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Graduate School plans tuition hike Deficit, rising costs prompt increase

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

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PALESTINIANS try to extinguish a fire from leader Yasser Arafat’s helicopter after it was hit by an Israeli missile

Israel fires missiles on Gaza

By IBRAHIM BARZAK and MARK LAVIE The Associated Press

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared war on terror Monday, and Israeli airstrikes destroyed two of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s helicopters in Gaza and hit West Bank security installations.

Ten Palestinians were wounded in the missile attack

by Israeli helicopter gunships

near Arafat’s seaside headquar-

ters, which raised a plume of

sponse to suicide bombings and shootings by Islamic militant groups that killed 26 people in Israel Saturday and Sunday.

Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian

black smoke over Gaza City.

Arafat was in the West Bank at the time of the attack.

Early Tuesday, Palestinians Cabinet minister, said Sharon’s said Israeli tanks had entered speech, coupled with the Gaza Airport, firing machine airstrikes, signaled an Israeli guns and damaging the runway. attempt to “overthrow the The Israeli military had no imPalestinian Authority.” Palesmediate comment. tinian officials said the harsh Sharon convened an emerreprisals undermined a sincere Arafat effort to crack down on gency Cabinet meeting to decide the scope of Israel’s reSee ISRAEL on page 8 'P-

Facing growing costs and a continued deficit of about $1 million, the Graduate School plans to substantially raise its tuition, from $21,660 to $29,550.

The increase will make Duke’s tuition comparable to those at peer institutions, said Dean of the Graduate School Lewis Siegel, who earlier this year raised stipends so the school would remain

competitive.

Siegel noted that among 12 other top institutions —including Northwestern University, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylva-

nia—Duke currently has the lowest tuition and also has a relatively low cost of living; Columbia charges the highest tuition at $27,530.

He said the sum of tuition and registration fees will increase between 10 and 11 percent each year. Under the proposal, accounting for 3.5 percent inflation, the total would be about $29,550, which would place Duke’s tu-

ition in the mid-range of graduate school costs and make the graduate and un-

dergraduate tuition analo-

gous, Siegel said.

“This is not to gouge anybody, but we have gotten to a point where we’ve become sloppy with revenue and we have been underpricing the Duke degree,” Siegel said.

Most graduate students do not, in actuality, pay for tuition or even fees, which are

frequently covered by grants.

Siegel said training grants sponsored by the National Institutes of Health will account for about 60 percent of the change in price, essentially soaking up the tuition and fee hikes.

Graduate and Professional Student Council President Elayne Heisler said master’s students and seventh- and eighth-year humanities students will feel the largest effects. The former often do not have as much financial support as Ph.D. students, and the latter typically take longer with their research.

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Slumping economy may increase interest in non-profits Many students continue to pursue business

By KIRA ROSOFF The Chronicle

As the economic decline continues and the job market shrinks, many students may find non-profit positions more attractive. Although many still hope to get jobs in the business world, some report growing interest in the non-profit field.

Donna Harner, co-director ofthe Career Center, said twice as many students attended a recent non-profit career forum than in previous years.

“Students deal with peer pressure to choose certain career paths. Many are afraid that other students will look at [teaching or non-profit work] and say, ‘Why would you want to be a teacher?’” Harner said. “People are now openly choosing those jobs. Deep in their hearts, it was really what they wanted to do.”

But some students still see nonprofit work as a second alternative to jobs in the financial sector, said Anna Steen, a campus recruiter for the Oregon-based consulting firm Stockamp and Associates, Inc.

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“Although some students are looking for backups, I think [the reality of not] getting their first or second choice has not hit them. In May, they may find themselves hurting,” Steen said.

Steen has encountered many nervous students, consistently asking about the stability ofthe company. She added that the firm is now almost completely overlooking liberal arts majors and even screening business majors more carefully.

For many students, the decision to

work in the non-profit sector will be affected by the direction of the economy in the coming months.

“I’m hoping that by the time I begin looking, the economy will have improved. Money is always tight and a [lack of financial resources] is always a concern [when entering] non-profit [jobs],” junior Ashley D’Uva said.

Although some students still hope for investment banking or consulting positions, these job options have significantly declined since the economic See NON-PROFITS on page

The Fu( l ua School of Business has finished updating a distance-learning platform and is currently considering licensing the technology to other schools. See page 3

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SOPHOMORE LAURA TOBOLOWSKY attends the annual volunteer fair earlier this year. Many Duke students volunteer, and some say they plan to pursue non-profit jobs in light of recent economic conditions.

New members of the Durham City Council were sworn in Monday night, as departing members offered some remarks. See page 3

Dr. Bill Christmas, director of student health services, spoke to the Graduate and Professional Council Monday night about student health insurance. See page 4

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Police nationwide dispute FBI policy

Police departments nationwide are breaking ranks over Justice Department efforts to interview 5,000 Middle Eastern men, with officers far beyond Oregon concerned about racial profiling. *

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Thousands of angry Argentines crowded banks Monday after the government partially froze accounts to stop a nationwide run and avert financial crisis. *

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University of Georgia officials announced last week that they would eliminate the use of race and other

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American bombers continue strikes aimed at possible bin Laden hideouts

By KATHY GANNON The Associated Press

Anti-TalKABUL, Afghanistan iban fighters battled for control of Kandahar’s airport Monday as American bombers pounded suspected hide-outs of Osama bin Laden in the rugged White Mountains near the border with Pakistan.

Fighters loyal to former Kandahar governor Gul Agha said they fought their way into the airport compound, but were pushed back by Taliban defenders, according to Agha’s brother, Bismillah.

Kandahar is the Taliban’s last major stronghold. Agha’s forces have been advancing on the city from the south, while troops loyal to former

deputy foreign minister Hamid Karzai have been closing in from the north.

U.S. Marines camped out about 70 miles southwest of Kandahar have not joined the fight since helicopter gunships attacked a Taliban convoy a week ago. However, a Marine spokesperson said three warshipbased Harrier jets bombed another site in southern Afghanistan after being called in by a forward observer.

It was unclear if the Harrier strike was linked to the fight for Kandahar.

Capt. David Romley said he did not have details of the target. He said the strike was called by someone

other than the U.S. Marines, who turned a desert airfield into a base over a week ago.

Elsewhere, American bombers pounded the rugged area south of the city of Jalalabad near Tora Bora, the eastern cave complex in the White Mountains that, along with Kandahar, has become a focus of the hunt

for bin Laden.

Also in Jalalabad late Monday, four huge explosions could be heard from the direction of Farmada Farm, a former bin Laden stronghold seized by

anti-Taliban Afghans last month.

President George W. Bush launched military operations against Afghanistan Oct. 7 after the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden for his alleged role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.

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Alliance concedes to interim government

By COLLEEN BARRY The Associated Press

Salvaging talks on KOENIGSWINTER, Germany Afghanistan’s future, the Northern Alliance presented names of its candidates for an interim administration Monday night after a U.S. envoy accused the alliance of obstructing the U.N.-led negotiations.

In a night of hectic diplomacy, a White House official, Zalmay Khalilzad, telephoned Northern Alliance leader Burhanuddin Rabbani in Kabul, winning a promise to break the deadlock threatening the talks in their seventh day, James Dobbins said.

With the list finally on the table, delegations representing the Northern Alliance, exiles loyal to former King Mohammad Zaher Shah and two smaller exile groups started work on finalizing the text of an agreement establishing an interim governing council, UN. spokesperson Ahmad Fawzi

said. He said they would haggle over the names later.

The Northern Alliance, which has captured Kabul and much of the country from the Taliban with the backing of U.S. forces, has promised to transfer power to the 29-member interim administration once it is formed.

Dobbins, who has been prodding the four factions meeting in Germany to reach a workable accord, earlier said the alliance was stalling on the list of names to prevent an agreement.

For the last several days, the Northern Alliance delegation in Germany and leaders back in Kabul have given conflicting statements on what they would find acceptable.

One of the most serious rifts was over where the lists wouldbe released: Although the delegation kept promising to release its names on neutral territory in Germany, as sought by mediators, Rabbani insisted that be done later in Kabul.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2001 � PAGE 3

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By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

New City Council members sworn in Many departing members say they will continue to stay involved

By MELISSA SOUCY The Chronicle

Parting members gave final words of wisdom and newcomers shared their ambitions Monday during the first meeting of Durham’s new city council.

Retired district court judge Carolyn Johnson swore in the council’s 2001 elects, including new Mayor Bill Bell.

“I knew Bill when somebody could spank your child and not get reported to the child’s social services,” Johnson said, one of many to bring humor to the night’s transition.

Among his departing words, former council member Dan Hill said he was “bruised with hubris” and re-

minded the new members that each individual’s input will carry more weight, since the council has decreased from 13 to seven members.

“Virtually your vote will be twice as important,” he said.

Joining Hill in his departure were former mayor Nick Tennyson as well as council members Pamela Blyth, Brenda Burnette, Mary Jacobs, Angela Langley, Erick Larson, Floyd McKissick, and Jacqueline Wagstaff.

“We were very successful and fortunate to have the services of Nick Tennyson as mayor,” Bell said.

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GPSC discusses student healthcare coverage, costs

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Graduate and Professional Student Council members vented frustrations about their health insurance plan at Monday night’s meeting. Representatives were concerned about several issues, including the costs of care for students’ families and the lack of coverage for dental, eye and other preventative services.

Bill Christmas, director of Student Health, and Dax Hill, of insurance consultant Hill, Chesson and Woody, spoke to GPSC about those students’ health care plans and took suggestions on how to improve the plan. Hill’s firm has worked to provide health insurance to the University through Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina since 1979.

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Heisler said her constituents expressed concern about health insurance issues prior to Monday’s meeting.

“GPSC is the main forum that looks over health insurance for graduate students,” GPSC President Elayne Heisler said. “A lot of big changes took place last year that were in our best interest and we hope to continue that.”

About 75 percent of the 4,300 Duke students who participate in the University sponsored insurance plan are graduate or professional students.

Because of a decrease in claims costs last year, the price per student for medical insurance coverage decreased from $847 to $Bl4. Students can cover their family for an additional $1,747 per year—whether the family is comprised of only another spouse or with five chil-

opportunity and therefore could bear that expense.

“This is a subsidy graduate and professional students provide to help a small group of folks [with larger families] out and make it more affordable to them,” Christmas said.

GPSC members also asked the speakers why preventative services, particularly dental and eye care, are not covered. Currently, the health plan offers no preventative services except for mammograms, pap smears, prostrate exams and check-ups for children under two years of age.

Christmas said it is financially infeasible to offer those options to students because of the effects of adverse selection. Graduate and professional students who are in school for several years often choose only to pay for one year of such services to have all their elective surgeries during that year, Christmas said.

He added that the only financially feasible way to include dental and eye care to the plan would be to require all students to purchase such coverage.

Christmas said this does not seem to be a better option for most students, as it would cost less to get an eye or dental exam than pay for the entire plan.

GPSC representatives also asked why the health plan could not automatically cover prescriptions, rather than making students file for reimbursement. Hill said the advisory committee rejected the adoption of a drug card that

would cost $27 a year specifically for that purpose.

To facilitate reimbursement, Hill dren as well. recommended students enroll early.

Christmas attributed the high cost Currently the deadline to enroll is not to obstetrics expenses. Heisler said the until mid-October, when students are Student Health Insurance Advisory enrolled by default. Students who wait Committee argued that someone with for this do not get reimbursed before only a spouse had more employment enrollment.

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Siegel hopes to ease tuition burden on master’s students TUITION from page 1 Siegel said it was important to lessen the impact of a tuition rise on current students, and that the school was considering grandfathering in current master’s students, reducing or waiving the tuition difference. He said he is working to find the fairest, most rational way to restructure master’s degree costs.

Heisler, a third-year student in sociology, also said there may be concerns about joint-degree programs and other unintended consequences, but she hopes to have open forums to allay students’ fears and answer their questions.

“In the long run, it’s for the greater

good of the school,” she said. “In the short term, it’s going to hurt some people very significantly.”

Provost Peter Lange said the tuition proposal makes sense.

“It’s critical,” he said. “We’ve seen an aggressive increase among a number of our peers in the kinds of awards they are making to their grad students.

When you combine that with our need for some new interdisciplinary programs, [it results in] significant costs.”

Siegel said next year, the Graduate School will raise stipends in the natural sciences to $15,550 and for all other students to $14,000. He said a previous plan to increase both of those by $1,500

had temporarily been scaled back.

In addition, he said the school has received 80 applications for 50 new summer stipends of $5,500 to provide additional student support for year-

deficit and have forped it to fall back on reserve funds.

The Graduate School has one of the smallest capital campaign goals—s2o million—and often finds itself overshadowed by undergraduate or profes-

long research.

The Graduate School has also expeseveral increasing costs: $lOO,OOO to help pay for new academic programs, $60,000 to double the English-as-a-second-language program to

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support a growing number of international students and $200,000 to supplement a new instructional technology initiative.

Those increases have helped push the Graduate School to a $1 million

sional programs.

“I think at the beginning ofthe campaign, there was a great deal of concern about whether we would be able to raise substantial money for the Graduate School,” Lange said. “Among people whose loyalty to Duke is at the undergraduate level, which is by far the biggest part of our alumni base, you’d see why their first desire might be to support the undergraduate programs.”

Afghans blame U.S. for civilian victims P- KANDAHAR from page 2

Anti-Taliban officials in Jalalabad have said some U.S. bombs have fallen on wrong areas, killing civilians and opposition fighters.

A provincial security chief Mohammed Zeman said Monday that U.S. warplanes bombed a guesthouse in Agom village, 15 miles, south of Jalalabad, Sunday evening. He said seven ofhis fighters and five civilians were killed.

U.S. officials insist they are targeting Taliban and al-Qaeda installations and accused the groups of endangering civilians by hiding among them.

Over the weekend, villagers in the region claimed that more than 100 people were killed in air raids that flattened many homes in the area south of Jalalabad.

As fighting intensifies around Kandahar, the United Nations said thousands of refugees have fled for rural villages or Pakistan about 70 miles to the southeast.

Peter Kessler, a spokesperson for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, estimated 8,000 Afghans have reached the safety of neighboring Pakistan since the conflict intensified last week.

“It would appear that 2,000 people or more are leaving Kandahar province each day and are seeking

assistance,” Kessler said.

Those who have arrived at the Pakistan border outpost of Chaman talked of chaos and fear in Kandahar as well as on the roads east to Pakistan. The Taliban refuse to allow foreign journalists into the areas they control.

One refugee, Mohammed Nasim, said he saw the wrecks ofhalf a dozen vehicles apparently destroyed by U.S. bombing on the road from Kandahar to the border.

Other refugees have fled north to the capital, Kabul.

In Koenigswinter, Germany, talks on organizing post-Taliban rule in Afghanistan slowed Monday as factions wrestled with a U.N. blueprint for a new, interim administration that still has no agreed names for who should fill its posts.

Envoys ofthe Northern Alliance, supporters of the former Afghan king and two smaller exile groups worked on the draft plan word by word into early Monday and were to continue later in the day, a U.N. spokesperson said.

The U.N. plan envisions a 29-member interim exec-

utive council to govern Afghanistan and an independent council of elders to convene a tribal gathering, or loya jirga, within six months, diplomats said.

The loyal jirga would establish a transitional administration to govern for two years, paving the way for a democratic constitution and eventual elections.

In Kabul, the Northern Alliance agreed to suggest the names of four prominent Afghans to serve as head of a transitional government.

Deputy Prime Minister Abdur Rasool Sayyaf said the alliance submitted the names of Karzai; former transitional president Sibgatullah Mojadiddi; and two supporters of former king Mohammed Zaher Shah Abdul Sattar Sirat und Sayed Ahmed Gailini.

The alliance agreed last weekend to drop the name of its leader, Burhanuddin Rabbani, who served as president from 1992 until his ouster by the Taliban in 1996.

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City Council Refugees flee to Pakistan in thousands members offer Rumsfeld pledges ‘whatever is necessary’ to find Taliban fighters remarks

By KATHY GANNON The Associated Press

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“triple jeopardy”—being black, female and disabled. She also said she would like to host her own talk show.

“Move over, Oprah, because here comes Angela.”

Members of the new council took a more political tone in their opening remarks. “While Nov. 6 was a great day for each of us, I just have to say it was a great day for Durham,” said Howard Clement, who was first elected to the council in 1983.

He explained that he was most satisfied by the fact that voters passed all the bond issues, especially the two involving children and senior citizens.

Other incumbents returning to the council are Tamra Edwards, Thomas Stith and Lewis Cheek, who was named mayor pro tempore. John Best and Cora Cole-McFadden will join them.

“I’ll listen to both sides and make informed decisions,” Best promised.

Although the new members did not engage in debate during the meeting, they did vote to move a water conservation measure into stage two, the voluntary conservation stage. After three years of extremely dry conditions, the council hopes it will not have to impose water constraints on people and businesses.

NEW YORK The United Nations says thousands of refugees have fled Kandahar as tribal and other opposition fighters press for control of the

Taliban’s last bastion.

Waves of U.S. warplanes pounded the southern Afghan city, which Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has vowed to defend to the death.

One Pashtun tribal commander claimed that hardline foreign alQaeda troops, loyal to prime terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden, were stopping demoralized Afghan Taliban troops from surrendering.

Another tribal force said it had captured a tower near Kandahar airport and was determined to take the facility.

U.S. military forces took into custody a man claiming to be an American. He was among more than 80 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters who straggled out of a flooded basement days after their prison rebellion was crushed at an Afghan fort by the Northern Alliance in Mazar-e-Sharif.

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Those who have arrived at the Pakistan border outpost of Chaman talked ofchaos and fear in Kandahar as well as on the roads east to Pakistan. Conditions in and around Kanadhar were unclear Monday and reports of clashes among rival forces could not be verified.

The Taliban refuse to allow foreign journalists into the areas they control.

One refugee, Mohammed Nasim, said he saw the wrecks of half a dozen vehicles that had been apparently destroyed

by U.S. bombing on the road from Kandahar to the border.

Other refugees have fled north to the capital, Kabul.

U.S. Marines stationed at a desert base about 70 miles southwest of Kandahar have not joined the fight since helicopter gunships attacked a Taliban convoy a week ago.

A military source at the base said on condition of anonymity that the Taliban had moved reinforcements into Kandahar from Lashkargah, a town west ofKandahar.

Arab satellite television Al-Jazeera quoted Mullah Obeid Allah, who governs a nearby Taliban-controlled town of Spinboldak, as saying Taliban forces had blocked some opposition fighters

from advancing on Kandahar.

In contrast, tribal forces said they had overcome and captured Taliban troops in the same area. The claims

fenders “believe in fighting to the death: no retreat. They have no other option, they have been backed into a comer.”

A tribal spokesperson, Khalid Pashtun, said anti-Taliban forces, loyal to former Kandahar governor Gul Agha, were moving from the south and east toward Kandahar and some fighters were near the perimeter of its airport and had captured a tower Monday.

“We have almost reached it,” Pashtun said by satellite telephone. “Our forces are advancing. The Taliban and Arab forces are retreating from the airport.”

He predicted forces of tribal leader Gul Agha would seize the airport within a day or two.

He said as many as 50 airport defenders died in overnight bombing, but said tribal forces had suffered no casualties.

His report could not be confirmed.

In Koenigswinter, Germany, Afghan delegates to U.N.-sponsored talks anticipated the elimination of the Taliban and continued to debate a blueprint for a broad-based administration to rule their country until a permanent government can be established.

In Washington, Defense Secretary

Donald Rumsfeld said US. forces would do “whatever is necessary” to root out Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, including bin Laden, from cave hide-outs around Kandahar and in mountains in

Afghanistan’s east.

US. bombing raids have concentrated on both regions for days. Anti-Talfrom either side could not be independiban commanders near the eastern city of Jalalabad said some US. bombs have ently verified.

Hamid Karzai, a powerful Pashtun fallen on the wrong areas, killing civiltribal leader, said Monday his forces ians and opposition fighters. were 18 miles north of Kandahar and A provincial security chief Mohad met no resistance. hammed Zeman said Monday that US. “We have intentionally not launched warplanes bombed a guesthouse in any attack because we want to take the Agom village, 15 miles south of Jalalcity without any fighting,” he said by abad, Sunday evening. He said seven satellite telephone. of his fighters and four civilians were “There have been some surrenders of killed. US. officials were not immediTaliban soldiers,” he said, adding that ately available for comment. the backbone ofthe Kandahar’s defensEarlier, Zeman said US. airstrikes es appeared to be made up of mainly had flattened an anti-Tailban headArab al-Qaeda warriors. quarters in the same village Sunday He claimed they were preventing morning, killing eight people. Other Kandahar’s Afghan Taliban force from Afghan officials said US. bombers decapitulating. stroyed a village nearby Saturday.

“They can’t get out of the city to surSunday, Air Force Lt. Col. Mark Comprender. The Arabs have blocked the exits ton, a Central Command spokesperson in of Kandahar,” he said.

Tampa, Fla., said US. warplanes hit their Nasim, who fled Kandahar Sunday, intended targets around Tora Bora, the said the city’s Taliban fighters were playeastern cave complex that is a suspected ing a secondary role while its Arab deal-Qaeda hiding place.

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unless there’s a sense of momentum,” the interim executive body presented in jadeddi, who briefly was transitional Dobbins warned. the UN. draft, and said he wants a role. president in 1992, and Syed Ahmed Dobbins singled out Rabbani, indi- But in a sign of a growing split with Gailani, a prominent Afghan spiritual cating the delegation here appeared to Kabul, a Northern Alliance adviser in leader and supporter of the former king. want a deal, but was reluctant to pro- fjermany dismissed his statements.

Sirat is a close aide to the ex-king, ceed without his full backing. “They “Mister Rabbani can say whatever he but as an ethnic Uzbek his chances continue to hope that would be possilikes. That’s not important,” said Asam seem limited because a Pashtun is wideble,” he said. ly favored for the post.

Dadfar, an adviser to the Northern AlAs late as Sunday, Rabbani was still liance delegate Abdul Hakim.

Karzai is a Pashtun leader who reThe Northern Alliance continued to turned from exile to try to persuade presenting positions at odds with the Northern Alliance delegation, comprisstall even after its leadership in Kabul Afghans to support a new government. ing seven Afghan factions united in the earlier announced four prominent He is one of the leaders of anti-Taliban assault against Taliban forces with the Afghans to head the interim authority, forces closing in on their last stronghold help of U.S. airstrikes, but fraught with including Hamid Karzai, a leading anti- in Kandahar. bitter rivalries.

A Western diplomat said the factions Taliban commander, and Abdul Sattar Rabbani, who is recognized by the Sirat, a close aide to exiled former king had broadly agreed to the outline of a United Nations as head of state, proMohammad Zaher Shah.

UN. draft agreement for the Northern posed a leadership council to stand above Also named were Sibgatullah Mu- Alliance in Kabul to transfer power.

“Once again the problem is more obstacles being raised because of discomfort with the agreement as a whole,” Dobbins said.

Northern delegation leader Younus Qanooni consulted with Kabul before going into a meeting with the other factions where he presented the list, said Haji Ali Mirzai, an aide to Northern Alliance delegate Mohammad Natiqi.

With billions of dollars in reconstruction aid and Afghanistan’s future stability at risk, Dobbins put the chance of success at less 50 percent if the Northern Alliance delegation had not kept its word to name its candidates.

‘You can’t keep people here forever

Some firms plan to offer fewer jobs � NON-PROFITS from page 1 downturn began, said Virginia Bryson, a consultant with Towers Perrin. She said the applicant pool during a recent recruiting trip to Duke had changed significantly since the Sept. 11 attacks.

“There are more students looking for more opportunities.,.. While more people are looking for work, those who would have solely considered consulting or banking positions now give much broader alternatives when we ask them what other sectors they are considering,” Bryson said. “That would include jobs in the non-profit [sector!”

Corey Folliard, recruiting coordinator for Mercer Management Consulting, Inc., said the company will hire between 40 and 50 undergraduates this year.

Although these numbers are the same as last year, Mercer will not host a summer internship program in 2002.

Although many students said they are still pursuing a financial job, others have already expressed interest in the non-profit sector, in areas such as teaching.

Kate Miller, a senior majoring in public policy, recently decided to wait a year before going to law school.

“I wanted to use my Spanish, but the pay in Asia [for teachers] is better right now, so I will probably end up going there,” Miller said. “It can’t hurt my law school application, but I did this mainly for myself. It was more of a personal decision.”

Although some students have searched for jobs in non-profit fields because of the slacking economy, others seek them as a bridge between college and graduate school.

Jim Hamilton, the campus Peace Corps recruiter at North Carolina State University, said many students choose non-profit jobs for the personal experience and to make their graduate school applications more competitive “[Students] don’t want a desk job straight out of college. They want a job where they can get a ‘different’ experience,” said Hamilton, who entered the Peace Corps after college and volunteered in Paraguay from 1993 to 1995.

Regardless of their choices, Harner said students should look to the economic decline as an opportunity to learn.

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ADDING COMPUTERS to the lobby of the Fuqua School of Business is only one step the school is taking to bolster its technological base.

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al basis [to be interested],” he said. “We expect an interest from universities.”

The school had partnered with Pensare before the California-based company went bankrupt last June, and Duke bought the platform, outbidding Har-

vard University. Duke hired Pensare’s software development team to work with DCE’s software team to finish upgrading the platform, which had not been completed when the company folded this summer.

Payne said the now-completed platform is unique in that it is programbased—designed to accommodate an entire MBA program, not just one course.

John Gallagher, DCE director of com-

puting, said he was excited about the possibilities of the new platform.

“They expanded the features set to give more support to teams, for student teams, more features and functions that support teamwork than was previously available, more generalizable and adaptable, able to use with corporate

education applications,” he said.

Gallagher added that the P3 version was restricted to a curriculum-based program that did not always accommodate DCE’s programs.

“There are a lot of things we do in the corporate environment where it doesn’t follow that model, [so the new version enhances] overall performance and sealability,” he said.

Islamic militants in the wake of the suicide bombings.

However, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told reporters that Israel has no intention of bringing down Arafat’s administration.

Brig. Gen. Ron Kitrey, the Israeli military spokesperson, said helicopters used by Arafat to shuttle between the West Bank and Gaza were targeted because “they were symbols ofhis mobility and freedom.”

Since Sunday night, Palestinian security forces have rounded up about 110 members of the Islamic Jihad and Hamas, the group that claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in a Jerusalem pedestrian mall that killed 10 young Israelis Saturday and another suicide bombing that killed 15 on a bus in Haifa Sunday. A Hamas shooting in the Gaza Strip Sunday killed one Israeli.

In the past, the Palestinians have quicklyreleased some militants detained in sweeps, and the Bush administration Monday cautioned against what White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer called a “revolving door.”

Concerning Israel’s airstrikes, Fleischer said, “Israel has a right to defend itself.” Secretary of State Cohn Powell cautioned that all sides must consider the repercussions of their actions on the peace process.

After the weekend attacks, Arafat declared a state of emergency in the Palestinian areas and ordered illegal weapons confiscated, said a Palestinian security official.

But a senior Israeli military official,

speaking on condition of anonymity, said “very few, if any” of the 108 militants Israel wants arrested are among those rounded up.

In his televised speech, Sharon did not refer to the Palestinian arrests and said Arafat was directly responsible for terrorism suffered by Israelis. Sharon said he would wage “war on terror... with all the means at our disposal.”

“Arafat is the main impediment to peace and stability in the Middle East,” Sharon said. “Arafat has chosen the path of terror [to] try to make diplomatic gains through murder.”

Sharon warned, “We will pursue those responsible, the perpetrators of terror-

ism, its supporters and those who send them. We will pursue them until we catch them, and they will pay the price.”

Israeli missiles struck a security compound near Arafat’s seaside headquarters in Gaza City, hitting one of his helicopters on its landing pad and the other in its hangar. Arafat has at least one more helicopter.

Shifa hospital in Gaza reported 10 people injured in the attack. Missiles struck an underground fuel depot, causing a fire that poured out thick smoke over Gaza City.

Security officials and civilians were seen running for cover. But the compound was largely empty, since most Palestinians were home for Ifbar, the traditional breaking of the daylong fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

In the West Bank, Israeli F-16 warplanes struck a Palestinian police building in the northern town of Jenin, Palestinian security officials said.

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The Duke men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams had a good meet Saturday at East Carolina in Greenville, N.C., even though the women lost to the Pirates 135-108 and the men were beaten 127-85.

Many of the younger Blue Devils fared well at Minges Coliseum Natatorium and earned some first-place finishes. Sophomore Lauren Hancock took the 1,000 and the 500 freestyle events and teammate Amanda Davis, also a sophomore, won the one-meter and three-meter diving events. Freshman Teddy Heifers won the 500 freestyle, handing the men’s team its only first-place finish of the day.

The two teams last met at the Nike Cup in November, where the women’s team had edged ECU by 165.5 points and the men finished below the Pirates by 60 points.

“The girls had a real good shot to win the meet.... They did better than the guys, but everyone swam well,” said Ryan Spoon, a junior who swims the 200 breaststroke and the relay.

Hancock was also pleased with the team’s showing. “We swam pretty well, as tired we are in our training,” she said. “ECU just came out with some good times.”

The Pendleton, S.C., native ended with a 10:30.66 time in the 1,000 free and 5:07.71 in the 500 free.

“I swam the 1,000 pretty much like a warmup. I just went out fast and held on to it,” she said.

Davis’s dives took the first-place spot with a

three-meter.

While Heifers was happy with his first-place finish at 4:46.98, he believed that the competition was not as challenging.

“The top position in the 500 wasn’t quite as steep as some of the other positions,” he commented.

Heifers, who was an All-State selection in the 500 and a Junior National qualifier for the 500, 1,000 and 1,650 free, hopes to contribute more in the relays as well; however, he is a distance swimmer and the longer relays are only held in bigger meets.

The Pirates were led by Courtney Foster, Diane Parker, Casey Cronin and Ryan Faught, who each took two events. The men’s and women’s 400 medley relay teams also posted good performances, with the men earning their best time of the season. The Pirates will swim again Jan. 5 in the Palm Beach Relays.

Looking ahead to the rest of the season, the Blue Devils are optimistic. Their next challenge will be to face Virginia Jan. 18 at home.

“We have a real good shot at winning our two remaining non-conference meets,” Spoon said.

“Virginia is going to be tough. They’re one of the top 10 teams in the nation... but it’s a good rivalry,” he added.

Before the Virginia matchup, the Blue Devils will travel down to Florida for their training trip.

“We’ll go down there and train hard to get our endurance up and be ready to race for UVa,” JUSTIN WARD and the men’s swim team were downed by the East Carolina PiHancock said. rates. The women fared no better, also losing to ECU.

Favre runs in last touchdown as Packers beat Jaguars

By EDDIE PELLS

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Down 28 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. two touchdowns in the third 21 quarter, then tied late in the

fourth, the Green Bay Packers felt confident.

They had,Brett Favre on their side—and the Jacksonville Jaguars on the other.

Favre threw three touchdown passes, and ran six yards for the game-winner with 1:30 left, to rally the Packers from 14 points down for a 28-21 victory over the Jaguars—once again victims of a

late-game collapse.

Favre rolled around the left end on a bootleg, then just squeezed into the comer of the endzone for the go-ahead score. It was his first rushing touchdown since Oct. 25, 1998, and ended the longest such drought of his career.

“I wasn’t going to throw the ball unless someone was absolutely wide open,” Favre said. “I figured T was the last guy the Jaguars would figure to run with the ball.”

Mark Brunell led the Jaguars (3-8) to midfield on their desperation drive, but was sacked on second-and-short. Two plays later, the quarterback lost a fumble to end yet another close loss.

Favre threw for 362 yards to help the Packers (8-3) stay one game behind Chicago for the NFC Central lead with the teams set to meet Sunday.

The three-time NFL Most Valuable Player improved to 7-0 lifetime as a starter when the game is tied after three quarters.

“It was one of the better wins I’ve been associBRETT FAVRE scrambles for the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter of with,” Favre said. ated night’s the Jacksonville game Monday against Jaguars.

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The Jaguars blew a late lead for the fourth time in six games, and threw yet another distraction onto a pile that includes Jimmy Smith’s recent positive test for cocaine and Tom Coughlin’s potential candidacy for the Notre Dame job.

They looked bad doing it, committing 111 yards in penalties, more than enough to nullify Smith’s 116-yard receiving night.

“It’s unfortunate when you’re in a battle for your life, and you’ve got to get a win, then you put yourself in a position where the penalties are forthcoming,” Coughlin said. “You’d like to think there’s a little more poise. But then you look around and see what’s going on.”

The Jaguars also had four turnovers.

With the game tied at 21, Mike Hollis had a chance to give the Jaguars the lead with 5:12 left, but his 42-yard field goal hit the left upright—somehow fitting for Jacksonville’s starcrossed season.

Before that, Favre rallied the Packers from a 21-7 deficit.

Most of the damage came at the expense of cornerback Fernando Bryant, who has made himself one of Jacksonville’s numerous distractions this season, as the most outspoken critic of the soft-zone defenses the Jaguars have used to blow all those leads.

Playing in the man-to-man defense he liked, Bryant surrendered a 43-yard touchdown to Bill Schroeder to make the score 21-14.

“I only got beat once today when we were playing man, and that was for a touchdown,” Bryant said.

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Washington guard Michael Jordan announced Monday that he will miss the Wizards game against San Antonio tonight. The NBA legend player is out . with a bum knee.

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Five Best Moments; 1. Chris Douglas’ 78-yard touchdown reception against Florida State

Duke knew it needed to start the game strong against the sixth-ranked Seminoles in both teams’ season opener. The Blue Devils got what they wanted when blown coverage in the FSU secondary, combined with running back Chris Douglas’ speed, allowed a short D. Bryant-to-Douglas pass to turn into a 78-yard touchdown reception straight down the FSU sideline. It gave Duke an early 6-0 lead and remained the longest play from scrimmage all season for the Blue Devils. Sign of things to come: Duke missed the extra point.

2. Second half comeback against Wake Forest Down 35-7 with under five minutes to go in the third quarter, it looked like another blowout loss for the lethargic Blue Devils, this time against another winless team in the conference (both teams were 0-3 in the ACC coming into the game).

But Duke managed an improbable comeback, scoring four touchdowns in 10 minutes to tie the game at 35 before succumbing 42-35. “We were a whole different team in the second half offensively and defensively,” wide receiver Ben Erdeljac said after the game. “Guys were playing their hearts out. I was extremely proud to be a Duke Blue Devil today because we had guys out there that never quit.”

3. D. Bryant throws for 400 yards against N.C. State Most students headed for the exits when Duke found itself on the losing end of a 49-0 blowout midway through the second quarter. But those who stayed saw QB D. Bryant record career highs in completions (31), attempts (53) and passing yardage (400). The Blue Devils outgained the Wolfpack 333 yards to 95 in the second half and made the score a more respectable 55-31.

“This team never gives up, whether we’re down 49 or down two,” senior tight end Mike Hart said. “We’re going to fight as hard as we can to get back into it.”

4. Mike Hart earns first-team All-ACC honors

The senior finished the season with 30 receptions for 476 yards and four touchdowns, despite missing the season finale with a broken ankle suffered against North Carolina.

After seeing Hart catch 10 passes for 165 yards against N.C. State, coach Carl Franks was full of praise for the Sayville, N.Y., native.

“Mike Hart had one of the most courageous games I’ve ever seen,” he said. “We ran 98 plays and we only took him out a couple times to catch his breath. But other than that, he was in there.”

5. Any play Involving Chris Douglas The sophomore running back/kick returner ended the year with the most allpurpose yards in school history, breaking the previous record by over 200 yards.

Douglas led the conference and ranked sixth nationally with over 170 yards per game, including over 300 in the season opener against Florida State.

Five Worst Moments: 1. Fumbled snaps against Rice

If there was ever a winnable game, Duke’s contest against Rice was it. Down 15-7 late in the fourth quarter, D. Bryant found Nick Brzezinski with 1:36 left to make the score 15-13. Needing the two-point conversion to tie, the Blue Devils were unable to execute the quarterback-center snap. It would be the closest the Blue Devils got to a win all season.

“I came out a little bit too quickly,” Bryant said. “Everything gets a little faster at the five yard line. [We were supposed to] run a drag, similar to the play we scored a touchdown on. But we didn’t get to run it,”

2. Six touchdowns in six possessions by Maryland

The Terrapins had a number of great moments during their 10-1 season, but none was greater than their complete offensive domination over Duke. Maryland had six possessions in the first half. The result: six touchdowns. For the game, the Terrapins recorded 34 first downs, gained 697 yards in total offense and only had to punt once—on the final play of the game.

“Maryland certainly made us look very bad on defense,” Franks said. “The way we played today, it was ugly.”

3. Blocked punts against Florida

Looking back on the season, it seems unlikely that Duke could hang an L on the powerful Seminoles, even considering the relative weakness of this season’s Florida State team. But Duke kept things close, shutting down rookie Seminole QB Chris Rix and leading 6-3 halfway into the second quarter.

But the game turned in an unexpected way—a complete breakdown by the Duke punting unit. Freshman punter Trey McDonald fumbled one snap, which Florida State recovered on the Duke two yard line. The Seminoles scored on the next play.

McDonald’s next punt was blocked, and this time the Seminoles’ special teams took the ball into the endzone themselves. Florida State took its 17-6 lead and never looked back.

4. Defense gives up over 40 points in each of its last six games

By the end of the season, watching Duke’s defense was like watching late-night Cinemax—everyone was scoring. The defense gave up 59 points to Clemson and Maryland, 55 points to Florida State and N.C. State, 52 points to North Carolina and at least 31 points to every team it played except Rice. That didn’t give the team much of a chance to win—Duke scored over 31 only once, losing 42-35 to

Wake Forest.

5. The Clemson game continues the losing streak

A 59-31 loss to the Tigers Saturday ensured a second straight 0-11 season for the Blue Devils. The nation’s longest current losing streak now stands at 23 games. However, Duke would need a third consecutive winless season to match Northwestern’s record of 34 straight losses.

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Tennessee jumps to second in BCS

By RICHARD ROSENBLATT

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Nebraska is perhaps on the verge of its greatest comeback ever thanks to the Bowl Championship Series standings.

The Cornhuskers, all but out of the national title chase after a 62-36 loss to Colorado Nov. 23, would play No. 1 Miami in the BCS championship game if LSU beats Tennessee Saturday.

The BCS standings confirmed as much Monday, ranking Miami first, Tennessee second and Nebraska third—ahead of fourthplace Colorado, the team it lost to by 26 points—and fifth-place Oregon.

Expect Huskers fans everywhere to learn the words to “Tiger Rag” and tune in when LSU (8-3) plays Tennessee (10-1) for the Southeastern Conference title on the final night of the regular season.

The Vols, favored by seven points, can prevent what is certain to create a huge controversy by winning and moving on to play the Hurricanes at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

Miami (11-0) has 2.50 points in the BCS rankings, Tennessee (10-1) has 4.79 points, Nebraska (11-1) has 8.39 points and Colorado (10-2) and 9.88 points. Oregon, the Pac-10 champions, (10-1) has 10.44 points.

BCS officials must be hoping for a Vols victory to avoid trying to explain how a team can play for a national title even though it could not even win its own division.

Jerry Palm, who runs a website that closely monitors the BCS standings, says Oregon will have the biggest beef.

“The reaction if Nebraska gets in will be bad,” Palm said. “It’s hard to understand how a team that doesn’t qualify for a conference title gets to play for a national title. Oregon has a stronger argument since Colorado has two losses, and that’s tough to overcome. But that’s kind of the way it goes in the BCS.”

Others receiving votes: Oklahoma 85, Notre Dame 78, Connecticut 65, Georgia 63, Cincinnati 50, Southern Illinois 43, Southern California 42, Butler 40, Indiana 36, South Florida 25, Temple 22, Texas 22, Gonzaga 17, Creighton 13, Mississippi 12, Massachusetts 10, Tennessee 10, Ohio St. 8, Pennsylvania 8, Mississippi St. 6, Miami, FI. 6, Utah St. 4, Texas Tech 1.

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Mind/Body Skills Group for cancer patients, family members and caregivers.

Every Tuesday from 12 noon -1:30 pm, at the Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center, 111 Cloister Ct., Ste 220, Overlook The Society for Creative Anachronism Building in Chapel Hill. For more informa- (SCA) meets on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm. tion call 401-9333 or see the web site at Study and recreate the middle ages.

Sword-fighting, feasting, dancing, costumwww.cornucopiahouse.org. ing, etc. For information, call 682-0551.

Let’s Party! The Healing Power of Friendship. Drop in at the Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center to celebrate Reading: Edmund Morris, author of the “Thanks-Living.” No program, no workshop, just a time to socialize, have fun and Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Rise of relax. Call 919-401-9333 to RSVP. For Theodore Roosevelt” and the controversial more information see the web site at “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan," will read from “Theodore Rex,” the second volwww.cornucopiahouse.org. ume of his projected three-volume biograFAITH & FRIENDSHIP: Join others at 6:45 phy of the twenty-sixth president. Co-sponpm each Tuesday, upstairs balcony room sored by the Duke libraries, the Gothic in The Marketplace, for Bible study and Bookshop and the Department of History. supportive friendship over supper. Spon- For information, call 660-5816. 7:00 pm. sored by BSU (Baptist Student Union) and Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, West open to all. Call 684-5994 for more infor- Campus. mation.

paul, craig tim, thad, drew rosalyn amisha and mike .Christina, gwen, thad roily

The Self Knowledge Symposium meets every Tuesday at 7:30 pm in 204 Perkins (near the Perk). Be prepared for boisterous discussions on the things that really matter.

The curious are always welcome.

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT: Featuring the works of Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Prokofiev. 8:00 pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, East Campus. Admission: Free

Wesley Covenant Discussion Group meets in the Wesley Office, 9:30 pm. The Truth about God” Wesley Fellowship is the campus ministry of the United Methodist Church. Rev. Jenny Copeiand, campus minister. For information: 684-6735 or email |enny.copeland@duke.edu.

Wednesday CAMPUS CLUB PROGRAMS TALK 10:00 am, Episcopal Student Center, 505 Alexander Street, Duke Central Campus.

Linda K. George, Ph.D. Associate Director, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development will talk about “Religion and Health: New Explorations” All events open to Campus Club members.

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Catholic Mass: 5:15 pm, Duke Chapel Crypt, West Campus.

Concert; Duke Symphony Orchestra, Works for opera by Verdi, Wagner and Dvorak. Free. For information, call 6603300. 8:00 pm, Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus.

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Bryan Center upgrading Administrators should consider more logical allocations of campus space in planning how to handle the creation of an auxiliary building and parking deck to neighbor the center

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residential planning’s proceeding toward implementation, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta has expanded his efforts to different areas—among them, renovations to the Bryan Center and the development ofwhat he calls a “village” for student life. Although administrators have long discussed the direction of the facility, little progress has been made over the years; Moneta’s arrival along with the Board of Trustees’ approval of a parking deck and new building earlier this year make clear that Duke may be headed for major, and much-needed, change.

With poor layout and weak atmosphere, the current iteration of the Bryan Center demands reorganization and revamping. Part of its troubles come the larger problem of campus space allocation.

Currently, offices used by the community are spread out in an illogical manner, as groups have been placed in their locations as vacancies opened. For example, the Campus Council office is located on the first floor ofthe Flowers Building, although other student groups have office space in the greenhouse area behind the Bryan Center—which houses some student groups itself. To avoid inefficient and illogical use of space in the future, administrators must develop one well-thought out vision for the center.

One fruitful vision would make the Bryan Center a place where students can take care of all their daily needs. Although students can already eat meals, check mail and buy textbooks in the Bryan Center, the University would do well to provide other services—like technical support from the Office of Information Technology and a computer cluster —in one place. Although administrators have considered moving the Duke Stores out ofthe Bryan Center, such a move would defeat the purpose of service consolidation.

At the same time, the University must decide on away to free up space in the building, perhaps by moving some less-used services to the new auxiliary building and making better use ofthe West Union Building. Administrators have committed to putting a multicultural center in the Bryan Center, but more issues need to be addressed.

Student groups located in the building have often complained that they lack sufficient square footage. Furthermore, the center lacks ample social space, such as lounge areas and perhaps even an area that includes entertainment options like pool tables. Although the Hideaway bar closed last year, it may be time that administrators reexamine the possibility of a student-run bar, almost a guaranteed venue to attract students for on-campus entertainment.

No matter what the decision, administrators and students must work together to develop a vision for the Bryan Center, one that is logical and also takes into account the needs of students and the University’s community. The construction ofthe neighboring buildings and rearrangement ofoffice space will impact the campus for years to come.

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JAMES HERRIOTT, Managing Editor DAVE INGRAM, University Editor

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Wristband system begins for men’s basketball game Wednesday, Duke will face Temple, the first ranked opponent to come to Cameron Indoor Stadium this season, Because the game occurs on a day when classes are in session, wristbands will be used for the first time this season, Wristbands will be distributed outside of Cameron from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m., or until all 1,200 have been given out.

Like last season, the wrist-

bands will be in color blocks of 200. After receiving a band, students may leave the line and come back at any point until the doors open at 7:30.

When a student rejoins the line, he should proceed to the back of his color block. The first color wristband distributed in the morning will be at the front of the line and so on.

Any student not procuring a wristband will be allowed to

enter Cameron at the end of the line, space permitting.

As always, information on

the space remaining in Cameron will be posted thirty minutes before game time at dsg.duke.edu/k-ville.php.

Go Duke!

Greg

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Trinity ’O2 The writer is Duke Student Government head line monitor.

Academia should not engage in ‘America-bashing’ During his speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, controversial speaker David Horowitz con-

demned the America-bashing

by university faculty across

don’t know of any other country where some professors tell their students to be against their nation. What kind of future does this country have when we students —America’s future—are being told to despise the United States?

Again, the beaten wife syndrome is rampant, “I was abused so therefore I must have done something to deserve it.” I am not by any means saying that professors

the country. He went as far as to say that on the day of the tragedy, professors were secretly rejoicing, which I find to be slightly farfetched.

However, I do find the overall reaction to Sept. 11 by academia to be sickening and sad. I for referenced story, see http:

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should demand students be

patriotic or join ROTC, but I am saying that in the midst of

this terrible tragedy and war, academia should show a little more respect and be on our side rather than the enemy’s side. If this country is so terrible, why not go and enjoy civil liberties and human rights under the Taliban?

Katherine Kelly Trinity ’O2

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Asian Student Association should be more political I have tried various methods to empower the Asian Student Association, and I do not know how much has come of it. Here is a final challenge: Stop being so afraid—afraid of alienating (potential) members; afraid of offending the administration; afraid of being labeled political; afraid of taking action; afraid of passionately and unapologetically standing up for what is right.

Dinner raised

a membership before mobi-

lizing for causes; of prioritizing social and cultural activities above political ones (as demonstrated by the percentage ofannual funds spent on

these activities).

I would rather see defenses of misguided causes than no cause at all. At least then

over

The

Muslim Student Association would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the greater Duke community for its support in the Afghan Refugee Relief fundraising dinner this past Saturday. We successfully raised $17,663 during the dinner, and additional donations continue to be sent to our Afghan Relief fund. The diversity of collaborative efforts with various cultural, religious and political student groups coming together for the common cause was empowering, and we thank Student Religious Activities,

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Do not offer rationales of remaining neutral and waiting for people to make their own conclusions; of building

there can be an appropriate

backlash against those causes.

Take a stand for Asian Americans. I encourage those who care to bypass ASA and form a new organization, one absolutely excited about and committed to taking up Asian-American causes. Get into action and fight for what is right.

Steve Chu Trinity ’O2

$17,000 for Afghan refugees

HIWAR, International recent weeks and as the bitAssociation, Diya, Duke ter Afghan winter approachAdvocates for Women of es, the entire population is and the at risk.

Afghanistan We urge the entire Duke University Chapel for their support. community to continue to As we were reminded support this worthy cause to during the charity event, the ensure that during this most United Nations has called difficult time Afghan the Afghan refugee problem refugees are not without the the “worst humanitarian cribare necessities for survival. sis in the world today.” The Taliban may have been Lala Qadir defeated but 70 percent of Trinity ’O2 all Afghans are still currently at risk for starvation, 7.5 Saima Hussain million of whom are women Trinity ’O2 and children. Millions more The writers are co-presidents of have become displaced in the Muslim Student Association.

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In the long run, it’s for the greater good of the school. In the short term, it’s going to hurt some people very significantly.

Elayne Heisler, Graduateand Professional Student Council president, on proposed graduate student tuition increases (see story, page one)

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Lying in wait for a win...

Duke football fans will show support when victory seems possible

Recently, the Los Angeles Times ran ing in talent—they just can’t execute on an interesting piece contrasting the a consistent enough basis to beat out packed atmosphere of Cameron Indoor most teams they play.

Stadium to the rows of empty bleachers And believe it or not, as demanding in Wallace Wade. But there is one impor- and spoiled by the basketball team’s tant aspect the author success as we might be, most fans failed to capture in the understand this fact very well. We can story how little it see that the football team is at least a takes to get the fans few seasons away from contending for excited about our footthe ACC championship, and we’ve ball team. adjusted our expectations accordingly.

Yes, the stands were And therein lies the ray of hope few Marko rather empty this year. Dmranovic eo P Pl e appear to notice.

But you can’t realistiThe reporter from the Los Angeles cally expect fans to go to the games Times only saw rows of empty bleachers when the chances are quite high that in the student section. This season, their team will lose. Fans like to watch though, I saw something else altogether, competitive teams, and this season, our I saw the student body’s reaction football team was rarely competitive, with 11:30 left to go in the fourth quarOur team came into most games as two- ter of the Wake Forest game when the touchdown underdogs and by the end of Blue Devils scored to tie the game. the game had shown the world why the Although the game appeared to be lost Vegas odds makers gave them such low earlier, the Blue Devils came back with odds to begin with. four unanswered touchdowns. Those of This is especially true at a place like us who were here for fall break ran Duke, where the students are not only over to the stadium as soon as we used to men’s basketball coach Mike heard the news. The few of us who Krzyzewski’s winning ways but are also were there screamed, yelled and of the belief that the key to getting good annoyed the opposing team’s bench as grades is to utilize fully those Saturday much as we could, afternoons—by studying.

At one point in time, when it looked And that is the reason why on any like Duke might actually win the game, given Saturday this year, during any the police officers at the stadium given quarter, the stands at Wallace became fidgety. The announcer remindWade were at least half-empty.

Ed everyone that the field was off-limits My intention here is not to put any- after the game was concluded. The one down or to ridicule the team—the implication was clear—if Duke won, the players get enough of that as it is. On students would attempt to rush the field the contrary, I respect men who contin- and bring down the goalposts. All for a ue to put their bodies on the line when single win.

I also saw the students’ reaction to the game is out ofreach and when bowl berths have become a conversation topic the first quarter score in the Florida for the next season by late October. Our State game—we were ecstatic because players aren’t quitters or losers or lack- for one quarter, it looked like Duke —=.

might pull off the biggest upset in its history. A number of my friends and I stood in the rain and hoped for a win when the scoreboard at halftime during the Georgia Tech game had us down by only a touchdown. Our team had shown flashes of brilliance, and we believed the Blue Devils just might squeak out a vie-

tory on Homecoming.

In retrospect, our time would have been better spent waiting for Godot; that elusive win that our team needed to snap its losing streak didn’t come this season, But that’s not the point.

The point is that there were plenty of us who were prepared to attempt to bring down the goalposts if the football team climbed to a 1-5 record. The point is that we still made it to a few home games and

believed that, even for a little while, we might actually pull off the upset, I don’t know whether our football team will ever capture the ACC championship or whether it’ll even put together a winning season anytime soon. With Duke’s academic reputation and the new facility that will soon be finished, I’d like to think that there is hope for the program somewhere down

the line.

But one thing is for certain—the fans are there. We’re lying in wait, ready to embrace a winning team—whenever it decides to show up.

Marko Djuranouic is a Trinity senior and former health The Chronicle.

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To protect our rights, practice them Look to that handful of zealous idealists whom the U.S. flags seem to be everywhere now, on houses and And the flag itself is only a symbol, charged with whatBritish, crown sought to snuff out but whose speeches T-shirts and cars. Some cars even have two or more ever significance the holder intends, and open thereflags, looking like official government limousines—- fore—as noted above—to great interpretation. and writing illuminated not only their own times but ours as well.

No flag, or other mere symbol, can fully encomexcept that they’re 7-year-old BMWs Ben Franklin: “They that give up essential liberty to or 15-year-old Toyotas. pass what we hold dear. In truth, it is only by engaging in actions that embody our beliefs that we can obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty And that’s only the beginning: nor safety” sustain them.

Songs praising our country are getWe must uphold our freedoms, particularly freeThomas Jefferson: “If there be any among us who ting heavy rotation on radio, while news media detail accusations of doms of speech and the press, by allowing all of us to would wish t0... change [this Union’s] republican form, exercise them. let them stand undisturbed as monuments ofthe safeunpatriotic behavior, leveled especialty with which error of opinion may be tolerated where Democracy, or at least ours, holds that no one perly at peace activists on college camBenson son could possibly know what’s right, all the time, reason is left free to combat it.” puses. But of course the activists George Washington: “If men are to be precluded claim that they’re being patriotic, to improve their every time. Indeed, the very strength of our system is, to paraphrase Lincoln, that not all ofthe people can be from offering their sentiments on a matter that may country in their own way. involve the most serious and alarming conseSo who is being patriotic? How, in this time of stress fooled, all of the time.

But one corollary to that idea can be that many of quences... [then] reason is of no use to us; freedom of and fear, do we deal with arguments that seem to speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we erode the unity we feel is necessary to face our dangers the people can be fooled, much of the time may be led, like sheep to the and worries?

So it is essential, both for slaughter.”

Nearly everyone is horrified and dismayed by what our own individual liberty So let right-wing nuts rail patriotic action is to happened in September; the rest are either lying for and our democratic system, voices Review about the in in crying we allow National or are who rationalize their that effect spiteful people need to consider using the wilderness to continue to accept questions insensitivity with personal or ideological selfishness. nuclear weapons, while leftFurther, we all continue to be concerned —even cry out are nuts on campuses tote wing Not because —not they A next. sense of arguments nervous—about what could happen signs demanding an end to crisis surrounds many of us, but nearly three months always right, but because they all war. later, we still debate whether our nation is doing the are sometimes right. And in Let’s stay firmly on the few those instances when the certain suspending right things. Some people speak of it. ever-slippery slope of debate, civil liberties “for the duration”of the war, while at the have convincing arguments, persuasion and thought. Let’s same time others claim that this kind of conflict never they can sway the destiny of allow the refiner’s fire of open the nation. it for most of ends—that defines a duration too long Initially, those who argued against slavery or for the discussion to enlighten unexamined assumptions, us. And most people want both security and freedom.

40-hour work week were the few radical souls who burn up unsupported claims and reveal the truth as So what to do? out of dared to question assumptions everyone else had best it can.

Flying a flag seems a reasonable thing, Because that’s the finest that any democracy can respect for the dead and their loved ones, the nation so thought of as simple facts of life. But when they garand won to and the least we should demand of ourselves they persuaded aspire evidence, injured, the ideals it represents or those now risking nered sufficient and our republic; That’s as patriotic as a democracy over mass opinion. their lives in military operations.

The patriotic action is to accept questions—and can be.

But even the simple imagery of the flag is imperbecause they weaken democracy but arguments—not fect. Heck, even the Pledge of Allegiance is of dubious Edward Benson is a Durham resident it. they strengthen as a scam to because ancestry—it originated simply sell flags.

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—and because they weaken democracy but because they strengthen

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