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'OUT OF CONTROL Neighbors outraged as Durham police fail to crack down on off-campus parties; commander apologizes, issues blistering' warning to students m rAiw_

by Cindy Yee THE CHRONICLE

Many students enjoyed the first weekend of the new semester with a few laughs, and more than a few beers, at houses off ofEast Campus.

Many of Duke’s neighbors, however, spent the weekend trying to avoid drunken wanderers and stray beer cans and trying to sleep despite music pounding through their windows from a few doors down. In other words, they were less than amused.

Duke students were “out of control,” according to many neighbors and the Durham Police Department, which admitted Tuesday it failed to carry out a no-tolerance policy despite an understanding with the University to do so.

After receiving a barrage of angry emails and phone calls from non-student residents of the neighborhoods off East Campus, DPD issued what Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations John Bumess called a

“blistering” warning.

Students living in the Trinity Park and Trinity Heights neighborhoods received letters Monday from Capt. Ed

Sarvis, commander of DPD’s District Two, which covers much of the area surrounding East, warning that the DPD will severely suppress rowdy parties be-

ginning immediately.

“If the Durham Police Department is called to this home again, residents on the premises will be located, and, at a minimum, will be criminally charged with

Residents say new cop beat positive step

by Cindy Yee THE CHRONICLE

While the prospect of wider Duke police patrols has left many students apprehensive about the future of off-campus parties, Durham residents living off East Campus say they hope the Duke University Police Department can help students become more responsible neighbors.

Under a new law that passed through the N.C. Senate and House of Representatives in mid-July, the Durham Police Department will be able to grant extended jurisdiction around East Campus to DUPD. A more precise agreement is still in the works, but Duke officers could start patrolling as soon as January, said DUPD Chief Clarence Birkhead.

“Obviously, if someone lives offcampus, they’re independent from the University as far as living goes,” said Berry McMurray, who lives on Urban Avenue off East Campus. “But the University should still be concerned with how they’re living. With Duke’s patrols being expanded, it could be a good way to keep the University in touch more with its students.”

After a weekend of students’ pre-class revelry, many neighbors are fed up—not

ANTHONY CROSS for THE CHRONICLE

Over the weekend, Watts Street was the scene of one of numerous disturbances created by student parties at houses off of East Campus.

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Vitarelli tackles student needs Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE

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All it took was a ping-pong table to get Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli involved in campus leadership.

Two years ago, the Vorhees, N.J., native became vice-president of Aycock dormitory with one simple mission in mind: to secure a ping-pong table for the commons room.

Vitarelli has not looked back since.

With the same determination that prompted his initial involvement, Vitarelli plans to continue to serve students’ interests this year.

“Because of a Board of Trustees mandate, students have

to live on campus for three years, so we want to make people excited about living on campus,” he said.

To address student needs, Vitarelli’s agenda for the year will focus on residential policies and activities programming.

Campus Council intends to tackle the annual review process all fraternities and selective living groups complete each year. “Our

goal is to simplify and clarify the annual review, even putting it online,” he said.

To make quad councils accountable, Vitarelli said, they will be required to report to the Campus Council finance committee.

Programming changes for the upcoming year include the reorganization of Devil’s Eve and an expansion of the Coolest Thing Ever event. Devil’s Eve, a carnival sponsored by Campus Council traditionally held the last Saturday in October, will now be moved to Halloween night for students who remain on campus for the holiday. The night will SEE VITARELLI ON PAGE 7

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NASA will lose WASHINGTON more shuttles and more astronauts unless it transforms its “broken safety culture,” the board investigating the loss of the Columbia said in its final report Tuesday.

The scathing 248-page report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board said blunders and organizational problems at NASA were just as important as the errant chunk of insulating foam that blew a hole in the spacecraft’s wing, setting in motion a chain of events that ended with the Columbia’s

destruction over Texas during its return earth on Feb. 1.

The report describes a space agency that had deluded itself over time into downplaying the risks of space flight, with missed communications, complacency and missteps that added up to disaster.

The report makes clear that engineers within NASA had the strong sense that Columbia might have been mortally wounded during liftoff and that they took appropriate steps, making three requests for outside assistance to get photos of the shuttle to assess the damage.

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have been mounted, the board said, if management had recognized the severity of the problem and responded quickly.

But instead, it countermanded the engineers’ moves. The problem that doomed Columbia and its crew—even after liftoff—was not a lack of technology or ability, the board concluded, but missed opportunities and a lack of leadership and open-mindedness in management.

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International inspectors have UNITED NATIONS found traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian facility, according to a new confidential report distributed Tuesday. The traces could be an indication that Tehran has already produced weapons-grade nuclear materials.

Iran denied producing nuclear materials, said the report by the International Atomic Energy Association, the conclusions of which were obtained by The New York Times. The report added, “Additional work is also required to enable the agency to arrive at conclusions about Iran’s statements that there have been no uranium enrich-

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The Iranians, the report said, explained that the trace particles found by inspectors at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant had been on the equipment when it was purchased from another country.

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Election season is fast approaching, foreign policy is consuming public discourse and many Democrats are seeking experts to advise them on the complexities of a post-Sept. 11 world.

In short, it’s Bruce Jentleson time.

Jentleson, director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and a former senior foreign policy advisor for A1 Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, is stepping back into the political fray. He has increased his profile in recent months with innumerable appearances on television and in print and has been briefing Democratic presidential candidates on his foreign policy views.

As of now, Jentleson said he has no plans to get involved with any candidate as deeply as he did with Gore in 2000, when he was on the front lines of the campaign. However, his presence is still felt in the national debate, just as it was in 2000 when he represented the Gore team in a debate with former “Fundamentally, the UnitAssistant ed States cannot create for Secretary of Rich Perle

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ourselves legitimacy for being an occupying force in the eyes of Iraqis n and the rest of the world.”

1 d? n 1 consider myself noninvolved now, I consider myself involved in a different kind of way,” Jentleson said.

Jentleson, an avowed Democrat, said he has his favorite candidates but declined to reveal his preference because he has offered his services to candidates on a non-exclusive basis. He said this “ideas, but not individuals” approach gives him more opportunities to articulate his own views, not those of someone else.

Indeed, his views have been making the rounds lately. His major appearances have included PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, two interviews with ABC’s Nightline, a forum of pre-eminent foreign policy experts that was printed in the Washington Post, an op-ed in The News & Observer of Raleigh, a “constant flow” of newspaper interviews and speaking engagements across the country —all within the past year.

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Sanford Institute of Public Policy Director Bruce Jentleson speaks at a faculty panel on Iraq in March.

After years of exercises in nation-building throughworld, Jentleson said experts in civil peace and infrastructure are numerous, though largely ignored by the Bush team. “It makes no sense to me to insist to not tap that expertise,” he said.

The other problem, in Jentleson’s eyes, is credibility.

“Fundamentally, the United States cannot create for ourselves legitimacy for being an occupying force in the eyes of Iraqis and the rest of the world,” he said.

Jentleson’s advice for presidential candidates is to come up with a credible alternative to the Bush administration’s war on terror.

Despite Bush’s dominance in public opinion polls, Jentleson said the president is beatable in 2004.

“It’s going to be a contested campaign,” he said, cautioning that candidates must strike a balance between rehashing watered-down Republican foreign policies—“Bush lite,” as he called it—and the fringe. The chalout the

lenge will be not just to prove what is wrong with Bush, he said, but to clearly state what’s right about the Democratic candidate.

Jentleson also warned against glossing over foreign policy. He said the worst part of working for the Gore campaign in 2000 was how political consultants de-emphasized the candidate’s foreign policy credentials and ignored Jentleson and others to the possible detriment of the campaign. “They were assuming we were just a bunch of policy wonks,” he said.

At the end of the day, Jentleson is both a policy wonk and a political player, a combination that makes him something of a coveted commodity.

He said he enjoys the dual roles. “My sense [is] that ultimately what I study as an academic gives me a chance to bridge my studies and my scholarship and apply those ideas to actual policy,” he said. “That opportunity is very rich.”

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fondly look back on this past summer with memories of lazy days spent at the

beach. Others, however, were more productive with their summers, availing themselves of opportunities they will surely never forget.

Juniors Francesca Pignataro and Jacques Colon were two such students invited to work on a National Science Foundation funded paleontology field research project at the San Juan basin in New Mexico, long known as a

dinosaur fossil site “I cannot even begin to write about what I have gained intellectually from this work,” Pignataro wrote in an email. “I learned a ton about identification of fossils and basic field geology.”

Anne Weil, primary investigator on the San Juan basin project and research associate for the School of Medicine, lured Pignataro and Colon to the De-na-zin desert wilderness area in the northwest corner of New Mexico for a month to excavate fossils from the late Cretaceous and early Paleocene age with the promise of free food, tents and a $1,200 stipend.

“Going to New Mexico this summer offered me the opportunity to immerse myself in the field more completely and to better understand what is involved in my job,” said Colon, who jumped at the prospect of learning more about paleontology. “In addition to mammal fossils, we found stuff like ancient turtle shells from before dinosaurs were extinct, a ceratopsian

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The San Juan fieldwork these Duke students have been doing will not only further their academic interests but also help resolve the long-asked question: What really happened when the dinosaurs went extinct?

In a collaboration with Tom Williamson, geologist and research curator of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Weil and her undergraduate research assistants investigated the nature of the late Cretaceous mass extinction event, particularly the mammals from the period when the dinosaurs died.

“I think mammals are really important and could tell a lot about what was going on when the dinosaurs died because they were the ones that survived,” Weil said.

Interestingly, the mammals fossilized with the dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous period in the North American Western Interior seem not to be related to the mammals which

survived

extinction, the mass said.

“Finding these fossil vertebrates is really significant because there are very few places where you can find fossils from the late Cretaceous period in southern North America,” Williamson said. “So what we’re trying to do is look at an area that’s different and see if we have a different assortage of animals.”

Since the undertaking of the project in 2000, a plethora of previously unidentified mammals have been discovered and catalogued, which lends credence to Weil’s hypothesis that the fauna in the south was different than the fauna in the north. Weil suspects that nobody has thought to look for mammal fossils in New Mexico because the fieldwork is mentally and

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physically exhausting.

“It’s difficult,” said Weil, referring to the challenging desert terrain, affectionately called ‘the badlands.’ “You have to be in shape; you have to stand the heat—you can’t be one of those paunchy old guys.”

Williamson said he loves his job because he gets to do the three things he loves the most—hiking, camping and looking for new fossils.

“How many people do you know who get paid to go collect dinosaur fossils?”

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A midsummer night's Durham

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Just like during the school

Being in North Carolina for the summer means heat. And lots ofit. But hot and sticky Durham only necessitates one of the staples of the summer: the Belmont pool.

Any day of the week, any time of the day, enough bronzed beauties were always making regular appearances so as to question the reality of any alleged summer job.

But then again, what good is summer if you can’t have some type of tan-line to show off?

Yet as appealing as the pool was, most students who stayed in Durham this summer did so for other reasons. Some thought of it as a gift to be away from their boring hometowns; others saw it as an opportunity for job shadowing, internships or summer school. No matter what the reason, Durham remained the place of residency for a number of students from May to August. And while the stores, eateries and the actual Gothic Wonderland all stayed the same, the atmosphere, the people and the experience did not.

Leading up to the summer, it was clear that people thought anyone here beyond graduation was “stuck in Durham,” as upperclassmen warned younger students to avoid spending a summer in the City of Medicine.

Sophomore Taylor Reid was one of those warned. “Coming in, I expected it to basically be work, sleep and class,” she said. “But that wasn’t the case at all. There were many more people here than I thought, and much more to do. I thoroughly enjoyed it.”

year, howev-

er, there were always those who looked forward to time away from Durham as well; weekend trips to visit friends or family were very common.

“It was nice to get a break from Durham at least once during the summer,” said Adam Hausman, a senior. “While the pool

is refreshing and the golf relaxing, the plane ride home is by far the best.”

Overall, those who remained in Durham bonded in away unlike during the school year. Members of differentfraternities called each other to plan events, freshmen lived with upperclassmen under the guise of “sub-letting” and the differences in years and experiences at Duke were unimportant.

“The entire summer just had a much more intimate and laid-back feeling,” Reid explained.

Even for summer school classes, many of the students did not feel as pressured.

“If anyone needs to take Spanish 63, they should take it in the summertime. During the year, it’s the class in the Spanish department everyone dreads to take. But in the summertime, it’s great,” said senior Clare Matschullat.

There was a sense of familiarity, almost monotany—even if you were a tour guide who ran into the same group of friends walking on campus every time you gave a tour, you knew what to expect. It was, in a way, comforting, students said.

Apart from classes, work and getting food, campus was rarely the hub of activities for actual Duke students. Between the

American Dance Festivals dancers tak ing over East Campus, the TIP kids ‘ stalling every version of Instant M senger in the computer labs, construction that took up more areas the campus than most students kn existed and the sports campers leav much to be desired with their accui and aim, Duke students found mo pealing locales elsewhere.

The James Joyce, with its Wee Scottish beer and collectors’ items ness glasses, was a popular hot spof dally on Trivia nights. Medical, law, ate and undergraduate students all to try and win the hallowed bar tab making the dimly lit, tiny Europeai bar filled to the point of inducing trophobia by 9 p.m.

The Durham Bulls’ cheap ticke. fireworks on Fridays also pulled in large groups of Dukies on any given night.

“During the school year it’s hard to find enough friends with time to go to the games, but in the summer there’s always a bunch of people there,” said sophomore Meg Rudedge. A lawn blanket made the hill behind the outfield a perfect way to watch the game, and the location was perfect for catching tee shirts being thrown by the mascot in between innings.

Programs were organized for students in summer school, including anything from barbeques and movie nights to kayaking down the Eno River with “River Dave” and his wife “Rio Josie.” Large amounts of students participated, shown by the shortage of tee shirts ordered by the

University for the students.

Senior Anna Froneberger explained that as long as you had friends in town you could always find something to do. “I had

an awesome time at Duke this summer, mainly because I had great group of friends here. That’s what really makes the difference,” she said.

So while most students were forewarned of hot and humid nights and a shortage of friends and fun to occupy the days, many look back on the summer with a differing opinion. Durham may not be New York City, Washington or even Beaufort, but it has its own way of leaving its mark—with its relaxed mood and its local attractions—as a great place to spend a summer.

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violating Durham City Ordinances regarding excessive noise byway of a criminal citation,'’ Sarvis wrote in the letter. “If the officers responding to the scene feel it is more appropriate, residents may be subject to an actual physical arrest and transported to the Durham County Jail for formal charging.”

The letter continued to warn students that Durham officers would be cracking down on alcohol violations, charging not only all those found to be in violation, but also the residents in whose homes the violations were discovered.

Furthermore, Sarvis wrote that Duke officials and faculty would be notified of students' transgressions, as would students’ parents.

“I assume that most of the residents do have aspirations of seeking employment once they graduate,” Sarvis wrote.

“I should not have to remind you of the long-term problems you face by having a criminal record, regardless of how insignificant you may feel the offense is.”

Meanwhile, the University offered to pay for whatever overtime DPD incurs over the next several weeks in order to ensure that Durham officers are patrolling the neighborhoods surrounding East Campus over the weekends, Burness said.

“We feel quite badly that this past weekend occurred ANTHONY CROSS for THE CHRONICLE the way it did, and certainly understand why the neighthat this is Burness said.

He noted bors are very upset,” Hundreds of students reportedly attended parties at off-campus resinot the first time the University has offered to pay overdences on N. Buchanan Boulevard and the surrounding area. time for DPD. Bumess said University officials were caught off-guard with neighbors’ reactions to the weekend’s events, as the prerogative of Durham police to toughen up off campus, would send the right signals to both student and non-stuUniversity had been in discussions with DPD about enforcto dent residents offEast Campus. strict low-tolerance no-tolerance the ing a policy during Instead, residents faced what many said was one of the first few weeks of the academic year. worst starts to a semester in years. Residents from over two ‘We had been led to believe that there would be aggressive patrolling and enforcement for the first several blocks away from the nearest “party homes” said they could hear music inside their homes. One resident said there weeks, partly as a means to [warn] people that if they behaved inappropriately, there would be consequences,” Burwere so many empty cups from Sam’s Quick Shop Sunday ness said. “For reasons we don’t quite understand, the pomorning that it was hard to walk down the street.

“The issues we’re dealing with have been long-term islice were not aggressive this weekend, and they have sues, but have certainly accelerated with some excepapologized publicly to the community for that.”

Sarvis could not be reached for comment, nor could tional incidences over the weekend,” said Don Ball, a Trinity Park resident. “This weekend was an example, Maj. Charles Tiffin, chiefofDPD’s investigative services bureau, who contacted Trinity Park residents through their with several large parties in our neighborhood, as well as in Trinity Heights. Scores of students were walking up online listserv with an admission that Durham police reand down the neighborhood, being loud and boisterous, sponded inappropriately to last weekend’s events.

Burness added that the University has been trying to and there were lots of garbage and residual party items provide students with on-campus entertainment so that left over the next day.”

Like many residents of Trinity Park and Trinity they do not feel the need to wander off campus to have a Heights, Ball stressed that he was not opposed to the good time.

“We’re focusing on reasons to stay on campus, such as idea of living with undergraduates in the neighborhood, 21 Night Stand or the new media room in the [West Edens but that students simply went too far with their weekend festivities and not far enough when it came to cleaning Link]said Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. “But it can’t be Duke’s exclusive responsibility to solve up after the parties.

“We respect the right ofeveryone to have a party, but we the off-campus problem. It’s a partnership.” do expect people to leave the area clean, and that the parBurness said the University had hoped that Moneta’s efforts to entertain students on campus, combined with the ties aren’t so loud that they keep the neighborhoods up,”

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he said. “And we prefer that students don’t urinate on our houses, which happened over this weekend.”

Betty Kriegler, another Trinity Park resident, said her complaints about the past weekend stemmed from both personal discomfort and from concern about the wellbeing of the off-campus partygoers.

“When I went down at midnight to the corner of Buchanan [Boulevard] and Urban [Avenue], there were probably about 200 drunken students going up and down the streets, and many of them were clearly underage” Kriegler said. “One kid fell asleep on Watts Street with his car running. It’s plain old dangerous, and not just for students.”

Kriegler said she was finally able to fall asleep after 2:30 a.m., out of sheer exhaustion.

‘We have had some very good students living in the houses near our house, but the new group coming in is obviously not going to act like humans and respect the idea that this is a neighborhood, and that this might be thenparents or aunts and uncles that they’re keeping awake,” she added.

Kriegler and Ball were only two of many upset neighbors who said that, under normal circumstances, they love living near students for the diversity and youthfulness they add to the neighborhoods. Since this weekend, however, postings to Trinity Park’s listserv have clearly demonstrated a high level offrustration amongst Duke’s neighbors.

‘The listserv’s been going crazy,” said Berry McMurray, another Trinity Park resident. He noted thatstudents’ rowdiness causes concern that property values will start to drop—a sentiment echoed by Ellen Dagenhart, who lives in Trinity Park, but also sells real estate in the area.

“It’s an image problem to have students partying until all hours of die morning, with people peeing in the yards, throwing up and acting out badly,” Dagenhart said. “It’s tough to sell real estate after a party. Who wants to live in a dump?”

McMurray said residents are understandably worried, if last weekend is any indication of what’s to come. “People want to head it up at the pass,” he said. Although there have been plenty of talks about the problems students living off campus have been causing for years, some neighbors doubt the situation will improve significantly.

“I personally don’t think it will change,” McMurray said.

“We have our own issues with the Durham Police Department in that they don’t tend to enforce speed limits in our neighborhood. So it already appears that the Durham police don’t take this neighborhood very seriously.”

Ball seemed more optimistic about the prospect of improved relations with students.

‘We know as residents that we always go through a reeducation process every year when new students move in,” he said. “It’s always a new batch of students, so we have to communicate what our desires are and teach and communicate about what it means to be a good neighbor.” Ball added that he lived through a similar experience some years ago, in which off-campus students had a rocky start in the neighborhood but were more well-behavedafter neighbors communicated their concerns.

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also feature an expanded array ofcarnivalstyle games and activities such as laser tag and karaoke.

Coolest Thing Ever, a student competition that debuted in the spring and featured activities such as buffalo wing eating and 3 on 3 basketball, will become an even bigger affair.

“Coolest Thing Ever is going to be an enormous, campus-wide competition of previously unknown proportions,” Vitarelli said.

Dean ofStudents Sue Wasiolek said she has been impressed by Vitarelli’s drive and dedication to Duke. “It is clear thathis motivation is his love of Duke,” she said.

She added that on one occasion, while many students were discussing study abroad opportunities, Vitarelli remained firmly committed to Duke.

“When it w s Anthony’s turn to talk he said, T’m not studying away from Duke. I love it too much here,”’ Wasiolek said.

Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta said Campus Council will play a big part on campus this year. “Anthony is very focused and very clear on the sense of what role he wants to play on Campus Council and the role that Campus Council can play on this campus,” he said.

Co-founder of the Greening Initiative, an environmental program, participant on the Steering Committee for the revitalization of Central Campus and last year’s rush chair for his selective living group, Wayne Manor, Vitarelli engages himself in life at Duke.

In a return to his roots, Vitarelli encourages freshmen to dive into campus life.

“The easiest, most fun way to get involved on East is through your house council,” he said.

only with students’ seeming disregard for noise, parking and trash ordinances, but also with the general unresponsiveness of Durham police. Now, those living closest to the offending houses say that something must be done, and they don’t care if it is Durham or Duke that does it.

“Apparently this weekend was just horrible,” said Ellen Dagenhart, one ofDuke’s neighbors. “Anything that would go to stop some of this mess would help. If we can get more policemen—whether from Duke or Durham—on the street, I’m all about that.”

Dagenhart said she has always found Durham police to be extremely responsive to her calls, and she has no apprehensions about Duke police being similarly available. She noted, however, that she does not live in an area with many undergraduate students.

Wendy Goldstein, on the other hand, said she has had a slightly different experience with Durham police, and she hopes Duke police will not follow their lead.

Goldstein’s house on Berkeley Street is closer to East Campus than Dagenhart’s on Dollar Avenue.

“If Duke police are effective, then [extended jurisdiction] is a good idea,” Goldstein said. “But there are a lot of homes the Durham police know about but do nothing about. If Duke police aren’t going to change that, then it’s not worth the trouble of them taking on more patrols.”

When the bill to allow extended jurisdiction first became law in July, both University and city officials said they hoped regular Duke patrols off East Campus would increase security in the area and free up Durham officers to areas with a

higher incidence of crime. Few neighbors,

however, seemed to be overly concerned with the effects of Duke police on serious crime, focusing instead on their connection with Duke students living off campus.

“Duke police will be given as much authority as Durham police, and in all fairness they should use that to police a lot

“There are a lot of homes the Durham police know about but do nothing about. If Duke police aren’t going to change that, then it’s not worth the trouble of them taking on more patrols.”

—Wendy Goldstein of party homes around the area,” Goldstein said. “They can’t just ignore it because it is Duke students causing the disturbance. You can’t just pick and choose your crimes.”

Almost as an afterthought, Goldstein noted that the possibility of reducing the incidence of major crimes through more patrols would be a welcome perk to the new agreement between the city and the University. “Violent crime and sexual assault decline the quality of life, but then again, so do students who are out of control,” she said.

Few residents seemed to view DUPD’s extended jurisdiction in a light other than that of policing off-campus student houses, perhaps because this semester’s inaugural off-campus parties were described by

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worse than usual Still, some mentioned other concerns, such as a need for more communication to residents about the new agreement, under which Duke officers will be granted authority over residents not affiliated with the University.

“It may take a while for the word to get out that Duke police can actually make arrests and for people to take them seriously,” Goldstein said. “Before, they just drove around the outside ofcampus, and unless they saw something totally illegal, I don’t know how much they did. Frankly, who knows how many people even know that Duke police are going to have authority.”

David Smith, president of the Trinity Park Neighborhood Association, said he viewed the agreement as a “long-term, positive” contribution from the University, but acknowledged that, “like everything else, it will just take a little time to get it implemented and working.”

Many neighbors said they need to hear more about the details of the agreement between the University and DPD before deciding if it will be a welcome change.

Overall, however, people seem to be optimistic about the work Duke police can do off campus.

“As a neighborhood, I think we’re pleased about the proposal,” Smith said.

“Now there are just a lot of questions people have about how it’s actually going to work. Will it reduce the role and presence of Durham police in the neighborhood?

How do we call upon the Duke police when we need them?”

John Schelp, president of the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association, echoed Smith’s sentiments, adding that it would be helpful to discuss bike and pedestrian patrols on Ninth Street as a positive component of the plan. most as

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NEW YORK— It’s getting a bit lone-

ly out there for Andre Agassi.

One by one, the generation of

American stars who grew up playing junior tennis against each other in the 1980s and collected Grand Slam singles tides together for more than a decade is calling it quits.

Michael Chang lost his final match as a pro Tuesday at the U.S. Open in a far more muted farewell than Pete Sampras 1 retirement announcement the night before. Jim Courier, the first of the of gang to stop, called Chang's match from the TV booth.

And Agassi? He isn't done yet, not by a long shot.

Still calibrating points perfectly, lacing lines with hit-it-as-soon-as-possible groundstrokes, the 33-year-old Agassi began his run as the oldest topseeded player in the Open era by beating Alex Corretja 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in the first round.

"It's a weird feeling. You just sort of expect to leave the dance with the ones you came with. When they decide that it's time for them, it's a sad feeling," Agassi said.

"I'm certainly proud to still be doing this, this long and at this level."

At 20, Andy Roddick is just getting started, and he looked pretty impressive in handling Tim Henman 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-3. It was a matchup worthy of Week 2 at a major rather than Day 2, but four-time Wimbledon semifinalist Henman missed two months after shoulder surgery in February and has slipped to 34th in the rankings.

While Sampras waited a year after his last match beating Agassi in the 2002 U.S. Open final to tell the world he was finished, Chang has been on a farewell tour since the beginning of the season and made clear the Open would be it for him.

And unlike the half-hour tribute to Sampras replete with a choir and speeches, there was no big celebration of Chang's career Tuesday, although the U.S. Tennis Association has talked with him about doing something next week.

Only a few thousand fans were on hand for the start of his match against No. 15-seededFernando Gonzalez, but, as always, Chang gave it his all.

"On court, it would be nice to be able to be remembered as a person that gave his best win, lose or draw," said Chang, whose career highlight was winning the 1989 French Open at age 17.

"It's going to be tough leaving tennis."

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Andre Agassi, above, won his first-round match at the U.S. Open over Alex Corretja, while former peer Michael Chang, below, said goodbye to pro tennis after falling to Fernando Gonzalez, 6-3,7-5,5-7,6-4.

Chang had his chances against Gonzalez, and produced a few topnotch shots, but in the end succumbed to the Chilean's all-out power game 6-3,

7-5, 5-7, 6-4.

Winners included Australian Open runner-up Rainer Schuetder, No. 11 Paradom Srichaphan, two-time major champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov and 2002 French Open champion Albert Costa.

Two low-seeded men lost: No. 29 Feliciano Lopez and No. 32 Vince *

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The fourth-seeded Roddick would like to stick around a little longer than he has been at majors. He lost in the U.S. Open quarterfinals to the eventual champion each of the past two years, and reached the semifinals at the Australian Open and Wimbledon this season.

Chang used to be among highly seeded players, reaching No. 2 in the rankings. He would have made it to No. 1 had he beaten Sampras in the 1996 U.S. Open final.

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The ACC will be the No. 1 football conference in the country for the 21st century.

Although this claim would certainly not be made without the inclusion of Miami and Virginia Tech, the futures of the N.C. State, Virginia and Maryland squads are the biggest reasons for the ACC’s luminous future.

All three transformed themselves into top 25 mainstays in two key ways; Hiring an alum as the coach and making drastic recruiting improvements.

At Virginia, A1 Groh left his job as head coach of the New York Jets to guide his alma mater, and has done much with his opportunity. UVa started slowly under Groh, going 5-7 in his first season in 2001 and beginning last year 0-2. But as his recruits blossomed, the Cavaliers went on to a 9-5 record and an upset win over No. 15 West Virginia in the ContinentalTire Bowl. To make things even better for Virginia, many oflast year’s contributors were freshmen: first-year (as theWahoos refer to their freshmen) Heath Millerled the ACC in tight end receptions, fellow rookie Wali Lundy was the only player to crack the ACC’s top ten in both rushing and receiving yards, and Darryl Blackstock was National Freshman Defensive Player of the Year. Groh did not stop with the class of2006, either, as prized recruit Ahmad Brooks is considered the No. 1 freshman linebacker to play this season.

The teams that recruit well every year become perennial top 25 teams. Every three or four years an average team’s players are bound to mesh into a contender, but Virginia is planning to compete on the national level every year.

Chuck Amato’s story at N.C. State is even more impressive. Amato left his assistant’s job at Florida State to take the reigns of his alma mater, and has led the Wolfpack to a bowl game every season, including a win over Notre Dame in the Gator Bowl last season.

Amato has surrounded his Heisman-candidate quarterback Phillip Rivers with solid players through stellar recruiting classes. Last season freshman T.A. McClendon set an ACC freshman rushing touchdowns record, and this year’s class has been rated in the top ten by several recruiting publications.

At Maryland, alum Ralph Friedgen led the Terps from losing season to ACC champs in his first year as coach in 2001. Last year, despite injuries to key players, the Terps defeatedTennessee 30-3 in the Peach Bowl. Maryland’s success looks to be long term, as it is ranked No. 15 this preseason and is frmneling in top recruits faster than Friedgen does donuts.

In addition to Virginia, Maryland and N.C. State, the next tier of teams has the capacity to be competitive. Former Dallas Cowboys coach Chan Gailey leads Georgia Tech, and Clemson and Wake Forest SEE ACC ON PAGE 12

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ACC Standings (2002) ACC Florida State Maryland Virginia N.C.State Clemson Georgia Tech Wake Forest North Carolina Duke

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Ciarett on scout team The preseason favorite to win the Heisman Trophy, Ohio State's Maurice Ciarett was on the scout team Tuesday in practice, playing alongside reserves and redshirt freshmen. Ciarett, who is serving a six-game suspension, returns Oct. 17.

FSU officials cleared of wrongdoin Florida state attorney Willie Meggs said FSU administrators would not be charged for allegedly tampering with a rape trial that involved one of the team's top defensive players,Travis Johnson. Johnson was originally charged of rape on February 6, though he said the sex was consensual.

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Leaf rises in Florida Chris Leak, the nation's top freshman quarterback, may have a shot at starting for the Florida Gators after all. Coach Ron Zook said yesterday that he would "not hesitate" to rotate between as many as four quarterbacks in the team's season opener against San Jose State. is dumped

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went to bowl games last season. The only teams that have ominous futures are Duke

and UNC, but both schools have shown commitments to improvement.

Florida State looks to have another season ranked between the No. 10 and No. 20 slots instead of its usual top five position, but the Seminoles’ reputation and history leave little doubt that they will be a prominent force for years to come.

Adding to these rising programs are the super-powers Miami and Virginia Tech. While those two clearly will be the ACC’s only chances at a national championship in the near future, it is the constandy improving lesser programs that will lead to a dominant future for the ACC. This is not to say the Big 10, SEC, PAC-10 and Big 12 will compete for the distinction as the nation’s best. But the programs at UVa, Maryland and N.C. State will make the best second tier in any conference in the country and, based on their improvement, may eventually become part of the pantheon of college football.

But the distinction as No. 1 conference in America is not a goal that needs to be set for the future. IfVirginia Tech and Miami started ACC play now as opposed to next season, the ACC would have two more preseason AP top 25 teams than any other conference in the country This assessment does not include the expected 12th team to be added to the conference, a team expected to also be a football power (Notre Dame? Florida?).

The future is impossible to predict, and setbacks such as NCAA probations are not unimaginable. But the ACC, known far more for its basketball, has put itself in the best position possible to dominate the nation’s most popular sport.

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ADMISSIONS INTERVIEWER POSITION The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has an opening for a campus interviewer. Applicants must be members of the Class of 2004 or a graduate student who possesses excellent communication skills and a knowledgeable enthusiasm for Duke. To apply, please send your resume and letter cover via email to allison.bevan@duke.edu no later than 9/3/03. Questions: 684-0175.

Are you a student desiring RESEARCH EXPERIENCE? We're looking for a responsible, interested undergraduate to help with fMRI studies of cognitive psychology.

Flexible schedule, fun working environment, 8-15 hours per week @ $7.25/hour.

(Psychology major

not required; work-study preferred).

Email memlab@psych.duke.edu or call Jenniferat 660-5639.

41C REGULATORY COST RECOVERY FEE

Classes in Durham and Raleigh.

For more information, please call 660-6745, or visit our website at WWW.dcilll.org.

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UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

Bear Rock Cafe is now hiring full time and part time cashiers. Apply in person at the Streets of Southpoint location.

CHEMISTRY TUTORS NEEDED Tutors

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General

Chemistry (21L, 23L) and Organic Chemistry (151 L).

Undergraduates earn $lO/hr and graduate tutors earn $l3/hr.

Pick up an application in the Peer Tutoring Office, 217 Academic Advising Center, East Campus, 684-8832 or the website: www.duke.edu/web/skills.

Courier/General Assistant Want a fun place to work? Call Jen Phillips at 660-0330 or email jennifer.phillips@duke.edu Office of the Provost.

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ARTS MANAGEMENT Work Study positions available in the Music Dept, 75/25 eligibility preferred. Position 1 Publicity Assistant: Publicize Music Dept, concerts by assisting in mailings, putting up posters around campus, general clerical/office support work. $8.50/hour. Contact Elizabeth Thompson, 109 Biddle Music 660-3333, Building, ethomps@duke.edu. Position 2 House Managers & Stage Crew: Evening/Weekend hours and some equipment moving required. $9.25/hour. Contact Percell Kelley, 111 Biddle Music 660-3330, Building,

duties.

Dependable, physically fit for light lifting, motivated & energetic. Hrs. negotiable. $7.00/hr.

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Attention STUDENTS! Great pay, flexible hours, scholarships available, conditions apply. Customer sales/service. All ages 18+. Call 401- 8 9 4 1 www.workforstudents.com.

ATTENTION: WORK STUDY STUDENTS! Four student assistants needed immediately in the Talent Identification Program (TIP).

Duties include general office and clerical support, light computer work with attention to business detail. One student assistant needed for Research Division.

Prefer major in Psychology or related Social Science, and experience conducting literature searches. One student assistant needed to work on website initiatives.

Prefer upper classman with good writing and organizational skills, who is familiar with website software (Dream Weaver).

Please call Tanette Headen at 668-5140 for interview and more information.

BE A TUTOR! Are you a good student who enjoys helping others? Are you looking for a flexible part-time job? Why not be a tutor? Tutors needed for introductory Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Math, and Statistics.

Physics

Undergraduates (sophomoresenior) earn $lO/hr and graduate students earn $l3/hr. Print an application off our website: www.duke.edu/web/skills or pick one up in the Peer Tutoring Program Office, 217 Academic Advising Center, East Campus, 684-8832.

includes nationwide long-distance plus 1000 mobile-to-mobile minutes

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Become a manager in a student business.

Contact Aaron at apblo@duke.edu or 315-3457688.

CALLING ENGIN. STUDENTS Help your fellow classmates by tutoring them in ECE 61L, 62L, EGR 53L or EGR 75L. The Peer Tutoring Program needs you!

Undergraduates earn $lO/hr and graduate tutors earn $l3/hr.

Print an application off the website: www.duke.edu/web/skills.

CPS TUTORS NEEDED! Be a tutor for Computer Science 1 or 6. Apply in the Peer Tutoring Office, 217 Academic Advising Center, East Campus, 6848832. Undergraduates (sophomore-senior) earn $lO/hr and graduate tutors earn $l3/hr.

Divinity School seeks undergraduate work-study student for 20032004 academic year to assist with general office duties in Business Office. Afternoons preferred (20 hours per week). E-mail cover letter and resume to chall@div.duke.edu.

Drivers needed. Earn $lO/hr driving. Contact Will at 336-830-2508 or william.bell@duke.edu.

EARN EXTRA CASH & HAVE FUN TOO! The KLM Group, Inc., a national event marketing firm, is seeking energetic and outgoing students for part-time promotions at Duke University football and basketball games. Flexible schedules to fit busy class and social calendars.

Will train on campus. Start immediately! Call us now at 1-888-6911810 email or ginny@klmgroup.com

Experience gymnastics instructors.

Evenings and Saturday AM. Preschool through level 5. Free YMCA membership. Immediate opening.

Call Colleen at 493-4502 ext. 137.

FLEXIBLE AND LUCRATIVE JOB Varsity Marketing Group needs undergrad P/T reps to sell promotional products on/around campus!

Invaluable experience for advertising/marketing/business majors!

Motivated reps earn $2OOApply online at www.varsitymarketing.com.

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Heavenly NIGHTS/SUNDAYS. Ham seeks energetic/friendly individuals for its upscale deli, catering and specialty meat store. Great pay/work environment. 489-3710 after 2pm.

Home and Business Manager needed for self-employed couple with small children, house farm, and busy lifestyle. Located in Rougemont. For more information call 919-620-7622 or 730-1856.

Independent work for the Campaign for Duke. The Office of University Development on West Campus seeks 3 work study students to help with various projects, campus errands, light clerical work, and assisting the Research Administrative Assistant and Researchers with filing and projects. Very flexible hours. Casual work environment. Please contact Tim Young 681-0441 or email: at

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Commercials? 2 great jobs available in Hartman Center, in Special Collections Library: 1) Student position helping Assistant Archivist assist Reference researchers-learn about collections while dealing with historic and contemporary ads. 2) Edit videotapes of TV commercials from 1980s-19905, including database entry of info about each commercial. Work study not required. Pay $7.25$8.25. contact Jacqueline Reid (j.reid@duke.edu) or Lynn Eaton

(lynn.eaton@notes.duke.edu).

JOIN THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISING STAFF

Students are needed to work in Advertising The Chronicle department. These are paid positions (work-study is preferred but not required) with flexible daytime hours. Call Nalini at 684-3811 or stop by for an application at 101 West Union Building (directly across from the Duke Card Office.)

Lifeguard(s) needed tor up to 10-15 hours/ week at the Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital therapeutic pool to guard for children and adults with special needs. Person must be at least 18 years old and hold current lifeguard certification. Hours available immediately. Pay rate is $9.00/ hr. If interested contact catie Shafer at 684-4315.

MATH TUTORS If you took Math 25L, 31L, 32L, 32, 41 or 103 at Duke and want to share your knowledge, we need you to be a tutor! Be a math tutor and earn $lO/hr (sophomore-senior) or graduate students earn $l3/hr. Apply in the Peer Tutoring Office, 217 Academic Advising Center, East Campus, 684-8832.

Needed: Student-preferrably workstudy funded to perform light secretarial responsibilities. Filing, copying, mail run, etc. Contact Michelle Smith @ 684-9041. Flexible hours, rate $7.50/ hour.

NEEDED; Student

(preferably workstudy funded) to perform basic clerical work which may include, but is not limited to, follow-up phone calls and correspondence to research study patients. Hours: mostly afternoons and some evenings. Rate: $7.50/hr. Contact Tanya Kagarise at 668-8222.

TEACHERSChfId Cam Assistants.

Durham church hiring EXPERIENCED childcare workers for Sun. am, Wed. pm. $B.OO per hour. Call Venetha, 682-3865 ex? 35 Tutor Wanted tor Computer Windows 98 and Digital Camera. Must have Patience with beginner. sl(Vhr and needed for two hours one day a week. Home near Duke. Call 489SI 54 between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM Tutor with car needed for 2 children, 10 and 12, on Mondays and Wednesdays, 3-6pm. $l5/hr. Call 489-9322 after 6pm or email donam@neuro.duke.edu.

TUTORS NEEDED! The Duke-Durham Partners for Youth Program needs Duke students to tutor a high school student every Tues. & Thurs. from 4-5; 15pm in GA Down Under.

Please call Della McKinnon at 536-4231 or email dom2@duke.edu if you are interested.

WORK STUDY STUDENT NEEDED Center for Academic Integrity is searching for a talented student assistant who can assist in the daily operations of the Center.

Specifically , someone who can assist in maintaining our website, assist in conference planning and membership activities, and perform other related office tasks .

Work Study eligibility is a must.

Please contact Rob Sandruck at robert.sandruck@duke.edu.

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study student 8 to

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research data.

Entering Department of Psychiatry. Send resume to: mccoyo29 @ mc.duke.edu Work study student needed 6-10 hours a week ($6.50 per hour)in Oncology Recreation Therapy.

Assist adult oncology patients and family members with recreational activities. Call 681-2928 for more information.

1 BR Apts, and 3-6 BR houses with security systems available immediately. 416-0393.

WANTED: STATS TUTORS

Northgate area. 3 bedroom, living

113 St. Paul Street. Remodeled, great neighborhood. Big yard, garage, and storage shed. 2 bedroom, office, dining room, W/D, stove, fridge. $975/mo. deposit.

493-3983 or 730-2609.

VEGETARIAN?

Vegetarian cafe and juice bar looking for qualified help. Hours flexible. Please call 680-4324.

FEMALE STUDENT 4.8 WOODED ACRES

7 Room (3 bedrooms), central heat/air, all appliances, screened front porch, hardwood floors, 2 car garage with enclosed storage, on 2 acres. Hillsborough area. 2 Minutes off I-85/I-40. Professional quality.

Call 919-732-8552 or 880-5680.

Ten minutes west of Chapel Hill.

Convenient to Duke, UNC and RIP. Mature hardwoods. Corner lot, excellent road frontage. $86,000. Call 919-625-1073.

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493-3983 or 730-2609. room, dining room.

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Classic audiophile Klipsche Chorus speakers in excellent condition with cables included $450. Professional quality Adcom GTP-500 tuner/preamp with remote $l4O. GCD-575 CD player with remote $B5. GFA-555 amp $335. Original boxes for speakers and components included. Linksys 4-port router $3O. Toshiba DVD player $25. Large fan $25. Large office desk $4O. Halogen $5. Large wood entertainment center $25. Call 530-1600 or

FURNITURE AND STUFF! Flea For All Antiques Th-Sat. and Collectibles.

Roxboro and Pettigrew in downtown Durham. 818-6455 UNIQUE

2 bedroom, 1 bath, 5 minutes to Duke. Central heating and air. W/D. $690/month. 933-0744.

Roommate Wanted Roommate Wanted to share fabulous 3BR/2BA house 10 minutes from Duke. $450/month inclusive.

544-1680, leave message.

Roommate wanted. 4 BR, 3 BA house includes washer/dryer, pool table, sauna, bar, and workout room. $450/month and utilities.

Contact 309-9697.

FLEA FOR ALL affordable furniture.

Beds, dressers, tables, lamps, rugs, bookcases, desks and more.

Thursday-Saturday. Roxboro and Pettigrew in downtown Durham. 818-6455 Mattress sets

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warranty in plastic. Queen $lB5, Full $l7O. Can deliver. 919-6975248.

Queen sofa sleeper and loveseat.

Peach/green floral. Excellent condition. $475 for both. 490-6702.

A “Reality” Spring Break. 2004’s Hottest Prices. Book now...Free Trips, Meals &Parties. www.sunsplashtours.com or 1-800-4267710.

Spring Break 2004. Travel with STS, America’s #1 Student Tour Operator to Jamaica, Cancun, Acapulco, Bahamas and Florida.

Now hiring campus reps. Call for discounts. group Information/Reservations 1-800648-4849 or www.ststravel.com.

got stuff

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Houses For Sale

Condo in the woods. Colony Hill.

2 BR/1.5 BA. Close to Duke. $93,900. Call Laleh 919-4021281.

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Secluded yet near. 2 bedroom.

Stove, refrigerator, central AC and heat, washer/dryer hook-up; hardwood floors, carport, wood deck, fireplace. Very nice, 1.8 wooded acres 5 miles west. Highway 70.

Option to buy. 382-8012.

2120 Copeland Way, Chapel Hill. 4 BR, 2.5 Bath. Single Family Home in Downing Creek. 2-car garage, deck, fenced yard. $1495.00. Call John at Real Estate Associates 489-1777.

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lease/furnished/unfurnished. Quiet,

Restored log cabin on historic farm.

15 minutes to Duke. Loft bedroom, large LR, wood stove, central heat/AC, W/D hookup. No pets. $625/ month. 620-0137

Woodlake 3BR 2.58A family home comm pool HW FP W/D conn. Deck 2-car gar. Nr. Duke UNC RTP Southpoint. $l5OO/mo credit check.

544-9393 or lisa@sunlink.net

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House suitable for 3 students, 10 Durbin Place. 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, W/D, dishwasher, disposal, refrigerator, range. New carpet, freshly painted. Private drive. 919-4033525.

House priced to rent 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch style on cul-de-sac.

Fenced yard, lawn maintenance included. 2 miles from Duke in quiet neighborhood. $lOOO/month.

Call 684-7366 days, 967-1261 email evenings c

Attractive bedroom, adjoining study, and bathroom very near West Campus. Private home kitchen privileges laundry facilities $450 a month- length of lease negotiable. Call Eleanore Bequaert: 489-5135.

Seeking grad student pref. female to rent room and bath. $4OO in my home.

Convenient to UNC/DUKE/140. Short or long-term

813 W. Knox Street. Trinity Park Northgate area. Available 10/1/03.

Beautiful 2 bedroom cottage. $9OO/mo. deposit. 493-3983 or 730-2609.

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mmarcus@duke.edu.

Room For Rent

bnyhan ©yahoo.com.

The Peer Tutoring Program is looking for Economics ID, 51D, and 55D tutors. Pick up an application in 217 Academic Advising Center, East Campus, 684-8832 or print one from the website: www.duke.edu/web/skills. Earn $lO/hr as an undergraduate tutor (sophomore-senior) or $l3/hr as a graduate student tutor.

Work study needed 14 hours a week ($7.00 an hour). Varied duties including copying and answering the phone. Looking for someone that can work Mon, Wed and Friday afternoons. Please call Mindy Marcus at 684-4309 or email at

3 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath, all appliances included, W/D Connections.

Convenient to DUKE, UNC, RTP. House at 7 East Bayberry Court. $l2OO/neg. Available now. Apple Realty. 919-688-2001.

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Statistics tutors needed for 101 and 103. Undergraduates earn $lO/hr and graduate tutors earn $l3/hr. Print an application off our website: www.duke.edu/web/skills or call the PTP office at 684-8832.

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Sell it, buy it, trade it, or rent it with Classified Advertising.

Tup fuDAMin F The Duke Community's Daily Newspaper

664-3611 for rates and information,

Peacock Alley Chapel Hill Gifts/Linens. Part time sales asso ate, 10-5. 967-2152 ask for Betsy.

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PHYSICSTUTORS Be a physics tutor for the Peer Tutoring Program today! Tutors needed tor physics 52L and 53L. Earn $lO/hr as an undergraduate tutor or $l3/hr as a graduate student tutor. Peer TutoringProgram, 217 Academic Advising Center, East Campus, 684-8832.

RAINBOW SOCCER COACHES WANTED! Volunteer coaches needed for Youth, ages 3-13, and Adults, 9th grade and older. Practices M&W or T&TH, 4:00-5:15PM for Youth, 5:15-Dark for Adults. All big, small, happy, tall, large-hearted, fun-loving peoplequalify. Call 967-3340 or 9678797 for information.

Start your own fraternity! Zeta Beta Tau is looking for men to start a new chapter. If you are interested in academic success, a chance to network, and an opportunity to make friends in a non-pledging brotherhood, email: zbt@zbtnational.org or call 800-4319674.

STUDENT JOB AT WOMEN’S CENTER Get paid to make a difference!

You are wanted for an exciting and challenging job 10 hrs/wk at the Duke Women’s Center as a gender issues programmer.

Women and men invited to apply; job description and application available at http://wc.studentaffairs.duke.edu or at the Women’s Center (West

Campus,6B4-3897). Applications received by August 27 will be

given priority.

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Reporters Friday,August 29 4:00-5:30 pm 3rd Roor Flowers Building •

If you cannot attend or have questions about The Chronicle, e-mail Managing Editor Jane Hetherington at jshlo@dukeedu Come meet theChronicle editors and explore your options with Duke’s independent daily newspaper at our kickoff event, the open house. We have volunteer

opportunities available for writers, photographers, cartoonists and layout artists in all departments: University, Sports, Health & Science, City & State, Features, Photography, Recess (Arts & Entertainment), or TowerView (news magazine), Graphics, Online, Special Supplements and more!

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“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper”: .alex “That rug really tied the room together”: .nadine “Oh are they?”: “They’re O.R. scrubs” card “PC LOAD LETTER? What the f**k does that mean?”: paul “No one is looking for a puppeteer...; John, cross whitney ...in today’s wintry economic climate”: “The dishes are done, man, the dishes are done” .will, karen “And it’s a beautiful day”: .cross, ailian “Roily’s so money and he doesn’t even know it”: roily :

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Sales Representatives Creative Services: Business Assistants:.

Academic WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 DCMB Seminar: 3:3opm. Whitney Jones (Bojsovec lab) and Jim Balhoff (Wray lab) “A complex signature of selection on the Endo 16 cis-regulatory region”, A247-LSRC.

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Eucharist. Wesley Office.

Sciences.

Catholic Mass: 11 am. White Lecture Hall.

University. “One plant, two plant, red plant, blue plant: evolution of red flowers in Ipomoeo.” 111 Biological

FRIDAY, AUGUST 29 Psychology SHS Colloquium Speaker Series: 4pm. Jeff Epstein, Ph.D.DUMC “An Empirical Investigation of Ethnic Differences in Teacher Ratings of Children with ADHD”. Refreshments will be provided. Psychology/Sociology Building Room 319.

Contact Ginger Moore, gmoore@duke.edu.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Biology Seminar: 4pm. Erich Grotewold, Ohio State University. “Combinatorial control of plant gene expression.” 111 Biological Sciences.

Religious WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 Catholic Mass: s:lspm. Chapel Crypt.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 Luncheon:

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 Fresh Docs, Works in Progress: 7pm. Dalton Got Hit produced by Mary Dalton. Center for Documentary Studies.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Choral Society ofDurham: Auditions, by appointment only. Call 484-0272. www.choral-society.org.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Presidential Search Forum: Express your thoughts on the search for a new President of Duke University.

The meetings will be held from 12-1 pm; lunch will be available for $3 or you may bring your own; refreshments available for all. All women employees are invit-

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Wesley Fellowship: 6pm. Worship. Upper East Side.

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Events

Exhibition: Through Rebel Eyes: Youth Document Durham. An exhibition of photographs, audio pieces, art installations, and writing exploring and expressing ideas about how race, media, and sex affect youths’ everyday lives in Durham. Free event open to the public. Refreshments provided. Center for Documentary Studies, Porch Gallery. Through September 27, 2003.

Duke

University Museum of Art Summer Exhibitions; “Brodsky and Utkin Prints" through September 7. Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin were born in Moscow in 1955, where they studied architecture together. Turning to pure ideas rather than the physical world, they became known as the “Paper Architects.” Their etchings of fantastic projects draw freely from the past, and were responses to the dehumanizing Soviet architecture that surrounded them.

They were leaders of the Moscow conceptualist movement of the 1980s.

Duke University Museum of Art Summer Exhibitions: “Dyshlenko Change of Situation” through -

October 26. Yuri Dyshlenko was born in 1936, spent 30 years in Leningrad before emigrating to New York in 1990; he died in 1995. His style was collage-like, an +

information age bombardment of visual data. He felt that all art is self referential for the viewer, a stimuli of the modern world seeking noise, the masses; like television and photographic advertising. The goal was the opposite of pop art to capture visual cliches, a monument of the Soviet myth of the American -

lifestyle.

CDS Photo Exhibition: What Helps Dodge Helps You; A project by Brian C. Moss. The Center for Documentary Studies presents an exhibition of oversized pinhole camera photographs of a former steel castingsfactory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On display July 21-September 27, 2003.

Duke Donation Center: Tuesdays 12 pm 4:30 pm, 1:30 pm. Duke South Hospital Thursdays 9 am Clinic Trent Drive Ground Floor Red Zone.

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for submissions: The Eighth Annual Documentary Film and Video Happening invites submissions of documentary work from students and emerging community filmmakers, videographers, and pixelslingers. Submission Deadline: October 10, 2003, Happening Dates: November 14-16, 2003. For more information, go to http://cds.aas.duke.edu and click on the Happening logo, or contact Dawn K. Dreyer at 919-660-3680 or dkdreyer@duke.edu.

Volunteer: Welcome Baby is happy to announce a September volunteer training for volunteers in two programs. Parent Supporters and Hospital Visitors are greatly needed in the fall. For additional information, please feel free to call Anne Drennan at 5607318 or Aviva Starr at 560-7341.

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When Beer Pong Loses its Novelty

The DUPD is out in force

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North Carolina lawmakers grant Duke Police jurisdiction over the area around East Campus

Over

the summer, the North Carolina State Government a law extending the Duke University Police Department’s jurisdiction to encompass the area surrounding East Campus. The move should benefit students by increasing safety in a consistently high-crime area, but raises concerns about the effects of a greater university-associated police presence on the offcampus social scene.

If the Duke Police do not patrol solely with .the intent of breaking up parties, and students act respectfully without testing the limits of the law, the new program should be a positive influence on students, the University, and Duke-Durham relations.

The logic underlying the extension of the DUPD’s jurisdiction is obvious —the DUPD is over-equipped for simply patrolling the University campus, while the Durham Police are already straining to enforce the law in a city known for its unusually high crime rate. By allowing Duke to police itself and the surrounding area, Durham County cops can focus more of their attention on patrolling and responding to emergencies throughout the rest of the city. This will be a significant step in the University’s effort to play a positive role in the Durham community, From the students’ perspective, increasing the regularity of DUPD patrols around East Campus and Ninth Street will go a long way toward promoting a sense of safety, especially preventing violent and/or sexual crimes that take place late at night. Given the number of students living off-campus in apartments and houses, an increase in police patrols is clearly warranted.

In addition, DUPD officers will be able to respond to situations with the same authority that Durham cops have wielded in the past.

Thus, while the DUPD authorities will certainly be watching for any unlawful activity, their first priority will be the safety of members of the University community.

The only foreseeable drawback to the new setup is the possibility that the DUPD will use its extended jurisdiction to squelch the offcampus party scene. While this is a legitimate concern on the part of students, individuals living off-campus have recently given the DUPD every reason to police house pardes harshly. This past weekend, many Durham residents reported noise, littering, and harassment on the part of Duke students, and demanded that the Durham Police crackdown this coming weekend. It is likely that pardes this weekend will be shut down at the slightest provocadon by the Durham officers. By the dme the DUPD takes over patrolling in the near future, students need to have proven that drasdc measures like these are not required.

Throughout the past, the DUPD has shown itself to be professional, dealing effectively with students. The DUPD respects students, and for this reason, receives a great deal of respect from students in return.

When the DUPD assumes authority over the area surrounding East Campus, it will be necessary for this relationship of mutual respect to continue. If students play by the rules, the DUPD can keep them safe, while allowing reasonable amounts of “good-old college fun” to continue.

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sors start to bore us and beer pong at Theta Rho Pi loses its novelty, we might need such a boost in programming much more.

Despite these concerns, 21 Night Stand is a commendable initiative. When students use their talents to enrich the lives of their peers, we are as close as possible to President Keohane’s vision of social life at Duke.

If more people would attend student-organized events, they might realize that Nan’s vision is not as preposterous as it is made out to be by staunch defenders of the beer-andhookups greek scene. In fact, our president is right in what she wants.

A significant chunk of the debauchery advertised on the special calendar would have taken place without the fifty grand.

Joost Bosland In fact, in an e-mail advertising the availThe programming is completely left up ability of the extra funds to student to different student groups on campus. groups, it was specifically mentioned that of the Duke any and all events that were already in the Jonathan Bigelow, president this format in pipeline would gladly be included in the University Union, proposed a summertime memo to Moneta. A compublicity. The women’s volleyball match mittee of student leaders, headed by against Pittsburgh would have taken place regardless, for example.

Bigelow, now coordinates the effort.

This is actually a good thing. If you look That the Union has taken an active role in the project is barely surprising; they are on calendar.duke.edu and browse through the principal student programming body The Chronicle any given week during the on campus. It has by far surpassed DSG and academic year, you would be able to find events up to par with what is advertised Campus Council as the center of student acTuesday, tivity. This fact was clear from the impresIt takes some extra effort, but typing a sive margin of 46 percent with which the Union portion of the student activities fee URL into your browser is definitely manageable. I invite passed; the DSG increase m everyone to utilize passed with a meager 2 That thfi Union HdS the existing richness percent. The Union is in programming—Freewater Films it is taken an active role in the ranging from sports Major Speakers, it is pretclassical matches, ty much any relatively project is barely SlirpHsconcerts and Shakewell-known band playing U„ I* It has by far SUTspeare plays, to free on campus, and it will be law Ludacris in Cameron. passed DSG and CampUS lunches at the school and talks by Fifty thousand dollars r convicted terrorists is a lot of extra money for Council 3S the Center Of all year long, not just three weeks of shenanident activity." when Moneta and gans. According to a stU Bigelow present it to March 5 article in The Chronicle, the bling comes from “a variety us on a silver platter.

In a conversation I had with Bigelow of sources” (the word on the street is that the Development & Alumni Affairs Office about his brainchild, he mentioned that has been particularly generous), but will the Union will start its very own calendar be channeled through Moneta’s account. this year. That calendar is supposed to A question that should be asked is whether make campus programming even more the money could not have been better accessible.

He described 21 Night Stand as a learnspent, since many student groups need money for more constructive things than ing experience that has revealed a number of existing weaknesses in campus dealings.

21 days of Moneta Madness.

The timing, too, is questionable. The If all groups involved review the process first weeks of the academic year are tradiproperly, we might see improvement, even tionally busy with previous commitments without extra cash. For some reason I am for returning students and the inevitable confident that it will happen. orientation-related events for freshmen.

Ideally, however, Moneta realizes that On top of that, people are excited both to there can never be too many social opsee friends and to be away from parental tions, and continue to spend like there is no tomorrow. supervision again. Quite a few of the people you meet on the quad actually seem reinvigorated by the break.

Joost Bosland is a Trinity sophomore. His But later in the semester, when profes- column appears every third week.

the middle of Tuesday’s Chronicle you will find the calendar of what has been called 21 Night Stand (a name straight out of a Faran Krentcil column).

This is three weeks of extra programming made possible by a $50,000 grant from the Division of Student Affairs. It is Larry Moneta’s way of trying to improve the much lamented social scene at Duke —and I think it is great.

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On the record “It's an image problem to have students partying until all hours of the morning, with people peeing in the yards, throwing up and acting out badly. It’s tough to sell real estate after a party. Who wants to live in a dump?”

Ellen Dagenhart, a Trinity Park resident, on the prospects of Duke police taking over patrolling her neighborhood in the aftermath of student behavior at off-campus parties this past weekend.

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Morisette? But she comto grasp the concept of irony!

So said one of my learned friends when I told him of my plans to make my first column of the year an encomium to the Canadian singer-songwriter. And his feelings are not uncommon. Sadly, Ms. Morisette, once a popular and admired musician, is today most commonly treated as an object of derision.

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And so I believe the time has come for a full scholarly reevaluation of Ms. Morisette’s ouevre; I would like to begin the examination process by concentrating in this space on an analysis of her 1995 hit song, “Ironic.”

It is this piece that has generated, by far the most controversy, as Ms. Morisette’s critics insist that its lyrics are marked throughout by a fatal misunderstanding of the very irony to which the title refers. I intend to demonstrate here that such is far from the case.

In fact, Ms. Morisette’s lyrics conceal a deep erudition almost completely unheard-of in today’s musicians. But first let us consider the evidence.

Supported by a strong chorus of, “Isn’t it ironic? Dontcha [sic] think?,” Ms. Morisette proposes that the following illustrations, inter alia, are instances of irony; Rain on your wedding day; A free ride when you’ve already paid; Good advice that you just didn’t take; A traffic jam when you’re already late; followed by: •

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break; Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife; Meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife.

Now, rhetoricians commonly define the concept of irony (from the Greek eirwneia) to mean, “speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest,” (Silvae Rhetoricae).

The notion can be further expanded to include dramatic irony, “a relationship of contrast between a character’s limited understanding of his or her situation in some particular moment of the unfolding action and what the audience, at the same instant, understands the character’s situation actually to be” (Glossary of Critical Concepts).

At any rate, the reader will note that none of Ms. Morisette’s cited instances conform to either definition—in short, none of the illustrations are actually ironic. How do we explain this discrepancy?

Ms. Morisette’s critics would leave the matter here, as an accident—her misapplication of such a basic term of literature, they argue, exposes her as a writer of little intelligence.

But I wish to go further. Is the entire song truly an embarrassing accident, or is something subtler happening, just under the surface?

Consider the sheer number of individuals involved in the production of a modern pop song: producers, editors, sound technicians, backup singers, marketing executives and so on. If Ms. Morisette’s lyrics are indeed so fatally flawed, are her critics telling us that not one of these individuals noticed the error?

Not one had the presence of mind to say, “Alanis, baby, why don’t you put arette •

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something really ironic into your song,

like, ‘lt’s like King Oedipus realizing

he’s killed his father and married his mother,’ so legions of American fans don’t decide you’re a moron?” Was it really such an accident?

Consider instead the possibility nay, the certainty! —that Ms. Morisette’s misapplication of irony was intentional.

Why would she ever do such a thing?

Perhaps because the chorus—“lsn’t it ironic? A little too ironic?”—is referring not to any of the individual instances, but to the entire song itself. Because what is more ironic than a song about irony in which not a single instance of irony appears? Isn’t that the most ironic thing ever?

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questionably the correct one, Ms. Morisette’s self-presentation as a ditzy songwriter who doesn’t know what she’s talking about is revealed as a subversive guise. And in the process, she has given the world the first recorded instance of meta-irony, which is surely the most ironic thing ever conceived, cloaking it all in the semblance of an innocuous pop song.

Only an artist extremely well-versed in rhetoric, literature and semiotics could have accomplished such a feat.

Conclusion: Alanis Morisette is a genius. I am very drunk.

Rob Goodman is a Trinity junior. His column appears every third week.

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Democrats have a lot to say, but little to offer As the Democratic primary campaign gets rolling, the strategy of the candidates is, for the most part, to run against President Bush rather than against each other. While this could prove beneficial in the long run, it could also prove fatal if the candidates fall into the same trap that has plagued the left over the past few years—attacking Bush with such fervor as to tumble into incoherence.

Anthony Resnick Since Bush took office, and particularly since the march to war in Iraq began, there has been a constant drone of criticism toward the president generally and the war specifically, a drone in which legitimate critiques of the man and his policies are drowned out by charges that are either given far too much significance or are flat-out false.

Opponents of the president seem eager to attach any and all negative adjectives to him, and in the process often end up contradicting themselves. It reminds me in many ways of the case made in defense of O.J. Simpson, as his legal team portrayed the L.A. police department as being both deviously clever and ridiculously incompetent. Unfortunately, the leading voices of the American left do not seem to be nearly as persuasive as Johnnie Cochran was, and the American people likely will not be swayed by this approach.

Many liberals attempt to paint the same contradictory picture of Bush, that he is both foolish and diabolical. I doubt there is much truth to either of these characterizations. While he will never be mistaken for a Rhodes Scholar, I believe that Bush is a man of at least average intelligence. (If it appears I’m damning

him with faint praise, I probably am. But he’s not an to face, counter to its vision of a grateful, cooperative idiot as some would like to believe).

Iraqi people. This, again, can be chalked up to the confident the of the charfaith of Bush and his inner circle: They were so cerfalsity I am even more in acterization of Bush as a wicked man who sends young tain in the success of Plan A that no one bothered to men to their deaths in order to ensure payoffs for his write a Plan B. buddies in the oil industry. I do not believe there is a Unfortunately, these points have been overshadowed trust and as the left has assaulted the war on all fronts, working I mean-spirited bone in our president’s body, backwards from the conclusion that the war is wrong that he honestly believes he is acting in the best interest of the American people. and grasping on to any point that would support this Rather, these perceived flaws arise from what I beconclusion. The most ridiculous reason for criticizing lieve to be the real problem with President Bush: a the war is the aforementioned “blood for oil” charge. stubbornness arising from his deep faith. Bush’s faith This accusation is both ridiculously simplistic and a very unfair charge to make against a morally-decent man. runs beyond faith in God and extends to faith in himself and, most damagingly, the people around him. He My personal least favorite of the many arguments is so assured of the correctness of his views that he made against the war is that “the international commudoesn’t care to be bothered with considering alterna- nity is opposed to it.” This argument smacks of cowlives, and so at times appears aloof and ill-informed. ardice, an unwillingness to rely simply on principled At the same time, his willingness to follow the lead of pacifism or reasoned opposition to this specific military callous old men like Donald Rumsfeld and John action. Whether or not an action is morally justifiable should not depend on whether or not the French beAshcroft gives him the appearance of wickedness.

In attacking Bush, liberals today are taking the same lieve it to be such.

While that point is not raised nearly as often now as approach conservatives have taken over the past 10 it was at the war’s outset, the current frontrunner for charge years in attacking Bill Clinton—throwing every imaginable at him and hoping that something sticks. In most popular criticism of the war in Iraq—that weapons of mass destruction have not been found—is doing so, they risk falling into the same trap that conservatives fell into, appearing so petty that even valid even more problematic because it sets the pro-war side up for a great victory when weapons are found, as they charges appear to be motivated purely by spite.

Lately, most of the criticism of the president has likely will be. It also damages the credibility of the antiwar movement, as little of the initial opposition to incentered on the war in Iraq. Certainly, there are probthat can be pointed out regarding how the war vading Iraq was based on denying that has been conducted. Even assuming that weapons of sein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

There is undoubtedly a case to be made against mass destruction will be found, it has never been adequately demonstrated that Saddam, evil as he was/is, President Bush in next year’s election. It cannot be made effectively, however, if baseless and spiteful critiwas tied to terrorists or that he in any way posed an imcisms are allowed to cloud his true faults as a leader. mediate threat to the United States, It is also becoming increasingly apparent that the Bush administration was not adequately prepared to deal with post-war Iraq. The Pentagon has been flusAnthony Resnick is a Trinity sophomore. His column aptered by the amount of resistance our troops continue pears every third week. ~

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