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Experts: Michigan Governance changes proposed cases ‘monumental’

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

Affirmative action to undergo review

By JENNIFER HASVOLD The Chronicle

The U.S. Supreme Court announced its long-awaited and potentially far-reaching decision yesterday to hear two cases concerning admissions at the University of Michigan,

constituting the latest development in the nation’s raging debate over the legitimacy of affirmative action policies. The outcomes of the cases could drastically impact the current admissions policies of public universities.

In Related News The U.S. Supreme Court will revisit the legality of affirmative action in public colleges for the first time in two decades. See page 2 The nation’s highest court has not ruled on affirmative action in education since the University of Califomia-Davis case in 1978 when it ruled against quota systems but upheld special consideration for minorities.

“You not only have a split among the circuit courts of appeal but you also have a split

in terms of the viewpoint of most Americans on affirmative action,” said Trina Jones, professor of law and former litigator in the area of employ-

ment law. “The Supreme Court is taking up a case that has

monumental significance as

far as where we stand on affirmative action as a nation.”

In Grutter v. Bollinger, Barbara Grutter, a white female law school applicant to Michigan who was denied admission, has claimed that her 14th Amendment rights were being violated and has challenged the validity of diversity in an academic context as a compelling state interest. Michigan law school’s admissions policies were initially declared illegal by a U.S. District Court judge,

but the decision was later overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Attorneys general from multiple states pushed for the Supreme Court to establish precedent on the matter in order to foster the uniform development of legally sound admissions policies.

Other justifications of afSee MICHIGAN on page 8

Two of the University’s most powerful faculty governance committees could undergo major changes next year under a proposed restructuring that will be presented at Thursday’s Academic Council meeting.

In initial discussions, the reorganization was proposed as a merger to help consolidate overlapping agendas ofthe two

committees—the President’s Advisory Committee on Resources and the Academic Priorities Committee.

“We realized that the campus has gone through an extensive strategic planning exercise... but the structure of faculty governance had not undergone such a review to see if maybe it could be improved,” said professor and chair of chemistry John Simon, who is chairing APC for the fourth year and also chaired an ad hoc committee created this summer to the study the issue.

Committee members ulti-

mately abandoned the idea of the merger—because the workload would be too great—and proposed an alternative system, Simon said. APC would change its name to the Academic Programs Committee, and PACOR would become the University Priorities Committee.

The new APC would deal strictly with issues related to

the development of departments and programs on campus and serve as the final stage in

terial that was being thrown at us, some ofthe external reviews were handled a little bit faster

the external reviews of ments and programs, an area that Simon said has not garnered complete attention under the current system.

“That set of responsibilities ls about half of what [the current] APC does,” Simon said.

“Because of the amount of ma-

th,an they should have been, [The new APC] will really give the committee time to focus on those sets ofissues.”

Provost Peter Lange said he expects the new APC to also diacuss broader University-wide is-

See GOVERNANCE on page 7

Blue Devils face Buckeyes in annual Challenge

By MIKE COREY The Chronicle

In a state that attracted 50,000 fans to a high school football game in 2001, Ohio State basketball has long struggled to escape the Buckeye State’s religious zeal for football. Particularly in a season in which the school’s gridders are headed to the national championship game, the Ohio State basketball team is starving for attention.

But with the football team out of action until January 3rd, head coach Jim O’Brien’s squad may be able to steal some attention in America’s biggest college town, Columbus, Ohio.

A win over No. 6 Duke in the ACCBig Ten Challenge would certainly help.

The game, being played in Greens-

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CASEY SANDERS lurches for a loose ball during Saturday’s game against UCLA. He may be forced into more such plays tonight against Ohio State’s strong defense.

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An undergraduate junior studying at the Duke Marine Lab remains in critical condition after a weekend accident driving home from Thanksgiving. See page 3

boro, N.C., will be the first meeting between the schools since 1978 when No. 1 Duke was upended in overtime by unranked Ohio State.

The Buckeyes are coming off a disappointing 54-48 loss to No. 4 Alabama, a game in which Ohio State exhibited its formidable defense. The

The Durham City Council discussed transportation, crime and a number of additional issues at its meeting Monday night. See page 3

Buckeyes’ trademark scrappy play and intense man-to-man pressure frustrated the Crimson Tide all night long. Alabama’s shots could not have been more pitiful if they had pepper spray in their eyes—they were a horrific 17 percent from the field in the second half.

“It was kind of an ugly win, but ugly girls get dates, too,” Crimson Tide coach Mark Gottfried said. “That’s the way we were tonight, but Ohio State had a lot to do with that.”

However, that the Buckeyes were still able to lose to Alabama is indicative of the disrepair of Ohio State’s struggling offense. The scarlet-andgray shot a meager 28 percent in the contest, with its best player, senior shooting guard Brent Darby, going 0for-8 on the night.

“I stunk the gym up,” he said. “You can see that in my stats.”

Ohio State’s shooting woes are partly due to recent injuries to starting point guard Brandon Fuss-Cheatam See OHIO STATE on page 12

Two Duke neurologists may have discovered an alternalive role of a set of proteins, which under certain conditions start attacking neurons. See page 4

World & Nation

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British push for action against Hussein

The British government released a new dossier on Iraqi human rights abuses in the effort to build public support for action against Hussein. The Foreign Office said it is not a justification for a strike on Iraq.

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North Korea agrees to non-proliferation

China and Russia called on North Korea Monday to abandon any attempt to acquire nuclear weapons.

North Korea promised to halt nuclear weapons development in return for energy aid, including construction of nuclear power plants.

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Strike launched against Venezuelan president

Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who say his leftist policies have fueled unemployment and hurt democracy, launched a strike Monday and threatened street protests in a bid to oust him.

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Tobacco advertising banned in Europe

EU health ministers voted to outlaw tobacco advertising in magazines, newspapers, the Internet and on the radio. The 15 members of the union are obliged to incorporate the pan-European law into their national statutes by July 2005.

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Asylum camp in France set to shut down

France and Britain said Monday that the asylum camp in France will close later this month. Under the arrangement, Britain will receive about 1,000 Iraqi Kurds and 200 Afghans. France will take responsibility for the remaining camp refugees.

News briefs compiled from wire reports.

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U.S. binds Iraq to cooperation plan Bush demands a detailed declaration of all Iraqi weapons programs by Dec. 8

By DAVID SANGER and

RiCHARD STEVENSON

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush Monday demanded that Saddam Hussein include every detail of Iraq’s weapons and missile programs in a declaration due at the United Nations Sunday, and said his initial reading of Hussein’s coopera-

tion was “not encouraging.”

“Any act of delay, deception or defiance will prove that Saddam Hussein has not accepted the path of compliance and has rejected the path of peace,” Bush said in a speech at the Pentagon, where he signed a defense budget authorization bill.

Only a week after UN. weapons inspectors began searching for evidence ofchemical, biological and nuclear weapons in Iraq, Bush appeared to be setting up the Sunday deadline as a critical measure of Iraqi cooperation.

Bush stopped short of declaring that an incomplete declaration Sunday would constitute a cause for war, and several officials said the Pentagon is not yet ready to fight in Iraq.

But he did say the report would amount to a clear test of whether Saddam has changed his ways.

A senior administration official said Monday night the White House did not know what to expect from the

Dec. 8 declaration that Iraq is required to make. But the official said that because it would most likely be a lengthy document—perhaps hun dreds of pages—“the more important date” would occur when officials had completed their assessment of it.

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tions, the administration has held back whatever intelligence it has collected about Iraq’s activities, hoping to leave Hussein guessing how much the United States knows. It is possible that Bush will decide to offer up evidence that contradicts the Iraqi declaration, or points out major omissions.

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Court revives affirmative action debate

By LINDA GREENHOUSE

New York Times News Service

The decades-long wait for the WASHINGTON Supreme Court to return to the heated topic of affirmative action in university admissions ended Monday when the justices announced that they would review two cases challenging the University of Michigan’s consideration of race to ensure a diverse student body for its law school and un-

dergraduate program.

Coming a generation after the Bakke decision in 1978 invalidated the use of fixed racial quotas while upholding diversity as a valid goal, the new cases, to be decided by early summer, are certain to attract enormous attention and to

renew a debate that has never completely died down.

The court in these cases could prohibit the use of race in university admissions, allow its current widespread use

to continue, or pronounce new standards for evaluating affirmative action case by case.

Getting the issue back on the Supreme Court’s docket is the culmination of a long litigation campaign by a public interest group here, the Center for Individual Rights, which opposes affirmative action and helped recruit the

three unsuccessful white applicants who are the plaintiffs in the two cases.

One, Barbara Grutter, applied to the University of Michigan Law School, one of the most selective in the country, in 1996 at the age of 43. The two white students who failed to win admission to the university’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the basic undergraduate program, which this year received more than 25,000 See SCOTUS on page 6 sbmomD sriT

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Three-car accident leaves junior in critical condition Two other students released with minor injuries

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

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A junior remains in critical condition and in intensive care after sustaining extensive head injuries in a three-car traffic accident Saturday.

Maggie Schneider, a biology major, has remained unconscious since the accident. She was traveling with two other friends, Megan Mobley and Melissa Smith, also juniors, through Smyrna, N.C., on the way back from Thanksgiving holiday in Nags Head. Her two friends avoided major injuries from the accident and returned to the Duke Marine Lab on Fivers Island in Beaufort, N.C., where the three are studying this semester.

Michael Orbach, director of the Marine Lab, said in an e-mail to the Marine Lab community Monday that there had been no change in Schneider’s condition as of Monday evening. Schneider, a St.

John’s, Newfoundland, Canada native,

Sign of the times A wreath adorns the front of the Chapel, marking the beginning of the holiday season

remains with her parents at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville, N.C. “Given that Maggie was enrolled at the Marine Lab, the staff there has really stepped in, and worked with her family and with the students down there to

bring as much support as possible,” said Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs.

Although counseling services are being offered for students at the lab, Wasiolek said many of Schneider’s friends in Durham gathered Monday.

“Maggie has been very active in Project WILD, so many of her friends and PWILDers gathered late this afternoon just to hopefully send a positive spirit to her and her family,” Wasiolek said.

“We’ll do all that we can to wish her a full and speedy recovery.”

The car, a Honda Civic, was hit by a pickup truck around 6:35 p.m. Saturday night, according to reports from the North Carolina Highway Patrol. The car was traveling south on U.S. Highway 70 when the truck, traveling north, ran off the road and swerved back across the center line, hitting the Civic and another car behind it. Although the truck’s occupants fled the scene, the driver was later located and charged with driving while intoxicated, driving with a revoked license, hit-and-run driving and See ACCIDENT on page 8

Scattered agenda marks City Council meeting

By JOSH NIMOCKS The Chronicle

The Durham City Council focused on a wide variety of issues at its meeting Monday night, with its discussion ranging from crime to the future of transportation in Durham and Chapel Hill.

Addressing lingering concerns about the summer’s drought, City Council members authorized City Manager Marcia Conner to execute a contract with the state for water supply storage at Jordan Lake. The council’s action followed the advice of city environmental officials who have warned in previous meet-

ings that the city must extensively plan for future droughts.

The Durham Police Department also presented its crime report for the third quarter. Although the council did not discuss any statistics in particular, some citizens expressed concern that crime has continually festered in Durham’s neighborhoods, Victoria Petersen, a resident, spoke of the need for

new measures to counter area crime.

“Couldn’t we... bring in expert people [from] around the country who could help us discuss what to do about crime?” Petersen asked, adding that sta-

tistics that include breakdowns by race and education could help officials assess some root causes of crime in Durham.

She said that the mayor and the council had promised her that in the latest report, race would be reported for all crimes, not just with homicides as officials have done in the past. Mayor Bill Bell, however, refuted this claim, adding that Petersen should try to set up a meeting with Interim Police Chief Steve Chalmers.

See CITY COUNCIL on page 6

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Researchers examine alternative role for proteins This led them to believe that the complement proteins were destroying the neurons. Oddly enough, when they placed the complement proteins in a culture with neurons, the neurons appeared to be resistant.

“This didn’t make sense,” McNamara said. “Why were they getting attacked in the brain, yet in tissue culture, appeared to be resistant?”

McNamara and Xiong realized, then, that the one difference between the cells in the children’s brain and the cells in the culture was that the ones in the culture did not have seizures.

“We then gave them seizures by pulsing them briefly with an excitatory substance,” McNamara said. The excitatory substance, glutamate, then transformed the neurons from being resistant to complement, to sensitive. The neurons were, in turn, destroyed.

“The neurons try to fend off complement since neurons have their own defenses. If you pulse them with glutamate, though, you disarm them and the

of autoimmune diseases, as well as diseases such as Alzheimer’s and multiple Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, meet Dr. sclerosis, whose conditions significantly James McNamara and Zhi-Qi Xiong. worsen following a minor injury.

McNamara and Xiong, two Duke neuBut John Lynch, associate professor robiologists, believe they have discovof neurology, noted that McNamara’s ered a set ofproteins that, similar to the research may be limited to Rasfictitious character of Robert Louis mussen’s disease.

Stevenson’s novel, usually function to “It’s a very specific trigger for a very rid the body of foreign invaders, but that specific disease,” he said. “If you can ununder certain circumstances can attack derstand that mechanism, it will be a the body’s immune system. great tool, but it’s not something that According to their recent research, can definitely be generalized.” patients who have autoimmune diseases McNamara and Xiong’s discoveries such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis came about while they were studying and who then experience minor inRasmussen’s Encephalitis—a rare, juries—such as seizures, fainting, trau- partly autoimmune disease in which ma or minor strokes—can have their children suffer from severe epileptic neurons attacked by the proteins, called seizures, causing damage to only one complement proteins. Each of the athalf of the brain. While studying the tacks causes the release of the neurobrains of children with the disease, they transmitter glutamate, which McNamafound they were always able to identify ra and Xiong believe sensitizes the the neurons in the membrane attack neurons to further attacks. complex—the terminal site for compleThe researchers’ findings could lead ment proteins—and that the neurons to drugs capable of mitigating the pain were being killed off by the proteins.

By SEEMA KAKAD The Chronicle

complement wins,” McNamara said, describing this “battle for survival Normally, glutamate functions as a communication method across the synapses of neurons ofthe brain. However, now it appears to sensitize the neurons to attacks of complement proteins.

In the future, McNamara and Xiong hope to understand better the molecular mechanisms by which the glutamate sensitizes neurons to complement proteins, so that a preventative drug ”

can be designed.

McNamara also said that their research could help lead to drugs for

Alzheimer’s, rheumatoid arthritis and sufferers of other common diseases, which would then inhibit the complement proteins before they reach the membrane attack complex and destroy the neurons.

Their research opens up a lot of doors for sufferers of neurodegenerative diseases.

“This could save humans a lot of mis-

ery,” McNamara said.

CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports

Jacket pilfered

Someone stole an employee’s $2OO hooded black leather jacket from a coat rack near the break area in Pickett Road Clinic between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Nov. 19.

Duke Card stolen, used A student placed her DukeCard in an unsecured cubbyhole near the monitor’s desk in the Wilson Recreation Center weight room between 12:40 and 1:55 p.m. Nov. 21. When she returned, she realized that her card had been stolen. She later learned that someone

had used her card to purchase $l5O worth of items at the Duke Store in the Bryan Center.

Guitar grabbed A student boarded the bus at the East Campus bus stop Nov. 26 at 11

Nov. 26 that someone had damaged a dryer at 2017 Yearby Street laundry room by pulling the front frame away from the body causing $lOO damage.

leaving his $l5O brown p.m., Jazmin/Takaminie colored acoustic lead guitar behind. When he returned to the bus stop to retrieve his guitar, it was gone.

Wallet taken

Clothing stolen

Room between 1 and 10 a.m. Nov. 25.

Walkway damaged '

Donations snatched

Edens Link patio below walkway. Apparently a large rock was dropped from the overhead walkway between 1 p.m.

Nov. 25 and 1 p.m. Nov. 26.

Someone stole $lOO of miscellaneous canned goods and candies from a donation box located in House P Commons Room between 9 p.m. Nov. 21 and 10 a.m. Nov. 25.

Dryer damaged

CD player stolen

An employee reported at 10:45 a.m

$6O portable CD player, $l5 CD player carrying case and $l5 CD. There were no signs of forced entry.

Someone stole a student’s unprotected $lOO wallet containing $lO Another CD player stolen cash, credit cards and drivers license While a visitor’s vehicle was parked from a cubicle located in the School of in the Fuqua School of Business lot beLaw library between 6:40 and 6:45 tween 3:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. Nov. 17, someone entered his vehicle and stole p.m. Nov. 26. his $75 Pioneer CD player.

Someone stole a student’s $6O tennis shoes, $5O leather boots and two $4O Rugby shirts from House T Commons

Someone caused $lOO in damage to two square stone patio tiles in the West-

was parked in the H parking lot on Hillsborough Road between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Nov. 20, someone stole his

While an employee’s secured vehicle

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Wallet pilfered Someone stole a visitor’s $5O wallet containing $2 cash, credit cards and driver’s license from a third-floor room in Edens 2-C between 5 p.m. Nov. 24 and noon Nov. 25.

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U.S. supports integration of Turkey into E.U.

By MICHAEL GORDON

New York Times News Service

The United States, in LONDON an unusually direct move into the politics of European integration, is cam-

paigning vigorously to advance Turkey’s prospects for entering the European Union and is encouraging a settlement of the long-standing Cyprus dispute.

Officials from George W. Bush’s administration said the effort—which aims to settle the issue before a key European summit meeting starting Dec. 12—is motivated by long-standing foreign policy considerations.

But U.S. officials acknowledged that the diplomacy is also an important element of Washington’s effort to secure

Turkey’s backing for a potential military campaign against Iraq.

In London Monday, Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense, urged European Union nations to set a date for initiating negotiations on Turkey’s eventual membership. His speech, which dwelled heavily on Turkey, came a day

before he was scheduled to leave for Ankara to try to discuss planning for a

possible military campaign in Iraq.

“The decision on EU members is, of course, Europe’s to make,” Wolfowitz said at the International Institute for

Strategic Studies. “But history suggests that a European Union that welcomes Turkey will be even stronger, safer and more richly diverse than it is today. The

alternative, exclusionary choice is surely unthinkable.”

His comments stood in marked contrast to recent remarks by Valery d’Estaing, the former French president, who is heading an effort to draft a con-

stitution for a newly integrated Europe. D’Estaing, reflecting a sentiment not uncommon in Western Europe, told the French newspaper Le Monde last month that Turkey was not a European country and that inviting it into the European Union would mean “the end of Europe.”

Some U.S. officials said they realized that trying to overcome resistance to Turkey’s integration into Europe in the next 10 days is something of a long shot.

Even so, Wolfowitz said a move to indicate that Turkey would eventually be welcome in the European Union would encourage continued political and economic change in Turkey. It could also, he said, send a signal to Islamic nations that there is not a fundamental clash between the West and nations with a Muslim majority.

“Turkey offers a valuable model for Muslim-majority countries striving to realize the goals of freedom, secularism and democracy,” Wolfowitz said.

“Those who would criticize Turkey for its problems confuse what is challenging with what is fundamental. They See TURKEY on page 8

A1 Qaeda involvement suspected behind Kenya attacks

By DAVID JOHNSTON

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON The Soviet-made launcher used in a failed attack on an Israeli passenger plane last Thursday had a serial number close to one on a launcher of the same type found last year after a failed al Qaeda attack on an American warplane in Saudi Arabia, senior government officials said Monday.

The discovery of the closely sequenced serial numbers, found stamped on missile launchers recovered after each attack, is important because authorities may now be able to link the attempted missile attack, which occurred in Kenya, with the failed attack in Saudi Arabia. That connection could provide the first concrete evidence that the Kenyan attacks were carried out by al Qaeda, the bin Laden terror network.

In the attacks last Thursday, three men in the

Kenyan city of Mombasa detonated a car packed with explosives at the Paradise Hotel, killing themselves as well as 10 Kenyans and three Israelis. Several minutes beforehand, two missiles narrowly missed an Israeli charter plane departing from Mombasa’s airport.

Intelligence analysts have strongly suspected al Qaeda or closely allied local groups in the attacks, but American and Israeli officials have said they

lacked definitive proof.

American officials have suggested that it was possible that another group played a role, identifying an affiliated Islamic extremist networkfrom Somalia, Al Itihaad al Islamiya.

Monday the White House spokesperson, Ari Fleischer, said there were “suspicions” that al Qaeda was behind the Kenya attacks. Kenyan officials have arrested more than a dozen people in connection with the attacks.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 4:45 P.M. and 5:15 P.M Beside West Union Building

Come join the University Community for Holiday Cheer and Refreshments during the Annual Tree Lighting Service at 4:45 PM., followed by the Lighting of the Menorah at 5:15 P.M We are grateful to the President’s and Executive Vice President's Offices for their support of these events.

Yet although the launchers came from the same production batch, it was not clear whether the one used in Kenya would have been sold in the same shipment as the one used in Saudi Arabia, or whether the same source bought both weapons, intelligence officials said. For that reason, they added, intelligence analysts were unable to declare with certainty that al Qaeda was behind them.

Nevertheless, suspicion of al Qaeda involvement was further strengthened on Monday by a statement on an Islamic Web site attributed to the group, claiming involvement in both Mombasa incidents.

The statement described both attacks as a Ramadan greeting to the Palestinian people and referred to the 1998 al Qaeda attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 231 people and wounded more than 5,000.

Twelve of the dead in those attacks were Americans.

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Petersen argued, as she has in past City Council meetings, that increasing attention has been given to combating crime in Latino communities at the expense of safety in black

“The drama here may be how much we are willing to reveal,” said one senior official with access to the intelligence. Other officials said, however, that the inspections are unlikely to be successful unless there are defections among Iraqi scientists who have knowledge of where weapons or development laboratories are hidden.

Bush’s speech—together with a similar one delivered-Monday by Vice President Dick Cheney in Denver marked the opening of a White House campaign to shift public attention from what the inspectors may or may not find to the U.N. demand that Hussein come clean about his weapons programs.

In what appeared a closely coordinated effort to build the case, Britain Monday released a 23-page report ac-

casing the Iraqi leader of rights abuses including systematic torture, mass executions and the use of rape as a weapon against political opponents or their families.

When Bush spoke Monday in the Pentagon auditorium, with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at his side, he apparently did not know that inspectors in Iraq had found equipment missing from an Iraqi missile plant. But the president said the goal of the inspections was not to uncover weapons but to ensure that Saddam complied with international demands to get rid of them.

“You see, the inspectors are not in Iraq to play hide-and-seek with Saddam Hussein,” Bush said. “Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm the evidence of volun-

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the plaintiffs’ request to accept a direct appeal from the district court without

communities.

In other business, the council adopted a resolution endorsing the 2025 Long Range Transportation Plan for the DurhamChapel Hill corridor. The plan was recently prepared by the Transportation Advisory Committee, a group of elected offi-

cials from the metro area who work with the Bill Bell N.C.

Depart-

ment of Transportation to decide on what area roads will be built and in what order. Bell and City Council member John Best are members of the advisory committee.

The transportation plan, revised every three to five years, is reviewed

by the federal government to ensure that planned roads will provide at least a minimum level of air quality.

It also identifies a range of possible improvements to address the transportation deficiencies, needs and goals of the urban area for the next 20 years.

Mayor Pro Tempore Lewis Cheek stressed the need to secure federal money for roads.

“Without a long-range transportation plan, we can’t get federal money for our roads,” he said. Cheek also praised Bell’s work in quickly assembling a plan.

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nifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher.

Both were B students at Michigan high schools who argued that the admission of black and Hispanic applicants with similar or lesser academic records was a violation of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection.

The sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Cincinnati, upheld the law school’s admissions program in a bitterly divided 5-4 decision earlier this year.

The U.S. District Court in Detroit upheld the current undergraduate admissions program two years ago in a decision that found an earlier, more rigid version unconstitutional. The appeals court heard the undergraduate case a year ago but has not yet ruled on it, and the Supreme Court Monday granted

tary and total disarmament.”

Bush made clear his skepticism that Iraq would live up to the U.N. res-

olution’s mandate.

“In the inspections process, the United States will be making one judgment: Has Saddam Hussein changed his behavior of the last 11 years? Has he decided to cooperate willingly and comply completely, or has he not?” Bush said. “So far the signs are not encouraging.”

As one such sign, Bush cited persistent Iraqi attacks on American and British warplanes in the no-flight zones over Iraq—confrontations that the United States, though few other nations, regards as a material breach of the U.N. resolution requiring Iraq’s full cooperation in inspections and

disarmament.

Bush said Iraq had also undermined its case by sending the United Nations letters “filled with protests and falsehoods.”

“We are looking forward to presenting our cases before the Supreme Court,” the university’s president, Mary Sue Coleman, said Monday. “Our admissions policies have been carefully and thoughtfully designed, and are based upon a great deal of research,” she said.

While the constitutional guarantee of equal protection applies directly only to government institutions, private universities also have a big stake in the outcome of the cases, Grutter vs. Bollinger, No. 02-241, and Gratz vs. Bollinger, No. 02-516. That is because Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars race discrimination by any institution that receives federal money, essentially all universities except for some religious colleges. Michigan is likely to garner widespread support fr6htthfe f£ighdf education community as well as from traditional civil rights organizations.

waiting any longer.

The cases present the same two legal questions. The first is whether diversity is a “compelling state interest,” the test the court applies to any governmental policy that takes race into account. The second is whether, if that test is met as a general matter, the specific program under review is “narrowly tailored” to accomplish the goal with as little harm as possible to competing interests.

The first question is an almost ab-

stract matter of constitutional doctrine, while the answer to the second is highly dependent on specific details. Michigan has vowed to defend its admissions

programs vigorously, and the public can expect to learn a fair amount about admissions practices as they have evolved under a legal microscope at selective universities Monday.

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GOVERNANCE from page 1 sues that transcend divisions and depart-

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ration and other intellectual trends.

The UPC would take on the APC’s strategic development, such as strategic planning, space and building construction issues, and maintain the current responsibilities of PACOR, which considers University initiatives in relationship with the budget. “[UPC’s agenda] will range all the way from the large academic priority setting to student life issues and it will be able to discuss the context ofthese issues within budgetary constraints so that when priorities are being made they are also being made with respect to the budget,” Simon said.

He added that a standing subcommit-

tee in the UPC will handle budgetary issues that are not necessarily the highest of priorities, providing the necessary budgetary oversight that faculty seek.

“The system is an attempt to try to ensure that certain discussions where matters are linked happen in the same place,” said law professor Paul Haagen, a member of APC and the Executive Committee of the Academic Council.

“You won’t have groups of people working together across purposes or in ignorance of one another. This is a thoughtful, creative way of dealing with an

organizational problem.”

Faculty governance has undergone significant changes in the past 15 years, and Lange said this move would be a logical next step.

“A decade ago there was a good deal more distrust on the faculty’s part in the administration,” Lange said. “That was

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Someone stole an employee’s unsecured $35 makeup bag containing $36 cash and ATM card from under a table in the hallway of 2200 Duke North between 1:58 and 2:58 p.m. Nov. 24. She recovered her bag on the second floor near the elevator core with everything in it except the $36 cash.

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The diabetic supplies were recovered but the $25 wallet and its contents could not be located.

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right now the University is having largely good times,” Simon said. “And what you want to do is create a structure that not only works in the good times but one that provides a good forum for discussion when you have to make hard decisions in bad times.”

Simon said some professors may feel the rearrangement could weaken faculty governance, especially because issues that in the past would have appeared on both committees’ agendas would likely only appear on one or the other in the future. The ad hoc committee behind the proposal said it hopes to foster better communication between the committees.

Simon and his colleagues will present the plan Thursday and field questions from the Council. Faculty will have the chance to debate the proposed changes at its January and February meetings, possibly voting on the matter in February.

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rooted in part by the fact that so much less was transparent to the faculty about our budget. There was also a sense that the administration didn’t really seek the faculty’s advice except when it was absolutely necessary. We’ve changed those things and... built up a much more positive and useful situation.”

Lange said the new system will afford faculty even more influence on the direction of the University’s top priorities.

Earl Dowell, J. A. Jones professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and two-time PACOR member, said the committee was created in the early 1990s during former president Keith Brodie’s tenure to address concerns about lack of faculty participation in important budget and priority decisions.

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and fix a date for talks on Turkish membership ofthe European Union by the time the leaders of the 15 member nations gathis er in Copenhagen, Denmark, for a meeting Turkey much on problems focus too the struggling today and ignore where it is focused on expanding the Union.

The American position is being supportheading.” ed by the British, who are anxious to put European desire to enter the Turkey’s Union and hostility between the Turkish together a deal on Cyprus, where they and Greek communities on the island of maintain a military presence. The British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, is flying to Cyprus have long been seen as secondTurkey Tuesday to seek Ankara’s help in order foreign policy issues in Washington.

But new factors have combined to push achieving a settlement.

Wolfowitz is headed to Ankara to conthe issues toward the top of the U.S. policy agenda. They include the recent change of sult with the new government that came government in Turkey and a new plan by to power after the Justice and Developthe UN. secretary-general, Kofi Annan, to ment Party, a Muslim-based political resolve the Cyprus issue, a plan the U.S. party led by Recep Erdogan, won parliashaped behind the scenes and encouraged mentary elections last month. But Wolthe UN. chief to present. The plan calls for fowitz has a somewhat different agenda a loose conference among the Greek and from Straw.

In the event of a conflict with Iraq, the Turkish communities on the divided island and a reduction of the territory under Pentagon would like to open a northern front so that Iraq’s forces have to deal with Turkish control.

Another key factor in bringing Turkish multiple attacks. issues to the fore in Washington is the Bush administration officials said they Pentagon’s desire to solidify relations are aware that the new Turkish government is still settling in—the new governwith Ankara.

Wolfowitz said Monday the goal should ment held its first national security counbe to achieve a breakthrough on Cyprus cil meeting only last Friday.

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MICHIGAN from page 1 firmative action—the use of affirmative action to create role models or to achieve social equity—have already been struck

down by courts, making the diversity defense one of the last strongholds for affirmative action advocates.

Circuit courts have been divided over the Grutter case, making it a prime candidate for judicial review. However, the second case—which involves two white undergraduate applicants —has not been the subject of any concrete rulings by lower

courts. The decision to accept this case may indicate that the Supreme Court justices feel strongly about taking a stance on

the issue.

Jerome Culp, professor of law at Duke, anticipates that the court will rule conservatively.

“This court has read race narrowly and been very antagonistic to doing remedial things for harms created by histories of determinism,” he said.

Jones agreed. “If you look at their most recent opinions on affirmative action, I am not overly optimistic that they will find that diversity is a compelling state interest, but we will just have to wait and see and hope that they do,” she said.

The cases are expected to affect primarily public institutions, making it unlikely that the ruling could directly impact Duke’s admissions policies.

ACCIDENT from page 3 leaving the scene of the accident. ’’The pickup was going between 85 and 90, went off the right side ofthe road, overcorrected and slammed into us, nearly head-on but on the drivers side,” Mobley wrote in an e-mail. “It bounced off us and hit the car behind us, and then that car

rear-ended us.”

Witnesses reported that Schneider remained pinned in the car for 30 to 45 minutes before rescuers could extract her and transport her to the hospital via helicopter.

Mobley and Smith were taken to Carteret General Hospital in Morehead City, N.C., treated and released. The second car’s occupants suffered only minor injuries.

“There is a great deal ofuncertainty concerning Maggie’s future, due to the extensive nature of her injuries,” Orbach wrote in the e-mail. “Based on current medical advice, Maggie will [in] all probability not be the Maggie we knew before Saturday night. She has the best of medical care.

What the rest of us can do is to keep Maggie and her family in our thoughts and prayers, and be supportive of them and of each other in this time of need.”

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2002

Football disappointed with 2002

Crazy antics sure to haunt

Though Duke ended losing streak, the team expected better year

By ROBERT SAMUEL The Chronicle

The 2002 football season began with promise, but like the previous two seasons, ended in disappointment. The team began the season with a 23-game losing streak and were only 12 losses away from breaking Division Ts all-time futility record, the exact number of games the team was to play this year.

With only one senior on the team, the university’s suspension of star quarterback D. Bryant and early injuries to 2001’s leading rusher Chris Douglas, many expected Duke to have lost 34 straight going into the final game of the season against North Carolina. These forecasters were proven wrong 13 weeks before the battle for the victory bell with Duke’s triumphant win against East Carolina in the first week of the season.

Alex Wade ran for 109 yards in the pouring rain, and with the losing streak, the goal posts fell as well.

Optimism was at an all-time high, and the gloom that followed the team was temporarily gone.

“This was a great experience for everyone; for the team, for the coaches, for their families, for our families, for Duke, for the city ofDurham, and for the ACC to finally not have a team that hasn't won a game,” Wade said after the game.

The team was quickly brought back to reality the next week by national power Louisville. Preseason AllAmerican quarterback Dave Ragone dominated the Blue Devils en route to a 40-3 win, foreshadowing the problems Duke was to have in the secondary all season.

“They threw a few balls over our heads,” Franks said about the weakness that improved little as the season went on. “That’s always been an area of concern for us; getting some depth in the secondary.”

“Please don’t rape me!” Clap clap clapclap-clap!

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“Sean can’t read! Sean can’t read!”

Shelden Williams, Casey Sanders and Sean Dockery will hear plenty of heckling during ACC road games this year.

Denizens of U-Hall and Doherty’s Disciples will have scathing put-downs, and Maryland students may finally put down their batteries. For years, their players suffered as the Cameron Crazies exploited each player’s foibles and faults, and now they have their chance for retribution. rp p, er *^ osen Duke’s Suddenly Holy crap! house has an awful lot of glass, and all the stones thrown over the past 20 years will come flying back.

The Duke fan’s natural reaction will be indignation. The charges against Williams were dropped; Sanders was granted deferred prosecution; and Dockery emerged from an area where very few students would qualify easily. This is all certainly true and the indignation is reasonable to a point.

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KATIE FAYE was one of several Duke swimmers who recorded exceptional times at the Patriot Invitational.

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The men’s and women’s swimming teams capped off their fall seasons with strong showings at the Patriot Invitational the weekend of Nov. 22-24. The women finished first among over 10 other teams, in the biggest meet of first semester. The men’s team took third place in an event in which Duke swimmers won a combined 18 events.

Freshman Katie Ness broke school records in the 100 butterfly (55.52) and 100 backstroke (56.58). She also took first in the individual 200 medley (2:04.08).

Her results qualify her for Senior Nationals in the 100 butterfly, and her performance could earn her spots in other events. Ness was also a member of four first place relay teams.

“It was a big first semester meet,” she said. “I knew I was having a good meet —I had rested for a few days.

I was really excited to just go out there and swim fast.”

The Blue Devils set nine meet records overall, seven of which were made by the women.

“It was such an exciting meet to win,” associate head coach Whitney Greene said. “It gives our team confidence to win a meet like this. We had some great swims for this time of year.”

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The volleyball team will square off against the Miami Hurricanes in Madison, Wis., in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday. Duke is 5-9 all-time in the tournament.

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The Tar Heels jumped to No. 12 in the national polls after winning the Preseason NIT this past weekend.

UNC has not been ranked since an early season loss to Hampton last year.

The Blue Devil quartet of Lauren Cornet, Amy Halligan, Julia Lewis and Ness took first in the 200 free relay. This team, which also won the 200 medley relay, qualified for the Senior Nationals, which will be held April 1-5. Cornett also made cuts for Nationals in the 100 and 200 breaststroke, with Halligan and Hancock qualifying for the 200 butterfly. Comet broke a meet record in the 200 breaststroke with her time of 2:18.03.

Another freshman who had a strong showing was Alison Sundberg, whose 52.13 seconds in the 100 freestyle earned her first place. Duke’s 400 freestyle relay team of Cornet, Lewis, Nora Stupp, and Sundberg also cruised to a top-place finish with a time of 3:31.04.

A team of Hancock, Ness, Stupp and Sundberg won first place in the 800 free relay, with a time of 7:41.90.

On the men’s side of the pool, John Humphrey set a school record in the 400 individual medley with a time of 3:58.06, making him the first man in Duke history to swim this event in under four minutes. The sophomore also won the 200 individual medley and finished third in the 200 butterfly.

Freshman Andy Storm broke the meet record in the 200-yard breaststroke in the preliminaries, while

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Former CBS executive resigns from Augusta

Thomas Wyman left, protesting club’s exclusionary membership practices towards women

By BILL PENNINGTON

New York Times News Service

Protesting Augusta National Golf NEW YORK Club’s refusal to admit a woman member, Thomas Wyman, the former chief executive of CBS and a 25year Augusta National member, has resigned from the club. Wyman is the only member of the ultra-exclusive club to resign since Augusta National’s all-male makeup became a public issue in June.

In an interview Monday, Wyman called the position taken by the club’s leadership in recent months unacceptable and pig-headed, and he estimated that as many as 75 of the roughly 300 club members also support the admission of a woman.

In a Nov. 27 letter to the club’s chairman, William Johnson, Wyman wrote that he hoped his resignation would spur others inside and outside the club to speak out in favor of a woman joining Augusta National, which plays host to the Masters tournament, broadcast by CBS A week earlier, Wyman had written Johnson expressing his dismay at Johnson’s staunch opposition to admitting women now as members and encouraged the club to announce that it would admit a woman next year.

Copies of both letters were obtained Monday by The New York Times, as was Johnson’s written response to Wyman, dated Nov. 22.

In that letter, Johnson wrote that he would not change his position on admitting a woman and affirmed that the overwhelming majority of members agreed with his stance. Johnson added, “I want you to also know that there is no timetable for the admission of women into our membership, nor do I expect there to be one in the foreseeable future.”

Monday, Augusta National issued a statement about Wyman’s resignation “We are disappointed that Mr. Wyman has chosen to publicize a private matter,” club spokesperson Glenn Greenspan said. “While we respect the fact that there are differences of opinion on this issue, we intend to stand firm behind our right to make what are both appropriate and private membership choices.”

Augusta National has always been famed for its secrecy—a place where members are prohibited from

discussing club procedures or policies outside the pristine Augusta National grounds. In recent months, Johnson, who is known as Hootie, has frequently written to the members reminding them not to discuss the membership issue, even amongst themselves.

“I am not anxious to make this personal,” Wyman said Monday. “But Hootie keeps writing that there has not been a single case of protest in the membership. And he absolutely believes this will all go away.

It will not go away and it should not. I know there is a large number of members, at least 50 to 75, who believe it is inevitable that there will be and should be a woman member.

“There are obviously some redneck, old-boy types down there, but there are a lot of very thoughtful rational people in the membership and they feel as strongly as I do Wyman, 72, led the CBS television network from 1979 to 1986 and was the chair of SG Warburg & Co., the American arm of the SG Warburg Group, the British investment firm, from 1992 to 1996. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business ”

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Institute of Technology Two other Augusta National members, who spoke Monday on the condition that they not be identified, said Wyman’s resignation might embolden other members to speak out on the issue or even join Wyman in resigning.

But both members also said the dissenting group was still a distinct minority at the club.

Wyman called on Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, the only two Augusta National members who are also Masters champions, to support the admission of a woman member.

“Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus could be very helpful with their voices,” Wyman said in the interview. “It would be nice ifthey came out and said; ‘Why can’t there be a woman member?”’

Palmer and Nicklaus have been reluctant to talk about membership at Augusta National. According to an Associated Press report early last month, Palmer said, “I don’t think I can lend anything to help the situation. I’m a member, and I appreciate

“It would have been the biggest thing to happen to us in a long time, if we could have pulled this off,” Smith said after the game.

Duke went to Evanston, 111, the followThe low-light ofthe season ended in ing week to battle Northwestern in a very winnable game. However, the Blue a close loss as well, this time to last Devils squandered a fourth quarter place rival North Carolina in the final lead to lose 26-21. contest of the season. After taking the This inability to win close games lead on its final offensive drive of the proved to be the Achilles Heel of Duke game, Duke lost on a 47-yard field goal football all season. Unlike last year as time expired.

“I thought we were in pretty good when the Blue Devils were manhandled nearly every game, Duke played most shape with 53 seconds left, but they made some plays,” a very disappointed teams to a stalemate.

Franks said.

Besides the games against bowlDespite all of the teams’ near misses, bound Louisville, Florida State, Georgia Tech and Maryland, the Blue Devils had several individuals had outstanding seasons for the youthful Blue Devils. After ample opportunity to win every game.

Duke would win only one other game only starting for one varsity season in after its opening victory though, a 43-17 high school, Smith emerged as a solid quarterback in the ACC, finishing fifth thrashing of Navy at Navy’s homecoming. The Blue Devils lost five games by in the league in passing yards per game.

Duke’s passing game was not the five points or less during the season, only successful part of its offense, as and unfortunately for Duke, the highlight of the season was a loss.

Wade and Douglas each finished in the Going into the N.C. State game top ten in the ACC in rushing.

October 19, the Wolfpack were undeThe Blue Devils’ run defense feated and ranked No. 13 in the impressed the ACC the most, however. nation. Thwarting the Blue Devils Finishing first in the ACC in rushing strong running attack, Adam Smith yards allowed, defensive-end Shawn threw for 353 yards, lighting up the Johnson was named first-team All-ACC State secondary, the ACC’s best pass after leading the league in sacks and defense. Smith threw a 40-yard bomb tackles for a loss. Ryan Fowler and Matt with sixteen seconds left to pull the Zielinski were named honorable mention Blue Devils within two, but things did for their efforts on the defensive line. not become interesting until Duke Duke returns its entire team, save recovered an onside kick.

Jamyon Small, and* is looking to build Duke, however, was unable to take on its already improved nucleus.

“We’ll be back,” safety Terrell Smith advantage of its luck, and once again the Blue Devils came up short. said. “We’re going to be bowl contenders.”

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the fact I’m a member. And that’s all I’m going to say about Augusta Wyman said he viewed the inclusion of women at Augusta National no differently from the way he had viewed the inclusion of Augusta National’s first black member in 1990. “It is the same issue,” he said.

Johnson has made it a point to contend that the two issues are different, that Augusta National is making choices as a private, single-gender club. Johnson has compared the club to private women’s colleges or the Girl Scouts of America.

“But given the particular nature of the event Augusta National hosts, which is a worldwide treasure, we have a larger responsibility,” Wyman said.

“Excluding a woman from the membership is not right.

And it could be fixed so easily.

“The course Hootie is choosing, and it is completely his choice, will bring about a downhill slide that will only hurt Augusta National, the game of golf and our modern sense of diversity as a desirable thing.”

Wyman also said he believed his former employer, CBS, should be supporting the effort to admit a ”

woman member.

“CBS could at least come out in favor of a commitment from Augusta National on the admission of a woman,” Wyman said. “They have a constituency that cares about this issue and I was disappointed CBS didn’t do more. They should say it is inevitable and it should happen sooner rather than later. People say that if CBS takes on Hootie they’ll lose the tournament. I don’t think that is so.

“CBS has had the tournament for 46 years and they are terrific at it. They have a very good relationship with the club. Now the heat is going to be on CBS. It is going to be impossible for CBS to ignore the picketing and the protests.”

The dispute over Augusta National’s all-male membership flared in June shortly after Martha Burk, the chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations, wrote Johnson a private letter in which she urged him to admit a woman at the club.

Johnson responded with a sharply worded threepage public statement saying Augusta National would not be bullied into making membership decisions “at the point of a bayonet.”

ROSEN from page 9 We don’t know what happened in the Ohio hotel room that led a woman to claim that she was raped while Williams was in the room. Nor do we know exactly what transpired in Sanders’ girlfriend’s house that allegedly led him to push her.

Both seem human, with at least the potential for innocence. We consider how the taunting will affect them and consider the injustice of the situation.

But that hasn’t stopped Cameron Crazies from harassing players in strikingly similar situations, whose only proven crimes were wearing different colored jerseys. When Maryland’s Herman Veal, who was accused of sexual assault by a fellow student and disciplined by his school but not the legal system, took the floor of Cameron in 1984, he was greeted with 1,000 panties and condoms. Veal’s and Williams’ situations are practically identical.

The Crazies love it when opposing players have brushes with the law, although Mike Rrzyzewski has been shooing them away from sensitive cases—perhaps because he knew a day might come when Duke’s luck would stop.

Personally, I have great sympathy for Dockery. If I had attended Dockery’s high school and lived in his neighborhood, I’m sure I wouldn’t be attending a school like Duke. If he works in the classroom, he’ll outperform many Duke basketball players of the past who had no trouble with standardized tests. But that won’t stop fans of opposing schools

from heckling him incessantly.

Cameron Crazies added “can’t” to the

middle of North Carolina star J.R. Reid’s name for no other reason than his last name or, according to Tar Heel head coach Dean Smith, his race.

Dockery’s very public struggles with the ACT punctured the myth that Duke basketball players are scholars and other college basketball players are idiots. And unfortunatelyfor Dockery, he’s likely going to hear about it at every ACC port of call.

Around the ACC, the Cameron Crazies don’t have the best reputation. Fairly or

not, students at Maryland regularly cited

their behavior as justification for battery and bottle tossing and profanity. UNC students have set themselves up as Doherty’s Disciples in alliteration imitation. But their coach held a very negative view ofthe Crazies when he was a player.

“I think they’re all a bunch of rude northerners who study too much and release it on the players,” UNC head coach Matt Doherty said as a 22-yearold in the wake of the Veal incident.

“Seriously, I don’t think it shows much class.... I haven’t seen too many things over there that are clever. It’s been pretty crude, some of the things.”

To say that the Cameron Crazies are the reason Williams, Sanders and Dockery will be heckled this season is overly simplistic. But the Cameron Crazies have played a large part in the culture that encourages the players’ private fives be picked apart by thousands of fans.

Tyler Rosen is a Trinity junior and Sports Managing editor

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SWIMMING from page 9 swimming to a time of 2:04.16 in the finals of competition. Classmate Billy Pearce, along with three other swimmers from different schools, beat the existing meet record in prelims in the 200 backstroke, though Pearce’s record was broken.

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Greene said. “I was really proud of the freshmen, especially to be doing so well early in their careers.”

The team will spend the next couple months training for the ACC Championships, which begins in February. They will spend 10 days of Christmas break in Florida, and will look for another strong performance at their next meet January 11, when Duke hosts Davidson.

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OHIO STATE from page 1 junior college transfer Shun Jenkins. Both will sit out the Duke game. The injuries magnify Ohio State’s biggest deficiency—depth and ability at the guard position.

The Buckeyes will be starting a guard who is yet to fully recover from two traumatic experiences—back surgery and a bullet wound in the buttocks. The healing Buckeye, Matt Sylvester, is an inexperienced redshirt freshman who has turned the ball over five times in each of Ohio State’s first two games. In addition, Darby has played all 80 minutes of the Buckeyes’ first two games. If the pace of play is controlled by the Blue Devils, Darby could be in for another woeful and exhausting night.

Conversely, the Blue Devils’ backcourt is one ofthe most talented in the nation. Fresh off a resounding victory against UCLA, Duke will look to punish the Buckeyes by utilizing its athletic—and plentiful—guards, pushing the ball up and down the court in an uptempo game.

This is the antithesis of Ohio State’s tedious game plan, which is masterfully structured by O’Brien to capitalize on his player’s strongpoints, hustle and defense. O’Brien does not boast a talent-laden roster, but he always maximizes the potential ofhis athletes. And

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in a big game against Duke, the Buckeyes will certainly be at their best.

Ohio State should be expected to key in on Redick defensively, who was very impressive with 20 all-purpose points against UCLA—he drained five threes, had a few nifty moves to the basket, and even outmuscled his Bruin

counterparts.

“J.J.’s our most mature, consistent coach Mike freshman,” head Krzyzewski said. “He shoots better than that in practice.”

More than that, Redick is one ofthe catalysts of Duke’s offense.

“When we’re on the court, [Redick] is a guy who we have an awareness of,” Duhon said. “We know we should get him the ball. He’s a momentum shooter for us.”

The frontcourt battle should prove more competitive, however, as the Buckeyes tout a 7-foot center in Velimir Radinovic, 6-9 forward Terence Dials, and 6-7 forward Zach Williams.

Radinovic and Williams are both upperclassmen, and will look to expose the inexperience of Duke’s starting big men, freshmen Shelden Williams and Shavlik Randolph, But if the UCLA game was any indication, Duke will not have to rely solely on its underclassmen in the paint.

Both Sanders and junior Nick Horvath were impressive against the Bruins, and will be pivotal in preventing the Buckeyes’ upset bid.

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The Chronicle Investigating 9/11

Last

week, President George W. Bush appointed Henry Kissinger to head an independent investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Kissinger, 79, is a veteran of administrations including those of Richard Nixon, Law ’37, and Gerald Ford, having served as Secretary ofState and National Security Adviser. The commission is charged with looking into security failures surrounding Sept. 11, examining what was known when and why the attack occurred.

Although Kissinger has wide respect in Washington for his abilities as a statesman, his selection to head an investigating commission is troubling. In the past Kissinger has kept many of his actions secret. For example, under Kissinger the United States carried out covert military action in Cambodia, secret negotiations with China and underground plans to overthrow the Chilean government. But perhaps most importantly, Kissinger tried to suppress the publication of the Pentagon Papers, which explicated the United States’ role in

Vietnam.

Thus, doubts exist about Kissinger’s commitment to discovering and publishing the truth, the very mission his commission is charged with in regard to Sept. 11. Even if Kissinger is fully committed to letting the public know the truth in this case, his shady past clouds the commission.

However, since the Bush administration is comfortable with Kissinger, there will likely be a high degree of cooperation between the White House and the commission, which promises to help expedite the process and ensure that the investigation is thorough.

Moreover, Kissinger’s vast experience in Washington makes him powerful enough and well-respected enough to get things done independent of the Bush administration.

The appointment of George Mitchell, a former Senate majority leader, as vice chair ofthe commission is an encouraging choice.

Mitchell promises to bring an openness to the commission that is tainted by Kissinger’s reputation. Moreover, there remain numerous seats on the commission to be filled, and leaders should appoint as many upstanding, squeak-clean individuals as they can find to ensure that the commission has at least an air of objectivity.

Ultimately, the Bush administration took the right step by appointing this commission, even though it did occur after several months of stonewalling. It is a testament to the will of the Sept. 11 victims’ families that this commission was formed in the first place, and the commission has a duty to these families and to the rest of America to thoroughly and accurately report the truth about why the government was not able to prevent those horrific acts of terrorism.

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Bad Quran translations confuses columnist The

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mal footnotes making it difficult to understand and easy to take verses out of context.

This is the trap Bala Ambati fell into when he used verses from an English translation of the Quran to bolster his argument in a column several weeks ago.

In this regard, Abul Ala Maududi’s The Meaning of the Quran is the ideal for both translation Muslims and non-Muslims because of the depth and detail it provides on each and every surah of the Quran. Background information on the circumstances and conditions in which Quranic verses were revealed and extensive footnotes are provided to give a more complete view of the Quran’s message. It is

indispensable for anyone interested in understanding the message of the Quran.

I was shocked at my own ignorance when I first began to read his work. I have spoken to the librarians at Perkins Library and it is my understanding that they do indeed have this very translation in circulation.

Anyone interested in understanding the Quran should read this work with an open mind without any preconceived notions and then form an opinion. Are you listening Bala?

Moahad Dar, M.D. Research Associate Endocrinology, Metabolism

and Nutrition

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Prohibitionists and U.S. drug policies need reform With earth’s past history America, for too long.

Another side effect of the of racism and America’s war on drugs and the plant present technology, prohibitionists and racists have cannabis—marijuana—is become one in the same financing terrorism beyond (“Forum addresses injustice the conceptions of A1 Capone to that of al Qaeda. of drug laws,” Nov. 26).

The original prohibition America must move on a national scale was toward credible drug law worse than the booze proreform and disregard prohihibited, and the sequel, bitionists to do so.

At the very minimum, now, on an international scale, is worse.

North America must legalProhibitionists are out of ize cannabis especially concontrol, doing great harm to sidering the worst side

effects of cannabis are police-inflicted.

Caging adult humans for using cannabis is so mean- spirited, repulsive, dysfunctional and sinful that it should be asked if cannabis prohibitionists

really even comprehend that they’re admitting a desire to cage humans for using a plant?

Stan White Dillon, Colorado

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Student housing policy ignores students’ interests Duke experience. would be more willing to conNor does it make sense to tribute donations to Duke so me that a student being litthat it wouldn’t have to use erally forced to pay more for practices of extortion on lower quality housing also unwitting students.

However, as it stands campus until their senior improves his experience. year?lf not, why not? If so, Burig did his best to cover now Duke students must how can I help? up the real reason behind all be satisfied that they are all treated equally by the I just got off the phone of it, but when all other arguwith Bill Burig who rattled ments failed, the truth came rules on Duke’s campus, out. What is really behind the and that Duke will continoff a half-hour dose of complete nonsense stating why new housing policy any four ue to look out for what is in it is so important for stuyear-old could have deduced: the “best interests” of its Duke needs more money! students. Funny, I thought dents to stay on campus. that one of the goals of I particularly liked his Maybe if Duke treated stucomments about how the dents with respect and sincer- higher learning was to prounderlying reason behind all ity, students would become duce individuals capable of this was to improve the Duke more involved in campus looking out for their own student’s experience. I fail to activities. Or maybe if Duke best interests. see how reducing a student’s provided a social atmosphere freedom to make his own livthat didn’t resemble a miniKevin Krauth ing decisions improves the mum security prison, alumni Trinity ’O5 Have there been any attempts by the Duke Student Government to curtail the new policies prohibiting students from living off

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NATO’s growin g pains Addition of seven East European countries to NATO will cause more harm than good Groucho Marx famously remarked that “I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would accept me as a member.” It is too bad that the seven East European countries recently invited to join NATO don’t share his sentiment.

Bulgaria, Estonia,

Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (got all that?)

were formally given the Molchanov nod at a summit in Politics and Prague, and as much as q I hate to be the naysayer, this is not the momentous and historic occasion it was hyped up to be.

As the premier Western military alliance, NATO’s mission is to enhance security in the North Atlantic area. It has always been, and should always be, a military alliance, not some exclusive political club. Most ofthe new entrants, on the other hand, view membership not as an end unto itselfbut as the stepping stone to the biggest prize of all— invitation to join the European Union.

As far as multinational organizations go, NATO has never been particularly selective. But membership is viewed as a status symbol in Eastern

Europe, and while such sentiment among prestige-hungry countries like Bulgaria may be excused, the current allies have deliberately encouraged it by claiming that expansion achieves “our common goal of a Europe whole aafcfc ifree| Itinitedl in peace and by comnfrjm OneaLfthuahian newspa- f per evefr boasted that “the clock of history in Lithuania has started showing

scale. The Prague summit declaration is a diploma that they can hang on the wall of the presidential palace to announce to the world that they have finally debuted on the international stage, But that’s not all it is—it also holds out a promise of substantial financial assistance for restructuring their antiquated, Soviet-era armed forces.

Unlike a diploma, this costs money, and guess who gets to write the check? Yes, American and other allied taxpayers wiH foot the bill, to the tune of $25 billion, and there are better ways for our government to spend this money.

Moreover, these seven countries would benefit far more from economic development aid than a new air force.

I have nothing against the new members, but they will add virtually nothing of value to the alliance. The contribution of Bulgaria or Latvia to NATO’s defensive

posture will be roughly equal to that of Luxembourg—which means zero—except that Luxembourg does not require funding from the other allies in order to make that contribution. This sets a dangerous precedent, for as NATO itself proudly states, it is still not done with the expansion program. If it admits Romania, why not Ukraine? Or Albania? Or Moldova?

With each foothold in the former Soviet bloc, it gets more and more difficult to integrate the new allied militaries into the existing command structure, An unwieldy alliance can sometimes

be worse than no alliance at all. While

no one disputes that these countries now share the basic democratic values dnf the founding members, the fact of the matter is that an alliance of 26 partners will be highly incongruous. In a sense, it already is, hence the lack of substantive real Western civilization time.”

For the invitees, joining NATO is NATO decisions. The alliance’s governanalogous to resume-padding on a grand ing councils are driven by consensus,

which is tough to achieve with 19 members, not to mention 26 (and probably more in the near future). There will be too many competing national interests at work, so some

members

may well prevent

the alliance from adopting a common

strategy to face the challenges of the

future.

But

attacks, natural disasters or humanitarian catastrophes around the world, they will prove to be an important component of the new, leaner opera-

tional framework.

NATO also has decided to enhance its capabilities for fighting terrorism. Earlier this year, I sharply criticized not it for failing to follow through on its invocation of Article Five following Sept. 11. It now seems that it is determined to do more than I’ve given it credit for, but its actions in the near future will speak louder than words.

The bottom line is that NATO clearly wants to remain relevant in the post-Cold War world.

This is entirely feasible, but the alliance is using the wrong means to accomplish this end. History is replete with examples of international organizations—such as the Commonwealth—that grew too quickly for their own good, resulting in utter obsolescence.

This does not mean that NATO shouldn’t expand eastward, but its potential members must show that they want to make an active contribution to collective security in Europe rather than merely make a bold political state-

This sets a dangerous precedent, for as NATO itself proudly states, it is still done with the expansion program. If it admits Romani,why not Ukraine?

Or Albania Or Moldova? ?

enough about France NATO should not be a part of the grand European unification project, nor should it be about democracy, human rights or economic development. These are worthy goals, but we already have the Council of Europe, EU and OSCE. If the alliance is to remain effective, international security has to be its principal objective, with everything else a distinctly secondary consideration.

Rather than inflating its sense of selfimportance by dabbling in politics, the alliance needs to focus on its core competency, which is the prevention of conflict (if possible) and winning wars (if necessary).

Some changes that came out of the Prague summit were quite encouraging. The new rapid reaction forces, a network of highly mobile units around Europe, will soon become a reality.

Whether responding to terrorist

ment.

The world already has too many organizations that have degenerated into debating societies. We can only hope that NATO will not become one of

them.

Pavel Molchanov is a Trinity senior. His column appears every other Tuesday.

Returning to the reality of medical school The first time I see Mr. Rawlins is in the operating room. He is already asleep. You can tell that he used to be a big man, but he is sick, and there is a pruned thinness in his limbs. He has advanced stage IV lung cancer, and his right lung is bound in a tight capsule of inflamed tissue. He can’t breathe and we

Erich Huang Guest Commentary are going in to free his lung up to euphemistically “palliate” his symptoms. The procedure, in its sanitized way, is called a “right video-assisted thoracoscopic decortication,” which means that we make three small incisions in Mr. Rawlins’ side, inserting a small fiberoptic camera in one long tweezer-like instrument through the others and clean up the mess. The attending surgeon I’m working with is a virtuoso at this sort of thing.

Mr. Rawlins’s right chest is filled with bloody fluid and debris. I “drive” the camera as the attending and cardiothoracic resident clear it out and dexterously strip off the suffocating binding cancer has wrapped around his lung. And we’re out again.

Later, in his room, his daughter is sitting on his right next to a window that looks out onto the concrete span of the parking garage.

“How are you feeling Mr. Rawlins?” He opens his eyes. Their blue is a startling contrast to his pallid skin and tousled white hair.

“Tell him how you’re doing Daddy.”

“Alright,” he looks surprised and closes his eyes.

“Can you cough for me, Mr. Rawlins?” I have to check for an air leak. As I inspect his chest tubes, I

describe to his daughter what we saw in the operating room. She wants to know. People like to know more, even if the attending surgeon has already spoken to them. It’s comforting for family that other people know what’s going on.

I’ve just come back to clinical life. After several years pursuing a doctorate in a basic science lab, it’s back to patients and the daily deluge of morning labs, CT scans and chest X-rays. Returning for my last year of medical school is a shuddering culture shock. I’m older than most of my residents. A third of the drugs they use are new to me, and there’s an urgency on the wards that my former laboratory flasks of tissue culture cells just didn’t demand on a daily basis. On the other hand, where our goal in lab was to generate knowledge novel enough to merit publication, the sort of knowledge required of me as a medical student, intern or junior resident is textbook knowledge and clinical “pearls” shamanistically memorized and regurgitated by generations of trainees. I’ve shifted gears, but my clutch work is not perfect, and I can hear the gnashing of the synchros.

A short, polyester blend white coat reminiscent of an ice cream delivery man’s marks me as belonging on the bottom rungs of a long ladder of clinical training. The Rawlins family doesn’t care though—they’ve gotten used to my waking them up at 4:00 every morning and stopping by every afternoon.

Mr. Rawlins happily complies when I ask him to cough for me. We talk about his golf scores—he’s a scratch golfer—and his other daughter, the older one, tells me about the farms and hiking trails they have around their place in Virginia. I’m supposed to come up and visit them sometime.

One afternoon, I find the medical intern on the

floor drawing a blood gas out of Mr. Rawlins’ wrist.

The intern is cross-coverage, but it’s clear that Mr. Rawlins is more disoriented and less responsive to people. They transfer him to the intensive care unit that night. Over the next weeks he is cheerful when I can wake him, but more confused.

“Do you know where you are, Mr. Rawlins?” We have to ask silly questions like this because they become less straightforward the sicker the patients get. He doesn’t remember.

“What’s your favorite hospital?” No one should have a favorite hospital.

“Duke,” he says and smiles brightly.

He’s fading. Soon he’s transferred back to a regular room. There are dozens of get well cards taped to the walls. They’ve taken away the heart monitor.

They’ve stopped drawing labs. He now has to wear an oxygen rebreather mask and his chest retracts as he gasps for air. The older daughter is distraught.

More family are in town.

One evening, in a spare moment, I go upstairs to check on him. The room is dark and empty. There’s a gauze wrapper on the floor. Up front, a nurse tells me that he’s gone.

The wards are acquiring their evening hush. The elevator whispers open, it’s empty and I enter slowly.

Still in my hand are the stapled index cards on which I’ve recorded Mr. Rawlins’ vitals, labs and medications for the last few weeks I’ve been on the service. I slip his cards into the inside coat pocket where I keep “retired” index cards. There’s a momentary loss of gravity as the elevator accelerates downwards.

It’s bad and good to be back.

Erich Huang is a student in the School'of Medicine.

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