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Our five-day journey ends with a jaunt to Africa

The Chronicle

DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 11

DURHAM, N.C.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5,2003

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The last time that Duke (0-1) and Western Carolina (0-1) met on the football field, the Blue Devils defeated their intrastate rivals 24-10 at Wallace Wade Stadium on opening day of the 1998 season. Five years later, Duke will once again be hosting the Division I-AA Catamounts, but this time both teams will looking to even theirrecords at 1-1.

Both schools are coming off week drubbings Western Carolina fell 59-20 to then-No. 14 North Carolina State and Duke was blanked 270 by then-No. 18 Virginia—and they see week two as a chance to get their seasons back on track. ‘We’ve got to find out about ourselves and see if we can’t get back to where we’re capable of being,” Duke head coach Carl Franks said. “I think our players are embarrassed. We’ve got to

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coach better, and got to play better. I think we’re capable of doing it because there aren’t a whole lot of guys out there that are different from last year.” Although the Catamounts have never defeated a Division I-A team in 22 tries, they do return 18 starters and 45 lettermen from a team that won five games last year. And, despite SEE CATAMOUNT ON PAGE 14

The National Institutes of Health granted a six-university consortium led by Duke $45 million to establish one of eight national biodefense research centers. Former Chair of Medicine and current Director of the Human Vaccine Institute Dr. Barton Haynes will lead the southeast’s Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research. The NIH funds, part of a greater $350 million campaign for such research, have been distributed across the nationwide group of multidisciplinary centers. ‘This is a super grant,” said Chair of Medicine Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt. “We have been able to get big grants from the NIH before, but in terms of the magnitude of the grant, this is one of

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Tonight, students who usually park their cars in the Blue Zone will have to move their cars in preparation for tomorrow’s season-opening home football game. But tomorrow, fans attending the game against Western Carolina will find a new parking scheme and a nominal, though unprecedented, parking fee. Fans parking in any of the designated football lots will have to pay $5, with the exception of Iron Dukes and University faculty and staff who already have Duke permits. Students will SEE PARKING FEE ON PAGE 8

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Students who choose to tailgate in theBlue Zone for football games will have to pay $5 per car underthe new gamedayparking plan.

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the biggest and most important grants we’ve ever gotten.” The consorts of Duke, Emory University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Florida, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University and 21 affiliate members, which have been chosen to develop the next generation of vaccines, drugs and diagnostic tests against emerging infections and bioterrorist attacks at the Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Emerging Infections and Biodefense. The purpose of the center is to stimulate intellectual dialogue in which a broad range of research on infectious diseases can be initiated. “A collaboration of this sort on a

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The first two weeks of school mean spending large sums of money on textbooks. While most students purchase their textbooks on campus at the University Textbook Store in the Bryan Center—as the recently massive crowds indicate—local independent competition from the Regulator Bookshop on Ninth Street and booksellers on the Internet challenge the Textbook Store’s superiority. The Regulator has developed a relationship with many Duke professors, said Randy Campbell, the store’s manager. Associate Professor ofWomen’s Studies Kathy Rudy has ordered textbooks for her classes from the Regulator for over 10 years. “The Regulator is a long standing progressive bookstore and has been an institution in Durham for at least 20 years,” Rudy said. “[Or-

dering textbooks] is a really good way to support them.” Assistant Professor ofPhilosophy Andrew Janiak also said he orders from the Regulator in order to give it support. He said he began to order from the Regulator last year—his first year at Duke—due to its position as a community bookseller. He said he sought them out, and lamented that the Regulator does not advertise its services to professors. The desire to patronize independent bookstores is not restricted to professors. Sophomore Larissa Goodwin said she sees the Regulator as more than just a place to buy textbooks. “The Regulator is a great bookstore,” she said. “It offers a lot of resources to students that they might not know about if their professor hadn’t sent them there to buy books.” SEE TEXTBOOKS ON PAGE 9


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