Tuesday, September 25, 2001
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Positive thinking Head football Coach Carl Franks says that despite the team’s losses, he remains optimistic for the future. See page 11
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Bush freezes suspected terrorists’ U.S. holdings Executive order also gives treasury secretary broader power to impose sanctions worldwide By JOSEPH KAHN and DAVID SANGER New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON President George W. Bush ordered an immediate freeze Monday of all assets in the United States of suspected Islamic terrorist groups and individuals and gave the treasury secretary broad new powers to impose sanctions on banks around the world that provide them access to the international financial system. Announcing his executive order in the Rose Garden Monday morning, Bush reached beyond U.S. borders and said any foreign banks that do not co-
operate with American investigators could be cut off from doing business in the United States. Bush’s plan to punish foreign financial institutions that handle terrorists’ money is an echo of his threat to foreign nations that harbor terrorists themselves: if they choose to harbor terrorists’ money they will be treated as hostile entities. “We’re putting banks and financial institutions around the world on notice,” Bush said this morning. “We will work with their governments, ask them to See BUSH on page 8 �
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The policy, released Monday by Duke Student Government, makes few additional changes to last year’s rules. :
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By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle
Krzyzewskiville’s new mayor wants
to make life a little easier for his constituents.
Head Line Monitor Greg Skidmore released the 2001-2002 policy for the undergraduate tent city Monday. Although Skidmore has kept most of last year’s popular policy intact, he has implemented several major changes. Most notably, Skidmore will distribute wristbands for the walk-up line at the two tenting games—the University of Maryland Jan. 17 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill March 3. Skidmore said he would add the Jan. 27 game against the University of Virginia if the team does well. “There was a lot ofconfusion at [last season’s] Carolina game as to who was and was not in the walk-up line, and a lot of people didn’t get in,” said Skidmore, a senior and three-year tenter. This season, wristbands will be handed out at a random, unannounced time between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Jan. 17 and between noon March 2 and 8 a.m. March 3. Each individual in the walkup line will receive a color-coded bracelet and will also have the option to give the line monitors the name of one other person that temporarily left the line. Those on the absentee list can pick up their bracelets two hours after the initial distribution.
By LUCAS SCHAEFER The Chronicle
This is the first story in a two-part series exploring religion in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks. Shah was raised Hindu, but she’ll be the first to admit it hasn’t been a very important part of her life. “I don’t do a lot ofreligious things or go to a lot ofreligious functions,” she said. “Just in name, I am Hindu.” So when Shah found herself at the Hindu Bhavan, a Hindu temple in Raleigh, two Fridays ago, she confessed it felt a little strange. “It was so weird. It was a Friday night and we were going to this place where it was just families and not ‘college-;/ at all.” Three days before Shah’s journey to
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the Bhavan, terrorist attacks had rocked New York and Washington, D.C., and the Duke senior said she just didn’t feel like partying. So Shah and her roommate headed to the temple, where there was an event planned in response to the terrorism. “It wasn’t even how it pertained to Hinduism,” she said. “It wasn’t the scriptures that were read or the actual words that
meant anything to me. It was that the temple was packed.... I felt a sense of home and community being there.” All over the United States, Americans are attending religious services and events in record numbers, according to a Sept. 17 article in the New York Times. At Duke, the numbers mirror national trends. According to Pastor Nancy Ferree-Clark of the Congregation at Duke University Chapel, approximately 2,000 people turned out for services on Sunday, Sept. 16—500 more than usual. “It was standingroom only, and there were many new faces,” she said. Roger Kaplan, director of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, estimated that 100 students attended the Freeman Center for Jewish Live service on the Friday night after the attacks, as
opposed to the normal 30 to 50 students. Last Monday marked the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and though that service is always popular, at least a few of the students in the crowd said they would not have attended had Sept. 11 been just like any other day.
RELIGION on page 10 �
TENTING POLICY on page 8 �
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Durham county commissioners recognized Sheriff Worth Hill for his National Law Officer of the Year award at their meeting Monday night. See page 4
Noted Duke scholars discussed their initial assessments following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy Monday night. See page 4
The Graduate and Professional Student Council heard a presentation about Perkins Library renovations at its meeting Monday night. See page 6