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Duke takes on study of smallpox vaccinations Seven-school effort relevant to bioterrorism

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

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It ain’t much, but it’s home Membersof Tent 17—one of 22 in K-ville as of Tuesday night—set up in preparation for next month’s game against Maryland. The blue tenting period begins tonight after the Georgetown game.

Duke medical researchers are participating in a study that could have profound implications for the United States as it wages its ongoing war on terrorism.

The nationwide study will aim to determine whether adults who received smallpox vaccinations before 1972 can renew their immunity with a diluted booster vaccine. Duke’s study is part of a trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health that includes the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Maryland, Stanford University and three other institutions.

The study will involve 927 people nationally, and Duke will administer doses to about 90 people between the ages of 32 and 70. The participants will be given a full-strength vaccine or a diluted version at either 10 percent or 20 percent of the vaccine’s full strength. The volunteers will then be monitored for reactions that indicate their level of immunity as well as side effects.

“We are in the process ofrecruiting,” said Dr. Emmanuel Walter, associate director of the Primary Care Research Consortium of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the leader of the Duke study. “We plan to start vaccina-

tion sometime next week. We’re trying to recruit in the next month and will be done recruiting by early February, and then we’ll be following patients for

six months.”

Dr. John Treanor, associate professor of medicine at the University of Rochester and leader of the seven-school study, said that when subjects receive the smallpox vaccination, the agent has to replicate in order to generate an immune response.

“The process of growing in the skin creates a large pus-filled pimple to develop on the arm,” he said. “It’s been pretty well established through observations that if you respond to vaccination by developing this pustule, you’ll be vaccinated against smallpox.”

Walter added that the researchers would use blood tests to confirm the presence of smallpox antibodies.

Treanor noted that an even greater benefit of the study may be learning about the vaccine’s effects.

“By doing these studies, we’re learning a lot about the different behavior of smallpox vaccine in different people,” he said. “It is useful because it gives people experience that could make [a possible mass vaccination] process go more smoothly.”

Walter said the study will monitor See SMALLPOX on page 12

Course eval plan Early admissions pool decreases wins council OK

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

� The Arts and Sciences Council approved a compromise plan featuring opt-in evaluations, despite the concerns of some faculty members about making evaluations available to students.

A year after breaking several

in 2002, the ry. Prospective 101.

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle After a heated discussion at its last meeting of 2002, the Arts and Sciences Council approved a permanent opt-in system for the Student Accessible Course Evaluation System, at least temporarily ending debate on whether students should have access to the results of teacher-course evaluations.

Faculty at the Dec. 12 meeting questioned the validity of student perceptions and numerical rankings as means to evaluate teaching. Faculty also questioned how carefully the information would be protected and how SAGES would handle the data for courses with different instructors each semester.

“On principle, I really don’t think we should equal-

Applicants for the Class of 2007 are more likely than any of their prede2001, offi- cessors to fill out their cials said. applications over the InRegular de- ternet. See page 8 cision appli-

record low of 32 percent in

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Jan. 1, will not be completely counted until the end of the month, but they should come close to last year’s 15,892.

Director of Undergraduate Ad-

ize the student-teacher relationship to that of a cusSee SAGES on page 14

Inside

The Fuqua School of Business is P |annin 9 to launch a Health Sector Advisory Council to bring health care issues into the business classroom. See page 4

admissions records, undergraduate early decision numbers declined about 10 percent this year, and preliminary regular decision applicant figures appear constant.

Duke admitted 472 of 1,435 applicants, an admissions ratio of just under 33 percent, up from a In related news

See ADMISSIONS on page 9

University policies for parental notification after emergency room visits will not change significantly in response to a federal patient privacy law. See page 5

At least two parts of The Campaign for Duke, the Medical Center and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, hit their goals over winter break. See page 6

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NEWS BRIEFS •

Daschle decides not to run for president

Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle surprised many when he announced Tuesday he will not run for president in 2004, instead seeking re-election to the Senate from South Dakota. Some staff members had been tenatively planning an announcement ceremony.

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British forces prepare for mobilization

The British government announced Tuesday its first mobilization for possible military action against Iraq, calling up 1,500 reservists to join front line troops and reinforcing a naval task force.

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Bush nominates once-rejected judge

President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he will renominate Judge Charles Pickering of Mississippi to a federal appeals court, a step that may set off a Senate racial debate similar to those that toppled Sen Trent Lott, R-Miss., as majority leader.

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California loses track of many sex offenders

California has lost track of more than 33,000 convicted sex offenders, despite a law requiring rapists and child molesters to register each year for inclusion in the Megan’s Law database.

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Study finds high flu-related deaths in ’9os

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association cites an aging population and a more virulent strain as the cause of higher than expected flu-related deaths in the 19905.

News briefs compiled from wire reports.

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Bush proposes extensive tax cuts

Democrats call package, designed to bolster slumping economy, ineffective how to address the sluggish economy at a time when the federal budget deficit is rising, financial markets remain jittery, international tensions are high and consumer and business confidence are shaky.

“We cannot be satisfied until every part of our economy is healthy and vigorous,” Bush said. “We will not rest until every business has a chance to grow and every person who wants to find work can find a job.”

Democrats said the White House was already on the defensive about the plan’s heavy emphasis on tax cuts for investors and people with high incomes, and for good reason.

ological battles over whether tax cuts should go mostly to the wealthy, who pay most of the taxes, or to lower and middle income people, who many Democrats say need it more. By the end of the day, the two parties were trading accusations of class warfare, with the White House saying the government should not punish success and Democrats saying the administration

By RICHARD STEVENSON New York Times News Service

President George W. CHICAGO Bush proposed a big and swift new round of tax cuts for individuals and small businesses Tuesday, formally presenting a plan he said would help the economy recover but that Democrats said was largely made up of costly and unjustified breaks for the wealthy.

The plan would cut personal tax rates this year, give a $4OO per child rebate to many families, end the taxation of most stock dividends and provide incentives for small businesses to

had put aside fairness.'

The proposal, laid out in general terms by Bush with details released by the White House during the day, is sure to dominate the early months of wrangling over domestic policy in the new Congress, which convened Tuesday. The plan’s outlines have already renewed the long-running debate over

purchase new equipment.

Its unveiling in a speech by Bush set the stage for another round ofide-

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President reaches out to North Korea

By STEVEN WEISMAN

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON The George W. Bush administration, shifting its approach on North Korea under pressure from its allies in the region, expressed a willingness Tuesday to talk with President Kim Jong Il’s government about its nuclear weapons program while still refusing to offer incentives for the program to be dismantled.

The administration’s new position, negotiated during two days of meetings with envoys from South Korea and Japan, was included in a joint statement from the three nations.

The statement also expressed support for continuation of a separate “dialogue” with North Korea by South Korea and Japan.

Since the surprise disclosure of North Korea’s nuclear

weapons program in October, Bush and administration officials had said, in varying ways, that North Korea would have to dismantle the program before Washington would negotiate or even talk with Pyongyang. Tuesday’s statement changed that stance.

“The U.S. delegation explained that the United States is willing to talk to North Korea about how it will meet its obligations to the international community,” the statement said.

“However, the U.S. delegation stressed that the United States will not provide quid pro quos to North Korea to live up to its existing obligations.”

The joint statement seemed to represent an effort by the administration to defuse a confrontational atmosSee NORTH KOREA on page 10

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Students push for divestment of Sudanese holdings

By KELLY ROHRS The Chronicle

The 200 students who attended a speech by former Sudanese slave Francis Bok in late November went home with an assignment—investigate where their own money is invested and find out whether their financial institutions are investing in organizations that promote unethical activity.

Bok’s audience heard his story ofbeing captured from his Sudanese village and forced into slavery for 10 years until he finally escaped. The escaped slave, who now tours the United States as an anti-slavery activist, urged students to get involved in ending modem slavery—a call to action that some students are now trying to heed.

The students who organized Bok’s speech at Duke explained that the University has $560,000 indirectly invested in PetroChina, an oil company that, through, its drilling in Sudan, financially supports the ongoing Sudanese civil war and, therefore, students say, slavery. As part of an effort to address slavery, the organizers are calling both for individual students and the University to examine what their invested money is supporting and, if necessary, divest from certain corporations.

John Solomon, a senior involved in promoting the concept of a University divestment policy, said withdrawing funds from organizations like PetroChina involves more than the situation in Sudan. “We’re trying to put this issue of Sudan into a bigger framework,” he said. “We’re trying to use money and being a shareholder to influence social change.”

Solomon’s interest in the topic stems from his participation in Associate Professor of Political Science Peter Feaver’s fall seminar, Ethics and International Relations. Last semester, the class studied the Sudanese war and alleged human rights violations across the nation. Part of their course was a service-learning project educating the campus about human rights abuse in Sudan and encouraging divestment.

Students in Feaver’s class met with President Nan Keohane Dec. 4 to present their concerns about Duke’s holdings in PetroChina.

“The major push in this proposal is that this small amount [of money invested in PetroChina] reveals that See DIVESTMENT on page 10

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FRANCIS BOK, an escaped slave from Sudan, spoke to students last month. Now, some of those students are looking to take action against slavery by advocating divestment from companies that, either directly or indirectly, foster civil war or slavery in Sudan.

Civil war, chance of peace dominate political situation in Sudan

By KELLY ROHRS The Chronicle

As some University students begin a campaign for

divestment from Sudan due to humanitarian abuses such as slavery, the north-central African nation is struggling to end a 19-year civil war that propagates the country’s use of slave labor.

Peace talks between northern and southern Sudan, which resume later this month, offer the best chance yet to end the war, policy and history experts

at Duke said.

“This is the most promise there’s been in 20 years,” said Peter Feaver, associate professor of political science.

“There’s a good chance that [peace will come] this year.”

The optimism stems from a July agreement between the Sudanese government and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army/Movement affording the south two major concessions: freedom of religion and the promise of a referendum on southern independence after a six-year interim period of peace.

In 1983, the Sudanese government, situated in the

primarily Islamic north, declared country-wide Shariah, Islamic law. The south, comprising mostly non-Muslim African tribes, took arms against the northern army.

The war, however, is more than a religious conflict and the problems date back to before the 19th century. The resource-rich north has steadily gained dominance over the south during the last two centuries.

Colonial policies in the 1800s and 1900s developed the infrastructure of the north while neglecting the south.

In response to northern oppression, southern guerrillas have loosely organized themselves into the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army to fight the Sudanese government’s northern armies. Northern militias, not officially sanctioned by the government, also attack

the south.

“If the government really wanted to stop them, they could,” Feaver said. “Northern militias are the ones really doing the dirty work, like the slave trade.”

The slave trade, which the war aggravates, began in See SUDAN on page 10

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Turtle species faces gender imbalance

DRH offers new prostate cancer curative

Durham Regional Hospital has begun offering patients cryotherapy, a new minimally invasive option for the treatment of prostate cancer. By freezing the prostate to super-cold temperatures to kill diseased tissue, physicians may be able to limit patient stay for treatment to a single day with little discomfort. The technique is the third main therapeutic option for treating prostate cancer, besides surgery and radiation with seeds.

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AROUND THE WORLD

Astronomers detect distant planet

A team of astronomers discovered an extrasolar planet 8,000 light years distant from Earth—more

than 30 times farther than any previously known.

The approximately Jupiter-size planet orbits so close to its parent star that a year passes every 29 hours and microscopic droplets of iron may rain from the sky. The discovery, led by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is the first successful detection of a planet based on the light it blocks from its parent star, rather than from gravitational wobbles it induces.

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As part of a long-scale project to preserve loggerhead sea turtles, Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and two other institutions have been raising about 1,200hatchlings through their first months and are now releasing them after identifying the animals' genders. The study has revealed an unexpectedly small percentage of males in the population, which may be linked to temperature changes and could have negative implications for the future of the threatened species.

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Scientists verify speed of gravity

Scientists have verified tor the first time that the force of gravity moves at the speed of light, just as Albert Einstein predicted. Arrays of telescopes in the U.S. and Germany precisely observed the bending of radio waves when the planet Jupiter passed in front of a distant cosmic object to complete the measurement. The speed of gravity, one of the last unknown physical constants, is critical to theories within cosmology and astrophysics.

News briefs compiled from staffand wire reports

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Fuqua develops health policy council

By DANIEL KENNEDY The Chronicle

Although education is often confined to understanding concepts in the classroom, a new program in the Health Sector Management Program at the Fuqua School of Business is bringing real-life issues in the health sector to students in an effort to apply classroom theory to practical problems facing business in health care.

The Health Sector Advisory Council, which will meet twice a year, members ranging from health policy experts to CEOs of major health care and pharmaceutical companies, as well as students in the Health Sector Management Program at Fuqua.

Each member will provide input from their particular field and will contribute to the council’s repository of ideas, where health-related theories are addressed and developed, and where projects and research are set in motion.

Kevin Schulman, professor of general internal medicine and director of the Health Sector Management Program, envisions HSAC as an asset to reinvigorate the Health Management Program and to bring together divergent issues in the marketplace.

“We have an enormous opportunity now to make sure academics are serving marketplace needs and to develop collaborativeresearch projects that will make a difference in the health sector part of the economy,” Schulman said.

The council will contribute to the evolution of curriculum in the Health Management Program by building off the experience in the marketplace.

With corporate representatives such as Council Chair George Abercrombie, who is president and CEO of Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceuticals, and Andrea Gelzer, vice president for health policy at CIGNA Healthcare, students will examine current issues of health care economics.

Jeff Moe, director of Health Sector

THE FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS has formed the Health Sector Advisory Council, which will develop ideas and research related to health care, and will inform part of Fuqua’s curriculum.

Emerging Issues, serves as a liaison to external health care entities on the council. “We would like corporations to be involved with Duke because they are living out in a day-to-day basis the delivery of health care that we are trying to teach our students,” Moe said. “We want [the corporations] to be coming back to us with the issues they are facing... to make sure our theory based teaching is grounded in

experience.”

Stephen Morales, the second-year student representative on the council, emphasized the research opportunities made available through the coun-

cil to students in the Health Sector Management Program. “There is a round table [during the meeting] where you get the greatest interaction between a guy who is in pharmaceuticals, a guy who runs fifteen hospitals and a guy who develops medical devices, all talking about how we can actually innovate in the industry,” Morales said.

Students are currently working on a study in disease management, and research is underway in developing ways to lower drug costs to the consumer.

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Privacy law has little effect on notification policy

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

As an April 14 deadline approaches for implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, designed to protect medical patient privacy, Student Affairs administrators are not significantly changing their policies for parental notification of alcohol-related hospi-

talizations.

Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs, said her office has instructed Emergency Department personnel to ask students for consent to notify Student Affairs upon arrival. In addition, Wasiolek said her office will continue to receive reports of police transports to the Emergency Department.

Wasiolek admitted, however, that despite those two efforts, her office has known about several emergencies involving students that went unreported.

“I know there have been a couple of students who have been admitted to the hospital—not necessarily alcoholrelated conditions—and we have not been made aware of it until well after the fact,” she said.

She added that Student Affairs will not change its procedure—for now.

“It was basically what was happening before, although I think there were some health care providers in the

Emergency Department who routinely called us without necessarily even asking for the student’s consent,” she said.

Jeff Kulley, a counselor for Counseling and Psychological Services and the University’s alcohol specialist, said the

STUDENT VISITS TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT will continue to be reported to parents by the University, despite an upcoming deadline for the implementation of federal patient privacy legislation.

law will not change much of what he does, because of the already-stringent confidentiality mandated by CAPS. “I do worry about those students who could fall through the cracks, who have a large blood alcohol content level, or several emergency room visits, which would be red flags,” Kulley said.

HIPAA, the first federal law comprehensively dealing with patient medical privacy, represents more than 100 regulations on security standards and the proper use of health informa-

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tion. The law is backed up by severe civil and criminal penalties for noncompliance, including fines up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment for a maximum of 10 years for knowingly misusing personally identifiable health information. Duke University Health System has already begun to train employees in the new privacy and security regulations.

The laws, designed to protect patient information, have made it more difficult for Student Affairs to monitor

when and why students enter the Emergency Department.

Wasiolek also said that in accordance with the alcohol policy approved two years ago, her office is still notifying parents of alcohol violations.

“We’re doing that routinely,” she said. “That is continuing to happen.

Our routine is we ask the student to call their parent first, and we ask that they have the parents call us. We encourage that first contact to come directly from the students.”

The law does not affect communication between Student Affairs and parents, said Britt Crewse, associate vice president and chief compliance and privacy officer of the Health System.

Although administrators had hoped last year that legislators or staffers in the federal departments of Education and Health and Human Services might find away to exempt student affairs offices from the requirements at academic hospitals, neither Wasiolek nor Crewse said any such exemption has been proposed.

Although Crewse did not have specific information on how Emergency Department personnel obtain consent, he said students had to give consent via a written form. In some cases, how-

ever, a doctor can reserve professional

judgment about notifying parents, administrators or others.

“If a patient is incapacitated, the

physician can make a decision about whom he needs to notify about the student’s care,” Crewse said. “The physician does have ultimate authority when the patient is in critical care.”

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UNIVERSITY BRIEFS From staff reports

Medical Center, NSOE

$1 million from HCA Foundation, of Nashville, spent time in the three main non-U.S. subsidiaries— Germany, Australia and Brazil. Before Aladdin, he Tenn., to honor Jack Bovender Jr., Trinity ’67, chairman and chief executive officer ofHCA Inc. Bovender spent 27 years at McKinsey & Company. chairs the school’s Campaign for Duke committee and is an emeritus member of the board of visitors.

Faculty wife, involved community He is a 1967 graduate of Duke. $600,000 from J. Rex Fuqua, of Telluride, Colo., member dies at 99 president and chief executive officer of Realan CapiLindlar Walton, widow of the late French Suzanne tal Corp. He is a University Trustee and benefactor professor Boring Walton, died last week at her home in of the Fuqua School of Business. from G. Stange Charitable Durham, just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday. $500,000 the Mary Walton first came to Duke in 1929, from Princeton Trust in Detroit.

The Divinity School addition will include the 315- University, with her husband.

Like many faculty wives of that era, Walton took an seat Goodson Chapel; offices for the Duke Institute on active role in the extracurricular life ofthe University; Care at the End ofLife, admissions and student serva German-speaking club, leading the Newfounding ices, Duke Chapel music staff and the Divinity School comers’ Club and giving lectures on preserving state chaplain; classrooms, seminar rooms and a lecture wildflowers. hall seating 177; the Cokesbury bookstore; a preachShe was also a charter member of the Duke Hospiing and worship lab; a prayer room; and a sacristy. tal Auxiliary and—a musician herself—worked in Perkins Library as a music cataloguer.

A memorial service is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday Garda to lead Fuqua’s at Duke University Chapel. A reception will follow at International Center 2235 Cranford Road.

Robert Garda, Trinity ’6l, an executive in residence and marketing faculty member at Duke UniValue and Ethics in the Marketplace versity’s Fuqua School of Business for the last five program gets grant years, has been appointed director of the school’s International Center, Dean Doug Breeden announced A University program that aims to enlighten unthis week. dergraduates about the practical and moral issues Garda’s major roles will be to oversee the center they may face in the business world received a $1 and meet its three main goals. The first is to help million grant from the BB&T Charitable Foundation. students gain an international educational experiThe grant will be used to support teaching ofbusience through Fuqua’s exchange programs and Globness ethics, speakers and conferences, faculty and al Academic Travel Experience courses. The second student grants, and research in the Program on is to help integrate international students into Value and Ethics in the Marketplace.

The program is Fuqua, working with the MBAA International Afpart of the Markets & Management certificate profairs Council, international clubs and the Summer gram, Duke’s interdisciplinary approach to underInstitute. He will also manage the international stugraduate business study. dents’ orientation.

The BB&T Charitable Foundation, created by Prior to Fuqua, Garda was chief executive officer of Nashville-based Aladdin Industries, where he See BRIEFS on page 14 •

hit fund-raising goals At least two divisions of The Campaign for Duke reached their goals in December: the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences with $60.29 million (goal of $6O million) and Duke University Medical Center with $600.03 million (goal of $6OO million) as of Dec. 27, development officials said.

“We had a great many gifts at the end of the calendar year, and we are still working to be certain we have allocated them properly,” Peter Vaughn, director of communications and donor relations for development, wrote in an e-mail. “When we have completed that review, I am relatively certain that at least one, probably two, and perhaps even three more divisions will have done so.”

The Law School and Pratt School of Engineering hit their goals in July. The overall capital campaign has already raised $1.97 billion of its goal of $2 billion by this coming December, according to the campaign’s website.

Gifts fund construction on new Divinity School addition Four gifts totaling $3.1 million that will help fund construction of a new addition to Duke University Divinity School were announced last week by President Nan Keohane.

In a press release, Divinity Dean Gregory Jones said construction of the $22 million, 47,000-squarefoot addition, previously postponed for six months because an earlier foundation gift fell through, is scheduled to begin in January. The Board of Trustees gave final approval for the project Dec. 6.

The gifts include: $1 million from William and Irene McCutchen, both Trinity ’62, of Westport, Conn. Mrs. McCutchen is a member of both the Divinity School’s board of visitors and the building advisory committee.

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CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports

An employee reported Dec. 13 that her teal $7,000 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix, license plate KTF 9252 NC, was taken from Parking Garage 2. She reported that she believes her estranged husband took her vehicle without her permission.

Laptops lifted A student reported that between 11:45 a.m. and 11:55 p.m. Dec. 12, someone stole his unprotected $4,150 silver Samsung laptop computer, model Sence Q; $lOO blue Nautica backpack; and checks and checkbook, valued at $5O. His property was stolen from the School ofLaw library, second floor desk 2C35.

Between 11:30 a.m. Dec. 13 and 8 a.m. Dec. 16, someone entered Duke North CT scan room and stole an employee’s Dell/Latitude laptop computer, power attachments, black leather case and 25 CDs, with a combined value of $3,000.

A student reported that 8 p.m. Dec. 15 and 10:30 a.m. Dec. 16, someone entered his secured locker in the School of Law and stole his $2,000 Hewlett Packard laptop computer, $5O black nylon laptop computer case, $3O Bro backpack and three textbooks, valued at $lOO. The $lO combination lock was taken and the locker was forced open causing $5O in damage.

stole her $5O wallet containing $350 cash, checkbook, credit cards and driver’s license.

lot on Elder Street. The suspect entered the vehicle by breaking out the $2OO left front window. A plastic bag with unknown contents was stolen from the vehicle.

CD players pilfered

Tools taken

Sometime after 9:55 p.m. Dec. 13, someone entered a student’s secured car at 314 Anderson St. The car’s $2OO driver’s side window was broken, and his $lOO Sony/Discman portable CD player with car adapter and $l5 cellular phone adapter were stolen.

Sometime between 4 and 8:45 a.m. Dec. 15, someone broke out the $l5O driver’s side window of a visitor’s vehicle while it was parked at 312 Anderson St. A $35 Emerson CD player and $2OO Aiwa in-dash CD player were stolen, causing $125 in damage to the

An employee reported that between noon Dec. 14 and 7:50 a.m. Dec. 16, someone stole his $lO Duke ID badge, $lO hat and two bottle of pills valued at $5O, from his locker located in the Facilities Management Department. Another employee reported that two hammers, valued at $7O, were stolen from his tool box.

A third employee reported the theft of a $2O Phillips head screwdriver from his tool box.

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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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One safe was reported to have contained $1,139.45 and the other safe was empty. Responding officers also found pry marks on the doors to the offices.

Speaker systems swiped A visitor reported that between 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Jan. 6 his vehicle was broken into while parked in the Edens B parking lot. The left side window appeared to have been forced open, causing $5O in damage and $2OO damage to the console. His $299 JVC CD player, two $6BO Polk Audio speakers and one $l2 CD were stolen.

An employee reported that sometime between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2 someone entered her office in the Prosthetics and Orthotics area of Duke Clinics and stole a $3OO set of Harmon-Kardon computer speakers and a sub-woofer.

There was no sign of forced entry to the office.

Assault reported On Dec. 17 at 4:04 p.m. a Duke police officer responded to the rear ofWilson Dormitory in reference to a reported fight in progress. Upon arrival a Duke employee reported that she took a parking place that a male visitor wanted. She said he drove by her using profanity directed at her. After she went into Wilson, she observed the same man placing something on her vehicle. It was later learned that the man was placing an apology note on the windshield. She returned to her car and confronted him.

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Internet applications prove increasingly popular

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

James Bond always had a thing for gadgets.

For many of almost 16,000 prospective Duke 007s, technology is the way to go.

Early and regular decision applicants for the Class of 2007 are using the Internet as their official means of contact with the University in rapidly escalating numbers, officials report.

This year, for the first time ever, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions offered its final early decisions on the Internet in mid-December several days before letters were to be sent home in the mail.

Within 15 minutes of their release, almost 45 percent of the applicant pool and more than half of those accepted had discovered their results. Most students eventually found out the decision online.

Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said the process went flawlessly, with no reported delays or server crashes. Only a student with an old version of Netscape and those students unhappy with the University’s decision called to complain.

December’s premiere served as a trial for the regular decision process—when 10 times as many applicants could check their status—and Guttentag said the University will continue using the system.

Applicants were notified Dec. 11 via e-mail—almost every applicant supplied an e-mail address —that the deci-

sions would be made available the next day at 5 p.m.

“Students were previously given an access code so that they could enter

the website that would ultimately have their decision,” Guttentag explained. “All the access code allowed them to do was create their own user ID and their own password to access the decision.”

Security was a primary concern, especially following the recent controversy when a Princeton University admissions officer gained access to decisions on Yale University’s website. Yale’s system used easily available social security numbers to gain system entrance.

“We avoided what happened with Princeton and Yale because no information that someone could get from a public or private document was used for access,” Guttentag said.

Admissions retained the old-fashioned route and sent official letters to applicants in the mail. This summer, several Medical School applicants were accepted online but received deferred or rejected letters in the mail, leading to confusion.

“The disadvantage of not being the first is that you are not right on the cutting edge, but you also get to learn from others how to safeguard as well as we could against problems and it worked great,” Guttentag said.

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ADMISSIONS from page 1 missions Christoph Guttentag cited as justification a several-month delay in sending out this year’s application and viewbook, as well as the University’s decision to limit its early decision admissions to a smaller proportion of the class.

“I think that part of the reason we haven’t seen as dramatic a rise in early decision is that we have decreased the number of students we’ve admitted early decision,” Guttentag said. “We’ve publicly talked about leaving plenty of spaces for regular decision applicants. We’re telling people you don’t just have to apply early decision at Duke.”

Those first 470 members of the class of 2007 will comprise just under 30 percent of the total class, Guttentag said, noting that many of Duke’s peers admit over 45

percent of their classes early.

“In those schools there is an implicit message that if you want to get in, you have to apply early,” he said.

“That’s not how we approach it. Implicitly and explicitly, it’s fine to apply reg-

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3 percent.

Minority applications were also down this semester, with fewer Latino (55 compared to 69 last year) and black (76 from 90) applicants. Guttentag pointed to the status of the economy as a major factor in the decline.

He noted, however, that 44 percent of applicants indicated they would be applying for financial aid, up from 39 percent last year and the highest percentage in at least five years.

Guttentag and William Chafe, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences and vice provost for undergraduate education, began touring inner-city magnet schools and private boarding schools this semester to try to draw the two extremes of the socioeconomic spectrum.

ular decision.”

Duke is standing by its early decision process, despite pressure from peers to abandon the system. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill abandoned the practice last spring in favor of a nonbinding early action program, and Yale and Stanford universities both announced this fall that they would follow suit beginning next year.

A majority of the nation’s most selective colleges boasted increased early admissions numbers. Every Ivy League school except Brown University saw jumps in applicants, with Harvard University—which has an early action pro-

British officials seize ricin toxin � The deadly poison, found in London, may have been placed by al Qaeda operatives. Six

men have been arrested in relation to this case, but an al Qaeda link is yet to be established.

“Part of our job in admissions, and Dean Chafe is a great supporter of this, is to tell students, families and counselors that Duke is a significantly more diverse place culturally, geographically and economically than it was 10 years ago,” Guttentag said. “It’s a message that takes a long time to sink in and is a longrange effort.”

With the high selectivity this year, the early decision members of the Class of 2007 are the University’s strongest in recent years, with an average SAT score of over 1,400.

For regular decision, admissions officers have already counted about 10,000 applications, almost the same amount as this time last year. Another 5,000 to 6,000 are still expected to be tallied. Duke hopes to enroll a class of 1,625 to 1,630 students next fall, slightly fewer than the class of 2006’s 1,640.

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By BETH GARDINER The Associated Press

LONDON Police said Tuesday thiey found traces of ricin—a deadly poison twice as potent as cobra venom—in a north London apartment and arrested six men of north African origin in connection with the virulent toxin that has been linked to al Qaeda terrorists and Iraq.

London police said material seized at a flat in the Wood Green neighborhood Sunday had tested positive Tuesday for traces of the toxin, tiny amounts of which can kill an adult. There is no antidote.

Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking to a meeting of British ambassadors, said the find highlights the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction.

“As the arrests...show, this danger is present and real and with us now, and its potential is huge,” Blair said.

Ricin (pronounced RICE-in) is derived from the castor bean plant, which is grown around the world. The poison is relatively easy to produce, and Andy Oppenheimer, a chemical and biological weapons expert at Jane’s Terrorism and Security Monitor, said its presence in London did not necessarily indicate a connection to any outside group or country.

In Washington, U.S. officials said no al Qaeda links had yet been established to the London arrests, but that it was a matter being investigated.

Anti-terrorist police said they arrested the six men of north African origin under the Terrorism Act during raids in east and north London and seized “a quantity of material and items of equipment” at the Wood Green apartment.

Police did not identify the men and refused to specify what country or countries they were from, saying only that they were in their late teens, 20s and 30s.

They were not immediately charged with a crime.

The British Broadcasting Corp. reported on television Tuesday night that the men were Algerian, but Scotland Yard refused to confirm that.

A woman arrested in the raids was released, au-

thorities said.

Police said the arrests were prompted by “receipt of intelligence” but gave no other details.

“We have previously said that London—and indeed the rest of the U.K.—continues to face a range of terrorist threats from a number of different groups,” police anti-terrorist branch chief David Veness and Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Pat Troop said in a statement.

Blair’s spokesperson said he knew of no specific intelligence about how the suspects may have planned to use the ricin.

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South Korea.

The abrupt shift also showed an administration apparently scrambling to craft a coherent policy to deal with North Korea’s revitalized pursuit of nu-

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In the last 48 hours, the administration has sought to lower the temperature on a number of fronts. At a Cabinet meeting Monday, Bush repeated several times his statement of America’s peaceful intentions.

The United States also decided to delay taking the issue to the UN. Security Council, a step that administration officials previously said they would push for rapidly.

DIVESTMENT,™ pages we as a university have a larger problem—that we don’t have an ethical investment policy,” said Heather Oh, a senior in the class.

Oh said that although Keohane stressed her limited influence over University investment, the president told the students she would bring up the issue at the next board meeting of Duke University Management Company—which invests Duke’s endowment —and would contact the students about the board’s response.

Thus far, most of the effort toward a University ethical investment policy has come from members of Feaver’s class. Feaver looked into the plausibility of creating a policy before the beginning of the fall semester and helped students gain access to DUMAC records.

“I wanted to find out if this was doable,” he said. “I kinda greased the skids on it.”

After deciding that an ethical investment policy is

viable, Feaver and his class hope to get other students involved, especially because the situation in Sudan encompasses slavery, religious and humani-

tarian issues.

“For the rest of campus, this has huge emotional resonance,” said Jonathan Low, a senior who was in Feaver’s class, citing the convergence of causes. He added that he would like to involve other students, but that the logistics are difficult.

“It’s hard at this campus to motivate students on issues unless they’re really big,” Solomon said.

Students have already shown interest about Sudan

An administration official maintained that the statement Tuesday was more of a shift in emphasis than a policy change. “We are putting more emphasis on talking now,” he said.

Nevertheless, diplomats welcomed the statement as a new iteration by an administration that has been seen as changing its policy toward North Korea many times since it took office two years ago.

Representatives of Russia, China,

and divestment. Bok’s speech drew 100 more students than expected.

Organizers of the event and the divestment campaign said they were unprepared to involve other students because they did not expect such a passionate response to the issue.

“We had nowhere to tell people to go” to get involved after the Bok speech, Low said. “We missed that opportunity to capitalize on interest.”

In his speech, Bok called upon students to educate people that slavery is an ongoing problem and to work to address its causes.

Sophomore Michael Mahdi, who attended the speech, said he was motivated by the issue. “I’ve been thinking about it ever since [Bok’s speech],” he said. “I have to do something but I feel so weak. But I talk to different people and we say, Wow, that’s tragic,’ and we move on.”

Mahdi added that he has had difficulty finding ways to get involved. He has visited the anti-slavery website Bok suggested, iAbolish.com, but wants to do more.

“We feel that divestment is the best way to allevi-

ate the slavery issue,” Solomon said.

When students met with Keohane, she told them a substantial amount of on-campus interest was necessary to make divesting a reality, said Mariana Carrera, a junior in Feaver’s class.

Members of the class hope to sustain the interest they currently see.

“Duke students are so possessive of their time,” said Oh, who is also president of the Class of 2003.

“That they’re willing to take time and commit interest to this—we should take advantage ofthat.”

Australia, Canada and the European Union were briefed on the statement Tuesday afternoon at the State Department, and afterwards one diplomat called it “a very positive development.”

South Korean officials, especially, have said that although they have supported the basics ofAmerican policy in demanding that North Korea abandon its nuclear ambitions, they are worried about the situation getting out of hand.

SUDAN from page 3 1820 in response to Egyptian demand for gold and soldiers. After 1840, international demand for slaves fell, but because of continuing violence within Sudan, slaves were abundant, said Janet Ewald, associate professor of history. “Slaves became so inexpensive that people in north and central Sudan began to use slaves more than they had in the past.”

Armed uprisings between the north and the south were common after Sudan gained its independence from an Anglo-Egyptian regime in 1953. A tenuous peace, granting the south local autonomy throughout the 19705, was held in place by both sides’ inability to win the war. Meanwhile, the north continued to gain developmental dominance over the south.

“When there was this social crisis [in the 19705], the leaders allied themselves with Islamic fundamentalists,”Ewald said.

Around the same time, the north began to exploit oil recently found in the south, giving them money to resume the war and increased support in the West.

“In the 19th century, the people and the land were exploited for gold. In the 20th, for petroleum,” Ewald said. “It’s like this horrible sense of deja vu.”

Feaver said that since neither side believes it can win the war, prospects for peace are more promising.

“All the south can do is keep the war going,” he said.

“And if the north gets peace, they could really exploit the oil.”

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RICIN from page 9 The Department of Health said doctors around Britain had been informed of the find and warned to look for symptoms of ricin exposure, including fever, stomach pains, diarrhea and vomiting.

Ricin causes diarrhea so severe that victims can die of shock from massive fluid and electrolyte loss.

Oppenheimer,. the weapons expert, said injecting ricin was an effective way of targeting individuals as was the case of Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, killed in London in 1978.

Police said ricin was in a pinhead-sized pellet injected into Markov’s thigh, but couldn’t confirm the widely reported theory that he was jabbed by a rigged

umbrella.

Oppenheimer said terrorists could kill large numbers of people with ricin if they put it into aerosol, a job he described as tricky but not impossible.

A crowded, enclosed environment like the London subway would probably be the most appealing target, he added.

“It’s just one of these horror scenarios which people are very frightened of at the moment,” he said. “You only need milligrams to kill somebody.”

For decades, Londoners lived with Irish Republican Army bomb attacks, but the specter of biological terrorism is frighteningly new.

In November, the government issued—and then hurriedly withdrew—a statement warning that al Qaeda might be prepared to use a radiological device or poison gas in Britain. The warning was replaced with a more general alert of terrorist threats.

On a tape released in November, a speaker believed to be al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden castigated U.S. allies that have joined the war against terrorism, specifically mentioning Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia.

U.S. officials said in August that the Islamic extremist group Ansdr al-Islam had tested ricin along with other chemical and biological agents in northern Iraq, territory controlled by Kurds, not Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Ansar is allegedly linked to al Qaeda.

United Nations weapons inspectors who left Iraq in 1998 listed ricin among the poisons they believed Saddam produced. U.S. troops also found traces of the substance at suspected al Qaeda biological weapons

sites in Afghanistan.

Amateur American scientists with no links to terror groups have also produced the poison at home.

In Janesville, Wis., Thomas Leahy pleaded guilty to possessing ricin in 1998.

The FBI arrested Kenneth Olsen in Spokane, Wash., last summer for allegedly manufacturing it, a charge he denies.

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SMALLPOX from page 1 safety and side effects in patients as well and that the study will be somewhat of a reeducation process for him and his colleagues.

“In my lifetime, I haven’t had a lot of experience with the vaccine, so well be monitoring that,” he said.

The federal government now has 15 million doses of an old vaccine that has been tested by the Food and Drug Administration, but has ordered another 209 million doses of a newer vaccine. As the vaccine causes fatal side effects in one to two cases per million, the new government vaccination campaign has been criticized.

The worldwide eradication of smallpox by the World Health Organization in 1980 has been hailed as a major public health triumph of the 20th century, but

experts have increasingly feared that terrorist groups could obtain samples of the virus from research laboratories and use it as a bioterrorist agent.

Routine vaccination ended in 1972 in the United States, and many people who received the vaccine no longer have immunity and would therefore not be protected against a smallpox outbreak.

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TAX CUTS from page 2 “Now that we see the president’s proposal, we understand why he would be talking about class warfare because his proposal is an assault on the middle-class to the benefit of the wealthy,” said Rep. Charles

Rangel, D-N.Y. The White House said the plan would cut taxes by $670 billion over the next 10 years and just under $lOO billion in this calendar year. If passed by Congress, the plan would bring total tax cuts enacted since Bush took office two years ago to more than $2 trillion over a decade.

The centerpiece of his plan is an immediate elimination of taxes on stock dividends, a provision the administration said will put $364 billion into the hands of investors over the next decade, making it the biggest single component of the proposal. Many large corporations that do not now pay dividends said the proposal would not lead them immediately to make a change.

The plan seeks to balance the conservative belief in tax cuts as an economic cure-all against the political reality that a package of tax cuts seen as primarily for the wealthy may be politically unpalatable even in a Congress in which Republicans control both chambers.

To that end, the package includes components that allowed the White House to argue that its benefits would be spread widely.

“These tax reductions will bring real and immediate benefits to middle-income Americans,” Bush said.

Aside from the ending the dividend tax, the other main provision is a call for immediate enactment of lower personal income tax rates and other individual tax cuts that had been scheduled to take effect gradually between now and 2009 under the $1.35 trillion tax cut Bush signed into law in 2001. The income tax provisions amount to a reduction in revenues of $261 billion over 10 years.

The lower individual tax rates, which would top out at 35 percent, down from the current top rate of 38.6 percent, would be retroactive to the beginning of this year, as would a proposed expansion of the 10 percent bracket, the lowest, to higher income levels.

The plan would also raise the child credit that can be claimed by all but upper income families to $l,OOO

from $6OO, and the government would send $4OO per-child checks to eligible families this year to put the money in their hands right away. In addition, the plan would immediately provide married couples with a tax break that they otherwise would not have started receiving until 2005.

“By speeding up the income tax cuts, we will speed up economic recovery and the pace of job creation,” Bush said. “If tax relief is good enough for Americans three years from now, it is good enough for Americans today.”

To encourage more investment by companies, the proposal would triple, to $75,000, the amount that small businesses could write off each year for the purchase of new equipment, though it would not offer any new tax breaks to big corporations.

To address the problem of rising unemployment, Bush proposed providing as many as 1.2 million laidoff workers with grants of up to $3,000 each to defray job retraining, child care and relocation costs. The president also called on Congress to act immediately to extend unemployment benefits, which lapsed for about 800,000 people last month. The Senate approved the measure Tuesday, and the House is expected to

approve it Wednesday.

Even as he talked Tuesday of helping people cope with rising debt burdens and tax bills, Bush repeatedly brought his presentation back to jobs. The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers estimated that the plan would create 2.1 million jobs over the next three years.

COUNCIL from page 4 The HSAC, at least for now, will limit itself to theory and forego health policy suggestions, which the Sanford Institute of Public Policy’s Health Policy Certificate Program is more likely to cover. “The [HSAC] will be more of a consultative body helping to bring resources together,” Schulman said. “Our mission for Fuqua is to get at business and health care as opposed to policy outcomes, since we’re already tackling them elsewhere at Duke.”

With the current problems facing business in health care, Schulman emphasized the potential of HSAC. “The more opportunities we have to make sure that we’re doing research on issues that truly matter to leaders in health care today, the more relevant our research will be.”

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SAGES from page 1 tomer-service provider,” said Ingeborg Walther, interim chair and associate professor of the practice of Germanic

languages and literature.

Walther’s strident opposition to SAGES was accompanied by much head-nodding and approval from other faculty members at the meeting.

In contrast, Professor of History John Richards spoke in favor of SAGES. He argued that even imperfect information is better than no information and that teachers should be willing to stand by their records. “[Opposing course evaluations] looks very dubious to the outside,” he said. “If I were a student and I saw a course [without SAGES data] I would be dubious.”

The newly approved system calls for an opt-in, rather than an opt-out sys-

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tem; council chair Ronald Witt had previously said the latter plan would meet with opposition from faculty. Although Duke Student Government officials and other SAGES proponents preferred an opt-out system, hoping that more data would be available, Witt engineered the current compromise so that professors opposed to the online system would not prevent their peers from participating.

Although the same course evaluation forms will be administered in the future, data from those forms—including student ratings on quality of the course, quality of instructor and difficulty of the course —will not be posted online unless professors specifically allow the data to be released. The data is available to registering students when they browse

classes online on ACES Web. Previously, all data was posted online and withheld only upon faculty request.

The meeting began with nearly an hour of administrative presentations,

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Winston-Salem-based BB&T Corp., made a gift of $500,000 to VEM in June 1999.

Meeting canceled The Arts and Sciences Council meeting scheduled for Jan. 9 has been canceled. The next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 13 in 139 Social Sciences Building.

Can totals announced for holiday food drive About 33,000 cans of food were donated to the Food Bank of North Carolina through the University. The cans, as well as money to pur-

designed to make clear to faculty how exactly the system works and what the benefits of course evaluations could be.

Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson said the data from course evaluations will be very helpful in determining if students are learning the skills the new curriculum has targeted. For example, he noted that students reported they gained more writing skills in Writing 20 than in other classes and that students also reported a higher level of intellectual stimulation in FOCUS courses.

Course evaluations—and specifically whether to make the results available online—have had a rollercoaster history with the council. In 1998, the council approved the first online evaluation system—Duke Undergraduates Evaluate Teaching—to replace the Teacher Course Evaluation Book, which many students complained was incomplete.

DUET, however, was discontinued in

chase food, were collected during Duke’s annual holiday food drive. For the past three years, the University’s Facilities Management Department has sponsored the drive.

Sanford professor wins honor for contributions to finance Helen “Sunny” Ladd, professor of public policy studies and economics and associate director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, received the 2002 Steve Gold Award, given annually by the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Tax Association. The award recognizes those who contribute significantly to public financial management in intergovernmental relations, and state and local finance.

September 1999 after faculty members expressed concerned with negative student comments.

Duke Student Government took up the project again that fall and proposed a system called Views and Online Information through Course Evaluations later that year. In May 2000, however, VOICE met with the council’s rejection.

By May 2001, Thompson and DSG developed SAGES and replaced the old “green sheets” with machine-readable evaluation forms. The council approved the evaluation system and granted a trial run for posting the results online.

It extended the trial last January, on the condition that the council’s permanent vote on SAGES would come this fall.

The approval may finally signal a shift for the course evaluations from the front

burner ofundergraduate academics.

“I’ve been working on this form for two-and-a-half years,” Thompson said.

“I’d like to work on something else.”

TECHNOLOGY from page 8 second,” he said. “Once you’ve put pen to paper it is very difficult to go back and change something without it looking messier.”

Guttentag said, on a recent recruiting visit to New York, he spoke with a number of students who said they still prefer paper applications because they are tangible.

“For a lot of students this is the highest-stake activity they’ve been involved with so far in their lives,” Guttentag said. “A lot of students still prefer to have something tangible

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as part of that process and know precisely what we are going to see. Eventually that will change, [maybe even] within the next five years.”

He added that although his office needs to download and print every online application, the process is actually more efficient for his staff.

“In terms of someone sitting there and entering data, there are 5,000 applications where we do not need to manually enter the applicant data,” Guttentag said. “It reduces the number ofmistakes by us. Now if there are mistakes, they’re by the students who filled out the forms.”

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After successful break, Blue Devils prep for Hoyas � The men’s basketball team won all four of its games over winter break, beating Clemson, Dayton,

Duke will face Big East power Georgetown in the first meeting at Cameron Indoor Stadium between the teams, tonight at 7 p.m.

Fairfield and N.C. A&T.

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When exams ended last December the Blue Devils stood 5-0 and ranked in the top-five in both the USA Today

Monday

afternoon, when the Associated Press weekly college basketball poll was released, the men’s basketball team accomplished a rare feat.

The Blue Devils became only the second team in NCAA history to be ranked No. 1 for six consecutive years—a record the deified UCLA teams from the mid 60s and 70s hold at 12 straight.

A result of the same game, Duke (90) also slashed the number of unbeaten Division I schools from four to three with its 89-71 squashing of Clemson, joining conference rival Wake Forest and Big East power Connecticut as the only remaining schools without a blemish.

“We don’t pay attention to those types of thing,” senior Dahntay Jones said, adding that he was not sure the Blue Devils deserved to be the topranked squad. “We just want to be respected as a basketball team.”

Now that the young Blue Devils have finally earned respect from the national media, they will defend their top ranking for the first time when they meet the Georgetown Hoyas (8-1)

and AP national polls. While national contenders Arizona, Alabama and Pittsburgh fell one after another over the past month, Duke continued to roil. Four wins later—all by doubledigit margins of victory, the Blue Devils find themselves alone at the top of the polls.

As classes resume today, Duke stands 9-o—one of just three undefeated men’s basketball teams in the country—and is No. 1 squad in the nation. Sunday’s road win over previously undefeated Clemson capped a successful winter break. Duke will face four ranked opponents in its next five games.

Although powerhouses around the country have been issuing the familiar refrain about learning from a early losses, the Blue Devils are not keen to follow suit. According to junior captain Chris Duhon, the team would prefer to keep winning and make adjustments post-victory instead of post-heartbreak.

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DAHNTAY JONES and the men’s basketball team will place their perfect record on the line tonight

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While most Duke students were on winter break, the top-ranked women’s basketball team (13-0, 1-0 in the ACC) could have taken a break too and probably run the table. Instead, the Blue Devils played some of their best basketball of the season and dismantled six opponents by a total of 255 points. That amounts to an average margin of victory of 42.5.

“We’ve been playing really, really well,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said.

“Our focus has been very good.”

After blowing out Charleston Southern and Florida International in Cameron Indoor Stadium shortly after exams, the Blue Devils traveled to and walloped Tulsa. Then, Duke dominated DetriotMercy and lowa State in the South Padre Island Shootout. Finally, Duke overcame and early challenge from Clemson before winning comfortably Monday.

On Christmas Day, Katie Hnida made college football history. After the New Mexico Lobos scored on an interception return to take a 6-3 lead in the Las Vegas Bowl, Hnida strode onto the field,

waited for the snap, and attempted the extra point. With a swing of her leg, Hnida became engraved in the record

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Grappling results The wrestling team enjoyed mixed results over winter break, finishing fourth, 10th and 14th at various tournaments. Also, junior Michael Mitchell was named ACC wrestler of the week.

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McGahee’s millions In an act of unprecedented foresight, Miami tailback Willis McGahee took out a $2.5 million insurance policy on himself hours before shredding his knee in the national title game.

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Cooperstown calling: Carter, Murray elected to Hall Orioles star flies in on Ist ballot with 85 percent of vote; Carter sneaks in on 6th with 78

By BEN WALKER

The Associated Press

When Cooperstown NEW YORK came calling for Gary Carter and Eddie

Murray, they answered in vastly different ways.

Carter shouted and punched the air in joy when he heard the words “Hall of Fame.”

Murray could hardly speak, but for a much more somber reason.

The only switch-hitter with 500 home runs and 3,000 hits, Murray became just the 38th player to be elected to the Hall in his first year of eligibility Tuesday.

The steady, silent first baseman of the Baltimore Orioles could not enjoy the moment. Later in the day in Southern California, he was to attend the funeral of his sister, who died Jan. 2 at 38.

“Unfortunately, I cannot speak with you today because of the passing of my younger sister, Tanja, after her longfought battle with kidney disease,” Murray said in a statement.

“Although I dedicated my professional career to the game, I have dedicated my life to my family. The elation I feel by being recognized for my achievements on the field is overshadowed by the anguish of losing someone so dear to

me,” he said.

Always exuberant, Carter finally made it on his sixth try. An 11-time All-

Star catcher with Montreal and the New York Mets, he may become the first player inducted with an Expos cap on his plaque.

“I got overly excited and screamed,” Carter said. “Now we can do a little celebrating.”

Murray easily exceeded the 75 percent necessary for election, getting chosen on 85 percent of the ballots

of 496).

Carter got in with 78 percent (387). He fell 11 votes short last year at 72.7 percent.

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for Los Angeles in 1991. They became the sixth set of teammates to be elected together; Minnesota’s Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield made it in 2001.

No one else came close in voting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

Carry-over candidates Bruce Sutter, Jim Rice and Andre Dawson were right around 50 percent, and first-timers Ryne Sandberg and Lee Smith didn’t even reach that mark. Darryl Kile, the St. Louis pitcher who died last season,

got token support.

Pete Rose, ineligible for the ballot because he’s on baseball’s permanently banned list, got 18 write-in votes—the same as last year. Rose and commissioner Bud Seng’s aides have been negotiating terms of a possible reinstatement for the career hits leader.

Veterans reconfigured The Committee, which is considering former manager Whitey Herzog, former players’ union head Marvin Miller and many others, will announce its voting results Feb. 26.

Induction ceremonies will be July 27 in Cooperstown, the small village in

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FORMER BALTIMORE ORIOLES STAR EDDIE MURRAY was elected to the Hall of Fame yesterday. upstate New York. Murray and Carter bring the Hall’s total to 256 members.

Carter’s father, Jim, turns 85 three weeks before the festivities.

“He was beyond words,” said Carter, the 13th catcher to make the Hall. “I know how much it means to him.”

Murray, currently the Cleveland Indians’ hitting coach, was an eight-

homers and 3,255 hits in 21 seasons, Hank Aaron ancL Willie Mays are the only other players in the 500-3,000 club, He hit 19 career grand slams, second in major league history to Lou Gehrig’s 23, and played a record 2,413 games at first base. Murray batted .287 overall and homered twice for the

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DUKE vs GEORGETOWN Wednesday, January Bth No. 1 Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski Guard-Chris Duhon, Jr. Guard J.J, Redick, Fr. Forward Dahntay Jones. Sr. Forward Shelden Williams, Fr. Center Casey Sanders, Sr.

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game even if there is a prolific whistle.

On the flip side, if Sweetney sits with foul trouble it could be a long night for the Hoyas.

“We have four men, all of whom can handle [Georgetown’s big men],” Jones said. “We can neutralize them, we just have to stick to our game plan.”

Although Duke backcourt is unquestionably more talented, almost all of Georgetown’s depth lies at the one through three slots, and either some slick passing, poor shooting or a combination of the two could turn the game into a track meet.

Stadium.

In Georgetown, Duke will have to work on containing one of the toughest frontcourts it has seen all season.

The Hoyas are led by junior power forward Mike Sweetney, a 6-foot-8, 260pound beast out of Oxon Hill, Md. Coming into tonight’s game, Sweetney is averaging 19.9 points and 9.2 boards per contest.

“They’re very big, they’re very athletic, they like to press, and they’re going Another favorite strategy of the Blue to try and make us turn the ball over,” Devils that may matchup well against junior captain Chris Duhon said. “They Georgetown is the 4-and-l set have a strong inside presence in Mike Krzyzewski has been utilizing lately.

Sweetney. He scores well and rebounds With Sweetney as the only major inside and is a force in the paint.” threat, Krzyzewski could go to a Duhon, To neutralize Sweetney and inside Daniel Ewing, Jones, J.J. Redick and conspirators Victor Samnick and one big man game plan.

Wesley Wilson, Duke will turn to its That move would force Duke’s lone inside quartet of Nick Horvath, paint guy to neutralize Sweetney, but Shavlik Randolph, Casey Sanders and could leave the more talented Blue Devils Shelden Williams. to exploit mismatches on the perimeter.

With more inside depth that “Coach [Krzyzewski] likes that line,” arguably any other team of head coach Jones said. “If you can get me, Daniel, Mike Krzyzewski, the Blue Devils J.J. and Chris on the floor and playing should be able to play a physical inside well together at the same time, that’s

has inside, outside. Duke may have le country in Chris Duhon, Daniel Redick, and the Hoyas, who have a compete. Look for Duke to exploit :ad to big gains as fatigue sets in. )e, if any, Georgetown jensate for

guably ten deep, few teams can Moreover, the Hoyas are incredi’s depth particularly excels. In the 'n utilizes quite a few different

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going to be a hard lineup to match up to or beat.”

On the defensive end, expect to see Duke move back to the half court press as opposed to the full court it had been utilizing earlier in the year.

Duhon said the team is still too young, inexperienced and wild to make good use of the full court attack, but that the half-court scenario fitted it better and helped the team play more con-

tained, controlled defense—leading to less mental and positioning errors.

Regardless, it will be the first time this young team steps on the court with the common Duke bullseye of “No. 1 in the country” on their backs.

“We finished the last four seasons ranked No. 1,” Krzyzewski said. “This team is not that, but this is also a good team. We can’t get concerned with things like that.”

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Tagliabue says NY-SF call ‘totally unacceptable’ From wire reports NEW YORK NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said Tuesday the officiating errors made at the end of the NFC wild-card game between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers were “totally unacceptable.”

Tagliabue said the league is already looking into ways to avoid a recurrence of the errors that prevented the Giants from attempting a potential game-winning 41-yard field goal in their 39-38 loss to the 49ers on Sunday.

The league admitted Monday that the officiating crew failed to call a pass interference penalty against San Francisco on the final play of the game.

“What happened at the end in terms ofthe breakdown of officiating was totally unacceptable to us and it shouldn’t have happened with the mechanics already in place,” Tagliabue said in a radio interview on Sporting News Radio.

“We are going to be thoroughly reviewing how the breakdown occurred and make certain that it doesn’t happen again,” he said.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Tagliabue was not available for further comment Tuesday night.

The pass interference penalty against Niners defensive end Chike Okeafor would have created offsetting penalties—New York was flagged for an illegal man downfield—and given the Giants another chance to kick the field goal.

The Giants botched the first attempt because of a bad snap, which forced

holder Matt Allen to throw a pass to guard Rich Seubert, who was eligible on the play.

Tagliabue said there were plenty of mistakes in the game by all the participants.

“I’m sure that everybody feels that there were some breakdowns in that game and I’m sure Steve Mariucci feels that his club broke down in the first half and the Giants didn’t perform in the second half like they did in the first

and that’s part of football,” Tagliabue said. “On the officiating point, it shouldn’t have happened and we are

reviewing it thoroughly.”

Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said the team really didn’t care.

“At this point, unless someone tells us to get on a plane and go to San Francisco to replay the final play or replay the game, what difference does it make?,” Hanlon said Tuesday. “It’s unfortunate the guys [officials] made mistakes at the end of the game, but that’s not the reason we lost the game.”

Hanlon said the only thing the Giants would like to see come out of the error would be for the league to find a way to avoid future officiating mistakes at the end of the game.

New Jersey Meanwhile, Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto wants the league to allow the state to host a Super Bowl by 2006 and called on the head of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which runs Giants Stadium, to begin legal action against the NFL.

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MEN’S BBALL from page 15 “We don’t want to learn through a loss,” he said.

“We’ll learn by winning. We want to win and then fix something for the next game.”

A look back at Duke’s last three weeks of play illustrate that thus far, Duhon and his teammates have been able to do just that.

Duke 89, Clemson 71

After a 10-month closing ofLittlejohn Coliseum to complete renovations, the Clemson Tigers opened their doors to the ACC and put their unblemished record on the line. Although the Coliseum might still have had that new gym smell, the Tiger faithful saw the home side flattened by a relentless Duke squad.

Blue Devil Freshman J.J. Redick continued to impress teammates and opponents alike, pouring in 22 points including four three-pointers. Duke found great success attacking from the perimeter, as Dahntay Jones and Daniel Ewing each ripped the nets three times from the behind the arc, finishing with 19 and 17 points respectively.

After battling Duke successfully for most of the first half, Clemson fell victim to a trademark Blue Devil outburst in the first half’s final two minutes.

During that span a four-point deficit ballooned to 10, and the Tiger could not recover in the second 20.

Intense and physical, the contest saw tensions escalate repeatedly. The referees issued five technical fouls, and the two sides combined for 54 personal fouls.

It was similar to last year’s vicious contest when Clemson head coach Larry Shyatt’s got into a fierce verbal confrontation with Jones.

The game ended quietly, however, and Duke woke up Monday to find itself perched atop both the national rankings.

“I don’t know if any team is No. 1 or is the dominant team right now,” Duhon said. “But if we’re there, I’ll take it.”

Duke 86, Fairfield 58

Duke’s first contest of 2003 featured a few surprises. First, in an illustration of the Blue Devils newfound depth, the Duke bench outscored its first five by a commanding 50-36 margin. Usual starter Jones led the reserve force with 22 points in just 23 minutes of action, including a perfect 8-for-8 performance from the free throw line.

Freshman Sheldon Williams shone in the spotlight as well. The 6-foot-9 power forward came off the bench to register the best game thus far in his young Duke career, finishing with 16 points and 10 rebounds.

“Certainly Dahntay and Sheldon were outstanding,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“Sheldon played loose. He played very determined and gave us a huge spark and an inside presence.”

Duke pulled away from the Stags towards the end of the first half. In what is becoming more and more an expected sight, Redick’s stellar outside shooting ignited a decisive Duke run that left Fairfield trailing 35-19 with 4:30 left in the first half. The Stags rallied to cut the lead in nine, but never threatened.

Duke 85, Dayton 74

The Dayton Flyers have been a bit of an enigma this season. At home they are nearly unbeatable, as evidenced by three victories over top-25 opponents.

On the road, however, the Flyers cannot seem to find the same level of play. On December 29 Dayton found itself trailing by 20 points in front of a holiday season Cameron Indoor Stadium crowd and although a valiant effort cut the lead to six points late in the contest, Duke held on for the victory.

“I thought in the first 20 minutes we played as hard and as well defensively as we’ve played all year,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought if we didn’t turn the ball over and [had we] shot better from the free throw line the margin would have been a lot more.”

Duke leapt to such a big lead on the shooting touch of Redick. The freshman scorched the Flyers for 26 points on a torrid 8-of-10 shooting, including 5-of-7 behind the arc.

As is his style, Redick launched many of his bombs from distances approaching 25 feet, his stroke seemingly unaffected despite being more than a yard behind the collegiate three-point line.

Senior Casey Sanders also delivered. The center fought hard down on the blocks to post a season-high 13 points.

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Duke 91, N.C. A&T 57

You would not know it by the score, but Duke played one of its worst games of the season Dec. 17, just a few days after final exams.

“I want our team, if we lose or make mistakes, to make them out of enthusiastic and aggressive play,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s the atmosphere we try to create for our team. When that’s not done, I’m not doing something right.... There was no spark tonight—at all.”

Duke shot just 38 percent against the woefully overmatched Aggies, including just 4-of-21 from three-point range. Most egregiously, the Blue Devils finished with a collective total of 11 assists, a puny total by any standards, but particularly low when considering the final score.

“There are going to be some changes,” Duhon said.

“Expect a lot more intensity—and heart.”

As the next three victories illustrated, the Blue Devils have brought intensity and heart each night out since.

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McNabb officially returns to Eagles for semifinals

By ROB MAADDI

The Associated Press

Donovan PHILADELPHIA McNabb won’t be afraid to scramble in his first gameback from a broken ankle.

McNabb will start the Philadelphia Eagles’ playoff game against the Atlanta Falcons on Saturday night, his first action in nearly two months. The twoT time Pro Bowl quarterback hasn’t played since hurting his right ankle against the Arizona Cardinals on Nov. 17.

“According to everyone else, I’m not mobile, I’m not able to move anymore,” McNabb said Tuesday. “I’ll just let people continue to think that and when the time comes, make sure to showcase that a little. You run a lot faster when you don’t want to get hit.”

The Eagles were 7-3 with McNabb, who was having the best season of his four-year career. McNabb completed 211 of 361 passes (58 percent) for 2,289 yards, 17 touchdowns and six interceptions in 10 games. He ran for 460 yards and six TDs. McNabb was injured on the third play ofthe Eagles’ win over Arizona, but stayed in and tied a career-best with four TD passes. And, he didn’t scramble once the entire game.

Despite his success staying in the pocket, coach Andy Reid doesn’t want McNabb to hesitate to run.

“I want him to execute the offense just like he’s been doing over the years, and probably be a little more mobile than he was in the Arizona game and just be Donovan. That’s all I need,” Reid said.

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Without McNabb, Philadelphia went 5-1 behind Koy Detmer and A.J. Feeiey, captured its second consecutive NFC East title and earned home-field advantage for the playoffs.

“When Donovan was hurt, I’d be foolish to say we didn’t miss Donovan,” Reid said. “You’re talking about a guy who was right there as the top player in the NFL. To say you don’t miss a guy like that is silly. On the other hand, the other guys came in and did a great job.

But to have him back, that’s a positive.”

McNabb practiced for the first time with the team last week, taking all the snaps in practice Thursday and Friday.

He was supposed to miss six-to-eight weeks, and it will have been eight since the injury when the Eagles play the Falcons at Veterans Stadium.

Standing on the sideline watching Detmer and Feeley helped McNabb.

“Just putting the ball in different spots and letting the receivers work, Koy definitely did that,” McNabb said. “And A.J., to go in and let the running backs work, get it to the receivers and let them work and get the tight ends involved, that’s something when you sit back and watch, knowing you’re going back in there, you can use it to your advantage.”

The Falcons had a mixed reaction when they heard that McNabb will start. Cornerback Ray Buchanan believes McNabb will be limited.

“We’d probably rather see McNabb because he’s not as mobile right now,” Buchanan said. “I think if we play McNabb, we have a better chance.”

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WOMEN’S BBALU„ mPa geis Duke 69, Clemson 53

For just the second time all season the Blue Devils trailed at halftime, but Alana Beard scored 16 of her game-high 26 points in the second half as Duke surged to a 69-53 victory over Clemson (9-4,1-1).

Duke hit less than 27 percent of its shots in the first half and trailed 31-28 at the break. Clemson held its last lead at 33-32 with 17 minutes left to play in the game.

At that point, Vicki Krapohl knocked down a threepointer and Duke did not trail again.

“We didn’t play our best basketball,” said Beard, who leads the team in scoring with 23.7 points per game. “It took us 20 minutes to adjust to their play, and in order to be a great team, you can’t take those 20 minutes.”

In addition to her 26 points, the juniorpulled down a team-leading 13 rebounds, including seven on offense.

Iciss Tillis added 19 points and eight rebounds and freshman Mistie Bass scored 10.

Duke was rusty after a week’s break, Goestenkors said. Nevertheless, the Blue Devils emerged with a 16point victory, which in almost any other context would constitute a comfortable win. But compared to Duke’s other games, it was a nail-biter.

“We’re not going to blow out every team,” Tillis said.

“We need close games like that.”

Duke 88, lowa State 59

Duke rolled to an easy victory in the South Padre Island Shootout against lowa State (4-5) Dec. 29.

The Blue Devils scored the game’s first seven points and twenty of the first twenty-seven. Duke held a 53-28 halftime lead.

The Blue Devils performed before a crowd of 2,000 that exceeded the capacity of the South Padre Island Convention Center.

Duke put five scorers in double figures: Beard led the team with 2t points, in addition to seven rebounds and four blocks; Tillis added 14; Sheana Mosch and Jessica Foley hit for 11; and Michele Matyasovsky contributed 10.

Duke out-rebounded the Cyclones 48-32 and held them to just 38.6 percent shooting. lowa State was led by Lindsey Wilson who scored 20, but turned the ball over eight times.

Duke 92, Detroit-Mercy 52

The Blue Devils forced 30 turnovers and turned the ball over just nine times in a 92-52 rout of Detroit-Mercy (2-7) in the opening game of the South Padre Island Shootout Dec. 27.

Goestenkors, however, was not content with the Blue Devils’ performance.

“Overall, I was pleased to win but I was not pleased with our overall effort especially on the defensive end of the floor,” she said. “We have a lot of things to improve on which is good because we will get better.”

Specifically, Goestenkors was upset with the team’s 49.2 percent shooting, which was less than two percentage points better than Detroit’s.

Beard led the team with 27 points. Foley chipped in 14 offthe bench and Bass added 10.

Duke 90, Tulsa 36

Iciss Tillis celebrated her return to her hometown with 19points, as Duke handed Tulsa (4-6) its worst loss in school history Dec. 21.

The Hurricanes could not muster a shot in the game’s first four minutes. They turned the ball over 35 times and shot only 27.9 percent from the field. Tulsa erred to end its first eight possessions.

Although the game was Tillis’ homecoming, Beard stole the show with 25 points, 10 rebounds and seven steals. Matyasovsky scored 13 and Mosch 11, Allison Curtin led Tulsa with 16 points, but she also

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Duke 106, Florida International 58

Duke had six players in double figures in a 106-58 trouncing of Florida International (6-3) Dec. 18.

“We were ready for a challenge,” said Beard, who along with Tillis led Duke with 21 points. “Not that the others teams weren’t a challenge, but we just knew that FIU played [No. 2] LSU to 12 points. We were just ready for this game.”

Duke 106, Charleston Southern 38

The Blue Devils emerged from finals Dec. 16 to obliterate Charleston Southern (4-3) 106-38.

Beard scored 24 and secured six of Duke’s 25 steals.

As a team, Duke forced 37 turnovers and held Charleston Southern to 31.4 percent shooting.

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The fact that Hnida broke Division I-A college football’s gender barrier would have deserved every ounce of coverage it received...if only Hnida had deserved the honor to begin with.

There was one reason and one reason only why Hnida was sent onto the field to attempt the extra-point: she was a woman, Hnida was not the team’s first-string kicker, Kenny Byrd was. The reason why Byrd was not on the field for the extra point was not because of an injury, a lost helmet or the calling of nature; it was because he was a man, and his backup was not.

“Katie is a valuable member of our team,’” Long said after the game. “I think it’s a very unusual situation, and she’s put in a position a lot of times that’s very uncomfortable. I made the decision before the game that we were going to let her kick the first extra point.”

Long didn’t promote Hnida to the team’s first-string kicker—he clearly

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The Chronicle are simply manufactured. Long could have sent out a blind man with one leg to kick the extra-point, and that would have set a record, too. Such an accomplishment would have been meaningful, but would have meant nothing if it was not honestly deserved. In Hnida’s case, her roster spot was the deserved result of her hard work and dedication.

Her extra-point attempt was her reward for being female.

The fact that Long decided before the game to give Hnida an extra-point chance smacks football in the face.

How many other NCAA coaches let their second-string kickers try the first

extra-point in a game, just so they can get some PT? The fourth quarter of a 48-0 game is one thing, but eight minutes into the Las Vegas Bowl is quite another. Long’s decision was not based on giving his team the best chance to win—it was based on trying to manufacture a record.

If Katie Hnida or any other female becomes the starting placekicker on a Division I-A team, I will be among the first to salute her. Women should have the same chances as men to play football and earn starting jobs.

But if Hnida remains the Lobes’ second-string kicker, then she belongs exactly where every other team’s second-string kicker belongs: sitting on

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Evan Davis is a Trinity senior and senior associate sports editor. His column appears every Wednesday were blended in and forgotten,” he said.

Carter played his first 11 years with the Expos, a team whose future is in doubt. He later helped the Mets win the

1986 title.

Though players can express a preference as to which cap will appear on their Cooperstown plaque, the final choice rests with the Hall of Fame.

“Maybe they might wind up splitting the hat,” Carter said from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. his business.”

Carter, a three-time Gold Glove winBut there was no mistaking how much he meant to his teammates. When ner, hit .262 with 324 homers and 1,225 RBIs in 19 seasons. He holds the major Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive-games streak, he singled out a very league record for putouts by a catcher few people to thank, and Murray was and played an NL-record 2,056 games one of them. at the position.

His average is among the lowest “Eddie was not only a great teammate but he was a great friend as among Hall members—Reggie Jackson, well,” Ripken said in a statement. Ozzie Smith and Luis Aparicio also hit “When I first came to the big leagues .262, and only Rabbit Maranville (.258), he really helped me out and showed Harmon Killebrew (.256) and Ray me the way.

Schalk (.253) were lower.

Sandberg got 49.2 percent (244 “It makes me sad to see how Eddie is misunderstood by some of the fans and votes). A 10-time All-Star second basemembers of the media. The Eddie that I man for the Chicago Cubs, he holds the know always put his team ahead of record for most homers as a second everything else and went about his busibaseman (277) and highest fielding perness in a manner that all players should centage at the position (.989). follow,” he said.

“I have to remember struggling Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer, through the minor leagues and strugwho played with Murray for eight years gling that first year as a rookie. I just have to keep things in perspective, that in Baltimore, echoed those sentiments.

“He was a private guy. He didn’t wear it’s just great to be considered,” he said. his emotions on his sleeve,” Palmer said.

Smith got 42.3 percent (210 votes).

1983 World Series.

Murray never led the league in hitting, homers or RBIs in a full season, was never an MVP and never was friendly with the media.

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he was a terrific guy.”

Palmer was among several players who called Carter earlier in the day to wish him good luck. Carter found out his wait was over after finishing a round of golf with friends, including former big leaguer Tommy Hutton.

“Even though the six years seemed long, they shortened it up by the call today. It was like all the other years

He is baseball’s career saves leader

with 478 and was a seven-time All-Star in 18 seasons.

Jim Kaat, who won 283 games, got 26.2 percent in his 15th and final year of eligibility with the BBWAA. Kile, who got seven votes, was among several players who did not receive the necessary 5 percent to stay on the ballot. Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams was among four players who did not get a vote.

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The Chronicle What we did over winter vacation Mattwood Won 10 basketball games Dreamed of a Strom Thurmond presidency Kevin Ken Dreamed of a John Edwards presidency Watched The Campaign for Duke’s fund ticker: Paul Jenny Waited for our $670 billion checks from George W.: Marveled at Tolkien’s ability to waste our time: Brian Ami Avoided getting a job/law school admission/etc.: Saw Al Gore naked in a hot tub: Alex, Anthony, Mike, Thad Roily Shoveled Roily’s deck:

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Submit notices at least 2 business days prior to the event to the attention of “Calendar Coordinator” at Box 90858 or calendar@chronicle.duke.edu.

Academic THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 Discussion: 12:30-2pm. Brendon Swedlow, PhD.

on Scientists, Judges and Spotted Owls: Policymakers in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Swedlow will be discussing the role environmental scientists and federal judges 'played in institutionalizing ecosystem management in the federal government, Levine Science Research Center (Research Drive) Room Al5O.

Information Session: 7:30-B:3opm. Certificate in

Documentary Studies. The Bishop’s House, East Campus. Register in advance for this free session or 684-6259 by calling

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 10

EOS Seminar: 4pm. “Climate Change Over the Last Few Millennia,” Thomas J. Crowley. 201 Old

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Catholic Mass: s;lspm, Wednesdays. Duke Chapel Crypt. Campus Ministry Service.

are welcome. Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Bryan Center, West Campus, www.duke.edu/web/duu.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9

Center for Living Workshop: 2-spm. “Yoga and New Year Resolutions.” A workshop designed for people who want to make a larger commitment to their personal yoga practice and beyond...ways to bring change into your life. Duke University Center for Living, Stedman Auditorium.

Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch: 12-1 pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen.

Wesley Fellowship Eucharist: s;3opm, Thursdays.

Wesley Office Chapel Basement.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 Wesley Fellowship Bible Study: 12noon, Fridays.

Wesley Office.

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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 668-2627 to schedule these programs/services.

The DUU Visual Arts Committee presents: “What’s Left: New Sculptures Out of the Heart of the Earth" Featuring sculptures by Aaron Lee Benson. On display through February 8, 2003. Reception from 4-6pm. All

In support of breastfeeding mothers; Duke Lactation Services and the Duke Hospital Auxiliary are pleased to announce that the Bouncing Ball Gift Shop now has available breastpump sales and rentals, breastcare products and breastpumping accessories. First floor, Duke Children’s Health Center. Monday-Friday 9-4,

Men’s Basketball vs. Georgetown: 7pm. Durham.

www.goduke.com.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 Women’s Basketball vs.

Virginia:

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Religious

DUKE (Pre-Collegiate) STRING SCHOOL: Concerts at 3pm, 4pm and 7pm. Dorothy Kitchen, director. HOLIDAY FESTIVAL; Concerts for the holidays. Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University East Campus. All string school holiday festival concerts are. free. RESCHEDULED EVENT from 12/7/02.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10

Allen Building Lock-In: Do you like the Diversity Initiative? Do you feel safe on campus? Do you care about the war Iraq? Do you like to have fun? If any of these questions interest you, help plan the Allen Building Lock-In. The lock-in aims to promote fun and constructive dialogue in an uncommon format on Duke’s Campus. Please contact TeMeka for more info at tcw3@duke.edu.

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-minuteperformance 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.

Exhibition Continues; “‘Shroud’ from Anya Belkina.” Exhibition runs through February 2, 2003.

Duke University Museum of Art Exhibit: Through Feb 2. “Pedro Figari (1861-1938) Lines of Uruguayan Life, A Student

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the recent announcement of a religious sect, the Raelians, that a woman gave birth to a child who is her clone is most likely a hoax, the situation does bring to the fore important questions about the ethics of human cloning, especially since more credible organizations may soon clone humans. When discussing cloning, one must distinguish between therapeutic cloning—which aims to use cloning technology toward some other medical goal—and cloning that makes a human who will develop and grow to fruition. Any law addressing cloning must differentiate between these two goals.

Therapeutic cloning should be allowed to continue, because although its current contributions to medical science are few, it has the potential to greatly improve human life in the future. Thus, while the true value of therapeutic cloning and the extent of its uses are currently unclear, the future value ofthe technology necessitates that experiments in it continue.

Cloning humans and allowing those clones to develop fully, however, raises very different questions, both of scientific and ethical natures, and should be prohibited. Some ofthe problems with cloning humans stem from the low success rate inherent in cloning, that although it is theoretically possible to clone a human, there would be several unsuccessful attempts to do so beforehand.

This low success rate could also lead to other difficulties, such as deformed children, when the cloning fails to work properly. Indeed, even clones that appear to be perfectly normal at birth may experience unforeseen problems later in life. This is what happened with Dolly, the first cloned sheep, who looked normal but then suffered from numerous problems as she grew older.

However, these types of success-rate-based problems could be temporary and might disappear as cloning technology improves. Even if this happens, cloning still remains a grave Pandora’s box, the adverse biological impacts ofwhich cannot be predicted. Humans have no way of knowing what sort ofimpacts cloning would have. One possibility is an increasing homogeneity in genetic structures, making humanity more susceptible to certain diseases or the manifestation ofrecessive traits.

The costs of cloning are unknown, but potentially devastating.

One must be careful to distinguish between things such as in vitro fertilization or gene selection and cloning. While both in vitro fertilization and gene selection technologies run counter to natural forces, neither changes the basic sexual nature ofhuman reproduction. Cloning does alter reproduction from a sexual process to an asexual process.

Hence, while in vitro fertilization is a minor change, cloning is a complete shift in the way reproduction occurs and should be viewed with much greater suspicion.

Moreover, cloning does not seem to have any benefits, other than giving people the unmitigated ability to do whatever they want, something that seems to have very little value. Thus, balancing the potential costs with the potential benefits clearly require that cloning be banned.

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Hall of Shame Tariq Aziz; In the West, the Iraqi deputy prime minister is often seen as the paragon of sophistication. With his crisp Oxford English and tailored suits, he may not look like the right-hand man of the world’s most brutal dictator. He is, however, an unabashed apologist for Saddam, asserting (among other things) that the UN inspections regime is a plot cooked up by the U.S. and Britain to take over Iraq’s oilfields. Never mind the fact that the Security Council voted unanimously to demand Iraq’s compliance. Ultimately, of course, the regime’s actions will speak louder thanAziz’s deceitful rhetoric.

Ana Palacio: When a few Moroccan soldiers visited the disputed island of Perejil, which is no bigger than a soccer field, one might think that the Spanish foreign minister would brush the matter aside, or at most file a diplomatic protest. Alas, the country that so often joins its E.U. partners in criticizing America as a warmonger decided to itself occupy the island and then sent about half its fleet to the Moroccan coast as a show of force. It took the personal intervention of Cohn Powell to defuse the crisis. Granted, Morocco acted somewhat provocatively, but the hypocrisy of Spain’s actions did not go unnoticed.

Helen Clark: Bad manners are the best way to describe the New Zealand prime minister’s attitude when her country’s head of state, Queen Elizabeth 11, paid a visit to the islands in February. A staunch republican, Clark decided to attend a conference abroad rather than meet the queen. That wasn’t enough of a snub for her, however.

Right after the visit, she asserted that “New Zealand, Australia and Canada should take a reality check and become republics,” If that’s her opinion, she should call a referendum on the monarchy. Until such time, Her Majesty’s Government in Wellington needs to show proper respect for the head of state.

Robert Mugabe: His government in Zimbabwe has been the most repressive regime in southernAfrica since at least 2000.

In November, it reached a new low by accusing provided conclusive evidence for what the the United States—one ofthe biggest donors of White House has argued all along. As Straw food to the country—of plotting an invasion. has said, the reports were essential so that This theory is beyond ludicrous, as the U.S. “people understand the comprehensive evil government obviously has neither the motive nor the desire to attack Zimbabwe. On the that is Saddam Hussein.”

Kofi Annan: The most protracted and other hand, the extremist economic policies of serious international dispute in Europe Mugabe’s regime are directly responsible for today is the question of Cyprus, which has Zimbabwe’s approaching famine. The US., been divided for over two decades between Europe and the Commonwealth have already two rival governments, one backed by imposed sanctions against Mugabe’s cabinet, Greece and one by Turkey. Annan put forth which impoverished a formerly prosperous a complete plan for reuniting the island nation in an effort to stay in power. with a federal “indissoluble union” of the Valery Giscard d’Estaing: The former two states. Cyprus would then be demilitaFrench president currently leads the conrized and could join the E.U. This seems to vention that is developing a constitution for be an equitable solution to a problem that the E.U. While this is a mostly ceremonial has been a serious impediment to stability post, Giscard’s personal opinions are often interpreted as official policy. For this reain the Mediterranean region.

Ranil Wickramasinghe: Though he is not son, his statement that Turkey’s entry into someone well known outside South Asia, the union would be “the end of Europe” was the Sri Lankan prime minister has been a irresponsible. It was also utterly wrong. powerful impetus for reaching an accord Once Turkey completes its internal reform with the Tamil Tigers, a rebel group that process, especially in the area of human has sought a separate Tamil state since rights, it will be a very strong candidate for 1983. The prime minister has agreed to E.U. accession. grant autonomy to the Tamil region, while the rebels declared a ceasefire and set aside Pavel Molchanov is a Trinity senior. His coltheir demand for independence. A conflict umn appears regularly.

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Colin Powell; The greatest compliment that can be paid to diplomats is that their work has helped to prevent war. For this reason and many others, Powell has demonstrated yet again why he is the most thoughtful member of President George W. Bush’s foreign policy team. He achieved what many said was impossible by bringing France and Russia —not to mention Syria—to the American side on the question of Iraqi inspections. The 15-0 vote on the in resolution final November was a huge diplomatic triumph, and while military action is still a possibility, Powell’s efforts ensured that Saddam will Molchanov bear the sole responsibility Politics and for any future confrontaOther Means tion. When not putting together a coalition at the U.N., Powell found time to advance the Middle East peace process and strengthen transatlantic relations. It was an amazing year for a remarkable statesman.

Anders Rasmussen: The Danish presidency of the European Union in the second half ofthe year, led by the prime minister, was one of the most productive in recent memory. The highlight was the completion of accession negotiations with 10 mostly East European countries. The importance of this enlargement program for the E.U. should not be underestimated. Unlike NATO, which seems to be pursuing expansion for the sake of expansion, enlarging the E.U. will bring tangible economic and political benefits for both current and future members.

Jack Straw: As William Raspberry has noted in early 2002, the U.K. Foreign Office continues to act as the public relations firm for the Bush administration. That’s not exactly its job, but someone’s got to do this.

Under the leadership of Straw, it issued two scathing dossiers on Saddam’s fixation with gaining weapons of mass destruction and the reign of terror in Iraqi prisons. While neither of the reports were surprising, both

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Keeping in rhythm

Southpaw'U Poor Jay Williams, pity him and his millions. Instead of leading the Blue Devils, he’s wearing red, black and white. Against the San Antonio Spurs, Tony Parker popped some jumpers in his eye. A Frenchman scoring at will against our beloved hero, Quelle dommagel Meanwhile, we are the lucky ones, returning for another semester at our liberal paradise, situated 10 miles from another bastion of leftist thought.

Having spent far too long away from this bubble, it’s time for me to get back to the thing this university does best, being liberal. It’s also time for people to stop bashing it for being such. In fact, for the rest of the semester The Chronicle shouldn’t have to waste a drop of ink more on a sentence deriding Duke for hanging off the y Aevm left side of the diving board. Too many Ogorzalek waste their words people attacking prolessors for having hearts, while these The Y Perspective letter-writers pursue or train to attain the almighty dollar.

Of course a University will consist of mostly liberal faculty. Looking back at the 18professors who have guided me through my courses here, only five of them could have gotten jobs as waitresses, plumbers or garbage men (the latter two unionized, of course). Those professions pay more handsomely than the initial post-doc years and likely the years after. As for the other 13 not skilled enough to optimally pursue those posts, well, they’d probably be leading marches through the streets and waving red flags since they’re all so lazy and unskilled.

See, you nutty Helms lovers, it’s a good thing they are dedicated to educating the next crop of Castros.

When these Fidel Jrs. themselves become professors, tree buggers or—possibly worse—Peace Corps volunteers, they too will spread the doctrine of the left. What a shame that will be, when people become interested in the world and its people outside the United States as a result ofthe “constant brainwashing” experienced in the classroom. God forbid that these institutions should teach their students to engage non-citizens in a conversation rather than lock them away, a lesson that might be well heeded by Attorney General John Ashcroft and his band ofmerry jailors.

Duke should give up the current masquerade that it tolerates conservative thought. With the current renovations occurring, the University should go full-blown liberal. Let’s build a hippie commune. Fat doobies everywhere, Noam Chomsky as required freshman reading and Allen Ginsbergreadings every night.

If that plan were enacted, Duke would achieve the utopian society it so strives to be and no one would be able to write any more letters to this paper, which will be called The Daily Worker, complaining about the political leanings of the staff, which are unfounded in the first place, as I once met a professor who promoted the free market and another who made me take an exam on May 1. Now I’m starting to sound like these whiners as I carry on about them; I really wanted to do a thinkpiece on the merits of Snackpacks vs. home-made pudding, but couldn’t fit that into 900 words. Excuse me for digressing. The simple trend remains that professors tend to be liberal because not all tend to cherish the same things as the conservative nation we inhabit. They use a separate currency: publications! It’s not their fault that they are more enlightened than those who whine about their leanings.

We’ve got the rest of our lives to crawl into a shell that rolls ever to the right. Let’s enjoy these views, debate substantively but not carry on about the University being liberal—most are. If you truly hate that, I suggest you try Bob Jones or Oral Roberts for a truly Veil.

rounded” education.

At this campus as elsewhere people hold values for mostly good reasons. Liberals are not as wishy-washy as some portray them and at the same time conservatives are not as heartless and greedy as others purport. Too much time is wasted on whining about the other side rather than engaging. So enjoy the debates here—specifically basking in the liberalism that tends to emanate from a university—and stop whining.

Time slips by too quickly here before we have to leave and people like Tony Parker start scoring in our face. My only hope is that J-Will, an American reaping capitalism’s rewards, learned the benefits of universal health care, gun control and freshly baked bread.

Kevin Ogorzalek is a Trinity junior. His column appears every third Wednesday.

Manypeople I know have experienced life on military

bases, and I have only experienced life near one. I grew up across a lake from Fort Jackson in South Carolina, waking every morning to the trainees shouting out cadences. They were people whom I did not know, whom I never bothered to visualize, and they were keeping the 1m rhythm that would become the soundtrack of my childhood. Rhythm carries surprisingly well over water. Words do not. I never could decipher what the sol- Bronwen diers were saying, only that they were saying it in unison. I knew they stayed Dickey in line and in step. I knew their lives Graces and Furies had a predictable tempo.

In the years following my life on the lake, the years during which I never woke before 8 a.m. and never woke to anything but the shrill siren of my alarm clock, I developed a fascination with the military lifestyle. I briefly entertained a fantasy of attending Annapolis, one that dissolved entirely upon my admission to Duke. I romanticized military discipline and training because I saw it as forcibly imposing order on a world that had none. I liked the idea of doing one-armed push-ups. I liked the idea of making a bed that I could bounce a quarter off of. I did not like the idea of going to war.

America now faces a two-fronted conflict (the war on terrorism and war with Iraq), and from one of those fronts we can’t even see the enemy. On the other, the specter of foreign occupation is looming. This is no Vietnam. Our military goals have become hydra-headed.

Over 280,000 American troops are already committed to positions in France, Korea, Japan, Bosnia and other foreign countries. The occupation of Iraq, should it be necessary, is a long way from “Playstation war.” It requires _

real soldiers.

I learned on Dec. 31 that Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is calling for a reinstitution of the draft, dead since 1973.

The subject has been bouncing around in the American consciousness, yet it has been dismissed by the George W. Bush administration. Donald Rumsfeld says he is “absolutely not” considering a draft. The Pentagon reports that 250,000 of the 1.4 million American troops may be mobilized if we go to war and possibly as many reservists.

Rumsfeld believes our current military manpower to be sufficient. Yet Bush’s Leave No Child Behind Act and the National Defense Authorization Act require high schools receiving federal funding—which is nearly all public schools and a good deal of private ones—to turn over the names, addresses and phone numbers of male students eligible for military service. Most parents don’t realize they have the option of refusing a school’s release of their child’s information. Salaries are much higher for voluntary soldiers than for draftees. The Selective Service System is also building up its personnel.

Rangel supports a draft because he wants to intensify the debate in Congress over war with Iraq. An AfricanAmerican legislator, Rangel believes a draft would more evenly distribute military responsibility, which now rests heavily on minorities (41 percent of the troops on active duty are non-white) and bring the harsh reality of war—something that has gotten hazier as technology has made things easier—to the members of Congress who are clamoring for armed conflict. No one wants a war that may kill his child. What Rangel fails to confront, however, is that the same people who managed to dodge the draft pre-1973, the people of privilege (earned or unearned), will be the same ones who will dodge it this time. Conscription is unlikely to make the military burden more racially egalitarian and might make it less so.

And what would this mean for women? A draft would provide unlimited “human resources” for a war Rangel says he doesn’t want. All that aside, an issue that most American citizens considered a distant, unimaginable possibility is now on the table and up for debate. The unspeakable has been spoken.

I no longer know how to feel about the American military. As our government gets into deeper political water, I wonder when we might be over our heads. In all my romanticism, I never thought to actually imagine my peers in uniform, or my classmates being shipped off to combat. I never thought I would have to. One thing is certain: the American pulse is starting to quicken.

Whether it is keeping time with the momentum of the military machine or racing from anxiety, I’m not sure.

Bronwen Dickey is a Trinity senior. Her column appears every third Wednesday.

Duke students need not apply I still remember a mandatory meeting I attended last semester for all

service-learning students. A representative from the Kenan Institute for Ethics explained that since Duke students were so arrogant and selfrighteous, many

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community organizations were finding Looking for the Holes that they were better off without us. I couldn’t believe her honesty. Unfortunately, Duke evidently thought that this was a problem to be tackled in 45 minutes.

I have been aware of our issues with community service for some time. But then again, I had a rather unusual upbringing. (Our organic flower farm in the Kansas countryside grew community just as easily as it grew beautiful flowers and fragrant herbs.) People came from all over to marvel at my mother’s gorgeous flower arrangements and walk through the lushness of our farm. I think they also came to recapture some sense of community and nature.

It is only now that I am starving for community that I realize just what community really is. I grew up in a world in which the term “community service” didn’t exist.

My mother didn’t call it community service when she gave away flower arrangements, nor did the old women who bought my “arrangements” think of it as charity. I long for this kind of community now.

Even with the obvious issues I face munity, shouldn’t we also acknowlas a Duke student doing community edge what we take away? That single woman who works two jobs but service, I ended up loving my servicelearning assignment: tutoring ESL just can’t make ends meet? Maybe students at E.K. Powe Elementary she works in the back of your School. The students with whom I favorite restaurant. Her cheap work help keep me in touch with who labor keeps your food inexpensive.

I am. Their joy reminds me of the The charities with which you vollaughs of my sister’s five little girls, unteer that try to make up for and their desire to learn motivates me dwindling social service programs? to make the most ofDuke. The story of Maybe they are struggling because a father waking before dawn to get in taxes were cut for your parents. line for work at a factory, despite his When we volunteer in the commusickness, enrages me. Their need for nity, it must be in recognition of the an equal chance at life reminds me of unequal distribution of resources in my own privilege to be here at Duke. this country. Where is it written that A blink of an eye and I am yet anothwe deserve so much when others are er “paper or plastic?” worker. barely able to survive? Our own Perhaps our primary problem University is a bastion of privilege with community interaction at Duke amidst some of the most poverty is our idea of community service stricken areas in the nation. When itself. We read descriptions of poor we “give back” to our community, it families and raise money for Project needs to be in recognition that we SHARE, but we never wonder why will never give enough. some people who work so brutally But we have to try. And to quote hard can’t afford Christmas presents one ofmy favorite Ani DiFranco songs for their children. We go to tutor, but (and the namesake of my column), it we don’t talk much about why our isn’t enough to just patch up the schools are so strapped for cash. We holes. We have to dare to ask from volunteer with Habitat for where the rips came in the first place.

Humanity, but we don’t ask why My mother didn’t call it community affordable housing is such a pipe service when we brought dinners to dream for many families. And we do the old man who had built our table all this clearly labeled as a giver of many years before. It was simply just service to the thankful receiver. Oh, to bring food to the man who built the and we still like to drive new SUVs table on which we were eating. I wish and wear designer clothes to our Duke students could know who builds work sites. our tables.

Of course, community service work can do a lot of good. But we Bridget Newman is a Trinity sophohave the wrong idea. When we more. Her column appears every “give back” in some way to the comthird Wednesday.

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