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Out of his cage After struggling with injuries for the past few years, Matt Christensen hopes to come back strong. See page 14

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City Council votes to ask state Legislature for tax Tax on hotel and motel stays in Durham would rise from 5 percent to 6 percent

By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle

Seeking the ability to fund a possible theater downtown, the Durham City Council voted Tuesday night to ask the state Legislature for the authority to raise the hotel occupancy tax.

The council voted 10-3 to request permission to increase the tax on visitors staying in hotels or motels in Durham from 5 percent to 6 percent—although members stressed that they would not necessarily raise the tax even if given the authority to do so.

The increase would generate an estimated $1.4 million each year. That number weighs in at approximately half the annual debt payments of between $2.6 million and $2.8 million on a proposed 5,000-seat theater downtown.

Council members advocated the tax

as a source of funding for that theater and other projects to revitalize downtown, such as a proposed redevelopment ofthe American Tobacco campus.

In related news The Durham City Council heard citizens’ arguments on a proposal that could create higher density developments. See page 5

“I feel the occupancy tax is an excellent little mechanism to let us move closer to [revitalization],” council member Floyd McKissick said.

He pointed out that the hotel occupancy tax is already at 6 percent in neighboring Wake County.

State Rep. Paul Luebke, D-Durham and co-chair of the House Finance Committee, said after the meeting that See HOTEL TAX on page 9 !�

University opens fund for cultura 1 programs � President Nan Keohane provided $lOO,OOO of her discretionary fund. The money has yet to be distributed.

By MATT BRADLEY The Chronicle

As a result of discussions last year between cultural groups and administrators, $lOO,OOO of University money has been allocated to fund cultural events. Officials hope this new fund will help improve the racial climate on campus by providing more opportunities for cultural groups to plan activities.

The Office of Intercultural Affairs plans to administer the money in three rounds throughout the year to student groups that apply for funding. “It’s going to be managed through a variation of the process that’s used to administer the University fund,” said Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. “We’re essentially leveraging a pre-existing structure.”

Many student cultural leaders considered the decision to be a temporary solution that reflects the University’s growing concentration on minority issues. “Some of the events that the fund will be going to, such as Diwali, attract over 4,000 students for one weekend, and the University is now acknowledging that this is an important part of the THE ASIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION, which an- Duke year and is starting to institutionnually puts on Lunar New Year, may more easily alize it,” said senior Denise Pozzerle, coSee CULTURE MONEY on page 8 � access money in the future.

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THE NEW FOOTBALLBUILDING (TOP) is the latest of Duke’s new athletic buildings. In the past few years, the University has built the Schwartz-Butters Building (left) and the Wilson Recreation Center (right).

Recruitment competition spurs facilities ‘arms race’ Group reports that universities will spend over $4 billion on athletic buildings

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

At the start of every home game, the football team usually runs out onto the field through the tunnel at Wallace

Wade Stadium.

This year, however, the team will be running down the steps of the stands, because the University is in the midst of constructing a new $19.4 million football building.

It is part of what many athletic directors, experts and the Knight Foundation’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics call a growing facility “arms race.”

Chris Kennedy, senior associate athletic director at Duke, said the nationwide boom in facility construction is not good for college athletics, but is necessary to attract recruits and give athletes the tools necessary to succeed.

He said the construction will taper off over the next two years. The only remaining plans at Duke include the reno-

Personal religious struggles may lead to increased risk of mortality, according to a study published by Associate Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Harold Koenig. See page 4

vation of the Murray Building—which now houses the football program—for the lacrosse and soccer teams, and the installation of permanent bleachers and a sturdier press box at Koskinen Stadium.

The Knight commission reported that the building boom in college sports facilities will cost well over $4 billion nationally. “The test becomes who can build the biggest stadiums, the most luxurious skyboxes,” the report reads.

Nationally, much ofthis facility arms race is pushing athletic department

budgets toward staggering deficits.

Duke, however, is staying afloat. The capital campaign for athletics doubled its goal last year from $65 million to $l3O million and has already raised about $lOO million.

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Kacie Wallace, Duke’s associate dean for judicialaffairs, will help Massachusetts Institute of Technology conduct an investigation of a sexual harassment case. See page 3

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Talks with Mexico yield results

American and Mexican negotiators announced new agreements to improve food safety, enhance housing programs and fight money laundering, but conceded that the thornier issue of revamping immigration policy could take years to complete.

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Gramm will not run for re-election

Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, a conservative Republican who preached the gospel of low taxes, balanced budgets and advocated a strong military to stand up to Communism, said that he would not seek reelection to a fourth term next year.

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Report: Many inmates contract Hepatitis C

A staggeringly high 18 percent of inmates are infected with Hepatitis C, compared with 1.6 percent of the overall population, reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That translates into about 360,000 out of the nation’s two million inmates *

Hostage crisis ends peacefully in Indiana

A man armed with a sawed-off shotgun entered a bank in Lowell, Ind., and took nine people hostage Tuesday morning before surrendering about four hours later. No one was injured, police said.

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But he also maintained that it was “stupidity” to think that the ethnic Albanian rebel force—which calls itself the National Liberation Army—was not in Ljuboten that weekend, even though he said he had no idea if those who died were fighters or civilians. He also attacked Human Rights Watch, calling it an “international mercenary

LJUBOTEN, Macedonia In a detailed report released yesterday, Human Rights Watch accuses the fare in Macedonia.

It was also the clearest and bloodioverwhelmingly Slav forces of Maceest example yet ofthe cycle of revenge donia’s government of summary execution of civilians, arson and torture. that prolonged other Balkan wars.

NATO recently embarked on what is A military operation several weekends ago, the report says, “had no milintended to be a one-month mission to organization.” itary justification and was carried out calm the Macedonian conflict.

“They accuse me of being present In an interview, Boskovski, perfor purposes of revenge.” there and watching when civilians On Aug. 12, seven ethnic Albanians haps the most outspoken proponent of were murdered,” Boskovski said. were killed in the town of Ljuboten. a military solution to the insurgency, “That is a monstrous accusation.”

But nearly a month later, no evidence sought to distance himself from what “Who would bring a camera with has emerged that these people, or happened in Ljuboten. He said he arhim if he wanted to do something like three others also killed in the village, rived only at 4 p.m. that Sunday, after that?” he added. were anything but civilians. the military operation had ended and The U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in By the standards of a decade of that he did not direct the operation.

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Reno announces candidacy for governor

By KEN THOMAS

Federal fossil filched, couple charged

A husband and wife suspected of buying a dinosaur fossil stolen from federal land in central Utah were charged with theft. The fossil, a nearly complete Allosaurus skeleton, is one of only a dozen in the world News briefs compiled from wire reports.

war in the Balkans, the number of dead around Ljuboten was not high.

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Janet Reno launched her bid for governor MIAMI Tuesday, setting up a potential battle against the president’s brother that could be the most closely watched political contest of 2002. Even some Democrats, though, say Reno faces an uphill fight.

The people ofFlorida want a governor “who’s not afraid to make the hard decision, to stand up for those decisions,” said Reno, who filed paperwork to open a campaign account in a bid for the Democratic nomination.

The campaign seems likely to resurrect some of the controversy that marked Reno’s tenure as President Bill Clinton’s attorney general, from the cult disaster at Waco to the seizure of Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives.

But the race will be in the national spotlight primarily

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because of last year’s overtime election that delivered Florida—and the presidency—to George W. Bush, the brother of Republican Gov. JebBush.

“I’ve spent the last three months talking to people all across Florida, and I think they share my vision for Florida—building the best educational system in the country, preserving our environment, managing our growth and standing up for our elders,” said Reno, speaking to reporters outside her Miami-Dade County home.

Some Democrats wonder if the 63-year-old Reno can win. Polls show her leading the crowded Democratic primary field but losing to Bush in a general election.

Her backers say she could have the same populist appeal as former Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, who won a second term by beating Bush in 1994 in the closest gubernatorial race in state history.

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Duke offers small teachin I The Master of Arts in Teaching Program persists, although the University now focuses on research rather than practical training.

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By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

� The associate dean for judicial affairs will conduct a review of MlT’s treatment of a sexual harassment case last spring.

As high school kids get back in the hang of things this school year, Shayne Cokerdem is getting the hang of being a teacher.

Cokerdem, a graduate of Duke’s Master ofArts in Teaching Program, is beginning his first year at the Cannon School in Concord, N.C. Cokerdem heard about the Duke program from friends of his wife, who is also a teacher. He said he chose Duke because it offered a unique curricula.

“The strengths are that it’s usually just 12 or 16 students every year,” Cokerdem said. “Most education programs are much larger than that. The quality of students is extremely selective. The kind of people who get into it are serious about teaching.”

MAT is also unique at Duke in that the fall-year internship program is based within the Graduate School. It begins in June, with an intensive load of classes both on education and the particular disciplines the students intend to teach. As the year starts, however, students work as teachers in Durham Public Schools.

‘They kind of have this boot camp philosophy—get out there and do it,” Cokerdem said.

Rosemary Thome, the program’s director, said instead of focusing on educational theory, Duke’s program uses experts from all of the disciplines to ensure potential educators are well-versed in their area of expertise. She said that the program’s students are equally diverse—about a third of MAT students come from the pool ofDuke undergraduates.

But, in general, Duke does not focus especially heavily on teacher education.

Although there is an undergraduate program in education, offering a certificate, there is no research being done on secondary education or teaching at Duke.

BY ANA MATE The Chronicle

In response to the spring suicide of Julia Carpenter, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student, MIT has chosen Kacie Wallace, Duke’s associate dean for judicial, to conduct an independent review of the school’s inves-

TEACHING ASSISTANT DAN GOLONKA is just one to train teachers as part of its core mission.

But Lewis Siegel, dean of the Graduate School said even though Duke is a research university, teacher training was one of James B. Duke’s founding goals for the University. “The creation of teachers is an important role,” Siegel said. “We have a strong educational mission, and a mission to society.”

Thome said MAT is designed for individual, hands-on education and that although the program is small, so are most other Duke graduate departments. The program is also very selective—MAT receives around 60 application per year.

“There’s enough critical mass that students can exchange ideas and experiences, enough so that all of them get tons of individual attention,” she said.

There are no plans right now to expand the program, although Siegel said

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that he would like to see more sciences represented in the program. Currently, MAT is English- and social science-oriented. “It is a very boutique program,” Siegel said.

Duke is currently celebrating its 150th anniversary of teacher preparation, but the MAT program was formed only in 1988.

Siegel said that the teacher preparation program was once the largest department within the Graduate School as recently as the 1970s and early 1980s, but as Duke morphed into an increasingly renowned research university, this program fell to the wayside.

There was no program for teacher education in the Graduate School during the mid-1980s, until faculty members came together to form MAT, Siegel said.

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MIT Dean for Student Life Larry Benedict has said that outsiders have questioned the school’s actions regarding Carpenter’s complaints.

He also has said the school seeks an independent review of the procedures they employed in handling the complaints.

Carpenter, a sophomore in chemical engineering, was found dead by her roommate in her dormitory April 30.

Four months prior to her suicide, Carpenter had filed a harassment complaint with the dormitory’s judicial board against dormmate and fellow student Charvak Karpe.

Ten days after the school punished Karpe, Carpenter committed suicide by poisoning herself with cyanide.

“The purpose of the investigation is to look at the support system within MIT and evaluate those systems and make recommendations,” Wallace said.

Benedict said in a recent press release that he hopes the review will help improve MlT’s future responsiveness to students with concerns similar to Carpenter’s.

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Novel agent could treat heart disease

Duke cardiologists have completed the first phase of a trial testing an experimental anticoagulant that may provide a new treatment option for patients with coronary artery disease. The drug prevents formation •of blood clots earlier in the coagulation process than any other drugs currently available. Dr. Christopher Dyke, senior cardiology fellow at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, said the agent effectively inhibits the action of Factor Xa, the most important of the known clotting factors, while being well-tolerated.

Although the new anticoagulant has great potential in treating patients with heart disease, researchers have cautioned that enthusiasm should be reserved until the multi-center trials are completed.

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Drug may restore premature lung function

Using a new antibody treatment, Medical Center doctors have demonstrated how to prevent severe lung injury in newborn animals without subjecting them to the potential side effects of available treatments. In a report published in the American Journal of Physiology, researchers describe a treatment tested in rats but designed to work in premature babies.

The treatment may be tested with humans in as early as two years. Lead author Dr. Richard Auten,-assistant professor of pediatrics, said chronic lung disease is the most important predictor of babies who may grow up with learning disabilities and asthma.

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Applications to medical schools drop

Applications to the nation's medical schools fell 3.7

percent in 2000 in the fourth straight year of decline.

Attractive jobs in dot-coms and information technology, along with the prospect of big medical school debts, may be among the reasons for the decline, said Barbara Barzansky, secretary of the American Medical Association’s medical education council and author of the report. Add the increased paperwork, regulations and concerns that have come with managed care, and "it’s not as friendly an environment as it used to be.” The decline appears to be leveling off; it was 6 percent in 1999. The applicant pool last year totaled 37,092. It included 17,274 women, a 0.9 percent drop from 1999, the report found, The number of minorities climbed 2 percent to 4,266.

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Livestock epidemic hits grim milestone

Britain's foot-and-mouth epidemic reached 2,000 confirmed cases since the livestock disease was first detected more than six months ago. The 2,000th case was fittingly found in Cumbria, Britain’s worsthit county, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said Monday. The epidemic has proved a stubborn one, doubling back on several areas that had been declared disease-free by the government. But with the new case rate slowing to about three per day, both the government and the National Farmers’ Union believe the war against footand-mouth is in its final stages.

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Group advocates recognizing kids’ pains

Children feel pain as much as adults do, and doctors are needlessly letting them suffer, the nation's largest group of pediatricians says. A new policy statement issued jointly by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Pain Society says doctors should do more to relieve youngsters' pain from injuries, illnesses and medical procedures.

While there is extensive literature describing how to evaluate and treat acute pain in children, doctors have not done as much as they should to prevent or relieve that discomfort for several reasons, including a misconception that youngsters don't feel pain as adults do.

News briefs compiled from staff and wire reports.

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Religious stress may aggravate illness

By MATT BRUMM The Chronicle

Although scientists have already discovered a relationship between religious involvement and longevity, a new study conducted at Duke suggests that elderly patients suffering from a religious struggle may be more likely to die from their illnesses.

Researchers found that patients experiencing religious struggles had a 6 to 10 percent increased risk of dying, while those who said God had deserted them or blamed the devil for their ailment had an even higher increased risk of death at 19 to 28 percent.

Dr. Harold Koenig, associate professor of psychiatry, said stress induced by a patient’s inability to reconcile his religious difficulties can be substantial.

“When people are headed to the hospital or when they’re sick, they start thinking about... God and their life and what they’ve done in their life. If they can turn to theirreligious faith, that provides comfort,” Koenig said. “If they have DR. HAROLD KOENIG, associate professor of psychiatry, reported that patients with religious strugstruggles with their religious faith, that gles may be at higher risk of dying from illness. These findings could compel physicians to recogmay cause turmoil and stress, and that nize and address issues involving religion and its effect on patient health. can affect their physiology.”

Several explanations have been of- would help forge a closer link between the In light of past research, which has fered for these statistics, including the health and religious communities, emphasized the beneficial relation- disruption of the normal bereavement “I think the important implication ship between religion and health, process as one confronts death, the possi- is physicians need to be sensitive to Koenig said his findings were someble link between religious turmoil and the spiritual life of their patients,” he what surprising. physiological changes in the body and so- said, adding that sometimes it may be “When people become sick, they turn dal alienation issues. necessary for doctors to refer patients to religion for comfort and for hope....

Pargament added that struggles in to the hospital chaplain or to a local What we found was a little unexpected,” the religious tradition are usually de- minister or pastor, he said. “What we’d always found is that picted as positive.

More than half ofthe medical schools religion leads to better health.” “[The findings are] in some ways in- in the United States already offer classKoenig worked with Kenneth consistent with the sacred literature,” he es focusing on religion, spirituality and Pargament, professor of psychology at said. “From Moses to Jesus to Buddha, we medicine. “I think that is very imporBowling Green State University, to have people going through wilderness pe- tant,” Koenig said, conduct interviews of 596 patients at riods and strengthened in some ways.”

William Willimon, dean of the Duke Hospital and at the Durham VetThe researchers suggested that Chapel, said people near the end of erans Affairs Medical Center. The in- physicians should be educated to un- their lives may face unfinished busiterviews were designed to collect data derstand the impact ofreligion on pa- ness and could benefit from speaking about patients’ demographics, mental tients’- health, but Koenig warned that with religious leaders, and physical health and how they cope doctors and religious leaders play dis“Sometimes reassurance is needed.... If with sicknes. Koenig and Pargament’s tinct roles, as physicians are not someone is very ill or near death, I hope report appeared in the Aug. 27 edition trained for spiritual counseling. that religion can provide some consolaof the Archives ofInternal Medicine.

Pargament said he hoped this research tion to them in that time.”

Modified device could fight heart disease Researchers claim artery-widening tube will eliminate complications of current treatments

By EMMA ROSS The Associated Press

further heart trouble in the following six months, compared with 73 percent of the others.

“We are probably witnessing a new era in the treatment of coronary disease,” said the study’s lead investigator, Dr. Marie-Claude Morice, head of

A metal STOCKHOLM, Sweden tube that opens clogged arteries and keeps them clear by releasing medication was hailed by doctors Tuesday as a potential breakthrough in fighting heart disease. interventional cardiology at the Experts predict the device, an imJacques Cartier Hospital Institute in proved version of the conventional stents Massy, France. already used to keep arteries open, will Among angioplasty doctors, enthusieliminate the need for repeat angioplasasm ran high. ties and could spare some patients the Dr. Wim van der Giessen, a Dutch cartrauma, risk and prolonged recovery asdiology professor who was not involved in sociated with heart bypass surgery. the study, predicted the new stent could A study of 238 patients in Europe eventually be used in other blood vessels and Latin America, presented at a and for bigger blockages. Those patients meeting ofthe European Society ofCarare now treated with drugs or surgery.

“It’s very convincing. It’s a definite diology in Stockholm, found that while the arteries closed up again in 26 perbreakthrough,” said Dr. Philip Urban of cent of patients who got a regular stent, Latour Hospital in Geneva, who also was there was no narrowing in any patient not connected with the research. who got the drug-coated device.

Other experts were more cautious Also, 97 percent, of the patients who about the report. “You’re still dealing got the new stent, called Cypher, had no with a systemic disease,” said Dr. Karl

Karsch, head of cardiology at Bristol University in England. “Atherosclerosis is all over the body. You are just interfering at a lesion; you are not interfering with the disease.”

In most patients, angioplasty does not save lives or avert heart attacks, he said.

“I’m impressed, but I’m always suspicious when the complication rate is zero,” he said. “We have seen devices before that were very promising at this stage. Everybody was excited and it turned out that after two or three years there was a certain normalization [relapse].”

And Van der Giessen said the rarely reported problem of contaminated stents may worsen because the drug coating hampers the immune response.

More than one-third of heart disease patients get angioplasty—about 1 million people annually worldwide.

Some patients need it repeatedly. An additional 700,000 people worldwide have heart surgery every year.

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A vote on a super-high-density residential development zoning ordinance was delayed at the Durham City Council’s meeting Tuesday evening so that affected residents would have more time to voice their concerns.

Representatives from two neighborhood organizations spoke in support of the ordinance but raised concerns about certain details of it.

Wood Partners LLC has proposed building one of these super-high-density complexes on Main Street near Erwin Square. This development area would have 380 apartment units on only 5.7 acres. The density of this project would represent a 60 percent increase over the current maximum units per acre al-

lowed in the city. The zone—Residential MultifamilyCompact Neighborhood—being considered would allow up to 80 units per acre.

Members of the nearby Old West Durham Neighborhood Association attended the meeting to support the ordinance’s passage, with one request. President John Schelp asked that the proposal require open spaces for community interaction.

“We want a place where people can interact,” said Schelp, stressing the importance of these open spaces as areas for community building events such as potlucks.

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U.N. racism conference continues after U.S. withdrawal

By RACHEL SWARNS

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As South DURBAN, South Africa Africa and the European Union scrambled Tuesday night to salvage a UN. conference on racism, the delegates who had gathered from across the world were trying to figure out what went wrong and how.

The South African government Tuesday night presented revised drafts ofthe proposed conference declaration and action plan to a team of negotiators headed by Belgium.

The team is charged with removing the criticisms of Israel that led U.S. and Israeli officials to withdraw from the conference Monday.

Whether the negotiators will find an acceptable compromise remains to be seen. But some diplomats here said the conference was doomed from the start

because its organizers failed to resolve the prickly issues before the meeting opened last week.

The issues were even a concern in the United States from the earliest days of the Bush administration. Four weeks ago, Mary Robinson, the UN. commissioner for human rights, stood before a crowd of anxious diplomats in Geneva and reassured them that the meeting was on track. The Arabs were compromising on conference language that sharply criticized Israel, she said. The Americans were negotiating.

After days, the news was flashing around the world. “Zionism Scrapped From Racism Summit Agenda,” the headlines said. The meeting—which was intended to raise the world’s consciousness about intolerance of all forms—was going to be a success. But some diplomats left that meeting in

Geneva shaking their heads. They knew trouble was looming.

A seven-page compromise plan presented by the Arab League in August had eliminated the word “Zionist” but kept references to “the racist practices of the Occupying Power.” Negotiators assigned

to ease American and Israeli concerns often lacked political clout. And as bombs exploded and tanks rolled in the Middle East, some Palestinians and Israelis dug in their heels and refused to bargain seriously even though time was running out.

Monday, the United States and Israel walked out of the racism conference, denouncing “hateful language” in a proposed declaration that condemns Israel.

Tuesday, as the Americans flew out of the city, officials from the United Nations and South Africa expressed shock and regret and moved quickly to consider new language.

But diplomats familiar with the negotiations say Robinson, the conference coordinator, South African officials and others have known for months that trouble was brewing.

The Palestinians, supported by the South Africans and Arab nations, insisted that their suffering be included in any declaration about discrimination.

Israel, supported by the United States and European countries, insisted that it should not be the only country singled out for intolerance in a general docu-

ment that condemns discrimination across the world.

“We knew we had to face the problem in Geneva, but everybody avoided it, swept it under the carpet,” said a European diplomat, who was involved in this week’s last-ditch negotiations to keep the United States and Israel from pulling out.

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Reaction mixed on Bush, Daschle discuss Social Security computer merger

By PHILIP SHENON

New York Times News Service

SAN FRANCISCO Executives from HewlettPackard, a company synonymous with printers, and Compaq, known for personal computers, defended Tuesday their plans to merge into the world’s largest computer maker on the ground that they would like to increasingly be known not for selling hardware, but for selling advice and service.

Reflecting a marked shift in the high-technology industry in recent years, executives said the combined entity, officially announced yesterday in New York, is designed to become a juggernaut in a growing category called “services,” a potentially highly profitable business that entails assisting corporations to set up, organize and maintain computer and data networks.

But the companies’ explanation of their merger plans far from silenced a growing chorus of critics. As industry experts and competitors digested the emerging details of the plan, many said the new company will not easily make inroads into the services market, cut costs or shift emphasis away from the suddenly ailing personal and business computer businesses that forms its foundation.

Hewlett-Packard’s and Compaq’s “heritage is in the computing business, but they’ve lost their competitive advantage, and they want to get it back through services,” said Daniel Kunstler, an analyst with J.P. Morgan H&Q. But for now, Kunstler said, that goal is “their pipedream.”

Kunstler, echoing sentiments from several other industry analysts—and from investors, who sold the two companies stock Tuesday—said the proposed merger partners would be better off in the long run ifkept separate. “In terms of creating better value” for shareholders, he said, “They were better off not doing this.”

But some analysts also said that if the two companies can manage to cut costs as sharply as they propose, they would at least wind up with a computer powerhouse with a broad product line—arguably the world’s richest line of products for a hardware maker.

If the deal is approved by shareholders and regulators, Hewlett-Packard, based in Palo Alto, Calif., would pay $25 billion in stock to acquire Houstonbased Compaq. The companies’ combined revenues, if based on this year’s figures, would be about $B7 billion, although company officials cautioned investors that revenue could drop as much as 5 percent during the first two years of a merger.

Carleton Fiorina, the chief executive at HewlettPackard who will retain the same title at the new company, and Michael Capellas, Compaq’s chief executive who is to be president of the merged firm, formally unveiled the plan Tuesday morning, asserting theirs is a marriage of companies with shared visions for approaching the changing industry.

Fiorina said the plan would save the companies $2.5 billion a year by merging operations, noting that the businesses overlap in many respects. Both she and Capellas said that the synergy was also personal, and that they realized they take similar approaches to customers and employees.

The pair said the merger talks grew out of a brief, and unrelated, discussion several months ago about licensing. But Capellas said the conversation revealed that there were numerous levels on which the companies could work together. After that, he said, in a subsequent conversation, “we got through the basics in 20 minutes in a phone call.”

The companies Tuesday provided some details about the structure of the proposed new company.

They said it would have 135,000 employees, a figure that includes 15,000 job cuts, in addition to 11,000 previously announced cutbacks (5,000 at Compaq and 6,000 at H-P) that have yet to take place. Company executives said the firm would be divided into four divisions; a roughly $2O billion imaging and printing division; $29 billion access devices group; $23 billion information technology infrastructure group, covering servers, software and storage; and $l5 billion services business.

From a strategic standpoint, Fiorina said the new company would be able to combine resources and expertise to “leap frog” competitors in the markets for software, network server computers and services.

WASHINGTON In an escalation of the budgetary parrying between President George W. Bush and Congress, the White House and the Senate Democratic leader insisted Tuesday that they had agreed not to tap the Social Security program to pay the government’s other bills—an agreement that economists say is almost certain to be broken this year.

After meeting with the president at the White House, the Democratic leader, Thomas Daschle of South Dakota, said that he had pressed the president to pledge not to dip into the Social Security program to make ends meet elsewhere, and that Bush had agreed.

“I was looking simply today for his assurance that we’re not going to do that, and he assured me of that,” Daschle said afterward. “We look forward to working

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The White House did not dispute Daschle’s account of the meeting, which was called to discuss progress on the 13 annual spending bills that Congress is required to complete before the start of a new fiscal year on Oct. 1. Claire Buchan, a White House spokesperson, said that Bush “believes we can fund America’s priorities while protecting Social Security, and that is what the president has promised in his budget.”

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Administrators say athletics construction will slow FACILITIES from page 1 $lO million, six-story project that includes the Duke Sports Hall of Fame, a new student-athlete academic center and locker rooms and offices for the men’s and women’s basketball teams.

The Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, a $4.4 million facility with offices and six courts. Outdoor tennis court renovations are currently underway.

Cameron Indoor Stadium received an air conditioning system last year, and ethernet connections were installed two years ago outside Card students tenting in Gym for •

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and lacrosse, received a $300,000 facelift three years ago.

The $19.4 million football building should be finished before next season.

The Knight report bemoans the disparity between institutions that have the money to spend on facilities and those that do not, widening the gap between big-time athletic schools and the rest.

Because of the tangible, immediate impact of a new building, Director ofAthletics Joe Alieva said it was much easier to raise money from donors for a building than for anything else, including endowed scholarships. Alieva said that when Florida State University entered the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1991, their football juggernaut made all the other ACC facilities obsolete—including the Murray Building, built in 1988.

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“How do you compete? You’ve got to get better players. How do you get better players? You build a nicer facility, so hopefully you’ll attract better players,” he said. “Our football facility was by far the worst in the ACC,” Steve Green, associate director of athletics at Northwestern University, said that his school has recently resurfaced its football stadium and built both an indoor tennis facility and an indoor practice building. He said that in the Big Ten Conference, most stadiums were built in the 1920s and needed renovating over the past decade.

“It depends on each institution. Our facilities are old. They were in desperate need,” Green said. “Every place is different. It’s kind ofhard to compare school A to school B. You get into a war game, an

arms race. We can’t afford to do that.”

Yet the premier athletic schools perceive the need to increasingly build more structures. As at Duke, where the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center has had an immediate impact on recruiting, bigger buildings show that athletic departments are committed to the success of their programs.

Some officials at the University do not think spending millions on a football building is the best use of that money.

Kathleen Smith, professor of biology and chair ofthe Athletic Council, said it might not be the most pressing need for either the University or for the Department ofAthletics, but that it was part of a greater trend.

“We’re doing it because other schools are doing it,” she said.

Duke hopes to make funding more easily accessible >

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president of Mi Gente. ‘The reason that they conceded to develop this fund is because they realized the need for more funding for cultural events.”

The money comes from President Nan Keohane’s discretionary fund and was dedicated following a recommendation presented by minority groups at last November’s Unity through Diversity luncheon. The funding followed closely on the heels of campus-wide race protests led by the Duke Student Movement.

“I think that it was an outcome partially ofthe discussions with the Duke Student Movement, but I think that it was a desire of the president to have money for cultural groups,” Moneta said. He added that the funding is part of a larger effort to provide greater minority support on campus in the forms of

campus space, resources and advising.

Vice President ofInstitutional Equity Sally Dickson said the fund was created not only to increase financing for events, but also to make University money more accessible to students. “When what we saw was that many ofthe student groups had to take time away from what we thought was important—their studies—to raise money to put on various student cultural activities, we had various concerns about that,” Dickson said.

The money does not, however, replace existing cultural funding. Currently, campus cultural groups are able to apply for grants from Duke Student Government, the Duke University Union, the University Fund, as well as money from individual offices and campus quad councils. Establishing the fund is the first step in consolidating cultural event funding.

“There’s definitely a very rigid procedure in which funds are allocated for student groups,” said DSG President C.J. Walsh, a senior. “Students frustrated with their allocation have run themselves ragged looking for other funding sources.”

While Moneta stopped short of saying that cultural event funding is bureaucratic, he did say that the University hopes to provide student groups with an easier, more centralized money source.

“I think there are too many distribution outlets that could be consolidated and streamlined. I hope that this fund will support more programming opportunities for students,” Moneta said.

The timelines for allocations and submissions have yet to be decided, but Moneta hopes the first funding

applications will be due no later than Sept. 25.

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Hotel tax would help pay for proposed downtown theater � HOTEL TAX from page 1 he would support giving Durham the authority to levy the tax increase.

“My understanding is that there is a good plan recommended by the Convention & Visitors Bureau that most people are in agreement with,” Luebke said. “[The increase is] a very marginal 1 percent, given that these are for the most

part quality hotels.”

Leaders of the Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau expressed support for

the measure.

“We hope that it will lead to the legislative authority to level the tax. That will allow Durham to enter into serious negotiations [to bring in the theater],” said Bill Kalkhof, president of Downtown Durham, Inc., and a member of the DCVB board of directors.

“There will be a 5,000-seat theater be-

tween Greensboro and Raleigh, and we need to make sure it’s built here.”

But council member Thomas Stith pointed out that the hotel tax alone would not be enough to pay for the theater.

“We’re going to have a gap in funding,” Stith said. “I think we need to be very up-front about that and how we plan to close that gap.”

Reyn Bowman, DCVB president and CEO, agreed that some other source of revenue would be necessary.

“The occupancy tax is a stopgap measure. It would barely pay for half the theater,” he said, but added that the request for the increase was still useful.

“I think it gets the ball rolling on [discussions of other taxes].”

Bowman pointed to a 1 percent tax on prepared food, which would generate an estimated $3 million per year, as a possi-

Reno could become first female governor of Florida � RENO from page 2 “I kind of see her as a Lawton Chiles in a dress,” former state Democratic Party Chair Charles Whitehead said Tuesday. “She’s a straight shooter.”

Her supporters say there is no question Reno is down to earth: She has spent the last three months traveling the state in her pickup truck, telling people about her trips navigating the state’s rivers and swamplands.

On her last day as attorney general, she made a surprise appearance on

’l’ll support you,’ it’s hard not to think you’d win,” Douglass said. “I’d imagine it’s like serving in combat: A lot of dead people never thought they’d get shot.”

Reno, a Miami native, was elected

Saturday Night Live to utter the catch phrase the show created to parody her as a take-no-guff action hero: “It’s

breaker before—she was the first female attorney general in U.S. history and Florida’s first woman to serve as a state attorney.

Bush is trying to become the first Republican governor to win re-election in Florida. He told reporters Tuesday that he would continue to focus on improving schools, lowering crime and enhancing business.

“I’ve got a record to run on that I’m very proud of,” he said.

Democrats, still seething over the 2000 election, have vowed to defeat Gov. Bush as payback for the election and his policies on education reform, affirmative action and the environment.

“This is like ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ Two families feuding, the Clintons and the Bushes since 1992,” said Dario Moreno, a Florida International University political scientist. “This is a continuation of that battle.”

Reno time!”

Many in the party’s old guard appear to support Pete Peterson, a one-time Vietnam prisoner of war and former Florida congressional representative.

U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and Bob Graham persuaded Peterson to leave his post as ambassador in Hanoi to challenge Bush.

Although the two senators are offi-

cially neutral, they visited with Reno about polling data that indicate she’d have a hard time defeating Bush, Tallahassee attorney Dexter Douglass, one of Chiles’ most trusted advisers, tried to persuade Reno to stay out of the race. He said Republicans would spend millions to portray her as an outof-touch liberal.

“When you get people telling you that you’re wonderful and telling you

Dade County’s state attorney five times, but the race for governor will be her first statewide campaign. She was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1995 but has said it would not prevent her from serving as governor.

Florida has never elected a female governor, but Reno has been a ground-

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bility. Bowman said such a tax on meals would distribute the cost more evenly than the occupancy tax, which he said would put most of the burden on hotels.

The council asked the General Assembly for the authority to impose the meals tax in January, but it has not won sufficient support to pass the Legislature. Luebke, for instance, has criticized the prepared food tax as being too regressive.

“My preference is a luxury meals tax if there is to be a meals tax,” Luebke said. But he added that that question should wait until the 2002 legisla-

The motion failed 6-7, since some council members worried that the two measures would appear linked.

“If we tie them together, we may not get either one,” council member Dan Hill said.

The council also debated whether to request the tax increase before it is certain that either the 5,000-seat theater or the American Tobacco project will actually come to fruition. But because the General Assembly is not in session yearround, council members worried that failing to make the request now could mean a long delay. tive session.

“We can’t ask for legislative authoriAt Tuesday night’s meeting, much of ty when the Legislature isn’t in sesthe debate centered on whether to reitsion,” council member Erick Larson erate the council’s wish to levy a meals said. “Waiting two years is not a good tax along with the request for the oc- choice,” he added.

Meg Lawson contributed to this story. cupancy tax.

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Civilian deaths prompt Human Rights Watch outcry &

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the Hague, charged with investigating

alleged war crimes in all of the former Yugoslavia, has sent investigators to Macedonia to decide whether to launch a full investigation into what happened in Ljuboten and who might be responsible.

“It’s important to understand that he doesn’t have to witness the people being killed to have some responsibility for what happened,” said Peter Bouckaert, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch who wrote the group’s report on Ljuboten.

“It was done by troops under his authority in an action in which he was in-

timately involved.”

Bouckaert said that the killing of civilians in Ljuboten could be a dangerous precedent for Macedonia’s future.

The peace deal signed on Aug. 13by the Macedonian and ethnic Albanian parties in Macedonia’s government accords

ethnic Albanians many of the greater civic rights the rebels say they have sought. But nobody is sure that the deal will hold, particularly, in Bouckaert’s view, if a government minister such as Boskovski is seen as condoning attacks on civilians.

As in all guerrilla conflicts, the question of who is a civilian and who is a fighter is a thorny one. Many rebels live in Albanian villages, and government officials often argue that their status as combatants is a matter of putting on a uniform.

Ljuboten, home to about 3,000 ethnic Albanians and a handful of Slavic Macedonians, lies about five miles north of the capital, Skopje, and is surrounded on three sides by Macedonian villages and to the northeast by the Skopska Crna Gora mountain, where the rebel army is active.

It was on the mountain Friday

morning, Aug. 10, that the two antitank mines exploded a few miles from Ljuboten, killing eight Macedonian soldiers. Two days earlier, 10 Macedonian soldiers had been killed in another ambush. Emotions were running high among the nation’s police, its soldiers and reservists.

After the attack on Aug. 12, foreign journalists went to Ljuboten, where the bodies of two men still lay, each shot repeatedly, in the back and in the head.

On a nearby ridge lay three more bodies.

The three had been shot, witnesses said, fleeing a house that Macedonian forces had fired at with rocket-launched grenades.

Family members of the dead contend that none ofthem belonged to the rebel army. None was armed, and none wore a uniform or combat boots.

“It is significant that the government has not presented any credible evidence

that there was an NLA presence in Ljuboten, such as confiscated NLA weapons or uniforms,” the Human Rights Watch report says.

Guerrillas held positions in the mountains outside Ljuboten in August, and had been in the village as recently as June, meeting with foreign reporters.

One scenario put forward by outside monitors to explain what happened in Ljuboten is that government forces saw firing from the mountain and believed it came from inside the village.

Boskovski, the Interior Minister, said he had no doubt that the rebels were in Ljuboten, and that they had attacked Macedonian civilians, a contention that has been widely reported in the Macedonian press.

“It is the easiest thing to make accusations today and to put an equal sign between the aggressor and the victim,” he said.

White House insists it will not tap Social Security Although the use of Social Security revenues for other government programs would pose no threat to current recipients of the government’s retirement system, it would be politically perilous and likely become a divisive issue in next year’s congressional campaigns, especially in House districts where large numbers of voters depend on Social Security checks.

Congress this year.

The White House repeated that Bush had no intenEconomic projections released last week by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office showed that at tion of tapping the Social Security surplus, which is excurrent spending levels, $9 billion would need to be pected to total about $157 billion this year.

“Funding projects out of Social Security is sometaken from Social Security this year, with billions more diverted out of the retirement program over the next thing the president said he wanted to avoid doing, and he pledged not to do,” said the White House several years.

The projections did not factor in tens of billions of spokesperson, Ari Fleischer. He noted that the presidollars in defense and education spending that Bush is dent had vowed to tap Social Security “only in the expected to propose this year, which would suggest case of war or recession.” that even more money would need to be taken from SoBut later in the day, the president himself appeared cial Security to pay the government’s bills. testy when repeatedly questioned by reporters during Any move to tap Social Security would violate a a photo opportunity over whether he would pledge to veto bills that would require the use of the Social Sepromise made repeatedly by Bush and by congressional leaders during last year’s campaign, and both the curity surplus elsewhere in the budget.

“I can say definitely every Social Security recipient White House and congressional Democrats appeared to be maneuvering Tuesday to duck blame for a move is going to get their check, and that’s what the Amerithat is probably inevitable. can people need to understand,” he said, refusing to

7 and Daschle, prominent economists say that the government will almost certainly be forced to dip into Social Security revenues later this year to cover shortfalls created by the sinking economy and by the $1.3 trillion tax-cut package that Bush pushed through

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Asked again if he would veto bills that required tapping Social Security, he said, “I addressed your question.”

Daschle has blamed Bush’s tax-cut package for the

disappearance of the government’s non-Social Security surplus, and he said Tuesday that Bush would be responsible for finding away of balancing the budget without dipping into Social Security.

“This is the president’s budget, and we’re looking to him for his guidance on how we do that he said. “The Democrats are going to stay within the budget we have been given. We didn’t agree to that budget, but we have lived within it so far.”

According to the economic projections released last week by the Congressional Budget Office, it would be virtually impossible for Bush to preserve all of the Social Security surplus without abandoning his plans for an $lB billion jump in the Pentagon’s budget this year, or without proposing dramatic cuts in politically popular domestic programs. ”

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Robert Sales, an MIT spokesperson, said Wallace “was chosen because she is clearly qualified, has a deep background and was a former police officer, which I would imagine would hone her the skills to review a situation like this.”

According to the MIT student newspaper, The Tech, Carpenter and Karpe became friends in fall 2000. Karpe wanted to take their friendship to a romantic level, but Carpenter refused.

Despite knowledge of Carpenter’s longtime boyfriend, Karpe continued to pursue her. At one point, Carpenter said she began to find Karpe sleeping outside her room. As a result of Carpenter’s harassment complaints, Karpe was ordered to write an essay and go to three counseling sessions.

Karpe was given permission to reapply to the dormitory this semester.

Wallace said the appointment will be challenging and interesting. “I will certainly take the time to be thorough. There will be lots of information to gather

THE OPEN LOT next to Erwin Square could serve as the site of a new super-high-density building complex if the Durham City Council chooses to approve the project in the future.

High-density development sparks debate � DELAY from page 5 would help to continue the lifestyle that we’re accustomed to,” he said.

Charm brought Reeves and his wife to the neighborhood three years ago, and he said he supports the development as part of smart growth. “It’s part of life in the city,” Reeves said.

The Watts Hospital-Hillandale Neighborhood Association, another residential group located near the proposed development, supported the Old West Durham group’s concerns, but they also stressed that

high density developments must be accompanied by transit rail stops.

Watts Hospital-Hillandale neighborhood spokesperson Tom Miller warned that if transit rail does not accompany high density development it will “contribute to the evil it’s meant to combat.”

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The Triangle Transit Authority plans to implement a rail system that runs to populous areas of the Triangle. Officials hope the system will alleviate congestion on already crowded local roadways. Many of the super-high-density developments—including the Erwin Square project—are already being designed near these transit stations. The first phase of the rail system is set to be completed in 2008, Miller said an urban design plan is needed for the vicinity of every transit stop to ensure smart growth and decrease future problems around other stations.

“It applies not only to our area of town but to every area that will have transit,” he said.

Council member Floyd McKissick requested that the TTA determine rail locations before the council votes on the zoning issue. The ordinance will again be considered at the next council meeting Sept. 17.

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Wallace added that she was honored to be selected and is certain that it will be a learning experience for her and for MIT. “It will not only help MIT with their current practices, but also help Duke if similar situations arise here and at other institutions where we can offer students the best kind of support,” she said.

She said she has been given as much time as she needs to prepare a written report that will include her findings and recommendations.

Carpenter was an active student; friends and family said her death was a surprise.

According to The Tech, Carpenter never mentioned dissatisfaction with MlT’s disciplinary process, but she expressed frustration regarding the speed ofthe investigation.

Jim Clack, director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Duke, said the University has had similar situations of stalking and that its strategy is to stop situations from escalating. “We are usually early interveners and help [students] get connected with the proper organizations, like the on-campus police, Women’s Center and resident advisers,” Clack said.

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Volleyball spikes High Point in three easy games

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Sonne ended the first game with a blistering jump serve that hit the hardDuke 3 The Duke volleyball wood before any player could touch it. team dominated the Duke changed its lineup toward the end 0 High Point Panthers of the second game. Sonne was confident High Point last night, playing nearly its entire about her teammates’ abilities. squad. In a 3-0 match the Blue Devils “Everyone came in and filled theroles played impressively, while improving they were asked to play, Sonne said. their unblemished record to 4-0.

Senior Bryn Gallagher, who had a Each game started close, but Duke team-high seven kills, came in to help surged ahead with key defensive plays. the Blue Devils with two blocks in the Junior Jill Sonne, who had three kills second game. Linderman put the Blue and four blocks in one game, was satisDevils up 2-0 in the match with an ace at fied with the win. the end of the game, similar to Sonne’s “I think we really worked on keeping serve to end the first game. The 5-foot-11 our focus throughout the match,” Sonne setter thought the key to distributing the said. “We are trying out a bunch of differball to different players in the match was ent lineups, but I think we played well.” talking on the court.

After leading 17-12 in the first game, “The biggest change you have is the Blue Devils put up a three-player with communication, because things block to stuffHigh Point’s hit to the floor. change in the middle of the play, This caused the Panthers to take the Linderman said. first timeout of the match. Sophomore In the third and final game, Crum setter Arielle Linderman, who finished had two stellar kills to propel the Blue with 27 assists and five digs, was trying Devils to a 30-20 win. She was pleased to smooth out the kinks in Duke’s offenwith the outcome of the match and also sive attack while cruising to the victory. the different lineups during the night.

“We were trying to make [plays] “I don’t think our team has a set starting lineup yet,” Crum said. “Everybody faster and get more finesse on them, has confidence in everybody else.” said Linderman.

On the ensuing play after the timeWhen facing an opponent like High out, Sonne faked a set and crushed the Point, Duke could easily look ahead to ball to the floor. She then blocked anoththis weekend’s Duke Classic, but Sonne knew the team could not do that. er hit to force High Point’s second timeout with the Blue Devils ahead 25-15.

“We go through the same thing before Freshman Cassidy Crum, who played every game and everyone chooses an both front and back row in two games, individual goal and then a team goal, talked two kills and three digs.

Sonne said. “A lot of goals today were to ‘We came out and played strong, a not take the team lightly and focusing on mark of a good team, Crum said. our own game.”

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CHAPEL HILL Local columnists are asking questions. Fans are expressing their opinions and frustration on websites. And the coach is standing by his man—at least, for now.

Who should start at quarterback? The incumbent on the verge of setting several school passing records or the hotshot newcomer?

Sound familiar?

Yet unlike Texas’ Major Applewhite-or-Chris

Simms controversy of last season, the North Carolina quarterback with all the national acclaim is the one in danger of being exiled to the bench.

But not right away.

On Tuesday, North Carolina coach John Bunting, who admitted concern after last week’s 23-7 loss to Maryland, indicated Ronald Curry would again start in Saturday’s game against Texas.

“The quarterback situation is the same,” he said.

In two games, Curry, who is within striking distance of six North Carolina career records, has completed just 11 passes, which represents exactly half the total (22) of his backup, redshirt freshman Darian Durant.

That statistic alone explains the current debate,

which now has its own link on www.goheels. com, one of the favorite sites for Tar Heels fans.

Some have questioned Curry’s competitiveness because of his quiet and unassuming nature. Yet, Bunting pointed out that Curry was elected captain by his teammates.

“He’s more of a laid-back guy and maybe more than some people want from their quarterback or from an athlete,” the first-year coach said. “That’s his way. I said to him before the season that with your way, your personality, I expect you to lead this foot-

ball team.”

Some worry UNC’s season is leading to disaster.

They’re already 0-2, and games against No. 4 Texas, No. 6 Florida State, No. 10 Georgia Tech and No. 20 Clemson loom on the Tar Heels’ schedule.

Curry was understandably dismal against national champion Oklahoma in the season opener when he completed just five-of-14 passes for 74 yards.

However, the understanding appeared to vanish when he was six of 12-for-61 yards in last week’s 23-

7 loss to Maryland.

Meanwhile, Durant came off the bench and completed 22 of 40 attempts for 249 yards and two touchdowns in those games.

Terps’ lax coach retires

Pedro announces injury

Longtime Maryland lacrosse coach Dick Edell retired Monday for medical reasons. In his 29 years of coaching at the University of Baltimore, Army and Maryland, he went 282-123.

Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez said Tuesday that he has a minor tear in his rotator cuff and and was upset with his general manager for saying he is healthy.

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Green to retire after year Forty-one-year-old Darrell Green will retire at the end of the year. The defensive back has been the Redskins’ starting cornerback for 19 years before moving to nickelback this year.

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RONALD CURRY has completed half as many passes as his backup, Darian Durant, has this year.

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‘The Monster is out of the cage’ with a repaired knee

By TYLER ROSEN The Chronicle

After graduation, while his classmates were starting summer jobs or going to the beach, Matt Christensen

was having his lawn mown.

The senior center on the men’s basketball team had surgery at Duke Medical Center to remove what Christensen described as grass-like strands of cartilage peeling off the lesion in the right knee that has hindered his play the past two seasons.

So began a long summer ofrehabilitation, which continues even today, undertaken in the hope that he can play this season with much greater mobility and much less pain.

When he was not working at his

internship with Merrill Lynch, Christensen spent his time regaining strength in his knee. Back on campus, he runs in the team’s lap pool and on a weightless treadmill, exercises on the Murray Center’s state-of-the-art machines and shoots free throws for hours each day. Additionally he works at the basketball team’s regular weight-

training session in the morning.

Much ofhis exercise now is intended to condition himself for the basketball season, while placing minimal strain on his knee.

“I think it’s a humongous tribute to the training staff here that they’re creative and innovative enough to develop a [conditioning] program for me,” he said.

It will be three weeks before Christensen can play in live action and he believes it will be another couple of weeks before he returns to prime playing condition—not normal, because nor-

mal entailed extreme pain, iced knees and sleepless nights. But he is pleased with his knee’s progress.

“It feels better now than I thought it could ever feel again,” he said.

Looking back at last season, with a national championship for the team and lots of ice for himself, Christensen has the tinge of just one regret.

“In retrospect, we should have done the surgery a year earlier,” he said. “We didn’t know what [last season] was going to be like. By the end of last year, I was really just cooked. I couldn’t go on

anymore. I was missing practices [because] the knee was so swollen.”

Against Maryland in the second-tolast game ofthe regular season, Carlos Boozer broke his foot, leaving a gaping hole in the lineup. In the games that followed, Casey Sanders and Reggie Love emerged as the new centers in a vastly-

different Duke system.

“None of the rest of the big guys—me, Casey [Sanders] and Reggie Love—-

were in a position [to replace Boozer],”

Christensen said. “It wasn’t like modular architecture; you can’t hot-swap players. You couldn’t pull out [Boozer] and plug in any of us. The whole team had to change.”

The team did change, as coach Mike Krzyzewski developed a new plan capitalizing on the team’s speed. The challenge of rebuilding the team in March brought everyone closer and made the team better. “[Last year] we really did reach a point that was almost like basketball nirvana, where everybody on the team... was working towards the same goal,” See CHRISTENSEN on page 20 i*

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Carlyle Cup fails to interest anyone in its present form

Here are some ideas to make the boring brainchild of the great minds at Sports Promotions just a little more interesting

If an award is handed out and no one cares, does that make it a Grammy?

This fall opens the second year of Carlyle Cup competition. And if you are like most Duke athletes, administrators and students, you have absolutely no idea what the Carlyle Cup is, or why you should care.

To make a long story very short: We hate North Carolina and North Carolina hates us. They think we are condescending, and we think they are too stupid to understand why we dislike them.

Upon further review

Kevin Lloyd This is readily apparent every year around tenting time when we paint our faces, chase down every camera man like he’s got the antidote and say things to Tar Heel players that would have your mother washing your mouth out with soap until the end oftime.

As we all know, hatred is good. So, in an effort to expand this malevolence to all Duke sports, someone came up with the nifty idea to have a competition between the two schools that includes all 20 sports in which both schools field teams.

Each sport is assigned a value.

Almost all sports are worth three points.

This includes basketball, which many people quite logically assume should be worth* more. Most of the sports you have

never considered attending are worth one point. Although, in a rather puzzling decision, the powers that be have decided that golf is inherently more valuable than track. I wonder what UNC grad Marion Jones had to say about that?

Anyways, each sport is an all-or-none affair, with the school winning the season series getting all three [or one] points.

At the end ofthe year, they add up the point totals and hand the Carlyle Cup out to the school with the most points.

And guess what? Last year Duke pulled off a 27-21 victory. I’m guessing you aren’t jumping up and down or chanting.

Don’t feel bad; it turns out most of our athletes don’t care either. This may come as a huge shock, but North Carolina is not our biggest rival in a lot of sports.

Now, I could bash the award. But I’m sure it took some bored people a lot of time to come up with it. So it seems more useful to try to find ways to make the award more interesting.

As everyone knows, the greatest of all cups is the Stanley Cup [Holy Grail be damned]. This has nothing to do with hockey. I’m a big a hockey fan. But the NHL knows what to do with an award.

You see, when your team wins the Cup, you get to spend one day doing whatever you want with it. You have probably seen the commercials if you watch ESPN. This, of course, inevitably leads to mis-adventures. Take for example, the Blackhawks, who, rumor has it, once left the Cup outside a bar because they were drunk and the Cup was too big to fit inside the cab.

And it’s not just hockey that sup-

ports drinking out of trophies. It is considered a moral imperative to get blitzed by drinking out of the Claret Jug when you win the British Open.

David Duval alluded to this in his postvictory press conference.

Unfortunately, every Duke athlete couldn’t have the Cup for a day; we have too many of them. But each team could get it for a week.

Picture, if you will, the field hockey team drinking the world’s largest long island ice tea. Or maybe, the lacrosse team wandering around campus chugging beer out of the Cup. Sure, this doesn’t exactly fit with Duke’s “All fun is the devil” policy, but I think our athletes would care about the competition more if they got to drink out of the prize.

This could be fun even without the booze. You’d love to see D. Bryant drinking coffee out of that enormous thing during a morning class, or the baseball team using it in lieu of the standard Gatorade container.

This policy would create interesting, disgusting and disturbing stories about the award and make the competition infinitely more entertaining.

So there is what the athletes can do

with it.

But perhaps the most crucial aspect of any victory is the suffering of your opponent. Anyone who has gambled with friends knows that there is nothing more enjoyable than a bet that humiliates the loser.

Sticking with this “Embarrassing others is fun theory,” let’s discuss trophy

presentation. I don’t know about anyone else, but I think graduation would be a lot more fun if we got to watch UNC athletic director Dick Baddour crawl in on his hands and knees, kiss Joe Alieva’s shoes and present him with the spoils of victory. You know ESPN would send someone to cover that.

Then, upon receiving his or her diploma, each student could hold the Cup over his or her head, chant “Go to hell, Carolina” and walk off stage. We might as well take living vicariously through our athletes one step further.

Additionally, something should be done to make sure the losing campus is well aware of their collective failure. For example, if we win, UNC should be forced to fly Duke flags on top of every building for a year. This could be extended to making the losing school’s band play the winning school’s fight song before every major event, and placing the Duke emblem at halfcourt of the Dean Dome.

These measures would actually accomplish the goal of generating interest. If you are going to be rewarded or punished depending on the outcome, you are probably a lot more likely to go support the wrestling team, rather than say what great fans we are for sleeping

outside to get basketball tickets.

Of course, the powers-that-be probably decide that all we really need to generate interest is to put up a chart with the standings.

Yeah, that’ll be great.

Kevin Lloyd is a Trinity senior who tingles with excitement at the prospect

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Serena Williams advances, Despite last week’s poor play faces Hingis in semifinals Curry will start against Texas Bv BUD COLLINS The Boston Globe

NEW YORK hand crosscourt, kept the House shape at the U.S.

With a roaring forelittle sister Serena of Williams in good

Open Tuesday night, gaining revenge for her defeat by Lindsay Davenport a year ago.

It was a wild struggle, with the advantage shifting back and forth.

Williams coughed up a 3-0 lead in the decisive third set, but rebounded to gain a 6-3, 6-7 (7-9), 7-5 verdict over 1998 champ Davenport. The win kept alive the title hopes of the Florida teenager who won in 1997.

A bold backhand winner on the sideline saved Davenport from defeat in the

second set tiebreaker, and she rebounded in the third set to catch up at 4-4. She even had a break point to lead 5-4, but missed a backhand. Davenport opened the final game with her sixth double-fault, got to 30-all, but faded to a pair of Williams’ slugging winners. That puts Williams in the semis against Martina Hingis, while big sister Venus is in the quarterfinals

Yevgeny Kafelnikov, the Russian possessor of French and Australian titles, kept moving efficiently as he rid the tournament of a tough competitor, Frenchman Arnaud Clement, this year’s Australian Open finalist with Andre Agassi and the conqueror of Agassi here a year ago. Kafelnikov, who had played 14 sets in four matches, was Clement’s master on both sides of the first downpour, winning comfortably, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

“I was trying to conserve myself in those early matches, and I guess I didn’t press hard enough,” Kafelnikov said, laughing. “But I know how to recover, and I’m in the quarterfinals.”

French Open victor Gustavo “Guga” Kuerten, still grinning about his phenomenal Sunday night-Monday morning marathon victory over Max Mirnyi, allowed nothing to get away this time,

ousting Albert Costa, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (97). Kuerten was a skinny, mop-topped god playing amid the cacophony of

thousands of Brazilian Guga-philes attracted to their man and hundreds of thousands of neutral bugs attracted to the floodlights.

Wednesday against Kim Clijsters.

And for the memory lane travelers, A parade of champions, from Serena Williams to Martina Navratilova, kept there was Navratilova, still keeping her onlookers at the Open filled with excite- left hand in as a doubles hopeful, alongment despite a pair of rain delays that side yet another champ, 29-year-old Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. Navratilova, stalled Tuesday’s matinee. last a finalist here (with Monica Seles) a The two players spoke the same lan1997 decade ago, won the crown four times, champ, but the guage (Czech), Hingis, kept 18-year-old Daja Bedanova most recently in 1987. now,” “I’m just having fun tonglie-tied and out of breath as Hingis powered her way to the semifinals for a Navratilova said, “and I thought Arantxa and I could make the semis.” sixth consecutive year, 6-2, 6-0.

i CURRY from page 13 Four years ago, the idea of questioning Curry’s ability would’ve seemed absurd.

He came out of Hampton, Va., as a 6-foot-2, 200-pounder who was as elusive as he was decorated. He was

named Parade Magazine’s football

player of the year and McDonald’s basketball player of the year and every coach in the country—football and basketball—coveted him.

He originally committed to play football at Virginia, but changed to North Carolina so he could also play basketball. He was the starting point guard on the Tar Heels’ 2000-2001

ACC championship team.

Yet, some critics see basketball as the reason he has not progressed in football since he became the starting quarterback as a freshman.

Because of basketball, he did not participate in spring football until this year and some theorize that hindered his development as a quarterback.

But there are other factors First, Gary Tranquill is the third offensive coordinator Curry has played for at North Carolina. Also, Curry has complained of a sore hamstring this summer and the media covering Carolina say Curry has not been as elusive since he ruptured his right Achilles’ tendon in 1999.

After losing so badly to Maryland, his confidence might be hurting most of all.

“I think he’s fine,” said Bunting, who was careful not to lay the blame for Carolina’s loss on Curry. “I met with

him and the others and they’re all disappointed with the way they played in the fourth quarter. There’s no reason to

dwell on it.

“You can talk about it, but the other thing to do is to do something about it.

I’m anxious to see what they’re going to do about it.”

Anxious Carolina fans might feel the same way about Bunting.

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U.S. men’s soccer team fights Christensen learns valuable to qualify for 2002 World Cup life lessons with Blue Devils

By JOHN RICE

The Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica—ln the United States, American soccer fans are outnumbered. The margin won’t be even close Wednesday night, when the U.S. team plays Costa Rica in a World Cup qualifier.

Shocked by Honduras Saturday in Washington, the United States (4-2-1) trails Costa Rica (5-1-1) by three points in the six-nation finals of the North and Central American and Caribbean region.

Upon his arrival last night, U.S. coach Bruce Arena lavished praise on the Costa Rican fans. While U.S. fans were outnumbered by Honduran fans at RFK Stadium last weekend, the Costa Ricans will fill Saprissa Stadium on Wednesday night.

“If we had a venue like that, or a passion or support for the team, it would be a real plus for us,” he said. “That’s something that one day we’ll probably have in the U.S.” The Americans probably need three points or possibly four to qualify for next year’s tournament—with an outside chance they would need five if their goal difference is overtaken by both Mexico and Honduras. The United States is confident it can get those points, especially with a home game remaining against Jamaica (2-3-2) and a road match at Trinidad and Tobago (0-6-1).

Arena said a loss would put pressure on the Americans, saying it“would maybe put us in the position where we had to get six out of the last six” points to qualify.

The Americans practiced Tuesday in Virginia, then traveled to the Costa

Rican capital, which was drenched by a tropical thunderstorm before their arrival. More storms were forecast for Wednesday night.

Costa Rica would clinch one of the region’s three World Cup berths with a victory Wednesday night.

“We’ve almost got the ticket now,” Costa Rican coach Alexandre Guimaraes said Monday. “Now we’re going for the other goal, which is to finish the round in first place by beating on Wednesday the only team we haven’t defeated in this stage: the United States.”

The Americans are 0-4-1 in World Cup qualifiers in Costa Rica, losing 2-1 in last year’s semifinals on a late penalty kick.

But streaks haven’t counted for much in World Cup qualifying lately.

Costa Rica stopped Mexico’s 20-year home unbeaten streak in June, Mexico ended Jamaica’s seven-year run at home Sunday and Honduras ended the United

States’ 16-year, 19-game home streak in qualifying with a 3-2 “Who would ever bet that teams are winning as many

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the away games as they are in this competition? That’s pret-

ty strange,” Arena said.

Arena said he hoped to keep Costa Rica from clinching, partly because it would mean it has something to play for in its next game, against Mexico.

The US. team, which leads Honduras (3-2-2) by two points and Mexico (3-3-1) by three, had multiple defensive breakdowns at RFK Stadium.

Arena promised “a couple of changes” but wouldn’t give specifics.

CHRISTENSEN from page 14 Christensen said. “It was a situation where the whole was greater than the sum of its parts. In my experience, generally speaking, the whole is actually less than the sum ofits parts.”

Christensen, who generally finds it easier to talk about the concept of team than about himself, hopes to contribute more rebounding and defense this season on two healthy knees and realizes that there will be the added burden of being a leader.

“Since I am the only senior, I feel like there is an expectation and a position of leadership that I have and will do my

best to fill,” he said.

Looking beyond the upcoming season

to graduation and life after Duke, Christensen would like to be able to play professional basketball somewhere. He realizes, however, that his body may stand in the way.

“Just looking at desire, there are factors external to that that can affect playing basketball,” he said. “It’s very possible that there’s just not a lot oflife left in my knee.”

If basketball does not work out for Christensen, the civil engineering-economics double major’s future is still in excellent shape. He is looking at a number ofinvestment banking and consulting firms. Christensen believes that his experience with Duke basketball shows prospective employers his ability to work long hours, thrive on a team where he makes others look better and understand the relationship between

hard work and results. But for himself, he believes he has taken more away from his time on the team.

“The level of expectation inside Duke basketball is at such a perfectionist level that it seeps into other aspects of your life,” he said. “Arrogant would be the wrong word, but I’ve become and I think we all do become very exacting of ourselves and very uninclined to settle for something that we know we’re capable of a little more.”

This attitude of perfectionism comes from the top at Duke: Krzyzewski.

“I think [Krzyzewski] sees no reason why things shouldn’t be as good as they can possibly be,” Christensen said. “It’s the difference between being as good as you can possibly be within human bounds and reality [which] is kind of laziness and excuses. He helps us recognize that and builds an atmosphere and culture that is geared towards evolving and improving yourself until you do attain the caliber of excellence that he expects. That’s one thing that will help me the rest of my life.”

But before the rest of his life, Christensen will stand on a treadmill. A tight vest suspended from cables above will be strapped around his chest and will hold much of his weight off the treadmill. In this posture, he can run for 20 minutes without putting much weight on his knee. He will do this and the rest of his regimen daily through the season.

“It’s really worth it,” he said wistfully.

“Especially if it could be like last year,”

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The collection of color photographs on view reflects his interest in capturing abstractions and patterns from his travels to many countries. For information, call 660-3356. 4:00 pm. Bivins Building, East Campus.

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George W. Bush’s insistence on establishing a missile defense shield is misguided. The creation ofthis highly-touted, but ill-conceived, system would be both politically disastrous and financially untenable.

The United States has been far too willing to make poor foreign policy compromises in order to quell justified international opposition to this system. Unwittingly, the Bush administration has refrained from protesting China’s missile buildup in order to garner support for the plan. It is equally undesirable for the United States to restructure its foreign policy so that it can back out of the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty.

But the implications of a missile defense system run deeper. If the Bush administration goes ahead with its current plan, it will likely spur an international arms race. Proponents have said the defense system will only have the ability to down a very small number of missiles, and therefore should not threaten any rational or fair-dealing country; but no country will have any real assurance that the United States will not tweak the system to make the shield more powerful. For their own security, in fact, countries must assume that the United States will be impermeable to their missiles.

It is a bad idea for the United States to put other nations, both friend and foe, in an inferior security position. Upon realizing that they will be less able to defend themselves effectively against a US, attack, they will have an incentive to build up their arsenals or to find away around the missile defense shield. And if a country is even contemplating an attack on the United States, it would be tempted to do so before the shield has been completed.

The principle ofmutually-assured destruction has served the United States well for 50 years. There is no good reason to abandon it.

Aside from the foreign policy costs, this system—which for all intents and purposes is the misguided child offormer president Ronald Reagan’s failed Star Wars program—has cost American citizens’ billions of dollars and has produced dodgy results at best.

Even if the United States were able to make the system functional —something that has been technologically unfeasible since at least the early 1980s—it would not likely offer the type ofprotection the Bush administration expects.

So-called rogue nations, the stated target of the system, are far less likely to develop or fire sophisticated long-range cruise missiles against the United States than more developed nations. It is much cheaper and simpler for countries that intend to attack the United States to take covert terrorist action. A freight ship holding a container filled with nuclear explosives in the New York Harbor could easily go undetected.

In the midst of a slumping economy and a rapidly waning government surplus, there are many better ways for the United States to spend its money. It would do well to find alternative expenditures—military or domestic—that are effective and do not involve the serious negative impacts of a missile defense system.

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Letters to the

editor

Editorial shows typical arrogance toward Dockery I take exception to the Sept. 4 staff editorial, “Straying from Academics.”

From the title, I will assume that the intent of the column was to shame Duke for the attention that it lavishes on its men’s basketball program. The writers hope to reform it with a healthy dose of intellectual panacea.

Included in this editorial are personal attacks on coach Mike Krzyzewski for his

team’s involvement with Nike and on new basketball recruit Sean Dockery.

Attacks on Coach K and

torial, however, is the unmitigated attack on Sean Dockery. The sum total ofthe argument was that he should not be allowed into Duke because of GPA and ACT scores and that is garbage. If he attains the qualifying ACT score, then should he still be kept from attending Duke because he didn’t score as highly as Chronicle staff thought he should have?

The bottom line is that Duke regularly considers activities other than the few hours you spent in some test room or how many Friday nights you spent working as

is even considering Dockery,”

that make people hate Duke.

The bottom line is that Dockery will attend Duke, and if he can’t make it in the classroom, he will end up like former Duke basketball player Andre Sweet, Either way, I would much rather room with a student-athlete from Julian like Dockery than with one of the Abercrombie-and-Fitch clothes sporting clones, who currently populate the campus, and he will probably add much more to the University than a random 1,400 SAT, 4.0 GPA white editor of your high school male from Rockville, Md. newspaper. Duke should that The Chronicle would welcome anyone, not just have enter Duke next year.

Maybe Sean Dockery, basketball players, who have the prowess to attend the rather than the admissions University from Dockery’s office, should look harder at Julian High on Chicago’s who his classmates are going south side. It is the intellecto be in Durham next year. tual snobbery of comments such as, “[lt] is sad that a James McGuire top-10 institution like Duke Trinity ’OO

Duke for their association with Nike may be somewhat justified, but there are probably more troublesome issues than basketball camps in which players “feel intense pressure to attend the camp and play well.” If only the staff of The Chronicle felt “intense pressure” to write a decent column.

My real beef with the edifor referenced editorial, see http:

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www.chronicle.duke.edu!story.php?article_id=23279

U.S., Israel rightly withdrew from U.N. conference On behalf ofDuke Friends of Israel, we would like to show our support for the United States’ and Israel’s withdrawal from the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. The vote that attempted to equate Zionism with racism was shunned by Secretary of State Colin Powell and members of Congress as a blatant attack against one nation: Israel. The main purpose of the . conference was to address global discrimination, not wrongly accuse the Jewish and homeland Zionists of harboring racism and oppression. The founda-

On

tions of Zionism provided a for numerous Russian Jews to escape the pogroms ofRussia and live in a place where they would no longer be persecuted because of who they were and what they believed in.

Following World War II

chance

and the Holocaust, Zionism served as a shelter and eventually led to a homeland for thousands of European Jews who had survived one of the most horrific periods of history. To denounce Zionism as a practice of racial discrimination shows that racist sentiments against Jews similar to those during the Nazi regime

still exist in the world arena.

The misbelief that Israel has unjustly occupied their rightful territory shows that aggression, rather than peace, is at the top of the agenda for some key U.N. delegates. We hope that the other U.N. delegates follow the example set by the United States to create a desire for peace in the Middle East.

David Nefouse Trinity ’O2

Rachel Gottesman Trinity ’O3

The writers are the president and American-Israel Public Affairs Committee representative of DPI.

the record

They kind

of have this boot camp philosophy—get

out there and do it

Shayne Cokerdem, a graduate ofDuke’s Master ofArts in Teaching Program, on how quickly students in the program begin their teaching internship (see story page three)

Announcement Applications for at-large seats on The Chronicle’s Editorial Board are available online at http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/archive/atlarge2ool.pdf.

Interview

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league play, Atlanta and Boston will still play each other even though the National and American League teams will differ. Each team has been designated one interleague rival. Boston and Atlanta are because of that history. Atlanta will be in Boston, and every other year Boston will be in Atlanta. I think that I might need to go to Atlanta to see some games.

Oak Room This interview, with new Vice President for Student is the first in this year’s series of Oak Room Interviews, designed to shed light on the personalities of campus figures in an informal setting. The interview was conducted by John Bush, editorial page editor of The Chronicle.

Affairs Larry Moneta,

JB : So, how’s your day going?

LM : Actually it’s lovely. Great weather. Everyone’s

got classes and seems to be excited about them. The staff and I had our first staff meeting this morning. We went around in a circle and talked about what was going

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JB: What events have you gone to?

LM: I toured through all of the opening weekend events, including events on East and West, observing that move-in process... talking to parents of Trinity and Pratt children. I was at the activities fair. I was at Maya Angelou and the health and cultural fair after. I went to a Freeman Center advisory board meeting....

JB : What surprises you most so far about this job?

LM I can’t really say that I’ve been surprised. :

One, I think that the Duke folks who recruited me were accurate in portraying both the challenge and the opportunity. That was a pleasant surprise—l guess that there was some accuracy in that, often truth in advertising may not be necessary. Maybe the

absence of being surprised—l probably came in thinking that’s going to be what the reality of the thing is. It’s obviously pretty close to the goods that were presented.

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There is almost an inverse situation. Penn, located right in the heart of Philadelphia, can use the city in many ways as a support mechanism. The largest cab stands in the city of Philadelphia are lined up in front of the residence halls. The students really do jump in the cabs on weekends or any time to go downtown to dance clubs. That puts the university in a different role in terms of providing special recreational and cultural opportunities. Here, you got the inverse relationship—the bulk of the upper classes still live on West.

It’s very interesting that the center of the campus is residential with a lot of the academics at the perimeter, which is different from many other campuses. There’s not much around this area—there’s not a college town for people to slip into. It’s a real burden—not a burden in a negative sense—but a burden in terms of cause to realize that we’ve got to create more cultural and recreational services here on the campus. And that’s framing the way that I think about the Bryan Center and West Union and campus renovations in the long haul..., ;

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JB: Have you watched many or been to any Duke games yet?

LM: Actually, I was at the NCAA tournament.... As unique to Duke, JB: There’s a football displayed in your office—is it a Celtics fan, you root for those coaches [men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski] who have a lot of consigned by someone? tinued success... not a lot of superstar teams—it’s a LM: It’s signed by Don Shula. real team....

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JB: What made you want to work on a college campus in administration?

LM: I was a math major and had taken the LSATs to consider going to law 5ch001.... I was heavily involved in student leadership but thought I couldn’t stay forever, and I realized that there were professions that did this sort of thing....

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What’s coming up for you in the next severLM: That’s a funny story. We had a faculty-staff al weeks? game against the students. [Duke Vice President for ; I’m looking forward to meeting with staff...

Human Resources] Clint Davidson was on my team.... and archivist, the William King, is going to give me a I coached the team, and I also hit the winning threewalking tour of the campus.... I’ve been reading a lot overtime. pointer in of history about the campus. I’m also enjoying readJB: You have your own web page. Are you into ing about the history of Durham and learning about the culture, heritage and the political issues that are technology? here. I want to get out on occasional weekLM: I have an interest in playing with the web.... involved ends because I really don’t know North Carolina....

Actually, my mother-in-law has an avid interest. I created the web page so that I could post family pictures I’m also learning about campus rituals—l’m a big believer in them. I think on the Internet and my mothabout maintaining them and er-in-law would have access to maybe even adding a few 7 7 them in Florida :

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the basketball team did a tour, one of my roles was that I was the Ivy League representative and also the academic eligibility officer for the university, so I felt that in that capacity I should go to Italy with them.... That also happened to be my 25th anniversary, so I surprised my wife with the trip.... So it was one of those ideal romances where I got great romance credit for taking my wife to Italy for our anniversary, and I went to seven basketball games. You couldn’t have planned it better if you had tried.

JuiVi Last November. It was part of a conference and ;

on higher education. So, after the conference, my wife and I stayed for another week or so and toured Shanghai....

We were in Beijing just as China was gearing up for the Olympics. And the other interesting thing is that we were there on the night of the presidential election.

Of course, no one knew for a month after, but we had cell phones, trying to call back. I don’t even want to tell you how much I spent in phone charges calling back to find out the result of the presidential election and realizing how little difference it made to the Chinese. We think that everybody in the world is focused on the U.S. election.... And certainly there is Western influence in China. We walked into the Forbidden City and there was a Starbucks right there in the Forbidden City.

And there are McDonald’s 15 d everywhere. Not to criticize McDonald’s, but when you go to another country, you hope to OT see the culture of that country and not Kentucky Fried Chicken everywhere

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on campus. But I don’t say that assumJB: Do you travel often? ing that fraternities are the infamy of alcohol, but I love traveling.... We’re looking into a trip to LM: Philadelphia’s got bars all over the place, so students Alaska.... who drink can do that outside of the residences.

Here, again, because of the absence of much of a : Growing up in Boston, were you a Red Sox fan? place to go, much more of it takes place on campus.

I am a desperate Red Sox fan. I have a lot of But, the alcohol issue—l’m tired of talking about it as the alcohol problem—but the alcohol issue is a Boston sports allegiances, probably first and foremost national phenomenon. It’s not unique to Penn or with the Boston Celtics. I grew up with those years of Duke,... So, when I got here, there were some patchampionships. The Red Sox are not far behind, and terns already established. You only need to look at the Patriots and Bruins are nominally there.

Where are you from? the commercials for most sporting events on TV to JB: Atlanta. see the pervasive impact, influencing how one thinks LM: You know where [the Atlanta Braves are] orighe has to socialize. And while it may take a different procedural form because ofthe surroundings, it’s not inally from? If fact, I heard that in the revised inter-

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JB: If I recall correctly, Penn lost to Florida that year and then we lost to Florida.

LM: We could have beaten Florida. In the first half, we were hitting three pointers from everywhere and I think that we were up on Florida by as many as eight points. Maybe someday Duke and Penn could play. It could happen. We played Princeton last year, didn’t we?

JB; What colors would you wear to the game?

LM: I’d show up wearing blue—you can’t lose.

Penn’s colors are red and blue, and then Duke’s colors are blue and white. Actually, the only reason that I maintain an affinity to Penn is that both of my children went there.... I’m here now.

JB: Maybe we could play in football?

LM: No, I think that Penn would get killed..

JB : Twenty years from now, what would you like

people to say about your tenure as vice president student affairs?

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