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that he will meet with
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endary
Smith this week.
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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Duke
sees
record
grad �
apps
interest in certain
Growing
and
departments
more
applications
from international students bined to boost this
com-
numbers.
year’s
KEVIN LEES
By
The Chronicle
The Graduate School is in the process of
wooing
applicants
largest applicant pool The school’s master’s
7,855
51
for
applicants
demic
year,
the
history. that offer
programs
doctoral
or
from
pulled in its
attracted
degrees
2003-04
the
aca-
which administrators noted
RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP
about
was
SMOKE FROM U.S. BOMBING billows from and
Iraqi
forces. The clashes
erupted
after
at the
explosions
series of loud
a
Baghdad presidential compound Tuesday, after
explosions
followed
of
by intense exchanges
a
fierce battle between American troops
gunfire, leaving
a
massive fire
burning.
20
a
percent
increase
the previous
year.
applications
outnumbered
over
Again, international U.S.
appli-
cants overall. “This has been
U.S. extends control around
Baghdad
for
dean year,
BRODER
By JOHN
his
New York Times News Service
U.S. forces
DOHA, Qatar assault
aggressive Saddam
Hussein’s
Tuesday,
expanding
the
the
on
rule
attack
waged
an
symbols
in
their
with
inside
Army and Marine
Bombs and rockets rained ment buildings
capital
in
on
units.
Iraqi
daylight Tuesday, setting
the
and
British
troops
into cities that had
seen no
ing
from
over
in
ance
end
game
quarters of Saddam’s Baath Party and
it
a
lot closer
“It’s
The Chronicle
the
Despite
recent
a
working
rain
and wind
pretty bold goal, and tails
our
off to
response has been incredible
”
“I think
and
selling
merchandise on the Bryan Center walkway, to
one
group
promoting their
ginning of
cause
since the be-
take it.”
faculty,
match
students to
Power
pledge $25 each
help the University shift
So
far, more
the
campus
asking
semester to
from
response
than coordinators
ganizers have garnered
over
percent the
past
increase in two years,
trend toward
applica-
reversing
a
whose support
plications from the mid-1990s through
they
for
U.S.
and
is considered crucial
make up
60
percent
of
the east,
at
general
town
of Amara
ap-
the beginning of this decade. For the
national the
dwindling
mestic
second year in
applicants
applicants.
a
row,
inter-
outnumbered do-
Fifty-three
percent
See BAGHDAD
on
page 6
See GRADUATE SCHOOL
on
page 9
we
are
a
senior.
depend-
our
sustainable
choice, they
promised
to
up
to
participation.
In
by
tally
ty
friendly
than
challenge
policy—energy-saving
bulbs—that will
more
the
another environmen-
save
$BOO,OOO
the Universi-
over
the next 10
than 300
French class students took
students in
a
have
See GREEN POWER
an
not
created
introducing
participants.
Center last week,
tions
the end ofApril.
light
or-,
said the Graduate School has
50
a
pre-
said stu-
contributions
encourage
Organizers
has
Siegel seen
had
highest
6,600.”
than
amount, 1,000 students must pledge
after
anticipat-
more
to
been about
“This
8,000 gradu-
order to receive this full grant-matching
nonre-
sources.
ed. Since the drive began last week,
inside
fuels is
students’
$25,000
to create the
Challenge,
newable to renewable power
been
spon-
by the Duke Environmental Al-
Green
fossil
Administrators
liance, have joined together Duke
on
people realize that
and when you offer them
the month.
A group of students and
sored
ency
has remained committed
To
School.
will have close to
applications—the
viously
Siegel,
Lewis
get there. The
from
causes
Shiite Muslims
Graduate
effort
dent organizer Sam Hummel,
for
the
trinity
we
the
long been repressed by Sad-
occupation
because
of the
now
that kept the normal hordes of students
lobbying
British
for
a
of
unbelievable year
said
at Duke
‘green power’ KELLY ROHRS
three
was,” Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal
participants join
By
dam, and
ate
Baghdad,
Iraq’s population.
the end
is
of
101st Airborne entered
cities
holy
who have
generally light.
was
“The
at
of
resist-
Baghdad,
south
the town of Hilla, the third of
cross-
almost
Kuwait
miles
soldiers of the
to date
sign
Pentagon Tuesday.
About 50
fanned out
of the invading troops who began
regime, and that’s
for
said at the
Iraq Tuesday, venturing
across
least two ministries ablaze. The head-
300
under
U.S. force moved
growing
weeks ago. Except
govern-
in the heart of the
U.S. further
Baghdad
grip
as
came
to demolish the state’s organs of control.
of
city and pressing inward from the
periphery
Republican Guard units
an
applications,”
a
special trip
initiative that
Madagascar
was
to the
Primate
intended to immerse
flora and fauna. See page 3
on
page 7
Junior David Arthur
TopCoder $50,000
won
Collegiate
the 2003 Sun
Challenge
this
in prize money. See page 3
Microsystems weekend,
and
earning
Medical Center researchers have discovered factors for Parkinson’s disease,
genetic
possibly allowing
prevent the illness in the future. See page 4
risk
them to