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UVa-nquished The men’s soccer team dropped its match over the weekend to Virginia, a perennial soccer powerhouse. See Sportswrap, page 3
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Bowles, Dole square off at ECU Witt pursues new By RUTH CARLITZ
course evals plan
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Senate hopefuls Erskine Bowles and Elizabeth Dole took their gloves off Saturday night for a combative second debate at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine in Greenville, N.C. Speaking to an audience that included former US. Senate majority leader Bob Dole
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version of the Student Accessible
Course Evaluation System, Arts and Sciences Council Chair Ronald Witt hopes to present a Ronald Witt
cation and foreign policy. The debate began with a 30minute series of scripted questions from two moderators followed by 30 minutes of questions from pre-selected au-
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ELIZABETH DOLE (left) shakes hands with Erskine Bowles after a U.S. Senate debate at East Carolina University Saturday. ing all options other than military action had been exhausted for Iraq, but “as far as North Korea is concerned, diplomacy is in order at this point.” Bowles said that pre-emp-
tive strikes represent an enormous change in military strate-
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gy since Sept. 11. “The U.S. must be prepared to stop any potential attack, [but it is] ab-
solutely necessary that there be clear, convincing evidence that we face real danger.” See DEBATE on page 9
compromise plan al-
lowing professors to post their evaluation data. The current trial system, approved narrowly last year, placed all evaluation data online unless faculty mem-
bers specifically requested that it not be posted. “I don’t see any other way,” Witt said. “If we go for the whole hog, there will be nothing to eat.”
an opt-out to an opt-
in system for faculty. Although it remains unclear what affect the change would have on how much data is available online, Witt predicted that over time, the success of faculty members who share their evaluation data online will encourage more faculty to follow suit. Chemistry professor James Bonk said he thought the comSee SACHS on page 10
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N.C. State 24 Fourteen seconds, one timeout left, ten yards. Having just Duke 22 miraculously recovered an onside kick at the N.C. State 49-yard line—an attempt made possible by an equally improbable 40-yard touchdown pass from Adam Smith to Khary Sharpe just seconds earlier—Duke needed just 10 yards, maybe only six, to give kicker Brent txarber a realistic try at a game-winning kick. Smith and the Blue Devil offense trotted out to face a stunned Wolfpack defense, and on the first play from scrimmage those 10 yards were there
By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle
See PATENTS on page 12
Trinity College. If Witt’s plan succeeds, it would change SAGES from
By NICK CHRISTIE
based on a tool he patented but the University continued to use—back to district court.
A patent-infringement lawsuit filed against the University by the inventor of the free-electron laser was sent back to a North Carolina district court this month by the U.S. Court of Appeals in a ruling that reopens the question of the relationship between patent-holding researchers and universities. The suit alleges that the University infringed upon two of plaintiff John Madey’s patents by operating the Free-Electron Laboratory and using equipment related to Madey’s patents after he was fired as director of the laboratory in 1997. The federal court of appeals’ Oct. 3 decision directs the lower court to reexamine the case with a more limited interpretation of the experimental-use exception—a doctrine that allows for patent infringement’ if relevant research is used, in the words of a previous court decision, “for amusement, to satisfy idle curiosity or for
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Devils almost upset No. 10 ’Pack
� The U.S. Court of Appeals kicked a case between Duke and a former physics expert-
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the Arts and Sciences must approve Witt’s proposal before the entire council considers it, most likely at its December meeting. The vote will not affect
When the Arts and Sciences Council votes later this semester on whether to continue providing course evaluation information online, the proposal it SAGES availability this seconsiders will be weaker than mester—course evaluation last year’s plan, but still may data has already been posted have a difficult time gaining fac- for spring registration. During ulty approval. its trial period last Reacting to what spring, students ache calls near-certain cessed the information about 18,000 faculty opposition to iff permanently aptimes, said Robert proving the current Thompson, dean of
and N.C. Lieutenant Governor Beverly Perdue, the candidates met for what may be their last debate, adopting a decidedly more aggressive tone than last week’s encounter at Meredith College. North Carolina’s rural economy emerged as a top issue, but the debaters also touched on Social Security, campaign finance reform, edu-
dience members. Although the majority ofthe debate focused on issues specific to North Carolina, the debate opened with the candidates facing off on foreign policy—specifically the role of pre-emptive strikes in light of recent revelations about a North Korea nuclear weapons program. Dole spoke first, say-
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for the taking. Sophomore wide receiver Lance Johnson flashed open across the middle without a N.C. State defender in sight. Smith—who literally played the game of his life Saturday afternoon, completing 28-of-38 passes up to that point for 353 yards and a touchdown—simply could not connect. “That’s a play I’m going to remember for at least a year,” Smith said in the aftermath of the Blue Devils’ (2-6, 0-4 in the ACC) heartbreaking 24-22 loss to lOth-ranked N.C. State (8-0, 3-0), who entered the contest as 24-point favorites. “I threw it a little behind Lance Johnson. If he had caught that we would have been around the 40
KICKER BRENT GARBER lines up for a 66-yard attempt at the end of the fourth quarter that would have clinched a win for Duke Saturday.
Selective living groups with coed bathrooms are confronting new scrutiny over security in dormitories following a reported sexual assault two weeks ago. See page 3
The Davison Council hopes to focus more this year on community service, after spending last year on curriculum. See page 4
somewhere.”
See FOOTBALL in Sportswrap, page 4
A student reported that he was assaulted by a man in Wayne Manor Friday night after refusing to give him a beer in the hallway. See page 5