October 3, 2002

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A crisis of law and medicine?

Community Increasing litigation plagues health care reacts to new football plan

This is the second story in a threepart series examining rising malpractice costs and the health-care industry.

By DANIEL KENNEDY and MIKE MILLER

� The University’s release of a

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A recent boom in medical malpractice insurance that many fear is creating a national health-care crisis has forced experts to look for solutions, even at the Duke University Health System and other institutions that remain relatively unaffected and do not plan on shutting down any services.

The consensus among doctors is that soaring jury awards in malpractice cases are driving the sudden increases in insurance costs, as the median award

new mission statement for the football team has met with mixed

opinions.

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

doubled to about $1 mil-

lion over a three-year period from 1997 to 2OOO, according to Jury HflM Verdict Research.

“There’s no question that rising jury awards are the root cause of the problem,” said Phil Israel, a general surgeon at Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Ga., and a board member at the MAG Mutual insurance company. “The basic mindset today is, ‘Let’s try to sue.

I might hit the lottery.’”

Peter Kussin, an associate clinical professor of pulmonary medicine at the Medical Center, is approached to testify in malpractice suits about once a week. He agrees that excessive awards are creating an atmosphere of

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profiteering by lawyers and patients.

“Judging by the number of cases [I get], there has been an explosion in litigation over the past year,” he said. “Lawyers push their case even ifit’s totally groundless.... I testify in absolutely meritless cases where I defend the doctors.”

Ofthe cases Kussin takes, only one in 10 go to trial. “The plaintiff and prosecutors will push a case until the hospital or physician will settle,” he said. “It’s very rare for a case to actually go to trial.”

Rising malpractice costs are also a function of subtle changes in medicine and a public that pays greater attention to medical errors.

Julies rule in favor of the plaintiff in only a third of all cases that go to trial, but successful suits can cost millions of dollars, amounts that are “over and above what is necessary,” said Robert Seligson, chief executive officer of the North Carolina Medical Society, the state branch of the American Medical Association.

Physicians and health care experts are now demanding limits on the potential awards in malpractice cases, and the American Medical Association is vigorously campaigning for national legislation capping pain and suffering damSee MALPRACTICE on page 6

Faculty and students are expressing mixed reactions to a new mission statement for the football team that seeks to help rebuild the program.

The statement, released last week by President Nan Keohane’s office, calls for accepting more football players at the lower end ofthe SAT and grade point average range typically allowed for players, while also hiking coaches’ salaries

based on demonstrated success.

“I was flabbergasted by the statement. If it had been part of a Doonesbury cartoon it would have seemed reasonable,” said Research Professor of Biology Peter Klopfer. He added that despite University officials’ assertions otherwise, the admissions move translates into a lowering of academic standards.

Further, he said linking the team’s winloss record to the coaches’ salaries is detrimental to the program.

“It’s a matter of what is more imporSee FOOTBALL on page 6

Friends remember DSG passes tenting, ICC changes dedicated teacher

By MOLLY NICHOLSON The Chronicle

By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

Tamsen Webb, director of Duke’s Elementary Teacher Preparation Program and praised as a tireless advocate for children and the teaching profession, died from colon cancer last Thursday in her Chapel Hill home. She was 52.

Often called a “hell on wheels,” a “fireball,” a “book fairy” a “wonderful storyteller” and “our Duke mom” by Mends and former students, Webb came to Duke three years ago to train elementary-level teachers—a mission that captivated every aspect ofWebb’s life, said David Malone, director of the Program in Education.

“She was a gifted teacher herself, and she was an especially gifted teacher of young adults who were preparing to become teachers themselves,” Tamsen Webb Malone said. “She was a caring and inspirational professional who always took the interests of her students into mind.”

Webb spent much of her career as a teacher in the See WEBB on page 8

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HEAD LINE MONITOR Jeremy Morgan presents his amendments to the basketball tenting policy to DSG Wednesday night.

Mayor Bill Bell announced a new initiative Wednesday targeted at helping Latinos and increasing cultural aware ness in the Durham community. See page 3 -

Duke Student Government voted to accept both the undergraduate basketball admissions policy and the Inter-Community Council bylaw amendments at its meeting Wednesday night.

Junior Pushpa Raja, Student Organization Finance Committee chair, also read amendments to the SOFC bylaw, which DSG will vote on next week.

In his basketball policy, Head Line Monitor Jeremy Morgan, a senior, added a clause to include his right to cap the number of tents registered for Blue, or early, registration during the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill game tenting period. Morgan said he was concerned too many tenters from the UNC game would continue tenting for the University of Maryland game.

He added that he had purposely kept the grace period policy vague to allow leniency in assigning grace periods.

“My general policy is probably going to be one-hour grace periods,” Morgan said.

Thaniyyah Ahmad, DSG vice president for community interaction, changed her proposed amendments to the ICC bylaw, reinstating The Chronicle editor to the committee and adding an at-large position to the group.

“I had a meeting with The Chronicle editor [Dave

Statistics for 2001 campus crimes were released this week.

Drug related infractions and burglaries increased but the number of alcohol violations fell. See page 3 -

See DSG on page 8 North Carolina Sen. John Edwards held a retreat in Pinehurst last week, raising speculation that he is seeking a nomination tor the 2004 presidential election. See page 4

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Research reveals the mysteries of malaria

Researchers have mapped the genes of the parasite that causes malaria and the mosquito that spreads it, breakthroughs that may lead to better insecticides and repellents against the insect and new ways to combat the disease.

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Andrew Fastow, the Enron executive who masterminded the financial schemes that brought down the company, was charged Wednesday with inflating the energy giant’s profits and siphoning off millions for himself, his family and friends.

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The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Democrats can replace Sen. Robert Torricelli on the November ballot with former Sen, Frank Lautenberg, even though the deadline for making such a change has passed Republicans vowed to take the case to federal court.

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American among dead in Phillippines

A nail-packed bomb killed an American soldier and two Filipinos Wednesday outside a restaurant near a base in the troubled southern Philippines.

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Shoe bomber to plead guilty

Richard Reid, the Briton accused of attempting to detonate bombs in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight plans to plead guilty to all criminal charges.against him, his lawyers said.

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By SUSAN MILLIGAN The Boston Globe

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush and top congressional leaders Wednesday agreed on a revised resolution that would allow the use of military force against Iraq, a compromise that appeared headed for-congressional approval next week, despite continuing criticism from some lawmakers that Bush would have too much leeway to wage a preventive war.

The latest draft of the Iraq resolution would allow the president to use force against Iraq “as he deems necessary and appropriate,” if he determines that diplomatic efforts have failed. The draft was the third in two

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Residents in South Louisiana faced their second evacuation in a week as Lili steadily gained strength and speed as it headed their way. “We’re probably going to be evacuating some time [Wednesday] morning,” said Ray Santiny, city council member from the barrier island of Grand Isle, south of New Orleans.

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The president would also be required to inform Congress in advance of a military strike or no later than 48 hours after the attack. He would have to report on the progress of the mission at least once every 60 days, a period shortened from 90 days in the previous draft.

A new provision would require Bush to tell Congress what plans have been made to deal with Iraq after a war, an issue that has concerned lawmakers in both parties.

The proposed resolution was taken up in a House committee in the afternoon and was introduced in the Senate, which is scheduled to

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porters and opponents predicted that both bodies would pass the resolution next week, essentially authorizing the nation to go to war.

“The statement of support from the Congress will show to friend and enemy alike the resolve of the United States,” Bush said at the White House. He was flanked by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.; House minority leader Richard Gephardt, DMo.; and Senate minority leader Trent Lott, R-Miss.

“In Baghdad, the regime will know that full compliance with all UN. security demands is the only choice and

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Mission Control. NASA said Thursday would be the earliest the launch could occur.

Lili was upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane when its winds increased to nearly 100 mph as it whipped across Cuba Tuesday afternoon. No casualties were reported in Cuba, but the storm earlier killed seven people in Jamaica and St. Vincent.

A hurricane watch was declared for the northern U.S. GulfCoast in Texas to the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, meaning hurricane conditions were possible within 36 hours. A tropical storm watch was in effect from the Mississippi River to Pascagoula, Miss.

“By the time the storm gets to the United States, it will be stronger and it will pack a bigger storm surge,” said Martin Nelson, lead forecaster at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

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Mayor launches Latino initiative

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� The new program, headed in part by the City Council, aims to reduce victimization of Latinos in Durham and improve discussion of Latino issues within communities.

By MELISSA SOUCY The Chronicle

“(-Hablas espanol?” The number of Durham police officers answering no to that question is just one of the reasons helping the Latino community has become a major city government priority.

Yesterday, Mayor Bill Bell announced the Hispanic/Latino Outreach initiative—a program designed to reduce victimization of Latinos in Durham, increase understanding of Hispanic issues throughout the city and integrate Latinos into the social fabric of the community. The City Council in conjunction with El Centro Hispano—a resource center for Durham’s Spanish-speaking community—will head the program.

“I’m very proud of the leadership that Bill Bell is providing. He recognizes the need for a special effort to get services to a community that has the challenges of cultural and language barriers,” said John Herrera, vice president of Latino and Hispanic affairs at the Self-Help Credit Union and board member of the Latino Community Credit Union.

Bell said Herrera was the first person he consulted when initiative planning began six to eight weeks ago.

“After having read [about the last homicide involving a Latino victim], I called John Herrera and said I thought it might be worthwhile to sit down and talk,” Bell said. “After having discussions there were obviously issues other than violence [that needed to be addressed].”

Bell said funding and support are not a concern since much of the initiative’s backing relies on shifting curSee LATINOS on page 8

CLARIFICATION In a page one story in the Oct. 2 edition of The Chronicle, Kenneth Morris, chief financial officer of the Duke University Health System, was quoted as saying that rising malpractice insurance could “bring the Health Sys-

tem to its knees.” Morris was referring to the national health-care system generally, not specifically to DUHS.

Robbery, drug violations increase New campus crime statistics show lowered alcohol infractions

By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle

Reported robberies and drug violations increased last year, while liquor law violations were down, according to 2001 campus crime statistics released

this week.

Robbery showed the largest increase, more than doubling from four to 10. Drug-related arrests increased from 16 to 19 and drug violation referrals jumped from eight to 21. Aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft and alcohol violations all decreased between 2000 and 2001.

“We’re doing a good job, but we’re not happy with any level of crime,” said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department.

Both Dean and Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta cautioned against trying to derive too much meaning from the annual increases and decreases in each category, because the changes are too small to be statistically significant. The statistics have not been processed long enough to determine their significance, said Dean, one of the DUPD members who will interpret the data.

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While drug-related violations increased, there was one fewer liquor-related arrest from the 12 of

the previous year, and more substantially, referrals decreased from 293 to 221.

“From a statistical perspective, the numbers are too small to see trends,” Moneta said. “[The decrease in alcohol violations] may be more a function of how the weather changes—because there is more outside drinking when the weather is warmer—than anything we’ve done.”

When the drops in burglary—down 11 from 77 to 66—and the increases in robberies —up six from four to a total of 10—are combined, the similar crimes somewhat counteract each other, Moneta pointed out. Both involve theft but the classification of robbery indicates the threat of violence.

“I’m no police officer so distinguishing between robbery and burglary isn’t something I’m familiar with,” Moneta said. “The total of robbery and burglary is actually down.”

No murders, manslaughter, hate crimes or nonforcible sex offenses were reported last year.

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Edwards raises more 2004 questions Senator may be gearing up for future presidential campaign

By LAURA BEACH The Chronicle

While most politicians are busy preparing for the November 2002 elections, speculation continues that North Carolina Senator John Edwards may have another election in mind.

Recently, reports have grown that the senator has been garnering support from fellow Democrats in hopes of securing their nomination in the 2004 presidential race.

As a possible sign ofhis intentions, Edwards held a retreat in the golfing community of Pinehurst, N.C., last week. The event was organized by the New American Optimists, a leadership committee Edwards created to “help support candidates around the state and around the country who share his ideals,” said his spokesperson Mike Briggs. The retreat’s festivities ranged from briefings of key political issues to a performance by Hootie and the Blowfish Among those in attendance John Edwards were former President Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, Sen. John Breaux, D-La., and this year’s North Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Erskine Bowles.

“They are people that can make a difference in John’s future campaigns, whatever they may be,” said N.C. Secretary of State and retreat attendee Elaine Marshall. “He’s working hard to build the right kind of team.”

Although Edwards has not officially announced his candidacy, he has traveled to important presidential primary states —including New Hampshire, lowa and Michigan—to support other Democrats. Some have speculated that these stops are actually campaign stops,

but Briggs denied those allegations. He also declined to comment on Edwards’ plans for the 2004 election.

If Edwards does decide to run, though, some experts’ predictions of his success are fairly optimistic.

“If he is an effective campaigner and his opponents are lackluster, he may become a viable presidential candidate, or, more likely, a viable vice-presidential candidate,” said Duke Professor of Political Science David Paletz.

Compared to other possible 2004 Democratic presidential hopefuls, such as A1 Gore, Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., Ted Arrington, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, said Edwards is not out ofhis league.

“Edwards’ chance is at least as good as any other Democrat,” Arrington said.

Although some North Carolinians have expressed concern that Edwards’ candidacy may detract from his obligations in the Senate, other senators have run for presidential offices in the past without conflict. “This is a very standard sort of thing,” said John Aldrich, a Duke political science professor.

Paletz added that even if Edwards’ presidential ambitions fall short in two years, he may use the media attention to gain support for future runs in the national arena.

“The most likely scenario is for his efforts to achieve public visibility and make him a viable presidential candidate for 2008,” he said.

If Edwards wins the nomination in two years, he may have to run for both the presidential and senatorial offices in 2004, which has been done before. Some

predict, though, that Edwards will have little problem winning reelection.

“I don’t think he will face serious opposition for the Senate. He will have so much money he will be impossible to beat,” said Michael Hunger, professor of political science.

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University receives service-learning grant The U.S. Department of Education has selected Duke as a recipient of a $454,403 grant to develop a three-stage model for service-learning. The initiative is designed to develop, implement, evaluate and nationally disseminate a model that will allow undergraduate students to pursue academic research projects that are integrated with community needs and interests.

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A film based on the short story The Palace Thief—which all freshmen read this summer as part of the University’s new summer reading program—will be previewed tonight in the Griffith Film Theater in the Bryan Center on West Campus.

The Emperor’s Club, the film version of Ethan Canin’s story, will be screened at 6 and 9 p.m. Canin will be on hand after both showings to answer questions from the audience. The film stars Kevin Kline as William Hundert, a teacher at an all-boys private school.

During orientation in August, freshmen discussed the short story and its message about academic integrity.

The film is free for all students. Tickets were distributed first to freshmen on East Campus earlier this week. Remaining tickets will be available Thursday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the Bryan Center walkway.

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Barbecue kicks off Greek Week � Despite concerns that the East Campus event seemed to violate early rush policies, organizers intended to show freshmen the strengths of greek life on campus.

By CINDY YEE The Chronicle

To someone who passed East Campus yesterday, it may have seemed that the groups of students clad in fraternity gear were in violation of early rush practices.

However, Wednesday’s barbecue—the Greek Week kick-off event—was aimed at increasing publicity for the University’s greek community as a

whole, and not at recruitment for individual fraternities and sororities, Greek Week organizers said.

By holding the event on East Campus, organizers said they hoped more freshmen would have the opportunity to socialize with members of the greek community and to learn about greek life beyond weekend parties.

“Often times freshmen have a certain perception of what greek life is like, and it’s not always what we want them to have,” said Nicole Manley, program coordinator for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. “We want them to see that greek life does value things other than just social activities.”

OFSL Director Todd Adams agreed that the barbecue’s aim was to engage more freshmen in Greek Week, which is traditionally based on West Campus. And although a greek event on East Campus may have seemed to be in violation of the sponsoring organizations’ rush rules, Adams said it was not an issue because the barbecue included all 35 greek chapters.

“Any time we’re doing public relations, it’s recruitment in a sense that we want people to know our organizations exist,” Adams said. “As long as they’re not offering any incentives or bids to join their individual organizations, they aren’t in violation of recruitment rules.”

Although the sponsors of Greek Week—the Interfraternity Council, the National Panhellenic Council, the Panhellenic Association and cultural greek-letter organizations—prohibit any attempts to rush freshmen during the fall semester, both IFC President senior Jeremy Morgan and NPHC President Sheldon Maye said the barbecue fell outside those restrictions.

“We talked about the issue of dirty rush, but we didn’t think it would be a problem,” Maye, a senior, said. “Everyone had a say in planning Greek Week, and we decided it would be okay because the chapters all know what is or isn’t allowed.”

Most students agreed that the barbecue’s climate was not one of competition or promotion of individual chapters, despite the fact that members were allowed to don paraphernalia for their individual organizations.

All groups except those governed by the Panhellenic Association were allowed to wear their letters.

“It’s just a good opportunity for freshmen to interact with greeks in a non-biased manner,” said sophomore Cristina Miller, a member of Chi Omega.

Senior Rebekah Abraham acknowledged the opportunity for some organizations to engage in premature recruitment, but said the barbecue would still benefit the greek community as a whole by allowing freshmen to witness the strength of greek life on campus.

“Unfortunately, I think dirty rush is something we have to deal with, but I’m hoping that people are emphasizing the positive aspects of this event,” said Abraham, who is president of Delta Gamma. She noted that dirty rush would probably not be a problem because the barbecue did not seem to have attracted a significant number offreshmen.

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MEMBERS OF GREEK ORGANIZATIONS line up for a barbecue on East Campus Wednesday afternoon. It was the first event in a series of activites planned for Greek Week.

All students and other members ofthe Duke and Durham Communities are cordially invited to the

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laws need to strike a balance between protecting victims and ensuring that health care can be provided.

“As a human being, you want people ages at $250,000, which the U.S. House of Representatives passed Sept. 26. to be taken care of, but when the result “The real, long-term plan is a variety is that you have to start making deciof initiatives like tort reform, the ability sions about what amount ofhealth care to limit the amount of punitive damages you can provide, you need to start makto something that is reasonable,” said ing tough decisions,” Morris said.

Kenneth Morris, DUHS chief financial Yet rising malpractice awards may not officer. “It consists of having a national be the sole cause ofrising insurance costs.

“What’s happening is this: The stock system for compensating people.”

Although North Carolina has not market goes down and suddenly we seen as dramatic a spike in insurance have a malpractice insurance crisis,” costs compared to other states, warning said Burton Craige, a Raleigh lawyer signs point to an impending emergency. who has been trying malpractice cases “It’s getting to a level where [North for 18 years. Rather than a boom in Carolina doctors] are very concerned, cases, he said, ‘‘My sense has been that and our attitude is, ‘Why should we there’s been a gradual increase in jury wait before it reaches an epidemic awards in the past few years.” level?”’ Seligson said. “The system Frank Sloan, director of Duke’s Cenneeds to be fair and reasonable for ter for Health Policy, Law and Manageeveryone concerned.” ment, explained that most insurance NCMS is campaigning for the state companies make their money from inlegislature to place caps on punitive and vestments, not premiums. non-economic damages, and to pass colSloan claimed that insurance compalateral source rules that prevent malnies were underpricing premiums in practice victims from collecting from order to obtain a greater market share, multiple insurance companies for the but the economic downturn caused huge profit losses, forcing a sudden same injury.

Trial lawyers, however, argue that spike in premium costs. To remedy that capping malpractice awards cannot be problem, he recommended a national justified. “It’s supposed to be the jury “reinsurance” program in which the who decides [what the award is],” said government would protect insurance Judy Sing, a Raleigh lawyer who tries firms facing catastrophic losses, essenmalpractice cases. “There needs to be a tially insuring the insurer. way to fairly recoup damages from the Thomas Metzloff, a professor at the negligence of a health care provider.”

School of Law and an expert on malSing also bristles at the suggestion practice litigation, agreed with Sloan’s that lawyers are unfairly driving the analysis. “The investment market has malpractice process. “We see it as fightbeen so bad they have to raise premiing for the little people,” she said. “We ums. It’s the only way to get money,” he don’t take it very lightly. I would never said. “It’s not like these companies are take a case that I don’t believe in.” conspiring. They’re just doing what they Health-care providers respond that need to do to balance the books.”

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greater, I am concerned that the gap [between players and other students]

will widen,” she said.

Students also expressed mixed sentitant to the institution—academic values or promoting professional athletments about the mission statement ics,” Klopfer continued. “To give coaches which Keohane, Director of Athletics Joe stipends that are vastly in excess [of Alieva and Director of Undergraduate faculty’s and administrators’], to tie Admissions Christoph Guttentag all unthose salaries to the degree at which conditionally backed this week. they are able to recruit players and to “Academics have to come first,” said juggle admissions so as to achieve that sophomore Emma Boa-Durgammah. recruitment goal makes a mockery of “When Duke was founded, it was because academic standards.” of academics, not because of sports. LowKlopfer said the idea that a better ering the standards would go against the football team will help the University meaning of a college education.”

Sophomore Andrew Bray said some on an institution-wide level was also faulty, noting that in the past 30 years athletes are certainly capable of hanDuke has become one of the strongest dling Duke’s academics. “My roommate last year was a football player, and he schools in the country both academicalwas an awesome athlete and an engily and financially, despite an unsuccessful football program. neer, too. If he can do it then [other Athletic Council Chair and biology players] can do it too,” he said. professor Kathleen Smith said the proSome students justified the new admissions plan by pointing to ecoposed changes are minimal.

“We’re not really talking about any nomic benefits. type of overall lowering of standards,” “If you have really high standards and Smith said. “We’re just talking about aca bad team, that means less money; then, cepting a few more in football at the by lowering the standards for players, it lower end of the spectrum. We know that might benefit the rest of the students,” these students can thrive at Duke.” said senior Aaron Windecker. “What we Prasad Kasibhatla, Athletic Council have to ask is how much money is it member and associate professor in the worth to lower the standards?” he continNicholas School of the Environment and ued. “Are 10 SAT points worth, say, a milEarth Sciences, agreed. lion dollars in increased revenue?... And “The admissions changes don’t seem if you turn it around, would we be willing to be very major,” Kasibhatla said. “I to pay a million dollars to raise the stanthink the issue is how faculty can be dards, to get those extra 10 points?”

Students mostly thought the coaches’ more involved in the overall direction of [these policies].” salary increases made sense.

However, Smith said she worried “If they’re going to give all the players about the trend of accepting more stu- scholarships and free food points, and dents at the bottom of the range. build new stadiums, they should give the “As we are increasing the expectacoaches some money too,” said sophomore tions of the student body as a whole Thomas McLure. and as the curricular demands become Cindy Yee contributed to this story.

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Participants will be selected on the basis of their research proposals. To be eligible, applicants must be third-or fourth-year students, and must be enrolled in an independent study in Fall 2002 and/or Spring 2003 semester.

Prior Form participants are not eligible. Only research in biology, the biomedical sciences, or neuroscience will be considered; however, applicants need not major in these particular subjects, and their research may be carried out in any University or Medical Center department.

Application guidelines are available at the following locations: 135 Biological Sciences 225 Academic Advising Center (East Campus) 229 Sociology/Psychology Building and at the following web site:

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summer. And at the UNC medical center where doctors were treating her cancer, Webb established a children’s library at the pediatric hematology-oncology division.

“She took her work very seriously, but she never took herself very serious-

had meant. The practice earned Webb the “book fairy” nickname.

In 2001, Webb started Project Child, which seeks to involve Duke freshmen Durham and Orange County school syselementary schools. Modeled with local faculty and as a member at the tems, after other freshmen programs such as education school of the University of Project BUILD and Project WILD, ProNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, from ject Child now has about 75 particiwhich she received her doctorate. She pants volunteering year-round in four served as the principal of Durham’s local schools and three community cenOak Grove Elementary School from ters, Vick said.

1996 to 1998 and then became one of day,”’ Vick said.

“She really wanted students when More than other professors, Webb only four full-time professors in Duke’s her her came here to get involved in the family they herselfand to education program. opened up Upon arriving at Duke, her energy students, Vick said. Webb invited all of community beyond the walls of East and experience as a teacher became evher students to her home at the end of Campus,” Vick said.

Even the late stages of cancer did Vick, said Jessica each semester and gave everyone a ident immediately, Trinity ’OO, a program coordinator in book, signed on the inside cover with a not dampen Webb’s energy as she conthe Program in Education. Vick, a stu- message about what their relationship tinued teaching throughout this past

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dent in Webb’s first class at Duke, went on to work with her after graduation and said that Webb’s goal was always to make both teaching and the classroom fun. She said Webb started their first class by telling the story of her own first day teaching, when a student lost his eyeball.

“She turned to us and said, ‘Beat that! I bet none of you will have a worse

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funds until the group registered

Ingram] and we discussed how he would be useful on the committee,” Ahmad, a senior, said. “He has a lot of valuable information [about campus Events and issues, including those that are not printed in the school newspaper] that others may not have.”

Ahmad added that Hillel and the Muslim Student Association—both religious groups—were included on the committee as cultural groups because of their cultural aspect.

Raja proposed adding a position on the committee for Campus Council, which she called “only fair” after Campus Council said they would give funds to the DSG programming fund.

She also suggested administering “minor repercussions” for student organizations that missed deadlines for resubmitting their charter forms, which she said was a common problem in the past. Those punishments, which Raja said would be given at her discretion, would probably involve either freezing or refusing an organization’s

IN OTHER BUSINESS: DSG Chief of Staff Emily Grey, chair of the Duke Undergraduate Initiatives on Gender, gave a brief presentation on the project’s process.

“The ultimate goal of the project is to assess how gender plays out at Duke in social and academic areas,” said

Grey, a senior.

Representatives from USA TODAY’S Collegiate Readership Program also announced the addition of more newspaper stands on campus—at the West Union Building, bus stops, the Bryan Center, the Marketplace and McClendon Tower in the West-Edens Link.

The representatives said they might increase copies ofThe New York Times and decrease copies ofThe Herald-Sun of Durham, based on student demand of the newspapers.

Legislators also approved charter and recognition requests from the Duke Dance Marathon, the Duke Scuba Club and the Duke Undergraduate Investment Club, as well as programming fund requests from Gruv Productions and the ESTEEM body project.

ly,” said Rosemary Thorne, director of the Master ofArts in Teaching Program.

“People talk about a battle with cancer.

Tammy didn’t talk about battling with cancer —she talked about living with it.

It didn’t control her life. It wasn’t the only thing left about her.”

Friends and family held a memorial service for Webb Tuesday. She is survived by her husband Leland, their daughter Bethany and their son Peter.

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their local banks. The need for banking services stems from another initiative established two years ago—the Latino Community Credit Union.

“The need [for the LCCUI was basically a community response to crime in Durham,” Herrera said, noting that many Latinos did not have bank accounts and kept all their money in their houses—a prime robbery site.

City officials hope to better integrate the Hispanic community into Durham through outreach programs including holding mini town hall meetings in Latino communities, developing a Spanish language-based Citizens Police Academy and offering Spanish-language tours of City Hall. Police personnel will also undergo cultural awareness classes.

County administrators said their efforts to help Latinos are couched in a broader goal to help a wider spectrum of Durham citizens.

“I think the county is doing a commendable job providing for all needy citizens,” said County Commissioner Joe Bowser. “I don’t think we can just pick out a program and say this is for Latinos, this is for blacks or this is for whites.”

rent arrangements. “All the departments involved have made a commitment to redistribute their resources,” he said.

Crime prevention is a top priority in the new initiative. Herrera said the difficulty of fighting crime is exacerbated by the lack of bilingual police officers.

“It is hard to solve a crime when you can’t communicate in the same language,” Herrera said. “Where we are coming from, we don’t trust the police. If you are from Guatemala, the police are the ones that killed your family members.”

The initiative will begin by focusing on two target communities—the Palm

Park Apartments and the Albright neighborhood. At least one full-time Spanish-speaking officer, responsible for organizing cookouts, focus groups and educational opportunities, will be assigned to each neighborhood.

Under the new plan, the city council’s Human Relations Department will encourage all local banks to expand their services so that the Hispanic community can open savings accounts in

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Recess: My first night was last night, and I took some pictures, and I want you to honestly critique them and tell me what I need to work on because I'm very new to this.

S: You can see the dark hair under the wig.

You need to cover that. And bigger boobs so you have a better figure.

Is that sexy? [pointing to arms-on-wall photo] S; Uh... yeah, but I would spread those legs some more.

Are you really grossed out right now?

S; We 11... there's room for improvement, let's put it that way. You should pull your wig down, spread those legs and do a frontal.

A full-frontal?

S: Well, that's up to you.

Drag Queens 2 & 3: Winnie Baygo and Mary Kay Mart.

How am I looking here?

MK: Not bad, but girls have bangs and don't have sideburns.

And a couple of pairs of panty hose to cover the hairy legs. I do think the stop sign is appropriate in this picture.

WB: Are you from Europe?

If you want me to be. Should I have shaved my face?

MK: Not a necessity, but preferred... unless your drag name is Gyno-Lotrimin. [Shown the next bottom-left photo] Now that's very seductive. I think that's very Dana Plato (from Diff'rent Strokes).

Well, I was thinking it was more a Mr. Drummond thing. Does the chest hair bother you?

WB: Have you seen [the drag queen] Shitty Mess? You should talk to her.

Ouch! I remind you of some dude named Shitty Mess. Any other pointers there, big guy?

MK: The higher the hair, the closer to Jesus.

Drag Queen 4: Ho Chi MEN. What do you think?

HCM: Oh my God! That's pussy hair, girl!

What's good?

HCM: [Awkward silence] What's bad?

HCM: Your hair, your foundation, your lipstick... did you use liquid foundation? Honey, CoverGirl does NOT cover boy!

Does the chest hair bother you?

HCM: Yes. It bothers me greatly. The armpit hair bothers me... that's disgusting. It's foul Awful. [Sees my sandals.] Walmart?

Yes! Eight dollars!

HCM: I have the same ones!

Good taste!

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Calendar ARTS The student-run Wendell Theatre Group will be putting on its newest production, TRUST, in 209 East Duke at 8 p.m. Oct. 3-5 and at 7 p.m. Oct. 6.

Theater Studies faculty member Jeffery West directs. $6 for students, $8 for the rest of you junkies.

The annual Homecoming hits Page with a new

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boom clap, bah Boom boom clap! Tomorrow night, six of Duke's National Pan-hellenic Conference

fraternities and sororities will step to a different beat as the annual Homecoming Step Show becomes the annual Homecoming Step Show competition.

In the past, customary expressions of the excitement and entertainment of Duke step shows have included on-stage shower scenes, Super-Soaker attacks, beds floating down from the rafters of Page Auditorium and other variable skits and pranks. But organizers have implemented more stringent rules this year prohibiting such antics to foster a more competitive atmosphere.

Every fall since 1975, members of Duke's historically black Greek organizetions have ignited Page with dazzling displays of artistry, precision, rhythm and pride in their respective fraternities and sororities. Stepping is a unique AfricanAmerican dance form that progressively developed among black greeks throughout the 20th century. Characterized by the production of rhythmic sound through body movements like stomping feet, clapping hands and slapping various parts of the body, stepping draws on a variety of influences, from South African gumboot dancing to military marching to cheerleading.

In Steppin' on the Blues, her seminal work on African-American dance traditions, Jacqui Malone also details how the complex rhythms and precise body movements trace their roots to traditional western and central African dances.

"A unifying drumming and body for rhyt said senior Ren

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Florida-based hardcore emo heads Hot Water Music will radle ' listened and it's / have

Homecoming event. "That translates to stepping, which has become a signature aspect o greek performance."

As Spike Lee depicted in his 1988 film School Daze, competition has been an integral feature of stepping on college . campuses—a tradition that Duke step teams happily join this year.

"It gives a new energy to the steppers themselves and to the audience," Stokes said. "If nothing more than for a reward for all the time you put into it."

The fraternity and sorority that win the $5OO first-place honors will certainly have earned it—step teams have been rehearsing two hours a day since the first day of school in August, and step masters begin choreographing moves during the summer Courtney Fauntleroy (Trinity '95, Law '01) attended his first Duke step show as a high school student in 1986 and has been to every one since 1991. A founding member of the Alpha Alpha Chi chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and a former member of its

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step team has witne. changing trends in stepping both at Duke and nationally.

"There's a lot more dancing now than there used to be," Fauntleroy said. "Step used to be done outside in the middle of the quad. Now it's on wood floors with

special shoes."

One thing that hasn't changed, though, is the signature step of each greek organization. The Alpha Train, the Kappa Shimmy, the DST Timeline, the AKA Serious Matter—no doubt they'll each make an appearance tomorrow night. The question is, which teams will step off the stage with the prize and, maybe more importantly, the pride?

—Vicki Kaplan

The Step Show begins at 7 p.m. Friday in Page Auditorium. Tickets are $lO in advance or $l5 at the door.

Go Ahead, Take a PEEP! Electrical harpists, bad jokes and 24-ouncers of Pabst Blue Ribbon —what more could you want on a Saturday?

Back-to-School with PEEP!, the latest in the Dog and Pony Show Theater's series of vaudeville-style burlesque revues, includes all three. A troupe of actors, led by the saucy "Miss Pixie," performed the revue last Friday night at Manbites Dog Theater with a decided wink to their sold-out house. The evening of songs, skits, bad jokes, dances and the token striptease fed mostly off the cast's incredible energy, although several jokes, like this clunker, fell flat: "What do you get when

you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic? About halfway."

Dog and Pony Show artistic director Lissa Brennan and Duke Theater Studies lecturer Jay O'Berski were particularly noteworthy in a skit about night school —in the course of ten minutes, the pair talked about cows, the merits of tall cans of PBR and deftly argued their points using letters of the alphabet: Although PEEP! originated in Pittsburgh, its tongue-in-cheek flavor sits well in any region—if nothing else, you'll leave with more blonde jokes than you'll ever cared to tell.

—Meghan Valerio

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One of rap's most innovative acts, Musiq, will bust onto the stage at the Ritz Theater Friday night at 8 p.m. It'll put you out a hefty $2O, though, 2820 Industrial Dr., Raleigh.

FILM Don't be fooled by the fancy new title: The Emperor's Club is the same damn thing as that silly little "The Palace Thief" the administration made you read over the summer. It's showing at Griffith Theater tonight, so hop into either the 6 or 9 p.m. showing. Author Ethan Canin will speak after both screenings,

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he Sound fWTl K After Nellie slaps her on the butt and giddily exclaims, "You get 'em, girl!,"

Tequila Rose gracefully steps over the piles of dresses strewn across the floor, dodges some dirty looks, darts through the two-foot-wide mirrored hallway and seductively glides onto the stage. The multi-colored house lights expose her toned body, and the 400-person crowd—half gay, half straight—explodes with furious delight.

Suddenly, the sharp pain of having her waist tightened by 20 feet of duct tape, the discomfort of having her penis jammed between her legs and into her ass cheeks and the agonizing memories of having performed onstage as a boy in high school plays disappear. The moment is Tequila Rose's, and the music blares.

The Fury "Can't somebody give me a fucking brush and some All-Sheen, damn it?" yells one of the makeup artists (or so-called "painters") backstage in his frantic attempt to transform his man into a queen.

The heat, quite literally, begins to rise as the increasingly prestigious Queen of the Triangle drag pageant is approaching showtime.The backstage area hardly offers the light-hearted atmosphere one would expect at a drag show—or at least what one would expect at a drag show after watching The Birdcage. Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine are not pounding joyously in the background, grown men are not jabbering pointlessly about the newest Queer as Folk episode and palm leaves are certainly not flowing in the summer breeze. Instead, the dank, wooded dressing room at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh is a 10-by-10-foot claustrophobic heap of mascara kits, wigs, empty Skyy Blue bottles, frantic painters, duct-taped waists, newspaper shutterbugs and industrial fans.

And that's not even mentioning the bitter rivalries flowing between the fellow drag queens.

"Most of the girls in the industry are so catty, it's ridiculous," Tequila says, her short black hair and masculine chest showing as she changes “NO WAY THAT’S A DUDE, DUDE!": Courtney Chambers fools into a new wig and dress. 'em all (well, a couple of the dumb ones, at least) while looking Tequila's blabby painter Nellie Bottoms cuts her off: "You gotta be purty. absolutely fabulous in her blue evening gown.

You gotta have clean clothes. If you're fat, you're a nobody in this business.... There's so much attitude with some of these redneck drag queens who think their shit don't stink."

Nellie should know: She's a “voluptuous" drag queen in her own right, who, by day, goes by his God-given name of Jesse Jones when he acts as store manager for KB Toys at the Triangle Town Center.

Everybody backstage can relate a favorite story about a mean-spirited drag queen i my.

C'r&n TVeiS Thic CjLUry uy \Tiey who ripped another performer's dress or who threw a competitor's jewelry kit in the trash outsicle - Not just a celebration of homosexuality and of the female form, drag contests can be downright bitchy.

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The already packed room seems to close in on itself, and though no dresses get shredded nor compacts heaved, Zanus, the painter/boyfriend of last year's winner Queen Jezebell, turns and whispers softly, "Oh, it's on now, boy."

The Pain With full access to the backstage area of a drag pageant, some very natural questions about "proper mechanics" tend to spring up very quickly.

"Oh, you want to know about that? Haha, I'll tell you, honey," Nellie laughs. "Well, you take the balls with one hand, take 'em up inside your legs with two fingers, reach around with the other

u women's clothing.

Recess: How badly do you need to be on that stage?

Jezebell: If I don't go out there for a couple nights, I absolutely feel as if need to—even if it's not onstage. I'll go to an IHOP or I a I Denny's and try to freak people out. Last year dressed up for I the Britney concert and these little teenage girls came up to me I and said, "Oh, you're so pretty." Then, said in a rough voice, "Yeah, and I can play basketball too!"

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Tequila and Courtney continue tc her watch and realizes it's time for the packed dressing room to the s dently steps into the limelight as R geous, the sophisticated, the exoti The Jubilation "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythi Tequila has all 400 audience mem the song's pounding drumbeats, s naughty puppy-dog eyes to the cn plete drag apparel, flips into a cart the crowd into orgiastic celebratio of the night.

Offstage, breathless and absolut crowd was absolutely amazing. I d nitely needed it."

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grab the winkie, puli it up to the butt and into the cheeks, and then you put on the girmd duct tape." itching those who had never undergone the "tuck-and-tape" squirm through his graphic Sption, Nellie adds, "Trust me, you could drink a liter of Mountain Dew and not have the to piss at all when you're in there like that." .oathing

who has been dressing up as a girl for 17 years now, could hardly breathe once prancing around onstage. Forty years-old and carrying six-feet, four-inches and 277 Is (that's a whole lotta woman), Sasha can no longer deal with the physical demands of a drag queen as she was once capable of doing years ago. Nor can she compete as }dly as she has in the past—her drag appearance more closely resembles Redd Foxx in a lan Tina Turner in her prime. Nevertheless, Sasha continues to strut in her red velvet dress nerry red pumps—and plans on doing so for at least another 10 years thanks to the miraculowers of makeup—because like almost every other performer backstage tonight, she drag like a drug. ing the day Sasha doesn't exist. Instead, he goes by his non-stage name (that he doesn't divulged for fear of being discriminated against at work) and helps mentally-retarded childevelop athletic and physical skills. Dressing in drag allows him to rebel against the liness of rural southern life and truly express himself. aring Sasha speak across the crowded dressing room, Tequila, who puts on a suit everyday as [firm in Cary, tightens her cleavage and chimes in, "That's right. Doing this is in your b100d.... tickler for an audience, and this is how I get one." tes this single-minded lust for attention as the main thrust behind dressing up in ridicu:umes and jiggling fake tits in front of heated crowds. opting not to flower up his explanation. "They go out there and get their attention, lower is so huge it makes them feel like they're above everybody else." ;ha Holiday,

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antimes seems. exuals, crave the glow of stardom, but few willingly cross-dress to achieve that adulation, is a boy onstage, but in drag, I'm in camouflage," Tequila confesses. "If the crowd doesn't really me they dislike, it's Tequila. We're two different people." le dressing room, Courtney Chambers nods in vigorous agreement. Taller and more musjila's, Courtney says, "I hated being a boy onstage id I got picked on for having such a high voice at they moved me to an alto—an uncomfortable transime to be someone else—someone more confi-

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about their liberation through drag until Nellie checks a to perform. Stumbling in her heels all the way from back entrance, Tequila composes herself and confiin full ring-leader form, screams, "And now, the gorquila Rose!" ilares from the theater's over-sized speakers, and anging by the duct-taped girdle. On every one of lacks her backside heartily and then jets her ’hen, with the song winding down, Tequila, in comI and lands in a full split. As the maneuver induces clear which queen will wear the crown at the end

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sven my earrings. i're a beauty queen, so I have to ask the oi ligatm, question; If you could change one thing to make world a better place, what would it be? ry uptight, and it takes so little to else's shoes and not be ju don't know. Just because ile think that I'll hit on everybody, and dress in drag, people think that I'm a m just another 22-year-old male ■'a e considerate, open-mi

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. and talking to some of Raleigh's best, we at know what it takes. If you think RuPaul's got noth How these steps to see how you can get in touch with yo feminine side like a pro: 1. Know the terminology. Drag queens are men who dress up as women for entertainment. They should be distinguished from transvestites, men who are emotionally satisfied wearing women's clothes, or transsexuals, one who feels he/she is actually of the other sex.

2. A drag queen by any other name...Pick a name with a sexual sound. The old "middle name followed by street you grew up on" trick is a good starting point, although professionals often copyright their image and take it seriously.

3. Body hair must go. Pluck it, wax it, just get it off ASAP 4. Costumes. To be a successful drag queen, you need costumes and a lot of them. Boas, heels, all accessories must be loud and

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6. Practice makes perfect. Rehearse, and do it in heels.

7 Have fun out there. Attitude transcends all sexual boundaries..

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However, the real success of Mostly Martha is that it finds away to use this common recipe-to weave its story into something that you can't help but smile at. Solid performances and stylish cinematography stir new life into what would otherwise be a bland film. Mostly Martha manages to be a savory truffle that is much tastier than the sum of its ingredients.

—Jon Schnaars

Oh, Sweet Mercy!

Some movies are better on video. You can talk over them, pause them to study cute outfits, rewind the good parts over and over and fast-forward the waste-of-my-life, totally predictable ending.

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is a pleasant ride. Witherspoon does everything right she carries the movie with laid-back charm and makes a potentially annoying heroine shine.

Playing Melanie, an up-and-coming New York fashion lose dirty little secret lives in a dirty little ;own, Reese returns home to divorce the nobody in the city knew she had. After iul food and a few days with grade. mate, she realizes roots aren't brunette tops of her hair. )ing chaos ensues, with the Ip of romantic rivals (and excellent actors) /osh Lucas and Patrick Dempsey, and Melanie realizes home sweet home isn't so bad after all.

Sweet Home Alabama is an adorable comedy, but its rushed rhythm and cheesier-than-Easy-Mac ending make it a better movie to watch in the privacy of another sweet home—yours.

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with crisp acoustic guitar licks and rhythms, a croon that can shift to a snarl in the space of a chorus and the clever craftsmanship reserved for the most talented singer/songwriters, Ryan Adams has produced another morsel of quality alt-country in Demolition.

Originally slated to be released as a box set, Adams opted to trim five albums' worth of material cut between his Gold tours last year into GRADE: one tight 13-track album. Divided into gentie acoustic lullabies and country-rock footstompers, Demolition is unified by the theme of heartbreak and

by Adams' distinct voice—a seemingly incongruous blend of Chris Isaak and Paul Simon.

This amalgam of demos is good for what it is: subsistence for the fans who couldn't wait for an album of genuinely new material. These are quality songs, to be sure, but they aren't quite up to par with the gems Adams has

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That's not to say that Demolition doesn't have its moments, though.

The excellent "You Will Always be the Same," borne from Adams' gentle flat-top picking, sounds like it could have been recorded on a country porch, the sun setting in the background, the soothing melody gently drifting out across the cornfields. "Chin Up, Cheer Up"—bouncy and energetic, full of pedal steel and chicken pickin' guitar solos—is a pure country romp reminiscent of Adams' Whiskeytown days.

Like Golds breakout hit "New York, New York," "Dear Chicago" is another Adams' tribute to a major U.S. city; however, this urban ode fails to evoke the same city-dwelling imagery that made "New York, New York" so successful. "Nuclear," which is sure to penetrate the mainstream as Demolition's first single, is a catchy pop-country-rock ditty injected with healthy doses of distortion and slide guitars.

Adams is one of those rare artists who can't seem to write a truly bad song—he just has to bear the flattering, yet heavy burden of matching his stellar TIP-TYPING AWAY: Demolition man Ryan past efforts.

—Davis Ward Adams all funktafied in his PJs.

Devil With a Gold Tooth Never heard of Rhett Miller, you say? Well, you're about to. Why is this, you ask? Well, it seems Miller has take break from recording with his band—Old 97's —to record his debut solo album, The Instigator, and dozens of smug music critics have already spewed praises like "a breakout," "triumphant," and "the best album yet this year."

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's really good at singing ibout things like love, life nd, uh, loving life, with ics like "You gotta give ; world the finger/You ;a sing a happy song." of the tracks on gator could easily become pop radio hits. Miller also has a distinctive vocal sound, and for some added grittiness, a gold tooth. Basically, he kicks John Mayer's ass. '

Impressive, you say, but is this enough to make him a star?

Unfortunately, in today's music world, building a solid pop rock album that isn't GRADE: so annoying you want to launch it like a razorsharp Frisbee at Pink's head is a major accomplishment.

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No Such Luck She's got no chocolate in the bank account/ no cheese in the purse.

—Jennifer Love Hewitt, "Hey Everybody" HEY EVERYBODY! I bet I know what Jennifer Love Hewitt did last summer! She sat around the set of The Tuxedo, coyly nudging towards the great Jackie Chan while slathering up with Neutrogena and screaming GRADE: at some hopped-up, middle-aged lyricist to write some sweetly whorish crap for her new album! And I bet you can't hardly wait to call up a party of 4 of your closest friends, get bare-ass nekked and bang to the sweet sounds of "The Original J-Lo" till the kiddies come home!

That's right, folks, with the release of her third solo album, Barenaked, Love has succeeded big time in making Sarah Michelle Cellar seem that much cooler! Teeny-boppers everywhere are donning their "1 Love Hewitt" t-shirts as they discover the Ditsy Diva's best album since her 1995 release Let's Go Bang.

From such melodramatic masterpieces as "Can I Go Now?" to the insufferable "Avenue of the Stars," Love's newest provides us with an introspective journey into the essence of idiocy. Although a majority of the mundane lyrics b on to the hormones of teenage boys, a nicely measured dose of insincere heartache keeps even the randiest of us in check. In the end, Barenaked leaves the lis tener emotionally draine and thoroughly put-off, but perhaps a quote fro. the title track best captures the experience; "A I just can't take it/l'm ge ting jaded/No I just can't fake it anymore."

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Men’s golf falls to Northwestern, finishes 2nd

By MATT SULLIVAN The Chronicle

Frank Sinatra called Chicago “one town that won’t let you down. It’s my kind of town.” Well, the men’s golf team certainly didn’t come home disappointed, though it was Northwestern’s town this week. The Wildcats blew away the second-place Blue Devils and the rest of the field as the Windom Memorial Classic wrapped up Tuesday at the Glen View Club in Glenview, 111., a mere 20 miles from the Windy City.

Duke kept pace with the home team Wildcats through the first two rounds of the 13-team tournament and only trailed by five strokes heading into Tuesday’s action. Northwestern, however, was on a roll all day, spoiling solid showings from Duke’s Rob Beasley and consistent freshman Ryan Blaum with a 13-under 275 for the day and a final tally of 848, 25 shots better than the Blue Devils.

“They blew everybody out, but they justplayed such great golf doing it,” head coach Rod Myers said. “When you look at a team shooting that low even when teams like us have guys firing in the low 70s, you know they had something special going. But for as young a team as we are, we’re trying to feel our way out. So I was happy with second place.”

As the Blue Devils settled into the back nine in the final round, it became clear that second was about the best they could finish. Standing at threeunder par on the 13th hole and in a dogfight with Stanford, Duke’s players were continuing with their strong fall

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One Blue Devil playing catch-up all day was junior Mike Castleforte. After firing a one-under 71 in the opening round and even at par heading into Tuesday, the Springboro, Ohio native found Chicago let him down with a local rule infraction. Already struggling with two straight bogeys, Castleforte sliced his Titleist Pro VI ball out of bounds on the 15th hole and had to replace it. But for accidentally grabbing a Pro Vi-Star make of the ball from his bag, he was charged with two extra strokes for the next two holes, sinking Duke for the day.

Beasley, though, kept the Blue Devils afloat with a final round score of 70 thanks to a new focused approach and a strong putting game. The junior’s total of 217 was good for 12th place, a robust 20 spots ahead of his previous individ-

ual best.

“Rob was the bright spot of the tournament in my mind,” Myers said. “He’s been a question mark because we feel he’s been working so hard on his game and on his emotions that we’ve been thinking when it could come together, and it almost did this week.”

Super-fireshman Ryan Blaum seems to have developed a steady game already. Following up his ninth-place

finish at the Bank of Tennessee toumaROB BEASLEY kept the Blue Devils competitive with his score of 70 Tuesday.

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Golfer represents Thai Junior Virada Nirapathpongpom will make her second appearance in the Asian Games, held in Korea OcL 3-6, as one of three female golfers representing Thailand.

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Maryland running back Bruce Perry, last year’s ACC Offensive Player of the Year, is doubtful for Saturday’s game due to a groin injury. Perry may have to sit out the season

Giant win for San Fran The Giants beat the Braves 8-5 in Game 1 of the NL playoffs. In AL action, the As beat the Twins 9-1 to tie the series at one game each. The Angels beat the Yankees 8-6.

Royster ousted The Milwaukee Brewers, who held the NL’s worst record, tired manager Jerry Royster Wednesday.

He was the sixth manager to lose his job in the last four days.

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RECEIVING YARDS Rec. Yds J. Cotchery, NC State 20 441 K. Watkins, Ga. Tech 25 426 A. Boldin, FSU 24 376 16 B. Peterson, NC State 372 S. Aiken, UNC 19 362 345 20 B. McMullen, Virginia

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Clemson Georgia Tech Virginia Maryland Duke North Carolina Wake Forest

Last week in review Thursday Sep. 26 Louisville 26, Florida State 20 (OT) Saturday, Sep. 21 Duke 43, Navy 17 Georgia Tech 21, North Carolina 13 Maryland 37, Wofford 8 N.C. State 56, Massachusetts 24 Virginia 38, Wake Forest 34

This week’s schedule Thursday, October 3 Clemson at Florida State @ 7:45 p.m Saturday, October 5 Virginia at Duke @ noon Wake Forest at Georgia Tech @ 3:30 p.m.

Maryland at West Virginia @ noon North Carolina at Arizona State @ 10 p.m

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With his 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in N.C. State’s 56-24 victory over Massachusetts, Lament Reid tied an ACC single-season record with two kickoff returns for touchdowns, held by six others players. Reid also returned a blocked punt for a score in the game, giving him four special teams touchdowns on the season.

� ACC rules BCS ACC teams have an NCAA-best 6-3 record against BCS conference teams. The wins are spread throughout the conference, with Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia and Wake Forest racking up the victories thus far.

� Tech rolls without Rollings True freshman Ajenavi Eziemefe carried the ball' 32 times for 136 yards and one touchdown in GeorgiaTech's 21-13 win over North Carolina. In Eziemefe’s first start while replacing Tony Hollings, the nation’s leading rusher before going down with a knee injury two weeks ago, he earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors.

� Rivers, Schaub leading the way

After last week’s games, N.C. State’s Philip Rivers and Virginia’s Matt Schaub are second and third in the nation in passing efficiency, with ratings of 177.4 and 175.5 respectfully. Schaub is also tied for second in the nation with 15 touchdown passes, while Rivers is tied for fifth with 13 touchdown passes.

“We are not very good right now. I know they want to win. Do they know how?

No. Our guys are trying hard, but they just can’t do some things.”

Navy head coach Paul Johnson on

HIS TEAM, AFTER ALLOWING 43 POINTS AND COMMOTING FOUR TURNOVERS IN A 43-17 LOSS TO Duke LAST WEEK. ,

“There’s not a better feeling in the world Saturday night and Sunday after a win. Everything’s a lot better in life.”

Duke head coach Carl Franks after Duke's 43-17 victory against Navy, its second of the season after going winless the previous two seasons.

“Tommy knows I need to win the game. He knows he needs to win the game.

That’s the sad thing about it. One of us ain't going to win it.”

Florida State head coach Bobby ■ Bowden on playing Clemson head coach and son Tommy Bowden.

“We’ve proved that we’re talented enough to win, but not talented enough to win easy.”

Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe

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“I think that people are going to expect at least a certain level of experience from me, that they’re going to expect someone really solid,” she said. “I have been Foley spent the last two years in a basketball-intensive in a training environment fairly similar to this one setting unlike any preparatory high school in the before, so I feel that I should be able to make some sort United States. The AIS aspires to groom the country’s of an impact straight away.”

Easygoing and affable, Foley very much wishes to best talents into future stars, and so Foley practiced comavoid the label of know-it-all veteran and claims of year-round and routinely played in international superiority to the other members ofDuke’s highly toutpetitions against players far older than herself.

During her stay at the AIS campus in Canberra, ed freshman class. Her obvious comfort level on the Foley’s game developed in a different fashion from the court and her nuanced game automatically suggest a typical American high schooler. savvy mentality, but when asked about her confidence “It is noticeable that she’s an overseas player” she tries hard to keep her comments in perspective.

“I guess a lot of my friends would say I have a lot of Krapohl said. “She plays a really good motion game, confidence,” Foley said. “I guess I have always wanted she makes great cuts and she has great court awareness. That’s something that when you play a foreign to achieve big things. I’ve always wanted to make it to team they are really good at, so you can really notice it the AIS, I’ve always wanted make it to America to a when she’s out here.” really good college and I’ve always wanted to make the Thus far, Foley continues to impress the entire Blue Australian national team.

“Everyone knows that I’m really determined to Devil team—particularly withher acclimation to the rigorous training and practice schedule necessary to comachieve those goals. They’d say I’m really focused, but when I’m off the court and everything, I’ll have a lot pete against the best in women’s collegiate basketbalL we’ve been of things doing preseason here, the fun.”

“All Foley also realizes that finding playing time on the Jessica has been doing for two years at AIS,” Valley said. “So her experiences on the court and also against nation’s preseason No. 1 team will be extremely difficult, as the Blue Devils simply ooze talent at all positions. older players are just much more than a typical freshman coming in.”

“You can only do so much to get yourself on the Foley senses that her international accomplishcourt,” she said simply. “It [comes down] to what the ments translate into higher expectations, particularly coaches want and what is working.... A lot of people at because, as everyone is quick to point out, she should home would expect that I was doing really well over already be more used to competing against older, talhere but you know, you’ve just got to keep training ented players than the typical freshman. hard and hope that [playing time] will come.”

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JESSICA FOLEY will be a sharp shooter for Duke and her international experience has prepared her for competitive play.

McMULLEN from page 10 statistical category—accumulating 1,060 yards, 12 touchdowns and an 88.3-yard-per-game average—numbers that would warrant the double coverage he’s been facing.

“McMullen is an outstanding receiver,” said South Carolina head coach Lou Holtz. “He caught 83 passes last year. We need four receivers combined to do that.”

However, McMullen himself takes on a more modest, team-oriented tone. He pointed to the double

coverage as positive for Virginia because it leaves his teammates open. He’d rather end up at a bowl game than take home enviable All-America honors.

He even said that the best thing about his famous catch was simply that it got the Cavs their first down, taking no credit except for the fact that “it just stuck in my hand.”

“As I said earlier in the year, if I don’t get passes, then I’ll block and try to do other things to help us win,” said the former Henrico High School star.

McMullen’s blocking will be the least of Duke’s concerns as the Blue Devils weak secondary will have to deal with arguably the ACC’s best receiver. Franks said his team had some ideas for stopping McMullen, but that he was not going to reveal his secrets until game day.

Franks also said that simply double or triple teaming McMullen and forcing other Cavaliers to produce wide outs is one of the best strategies.

“You never want to let the other team’s best guy beat you, but sometimes it happens—sometimes they’re too good. [Minnesota Vikings wideout] Randy Moss beats double coverage a lot.”

GOLF from page 9 ment two weeks ago with an even-par 216 at Glen View, he has applied his “no worries” approach to become a leader and the standout of a stellar freshman class.

“Being a freshman, you can’t expect to do much because you’re just adjusting to the college atmosphere and college golf” he said. “And when you come in here to such a great team, you have to do well to even be part of that team. So to come in and count in every round so far and to be under or around par, it’s just great.”

The Blue Devils look to continue their great fall results and play the part ofOld Blue Eyes, finally welcoming the competition to their kind of town at the Duke Golf Classic in Durham starting Oct. 21.

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The Chronicle Ineffective DSG Duke Student Government restructured its work this year to eliminate legislators’ individual projects, the idea was to organize work around a committee that could handle larger problems more efficiently. Gone were the days of minor pet projects, and in were efforts to more clearly voice the undergraduate perspective on broad issues. But the stated goals ofthe vice presidents who head the standing committees lack the ambition they hinted at earlier.

The academic affairs committee will likely tackle finalizing course evaluations and getting half-credits for science labs. These are two worthy projects, but ones that should not require much action. The Arts and Sciences Council is scheduled to vote on course evaluations later this fall; all that remains for DSG is to provide the faculty with arguments and data that support its request to continue evaluations.

Likewise, efforts to change the credit system should involve mainly gathering data and meeting with administrators. There are many larger issues facing academic affairs that the committee should not ignore; class scheduling, quad-based academic services and implementing the new Community Standard, to name just a few.

The vice president for community interaction has said her committee will address Martin Luther King Jr. Day organizing—for which there is already a planning committee—as well as setting up two other events. Although these events certainly have the potential to build community, the committee should think much bigger. For example, interaction between Duke and Durham remains below where it should be, and DSG could have a significant impact by just educating the student body about Durham happenings.

Perhaps the least encouraging agenda comes from the facilities and athletics committee, which has prioritized a canned food drive and bringing Cable 13 coverage to DSG meetings. Again, these are important projects, but hardly ones that a whole committee should focus on. The renovation of student space in the Bryan Center and West Union Building is clearly more important, and DSG officials need to be advising administrators on what renovation plans should include. The Athletics Department has also recently completed a long-range plan for football and should soon complete a similar vision statement for athletics overall, so DSG should react to these plans.

Finally, it is disappointing that the DSG student affairs committee cannot think of much to do beyond renovations to the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture—with planning for that project well-along—and creating dialogue on social life. Much has already been said about social life in recent years, and with a full committee addressing the issue, DSG should push for concrete recommendations, not just talk.

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David Paletz, professor ofPolitical Science, on North Carolina Senator John Edwards’ possible nomination in the 2004 presidential race (see story, page 4).

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Standards decrease: Duke trades academia for athletes It is one thing to trade acaPresident Nan Keohane’s and Director of Athletics Joe demic standards for athletics success. To do this is someAlieva’s comments concerning academic standards for thing that I don’t agree with, are but has some measurable benplayers football Orwellian. In the past, Duke efits. It is also likely that has admitted athletes for Duke could avoid its backslidplaying football despite their ing in academic standards by marginal to poor academic hiring a better head coach. credentials. In the future, Previous coaches have manDuke will admit a greater aged to win, on average, at percentage of these kinds of least a few games every year athletes. As a result, graduawithout any changes in tion rates for football players admissions standards. That undoubtedly will drop. Duke Duke leadership prefers to bring in more athletes with is in fact lowering its acapoor academic ability than to demic standards for the purpose of winning a couple of hire a talented coach is a strange choice for a school football games a year.

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that considers itself to be a serious institution of higher learning, but there are some modest benefits to maintaining continuity.

What is transparent and not debatable is that Duke increasingly is trading academics for athletics. When Duke leaders deny and try to obfuscate this trade, they not only adversely affect their personal reputations, but also cast a shadow on the integrity of the University.

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Duke’s transportation system is still problematic means packing us in like sardines. Needless to say, the strategy is not working.

At first, I dismissed the bus service’s inability to accommodate large numbers of students during certain times as an adjustment period to the different class schedules this semester. However, as we are now over a month into the school year and the daily battle to find any spot on a bus

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tactic in community building is through large daily gatherings at the East and West Campus bus stops. Those of you who take the bus during peak hours know this chaos.

The changes to the bus schedule have failed to make the commute between East and West Campuses any easier than in years past. The new bus schedule reduced the number of buses in favor of increased frequency and efficiency. Riders who have to push and shove their way onto a bus during peak hours have learned that efficiency, according to Duke transportation, Http:! www.chronicle.duke.edu /

continues, I’m beginning to wonder if changes will ever be put in place. I’ve already been late to a number of my classes simply because three or more buses go by without being able to squeeze onto one of them. /

Apparently, after a year on West Campus, I’ve lost my touch in quietly shuffling to the front of the line. Daily commuters are more skilled in slicing through dozens of bodies only to gain a seat and have large book bags shoved in their face. Waiting at the bus stop should not be a fight with my fellow students to earn a bus ride. With any luck, Transportation Supervisor Darryl Holleman will do something to correct this daily madness and allow everyone to get to their classes on time.

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To answer Pavel Molchanov’s first question: I believe Germany has an obligation toward the United States, maybe not to pledge unconditional support in all areas of foreign policy, but at the very least not to viciously attack its foreign policy. Diplomacy relies on a minimum foundation of civility and even an amount of loyalty. When an act such as the invasion of the Suez Canal threatens to unleash a “World War III,” then condemnation is certainly justified to oppose it. But Schroeder’s purely politically-aimed diatribes were nothing more than

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lently anti-American man represents them. Either Germany is not as proAmerican as Molchanov says, or else Schroeder is not the man who should represent it.

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anti-American sentiment.” If any anti-American sentiment exists, then it’s practically only found among the Parisian population, but even then, I would characterize it as just an extreme, diverging perspective on foreign policy.

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Retire mommy wars Recently, in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, I picked up a women’s magazine and, to my astonishment, discovered the existence of an apparently well-known phenomenon called “the mommy wars:” the mutual dis-

respect the two sides—moms who do market, or “working moms,” versus non-market work, or “stay-at-home moms”—hold for each other’s choices. In a nutshell, moms who work outside the home think moms who stay home lack ambition; moms who stay at home think moms who do market work selfishly pursue careers at the expense oftheir families’ well-being.

Among my peers and former coworkers, the negative attitude toward the ambitionless, stay-at-home mom prevails. My college classmates held disdain for peers who wanted to stay at home with their future children, -c After college, my female colleagues

Carlisle routinely expressed disgust with women who did nothing all day but Strange Bedfellows stay home with the kids.

Women ofmy generation have been brought up with the expectation that we’ll pursue meaningful careers. I prefer the expectation that I earn my own living to the assumption that I can’t, but I thought the idea was for women to have a choice. A recent segment on National Public Radio noted differential rates of depression between stay-at-home moms who choose to stay at home (they would have satisfying market work ifthey wanted) and those who stay home because they lack training, skills or support to work outside the home. The difference is between those with a choice and those without.

This segment included a contribution from an academic 08/GYN whose research indicated that women’s fertility begins to drop in their late twenties, far earlier than most women our age realize, and far before most high-ambition women think about starting families.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett writes about related findings in her book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children. On a 60 Minutes segment with an interview with Hewlett, reporters interviewed young women in Harvard’s MBA program as well as women in their 40’s and 50’s with great careers and no children.

The business school students planned to work like demons until they were 40, then slow down to have children. The career women had expected to do exactly that and found they couldn’t get pregnant when they were 40.

The National Organization for Women, NOW, had predictably suppressed the dissemination of the physician’s findings. Does NOW really think women will retreat en masse to ironing boards and soap operas if they choose for themselves, even though it means risking some women will make divergent choices from the organization’s political agenda? Surely no one can argue women are better off choosing a career and then heartbreak when 40 rather than making an educated choice while they are young enough to have a choice. We are not going to undo 40 years of progress by allowing women to understand the consequences of their decisions.

Critics of Hewlett have found her numbers misleading, attributing her conclusions to unobserved heterogeneity, such as differential marriage rates between “high-ambition” and “regular” working mothers as well as male-factor infertility.

Hewlett’s message, however, is not to tell young women to forget about their MBA, Ph.D., M.D. or J.D., as NOW seems to fear. It’s to tell them that in some cases,

they might need to re-think their timetables, especially

women whose mothers went through menopause rela-

tively early.

The debate is healthy: getting young women to consider their choices more carefully is more important than whose numbers are more correct. With so many options, the task of choosing is more complicated. Women are up to the task, but we can’t assume things will work themselves out.

One of the greatest things about my generation of women is that we are benefiting from the lessons ofboth our mothers, many of whom had to work full-time to prove they could be more than housewives, and grandmothers, for many of whom market work wasn’t an option. I believe we will find the balance between career and child-rearing easier because of those experiences.

We should remember that to have a choice is a fortune. W» should not judge each other for exercising it.

Emily Streyer Carlisle is a master’s student in the economics department and the Health Policy Certificate program. Her column appears on alternating Thursdays.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3,

What is love? The triviality of this question never ceases to amaze me. If I were to define this four-letter word based on the imagery society crams down my throat, I would be ridiculously far from the truth. Young men carelessly toss love around; young women let the word float off their lips without hesitation. Love is not simply EEKft pink and red hearts, soft whispers, warm bodies and tender touches. It is so E much more complicated than that.

To love another human being, and xj.i ikyatu to be in love with that human being, is to be in a state of overwhelming bliss and sadness. Even the most egocenand trie of us is capable of falling so Hot Bothered deeply, so intimately for another human being that he or she consumes our every action or lingers in our every thought. My ambivalence toward love often makes me wonder whether I thoroughly agree with Saint Augustine who said “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” At times, love is a painful and gut-wrenching parasite, which murders ambition and motivation and soon seeps all emotion from its host.

Meaningless sex is nothing. Random hook-ups are nothing. These acts are mere petty motions, which ultimately result in a temporary pulse of pure and utter ecstasy, if at least one of the participants is lucky enough. Believe me, I am not at all discounting the necessity of sex.

Despite its brevity, the pleasure that it grants is rather enjoyable (so I hear). But without love, sex becomes something of a chore—a mechanical movement that ends in emptiness and loneliness. Students on this campus, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic find themselves caught up in it. background, This cycle of insincere sexual interaction becomes simply away to pass the time. It is difficult to maintain this stance of “no love, no sex” as a young adult in a society that perpetuates sex at every given opportunity. Virgins

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are currently a rare species, as more and more people

rush to have their first sexual experiences in college, either because they were curious as to what all the hype was about, or they simply got sick of their peers’ constant babble about the advantages ofbecoming sexually active. So many complications arise from a life of promiscuity that I can’t help but applaud those who have not yet ventured into this stage of adulthood.

The innocence of childhood brings with it a freedom that few of us college students have the privilege of experiencing. All the complications of love: countless nights of tear-stained pillows, along with the ecstasy that love can induce, is all foreign to the simplicity of being a child. Sex is nothing more than a looming concern in worried parents’ minds, as their babies play free from care. Yet, as trite as this may sound, love would make this seemingly cold and hyper-sexualized world a better place. As wars thunder outside, people slowly die of AIDS, we sit smugly surrounded by the Gothic towers that shield us. As college students, we sometimes forget about all that is meaningful. Is it too presumptuous of me to assume that everyone is capable oflove? Perhaps there are those of us who are so innately melancholy, so jaded and so numb that there will never be an opportunity to fall in love—in every sense of the word. The cruelties of life will not allow it.

I have come to learn that there is not a universal definition for love, nor is there a general list of symptoms associated with this confusing emotion. Love is distinctive from person to person. Some love violently and harshly, while others choose the more predictable love characterized by unadulterated kindness. I love fresh-

out-of-the-oil french fries from McDonald’s, Steve Madden stilettos, brand new Air Force Ones and food so spicy I can barely make it to the bathroom in time—yet the word love becomes so much more tangible when applied to another individual.

Nikyatu Jusu is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

It’s about us, not Iraq As thoughtful, scholarly students who recognize that how our country acts at home and abroad affects our American citizen identities, we have a patriotic duty to speak out against the subversion of international law.

The war that the George W. Bush administration is pushing and that a submissive Congress appears ready to rubber stamp is not about Iraq—it’s about us. We are not simply talking about one nation invading another, let alone addressing the lack of

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Guest Commentary evidence outlining an imminent national security threat. We are talking about setting a new global precedent that has far greater implications than a balance-of-power exercise in the spirit ofrealpolitik.

Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has seized the opportunity to act unilaterally under national security. Bush’s statement that “either you are with us or with the terrorists” has provided enormous ideological leverage to steamroll opposition to an exploding military budget, the war in Afghanistan and the compromising of civil liberties at home. The proposed war against Iraq is the culmination of a new foreign policy that places the United States’ ideological standards —as conveniently dictated by the government in power—above

international law.

It took two world wars to build the United Nations, and for more than 60 years the international order has worked, despite flaws, because its member nations weighed

and accepted the global importance of international solidarity against unprovoked warfare.

There are distressing similarities between our situation now and the fabricated “Red Scare” of the 1950’s and ’6o’s. Before, our nation feared the evil system of communism to the point that we’d wage war in another part of the world based on ideological hype and obscure national security concerns. Today, a national fear of terrorism not only threatens another red herring in the form of an invasion of Iraq, but the overhaul of world order as well.

Consider the international precedent our government is about to set.

Imagine what would happen if other significant military powers took it upon themselves to frame a security issue and declare war. India and Pakistan would probably not have

stopped at the Kashmir border,

Russia would invade Georgia, Israel might annex the West Bank and China may not be so stealthy in its Pacific aggrandizements. Nevermind the political and security ramifications of unchecked unilateral action. Alienating our Arab allies and inciting anti-American sentiment is not the way to “root out” terrorism.

Iraq’s UN. violations must be addressed, and we have an international body that rightly sees military action as a last resort to address them. We’re not there yet. The Bush administration has failed to make the case that containment hasn’t worked and can’t in the future. If, 40 years ago, our government had proposed to deal with the Soviet Union what it proposes today to deal with Iraq, the Cuban Missile Crisis would

have been World War 111. A growing number of Duke students recognize how frightening the prospect of a U.S. invasion of Iraq is, not only for our own security but for long-term global stability, and have organized to demand a critical analysis of our government’s unilateral stand on Iraq. It’s about time.

One critical difference between Vietnam yesterday and Iraq today has been the lack of a student voice on the Iraq issue. As thoughtful students of history, we have a patriotic duty to protest actions by our country that threaten not only to subvert international law, but to cost innocent American lives. Imagine that we still had a draft and ask yourself how much more concerned you would be then. Apathy is unacceptable. We have a responsibility to open a dialogue on campus about this issue before our government slides through a resolution on war.

Concerned students are mobilizing at Duke to start such a dialogue and protest our government’s egregious lack of justification for violating international law and starting a war. This is an issue that threatens to define not only our generation, but international politics in the longterm. Dorm discussions, rallies, and protests are the least we can do to tell our government that we will not accept an unprovoked war. We may not have the ability to unilaterally

derail the Bush Administration’s

plans, but we can organize a cohesive, unified protest to provide the voice of opposition and critical analysis that our government lacks.

Jared Fish is a Trinity

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