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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Review committee changes leadership Students hope Adams will improve annual review process By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle
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AVIATION HANDLER Merissa Gibson directs an F/A-18 Hornet into launching position from the flight deck of USS George Washington in the Atlantic Ocean.
U.S. deploys troops to Gulf By DAVID SANGER
New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON President George W. Bush ordered heavy bombers and other aircraft to within easy striking distance of Afghanistan Wednesday and repeated his demand that Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban turn over the suspected leaders of the terrorist organization believed to be behind last week’s attacks in New York and Washington.
The White House announced that Bush would address a joint meeting of Congress Thursday evening to lay out his aims for what he has called a global war on terrorism and to detail the sacrifices that might be asked of the American public. The military deployments ordered Wednesday involved about two dozen bombers, tankers and support aircraft. Also Wednesday, the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and
its accompanying battle group
left Virginia and headed eastward to an undisclosed location. With the carrier’s air wing of about 70 attack aircraft, the United States was moving nearly 100 military aircraft to a region where there is already a robust U.S. military presence. Wednesday’s deployments form the first wave of a Pentagon campaign that the president has described as a broad See TROOPS on page
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Selective living groups begin the annual review process this week under the guidance of new Annual Review Committee Chair Todd Adams, someone many students hope will streamline the controversial process. Adams, an assistant dean of student development, has worked closely with fraternities and selective living groups since coming to Duke just over a year ago. The ARC began meeting with student groups this week, and leaders remain hopeful that Adams will improve the system. “I think the annual review has beep helpful in encouraging philanthropic and cultural opportunities, but sometimes it was not the most accessible process, and I think it will probably be more accessible with Todd Adams as chair,” said senior Josh Brodsky, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. “He’s the type of person who’ll support you but also tell you what you need to do to keep up your part ofthe bargain.”
Each of Duke’s 26 selective living groups must submit biannual reports on their activities to the ARC, which aims to ensure that groups with prime housing on West Campus are giving back to the community.
The
committee
evaluates
groups based on their activity in seven categories: faculty interaction, student-led programming, cultural programming, educational programming, community service, social inter-
action and citizenship. Many current and past living group presidents said they have seen improvements in the process recently, but they expressed lingering dissatisfaction with the ARC’s evaluation methods, level of feedback and clarity of expectations. “In the past, we never knew what event fit into what category,” said senior Rudy Ruiz, president of Wayne Manor. His group was put on probation last year, but Ruiz said expectations have been clearer since they signed a contract with the administration last spring. See ANNUAL REVIEW
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International student advocates fear tighter regulations By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle
Higher education experts expect that the U.S. government may toughen restrictions on international students after last week’s terrorist attacks, which officials suspect were perpetrated by immigrants. Currently, coming to the United States is straightforward for most international students, as long as they are accepted to a university, have enough money and do not have ties to militant groups. Some officials speculate, however, that the process for obtaining visas has and may continue to become more difficult, and that the government may track visitors more closely. Section 641 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 technically requires higher education institutions to electronically collect data about international students. The information ranges from basic personal data to more extensive data about the visitor’s activities in the United States. “In terms of the immigration serv-
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ice, if the data is there, they can sort, select and play with that data,” said Catheryn Gotten, director of the International Office. “Are they looking for people from [a specific] country? People who came in between certain dates? Where are they getting their funding?”
The government never fully funded a program implementing the law, but Gotten said Congress may revisit the issue. “I expect that certainly with recent events, if money is part of the problem, that Congress will find funds to implement the law in full,” she said. “The idea was to make that information available to consular points abroad and immigration offices in the United States. It would have made it easier to verify that someone was a student in the United States and was entitled to a visa.” The University draws about 3 percent of its undergraduates and 12 percent of its graduate and professional students from other countries. Several international students said they would not be surprised if immigration laws See
INTERNATIONAL on page 6
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently bought prjnters that print on two sides, something Duke has opted not to do. See page 3
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FLAGS ADORN the International House, which helps many international students adjust to life at Duke. Soon, tighter regulations may make it harder for students from abroad to obtain visas.
Duke Student Government unanimously passed a resolution endorsing efforts by students to help victims of last week’s attacks. See page 3
A year after an external review, the Department of Classical Studies has not implemented many of the recommendations included in the report. See page 4