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ACC Champs The women’s basketball team secured the regular season ACC championship, defeating Maryland 97-55. See page 9
THE INDEPENDEMT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Duke bids to host Afghan institute By ANDREW COLLINS
anthropology at Williams College and a member ofthe instiThe intellectual life of tute’s advisory board. Afghanistan may be getting a If the institute wins final much-needed resuscitation approval from all parties infrom an unlikely source volved—which should come in Duke University. the next few months—the UniDespite not having a single versity will provide it with an specialist in Afghanistan studoffice and some staff support. ies, the University may soon beRichards said the institute come an overnight leader in the may begin sending scholars to field if it agrees to host the US. Afghanistan within a year. office of the proposed American The institute would be affilInstitute of Afghanistan Studiated with the Council of ies, spearheaded by Professor of American Overseas Research History John Richards. Centers, which currently has “It will make us into a 19 member institutes in counleader,” said Vice Provost for tries across the world that reInternational Affairs Gilbert ceive funding from both the Merkx. “In the world of U.S. State Department and edAfghani studies, we will rise to ucational institutions. “[CAORC-affiliated institop prominence.” The institute’s headquarters tutes] are interesting because would be in Afghanistan, with they’ve got one foot in the govthe mission of reinvigorating ernment bureaucracy and one the country’s nascent academic foot in the kind of autonomous community and giving scholars academic realm,” said Shah their best opportunity for reHanifi, an Afghanistan spesearch about Afghanistan since cialist at Wayne State Univerthe country’s 1978 revolution sity and member of the advisoset off over a decade of civil war. ry board. “What, ultimately, “What the institute is trythese things do is structure the intellectual engagement ing to do is essentially resuscitate Afghanistan studies,... put between the two countries.... Afghanistan back on the map Hopefully it’s one of the anand make it a place where chors that will keep the [connscholars are welcome,” said David Edwards, professor of See AFGHAN STUDIES on page 5 The Chronicle
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JACK VALENTI speaks Monday to an audience at the School of Law, where he told students that peer-to-peer file-sharing programs amount to little more than theft from the entertainment industry.
Valenti denounces file-sharing By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle
First he said you were not allowed to see R-rated films without your parents. Now Jack Valenti wants you to delete every illegally-downloaded movie file on your hard drive. Valenti, president and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association ofAmerica,
called upon universities to develop a code of conduct for their Internet-using students and argued for a moral imperative to stop file-swapping during the third annual Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property at the School ofLaw Monday. Such a code would help prevent the unauthorized down-
loading of almost half a million
files on peer-to-peer file-sharing sites, Valenti told an audience of more than 150 people. College students with high-bandwidth Internet connections in their dorm rooms comprise the biggest chunk of those downloads, he said, and their actions See VALENTI on page 6
Katz draws on varied experience in bid to improve services This is the second story in a five-part series profiling this year’s candidates for Duke Student Government president. By TRACY REINKER and REBECCA SUN The Chronicle
cent off their prices for students showing school IDs. He would also like to promote current programs, such as the textbook exchange and the ride-sharing program, which now exists as a map outside the DSG office. As president, Katz said he would also increase student input in DSG’s decision-making, through a survey at the beginning of the school year as well as an e-mail account set up solely for the purpose of soliciting student input on issues such as head line
Last semester, junior Adam Katz spent the fall in New York City as an intern for NBC’s Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, assisting the news program in election night coverage. monitor selection. This semester, Katz is involved with an election of a Another of Katz’s top priorities is increasing aldifferent sort—Duke Student liances with other organizations, including institutionGovernment’s presidential race—al student services. and this time he is a candidate. /jMk X y “I’d like t0... increase the scope and power of [Coun/ Katz, who served as a DSG legseling and Psychological Services] and the Career Serislator on the Facilities and Athvices Center,” he said, noting that many students do not jL letics Committee and Student Ortake full advantage of the benefits they offer. ganization Finance Committee Katz also wants to increase campus-wide programduring his freshman and sophoming, which he said could be accomplished by working more years, hopes to bring stumore closely with other student organizations. dent services back to the focus of the governing body. “Right now, it seems like the only campus-wide ac“Right now, I feel [DSG] serves mostly in an advisotivities we have are the bonfires and the Last Day of ry capacity to the administration,” said Katz, a public Classes [celebration], and we should have more than policy studies major with a minor in political science these.... DSG can help [other] organizations pick up,” and a markets and management studies certificate. Katz said, noting that some events, such as Greek Katz, a native of Merrick, N.Y., envisions developing Week and community service activities, could receive programs such as Princeton University’s student discount system—where local vendors mark 10 to 15 perSee KATZ on page 6
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Two candidates are vying to be the next Duke Student Government executive vice president in a race that teatures experience versus youth. See page 3
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ADAM KATZ hopes to lead a Duke Student Government that is more responsive to basic student needs.
After spending $7,200 on radar equipment, the Duke University Police Department has issued few tickets to speeding motorists. See page 3
Curriculum 2000 created a need for science classes targeted toward humanities majors, prompting professors to develop a variety of new courses. See page 4