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THE INDEPENDENT DA LY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Gates Foundation gives S3SM to Duke $3O million pegged for new science building

By JAMES HERRIOTT

Melinda Gates, Trinity ’B6 and Fuqua ’B7, serves as vice chair ofthe Student AfThe University’s science and student fairs Committee of the Board of Trustees. life initiatives took a $35 million leap forShe co-founded the Gates foundation in ward with a gift from the Bill & Melinda January 2000 with her husband Bill, Gates Foundation announced May 2. chair and co-founder of Microsoft.

Of the gift’s $35 million, $3O million “Melinda French Gates is a wise will help fund the planned multidiscipli- and committed alumna and trustee,” nary sciences building—to Keohane said. “We are gratebe named the French Sciful to her not only for the reence Center, in honor of sources provided by the Melinda French Gates’ famifoundation... but for her perly—and $5 million will be sonal leadership in helping earmarked for assorted Stuus shape and implement dent Affairs projects. PresiUniversity priorities.” dent Nan Keohane anProvost Peter Lange said nounced the gift at an that, as outlined in its strateAcademic Council meeting. gic plan, the University hopes Equaling the 1999 Edto strengthen science and enmund Pratt donation that re- Melinda Gates gineering departments, better named the School of Engiintegrate teaching and reneering, this gift ties for the search and promote interdisciplinary second-largest in dollar value ever given learning. He said the new science structo Duke behind James B. Duke’s foundture—scheduled to cost about $BO miling $4O million grant in 1924. lion—would encourage those goals “I’m pleased to be giving back to the among the biology, biological anthropolouniversity that has given me so much,” gy, chemistry and physics departments.

Melinda Gates said in a statement. “It’s “We are certain that Duke needed this my hope that this new state-of-the-art facility and we went ahead with plans science facility and the student life initiadespite the high costs,” Lange said, tives will enrich undergraduates’ learnThe Chronicle

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MIKE DUNLEAVY, CENTER, HAS JOINED teammates Carlos Boozer and Jay Williams in declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft. Dunleavy will meet with the media today.

Dunleavy keeps draft watchers in suspense

By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

Duke officials, NBA experts and the entire college basketball world have spent the week reacting to senior Mike Dunleavy’s May 11 decision to declare himself eligible for the NBA draft.

Experts have predicted that Dunleavy’s entry in the draft will change the make-up of the NBA Lottery and could impact the top 10 picks, but Duke basketball officials maintained this week

that they believe Dunleavy will still come back for his final year of college eligibility. By not signing with an agent, Dunleavy left open the possibility that he could withdraw his name and return to school anytime before June 20.

“It’s not a done deal with Mike,” said associate head coach Johnny Dawkins. “[His prospects in the draft] will have to be very attractive for him to go. Just See DUNLEAVY on page 17

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DUHS to eliminate 300 jobs Officials pledge to maintain quality of patient care

By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle

Prompting some employee concerns about benefits and job security, Duke University Health System plans to eliminate 300 positions in response to budgetary pressures caused by cuts to government reimbursements and higher health care costs, officials announced last week.

Bill Donelan, DUHS executive vice president, said the cuts would not adversely affect patient care and predominately would be taken from Duke Hospital and the Patient Revenue Management Organization, which are in relatively better budget positions.

However, the cuts, which represent about 3 percent of DUHS’s 10,000 positions, likely will not translate to 300 people losing their jobs, Donelan said. Many of the positions eliminated are already vacant, and the Health System will try to transfer employees whose jobs are eliminated to other positions within DUHS or the University.

In addition to the 300 eliminated positions, 100 more will be cut through attrition.

The announcement drew mixed reaction from employees. Some said they were not concerned about losing their position or the quality of care.

Cathy Williams, staff specialist in the Division

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of Urology, worried patient care would diminish if jobs are overly consolidated.

“If they are taking away some of the PRMO, how long will it take patients to register?”

Williams said. “If they combine too many jobs into one, they might have too many patients to take care of and that wouldn’t be good patient care.”

DUHS has lost a net $2OO million in the last five years, and Donelan attributed the loss to the federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which he said has led the state to make reductions in

Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements. The problem is amplified by cuts from the federal government, which matches state reimbursements two to one.

Anticipating that North Carolina’s current budget crisis will likely lead to more cuts, Donelan said the system preemptively reacted by proposiifg position elimination—which should save $l5 million in the next fiscal year—as well as other cost-saving measures, like procurement efforts that have saved over $l6 million. “It’s an opportunity to do more with less, but at the same time there are limits,” Donelan said.

In 1994, faced with budgetary pressures and

Dr Robert Cook-Deegan, a health policy analyst in Washington, D.C., has been tapped to head Duke’s Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy. See page 5

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The search for a director of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life has ended with the hiring of Jonathan Gerstl, who brings a fundraising background. See page 6

The Arts and Sciences Council approved a new Community Standard, intended to foster a greater sense of academic integrity among students. See page 8

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Intelligence warned of hijackings

NEWS BRIEFS Arafat counters recent critics

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Memorandum noted presence of Middle Eastern men training in flight schools

Palestinian Authority Chair Yasser Arafat responded to dissatisfaction with his performance in a Wednesday speech that called for new elections and government reform. Israeli officials expressed skepticism.

By DAVID SANGER

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WASHINGTON White House officials said Wednesday night that President George W. Bush had been warned by intelligence agencies last August that Osama bin Laden was seeking to hijack aircraft but that the reports did not include the possibility that the hijackers would turn the planes into guided missiles for a terrorist attack.

“It is widely known that we had information that bin Laden wanted to attack the United States or United States interests abroad,” Ari Fleischer, the president’s press secretary, said Wednesday evening. “The president was also provided information

Biotech audit shows improper spending

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The company Advanced Cell Technology allegedly misused some of three grants worth $1.9 million that should not have been funded by taxpayers, the Department of Health and Human Services found.

The money was used for cloning research in cattle, mice and other mammals.

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House Republicans pressed for legislation Wednesday that would put more welfare mothers into jobs, working more hours than ever before, as floor debate began over changes to the 1996 welfare overhaul.

Wildfire forces thousands from homes

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A fast-moving wildfire burned across 800 acres Wednesday on the fringe of Prescott, Ariz., destroying six homes and forcing several thousand residents in the area to flee.

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Administration officials reached Wednesday evening said the warning given to Bush did not come from the FBI or from the information developed by the Phoenix agent. Instead, it was provided as part of the CIA briefing he is given each morning, suggesting it was probably based on evidence gathered abroad. The briefing was given to the president at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he was on vacation.

Carter’s aides said Wednesday’s events marked the end of his public activities. They said he would spend ThursBible school teacher and former day, his last full day in Cuba, in private pursuits. He is due HAVANA, Cuba president Jimmy Carter took to the pulpit of a little Hato leave Cuba Friday. vana church Wednesday to speak of the power of God, a Even though the Roman Catholic Church is by far day after the former president used a nationwide broadCuba’s largest, Protestant denominations have grown cast to call for free speech and elections on this commuafter losing most of their pastors immediately after the nist island.

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In Washington, the White House rejected pleas by Carter, a deacon at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., where he has served as a Sunday school Carter and farm-state lawmakers to lift the trade embarteacher for many years, said he had been blessed by servgo and pledged an even tougher US. policy against Castro. ing as president, by having been married for 56 years, hav“The president believes that the trade embargo is a ing four children and 11 grandchildren. “But the most imvital part of America’s foreign policy and human rights portant thing in my life is my faith in Jesus Christ.” policy toward Cuba because trade with Cuba does not In the evening, Carter traveled to the Palace of the Revbenefit the people of Cuba—it’s used to prop up a reolution where he dined for a second and final time with pressive regime,” White House Press Secretary Ari President Fidel Castro.

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Board finalizes mix of projects At its quarterly meeting, the Board of Trustees approved the long-planned engineering plaza, sciences building, microbiology-genetics merger and bioinformatics Ph.D. program.

By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

Years of graduating students’ classwork came to a close on commencement weekend, but before students received their diplomas, administrators got their own seals of approval from the Board of Trustees.

From building projects to two new doctoral programs, several long-planned administrative initiatives gained final approval Friday and Saturday at the Board’s quarterly meeting. The Trustees also discussed the future ofDuke football, approved next year’s budget and heard a capital campaign update.

The Board gave final approval for the construction of a $97 million engineering and medical complex on Science Drive. The 320,000-square-foot Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences will house the Pratt School of Engineering’s new Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems, as well as biomedical engineering and materials sciences laboratories.

Trustees gave preliminary approval to three projects, including an $BO million multidisciplinary sciences building to be constructed next to the Biological Sciences Building. The Board also approved a $25-30 million addition to the Washington Duke Inn and a $l2 million, 27,000-square-foot addition to the Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

“The key thing is that the funding comes through for all ofthem, and it looks like it will,” said Board Chair Harold “Spike” Yoh. Seeking to advance the University’s efforts in genomics, the Trustees approved two new doctoral programs. Theprogram in bioinformatics and genome technology arose from a postdoctoral program and a graduate certificate program. The Trustees also approved the merger of the genetics and microbiology departments into the new Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, a move spawned by a desire to enhance research as well as by a critical external review of microbiology.

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A TRUCK ATTEMPTS TO BYPASS the barriers set up on Science Drive Monday as parking officials permanently closed the street to through traffic. A new engineering quad will replace part of the current asphalt.

Season of parking changes begins

By WHITNEY BECKETT

The hospital already calls another parking lot by that name, so the move confused some Medical CenWith campus settling in for a busy summer of ter employees. construction, the University’s master parking plan The rest of the displaced drivers will now park on began to feel growing pains once again Monday.

LaSalle Street or in the undergraduate Blue Zone The Divinity School parking lot closed, Circuit lot, where gates are open. Reeve said the University Drive street parking was eliminated, a portion of the also has increased bus service between LaSalle and spaces in the lot outside the Office of Information Circuit 11, to help ease the park-and-ride process.

Technology was removed and Science Drive was The 182 people who parked in the Divinity Lot—closed to street traffic, soon to become a cul-de-sac. where construction of the new engineering building Altogether, the changes comprise the latest phase and the Divinity School addition is beginning—will of the long-term transportation changes that now eventually be parking in the spots that the Facilities regularly visit campus every summer. For 442 perManagement Department are vacating to move to mit holders, it all meant parking somewhere new. the Smith Warehouse on Maxwell Street.

Director of Parking and Transportation Cathy Those who parked in the dirt lot on Campus Drive Reeve said the day went relatively smoothly, someand Anderson Street also need to find a new place to thing she attributed to communication from her ofpark for the next several weeks, as the University fice during the last month and parking attendants began paving the lot Wednesday. stationed at key points.

With decreased demand for spots in the summer, “People were able to figure it out,” Reeve said. “We Reeve said displaced drivers can park wherever they had already programmed it in their heads with lots can find legal spots, including the Blue Zone, where of e-mails. We also had parking enforcement officers they can park until August. stationed all around, and they directed them to “Everything is underway,” ReeveTsaid. “Just wait where they needed to go.” until August.”

The one confusion, she said, came at the Hospital, Over the summer, Reeve said the road work where, in exchange for eliminating 260 permit holdshould be completed, although the new engineering ers’ spaces on Circuit Drive, the University gave the building and the parking deck—to be built next to Hospital 150 permits for the Circuit lot behind Trent the Bryan Center—will be in the beginning stages of Drive Hall, which the University also calls “X Lot.” construction.

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Patients may fast too much before surgery

Patients around the nation may be unnecessarily fasting for long periods of time before surgery, according to a report published in The American Journal of Nursing, The study found that although the American Society of Anesthesiologists issued new guidelines in 1999 loosening food restrictions followed for decades, 91 percent of patients were still told not to eat or drink after midnight. The new guidelines allow clear liquids two hours before surgery, a small breakfast six hours and dinner eight hours beforehand. The old recommendations stemmed from concerns that patients would inhale food into their lungs when they were under general anesthesia, but newer techniques have reduced the risk.

Lupus deaths increase in 1980s, ’9os

Lupus deaths have become more prevalent in the last two decades—especially among middle-aged black women—according to a study published in The Mortality Weekly Report. Deaths from lupus, which causes skin lesions, climbed to 1,406 in 1998 compared to 879 in 1979. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which publishes The Mortality Weekly Report, cannot account for the increased death rate, it has suggested a registry to gather more data. CDC scientists said the difficult diagnosis and demanding medication schedule may impair treatment.

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Aspirin may improve circulation

Adding to the potential positive effects of aspirin, Patrick Vallance of the University College London found that patients taking the drug before the onset of inflammation are able to effectively adjust blood flow. Enabling proper circulation is essential to maintaining cardiac health, Vallance said. The researchers exposed subjects to inflammation by injecting them with typhoid vaccine.

Some patients took aspirin before the injection, some after, and some received placebos. In addition to achieving improved circulation, those who took aspirin before the injection showed no signs of inflammation. The research was published in the journal Circulation.

Herb may not help major depression

By LIANA WYLER The Chronicle

A recently released study has found that St. John’s Wort, an herbal supplement believed to decrease depression, may not be as effective as once thought in treating moderate to severe cases of depression.

Scientists believe these findings will make patients more aware of the deficiencies of herbal supplements.

“I hope [this study] will reinforce in people with serious medical problems to be more cautious about using alternative medicine,” said Dr. Robert Califf, co-author of the study and director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

In the largest study to date on the subject, 450 people with major depressive disorders at 12 U.S. medical centers were randomly given St. John’s Wort, a placebo or sertraline—a commonly prescribed antidepressant.

After being observed for 12 weeks, patients were followed for six months following treatment.

The results, which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, report no statistically significant differences among the effectiveness of St. John’s Wort and the placebo. The results suggest that St.

John’s Wort cannot be used to treat

major depression.

However, despite these findings, researchers believe the supplement will still be consumed.

“I’m sure [St. John’s Wortl will continue to be used, but I don’t think it will be used for serious cases of depression,” said principal investigator Dr. Jonathan Davidson, director of Duke’s program in anxiety and traumatic stress.

St. John’s Wort is one of the most widely used complementary medicines taken to combat depression. However, within the past 10 to 20 years, the divide between mainstream and complementary medicine has been narrowing.

ST. JOHN’S WORT, a popular herbal supplement, may not be effective for treating depression, according to a study by Medical Center researchers.

“We are now at a point in which it know about St. John’s Wort is that it’s has become increasingly more impornot necessarily safe to take, even tant to know, regardless of whether though it is an herbal supplement,” the medicine is mainstream or alterDavidson said.

Beyond the apparent ineffectivenative, if it works or not,” Califf said.

“There has been excitement or conness of St. John’s Wort in treating secern, depending on with whom you vere depression, previous studies have speak to, regarding the effectiveness shown that it has adverse effects on ofalternative medicine for people with therapeutic drugs for other major illmoderate to severe depression.” nesses, such as AIDS and cancer.

“All herbal supplements are not auThe research also elucidated previously undocumented side effects of St. tomatically suspect, but people who John’s Wort, which: include swelling of are-taking these things need to keep the extremities, increased urinary, fre- . themselves informed, about the. possiquency and difficulty achieving orgasm. ble interactions that may exist,” However, the study did not test Davidson said. whether the supplement is effective in “Your best bet is to go to your doctor and get a professional -evaluation treating cases of minor depression.

Since St. John’s Wort is categorized from someone who is qualified.” by the Food and Drug Administration Up to 70 percent of the population with depression will never be diagas an herbal supplement, it is not subject to government regulation. nosed or professionally treated, while Researchers express caution over the 20 percent of people worldwide will use of supplements due to lack of FDA become depressed at some point in oversight. “The thing people need to their lives. ,

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Genome ethics center gets leader

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

One of the most interdisciplinary branches of Duke’s genomics initiative found its leader earlier this month, with the selection of Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan as director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy.

Cook-Deegan, author of The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome, currently directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship program at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute ofEthics.

GELP is one of five centers under the $2OO million umbrella genomics institute at Duke. The center aims to cultivate research and discussion about the ethical and policy boundaries for emerging genomic therapies, such as the use of stem cells and human cell cloning.

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“His combination of excellent scholarship in an exciting, relevant area in the gene wars and more generally, what you might call the political economy and public policy in this area,” makes him a salient choice, said Provost Peter Lange.

Cook-Deegan said that in addition to the issues that have already been discussed in human genomics, he would like for GELP to include all kinds of ethical and policy issues relating to genetics, including vaccine development, resources in Asia and Africa and bioterrorism. “We’ll see how this goes,” he said. “[These] are some of the issues connected to [human genetics] that are not something that have been identified with the Human Genome Project, but I think are relevant to genomics in general.”

Cook-Deegan said that the greatest challenge for See GELP DIRECTOR on page 12

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GOV. MIKE EASLEY HAS FACED difficult challenges from the General Assembly since his inauguration.

Deficit brings Easley woes The state’s continuing budget problems have brought down the approval ratings of Gov. Mike Easley, who has continually battled the legislature on the issue.

By APARNA KRISHNASWAMY The Chronicle

Although it is likely Gov. Mike Easley will run for a second term in the 2004 gubernatorial election, five months before midterm elections some state political analysts are saying that his chances of winning may be slim.

Easley, a Democrat, has been criticized for the poor condition of North Carolina’s economy and has responded to the state’s budget deficit by cutting funding for the state’s cities and counties and using the money to dissolve the debt.

“This has city officials in an uproar because cities and counties need those funds to thrive,” said Michael Munger, chair of the political science department.

A recent Elon College poll revealed Easley had less than a 50 percent approval rating, which is unusually low for an incumbent governor, said Jonathan Jordan, state Republican party spokesperson.

Some students and administrators in North Carolina colleges and universities are upset with Easley because the cuts have negatively affected funding for higher education.

But experts noted that even in the face of budget constraints, Easley lists education as one of his top priorities. Mark Siegel, communications director for the North Carolina Democratic Party, pointed to Easley’s founding of the More at Four program, which helps children succeed in school. The program targets four-year-olds who fall under the “at-risk” category.

To offset education cuts, Easley is currently exploring alternative methods of raising revenue. He has proposed a state lottery to raise revenue, an idea that has historically met with opposition from both the left and right in state politics.

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A Graduation in Full

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

Leave it to Tom Wolfe to include Chuck Yeager, neuroscience, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Ricky Martin cane cutter shirts and the recent college gross-out movie Van Wilder in his graduation commencement speech.

Always the American pop culture connoisseur, the celebrated journalist and father of graduating senior Alexandra entertained more than 3,500 graduates and their 15,000 friends and family members during an otherwise sober ceremony in a sun-bathed Wallace Wade Stadium Sunday.

Wolfe told the class of 2002 that as college graduates, they are now part of a “diploma elite,” and as graduates of a top-ten research university, they are among the most elite members of that group.

“Fifteen minutes from now you will join only one of the only two definable social classes in America,” Wolfe said. “There is a sheerly divided line and above that line are those who have bachelors degrees or better from a four-year university or college; below that line are people who don’t. And that line is becoming a gulf that gets wider and wider” Wolfe added that today, success stories like Thomas Edison, Chuck Yeager and Bill Gates—all of whom did not graduate college—could never achieve such success.

The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full author urged the class of 2002 to not worry about the currently poor job market and instead to take an active leadership role in their communities and their country.

“I’m not the first person who has ever said this, but America is a wonderful country,” he said. “And I only ask one thing of you: Lead her well.”

In a speech that jumped from topic to topic, Wolfe also talked ofthe changing culture in which the graduates’ generation came of age. He touched on themes from his recent collection of essays, “Hooking Up,” and quoted on several occasions from the first selection in the work.

Eager to display his knowledge of current campus events, Wolfe also joked about the Mt. Olive Pickle Company boycott, the controversial appointment of rising senior Jeremy Morgan as Head Line Monitor of Krzyzewskiville and the fluctuating parking situation, “I saw the Ocean [parking lot] disappear, I’ve heard the rumors that the Blue Zone is going to be moved out closer to Route 64,”Wolfe quipped. “I suppose I have this tremendous interest in the parking because I figure over

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Gerstl named FC JL director � The Freeman Center for Jewish Life announced that veteran organizer Jonathan Gerstl will be the center’s next director and that he will focus on fundraising efforts.

By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

Officials from the Freeman Center for Jewish Life announced last month the hiring of an experienced fundraiser as its new executive director, boosting efforts to improve the center’s financial

footing.

Jonathan Gerstl, who has worked for various Jewish organizations around the country and in Israel for the last 12 years, will assume the post July 1. The Philadelphia native and Temple University graduate will be charged with bolstering the Freeman Center’s depleted reserve.

Gerstl said he hopes to make programming the focus of the Freeman Center’s fundraising efforts and its efforts to involve students. The more options the center provides to students, he said, the more donors will be willing to give.

“I’m looking for a place where each student finds some way to participate in the Jewish experience, whether it’s eating kosher food with other students JANE HETHERINGTON/THE CHRONICLE

NEW GRADUATES REACT to Tom Wolfe’s observations on contemporary American society.

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about that...,” Wolfe joined former Williams College president John Chandler, sociologist Shmuel Eisenstadt, civic leader Eleanor Elliot and U.S. representative and civil rights leader John Lewis as honorary degree recipients.

Prior to Wolfe’s speech, graduate student Timothy Saintsing told the 1,608 undergraduates and 1,956 graduate and professional students who received degrees to, “To us much has been entrusted, and of us much is required.”

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Dr. Harold Kudler, chair of the center’s board of directors, said Gerstl will focus on serving students,

rather than the Jewish community at large.

“I think the board was primarily impressed by his perceptiveness and his understanding of how people function in the organization,” said Kudler, also an associate clinical professor of psychology and behavioral sciences. “He quickly picked up on the issues facing the board and the center and, in particular, understands our wish to develop a Freeman Center focused on Jewish students and developing their Jewish life.”

This philosophy has been missing from Freeman Center programming, said senior Nicole Maltz, a member of the center’s student board. She said many students feel that the board of directors has not been responsive to students wants; she added that Gerstl impressed her and other students.

“He seemed to understand that the Duke Jewish community is very diverse, from the very religious

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Blue Cross Blue Shield raises premiums 11 percent

By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle

Blue Cross Blue Shield will continue to provide health insurance for students next year, although premiums will increase by 11 percent and reimbursement rates will decrease by 10 percent.

The company recently reaffirmed its position as the University’s insurance provider after Duke opened the contract for bidding this spring. BCBS, which has been the University’s provider since 1987, had previously announced it would increase premiums next year by over 19 percent for the same services as before.

Officials said other companies’ bids reflected a similar trend and offered either higher premiums or lower coverage.

The University extended the health insurance deadline from May 1 to June 1 to give students a chance to review the

changes and evaluate their options.

“When prices increase, [the number of students who sign up for the policy] often declines because students look for other options,” said William Christmas, director of Student Health Services. “But I’m not sure there are better options out there now for the cost.”

The Health Insurance Advisory Committee, comprised of 10 graduate and professional students and one undergraduate, gathered input and selected the plan last week. Graduate and professional students represent about 75 percent of the about 4,200 students who use the policy.

The Graduate and Professional Student Council solicited input through an online survey and used that information to weigh maintaining the premium costs against maintaining the benefit package.

“There were basically two camps of

UNIVERSITY BRIEFS From staff reports

History professor emeritus dies

every six years to recognize lifetime achievement.

Harold Parker, professor emeritus of history and longtime member of the Duke community, died Tuesday at the Still Hopes Episcopal Retirement Community in West Columbia, S.C. He

Three scholars elected to academy

was 94.

Parker received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University ofChicago in 1928 and 1934, respectively, and came to Duke in 1939. After serving in World War 11, he returned to the University and taught until his re-

tirement in 1980.

Parker was an expert in modem European history, European intellectual history and 19th-century Europe. In 1966, the first professor evaluation book prepared by Duke students selected Parker as “the finest teacher in the university.” Five years later, he received one of the University’s three inaugural Alumni Awards for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching.

Parker is survived by several cousins. His wife, Louise, died in 1999.

A grave-side service at Sunnyside Cemetery in Orangeburg, S.C., will be held Friday at 11 a.m. In addition, a memorial service will be held at St. Philips Episcopal Church in Durham Tuesday, May 21, at 11 a.m.

Franklin honored with gold medal John Hope Franklin received

an

award Wednesday for his distinguished career as a teacher, intellectual leader and civil rights advocate. The James B. Duke professor emeritus of history and renowned scholar was

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Medal m History by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in a ceremony in New York.

“It’s really a very great honor,” Franklin said. “It’s the highest literary award that one can receive in the field of history. It’s very special.”

The Gold Medal is the academy’s top honor; two medals are awarded

Three members of the faculty were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in late April. Mathematics professor Robert Bryant, pharmacology and cancer biology department chair Anthony Means, and political science professor Herbert Kitschelt joined 174 other Fellows and 30 Foreign Honorary Members in the Academy.

Keohane announces ‘status of women’ committee President Nan Keohane announced last week the members of the 15-member steering committee that will look into creating an initiative to improve the status of women at Duke. Keohane announced the initiative at a conference in April, and plans for the committee to meet regularly through the end of the year to discuss equity and campus climate issues for women.

The 15 members include: Dr. Ann Brown, assistant professor of medicine and director ofthe academic program in women’s health; Robin Buhrke, assistant clinical professor with Counseling and Psychological Services; Sally Dickson, vice president for institutional equity; Allison Haltom, university secretary; Mindy Kornberg, assistant vice president for Human Resources for work environment and director ofStaff and Labor Relations; Donna Lisker, director of the Women’s Center; Jacqueline Looney, associate vice provost and associate dean of the Graduate School; Susan McLean, associate operating officer for Perioperative Services; Ellen Medearis, director of major and leadership gifts in University Development; Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs; Bemdt Mueller, professor ofphysics and dean of natural sciences; John Payne, Joseph J. Ruvane Jr. Pro-

fessor and deputy dean of the Fuqua School of Business; Janice Radway, Frances Fox Professor of Literature; Susan Roth, professor and chair of social psychology and health sciences; and Judith White, assistant vice president and director of the residential program review.

people,” GPSC President Elayne Heisler said. “There were those who wanted to do anything you can to keep the premium down and those who wanted the maximum amount of coverage, no matter the cost. A balance was struck to make the plan still affordable for the individual student and the family and also maintain benefits to keep it a good package.”

The greatest change is in the reimbursement rate for care, which decreases

in-network—reimbursements for cases seen by approved doctors—from 90 percent to 80 percent and out-of-network cases from 70 percent to 60 percent. The premium will also increase from $Bl4 to $902 for individuals. The family rate will similarly increase to $1,747.

The out-of-pocket maximum will remain $l,OOO, which Heisler said was a consistent desire in the feedback. The de-

ductable—sloo in-network and $2OO outof- network—will also remain the same.

Heisler said family rates, mental health care and benefits for international students were among the most important issues for students.

Also significant for the committee was the retention rate, an index that predicts premiums for future years, said Dan Hill of Hill, Chesson and Woody, the health insurance broker for the University.

BCBS had the lowest rate, at 15.9 percent, compared to otherinsurance companies ranging from 22 to 32 percent.

“There were a couple of companies

that were lower in costs initially, but then we gave all of them a couple of assumptions ofthe level of claims they would get, and then in year two there was a big change and suddenly Blue Cross was by far the best option,” Hill said.

Faculty airs grievances on shortage of parking

By CINDY YEE The Chronicle

In a meeting last Thursday highlighted by the announcement of a $35 million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Academic Council debated the campus parking situation and unanimously passed several measures carried over from previous meetings.

John York, assistant professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, raised the issue of what he termed the University’s “emergency situation regarding parking , on campus” and called for greater security in remote lots and increased bus service to these lots beyond regular business hours.

“It seems that parking services are very resistant to suggestions that faculty has brought,” York said, questioning the wisdom of proceeding with the construction of new buildings without first addressing the current “parking crisis.”

Kenneth Knoerr, professor of environmental science, blamed the Medical Center for the current parking crunch.

“The Med Center has been a cancerous growth on the north side of campus that has impacted severely parking in the rest of campus,” he said, adding that the Medical Center has grown without addressing its parking needs.

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask argued that the University suffers not from a shortage of parking, but rather from “serious misallocation” of space and miscommunication between the University and the Medical Center. Trask said he transferred 220 spaces from the University to the Medical Center to cover the parking lost due to the closing of lots on

Science Drive.

“I gave away 220 spaces. I don’t know why they didn’t get to the people they were headed for Trask said.

He also said the parking garage will remedy the shortage on campus, but added that in the ten months until it is built, parking will continue to be scarce.

He said that the University plans to open up lots serviced by buses near the Smith Tobacco Warehouse on Buchanan Boulevard. A permit for these lots will cost $lO as opposed to the regular $2OO. “Our current plan is to bribe people to go into that lot,” Trask said.

IN OTHER BUSINESS: The Council approved proposals to merge the genetics and microbiology departments, establish ”

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ACADEMIC COUNCIL CHAIR PETER BURIAN PRESIDES over his last meeting as chair. doctoral programs in the combined department of molecular genetics and microbiology and in bioinformatics and genome technology.

The merger of microbiology and genetics—spurred by an absence in microbial pathogenesis research, as well as a small faculty and difficulty in recruiting graduate students—had been under discussion for three years. The new doctorate in bioinformatics will supplement the certificate program established last year that currently enrolls 44 students.

The council also voted to cut the number of Harassment Grievance Board members from 30 to 18people and faculty members Required for harassment hearing panels from five to three.

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Council backs Community Standard for integrity “What makes this work is that the students are being governed by their peers,” she added. “They have an obligation to uphold the standards of the community.”

Other council members took issue with faculty-student adjudication and reconsideration of current medical excuse procedures, another aspect of the plan. One professor said that involving faculty members in adjudication is an invitation for inconsistent enforcement and for

place, but the range of sanctions for violations will be widened and further scaled.

Judith Ruderman, vice provost for academic and administrative services and Academic Integrity Council chair, said there will be a one-year education and training period before the policy goes into effect in fall 2003.

Although the proposal was previously debated by the councils at their April meeting, faculty still raised objection to specific components ofthe plan. “[The obligation to report] sounds scary to me,” said Nestor Schmajuk, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences. “Are we' going to tell our students that when [they] go out into the world, [they] are going to tell on [their] neighbors?”

Ruderman responded by pointing to Duke Student Government’s April approval of the policy as a telling sign because she felt the issue would be harder for students to accept than faculty.

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

The Arts and Sciences Council and the Engineering Council approved the new Community Standard—intended to simplify and unify the University’s honor code and Fundamental Standard —at a jqint meeting of the two faculty bodies May 2.

The new policy combines the two codes into an overarching standard, but makes distinctions between sanctions for academic and social infractions. The Community Standard also mandates a more stringent obligation to report violations, eliminates the requirement for proctored exams and officially recognizes faculty-student adjudication.

Under the current system, the honor code addresses

academic dishonesty, and the Fundamental Standard holds students responsible for a basic respect for others.

The University’s current judicial code will remain in

plea bargaining.

Professors in the math and biology departments also objected to continuing the discussion of whether to eliminate deans excuses, a controversial issue that has been at the center of debate across campus since the Honor Council, an undergraduate body, recommended the change in April.

Ruderman, however, reassured faculty that approving the measure would signal a desire for further discussion,

not a final decision on the matter.

N.C. NEWS THIS WEEK From staff and wire reports

confidentiality and to prevent misinterpretation of the court’s opinions.

State Supreme Court keeps maps private

Easley to veto additional education cuts Gov. Mike Easley vowed Wednesday to veto any state budget plan for the coming fiscal year that forces teacher layoffs or cuts deeply into public education.

In an interview with reporters at the state Capitol, Easley said a proposal in the legislature to cut $695 million out of the public school budget is unacceptable.

State supreme court overturns death sentence The state Supreme Court last Friday overturned the death sentence ofLionel ■

After declaring the state’s legislative redistricting unconstitutional, the North Carolina Supreme Court is refusing media and state officials’ requests to see the maps they used in rendering the decision.

The court has declined requests from The News & Observer of Raleigh and the state Office of the Attorney General for copies of the maps.

Supreme Court Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake said through a spokesperson that the court’s long-standing policy is not to release working drafts, internal memoranda or research material pertinent to a particular opinion, in order to preserve

The General Assembly has convened this week in special session to debate revised redistricting maps and has until May 20 to pass new plans for the state House and state Senate districts.

“Veto, shoot, burn, beat,” he said.

The state is searching for an additional $2 billion in cuts to state agencies for the next fiscal year to address sluggish tax revenues created by the economic slowdown.

Easley, who will publicly release his budget plan in the next 10 days, will take $294 million from existing education programs but plans to balance the loss with $250 million in revenue from a proposed lottery. The governor’s plan will have no tax increases.

Lewis Rogers, who was convicted of killing an 80-year-old woman in 1997.

The ruling means the Weldon, N.C. native will receive smother sentencing hearing in which he could avoid the death penalty.

Rogers was convicted of stabbing Hazel Sechler after breaking into her home. Sechler, who was alive when police found her, died the next day.

The Supreme Court rejected arguments by Rogers’ lawyers that jury selection was flawed and that evidence en-

tered in the case should have been excluded. But Justice Bob Edmunds, writing for the court, said prosecutors’ questions about Dr. Nathan Strahl’s pay, his expertise and his background were improper.

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are the ones who usually buy lottery tickets, which are a larger percentage of their income,” Jordan said, attacking the plan.

Last year, Easley also proposed a 16 percent sales tax increase.

Even as he forms a plan to steer the state out of its financial woes, critics have also cited in Easley a failure to explain his decisions to fellow politicians and his constituents.

“He has used a very hands-off approach to the handling of the budget crisis,” said Jordan. “Our state has been leaderless.”

Siegel disagreed with Jordan’s assessment and pointed to other major accomplishments so far in Easley’s term, including passage of a Patient’s Bill of Rights.

Jordan also raised the possibility that Easley’s chances of winning his own primary are not guaranteed. However, with two years before the primary is held, Easley still has time to wait for economic im-

to the very secular,” Maltz said. “He seemed very willing also to bridge the gap between adults and students.”

Current director Roger Kaplan said he has not yet decided future plans.

Officials began the search for a new director in January after announcing a $200,000 deficit on the center’s $500,000 operating budget. Kudler said the deficit was caused by a desire to be self-supporting—without University funding—and increasing operating costs for

provement.

Hunger also noted that with the election so far away, it is nearly impossible to tell what might happen in the interim.

“His chances will improve if the economy does better,” Easley said. “People will not necessarily attribute that improvement to him, but he will stop getting blamed for a bad economy.”

Easley won election to the governor’s office in 1998, defeating former Charlotte mayor Richard Vinroot with 52 percent of the vote. Easley, who had served as attorney general since 1993, raised his profile during a multi-state suit against tobacco companies in the late 1990s that reached a $206 million settlement. In the 1998 primary, Easley soundly defeated popular lieutenant governor Travis Wicker to earn the nomination.

In his campaign, Easley said he would make education a priority of his administration. He also repeatedly voiced his support for a lottery.

the center’s facility, which was completed in 1999.

However, increased fundraising by Gerstl, the acquisition of the center’s kosher kitchen by Dining Services and additional cost-cutting could bring the budget in balance as early as this year, Kudler said.

The center’s operating budget will be only $350,000 next year, he said, with most of the reduction coming from having no kitchen expenses. Kudler also said the center will share more resources with the University in areas such as maintenance.

“Operating costs are the first concern. We want to make sure we’re building reserves and not spending

reserves,” Kudler said.

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tem remains farthest behind at 81.7 percent.

Trustees approved a $1,221 billion budget for the 2003 fiscal year, a 4.4 percent increase over the current President Nan Keohane said Trustees discussed year. Non-payroll operating and administrative expensadministrative thoughts on the football program’s fu- es received no increases, as administrators attempted to ture and on barriers to athletes’ academic success increase funding for academic priorities.

She said they discussed possible changes, Several outgoing campus leaders gave including increasing coaching pay and imfarewell addresses to the Board. proving facilities for the football team, Academic Council Chair Peter Burian, a which is currently in the midst of a 23-game professor of classical studies, warned that losing streak. the recent elimination of supplemental re“Our goal is to produce a vision statement tirement benefits for new Duke University for athletics at Duke sometime in the next acHealth System employees is a sign of a trouademic year, and this discussion was one of bling cleft growing between campus employseveral steps along the way” Keohane wrote ees and DUHS employees. in an e-mail.

Graduate and Professional Student Yoh said the Trustees are interested in the Council President Elayne Heisler discussed details of what can prevent an athlete from Harold “Spike” Yoh student social life and parking. Duke Stusucceeding in the same way as a non-athlete, dent Government President C. J. Walsh also adding that having a competitive athletics program respoke on several issues, and emphasized that campus mains a priority. life has become less “carefree” since he arrived.

The capital campaign continues on pace to meet The Board established a new loan program for gradits $2 billion goal by December 2003, but the gap beuate and professional students. Partnering with Sallie tween donors’ pledges and what they have actually Mae, a national loan provider, the University will begin given is growing, reported John Piva, senior vice offering educational loans to such students. president for alumni affairs and development. The The Board also re-elected its current officers for the engineering school is closest to meeting its goal, with next year: Yoh, chair; Peter Nicholas, vice chair; Robert 99.6 percent of funds pledged, and the library sys- Steel, vice chair; and Allison Haltom, secretary.

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Maladjusted o.

Dreaming Rivers Cuomo—the band's lead singer/sole songexactly one year in the rearview mirror, writer/spiritual life force —has the brazen audacity let's face it; Weezer's Green Album stands as to sing, "Anytime you want me, baby, I'll be a major disappointment. After the breakaround," as if it's the first time anyone's ever mutthrough, brilliant pop of the Blue Album, the ambitered those pathetically cliched words on vinyl. tious, if flawed, strumming of Pinkerton and a fiveThis tug year hiatus, between the Weezer served its Weezer daring hungry fans 29 of old and the minutes of mostly thoroughly lifeless, entirely sterile Weezer disposable popof 2001 makes rock that couldn't Maladroit such have even satisa frustrating lisfied Calista ten. When the Flockhart's lessguitars crash on than-voracious "American appetite.

Gigolo" —the A full rotation band's deepest around the sun into foray later, Weezer —or metal found itself at a when Cuomo crossroads with poignantly Maladroit. The muses on the band could either of love pitfalls embrace their weepy guiover quirkiness and tar on pluckings sense of musical and "Death adventure that Destruction," had endeared Weezer sounds them to so many so much more lonely and lovable than the vital faux dorks in the candy puff of '9os, or they could Possibilities" continue to pound and "Love out three-minute Explosion" nuggets of fool's would lead one a la gold, everyto believe. but "Hash thing a Cuomo, on the Pipe" complex and Green Album.

So, taking a nod SAY IT AIN'T SO: The once-loveable dorks of Weezer may disappoint fans with Maladroit, quirky character, left lead singer and guitarist Rivers Cuomo, bassist Matt Sharp, gui' +hp nnlitirnc: Clockwise from top oftentimes tries fTro 1e P . , , tarist Brian Bell and drummer Pat Wilson. obscure his to in Washington, on Maladroit, Weezer strikes a compromise essential weirdness in his music by constructing GRADE: that is neither completely deplorable nor sappy pop facades. However, only when he dares to tear these down and play around with the rubthoroughly satisfying. This is an album ble does he allow Weezer to play at its most ambithat situates the powerful emotional candidness of "Slave" immediately before the tious best. □ —Greg Veis wholly generic vapidity of "Fall Together," on which

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Eminem may say that Moby is "too old," but actually the veteran musician just turned 36 on September 11. Numerically, Moby should still be capable of churning out the pop hits—many of which have been sold to corporate America —that have given him fame in recent years. However, Eminem's comment can't be completely discounted —it seems he must have gotten an advance copy of 18, Moby's newest effort that all 10 million people who bought his last album, Play, have been GRADE: waiting for all year.

Unfortunately for Moby, U,,, Eminem's other lyric—"Nobody listens to techno" —may prove prophetic after 18's release. It seems that the formula which worked so well for Play and made him everyone's favorite bald guy just sounds hackneyed this time around.

For the first time in his career, the man who used to thwart all expectations with each new record, moving from techno to heavy metal in one jump, has turned out 18 songs that sound pretty much like the last set of songs he released.

18 is filled with more of the same trippy, but not too trippy, beats overlaid with gospel and soul samples—perfect for hawking a couple of million more tennis shoes. But really, what did we expect him to do? The formula works.

I Whether he's rocketing through space on the album's first big single, "We Are All Made of Stars," getting down with guests Angie Stone and MC Lyte on "Jam for the Ladies," or just floating along, as he does for damn near the rest of the album, Moby provides beats that are just catchy and innocuous enough to provide a soundtrack for life—exactly what his fans love about him.

—Macy Parker

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You've seen it, your cousin has seen it and that sci-fi your cell bio class with thick-rimmed glasses, a pock protector and an aversion to proper hygiene has definitely seen it. It has made $223 million in two weekends of work, and its star Tobey Maguire has since been linked with everyone from Kirsten Dunst to Nicole Kidman to Joe Piscipo.

So, instead of reviewing Spiderman—the best com tation since the first Batman with Michael Keaton —I film under the microscope, exposing some of its gro. because, as his uncle said right before kicking the bu< there must also come great responsibility." Spidey 11 for these parts of the movie, you didn't quite come tt that responsibility your uncle was always yapping ab Product Placement: You and I are a lot alike. 1 know I'd do too if I suddenly realized that I could ejaculate a wrist is snatch that Dr. Pepper from across the room

hat I think you were too subtle in endorsing your primary mid-film. Instead of merely staring at the label for good 10 seconds, like you did, upon taking a sip of that lelicious soda treat, I would have pranced around the 'om singing, "I'm a Pepper" at the top of my lungs. I less we're not so similar after all. omputer Generated Schlock: You'd think that for its <127 million budget, Spiderman could at least afford to have some decent looking computer graphics. You'd Mso think that JohnTesh would stop making CDs by now. Foiled again....

Low-level Necrophilia: If you were Mary Jane ist), where would you confess your undying love for n/Peter Parker? The cemetery, silly! Nothing smacks inticism quite like a funeral, and MJ does well to capisultry environment.

—Greg Veis

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you can't learn anything from reality TV? Think again.

PBS comes to the rescue with two reality shows that teach more of a lesson than competing for immunity.

First came the popular 1900 Flouse, filmed in Britain by the BBC in 1999. A modern family of six, the Bowlers, were uprooted from modem comforts and thrown into the world of Victorian England—complete with a house stripped of any modem comforts, even a toilet. Despite the educational objectives, the producers, surprisingly enough, managed to keep it fun.

During their several month stay in the house, the family continued to shop in modern stores, so the opportunity to cheat and buy goods not available in 1900 was always looming. After weeks of washing their hair with lye, they cracked and bought a bottle of 1999 shampoo at a convenience store. After one washing, guilt came ashore and they tossed the rest of the bottle.

More recently, PBS decided to undertake the creation of its own reality show with many of the same producers from 1900 Flouse.

Frontier Flouse was filmed during the summer and fall of 2001 in the "Montana Territory."

For the first time since childhood, the PBS devotion to education

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was actually entertaining, complete with funny asides and plenty of arguments.

Quickly, controversy arose between two of the three families—the Clones and the Glenns—who often spiced up the show by fighting over which family was following the pioneer spirit more closely. The Glenns argued that the dunes' bartering with 21st century neighbors and bringing in a then-illegal distiller to make moonshine wasn't in the spirit of the project. The Clones countered that any pioneer would take advantage of opportunities presented to him—legal or not.

Despite all the bickering, each of the participants did learn from the experience—whether it

rattlesnake or milk cows. And, like on their commercial network cousins, each tritely vowed not to take the trappings of modern life

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Wilco Scores a Direct Hit with YHF

You don't have to be skilled in the military phonetic alphabet to read the writing on the wall: Wilco's fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the most pleasant surprise to hit the record store shelves in a long, long time. A unique and progressive effort from a revitalized band, it's quickly garnering the praises of every critic around. ButYHF's accolades weren't always so abundant, and it wasn't long ago that frontman Jeff Tweedy and Co.'s careers seemed to be approaching the big "over-and-out."

About a year ago, Reprise Records answered Wilco's Jatest musical offering with a resounding "negative ghost rider," claiming YHF was too non-commercial to release. The band members, convinced their work was destined for greater things, toured with the new material, made it available on their website and eventually signed with Nonesuch (a label owned, ironically, by the same company as Reprise).

Surprise, surprise—it's a runaway hit.

But is it really that good?

Roger, that's a 10-4.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot's appeal lies in the same hidden-gem quality that almost got it canned. It's daring and personal and refreshingly unconventional. The usual alt-country flair of Wilco (and its hugely important father band, Uncle Tupelo) is supplemented by an experimental edginess. Cacophonic whirs, chimes and chirps bounce off of the vintage rock-n-country GRADE: twang, while the occasional horn and string arrangements thicken the new sound. Tweedy's vocals transform from dry and throaty rasps on a track like "I am Trying to Break Your Heart" to the rich, velvety melodies of "Kamera." And those are just the album's first two songs. On "Ashes of American Flags," he croons, "I would like to salute/ the ashes of American flags/ and all of the falling leaves/ filling up shopping bags." I don't know what it means, but damn, it sure sounds deep.

In the end, it's this unidentifiable element that makes Yankee Hotel Foxtrot essential. It isn't your average rock 'n roll album, and the unconventional aspects that nearly ended it make it even more enjoyable. Wilco earns an "Alpha." That's an "A" for all you civvies.

—David Walters

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confidence in the work we were going to do. This gift is an incredibly generous one, but I think we are going to need a lot more to fully implement the village plan,” he said. from donors John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs support University sought that the adding while planning for the building. “One of the people we apand government relations, said the $35 million had already proached was Melinda French Gates, who knows Duke, and been calculated into the Campaign for Duke’s running total, which currently stands at about $1.82 billion, less its needs, well.”

Keohane will propose the renaming to the Board of than $2OO million shy of the $2 billion it hopes to reach by the end of 2003.

Trustees, which has final oversight over building namings.

The remaining $5 million of the gift will go toward Vice This is the second major gift from the Gates foundation.

In 1998, the couple gave $2O million to fund the University President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta’s plans to reinvent student space and services in the West Union Building Scholars program, which provides full scholarships to 20 students interested in interdisciplinary study. and Bryan Center into a “village concept.”

Moneta said he had worked closely with Gates in her role The Gates foundation, which has an asset base of $24 billion, focuses on projects that will advance health and learnon the Board and that he was encouraged that she supported his vision for student fife at Duke. “I think it’s a vote of ing internationally.

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GELP will be narrowing down the number of projects it can pursue.

“When I was looking at this job,I floated the idea with others at academic institutions. A lot of them are very negative about doing these interdisciplinary centers,” Cook-Deegan said. “Fm hoping it is true that Duke is unusual in sporting this interdisciplinary work because it’s the only way this center is going to work.”

Another new hire this spring is also expected to contribute to GELP. Allen Buchanan, a professor ofphilosophy at the University of Arizona, will join the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. An expert in bioethics and political philosophy, Buchanan has worked on government committees looking at medical ethics.

“The hirings of both Cook-Deegan and Buchanan are extraordinarily complimentary and may help us to become one of the leading place to work on bioethics,” said Dr. Jeremy Sugarman, director ofthe Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities in the Medical Center and chair of the GELP search committee. “[Last] Thursday was a great day when they both said yes.” in addition, Lange said the search for the director of the entire Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy was well-advanced and that the University is in discussions with a particular candidate to come for a second visit to Duke.

Last fall, Duke had expressed interest in Dr. Rusty Williams, a leading genetic scientist at Chrion Corp., until Williams decided against moving to Durham.

Three other centers also still have director vacancies: the Center for Human Disease Models, the Center for Genome Technology and the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. “We won’t have all ofthem in place [by fall],” Lange said. ‘We might have two additional ones as well as the institute director, but we might not.”

HOSPITAL CUTS,™ page 1 inefficiency, the Hospital announced it would eliminate 1,000 to 1,500 positions, and experts predicted that 600 to 800 people would be left unemployed. In reality, less than 30 people were left unemployed.

However, Donelan said that he expects over 100 people will end up jobless in this cut. “It will be more difficult this time,” he said. “The state of employment and the economy is not as good.”

Donelan said that if the economy continues to worsen or the state cuts reimbursements further, more job cuts may be necessary.

Robert Warren, who works in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, described the mood of the Hospital staff as cautious.

Williams agreed. “People are wondering if their jobs are getting cut next,” she said.

Williams also expressed concern about DUHS’s plan to change eligibility requirements for supplemental health insurance primarily for employees hired after July 1,2002. Officials said the reduction will save $ll million next year.

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THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2002

Men’s tennis squeaks by California

If MLB keeps status quo, fans should walk

By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

Instead of attending his graduation, Joel Spicher decided to sleep in and get some extra rest before the men’s tennis team’s big match against California.

Although it may have been an odd move for many graduates, the sleep paid huge dividends, as Spicher helped the No. 17 Blue Devils upset the No. 10 Golden Bears 4-3 at Ambler Stadium last Sunday afternoon in the second round of NCAA tournament.

Spicher’s match, which he won 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 over California’s Robert Kowalczyk, broke a 3-3 tie and gave the Blue Devils (17-11) the victory and a trip to College Station, Texas, for the sweet 16.

“I was [telling myself] to fight on every point,” the Geneva, Switzerland, native said. “I’m a senior, it’s my last year so I couldn’t leave with a loss; it would have been too painful to part like that.”

After dropping the first set, Spicher used hard-hitting groundstrokes to claw his way back into the match. He consistently returned his opponents’ shots, forcing Kowalczyk into long rallies and increasing his chance of errors. After squeaking out a victory in a second set tiebreak, Spicher took the momentum into the third set.

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Wednesday’s New York Times broke the news that disappointed many but surprised few: The Major League Baseball players’ union is eyeing early August as a strike date if no collective bargaining agreement is in place.

It doesn’t seem all that long ago when the players last went on strike, leading to the first World Series cancellation since World War I. The 1994 players’ strike lasted 232 days, Evan Davis , , and left fans grumbling c , .. the cheap seats rmm about never supporting Major League Baseball again.

Then, amidst the brand new ballparks, increased advertising and player outreach, the fans quickly forgot their spite, shelling out more money than ever to watch millionaires play the game.

I’ll admit, I was one of them. I love baseball. I still love baseball. But I’m beginning to genuinely hate the people who make the games happen.

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PHILLIP KING and the men’s tennis team upset California in the second round of the NCAAs.

See DAVIS on page 21

Blue Devils throttle Hobart with 17 consecutive goals

By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

In men’s lacrosse, 17 goals in a game is impressive. In fact, the Blue Devils’ highest scoring output during the regular season was 15 goals against Dartmouth.

However, down 6-5 against Hobart (6-8) in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the men’s lacrosse team reeled off 17 consecutive goals to beat the Statesmen 22-6 at Hobart last Sunday.

Freshman Matt Monfett scored four goals while dishing out three assists for Duke (86). Matt Rewkowski netted three scores, while Alex Lieske, James Regan, Kevin Cassese, Dan Chemotti and Ben Fenton all tallied two. All told, 13 Blue Devils registered either a goal or an assist.

“We proved a point today, that we belong here,” coach Mike Pressler said.

“Everybody counted us out and that hit home for our guys.... We ask a lot of these guys and they saved their best for their first NCAA playoff game.”

The match began with Duke taking a quick 3-1 lead, only to see Hobart respond with two goals as the lead evaporated to a 33 tie. The Blue Devils scored two more before the Statesmen’s John Bogosian, Tim Booth

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and Dave Spratlen all found the back of the net to give Hobart a 6-5 lead with 11:37 left in the first half.

Those were the last points Hobart put on the board before Duke’s 17-0 run.

“We ran into a very good team today,” Hobart coach Matt Kerwick said. “I wish they would have stopped the game at 6-5.

We gave Duke some easy looks and to their credit they took advantage. We just didn’t handle the ball we 11....”

The win was eerily similar to the last time these two squads faced each other in the NCAA tournament. In the 2000 tournament, the Blue Devils scored 12 unanswered goals against Hobart to win 13-1.

With the win, the Blue Devils shattered the previous school record for most goals in playoff game, which was 16 against North Carolina in 1998.

Duke will now face second-seeded Syracuse in the quarterfinals May 18 at Hofstra.

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By NICK CHRISTIE The Chronicle

fourth-ranked Duke 4 The women’s team began Pennsylvania 0 its NCAA tournament run in dominating fashion last weekend, as the Blue Devils thrashed both the University of Maryland-Baltimore

cumbed neither to rust nor overconfidence. Each player brought a hungry mentality to the weekend’s matches, particularly against the potentially dan-

gerous Quakers (15-6).

Many Duke players talked of pushing themselves to play to the best of their County and No. 56 Pennsylvania by abilities, and to he satisfied with playing identical 4-0 scores in their first and down to the level of their opposition. In her match against Shelah Chao, second round matches.

Hosting the opening rounds at Granson focused on dictating the pace of play from the onset.

Ambler Stadium and expected to per“I was trying to go after my shots, form well, heavily-favored Duke did not disappoint. After easily dispatching especially my ground strokes,” she said.

UMBC, the Blue Devils then defeated “I wanted to be aggressive and not settle for just pushing.” the well-regarded Quakers with ease.

Although they entered Saturday’s In addition to securing the doubles intent on upsetting the Blue Duke match in singles play. dominated point, Hillary Adams and loana Plesu crushed Devils, the Quakers immediately their opponents 6-0, 6-0 and 6-0, 6-1, found themselves on the defensive. respectively, and junior Katie Granson According to Dowd, the Duke women posted a 6-3, 6-1 victory, as the Blue appeared not just more talented, but also better conditioned.

Devils blew Penn off the court.

“You look at the Duke players and “Against a team that’s ranked, that is the most dominating performance they are all very fit,” he said. “They we’ve had all year,” Duke coach Jamie seem to be in a little bit better shape Ashworth said. “To lose, in the matches than us, and I think thatwas the big difference today.” we won, five games total is very good.”

The Blue Devils’ impressive play The Blue Devils’ supremacy left the Pennsylvania coach Michael Dowd earned them a trip to Palo Alto, Calif, somewhat stunned, particularly as he and a round-of-16 matchup against expected his side—which put an eight No. 24 Virginia Commonwealth. The match winning streak on the line Blue Devils will be heavily favored once again, as they defeated common against Duke—to pose a serious challenge for the higher ranked Blue Devils. opponent William & Mary—which “We went out today and we wanted to posted two 4-3 victories over VCU—6beat them,” he said. “We thought we 1 earlier in the season.

Accordingly, the Blue Devils enter were ready, but I’ve got to tip my hat off to Duke. They came out ready to play.” the tournament’s second weekend Though perhaps ripe for a letdown optimistically.

“I think as long as we’re healthy we can after a 19-day layoff following the ACC

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compete with anybody,” Ashworth said, “Now, it is a matter of believing that.”

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After beating Vanderbilt, women’s lax loses to Hoyas

By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

Georgetown 11 After downing No. 10 Vanderbilt 10-5 in the Duke 4 first round ofthe NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship May 9 at Koskinen Stadium, the No. 9 Blue Devils (10-8) ran into a brick wall Sunday, and fell to the top-seeded Georgetown Hoyas 11-4 in Washington D.C. Georgetown (16-1) opened the game with an impressive offensive effort, as seven Hoyas combined to score eight first-half goals. Meanwhile, the Blue Devils were only able to net two of their own. Duke first struck on an unassisted Claire Sullivan goal, and Kelly Dirks also scored on an assisted shot from Erin O’Shaughnessy at 16:28 to bring Duke within two of the Hoyas, 4-2.

After that, however, it was all Georgetown as it reeled off four straight to put the game nearly out of reach.

The second half was much more of a defensive battle than the first, with Georgetown scoring just three goals and the Blue Devils tallying two. Duke’s Meghan Miller scored on a free position shot and teammate Lauren Gallagher also found the net in the waning minutes.

“I definitely don’t think it was our best showing,” Duke coach Kerstin Kimel said. “In the first half we had some defensive problems and our offense had no groove. In the second half I felt our defense stepped up. We did a really good job taking Georgetown out of their rhythm.”

The first round of the NCAA tournament against Vanderbilt (10-6) was a much different contest for the Blue Devils. After a hard fought first half in which Cheryl Lynn Horton scored with 18 seconds left to give Duke 5-4 lead at the break, the Blue Devils came out firing following the intermission.

In the span of less than a minute, Horton scored once and O’Shaughnessy twice to blow the game open, as Duke led

8-4 with about 25 minutes left in the half.

The Blue Devils defense then began to run out the clock, but the Commodores answered with a goal of their own at the 13 minute mark. After about seven minutes passed, and Dirks and Gallagher responded with more two tallies of their own to give Duke a commanding five-goal advantage with 3:16 left to go.

The loss to the Hoyas ended the Blue Devils’ season.

“When you look at the big picture, I think we had a good season,” Kimel said. “[With all the problems we had] we learned a career full of experience in one season.”

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CANDY HANNEMAN (LEFT) AND NILOUFAR AAZAM-ZANGANEH hope to lead Duke to a national title.

Blue Devils prepare for NCAA championships

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

The women’s golf team moved one step closer to avenging last year’s final round defeat at the NCAA championships by capturing its third straight NCAA East

Regional title this weekend.

Sophomore Leigh Anne Hardin led the charge for the Blue Devils, carding a six-under 210 en route to the tournament’s individual title at the University Club in Baton Rouge, La. After ending the first day in fourth place, the team stormed back in the final 36 holes, finishing with a three-day fiveunder total of 859—13 strokes ahead of second place Auburn. The Blue Devils have not lost a tournament this spring.

“We had a fantastic performance this weekend,” said coach Dan Brooks.

“Everyone had at least one under-par round throughout the tournament and

for us to do this when we were actually in the middle of the range of teams that advance to the NCAA championships was fantastic.”

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and junior Kristina Engstrom joined Hardin in the top 10. Defending national champion Candy Hannemann shot a disappointing 79 in the final round to finish

tied for 27th, while freshman Niloufar Aazam-Zanganeh placed tied for 34th.

The win is Hardin’s first of the season and she is the last of Duke’s five starters to capture top individual medalist honors this spring. The victory, however, could not have come at a more opportune point.

“It has been a long time since I have won a tournament,” Hardin said. “I hit the ball solid all three days and hit most of my greens. As a team we are coming along really well and are all fresh after finishing with exams this past week.”

Duke will join 23 other top regional finishers at Washington’s home course May 21 in the national championship.

The 23 teams include the Georgia, who nabbed the championship last May after the heavily-favored Blue Devils collapsed in the final round, losing a four-stroke lead.

NCAA Eastern Regionals University Club—Baton Rouge, La Team Standings 1. Duke (291-280-288=859), 2. Auburn (287-293-278=841), 3. Wake Forest (293-288-294=875), 4. Florida (286-290-302=878), 4. South Florida (289-296-298=883), 6. South Carolina (298-293-298=889), 7.

Georgia (300-295-297=892), 8. Vanderbilt (296-296-301=893), 9.

Tulane (300-295-299=894), 10. Tennessee (303-306-287=896).

Duke Individuals 1, Hardin (71-67-72=210), t7, Nirapathpongporn (75-71-71=217), t9 Engstrom (74-70-74=218), 127. Hannemann (71-72-79=222), 134.

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Baseball drops three straight to UNC, tops ODU

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

of the 18 Without five team’s 13 starting 9 pitchers in the rotaDuke baseball team did not go into tion, the last weekend’s baseball series with North Carolina overly optimistic.

As expected, the Blue Devils (21-30, 3-18 in the ACC) dropped three games to the No. 6 Tar Heels 8-3,19-10 and 189 Saturday, Sunday and Monday respectively at historic Jack Coombs Field.

“We did a good job of hitting,” coach Bill Hillier said. “Zach Schreiber did a UNC

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We’re wounded, but we're not dead.”

In the series, Duke came closest to beating the Tar Heels Saturday afternoon, pulling to within 5-3 in the sixth inning on the strength of a home run by Larry Broadway. Broadway, who entered the game with an eight-game hitting streak, saw the streak come to an end Monday.

Meanwhile, North Carolina (38-15,165), a team tied for first place in the ACC, demonstrated why it may walk away with the conference championship in two weeks, with 57 hits in the series and four home runs in Monday’s game alone.

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ZACH SCHREIBER got his first ACC start in the Blue Devils’ loss to North Carolina over the weekend.

In that game, amid strong winds that floated some Tar Heels’ hits over the wall and posed minimal nuisance to the pitchers, North Carolina jumped out to a 5-3 lead in the second inning and never looked back, pulling to a 16-6 lead by the end of the eighth inning.

North Carolina tied their seasonhigh with 20 hits, while the Blue Devils chalked up 15 hits of their own in the

offensive showdown.

Schreiber, a sophomore, made his first start this season for Duke and Hillier said he was pleased with his work. Because of the dearth of starting pitchers, Hillier said many younger pitchers are getting good experience for the future. Schrieber took the loss for Monday’s game, while junior Brian Patrick started Sunday and sophomore Colin Begley pitched for 5 1/3 innings.

“We’re never going to be blessed with great depth,” Hillier said, who noted that the 16 injuries the team has sustained in the past two seasons have been more than all the other injuries he’s seen in more than two decades of coaching.

Although Duke bested the Tar Heels in last season’s series 2-1, North Carolina has dominated the Blue Devils, having won 15 of the last 17 meetings.

“Bill, bless his heart, is decimated by injuries,” said North Carolina head coach Mike Fox. “It is terrible to see because it is out of a coach’s control. He is just having to piece things together. I know it is frustrating for him.”

Note: In a late game Wednesday night the Blue Devils defeated the Old Dominion Monarchs 6-5 in 10 innings.

Kevin Kelly hit a two-out single in the top of the tenth to score Brian Patrick.

ODU had lead most of the game until Duke tied the score at five in the top ninth. Patrick and Broadway both homered, and Colin Begley picked up his first win of the season. The Blue Devils will host Wake Forest this weekend.

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Men’s golf DUNLEAVY,™ readies for NCAAs From staff reports

While most other spring sports team’s were participating in their respective NCAA tournaments, the men’s golf team was playing the Atlanta Intercollegiate at the Eagle’s Landing Country Club in Stockbridge, Ga. The Blue Devils finished 10th with a three day total of 892, and Matt LaCroix shot a one-under par 71 on the final day to land himself in 14th place on the individual list.

Joining LaCroix on the scoreboard for Duke were Leif Olsen who shot a 223 to finish 29th, Mike Castleforte at 225 and 34th, Rob Beasley at 231 and 50th and Matt Krauss who finished with a 236 in 57th.

The Blue Devils were 36 strokes off the pace, which was set by Auburn. The Tigers ended the event with a total of 856, beating second place Florida by five strokes.

Duke now readies for the NCAA East Regional which begins today at the Ansley Golf Club’s Settindown Creek in Roswell, Ga. The Blue Devils are set to tee off at 12:18 p.m. with AlabamaBirmingham and North Florida, in the three day event.

The top 10 teams and the top two individuals not playing for those teams will advance to the national championships May 29-June 1 in Columbus, Ohio.

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Atlanta Intercollegiate Eagle’s Landing Country Club—Stockbridge, Ga Team Standings 1. Auburn (856), 2.Florida (861), 3. Georgia (864), 4. North Florida (871), 5. Kentucky (879), 6. Georgia State (881), 7. UAB (885), 8. East Tennessee State (888), 9. Augusta State (889), 10. Duke (892).

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because he may [be an early pick] does not necessarily mean that he will go—and it’s certainly not based on position.

Right now he’s still with us and that’s the way we are treating the situation.

He’s still doing the normal things, he’s still going to classes, he’s still a studentathlete at Duke.”

A spokesperson for the team said they were “expecting him to return,” and until he signs with an agent or allows the June deadline to pass, no players on the team will comment. In April, Dunleavy was named a captain of next year’s team at the annual basketball banquet.

Dunleavy, who will meet with the media today at 11 a.m., has also been coy about his ultimate intentions.

“It has always been my dream to play in the NBA,” Dunleavy said in a statement. “I want to exercise my right to see where I stand in this year’s draft so that I can make an informed decision for

myself and my family.”

Dunleavy’s father, Mike Dunleavy Sr., is a 23-year NBA veteran, who most recently coached the Portland

Trailblazers.

His son’s draft entry is a growing trend among college athletes who want to hedge their bets on making an early jump to professional basketball.

Last year, for example, Arizona’s Jason Gardner, USC’s Sam Clancy and Kentucky’s Keith Bogans all considered entering the draft, but decided at the last moment to return to the college game.

In a related move, the NCAA decided earlier this week to enforce an already existing policy that mandates players who return to college ball must sit out the same number of games at the beginning of next season they play at the Chicago pre-draft camp. For example, if Dunleavy decides to attend the camp and plays three games—the average number a prospect usually participates in—and returns to school next season, he must sit out the first three games of the year. The NCAA explained that it is concerned who players that test the NBA waters are gaining a competitive edge.

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MIKE DUNLEAVY may return to Duke for his senior season, despite the fact he declared for the draft.

More importantly for Duke, however, is how significantly the dynamic of the team would change should Dunleavy bolt to the NBA. “Right now the situation is tough to discuss,” Dawkins said. “We haven’t really gone into it because he is still here....

We’ll just be prepared if he leaves.”

With Dunleavy in the lineup, the Blue Devils return three starters Dunleavy, Duhon and senior Dahntay Jones, while losing two, Carlos Boozer and Jay Williams, who have both signed with agents and are entering the draft themselves.

Duhon, a junior, would be the team’s sole captain. Although Duhon has experience as the floor general of a —

national championship team, he has always been in the shadow of more experienced players.

“Chris will step up because that is the type of player he is—l’m not worried about that.” Dawkins said, adding that the team has not talked about whether they would name another captain if Dunleavy leaves.

With six freshmen coming in, the team will also be extremely young. It is likely that without Dunleavy, an extra starting slot will open up for one of Duke’s two highly touted big men,

Shavlik Randolph or Shelden Williams.

“Obviously its going to change the dynamic of the team with him gone—he’s one of our co-captains,” Dawkins said.

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Damian Rolls homered and threw out the potential Red Sox 6 game-tying run at the plate to end the game as the Durham Bulls (24-16) salvaged a split of a doubleheader with a 7-6 win against the Pawtucket Red Sox Tuesday afternoon at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket.

The Bulls banged out eleven hits in the game, led

by Carl Crawford’s three singles. Aubrey Huff hit his second home run of the year in the first inning to give the Bulls the early lead.

Jason Dickson evened his record with 5 2/3 innings pitched, allowing two runs and six hits while fanning three. Lee Gardner picked up his league-leading 12th save thanks to Rolls’ outfield assist that nailed Angel Santos at the plate to win the game.

Pawtucket (15-25) won the first game of the doubleheader, 4-2. Michael Coleman hit a three-run home run in the fifth inning to lead the Red Sox to victory. Juan Pena was the winning pitcher with six strong innings, allowing six hits and two runs. Chris Haney picked up his second save by retiring Crawford with two runners on base to end the game.

Jim Magrane was the losing pitcher for the Bulls, allowing four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. Sal Fasano hit his fourth homer of the year for the Bulls in a losing effort.

gle from Huff, another in the fifth and two in the eighth on home runs by Huff and Ryan Freel.

Jamie Brewington got the victory pitching 7 1/3 innings and allowing four runs on six hits.

May 10: Bulls 3, Tides 1

Carlos Chantres threw six strong innings and Fasano homered to lead Durham to a 3-1 victory over the Norfolk Tides (21-18) Friday night in front of a sellout crowd at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The win completed a four-game sweep of the Tides, and upped the Bulls’ season high winning streak to six games. The Bulls have also won seven consecutive home games, Fasano belted his third homer of the season to snap a scoreless tie in the fourth inning, After Norfolk managed to tie the game in the the Fasano’s leadoff single top May 12: Bulls 7, Red Sox 1 sparked a two-run rally that provided the Lance Carter pitched five strong innings to margin of victory. Wilmy Caceres knocked in lead the Bulls to a 7-1 victory over the Red Sox the go-ahead run with a single that plated Sunday afternoon. pinch-runner Hoover.

Carter allowed just one run and five hits, Chantres allowed only one run and four hits struck out three and did not issue a walk in vr BULLS while fanning five to pick up the victory, nTT7 T» nrilr picking up the win. Paul Hoover blasted a NOTEBOOK Gardner retired the Tides in order in the ninth two-run homer in the top of the eighth inning and inning to claim his eleventh save in eleven chances.

Crawford singled twice and had a pair of RBI for Bobby Jones was the losing pitcher after allowing Durham, which has won seven ofits last eight games, three runs and seven hits in five plus innings Juan Diaz led off the fourth inning with a home May 9: Bulls 9, Tides 3 run, his fourth solo shot in five games, for Pawtucket. Willie Banks surrendered three runs, The Bulls scored four times in the first inning en three hits and four walks over 4 1/3 innings to suf- route to a 9-3 victory over the Tides Thursday night. fer the loss for the Red Sox, who have dropped seven The Bulls have defeated the Tides in three straight of their last 11 games games and have won a season-high five consecutive games overall.

May 11: Red Sox 6, Bulls 4 Six straight Bulls reached base safely in the first Jason Standridge lasted only three innings allowing inning to provide a 4-0 lead. Huff, Emil Brown and five runs on seven hits as Pawtucket beat the Bulls, 6- Brian Hunter knocked in runs in the big inning. Rolls 4 Saturday night. Durham’s winning streak was led the team with three hits, including two doubles. stopped at five.

Freel and Hunter added two-run home runs.

Pawtucket scored four runs in the first inning on Jason Dickson fired six strong innings, allowing five singles and a walk by the first six hitters. The two runs and six hits while fanning three batters to Bulls scored one run in the third inning on an RBI sinpick up the victory. '

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Kowalczyk broke for a 3-1 Golden Bear (19-7) lead. However, Spicher quickly responded, breaking back to 4-3. Two games later, Kowalczyk—down a few points in the game—took an injury timeout with cramping legs. After the stoppage, Spicher won a few quick points to take a 5-4 lead.

Serving for the set, Spicher dropped the first point, only to win the next four, the set, the match and the spot in the next round. The win was especially sweet for the veteran senior who, after rolling his ankle, lost the deciding match for Duke in the quarterfinals of last season’s NCAA tournament.

“It was a great win for Joel,” said assistant coach Dave Hagymas, who coached Spicher during the match. “He had a tough ACC’s and it was also his graduation day. He had a lot going on around him [Sunday].”

After losing two of three doubles matches, Duke found itself in a 0-1 hole going into singles play. However, the match was easily leveled by Michael Yani, who—playing what both he and coach Jay Lapidus called the best match of his life—made short work of California’s Balazs Veress. The 43rdranked player in the country topped the No. 81, 6-0, 6-2.

Junior Yorke Allen and his powerful

DAVIS from page 13 hying in 2001. Major League Baseball is a company which just can’t seem to put two and two together, despite the fact that it enjoys an antitrust exemption. A few months ago, the nation watched as Selig Whined to Congress about how the league was losing money—and expected the government to help. , .

And while all of this nonsense tran-

spires, team officials have the audacity to wonder why people aren’t coming to the ballparks. Prices are up, players still don’t care about the fans, and the league expects the government to bail out its

financial woes.

Sign me up for season tickets.

Through May 12, attendance at parks

forehand won fifth singles 6-4, 6-3 to give Duke a 2-1 edge. California responded at the sixth singles flight, however, where Mik Ledvonova beat Peter Shults 6-3, 6-3 and the Golden Bears knotted the match at two.

The final three singles matches all went to three sets. After dropping the first set, freshman Jason Zimmerman rallied back to beat California’s Conor Niland 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

“I was mentally tough,” he said. “I didn’t make any unforced errors, I made my opponent play every ball and ran down everything I could, and things starting going my way.”

With the Blue Devils up 3-2, Duke looked to its top player, llth-ranked Phillip King to close out the match.

Despite winning the first set, King dropped the next two and the match 36, 6-1, 7-5 to No. 13 John Paul Fruttero.

Fruttero, who King said he has “not lost to since he was 10,” used a serve and volley combination to beat the Long Beach Calif, native.

“I wasn’t playing sharp today, only about 30 or 40 percent,” King said. “I was hoping that [Spicher] would win first because I was playing so bad that I didn’t want to finish.”

The Blue Devils will face Kentucky in the sweet 16, and should they get past the Wildcats they could face second-seeded Tennessee in the quarterfinals. Duke lost to the Volunteers 4-1

tied for the worst record in the league last season, losing 100 games, and can cite Pokey Reese as their biggest free agent acquisition over the offseason. Attendance, however, set records, thanks to the opening of brand new PNC Park. Coming into 2002, it didn’t take a genius to see that the novelty of the new park would wear off) and fans would stop coming out in droves to watch really, really bad baseball.

It may not have taken a genius, but apparently it took someone brighter

The bottom line is that baseball has been stuck in a Catch-22. Some teams can afford the big salaries, but the rest still shell them out, trying to field a competitive team. The big money teams have no desire to share with the little guys, and the players refuse to see their earnings potential limited at all. When they decide that their jobs should entitle them to more than the millions they are already making, they threaten to strike.

If this year mirrors 1994, it will mark

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“I think we’re starting to play really well now,” Lapidus said. “I respect [Kentucky], but I’m certainly not afraid of them. I think it will be a good match. I think we should win..,. I have a funny feeling about this year; I think we may do a little better than people expect us to.” than owner Kevin McClatchy, who raised ticket prices between four and 22 percent. Through May 12, attendance had fallen off 28 percent from a year ago. McClatchy’s response? He admitted he had made a mistake, and promised not to raise prices next year.

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around the league is down 807,500 from a year ago. That’s 807,500 people who felt that $5 hot dogs and $2O bleacher seats were just a bit too much. 807,500 people who know that no matter what happens on the field, Barry Bonds’ bank account is swelling at a rate matched only by his ego.

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Thanks.

Duke 4, California 3 Singles

1. Fruttero d. King (3-6,6-1. 7-5), 2. Yani d. Veress (6-0, 6-2), 3.

Zimmerman d. Niland, (4-6, 6-3, 6-4), 4. Spicher d. Kowalczyk (3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4), 5. Allen d. Wong (6-4, 6-3), 6. Ledvonova d. Shults (6-3,6-3) Doubles

1. Fruttero/Kowalczyk d. King/Yani (8-4), 2. Niland/Miles vs.

Spicher/Shulls (DNF), Veres/Briaud d. Zlmmerman/Bose (8-2) Host: Duke University (Ambler Stadium) Records; Duke (17-11); California (19-7)

the ninth time that baseball has suffered a work stoppage since 1972.

If there’s a solution to the problem, it begins with the people who pay the bills: The fans. If the fans keep away—and stay away—from the ballparks, and the government stops playing the role of sugar daddy to Selig and company, then maybe, just maybe, things will change. If not, regardless of the outcome of the current situation, it’s only a matter of time before the cycle begins again. The dates, names, and numbers may change, but unless the bottomless stream of dollars trails off, it’s a lock that this column will be just as applicable in five years as it is today.

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The Chronicle Unhealthy layoffs Responding

to North Carolina budget cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, the Duke University Health System announced last week that it will cut 300 jobs. At the same time, however, the health system promises these cuts will not adversely impact patient care and maintains that it exhausted all other options to reduce costs before cutting jobs.

However, the Health System’s secrecy, particular with regard to its financial records, makes it difficult for outside observers to trust it. It is especially hard to believe the health system because it has sometimes been disrespectful towards employees in the past; for example, in 2000 the National Labor Relations Board found the Duke Hospital guilty of using illegal practices in its attempt to stop its nurses from unionizing.

Right now, there is no way to tell if all the options have truly been exhausted or whether employment cuts will have a negative affect on patients. However, in 1994 when the Hospital also eliminated several hundred jobs, it admirably did what it said it would and limited the number of actual layoffs; hopefully, the same will be true today.

It is also troubling that the Hospital is cutting back on supplemental medical insurance upon retirement for its new employees.

Although the affected group is small, the move nevertheless will harm employees and runs contrary to the Health System’s efforts to emphasize the importance of preventative care.

This insurance change also widens the gulf between Health System and University employees. During his departing speech to the Board of Trustees, Academic Council Chair Peter Burian addressed the issue, saying that he and the council are concerned that Health System employees are not being treated like University employees. Instead, the Health System is treating its employees just like others in the health care industry. This insurance change is one of the first substantial differences between the two groups.

But it would be inaccurate to place the blame for the layoffs and the fiscal changes solely on the shoulders of the Health System. The state ofNorth Carolina also bears a significant portion of the responsibility. With Medicaid, the federal government matches state funds on a 2-to-l basis. Thus, any $1 cut to Medicaid benefits by the state assembly leaves the health care industry facing $3 in added costs.

In response to the recent state budget crisis, the legislature has cut Medicaid funding, which is symptomatic ofhow the state has mismanaged the entire budget crisis. Instead ofraising taxes sufficiently, looking into the possibility of a lottery, or cutting more fat from the budget in non-essential programs, the state has slashed its expenditures on vital humanitarian efforts: education and health care. The last thing the state should cut is the social safety net, especially in times of economic turmoil when many cannot afford much needed care.

On the

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“The Med Center has been a cancerous growth on the north side campus that has impacted severely parking in the rest of campus.”

Ken Knoerr, professor ofenvironmental science, on the reasons for the

of

University’s parking crunch (see story, page seven)

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Letters to the editor

Senior BBQ trash shows disregard for employees Like many other seniors, enjoyed Last Day of Classes, including a barbeque at the Alumni House and the Roots’ concert.

However, walking back home from each event, I I

noticed

something,

the

lawns filled with trash.

At the senior barbeque, most students left their plates on the ground for others to pick up. After the concert, the quad was so covered that Duke employees were forced to come out with trash bags, picking

each bottle up by hand at 2:30 a.m, I am disgusted by the universal disregard for those who have to clean up

our mess. Ironically, many

at the barbeque signed a document pledging to bring “social consciousness” with them into the workforce.

A note to seniors about to enter the real world: Compared to life after graduation, Duke may seem like a bubble.

But we have many hard-working employees to thank for keeping our campus running.

Appreciate the fact that a full-time staff attends to our We every possible need. might make fun of those Blazing Sea Nuggets at the Marketplace, but we don’t have to get up at 6 a.m. in order to prepare and serve them like employees must.

In the real world, we may not be so lucky.

We enjoyed our last few

weeks here, but don’t forget to thank those who have helped us out!

Laura DiGiovanni

University needs dialogue about militant Islam In response to the April 18 letter “Columnist’s arguments about Islam contain flaws,” by Mohamed Eltom

and Farhan Mustafa, we do not understand why many do not want to accept the

fact that a dialogue on militant Islam—as called for by Bala Ambati in his April 12 column—is needed.

Ambati might have “misquoted” the Quran, but the fact remains that suicide terrorists in Israel, India and, now, in the United States use the Quran as justification for suicide bombings. Claiming that suicide for referenced letter,

attacks in Israel against innocent civilians are not

motivated is is not “antiMuslim” to call upon moderate Muslims to rein in extremist Islamic terrorists, or to call for a religious dialogue on the subject.

Although we do not doubt for one minute that Islam preaches peace, the Quran as all religious texts—is open to interpretation. It is the extremist interpretation that is leading to these terrorist attacks, and people in the Islamic world need to examine why such interpre-

religiously wrong.

It

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tations exist in the first place. The solution to this problem of terrorism cannot come from us in the United States, but must come from within the Islamic world, as argued for by Ambati.

The . Chronicle is not

launching a conspiracy against Muslims; instead, it is merely serving as a platform for discourse on a very relevant topic.

Narayan Sundaram,

Trinity ’Ol

Visual Lokre Pratt ’O2

see http:! / www.chronicle.duke.edu !story.php^article_id=2s994

Administration must help students affected by flood At 4 a.m. on Wednesday, this is extremely selfish and lar laptop can be a significant 10 my friend Mike irresponsible. He should step cost to a family. awoke to a fire alarm and forward and take responsibiliNow is the time for us to jumped down from his loft, ty for his actions. come together and help those landing into knee-deep sprinIn addition, I am disapaffected by this selfish act. pointed in the administrakler water. He had left his lapThe administration has the top, PalmPilot, camcorder, tion’s decision that all affected names of the affected stunotes and textbooks on the students must cover their dents. I am sure many would floor. Water flooded Randolph damages with their own greatly appreciate any assisDormitory’s second and third insurance. Though Duke is tance, whether monetary or floors, causing $25,000 damnot legally responsible for otherwise. Being part of a age to the building and a comthe students’ losses, the campus community means parable amount to students’ University should show its good times, but also lending a commitment to making colbelongings. hand to students who need it.

Investigators discovered lege affordable by helping stuthat the sprinklers were delibdents on financial aid replace Dan McCready erately set off. Whoever did their belongings. A $2,000 dolTrinity ’O5 for referenced article, see http: www.chronicle.duke.edu story.php?article_id=2s9oB April

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t aside standards: Sex, money, DNA

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Tom

Wolfes address to graduates:

Well, thank you so much, President Keohane. First ofall, I wanted to give my heartiest congratulations to the Class of 2002 and to their parents, with whom I have a profound resonance of empathy, and also to the more than 1,000 graduate students who are getting degrees today.

You know, in this country, practically every American has a very vivid picture of undergraduate life. They mayhave gotten it from Animal House or Van Wilder, but still, it’s very vivid, and almost nobody has a real sense of the life of a graduate student.

I would try to tell you my own experience, but unless you’ve had the experience yourself of being in your early 20s, in the season of the rising sap, spending day after day, week after week in the upper reaches of a Gothic library tower poring over the accumulated riches of world knowledge, and daydreaming about Maggie, a girl of the stacks, as you hear her footfalls as she tries to fight shelf not failure by putting the more a of stacks books back in their proper order, so I won’t even try to indicate what it’s like.

Now, granted, I have a vested interest in this, but I’ve been following Duke University very closely over the past four years. I’m probably the only person, outside ofthe Duke campus who can see ferocious ideological battles and confrontations on the barricades in a jar of Mt. Olive pickles. Like you, I worry about what’s going to happen with the coming election for the mayor of Krzyzewskiville.

I’m afraid its going to end up like Gore versus Bush in Florida, with bitterness, a situation that cannot be untangled.

I have shared your surprise, I’m sure, to learn that students have actually applied to live in Trent this next year.

But above all, I’ve been following the parking situation here. I saw the Ocean disappear, I’ve heard the rumors that the Blue Zone is going to be moved out closer to Route 64. I suppose I have this tremendous interest in the parking because I figure over the past four years I’ve paid roughly half ofthe parking fines that the bursar —sorry dear, just kidding about that—you know all about that, so I’m going to drop that.

I’m going to tell you as specifically as I can what you can expect from almost this moment on. Let’s start 15 minutes from now. Fifteen minutes from now you will join one of the only two definable social classes in America. There are, of course, all sorts of gradations of status, of power, of wealth, influence and comfort, but it is impossible to break America down into classes in the old European sense. But there is a sheerly divided line and above that line are those who have bachelor’s degrees or better from a four-year univer-

It’s

sity or college. Below that line are people who don’t and that line is becoming a gulf that gets wider and wider. Like the rest of the West we live in a highly bureaucratic world and it’s impossible today to advance to the heights of ambition without that bachelor’s degree, without being a part of what Vance Packard used to call the “diploma elite.”

Today, Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb, 500 other electrical devices, and who became the father of the electronic age but neglected to go to college, would be today one of those computer house call swamies who comes around to try to exorcise the hoohaws out of your PC when it crashes and freezes, that’s where he would be. Chuck Yeager, a West Virginia country boy, high school student, living in the gas fields ofWest Virginia, joined the army and during World War II became a pilot.

He shot down 10, rather, 13, German airplanes, three ofthem fighter jets with his propeller-driven P-51 then two years later he became the first man to break the sound barrier. Today, Chuck Yeager, if he was starting out, he’d be vacuuming the intake valves of fighter planes rather than flying them. And as for Bill Gates, a college dropout, if he were to apply to Microsoft for a job today, he would never make it. If he wanted to work there he’d have to found the place.

But not only are you a part of the diploma elite, but you are also in the elite of the elite, you are one of the top 10 universities as rated each year by U.S. News and World Report. I love the whole story of U.S. News and World Report.

Here was a struggling magazine looking ' for a circulation gimmick and it came out up with college rankings.

And today, this magazine is the ringmaster of higher education in America and they have colleges and universities all over the country jumping through hoops and jumping through rings of fire. It’s a fabulous story, it can’t be told in a novel because the problem with fiction is that fiction has to be plausible. Anyway, there is it. Fortunately, though, Duke and a handful of other universities really don’t have to pay any attention to any of that due to the caliber of students and due to the excellence of the leadership this great university has been enjoying. I have even better news for you.

I know that the job situation has been very rough. But, so help me, it’s going to work out. In due course you’re going to get jobs and careers in whatever field you might like. You’re going to find that out there, there is a terrible dearth of talent, there really is. There’s a dearth of talent.

With a minimal level of effort you’re going to rise to a certain natural level and go home at 5 o’clock. After that you’re going to have to work hard, you’re going to have to think hard and be imaginative.

But at least you’ll know it’s not a jungle out there; it’s more of a honeymoon safari. It’s not really very intimidating.

But there are certain things that you will run into that I think may be a bit confusing, I know they would confuse me if I were in your shoes, they still confuse me...

Dean Willimon referred to you yesterday as Generation Y. So, in any case, Generations U, V, W, X have been busy over the past 35 years sweeping aside standards that have been in place for millenia, many of them since the beginning of time. Some of these changes have been extremely blatant, some have been very

a jungle

of

there; it’s honeymoon safari.

subtle. But anyway, you’re stepping into a centrifuge machine that’s just whirling at an astonishing rate.

One of the subtle changes. There has been a tremendous change in the attitude toward debt. When I was growing up, I was taught that getting heavily into debt was not only unwise in a financial sense, it was also immoral. It meant that you couldn’t hold back your appetite for immediate gratification, you had to have it now. Well, along about 1970 I started hearing this term “leverage.” I had never heard the term leverage applied a

to

things,

financial

so

so-called sexual revolution. I personally regard that term as a rather prim description of what is actually the lurid carnival that is actually taking place.

In the middle of the last century, the typical story of young romance was boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl, they both fall madly in love, and life is paradise from there on in. Today, I notice, and you may run into this once you leave Duke, the ferent. The story goes: Our eyes met, our lips met, our bodies met and then we were introduced. Actually the story often doesn’t end qunte that .na^ neatly. The next morning the pair parts without ever learning each others names.

Sometime in the afternoon they’ll say, “I wonder who that was.” Occasionally, a boy will get carried away and investigate and somehow find out who this girl was and call her up and say, “I’ve just been thinking about that fabulous night we had last night.” And she’ll say, “You’re thinking

You worm-brain disintegrate! That was just random hookup

1 said,

“What’s this leverage?” Everybody said, “You have to get into debt.” Debt apparently was a lever that was going to move the world. So I sort of got into the swing of this thing. I tell you, that’s not a very wise move for a freelance writer, it really is not.

And one night I found myself in Dallas, Texas, at a dinner. I was sitting next to a man I had never met; he suddenly turned to me and clapped me on the shoulder. He said, “Son, I got to tell you something. I went down to the bank to borrow me $l.B million. Personal loan, it had nothing to do with my company.

What do you think of that?” So I turned to

him and I heard myself saying, “That’s great! That’s terrific!” The awful thing was I meant it, I meant every word of it.

If he had told me he had made 1.8 million that day, I would have tried to act interested. But he had borrowed 1.8 million!

That’s absolutely fabulous.

Well, that spirit has never died. Today, probably as we, well, tomorrow it will probably happen, the chief financial officer of a great corporation is going to turn to the CEO and say, “I’ve got the great solution to this whole debt problem we’ve got. Let’s go into Chapter 11 and get protection from our creditors.” And the CEO will say, “Oh, that’s fabulous, I’m dying to get the look on that geeky loan officer’s face down at First Union.” Today it’s a strategy, it’s just another business strategy. In days gone by, to go bankrupt was a stigma you could not get rid of if you worked the rest ofyour life.

Man’s view of himself is changing very rapidly. Within the next 20 years I think you’ll feel its effects. After Darwinism, after Freudianism, there’s now the tremendous influence of neuroscience. It’s a very exciting field, it would be very tempting to go into. But ifI may reduce, with terrible reductiveness, the bottom line of neuroscience, it is that let’s not kid ourselves, we are all concatenations of molecules containing DEA... DNA, that’s the drug enforcement agency, DNA hardwired into a chemical analog computer known as the human brain, which as software has a certain genetic code. Your idea that you have a soul, or even a self, much less free will, is just an illusion. Your fate is preordained and you’re just reacting with other mechanisms and if we had enough data and sufficient parallel computers, we could predict everything you are going to do including the fact that within the next 20 seconds you’ll touch your foreheads.

Somehow it reminds me of this marvelous song by the Bloodhound Gang which says, “You and me baby we ain’t nothing but mammals, so let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel,” but that reminds me, the most blatant change of all, I can’t go through the subject without at least mentioning it, has been the

,

:

about what? You worm-brain, disinte-

grate! That was just a random hookup.”

You’ll run into that once you leave Duke.

These I submit are enormous changes in a country that traditionally has been as religious as the United States. The inevitable de Tocqueville—l thought I was going to get through this talk without mentioning him—the inevitable de Tocqueville once said that the U.S. was the most religious country on earth outside the nations of Islam. And today, believe me, that’s just not quite the case.

None of what I’ve said is by no means intended as a warning or as a dash of cold water in the face. I’m just trying to bring the news, the news of what you are going to see. Actually most of the news is fabulous. Whether you choose to look upon it this way or not for the last four years you have been trained to be the leaders of an extraordinary nation.

There has never been anything like it.

This is perhaps the only true democracy.

It’s the only country I know of in which immigrants from a country with a totally different culture, a totally different language can in one-half of a generation ifthey have the numbers, ifthey have a modicum of organization take over politically a metropolis, as large, as, say, Miami. It is remarkable. The old dreams of the utopian socialists of the 19th century, which was that the common working man would someday have the free time, the political freedom, the wherewithal to express himself in any way he saw fit has come true, not in any socialist nation, but in the United States.

So that you can be sure that right now, as we meet here in Durham and in Wade Stadium that your electrician, your air conditioning repair man and your burglar alarm installer are right now in St. Kitts, or Barbados or Puerto Vallerta. They are on the terrace of a resort hotel. He’s wearing his Ricky Martin cane cutter shirt open down to the sternum, the better to allow the gold chain to twinkle in his chest hairs. The two of them have just ordered another round of Quibel sparkling water which comes from West Virginia, because by now Perrier and San Peligrino are so passe, so tacky. It really is, on every level, an astonishing country.

I’m not the first person who has ever said this. But America is a wonderful country. And I only ask one thing of you: Lead her well. Congratulations once more and thank you so much for letting me be a part of your commencement.

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