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By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle

The Bachelor of Science program in the economics department has grown dramatically in recent years, leaving faculty and administrators seeking explanations and scrambling to accommodate the influx of students.

The B.S. in economics has been on the rise since it was first established for the 1996-1997 academic year, but last year’s increase was the largest ever.

For the Class of 2002, a record 190 students—or 54 percent of economics majors—graduated with a B.S. degree in economics, making it more popular than the Bachelor ofArts degree for the first time in the history of the department.

Economics department faculty and administrators said they were stunned by the dramatic growth of the B.S. program. “At the time we created the 8.5., I don’t think anybody expected it to get that big,” said Thomas Nechyba, associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in economics. “We’re all scratching our heads a little as to why it’s grown so much.”

Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson offered the hypothesis that increased mathematics requirements in the economics department have encouraged students to pursue the 8.5., since they are already well on their way to that degree.

Nechyba noted that there has been a national trend toward more B.S. degrees in economics, which many attribute to the booming economy of the 19905. Still, he indicated that Duke is well ahead of the curve. “At very few places is [the shift toward B.S. degrees] happening at the rate it is at Duke,” he said.

Nechyba said another possibility is that students perceive the B.S. as a more “serious” degree and more useful for the job market.

Many students agreed with this assessment. “The A.B. does not make you very attractive to employers,” said sophomore Eli Silverman, who plans to earn a B.S. in economics. “The B.S. seems more compatible to learning business.”

Three candidates for the position of Durham Police Chief expressed similar views on a variety of law enforcement issues and answered questions from the community in City Hall Wednesday night.

The three final candidates are the result of a tumultuous eightmonth selection process led by Durham City Manager Marcia Conner. Two former finalists, current interim chief Steve Chalmers and Gregory Watkins, resigned from the running after facing allegations they lied about their histories of alleged domestic violence.

After a third finalist, William Carcara, later withdrew himself from the running, Conner began a new search that yielded this week Charles Austin, Henry Evans and Michael Scott, all from outside Durham.

Both Austin and Evans currently lead law enforcement divisions.

Scott served as the police chief of

Fairfax, Va., until he was appointed assistant inspector general of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

However, Scott said he wants to regain a position as a police chief.

“Fve tasted life outside local law enforcement and have a very strong desire to return,” Scott said.

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THE THREE CANDIDATES for Durham Police Chief, Charles Austin (left), Henry Evans and Michael Scott, met at City Hall Wednesday to speak with citizens. forcement experience.

They all stressed that they would like to build a partnership with the community to both prevent crime and apprehend criminals.

Austin discussed a program he implemented in Columbia, S.C.— where he is city manager for public safety and supervises the police departments—that and fire teamed police and community resources together to help prevent teen pregnancy, and therefore alleviate conditions that are conducive to poverty and crime.

He said that once the program began, teen pregnancy rates fell.

“[ln Columbia] we were as much concerned about teen pregnancy prevention as lockin’ folk up,” Austin said.

Evans stressed that the police department is a partner, and not the only player in crime prevention.

“Given enough time, we’ll make [Durham] the safest city in the United States. But we’ll need community involvement,” said Evans, who commands the Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Newport News, Va., and heads a federal violent crimes task force See CHIEF on page 8

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“A lot of cities in the South have brothel laws,” not requested Univer- Manley said. “[But] I think we could work around have never had the col- that, since [Duke] is a private university.”

Work around the law, that is, if women were acRyan, president of the the major sorority urn- tually interested in living together.

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The U.S. Senate race between North Carolina candidates Erskine Bowles and Elizabeth Dole has become one of the most expensive in the nation. See page 4

After playing five games in London, the men’s basketball team plans to go back to fundamentals in practice this week. See page 11

World

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Panel urges select smallpox vaccinations

A panel of specialists advising the government on smallpox vaccinations recommended offering the immunization to an estimated half million emergency room workers and other hospital employees because of the possibility of a bioterrorist attack.

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Mexico City pays Giuliani for consultation

Mexico City will pay former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his new consulting firm $4.3 million to help bring law and order to the capital city of Mexico.

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Breast cancer researchers publish findings

After monitoring over 2,500 breast cancer patients for 20 years, researchers have concluded women fare just as well with an operation that removes the cancerous lump as they do by having the entire breast removed.

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Businesses give customer more privacy

Businesses, in response to pressure from lawmakers and consumers, increasingly say that they are giving customers more control over the ways that their personal information is used and sold.

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Egypt dedicates new library at Alexandria

Dedicated Wednesday, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina cost $225 million and took nearly 30 years to create. It is seen as a successor to one of the classical world’s marvels, the library of Alexandria. ,

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By JULIA PRESTON

United Nations would be seriously weakened by a rift.

UNITED NATIONS Iraq defiantly denied charges, President George W. Bush’s administration which were frequently repeated push for an early American-led war Wednesday, that it had failed to comagainst Iraq drew broad opposition ply with Council resolutions requirWednesday in an unusual open de- ing it to give up weapons of mass deambassador, bate in the Security Council, as many struction.

Iraq’s countries backed weapons inspections Mohammed al-Douri, called the UN. and Arab states said they would not economic sanctions against his counsupport an attack without UN. en- try an act of genocide. He sharply rejected the American and British prodorsement, and only as a last resort.

In the first day of a special coun- posal for a new, tougher resolution cil session, which was charged with for Iraq to disarm, calling it “an inthe sense that the basic shape of suit to the international community global security was at stake, Secre- and the United Nations.”

In Washington, Bush warned Eutary-General Kofi Annan appealed to the Security Council powers to ropean and Arab nations that are remaintain unity, warning that the sisting a confrontation with Iraqi New York Times News Service

President Saddam Hussein that “those who choose to live in denial may eventually be forced to live in fear.”

After a meeting with the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel, Bush said he fully expected that Israel would retaliate to any unprovoked Iraqi attack.

Bush’s warnings came as he painted a far more ominous picture than he has tu date about the dangers of allowing the debate in the United Nations to drag on for more than a few more weeks, “If Iraq gains even greater destrucfive power, nations in the Middle East See SECURITY on page 9

Conflicting details stall search for killer

By SARAH KERSHAW

New York Times News Service

ROCKVILLE, Md. Olive-skinned, pale. Middle Eastern perhaps, or possibly Hispanic. One man, two. White van, cream-colored van. Silver ladder on top of the van, yellow ladder. Chevy, Ford. Smashed taillight, bumed-out taillight; left taillight or right. Maryland license plate, AK-47 rifle.

These are the nuggets of detail about the Washington area sniper, his vehicle and his weapon that are flying across the airwaves and consuming conversations here as the public digests the scraps ofinformation the police have gathered through witness accounts and agreed to release.

But witness accounts can be a problem, particularly in violent and chaotic situations, say experts on witnesses and their memory.

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In what appeared to be a bit of a breakthrough, the latest sniper killing, Monday night at a Home Depot in Falls Church, Va., yielded several witnesses, the police said.

This was different from the other 10 shootings, when the sniper disappeared before anybody could be certain that he was there.

Witnesses to Monday night’s killing said they saw a white or cream-colored van and heard arifle shot. One was even able to describe the possible gun—an AK-47—while others were able to discern a few of the numbers and letters from the tag of a suspicious van.

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Groups, residents discuss senior housing project Housing authority and Duke hope to c onvert former laundry facility into development zone

By CINDY YEE The. Chronicle

Before construction can begin on a proposed senior housing development, the Durham Housing Authority must gain city approval to convert the former Medical Center laundry facility on Gattis Street.

A development team —which includes DHA, Burch Avenue Neighborhood Association and University representatives—will plead the case before the Durham Planning Commission and the Zoning Committee in two separate hearings. Although the first hearing is not until Wednesday, the development team met yesterday to discuss what the project will entail and to address possible objections to the proposal.

“No one’s really concerned with what Duke does on its own campus, but once Duke turns to try to do something with the community, proper zoning becomes very important,” said Jeff Potter, University director ofreal

estate administration.

The hearing in front of the Zoning Committee—the second of the two hearings, tentatively scheduled for next month—will seek a zoning change for the area.

The proposed development provides for 48 new senior housing units, which would require the area’s zoning code to change from R5 to Rl6 and thus allow for 16— rather than five—housing units per acre over the threeacre area. The new building would be one story taller than the abandoned laundry facility but would maintain the facility’s ground area. “If the building had been origJENNY MAO/THE CHRONICLE inally zoned as industrial instead of Rs—as it should DEVELOPMENT TEAM MEMBERS, including Jeff Potter (left), director of real estate administration, and Clarence Birkhead, chief of the have been—it never would have been an issue to reduce Duke University Police Department, met to discuss the possible conversion of the old laundry facility into a senior citizen development. it to R16,” Potter said. “It’s just a quirk that most of Duke’s campus is still zoned R5.” don’t want to be in a contest of wills in front of those ty now is viewed as one of the biggest benefits of the senDirector of Community Affairs Michael Palmer said we’re asking to approve the project.” ior housing proposal. Residents initially feared that the Mark Eckert, a Burch Avenue neighborhood resident senior housing project would decrease security by invitthe development team has no doubt the proposal will be approved because it addresses a substantial demand for and president of the neighborhood association, agreed ing criminals to an easy target—a large elderly populaand added that he had not heard any neighborhood op- tion in a dim and relatively unpopulated area, affordable senior housing and has the support of surThe University, however, has agreed to install lighting rounding residents. “We’re at a point where if you build position to the project.

“What most people want to preserve is the single-fam- on the path connecting the facility to Campus Drive. In it, they will come,” Palmer said.

The other hearing, at which the DHA will seek a ily duplex atmosphere, so we didn’t want slum lords com- addition, the proposal includes overnight on-site securismall area plan amendment, will be before the planning ing in and creating a gentrified version of downtown,” he ty, which Eckert hopes will have a peripheral effect on commission next Wednesday. said. “But we’re okay with this proposal. It utilizes exist- the Burch Avenue neighborhood, The development team saw the filling of the otherRepresentatives from all interested parties said the ing structures so it won’t displace people and it addressproposal has been developed through cooperation, with es a needy senior population which most people think is wise vacant building as the proposal’s greatest benefit, “If a building is vacant, it invites vagrancy and a a worthwhile cause.” minimal opposition.

Although some neighborhood residents initially held whole host of activity that would be detrimental to a “We have nothing to gain by pushing something down the community’s throat that we know you don’t want,” reservations about the project—most notably regarding community,” said Director of the Duke University Police Department Clarence Birkhead, who is also on the dedecreased security and an influx of private-vehicle trafsaid DHA Executive Director James Tabron. “This doesn’t mean that there won’t be any issues that will surface fic—the DHA easily dispelled these concerns when it elu- velopment team. “It’s good for the neighborhood to pump from people who weren’t at any of the meetings, but we cidated its plans, Eckert said. In fact, the issue of securi- life back into this facility.”

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2002

ELECTION 2002 ad Senate hopefuls fight pricey

� Voter fraud alleged in S.D., Minn.

Prosecutors charged 95 people with forgery in Coates, Minn, for an alleged scheme in which they all registered to vote using the same address: a strip club recently shut down by city officials.

South Dakota Attorney General Mark Barnett said Tuesday that authorities are investigating allegations of voter registration fraud. Barnett said allegations have surfaced in several counties that include or are near American Indian reservations, typically Democratic strongholds. He said an initial investigation showed absentee ballot applications had been filed for people who do not exist or had recently died.

� Democrats redirect campaign funds The Republican National Committee began October with $30.7 million on hand, whereas its Democratic counterpart started the month with $14.5 million on hand, but $9.7 million of that is in its building fund and cannot be spent on the election. Democratic Party Chair Terry McAuliffe has gone back to donors who gave $1 million or more to help finance the party’s building and asked them to contribute for the election. Democrats are looking to fund races most in need of financial support and are counting on a cash infusion from unions.

� Bowles, Dole agree to 2nd debate U.S. Senate candidates Erskine Bowles and Elizabeth Dole have agreed to a town-hall style debate in Greenville that will be held this coming Saturday, their campaigns announced late Wednesday. The campaigns said the live debate would be hosted by East Carolina University at the Brody School of Medicine. Local television stations WCTI and WNCT will produce the debate, which will air at 7 p.m. Bowles and Dole faced off in their first debate Monday at Raleigh’s Meredith College. A limited number of tickets will be made available to the public by ECU, which will announce those details Thursday.

� PAG sends funds across state lines In the past few months, Sen. John Edwards’ political action committee has sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help candidates seeking political offices across the country, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday. Edwards’ organization, the New American Optimists, has sent nearly $353,000 in soft money to Democratic Party committees and politicians campaigning for offices such as county sheriff in New Hampshire and superintendent of education in South Carolina in hope that the candidates will support Edwards in his Senate or presidential campaigns. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Ed Rendell, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, also received funds for their gubernatorial campaigns in Maryland and Pennsylvania, respectively.

North Carolina Senate Race

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By AMI PATEL The Chronicle

When Elizabeth Dole addressed her supporters after winning the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, she challenged her Democratic opponent to refrain from newspaper, radio and television advertising. In her address, she said she wanted to make “North Carolina’s Senate race one that sets a standard for the nation.”

The Senate race between Dole and Democratic opponent Erskine Bowles has set a different standard for the nation, however, as it has become the most ex-

pensive advertising campaign in the country this election season. Dole and Bowles have raised a combined $l9 million and have spent a combined $l7 million, according to federal reports filed Tuesday. Bowles has loaned his campaign over $2 million, while Dole has not loaned any money to her campaign.

Expensive campaigns are not new to North Carolina.

“North Carolina has traditionally been one of the highest-spending states in respect to Senate races,” Duke political science professor David Paletz said. “The [Jesse] Helms-[Jim] Hunt race in 1984 set a record for spending the most money ever in a campaign.” Together, Helms and Hunt spent $25 million.

Dole said she hoped Bowles would forfeit spending money on advertisements, instead focusing funds toward debates about the issues that distinguish them—a proposal Bowles rejected. The campaigns faced off Monday at Meredith College and will meet again Saturday at East Carolina University.

The candidates had previously agreed to a debate the same day at Guilford College, but it was cancelled earlier this week.

The campaigns have turned to negative advertising—a type of campaigning that Ted Arrington, political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, said is very effective.

“They are especially useful in helping voters to form a negative impressive of a candidate they don’t know well,” Arrington wrote in an e-mail. “Thus negative ads will be of less use to Bowles than to Dole because she is already well known, and he is not.”

Negative advertising has become common in campaigns, experts said, but this

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REPUBLICAN ELIZABETH DOLE and Democrat Erskine Bowles have spent a combined total of $l7 million—much of it on negative advertisements.

advertising campaign has remained relatively benign.

“The level of personal attack, at least so far, is quite low,” Duke political science department chair Michael Hunger wrote in an e-mail. “Voters don’t like negative campaigns; candidates say they won’t use them, but it nearly always happens.”

Negative advertising campaigns tend to be more effective for the candidate that is initially behind in the polls, in this case Bowles, Hunger added.

“I am not sure that Bowles has any other choice; he is pretty far behind, and Dole is running as if she is an incumbent,” he said.

The advertisements have been prima-

rily issue-based. One Dole television spot focuses on the textile industry. It questions a political advertisement from

Bowles, in which he claims he will not lose textile jobs to Mexico and China.

Dole suggests that the textile company run by his wife, Crandall, is laying off North Carolinians and hiring workers abroad. In response to this advertisement, Bowles has run a spot in which he urges Dole to “stop trying to trick folks,” claiming his wife’s company employs only 30 people from China.

While negative advertising campaigns try to portray the opponent in an unfavorable light, many voters are skeptical of the ads and do not trust them fully.

“Some ads are obviously unbelievable, but most have a germ of truth, even though it may be twisted. People tend to believe the ads of candidates they support,” Paletz said.

Congress approves election reform bill Bipartisan measure aims to enforce strict monitoring, avoid repeat ofFlorida quagmire

By ROBERT PEAR

New York Times News Service

Congress gave final approval Wednesday to a bill to clean up the nation’s election procedures, nearly two years after a breakdown in Florida balloting muddled the results of the 2000 presidential election.

The bill calls for a major expansion of the federal role in regulating how voters are registered and elections conducted.

States would retain the primary responsibility, but Congress is setting minimum standards and will provide money to help the states comply.

Wednesday’s Senate vote, 92-2, clears the bill for President George Bush, who said he would sign it. The House approved the measure last week, 357-48.

The bill authorizes $3.9 billion of federal aid in the next three years, but it is unclear how much will actually be provid-

ed. Congressional leaders said they hoped to provide the full amount, but there is no guarantee. Spending bills are caught in a logjam as Congress struggles to finish its work for the year.

States can use the federal money to upgrade their election systems in many ways: to replace punch-card and lever voting machines, to train poll workers, to establish accurate statewide lists ofregistered voters and to make polling places more accessible to people with disabilities.

State officials warned that the bill’s promise would go unfulfilled without a swift infusion of federal money. Pending appropriations bills do not provide enough, the National Conference of State Legislatures said.

The election bill was born of a bipartisan determination to avoid another debacle like the one in Florida, which put the outcome of the presidential election in doubt for more than a month.

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2002 � PAGE 5

CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports

Man charged with alcohol possession The Duke University Police Department responded to a noise complaint in Epworth Dormitory at 2:15 a.m. Oct. 15.

Upon arrival, an officer found a student on the second floor hallway with an alcoholic drink in his hand.

The hallway had a make-shift table made of plywood and trash cans. Beer and cups containing mixed drinks were on top of the table, and a beer bong was on the floor. Freshman Christopher John Carr, 203 Epworth, was charged with possession of liquor while being under the age of 21. Carr had no comment.

derson Street with a male subject sleeping in the driver’s seat Oct. 14 at 4:10 a.m. Subsequent investigation revealed that the vehicle had been stolen in Raleigh. Quinton Hargrove, alias “Q,” was charged with larceny of a stolen vehicle.

His bond was placed at $5,000. Hargrove could not be reached for comment.

Employee reports encounter

An employee reported that a student struck him in the back with an open hand Oct. 15 at 7:24 p.m. He did not wish to press charges.

Man attempts knife attack

that between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Oct. 9 someone entered his vehicle, cut the padlock to a safe and stole $9OO cash.

around $lOO cash intended as a donation to the Durham Rape Crises Center between 12 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Oct. 12.

Tables swiped from WEL

Cellular phone, watch taken

Someone stole two $3OO small cocktail tables from the fourth floor tower of the West-Edens Link between 1:30 p.m.

Oct. 5 and 6:45 a.m. Oct. 7.

Bike and chain lifted Someone stole a student’s Univega

$350 24-speed yellow bicycle and $2O

cable lock between 10 p.m. Sept. 30 and 8:30 p.m. Oct. 7.

A patient in the Emergency DepartRadio taken from car at Gross Chem ment at the Medical Center attempted Someone stole a student’s radio from his to attack a nurse and two Duke officers vehicle that was parked in the Gross A Duke University Police officer responded at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 10 to Edens with a knife Oct. 8 at 1:38 a.m. He was Chemistry lot between 10 a.m. and 5:20 1A room 410 in reference to the smell of subdued and prevented from injuring p.m. Oct. 9. There were no signs of marijuana. Subsequent investigation anyone else. He was charged with asforced entry. sault on public officials and on medical resulted in the room’s resident, sophomore Stephen Coit, being charged with personnel.

Man loses wallet in Hospital possession of marijuana, possession of A visitor reported he discovered his drug paraphernalia and possession of Cash taken from Cameron $25 wallet containing $3O cash, credit Someone entered an employee’s office cards and driver’s license was missing. beer by a person under 21. His court date is Nov. 11. Coit could not be in Cameron Indoor Stadium and stole He last knew he had his wallet at 2 a.m. reached for comment. $6,000 cash between 9 a.m. Oct. 14 and while at a Duke Hospital cafeteria.

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Someone broke into an employee’s vehicle while it was parked in Parking Garage II and stole her $5O purse containing $BO cash and checkbook between 2:45 p.m. and 11 p.m. Oct. 7.

Stolen car found

A four-door 1988 burgundy Oldsmobile (N.C. license plate PZN-6298) was discovered at the entrance to 215 An-

Laptop stolen Someone stole a $l,OOO Compaq laptop (serial number computer 6DI9JCZZCO4Y) from the Great Schools and Families Program at 2200 West Main Street between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Oct. 9.

Money taken from safe A Classic Food employee reported

On two occasions, someone removed four screws from the exterior door frame of a student’s apartment. There did not appear to be any attempted entry to his apartment.

Cash stolen from Law School Someone entered an employee’s unsecured office in the Law School and stole three pretzel jars containing

Playstation, games pilfered Someone entered a student’s unlocked room in House O between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m. Oct. 12 and stole his $250 Sony Playstation 2 and two controllers and $6O Playstation 2 game “Grand Theft Auto III.”

Fridge stolen from Clinic

Someone stole a $125, two-and-ahalf-cubic feet Frigidair refrigerator from the first floor hall of Duke Clinic between 5 p.m. Oct. 4 and 8 a.m. Oct. 7.

Wallet taken from Jones Building Someone entered an employee’s unlocked office on the second floor of Jones Building and stole a $l5 wallet containing credit cards, checkbook and driver’s license between 10:45 and 11 a.m. Oct. 7.

Crime briefs are compiled from Duke University Police Department reports.

Anyone with knowledge about those responsible for these or other crimes at the University can contact Lt. Davis Trimmer at 684-4713 or Durham CrimeStoppers at 683-1200.

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Apartment vandalized

Someone entered a student’s unlocked room in House I while he was sleeping between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Oct. 11 and stole his $l5O Sprint 460 cellular phone, $2OO Ecodrive Citizen watch with a silver-colored band and $25 cash.

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Indonesia plans reform after terrorist bombing in Bali

By PATRICK MCDOWELL The Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia

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vestigative team to hunt for the culprits in the Bali nightclub bombing.

Police in Bali said they had detained two Indonesian men for further questioning after an initial round of interrogation. They are a security guard and the brother of a man whose ID card was found at the blast scene.

The Jakarta Post reported Thursday

that the investigation was focusing on seven foreigners who apparently arrived in Indonesia two days before the attack.

Citing intelligence sources, the paper said the suspects included a Yemeni and a Malaysian.

U.S. Ambassador Ralph Boyce said a man who allegedly tried to hurl a small bomb at the office of the honorary U.S. consul in Bali’s capital of Denpasar Saturday had been injured when the device exploded prematurely.

He said the man was assumed to be under arrest, but police spokespersons

denied anyone was detained after that explosion.

Boyce disclosed that in the month before the Bali attack, he and other American envoys had discussed with

Indonesian officials possible attacks against U.S. targets.

But he said the warnings were not specific to Indonesia.

They coincided with a temporary closure of embassies in Jakarta and other regional capitals due to terrorist threats during the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Even as the government in Jakarta

vowed to fight terrorism more aggressively, the spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiyah denied the group existed in Indonesia or anywhere else, or that al Qaeda was tied to the attack which killed at least 183 people, most of them foreign tourists, and injured hundreds more.

“There is no link between al Qaeda and the bomb blast,” Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir told reporters, calling the accusations “the invention of infidels.”

The Indonesian government is struggling to shake off its image of See REFORM on page 8

North Korea admits secret nuclear weapons program

By DAVID SANGER

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON Confronted by new American intelligence, North Korea has admitted that it has been conducting a major clandestine nuclear-weapons development program for the past several years, President George W. Bush’s administration said Wednesday night. Officials added that North Korea had also informed them that it has “nullified” now its 1994 agreement with the United States to freeze all North Korean nuclear weapons development activity.

North Korea’s surprise revelation, which confronts the Bush administration with a nuclear crisis in Asia even as it threatens war with Iraq, came 12 days ago in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. A senior American diplomat, James Kelley, confronted his North Korean counterparts with American intelligence data suggesting a secret project was under way.

At first, the North Korean officials angrily denied the allegation, according to an American official who was present.

The next day they acknowledged the nuclear program and according to one American official said “they have more powerful things as well.” American officials have interpreted that cryptic comment as an acknowledgment that North Korea possesses other weapons of mass destruction.

Administration officials refused to say Wednesday night whether the North Koreans had acknowledged successfully producing a nuclear weapon from the project, which uses highly enriched uranium. Nor would administration officials who briefed reporters Wednesday night say whether, based on American intelligence, they believe North Korea has produced such a weapon.

“We’re not certain that it’s been weaponized yet,” ing nations in the region to deal, effectively, with this said another official, noting that North Korea has conchallenge” ducted no nuclear testing, which the United States At a meeting Tuesday of the National Security Council, Bush and his aides decided to handle the could easily detect.

The idea of a North Korean nuclear arsenal imNorth Korean declarations through diplomatic chanmediately alters the delicate nuclear balance in Asia nels, a senior official said.

But American officials said that there was no early and confronts the Bush administration with two simultaneous crises involving nations developing indication that North Korea would allow in inspectors weapons of mass destruction: one in Iraq, the other or give up its program. One senior official characteron the Korean Peninsula. ized the North Korean attitude at Pyongyang meeting “We seek a peaceful resolution to this situation,” a as “belligerent,” rather than apologetic, even while it senior administration official said Wednesday night, admitted violating the 1994 accord to freeze its nuclear briefing reporters as news of the North Korean proweapons development.

The strongest action the administration announced gram began to leak. “No peaceful nation wants to see a nuclear-armed North Korea.” was the cessation of talks that could lead to economic Yet the administration’s demands on North Korea cooperation. “The United States was prepared to offer Wednesday night were muted. “The United States is economic and political steps to improve the lives of the North Korean people,” Boucher said in his statement calling on North Korea to comply with all of its commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and to Wednesday night, “provided the North were dramatieliminate its nuclear weapons program in a verifiable cally to alter its behavior across a range of issues,” including its weapons programs, its past support for termanner,” an American official said. There was no discussion of the consequences if that appeal was ignored, rorism, and “the deplorable treatment of the North even though the announcement came only hours after Korean people.”

President Bush issued some ofhis toughest and most But in deciding on a very measured response the ominous-sounding warnings yet to Iraq.

White House was also implicitly recognizing the reality of how North Korea differs from Iraq. It may alBush said nothing about North Korea Wednesday. Instead, the State Department dealt with the issue ready have nuclear weapons and it has a huge army through a statement issued by Richard Boucher, the and conventional weapons capable of wreaking state department spokesperson, and through briefings havoc on South Korea. by midlevel officials.

Moreover, even the prospect of military action Boucher said Kelly and Under Secretary of State against North Korea conducted at the same time the John Bolton had been dispatched “to confer with friends administration is considering an attack on Iraq would also mean that the Pentagon would be confronted by and allies about this important issue.”

He also said, “This is an opportunity for peace-lov- the prospect of fighting a two-front war.

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DETAILS from page 2 Great hopes were pinned on all this, and the police had virtually guaranteed the information would help them produce a sketch of the sniper. But Wednesday, at a news conference, investigators said the composite drawing of the killer would not be made available to the public because of inconsistent descriptions given by witnesses.

“There are a couple of people who believe they saw a man shoot,” said Nancy Demme, a Montgomery County police captain, during the daily sniper news briefing. “Unfortunately, distance and darkness and perhaps adrenaline have made them unable to give a clear com-

posite that we can disseminate.”

Demme said the only solid description the police were comfortable releasing was the sniper’s sex.

At the same news briefing, the police department released a set of tips to the

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public, encouraging them to take cover if The tip sheet was no doubt inspired fore police arrive and before they start they hear gunfire but also to take notes. by the well-documented difficulties of interacting with other witnesses. PsyThe guide, which seemed to add to witness accounts and the reams of rechologically that’s hard. You see somethe surreal sensation of living in the search showing that during many thing horrifying, you want to talk to sniper’s domain, where everyone is a crimes witnesses often become confused other people.” potential witness because the attacks and influenced by other witnesses or Attempts to train bank tellers and are so random, was posted on the ponews reports. This can cause them to other potential targets of crimes have lice department’s Web site and distrib- change or embellish their stories. been largely unsuccessful because when uted to the media.

The police advised against allowing people feel threatened their survival instincts kick in and they are unlikely to Among other things, it instructed: “If another witness or news reports to influyou hear the sound of a gunshot—get ence the memory of a crime, a common take notes or observe particular facial down, and/or seek cover.” experts say. Recalling exactly features. License plate numbers, say Both the guide and Demme said that where the killer was when he fired his several experts on crime memory, are some characteristics of people and vehigun and what he looked like is particuparticularly difficult to remember becles seen leaving the scene of a crime larly difficult given he has shot most of cause of the mix of letters and numbers. were temporary, like hair style or facial his targets from at least 100 yards away.

“I have a lot of friends in law enhair, and dents or bumed-out lights on “Even before the police get to the forcement and this is their nightmare,” vehicles. Other characteristics are perscene, witnesses are contaminating each said Roy Malpass, a professor of psymanent, like skin complexion, height other just by talking,” said Elizabeth chology at the University of Texas at Loftus, a professor of psychology and El Paso who runs the Eyewitness Idenand the make and model of a vehicle.

Demme encouraged residents to keep criminology at the University of Califortification Research Laboratory there. a pen and paper close at hand to record nia at Irvine, who specializes in witness “The public isn’t even getting a look at observations at the scene of a shooting. memory. “What you’d like people to be this guy. Now they got a peep, but it’s If paper is scarce, she said, witnesses doing is writing out everything they can inconsistent what the witnesses are remember—no detail is too small—beshould scribble notes on their hands. saying. What do you do?”

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having ignored months of warnings about terrorists being active here, particularly Jemaah Islamiyah, which wants to establish a pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia.

Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said Wednesday that the government was working on enacting tougher anti-terrorism legislation—stalled in Parliament for months—by presidential decree.

But President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who is perceived as indecisive and aloof, has made no attempt to marshal opinion against terrorism and has barely been seen in public since making a brief, tearful trip to the bomb site Sunday.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said he would fly to Bali Thursday to assess the situation.

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who is in Jakarta to meet with officials, said authorities still “don’t have any hard evidence as to who is responsible” for the explosion.

Australia offered a reward of just over $1 million for information leading to the bombers who killed scores of its citizens. It also sent 45 investigators to .

CHIEF from page 1 to prosecute violent repeat offenders.

“We have a battle of morals, a battle of values that go beyond what law enforcement can solve,” Evans added.

The finalists also weighed in on the problem of gang violence. Scott suggested that a combined approach of intelligence, education and enforcement could help curb the problem.

Evans said that gangs can some-

join police from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Indonesia to sift through the carnage.

National Police spokesperson Gen. Saleh Saaf said police believe they have found the residue of chemicals used in

the bomb’s detonator. The traces, which included evidence of TNT, were found spattered onto a parked motorcycle.

Also found were traces of C-4, a

plastic military explosive used in the attack two years ago on the USS Cole in Yemen.

Meanwhile, senior Indonesian intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a former air force lieutenant colonel with a background in explosives was questioned by intelligence officers after the bombing, but they denied reports that he had confessed to building the bomb and said he is not a suspect.

Jemaah Islamiyah has been accused

of plotting to attack the U.S. and other Western embassies in Singapore earlier

this year.

Malaysia and Singapore have arrested scores of suspected members, yet they are not believed to have any involvement in the Bali attack, according to local officials.

A BALINESE MAN, making offerings for the dead during a candlelight vigil at the site of a Saturday bomb blast in Kuta. At least 183 people died from the bombing in a popular night spot.

times provide values and structure for youth who do not receive such support at home, and not all gang activities are violent.

He therefore suggested that the police simultaneously crack down on gang violence while working with gangs who “may be trying to exert positive influence on their neighborhood.”

All candidates spoke out against police brutality and agreed that applications of force by individual officers must be reported to the department.

Scott pointed out that while police brutality is intolerable, officers have tough jobs and some incidents can be pulled out of context.

He cited a time when a handcuffed criminal spit in his face and he instinctively shoved the man away, only to be cited for brutality.

However, he understood and accepted his reprimand.

The candidates also said that police recruitment efforts need to be improved.

“We need a benefits package that is

second to none,” Austin said.

When they were asked if they had any past records that would force them to withdraw from the running, as past candidates had, all candidates either straightforwardly or sarcastically answered no. “In 1966, my assistant coach caught me smoking in the boys’ bathroom in high school,” Evans said.

Durham city officials will now visit the respective jurisdictions of the finalists, and Conner said she will pick a winner by the end of the month.

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ECONOMICS from page 1

SECURITY from page 2

Senior Shawn Pope agreed that the B.S. was perceived as more useful for many professions, although he decided to pursue an A.B. degree in economics because he had little interest in mathematics and was double majoring. “B.S. kind of gives you an edge,” he said.

Economics Professor Curtis Taylor said the B.S. program has attracted students away from other disciplines. “We have experienced a huge increase in overall enrollment because students that formerly majored in other quantitative disciplines have been attracted to the economics B.S. degree,” Taylor said. “The reason for this is, of course, economics. More and more employers are discovering the value of workers with strong analytic and quantitative skills in economics, finance, and statistics.”

Thompson said he strongly believes neither degree program is necessarily more useful than the other, and Curriculum 2000 has reinvigorated the University’s commitment to a broad and wellbalanced education. Still, he recognizes that many students seek professional and technical training at the undergraduate level.

Nechyba agreed. “Duke is trying to be a place that does still have a liberal arts component, but I think on the student side, that students are increasingly more focused on the professional preparation college affords,” he said. “In that sense, the B.S. would seem to fit better [with] what students want.”

The unchecked growth ofthe economics department has led to major upheavals over the last three years. Class sizes at the introductory level have expanded considerably, the number of new faculty hires has surged and the department established the EcoTeach center last fall to aid undergraduate instruction.

Nechyba said that until recently, the quality of instruction was compromised by hiring too many unqualified faculty members on a short-term basis. However, he said this problem has been successfully addressed. “We’ve really come a long

would face blackmail, intimidation or attack,” he said in the East Room, flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell. “Chaos in that region would be felt in Europe and beyond. And Iraq’s combination of weapons of mass destruction and ties to terrorist groups and ballistic .missiles would threaten the peace and security of many nations.”

The two-day public debate in the Security Council chambers was called at the insistence of the Non-Aligned Movement, a loose coalition of developing nations.

Speakers Wednesday were from countries that do not hold seats on the 15-member council, but were invited to address Council members. As intensive negotiations over a new resolution among the five permanent, veto-bearing council powers dragged into the fifth week, the non-council nations became exasperated that their views were not being considered and demanded to be heard.

With no council votes, the nations that spoke Wednesday cannot directly influence the discussions on the resolution. But they included Egypt, Kuwait, Turkey and other nations that could be directly involved if the United States goes to war against Iraq, as well as the European Union, Canada and other important US. allies. The permanent, veto-bearing members of the council—the United States, Britain, Russia, China and France—will

way,” he said.

Thompson said he hoped interest in economics would level out because the growth has taxed the University’s resources. If growth continues at the current rate, the University may consider limiting the number of economics majors.

No matter what the growth rate, Thompson said the University would remain committed to economics. “It’s not just enrollment,” he said. “Having a strong economics department is always important to Arts and Sciences.”

cil as he was traveling in Asia, said he supported a new resolution to strengthen the weapons’ inspectors hands. He told Iraq that it was in violation of many resolutions.

“Iraq has to comply,” Annan said bluntly, and he warned that the council would have to “face its responsibilities” if it did not, a code word for war. But in a plea clearly directed at the United States and France, Annan said, “If you allow yourselves to be divided, the authority and credibility of the organization will undoubtedly suffer.”

Annan’s call for the council to reach consensus was echoed by many nations, as was his demand for Iraq meet its obligations to the council.

There was also nearly unanimous support for allowing the U.N. weapons inspectors to return as soon as possible to Iraq to search for prohibited weapons programs. Many nations described the inspections as the last chance to force Baghdad to give up its most dangerous weapons without war.

Apprehension about Washington’s war plans to topple Saddam was especially strong among the Arab nations.

“An attack on Iraq would open a Pandora’s box,” said Yahia Mahmassani, the representative of the Arab League. “It will lead to civil and ethnic war in Iraq and also destabilize the whole Arab region, which is already outraged at the Israeli occupa-

tion,” he said.

“The war on Iraq will negate the present world order, the charter of the United Nations and international law,” he said. speak Thursday.

The deadlock over the resolution continued Even Kuwait, which was freed from Iraqi occupaWednesday, with France and the United States tion in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, insisted that wrangling over at what stage to authorize military “any use of force must be a last resort and within the force. No meetings of the five permanent council United Nations framework and only after all other members to discuss Iraq were even on the schedule. available means have been exhausted.”

Bush administration officials listened to the deArab representatives, including those from bate with only one ear, focusing on the nitty-gritty American allies Egypt and Jordan, complained of a discussion between the council power players. double standard, saying that the council had been Washington remains determined to get a single less forceful in bringing Israel to comply with resoresolution that would give it authority to launch a lutions calling for a nuclear-free Middle East as well as for it to withdraw from lands occupied in military attack, administration officials said.

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Menacing Gothic Wonderland Dark clouds lurk over the Chapel Quad and Divinity School at sunset Wednesday afternoon, threatening continued rain through the night. Similar clouds were responsible for periodic showers experienced by pedestrians on campus all day long.

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ing rooms and recruitment rounds for all sororities.

She plans on commissioning a survey in the next few months to determine the level of interest in sorority housing, but, like Ryan, said she does not think women want to live together.

“It would be more of a consideration [to participate in the recruitment process] if you have to live with these girls 24/7. [Currently, sorority women] can have their friends in their sororities, but it’s not their life,” Gessner said.

Consequently, if sororities were residential, many women would be less likely to participate in recruitment, said Kristina Goff,.a sophomore in Delta Gamma sorority. “Non-residential sororities allow more girls to rush because they are still able to maintain other commitments while pledging a sorority” Goff said.

While recognizing that some women feel they can better balance their many activities by not living in a sorority house, Manley said they are missing out on certain benefits. She believes there is an advantage to eating, studying and just watching television together on a regular basis. “ICs that sense of sisterhood... that I think we may miss,” she said.

Mary McDowell, president of Kappa Delta sorority at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the bonds of sisterhood develop with greater strength when women live together, particularly women of different ages. “One advantage of living in the house is that it gives you the opportunity to get to know older and younger girls,” McDowell wrote in an e-mail.

She also said UNC’s historic Southern houses are an incentive for women to join the greek system because they instill pride in thehearts of sorority sisters.

Some girls at Duke do want housing for sororities.

While all sororities on campus do have a space in Trent Drive Hall, senior Kristen Prude, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, said that this was not a replacement for sorority housing.

“It would be nice to have a space designated for your group. Trent... is not really convenient,” Prude said. “I only see [sorority housing] as an asset.”

Lindsey Hess, a sophomore and member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, said she is thinking about getting at least a few of her sisters to live in a house with her.

She said a number of her Tri-Delt sisters block together in apartment complexes to approximate living together in a sorority house.

Goff added that while many girls already in sororities would probably like living in houses, she praised the University’s policy of not isolating greeks from the rest of the student body. “There is something to be said for the system we have at Duke, which allows for a large amount of interaction between greeks and independents,” she said.

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Men’s soccer dries up Fighting Camels Duke beats

By MATT SULLIVAN

’Nova, falls to Terps

The Chronicle

3 Just as Jordan Cila softly skidded a pass, 1 calm as could be, through two aggressive Campbell defenders last night at Koskinen Stadium, Blake Camp nonchalantly wandered up to the edge of the penalty box, only to find a soccer ball waiting there for him, begging him to fire it in and shut up a loud Campbell goalie.

Camp did not think twice, booting home a goal in a game that was almost that easy for all 90 minutes as the men’s soccer team (9-3-1) ran circles around the Fighting Camels (2-90), scoring all three goals in a rapidfire first half for another non-conference thrashing, 3-1.

“That one was really well set up and wasn’t too hard to put home,” Camp said of his second goal of the year. “It just got the momentum going, and we were able to get rolling from there.”

Cila kept up that Blue Devil edge throughout the first half, as he controlled the tempo while Duke outshot Campbell 10-1. After setting up the Camp goal in the 15th minute, Cila gave Fighting Camel keeper Bill Englishby reason to cherp again as his quick move in the box was stoned on a diving save.

But at 31:04, Cila stood at nearly the same spot as his first assist and flicked a touch pass from Owoicho

Duke Campbell

By JESSE COLVIN The Chronicle

PARK, 2 COLLEGE Md. While most Villanova 0 Duke students took it easy over Fall Break the field hockey team had the task of travelling to No. 1 Maryland, in College Park, Md. Duke

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Saturday afternoon.

They returned to Durham to face the Villanova Wildcats Monday.

When classes resumed Wednesday morning, the team had mixed weekend results to reflect on. After the Terps thrashed the Blue Devils 5-0, No. 12 Duke rebounded, downing the Wildcats 2-0 Monday afternoon.

The win improved Duke’s home record to 6-1 on the season and 9-5 overall.

Duke beat Villanova behind the power ofits underclassmen. Sophomore Chrissy Murphy and freshman Katie Grant scored each of the Blue Devils’ goals, while freshman Christy Morgan celebrated her second straight start by blanking the Wildcats. Grant’s sixth goal of the season, which came in a scrum in front of the cage, gave her 20 points this season, the team’s second

OWOICHO ADOGWA gets congratulated by Joe Kelly after scoring a goal

See FIELD HOCKEY on page 16

Men’s basketball takes couple days off after London Blue Devils return to basics, will focus on fundamentals and defense in next few practices

By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

LONDON After a whirlwind trip for the men’s basketball team across the pond, the Blue Devils got Wednesday and today off, mostly, before returning to

DANIEL EWING drives to the hoop against the Brighton Bears in Game 3 of the International Challenge Series.

cially team captain Chris Duhon said team’s greatest need is to work on playing defense. Duhon said they needed to teach the freshmen trademark “Duke defense,” but that was something the team would naturally learn with time.

However, all three players said that was only a minor concern, and something to be expected at this point in the season. They added that the team is in good shape overall.

practice Friday.

Although Midnight Madness, the first day of NCAA sanctioned practice, was held at all other schools around the country last Friday—the day Duke left for London—the Blue Devils were allowed to begin practice early. NCAA rules in this case stipulated Duke could have ten days of official practice to prepare for the game.

Men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski said that his team will go back to basics after playing four games on only those ten days of practice.

“Now we have to give them drills,” Krzyzewski said. “We did that in our individual work before we started practice, but once we started practice we had to put in a little bit of a system so we could play games.... When we go back, its like [doing the] the skating compulsories before we do that dance team stuff. We have to get back to the habitual stuff that

because of the packed schedule coupled with jet lag.

After losing a night’s worth of sleep on the plane ride over, the team played a few scrimmages and then the four games.

However, between the afternoon and evening games on each day they got little time off—by the time they finished Game 1 and lunch they had only a little more

will make us good.”

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• “We haven’t been able to teach fundamentals and the way that we play ‘Duke defense’,” Duhon said. “So we got the opportunity to see where we are at as a team fundamentally and we know what we have to do.

Guys are excited to get better and that’s what the purpose of this trip was.”

The trip was especially draining on the players

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Despite the fact he is listed as questionable on the team’s official report, Atlanta Falcons quarterback insists his shoulder pain is gone and that he will start this weekend.

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Administrators pleased with 19th-place ranking

By MIKE COREY The Chronicle

Yale President Jeremiah Day probably had no intentions of promoting balanced athletics when he and fellow Bulldog faculty published the landmark Yale Report in 1828.

The document, which successfully defined and defended classical educa-

tion, has served as the definitive model for American colleges and universities ever since.

Though the Report advocated the importance of studying traditional topics, Day and his colleagues conceded that a gradual expansion of curriculum was both necessary and important to the future of the American educational system—so long as colleges and universities continued to serve their purpose: “to form in the student a proper balance of character.”

Along with Yale, dozens of top-tier universities such as Duke continue to pride themselves on well-balanced academics. But as the Oct. 7th issue of Sports Illustrated indicates, institutions of higher education are increasingly prideful in the prowess of their athletic programs.

The sports magazine evaluated all 324 Division I athletic programs and rated them based on the following criteria: 2001-2002 performances in athletics; last year’s Sears Director’s Cup standings; the number of varsity, club and intramural sports; the range of recreational facilities; and the presence and fervor of spirit-boosting events.

Duke was ranked 19th overall, placing it second in the ACC behind No. 8 North Carolina. Among private schools,

Duke was rated third behind No. 2 Stanford and No. 15 Notre Dame. Texas topped Sports Illustrated’s ratings.

“To be ranked in the top 20 is good,” Director ofAthletics Joe Alieva said. “To be the third highest private school is good and to be second in the ACC is good.”

Sports Illustrated attributed Duke’s high ranking to its pair oftop-five basketball teams, a national championship in women’s golf, and success in men’s and women’s lacrosse and tennis. Unlisted factors most likely included Cameron Crazies and Krzyzewskiville, new indoor and outdoor tennis facilities, the $2O million Yoh football center, Wilson and Brodie Recreation Centers, and competitive club and intramural sports.

Duke’s Achilles’ heel, according to

Sports Illustrated, was a lack of success in the traditional sports football and baseball. Duke was winless in football in 2001, while the baseball team went 420 in the ACC en route to a 24-34 overall record.

Each school and ranking was accompanied by a brief explanation that included information not used in the rankings, such as amusing statistics and famous alumni.

“We would rather be 19th than 190th,” Kennedy said.

Though the ratings were to judge the overall success of sports colleges, Sports Illustrated all but admitted to having a clear bias toward success in the few sports that generate the most revenue for schools. In a section entitled, “How We Ranked Them,” Sports Illustrated wrote that one of the factors in rating the schools was perfor

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Terrell Owens won’t be fined or disciplined by the NFL for his latest innovation in touchdown celebrations—pulling a pen from his sock to autograph the ball.

“However, such acts will not be tolerated going forward,” league spokesman Greg Aiello said Wednesday.

Owens, the San Francisco 49ers’ AllPro receiver, caused a stir Monday night in a 28-21 victory over Seattle. After beating comerback Shawn Springs to score the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter, Owens produced a pen, signed the football and presented it to his financial adviser in the front row.

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Owens made television and radio appearances earlier this week to defend his actions, but he refused to talk to nearly all local reporters on Wednesday, leaving his teammates to speak for him.

“It’s really getting blown out of proportion,” center Jeremy Newberry said.

“It’s ridiculous. I don’t think he offended anybody. Any time T.O. does something, the media wants to make a bigger deal about it than it deserves.

“He didn’t sign the ball and give it to Shawn Springs. I don’t think anybody in this locker room sees anything wrong with it.”

But some members of the Seahawks were angered by Owens’ celebration, with coach Mike Holmgren calling it “shameful” and “a dishonor to anyone who ever played this game.”

Owens has employed a variety of odd dances and choreographed moves after scoring. He caused his biggest stir more than two years ago when he celebrated two touchdowns by running to the Dallas Cowboys’ star logo at midfield in Texas Stadium.

For that, San Francisco coach Steve Mariucci suspended Owens for one

game. The episode catalyzed months of bad feelings between player and coach.

Manned, and the rest of the 49ers had no problem with Owens’ latest selfexpression, however. The team won’t discipline the wideout, Mariucci said.

“TO. is a unique individual,” quarterback Jeff Garcia said. “He’s definitely creative. I’m not going to say whether it was a knock against the other team or not. I’m sure he didn’t mean it that way.

It’s behind us, as far as we’re concerned. It’s one play. I didn’t even realize it took place at the time.

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SOCCER from page 11 “Nigie” Adogwa to freshman Danny Kramer. Englishby would not be hollering for much longer, as Kramer bounced one under the jumping keeper, who fell, dejected, to his knees just as the ball skipped to the back of the net for a 2-0 Duke lead.

With the Fighting Camels now noticeably overmatched, the Blue Devils left them trudging through their barren desert of talent and pushed for another attack just three minutes later.

After a quick lead from Cila at midfield, Adogwa boxed out his defender while racing for the goal. Just as the aggressive Adogwa was stuffed at the six-yard

box, though, he got another chance.

Englishby rushed out to scoop up the ball, but the Trinidad native found a way to make his second effort worthwhile with an almost impossible horizontal cross to the left side of the net for his fourth score of the season.

Duke’s 3-0 lead put Campbell back off its Camel-toes and showed the fruits of the Blue Devils’ new 4-3-3 formation.

With the defense decimated by injuries, the offensive look has given Cila and his fellow forwards room to maneuver, even with crafty senior Trevor Perea out last night from a red card suspension.

“I think everyone likes playing with the new style,” said Cila, who assisted all three goals to continue his hot scoring streak and take the team assist lead with seven. “It was kind ofinstalled out of necessity, but it’s going to put a lot of pressure on tough teams like UVa,

Wake and Clemson.”

Duke head coach John Rennie agreed that his new plan was best for the moment, “as long as the defense holds up” without his star stalwarts,

BLAKE CAMP scored Duke’s first goal in last night’s 3-1 win against Campbell.

most notably sophomore Matt White, who will train this week to prepare for Sunday’s contest at Virginia.

The back three took another hit last night when freshman standout Ryan Kerlew got a blow to the head on a Campbell drive, crumbling to the ground with a concussion. With confusion around the net, Duke defender Joe Kelly slid to try to clear the ball outside of the net, only to send a rocket over the right shoulder of his team’s keeper for an own-goal, the most Campbell could manage for the game.

Their players hobbling around the field through a sloppier second half, the Blue Devils laid back, took a breath and thanked the schedule gods for a really easy night.

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FIELD HOCKEY.™ page,l highest. Also joining the youth movement was sophomore Johanna Bischoff. The British Columbia native posted a team-high ninth assist when she dished the ball to Murphy for her third goal of the season.

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“When we got the ball to the outside we did well,” said head coach Liz Tchou. “We just kept trying to pump the ball up the middle, and that’s where Maryland’s strength was. If we had done that more consistently, it probably would have been a different result.”

Yet, Duke did have some chances to score. With a little more than two minutes left in the first half, Grant spilt two Maryland defenders in front of the goal and had the goalie out of position, but her backhanded shot was not on target. Had Grant finished that play successfully, the score would likely have been 2-1 going into halftime. Later in the second half, for about ten minutes, Duke pressed Maryland and controlled the game.

“Their sweepers and goalie were just brick walls,” Tchou said.

Then Maryland scored again, extinguishing any chances of a Duke rally.

The loss drops Duke’s ACC record to 0-3.

After the game, Duke’s players refused to concede that they could not compete with the top teams in the country. Senior Chrissy Ashley said it wasn’t that Maryland was doing unstoppable things—Duke just did was not playing smart.

“We are not a 5-0 team against Maryland,” Ashley said. “It’s not that they are the better team.

We can play with the best of them and beat the best of them. We showed that we can play with them in the second half. We know what we need to do, and it’s little, easy, simple things that we need to fix.”

Duke, who jumped to No. 10 in the most recent national poll, will travel Saturday to No. 12 North Carolina. The Blue Devils will have the task of avenging a 5-4 double overtime loss to the Tar Heels earlier this month, and of reversing the 47game winning streak North Carolina currently holds over them.

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Account Representatives: Monica Franklin, Dawn Hall, Account Assistants: Jonathan Chiu, Kristin Jackson Sales Representatives: Katherine Farrell, Will Hinckley, Johannah Rogers, Ben Silver, Sim Stafford Sales Coordinator: David Chen Brooke Dohmen Administrative Coordinator Chris Graber National Coordinator Creative Services Courtney Crosson, Charlotte Dauphin, Andrew Fazekas, Lauren Gregory, Megan Harris, Deborah Holt Chris Reilly, Melanie Shaw Business Assistants: Classifieds Coordinator Sallyann Bergh ..

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Academic THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 Antony Higgins Memorial Lectures Series: 6:45pm.

Juan Carlos Rodriguez will speak on “Lectura del Quijote: El escritor que compro su propio libro.” 305 Language Center.

Systematics Seminar: 12:30pm. “Over the top? Liana richness, dominance and specialization in megadiverse forests of Amazonia,” Robyn Burnham, University of Michigan. 144 Biological Sciences.

Center on

Duke Events Calendar Duke Department of Music Colloquium Lecture Event: Ipm. ‘The Pot Liquor Principle: Theory, Method and Essence in Black Music Studies,” Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. 101 Biddle Music Building, East Campus.

Free admission. For more information, contact the Music Department at 919-660-3300.

EOS Seminar Series: 4pm. “Structure of the Chicxulub Impact Crater: The Dinosaurs Didn’t Have a Chance,” Gail Christeson. 201 Old Chemistry Building.

Religious THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17

Global Change Seminar Series: ‘Tropospheric ozone as a climate gas and air pollutant: the case for controlling methane,” Daniel J. Jacob Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry & Environmental Engineering, Harvard University. A247 LSRC.

Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch: 12Ipm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen.

Seminar; 7pm. “Can one plant species ‘rescue’ another from low density effects?” Tracy Feldman, Duke University. 140 Biological Sciences.

tact: dsw9@duke.edu.

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Intercultural Christian Fellowship Weekly Gathering: 7:3opm, Thursdays. “Tell Us Your Story” Guest series.

Chapel lounge. More info; www.duke.edu/web/icf/, con-

Wesley Fellowship Eucharist: s:3opm, Thursdays.

Wesley Office (Chapel Basement)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 Antony Higgins Memorial Lectures Series: 12pm.

Poet Angeles Mora will give a reading of her work.

Lunch provided. Latin American Studies Conference Room, 2114 Campus Dr.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 Wesley Fellowship Bible Study: 12noon, Fridays.

Wesley Office.

Social

Programming

and Meetings FRIDAYS Coffee Connection: 12noon-Ipm, Fridays. Chapel basement.

Ongoing

Events

Duke Police offers following services; Crime prevention presentations, Rape awareness presentations, Alcohol Law presentations, Workforce violence educational programs, Personal property engraving. Please contact Lieutenant Tony Shipman at 684-4115 to schedule these programs/services.

Macular Translocation Course and Wet Lab: November 6-8. Enrollment is limited, registration fee, $1980.00. This course is designed for the experienced vitreoretinal surgeon and will focus on macular translocation surgery with 360-degree peripheral retinectomy.

Includes lectures, panel discussions, training in the surgical wet-lab, and observation of live surgery and videos.

Contact Avie Grier, 919-681-4442.

Allen Building Lock-in: What would you do if you had free reign over Duke’s main administrative building for one night? You can do it with the Allen Building Lock-in Committee! The Allen Building Lock-In is an event that commemorates the 1969 Allen Building Takeover, celebrates the progress of the past, promotes increased student, staff, faculty, administrator, and alumni interaction,

and addresses underlying racial tension at Duke. The event vombines pertinent issues with unlimited fun!

Your ideas are needed so contact TeMeka- at tcw3@duke.edu if you are interested in helping plan the event or if you want more information.”

Weekly Vespers/Fellowship: Orthodox Christian Student Fellowship. Duke Chapel Basement. Father Edward Rummen, 919-782-7037, fatheredward @ mindspring.com.

Carillon Recital: Weekdays, 5 pm. A 15-minute performance by J. Samuel Hammond, University carillonneur. He also gives a recital before and after the Service of Worship each Sunday. Duke Chapel, West Campus. For information, call 684-2572.

Organ demonstration: Weekdays, 12:30-1 ;30pm. A daily recital of mostly sacred music on the Flentrop organ, which both tonally and visually reflects the techniques of Dutch-French organs of the 18th century. Duke Chapel, West Campus. Schedule subject to change. For information, call 684-2572.

Exhibit: Through October 27. ‘Thinking Outside the Book: New Forms by Women Artists.” Perkins Library.

Call 684-3009 for hours.

Photograph exhibit: Reinserting Myself into a History; Academic Eye 111, by Tammy Rea Garland.

Through Nov 23. Foyer Gallery, Duke Museum of Art. Exhibit: Through December 13. ‘Thirteen-Month Crop; One Year in the Life of a Piedmont Virginia Tobacco Farm.” Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library’s hall gallery. Call 684-3009 for hours.

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The Chronicle Security improvements On October 16, a female student in Wannamaker was attacked in her hall’s bathroom by a man trying to sexually assault her.

Unfortunately, this is not the only bathroom attack Duke has experienced—last spring, a freshman woman reported being sexual assaulted in a Randolph bathroom.

In the wake ofthis latest incident, which has stoked the fears of female students across campus, the administration has decided to change the locks on all the bathroom doors, limiting women’s restroom access to female students and men’s restrooms access to male students, While changing the bathroom locks is a good first step for increased safety, there are other measures the administration should consider that would also vastly improve safety within the dorms and hopefully prevent horrible incidents like this in the future.

Although it remains unclear whether the most recent attacker was a student, by changing the bathroom locks to single-sex access, future attacks that could possibly be perpetrated by students would be prevented. Also, by limiting access to the bathrooms, the administration will reitrate the fact that bathroom doors should always be kept locked for safety purposes.

One of the most important things that the administration can do to improve safety around campus is to hold mandatory information sessions during and after orientation emphasising what sort of actions students should take to be safe. If safe behavior such as locking bathrooms, not proping open doors and not allowing people to tailgate into the dorms is ingrained in students from the day they matriculate at Duke, such behavior will become second-nature and safety will improve.

As it stands now, students will probably continue to be cautious in the wake ofthis most recent attack for a few weeks. However, in order to truly improve safety on campus, students must continue to be aware and continue to ensure safety for months and years in the future—safety must never be out of students’ minds.

The lock changes, however, are just a first step. While they would help to prevent certain types of attacks, more serious security measures are needed to deter crime in a larger sense.

For one, the University should seriously consider placing video cameras in dorms to record any possible criminals. While there are valid privacy concerns involved with video cameras, the benefits of preventing rape outweigh these concerns, especially if the cameras are strategically located in public places like the entrace to the dorm, in the stairwells or in the bathroom entrances.

Additionally, the administration’s proposal that panic buttons be installed in bathrooms is a sensible plan to help prevent similar attacks in the future. Ultimately, it is incumbent upon every member of the University community to ensure safety.

On

the record

A lot ofcities in the South have brothel laws. [But] I think we could work around that, since [Duke] is a private university.

Nicole Manley, program coordinator for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority

Life, on the supposed anti-brothel law that prevents women from living together in large groups, even in college sororities (see story, page one).

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Panhel aims

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proposals on campus safety

to increase not only the

For the past year, women on campus have felt their safety increasingly threatened—a concern emphasized by last week’s devastating attack of a woman in her locked bathroom. Women were also disappointed at the lack of administrative foresight as evidenced by this incident.

The Duke Panhellenic Association is the largest

awareness of resources on campus but also the ability of women to safely travel to offcampus locations.

We are looking to present a

series of proposals regarding on-campus to the administration in the coming weeks, most likely in the form of a petition. This will effectively address our concerns and list possible solutions to the problems that we hope will be implemented in the future.

We are open to any sugsafety

undergraduate organization on campus, comprised entirely of women. As such, we have worked on several initiatives

gestions from undergraduate students interested in these issues. Anyone should feel comfortable presenting his or her ideas to either myself, Kerianne Ryan (president), or Nicole Manley (adviser).

We look forward to hearing your suggestions and hope that you will support our initiatives in the coming weeks!

Jordana Smith Trinity ’O3 Panhellenic Director of Risk Management

Keohane should sign anti-intimidation petition I’m shocked and dismayed that President Nan Keohane declined to sign the antiintimidation petition. The petition’s goal, according to the American Jewish Committee, was to affirm that campuses are places of debate, not of propagandizing one viewpoint at the silencing of another. This petition was necessitated by the rise in

intellectual

and

against Jews more than Arabs and Muslims.

Events at Berkeley, San Francisco State University and Concordia University in Montreal have reinforced the situation of intimidation by pro-Palestinian students on campuses in North America, seeking to silence their critics

through violence. Thankfully, such events haven’t occurred at Duke, though we have come close. In April 2002, a series of anti-Israeli and antiSemitic graffiti messages were painted on the East

physical

intimidation on campuses in the past year with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unfortunately, debate over this conflict has too often spilled into expressions of outright hatred, often directed Http: / / www.chronicle.duke.edu

attempted to paint over the messages with others of peace and reconciliation.

However, they were immediately covered with the same hate messages when we left, thus revealing the true intentions of silencing the debate and propagating the hatred by .those painters.

I hope Keohane releases a

statement regarding the issue of intimidation of debate at Duke, lest this become a paradigm for debates, or lack thereof, about future issues.

Campus bridge, including a

swastika and glorifications of violence. /

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students

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Anti-war protestors need to change their methods During the recent quad protest, I noticed few people were really paying attention to the message, and many joked at how odd and displaced it looked. This is odd and disappointing. Here are ways in which I would make the next protest more successful in promoting its message.

•Traditional white posters are drab. Use more eye-catching devices, like lingerie models or provocative pictures.

Curse words work well too.

•Conduct the time-honored tradition of chanting with soul and feeling. Add extra bass to the crowd, especially during “War” by Edwin Starr. Also, give everyone megaphones to achieve maximum volume.

•Abandon standard Duke

attire. Your clothing should be as dirty and ripped as possible appearing as if the cause is so time consuming that you don’t have time to do anything else, like basic grooming. Dried mud is a plus. Hemp too.

•Marching in a straight line is far too militaristic. A large seething mass is more

effective and imposing.

•For a real statement, hold the rally at night. Use torches

for light. Carry pitchforks.

•Every protest should have at least one person who has personally experienced what you are protesting. This lends a large degree of credibility to your movement.

•Topics to be covered by every protest: Sweatshops

and Nike, U.S. police power, abortion, whales, spotted owls, third-world farmers and Starbucks, race inequality, the Catholic Church, Republicans, Palestine, SUVs, the School of the Americas and the rainforest, •Don’t smile. No one will take your complaints serious-

ly. If you aren’t suffering for the cause, how can anyone else be expected to?

•Finally, never have someone play the fiddle. It leads to too many jokes about Nero and things burning.

I look forward to seeing these ideas in practice and a more effective protest.

Drew Warlick Trinity ’O5

Commentary

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER

Imaginary community God’s billboards and

An old lady from Sydney asked where I was from. I was in Sydney for the weekend, but was a study-abroad student in Townsville. She laughed and then apologized, asking if I had learned any choice words from the rough and tumble North Queenslanders. She was, along with all of her neighbors, according to the filthy-mouthed ruffians I live with, a pretentious, “cultured” Sydneyite.

While these people never met, they knew enough about each other to pass judgment.

To an extent, their stereotypes hold merit. Most people in Townsville swear a lot and are a tougher breed; it takes a special mentality to ranch or harvest sugar cane in the tropics. It’s the only place I’ve caught a right hook in the jaw for walking down a street.

Sydney, too, has its charms, or as North Queenslanders say, “snooty culture,” jHpnSB which includes opera, museums, classical music concerts and a decent fashion sense. North Queenslanders prefer to catch fish; Sydneyites prefer to buy fish.

Kevin Sydney-dwellers eliminate pesky viruses on their computers. North CJgorzaiek Queenslanders use shotguns or clubs A Moment 0/ our me when they encounter vermin such as snakes or cane toads on their farms. However, when these surface differences subside, the people maintain a fierce national identity as Australians.

It’s a natural human instinct to seek security in com-

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monalties. It isn’t natural to seek conflict. Nationalism serves as the manifestation of the imaginary community, the unification ofhuman regional coalitions under one flag to pursue mutual interests and ensure personal security. Individual regions allied to an emblem often belittle fellow national partners. By pointing out weaknesses in other structures, superiority is emphasized.

The campus debate about the South and its cultural history illustrates this scenario perfectly. Basing a person’s entire identity around regional heritage seems silly to me. The characteristics of supposed Southerners and Northerners are so easily applied to anyone that they lose their significance through homogenization. I’ve been called a “Southern gentleman” many times for holding open doors or getting beverages from coolers. Clearly I’m not one: my geographic upbringing eliminates “southern” and my headshot rules out “gentleman.”

The outrage expressed emphasized minority oppression and personal identity on every side of the MasonDixon Line. Heritage is an intricate part of cultural and personal identity and should be celebrated, while seeking to mend the historical wrongs visited by that culture.

In idle times when the United States is, as George Carlin said, “not putting holes in other people’s countries,” the opportunity arises to debate our differences and drive a wedge between geographic regions based on current and past cultural aspects. National crisis reinforces damaged bonds, ensuring the structural stability of the imagined community. The disputes cease for a while, and we look outward at a new opponent, part of an entirely alien culture and not one a few states away.

The unfamiliar scares people. Yet, fear and distrust subside with acclimation. Nations wouldn’t be possible without common faith and understanding. For nearly 300 years, nations have served as the primary governmental unit. Within each nation, peoples from diverse cultural backgrounds live in relative harmony because of nationalism and the imaginary community.

Misperceptions and distrust qfforeigners help maintain national borders.

Stereotypes, no matter how insane, quickly “educate” people on how others behave based on nationality, ensuring cultural divides. I need never meet a Frenchman. I have no time for their anti-American attitudes that pervade every single citizen. Even their babies loot McDonald’s and protest our foreign policy before learning to walk. Thankfully, such attitudes are subsiding.

With the European Union and the African Union, the opportunity arises to deconstruct the invisible community and transfer those sentiments causing personal allegiance from a nation to an encompassing body. The difficulties in creating a conciliatory international community are essentially the same faced by fiefdoms across Europe uniting to form nations many centuries ago.

Harmony through a common existence must occur among all peoples. The ultimate formation of a peaceful world rests in the eventual realization of humanity. No force is more powerful than realizing distinct commonalties amongst all people, the majority of which wish for no more than security and bright futures for their children.

Kevin Ogorzalek is a Trinity junior.

“Caution: Church Van,” read the rear doors of the vehicle in front of me at the traffic light.

I pondered this instruction. Is there a special place in hell for someone who hits a van carrying churchgoers? Should the driver’s association with a church merit special courtesy I would not afford other people—say, people whose bumper stickers did not support my JL. political candidate?

This pointless message reminded me of the strange phenomenon of God’s billboards. When I first saw them, I figured tj .t q treYer they were confined to South Carolina, the state where you can’t buy booze on Carlisle Sunday. Oh no, I found they are in North Smng£ Bedfelhm Carolina, too, and Cleveland and Dallas.

In fact, it’s a national campaign. You’ve seen them: They are black with white text; an example is, “Let’s meet at my house Sunday before the game. -God.” All are signed

by God but give no indication of a sponsor. Here are a few others: “Loved the wedding, invite me to the marriage.

God.”“Don’t make me come down there. -God.” “We need to talk. -God.” “Will the road you’re on get you to my place? -God.” Here are a few of the more obnoxious: “Keep using my name in vain, I’ll make rush hour longer.

God.” “What part of‘thou shaft not’ didn’t you understand? -God.” “You think it’s hot here? -God.” “Have you read my #1 best seller? There will be a test.

God.” And my personal least favorite; “Big bang theory, you’ve got to be kidding. -God.” According to The Christian Science Monitor, the ads were created by The Smith Agency in Florida in a campaign funded by an anonymous person who wanted to “get people thinking about God.” The “Messages from God” campaign was originally intended to be local and to last only a few months in 1999, but near its end, the Outdoor Advertising Association of America offered to launch it nationwide as a public service. The advertising space is now donated, either by the billboard owners or private individuals, at an estimated value of $l3 million, tax-deductible, ft is, according to OAAA, more popular than Smokey the Bear or the crash-test dummies.

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God’s message, it seems, has been translated into a form “relevan[t]” to the 19905. What I take this to mean is that God supposedly is more accessible when we insert tired, slang-filled, everyday speech into His mouth. God is just a regular ol’ guy like you and me.

The strongest argument I’ve ever heard from an atheist is that we have yet to create a god less shallow than ourselves. The answer, of course, is that we have yet to interpret a higher power in a manner that doesn’t reveal our own smallness. God doesn’t get more sophisticated; we do. At least, I thought we did.

I question the “success” of the campaign (the criteria for which were unspecified in the article). Other than creationists who already go to church and think the rest of us sinners need a lesson, who thinks these ads are clever? I can’t help thinking this money could be better spent doing God’s work—funding a soup kitchen or sending medical supplies to people in need (with no strings attached). Proselytizing within one’s own religion isn’t exactly productive.

I can overlook the rampant comma splices (which I assume are intended to resonate with a grammar-abusing public). I can smile at the utterly unconscious anthropomorphism. I can chuckle at the nearly literal example of preaching to the choir.

What bothers me is that these billboards are unsigned—and I don’tbelieve that God actually dictated the copy to Charlie Robb, one of the campaign’s creators.

Whoever claims to speak for God should own up to it.

These billboards are arrogance in a most undiluted form.

They are imagination presented as quotation. They are interpretation stated as fact.

What would God say if He took out some advertising space? I don’t know. You don’t, either.

Another interpretation for the church-van sign occurred to me; Are church-van motorists white-knuckledly incompetent? The sign could be a warning that I would get creamed by a singularly bad driver if I didn’t watch out.

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

Duke’s invisible

I wake-up in the morning, dress and walk hand-in-hand to the bus with my girlfriend. I kiss her good-bye and tell her I’ll see her later, no one stares or points. I go to classes and work, do some reading and meet my girlfriend for dinner.We walk through the gardens, unmolested and unnoticed. We go to her room, do homework and retire to our respective abodes.

Jessica Rosario

Guest Commentary Then I wake-up from my dream and live my life the way it really is, as a homosexual student at Duke. What seems possible to most Duke students is a fantasy for me. I can’t hold my girlfriend’s hand unmolested, I can’t participate in a queer campus group without receiving hate mail and I can’t display gay pride without my property defaced. Many gay students and allies are verbally and physically threatened and harassed. These circumstances create a very real fear that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students deal with on a daily basis. I don’t perceive the larger Duke community to be anything other than what it has presented itself to me to be, intimidating and non-affirming.

In my experience, the Duke community is at best tolerant. Yet, I don’t want to be tolerated. Tolerance implies annoyance and is often followed by, “as long as you don’t ‘flaunt’ it.” If I hold hands with my girlfriend, someone will say I’m “flaunting” my homosexuality. Heterosexual couples do this everyday without suffering

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repercussions. I’m not trying to force anyone to “agree” with homosexuality, I’m asking for my right to hve as I desire without restrictions. Some homosexuals would like to get married and adopt kids, others don’t, but we don’t even have the option.

In the Duke environment, students should have choices. Duke could be a more affirming environment if it legitimated the LGBT community. I envision a welcome place for gay and lesbian students in all campus groups, an open environment where LGBT students can hold hands and

straight students can attend Alliance of Queer Undergraduate Students at Duke events without someone assum-

ing or caring if they’re gay. I imagine an institution with open and honest discourse about homosexuality, reli-

gion, gender, sex, class and how those subjects intersect.

Duke could be capable of providing education on LGBT issues, where the Center for LGBT Life isn’t the only resource for gay students. Duke could be the university to make a difference in the way lesbians and gays are perceived by listening to the needs of homosexual students inside and outside of the classroom. The Center for

LGBT Life, a division of Student Affairs, is an advantage to the LGBT community that not all minorities have. However, the Center cannot be solely responsible for providing education and affirmation for lesbian and gay faculty, staff and students, especially not with a cramped and inadequate facility. In my vision, the Sexuality Studies Program is revamped, and other disciplines could

minority include courses that would show students that this invisible minority crosses all racial, national, and socioeconomic boundaries.

Other campus groups take some of the responsibility in making their gay members feel comfortable and safe by providing information and programming on LGBT issues and how they affect their communities. Instead of providing funding and asking for anonymity, student groups can work with queer organizations such as the AQUA at Duke. As of now AQUA Duke and Duke Allies bear the responsibility of educating the greater Duke community. And people wonder why we need the funding we receive.

Our requests are ignored. The gay community had been fighting for same-sex unions in the Chapel for years, and the issue was only addressed through the Duke Student Government agenda. The request was granted for religious diversity. It appears like the university was and perhaps still is afraid to offend its morally conservative alumni by taking the lead on LGBT rights.

It probably won’t happen while I’m a student, and it may not happen in

the next decade, but Duke has potential to be an affirming environment.

Some individuals are taking steps by being SAFE trained, attending Speak OUT panels and taking one of the few sexuality courses. Nevertheless, Duke has a long way to go. Until we join as a community, LGBT students, faculty and staff will bear a heavy load in educating an educational institution.

Jessica Rosario is a Trinity junior.

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