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No joy in Hooville Ending a four-game losing streak on the road, the men’s basketball team defeated Virginia Saturday.

See Sportswrap page 4

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Thousands join weekend peace rally Ice storm disrupts schedules

By KELLY ROHRS The Chronicle On the south side of the State Capitol building in Raleigh, five-year-old Zuzu Feller field up her half of a large

white banner reading “Four Generations for Peace.” Her grandfather, a World War II veteran, sat in his wheelchair supporting the other end of the sign, and her mother stood behind.

“Zuzu asked me today where the bombs are,” said Feller’s mother, Katy Munger. “I told her if we came here today, then there would be no bombs.”

The members of the Munger family were among thousands of North Carolina residents who assembled in the capital Saturday afternoon to demonstrate against the impending war with Iraq.

Event organizers from the North Carolina Peace and Justice Coalition estimated almost 5,000 people turned out for the general rally, with 4,000 of those marching in the following protest parade.

The day began and ended with interactive, percussion-based music. Attendees beating old paint cans and plastic water bottles with sticks joined Africanstyle drummers and professional musicians. Children and adults danced and mingled with two protesters on stilts dressed as large white birds of peace.

New activists and protest veterans,

Duke Power reported Sunday that only 7,500 customers lost power, but the storm is expected to slow travel Monday.

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

Administrators canceled all classes scheduled to meet before noon today and instituted its severe weather policy for the entire University and Medical Center, following the fall of about a half

seasoned by civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protests years ago, comprised the diverse crowd.

“It’s the same people as Vietnam, the same energy, the same importance, the same message: We have a government that is out of control,” said Wendy Wexberg, a Raleigh resident. “I don’t See PROTESTS on page 10

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ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS, banging on drums and shouting chants, traveled from across the state to gather in Raleigh Saturday in the largest local demonstration yet against a possible war in Iraq.

of an inch of freezing rain and sleet across the Triangle Sunday.

The icy rain was supposed to trail off by 5 a.m., but officials decided that roads would be too treacherous to expect faculty to drive to campus and for buses to navigate the slippery roads during the morning.

Canceled classes include those that begin at 11:50 a.m., and information on afternoon and evening Monday classes will be posted before 10 a.m.

“It is all a matter of a few degrees of temperature, whether the front goes a few miles north or south,” Provost Peter Lange wrote in an e-mail. “Hence, it seems better to wait since canceling more classes than necessary is to be avoided. Two hours at the minimum will See ICE STORM on page 7

Jean-Baptiste signs bylaw amendment

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

In an effort to foster compromise in a bitterly divided Duke Student Government, President Joshua Jean-Baptiste signed legislation Friday calling for a new presidential election system after threatening to

veto the bylaw change.

Jean-Baptiste warned, however, that the plan should be delayed a year if the technology is not perfectly in place before the polls open March s—a circumstance that bill proponents agreed would be necessary and a scenario that is quite possible.

“I wanted the non-veto to be a public sign of compromise,” Jean-Baptiste said. “It is very important that we restructure the organization, and I’m going to continue pushing for a restructuring. Everyone might not love every part of the process but we have to work together to benefit the students.”

Under the new system, which the Legislature passed by a narrow 26-13 vote last Wednesday (the measure necessitated a two-thirds majority to pass), a presidential candidate must win a majority of the vote or face an instant runoff by which voters’ rankings of See ELECTION on page 7

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Construction near Wannamaker Dormitory is nearing com p| etion allowing for renovations to restart this summer in other areas of Main West Campus. See page 3

A Durham judge gave a mixed ruling last week to a former Duke nurse who is suing the University and the Health System over her firing last summer. See page 4

A student was charged this weekend for DUI while another student was caught in the same car carrying a concealed weapon. See page 6

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NEWS BRIEFS •

Security risk to decrease soon

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says he believes the current terrorism threat level will likely be lowered from the high-risk orange level, but would not say when.

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Explosion, gunfire kill Palestinians

Nine Palestinians were killed Sunday—six in a mysterious explosion in Gaza and three by Israeli army fire in the West Bank —while Palestinian and Israeli officials prepared to send teams to London for a new international effort to end Mideast violence. *

Clark may run for president in 2004

Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, an Arkansas businessman, said Sunday he is thinking about challenging President George W. Bush in 2004 because he is concerned about the direction the administration is heading on international affairs.

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Gender wage gap shrinks

While men’s wages have failed to keep up with even the low rate of inflation, women’s earnings have continued to grow, giving an important lift to many families and helping to sustain consumer spending.

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Snow cripples Washington, D.C.

The most severe blizzard in years enveloped Washington and other parts of the Northeast. In the greater D.C. area, commerce and tourism grinded to a halt as many public buildings closed.

News briefs compiled from wire reports.

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Rice urges U.N. to challenge Iraq France continues encouraging the United States to wait for inspection results

By GINA HOLLAND The Associated Press

WASHINGTON Faced with broad opposition to war at the United Nations, President George W. Bush’s national security adviser said Sunday

the White House might push a new U.N. plan to force a showdown with Saddam Hussein.

Condoleezza Rice said it was becoming more obvious that the Iraqi president would not disarm voluntarily and that the U.N. was letting him get away with it.

“Continuing to talk about more time and more time and more time is simply going to relieve pressures on the Iraqis to do what they must do,” Rice said on NBC’s Meet The Press.

The administration was evaluating all options after being rebuffed Friday at the U.N. Security Council, where members lined up behind France’s call for more weapons inspections and against military action.

Rice said on Fox News Sunday the administration may ask the U.N. to take up a new resolution authorizing force against Iraq, although she said action was already sanctioned by a previous resolution.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said on the same program the resolution being presented this week by the United States and Britain would likely call for “definitive progress” in the disarmament of Iraq. “If that’s rejected, then I think the United States of

America is going to have to make some

difficult decisions,” McCain said.

Rice, however, said the administration has not yet drafted a resolution.

The U.S., she added, is ready to go to war with or without U.N. support. At the same time, the administration seemed focused on pressuring the U.N. to join.“Putting this off is not an option,” Rice said.

France has led a formidable bloc, calling for extended inspections, and wants to wait on a resolution at least until March 14, when inspectors report back to the 15-member Security Council. Inspectors report March 1 to the five permanent members of the council—the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China.

Jordanian provides info about al Qaeda

By DESMOND BUTLER and DON VAN NATTA New York Times News Service

LONDON Early last April, while German intelligence agents eavesdropped, one of Europe’s most powerful terrorists had a cryptic phone conversation with an associate, ordering him to begin preparations for a spectacular strike against a Jewish target somewhere in Germany.

The attack should be planned for “a big square where a lot ofpeople gather,” said the man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

He also told the associate to obtain a “mute,” code for a gun with a silencer, and to gather “Russian apples,” code for Russian-made hand grenades.

Shadi Abdullah, a 26-year-old Jordanian, was the man on the other end of the phone line. He was arrested April 2 in the German town of Krefeldshortly after the conversation.

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American and European intelligence officials described Abdullah in recent interviews as one of the most credible and useful al Qaeda informers in Europe. They said that in addition to providing counterterrorism officials with details like the meanings of code words used in taped conversations, he had laid out a road map ofthe network’s capabilities and intentions and explained how the hierarchy was rebuilt after al Qaeda leaders died or were captured in Afghanistan.

Abdullah provided names and descriptions of dozens of al Qaeda members, helping authorities to disrupt terrorist plots in Germany, Italy, Britain and the United States, the intelligence officials said.

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Wannamaker project nears end, clearing way for renovations

Kilgo refurbishment to take 2 more summers, with air conditioning costs higher than expected

By MEGAN CARROLL The Chronicle The early morning wake-up call of beeping trucks and jarring jack hammers for students living near Wannamaker Dormitory may be drawing to a close, only to make way for more construction elsewhere on campus.

As workers finish re-routing utility tunnels un-

derneath the Wannamaker fire lane, they will begin preliminary projects in anticipation for the second phase of interior basement renovations to Kilgo Quadrangle dormitories when students leave for the summer May 5, said West Campus II Facility Manager John Duncan.

“The utility part is pretty much wrapping up [in the Wannamaker fire lane]. The last piece is setting the fire lane back in place,” said Glenn Reynolds, manager of projects and engineering. “Probably by the end of March, there will be guys working in [Crowell Quadrangle’s] House G in the mechanical areas in preparation for the work in the Kilgo side.”

Residents ofHouses N and 0 in Kilgo have already been notified that they will have to vacate their rooms by noon on Monday, May 5 to make way for impending construction.

Shawhan Lynch, facilities manager of West Campus I, said construction will need to start right after exams are over because of the limited time available during the summer to complete the massive renovation projects.

“Every moment is valuable. In order to succeed in the timeline that we have, we’ve got to have those buildings May 5,” Lynch said. “There will be movers coming in right behind me [that day and] by the middle ofthe day [May] 8, it’ll be a demolition zone.”

After the renovations are completed, all of the dorms in Kilgo will have air conditioning—an expensive feature that was not originally planned. During a review of the project, the Board of Trustees ultimately decided that air conditioning should be installed in all West Campus dorms and approved funding for the project’s implementation.

Officials said costs for phase one of Kilgo renovations, which were completed last summer before move-

CORRECTION A page two brief in the Feb. 14 edition of The Chronicle incorrectly reported the location of riots protesting a new income tax. The riots took place in La Paz, Bolivia.

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THE WANNAMAKER FIRE LANE underwent major construction since the beginning of the fall semester. Re-routing utility lines will enable the future renovations of Main West Campus to include air conditioning for every dormitory.

in, were greater than expected since the original designs only called for replacing certain utilities.

“It cost more than we had anticipated because when we originally did the planning for it, air conditioning wasn’t included,” said Lynch, who also sits on the Board of Directors of Duke Student Publishing Company, which publishes The Chronicle. “When the planning was done... it was more a maintenance issue. The plumbing and electricity were old and need to be replaced.”

University Architect John Pearce explained that all ofWest’s original residence halls, including the ones in Kilgo—the oldest dorms on West, with small, tight spaces and low ceilings—were not designed for modern air conditioning. He said air conditioning adds about one-third to the overall cost of the renovation projects.

“It’s clear that if you’re going to do more work on a project such as adding air conditioning, it’s going to

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cost more,” Pearce said. “The time when it was discussed, there was no specific cost estimate for each dorm or residence hall. We used Kilgo as a test case to see how much it was going to cost.”

Pearce said that despite any additional costs, the es-

timated timetable will remain three summers for Kilgo

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erable during the academic year.

Although officials said they generally have been able to maintain their time frame, they said the recent poor weather conditions have affected construction members’ productivity.

“When it’s muddy, it’s more difficult for the construction crew,” Reynolds said. “We’re on a fairly tight time schedule.... We need to have all the utility work done before April. We’re trying to get through [adverse conditions though so] we’re in good shape on that.”

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Durham judge allows suit by nurse, not link to union

By ALEX GARINGER

Executive Officer Dr. William Fulkerson; Clinical Operations Director of A registered nurse suing Duke UniGeneral Surgery, Trauma and Transversity Hospital for harassment and unplant Christine Roeback; and Nurse fair termination received a split deciManager for the Surgical Intensive sion by a Durham judge last week.

Care Unit Elizabeth Hickey as individuDurham resident Constance Donahue als involved in the firing.

In 1999 and 2000, Donahue served as may continue her charge in Superior Court that Duke intentionally inflicted an organizer in the movement to join emotional distress on her through its al- the International Union of Operating legedly “extreme and outrageous conEngineers, which already represents Hospital engineers and skilled mainteduct,” Judge Robert Hobgood ruled. However, he also dismissed Donahue’s claim nance employees. After an October 2000 that she was fired because of her union vote to unionize failed, Fulkerson, Roeactivity, referring that part ofher suit to back and Hickey all spoke individually the National Labor Relations Board. with Donahue about why a union was Donahue’s attorney Stewart Fisher not a good idea, the suit alleges.

In April 2002, after Fulkerson becould not be reached for comment, but told The Herald-Sun of Durham Sunday came CEO, the Hospital announced a that his client would probably not bring cut in health benefits for future retirees. the suit to the NLRB. He also said he Donahue claims widespread discontent was “very pleased” that Donahue’s emoamong nurses and other employees retional-distress claim remains on track. fueled a unionization campaign, which Fulkerson and others did not welcome.

Duke denies that claim, and tried unsuccessfully to convince Hobgood to Two months later, Donahue left a patient for a bathroom break, and she was throw out the entire case. University officials could not be reached for comment fired for the action a month after that. and generally do not speak about ongoThe suit also charges that Hickey and ing litigation against the Hospital.

Roeback falsified a Surgical Intensive In the suit, Donahue claims Hospital Care Unit reference guide by adding an officials terminated her because she was undated protocol entitled “R.N. Cross vocal in pushing for a nurses union—not Coverage” after the June 26 incident, because she left a patient for about 11 which requires that a registered nurse minutes to take a bathroom and cigarette must notify the charge nurse or a neighbreak June 26, 2002, as officials said. boring nurse if the nurse must leave a The suit names the University and patient. Fisher said a page of the guide Duke University Health System as dewas redone and placed back inside the fendants, and it specifies Hospital Chief loose-leaf binder in the SICU. The Chronicle

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CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports

Students charged with DUI, carrying weapon

At 12:03 a.m. Feb. 16, a Duke University Police Department officer stopped a vehicle on Towerview Road for careless and reckless driving. Subsequent investigation resulted in the driver, Beau Riston Raich, a 22-year-old senior, being charged with DUI, careless and reckless driving and having an open container in his vehicle.

He was transported to the magistrate’s office, released into the custody of the Durham County Sheriffs Office and given a March 4 court date.

Levi Kamehm, a 21-year-old junior who was in the vehicle with Raich, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon on campus. He had in his possession a metallic spiked kuboton, a baton-like object. Karnehm was given a March 4 court date.

Neither Raich nor Karnehm could be reached for

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Student charged with DUI

At 4:14 a.m. Feb. 16, a Duke officer observed a vehicle make a left turn off Flowers Drive onto Erwin Road where there is a clearly visible sign stating no left turns. The officer conducted a traffic stop. Subsequent investigation resulted in the driver, Robert Graham Reynolds, a junior, being charged with DUI and making an illegal turn. His court date is March 4.

Reynolds could not be reached for comment.

Laptop taken

Someone stole an employee’s $2,000 Dell laptop computer from 1527 Duke Hospital North sometime between 8 a.m. Feb. 5 and 2:50 p.m. Feb. 10.

$1,130 in belongings stolen

Two student reported that on Feb. 9, someone entered their unsecured room located in Edens 18, and

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Teenager charged with carrying weapon

On Feb. 15, Amanda Elise Alvarez, 17, of 3506 Four Seasons Dr., was charged with having a concealed weapon in the Emergency Department. She was given a March 17 court date.

Friend accused of stealing

A patient in the Hospital reported that between 8

a.m. and 12:25 p.m. Feb. 10, he awoke and found a friend ofhis removing $5O from his wallet. His friend could not be located for questioning.

Phone swiped

A student reported that around 6:14 p.m. Feb. 4, while in the Intramural Building, she stepped away from her $5OO Sprint Trio cellular phone. When she returned it was gone.

Employee charged with theft

At 6:52 p.m. Feb. 12, a warrant was obtained for Patient Transport Services employee Chad Perry, 21, charging him with stealing $77 in cash from visitors who were visiting a patient on 5100 Duke Hospital North. Perry entered the room which was unoccupied at the time and stole their money, police said.

Perry could not be reached for comment.

CD player taken Someone broke into a student’s vehicle while it was parked at 1914 Lewis St. between 11 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Feb. 9. A $2OO window was broken out and her

$250 Kenwood CD player was stolen.

Radio face plate stolen

A student reported that between 7 and 11:30 p.m. Feb. 12, someone broke into his vehicle while it was parked in the Edens B lot. A $l5O window was broken out and a $350 detachable radio face plate was stolen.

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stole $5O in cash, a $3OO Skagen watch, two $lOO CD players, CDs, $3O headphones, and a $650 camera. The victims reported that they had to have the lock changed on their door because of a lost key.

An employee reported that sometime between Feb. 9 and Feb. 10, someone caused $3OO in damage to the metal parking lot gate at the Duke University Road overflow parking lot.

Gym bag taken

A visitor reported that between 10:45 and 11:08 a.m. Feb. 8, someone broke into her vehicle while it was parked at the Nearly New Shop. A $2OO window was broken out and a $2O small denim gym bag containing miscellaneous gym clothes and toiletries val-

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Vehicle damaged Someone attempted to break into a Duke vehicle while it was parked at 1411 Hull St. sometime between 4:30 p.m. Feb. 13 and 11 a.m. Feb. 14. Approximately $l6O in damage was done to the windows.

Possessions pilfered An employee reported that between 3:55 and 4 p.m.

Feb. 11, someone entered 2024 West Main St., Suite 10,' and stole her $5O black purse, $6O in cash, checkbook, credit cards, keys and other identification cards.

Belongings taken from lab An employee reported that between 11 and 11:41

a.m. Feb. 14, someone entered a lab on the fourth floor of the Sands Building and stole her unprotect-

ed $5O bright red fanny pack with two side pockets for water, $lOO in cash, credit cards, a check and a driver’s license.

Cash swiped A patient in the Emergency Department reported that between 11 p.m. Feb. 9 and 8 a.m. Feb. 10, someone removed $l4O cash from wallet.

Crime briefs are compiled from Duke University Police Department reports. Anyone with knowledge about those responsible for these or other crimes at the University can contact Lt. Davis Trimmer at 684-4713 or Durham CrimeStoppers at 683-1200.

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The severe weather policy was put in effect through the end of the first shift for employees Monday. Essential staff members were told to report to or remain at work.

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does not come to fruition. The change eliminates the majority requirement but increases the necessary margin of the candidates eliminates contenders victory to 10 percent. until one effectively takes a majority.

Jean-Baptiste said another year is Currently, a candidate simply needs probably necessary to educate voters to win by a margin of victory of at least about the new system and create the 6 percent, no matter how small a persoftware to support it.

Executive Vice President Justin Ford centage of the total vote, that may require. No presidential winner has ever said he is happy to be able to put behind garnered more than 48.4 percent of the him the experience of the past several vote in a DSG election. weeks, in which Jean-Baptiste and the “I still have my reservations,” Jean- other members of the executive commitBaptiste said. “I question the true initial tee exchanged blows in The Chronicle motives behind it. And I don’t think we and during meetings.

“As one of the principal authors of the have time to implement it in time for the elections.” bill, I’m glad to see it go through, and Attorney General Will Fagan said he I’m happy to see us try to move on to is unsure whether the technology will something else,” said Ford, a senior. be ready for the instant runoff feature Jean-Baptiste agreed. “This in itself to be implemented this year. is a sign of me being more concerned “We have conversations started with about getting things done than about people on the tech side.... We’re going to petty politics, and I hope that that same weigh the decision pretty heavily,” he said. kind of attitude can be adopted by A contingency plan was included in everyone involved with the process of the bylaw changes if the instant runoff change,” he said. from page 1

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We want to remind everyone about the bonfire policy we established several years ago, which will again govern this year’s activities. The victory celebrations following big games in recent years have been what we have all hoped for, and ones in which the Duke community could take pride.

The same rules will remain in effect this year and, with your cooperation, we will continue to celebrate our victories safely and enthusiastically. In keeping with this goal, we remind you of some key concerns:

1. The University will obtain City permits for four potential bonfires, on the days of men’s home games against North Carolina (February 5) and Maryland (February 19), and the Men’s and Women’s National Championship Games (April 7 and 8). The first permitted basketball bonfire is Wednesday, February 5.

2. Bonfires on any other days will not be permitted by the City and are, therefore, illegal. Anyone who participates in a bonfire on any other day will be subject to University discipline and potential criminal prosecution.

3. The City Fire Marshal asks that everyone stay at least 10 feet away from the fire.

4. Please keep stacked benches to a reasonable height (not more than three) and do not climb on top. The tragedy at Texas A & M a few years ago provides ample evidence why.

5. If you carry a beverage, please use a plastic or metal container. There will be additional trash receptacles on the quad.

6. Do not sit or stand on building roofs.

7. Do not add fuel to the fire more than two hours following the game. Refrain from using dorm furniture as fuel for a bonfire.

8. The use of gasoline or any other fire accelerant is prohibited.

9. The only permitted bonfire site is in front of House P. Any fires that are started outside of this area will be considered illegal and dealt with at the discretion of the City Fire Marshal and Duke University Police.

The City Fire Marshal has the right to revoke this and future bonfire permits if these rules are not followed or the crowd gets out of control. Let’s not abuse this privilege. Celebrating basketball victories with a bonfire is now a Duke tradition. Follow these basic safety rules so we can maintain this tradition for years to come.

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Tallman Trask 111 Executive Vice President Duke University

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Weekend Top 25 scoreboard Men's: No. 1 Arizona 86, Southern California 59 No. 2 Louisville 73, No. 11 Marquette 70 No. 3 Kentucky 68, LSU 57 No. 4 Oklahoma 63, Texas Tech 58 Tennessee 66, No. 5 Florida 59 No. 6 Texas 75, Nebraska 63 Seton Hall 73, No. 7 Pittsburgh 61 No. 8 Duke 78, Virginia 59 No. 10 Kansas 70, lowa St. 51 No. 18 Syracuse 82, No. 9 Notre Dame 80 Wichita St. 80, No. 12 Creighton 74 No. 25 Purdue 70, No. 13 Illinois 61 Baylor 74, No. 14 Oklahoma St. 72 No. 15 UMd. vs. No. 17 Wake Forest, ppd.

No. 16 Xavier 93, Rhode Island 70 Villanova 79, No. 19 Connecticut 70 No. 20 Mississippi St. 68, Ole Miss. 64 No. 21 Missouri 71, Kansas St. 63 No. 22 Georgia 83, Vanderbilt 70 No. 23 California 58, Washington 53 No. 24 Stanford 72, Washington St. 54

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Men's tennis Double trouble •

After splitting single matches with Tennessee, the Blue Devils swept doubles, taking the match.

Track and Field Still going 3 The Blue Devil runners had a successful weekend, highlighted by Clara Horowitz's cross country title.

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Fresh off its first road win in five tries, the men's basketball team returns home to face the team that started its road woes nearly a month ago. Vengeance against its "new" arch rival would go along way to restoring Duke's confidence.

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Following singles split, Blue Devils sweep doubles to edge 25th-ranked Volunteers, 4-3 Chronkff!^8

became frustrated with their play and the experienced Duke team held Duke 4 Alter No. 25 Ten- strong and won 8-4. nesSee(s-2) and No. 8 Both Duke players came up with a Tennessee 3 e /frl) s Pht a number of impressive , • shots, showing t slate of six singles DDu contests the outcome quickness at the net; yet at times the match of the rested on the doubles point, team was plagued by unforced errors.

In the end, the Blue Devils took all ‘The guys were good,” said. “We three doubles matches to earn the deci- just had to make sure weKing under stayed aye point and claim a 4-3 victory over control and played solid. It was close and the Volunteers Sunday at the Sheffield there was a lot of pressure because it was Indoor Tennis Center. worth the whole thing.” out to early breaks in m ped Ryan Heinberg and Ludovic Walter se? each ol the three doubles matches to calm cured the victory for the Blue Devils the nerves of head coach Jay Lapidus. when they completed a 8-3 win over Rawl I think coach was really nervous but Martin and Vincent Pema. The Duke he Want t0 make us nervous ju- players got out to an early break and conmor Phillip King said. He told us to go trolled theirVolunteer opponents through out there and fight hard.” much of the match.

Michael Yani and King were engaged Jonathan Stokke and Jason Zimmerm a tight battle with Tennessee’s Simon man also won their doubles match, but Rea and Mark Henderson before the team after Duke had secured the team victory of Blue Devils pulled out a break in the fifth game of the match. The Tennessee See TENNIS on page 7 the Chronicle

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Horowitz wins junior cross country championships

By PAUL CROWLEY The Chronicle

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CLARA HOROWITZ won the junior cross country championships and will represent the U.S. at the world championships in Switzerland.

Even as indoor track season is at its peak, distance marvel Clara Horowitz isn’t giving up on cross country.

The freshman won the USATF Junior Cross Country Championship in Houston, Texas, Saturday, while many of her teammates competed in the Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York City. The dominating win extended Horowitz’ cross country season into late March, when she and five others will represent the United States in Switzerland at the lAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Horowitz’s 23:34 coverage of the six-kilometer course left no doubt to her qualifications. The Berkeley, Calif, native dominated a 41-woman field, besting her nearest competitor, Laura Hodgson of the University of Washington, by 36 seconds over a muddy course.

“Although it was really warm out, the course was tom up,” Horowitz said. “It might have been the muddiest course I’ve ever run.”

The race’s course was a two-kilometer figure-eight in See TRACK AND FIELD on page 7

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By ROBERT SAMUEL The Chronicle

CHARLOTTESVILLE, After the men’s

basketball team (17-4, 74 in the ACC) lost four consecutive road games, the Virginia Cavaliers (14-9, 5-6) came out silent when pleading for the fifth.

Shelden Williams scored 20 points and pulled down eight rebounds as Duke controlled the game from the get-go in its 78-59 victory. The 6-foot-9 freshman blocked four shots in the first half and scored 14 in the second to give Virginia its first loss at home this season.

“I was concentrating on defense in the first half,” Williams said. “But we were getting more stuff on the block in the second. It helped me a lot that I could play good defense in the first half. I tried to show I could come out and dominate.”

Showing no signs of fatigue after a double-overtime loss to Wake Forest Thursday, the Blue Devils blasted out ofthe gates, hitting their first three shots and going on a 100 run to create an 18-6 lead with 10:55 remaining in the first half.

Coming off the bench, Daniel Ewing scored eight of the run’s 10 points, highlighted by a spectacular dunk.

After a steal by center Casey Sanders, Ewing raced ahead of the pack. Rising above the defense, Ewing soared with the ball in his right hand, briefly guided the ball with his left, then ferociously slammed it down with his strong hand. It is a move Ewing has finished many times with a layup off the glass, but the forceful dunk showed the extra energy Duke had for this game.

“Today we had some easy buckets in the first half, like layups after steals and that dunk I had,” Ewing said. “Things like that get you going when the shots aren’t falling.”

Virginia never seriously challenged Duke after this point. The Cavaliers opened with one of their worst offensive halves of the year, scoring only 22 points on 9-for-26 shooting in the first 20 minutes.

Much of the credit can be handed to

Williams, who held Virginia’s All-ACC candidate Travis Watson to only six points in the entire game.

“Our defense was outstanding,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I would have never guessed that Travis would not get double figure points against us. We are fortunate that Shelden did a really good job on him.”

In the two teams’ first meeting ofthe season, Duke needed a career high 34 points from freshman J. J. Redick to compensate for Virginia’s domination in the post. In this contest, the Blue Devils out-rebounded the Cavaliers 43-36 and out-scored the Wahoos 38-28 in the paint. Duke accomplished this despite playing without freshman forward Shavlik Randolph, who sat out with the stomach flu.

One of the few positives for Virginia Saturday was the play of Elton Brown. The sophomore scored 18points, 12 of which occurred in the second half.

“The only guy that played really well was Elton Brown,” Virginia head coach Pete Gillen said. ‘The other guys just didn’t have it. They didn’t make shots, didn’t play well, didn’t do the things they usually do.”

Although they appeared flat for most of the game, the Cavaliers never gave up, cutting the lead to 13 with three minutes remaining after two lay-ups from Jermaine Harper and three from Todd Billet.

Not to be denied his victory, senior Dahntay Jones, who has never won a game at

University Hall, soared over 6-10 Cavalier Nick Vander Laan for a spectacular one-

handed, tomahawk dunk. Jones scored 13 of his 17 points in the second half.

“This was a very big game for us,” Jones said. “We had to get a road win under us and get our confidence up.”

Redick, who was the Virginia AAA player of the year for Cave Springs in Roanoke, Va., scored 15 points in the game, 10 ofwhich came in the first half.

The 6-4 freshman, who had not been shooting well of late, did this despite being constantly booed by the bitter Virginia fans, who were upset because Redick has stated he would have been a Cavalier had he not been a life long Duke supporter.

Duke shot 44.8 percent from the field for the game, a welcoming sign after shooting under 34 percent in its last three contests.

“Duke was really sharp,” Gillen said.

“We got stunned early and never really got off the mat.”

Krzyzewski was especially happy with his team’s play because of the residence it showed after losing to Wake Forest only two days earlier.

“I’m really proud of our guys because losing that heart-breaking double overtime loss to Wake, and the quick turn around takes a special group ofkids as they did tonight,” he said.

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SHELDEN WILLIAMS blocks a shot by Virginia’s Elton Brown in the first half of Saturday night’s game for one of his four blocks on the day. THE DUKE BENCH (top) reacts to Dahntay Jones’ now famous one-handed slam in the second half.

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VIRGINIA NATIVE J.J. REDICK shoots over Cavalier big man Travis Watson: DANIEL EWING (right), who had 12 points and four rebounds, dribbles the ball past a Virginia defender.

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Women’s lacrosse happy with exhibition results After 5 practices in South of the Border Tournament, Duke prepares for Virginia Tech

By MIKE COREY The Chronicle

The women’s lacrosse team proved why it is a preseason favorite to win the 2003 national championship as they ran the tables at an all-day exhibition event, the South of the Border Tournament—which was hosted by Duke and North Carolina, respectively.

The Blue Devils played against several teams with varying styles of play, ranging from more passive, less talented squads in Richmond and Connecticut, to an upcoming power in Northwestern, to preseason-ranked powers in No. 7 Vanderbilt and No. 4 Georgetown.

Each game was played with a 30 minute continuous clock without a halftime period. Score-was not officially kept by the coaches or referees, so Duke’s play could not be rated in wins and losses. The purpose of the exhibition, according to head coach Kerstin Kimel, was to have some great competition and work out some kinks before diving into regular season play Feb. 21.

“I’ve been pleased with certain things,” she said. “I mean, it looks like a preseason tournament...l’m a little happier with the way our offense has performed than maybe our defense. It’s kind of disappointing because our defense is more experienced and I think that we’re just not being very disci-

plined; our body positioning and our checking are a little wild and a little out of control right now.”

As Kimel noted, Duke’s offense was impressive throughout the day, particularly against Vanderbilt, as the Blue Devils amassed five goals from five different players. The most impressive score of the contest came from senior Jessica Bennett. As Duke was running through its motion offense—the move-

ment and goals of which involve players weaving in and out of the area in front of the goal—Bennet received a pass about 12 feet from the net. She proceeded to deliver a laser into the top right corner of the goal, an angled shot that was so impressive it drew applause from a few Vanderbilt defenders.

And though their play was far from flawless, the Blue Devils—led by four preseason All-Americans as selected

by Insider Lacrosse magazine—dominated against every opponent but Georgetown, the defending national runners-up.

“I don’t think that we competed with as well with them as I would have liked to have,” Kimel said. “I felt like we got beat to some balls behind the balls that are possession balls, and we can’t to do that...Good thing it doesn’t count and we get ready for Virginia Tech [in our regular season opener].”

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CALINE McHENRY and the women’s lacrosse team played five opponents this weekend.

Blue Devils travel to Winston-Salem for ACC contest n order to stop Demon Deacons, women’ basketball must defend long-range jumper

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“On any given night, one of their players can step forward for them,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors

said. “They’ve got really quick guards in Bianca Brown and Tonia Brown and one of the best freshman in the conference, as we 11.... I would say their guards are probably their strength.”

The last time these two intrastate rivals faced off, Wake’s defense had a tough time stopping Alana Beard and Iciss Tillis, as both posted double-doubles. Duke won that game by 10, a relatively low margin compared to most

p.m. tonight.

Wake (11-11, 2-10), known to take over 20 threes in some games, relies heavily on the outside shot, but is much less of a scoring threat on the inside. The team has one of the ACC’s of their usual blowouts. Duke held an lowest field goal percentages, at 37.9. early lead, but the Demon Deacons Wake Forest’s most recent victory threatened with a late second-half over Maryland Thursday snapped its rally, only to fall short in the end. The nine game losing streak. The team Blue Devils were plagued by turnovers boasts a very balanced scoring attack, and taking too many early shots in led by senior Tiffani Listanbee, who that game, and Goestenkors noted that has led her team in scoring the past her team will need to be much more three games and is consistently one of patient this time around.

Wake’s top rebounders.

“They’re a team that’s hungry,” she The Deacs also have three players said. “They play much better at home who are averaging in double figures in than they do on the road, so I think scoring—junior forward Eafton Hill, we’re going to have to really be ready who averages 11.2 points per game; and play some smart basketball,” freshman guard Cotelia Bond-Young, Duke has been working on its dewho is averaging 10.3 and 4.2 rebounds fense, particularly its help-side deeach game; and junior guard Tonia fense, the past two weeks and the team Brown, averaging 10.1 points per game. is happy with its progress.

“They shoot a lot of threes so we “It’s been pretty intense,” Beard have to go out there and pressure said. “I’m just so impressed with our them,” said freshman guard Lindsay defense right now. Everyone is on the Harding, who has recently worked her same page and I think everything is way into Duke’s starting lineup. “We clicking like clockwork.” can’t just go out there and put our Duke will be bussing fans over to hand out. We have to pressure them Lawrence Joel Coliseum and will likeand make them put the ball on the ly have as many fans as its home opfloor first before shooting the shot.” ponents, who have been averaging relWake is the second leading offensive atively low crowds. If Duke’s defense rebounding team in the conference. It’s steps up and counters Wake Forest’s strength also lies in its athletic guards, outside scoring threat, Blue Devil fans who are fast, strong penetrators that will like what they see.

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I could have definitely played a lot better.”

Next, Pema defeated Stokke at No. 4, 6-3, 7-5, Dietrich knocked offYani at No. The Blue Devils broke in the first game of 2, 6-3, 6-3 and Shults won the sixth slot the match to take an early lead. The Tenover Martin 6-2, 6-3. nessee team then leveled the score midAt the third flight, Walter played a way through the set, only to see the Blue tight two set match against Wade Orr and Devils break back in the penultimate pulled out a 6-4, 6-4 victory to give the game and serve for a 9-7 victory.

Blue Devils a 3-2 match advantage.

“I thought the guys did a great job reThe attention of the tennis center then grouping in the doubles, and our doubles shifted to the No. 5 match between is really good this year,” Lapidus said. Duke’s Stephen Amritraj and Tennessee’s “Last year we struggled in doubles and Mark Henderson. this year I have a lot of confidence.”

Henderson took the first set by a While Duke pulled through in the score of 6-4. With the lead in the secdoubles when the match was on the ond set tiebreaker Amritraj twisted his line, the Blue Devils struggled in sin- knee. He attempted to get up but again gles play. feel to the court.

“A couple of guys in singles just didn’t After some attention from the trainplay well today,” Lapidus said. ‘1 thought er, Amritraj tried to continue but he was we were going to get through it a little unable to put enough weight on the ineasier. Everything that could go wrong jured leg to compete, and was forced to did go wrong.” retire. Amritraj, coming off an ACL tear In the No. 1 position, King defeated last year, will see a orthopedist this Rea by a score of 6-4, 6-2. morning but is doubtful for this week“I didn’t play that well,” King said. “I end’s trip to the ITA National Indoor came up with a few shots on big points but Championships in Louisville, Ken.

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Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Park, repeated three times. The first circuit saw Horowitz take a three-second lead over the field. She extended this lead to ten seconds during the second orbit before pulling out all the stops on the third, leading to her emphatic victory.

“I think that the conditions affected different runners differently,” Horowitz said. “I’ve never thought of myself as a great runner in the mud; all I knew was that time was totally irrelevant [in such inclement conditions].”

The hampering conditions are evident when Horowitz’ times are compared. Her 23:34 was good enough for a national junior title, but her personal best on a sixkilometer course is a scanty 20:19.

Laura Stanley, a fellow freshman who had been Horowitz’ training partner in the fall cross country season, also ran.

Her time of 25:41 earned her an 11thplace finish.

The trip to Lausanne, Switzerland, awarded to the meet’s top six runners, will go to Horowitz and Hodgson, as well as Amy Hastings, Rebecca Walter, Julia Lucas and Angela Homan.

“The US junior teams place pretty far back at international competitions,” Horowitz said. “I’m just glad for the experience, glad to be representing the U.S.” A small contingent consisting of other members of the indoor track and field teams ventured to Manhattan for the Armory Collegiate Invitational. Only bringing a handful of runners, the Blue Devils earned some bang for their buck.

The men’s’ 4xBoo squad garnered a number of accolades for their speedy 7:33.42: First place, season best and second best in Duke history—as well as the meet record.

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NICK SCHNEIDER helped set Armory Collegiate Invitational record in the 4xBoo-meter relay.

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400-meter phenom Jenna Turner also broke her own school record with a 55.85 “If I had to pick a high point, I’d say Jenna’s performance in the 400 would be it,” women’s head coach Jan Ogilvie said.

The women’s’ distance medley relay crew also earned a Duke record with their 11:20.09 time. Lauren Matic, Janay McKie, Kristen Doody and Shannon Rowbury barely missed qualifying for NCAAs with their fourthplace effort.

“We haven’t had too many better weekends on the track,” Ogilvie said.

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BRIDGING THE GAP from pao ei the blue-collar positions at the University.

I heard [the “plantation” reference] a long time ago, Alston remarked. But, she adds, not so frequently now.

On the other end of the West Union Building in The Great Hall, Rosa Mims goes over to each table with a wet rag in her hand, quickly wiping away the crumbs and stains with determined swipes of her hand. It’s three o clock in the afternoon, and Mims is set to go home in half an hour.

Mims is another employee who has heard “a lot of people” call Duke a “plantation,” but doesn’t care to think much about it. She has worked at Duke for 22 years, a confession made with a serious nod ofthe head and a tight-lipped smile.

The “plantation” reference to Duke is a label that a heavy majority of these employees do not believe is accurate. Most of the time, employees will joke about the “plantation” identity, usually refusing to cross the threshold into gravity.

“Many employees here joke about that,” Charles Mitchell said. Mitchell gingerly sits down on a lone bench for a couple of minutes—he has just finished mopping the second floor of the Bryan Center. He works in housekeeping services at Duke, responsible for cleaning the Bryan Center and being called to any emergency situations on West Campus.

“Just as a joke,” Mitchell reiterated.

Alston calls the label inaccurate, primarily because

she herself—and other employees—chose to work at a paid position. Ultimately, they believe, their job is the outcome of an exercise of free will.

“We knew what we were getting into, and we chose to work here,” Alston reasoned. “[Duke] is not like a plantation.”

Jeroy Royster likened his situation to that of the average Duke student: They are at Duke to work at a current job or eventually attain one.

“Truthfully, everybody has to earn a living,” Royster pointed out. Royster holds a part-time job at McDonald’s in addition to working full-time installing car stereos. “The students here, they’re just like everybody else—they’re paying to go here so they

could get a job. I go here to work and get paid.”

Employees say that relations with students are generally positive and peaceful, and few incidents wind up as exceptions. Carefully thinking back, Alpine Bagels Training Assistant Jackie Sanford can remember one Saturday when she and a fellow staff worker were disrupted by a young woman who called them ‘Crazy bastards!’ after she was informed that the eatery closed at 5 p.m. every Saturday afternoon.

“I would say [the employee-student relationship] is nonexistent.” sophomore

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sionally flickering over to the television screen, where NBA players pranced around with a basketball.

Sophomore Amanda Paredes said racial divisions worsen the socioeconomic chasm between students and workers.

“The socioeconomic divisions are [going to] get amplified by that fact that Duke [students are] predominantly white, and we live in an area that is predominantly black, so we’re going to get a lot of workers who are black,” she said.

Alston finds that she has more problems dealing with some of the black students as opposed to the white majority of the student body.

“They will look at you and be like, T’m black, you’re black’—they feel like they’re better than us,” Alston said. “The way they order, some of them just give you their card and don’t look at you.” She emphasizes that, of course, not all black students carry

But other than that one incident, Sanford says she this attitude. likes the students and enjoys meeting them. “They’re From senior Phoebe Brathwaite’s perspective, Alpretty cool, neat. I wish I was young again,” she conston’s comment is true—to a certain extent. Brathfessed, laughing. waite believes the tension between black employees “I’m constantly involved with them, you know, and black students may also spring from employees communicating with them. Some of them, we know holding preconceived notions about Duke students. each other on a first name basis,” Alston said, echoing “Because you’re a student at Duke, [the employSanford’s sentiment. Her eyes are wide and earnest ees] think that you come from money,” she said. as she motions with her hands. “[Talking with the “That’s not the case.” students] makes my day go by faster.” Occasionally Brathwaite added that she never personally had a she will arrive at Duke not to work but to party with problem with an employee, but she had heard some some of the students over the weekend. workers refer to both black and white students as Most students, on the contrary, acknowledged a gen- “stuck up.” eral divide and lack of interaction between students Alston acknowledged that, overall, “as far as [emand employees, primarily owing to socioeconomic difployee-student] relations go, it could be better,” citferences rather than racial ones. ing conversation as one of the better ways to estab“I would say [the employee-student relationship] is lish a friendly repertoire between Duke employees nonexistent,” said sophomore Peter Blair, slightly and students. adamant, though he did admit that some students did An employee at Chic-fil-A who wished to remain make an effort to reach out to employees—for example, anonymous has a daughter “18 [years old] going on a group of students in his dorm put together a display 19,” who at that stage of life is trying to figure out of Valentine’s Day messages for housekeeping personwhether to go onto college or not. But if her daughter nel. “If you show them some respect, they will show were to decide ‘yes,’ she imagines that her daughter some respect to you.” would be in the same position as the students who Jeremy Poe, a senior, also agreed that there is a lack come by to purchase a grilled chicken sandwich. of general interaction between students and employ“I treat others the way I would want my child to be ees. “I think that students don’t have much interest in treated,” she said, shrugging her shoulders in a gesinteracting [with employees],” he added, his eyes occa- ture of‘yeah... it’s that simple.’”

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know if I remember such a mixture of ethnicity in the early days of the Vietnam War protests, such a mixture of ages.”

The variance of demonstrators led to an eclectic mix of protest styles. People carried signs with what have become the catch phrases of this protest movement “No blood for oil” and “Not in my name”— but most of the signage was innovative.

“Stop the troops. I’m out of Duct tape,” read one, referring to the State Department’s recommendation to stockpile Duct tape. Another asked, “How did our oil get under their sand?” More than a dozen signs screamed anti-war messages in Spanish and other languages.

One man walked around dressed in a Speedo, wound in plastic wrap. Many protesters carried peace parasols, umbrellas hand-painted with peace signs and slogans.

“The creativity and fluidity of the protests is like the early days of the Vietnam War,” said Richard Ward, from Hillsborough. “But it’s the first time, I think, that we’ve ever protested before the war, so there’s a lot more chance to be effective.”

A small podium was set up on the east-side lawn for an official program of speeches. Community leaders and regional activists using megaphones attached to speakers attempted to inspire the crowd. The lack of a public address system, however, hindered their ability to rally the mass of people gathered in —

front of them. The crowd remained fragmented, talking to one another in small groups.

“I have no idea what they’re saying,” said one woman carrying a “For Sale” sign with “America” written in block letters across the bottom. “I just know

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PROTESTERS OF THE POTENTIAL WAR IN IRAQ gathered in Raleigh Saturday. From left to right, a police officer keeps the crowd in check, rally participants march through downtown Raleigh, and a protester leans a sign against a statue of war veterans. when everyone moves, I’ll start moving with them.”

Despite the shortcomings of the formal speeches, protesters were inspired by the turnout at the rally and garnered support from one another.

“It’s really validating to not feel like you’re the lone voice crying in the wilderness,” said Cara Forster, a first-year student in the Nicholas School of the Environment who marched with 10 of her classmates. “It’s part of a movement that’s bigger than the 10 people at the Nicholas School, the 1,000 people in Durham.”

A half block away from the main protest, a smaller group of demonstrators gathered at a self-dubbed patriotic rally to support the government and the military. Metal barricades, a dozen police officers and a closed-off street separated the nearly 100 people on the pro-troops side from the contingent of anti-war pro-

testers who left the central rally to counter the opposing demonstration.

“Go hate America somewhere else!” yelled citizens from the patriotic side.

“How do you think the troops feel knowing you’re against them?”

Brian Parsons, a Garner resident, stood next to a sign with “War solved Hitler” printed in black ink. “We’re not here to advocate war,” he said. “We’re here to support our nation, our president, our troops.”

At 1:30, the anti-war demonstrators rejoined the thousands of people at the primary protest, and they all began to flood the streets to walk a loop through downtown, beginning and ending at the old Capitol Lawn.

The line was remarkably quiet, punctuated by small pockets of singing and chanting. In the middle of the dense crowd, a group of 15 students

from the University of North Carplina at Greensboro led one of the larger factions of chanters.

Their cries of “Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation!” died after 60 seconds, to be replaced by an attempt at “Hey, Bush, kiss my ass! I won’t die for the price of gas!”

The demonstration and march were part of a worldwide series of anti-war protests that took place Saturday. Millions of people assembled in hundreds of cities across the United States, Europe and Australia, braving rain and cold temperatures to express their dissent.

“I want them to know that I, personally, don’t want this war,” said Rockymount resident Joan Sharpe. “I got a loud voice, but I’m just one. There are

thousands here. We need to bring all of us to let them know. Whatever tools we have, we got to use them.”

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Workshop: 8-2pm. The Least Of These... the Holistic Care of People Living with HIV/AIDS. A workshop to discuss the holistic care of people living with HIV/AIDS, including the sociocultural, spiritual, and medical care.

This is an all-day workshop with meals covered. Anyone can attend any or all of the sessions and it is free of charge including breakfast and lunch! Location: Alumni Memorial Common Room, Divinity School.

Lecture Series: 12pm. The program in Literature presents Slavoj Zizek, “Against Deleuze.” Upper East Side (2nd Floor East Union Building).

Biology/EEOB Seminar: 4pm. Stuart Pimm, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment. “Setting conservation priorities.” 111 Biological Sciences.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Developmental Biology Colloquium: 4pm. Don Kessler, University of Pennsylvania. “Endoderm specification in Xenopus.” 147 Nanaline Duke.

Religious MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Westminster Presbyterian/UCC Fellowship; 9-1 Opm, Mondays. “Haphour,” informal time of refreshments and fellowship, begins at B:3opm. All are welcomed.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 TAIZE Prayer; s:lspm, Tuesdays. Memorial Chapel.

Bible Study: 7-Bpm, Tuesdays. Worship and friendship.

Room 032, Duke Chapel basement area. Sponsored by Baptist Student Union and open to all students. More information, call 684-5994.

Social Programming and Meetings MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Lunch and Conversation: 12-2pm. Lunch will be pro-

vided. Please join us for lunch and conversation with Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute speaking on ‘The Future of AIDS in Russia, China, and India.” John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. Please RSVP to p.gution@duke.edu.

Artist Reception: 4-6pm. “Spirit’s Eye" (Paintings by Wendell Smith). On display through March 14. Brown Gallery, Bryan Center. Sponsored by Duke University Union Visual Arts Committee.

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Discussion: 5-7pm. WHEN TO SAY YES! EXPLORING SEXUAL ENVIRONMENTS. Discussion of environments promoting intimacy and sexual relations led by Polly Weiss, Cross Cultural Relations Specialist, Office for Institutional Equity. Dinner will be provided. Please RSVP to smf9@duke.edu for ordering purposes.

Location: Duke Center for Multicultural Affairs Resource Room.

Duke NPHC Presents: 7:3opm. ‘The Miseducation of (From Queens to Queen B*****S): The Image of Women of Color in American Entertainment”

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A Hip-Hop Documentary: by David Lamb Professor at John Jay College in NYC. Richard White Auditorium, East Campus. The kick-off event for Hip Hop Global Flows. A week of lectures, performances, films, and discussions (featuring Dilated People’s at the Cat’s Cradle, Friday 2/21) for the week’s full schedule, visit -

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Speaker: 4pm Lisa Duggan. Queer Mulatto Communists Run Amok, or, Jesse Helms Explains It All To You. Mary Lou Williams Center, 01 West Union Bldg. Lower Level (West Campus). Part of Sexualities in the South.

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Yoga; 5:30-6:30, Wednesdays. Members of the Duke Fitness Club can treat themselves to a refreshing yoga class at Brodie Recreational Center (East Campus).

Visit Duke HR website to learn how to enroll.

Perkins Exhibit: Through February in the main Perkins Library gallery. That Half-Living Thing: a Book’: Extending the Half-Life of the Libraries’ Collections. An exhibit describing the Duke University Libraries’ strategies for preserving its collections: books, journals, CDROMs, DVDs, floppy disks, sound recordings, videotapes, and other materials, so that they will be available to scholars now and in the future.

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.

Exhibit: February 12-April 1, 2003. Through the Lens Duke Gardens Images by Ed Albrecht. In the Harriet Jackson Phelps Library in the Doris Duke Center, Sarah Gardens.

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The Chronicle Tip discrimination The automatic 19 percent gratuity at the Washington Duke Inn’s restaurant unfairly and unnecessarily discriminates against students and should be eliminated

The

Washington Duke Inn’s policy of charging an automatic 19 percent gratuity for students paying with points is an unfair policy that needs to stop. Fortunately, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee will vote Monday on a resolution on whether the policy should continue, and although DUSDAC’s resolution will only be a recommendation and non-binding, it will carry important sway with administrators. DUSDAC should declare that the current tipping policy is unfair and recommend one where students can decide for themselves how much tip to leave.

The most bothersome element of the current automatic 19 percent tipping system is not the size of the tip—which is probably reasonable for the quality of restaurant —but rather the fact that this policy is kept secret and unknown to student diners. That is, while the menu at the restaurant announces that large parties will have an automatic gratuity added to their checks, nowhere does anything indicate that Duke students will also have an automatic gratuity.

Moreover, the logic for having an automatic tip seems fallacious.

The only logic for having an automatic tip is that students will otherwise fail to give one. However, most Duke students are accustomed to eating out, have experience dining in nicer restaurants, and therefore know how to tip appropriately. The fact that students are paying with food points further weakens the argument for an automatic tip—students have little incentive to be stingy with food points and therefore will leave generous tips on points.

An appropriate system on which to model the Washington Duke Inn’s tipping is that ofThe Oak Room, which this semester began allowing students to write in the amount oftip they wish to leave on food points. The system is convenient for both students and waitstaff and gives a diner flexibility in choosing how much or little tip to leave based on the quality of service received. A similar system would work at the Washington Duke Inn. The key here is the principle that student diners at the Washington Duke should be treated like any other diner and should not be discriminated against in tipping. Just because students attend Duke should not force them into an automatic gratuity, and it is insulting for the inn to argue otherwise.

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A woman carrying a “For Sale” sign with “America” written in block letters across the bottom protesting the likely war with Iraq, at the state capital Saturday in Raleigh (see story, page one).

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Columnist simply repeats liberal partyline rhetoric Amir Mokari should be ashamed of himself; after reading his laughable, partyline rhetoric in the Feb. 14 edition of The Chronicle, I noticed that he forgot to include the phrase “no blood for oil” in there somewhere.

What kind of a liberal is he?

Mokari has apparently decided his academic experience with six black students this semester constitutes a “low number of minorities” for the entire Duke community.

Aside from the fact that he forgets that blacks students aren’t the only minority group on campus, the number of minorities here, percentagewise, is above the national average.What does he want, a quota system?

It

is unfortunate that

Mokari then targets George W. Bush for our failing public school system. FYI: Public school education was not doing so well under Bill Clinton

either.

Numerous

studies have shown that the U.S. per capita spending on education is the highest in the world by far, yet our scores are merely average. Mokari offers no solutions; he criticizes the

voucher system, which has been shown to be extremely effective and efficient.

While it is quite possible that

Bush’s connections into Yale him University, that doesn’t mean that admissions shady be processes shouldn’t changed. His depiction and

helped

understanding of the University of Michigan incident currently in the news is unflattering. In undergraduate admissions at Michigan, four points are awarded for being the child of an alumnus, three points for a good essay, and a hefty 12 points for a perfect SAT score. Being bom black is worth 20 points.

Being Asian like me is worth zero. Isn’t this something Michigan should justify?

I have one last question for Mokari. If 10 percent of the population pays over 90 percent of the taxes, as is the case in this country, who should be getting the bulk of a tax cut?

Kai Lin Trinity ’O4

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Muslims in Sudan engage in brutal reign of terror Hamza Aziz writes movingly about the ways that Islam has in the past worked to undermine the institution of slavery (“Hajj—a manifestation of human equality,” Feb. 12).

Too bad his column is not likely to be read in the Sudan, where the Muslim regime of the north has been waging a brutal war against the poor, black, and mainly Christian south since oil was discovered there in the early 1980s.

Humanitarian groups estimate that more than 2

million southern Sudanese

have died since the conflict began. Perhaps even more troubling has been the treathttp:

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ment of the survivors. About 4 to 5 million have been left

homeless, while thousands have become victims of the north’s use of slavery as an instrument to destabilize and Islamicise the “infidels” of the south.

According to John Eibner, the director of Christian

Solidarity International, this

is how it works. In the name of jihad, government-backed

militias routinely raid southern villages, bum homes, steal food, destroy crops, and slay animals and men. Women and children are then captured as booty and relocated hundreds ofmiles to the north.

Some raiders keep their human prizes as slaves; oth-

ers sell them on the open market in the north. The slaves are often beaten, given starved, Arabic names, and forced to recite Muslim prayers. Women are used as concubines and often subjected to female

genital mutilation.

Aziz describes hajj as a “symbol of Islam’s tolerance.” Let us pray that during this season of hajj the Muslim leaders of the Sudan will have their eyes opened to this truth. Failing that, let us pray for a swift and just end to their brutal reign of terror.

Mark HAYES Divinity ’OO

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Women do not enjoy social equality under Islam I was disgusted to read Hamza Aziz’s sugar-coated

Feb.

12 column, entitled “Hajj—a manifestation of human equality.” It was a good column, except for the fact that it mentions “social equality inherent in Islamic ethics.” I cannot believe Aziz had the gall to mention such a phenomenon, considering the fact that all Islamic countries share a social inequality: brutality and neglect toward women. Here Muslims

will generally get out their

Qur’an and start pointing to

the verses dealing with women, arguing that even though a woman is half a man, nowhere in the Qur’an was a particular type of brutality mentioned.

But instead of reading a

highly theoretical text, let’s review the facts: In Saudi Arabia, the most “Islamic”

country and where the Hajj takes place, women are not allowed to drive, to walk around without a male relative, or to work/get medical treatment without the permission of a male relative.

Imagine your mother getting cancer, but not getting treatment, because your dad had other ideas. Saudi women are supposedly able to own assets, but since they (until recently) did not have ID cards, it was easy for a male relative to quickly deprive them of such, simply bringing another veiled woman to the bank and identifying her as the wife, and then receiving her money. You probably heard that 15 girls were prevented from escaping a burning school last year by Saudi police, who pushed them inside? They all died.

In Pakistan, hundreds of

of honor each year. Almost all go unpunished. An honor killing is when you know, or most of the time only suspect, that a female relative has talked to a stranger on the street, or leaves the house too often. You kill her, and, as you are the only witness, the judge gives you some sort of minimum punishment reserved for such cases. It’s a good way to get rid of a wife you’ve gotten too bored of—-just claim she stains your family’s honor, and kill her. Still not convinced? Go to http://www.secularislam.

women are killed in the name

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The irony of Aziz’s column

is that although he claims that “Muslim policy was the first to give rights to slaves,” Muslim policy still treats women as slaves.

Maria Kareva

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Use your head—what’s truly sinful?

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death;

I don’t believe in God, so maybe the faithful would just disregard what I’m about to say as the evil words of a lost soul, their blood is upon them.” Leviticus 20:13 but please hear me out.

Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love, First of all, anyone who actually reads an occasion where all Americans, byway of Leviticus front to back will encounter pages candlelight dinners and flowers, can revel and pages of condemnations that 99 perin their love for another. cent of Americans scoff at. Chapter 15 conPublic displays of affec- JBKtmHk cerns the uncleanliness and impurity of a tion are not just tolerat- mT menstruating woman or a man who has ed, they are encouraged, ii ejaculated. Take a look; God instructs us all Wait a minute. That’s not Jk to essentially quarantine a woman on her exactly right, is it? period. Any man touching her is unclean for ' k.

Excuse me. What I meant 24 hours. Does anybody take that command Nick to say is that on seriously? Of course not.

Valentine’s Day all Christie Then there is the actual matter of basstraight Americans can ing one’s life decisions on a text manipulatRemovmBthe celebrate their love ed by the Church for the last 2000 years.

Glossy Sheen dinthrough candlelight Anybody who has studied the New ners and public displays of affection.

Testament knows that there exists no actuThis country’s attitude towards alternaal copy of the Gospels when first written. tive sexualities is depressing. Homosexuals We have only fragments until complete verare considered dramatically inferior to sions emerge decades after their writers’ their heterosexual counterparts. In the eyes deaths. The inclusion ofbooks was a human of too many Americans, they are seconddecision. A primary example is that the class citizens.

Orthodox faith decided early on to reject All of my life I have been forced to watch the book of Revelations, a key text in most in disgust as I see my gay and lesbian Protestant faiths (faiths that have only friends verbally abused and culturally denexisted for 500 years, or 1,500 years followigrated, and it tears me apart. There are ing Christ’s death). Orthodox Christians days when I have so much fury that I literdon’t acknowledge its legitimacy. Who is to ally can’t hit something enough to release say that the actual figure of Jesus didn’t it. Three hours at the gym may leave me preach tolerance ofall human beings? Who limping slowly out on my way back to my is to say his followers didn’t distort his mesroom, but it does nothing to alleviate the sage to uphold societal beliefs? fire in my eyes. Then there are also days, More importantly, what if God intenlike this one actually, when I just want to tionally allows the Bible to continue in its sit and ciy. current form as a test to his followers?

For millennia people have read the Bible What if he’s testing your own innate sense and taken it as a carte blanch rejection of of morality and humanity? Children have homosexuality as wicked, as something to no problems with the idea of same-sex parbe forcibly eradicated from the soil of God’s ents until their classmates abuse them great earth. In present-day America, tens of mercilessly, until society tells them that millions of people still believe that the their parents are inferior.

Bible’s condemnation of homosexuality is I ask every Christian: Are you willing to reject an entire group of people simply reason enough to deny acceptance of alternative sexualities. because of what’s on a piece of paper in ~

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front of you, or what a pastor—another human being—tells you?

This country’s intolerance of homosexuality is ridiculously irrational. Since 1998, Matthew Lemon has been serving a 17year prison sentence. For what? When he was 18 years old, he performed oral sex on a consenting younger teenager, a male teenager. I kid you not, 17 years.

If you ask me, his real crime was that he lived in Kansas. The state’s “Romeo and Juliet”law, which prohibits acts of “sodomy” that include oral and anal sex, applies to homosexual and heterosexual acts. Or at least it does in theory. You don’t see Kansas investigating its high school football and basketball teams to see what sexual behaviors its senior male athletes engage in with freshman and sophomore girls. There are 14 states with sodomy laws, including

North Carolina.

The Republican Party, and especially its faith-based constituencies, want desperately to keep the current status quo limiting the rights of homosexuals compared to their heterosexual counterparts. On its official website, www.mc.com, the Republican National Committee fists the official GOP 2000 Platform. Under the section entitled “Renewing Family and Community” the platform states: “We support the traditional definition of ‘marriage’ as the legal union of one man and one woman, and we believe that federal judges and bureaucrats should not force states to recognize other living arrangements as marriages. We rely on the home, as did the founders of the American Republic, to instill the virtues that sustain democracy itself. That beliefled Congress to enact the Defense of Marriage Act, which a

Republican Department of Justice will energetically defend in the courts.”

There’s so much bullshit in this paragraph that it’s actually a little overwhelming, but let’s roll up our sleeves and sift through it.

First of all, “the founders of the American Republic” signed a document declaring all men to be equal under the eyes of God, and then promptly returned home to their slave plantations.

Second, what does “relying on the home” mean? These American “homes” 40 years ago instilled the American virtues of segregation and racism. To support the decisions of “federal judges and bureaucrats,” the US. government had to send fully armed soldiers to protect a “colored” person’s right to go to the same school as whites in order so that those nice young boys, “instilled with the virtues that sustain democracy itself” didn’t tear them to pieces on the schoolhouse steps. There most certainly is a precedent for the national government to step in and physically force the 50 states to

uphold the moral rights of a minority, and thankfully so.

Thirdly, and this is my personal favorite, the GOP supports “the traditional definition of ‘marriage.’” What the hell is that?

Traditionally, i.e., hundreds of years ago, marriage meant a union between families whereupon land and wealth could be exchanged. It certainly had nothing to do with 21st century concepts of love and romance. More recently, “traditional marriage” meant that a husband controlled his

household, not that a man and woman did

so equally.

Simply put, there is no reason why an entire group of Americans should be held hostage simply because they choose to love another person ofthe same sex. Alternative sexualities deserve every single right and

amenity provided to heterosexuals, whether it be to join with another human being as a couple, to raise a family or just to walk up to the person they love in broad daylight and give them a rose and a kiss.

Nick Christie is a Trinity senior and an associate sports editor. His column appears every other Monday.

THEO HUXTABLE’S PROTEGE becomes a square Things are getting rather silly in ACC basketball.

Duke’s women crushed its two latest conference opponents by an average of 33 points, never losing the lead and extending its conference winning streak to 35 straight games. Down by 23 with 1:34 to go on Monday, Virginia valiantly attempted to fight back by fouling Duke every time they got the ball. Apparently they thought they were playing the 2000-2001 Maryland men’s team. As it turned out, they were not. They lost by 27. In men’s basketball, Duke’s supposedly pathetic 17-4 record has started a panic among the student body. Meanwhile, other uplifting events this past week included the Kappas’ “Red Thong Party” (no, not the sorority you idiot, although you wish), and the Griffith showing of 8 HU a 1 AdLc o Mile, which apparently had nothing to PROTEGE do with the Proclaimers’ hit “I’m Gonna Mo.Ja,, rr~] Monday Be (500 Miles).”

Anyway, in an abrupt, jarring and poorly-conceived transition, the other day this guy was talking about his theory that all the musicians who come to Duke realize how square many ofthe students are here and dumb down their act to please us (for those of us who don’t know what “square” means, you could research some non-contemporary American slang, or just take a look at the picture of Bill English that graces this publication once per fortnight). I have no idea if this is accurate or not. But it got THEODORE HUXTABLE’S PROTEGE to thinking. If many Duke students really are oppressively square, and if this cat’s theory was correct, what will Duke’s upcoming musical acts do to cater to the undergraduate student body? I spoke with “gear”ness expert Sy-(Snootles)-andthe-Ramblin-(Root-Beer)-Gnome, and we came up with . some of the following ideas: George Clinton plays Page March 19. He could begin by saying, “Hello, I’m George Clinton. I’m the guy from PCU.” Parliament/Funkadelic could go straight into the ..

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groove of “Atomic Dog,” then, just when many Duke sation between Duke students, “I’m totally into Haydn, students are completely bewildered, cut into Snoop man.” “No way, man. I’m all about Brahms.” Oh, wait, Dogg’s “What’s My Name?” from 1993, which uses the maybe I’m thinking of Tm totally into the Beast, man.” exact same groove. “Oh,” Duke students will say. “Here “No way, man. I’m all about Busch Light.” Hmm, now that I think about it, maybe they should actually we go. Now we’re talking!”

How would Arlo Guthrie, who will be in Page on rename the concert “All About Busch Light.” It might March 24, adapt to the Duke crowd? Well, since Duke’s be the best thing to do in a university where the majorClass of 2004 has repeatedly claimed themselves to be ity of students seem to go by the old adage, “Never the unluckiest class in the history of Duke, they probaattend a live music event when you can drink beer bly wouldn’t be impressed with “Alice’s Restaurant,” instead.” This is, after all, the school that managed to Arlo’s 18-minute epic about the Vietnam draft. Really, pack about 352 people into Page Auditorium to see De what was the big deal about getting drafted to go to La Soul, and usually gets outnumbered about 49 to one Vietnam? Duke juniors today have to worry about real by Durham residents at every concert it puts on.

The Duke Jazz Ensemble will be playing shows in concerns, like not getting priority in housing picks and fulfilling a foreign language requirement. So what could Baldwin throughout the semester. Hmm, jazz. Could be he do instead? Well, Arlo’s father is Woody Guthrie, the a tough sell. The Ensemble needs something besides legendary gritty genius who spent his life rambling the sheer delight of Paul Jeffrey’s Colonel Sanders among America’s people playing and writing songs. tuxedos to get students to shell out the 15 bucks. They Since Arlo does like to play his old man’s tunes once in bring in guest artists who I’m sure are awesome, but no a while, maybe he should just play Woody’s anthem one at Duke has ever heard of them. It’s time to go for “This Land Is Your Land” 17 times. Then maybe again the biggest name of all. We need Kenneth Gorelick.

15 more times after intermission. No lack of hipness Yeah, you got it. Kenny Motherf—ing G. Sure, every could keep Duke students from accepting this tune, a note he plays is more detested than urine and contains about as much jazz as six milliseconds of Count Basie piece enjoyed equally by hip and linhip alike.

On April 25 in East Duke, a string quartet will play brushing his teeth, but he’s well known. Well, okay, the world premiere of a Paul Schoenfield piece. Paul that’s a bad idea I guess. Oh wait, hell, let’s bring in Schoenfield, hmm, never heard of him. Okay, let’s lose Chevy Chase! He’s an even bigger celebrity! Wait, this Schoenfield idea, and just go with Beethoven. what? We already do that? Oh, okay. Well I guess we Students know Beethoven. Plus, there won’t be any of could bring in Herbie Hancock, and keep yelling that messy atonal stuff. Actually, scratch that... play requests for his 1983 synthesizer hit “Rockit.” That some Nelly. Habana Sax, meanwhile, in Page March 1, would really be gear as hell. can delve into Cuba’s amazing musical heritage of Gloria Estefan hits. Then they could play some Ricky Martin. THEODORE HUXTABLE’S PROTEGE would like to He’s actually from Puerto Rico, but their flags are so sim- acknowledge the elusiveness and nebulousness of any definitions of“hip” and “square,” but would suggest listening to ilar, what’s the difference?

This Sunday, Feb. 23, meanwhile, the Duke a-man-whose-hero-was-Woody-Guthrie’s 1965 “Ballad of a Symphony Orchestra performs its latest entry in the Thin Man” or the-gentleman-whose-photo-headed-last“All About Brahms” series in the Chapel. Apparently week’s-column’s 1986 magnum opus “Hip to Be Square” to the symphony got the name from the oft-heard converelucidate the matter, as well as attending live music events.

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BRING YOUR CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER TO YOUR LOCAL KROGER STORE ON FEBRUARY 22nd BETWEEN 9:00 A.M. AND 1:00 P.M. PLAY TUP’S POP-A-SHOT AND REGISTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A POP-A-SHOT GAME.

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