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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Officials seek greater collaboration

Bush seeks to reassure public President reiterates stances on Iraq, economy in State of the Union

By DAVID SANGER and RICHARD STEVENSON New York Times News Service

In an assertive WASHINGTON speech that covered the main themes of his administration, President George W. Bush Tuesday night combined an unflinching threat of military action against Saddam Hussein with sweeping proposals on the key domestic issues of health care and tax relief.

Bush, delivering his second State of the Union message before Congress, sought to assure Americans that he could deal with their economic troubles

Having worked together on several recent projects, administrators from Student Affairs and Auxiliary Services seek a tighter bond.

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

The reorganization of the Division of Auxiliary Services emphasizes the strengthening of ties among dining services, Duke University Stores and the Division of Student Affairs. And this week, administrators from both auxiliaries and student affairs expressed hope that they would work together more closely while affirming what they call already long-standing relationships.

In addition to extending cooperation among the various offices, the reorganization will move two auxiliaries units to Student Affairs. Event Management, which is now jointly administered by the two, will move almost completely under Student Affairs, and the off-campus housing office, which mainly caters to graduate and professional students,

and foreign crises simultaneously, and with compassion and resolve.

He spoke forcefully, purposefully and in somber tones of an America unafraid to take unilateral action, if necessary, against an Iraqi leader he portrayed as the personification of evil.

“Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option,” Bush said.

He defended his doctrine of pre-emption as the necessary response to terrorism and sought to increase the pressure on his hesitant allies by announcing that he was sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the United Nations Feb. 5.

Moving to control the next part of the decision-making calendar, Bush

will follow suit.

Larry Moneta, vice presi-

dent for student affairs, said he did not envision

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much of a change in the future relationship between Student Affairs and Auxiliary Services because he said they currently interact well.

“I talk to [outgoing associate vice president for auxiliary services] Joe Pietrantoni on a regular basis,” said Moneta, who controlled dining and athletics when he was associate vice president for campus services at the University of Pennsylvania. “I talk to [Director of Parking and Transportation] Cathy Reeve on parking and transportation.

Although they’re going to a new campus services unit, my expectation is that we will have as good a relationship as we do now. We’ve always been close on dining issues As Moneta’s proposal for renovating ”

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Duke warns students of file-transfer risks

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle Following a federal court ruling last week against Verizon Communications that could threaten the future of Internet music swapping, University officials sent an e-mail to the entire student body Monday night instructing them on the dangers of using such peer-to-peer programs like KaZaA. In their e-mail, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Tracy Futhey said not using such programs would help decrease bandwidth use on campus and protect students from po-

tential copyright-infringement.

“In general, the safest action to ensure that you are not in violation of copyright laws, or that you are not disproportionately consuming network resources, is to delete the P2P application or disable the sharing facility of your P2P client,” Moneta and Futhey wrote.

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INTERNET FILE-SHARING PROGRAMS allow users to download multimedia files from other computers. The popularity of the programs has slowed the campus computer network.

Medical Center researchers are conducting studies on therole of meditation in reducing stress, offering credence to a treatment often outside the mainstream. See page 4

Local female activists told community members about their own experiences in organizing and protest in a forum Tuesday night. See page 5

World & Nation

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18 killed in Afghan rebel battle

Some 350 American, European and Afghan forces fought a battle against a large group of rebel fighters in a mountainous region of southeastern Afghanistan An estimated 18 enemy fighters were killed in the heaviest fighting encountered in nine months.

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Egypt unable to stop Palestinian violence

An Egyptian effort to halt Palestinian attacks on Israelis for a year fell apart Monday in a disagreement over where that cease-fire would be implemented, a delegate said.

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Russia may reconsider policy on Iraq

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday that Moscow, which has been pushing for a diplomatic solution to the Iraq crisis, “may change its position” if Baghdad hampers U.N. weapons inspectors.

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Navy warplane crashes in Caribbean

A U.S. Navy warplane crashed into the Caribbean Sea as it approached an aircraft carrier for landing, a Navy official said Tuesday. The two servicemen on board safely ejected.

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Venezuelan oil overcomes opposition

President Hugo Chavez’s government scored a victory in Venezuela’s political crisis by producing more than 1 million barrels of oil Tuesday, frustrating a 2-month-old opposition drive to strangle the world’s No. 5 oil exporter.

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Sharon victorious in Israeli election

Labor party’s Mitzna reiterates he will not join majority Likud-led government

By DAN PERRY

The Associated Press

Prime Minister JERUSALEM Ariel Sharon, who has taken a hard line against the Palestinian upris-

ing, won a crushing victory in Is-

rael’s election Tuesday. TV projections showed his Likud and other hawkish parties easily winning most seats in parliament.

The prospect of progress on the Palestinian front now appears to depend on whether Sharon can form a coalition that will include the opposition Labor party, which campaigned on a pledge to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

In his victory speech, which he gave to a crowd of jubilant support-

ers, Sharon called for a “unity government” and warned that “there is no cause for celebration. The Battle against the terrorist organizations hasn’t ended and it claims more victims every day... It’s a time for soulsearching, for uniting.”

Israel TV quoted Sharon as saying he would not establish a rightwing government under any circumstances, although in his speech he did not offer any policy incentive to the Labor party.

Amram Mitzna, who led Labor to

its worst defeat in history, has ruled out joining a Likud-led government, and he reiterated that stance Tuesday after congratulating Sharon on his victory. “We will remind Sharon every

day that there is an alternative, that there is another way” Mitzna said.

Even without Labor, Sharon is expected to face difficulties in forming a stable government from the myriad political and religious factions, especially amid the turmoil of the Palestinian uprising.

Despite unrelenting violence with the Palestinians and a severe, crippling economic crisis, Likud won 36 seats in the 120-member parliament—up from 19 seats in the outgoing Knesset, according to Israel TV’s exit poll.

The bloc of rightist and religious parties that support Sharon’s tough

stance against the Palestinians won

70 seats overall, the TV said.

Iraq downplays U.N. inspectors’ findings “It’s a matter for the United Nations to discuss.” He said the United States intends to continue flying combat air patrols over Iraq to enforce the southern and northern BAGHDAD, Iraq Arms inspectors exaggerated prob“no their Sefly” zones. pivotal reports to the U.N. lems over progress in In Iraq’s first response to Monday’s reports by chief incurity Council, a senior Iraqi official complained Tuesday.

He said Baghdad would work on the problems, including spectors Hans Blix and Mohamed Elßaradei, Rashid said his government was cooperating with inspectors “with all scientists’ rejection of private U.N. interviews.

On another issue—U.N. reconnaissance overflights—- our capacity” to show Iraq has no weapons of mass destrucpresidential adviser Lt. Gen. Amir Rashid said Iraq would tion and it would do more as required.

The Blix-Elßaradei assessment set the stage for renewed allow them if the Security Council told Washington to debate among world governments about what to do in Iraq—ground its attack planes during such missions.

Diplomats said this was not a serious concession. allow UN. inspections to go on, or short-circuit what Blix Since the United States and Britain, are conducting the calls “the peaceful route” and opt for war against Iraq.

The Security Council meets Wednesday in New York flights and both have veto power in the council, approval with Blix and Elßaradei to discuss questions about their is unlikely.

At the Pentagon, spokesperson Bryan Whitman said reports.

By CHARLES HANLEY The Associated Press

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UNIVERSITY BRIEFS From staff reports

Magazine ranks Duke No. 12 for black students Duke jumped four spots from No. 16 to No. 12 in Black Enterprise Magazine’s bi-annual poll of the top colleges and universities in the nation for

black students.

The list was distilled from accredited, four-year schools that have a black enrollment of at least 3 percent or that are large and well-known, according to the magazine.

A group of 1,855 black college presidents, admissions directors and recruiters ranked them, based on the social and educational environments they provide black students.

Morehouse College in Atlanta—the country’s only private, historically black, four-year liberal arts college for men—was ranked No. 1. In North Carolina, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was ranked No. 15 and North Carolina A&T State University came in at No. 19.

Stanford, Columbia, Georgetown and Harvard universities all were ranked higher than Duke at No. 7, 8, 9 and 11, respectively.

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CAMPUS FLYERS mark a new campaign by some students, staff and faculty members to urge the University to divest from companies involved in arms deals with Israel. The group will host a forum tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Levine Science Research Center.

Group kicks off Israel divestment drive

By CHARLES LIN The Chronicle

“Men Against Rape” panel tonight Duke Inquiries on Gender, the undergraduate component of President Nan Keohane’s Women’s Initiative, is sponsoring “Men Against Rape,” an event tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Faculty Commons of the West Union Building. David Rider of the Men Can Stop Rape project, will be leading a discussion and workshop with participants on how men can learn to communicate with women and each other in an effort to dismantle violence, organizers said. The workshop is free for all and open to both men and women.

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DukeDivest will make its debut on campus tonight with a teach-in and discussion in Love Auditorium in the Levine Science Research Center at 7:30 p.m. The group is the first formal involvement of Duke students and faculty members in the Israel divestment movement that gained significant momentum last May when a group of Harvard University professors inaugurated a petition to divest from Israel.

The divestment movement specifically calls for universities to apply pressure on Israel by withdrawing some or all of their investments. In a petition to be released today, Duke Divest, www.dukedivest.org, demands that Israel rescind its violations of several UN. resolutions and portions of the Geneva Convention, citing “the human

rights abuses against Palestinians..., the continual military occupation and colonization of Palestinian territory... and the forcible eviction and demolition of Palestinian homes, towns and cities.”

Although similar in spirit to the 1980s movement encouraging universities to divest from apartheid South Africa, the new movement has ignited much criticism. Harvard president Lawrence Summers called divestment efforts “anti-Semitic,” according to an article published in The Boston Globe last September. The controversy has continued with heated debates and proIsraeli protests across campuses.

While concerns have been raised in the past over Duke’s investment in other

countries—such as Sudan, which still

maintains slavery as an institution—this is the first time in recent memory any considerations regarding financial

ties with Israel have been raised Abbie Langston, a junior who is helping to organize tonight’s forum, cautioned that the group’s goal is not to cut all ties to Israel but only to put pressure on those who provide arms to the country.

“This is a non-violent means ofresistance to the occupation, and it worked

well in the 1980s in putting pressure on South Africa,” Langston said.

The group hopes to foster discussion and support during tonight’s teach-in and to begin circulating its petition.

Ultimately, DukeDivest calls for the University to “create an ethical investment committee to ensure moral standards in all the University’s investment practices.”

So far, however, no school has announced plans to divest from Israel.

Dave Ingram contributed to this story.

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Health

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Study suggests new pollution approach

A study led by Pallaoor Sundareshwar, a research associate in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, suggests that the current emphasis on controlling upstream nitrogen pollution fails to adequately address the impacts on water quality of another potential contaminant, phosphorus. The study, say the scientists, indicates a more integrated approach to controlling both contaminants at the same time.

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A positive-pressure method used to treat obstructive sleep apnea also alleviates symptoms of nocturnal gastroesophageal reflux, or nGER, according to a study by the Medical Center and the University of South Alabama published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Experts estimate that 10 percent of the general population suffers from nGER.

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Sleep may affect heart disease risk

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Too little or too much sleep may raise the risk of developing heart disease, according to a study of nearly 72,000 nurses published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Women who averaged five hours or less of sleep a night were 39 percent more likely to develop heart disease than women who got eight hours. And nine or more hours of shuteye was associated with a 37 percent higher risk of heart disease, although researchers believe many of those women might have slept more because of underlying illnesses.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29,2002 INSIDE THE HEALTH SYSTEM

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In a show of solidarity aimed at getting patients’ and lawmakers’ attention, about 800 West Palm Beach doctors—one third of Palm Beach County's physicians —walked off their jobs Monday and attended a conference to protest soaring medical malpractice insurance costs Across the county, thousands of patients had appointments rescheduled and some were forced to visit hospital emergency rooms for minor illnesses because they couldn't see their doctors.

Some hospitals reported that their ERs were significantly busier than usual.

News briefs compiled from staffand wire reports

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Doctors consider meditation as medicine Physicians at the Medical Center have received several grants in recent months to investigate the salutary health effects of meditation.

By LIANA WYLER The Chronicle

The Beatles did it, and according to

recent research by Duke experts, those who suffer from chronic pain or want to reduce stress-related health problems should too. There is growing sentiment in the medical field that meditation is just as effective a tool for alleviating the symptoms of stress and pain-related diseases as conventional practices.

Duke researchers have recently won a number of government-sponsored grants, allowing them to clinically investigate the merits of various forms of meditation as medical tools.

“The studies are a long way from being completed, so we are not at the point where we can report on the. results of them yet. [But] the results that have been gotten are similar to other [widely accepted] relaxation methods such as muscle relaxation,” said Dr. Jim Carson, a clinical associate of medical psychiatry at Duke and former monk of the yogic tradition in India.

Several medical studies are cur-

rently under way, rigorously testing the effectiveness of meditation through randomized clinical trials.

Such research involves investigating the use of meditation to lower blood pressure, cope with substance abuse and ease the pain of men with prostate cancer and patients with os-

teoarthritis.

“There has been a lot ofresearch on the effects of meditation.,.. But part of the problem is that those studies have never been replicated—and in science, the most important thing is replicating to make sure that you don’t get

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published.”

The recent rise in nationally funded support for meditation studies at Duke by accredited institutions, such as the National Institute of Health and the Society of Behavioral Medicine, reflects a growing trend toward the use of less invasive treatment methods, for pain and stress.

“That [trend] is certainly saying that the future really is headed toward interventions that are the least invasive, and that are also effective behavioral techniques, which really do work,” said Dr. Christopher Edwards, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and assistant clinical professor of medicine.

Edwards, who also directs the Duke Pain and Palliative Care Program, said that about 60 percent of the pro-

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Local female activists share experiences, inspiration

By AARON LEVINE The Chronicle Seeking to inspire young female activists with the same passion that fires themselves, seven Durhamarea women shared their personal histories in a panel

discussion on women’s activism Tuesday at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

The discussion, organized by senior Emily Steiger, arose out of a project from her women’s leadership class to improve something that is meaningful to her.

“I want to provide a space for these women activists to provide a bit of inspiration to the activists in yourselves,” Steiger told the crowd of about 50 people.

During the forum, the panelists relayed their personal experiences and fielded questions from both Steiger and audience members.

The panelists included Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Dr. Becky Thompson, who recently started a controversy by inviting Laura Whitehorn, convicted of bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1983, to speak at Duke. “White women need to listen to the anger of women of color,” Thompson said.

Catherine Admay, affiliate faculty ofthe Duke Center for International Development at Sanford and a visiting professor of political science, also spoke.

Admay credited her divided life as a teacher, scholar and lawyer as inciting her activism.

“Thinking and acting... is what moves me,” Admay said, suggesting that budding activists do what has worked for her—look for silences and things that are not being said.

Mandy Carter, development coordinator of Southerners On New Ground, a Durham-based group, spoke about passions and the power of one.

“Any social movement has been to me about changing hearts and minds,” Carter said. She said her heart changed early on in her life upon witnessing the lives of Quakers, when she began to see the power the individual possesses.

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DR. BECKY THOMPSON, MANDY CARTER AND CHERYL ANN WALSH, all local female activists, spoke about how they became involved in various forms of activism at a forum Tuesday night. person... all of us has the power to change,” Carter added.

Elizabeth Kiss, founding director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and associate professor of the practice of political science and philosophy, discussed her unusual approach to activism.

“At my best, I am a bridge builder,” Kiss said, adding that being a mediatrix is an important form of activism, whether working with Duke and its community or—as she once did—bringing together Southern Baptists and homosexual activists.

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“There were great speakers, and tons of people,” Steiger said. “I wanted to increase the visibility of these women, to give them a place to share their experiences.”

Although she said the panel exceeded her personal expectations, Steiger said it was ultimately up to the individual to connect with the panelists.

In her concluding remarks, Admay suggested something audience members and all students could do right now to begin to connect and develop themselves as social activists: “Read the State of the Union, find something that appalls you and respond to it.”

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had secret links to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

But Bush tempered that message with a new agenda of international humanitarianism, built on a major new initiative against AIDS in Africa and

The second annual Allen Building Lock-In will take place 7 p.m. Jan. 31 to 7 a.m. Feb. 1 in the Allen Building main lobby. The event will feature dance, workshops, food, speakers, poetry, speak outs and movies. The theme this year is “Celebrate, Communicate, Integrate... Can you handle it?”

The Lock-In is a commemorative event for the 1969 Allen Building takeover—in which students protesting race relations on campus held a demonstration in the administration

the Caribbean.

He promised his American audience tax relief for ordinary families and for investors in the stock market.

Addressing his determination to deal once and for all with Saddam, Bush made it clear that while he would seek the world’s support in confronting Iraq—and in liberating it—he would not wait. “We will consult, but let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people, and for the peace of the world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him,” Bush said.

In an effort to answer his critics around the world, Bush described America as a benign superpower, one that planned to “bring to the Iraqi people food, and medicines and supplies.”

He paused for emphasis, and added:

building—with additional goals of increasing student, faculty, administrator, staff and alumni interaction; addressing underlying racial tensions at Duke; and celebrating the progress of the past, organizers said.

Speakers include Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Zoila Airall, interim Chair and James B.

Duke Professor ofEconomics Craufurd Goodwin and Associate Professor in the Divinity School William Turner, among others.

“And freedom.”

“We exercise power without con-

quest,” he said, “and sacrifice for the liberty of strangers.”

Bush described Saddam as showing

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“utter contempt” for the United Nations, and he sent a message to the armed forces he has dispatched to the Persian Gulf, telling them that “crucial hours” lie ahead.

“In those hours, the success of our cause will depend on you,” Bush said, sounding as if he assumed military conflict was coming. ‘Your training has prepared you. Your honor will guide you.

The Chinese Student Association is

celebrating the Chinese New Year, the most important festival in China, at 7 p.m. Jan. 31. The event will take place at the Fuqua School of Business. New Year’s Day is Feb. 1. Other events are planned throughout the weekend to usher in the Year of the Goat.

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Bush used the speech to lay out his rationale for taking pre-emptive action against Iraq, saying that Saddam had used chemical weapons on his own people and had routinely resorted to torture against his opponents.

“If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning,” he said.

In calm and measured tones that sometimes dropped almost to a whisper, Bush pivoted from the weak economy, tax cuts, health care and the need for volunteering to AIDS, terrorism and the likelihood of war. He linked the troubles at home to the threats from abroad by suggesting that they collectively posed a challenge that could not be deferred.

“We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, other presidents and other generations,” the president said.

“We will confront them with focus, and clarity and courage.”

Without providing any details, Bush cited evidence “from intelligence

sources, secret communications and statements by people now in custody” in asserting that Saddam is currently tied to al Qaeda.

And Bush described what Sept. 11, 2001, might have been like if the hijackers that day had access to chemical and biological weapons of the sort that the United States says Saddam has stockpiled.

“It would take jiist one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known,” Bush said. “We will do everything in our power to make sure that day never comes.”

The White House had signaled for

days that this would not be Bush’s final word on Iraq. But he left little doubt that he intended for the United States to disarm Saddam by force, with whatever allies he could assemble, if the Iraqi leader did not give up his weapons voluntarily.

Bush left open the possibility that

Saddam could avoid war by immediately complying with the demands by the United Nations that he disarm, but seemed to hold out little hope that the Iraqi leader would do so.

“The dictator of Iraq is not disarming,” Bush said. “To the contrary, he is deceiving.”

The president also stressed efforts he was taking to protect the nation from another terrorist attack, announcing that the Central Intelligence Agency and the FBI would pool foreign and domestic intelligence through a new joint operation intended to improve their cooperation and better identify threats.

In devoting the first third of his address to the economy and domestic issues, he displayed a determination not to be seen as overly absorbed by those crises or inattentive to domestic problems. It was that image that hobbled his father’s unsuccessful re-election campaign 11 years ago.

His address had a number of surprises, among them a call for a $l5 billion program—including $lO billion in new money—to fight AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean.

The initiative fit into two major themes of Bush’s administration: Its efforts to be seen as “compassionate” in its conservatism and its efforts to show the rest of the world that its foreign policy goal is not hegemony, but to foster peace, stability and prosperity.

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RIAA affiliates currently visit KaZaA and other file-swapping services to spot illegal file-swapping. While In its ruling, the US. District Court the services do not display a user’s for the District of Columbia detername, they do reveal a user’s IP admined that Verizon must reveal the dress, a set of digits that identifies identity of one of its Internet subeach user to the Internet. Armed with scribers who is suspected of illegally the IP address, the record companies exchanging copyrighted music files can find out which Internet provider is over the Internet. Verizon officials said being used by the file-swapper. Followthey will appeal the decision, arguing ing the Verizon decision, companies that such a ruling is an invasion of will be able to legally request names of their customer’s privacy. specific users.

If upheld, the decision—considered As the provider of the Internet to by many to be a major coup for plaintiff over 10,000 students on campus, the Recording Industry Association of University is a potential target, MoneAmerica —will allow the nation’s ta said. biggest record companies to more easily “This [effort] was initiated by identify and sue millions of Americans [Futhey’s office] because of the frequenwho illegally exchange music files over cy of communication they are getting the Internet. from the music industry concerning ille-

“Bandwidth costs Duke real dollars that translates into tuition,” Futhey said, adding that the University spends about $250,000 per year on bandwidth.

Students said they would probably continue using the services.

“Honestly, I don’t care what the University tells me. It’s an individual decision, and not for [the] University to decide,” said freshman Rob Johnson.

Some said they might follow administrators’ advice and restrict others from obtaining files from their computers.

“I’m not going to let people upload from me anymore,” said freshman Matt Mandel. “That way no one can detect if I have it.... They can’t take away my Seinfeld and porn.”

The Boston Globe and Chronicle staff writer Aaron Levine contributed to this story.

gal downloads,” he added. “There is a campaign by the industry to encourage us to educate students about copyright laws, and that’s what we are doing Moneta noted that the University will not monitor students’ use of such programs and that the e-mail was simply meant as informational. He said the University welcomes continued national debate about the ethics of swapping programs, but will not order a complete discontinuation in the meantime.

Still, students can help save bandwidth by choosing services’ option to prevent uploads by other users, Moneta said. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, ”

when most students were home, for example, bandwidth remained constant presumably because students left their computers and P2P services running, allowing others to upload files.

MEDITATION from page 4 ferred for behavioral techniques such as meditation training. Mindfulness meditation, for example, defined by Carson as a “moment to moment, nonjudgmental, non-reactive awareness of ones’ experiences” is already being practiced in over 200 medical centers across the nation.

Critics of the use of meditation, who harbor reservations about its medical legitimacy, still exist, but are largely overwhelmed by advocates championing the future of the use of integrative medicine for pain and

stress management.

“There are people who are still against [the medical use of meditation], but it’s typically because they are not that familiar with the methods and are concerned that this is something that is unscientific,” Carson said.

He added that such objections are becoming increasingly rare and are weakened by growing medical support.

“I certainly am pleased with the degree to whichbehavioral and psychologically-based techniques are integrated within the medical practice,” Edwards said.

“Ultimately the goal is to see the disease as it is actually lived by patients. You can’t just attend to your patients’ biology when they also have pain, and comprehensive treatment approaches really must integrate attention to the psychological, social and behavioral

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STUDENT AFFAIRS and adding West Campus student space—culminating in what he has called the Student Village—progresses into planning stages, the relationships between Student Affairs and dining and stores will become especially vital. Moneta noted that many of the occupants of the student village are linked to Auxiliary Services, such as The Great Hall, other food vendors in the West Union Building and the Bryan Center, the bookstore, the computer store and even

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ect,” Moneta said.

Paul Davies, currently financial director of Auxiliary Services, said he looked forward to working with StudentAffairs in the future as he prepares to assume responsibility this summer for a pared-back core of Auxiliary Services, including food services, postal operations, stores and the transactional operations ofthe DukeCard office.

“They’ll have a major impact on what we do in a positive way,” Davies said. “We look at ourselves as the facilitators, and we make things happen [for them] Jim Wulforst, director of dining services, echoed that philosophy. “[Dining’s role in the village is] really up in the air, but everything I’ve done in the six years I’ve been here has been engineered to student input and to what students think is appropriate,” he said.

Trask announced last month to administrators his plan to reorganize elements such as parking and transportation, facilities management and campus security under a new Campus Services unit; move some aspects of the DukeCard office and publishing to Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Tracy Futhey; and keep a core unit of auxiliaries under Davies.

Yet, as Moneta consolidates control over all student space on West Campus, the bulk of Event Management will shift toward Student Affairs.

“We already have a strong relationship with event advising,” Moneta said. “This is just a minor change to sort of move it fully into Student Affairs. Ninety-nine

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percent of what [event advising does is] related to what students do.”

Linda Moiseenko, the program coordinator for special events and conference services who also runs the off-campus housing office, said she did not know why her office was in Auxiliary Services in the first place.

“Why I ended up where I did, Fm not sure,” she said. “It certainly didn’t inhibit resources getting developed or anything like that. Moving over to Student Affairs makes sense. I don’t see it as something that shouldn’t occur.”

Moiseenko said her office’s duties will remain geared toward helping graduate and professional students

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In summer 2001, Housing Management moved to Student Affairs from Auxiliary Services, a move that not only quadrupled Student Affairs’ budget, but also helped form a more integrated housing services office, now consolidated under new Director of Residence Life and Housing Services Eddie Hull.

“We haven’t got all the tough spots ironed out yet, but we will,” said Fidelia Thomason, director of housing management. “But housing management has always worked very closely with [Student Affairs].”

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Sports: gender equality?

By PAUL CROWLEY The Chronicle

In a season where the No. 1-ranked women’s basketball team has been ahead of every squad it has faced when the final buzzer sounds, head coach Gail Goestenkors is adamant that- the players not get ahead of themselves as they play N.C. State today at Reynolds Coliseum at 7 p.m. before heading into Saturday’s high-profile showdown with second-

This is not about Title IX. It’s not about scholarships for female athletes, and it’s not about creating professional sports leagues for women.

This is about addressing the com-

ranked Connecticut.

“I’m not going to preview Connecticut right now,” Goestenkors said Tuesday. “I just don’t want to do it, because of State tomorrow night.”

As Duke gets closer to Saturday’s marquee matchup, the team’s focus is on the Wolfpack, not the Huskies. The undefeated Blue Devils will put their 31-game ACC winning streak on the line against a N.C. State team that is 9-9 on the year and 4-3 in the ACC. Despite its. lukewarm record, the Wolfpack boast a frontcourt that many of the nation’s premier programs envy.

“They worry me,” Goestenkors said.

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those—such

female athletes are being unjustly denied the attention that they supposedly deserve.

Reilly notes a number of female athletic accomplishments that he feels the national media has given little notice. The Connecticut Evan Davis women s basketball team’s record-setting I rom the cheap seats winning streak, Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt’s 800th career victory and Serena Williams’ “Serena Slam” all make the list, as does the fact that PGA great Tiger Woods racked up $6O million in endorsements last year, while LPGA superstar Annika Sorenstam pulled in only $2.5 million.

Reilly’s argument also mentions Duke, where the women’s basketball team has never sold out a home game, while the men have never had a ticket available for over a decade.

Reilly’s points are all accurate, but

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the country.”

The dominant fixture on the N.C. State squad is center Kaayla Chones, a 6-foot-3 redshirt junior whose 15.7 points and 8.7 rebounds per contest have made her the primary weapon for the Wolfpack.

“Chones is just an incredible post player,” Goestenkors noted. “She’s very tough to defend; every team that plays her has to double-team her. We’ll have to doubleteam her as well.”

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Michael Jordan was selected to his 14th NBA All-Star game, his first as a reserve. Karl Malone was not named to the team for the first time since 1988.

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Men’s Basketball M&k No. 4 Florida 70, LSU 53

VSff No. 6 Oklahoma 75, TexasA&M 68 No. 17 W Forest 81, Clemson 60 Michigan St. 61, No. 19 Indiana 54

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No. 4 Tenn 82, No. 13 MS St. 68 No. 5 LSU 70, Vanderbilt 59

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Guard Vicki Krapohl, Jr. 5.6 ppg, 3.2 apg.

Forward Michele Matyasovsky, Sr. 6.8 ppg.

Forward Iciss Tillis, Jr. 16.1 ppg, 7.2 rpg.

Center Mistie Bass, Fr. 9.3 ppg, 4.2 rpg.

N.C. State (9-9,4-3) Coach Kay Yow Guard Terah James, Jr. 8.1 ppg, 3.6 apg.

Guard Nanna Rivers, Jr. 4,0 ppg, 2.5 apg.

Forward Amelia Labador, Sr. 8.4 ppg, 2.4 apg.

Forward Alvine Mendeng, Jr. 9.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg.

Center Kaayla Chones, Jr. 15.7 ppg, 8,7 rpg.

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game of the season with 30 points lid. The Wolfpack’s center, Kaayla with 15.7 ppg and 8.7 rpg. itchup for Freshmen Mistie Bass Mendeng is scoring just under 10 che Wolfpack in the backcourt. >pg and should be motivated against Florida State. Vicki •eat like some of her teammates, sctively. Look for her to spot up lhe opportunity. clear leader, bench production has is a nine person rotation with .indsey Harding and Jessica Foley ich. Whitley’s minutes have Moody comes off the bench to dong with 9.6 points per game. per game so the N.C. State playireful with the ball. On the other I with the ball, committing just luartet of juniors and a senior, team. N.C. State has won three

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WOLFPACK from page 11 Rounding out the impressive frontcourt are forwards Alvine Mendeng and Carisse Moody. Mendeng, a junior, recently became eligible after transferring from Kentucky.

A senior, Moody is State’s secondleading scorer despite usually coming off the bench.

However, Duke’s own frontcourt has been holding up its end ofthe bargain lately.

Forward Iciss Tillis is coming off two consecutive ACC Player of the

clear advantage on paper. Tillis has earned two conand Foley was distinguished as the ACC ils are caught looking ahead to the anticipated r, the Wolfpack could steal a victory. This remains

Week awards, and has recently registered career highs in points and in rebounds, with 30 and 14 respectively.

Rounding out the Duke frontcourt are freshman Mistie Bass and senior Michele Matyasovsky, who have combined to average 16 points and eight rebounds per game.

With competent post play, an asset both teams have in abundance, the fans in Raleigh can expect a battle in the paint.

Where the No. 1 Blue Devils have the biggest advantage is in the backcourt. Junior All-American and crowdpleaser Alana Beard is coming off a

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It is unlikely that Beard will have two bad nights in a row, so the Wolfpack should expect to have their hands full with Beard and backcourt mate, Vicki Krapohl.

Perimeter play has taken a backseat for N.C. State so far this season.

Kay Yow’s squad has instead relied on its potent frontcourt to stay in games.

The Wolfpack point guard, Terah James, is an emotional leader of her team, but her knee injuries, which have caused her to sit out for two seasons, make James’ chances of keeping up with the feisty Blue Devil backcourt an iffy proposition.

“They nervous,” make me Goestenkors said. “They play great defense, they’re very very athletic and I know they’re going to be ready to play.”

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NESS from page 11 Invitational, which Duke ended up winning. She also managed to finish third in the 200 backstroke.

Her placing times were good enough to classify her among the fastest swimmers in the country, according to college swimming.com, which tracks and posts the best times in the United States.

Currently, Ness is ranked 59th in the backstroke and 46th in the 200 individual medley.

Most impressively, however, Ness’ time in the 100 butterfly is the 24th fastest and is a mere .11 seconds off the qualifying time for the 2004 Olympic Trials. Though representing the United States is Ness’ penultimate goal—medaling would be the icing on the cake—Ness is more concerned with short-term goals for now.

“I believe Katie has a very good chance of making NCAAs this year, which is quite an accomplishment for a team that has no scholarships,” teammate Amy Halligan said.

Indeed, Ness’ decision to swim for Duke was a unique one, simply because the other schools which showed interest in her—Stanford and Georgia, among others—are perennial powers and offer full athletic scholarships for swimming. Head coach Bob Thompson insists that Ness loved Duke from the beginning of the recruiting process, and seemed adamant on enrolling despite the queries from more prestigious swimming programs.

Ness listed five criteria for choosing a college: excellent academics, Division I athletics, swimming prowess, located in the Southern United States to be near family. The final, and perhaps most important reason?

Sports “If something happened that I couldn’t be able to swim I wanted it to still be the ideal place for me,” Ness said about her school pride. “Duke was the only university that fit all five.”

Her parents, 1980 and 1981 Duke graduates, respectively, were thrilled with her decision.

“I think both of us wanted her to be where she was comfortable and could achieve her goals in swimming and in school,” Saralee Ness said. “The fact that it was Duke was great.

The Blue Devils have been equally elated with Ness’ decision. Ness is the prize catch of a stellar recruiting class. And in addition to upperclassmen Lauren Cornet, Amy Halligan, Katie Fay and Lauren Hancock, the Blue Devils have become increasingly competitive this season and are primed

WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2003 � PAGE 13 remain for to so years to come “The people who swim for Duke do it because they really love it,” Ness said. “At schools with scholarships, some people end up swimming simply because it is paying for their education. Here at Duke we don’t have that pressure.”

Ness, who won the state title in the 100 butterfly as a junior and set myriad district records as a high schooler, has maintained her winning ways despite increased competition. She was the Blue Devils’ lone individual event winner against Georgia Tech last weekend, and is excelling in several different strokes.

“I think, for her future, she has every opportunity to be a Division I All-American,” Thompson said. “We want her to achieve at a level as high as she wants to achieve.”

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DAVIS from page 11 they beg a simple question; Why? Why do male athletes make more in endorsements, sell more tickets and garner more media attention? The answer is not that complex. As a whole, men’s sports, when compared to women’s, are simply a better product.

Reilly’s argument can be paralleled with one that wonders why a minor league baseball player who

hits 80 home runs doesn’t get more attention than Barry Bonds, or why whoever leads the NBDL in scoring doesn’t pull in the same endorsement dollars that Allan Iverson does. Fans who watch Bonds and Iverson know that they are achieving their respective feats against the best players in the world, while one wonders if the NBDL player would even see any game action in the NBA. It’s not being sexist to point out that the UConn women would not have won 55 straight against male opponents, or that a Serena-Agassi match wouldn’t even be close. Those who watch Tiger win a tournament know that they are watching the best golfer on the planet; the same cannot be said for those in attendance when Sorenstam captures another tournament title.

I can think of a few exceptions to this rule: billiards, darts and curling come to mind. But there is a reason why sports like basketball, tennis and golf all segregate along gender lines. The disparity in ability—usually resulting from a difference in physical strength—is just too great.

Reilly is accurate in noting that those female athletes who do garner attention often do so for reasons that have nothing to do with their athletic ability, but rather their sex appeal. But this has little bearing on the publicity ofwomen’s sports as a whole, for media attention is hardly a zero-sum entity. For example, if Anna Kournikova did not exist, would Serena Williams be the focus of more media attention? Unlikely, at best.

The real shame in the men’s sports vs. women’s sports debate is that the debate itself exists at all.

Separating men’s and women’s sports into two different entities would undoubtedly alleviate most of the tension—Sports Illustrated itself took this initial step when it developed SI for Women. But one of the unintended consequences of Title IX was that it did pit the sports of one gender against another, and 30 years later this result lingers on.

Women athletes should be appreciated for what they are. But perhaps more importantly, they should be examined separately from what they are not: men.

Evan Davis is a Trinity senior and senior associate sports editor. His column appears every Wednesday.

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Academic WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 The Weight of War Lecture Series: 4-s:3opm.

Elizabeth Fenn, “Revolutionary Contagion: Smallpox and the Reshaping of North America, 1775-1782.”

White Lecture Hall.

Developmental Biology Colloquium: 4pm. Min Han, University of Colorado. “Genetic approaches to cell signaling and cell biology problems in C. elegans.” 147 Nanaline Duke.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 Friends of the Library Engaging Faculty series: spm. Susan Tifft 73, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Communications at Duke’s Sanford Institute, delivers a lecture entitled ‘Truth or Dare: Ruminations on Excavating the Past.”

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“Oxygen isotopes in carbon cycle processes: from leaf veins to the atmospheric boundary layer.” 101 LSRC (Love Aud.)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 University Program in Ecology Seminarand Faculty Search: 12:45pm. Brent Helliker, Stanford University.

“Stable isotope ecology: an enriching future.” A247-LSRC.

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Presbyterian/UCC Ministry Bible Study: 12:15-1 pm, Wednesdays. Bring your lunch and Bible. Chapel Basement, Room 036.

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

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch: 12-1 pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen.

Intercultural Christian Fellowship Weekly Gathering; 7:3opm, Thursdays. Duke Chapel Basement. Study the Bible and enjoy fellowship with friends from cultures

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Multimedia Performance: 7pm. “Library in Flames: A Tale of Musicians During Zimbabwe’s Liberation War, by Paul Berliner. Presented by the Duke Institute of the Arts, the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the John Hope Franklin Center and Center for International Studies, as part of ‘The Arts in Times of War'’ series. Free admission. Sheafer Lab Theater, Bryan Center.

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Social Programming and Meetings WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 Screen/Society -0 Cine-East: Bpm. ‘The Isle” (dir. Kim Ki-duk, 2000, 86 min, S. Korea, Korean with English subtitles, Color, 35mm). Griffith Film Theater. Unable (or refusing) to speak, Hin-jin ekes out a living on a fishing isle, selling food by day and her body by night. Hin-jin only begins to come out of her shell when despairing former policeman Hyon-shi arrives on the scene, as the two get drawn into a destructive relationship.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 The North Carolina Returned Peace Corps Volunteers: s:3opm, last Thursdays of month.

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Masterclass: 5;30-7pm. Masterclass taught by performance artist Claire Porter. Ark Dance Studio. Duke students admitted free of charge. Call 660-3354 for information.

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

Building Lock*-ln: 7pm-7am. Dance, Workshops, Food, Speakers, Poetry, Speak Outs, Movies, YOUR Opinion, YOUR Voice. The Lock-In is a commemorative event for the 1969 Allen Building Takeover with additional goals of increasing student, faculty, administrator, staff, alumni interaction; addressing underlying racial tensions at duke; and celebrating the progress of the past. Speakers include, Dr. Zoila Airall, Assistant Vice-President of Student Affairs, Craufurd Goodwin, interim Chair of the Economics Department, Dr. William C. Turner, Associate Professor of the Divinity School, and many more. Allen Building Lock-In Committee a sub-committee of DSG Community Interaction. *Exit at any time is permitted.

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Performance: Jazz-funk saxophonist Maceo Parker, who has performed with such diverse bands as De La Soul and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, will perform with his own band. Duke University’s Page Auditorium.

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Totally Panuccio When Duke Student Government and the Intercommunity Council jointly convene tonight to choose the next undergraduate young trustee, they will be selecting someone for a position that carries tremendous responsibility. The next three years promise to be a critical time for the Board ofTrustees, as it monitors the progress of a long-range plan that addresses everything from facilities to residential life to the University’s academic priorities.

The next young trustee can aid such a process by bringing vision, knowledge and a decisiveness that is all too rare among undergraduate leaders. Jesse Panuccio exhibits all these qualities.

Panuccio’s greatest strength lies in his understanding of the challenges that the University and the Board ofTrustees will need to tackle over the next several years. Panuccio has prioritized investment in academic programs and in improving the intellectual atmosphere of campus—broad and thoughtful priorities that Duke must focus on if it desires to compete continually with America’s best universities. He has also suggested or initiated specific proposals to push his vision forward.

Moreover, Panuccio brings a depth of knowledge about how Duke works that no other candidate can match. He recognizes that too often the University delays solving problems by delegating responsibility to task forces, but he also understands the pitfalls of autocratic decision-making.

As president of the Duke University Union this year, he has a unique perspective on undergraduate social life that, when combined with his focus on academics, makes his agenda informed and daring.

Perhaps nothing better characterizes Panuccio, nor makes him a more exciting candidate, than his decisive, straightforward style. In his work this year with administrators and students, Panuccio has earned a reputation as a leader who asks difficult questions and demands knowledgable answers. Moreover, he has pledged, if elected, to keep in touch with campus figures, something notably lacking among the current young trustees.

Andrew Nurkin, president of Campus Council, has also helped to revive a once-faltering student organization and make it a leading presnce on campus. He brings an unquestionable love for the institution and a holistic vision for Duke’s future. Nurkin does not hesitate to speak out about the University’s flaws, such as some students’ obsession with image and resume-building, the lack of a senior capstone program and the deplorable state of academic advising. Nevertheless, his agenda is less decisive and detailed than that offered by Panuccio, and Nurkin’s perspective is less unique than the one Panuccio would bring to the Board.

Like the other two candidates, former Union president Brady Beecham brings a broad perspective to her candidacy, informed by experience and involvement on campus. She also recognizes the need for greater transparency in administrative decision-making. However, Beecham lacks the focus and attention to detail that Panuccio embodies.

This year’s slate of young trustee finalists includes three ofthe most impressive, qualified seniors at the University, and the ICC deserves praise for selecting the group and avoiding last year’s selection irregularities. But even in such a competitive field, Panuccio stands head and shoulders above the rest.

The Chronicle formally endorses Jesse Panuccio for young trustee.

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Line Monitor calls for more tenters for UNC game This Thursday at 7 p.m., the men’s basketball team will host Butler University in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Because this is a weekday into admission game, Cameron will be done with

wristbands.

Wristband distribution will begin at 8 a.m. in front of the student entrance of Cameron and continue until all wristbands have been distributed. with wristbands People should begin lining up no later than two hours prior to tip-off so that I can begin letting people into the stadium

by 5:30 p.m..

At 7 p.m. on Saturday, the No. 1-ranked women’s team

will host No. 2 UConn in the most highly anticipated contest of the season. If you have a ticket to this game, you will line up on the sidewalk in front of Card Gymnasium. If you do not have a ticket (or if you lost your ticket), you will line up on the sidewalk runto perpendicular ning Cameron Indoor Stadium toward Towerview Drive. The game is already sold out but there should still be room for many students to gain admission to the game.

On Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m., there will be a pep rally for the women’s team as they begin preparing for their big game over the weekend.

The band will play and Coach G and some members of the team will speak to the crowd.

Come show your support!

Finally, there is still room for at least 10 tents to register for the UNC game. If you are interested in being a part of K-ville this year, get a group together and pitch a tent. A line monitor will be happy to register your group at any

tent check.

Feel free to contact me at with j.morgan@duke.edu questions.

Jeremy Morgan

Trinity ’O3 The writer is Head Une Monitor for Duke Student Government.

Website to answer academic integrity questions It was good to see your Jan. 17 editorial entitled “Cheating on the Rise”—not good that cheating is on the rise, but good that The Chronicle fairly regularly prints editorials or articles on the subject of honor and integrity at Duke University.

In fact, I do not assume that cheating is on the rise.

Since Duke participated in a national survey on this topic a few years ago, we have seen an intensified awareness of the need to address academic integrity issues more directly and boldly.

Duke faculty have become more inclined to make their attitudes toward cheating clearer, both on the syllabus and in class discussions, and to instruct students about

what constitutes plagiarism or inappropriate collaboration. As you suggest, professors may well be bringing more cases forward.

Since cheating is prevalent in high schools and even on the elementary school level, we would be naive to think that we will ever eliminate cheating at Duke. But we can reduce it.

The current Honor Code or the upcoming (in fall 2003) Duke Community Standard is only one piece of a program to highlight the importance of academic integrity and to build a community of honor and trust on this campus.

My guess is that most Duke students want to be part of such a community, whether to achieve a true learning environment or merely to

“level the playing field” in the competition for grades. Duke students may not be more honorable than anyone else, as you have noted, but we hope that with the help of thenpeers and their instructors they will come to hold ever higher expectations for themselves and for their university.

I would encourage all Duke students, undergraduates and stugraduate/professional dents alike, and all Duke faculty as well, to consult the Academic Integrity Council’s new website at www.integrity.duke.edu for information and assistance.

Judith Ruderman Vice Provost for Academic and

Administrative Services Academic Integrity Council Chair

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Opponents of war with Iraq should actively protest As the George W. Bush administration takes us to the brink of war with Iraq, students across America are raising questions about the likely consequences of an invasion. Here at Duke, a number of us have formed a student group to generate discussion and mobilize against the war.

We believe the administration’s present course is extremely dangerous, posing serious risks to the peoples of America, Iraq and the wider world. The national security

benefits that allegedly justify those risks are, as far as available evidence indicates, fictional: Despite unsubstantiated insinuation from on high, there is no convincing evidence of a fink between

Saddam Hussein and al

Qaeda. Furthermore, accord-

ing to CIA director George Tenet, the probability of Iraq

attacking America in the foreseeable future is low, unless we first invade.

The risks are large. An invasion would raise the specter of last-ditch, noholds-barred retaliation by

Saddam Hussein, because deterrence disappears when “regime change” is inevitable.

Anti-American sentiment would be inflamed throughout the Middle East, thereby drawing recruits to al Qaeda and increasing the probability of future terrorist attacks.

Furthermore, an invasion could have catastrophic consequences for the Iraqi civilian population, which has already suffered horribly under the weight of a decade of U.N. sanctions. And a preemptive strike would set a terrifying precedent in international affairs, especially in the context of the administration’s new policy allowing

for first use of nuclear weapons. Bush’s biggest allies in his push toward war are ignorance and complacency. Therefore, we are planning a number of events, both large and small, to

spread awareness and spur action in the coming weeks, These will include information sessions, public discussions and rallies as well as other more imaginative antiwar actions. We urge you to become involved: We meet every Monday at 9:30 p.m. in Soc Sci 111. Contact us at ss9B@duke.edu to find out how you can help out or for more information

Shlomi Sher Graduate School ’O7

Matthew Specter

First-Year Writing Instructor

And 73 Others The writers are members of Duke Against the War in Iraq.

On the record We’ve spent a lot of time trying to empower Student Affairs to do something.

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, on restructuring withinthe Division of StudentAffairs (see story, page one).

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Divest from Israel Today marks the inauguration of a campaign at Duke to demand that the University divest from military ties to Israel. Our campaign, organized by a coalition of students, faculty and employees, joins more than 50 other divestment movements at universities across the country.

Yousuf aDßulushi Guest Commentary Duke University holds approximately $4.5 billion in invested assets. Unlike many other universities, Duke refuses to divulge its investments. Public schools like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are required by law to disclose their investments, while many private universities choose to disclose such information in order to ensure a policy of transparent and ethical investment. Most schools that have revealed their investments have significant holdings in corporations such as Lockheed Martin, Honeywell and Boeing, that do large amounts of military business with the state of Israel. If Duke holds investments in corporations with military ties to Israel, we demand the immediate withdrawal of such investments.

Why should Duke divest from companies with military ties to Israel? These companies feed Israel’s continued contravention ofinternational law and human rights.

For example, U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, passed in 1967, maintains the inadmissibility of acquiring territory through war and requires the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from occupied territories. Israel actively defies this resolution, maintaining a 35-year-old illegal occupation to this date, resulting in drastic consequences for the Palestinians. Seventy-five percent of the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories currently fives under the poverty fine ($2 per day).

U.N. Security Council Resolution 194 recognizes the right ofPalestinian refugees to return to their homes or, if they so choose, to receive monetary compensation for seized property. Five million Palestinian refugees scattered throughout the world have not been given this choice. One third of these five under horrific conditions in refugee camps.

The Fourth Geneva Convention declares that an “occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into territories it occupies.” This necessitates the dismantling of all Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. In the Gaza strip, 1.2 million Palestinians subsist on 60 percent of the land, while 6,000 Israeli settlers live on 40 percent.

I remind you that the United States itself has signed each one of these resolutions and agreements and has reaffirmed their applicability numerous times. We demand their implementation. Until such implementation is achieved, we call on our university to break all military-based financial ties with an Israeli government that is breaking each ofthe above resolutions and agreements.

This campaign is essentially modeled after the South Africa divestment campaign, which helped bring about the end of apartheid by successfully lobbying universities across the nation—including Duke—to divest from corporations with ties to the apartheid South African government. Despite the limitations of a comparison between apartheid South Africa and Israel/Palestine, the moral equivalencies have led numerous champions of the anti-apartheid movement, such as 1984 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to also lend their support to the current divestiture drive.

Part of the divestment campaign here at Duke calls for the establishment of an ethical investment committee. Such committees are operating at other prestigious institutions like Yale, Harvard and Columbia. We are isolating military investment in Israel because of the grievous crimes against the Palestinians. None ofDuke’s endowment should go to support any illegal activities, wherever they may occur. We are saying to Duke administrators and the Board of Trustees: Divest from military ties to Israel; invest ethically across the board.

No Duke money should subsidize the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. No Duke money should help fund the death, destruction and suffering of stateless people. No Duke money should support the illegal policies of Israel that lead to a cycle of violence that is leaving too many innocents dead. Archbishop Tutu stated, “If apartheid ended, so can the occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.

The current divestment effort is the first, though certainly not the only, necessary move in that direction.”

Yousuf al-Bulushi

is a Trinity junior.

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Fearful symmetry What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

—William Blake, “The Tiger” Screw the stars. Or at least screw and control-mongers trained eye can see

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musically so. What Bronwen that means, if anyfh'rkpv thing, is anybody’s guess. When I was Graces andFuries 12, I bought those astrology scrolls, the ones that are tightly rolled and gather lots of dust at the grocery store checkout counters. I remember the urgency with which I checked my horoscope in the newspaper. I cheaply tossed around the adjective “star-

crossed” for two reasons: one, because

I knew that my classmates (the ones that resented me for precisely this reason) didn’t recognize it as a Shakespearean allusion, and two, because I believed it meant something. Life became simple once I let the stars chart the course (mystically,

not geographically). Alanis Morissette seemed downright profound when she released her maddeningly overplayed Top 40 hit, “Ironic,” because she envisioned a determinism that comforted me. I knew nothing about irony.

Neither did she.

Irony represents a different sort of equilibrium than most of us seek. It is a balance of undefined, unmeasured forces. Generally, we want to know what will happen next and how, if at all, we can possibly avoid it. The phrase “what goes around, comes around” is a cliche not because people

believe in karma, but because they like to console themselves with a reliance on fairness, on the principle that the bastards will get theirs.

Sometimes this is true and often it is not (the entire LAPD is evidence of the latter), but the heavenly scales seem balanced in the most unpredictable of ways. They are ways that always keep us guessing and undermine any modicum of human control.

They exist in the far-fetched, the jawdropping, the absurd; in short, they

and then his plane crashed into a mountain two years later. Alanis Morissette could never conjure that, in all her wailing and screaming and emotional exsanguinations.

Ironic criminality often takes a much more sordid, and decidedly unfunny form, as was the case this past September of the woman charged with savagely beating her four-yearold daughter in a parking lot. She confessed after she was caught on videotape and was sentenced for felony keep us on guard. beating. Her name? Madelyne Turn on the TV and one of fife’s Toogood. I never even knew that the many wild cards will inevitably get last name ‘Toogood” existed, outside of your attention. The world pricked up didactic Puritan allegories. If the its ears when it heard of Lorena insane brutality of a woman punching Bobbitt’s crime, and it almost choked her child in the face 12times in 25 secwhen it considered the implications of onds didn’t say enough about the criher name. Add to that the given sis ofchild protection in America, then names of her husband, John Wayne—- Toogood’s name said it all. the very icon of American masculiniThe list could go on—for all his ty—and the entire picture is more delving into the darkness of the than slightly ridiculous. Not to make human psyche, Freud’s name means fight of a man (even a vicious wife“joy” in German, for example—but beater) being separated from the you get the idea. If anything, irony most beloved ofmale appendages, but represents the “fearful symmetiy” of the circumstances are cartoonish. life as aptly, or more so, than anything Then there are, of course, ironic else. I like to think it is an order far deaths. Most of these are horrible, beyond the best calculations of sometimes so much so that they, too, stargazers, palm readers or psychic are humorous. I had to laugh when I tea-leaf interpreters. Sometimes this read that Linda Henning, who was “symmetry” is sickening and someconvicted of murdering her lover’s times it is amusing, but it is reliably estranged wife, allegedly boasted that spontaneous and surprisingly cyclishe consumed the flesh of her victim, cal. It means that energies will conGirly Chew Hossencofft. She ate Girly verge and erupt where you least Chew. In 1981, Antony Baekeland, heir expect, never where you planned. to the Bakefite plastic fortune, smothJust when you think it can’t happen, ered himself with a plastic bag in it will. So much for the stars.

Hikers after he was convicted of stabbing his mother to death. Producer Bronwen Dickey is a Trinity senior. Her Mike Todd won the 1956 Best Picture column third appears every Oscar forAround the World in 80 Days Wednesday.

No health care for you!

We are a country ofhealth care Nazis. Just as the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld cried out “No soup for you!” to hungry customers, our leaders shout “No health care for you!” to the millions ofAmericans who desperately need medical care.

I speak with some authority on this topic because until I came to Duke, I was one of an estimated 41 million Americans m | \ without health insurance. Like them, my Im health didn’t come with any guarantees.

My mom and I were unable to afford the exorbitant cost of health insurance and so ■ we simply did without. Luckily, we never Bridget got sick. Other Americans make this same Newman gamble and are not as fortunate.

According to the National Academy of“ r or Hoks Sciences Institute ofMedicine, medical bills are an important factor in almost half of all bankruptcy filings.

For the millions ofAmericans withouthealth insurance, the risks are even higher than simply going bankrupt. As numerous reports have shown, lack ofhealth insurance is associated with an absence of preventive care and substandard treatment. According to the most recent edition of the North Carolina Medical Journal, the uninsured are more than five times as likely to need medical care but not receive it. They are twice as likely to be unable to fill a prescription due to cost. Since the uninsured must often postpone care, they are diagnosed with more serious health conditions, such as late stage cancer. It is quite simple: A lack of health insurance is killing the uninsured.

North Carolina is an especially harsh climate for poor people needing access to quality healthcare. About 15 percent of our population, or over one million people, is without health care. These numbers are especially telling when they are broken down into race and age categories. While 13 percent of whites are uninsured, over 20 percent of blacks and 40 percent ofLatinos are without health insurance. About a third ofall adults between the ages of 19 and 24 are uninsured, and 15 percent of children are uninsured. Despite common stereotypes, almost two-thirds of the uninsured are full-time workers or their dependents.

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try, insurance is simply out ofreach for many Americans.

For those who think extending the “luxury” of healthcare to all Americans is simply too expensive, let me point out that while we rank number one in the world for health care spending per capita, we are still the only industrialized nation lacking some kind of universal health care system. Additionally, as ifthe thought ofpeople suffering isn’t compelling enough, our current health care system doesn’t even make economic sense. For example, young children get ear infections quite commonly and, if treated early, they are not a huge ordeal or expense. However, when peo-

ple are without basic health care, their only option for medical care is the emergency room. An ear infection then becomes a medical emergency, the child and family suffer a great deal, and we all pay the expense of an avoidable emergency. Such a system is nothing short ofinsane.

As Duke students, we might be fairly cushioned from such suffering. But these people serve our food. They work construction at Duke and in the surrounding community.

They are the children running around in Durham’s playgrounds. Can wfe even imagine the horror of being sick and not being able to see the doctor? Or worse yet, of having a sick child and being forced to choose between food or med-

icine, the doctor or rent? These tortuous decisions are not supposed to exist in this country, especially for so-called “hard workers.” How have we managed to silence the enraged and helpless cries of millions of Americans?

The reign of the health care Nazis must end. If you are pre-med, a medical student or involved in health policy in any way, I hope you view health care for every American as a priority. All of us must voice our concerns to our leaders and compel them to support universal health care. For those of you interested in learning more about the uninsured in North Carolina, I urge you to become involved with the Rural Health Coalition or other advocacy groups.

I was lucky because I never got sick. But if I had, I would have been told “No health care for you!” by the health care Nazis and pushed out of line.

Bridget Newman is a Trinity sophomore. Her column appears every third Wednesday.

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