November 3, 2000

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Wednesday, October 3, 2001

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Tar-holed. The women’s soccer team lost to the dominating Tar Heels 3-1 at home Tuesday. See page 11

THE INDEPENDENT DA LY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Graduate School offers more financial support School plans to give students opportunity to compete for funds to stay over summer By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

The Graduate School, in an attempt to remain competitive with a number of peer institutions, is making an effort to increase research support for midlevel graduates. Lewis Siegel, dean of the school, said that within the next two months, the graduate school administration will bid out around 50 fellowships that would allow graduate students to remain at Duke during the summer and continue research for their degree. “There will be a competitive process for a number of rewards for relatively advanced students,” Siegel said. “Convince us you’ll do good things with this money in defense of your dissertation.” He said the money, amounting to approximately $5,500 —including the summer health fee and required registration fees—would be available probably no later than year six of a graduate degree and that interested students would be able to fill out an application as they do for most fellowships. Graduate students, who conduct research and teach within their departments, receive an average of $14,000 per year. Often, humanities and social sciences students receive less than sciences students because there is more research support for the sciences. For example, the yearly stipend in English is about $13,000, whereas the average stipend in biology is closer to $14,500. The

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In addition, most graduates doing research in science can more easily obtain funds for research in the summer. “They work on their research,” said Jacqueline Looney, associate dean for graduate student affairs. She said most graduate students spend their summers working on research, either at Duke or elsewhere. Will Tyson, a third-year student in sociology, said that he had a research assistantship, but that others, especially those in social sciences and in the humanities, struggled to find funds for the summer. “It’s a difficult situation,” he said. “The struggle to get money takes up so much time, it really cuts into the research process. Funding by the graduate program would allow for much more

productive research.” However, William Allard, director of graduate studies in mathematics, noted that many students have National Science Fellowships and other funds from outside Duke. He added that the department receives about $3,500 in grants for math graduates during the summer. There is by no means any measure of funding uniformity across departments in the graduate school, however. Tad Schmaltz, director of graduate studies in philosophy, said that the department did not have any research assistantships and that first-year stuSee GRADUATE SCHOOL on page 7 �

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native Date of Birth Hopkins October, 1955 returned to his hometown in 1990, moving into the Few Gardens public housing Occupation complex, where he was appointed Market-to-Market Community representative for District 1 Organizer, Durham Affordable (Northeast Central Durham) of Housing Coalition Partners Against Crime in 1994. A year later, Hopkins was appointed resident commissioner to the Durham Housing Authority Board. GED, Morganton, North Carolina He became the chair of Durham NAACP’s housing coalition and was appointed to the city’s housOffices Held ing appeal board last year. Elective None Hopkin’s primary goals are to increase employment, end homelessness, stop crime and address F mtiy One son the educational gap. IrjQirio

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SAUDI-BORN MILLIONAIRE OSAMA BIN LADEN (middle) is believed to be behind the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

NATO: U.S. proof against bin Laden dear, compelling By SUZANNE DALEY

New York Times News Service

BRUSSELS, Belgium

NATO said

Tuesday that the United States had

provided “clear and compelling proof” that Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In response, the alliance said it was ready to fight at the side of the United States, should it ask for such help from its 18 NATO allies. The alliance decision amounted to a final stamp of approval for an attack on bin Laden, his al-Qaeda network and

the Taliban government that harbors him in Afghanistan and was one of several signals that some sort of military strike is imminent. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld left Washington Tuesday night on a trip to Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan. Administration officials said that the Pentagon was devising a war plan that minimized the use of bases in Pakistan, where anti-American sentiment is strong and extensive deployment of U.S. troops could destabilize a key ally. See NATO on page 9 P-

Hopkins concentrates on housing This is the third article in a five-part series profiling mayoral candidates. By REBECCA SUN The Chronicle

Stephen Hopkins is not your typical candidate

for mayor. Outspoken and straightforward, Hopkins is known to many in the community as a tireless activist. “Political folks now have no feelings,” Hopkins said. “They don’t like it when you get emotional, but I’m a very emotional person... because I feel people’s pain. I haven’t forgotten where I come from because I’m still there.” Much ofHopkins’ community involvement has come through being a housing advocate, especially for Northeast Central Durham, where he has lived for the past 11 years as a low-income resident. “A lot of people are concerned about the plight of housing,” he said. “It touches jobs. It touches everything. We need more developers who are willing to commit to doing affordable housing.” Hopkins is concerned that downtown development is too lofty and not practical enough. “We’re The University begins celebrating the 150th anniversary of teacher education at Duke with a panel discussion this afternoon. See page 6

thinking too big,” he said. “They’re building a big 5,000-seat theater downtown; now who’s going to be able to afford to go to the theater? I’d like to see a $5 matinee theater downtown. I’d like to see a

Blockbuster downtown.” The Durham native added that, as mayor, he would institute a three-year moratorium on development to ensure that the city’s infrastructure could support such projects. Another major component of Hopkins’ mayoral platform is to address crime and law enforcement. Dissatisfied with what he feels is the lack of adequate police involvement, he recently moved from a neighborhood he felt was unsafe for raising his 12-year-old son “I live in a high-crime area and I don’t see [the

police],” Hopkins said. Instead of adding more officers to the city police department, however, Hopkins’ solution involves turning police authority over to the sheriff who is elected by the entire county. “We don’t need no more cops; we just need to make sure they’re doing their jobs,” Hopkins said. “We hire a sheriff for the county, for the entire county. Durham is 80 percent of the county It only See

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Hardee’s and Domino’s at the Medical Center will soon accept the DukeCard as a form of payment. Officials hope the change will make the process faster. See page 6


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