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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Report: ACC will invite V.T. to join

By MIKE COREY The Chronicle

In a move that could sway Virginia’s pivotal expansion

vote, the Atlantic Coast Conference presidents decided Wednesday to invite Virginia Tech to join the ACC, the

Associated Press reported

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DURHAM LOCALS discuss the city’s cultural future at a meeting Tuesday. Representatives from the Wolf, Keens ing firm will use input from the meetings to create a Durham Cultural Master Plan.

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By CINDY YEE The Chronicle To some Duke students, the thought of Durham as a city rife with arts and culture is as credible as the thought of a Blue Devils appearance in a

culture aficionados met Tuesday evening with representatives of Wolf, Keens & Co., a consulting firm hired to create county-commissioned the Durham Cultural Master Plan by spring 2004. At Tuesday’s

cultural future.

Local artists and arts and

meeting, facilitators from the 62-member DCMP steering committee gathered input on such topics as cultural diversity, education and funding.

More than 100 people filed into the session at the Hayti Heritage Center in downtown Durham—a notable showing

BCS bowl. Outside the University’s borders, however, such skepticism is far less prevalent, if this past Tuesday’s community planning meeting is at all indicative of Durham residents’ visions for the city’s

for a preliminary planning meeting, said project manager Marc Goldring, vice president of Wolf, Keens & Co. Goldring has worked on similar plans for other cities, including Charlotte, Philadelphia and Birmingham, Ala. “I was very impressed with how many people showed up, and with how engaged they all were,” Goldring said. “It really indicates the high level of interest and commitment See DURHAM ARTS on page 6

Woman found dead at Duke Manor From staff and wire reports The Durham Police Depart-

ment is investigating the death of Latisha Williamson, 20, whose body was found Wednesday in the bushes outside Building One of Duke Manor Apartments at 311 South LaSalle St. WEAL television reported Wednesday night that Durham police investigators arrested Elisha Maurice Williamson, 27, charging him with the murder of his wife.

Officials said a maintenance Latisha worker found Williamson’s nude body shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday. Police did not say if there were any obvious wounds on the body, and they are waiting for autopsy results to determine the exact cause of death.

Duke Manor topped a list of Durham sites generating the most police calls in 2000.

Inside

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A DURHAM MOBILE CRIME LAB VAN parks just yards away from the site where the body of Latisha Williamson was found Wednesday.

Duke inventors rake in good income for the University, but Duke’s revenues trail those of peer schools that boast a longer entrepreneurial tradition. See page 4

Wednesday evening Approval of expansion from Virginia

invited to join the ACC would appear to be encouraging news for proponents of the expansion, as Virginia’s only qualm with the original plan was that Virginia Tech was not one of

the invitees.

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ly offered the Hokies a place in the conference; however, it was clear Wednesday evening that

steps were being taken to make such an invitation.

ACC spokesperson Brian Morrison told the Associated Press Wednesday night that “informal contact” had occurred between Virginia Tech president Charles Steger and the CEO from one of the ACC schools “to understand better what political options might be available.”

Neither Duke President Nan Keohane nor Athletic Di-

rector Joe Alieva could be reached for comment.

The decision to extend an invitation to Virginia Tech was made during a three-hour teleconference Wednesday—the third such meeting of the ACC presidents in two weeks. During the course of the meeting it was evident that the original expansion plan, which only included Miami, Boston College and Syracuse, was not going to receive the seven votes necessary for expansion, according to the Associated Press.

As a result, Virginia President John Casteen proposed that his intrastate rival Virginia Tech be invited. Casteen’s suggestion comes on the heels of significant pressure from Virginia Governor Mark Warner, who has vociferously opposed an ACC expansion without Virginia Tech included in

the plan.

That Virginia Tech has been

The Divinity School has received a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., to coordinate a $57 million pastoral excellence program. See page 4

North

Carolina may maintain their opposition to expansion, their stance could now be inconsequential.

For continued coverage check www.chronicle.duke.edu.

Faculty question expansion

By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle

With the release of a statement last week by the Executive Committee of Academic Council questioning the substance and process of the proposed expansion of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the faculty is staking its claim as a key player in

the ongoing debate about

Duke’s athletic future.

The ECAC statement, released June 10, expressed particular concern about the lack of input the faculty has had in expansion talks.

According to the statement and Academic Council Chair Dr. Nancy Allen, the faculty has been denied access to much of the data pertaining to expansion and has not had sufficient time to study the issue. Although various re-

ports have suggested that a vote from ACC presidents on is expansion imminent, ECAC suggested a six- to 12See FACULTY on page 12

Greek officials have brought back the Order of Omega, a honor society for greek members that first came to Duke in 1988, before soon dying out. See page 5

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NEWS BRIEFS •

Iraqi bands ambush American soldiers

Persistent attacks on Americans in Iraq are being carried out by regional bands, but have not formed into a national network, an Iraqi police official said Wednesday. The U.S. military insisted the resistance is the “last dying breath” of Iraqi forces.

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Scientists analyze Y chromosome

Biologists discovered that the human Y chromosome protects itself against evolutionary decay and tallied the exact number of genes on the Y chromosome.

Their findings show that men and women are more different genetically than previously thought.

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House to eliminate estate taxes

The House voted Wednesday to permanently eliminate estate taxes by the end of the decade, keeping the Republicans’ tax cut efforts at the top of the Congressional agenda.

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Rapist and Max Factor heir captured

Andrew Luster, a convicted rapist who is heir to the Max Factor fortune, was arrested Wednesday and picked up by Mexican police after five months on the run from California to a seaside resort.

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An enhanced type of MRI can detect much smaller tumors than ever before in an advance that could open a new age in diagnosing cancer without surgery, researchers said.

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U.S. seizes Hussein’s top confidante Iraqi presidential secretary may know Saddam Hussein’s fate or whereabouts WASHINGTON U.S. forces have captured Saddam Hussein’s top aide

Odai, Saddam’s erratic elder son.

American forces captured him Monday in Iraq, according to a statement from US. Central Command,

and presidential secretary, a man whom American officials believe knows the fate of the deposed Iraqi leader and has information about weapons.

Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti was No. 4 on the U.S. most-wanted list of Iraqi leaders, behind only Saddam and sons Qusai and Odai.

Mahmud has detailed knowledge of Saddam’s personal security arrangements and Iraq’s alleged chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs, U.S. officials said.

He was ranked third in authority, they said, with more power than

the military organization running operations there. It provided no details on the operation that led to his capture, nor did it say precisely where he was taken.

Some officials wondered why he was not found with Saddam. While there has been no conclusive evidence that Saddam and his sons survived the war, one defense official said some intelligence analysts increasingly believe they are alive.

As Saddam’s presidential secretary, Mahmud controlled access to the president and was one of the few peo-

By JOHN LUMPKIN The Associated Press

pie he is said to have trusted completely, U.S. officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Intelligence reports indicate that Mahmud determined which diplo-

mats, media and even doctors could

see Saddam. Only the two sons could see the Iraqi president without going

through Mahmud.

A distant cousin of Saddam, Mahmud, 46, was the ace of diamonds on the U.S. deck ofcards portraying lead-

ers of Saddam’s government. Central Command called him Saddam’s national security adviser and senior

bodyguard.

U.S. officials have said they want to try Mahmud for war crimes or crimes against humanity.

Bush: Iran must stop weapon production

By DAVID SANGER

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush said for the first time Wednesday that the United States and its allies “will not tolerate the construction of a nuclear weapon” in Iran, and a US. official at a meeting of the world’s nuclear watchdog agency accused the country of evading inspections and violating its commitments.

Bush’s assertion that Iran’s program would be stopped came as the White House said it hoped to begin working with allies soon on intercepting ships and aircraft suspected of carrying material that could aid states like Iran and North Korea in their nuclear programs.

For years US. officials have been studying programs in Iran and North Korea that are believed to be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium from the spent fuel produced by

nuclear reactors. The CIA believes North Korea already produced, a decade ago, enough plutonium to produce two weapons. Then, in October, the North admitted to a second program to produce highly enriched uranium in a laboratory process, and inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency found a very similar program in Iran, after receiving tips from U.S. and other intelligence agencies.

Programs in both countries appear to have accelerated in recent months, U.S. intelligence officials say.

Bush’s statement Wednesday came in response to questions from reporters during a meeting with senators on Medicare reform. Asked how he would stop Iran from acquiring a weapon, he said: “The international community must come together to make it very clear to Iran that we will not tolerate construction of a nuclear weapon. Iran would be dangerous if they have a nuclear weapon.”

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SARS postpones NIH grants up for Med. School Duke in China GRANTS FOR EY 2002

By LIANA WYLER The Chronicle

program because the US. Department of State continues to warn travelers about the risk of Severe Acute Respiratory Sydrome abroad.

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of State continue to recommend U.S. citizens consider deferring non-essential travel to China because of SARS concerns,” said the May 6 update of the State Department’s list of travel warnings.

Director of Asian/Pacific Studies Mavis Mayer said the Office of Study Abroad could not wait any longer to make the decision to postpone the program. Mayer said students enrolled in the program from other universities had to be given to time to let their respective schools know if they would be there in the fall.

Duke students were faced with similar time constraints. Chris Paul, currently studying abroad in South Africa and scheduled to participate in the Duke in China program, said he has had to make new arrangements for the upcoming semester.

“Although they say they’ve just postponed China, it’s essentially the same [as canceling the program] for the students because we’re stuck scrambling for fall plans,” Paul wrote in an e-mail. “I understand the issues of safety, especially from the point of view of institutional liability, but the process has been frustrating.”

Mayer said parents and students alike have been hoping the SAKS problem would “clear up.”

“A lot of the parents of students are disappointed with the decision because they’ve been hearing on the radio and the news and from the CDC that it’s getting better,” Mayer said.

She added that even though the CDC has cut back on areas ofrestriction, the CDC is still recommending

A key indicator of medical research excellence has shown the School of Medicine’s 2002 growth rate to be tops among its peers.

National Institutes of Health funding to the medical school rose by more than 20 percent—a growth rate unsurpassed by any of the other top 15 institutions in the nation. Duke maintained is eighth-place ranking for the second straight year.

“Because obtaining an NIH grant is a very competitive, peer-reviewed process, the NIH rankings are a surrogate marker for excellence in science,” said Dr. Ross McKinney, vice dean of the School of Medicine. “The School of Medicine is doing research of high caliber in a broad range of research areas [and] we’ve done well because we have excellent investigators working hard on important projects.”

Up from about 500 NIH awards in the 2001 fiscal year, the medical school raked in nearly 600 in the 2002 fiscal year, receiving a total of $245.5 million for research, training, fellowship and development contracts and awards.

Dr. Edward Halperin, vice dean of the School of Medicine, stressed the importance of maintaining a consistent presence in the top tier of the NIH rankings of awards to U.S. medical schools.

“If institutions, like people, are partially judged by the company they keep, then being in the company of Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Washington at St. Louis and the University of Pennsylvania is very flattering,” Halperin said.

While the NIH rankings measure the quantity of research being done, the quality ofresearch is a better measure,of continued future success, Halperin said.

McKinney agreed, noting that a larger institution has an advantage in moving up in the NIH rankings.

“Doing better science is more efficient [in moving up the rankings],” McKinney said. “But the rankings don’t reflect issues like the number of grant dollars per faculty member, or the amount of funding per square foot of laboratory space—and those might be better markers of actual research excellence and

that nonessential travel be deferred.

“We would like to have been able to run [the program in the fall] Mayer said. “[But] we have to go by the State Department regulations and they still have their regulations up.”

Although it is not certain how many students will be able to participate in Duke in China in the spring term, Mayer said the Office of Study Abroad is optimistic that they will maintain the original number of 20 students.

The Medical Center is particularly known for its strength in the basic sciences of cell proliferation and cell cycle control, heart disease, neurosciences, genetics, solid tumor physiology, mental illness and musculoskeletal disease.

Such strengths—in addition to the continued recruitment of outstanding new faculty, the construction of new facilities and commitment to clinical re-

By JANE HETHERINGTON The Chronicle The fall Duke Study in China program, scheduled to run Aug. 28 through Dec. 8, has been postponed until spring 2004, officials announced last week.

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“The continued growth and enterprise of our faculty forebode well for continued growth in our grant receipts next year and continued high quality as evidenced by publication in top-tier scientific journals and citations,” Halperin said.

Over the past few years, a surge in the NlH’s awards budget has helped research institutions receive more funding. Future prospects in the NIH funding growth rate, however, are “about to hit a ceiling,” McKinney said. The 2002 fiscal year marks the completion of the NIH budget increases and the beginning of a funding stagnation.

“The prospects are for a much more challenging time,” said McKinney. “We feel we’ve got the right people to continue to increase our portion of the NIH fiinding pool, but the pool isn’t going to be growing as it has.”

Junior faculty and more creative research ideas with smaller chances of success may be most hurt by reduced funding opportunities. Cutting-edge initiatives such as the Institute for Genome Science and Policies, however, should help the medical school maintain its position among other institutions, as funding is often better in “hot” fields ofresearch.

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Duke lags behind peers in revenue from inventions

By GABRIEL CHEN The Chronicle

Ashutosh Chilkoti of the biomedical engineering department is one speedy inventor. In about seven years at the University, he has obtained patents for five of his inventions, including one that targets cancer drugs to tumors using heat-sensitive polymers.

Chilkoti’s contributions are part of a relatively slight revenue stream from professors’ inventions, especially when compared with revenues at peer institutions.

The University encourages researchers to pursue patents and licenses off their scientific research and scholarship. Depending on the size of income derived from their inventions, the money is then distributed in different propor-

University Technology Managers, Duke

ranked 22nd for total sponsored research expenditures and 27th for adjusted gross licensing income received in the 2001 fiscal year.

Duke reported an income of about $5.6 million in that year. A total of 116 patents were filed, of which only 50 were issued.

In comparison, Columbia University ranked first in income, scoring $129.9 million, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked second with nearly $74 million.

Linda Abruzzini, OST associate director, said that for some universities, the bulk of licensing revenue can usual-

ly be attributed to a fairly small number ofinventions, which she called “big hits.”

“These big hits can sometimes take years to come to fruition in terms of revtions to the inventor, the inventor’s department and laboratory, the University enue,” Abruzzini said. “Increasing the and the Office ofScience and Technology. number of invention disclosures and According to data from an annual patent filings may thus not necessarily survey compiled by the 'Association of lead to significant boosts in licensing

revenue in the short or long term.”

The complete AUTM survey addresses other metrics beyond just licensing income, including receipt of research support in lieu of licensing fees, reimbursement of patent costs, formation of start-up companies and issued patents.

Not including the School of Medicine, Chilkoti said Duke did not have am en-

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The Divinity School has received a $3.1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., to coordinate a $57 million nationwide pastoral excellence program.

The program, called Sustaining Pastoral Excellence, aims to help improve the quality of pastoral work by funding programs and enabling communication among Christian-affiliated institutions.

“Busy pastors have become isolated from their own colleauges and their own impulses that led them into the Church in the first place, and rarely have a chance to talk among themselves,” said Gretchen Wolfram, director of communications for the Lilly Endowment. “The program [is about! putting people in touch with each other who might be able to help with certain issues.”

The Divinity School has worked frequently with the Lilly Endowment for years, and Wolfram said the school’s Pulpit and Pew project—which conducts research on pastoral leadership—made it a natural choice to lead the program.

“The Pulpit and Pew project has already fostered a great deal of new and much-needed research on the current state of ministry across a broad spectrum of

denominational and congregational contexts,” said Craig Dykstra, vice president for religion at the Lilly Endowment. “At the same time, Duke has ably hosted a number of gatherings for pastors, scholars, researchers [and] seminary and church leaders to reflect upon how to improve the quality of ministry, as well as how to sustain excellent ministry where it is already taking place.”

Associate Dean for Continuing Education Janice Virtue said the Divinity School will benefit from added research opportunities and access to a network of organizations seeking methods to improve the quality of their pastoral work.

“The institutions will gather once a year for collaboration, to share learning,” Virtue said. “As coordinator of those conversations, we’ll be able to learn the best practices that emerge out ofthese programs.”

The SPE program, in its second year ofexistence, funds 47 organizations—including Triangle Pastoral Counseling of Raleigh, the sole North Carolina recipient—representing a multitude of Christian faith traditions.

United Methodist pastor Kevin Armstrong, Divinity ’B5, will serve as the primary coordinator of the program.

changed over the last six years. The University started to be “more aggressive” and made patenting easier by streamlining the patent disclosure process.

“In the future, you’ll see a huge increase in patenting from the School of Engineering. The royalty money is very precious. It has no strings attached,”

trepreneurial culture comparable to universities like MIT or Stanford University. Duke, he said, could perhaps attract more entrepreneurial researchers as away to increase the number of patents received.

Gauthier said.

But invention management may also be “[MIT’s or Stanford’s] is a long tradition of entrepreneurial activity,” Chilkoti maligned with its own set oflegal problems. said. “I don’t care if the University takes Former Duke physicist John Madey sued half of my royalties, as long as they are the University in 2001, alleging that the institution infringed upon his patents in conmarketing my invention aggressively.”

Abruzzini said many academic instinection with the Mark 111 free-electron tutions that ranked above Duke in the laser. A federal appellate court ruled in 2001 survey in terms of licensing revMadey’s favor last year, but the US. enue had established active technology Supreme Court may soon consider the case.

Divinity to run pastoral program

By ANDREW COLLINS

transfer offices well before Duke Daniel Gauthier, associate professor of physics and biomedical engineering, said that 10 years ago, Duke did not really foster a climate encouraging people to apply for patents. This, he said, has

From staff reports

Duke Hospital patient does not have SARS The Orange County patient suspected last week of having SARS at the Duke University Hospital was cleared of the virus June 13 after tests run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed he had mycoplasma pneumonia.

The patient, who was seen in the Emergency Department June 10, was released soon thereafter.

Hospital staff members who came into contact with the patient—whose identity has not been released—are no longer being monitored and none developed symptoms of SARS. The patient is no longer under quarantine, although he is still being monitored by Duke physicians.

Purves takes over as DCCN director Dale Purves, former chair ofthe department of neu-

robiology and George B. Geller professor for research in neurobiology, was named director ofthe Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. The center is among See M.C. BRIEFS on page 7

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Greek leaders reinstate Order of Omega honor society

By GILLIAN BARNARD The Chronicle Greek life has gone hand-in-hand with social activities. Now, the re-establishment at Duke of the Order of Omega, a national honor fraternity for greek students, will enable greek members to be recognized in the academic and community service arenas as well.

The Order of Omega originally came to Duke in 1988 but soon died out because it ranked low on the priority list of the National Panhellenic Council and the Interfratemity Council, said Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president of student affairs.

Over the last academic year, however, greek officials pushed to reinstate the Order of Omega in an attempt to provide recognition for exceptional achieve-

ments by individual greek students.

Todd Adams, director of the Office of Greek and Sorority Life, said membership would be very exclusive—only three percent of the over 2,000 greek students will be initiated each year. Adams explained that prerequisites for consideration include junior or senior status, a GPA above the greek average, enrollment at Duke for a full academic year and excellent standing within a greek organization.

“This is away to look at the greek community as a whole and recognize their many achievements,” Adams said. He added that the Order of Omega will seek to initiate the “cream of the crop” in the greek community.

This past year’s 13 initiates were selected on the basis of nominations at the inaugural greek award ceremony. The group was pared down to include only those with outstanding academic achievements and involvement in extracurricular activities. Over half of the new initiates graduated this May, leaving only five undergraduates to decide the direction the Order of Omega will take.

Elliot Smith, a senior in Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, said he has “no idea” what the organization’s goals will be but said he intends to be an active member come fall semester. Regardless of the specific objectives of the honor fraternity, he said, “fraternity and sorority members will want to be a part of [it].”

Due to the small size ofthe organization, there will be a second initiation class this fall, rather than the usual one per year.

The Order of Omega will also consist of honorary faculty members to foster faculty-student relations, Adams said. Wasiolek was initiated as an honorary faculty member when the Order of Omega first came to Duke in 1988.

“I think it can only make the greek experience better,” Wasiolek said.

Nicole Manley, program coordinator for student life, is a member ofthe order, as she was initiated as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. She explained that the reinstitution of the organization was not carried out to combat any specific perception of greeks at Duke. “[The Order of Omega] is more of away to recognize the greek students’ accomplishments. If a by-product of See ORDER OF OMEGA on page 7

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CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports

Car flattens foot

A visitor reported that around 7:17 p.m. June 16, she and her sister were walking across the crosswalk in front of Hudson Hall when they noticed a silver 1997 Volkswagen Jetta, N.C. MYT-3354, coming toward them. She said they assumed the car was going to stop and they continued walking. The car ran over her left foot, and her elbow was struck by the passenger side mirror. The driver turned onto West Physical Plant Drive, made a U-tum and started back up Research Drive. The victim said she and her sister approached the car and

talked with the driver. She said that be-

fore driving off the driver told her that she should not have been in the middle of the road. The victim said her foot was sore, but okay.

ADF student threatened

A member of the American Dance Festival staff reported that one of its students was robbed in the area of Ninth Street. It was reported that around 6:15 p.m. June 13, the victim was leaving Cosmic Cantina with several other ADF students when someone snatched her purse.

The victim and her friends chased the suspect, cornering him somewhere on Ninth Street. Once they cornered him, he produced a large-bladed knife, threatening them. At this time they withdrew, and no one was injured.

Duke vehicle damaged

An employee reported that between See CRIME on page 12

DURHAM ARTS from page 1 there is to the project.”

The assemblage was split into smaller groups and rotated through seven stations, each dedicated to a different issue the consultants will have to face in creating the cultural master plan.

One issue that seemed to be on many people’s minds was the need for more participation in cultural activities, particularly among the city’s youth and college students.

“We have hundreds of young artists in the community” said Ella Fountain Pratt, a member ofthe steering committee and former director of cultural affairs at Duke. “At Duke, you hardly find anyone who doesn’t play guitar or piano, or have a nice voice or an interest in drama. All these people have a yearning for an arts and culture community, and we just have to find away to really,

Community College.

The creation of the DCMP comes at a time when Duke is starting to take a closer look at its own arts and culture offerings available to students and other members of the University. With the continued presence of the American Dance Festival each summer and the construction of the new Nasher Museum of Art on Campus Drive, the University is moving toward a more comprehensive cultural experience, said Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta.

Moneta said the synchronicity of arts and culture planning for the city and University is just a “wonderful coincidence.” He added, however, that the possibility offuture collaboration on cultural planning beyond campus boundaries is an exciting prospect.

“I intend to get involved, but I just don’t know when,” Moneta said. “My first priority is to start planning within Duke, but I’m thrilled to know there’s a constituent group in Durham that we can consult with as we begin to think about arts and culture on campus.”

utilize what Durham has.”

At the same time that a revamped cultural scene in Durham could benefit the University and its constituents, Tuesday’s community meeting adGoldring said, an arts and culture exchange between university and city is dressed many other topics, including a need to create a broader cultural audialways a two-way street.

“You can’t be a great university in a ence. One facilitator jotted down atcity that’s falling apart,” Goldring tractions that might appeal to wider said. “Knitting together town and audiences, including world music, ethnic art and local folk culture. Many gown is something that can only benefit both town and gown. It would be noted that the city lacks a cultural great if Duke could have a presence in hub that consistently holds arts and cultural events.

Durham, other than just through office space.”

As with any master plan, funding Many attendees seemed to share questions also had to be brought to the Goldring’s sentiments, citing a need forefront ofTuesday’s discussions. Attenfor the city to take more advantage of dees seemed to agree that cultural orthe arts and culture programs and ganizations are currently on the way out of Durham due to disappearing corpoclasses at Duke, North Carolina Central University and Durham Technical rate funding, among other factors. Par-

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A number of people said joint pro-

gramming and cross-promotions could help ameliorate the funding situation. Many also pointed to other strategies such as tax breaks for companies contributing to cultural assets, individual support for local artists and the addition of concession sales to arts revenues.

Attendees also addressed more immediate concerns such as public transportation. One man told a facilitator that the city needs evening bus service in order to get people back home after cultural events. A woman in another group told her facilitator that more reliable transportation would help support the economic development needed to foster an arts community in Durham.

Goldring said his planning team will sort through and consider all the input gathered at Tuesday’s meeting as they continue work on the DCMR A second community meeting will be held October 15, at which time representatives from Wolf, Keens & Co. should have more specific issues on which their audience will focus.

The Durham Board of County Commissioners awarded the DCMP contract to Wolf, Keens & Co. in February in order to document the city’s cultural strengths and weaknesses and establish a. framework for the stabilization of existing cultural institutions and future development.

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M.C. BRIEFS from page 4 the University’s major initiatives in brain science, drawing on the resources of the University and the Medical Center to produce advances in understanding the relationship of mind, brain and behavior.

“Purves is among the most prominent and talented neurobiologists in the field, and his leadership of the department of neurobiology helped make it among the best in the nation,” Provost Peter Lange said in a statement. “He will have significant resources under his control, and I anticipate he will make the center an outstanding place for research and teaching on the brain.”

Purves, who takes the helm July 1, plans to recruit more faculty from areas such as English, computer science, psychiatry and philosophy to fulfill the interdisciplinary mission of the center, currently comprised of professors from psychology and neurobiology.

As director, Purves plans to continue his research, which has recently generated new theories about how humans and other animals perceive the visual and auditory worlds and how their brains

ORDER OF OMEGA from page 5 this organization is an improved view ofthe greek system, that’s great. It’s hard for me to say, as I see greek students as accomplished anyway” Adams added.

However, Kara Goldman, a senior in Delta Delta Delta sorority, said the Order of Omega will help the way the administration views greeks at Duke. “Currently we’re seen as a social organization,” Goldman said.

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In a disturbing sign about the future of the professional sports world, the Spanish soccer club “Real Madrid” will pay between 17.5 and 24.5 million British

pounds as a transfer fee for the rights to

Manchester United's David Beckham. As captain of the the c Robert Samuel England's national Rob Almighty is Beckham team, clearly an outstanding soccer player, but there is a catch in Real Madrid's efforts to obtain him: The Spanish club simply does not need Beckham right now.

With three former world players of the year in Zinedine Zidane of France, Ronaldo of Brazil and Luis Figo of Portugal, the 28-year old Beckham may not start regularly in the midfield next season. It seems clear that Real Madrid acquired Beckham more for his ability to sell shirts than to score goals.

Beckham may be the most visible soccer player in the world with his marriage to Posh Spice of the Spice Girls and his estimated $334.5 million in endorsement earnings, but maybe the most important fact of his celebrity is his extreme popularity in the far east. Before the acquisiReal United, Manchester tion, „

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All-American honors for Warner

By MIKE COREY The Chronicle

If anyone doubted that it was the year ofthe Buckeye, Brent Warner’s unexpected All-American finish at the NCAA track and field championships is certifiable proof—it’s a good time to be from Ohio.

Warner, a junior pole vaulter from Wadsworth, Oh., was ranked 65th in the nation after the IC4A meet, a stat that did not bode well for much postseason success. So at the regional meet, it came as no surprise thatWarner’s jumps were nearing an end.

But that would not have been the suitable ending for the student-athlete dubbed “Mr. Clutch” by head men’s track coach Norm Ogilvie. So rather than losing concentration and giving up, Warner

qualified for the national meet on his very last attempt.

His confidence remained unaltered heading into the championship meet.

“Brent figured he had nothing to lose, that was his attitude from the beginning, that he felt prepared that he felt ready,” Ogilvie said. “He vaulted that way. He certainly was not scared.

That being said, the day of the NCAA competition he was a little nervous.

To get him loose, Warner and Ogilvie joked around for a while before the meet began. And in the preliminary rounds at the NCAA championships, Warner cleared a personal best—not to mention school record—l 6-10.75.

“After the qualifying round he was technically in a tie for first place, and the only tough part was that the opening height was the height he had just cleared [in the preliminaries],” Ogilvie said. “All you’ve got to do is clear the highest height

you’ve ever cleared in your whole life.”

But Warner was not terribly concerned. In fact, he was comforted with the clearance height of 16-10.75.

“I was excited because I knew Fd have to perform well, but not too worried because I knew it was well within my grasp,” Warner wrote in an e-mail.

“That I managed to clear it in both competitions on my first try was a big surprise though.”

Warner jumped on, making three valiant attempts at 17-05 before ending his 2003 season. After that, his placement was out of his hands.

“Then we just waited to see how many others would [out jump Warner],” Ogilvie said.

And even if Warner had not placed well, Ogilvie was already impressed by

Warner’s performance, as he had improved his personal best jump by a whopping six inches in a few weeks time. But there was no need for looking for a silver-lining, as Warner’s jump would end up being in a four-way tie for eight place, making Warner Duke’s first male track and field All-American since Jesse Allen in 1999, and the first field athlete to earn the distinction since Joel Shankle won the 1956 long jump.

“As for being an All-American, it feels great,” Warner wrote. “While it’s always been sort of in the back of my mind as a goal for my track career, I honestly never expected it to happen—and especially not before my senior year.”

What made Warner’s record finish even more special was that his qualification for the NCAA meet came in See ALL-AMERICAN on page 10

ALL-AMERICAN BRENT WARNER was ranked 65th heading into the postseason.

Football earns award for perfect graduation rate

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Duke football is No. 1 again where it really matters—in the classroom.

The Blue Devils have been named the winner of the American Football Coaches Association’s 2003 Academic Achievement Award, given annually to the football program with the highest graduation rate in the country. Duke’s rate was a pristine 100 percent.

The award, which Duke has now won a record 11 times, was based on the graduation rates for the freshmen that enrolled in the 1997-98 school year.

“We are proud to receive the AFCA’s Academic Achievement Award for the 11th time,” head football coach Carl Franks said in a statement.

“Duke has always had a strong commitment to graduating members of the student body, as well as its student-athletes. Our coaching staff takes great pride in the academic success ofthe players, and credit also needs to be extended

to our academic support system.”

The overall graduation rate of the 102 Division I-A schools that responded was 59 percent, which is one percent less than last year’s tally.

The median graduation rate was 59 percent, down two percent from last year, and up one percent from the four previous years.

The ACC was well-represented in the statistics, as both Wake Forest and Virginia had graduation rates greater than 70 percent.

In fact, the Demon Deacons had a rate of 90 percent or better, along with Boston College, Connecticut, Vanderbilt, Rice and Northwestern.

The Cavaliers placement earned them honorable mention from the AFCA, marking the 18th time that Virginia has achieved this award.

Duke’s numbers are far more impressive, however, as the Blue Devil football program has had a graduation rate of 70 percent or higher every year since 1986.

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The faculty at the University of North Carolina came out against expansion, citing several reasons, including a lack of consultation with UNC administrators.

ESPN.com reported Tuesday that the Big East intended to be "proactive” in an attempt to expand its conference to 16 members, regardless of the ACC’s expansion plan.

Reports Tuesday stated

that the ACC presidents would not vote on the conference expansion until late June, though this fact may now rely on Virginia Tech and the Big East.

Nike lands Kobe After already signing Leßron James and Carmelo Anthony, ESPN.com reported late Wednesday night that Nike was close to signing Lakers star Kobe Bryant.

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Reporter’s Notebook

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Ex-Duke commitment Humphries signs with Minnesota Former Duke men’s basketball commitment Kris Humphries signed a scholarship voucher and intent to enroll form with Minnesota, therefore ending a torrid college search that began a month ago when the McDonald’s All-American requested and received a release from his scholarship to play for the Blue Devils.

Humphries announced his decision to play forMMinnesotaa—a team that has finished better than fourth in the Big Ten regular season standings just once since 198283—in a statement released Monday afternoon.

“I believe that Minnesota can compete for the Big Ten title as well as make the NCAA tournament,” Humphries said. “I hope I can help make that a reality.”

Former NCAA Player of the Year wins NBA Title One of Duke’s all-time great men’s basketball players, Danny Ferry, became just the second Blue Devil alum to win an NBA championship when the San Antonio Spurs defeated the New Jersey Nets last weekend.

As a Blue Devil, Ferry was the 1989 National Player of the Year, a two-time All-America selection and a three-time All-ACC honoree. He is fourth on Duke’s all-time scoring list and is in the top 10 of eight other statistical categories.

The first Duke alum to win an NBA title was Jeff Mullins, who won the world championship with the Golden State Warriors in 1975.

Williams to be honored A more recent Duke men’s basketball star returned to Cameron Indoor Stadium to speak at the Blue Devil DANNY FERRY is fourth on basketball camp and to participate in some pick-up bas- Duke’s all-time scoring list. ketball games with current members of the varsity team. In other news, Williams will be honored August 4th by the Rising Stars organization. Hall of Famer Clyde “Walt” Frazier will speak, in addition to with video testimonials from men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and Dick Vitale,

because of new regulations that allow more competitors to compete to qualify, rather than simply by qualifying with season best performances. Had that been the case, Ogilvie noted, Warner would not have been eligible to participate in the regional meet.

“Since I was the bottom seed going in and had qualified strictly due to the

somewhat controversial regionals for-

mat, one of my goals going out was to prove that I belonged there,” Warner

SAMUEL from page 9 only real rival in world popularity, was far ahead of Real Madrid in developing business in Asia, but with Beckham The Times ofLondon reports that almost five million ofManchester United's 16.6 million Asian fans will become Real Madrid's over night.

Beckham's story will hardly be discussed in the United States because of the lack of popularity of soccer in America, but it could have profound effects on how professional sports work in the world's only super-power.

While professional athletes in contemporary America are criticized for only playing for money, most professional teams are viewed in the public as operating solely to achieve success in the form of championships. Because the teams that win the most generally generate the most revenue, mostteam executives make player personal decisions based on how many wins, rather than how much revenue, an individual will help the team produce. It is rare that fans complain that a team only made a decision for monetary purposes.

But Real Madrid's decision is purely

wrote. “Obviously, I think my placement does that. There are some people who can put up the biggest numbers but then don’t compete well in a big-meet situation. I’m kind of the opposite of that. I might not jump the highest, but I perform well when it counts.”

Warner believes his success will serve as an impetus for his teammates.

“I’ve been flooded with phone calls

and e-mails from teammates congratu-

lating me these last few days. They’re really happy for me, and I know it motivates them to go out and work hard so they can experience it too.”

monetary, as it is doubtful that Beckham will help Real Madrid win more games. If Real Madrid is successful in generating more profits without more wins, this could have large effects on America's professional sports teams. Just contemplate the following scenario: An NBA team has the opportunity to sign one of two players. One is clearly more talented, but plays a boring brand of basketball and is from a small American state like New Mexico. The other player is from- the relatively untapped market ofBrazil and is extremely popular. Does the team go after the player that will help win more games, or the player that will bring a larger market?

Although this is far from a perfect analogy to the Beckham experiment because Real Madrid is not deciding between the English star and a less talented player, the success of the Beckham experiment will still have a less than minor role in determining the outcome of the plausible situation above. In my heart of hearts I hope Real Madrid's acquisition of Beckham leads to less revenue and success for the club, though that appears highly unlikely. I just hope American sports' main focus continues to be on winning rather than profit.

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FACULTY from page 1 month waiting period so that the proposal could be properly reviewed by the faculty of all schools in the

conference.

“The entire process wasn’t done with proper faculty consultation,” Allen said. “I have some hope that we can slow this down to allow faculty to have a voice in the matter, but even if we don’t, we want to ensure that a process is put in place so that the next time these kinds of matters arise, faculty get to be heard early on in the discussions.”

Not all members ofthe faculty agree with ECAC’s call for a greater role in the decision making process.

While acknowledging that the faculty has been left out of the loop, some professors questioned the exigency of faculty input.

“I think the process objection is overblown. If the faculty had been consulted, they would have spent quite a bit of time saying sports will be more important than they are already,” said Michael Munger, professor and chair of the political science department. “I guess we think we should be consulted about everything.”

Others said they and their colleagues were ill-prepared to contribute to the debate at this time.

“People may have knee-jerk reactions to this [proposed ACC expansion], but I don’t know of anyone who’s really given it serious thought,” said Philip Morgan, professor and chair of the sociology department.

The faculty’s concerns about expansion extend beyond whether or not they were consulted. A number

of professors said they worried about the travel implications for student-athletes, as schools at the far reaches of the East Coast—from Miami University to Boston College and Syracuse University—could be added. Also at issue are the balance of athletics-versus-academics at the University and the future of in-

tercollegiate athletics more generally.

“From the broader standpoint of collegiate athletics, if the ACC goes forward with this particular sort of opportunistic raiding then all the other conferences may have to follow suit,” said Laurie Shannon, associate professor of English. “I also wonder who can best referee a conflict of this sort. The market?

The courts? The NCAA? Or the universities and colleges themselves, whose names, specific histories, students, supporters and alumni are the assets being exchanged?”

Other ACC faculty governing bodies have expressed varying amounts of distress on the issue.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the faculty senate opposed expansion largely because it was not consulted, leading to a meeting last week among UNC Chancellor James Moeser, Athletic Director Dick Baddour and the faculty to discuss the expansion plan in detail.

Faculty governing bodies at the University of Virginia and North Carolina State University were comparatively unconcerned with expansion.

The fate of expansion is currently in flux, as Moeser, Duke President Nan Keohane and Virginia President John Casteen have expressed concerns.

Seven of the nine ACC presidents must vote in favor of expansion in order for it to proceed.

CRIME from page 6 5 p.m. June 6 and 7:30 a.m. June 9, a Komatsu PC2OO-6 excavator was left on the job site at Duke Quarry, off ofWest Hill Avenue in Hillsborough, N.C. Someone broke two windows valued at $4OO, damaged a $6O excavator filter, smeared grease all over the vehicle and stuffed grease and paper towels in the front swing motor, causing $3OO damage to the hydraulic system, A first aid kit and supplies valued at $125 were thrown into mud and a $6O excavator filter was thrown into water.

Purses nabbed from Medical Center Three employees reported that between 10:30 a.m. and 12:09 p.m. June 12, they left their purses unprotected in Duke Clinic 1-K, room 1344 in the Orange Zone. When they returned, they discovered that credit cards, a checkbook, a driver’s license and $155 in cash had been stolen. One ofthe credit cards had been used at a local store.

Another employee reported that between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. June 12, she left her purse unattended in Duke Clinic room 003698 in the Orange Zone, during which time someone stole her credit cards and $5 cash.

A visitor reported that between 10:30 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. June 12, she left her purse unattended in a patient’s room located at 9300 Duke North Hospital.

When she returned she discovered that $45 in cash had been stolen.

It is not known whether the incidents were related in any way.

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Doris Duke Center, Duke Gardens main entrance. 919660-3356, www.duke.edu/web/dia. Playful South African sax jive, haunting melodies from the Andes,and the intricate rhythms of Afro-Cuban rumba are some of the fabric that holds this band together. Admission is free. If it rains the performance will be moved to Kirby-Horton Hall.

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Photographs by Rob Amberg.” Photographs, oral histories, and songs tell the story of a rural Appalachian community on the brink of change. Center for Documentary Studies.

Exhibit: Runs through July 21. ‘The ADF in Print: Celebrating the American Dance Festival's 25 Years in North Carolina with Photographs from the Herald Sun Archives.” Duke University Museum of Art, East Campus. For more information, call 684-5135.

Exhibit: through July 27. ‘Twenty Photographs by Eudora Welty,” from the collection of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library (RBMSCL). Photographs taken by Eudora Welty as she traveled Mississippi in the late 19305-eariy 1940s writing for the WPA (Work Projects Administration).

On exhibit at Perkins. For more information call 6605968.

In support of breastfeeding mothers: Duke Lactation Services and the Duke Hospital Auxiliary are pleased to announce that the Bouncing Ball Gift Shop now has available breast pump sales and rentals, breast care products and breast pumping accessories. First floor, Duke Children’s Health Center. Monday-Friday 9-4, 668-4112. Payroll deduction is also available for some sales.

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response to mounting criticism of the current system and months of debate, administrators have recently taken the first steps towards revamping the University’s dean’s excuse policy.

Pending the recommendation of a task force, students will likely be able to excuse themselves from a test or class without written confirmation from a parent or doctor. Such a proposal would benefit students by removing the bureaucractic obstacles to obtaining a dean’s excuse, but is highly dependent on maintaining a high level of integrity among the student population.

The current dean’s excuse policy has been under fire from students for some time. As it stands now, the word of a student alone is insufficient to excuse them from class or schoolwork. Sick students must make the trip to the Student Health Center in the Davison Building to be issued written medical verification of their condition. However, this policy means that students are needlessly occupied with attempting to “prove” their illness to medical staff, and filling out paperwork exactly at the time when they are the sickest, and should be resting in bed. Eliminating the need for a doctor’s note would relieve legitimately sick students of having to jump through unecessary bureaucratic hoops.

In addition to students, Student Health officials are also recommending changes in the policy. According to Dr. Bill Christmas, director of Student Health, sick students often wait until recovering from their illnesses to attempt to obtain a dean’s excuse. This puts health care workers in an awkward position, and takes valuable time away from sick patients and tasks that would otherwise deserve attention. Making doctors listen to students’ attempts to “prove” their illnesses is a waste of everyone’s time. Also, the newly implemented Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act places student s’ medical privacy at risk by requiring health care staff to probe into a student’s medical history beyond the scope of his or her present ailment.

The new policy will be centered around the notion that students themselves are best equipped to assess the seriousness of their illnesses or extenuating circumstances. In all likelihood, the new system will require students to provide some form ofwritten notificiation of the reasons for their absence to their specific professors, and notify their dean of the situation. The role to be played by the dean’s office is as of yet undetermined, but it should be charged with monitoring the excuses to look for patterns ofrepeated absences or dishonesty.

While such a student-based excuse system is appealing, it does raise important questions about academic integrity. The new system will undoubtedly leave more room for academic dishonesty and exaggeration of illnesses and other emergencies. There will surely be some people who take advantage of the new policy to get extra time to study or turn in a paper. However, if the system is to survive, the majority of students on campus must adhere to the stipulations of the Community Standard right from the beginning. It is essential that the student body demonstrate that it can handle this responsibility with integrity, or the University will be forced to re-impose a stricter excuse policy.

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Bushworld and Hillaryland

Once

toast in this town, Hillary Rodham Clinton is now the toast of the town.

(Or at least the Venus part.)

Maureen Dowd Guest Commentary At a Clintonista deja vu party Tuesday night, Hillary was honored for her sensational debut as the fastest-selling nonfiction

author ever. (More than Howard Stern even.)

The Mars brigade stormed a BushCheney re-election fund-raising kick-off at the Washington Hilton—s2,ooo a head for hot dogs, burgers and nachos. The White House wants fat cats to pony up $l7O million for the run—a small price to pay for the cut in taxes on dividend income.

The 1,200 Bush donors and White House motorcades snarled evening traffic downtown, perhaps a Machiavellian attempt to prevent Hillary doters from making their way out to the Maryland manse of Lissa Muscatine for Hillary’s party Muscatine was chief speechwriter for Hillary when she was first lady, and part of the team that toiled for two years helping the senator stitch together her own account ofher own life. With le tout hacks, flacks and Hill pols eager to munch on miniature sirloin burgers and champagne, many guests were discouraged from bringing spouses. (A celebration of a book about marital rifts should not cause them.)

Even with her “spouse problem,” as she wryly refers to it in her book, Hillary’s polls have shot up since the publication of her sisterhood-is-powerful political manifesto, cleverly masquerading as confessional victim and self-actualization literature.

Once Hillary was in the White House, besieged with questions about deception and secrecy, and beset by cascading investigations.

Now, George W. Bush is in the White House, besieged with questions about deception and secrecy, and beset by cascading investigations.

This president has weapons of mass destruction problems, whereas the last president had weapons of mass selfdestruction problems.

W. must persuade doubters why he knew Saddam was an imminent threat before he made a pre-emptive move on Iraq, even as Hillary must persuade doubters why she did not know that Monica was an imminent

threat who made a pre-emptive move on Bill.

(If only a drum of chemicals were as easy to spot as a black thong.)

With her book, Sen. Clinton is dropping a handkerchief in the 2008 race, signaling another amazing roundelay between the

two first families of American politics, the

fancy Republicans who strain to be common folk, and the Democratic common folk who strain to be fancy.

The Bushies dismissed the Clintons as

“means justify the ends” types, who did as they liked and left a mess for others to clean up.

The Clintons saw themselves as audacious

warriors for good, ingeniously grappling with intractable problems like health care.

Now the Democrats want to hold open hearings to see if the Bushies are “means justify the ends” types, who did as they liked and left a mess for others to clean up.

The Bushies see themselves as audacious warriors for good, ingeniously grappling with intractable problems like remaking the Arab world.

Just as the Bushies think Clinton dropped the ball on Osama and terrorism, the Clintons think the Bushies dropped it on the economy and the disenfranchised. And don’t get either side started on Whitewater and Halliburton.

In her book, Hillary writes that the right wing considered her husband illegitimate, then goes on to imply that Bush is, saying of William Rehnquist: “As the country would later learn in the election-deciding case of Bush vs. Gore, his lifetime tenure as a Supreme Court Justice did not inhibit his ideological or partisan zeal.”

Just as Bushworld is a macho preserve with a tight über-loyal circle, so Hillaryland is a female preserve with a tight über-loyal circle.

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich and others have been trying to banish the if-it-feels-good-do-it, McGovemick, hippie ethos of the ‘6os. In her book, Hillary defends the era: “Some contemporary writers and politicians have tried to dismiss the anguish of those years as an embodiment of 1960s self-indulgence. In fact, there are some people who would like to rewrite history to erase the legacy of the war and the social upheaval it spawned. They would have us believe that the debate was frivolous, but that’s not how I remember it.”

Yup, she’s running, and if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.

Maureen Dowd’s column is syndicated by the New York Times News Service.

On the record “Iguess we think we should he consulted about everything” Professor and Chair of the Department ofPolitical Science Michael Hunger, on the faculty’s desire to have input into ACC expansion talks (see story, page 1).

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no Miss Cleo, but the future of Maryland, which means that we would Duke athletics doesn’t look like it will lose home and home with the Terps in improve if the ACC gobbles up Big basketball. Duke, Carolina, N.C. State, East schools Miami, Syracuse and Boston and probably Wake will insist on being College. I can see the future Chronicle kept together, and Miami and Florida headlines—the opening day of football State have to be split up, otherwise season 2005: ‘A Hurricane Strikes they cannot meet in the championship Durham-Miami 87, Duke 3,’ followed game. Any way you slice it, dividing up three months later by, ‘Basketball finishthe ACC is going to be messy, and es five day northern road trip, splits at somebody’s not going to be happy.

Boston College, Syracuse.’ While ACC Once they break up the divisions, Commissioner (and former UNC you’ve got to play the football games, President) John Swofford is trumpeting and I can’t see our football program the potential benefits of expansion to all being happy about having to play who will listen, the new ACC would make Miami, Syracuse or 8.C., three very things worse for Duke. solid teams. We’re trying to get ourselves out of the ACC’s basement right now, and that’s going to be a lot harder with more conference games against top-flight teams. Duke football is on Summer Commentary the verge of making a breakthrough with the experienced team we have First, the obvious —the whole purnext year, and that could be set back a pose of getting 12 teams is to split into long way by expansion. two divisions and have a football More serious than football, at least championship game. Okay, sounds to your average Dukie, is basketball. good—but I’d like someone to show me Right now the ACC and the Pac-10 are a divisional alignment that makes any the only conferences which have homeand-home games with each of other sense at all.

Do you divide the league up geoteams in the league during basketball graphically, like the Big 12, with the season. Can you imagine a season ACC North and ACC South? No, then where we don’t get two games against the two Florida teams are together Carolina and Maryland? It’s unthinkwith Clemson, Georgia Tech, and the able. Yeah, Syracuse and B.C. are good North Carolina state schools. A diviteams, and Miami’s decent, but we can, sion like that would be pretty heavy on and do schedule teams like that out of football, and pretty light on basketball. conference every year. In addition, havIf you try to even the conferences out ing to travel to upstate New York, power-wise in both sports, you almost Boston and southern Florida each year have to split up Duke, UNC and would be a lot more time and money

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for not only the basketball team, but all Duke sports. Flying from RDU to the Northeast and back is a much bigger ordeal than taking a bus up to UVa or down to Clemson.

One aspect of the expansion plan that does not seem like it has an immediate affect on Duke and Duke fans is

that this effectively cripples the Big East as a major conference.

I, for one, like the Big East as it exists right now, as one of the best basketball leagues around (four teams in the Sweet 16 last year, as well as the men’s and women’s champions), and a solid football league. Maybe it’s because I’m from the Northeast, but I think that the current conference alignments of the Big East and ACC make a lot more sense for both leagues than what would happen if expansion

went through.

There’s a lot of history, especially in basketball, with Georgetown, Syracuse, UConn, Seton Hall, St. John’s, B.C. and other Big East schools, which would be ruined if the league split up. I know the ACC Commissioner doesn’t really care about this, but any fan of college sports should. Imagine the response if another conference suggested grabbing Maryland, N.C. State and Virginia from the ACC. There would be an army of sports fans, with both Duke and Carolina blue war paint, protesting against the presumptive pilferer of our

conference rivals.

the highest average payout per school

of any athletic conference anywhere, even more than 12-team SEC and Big 12. These two have higher total profit margins, but dividing the money 12 ways instead of nine means the ACC schools come out better. If we’re already on top financially, why take the risk that one game—remember, this is all about the one conference football championship game—may or may not improve our situation?

Yes, the expansion means that the ACC will get a nice big TV contract for football, but recent reports have indicated that BC and Syracuse want to start playing in the ACC in one year, and not two, to minimize their time as lame ducks in the Big East. The ACC football TV contract ends in two years, not one, and if those teams start playing ACC games in the 2004-2005 school year, we might actually lose money before the big contract gets negotiated.

Earlier

last

week,

President

Keohane sent a letter to her fellow ACC university presidents explaining her opposition to expansion. Ironically, our only firm ally in the expansion debate is our hated rival, Carolina.

Hopefully, the 15-501 Alliance will be able to convince one more school that the expansion plan is a bad idea, and the ACC will be left as it is. If not, the Crazies should get ready to tent for the Syracuse and B.C. games in two years.

I know this deal is all about money,

and although I don’t know the specific numbers, I do know this—the ACC has

Jon Ross is a Trinity sophomore and a regular Chronicle columnist.

The Yankees vs. the Packers: the Cold War revisited the New York Yankees, whose current payroll, $149.7 outraged about the poverty of their baseball franchismillion, is now $33 million greater than that of the es than the poverty of their fellow citizens. (I personsecond-highest paying New York Mets and a staggerally can avoid any such hypocrisy by being both a libing $l3O million greater than the lowest paying eral and a Pirate fan). While I realize it seems impertinent to compare the economic situation of baseball to Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

The only team to rival the Yankees’ success in the that of the country at large, the problems facing basepast decade is the Atlanta Braves, who benefit from a ball illuminate the questions of justice that underlie billionaire owner and revenue from having most of debates about the redistribution of wealth.

Many sportsfans argue that it is unfair for the their games nationally broadcast on the Turner Broadcasting Station. In contrast, small market teams Yankees to be able to buy the best players simply in Kansas City and Milwaukee go through one losing because of the benefits of playing in the largest marseason after another. As a result, casual fans have ket. Is it not correspondingly unfair for someone born into a wealthy family to begin life so far ahead of the grown weary of seeing the same teams in the postsealess privileged as a result of superior health care, in son while even some of the diehards every year Summer Commentary small markets have grown cynical and turned away superior education and other advantages.

In both cases, advantage does not automatically correfrom the game.

In stark contrast to this is the socialist NFL, with spond with achievement: The New York Mets finished last What some may find surprising is the reason that in their division last year despite America has turned away from baseball: Baseball is its stringent salary cap and revhaving the second highest payroll, too capitalist. While the NFL and, to a lesser degree, enue sharing, which has had “The American public while the low-revenue Oakland eight different champions in the the NBA, have embraced the socialist notions of revbemoans baseball’s labor nine the Athletics had baseball’s second best past years.

Three of past enue sharing and salary caps, Major League Baseball as some children of privijust record, has stuck to its guns of free enterprise and has suf- four world champions did so withdisputes, seemingly oblivilege squander their advantages out even making the postseason fered accordingly. while some of the most disadvanBaseball has turned fans away in large part due to the year before. While there have ous to how beautifully capitaged are able to overcome the odds. talist they are.” the perceived greed of its players and owners. Alex been teams that have enjoyed Such exceptions, however, cannot be Rodriguez, by all accounts an upstanding young man, sustained success in the NFL, is allowed to overshadow the structural by the dream such success not dictated is maligned by many for realizing American chances of success for the unfortuproblems size which the team that limit the plays in the the of the market on his immense talent to tune of and capitalizing Some of the cities that have suffered the most nate. Our legislators need to take a lesson from the NFL a quarter of a billion dollars. Labor disputes have under baseball’s economics in the past decade, such as and embrace the concept of revenue sharing. deepened this perception, as there is something unsetA great barrier to redressing the income gap in the for and Tampa, have enjoyed considerable Pittsburgh whining and billionaires tling about millionaires sympathy from regular folk who just want to enjoy the football success in that same period. One of the most United States is the inability of those in the upper portions game. The American public bemoans baseball’s labor successful teams in the NFL plays in Green Bay, of the financial world to understand the frustration that Wisconsin, the smallest market in professional sports. comes hand in hand with being bom at the bottom. While disputes, seemingly oblivious to how beautifully capiThe NFL is the league of opportunity, and so fans of it is implausible and immoral to force these people to expetalist they are. Players seek the maximum compensation for their services while owners seek the maximum every team (even the lowly Cincinnati Bengals) feel rience the obstacles createdby poverty to engrain an that they are at most a year away from contention. understanding in them, perhaps forcing them to root for return on their investment in the team. the Brewers is the next best thing.

Ultimately, it is not the off-the-field squabbles that While baseball continues to lose fans to disillusionment, the the NFL’s fan base expands. knocked baseball from its perch but rather the way Anthony Resnick is a Trinity sophomore and a regAnd so there we have it: incontrovertible proof that game’s rampant capitalism has destroyed the competitive balance. This problem is typified by the success of socialism works. Unfortunately, Americans seem more ular Chronicle columnist.

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has become exceedingly clear over the past few years that baseball is no longer America’s national pastime. Leaving aside the frightening and inexplicable popularity of NASCAR, football has firmly implanted itself as a more popular sport than baseball, while basketball continues to make advances.

(Fortunately, hockey has the stigma of being Canadian and will remain forever a distant fourth). For anyone who has followed the sporting world over the past decade, this conclusion is by no means shocking.

Anthony Resnick

The Chronicle

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