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Blue Devils sneak by UNC Crowd aids comeback after Duhon benched as starter

By NICK CHRISTIE The Chronicle

while Cameron Crazies chanted, “J-Will, J-Will, rock you, rock you!” He then handed off the jersey to his parents David and Althea and addressed the crowd to tumultuous applause, “When I first came to this school on an unofficial visit, the first thing I did was come

6:27 83 With left in Duke’s UNC 74 Wednesday night battle with archrival North Carolina, Chris Duhon and Dahntay Jones took the floor following a media timeout and looked up at the scoreboard. Tie ballgame; 61-61.

Jones had one thought running through his mind: “It’s winning time.”

The two Blue Devils veterans responded with an outstanding of display crunchtime leadership, combining to score 12 straight points and propelling Duke (15-3, 5-3 in the ACC) to a 7568 advantage, a lead it would not relinquish while holding on for an 83-74 victory.

“Those are the things that veterans [do] —you want the ball in their hands,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We tried to call their numbers and they responded.

They made huge plays.”

Much maligned for his selfadmittedly sub-par play in recent weeks, Duhon found out Tuesday that Daniel Ewing would replace him in the starting lineup. Although held scoreless in his 17 minutes of first-half playing time, Duhon

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PRESIDENT NAN KEOHANE presents Jay Williams, Trinity ’O2, with a framed jersey during the ceremony retiring Williams’ number.

J-Will joins legends with jersey in rafters

By TYLER ROSEN The Chronicle

With fellow retirees Mike Gminski and Grant Hill looking on, Jay Williams became the 11th player in Duke hasketball history to have his jersey retired Wednesday.

During the halftime ceremony, Williams held his framed No. 22 jersey aloft

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GUARD DANIEL EWING shoots over UNC’s Raymond Felton during Duke’s second-half come-back Wednesday night.

Bush flat-lines higher ed funding State House picks K dual speakership

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

Duke administrators were mostly disappointed

with the $2.2 trillion budget President George W.

Bush proposed earlier this week and what it may hold in store for research funding and higher education.

While officials lauded a proposed 9 percent increase in funding for the National Science Foundation, they expressed concern that funding for other organizations—ranging from the National Institutes of Health to student aid—would remain flat for the proposed 2004 fiscal year budget. Officials also remained concerned that appropriations spending for the 2003 fiscal year had not yet been approved by Congress.

“My reaction was that it’s very worrisome for higher education and for science,” said Nan Nixon, assistant vice president for federal relations, who is Duke’s top lobbyist in Washington. “The good news is increased funding for the National Science Foundation, and also the National Endowment for the Humanities is funded up. But otherwise things look pretty flat, flat or down.”

The federal budget’s spending on research has a

Agreeing to serve on alternate days of the legislative calendar, Democrat Jim Black and Republican Richard Morgan were sworn in Wednesday as co-speakers of the House.

By BENJAMIN PERAHIA The Chronicle

In a historic sitting Wednesday, the North Carolina State House selected two people—one Democrat and one Republican—to share the position of Speaker of the House.

The chamber, which is split 60-60 between Republicans and Democrats, was unable to elect a single speaker in the week prior to Wednesday. After the resolution that allowed Democrat Jim Black and Republican Richard Morgan to be co-speakers passed, representatives gave a standing ovation.

This is the first time in North Carolina’s history that the position has been held by two people and the first

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NASA rescinds Columbia crash theory

After days of analysis, NASA backed away Wednesday from the theory that a piece of foam that struck Columbia during liftoff was the root cause of the space shuttle’s disintegration over Texas.

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France, other nations encourage continued weapons inspections, further reviews

By EDITH LEDERLER and DAFNA LINZER The Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS Secretary of State Colin Powell, relying on a stream of U.S. intelligence, urged the U.N. Security Council Wednesday to move against Saddam Hussein because Iraq has failed to disarm, harbors terrorists and hides behind a “web of lies.”

His extraordinary presentation in the packed council chamber included satellite photographs, intercepted conversations between senior Iraqi officers and statements from informants that could make or break support for going to war with Iraq.

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“The gravity of this moment is matched by the gravity of the threat that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction pose to the world,” Powell said.

“This body places itself in danger of irrelevance if it allows Iraq to continue to defy its will.”

While Powell spoke, Iraqi TV carried a day-old interview with Saddam.

Iraqi officials dismissed Powell’s

for a military confrontation said they would review the evidence and demand answers from Baghdad. Most said weapons inspections should continue, Iraq must immediately cooperate and diplomatic efforts should be sought to avert war.

France and Germany went further, calling for strengthening the inspections regime that was already toughened up in November under a Security Council resolution crafted by Washington and adopted by a unanimous council.

Three months after Iraq pledged it would disarm, Powell presented his evidence to an audience of foreign ministers and ambassadors in an appearance that was televised live.

case as a collection of “stunts” and “special effects” that relied on “un-

known sources” and was aimed at un-

dermining the work of the inspectors.

“What we heard today was for the general public and mainly the uninformed, in order to influence their See IRAQ on page 6

North Korea claims it reactivated reactor

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Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has the best chance to “break the bubble” of public support President George W. Bush holds on foreign policy and win the presidency in 2004, says the AFL-ClO’s political chair.

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SEOUL, South Korea In a move that appeared designed to keep pressure on the United States, North Korea Wednesday said that it had resumed “normal operations” at a mothballed nuclear reactor that could be used to produce weapons-grade uranium.

The North said the reactivated plant at Yongbyon would “for the present stage” be used only to produce electricity—but the United States says the facilities could produce nuclear weapons within months.

In Washington, President George W. Bush’s national security advisor, Condoleeza Rice, dismissed North Korea’s pressure tactics. “The North Korean regime seems to believe that the way to get people to engage with it is to try and blackmail them into it,” she said on ABC’s “Nightline”

Wednesday night. “And what the United States is saying is that blackmail will not work.”

The North Korean announcement is the latest in a series of what appear to be carefully calibrated and deliberate steps to force Washington to come to the negotiating table. In particular, the announced startup of the reactor seemed deliberately timed to coincide with the speech to the UN. Security Council by Secretary of State

Colin Powell.

For months, North Korea has said that it would meet US. concerns over the country’s weapons of mass destruction in exchange for a non-aggression treaty. The country appears to be wagering that with Washington preoccupied with war in Iraq the US. is unable or unwillSee NORTH KOREA on page 7

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Officials ponder life after campaign

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KARA HEISEY, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE CAREER CENTER, AND DAVID STOOPLER plan out Stoopler’s career during a meeting last week. New director Sheila Curran and other Student Affairs officials plan on a new facility for the Career Center.

New career director stresses planning

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

Students take note: Investment banking, consulting and law and medical school are not your only career options.

That’s the message Sheila Curran has brought to the Career Center in her first month as its new director. Curran—who held the same position at Brown University before being lured to Duke by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta in the fall—hopes to stress to students the importance of thinking outside the box in picking a career path.

To help facilitate that shift in mindset, Curran wants to get students thinking about their careers earlier in their Duke experience, foster greater connections with alumni, create a peer advising program and build a new facility as

part of the future “student village.”

Curran explained that when students do not begin thinking about a career until senior year, they often overlook the not-so-obvious career paths.

“They need to start career exploration early, get out of those boxes and explore other options academically and extracurricularly,” she said.

Career Center staffand Students Affairs officials agreed.

“Career counseling really needs to begin in the freshman and sophomore years, because choosing a major is practically choosing a career,” Moneta said.

He noted that in the fall, for example, the annual Career Fair was held the day after the Majors Fair.

As part of the initiative to start earlier, the Career Center will also focus

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On Vice President for Development Robert Shepard’s desk sits a small blue plastic bucket filled with Werther’s Original candies.

On one side, it reads “The Campaign for Duke” and on the other, “Duke Libraries”. Shepard said the University librarian, David Ferriero, had them made as a reminder that the capital campaign still has individual targets—or buckets, as fundraisers call them—to fill, despite reaching its overall $2 billion goal.

But while administrators are working hard to fill every last bucket, they are also starting to look past Dec. 31, 2003, and to a post-campaign Duke.

“It’s not [a question] we’ve spent a whole lot of time thinking about, because we’re like marathon runners,” said President Nan Keohane. “When you’re working your way to the end, you don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about what you’re going to do when you sit down by the fire afterwards.”

Top universities have employed various strategies for post-campaign

more on helping students plan for their summers. Curran hopes to work with the Office of University Development to help ask alumni and corporations to endow $2,500 summer internships, a program similar to one at Brown. A student involved in such a program would need to write a culminating evaluation of the experience, which would be sent to the donor, thereby creating a career connection for the student.

Building strong links with alumni is another major priority for Curran. She explained that she hopes alumni who are just five or 10 years into their careers will take the opportunity to come back to campus to speak with current students more frequently.

By contrast, Stanford University’s $1 billion campaign in the 1980s has been followed by no major school-wide

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fundraising—from immediately launching a new campaign to focusing

on narrow targets.

The Johns Hopkins University, for example, followed up its $1.52 billion 1994-2000 campaign with the start of a new campaign two weeks later, a $2 billion effort that will run until 2007.

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Burned benches total 9 in mostly subdued bonfire

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

The win inside fired the Blue Devils’ confidence, and the students outside fired up the benches.

Main West Quadrangle erupted into flames late Wednesday night as several thousand Cameron Crazies—some of whom had braved the cold, rain and snow out in Krzyzewskiville for as many as six weeks—celebrated the struggling Blue Devils’ much-needed victory over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In total, at least nine benches were sacrificed to the basketball gods in one of the most controlled celebratory bonfires in recent years. Officials reported no arrests or injuries as of 1 a.m.

At 11:25 p.m., the House C bench was the first to go.

A few minutes later, the “Divas” bench followed it and by 11:30 a third had been added. “I’ve always hated that f—ing Divas bench,” said one reveler.

House O’s unpainted bench was poised to quickly become the fourth, but was halted at the perimeter of the bonfire for a few minutes by the A-Team, until finally being let in.

Fans waiting impatiently for more benches to be added reflected on the game, which included a strong second-half comeback by the Blue Devils—who had dropped three of their last four conference games—to beat their Tobacco Road rival Tar Heels. “[Chris] Duhon came on clutch there for about two minutes,” one Crazie said ofthe junior point guard who notched 12 points and 10 assists despite being removed from the starting lineup by coach Mike Krzyzewski.

“He was finally able to get his head in the game,” a friend agreed.

Many of those lucky—or crazy—enough to get into Cameron recounted for those only able to watch on television the sight of the blue streaker who raced across the court naked during a timeout with 24 seconds remaining in the first half.

“I thought, ‘What is that guy doing?’” said one wristband-holder. “And I was like, wait a minute—I see a butt crack.”

A fifth bench was finally tossed on around 11:45, and three more were added during a midnight rally. Alpha Tau Omega fraternity pledges capped the evening by stealing Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity’s bench, narrowly squeezing it through the Craven Quad archway and launching it into the fire despite PiKA brothers’ protests.

The inevitable crowd chanting was relatively subdued this year with only a few renditions of “Go To Hell Carolina, Go To Hell” and several meager at-

tempts at “D-U-K-E, who the....” Random offerings to the bonfire—which in the past have included everything from computers to dorm desks—were almost nonexistent. Another streaker and two girls cooking hotdogs on sticks were the only other highlights.

“It’s a Wednesday night,” said an A-Team member.

But revelers partied late into the school night.

“I’ve been out in K-ville since Jan. 5 and it was so worth it,” said one tenter. “I’m just so happy right now.

STUDENTS throw benches into Wednesday night’s bonfire

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Former Los Alamos director intertwines science, security Making up his speech originally scheduled for Sept. 12, 2001, alumnus describes new threats

By CAROLINE BIERBAUM The Chronicle Stressing that significant international changes have impacted the United States’ security needs, the former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory discussed Wednesday the increasing role science plays in U.S. defense and how the lab has responded to changing security threats.

John Browne, who began working at the lab in 1969 and retired as director in 1997, spoke to about 50 professors and students in the Physics Building. Browne received his Ph.D. from the University in 1969.

Ironically, the speech was originally scheduled to take place on Sept. 12, 2001. Now, after feeling the effects of the Sept. 11 attacks and facing pending nuclear threats with North Korea and Iraq, the issue of national security is more pertinent than ever.

Browne designed a slide show, and one of the first images he presented was the Yongyon nuclear facility

example, but their effects on another nation’s economy may be more dramatic.

Today, Los Alamos has developed several computerized programs to help policy makers synthesize the information they have. “Genie” is a genetic algorithm that searches images such as a city or other landscape for certain characteristics. Browne demonstrated how the Genie program can use water to find a beach or how it can also be used to find a cave, such as where Osama bin Laden and members of the Taliban were once hiding.

Los Alamos also has created simulated models of entire populations, such as those in Dallas, Texas, or Portland, Maine. Those models simulate a day-in-the life of those cities, detailing how the people interact on a given day. The Department of Homeland Security can use

these models to determine how quickly smallpox could spread should it infect the city. It gives them an idea of the consequences of smallpox on a population and what measures should be done to prevent its infection.

Browne made it evident that spread of technology to vast areas of the world poses increasing threats to the United States’ security. In 2000, after Browne had stepped down as director, scientists had detected that several nuclear secrets were stolen from Los Alamos.

Scientists must continue to research and impart knowledge, Browne said, but even more importantly the policy makers must have the intuition to apply such knowledge to national protection. “Our government has the knowledge, but they also must be able to make the right decisions with that knowledge,” Browne said.

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JOHN BROWNE, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, addresses students and faculty Wednesday. in North Korea. He characterized the Koreans as “very strident” and said their threat is real but the imminency has yet to be determined.

“Other countries now possess weapons that in the past were only available to major powers,” Browne said.

Because more nations are developing the technologies that were once limited only to a very few, the United States must respond quickly and aggressively.

“Significant improvements are absolutely essential to meet our security mandate,” Browne said.

The Los Alamos lab’s primary objective is to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons with applied and basic science. Scientists have been developing nuclear sensors, detectors and isotope identifiers as the first step to discovering weapons before they can strike Americans.

The lab has used Biological Aerosol Security and Information System deployments, for example, to detect anthrax since 1989. Although anthrax became a nationwide public concern after the Sept. 11 attacks, scientists at Los Alamos have in fact been studying strains in the United States and Russia that were present during the Cold War. More recently, the Lab has deployed BASIS at the summer 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to detect any possible anthrax scares.

Because of the changing availability of technology, Browne called weapons of mass destruction “weapons of mass effect.” Much of the world has access to technology that enables it to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and the effects ofsuch weapons are much more focused, he said. Chemical and biological weapons may not wipe out huge populations, for

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IRAQ from page 2 opinion and to commit aggression on Iraq,” said Lt. Gen. Amir al-Saadi, an adviser to Saddam. Al-Saadi, who spoke in Baghdad, was personally vilified in Powell’s speech for deceiving inspectors.

Addressing the Security Council after all 15 members spoke, Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed al-Douri dismissed Powell’s charges that his coun-

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campaign, but a series of smaller initiatives for key projects.

Indeed, the joke among many observers is that top universities only have two fundraising modes—open campaign and quiet campaign.

Yet Shepard said that Duke would not likely launch into a new campaign anytime soon. Keohane said several projects would be key to maintaining a sense of momentum after the campaign, including renovation and reassignment ofWest Campus social space into a student village, later rounds of Perkins Library renovation, the creation of performing arts space off East Campus in the tobacco warehouse acquired two years ago, and the balance of funding for the new multidisciplinary French Science Building.

Keohane said that as president of Wellesley College, her $l5O million capital campaign ended and went into a

less-than-focused development effort.

She added that it would be important for Duke not to lose momentum following its own successful campaign.

“There was a wonderful sense of eu-

phoria [but] there was also a sense a of

letdown because it’s much different when

try is hiding banned weapons and has links to terrorists.

Powell’s presentation was part of a diplomatic offensive that intensified with President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address last week. The administration’s next move is to determine whether council members are willing to support a new UN. resolution specifically authorizing force against Iraq.

Bush has said that the United States—with or without its allies—will you don’t have that wonderful spur of the campaign,” she said. “In some ways, it’s easier to raise money in a campaign because nobody’s under any illusions about why you’re there to see them and you a have a very strong case to make.”

Shepard said that he did not expect the day-to-day operations of the Office of University Development to change, but that the campaign would gradually be replaced with one or a series of initiatives. who’s lived through a campaign knows that the loss of momentum or the apparent loss of momentum —the campaign as an organizing principle—can be a real challenge,” Shepard said.

“That rallying point goes away.”

Steven Rum, development officer for the Medical Center, said his office will not lose a beat in fundraising.

“We’re all going to celebrate, but the next day it’s back to work. The needs are never-ending,” he said. “The single critical thing that will change is the strategic planning for the future campaigning.

We’ve got to take away what we’ve done right and done wrong and put into place the metrics for the next campaign.”

Administrators agreed that the most stunning way in which the campaign has changed fundraising at Duke is what Keohane and others have termed the -

forcibly disarm Iraq if it does not immediately comply with U.N. resolutions.

But winning U.N. approval would mean the United States could share the costs of war and rebuilding Iraq and would be operating with the support of the international community.

A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the next 24 to 36 hours will be critical as Powell gauges reaction. The key is France, one administration official said.

If President Jacques Chirac insists on vetoing such a resolution, Bush won’t seek one.

For many at the United Nations, a visit to Baghdad this weekend by the chief weapons- inspectors, followed by

“Big D” mentality. In contrast to the previous campaign, from 1984 to 1992 that raised just $565 million, this campaign has centralized fundraising so that no school can approach a major donor with-

events in Seattle and left for Miami Thursday night for fundraising events there through Friday, getting only four hours of sleep in between.

“I think [administrative] teaching will increase, and hopefully, life will be a

out approval from Keohane and John Piva, senior vice president for alumni affairs and development. Fundraising strategies are coordinated to ensure donors are not approached from too many fundraisers for competing projects.

“If you go to other schools there’s a lot of backbiting and hiding of donors and not sharing of information,” Rum said.

“We meet on a regular basis, and share problems and try to determine what’s in the best interest ofDuke.”

One significant change in post-campaign Duke life will be the time that Keo-

their next reports to the council on Feb. 14, will be critical for any decision on war.

Britain, America’s closest ally, prefers a second resolution but would join forces with the United States against Saddam without one.

little more relaxed and less strenuous,” Chafe said.

Pratt School of Engineering Dean

Kristina Johnson, one of the University’s most prolific fundraisers—raiding over $2OO million—did not expect to cut her travel at all. She pointed to further faculty hires, scholarships and renovations to Hudson Hall as reasons to keep working to bring in more donors.

“I don’t see it changing a whole lot,” she said. “One of the main focuses for a dean should be to garner resources for hane and academic officers spend on outstanding faculty and students.”

In the meantime, however, the blue fundraising. While they will not totally abandon the fundraising circuit, many library pail will remain on Shepard’s said they will not do nearly as much postdesk, reminding him not only of the licampaign. Keohane has said, for exambrary’s needs but of financial aid, Arts ple, that she hopes to teach a class next and Sciences and faculty development spring and spend more time on campus. as well over the next 11 months.

William Chafe, dean of the faculty of And although some officials have arts and sciences, said that 25 percent of hoped for as high a finish as $2.5 billion, his time is spent fundraising, but he exShepard was a little more cautious pects to cut that time in half after the about the campaign’s final number. campaign ends. He noted that last week, “I would like to be north of $2.2 bilhe left Wednesday night for fundraising lion, but I don’t know how far north.”

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BUSH BUDGET from page 1

Specifically, the president’s budget included the follow spending recommendations: an increase of $1.9 billion over the requested 2003 levels for the federal Pell Grant program to $12.7 billion, which is designed to reduce a shortfall in the program—the maximum grant would remain $4,000 per student. a proposed 9 percent increase in NSF funding, following a congressional resolution last year that called for a 15 percent boost each year over the next three years. Most of the 2004 funding increases would be aimed at nanotechnology, mathematics and physical sciences. only a 1.8 percent increase in NIH funding, following what has been almost a doubling of its budget over the past five years. Bioterrorism research would receive most of the extra funds this year; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is responsible for bioterrorism research, would receive a 9 percent increase over the proposed 2003 levels and 72 percent increase over the 2002 levels. a $27.5 million increase in spending for the National Endowment for the Arts, a 22 percent increase •

huge ripple effect on funding at many universities, especially at Duke, which is one of the top recipients of grants from both the NIH and the NSF. James Siedow, vice provost for research, said the NSF increases sounded encouraging, but that he would be disappointed if other agencies did not receive

substantial increases.

“I have only just read through a synopsis of the Bush proposals for NSF, NIH and USDA budgets and the preliminary estimates with respect to NIH look worrisome, but I really need to see more of the details,” he wrote in an e-mail.

Siedow said the University, in its 2002 fiscal year, spent $112.9 million on sponsored projects, 71 percent of which was supported by federal money—s2B.2 million from the NIH, $19.2 million from the NSF and $14.7 million from the Department of Defense.

On the Medical Center side, in the 2002 fiscal year, outside research funds totaled $350.6 million, 61 percent of which was supported by federal money—including $204 million from the NIH, $O.B million from the NSF and $5.2 million from Defense, said Scott Gibson, the medical school’s associate vice dean for finance and resource planning.

Dr. Ross McKinney, vice dean for research at the medical school, said he was not optimistic about the budget’s funding for medical research.

“We’re very concerned about the relatively limited amount of money that’s been put in for NIH increases,” he said. “The issue is that with inflation and with the grants already funded, if you don’t increase funding by a significant amount, you in fact decrease it.”

McKinney said Duke would be vying for a share of the increased funding for bioterrorism research, pointing to a grant proposal from Dr. Barton Haynes, director ofthe Human Vaccine Institute, to become one of 10 national hubs for bioterrorism research.

Nixon said that surprisingly, given the attention to international affairs, international education—including areas studies centers and foreign language—would not receive much of an increase.

Furthermore, both McKinney and Nixon expressed concern that the Congress has not yet appropriated the 2003 funds for the budget.

“It’s already having an effect,” McKinney said. “Lots of grants which normally would have been funded are sitting on hold until this year’s budget gets finalized.”

Nixon added that she thought Congress would approve the funds by President’s Day weekend, but that she and President Nan Keohane have lobbied legisla-

tors for approval as soon as possible.

Bush announced his budget proposal Monday. Projecting greater than $3OO billion in deficit spending—without the possible costs of a war in Iraq—the budget hopes to boost military spending and security improvements, while targeting the slumping economy with massive tax cuts.

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ing to mount a military strike and will ultimately be forced to talk.

The Bush administration has refused to negotiate with North Korea bilaterally, and has insisted that the crisis be handled through the United Nations and in concert with North Korea’s neighbors. Bush has said that the United States has no plans to invade North Korea. But administration officials have dismissed the idea of a treaty, steadfastly maintaining that North Korea must verifiably dismantle its nuclear weaponsmaking infrastructure before there can be any improvement in relations.

The nuclear crisis burst into the open last October when seniorAmerican diplomats traveled to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang to confront officials with evidence of a secret program to produce highly enriched uranium, an activity that violated multiple commitments by North Korea.

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over the 2002 levels, although $25 million of that would go to Bush’s “We the People” project to increase understanding ofAmerican history and culture. Funding for other projects would primarily remain flat. $ll7 million for the National Endowment of the Arts, which is unchanged from the 2002 levels. requests for $1 billion in research and development funds from the Department of Homeland Security, $BOO million of which would fund the department’s Science and Technology Directorate, which will work with universities to develop new anti-terrorism •

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technologies. a 5 percent, or $541 million, decline in the science and technology budget of the Department ofDefense, which would eliminate projects earmarked in the 2003 budget. Defense is one of the only appropriation bills to have its 2003 budget passed and in place. The military provides more than 40 percent of the government’s research for computer science, and nearly one-third of all federal support for engineering studies. Sixty percent of the military’s research is done by universities.

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Center for North American Studies Summer 2003 Grants for Research, Language Study and Conferences in Canada and Mexico The Duke University Center for North American Studies is pleased to announce a competition for faculty, graduate and professional students, and undergraduate students for summer grants for research, language study and conferences in Canada and Mexico. Grants will also be considered for research and conferences in the U.S. that consider the U.S. in a bi-national or tri-national context.

All Duke faculty and students are eligible, provided they will enroll in Fall semester 2003 (i.e. graduating students are not eligible).

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Grants of $750-2,000 to offset costs of attending intensive Spanish and Mexican culture course at the University of the Americas, Puebla—see webpage http://www.udlap.mx/cilc/ or intensive French and Quebecois culture class at University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres http://www.uqtr.ca/eif/eifang.html or University of Quebec at Montreal http://www.unites.uqam.ca/langues/ecole_ete/anglais/ecole.htm

For Research Grants of up to $l5OO to students and up to $5OOO to faculty for research in social sciences and humanities that deals with Canada or Mexico or (preferred) phenomena that involve interrelations among Canada, Mexico and the U.S. or comparative bi-national or tri-national studies. Proposals in science, engineering and medicine will be considered if they enhance ties between Duke and key institutions in Canada and Mexico. Research proposals must be accompanied by a budget showing all proposed costs, with travel costs documented by quote from a travel agency or airline website, using lowest cost means of travel. A curriculum vitae of all participants must be attached. For students, a letter of endorsement must be included from their major advisor or project supervisor, indicating the value of the research in their educational program and its feasibility.

For Conference Attendance Grants to cover actual costs, up to $750, of attending conferences in Mexico or Canada or conferences in the U.S. dealing with bi-national or tri-national topics. Travel cost estimates must be documented with a quote from a travel agency or airline website, using lowest cost means of travel.

Deadline: March 24, 2003 submit to Center for North American Studies, Box 90422, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road. Electronic submissions, in MS Word, may be sent to NAS Grant Competition c/o Janice Engelhardt jae4@duke.edu. (ph. 684-4260)

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CAREER CENTER from page 3 “We want to expose students to the wide variety of things of what alumni have done and not just [in the current] three events a year,” she said. “We want much more of a continued kind ofthing.”

Further, with the addition of a new staff position devoted to alumni, recently graduated students will have greater access to Career Center services.

Curran added that she hopes to partner with officials in schools like the Fuqua School of Business, the

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SHEILA CURRAN became director of the Career Center last month.

Among the changes she plans is earlier career planning.

CO-SPEAKERS from page 1 time since 1866 that it has taken more than one day to reach a decision about who the speaker should be.

The final decision received mixed reactions from representatives on the floor. While many seemed relieved, some were concerned about the consequences.

“We had no problem with power sharing,” said Republican Sam Ellis, who voted in favor of the resolution but felt that the candidates chosen were the wrong people for the job.

“The chair is in the hands of a pair of tyrants,” he

added.

Others were more optimistic.

“I think they will [work together] as best they can,” said Democrat Mickey Michaux, Durham’s representative, adding a caveat. “It’s going to be rocky to start with. There’s still a 50-50 split.”

In previous votes, Black received 60 of the 120 pos-

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Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, and the Pratt School of Engineering, to provide guidance to students interested in those fields.

Another kind of guidance will come from a peer advising system the Career Center plans to institute next year. About 20 trained students will serve as liaisons between the center and their peers—participating and spearheading career discussions in dormitories and quads.

“This volunteer core will be able to evangelize on our behalf and work with students on a one-to-one basis,” said Donna Hamer, associate director ofthe Casible votes, one short of a majority. Morgan received only five votes and a third candidate, George Holmes, took the remaining 55.

This breakdown did not change throughout the last week, forcing the House to find another solution.

The first resolution put forward Wednesday by Democrat William Culpepper nominated Jim Black as speaker. The resolution received only 60 votes, so Black was once again one vote short of becoming speaker.

There was some confusion in the House when Republican Carey Allred—who had voted against the resolution—suggested the House vote again on the resolution. Allred, however, did not change his vote and the resolution failed once again.

After a failed motion to adjourn, Culpepper put forward a second resolution suggesting that there should be “power sharing” between Black and Morgan.

“It provides for them to serve on alternative days,” Culpepper stated in his explanation of the resolution.

With 39 representatives opposed, the resolution

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reer Center. “Students sometimes place more credence in what another student says than what we might say.”

While Curran hopes those changes will lead students to look at a broader range of careers, she realizes many still will opt for the most popular career choices, like consulting and investment banking.

Therefore, she hopes to make the Career Center more attractive to top national recruiters with a new facility in the planned student village.

The center is currently split among three tightly compacted levels in Page Auditorium that are “not conducive to a symbiotic system in which everybody is helping everybody,” Curran said. Interviews, for instance, are now held on the grungy bottom floor.

“We want the Career Center to become a destination point for students, where they can speak casually with staff, read career journals and grab a little something to eat,” Curran said.

Career Center staff said they were enthusiastic

about the approach Curran has brought to her position.

“She’s very energetic, creative and has the ability to look at the big picture,” Hamer said. “She is able to look at how we can establish long-term goals as well as address the immediate needs of students.”

passed to applause and sighs. Morgan and Black were escorted to the front of the room by members of their respective parties and were sworn in.

Black then made a short speech about the importance of working together in the future. “It is time for us to put our wounded egos aside and time to start legislation that will improve the lives of our citizens,” Black said.

The House co-speaker continued by highlighting the issues for which he said both parties were striving: the best education for children and the best care for the ill. He also told the House that the two parties had similar aims with regard to their fundamental duty to help citizens and find better ways to spend taxes.

“All of us know that this is going to be a tough session,” he said. “[But] working together, we can make this one of the best sessions in this state’s history.”

Morgan is expected to give remarks Thursday.

At the conclusion of the speech, the new co-speakers were each given a gavel, which they pounded three times in unison. The House then adjourned.

An evening of readings by Theater Studies faculty and students that gives voice to contemporary and historical responses to terrorism and war Monday, February 10

presented as part of the ongoing series of events on the theme "The Arts in Times of War," coordinated by

the Duke Institute

of the Arts, and sponsored by the Institute of the Arts with support from the Mary Duke Biddle foundation, the franklin Humanities "Making

the Humanities Central" project, and the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies.

7:00 pm Sheafer Lab Theater, Bryan Center Sponsored by the Department of Theater Studies Free and open to the public Readings include

THE CLOCKS STOP ALL by Cressida Wilson Erin

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Campus. Subliminal, the movement was small, affecting only the utmost

West Campus bench.

"Uh, I'm like gonna major in econ. Go IBanking!" said freshman 1.

"Let's go get drunk on daddy's money and hook up with sorority girls," said frat boy 1.

"It's hard being a freshman—East Campus is a dry wasteland devoid of available girls! What I dream of is a commune where we can share the pleasures of our Duke society," chimed freshman 2.

"I concur, comrade. Do you accept this calling to the totalitarian brotherhood of indulgence? A utopia where we can pool our assets and everyone, but mostly just us, can hook up with girls and enjoy beer at all hours of the day! We'll call it... Section!," whispered a mysterious voice from under the bench.

A chorus of "Hail Stalin!" echoed across the main quad....

The winds of change were quickly approaching.

Buried within the fagade of capitalism, a storm was quickly enveloping West

However, in a community devoid of red flags, hammers and sickles, where was this movement circulating from? It only took a few minutes of "Duke Directory" searching, but I came across the man who broke the conspiracy—the one who detailed the true motives of Nan and her henchmen. His name was Nikolai G. Roudev, and his warning was clear: "So, are you looking to spend your college years in the ideal socialist utopia? Get ready for the horror-house!" he wrote on his now-famous website.

I was able to contact him only once before his "exile," and when I told him about the possibility that we'd print his findings, he said, "I do hereby extend to you and your magazine such permissions, general and specific, as are necessary to reproduce, without my further consent, any and all materials contained on my web-page.... And 1 do further

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Unable to contact him further, I called the authority of missing people; The Office of Alumni Affairs. However, even after extensive research, they were unable to provide any evidence of this class of 2002 member.

Furthermore, the registrar's office found only a name, with no corresponding info, in its database.

Likely the result of a University hit, our soothsayer has vanished into the depths of this cruel world, but Nick's words will not be forgotten.

As I write this, I hide within a corner fear-

ing for my own life, as I know L. Mo and his "secret police" will soon thrust me back into the throngs of the "quad community."

I risked my life to write this.

Every time you hear "quad community" or "interaction," be afraid. Did you come to Duke in the hopes that you could become rich and benefit from the upper crust of capitalist society?

To quote the possibly deceased Mr. Roudev, "WELL, COMRADE, YOU WERE

WRONG!" —Tom Roller

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You are invited to a reading of a new play by ARIEL DORFMAN

“PICASSO’S CLOSET’’

An exile and an anti-fascist, Pablo Picasso lived in Nazi-occupied Paris for four years. What did he have to do in order to survive?

Thursday, February 6, 2003 7:00 p.m.

Reynolds Theater. Bryan Center Free admission. Tickets not required.

A post-performance discussion with the playwright and director will follow.

Directed by JOHN DILLON Cast .

ALLAN EDWARDS. JOHANNA MELAMED. SAXON PALMER. DAVID ADAMSON, CAROLYN VUJEC, MICHAEL KAMIMAN, FREDERICK NEUMANN. HONORA FERGUSSON

This reading is presented as part of the ongoing series of events on the theme "The Arts in Times of War," coordinated by the Duke Institute of the Arts, and sponsored by the Institute of the Arts -with support from the Mary Duke Biddle foundation, the franklin Humanities Institute's "Making the Humanities Central" project, and the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies.

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Corgan's Zwan Son

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Billy Corgans work-hard, work-hard mentality may have been the force that ultimately smashed the Smashing Pumpkins, his serious approach to music produced artful, profound, post-grunge rock that formed a sonic backdrop to the 19905. Well, the 90s are definitely over, and as the rock world tries to recover from the onslaught of pop in a music scene where the lines are more blurred than before, Corgans Zwan may be the Smashing Pumpkins for a

new generation.

Zwans debut album, Mary Star of the Sea, seems to feature a more optimistic Corgan who renounces past suffering while see^n 9 j°Y ar| d embracing love with hope and GRADEGRADE, resilience. However, there's a lot to be said for being fatalistic and tortured in one's lyrics. On Mary, fatalism has given way to a submission to faith and destiny, which, while expressed poetically, lacks the profound insights into the human condition that the Pumpkins provided. Instead, Corgan's ruminations occasionally seem trite.

But when the lyrics suffer, Zwan's powerful instrumentation revives the track. This is particularly true of the anthemic open-

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then we're all in big trouble.This just in: I've been drunk ever since I got here. Needless to say, the musical responsibilities of even the most ambitious editor can fall by the wayside when faced with the prospects of a tall, tasty pint and a sweet English smile. Initially, I thought some of my newfound British friends could help me get a handle on the music scene, but then I realized that 1 don't have any newfound Britis friends. I turned to my roommate for guidance, he doesn't speak much English and smells a lot like soup. No help there, although I now too, prou ly exude an inexplicable lobster bisque aroma.

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"El Sol" and the OK Go-esque "B Let's Rock."

Nonetheless, as the album progresses, Corgan's combination of happiness and hard rock manages to produce complex, inventive compositions. The acoustic "Of a Broken Heart" expresses an acceptance of despair that remains bittersweet, further uniting polar opposites. Buried toward the end of the album, "Yeah!," is an ironically catchy take on heartbreak, expressing pain through sharp guitar licks and meticulous lyrics that make up for previous abuses. After these accomplishments, it's unfortunate that the end of the album degenerates—the religiously influenced, abstract title track, characteristic of Corgan's former group, and a bizarre folk rock song are uninspired.

While Zwan's music does feature sonic and lyrical vestiges of the Smashing Pumpkins, these traits merely enhance the group's poppy sound. Indeed, Zwan's debut CD illustrates the artistic ability of a formerly tortured front man.

—Hilary Lewis

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For its The Arts in Times of War series, the Duke Institute of the Arts is sponsoring "Theatrical Voices from 9/11 and Beyond” It will feature a several readings that give "voice to contemporary and historical responses to terrorism and war." Interesting stuff. SheaferTheater. Free.

Monday at 7 p.m.

MUSICThey hawk scotch; they played as the Olympic torch came into Salt Lake City last year and tonight, they're coming to the Cat's Cradle. Seven Nations is

a modern rock outfit that also traces its roots to traditional music. I suppose that's why they combine the sounds of a bagpipe, fiddle and guitar in

their work. Odd, indeed. 300 E. Main St., Carrboro. Doors open at 8 p.m. $l2.

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Unfortunately, these Brits got the jump on me a long time ago. Sigur Ros, the Chili Peppers, Interpol, even John Mayer for Christ's sake—all sold out.

Ha! Blessing in disguise. I finally wised up. I was thinking Cat's Cradle; 1 was thinking Walnut Creek; 1 was thinking like a moron. 1 need to think English! What kind of musical pilgrimage would this be if I didn't find some hidden gems that haven't crossed the pond yet? Sure, I could see the Streets at Brixton, but what kind of chance would I be taking? From now on, I'm going to be at every local dive listening to every Liam Gallagher wannabe. I'm going to stop and appreciate that busker who sounds a lot like Michael Stipe playing for change in the subway (even though I'm pretty sure he stole my wallet last week). I'm going to be a better music fan.... ...Right after I go see Steve-0 from Jackass in his "Don't Try This at Home" show! Holy crap! He totally got arrested once for stapling his scrotum to his thigh. Man, I hope he does it again! America rules!

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bringing their own brand of bluegrass into the Cat's Cradle Expect lots of twang, domestic beer (Schlitz preferred) and Confederate flags. $l3.

Pretty Girls Make Graves I have to admit that I didn't know what to expect from an alleged punk band with no previous full-length releases and a name derived from a Jack Kerouac autobiography. At first, only melodic synth tones unpretentiously rise and fall just long enough to get used to its temperate pattern. Suddenly though, a sonic wall of distorted guitar riffs, crashing cymbals, melodic shouts and systematic basslines blast straight through all of your predispositions.

All I could think was, "Who the hell do these guys think they are?" After my inoculation with Good Health, I figured it out: Pretty Girls Make Graves are unquestionably

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As part of its Midnight Movie series, the Duke University Union is showing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at Griffith Theater Friday night/ Saturday morning. Also, five lucky fans will receive "golden tickets" good for neato Union prizes like George Clinton tickets and dinner with Jesse Panuccio.

unique, flagrantly technical, and not at all "punk."

Having previously paid their dues in respected bands in the Seattle punk scene, this band's allied parts have broken out of the mold of genre. Under the guise of straightforward, call-and-response guitar rock, they have somehow intricately fused complex arrangements and tight melodies with kick-ass moments of electronic, reggae, funk and even Indian influences. Andrea Zollo's voice both soars and stings on the album's frighteningly intricate gem, "Ghosts in the Radio,” while the rhythm section of Derek Fudesco and Nick DeWitt perfectly props up the brazen intertwining of guitars in the emotive, "By the Throat." The only trouble with the album is that at only 27 minutes, 1 wanted at least a Side B. But with a self-titled EP released justTuesday, pretend not to notice that it came out a year later. While the band asserts, "All we are is trying not to fall into line," that's gotta be the last thing they have to worry about.

—Scott Hechinger

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As I continued to read through the first page, then the second, and onto the third, I thought, "This is wonderful! Is it an introduction to some new organization's ad campaign to inspire critical analysis of mainstream misconceptions about African-American cultural history?"

"We don't just talk, we rap. Right here, right now, the black experience tells it. It speaks to freedom, reminding everyone to persevere and live deeply, giving us progression, giving you humanity and everyone a higher hope."

Now, reading this out of context, it felt critical and honest, progressive and, though the ideas aren't new, potentially revolutionary—until I turned back to the last page and saw the Nissan symbol at the bottom.

Today, the pop star rite of passage is a collaboration with Ja Rule or a song produced by the Neptunes, and virtually every giant company, including Nissan, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Gateway, has an ad campaign utilizing images from hip hop/spoken word culture in its portrnm'MM jM.mMt'tfofM' folio. The use of urban culture to sell products Coorfiiilfilot* of The Phoenix | eac js us t0 discourse particularly about the state of hip hop and spoken word—but even more generally, about the fate of any subversive movements that utilize the arts (music, graffiti, etc.) to influence social change.

The Source was one of the first magazines to cater specifically to urban youth and hip hop culture and politics. It reminds us of its roots as a progressive publication outside of the mainstream with mainstays like "Ear to the Street: Media Watch" a column that promotes critical analysis of media giants' reporting on hip hop—and "Graf Flix," an exhibit space for graffiti writers. The Source's very devotion to hip hop culture, from a time when hip hop was necessarily outside the mainstream, speaks to the political nature of its earlier times. Yet today within its pages, not only has advertising run over into editorial space, but the images represented in the ads have also come to look exactly like the photos within the articles. (Is Nelly really shirtless with the slogan 'Got Milk?' tattooed across his belly?)

And so we begin: Why has hip hop culture been so thoroughly incorporated into the mainstream? And what will be the outcome?

In speaking with friends on these questions, I was told that, a member of Stanford University's Filipino American Student Union suggested that hip hop, rap and spoken word were particularly popular in the Philippines because as young people in one of the poorest nations in Southeast Asia, the Filipinos can relate to the music. "It's just like being black," the Stanford student said.

While it is easy to forget the original nature of hip hop, these glimpses into its meaning to disenfranchised youth in other parts of the world remind us that hip hop began as a voice for the marginalized American black youth.

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the potential to influence and unite generations of fans. Young Mos Def rap about global warming and the commersources in his song "New World Water." Yet, as long as hip hop is incorm, and thus in an ideal market for the commercial recording and adverist challenge the depoliticization of their art. For example, Bob Marley and identified rioting as a logical response to economic disenfranchisearsona is popular within the mainstream, his legacy will remain politically of Marley rolling a joint are the wall-hangings of choice for American coljmembered only for songs like "One Love," the theme song for a line of rertising Jamaican vacations, and not for his politics. stream culture said hip hop wouldn't last: Run DMC were pioneers in rtions, and spoken word was largely local and community-based, lists envisioned youth in Germany quoting Public Enemy and spo-0 establish open mic nights across the globe, did work to be and a people. :mainstream society that were intended to reach many. But when eclared that mainstream media was wrong about "gangsta" rap, jr pagers in defiance of their popular association with drug dealing, that our efforts to un-demonize urban culture would result in a the spectrum with hip hop as an undeniable influence in everything lews commentary. cess of trying to determine what exactly is responsible for the om subversive, politically conscious communities into the mainvertising provide doorways through which we may begin raising answers. itently and watch a little bit too much television, and in the process I rapping for Coke with a backdrop featuring pictures of Louis ly, Mya and well, and Âťduct, Pepsi Blue, a spoken word Dout soda, comjrdplay. The list ;o full apocalypse d on Martin Luther Since 7997 students and community residents from all over the Dn the history of Triangle have gathered at the East Campus Coffeehouse Wednesday or through the arts to Thursday nights to revel in the most universal of art forms; poetry. bs Dissatisfied with the mainstream social scenes and lack of cultural outlappen to recaplets on campus, Kelsy Davis, Trinity '99, helped found The Blue Roach of hip hop and to foster a community of writers, performers and creative supporters. on a very basic After losing steam last year, The Blue Roach has recently been reincarto approach their nated with an appropriate new name: The Phoenix. With open mic grity and hold nights every other Wednesday and local and national performers schedi the community uled each month, The Phoenix is rising. Recess Arts Editor Vicki Kaplan level of responsisat down with Ashanti Crawford, one of The Phoenix's coordinators mples are out (Alana Jones is the other), to discuss The Phoenix and its relationship 'ez and The Roots to the commercialization of spoken word and hip hop. th a foundation it seems like everything The Phoenix goes through is deeply ;o rebuild a connected with its history and the hisly conscious hip tory of the people that work on it. lity.

Yeah, it's connected to people that artist responsibilijust appreciate the arts. And it's frustrathe most obvious ing because, especially this year, it to this dilemma, seems like overall there's a lack of interjr scale, our sociest in things other than parties. That's 'e must also, and kind of where I understand why spoken word and hip hop have So let's become commercialized, because this is a beautiful art form and ze forums like The you want to share it with people. But then it's like, "To what erly known as the extent do you go to not compromise the art?" want to reach a id Roc-the-Mic bigger pool, but am going against the whole purpose of startthe Mary Lou ing? I'm kind of neutral. to spread discusSo how do you balance your wanting to keep it as the counChronicle letting terculture that it is, but also trying to reach people? iere is interest in I'm working on it! feel like the people that are really down with :s so that they the original cause should support it. But in order to let people know, â&#x20AC;˘aces for disyou have to have a gimmick sometimes. What's frustrating is that ink? we spend good money to bring people down here, and you want people to be there so at a certain time you have to kind of commera Recesscialize it. It's great to have your regulars but you still want to reach this topic in the more people

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I still don't feel like it's as close as the original group was. I don't even know if it can get back there. But I know there are lots of people [interested], so that once it gets organized it's highly possible that it could become more of a collective group.

As for the open mic, do you generally get the same people performing or is it different every time?

There are some people that you can basically guarantee are going to perform, and there are other people that you want to encourage 'cause you know they write poems.... It's cool when you have a feature artist who really gets the crowd going so they're like, "I'll do this." I want it to be that open environment where people feel welcome to express their talent or whatever their love or passion is in any kind of way, whether it's music, singing, rap, poetry, whatever.

Do you write or perform at all?

I'm more of a fun person; I'm not really on that deep level. I'd like to beâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I'm working on it. And that's one of the benefits of The Phoenix: It brings political awareness to issues that I never would have been exposed to.

Do you think ofThe Phoenix as part of Duke or a community that's separate from it?

I feel like it has a good history at Duke, and if we get it organized and come back consistent like it was, it could really become an integral part of Duke. But for the most part the people that are really supportive are more in the [Durham] community.

So it's mostly not Duke students.

Right. And that's where you get into commercializing it. You have people that will support it, but also your school is sponsoring this, so come out! We want you to come. We want to reach everyone.... It's like music. It's an avenue that transcends cross-culturally, across genders, sexual preferences. I want to foster more unity.... I appreciate it because it creates dialogue. It's a healthy way to talk about issues instead of, "I just don't like you because...." Whether or not you agree with it, you have to respect that they have their reasons, you have your reasons.

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Meg Lawson to get to nugget of ess, she <d the lame iestions >r college ts on the rence call. ere's her >est shot at scovering iat the hot whose film Lose a Guy iys opens ekend, is all (Also, in case you're interested, the questions Meg asked are bolded and Italicized, while the other shmucks' are just bolded.) ....

On How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days In the midst of all these romantic comedies coming out, what sets yours apart from the rest?

Matthew McConaughey: The funniest part of this is the secret that you, the audience, is in on.

You know something I don't know, and you know something she doesn't know, and it's funny being privy to that information and watching our reactions.

[From the only man out of 10 college journalists] I noticed a distinct lack of explosions in this movie, and I was wondering how you'd sell it to the male population?

It is a chick flick, but it's also for guys. That's one of the reasons I got into it 'cause I read the script and said, "Romantic comedies aren't the first ones I run out to see, but I've got an angle

on it here where there can be a male point of view, and it'll be more balanced, and guys will be able to dig it."

On his career in general You've done two short films, do you have any plans to direct full-length films in the future?

I do have plans, but I don't have a timetable as far as when. I am writing something now. My production company—we've just produced our fourth documentary. I don't know if that's what we're always going to do, but it sure is where our interests are now.

You play in both comedies and dramas. Which do you prefer?

It matters where I am in my life. I really like the dramas, [suddenly realizing he's promoting a romantic comedy] but I look at romantic comedies as more like a weekend—they're fun, they're light. Romantic comedies aren't recreating the wheel, if I sit here and say, "Hey, we get together at the end of the movie," I'm really not giving away a big secret.The fun is watching the two people go at it.

Which role in your career challenged you the most?

Well, they're all challenging in different ways.

You do something like Contact, Amistad, U-571 or Newton Boys, and there's the responsibility to some part of history through the role you've got to play. There's a blueprint you sort of have to work off of. Then you do something like Reign of Fire, and that's complete fiction —there's no blueprint at all, so you can sort of dream stuff up.

With a romantic comedy it's basically human interaction. It's just a guy and a girl kind of going at it, so you can loosen up the dialogue and play with things.

What do you think is some of your best work so far? [warning: heavy sports metaphors ahead] There are times I feel I've hit it square on the

wood, and it's like "boom, man! Pure." There are other times where I go, "Okay, you've fouled that one off." Dazed and Confused was the first thing ever did, and there was a great innocence going into that. That was a great start... but I know I'm lowering my handicap now. Since EdTV, I think I'm a lot more conscious about what I'm doing, and I'm doing a lot better work.

Do you have a preference between large and small budget films?

One of the reasons I did 13 Conversations and Frailty is because I wanted to get my hands back in the clay and really get that feeling of what it felt like making films in college when you don't have as much money and you don't have as much time.

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What made you switch from a pre-law major to a film major?

1 wasn't sleeping that well with the idea of spending the next seven years in law school. And I also wasn't sleeping that well with the idea that law was what I wanted to do. It was at a time I was doing a lot of writing, and I just started saying I've got too many ideas and sensibilities that I don't want to put under wraps for the next eight years.

Cool Quotes from sucky questions On Women: A girl can't be a woman, but a woman can still be a girl.

On Career: I've only had one instance in 24 films that I've lost a little respect for somebody.

On Love: Hey, it ain't always gonna be easy but I'd rather do it with you than with anyone else.

On Set: To be fair, when I'm filming, I don't go out and do anything on school nights. I live on my bus on the lot five or 10 yards from the set.

Ms. Film Roars into Town,*

We've all played around with camcorders at some point, and we've all had delusions of Hollywood excess. If you're really cool, maybe you even made it as an extra on Dawson's Creek at some point. But somewhere between the little spark and the big dream lies that notion of filmmaking as art; as a means of creative expression in which the yardstick of success is the clarity of your vision rather than the size of your budget.

Film is a unique convergence of artistic media: Imagery, combined with elements of sound, narrative and movement, provides away to capture and manipulate a powerful reality. The multidimensional nature of film is what makes it so versatile, and unfortunately so intimidating.

This is especially true for young women, notes Niku Arbabi, the leader behind this weekend's Ms. Films Festival, which is being held Saturday at the Durham Arts Council downtown.

"Film is a male-dominated field," she explains "Things are changing now, but women still find the technology of filmmaking forbidding." Sometimes this is a generational difference.

Other times the creative essence of filmmaking just gets bogged down in practical concerns of technology, equipment and funding.

Saturday afternoon will offer a series of workshops in animation, sound, screenwriting and other specific

components of film technique; Saturday night is as case of short films directed by women from across country. However, the real heart of the festival lies what you take home. Expect to have a good time, and better still, leave with the know-how and resources to get started.

Arbabi has compiled a comprehensive take-

home guide for aspiring regional filmmakers, which will be available to all participants. She recognizes that some of the most obvious dilemmas—where to get Super 8 film, where to show your movies, where to see other people's films —ar easily solved with access to the right information.

"This resource guide was created for not just for women, but for anyone who's starting out," she say "It covers anything you want to know about moviemaking in the area."

This Saturday's festival was created "by women, for everyone" with the intention of providing both hands-on filmmaking experience and an introduction ty. The Triangle's arts communities overlap, she said, as a function of both size \

and mutual interest.

"If you want to venture out there, [the Arts Council] is a good place to start.... Something like this is sort of a doorway to a scene," Arbabi explains.

"Unless you have away in, it's difficult, and for that reason, I'm trying to make this a resource as much as a one-day event."

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Beyond the Verge of Typical Theater Wendell Theatre Group continues to expand with this quirky British script-turned-Southern How aptly titled Wendell Theatre Group's On the Southern consumption and toys with all the trailerVerge is. park stereotypes, drawls and farm-animal sound Not only is the theater group on the brink of a effects one would expect from a city-meets-country growth spurt, expanding its program to just fewer scene set far from the city limits. Sexual preoccupathan 50 members this spring, but the play's charaction dominates Gerald's dirty old mind, as he and the ters also border on insanity, Southern men attempt to use riding across the set on their distinctive charm to mobile stage props and jestseduce any woman who graces ing before the show begins. the stage. Dora is "the biggest As promised, On the Verge of the characters',' Assistant is a light farcical comedy that Director Josh Alien-Dicker jokes, uses larger-than-life characreferring to Louisa Watkins' ters to push slapstick wearing a full-body fat suit to humor's limits. If you're lookplay the part of muumuu-clad ing for the meaning of life mother. With hyperbolized charyou won't find it here, but acters as diverse as the drunkyou may learn a thing or two en, daisy-duke-wearing, braabout "earthworks" strap-showing teen and the This odd quest for knowlwifebeater-clad farmhand edge is why Mr. Gerald Levin whose libido won't quit, On the leaves behind his wife in the Verge is borderline hilarity. city and takes a weekend trip Wendell, which started in the to the country with a beautiearly '9os and went on a few ful lady-friend, performed by years' hiatus because of funding Molly Futweiler. Two worlds problems, is obviously back in Eccles) recruits Ruth (Molly Fulweiler) for a raucous collide as Gerald, a feisty, weekend. Photo by Jeff Burlin. full swing and with more mojo than ever. In their latest produccity-slicker of an archaeolotion, this energy and zest comes alive. On the Verge is gist played by Jordan Eccles, brings youthful librarian Ruth Hill to a farmhouse lacking electricity and runover-the-top, but wonderfully so. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kim Roller ning water, among other amenities. Ruth acts as "secretary for the weekend," he explains with overpowering sexual innuendo. One minor setback; The Wendell Theatre Group's On the Verge runs Feb 68 at 8 p.m. and Feb 9 at 2 p.m. Admission is $7 for poor folk who lived in this run-down abode impulsively return from their city duplex and settle back in at students, $9 for everyone else. You can get tickets home. Quite the setup for mayhem. on the Bryan Center Walkway or by emailing crb9@duke.edu.

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One Woman, Many Issues Anna Deavere Smith has been known to say that if she were a white man, she would not be able to do the work that she does.

Smith is an actor, writer, political commentator and artistic innovator who will share her work at Duke Friday at "An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith" in Page Auditorium.

Smith creates one-woman shows in response to political, often racially charged events. Two of her most renowned works are Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities, which explores the 1991 conflict between African-Americans and Jews in Brooklyn, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,

about the notorious L.A. "riots."

She also comments on America in a more general way with House Arrest: First Edition, which looks at the way America has defined itself through and against its presidents.

Because she is a solo artist, Smith takes on all characters in her pieces herself, often playing roles outside her own gender and race, and switches from, ay, a Hasidic Jew to Al Sharpton within seconds. In videos of her

work, she does this with the aid of costumes, but when she excerpts them live, she fluidly indicates a switch with only her posture and the sound of her voice.

Also a writer for Newsweek and a Stanford University professor, Smith infuses her work with political relevancy that remains somehow neutral, and encourages the audience to transcend a predilection to judge her by her own gender and race. Tomorrow night at Page, she'll see if Duke students are up to the challenge. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Meghan Valerio

Anna Deavere Smith and her entourage of, well, herself, takes the stage of Page Auditorium tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Student tickets are $l2 and general tickets are $2O.

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Duhon regains confidence as leader Football inks 14 for Class of ’O7 “When Chris [Duhon] leads, he’s the best leader I’ve ever seen, take it from a guy who’s played with him,” former Duke point guard Jason Williams said minutes before Wednesday’s game against UNC. “When he decides to lead and take this team, he can take it anywhere he wants. I think he’s going to start doing that tonight.”

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Head coach Mike Krzyzewski informed his players Monday that Daniel Ewing would be starting in place of Duhon.

“He’s been putting too much pressure on himself,” Krzyzewski said. “We just told him, ‘Just relax, have fun and let things come naturally.’”

Slightly more than three minutes into the game, Duhon checked in and dribbled past a pick at the top of the key. He looked at the rim for a split second, but passed up the shot, instead rifling the ball to Casey Sanders, who was cutting to the basket for a dunk.

Two minutes later, Duhon darted in front of a Byron Sanders pass and intercepted it, but his momentum carried him out of bounds. Duhon leaped onto Game Commentary

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Nations about the need for war in Iraq and Duke and North Carolina wrote the next chapter in college basketball’s most storied rivalry.

But for the fourteen young men who signed letters of intent to play football at Duke next season, the national news played second fiddle to the biggest decision they have made thus far in their lives.

“It’s a huge day in these young men’s lives in what a degree from Duke will do for them,” head coach Carl Franks said.

“These guys just signed a scholarship worth about $40,000 a year. It’s going to give them opportunities when they graduate, and hopefully some opportunities with football.”

Of the fourteen signees, comerbacks Cedric Mason (College Park, Ga.) and John Talley (Duncan, S.C.) and safeties Jeramy Edwards (Jackson, N.J.) and Brandon Tapps (Garland, Texas) plan to improve the worst secondary in the ACC. Franks hopes the quartet will make Duke into a dominant defensive team, as

TEAM CAPTAIN CHRIS DUHON encourages his teammates during Duke’s win over North Carolina.

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Duke tries to bounce back against Floyd, Clemson

By PAULA LEHMAN The Chronicle

Emerging from the shadows of Saturday night’s loss against UConn, the women’s basketball team (20-1, 8-0 in the ACC) has some frustrated punches to throw in their next contest against Clemson (11-9, 3-6). With such a loss there can only be two results: an ultimate demise or a new motivation. The team, who left a packed Cameron Indoor Stadium still roaring and pounding on bleachers, feels it has

ALANA BEARD scored 26 points against the Tigers when Duke downed Clemson 69-53 in January.

Williams settles suit Former New Jersey Net Jayson Williams settled a civil suit brought by the family of Costas “Gus” Christofi, the limousine driver who was shot to death at Williams’ home.

acquired the latter.

“We’re just getting ready to get back on track and look forward to heading down to Clemson,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Well, we’re not looking forward to it, actually, but we’ll head down to Clemson.

We never look forward to going down there.”

Although the Lady Tigers own a weak season record and a recent loss against Virginia this past Monday night, Goestenkors has every right to be anxious about tonight’s match-up, having a 4-6 record in Littlejohn Coliseum, In addition, Duke’s defense will have to step it up against Clemson’s Chrissy Floyd who leads the team in scoring with an average of 17.1 points per game. Floyd is especially dangerous from the outside, having hit 27 three-point field goals.

Still, most of this game’s advantage is held by the Blue Devils. Duke has not lost two consecutive games

Leak at the Swamp Top-ranked high school quarterback Chris Leak officially committed to the Florida Gators Wednesday.

The Gators received commitments from 21 high school seniors.

since its 1999 season, and with the way the Blue Devils have been playing this year, it does not look as though they will be breaking that record any time soon.

The Blue Devils have recently found strength in their freshmen players Lindsey Harding and Mistie Bass. Harding came off the bench strong, scoring nine against UConn with five rebounds, stats that were consistent with her play for all of last week. Bass added 10 in Duke’s last contest against The Lady Tigers, but before this outburst she struggled inside. Still, her contribution will be important for post-play against a vulnerable Clemson defense.

“I think the players are reluctant to pass her the ball inside but we have to have an inside-outside attack,” Goestenkors said.

In their last meeting back in January, the Blue Devils downed the Lady Tigers 69-53 back in the day where 26 points seemed outstanding for Alana Beard, who is averaging 23.6 points per game. Still, Duke trailed at the half before they were able to pull away. Of course, this last contest followed a blowout against lowa State. The Blue Devils are ready to explode after Saturday night and the Lady Tigers just happen to be in the way.

“We had a rough game on Saturday,” Goestenkors said. “But we will bounce back. I think we learned a lot about ourselves through that game and I think that’s g00d... Now we have to get back.”

Knight reaches 800

Leßron’s back

Texas Tech head coach Bob Knight won his 800th game as a coach when the Red Raiders defeated Nebraska

A judge ruled that Ohio high school basketball phenom

75-49 Wednesday evening.

Knight is 800-303 as a Division I coach.

Leßron James will be suspended for only two games, one of which he has already missed. James had been suspended for the year.

Men’s Basketball No. 6 Louisville 77, Cincinnati 71 Seton Hall 78, No. 10 N. Dame 72 No. 11 Ok. St. 63, Kansas St. 55 No. 15 Marquette 68, St. Louis 64 Va. Tech 95, No. 18 Connecticut 74 Arkansas 81, No. 22 Alabama 70 No. 23 Miss. St. 82, Vanderbilt 60

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the Blue Devil run defense , in contrast, finished first in the ACC a year ago.

“Defensive back is very important area for us,” Franks said. “It’s an area we need to address.”

Another player with a chance to play immediately is full-sized kicker Alex Feinberg.

“We quit recruiting little kickers,” running backs coach and recruiting coordinator Fred Chatham said. “They used to all be small. What we saw was that those kids have to work so hard now, and train year round and they’re breaking down their junior and senior years.”

Perhaps the most talented player to sign is wide receiver Deon Adams (Greensboro), who is Duke’s only recruit from North Carolina. Adams had 889 receiving yards as a junior, and threw for 1,200 yards as a senior after he CARL FRANKS added 14 freshmen to his footmoved to the quarterback position. ball team for next season.

“Deon played a number of positions in lege... whatever it may be, then we’ll high school because he was the best athlete on that team,” Chatham said adding give them that extra year.” that Duke plans to Adams at wideout.

The names and faces of the recruits Another standout is running back could have been far different, however, Aaron Fryer (Tampa, Fla.), who ran for as Duke’s academic standards disalover 2,000 yards his senior year of lowed opportunities for several young men. Last year the admissions office high school.

Franks felt he had an advantage with lowered standards for the team, but the Fryer because he used to recruit the recruiting staff still struggled to find great athletes who were also students.

Tampa region for the Florida Gators.

“We’re still in urfcharted waters,” Linebackers Corey Sobel (Potomac, Chatham said. “We’ve been given a litMd.), Alex Williams (Dublin, Ga.), tightend Nick Stefanow (Wheeling, W. Va.) tle bit more rope [by the admissions and offensive linemen Garrett Mason office], but we don’t want to hang our(McAllen, Texas) and Zach Maurides selves. Over half the kids in North (Glenview, 111.) also join the recruiting Carolina who we would have loved to class, but will more than likely spend have given scholarships, but we were a most of their first year on the sidelines, little bit afraid because we did not want since their positions contain talented to betray the trust that was given to us by the admissions department. We returning players.

“The plan is for them to go through want to bring in kids that can graduate. the summer and get ready like they’re That’s a gamble on our part. We may going to compete,” Franks said. “We get have passed on a couple of good players because of it. them in, we try to teach them every“I think down the road between thing that we can about our offense, our defense or whatever role it is that what the admissions office is doing they’re playing and if they can help us and our new facility [the Yoh Football early, then we’re going to play them. If Center], it’s going to pay off. If we they need an extra year to get stronger, bring a kid in here who doesn’t have a to mature, to adjust from being away chance to graduate, then we’ve been from home, to adjust from coming to col very short-sighted.”

press row and into the Cameron Crazies, a move characteristic of his first two seasons but rarely seen this year. As he teetered on the press table, with his fans supporting him, Duhon surveyed the court knowing he’d just served notice that Krzyzewski’s message was received.

“I owe it to this University; I owe it to these guys in the locker room, to Coach K, to everybody,” Duhon said. “The tradition is to go out and play for Duke, not for myself, not for anybody else, but to go out and play my heart out for this program. That’s all it was. It was just me not thinking about myself, and thinking about my teammates and going out and trying to win together.

Not by myself, but together. That’s the best feeling in the world.”

In the second half, Duhon was instrumental in pulling the Blue Devils even with the Tar Heels. The junior point guard put the game away on three consecutive plays with less than five minutes remaining. While Duhon held the ball on the perimeter, Dahntay Jones sprinted around a Nick Horvath pick and toward the basket. When Duhon served up a near-perfect lob, Jones slammed it down to ear-rattling cheers. On the ensuing possession, Duhon got another pick at the top ofthe key, and this time took—and buried—the three-pointer. After two missed UNC free throws and most of the time on Duke’s shot clock elapsed, Duhon drove along the baseline and swished an underhand layup.

UNC was suddenly down by eight and would never recover.

“To have a game like this tonight was great for the team, but it was even better for Chris,” freshman guard J.J. Redick said. “To see his passion in the second half, it was perfect.”

At the same time, Duke switched to a zone defense to contain the Tar Heels’ Raymond Felton, who was consistently beating whichever Blue Devil covered him. Duhon found himself leading on defense.

“He was such a good leader tonight,” Krzyzewski said. “Setting things up,

WILLIAMS from page 1 into this gym and look up at the banners,” Williams said. “It was always a dream of mine that one day I would be lucky enough to be up there.”

Williams was the only Blue Devil in history to win national player of the year honors in two seasons. He finished his career with 2,079 points—good enough for sixth on Duke’s all-time list. He teamed with fellow-retiree Shane Battier on the 2001 national championship team, and was one of three Duke juniors to leave for the NBA after the 2001-2002 season.

“His accomplishments speak for

themselves,” Duke head coach Mike

Krzyzewski said in a statement. “When those spirits come at night in Cameron 50 years from now and they are all matching their records, Jason can put his cards on the table with any of the other guys who are up there.

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Chicago Bulls as a rookie.

“It’s very energizing [to come backl considering that I’ve lost more games this year than I have my entire life,” Williams said. “Things are done so differently here. It’s good to be back in this kind of environment where there’s nothing but love for you.”

CHRIS DUHON had his fourth career double-double, scoring 12 points and registering 10 assists. communication with the bench, this was by far his best game. We went to the matchup and Chris looked like a traffic cop in Times Square, making sure that everybody was in the right place.”

In total, Duhon finished with his fourth career double-double, dishing out 10 assists and scoring 12 points, all of which came in the second half. He didn’t have an exceptional, or even particularly good, shooting game—he made just 5-of-12 from the field and only 2-of-7 from beyond the arc—but he led his team and made the big plays when Duke needed them. After entering the game, Duhon did not rest until only seven seconds remained, and Andre Buckner replaced him as the crowd stood and cheered.

Although he still has a distance to go before he meets all the expectations of Duke fans—and it’s debatable whether a Duke basketball player can ever meet all the fans’ expectations— Duhon took an essential first step toward leading this Blue Devil team to its full potential.

“I thought I did a pretty good job,” Duhon said. “I think I was aggressive getting my teammates involved. It just felt good being out there—being out there and having fun. I’m exhausted now.”

Williams, and his family, received love from the Cameron Crazies both before the gameand during halftime. At one point in the ceremony the Crazies begem chanting to the Williamses, “One more kid!”

The New Jersey native left Duke after three years, but graduated with a degree in sociology after taking two summer courses. He is the first Blue Devil to follow the three-year plan, and although Williams believes he made the right choice given his situation, he encouraged other players to stay in school as long as it made sense for them.

“I think college is the best years of your life Williams said. “Ifyou give those up, you might have many great years, but... these are the best years of my life.”

Returning to Cameron Indoor Stadium for the first time, Williams nearly broke down in tears when addressing the crowd. His voice trembled and he paused a number of times toward the end of his speech.

“I told Mike Gminksi that no matter how much I’ve prepared for it, preparing is not really going to allow me to establish how I’ll feel tonight,” he said beforehand. “This gives me an opportunity to step back on to the court and feel the vibration of the fans.”

When he regained his composure completely, he smiled at the crowd and said to thunderous cheers, “Last time I played, we beat Carolina.”

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UNC from page 1 responded with 12 second-half points, including seven before the half’s first media timeout. He also finished with 10 assists.

“Chris’s performance was phenomenal tonight,” Ewing said. “When the coaches told him he wasn’t going to start this game, he didn’t get down. He actually played better.”

Jones, who finished with 23 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, carried the Blue Devil scoring load expertly. The senior turned the ball over only once, and struck from all angles and distances.

“This is a big game and I wanted to be there for my team,” Jones said. “I was prepared to play defense and not even score tonight.”

Despite being heavily undermanned, North Carolina fought bravely, leading Duke throughout the first half by as many as nine points. The Tar Heels (1110, 2-6) nearly went into halftime up eight, but Blue Devil sharpshooter J.J. Redick connected on a clutch threepointer to cut the edge to 43-38.

Already missing Sean May, who has been out since December with a broken foot, North Carolina got only two points from leading scorer Rashad McCants, who struggled with a sore back.

“I knew coming in that I wasn’t going to be able to do a lot,” McCants said. “I felt that my presence on the court would be a help. I’m disappointed that I couldn’t do more.”

Filling the void for the Tar Heels were Raymond Felton, David Noel and Jawad Williams. The trio combined to score 63 points, keeping their team within striking distance until the very end. They also put on an athletic show nonpareil, the

JAWAD WILLIAMS (left) protects the ball from Duke’s Dahntay Jones. JONES (right) attempts to pass while being defended by UNO’s Raymond Felton

most spectacular play coming midway through the first half when the 6-foot-5 Noel elevated on the break to slam the ball one-handed over Duke’s 6-11 center Casey Sanders.

“To come into a place like this and make a spectacular play like that, it takes the crowd out of the game for awhile,” Noel said. “We just had to build on spectacular plays. We have a lot of guys on this team that can make plays like that.”

Although very young—Noel and Felton are both freshmen whileWilliams is a sophomore—North Carolina refused to wilt in the second half, responding to every Duke run until the late-game heroics of Duhon and Jones proved too much to fight through.

Felton, the Naismith 2002 high school player of the year, practically carried the Tar Heels on his back for much of the second half, driving at will against any Duke defender he pleased. The six-foot point guard poured in a game-high 25 points and drew so many fouls on his way to the basket, that had NBA rules of continuation been in place, he would have finished

with a total well into the 30s.

“I feel that nobody can stay in front of me—l just have that confidence in my ball-handling skills,” Felton said. “I’m not cocky. I just have confidence that I can get by anybody.”

Felton, Noel and Williams could only do so much, however. The Tar Heels’lack of height hurt them—Duke finished with a 43-32 rebounding edge—and they simply couldn’t maintain their torrid first half, when they shot a collective 61.5 percent from the field, including 6of-9 from long distance, The Tar Heels’ tenacity and athleticism drew admiration from Krzyzewski, as did the way in which the two historic rivals fought one another in game that was back-and-forth until the very end.

“This was a great night for the ACC and for Duke-North Carolina,” he said. “I know they have to be very disappointed—with that type of effort—not coming up on the winning side. But it was an honor to be in this game. This was a really good basketball game, one of the better ones I’ve been in ”

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Duke Events Calendar TRI-TECH 2003 Pre-conference workshop: Programming Technology in teaching undergraduate foreign language writing. Speaker; Dr. Katherine Stephenson, UNCand Meetings Charlotte. Registration required (free to Duke faculty, staff & students). Contact Samantha Earp at THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 ssearp@duke.edu for more information.

Duke School for Children Visitation Day: 9-11 ;30am

Social

Religious THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch 12-1 pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen.

Weekly Choral Vespers Service: s:lspm, Thursdays

Duke Chapel.

Wesley Fellowship Euchrist: s:3opm, Thursdays.

Wesley Office. This short communion service will be followed by an informal dinner somewhere around campus.

Intercultural Christian Fellowship Weekly Gathering: 7:3opm, Thursdays. Duke Chapel Basement. Study the Bible and enjoy fellowship with friends from cultures worldwide. More info: www.duke.edu/web/icf/, contact: dsw9@duke.edu.

Wesley Fellowship Freshmen Small Group; 9pm, Thursdays. Blackwell Commons with JoAnna (jm2l).

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Wesley Fellowship Bible Study: 12noon, Fridays.

Wesley Office.

and 1-2pm, Lower & Middle School; 9-11:30am, preschool. Come visit the campuses to see the project and inquiry-based program of Duke School in action.

Registration will be held on each campus. For additional information, visit www.dukeschool.org.

After Hours: 5:30-Bpm. “First Course Concert: The Ciompi Quartet,” reception and concert, co-sponsored by Institute of the Arts. $5 Public, $3 Friends and Students, Free to Duke students with I.D.

Reading: 7pm. “Picasso’s Closet,” a play by Ariel Dorfman. Directed by John Dillon (NC School of the Arts and Playmakers Repertory Theater), a reading of a new work by Durham-based Chilean playwright and writer Ariel Dorfman, which is set during World War 11. This reading is part of the series “The Arts in Times of War,” sponsored by the Duke Institute of the Arts and the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Reynolds Theater.

Admission is free.

Spring Writing Workshops: 7-Bpm. Want to learn sensible, practical and effective ways to improve your writing skills? Sign up for one<or all of the Spring Writing Workshops co-hosted by the Duke Multicultural center and the Writing Studio. Sessions will be held in the Multicultural Center, 0010 Bryan Center. Call 684-6756.

Coffee Connection: 12noon-Ipm, Fridays, Chapel

Screen/Society-Cine-East: 7 & 9:3opm. “Spirited Away” (dir. Hayao Miyazaki) Griffith Film Theater.

Sponored by Asian Pacific Studies, Freewater Presentations, Duke Anime Club.

An Evening With Anna Deavere Smith: Bpm. One of today’s sharpest cultural observers, Anna Deveare Smith (Fires in the Mirror, Twilight Los Angeles) presents a one-woman performance that channels a multitude of characters. Tickets $2O General, $l2 Students. Page Auditorium.

International Jazz Festival: Spm.The Duke Jazz Ensemble with guest artist: The Frank Lacy-John Farnsworth Jazz Quintet with a guest appearance by Clarence Allen, Jr. Baldwin Auditorium.

Film Festival: February 7 & 8. MadCat and Ms. Films join together for two-day celebration of women making movies. For a complete schedule of panels and workshops, as well as complete biographical information for all presenters and panelists, please visit www.msfilms.org.

Ongoing

Events

Photo Exhibit: Through March in the first floor hallway gallery at Perkins Library. “Photo by Griff Davis” was a common credit on news photographs from the 1940s through the 1980s. Griffith Davis took photographs for the Atlanta Daily World, Ebony, Black Star, and Negro Digest.

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Washington Duke Inn is deceiving tippers for money Recent Chronicle letters accurately depict the policy of a 19 percent tip at Washington Duke Inn. However, in thenoutrage at the 19 percent tip, they failed to notice an even more alarming feature of thentip. When my boyfriend and I

dined there last semester, we were appalled to discover that Washington Duke Inn automatically included a 19% tip on our bill. Yet, a careful examination revealed that the Inn proceeded to include the 19% tip as part of the subtotal and then included a blank tip line for us to write in our tip.

Although I am a student, I always tip generously at 20

percent. The total for my food was $45. A 19 percent tip was roughly $8.50. The subtotal that the Washington Duke Inn

placed on my bill was $53.50.

Beneath this subtotal, a blank line for a tip was placed and beneath that a blank line to write in the total of the subtotal and the tip. Taking $53.50 to be my meal total, I calculated a 20 percent tip of nearly $ll. This brought my grand total to $64.50.

Luckily, my boyfriend carefully scrutinized the tip and caught the Inn on its dubious billing system. My real total, including my meal and the included 19 percent tip, should

have been $53.50. Instead, I had added an additional $ll to the tip. In the end, I actually

tipped $19.50 on a $45 meal.

That is a 43 percent tip!

I understand that most students do not tip and therefore the Inn takes the liberty to add a tip to ensure the waiters are paid. However, including the blank tip line and the blank total line on the bill only demonstrates that the Inn is practicing deceptive business behavior. I feel that the student body should be aware of this situation.

Lauren Hasson Pratt ’O4

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Swimming and diving deserve season preview Just as we thought, swimming and diving weren’t included in the “Spring Sports Preview,” just as they weren’t included in the “Fall Sports Preview.” We begin practice on the first day of classes, begin meets in early October, continthrough ue practicing Christmas and have most of the team finish up their season in late February with competition at the ACC. But no one knows that because we can’t even get “previewed.”

Our sport spends double the time practicing and competing than any other sport on campus, aside from wrestling, which was also left out of the fall and spring previews

It really isn’t surprising

that we were left out as a “fall” sport, because half of our meets are in the spring, including ACCs. Of course it really isn’t surprising that we were left out as a “spring” sport either. We may not be NCAA title contenders, and we may not receive monthly checks from the athletic department paying us back

for being their athletes, but we practice two times a day five times a week, and we compete in home and away meets just as every other team on campus does.

With the trouble of labeling swimming and diving and wrestling as a fall or spring

sport, just call us winter sports, and we can get our own little add-in in The Chronicle.

Good luck to us at ACCs, Feb. 20-22 for the women and Feb. 27-March 1 for the men.

And good luck to the wrestling team on losing weight, and competing at their ACC competition, hopefully and NCAAs for both teams. Wake up The Chronicle, you are leaving two of the hardest working teams on campus out of your “previews.”

Lauren Hancock Trinity ’O4 Amy Halligan

Trinity ’O4

Editor’s Note

On the record We want the Career Center to become a destinationpoint for stu-

dents, where they can speak casually with staff, read career journals and grab a little something to eat Sheila Curran, new director of the Career Center, on some possible improvements to the center (see stoiy, page one).

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The latter halfof Stuart Rojstaczer’s column in the Feb. 5 Chronicle was omitted.

The relevant portion is printed below.

Whether Duke has a faculty who are willing to about grade inflation, but vibrant intellectual life for shave off a little more of thengiven that The Chronicle depends research time and provide recently wrote about my undergraduates almost entirely on its students undergraduates with a solid Washington Post article....

First, my article never was and faculty. If these two education. It needs students intended to promote local groups want to establish serithat are willing to remonous intellectual exchange, strate and avoid the classes of changes in grading at Duke. then Duke can have all the faculty who are poorly preGrade inflation is a national intellectualism it wants. But if pared or try to get by on easi- problem. It should be dealt they don’t, making an intellecly graded classes that expect with at a national level. tual village won’t help. The little in the way of intellectual I don’t agree with The social contract for intellectual involvement. It needs both Chronicle that the magnitude activity begins in the classfaculty and students to engage of GPA is irrelevant. When room. And like all contracts it in a dialogue on how -to mean GPAs reach about 3.3 at requires something of both achieve the goal of having a an institution, grading beyond parties. It requires both of consistently high intellectual the freshman level is essentially binary, consisting of them to make an honest effort experience. and demand honest effort What’s the role of leader- almost entirely Bs and As. Under these conditions, it’s from each other. Right now ship in all of this? If leaderthat contract is found rarely in ship wants to manipulate very difficult to distinguish classrooms at Duke. Truth be housing slots and tweak between those who da good told, it exists in quantity at Duke's social life, let it go work and those who are truly precious few institutions. ahead with the caveat that it exceptional. It is also hard to Instead what commonly shouldn’t make life so sterile motivate students who need exists is what Anne Matthews for students that they are the motivation of grades.

The Chronicle is correct in describes in her book “Bright required to go off campus to College Years” as a “nonaghave some fun. But if leaderstating that there are differgression pact” between stuship really wants to help, it ences in grading across dents and faculty. In our pact, needs to stop making'duplicidepartments. Here are the faculty promise not to push tous statements that it thinks numbers. In the 1998 academstudents. Courses tend to be Duke provides its students ic year, the mean GPAs for the humanities, social sciences, lightweight in content and with an outstanding intellecand natural sciences were workload. Grading is easy. In tual experience and educaexchange, students promise tion. It’s hard to solve a prob3.50, 3.34, and 3.10, respecnot to bother faculty after lem when Duke’s public face is tively. These inequities have class and impinge on their one that adamantly denies widened over the years. Those see: research time. that any problems exist. interested should If Duke wants to elevate its http://www.hostcompanylOO.c I didn’t intend to write om/goneforg/diffgrades.htm. intellectual intensity, it needs *

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Mandatory abroad A year ago today, I was wandering around the Amsterdam airport, waiting for a delayed flight and giggling in a jet-lagged way at the Dutch word “doof.”

Like almost half of Duke’s undergraduates, I spent part of my junior year as one of a peculiar breed: The half-tourist, half-immigrant mongrel known as the American student abroad. Compared to friends in, say, Botswana, I had it easy. I went to Scotland, where, except for my cab-driv- JflHHrak er, who talked like a drunken Viking, the people speak English and the chances of being gored by a charging wildebeest are remote. \msT Still, the culture was so different that I often felt like the proverbial fish Margaret out of water. My attempt to use a duvet Harris cover as a fitted sheet for example is probably still givmg my Irish roommate Shabby Tigers hysterics. And in a university where Americans and Englishmen vastly outnumber Scots, local resentment at being co-opted by a horde of Yanks did not make my life any easier.

Despite this, going abroad was one of the best things I’ve ever done. Spending time overseas gave me a fresh perspective on world affairs, broadened my educational horizons and forced me to become more independent.

But for readers uninterested in my personal development—and I suspect that’s most of you—it also gave me a more relevant, new perspective on Duke University.

It is no accident that juniors who go abroad in the fall often have difficulty re-adjusting after winter break. The trouble isn’t just getting used to the fact that nobody here knows what “mingin” means (Scottish slang for “nasty or disgusting”). It’s also realizing that in some respects, Duke will never measure up to the foreign university they just left. In a few cases, it can’t. For students who visited a major cultural center and attended worldclass operas every Friday night, Durham is going to be a huge letdown. But sometimes, there is no obvious reason why Duke is not as dynamic as the overseas non-Gothic Wonderland. It simply isn’t, and that is enough to break a returning student’s heart.

For example, my foreign university’s location has all the disadvantages many Dukies attribute to Durham.

It’s isolated, there is not much to do beyond the university and town-gown relations are not the greatest. Yet somehow, they maintain a vibrant cultural and intellectual life outside the classroom. How? Like Blue Devils, many students in Scotland consume massive quantities of alcohol. For some reason, though, their drunken exploits involved less trashing of commons rooms and more debating imperialism with equally trolleyed English professors and Members of Parliament. To me, this indicates that our administration’s alcohol blame-game is a gross oversimplification.

But if beer is not the reason for Duke’s anti-intellectual culture, what is? I can’t answer these questions. But ifI hadn’t gone abroad, I couldn’t even have asked them. If more of us had a chance to see an alternative model of college fife, maybe the entire campus could begin to find some answers. It might also help us appreciate the many things Duke does well.

With that in mind, I’m going to make a radical suggestion. I think studying abroad should be mandatory.

Exceptions could be made if family obligations or a restrictive curriculum (C2K, anyone?) keep a student from leaving, but they should be just that: exceptions.

Finances wouldn’t be a problem, since going abroad often costs thousands less than staying at Duke. The Study Abroad people aren’t supposed to talk about that, though. Who knows, students might begin to ask what S3SK a year really buys.

As long as I’m dreaming, I have a few suggestions about where students should study, too. Ayn Rand fans should go to Latin America. There they might see that no matter how brilliant and selfish a man is, he cannot pull himself up by his bootstraps if his government makes sure he never has boots. Marxists should study in North Korea, because it might teach them why people outside la-la-land don’t think communism is a good idea. The guy at Blue Devil Days who told me he was just here to party should go someplace snobby and academic. Id suggest Oxford, but that would be cruel... to Oxford.

Finally, Faran Krentcil should go sonjewhere aggressively unfashionable. I’m thinking Siberia. Because you know, that reindeer-hide shoulder bag is so last season.

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Margaret Harris is a Trinity senior. Her column appears every third Thursday.

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Divest from injustice There is only one state where over $2 billion a year of U.S. military aid goes to fund the systematic violation of the human rights of an entire people. The United States gives more military aid to Israel than to all other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean combined.

These billions of dollars are vital to the maintenance of Israel’s occupation of 'vHRHBF Palestinian territories, and this money is coming directly from us. Our role as global citizens, and specifically as members of the Duke community, requires Julian that we demand that our money be Johnson spent in socially and environmentally The RedM

But the collective punishment of an entire people in response to the actions of a few militants is also wrong.

Denying equal resources to Palestinians and expanding settlements in Palestinian lands are simply unjust.

Though these actions may make some Israelis feel safer, all people in the area are actually less safe than before.

Violence is a result of the occupation and not vice-versa.

Armed uprising would not be necessary if the Palestinian people had self-determination and freedom from the control of the Israeli military. Palestinians do not have an organized government to represent them and thus cannot be held responsible for the terrorism of fringe groups in the same way that Israel’s elected officials can be held responsible for the occupation.

L responsible ways. Investing in compaIt is because of the striking imbalance of power nies that deal arms to a state that is responsible for the between Israel and the Palestinians, an imbalance that oppression of millions is not responsible social policy. has been created by the occupation itself, that Israel Duke should divest from military ties to Israel until we must enforce a just peace. There is no way for an unorknow our money will not be spent to maintain illegal ganized population of people who have been forcibly control over occupied lands and people. impoverished and are under constant military curfew to Of course, this argument can be used to promote protect their rights against the 16thrichest country in divestment from dozens of countries with corrupt govthe world. A population with no legitimate government ernments and oppressive regimes as many critics of to represent them and no military to defend them cannot divestment have pointed out, and I sincerely hope that be expected to barter with one of the most well-funded it will be. But the extremely close relationship between military states in history. The Palestinians power to the U.S. and Israel makes both the situation and our negotiate is destroyed by the occupation, and thus the complicity with it unique. Since Sept. 11, the United occupation must end before any peace process can conStates has been actively working to cut off funding to tinue. If Israelis deserve a state with enough resources to terrorists and impose sanctions on states that support provide for its people and defendable borders, so do the terror, yet we continue to invest billions in state ter- Palestinians. If Israel is unwilling to take this necessary rorism, as demonstrated by curfews, home demolitions, step toward a just peace, then our money should not be preventing of food and water attainment, immobilizafunding their military machine. tion of groups of Palestinians even in medical emerThe occupation makes all people in Israel and gencies and more. Of course, the most just outcome of Palestine less safe regardless of ethnicity, religion or a campaign for responsible investment would ensure location. Our government has already cut off funding for that all Duke money is invested in socially and enviindependent terrorist groups all over the world, and we ronmentally responsible corporations and law-abiding must do the same for all states that inflict terror. Our call countries, but change must begin somewhere. The for military divestment from Israel is a call for safety. It work toward ethical fiscal policy can not end with is a movement for peace and self-determination, and it is Israel, but certainly the largest recipient of American the beginning of a movement to make sure that our military aid is a logical place to start. money supports peace and justice all over the world.

Divestment is also not an attempt to condone Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians. The murJillian Johnson is a Trinity senior. Her column appears der of innocents is wrong no matter what the context. every third Thursday.

Remember Election 2000 As George W. Bush gave his State of the Union address last Tuesday amid plummeting approval ratings, I found myself thinking that among political pundits, the election debacle of 2000 seems to have been all but forgotten. Granted, many of us who had to suffer through interminable government class discussions of judicial review and obscure Florida laws might be glad to see it go.

Andrew But even as A1 Gore himself removes Furlow from the spotlight off the Party Line once again, I think it would be a disastrous mistake to leave in place the flawed system that cost him the presidency.

Let me be clear: I am not simply a sore loser. I despised the fundamental unfairness ofthe electoral college long before Election 2000. I don’t even particularly like Gore. But the undue influence given to the smallest states caused the will of the American people to be overruled by a single Supreme Court vote and that is absolutely unjustifiable.

Some believe the electoral college is the best system available. “It’s worked so far,” proponents say.

“Don’t fix what isn’t broken.” Why don’t we take a quick look at just how well the system works? I live in Virginia, a state with 13 electoral votes and about 7.2 million people—a ratio of more than 550,000 people per electoral vote. Contrast that with

Wyoming, which has three electoral votes for under 500,000 people—just 167,000 people per electoral vote. All this time I thought it was “one man, one vote.” In Wyoming, it’s one man, three votes. ' Defenders of the electoral college will say it’s only fair—we’re protecting the rights of the minority.

Without the electoral college, the argument goes, these people would be ignored by presidential candidates. It’s hard to believe that they can say this with a straight face, since people in these states are, in fact, ignored by presidential candidates. Of the states that have only the minimum three electoral votes, the smallest margin in 2000 was 10 points, a blowout by Gore in Vermont. Other small states, which are also supposed to gain more attention through the current system, saw even bigger blowouts—a 13-point win for Gore in Delaware, a 15-point win for Bush in Montana and a 41-point dismantling of Gore in Wyoming. With margins like these, how can one believe that candidates will actually want to spend more time in these states?

Finally, as ifI were not disadvantaged enough from having a vote that counts only one-third as much

as another American’s, the current winner-take-all system ensures that any vote for a Democrat in solidly Republican Virginia isn’t counted at all. The same is true for Republicans in reliably Democratic states, and the millions of Americans who vote

for third parties each year. In 2000, no matter which way the decision went, more than half of the votes in Florida would have been ignored.

What does it mean for these votes to be weighted? Why should we care?

As we have seen, weighted votes affect the outcomes of presidential elections, but its effects are certainly not limited to that. I need only mention the name of Ted Stevens, the Senate Appropriations Committee chairman notorious for bringing home millions in pork spending to Alaska, to show how electoral weight given to small states can easily tip the balance unfairly in favor of a few

million Americans.

You might be wondering, do you

have anything better? I don’t. Tf it were up to me, I would abolish or at least seriously restructure the states themselves. Does Rhode Island really need its own government? Barring that, however, there are a few ideas floating around that are at least worth a try, eliminating winnertake-all in presidential elections as the most promising. But until we stop talking about protecting the rights of an arbitrary minority and start talking about the equality of opportunity that this country was founded on, we are going to keep seeing disasters like the 2000 election.

That is a fact those of us who value fairness cannot afford to forget.

Andrew Furlow is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears every third Thursday.

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An

Open Letter to the Duke Community Concerning Divestment from Israel

The academic movement for divestment from Israel has reached our campus. Many members of the university community feel shocked that critics of Israel have adopted such a strategy. We must speak out forcefully against it.

We hold diverse opinions on how the impasse in the Mid-East peace negotiations may be overcome, but we are unanimous that divestment represents neither an effective nor appropriate strategy. Many of us are critical of Israel’s policies, but we all recognize that the tragic situation unfolding before our eyes cannot be blamed on Israel alone. Israel remains a democracy, extending citizenship across religious and ethnic lines, so the analogy with South Africa under Apartheid is simply false. The creation of Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust represented the promise of independence and security for Jews. The Israeli Defense Force has been protecting Israel from its inception against real threats from hostile neighbors, some of whom have steadfastly refused to make peace.

The Duke community should support projects that build bridges between Israelis and Palestinians. We invite the proponents of divestment to join in such initiatives. In contrast, a campaign singling out the Jewish state for censure and seeking to delegitimize it draws dangerously near to ideologies that blamed the Jews for the world’s ills. Moreover, the campaign will not force any of the parties to the conflict back to the negotiating table. We call on the critics of Israel to abandon this strategy and begin a campus dialogue on peace in the Middle East in earnest. *

Bruce W. Jentleson, Director and Professor of Public Policy Kristina Johnson, Dean and Professor of Engineering Robert 0. Keohane, Professor of Political Science Peter Lange, Provost and Professor of Political Science Larry Moneta, Vice President for Student Affairs

Berndt Mueller, Dean of the Natural Sciences Michael Munger, Chairman, Department of Political Science Lewis M. Siegel, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School of Biochemistry Sue Wasiolek, Dean of Students

Kay Robin Alexander, Duke Staff, Trinity ‘B3

RonrAvissar, Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Clifford Bailin Business Manager Radiation Oncology Edward Balleisen, Assistant Professor of History J. Joseph Blum, Professor of Physiology, emeritus Abraham Boskovitz, Research Associate of Pathology Alon Brav, Associate Professor of Business David M. Brizel, Professor of Radiation Oncology Jessica V. Chitester, Business Manager- Newman Catholic Student Center Harvey Jay Cohen, Professor ofMedicine Steve Cohn, Director, Duke University Press Yehia Daaka, Associate Professor of Surgery Jennifer D’Arcy Maher, Assistant Dean for International Studies Rob Dilworth, Journals Managing Editor, Duke Press Margaret Donnelly, Pediatric Infectious Disease, DUMC JeffEpstein, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Peter D. Feaver, Associate Professor of Political Science Gleb Finkelstein, Assistant Professor of Physics Bernard Fischer, Professor of Pediatrics Joel L. Fleishman, Professor ofLaw and Public Policy, Director, Heyman Center for Ethics Neil J. Freedman, Assistant Professor ofMedicine Sharon F. Freedman, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology Nancy E. Friedma, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Jonathan Gerstl, Executive Director of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life Michael Allen Gillespie, Professor ofPolitical Science Ronald N. Goldberg, Professor of Pediatrics Martin Golding, Professor ofPhilosophy and Law Itay Goldstein, Assistant Professor ofFinance Philip Goodman, Professor of Radiology Ruth Grant, Professor of Political Science Melanie Greenspan, Program Director, Freeman Center for Jewish Life Joseph M. Grieco, Professor ofPolitical Science Samson R. Gross, Founder of the Program in Genetics.

Laura Gutman. Associate Professor of Pediatrics Malachi Hacohen, Associate Professor of History Edward C. Halperin, Vice Dean of the School of Medicine Carol Haynes, Manager of Systems Projects, Center for Human Genetics Cynthia Herrup, Professor of History and Law Iris Tillman HiU, Editorial Director, Center for Documentary Studies Anne E. Hodges-Copple, Episcopal Chaplain Judith Horowitz, Associate Dean, the Law School Donald L. Horowitz, Professor of Law and Political Science Tomasz Hueckel, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Jean Hurwitz, Administrative Director, Duke Pediatric Clinical Research Program Barrie J Hurwitz, Associate Professor of Medicine Stephen Jaffe, Professor of Music Roger Kaplan, Instructor in Hebrew Samuel L. Katz, Chairman emeritus and Professor ofPediatrics Gershon Kedem, Associate Professor of Computer Science Sanford Kessler, Associate Professor ofPolitical Science Norman C. Keul, Director, Pre-Major Advising Center Claudia Koonz, Professor of History Allan Komberg, Professor of Political Science Jeffrey Krolik, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Harold Kudler, Associate Clinical Prof ofPsychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Susan Kudler, Staff Specialist, School of Medicine Martin Lakin, Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Robert J. Lelkowitz, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry Edward D. Levin, Associate Professor ofPsychiatry Renan Levine, Instructor, Political Science and Public Policy Seymour H. Mauskopf, Professor of History Eric Meyers, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Religion Ellen Mickiewicz, Professor ofPublic Policy Studies Gustavo Montana, Professor of Radiation Oncology Mindy Oshrain, Consulting Associate ofPsychiatry Jeffrey A. Perrier, Adjunct Instructor of Civil Engineering Steven I. Pfeiffer, Executive Director, Talent Identification Program Stanley J Robboy, Professor of Pathology and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology Marion Robboy, Member, Board of Directors, Freeman Center for JewishLife Thomas A. Robinson, Copyrights & Permissions Coordinator Stuart Rojstaczer, Professor of Environmental Science Alex Roland, Professor of History James Rolleston, Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature Susan Roth, Professor of Psychology Evelyn M Rubin, Clinical Social Worker Judith Ruderman, Vice Provost for Academic and Administrative Services

Dirk Rupnow, Department of History Sabina W. Sager, Financial Analyst, Radiation Oncology Steven G. Sager, Rabbi and Instructor Leslie Saper, Associate Professor of Mathematics Steven L. Schwarcz, Professor ofLaw Tom Scotto, Research Assistant in Political Science Karin Shapiro, Visiting Assistant Professor of History Joseph Shatzmiller, Professor of History and Judaic Studies

Melvin G. Shimm, Professor ofLaw, Emeritus Ryan W. Simovitch, Orthopedic Surgery Resident

JonathanS. Stamler, Professor of Medicine Maxine Stem, Administrative Manager ofPhysics

Marilyn J. Telen, Clinical Professor of Medicine John A. Trangenstein, Professor of Mathematics James A. Tulsky, Associate Professor of Medicine Robert A. Wagner, Associate Professor, Dept, of Computer Science Deborah Wahl, Associate Director, Undergraduate Research Support Office Kathryn Walbert, Academic Resource Center Richard Weiner, Professor ofPsychiatry Catherine M. Wilfert, Professor ofPediatrics and Microbiology, emeritus Joseph Zeidner, Research Technician in Neurobiology Sheva Zucker, Instructor of Germanic Languages and Literature

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