not released. As administrators have publicly suggested disinvesting from the center in recent weeks, there is reason for employees to want to know whether such language implies that the center will be closed.

University administrators must address these questions from employees by stating their current plans for the center or providing, at the very least, a realistic timetable for when they plan to make any major decisions concerning the center. In discussing the center’s future, officials must be candid when employees’ livelihoods hang in the balance.

Officials have also said that the center has allowed its research to suffer while it has overdeveloped its conservation programs, which include public tours that illustrate the environmental threats facing lemurs. The administrators have the responsibility and authority to make changes to reconcile the center’s goals with the University’s priorities, but they must give employees and community members the opportunity to voice their concerns. And until employees are informed, they will not have the opportunity to voice these concerns constructively.

The Primate Center has gained international recognition for its unique collection of prosimians, and closing the center would be unfortunate. But if, after seriously considering community and employee opinion, administrators find that the University is not financially or philosophically able to continue operating the center, then its closing may be the appropriate option. However, in the decision making process, effective communication is key to handling this situation.

The Chronicle AMBIKA KUMAR, Editor

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Underlying precedents of Mercer suit have changed While the June 7 article “University files Title IX

on the briefs” focuses University’s appeal of the Mercer v. Duke judgement to the US. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, recent

rulings by the US. Supreme Court have changed the precedents for the lawsuit. In Alexander v. Sandoval the Supreme Court held that private right of action is limited

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receiving federal funds. In

to “intentional” discriminafor referenced article,

tion and in Cooper Industries an earlier ruling, Mississippi v. Leatherman Tool Group University for Women v. granted de novo review of Hogan, the Supreme Court had held that Title IX exclupunitive damages.

But the most important sion of single-sex schools issue is the “intrinsic contraprovided no solace to alldiction” of exempting singlewomen institution because Congress lacks power to sex schools from Title IX coverage and whether that “restrict, abrogate or dilute” equal protection provisions makes Title IX unconstitutional for denying due of the U.S. Constitution. process and equal protection

Kauko Kokkonen Towson, Maryland

see http:! / www.chronicle.duke.edu /story.php?articlelD=22927

Allowing underage distribution leaves retailers liable I would like to clear up several false statements Martin Bama made in his May 24 column.

People who are 21 do have a right to buy alcohol, but retailers have to take responsibility for underage drinking

and reduce access to underage persons. Some grocery

chains have done that by

shows that retailers are—-

and will be held—responsible for ensuring that alcohol does not reach underage persons.

Julius and Belinda Storch sued Winn-Dixie under the Dram Shop Act after a clerk sold beer to their 18-year-old son Jason. The act imposes liability on businesses that sell alcohol when a death or severe injury results from

underage drinking. Parents alone cannot solve the problem; retailers must do their part, too.

Creating policies to reduce access to alcohol is not private moralizing. It’s taking responsibility for the well-being of

youth in your community.

Whether or not it is immoral, underage drinking is a public health and safety problem, and that is why it is against the law. I applaud retailers that go the extra mile to reduce youth access to alcohol.

adopting policies such as carding every person in a drinking. Jason was killed group when one person buys after his truck crashed into a alcohol. While this is not a pole. His blood-alcohol constate law, it is a model policy tent was 0.14. The Storchs adopted by some stores to were awarded $lOO,OOO as a show they are responsible for result of the suit.

BARBARA MARTIN keeping alcohol out of the The ruling highlights the Project Director hands of youth. importance of community Governor’s Institute on Alcohol A recent court ruling responsibility in reducing and Substance Abuse, Inc. for referenced column, see http:! www.chronicle.duke.edu story.php?articlelD=22B9l /

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Certainly the Pratt School of Engineering and the Divinity School have shattered their original goals.

Peter Vaughn, director of communications and donorrelations for the Office of University Development, on fundraising in the Campaign for Duke (see story, page one)

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Timothy McVeigh was the perfect opporI can now see why the Spanish tunity for a frank and straightforward Inquisition put on such a popular show debate of capital punishment. But that in the Middle Ages; watching an execudebate never materialized. Instead, it tion gave the inquiring masses what became a media their boring lives event with continulacked—genuine ous coverage of a suspense. I cannot along large, gray buildhelp feeling that ing and detailed had the courts eXeCUUOU accounts of a mass allowed greater murderer’s fmai stopped being a question access by the moments. I serimedia someone r i 77 ously fail to see OJ VdlueS Odd tUTTLed mtO would have set up how offering to a live Internet watch the execu- an exciting countdown feed. Even with tion on pay-perthe court orders, view would have federal authorities been much different than what actually have already admitted that a determined-enough hacker could have spliced took place.

So much for thought-provoking news the feed and obtained a video of the execoverage—by 8:40 a.m. an unknown cution. Whether such a recording will reporter from Oklahoma City was ever surface remains to be seen.

But it wasn’t just the execution that already on CNN (with the mandatory bothers me—the days preceding it were “BREAKING NEWS” caption at the bottom of the screen) nervously reading just as bad. If you take a look at the from the notes she feverishly took durheadlines from newspapers across the ing the execution. I cannot recall her nation you’ll see that somewhere along

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Timothy McVeigh was white, rational, guilty and possessed a superb legal defense team. There was no racial bias in his sentencing. His crime was deliberate and well-orchestrated. There was no doubt about whether he used a weapon of mass destruction to murder 168 people. His multi-million defense team did have to—know! not doze off during the trial. Simply put, And since McVeigh was already if there was ever a fitting test case to gaining the status of a celebrity, the determine to what extent our nation networks could not resist capitalizing should uphold the sanctity of a single on his potential to attract viewers and human life, this was it. listeners. What was the end result of So here was an opportunity to bring such attention—a native son whose to the forefront of our discussions the —

superb Army training apparently never essential question of whether our socitaught him to distinguish between a ety is morally justified in killing a man government and its people departed who committed such a heinous crime? this world with a blaze ofmedia coverAs long as this nation remains more age usually reserved for important interested in how a mass murderer was heads of states, monumental religious executed rather than why he was executleaders or other influential figures in ed, there will be no progress on the issue. world history.

But beneath all this there still lies a Marko Djuranovic is a Trinity senior wasted opportunity for an important and former health & science editor of discussion.

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Not everyone has spectacular summers waiting for them Evan is good Evan Lee What are you doing this summer?

This is the age-old question that I feared would be asked of me this spring. It scared me for many reasons.

Probably the most important reason was because of the laundry list of pathetic jobs I had held over previous summers.

When I graduated from high school, I tried to reward myself by not working the summer before coming to Duke. My mother was less than receptive to the idea and decided that I would not need an automobile all summer because of my lack of ambition. I said fine and decided to take up jogging and swimming. That lasted perhaps a week before my general laziness took over and soon it became a battle to wake up before three o’clock, which is when the Batman cartoon came on Fox Kids.

After two semesters at Duke, which taught me absolutely no practical job skills and left me with no idea of a major, I went back to my old job as a stock boy in Diamond’s Hallmark in the Cherry Hill Mall.

Pause for a moment to think about how many guys you know who have worked in a Hallmark. It’s kind of hard to impress the ladies when you have to explain that males do in fact work at your store.

Highlights of this job included my extremely low wage, ten of my evil friends coming into the store to rearrange the cards so that I would have to go back and fix them later, a fall from a 15-foot ladder while putting away wrapping paper and the general joy

that comes from working in a store full of senile women who are either afraid of you or wish grave bodily harm upon you.

The job that I had after my sophomore year at Duke may have been the worst: I was set up at a microfilming company. I filmed hospital records by using a big camera that resembled an overhead projector and had maybe three buttons. I would sit at the camera and have a huge stack ofboxes next to me that were full of documents. My job would be to take a piece of paper from a folder, center it under the lens and hit a button. Then, I would flip the piece of paper

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correct. I dreaded going into work and fantasized of a fire burning the building down in the middle of the night. Quite possibly the best thing that happened to me was my camera breaking, and the management sending me into the warehouse to carry skids and boxes around. While I almost died of dehydration and nearly lost an appendage, it was probably the best day of work I had there.

So I guess it was really of no surprise to anyone—even me—when it was late April and I had no plans whatsoever as to what my summer would hold. While some folks were going to Asia, working for Accenture, or even some dot-com, I envisioned myself in Myrtle Beach hoping some random hobo would come up and ask me to be his intern for the summer. I thought learning how to beg for money would be a good skill to pick up since my resume was, to put it nicely, pathetically awful.

There is a happy ending though. The Professional GulfAssociation Tour called me back in May for some insane reason about a marketing internship position I had applied for but given up hope on. Out of approximately 31 interns in various departments, I was pretty much the absolute last intern they selected.

Apparently, the universal scales are balancing out and for once—l’m being treated well at a job. The perks are incredible, the work is fun, and the food is great. But this just goes to show that there is hope for even the least qualified of us. All it takes is a little perseverance and luck.

over, check to see if anything was written there, and if there was, I would take a picture of that too. Finally, I would move the piece ofpaper out of the way, and then take the next document in the stack. I would repeat this process five thousand more times through the course of the day.

Now you may be thinking that this is the worst posAfter reading The Wall Street Journal, Trinity senior sible job in the world, and that I should have gone Evan Lee cannot believe students at Duke spend $825 insane after four hours of this torture. You would be per month on nonacademic discretionary items.

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sarily provide a major or a doctoral program, AAAS offers a major and a minor for undergraduates, but only offers a certificate at the graduate level. Administrators say making an official name change would be largely symbolic. “It has all of the rights and responsibilities of a department,” Holloway said. “Our commitment restated the commitments we made to AAAS that were outstanding.”

AAAS Director Barry Caspar could not be reached for comment.

In the same report, Keohane said AAAS could become a top-five program nationally and listed research goals, faculty strength and more space as priorities.

One of the barriers to uniting the entire program in one location is its very nature. Holloway noted that AAAS shares much of its faculty with other humanities departments. Keohane extolled the hiring of experts like Houston Baker, Charlotte Pierce-Baker and Charles Payne, none of whom hold primary appointments in AAAS. Currently, the program has only 11 core faculty members.

Chafe said that despite the University’s intent on strengthening science departments in the long-range plan, there is institutional support for making AAAS among the nation’s elite, alongside departments at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and Yale University.

“Race and gender are among our top priorities, and having a program at the top of the rankings in both areas of gender and race is strategic,” Chafe said.

Berkeley and Yale have faculties twice the size of Duke’s; Harvard has its own W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, the nation’s oldest research center in the field. In addition to its Afro-American Studies department, Harvard has a separate department for African Studies. Both departments not only have strong graduate programs, but also offer Ph.D.s in the field.

While there are only six Duke undergraduates with AAAS as a first major, 69 students hold either a second major or a minor. One out of six undergraduates have taken a course in AAAS or cross-listed in AAAS.

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what they were last year, but still 2 percent above the level during the same period in 1999, he added.

Even with the fall in security gifts, the campaign, in total, continues to receive about $5 million each week, Vaughn said. If it keeps near that level, the effort should be completed about six months before its target date of December 2003, he added.

Alumni giving in general has not been the strength of the campaign so far, which has relied more on gifts from the business sector. “Duke’s alumni body is younger than most of our peers’, so it’s not that they’re less generous, but that they’ve had less time to accumulate resources and get used to giving to Duke,” he said.

Although the money raised will affect all areas of the University, including traditional areas of teaching and research, it will also allow for many of the initiatives set forth in the new long-range academic plan, Building on Excellence. “There’s a number of schools that are doing really well,” Vaughn said.

“Certainly the Pratt School of Engineering and the Divinity School have shattered their original goals.”

He also cited efforts by the Fuqua School of Business, the library and the Athletics Department as leading the fundraising. But he added that finishing the final leg of the campaign will not be easy. “It’s a limited celebration,” Vaughn said. “This is a milestone, and it’s an important one, but we still have a $2 billion goal to reach.”

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mostly our faculty-student and academic systems.”

Although administrative technology use is much less of a concern than before Leydon arrived, the new vice provost will be asked to further integrate different administrative departments. Wolpert noted existing “working relationships” between OIT and departments like the registrar’s office, the DukeCard office and the campus computer store, but he said there is

more to be done. Even on smaller projects, such as making class lists with photographs so professors can learn students’ names more easily, better coordination would help, he said.

Trask added he is concerned about finding minority candidates, in order to increase diversity within the administration’s upper ranks.

“I expect it’s going to be difficult. His-

torically this pool has not been as diverse as we’d like it,” he said.

The search committee is able to see

Duke’s technology management moving to a higher level, partly because of Leydon’s effective reorganization of OIT. Prior to Leydon’s arrival, campus computing had been under the purview of six separate administrative departments, leading to differing priorities and poor planning, Wolpert said.

“At the time, the people who did software and the people who did hardware were different people, so when there was a problem they would say, ‘lt’s their problem,’” Wolpert said. “It was

hard to convince candidates that Duke is serious about this, that we’re willing to make the investments and administrative changes to improve. But somehow we did, and miracles happened.”

With an administrative foundation set, Leydon upgraded campus systems and computing power, culminating in a 1998 national award for “excellence in campus networking.”

In Leydon’s stead, several associate provosts are currently serving on an interim team.

Frankfurt campus enhances Duke’s global presence � GLOBAL from page 1

temational affairs. “They were veiy supportive in exploring jointly a number of complex relationships, all the way from clinical trials on cancer to their being very supportive for having a language program there.”

Duke is seeking a similar partnership with Venice University in Italy, and the Pratt School of Engineering is now in legal negotiations to create an alliance with Nanyang Technical University in Singapore.

Provost Peter Lange said that although international relationships are vital, they must be crafted carefully.

“We need to be strategic in how we do this. We can’t afford to diffuse such a substantial commitment,” he said.

“At the same time, the University and all the pieces of the University do not, can not and should not move in lock step.”

The report said the University can also create a greater global presence by establishing campuses abroad —as it has done with the Fuqua School of Business’ venture in Frankfurt, Germany.

The business school began operation of its 18-month Cross Continent MBA program just this January.

Robert Ashton, who will become dean of the Frankfurt campus July 1, said the new location will help ad-

vance Duke’s European reputation, especially because members ofthe Cross Continent program and the Global Executive MBA program return to a number of differ-

ent countries.

“The Fuqua campus will be a home base for us [in Europe]. It will be a place where alumni ofDuke University could get together,” said Ashton, who plans to spend his time in Europe making contacts on the continent.

He added that Fuqua hopes to eventually expand into Asia or South America.

South America is one of the places that Duke is particularly well renowned.

Merkx, in his travels as director of the University of New Mexico’s Latin American and Iberian Institute, said he was impressed by the global reputation Duke has already amassed. “One of the things I was impressed with is that everyone knows about Duke in Latin America. It actually has a fair amount of visibility down there, which

surprised me,” Merkx said.

President Nan Keohane, who just returned from a trip to Brazil, Chile and Argentina, said South America is a geographically strategic place for Duke. “South America, by proximity and increasingly by economic ties, is a natural place for Duke... to focus our international

efforts, and these countries offer good possibilities for partnerships and recruitment of students,” she wrote in an e-mail.

Hand in hand with the partnerships Duke hopes to build are the steps it has taken to attract international • students to Durham.

Although Duke’s international students make up only 3.3 percent of its undergraduate population, Director of Admissions Christoph Guttentag said they will comprise 8 percent of next year’s incoming class. He added that he hopes to strengthen the pool by offering some need-based financial aid to international students next year.

In addition to addressing international students who wish to come to Duke, the report suggested ways to improve study abroad for Duke students.

The report highlighted the need to dispel concerns about the cost of study-abroad programs, noting that 46 percent of students who do not receive financial aid study abroad, but only 24 percent of financial aid recipients do.

Jim Belvin, director of undergraduate financial aid, said parents are often concerned about the hidden costs of study abroad. “What I often hear is that parents or students aren’t aware that they can take financial aid abroad,” he said.

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Lakers take 3-1 advantage in Finals Recruit

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Remember those all-too-powerful Los Angeles Lakers 76ers 86 who steamrolled their way through the West? They finally arrived at the NBA Finals.

Shaquille O’Neal had 34 points and 14 rebounds and Kobe Bryant came within one assist of a tripledouble Wednesday night as the Lakers looked all but unbeatable in defeating the Philadelphia 76ers 100-86 to move within one victory of repeating as champions.

In their most impressive game of the series, the Lakers held a double-digit lead for almost the entire second half as they tied an NBA record with their seventh consecutive playoff road victory.

If the Lakers can close out the series Friday night in Game 5, they will finish with the best postseason run in NBA history—ls-1. They already have the 76ers in dire straits, as no team has ever come back from a 3-1 deficit in the finals.

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“We still haven’t put together a great game like we did in the first three series, but we’re doing enough to win. And that’s what it’s all about—winning,” O’Neal said. “In. a perfect world we’d be talking about winning the whole thing right now, but we let Game 1 slip away.”

Bryant finished with 19 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists, and an assortment of the Lakers’ role players made big shots. The Lakers made 10 threepointers, including three by Robert Horry, and used Derek Fisher and Tyronn Lue to hold Allen Iverson in check once again.

Iverson left the game with a minute-and-a-half left after scoring 35 points—many of which came in the See LAKERS on page 18 P-

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By CRAIG SAPERSTEIN The Chronicle After signing forward Wynter Whitley last summer and wing player Monique Curry last fall, the women’s basketball team may be on its way to adding a third vital component to their already impressive freshman recruiting class.

Martina Weber, a 6-foot-5 center from Bitburg, Germany, visited Durham Monday and Tuesday and enjoyed her trip immensely.

While Weber has yet to officially commit to Duke and is still waiting on her college entrance exam scores, she seemed quite enthusiastic about the opportunity to play for the Blue Devils and could commit shortly.

“I like the environment, here,” said Weber, as she overlooked the campus from the fourth floor of Schwartz-Butters, where the women’s basketball offices reside.

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U.S. junior national team invites Duke’s Beard to try out From staff reports

Duke’s All-America freshman, Alana Beard, has been invited to try out for the 2001 USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team, June 15-18 in Colorado Springs, Colo. It is the second Cr»r\T»T»ri invitation for the IjrOKIIS national freshman ■Dujrprpri of the year, who led 15Kill/r IS Ast

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Junior and Ladies National Champion, is considered to be the best player in Europe in her age group. She has played in five European Team Championships, two World Team Championships, two Ladies European Tour Events, and is a member of the Swiss National Team. Aazam-Zanganeh now becomes one of five golfers on the team with international background.

Rising senior Kristen Foster, juniors Lauren Gallagher and Meghan Walters and sophomore Meghan Miller will all compete in the developmental team’s annual camp from July 31 to Aug. 4 and also in two competitions this fall. It is the second year in a row that Gallagher and Walters were named to the team, but only the first for Foster and Miller.

The team serves as a feeder for the US. Elite and World Cup teams, the former of which rising Blue Devil senior Kate Kaiser was named to earlier in the year.

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national team to a 5-0 record while scoring 15.4 points per game. That squad earned a gold medal by winning five games in five days by an average margin of 50.6 points. Last year’s victory qualified the United States for the 2001 Junior World Championships in the Czech Republic.

Golf adds more international flavor to team: The NCAA runner-up women’s golf team added another her-

Duke puts four on Women’s alded international golfer to its roster Lacrosse Development Team: Four Monday by inking Niloufar Aazam-

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national team. While the candidates date as far back as the class of 1995, those from this past season’s squad include Hartofilis, Bross, Matt Breslin, Hunter Henry, Michael Keating and Kevin Cassese.

Rowing places one on Alllacrosse team reaped plenty of America squad: Duke’s Joanne Hingle awards in the postseason, including was named a second team All-American three USILA Scholar All-Americans, by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Scott Bross, Chris Hartofilis and Association on Tuesday. Hingle was the Stuart Schwartz. It marked the first only Blue Devil and one of six from the selection for all three Blue Devils ACC to be honored.

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Lakers start game with early ran and never look back Aside from the free throws, the Lakers 17 fourth quarter when the 76ers made one dominated this game much like they did during the first three rounds ofthe postlast push but came up way short. season when they went 11-0 against “We’ve got to go back to the drawing board and see what we can do to contain Portland, Sacramento and San Antonio.

“I told /all I was going to come back that type of player,” Iverson said. “That team starts with Shaquille O’Neal and with a vengeance,” said O’Neal, who had 20 points and 11 rebounds by halftime ends with Shaquille O’Neal.” as the Lakers opened a 14-point lead.

The 76ers hurt themselves by missThe no-quit 76ers made a move early ing 11 free throws, which was an even bigger factor considering Los Angeles in the fourth, getting six straight points missed 14. They appeared tired during from Iverson in an 11-0 run that cut the game, as their shots often came up their deficit to 77-70. But O’Neal powshort and they couldn’t keep the Lakers ered past Dikembe Mutombo for a dunk,

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and then passed out of a double-team for a wide-open 3-pointer by Brian Shaw.

Lue and Horry followed with threes to get the lead back to 17 with six-and-ahalf minutes left, and from there it was only a matter of running out the clock.

“We’re getting into a rhythm and starting to get our flow back, and no matter what kind of a run the Sixers throw at us we’re going to bounce back,” Bryant said.

Fisher added 10 points, Horry had nine and Ron Harper eight.

Iverson got his points on 12-for-30 shooting from the field, and Mutombo added 19 points and nine rebounds.

Aaron McKLe shot just l-for-9 and the Sixers had just 15 assists on their 33

field goals—a telling sign that they were not playing good team ball.

“When you consider the fact that we did make a run and they didn’t panic but made good plays, that’s why they’re a championship team,” Philadelphia coach Larry Brown said.

O’Neal grabbed five offensive rebounds in the first quarter and the Lakers had nine second-chance points in taking a 22-14 lead. O’Neal’s first dunk came off an offensive rebound as he caught Mutombo across the jaw with an elbow while turning toward the basket.

The Sixers opened the second quarter with a full-court press that gave the

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Lakers trouble and allowed Philadelphia to pull within 26-22, but they then switched their defensive attention to double-teaming O’Neal and the results were not good.

Harper hit a backdoor layup off a pass from O’Neal and then nailed a three-pointer from the corner, and Horry and Lue also hit treys in a 20-7 run that gave Los Angeles a 46-29 lead.

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In third quarter, Bryant went around Raja Bell for a three-point play with 3:47 left to give the Lakers their first 20-point lead, 68-48, and O’Neal scored six points over the rest of the quarter to help the Lakers take a 77-59 lead into the fourth.

“Well, I had an inkling we were going to play a game like that tonight,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. “I felt we had a better game in us than we played the other night.”

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Weber would fill Duke’s void of strong presence in post

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which makes it easier for me because I’m a foreign student and professors and other students can spend more time with you during classes.

“What impresses me most is that the basketball teams are quite successful here, not only the men’s team, but also the women’s basketball team. I would have a very experienced coach, who is young, but whom I think is very competent, and she knows what she wants to do. I think I would feel comfortable here.”

Assistant coach Joanne Boyle, a Blue Devil alum herself, also believes Weber would fit in very well at Duke if she decides to enroll. By selecting Duke, Weber would round out one of the nation’s best recruiting classes, which includes Whitley and Curry, both of whom were selected as Parade secondteam All-Americans. Boyle is also excited because she believes Weber would alleviate the team’s most glaring concern—the lack of a dominant presence in

something our other post players can do. She’ll give us rebounding, she’ll give us low block points, and

good defense in the post.”

Boyle also considers Weber’s vast experience and global perspective to be important assets. Weber native has played on German junior national and national teams, intrastate club teams and in the European circuit. Weber has even played in the United States before, as her German junior national team battled their American counterparts in a game in Washington D.C. Despite her many travels, it has been difficult for Weber to follow college basketball because it is usually not broadcast in Germany. Therefore, in narrowing down her college choices—which include Duke, UNLV, Boston College, and South Carolina—Weber has used the Internet as her primary resource to gain information about the NCAA game. She has also received loads of mail from the bevy of schools

recruiting her.

Also, in the case of UNLV, she has heard firsthand The Germany native would surely complement about Las Vegas from two other German players who the strong perimeter play of Curry, Sheana Mosch, suit up for the Runnin’ Rebels. Not surprisingly, and Rometra Craig and would also fit in well with Weber notices the distinct differences that exist the Blue Devils’ versatile forwards, namely Whitley, between “Sin City” and the Gothic Wonderland.

Iciss Tillis, and leading returnee Alana Beard.

“I think the biggest difference is that Las Vegas “Looking at Tina, she’s exactly what we don’t have is bigger,” Weber said. “It was totally a culture shock in a low block player right now,” Boyle said. “She’s 6- for me, which is not bad, because I like Las Vegas 5, she’s strong, she’s physical, she likes to bang, and too. I had a good time there, I like the coach there, she loves the low block—that’s her forte. What she’ll and there are also two German players playing at need to learn is facing up to the basket, but that’s Las Vegas.” the interior.

Height 6*5 Team: DJK Wildcats Hometown: Bitburg, Germany

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS � Member of both the German national team and junior national team. Also played club basketball throughout Europe. � One of the top European prospects entering college this season, valued for both her inside size and experience at a higher level. � Averaged 11.6 points and 3.8 rebounds during five games of the 2001 Ronchetti Cup with the DJK Wildcats

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She’s 6*5, she’s strong, she’s physical, she likes to bang, and she loves the low block—that’s herforte. She’ll give us rebounding, she’ll give us low block points, and good defense in the post.

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