Thursday, November 29, 2001
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www.chronicle.duke.edu Vol. 97, No. 65
The Chronicle
Another shot Alana Beard and the women’s basketball team will take on the 49ers in Charlotte tonight. See page 9
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
University reacts to clonin Congressional plan
� Although officials disagree on the route Duke should take, they all stress the importance of public dialogue on the matter.
wins N.C. Senate OK
Officials expect new redistricting map to protect incumbents from both parties
By JENNIFER SONG The Chronicle University officials say they
do not believe the embryonic stem cell work reported Sunday will immediately affect research at Duke, but caution thatthe potential for creating human embryos has generated the need for public dialogue. “It is certainly the case that this research will increase the urgency of addressing issues [surrounding the stem cell research debate],” said Provost Peter Lange. “[The administration has] had ongoing talks in a whole set of research areas and this has certainly been a major issue in our thinking of genomics research.” The debate over stem cell research has been long and heated, with one of the most salient responses being an immediate opposition to cloning embryos. “There’s a substantial number of people who believe that any human organism that could potentially become a person has a special moral status that
By SCOTT MOONEYHAM The Associated Press
IN THIS LAB, researchers study stem cells from parts of the human body, like the umbilical cord and bone marrow. needs to be treated in a particular way,” said Elizabeth Kiss, director ofthe Kenan Institute for Ethics and a faculty member with the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy.
cloning simply for image. “We at Duke must ask ourselves, as science stands on the brink of human cloning, whether or not our ambition will outstrip our wisdom,” Hall
thorities have questioned what they see as the immoral destruction of human life. Amy Laura Hall, an assistant professor in the Divinity School, cautioned against supporting
bryonic stem cell research, cloning involves the manipulation and the mere use of nascent human. To push at this edge, to exist at this limit, is to
In particular, religious au-
said. “As was the case with em-
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CLONING
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Senate Democrats had talked
of changing the numbers with the once-a-decade remap of congressional districts made to correspond to population shifts reflected in new U.S. Census data. But in accepting a House plan that passed with 14 Republican votes in that chamber, they avoided more wrangling. The plan includes a new 13th District, created after the census showed the state had a 21 percent population increase.
RALEIGH After more than a week of indecision, the state Senate approved a congressional redistricting map expected to protect Democratic and Republican incumbents in the U.S. House. The Senate voted 34-13 for the plan despite complaints from Democrats who said it split communities and by Republicans who said it protected incumbents at the expense of voters. The district, largely Democratic, Sen. David Hoyle, D-Gaston, will stretch from Wake County said the map was largely the along northern border counties best lawmakers could do withinto Guilford County. out unraveling coalitions and The map’s authors say it will forcing further negotiations that likely keep Republicans in six of would drag the legislative sesthe seven districts they now consion even longer. trol, while giving Democrats an “I would take it, to tinker advantage in six other districts. with this plan in any way could The Bth District in the pose a major risk to getting anysouth-central portion of the thing passed,” Hoyle said. state, now represented by ReRepublicans have a 7-5 adpublican Robin Hayes, is convantage in the U.S. House delesidered a toss-up. gation from North Carolina. Hayes, a former state House Overall, the Republicans have a member, was elected to Con220-211 House majority. See REDISTRICTING on page 8 �
Horowitz speech in Chapel Hill draws crowd, protest By MATT BRADLEY The Chronicle
Arch-conservative author, publisher and political commentator David Horowitz spoke last night amidst protests and demonstrations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The controversial speaker was sponsored by the school’s College Republicans to speak against what Horowitz considered to be anti-American sentiments espoused by members of the UNC-CH faculty at a series of three campus teach-ins. “These are not anti-war teach-ins,” Horowitz said. “These are anti-American teach-ins.... These people want America to lose.” Horowitz became famous on college campuses last March when he approached 47 college newspapers across the country to print his advertisement “Ten Reasons Why Reparations is a Bad Idea —and Racist Too.” The advertisement sparked week-long campus-wide race protests at Duke after it was published in The Chronicle. The demonstrations culminated in the creation of a protest group, the Duke Student Movement, as well as petitions for greater cultural and ethnic sensitivity by the University’s administration.
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Horowitz compared his efforts as a pro-peace radical during the Vietnam war at Berkeley to the pacifist agenda of some of Chapel Hill’s faculty. At several points during the speech, Horowitz referred to the University’s pacifist faculty who appeared on the teach-in panels as “Marxists” who teach with a treasonous agenda. “In their hearts, they were all jumping up and down when they blew up the World Trade Center,” Hojowitz said. “That’s Wall Street! They’ve been hoping for this!” Horowitz also made several direct attacks on Carolina’s chancellor, James Moeser, who he said helps propagate a “leftist” atmosphere at the university by only supporting liberal programs and actively hiring liberal faculty. “I can’t find the words to express my contempt for the chancellor ofthis university, and the university,” said Horowitz.
About 10 minutes into the speech, members of Carolina’s Black Student Movement filed out of the auditorium quietly, row-by-row, from the first four rows. Horowitz wasted no time drawing attention to the protesting students. “This is a demonstration,” Horowitz See HOROWITZ on page 6
The Center * or Bioinformatics and Computational Biology awarded its first graduate certificate Thursday and hopes to launch a Ph.D. program next fall. See page 3
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DEMONSTRATORS file out of an auditorium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10 minutes into a speech by conservative author David Horowitz.
Administrators and student leaders will request five bonfire permits for the basketball season, one more than last year to accommodate the home Maryland game. See page 3
The Duke Student Government passed a resolution to improve selection at the Great Hall, as per student suggestions. See page 4