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DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 99

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A report presented by North Carolina health workers at the annual Conference on Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections last week identified the first outbreak of HIV among college students since the virus was initially detected in 1981.

According to the report, the number of ndW cases of HIV among male college students has jumped from six in 2000 to 30 in 2003, totaling 84 in four years.

This contrasts sharply with a survey in the 19905, which found low rates of HIV infection across college campuses.

While the incidence of HIV among other demographic groups in North Carolina has remained stagnant, there has been a significant spike in the number of HIV cases among college students, said University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Infectious Disease Fellow Dr. Hightow, who was involved in the study.

“We decided to call this an outbreak because we saw such a dramatic increase in the number of HIV cases among college students,” Hightow said. “Plus, the

fact that we found many cases of acute or recent infection means there is a concern that the infection is spreading.”

Representatives at Duke Student Health acknowledged that Duke students have contracted HIV. Assistant Director of Student Health Jean Hanson said they diagnosed three cases in the past five years, and Administrative Coordinator of Student Health and Health Education Specialist Ray Rodriguez said they had a positive incidence of HIV last semester.

“The rise in the number of college students with HIV is a concern of ours,” Rodriguez said. “We are not in a vacuum.”

An initial study, limited to the Triangle, began when Hightow and her colleagues identified an increase in area college students contracting HIV. The results of that study, in which 25 male college students with HIV were detected, led Hightow to suspect that the statewide rising incidence of HIV was much more extensive than in the Triangle.

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OLT unveils student portal

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The Office of Information Technology today launched Duke Pass, a pilot web portal that allows undergraduates secure and easy access to a range of student-oriented information resources and online applications. Those involved in the development of the pilot will assess its effectiveness through April, and the Academic Support Technology Executive Committee will decide by the end of May whether to continue the portal’s development in the fall.

“DukePass is an exciting opportunity for us to

deliver information and services to students in a convenient, effective and appealing manner,” said Deb Johnson, assistant vice provost and director of Student Administrative Services, in a statement.

“The portal is the first initiative, and perhaps a defining one, in our plans to organize and deliver services to students in more efficient, effective and customer-friendly ways that will enhance their overall Duke experience.”

The DukePass main page offers a number of SEE PORTAL ON PAGE 12

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No. 1 Duke falls to N.C. State by

Jesse Shuger-Colvin THE CHRONICLE

RALEIGH When Shelden Williams got his 6-foot-9, 245pound body airborne to snatch a desperately thrown North Carolina State pass from the sky with just 11 seconds left in regulation, and then slung the ball to a streaking Sean Dockery, who was able to finesse his lay-up through the bottom of the net, it looked like Duke had scrambled itself to a position where it could finally overcome an early deficit and the proverbial hump in its game Sun-

day night.

JJ. Redick's six points in thefinal minute of the second half were not enough to earn a

Blue Devil victory against N.C. State Sunday night.

But the ill-fated comeback turned out to be just that, as the Wolfpack’s star, Julius Hodge, finished off a pair of free throws after being fouled on the next play, and Duke’s last-second chance sailed wide.

Just moments later the Blue Devils were walking off a basket-

ball court as the losing team for the first time since Nov. 29, and thousands of N.C. State students were rushing the court at the RBC Center in celebration of their team’s upset win over the conference’s last undefeated team and the country’s No. 1ranked squad.

It was a frustrating end to a frustrating night for Duke, who will lose that top ranking when the Associated Press poll is announced today.

“State just made us not play well, and it’s to their credit,” said Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski. “I want to congratulate them.

They’ve been playing outstanding basketball, and they did it again tonight. We weren’t able to match that tonight because we’ve been playing pretty good basketball all year long also.”

Instead of holding a- threegame lead over N.C. State (16-5,9-

2 in the ACC) with five games remaining in conference play, the Blue Devils (21-2, 10-1) now are up by just one game, as the drive for the ACC regular season championship has been altered from the one-horse race it seemed to be as recendy as yesterday afternoon.

But the Blue Devils didn’t go down without a final stand.

Redick hit a long three-pointer and three free foul shots in a row in the last 30 seconds, but Duke’s chances for a comeback never really materialized until Williams’ steal because the Wolfpack didn’t give up any ground from the free throw line. N.C. State entered the game as the best foul-shooting team in the country and made them when they mattered the most, hitdng 13 in a row from the charity stripe in the waning minutes.

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SAN FRANCISCO Gay and lesbian couples from across the country answered this city’s Valentine’s Day invitation to wed in an unprecedented spree of same-sex marriages that has challenged California law and sent conservative groups scrambling for court intervention.

Hundreds of people lined up Saturday outside City Hall to secure marriage licenses—and then take each other as “spouse for life” in brief vows that have given San Francisco’s seat of government the feel of a Las Vegas wedding chapel.

As passing drivers honked and strangers passed out roses, those waiting hours in line cheered couples who emerged from the ornate building clutching the controversial marriage licenses.

“It’s finally somebody saying, ’Yes, you can do this,”’ said Peter Subers, 57, of Washington County, N.Y, as he stood in line with husband-to-be Rob Bauer, 63.

They already had plans to head to Northern California, but decided Friday on the flight west to marry. Saturday was their 34th anniversary.

It was the third straight day that officials issued the licenses to hundreds of gay and lesbian couples. The response

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Fox Butterfield

A large number of police chiefs and other law enforce-

ment officials have joined gun control advocates in a campaign to defeat a Senate bill that would grant gun makers

and dealers almost total immunity from lawsuits.

The bill, which is strongly supported by the National Rifle Association, is scheduled for a Seriate vote in early March but could come up for a vote even sooner. As many as .59 senators have signed on as sponsors, only one vote shy of the number needed to defeat any attempt at a filibuster. A similar bill passed easily in the House last fall.

The police officials’ campaign began last week when

has been so overwhelming that nearly 200 city officials, led by newly elected Mayor Gavin Newsom, have volunteered to pitch in, from sheriff’s deputies providing security to clerks processing the licenses.

Rodney Vonjaeger and his partner John Kussmann, both 37, drove overnight from San Diego and arrived at 3 a.m. Saturday.

“We decided if there was ever an opportunity we would do it, so the drive wasn’t even a consideration,” Vonjaeger said as he waited in line Saturday. They set the hotel alarm for 8 a.m., “but we

Gaza journalists protest mysterious attacks

Powell shows appreciation for South Korean Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed "deep appreciation"to South Korea's foreign minister Sunday for the parliament's decision to send 3,000 troops to Iraq, the US government said.

Cruise ship has over 300 sick passengers A Carnival Cruise Lines ship returned from a five-day cruise to Mexico Saturday with more than 300 people sick with a gastrointestinal illness. Carnival officials said the outbreak might have been caused by a norovirus.

Three cloned mules healthy and normal Three young mules, the first members of the horse family to be cloned are all healthy, normal and energetically enjoying life, say researchers who put them on display in Seattle Sunday.

Chief William J. Bratton of the Los Angeles Police Department held a news conference denouncing the bill. Bratton and 80 other police officials then signed a letter to the Senate expressing their opposition. At the same time, a full-page advertisement featuring a photograph of Bratton and paid for by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence appeared in The Washington Post.

The advertisement is expected to appear soon in other major newspapers and on television, and Bratton said he would go to Washington to lobby senators.

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A fire swept through a shopping center in northeastern China Sunday, killing 51 people and injuring dozens more. Hours later, a fire in a temple in the country's southeast killed 39 people.

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On a sunny afternoon in the “backyard” ofEast Campus, the space between Southgate Dormitory and the intramural field is a swirl of green grass, golden sunshine and gray wall. The gravel path that starts at the break in the wall connects the busy street to Blackwell and Randolph —the two “institutional-like” dormitories that offer quite a change of scenery from the rolling hills of grass passed en route.

Student complaints about the dreariness of the two dorms have led administrators who are currendy planning a new freshman dorm, which will be built this summer along the same path and by the same company, to be cautious about repeating past mistakes.

From a bird’s-eye-view, the four-story, $13.8 million dorm will resemble a “Z” with the inner angle straightened out, and share a roofline with the third and top floor of Randolph. A bridge will also connect the second floor of the new dorm and Randolph’s ground floor.

“This is a building that will complete a quadrangle with [Gilbert-Addoms], Southgate, Blackwell and Randolph, so the architecture will fit Randolph and Blackwell,” said Larry Moneta, vice president of student affairs. “[Randolph and Blackwell] have been fine, but the rooms built were not big enough to accommodate the contemporary collection of stuff students bring. Learning from some mistakes made in the past, the rooms will be bigger and there will be changes to the exterior architecture.”

The ultimate test of whether the administration and architectural company’s efforts improve the first-year residential life experience, in spite of the dorm’s location and possible aesthetic shortcomings, will rest on how the 138 incoming freshmen randomly selected to live here react to not only their dorm mates, but also to amenities uncharacteristic of other East dorms.

CORRECTION The headline of a Feb, 6 story about the numbers of biology majors was misleading. Although in the past five years, the number of biology majors had declined sharply, the headline should not have indicated that biology majors are a "dying breed," as it is still one of the most popular departments among undergraduates and indeed showed an uptick in majors last year.

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What they may not realize is that a larger force—the Administration—determines who they meet, who they make friends with, and who they eat at the Marketplace with.

“There is a science about housing, where you don’t want more than 400 students within an administrative unit,” said Moneta. “Eight to twelve [rooms are] ideal for a face-to-face community, and it might be the size of a corridor, the wing of the building,” that determines one’s social networks, Moneta emphasized.

Keeping with the current residential model, each floor will have 22 to 24 rooms split among two RAs, with the exception of a ground floor for common programming space. A media center like that of the McClendon Tower is still being discussed.

“It’s all form following function,” said Eddie Hull, director of Residence Life and Housing Services. “If we expect students to form relationships that are important to them, we have to make it possible for them to gather. That is the reason we’ve put more study rooms and more community space to create opportunities for students to gather formally or informally.”

Plans for the new dorm will include more such spaces, including a computer cluster in the dorm and a commons room and two study rooms on every floor. The new dorm will also have more bathrooms than commonly found in other East dorms, and the average double will be larger than the average double elsewhere on East, but smaller

than the largest doubles in the West-Edens Link. There will also be a Duke police substation near the dorm to address student safety concerns about dorms off the main quad.

Although the new dorm was erected less on the philosophy “build it and they will come” and more “they come, so we build,” the construction of the new dorm has observed common student desires for suitable housing, even if the more unrealistic ones were ignored.

Freshman Holt Calhoon, a current resident of GilbertAddoms suggested some quirky features for the new dorm—including a snack shop and digital art on the walls, but also offered some more tangible ideas.

“You also need [air conditioning], and don’t do that hall bathroom—do a suite with four people to one bathroom,” Calhoon said.

Students also expressed the need for a bus stop created specifically for the dorm, a common space like the balcony on GA and an exterior appearance that is more appealing than that of Randolph and Blackwell.

Dan Oppedisano, a Southgate resident, said the new dorm should improve on some undesirable features of Blackwell and Randolph. “The rooms look like penitentiaries, with cinder-block... [and] a very unhomely-like feeling,” he said.

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Crime Briefs E-mail threatens hospital patients An employee reported Feb. 13 that a threatening e-mail was received at the Durham County Schools Hospital Education office. The e-mail arrived at 9:59 p.m. Feb. 12 threatening to harm some of the patients at the hospital. This incident is being investigated jointly by the Duke and Durham

police departments.

Employee’s briefcase missing An employee reported the theft of a $465 briefcase containing a blank prescription pad from an office in the Duke Clinics building. The employee said the briefcase was last seen in his office at 6 p.m. Feb. 11. The briefcase was missing when he came to work at 7 a.m. Feb. 12.

Irate woman assaults officer Officers responded to Edens Quadrangle at 2:33 a.m. Feb. 14 in reference to an intoxicated visitor.

When officers arrived, Durham Emergency Medical Service employees told them that the visitor needed to go to the emergency department but was too combative to ride in an ambulance. Officers attempted to speak to the visitor, Nina Geurkink— DOB Oct. 27, 1983, of 1425 Goldfriend Dr. in Raleigh —who became increasingly hostile and struck an officer in the chest.

Geurkink was taken to the emergency department by officers. Along the way, she had to be restrained after hitting and scratching a student who was with her in the police car to try to calm her down. After being treated in

from slatT reports the ED, Geurkink was arrested by Duke officers on one count of assault on a government official and one count of simple assault. Geurkink, who could not be reached for comment, secured bond. was held on a Her court date is set for March 30.

Lights off: projector snatched An employee reported the theft of a $2,500 Dell overhead projector from a conference room in the Physics

building. The employee said he last saw the projector at 11 a.m. Feb. 11.

Another employee reported that the security cable had been cut and the projector stolen at ll:30~a.m. Feb. 11.

Young woman gets bag stolen A student reported the theft ofher black shoulder bag, containing a Sprint cell phone, a Panasonic CD player, $95 in cash, a wallet, credit cards and notebooks from the weight

room at Wilson Recreational Center Feb. 11. The student reported that she left her bag in a cubby in the weight room at T.45 p.m. Feb. 11 while she was exercising. When she was finished at 2 p.m., the bag was missing. The bag and contents are valued at $735.

Allen Building gate arm broken An employee reported at 12:14 p.m. Feb. 14 that three male and three female subjects who appeared to be intoxicated broke a $5O gate arm in the Allen Building parking lot.

Officers responded and searched the area but did not locate anyone fitting the description.

Newsßriefs from staff Rescheduling classes is profs’ call Faculty members will have the option to reschedule Jan. 26 and Jan. 27 undergraduate classes that were canceled due to snow,

to officials from Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, the Pratt School of Engineering and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

“Faculty [members] are in the best position to determine if there is need to make up the material [or] lab that was missed and, if so, whether or not a make-up class [or] lab period is needed or [whether] the work can be incorporated into the remaining regularly scheduled class [or] lab periods,” wrote Trinity Dean Robert Thompson, Nicholas Dean William Schlesinger and Pratt Senior Associate Dean for Education Tod Laursen in an e-mail to their schools’ faculty.

Jan. 26 classes can be rescheduled for Friday, April 23 and Jan. 27 classes can be rescheduled for Thursday, April 22. This will reduce the reading period from four days to two days, according to officials.

Faculty members are instructed to e-mail at the classroomRegistrar reservations@duke.edu if they wish to make up a class. No examinations, quizzes or tests may be given on the make-up class days, and classes may not be made up any other day except April 22 and April 23.

Although an asterisk may need to be affixed to its tide, the Last Day of Classes Concert will go on as scheduled April 21.

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Pratt professor and dean receive grant for outreach Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering Kristina Johnson announced that the National Science Foundation has awarded a professor and a dean a $1.4 million, five-year grant to support Pratt’s mathematics and sci-

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ence outreach in neighboring elementary and middle schools.

The recipients of the grant are associate professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering Gary Ybarra and Martha Absher, Pratt’s assistant dean for education and outreach.

The grant, entitled Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum, is a five-year project that partners with Lakewood Elementary School, Rogers-Herr Middle School, Central Elementary School and Orange Charter School with the goal of significantly increasing the number of students who choose science- and engineeringrelated careers.

Fuqua students win case-writing award

Two students from the Fuqua School of Business won first prize in the social entrepreneurship category at the Kauffman/Angell Center for Entrepreneurship National Case-Writing Competition, which was held at Wake Forest University’s Babcock School of Management in January.

Second-year students Victor Abad and Adam Elboim won for their analysis of the growth of the Latino Community Credit Union in Durham, the fastest-growing credit union in the United States. The case provided an in-depth look at the organization’s development, with a focus on the correlation between factors such as human resources, location, partnerships and financial sustainability.

In addition to a cash prize, the students were awarded an engraved clock and a plaque, both ofwhich they plan to present to the Fuqua School of Business. The competition aims to help students bridge the gap between theory and practice by examining practical business experiences, and is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

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Steven Weisman

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President George W. Bush’s adWASHINGTON has begun suggesting that Afghanistan’s ministration elections scheduled for June may have to be postponed because of security problems and the failure to register enough voters.

Administration officials said in recent days that security conditions remained dangerous or at least uncertain in a third of the country, hampering registration so badly that only 8 percent of eligible Afghan voters have been enrolled. Among women, only 2 percent have registered.

The United Nations has said at least 70 percent of eligible voters should be registered for the elections to be considered successful. That leaves only four months to achieve a daunting objective at a time when registration workers are avoiding large regions of the country that are considered unsafe. Afghanistan has about 10.5 million eligible voters.

“I am reasonably confident that we can get enough voters registered and provide security—it won’t be perfect —that at least the presidential election can take place in June, or maybe July,” said an administrative official. But he added that security would have to improve to reach that goal, and that this might not happen.

President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan government bear the responsibility for deciding whether the elections must be postponed, administration officials said. But the United States is also expected to play a decisive role in advising the Karzai government about what to do in that regard.

Karzai is said to be determined to hold at least the presidential election on time, in part because he expects to win. He is also said to be haunted by the memory that civil war erupted in the early 1990s when Burhanuddin Rabbani, a onetime anti-Russia guerrilla leader, refused to step down as president.

Under the constitution that was agreed upon in early January, Afghanistan is supposed to try to schedule both presidential and parliamentary elections in June.

The administration official said it was very likely that the parliamentary elections, as opposed to presidential elections, would lie postponed, possibly until next year, because even beyond security concerns, there were difficulties in setting district boundaries, choosing candidates and organizing political parties for the parliamentary elections. Registration is also hampered by Afghanistan’s extensive illiteracy and perhaps because most cities and towns do not have streets or addresses.

Many other experts say that in discussions with administration officials, there is a growing sense that the

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Bush administration officials insist that American politics are playing no role in the decisions about whether to push for elections, but there is little doubt that President Bush would like to claim an electoral success in Afghanistan as he runs for re-election himself.

Similarly in Iraq, the administration is pushing for a transfer of sovereignty in June, another goal that some in the administration say is being influenced at least partly by the domestic political calendar.

Countering the American desire for an election in Afghanistan in June, many European and Japanese officials and private organizations involved in Afghanistan’s reconstruction are in favor of putting off the elections out of fear that chaotic voting may do more harm than good.

Lakhdar Brahimi, a former U.N. coordinator in

Afghanistan and the current U.N. envoy to Iraq, is on record for saying elections cannot be held quickly in either country.

Last month, Brahimi told a closed-door Security Council session that Afghan elections could not be held in June, said an official who was at the session.

Brahimi told the National Press Club two weeks ago that “a huge effort will indeed be necessary” to have “free and fair elections” on schedule. He also predicted that the parliamentary election should probably be held in the spring of 2005. Last week, in Iraq, he was trying to convince Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani that viable elections could not be held there until the end of the year.

But the administration is resisting a postponement in Afghanistan even as it backs Brahimi’s assessment for Iraq.

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ISLAMABAD For more than a decade, his picture hung in government offices where a president’s portrait might be. Schoolchildren read stories of how he dedicated his career to saving Pakistan from archrival India. Newspapers ran fullpage supplements about the most mundane details ofhis life.

For years, it seemed, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, could do no wrong.

But now Khan is under house arrest, accused of selling nuclear secrets to North Korea, Libya, and Iran. His televised confession last week has been greeted with a mixture of dismay and defiance in Pakistan, where extremists have used him as a rallying cry to attack US influence and even the most moderate newspapers have urged the government to leave him alone. Some say popular anger at his treatment could threaten President Pervez Musharraf, who has escaped three

assassination attempts since he backed the US war on terror.

“I think AQ Khan is a good person and that he’s scared. He’s a national hero—he would never do something just for money,” said Mohammad Malik, manager of a clothes shop in downtown Islamabad. “It’s all about international relations. It’s part of the friendship between Musharraf and George W. Bush ... The US is against Muslims. It doesn’t want any Muslim country to have nuclear weapons.”

Musharraf quickly pardoned Khan, called him a hero, and announced that he would be able to keep the money he made from illicit deals.

In the United States, the spectacle of Khan’s confession has made the awkward alliance with Pakistan even more so, proving that a key US ally is also responsible for one of the most serious acts ofnuclear proliferation in history.

In a speech Wednesday, President Bush gave the clearest indication yet that Pakistani investigators are cooperating with US intelligence agencies to roll up Khan’s

international network ofillicit nuclear suppliers, but did not call for any punishment to be taken against Khan—an omission that puzzled and angered critics.

At the center of the current crisis is a quirky metallurgist who wore old clothes and drove a Volkswagen before he rose to become a symbol of nationalism and defiance of the West.

‘They dislike me and accuse me of all kinds of unsubstantiated and fabricated lies because I disturbed all their strategic plans, the balance ofpower and blackmailing potential in this part of the world,” Khan said in an interview, conducted several years ago and published on the popular YesPakistan.com website.

Khan began on the road to fame in 1974, the year India first tested its nuclear weapon, prompting Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, then Pakistan’s prime minister, to vow to acquire a weapon in self-defense. Khan, who had been working at a European nuclear facility called URENCO, returned home with allegedly stolen centrifuge blueprints and a list ofnuclear suppliers.

In the years that followed, he played such a crucial role in building the centrifuges that could enrich uranium that the facility eventually bore his name— Khan Research Laboratories. He soon became the public face of Pakistan’s attempt to become a nuclear power. A man who loved the limelight, he could never seem to keep Pakistan’s biggest secret to himself.

He hosted conferences at fancy hotels, where he passed out brochures that advertised his nuclear knowledge to foreigners.

In 1984, long before Pakistan admitted to having a nuclear program, he created an international uproar by saying that Pakistani scientists were “smart enough” to build a bomb “to carry out the job when we are asked to,” according to reports at the time.

In 1987, he embarrassed the government again when he told a reporter that he had built a nuclear bomb. ‘They doubted my capabilities, but they know we have done it,” he said.

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Service records key to Bush vs. Kerry ebate By

Bennett Roth

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WASHINGTON In the photograph, found on his Web site and in his commercials, John Kerry is a young naval lieutenant posing in a T-shirt with his crew on Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.

It is a wartime image that the leading Democratic presidential contender has actively promoted to convince voters that he has the mettle to take on President George W. Bush at a time when the nation is in another messy foreign conflict, this time in Iraq.

It is also a sign that the Vietnam War, a highly divisive ordeal that many Americans would rather forget, is still coloring the national political debate almost 30 years after the fall of Saigon.

The Democrats hope that Kerry, who earned three Purple Hearts as well as Silver and Bronze medals, will be a more effective messenger than past nominees for a party that has battled a perception of being weak on national security.

The party has sought to contrast Kerry’s service during Vietnam with that of Bush, who served in the Texas Air National Guard, viewed by some at the time as away to avoid combat.

Fueling the flames, the Democrats have accused Bush of dodging his duties in the guard when he went to work for an Alabama Senate campaign.

That prompted the White House last week to release pay and medical records to show Bush did show up for at least some duty in Alabama.

Conservative groups also have fought back by pushing what they believe is a less-flattering image ofKerry leading the anti-war effort upon returning from Vietnam.

They have circulated a photograph ofKerry at a rally in 1970, seated several rows behind actress Jane Fonda, who angered many Americans two years later when she traveled to Hanoi to denounce the war.

Fonda recently told CNN she doesn’t remember meeting Kerry at the rally.

For the moment, at least, the crossfire over how the two

men of the same generation behaved during the Vietnam era has overshadowed debate over issues such as taxes, health care and education.

“The truth is the war in Vietnam has not gone away.

The war in Iraq is ringing our Vietnam bells. We are hearing words like quagmire,” said Douglas Brinkley, a professor at the University of New Orleans and the author of “Tour of Duty, John Kerry and the Vietnam War.” Brinkley suggested that Bush may have invited a closer look at his youthful service last year when he donned a flight suit and landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to declare the end of major combat operations in Iraq.

And he said Democrats, who did not raise Bush’s service as a serious issue in the 2000 campaign, may feel more comfortable bringing it up now that their front-runner is a decorated veteran and Bill Clinton, who avoided the draft during Vietnam, is no longer in office.

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Iraqi town caucuses foster rising democracy by

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FALLUJAH, Iraq A single week in this restive town illuminated the triumphs and setbacks in Iraq’s journey

toward democracy.

Under threat by anti-American insurgents, the mayor resigned. Another man suspected of cooperating with the Americans was gunned down in front of his home. A sheik elected to the new provincial council was attacked by a suicide bomber. The American adviser survived a bomb attack on his car. And Saturday, attackers stormed a police station, freeing dozens of prisoners in a raid that left more than 20 people dead and at least 40 others wounded.

Yet for all of that, when the Americans held a caucus here to choose a new provincial council, more than 1,000 people turned out to vote, crowding into a youth center and debating well into the night.

The next day, the new council members attended an inauguration ceremony that went off without a hitch.

Even when interrupted by a gunbattle Thursday, the Fallujah Town Council refused to give up.

“Every time we meet here with the Americans we have problems like this,” Dr. Muhammad al-Balwa, the council president, told his colleagues. “Next time we will meet outside the city, but until then we will keep going.”

The first days of Iraqi self-governance are unfolding: a caucus here, a bomb blast there, an assassination, a resignation, yet youth centers are packed full of Iraqis eager to give voice to their dreams.

The same scene is unfolding across the country, following a directive by Iraqi and U.S. officials to hold fresh caucuses in the 19 provincial councils and in the 250 city councils, to elect new members to replace those who had been U.S. appointees in the first days after the war.

In away, it is an enormous warm-up act; The provincial councils are expected to play a crucial role in the process by which the Americans are to transfer sovereignty by June 30. The caucuses are expected to be the principal means by which Iraqis will select the members of their new National Assembly.

Nowhere is the experiment more difficult than in Fallujah, a hardscrabble town about 35 miles west of Baghdad where many residents directly benefited from Saddam Hussein’s rule. Here, the American-inspired effort must try to set up working democratic institutions while a guerrilla war still smolders.

The push to install a democracy here is strained by a bitterness expressed by many Fallujah residents. It is not so much antidemocratic as anti-American.

The Americans insist that they will succeed, that their troops will crush the insurgency as democratic institu-

tions take hold. Military officers and civilian advisers say they are encouraged by the desire for self-government on the part of the Iraqis, something that was repressed for so long by Saddam’s iron hand.

‘There is enormous hunger here for democracy,” said

Keith Mines, one of the advisers. “You can see it when you go to these caucuses.”

Indeed, the scene at the Fallujah Youth Center last week seemed a validation of every idealistic notion that democracy could take root in a land that has never known it. At the first of the day’s three caucuses, the city’s legal community gathered to choose their representative for the new Anbar Provincial Council.

By 10 a.m., about 200 lawyers had crowded into the auditorium, many of them dressed in Western-style coats and ties, and barely a seat was to be had. The candidates rose to nominate themselves. One of the first was Sabah Naji,

who climbed up on the stage

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people he already knew well.

“If you believe that I am the better candidate, then I ask that you vote for me,” Sabah told his colleagues.

“And if you think my opponent is the better man, vote for him.”

After Sabah’s opponent, Saidullah Mahdi, finished a similar speech, the chair of the caucus, Muhanad Ismail, made an unexpected announcement.

“An objection has been raised by someone in the audience that Mr. Sabah was a high-ranking member of the Baathist Party,” Ismail said. Sabah, it was said, had been a shuba, a senior party member.

A murmur swept through the crowd, but Ismail had more to say. “But I also have in my possession a Baath Party SEE

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Over the past week and a half, The Chronicle has received over 100 letters to the editor on a wide range of topics. Today, on pages 8,9 and 10 and 11 we present a sample of those submissions, in addition to the letters appearing on our regular Editorial Pages. Letters to the Editor may be sent via letters@chronicle.duke.edu, or to apc3@duke.edu. Word limit is 325 words.

DUSDAC responds to columnist In response to Joost Bosland’s Thursday column, I’d like to offer some facts and comparisons on Duke’s Dining program.

While Duke’s West Campus residents are required to purchase a $1315 dining plan each semester, that number pales in comparison to the University of Miami’s $1483 per semester, Boston College’s $1825 minimum plan including a $lOO non-refundable Capital Restoration Fee and Stanford’s over $2OOO minimum residential plan.

Furthermore, options at these schools or any others aren’t even close to our more than 20 on-campus options plus delivery on points. That sounds like a competitive market to me. From Italian to Asian, Mexican to McDonald’s, Tofu to Steak, 24 hours a day you can get an impressive variety ofitems with your points.

As for Bosland’s accusations of Duke or Duke Dining screwing over the local com-

munity, students can choose to spend all of their dining points patronizing local eateries by ordering from 1 of the 13 Merchants on Points vendors.

Finally, I don’t know where Bosland purchased a $9 chicken wrap but it certainly wasn’t the Great Hall ($5.50 with chips and soda), Alpine Atrium ($5.75), or Subway ($5.39). Bosland, or anyone else with concerns about our dining system, is welcome to voice their concerns to Duke’s Student Dining Advisory Committee by writing to dusdac@duke.edu or to go right to Dining Services Director Jim Wulforst who is eager to meet student regarding our Duke’s Dining Program which he has worked so hard to cultivate.

Sean Biederman Emma Batcheleder The authors are DUSDAC Co-chairs Biederman is also a Recess writer.

DCU doesn’t get an A for research I am surprised no one has pointed out that the Duke Conservative Union ad listing the political affiliations of various departments at Duke left out the vast majority of subjects taught here though claiming to represent the faculty.

Period. No qualifiers. Sampling a mere

8 subjects out of about 100 does not justify their broad conclusions.

What were they thinking?

This is not research I would give an “A” if I were a professor.

Daryl Junk employee, Duke Registrar’s Office

Deng comment beyond ignorance The egregious error made by The Chronicle in printing the line about Luol Deng should be corrected, in part, by the immediate resignation of the reporter and the sports editor. Both have to be responsible for their actions.

Likening a young African man to an animal is beyond ignorance. It is racist.

And, by allowing the reporter and sports editor to get away with it, you will undoubtedly cause them, yourself, The

Chronicle and the University much disgrace.

I think it is prudent to continue to control the damage you have caused, but those two have to fall.

If your next question is “then should I also resign?, ’1 would reply “yes” if you read, absorbed and processed the language.

Wayne Taitt Trinity ’96

Columnist misse s mark I was not certain whether Denise

Napoli’s Feb. 13 column, “Dance Party,” was an attempt at campus satire or an earnest attempt to characterize greek life Duke.

Either way, her column shortchanges greeks, independents and campus administrators alike.

If her goal is to prompt the administration and the student body toward the “recognition of fraternities and sororities as important institutions,” writing a column that from the outset discounts the opinion of “bitter independents” and singles out “Iron-Fist Nan” does not seem to be an especially wise approach.

Greeks who are concerned about the future of these institutions at Duke should think seriously about brushing up on their public relations.

It is my guess and hope, after all, that most greeks would not echo Napoli’s assertion that greeks are the only “people who matter.”

If so, you should consider adopting self-imposed measures to improve relations with non-affiliated students, your housekeepers, and the rest of the wider at

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Duke community.

The reality is that as suffocated as greeks may feel on a campus that seems to push fraternities under the rug, many non-affiliated students, believe it or not, think that weekly homage to the homogeneous beer-soaked dance party paradigm stifles our imagination of what social life can look like.

Although I am one of those marginalized students who thinks that social lifeblood at Duke is rich and flowing in the non-greek corridors, I confess that greeks are both philanthropically commendable and sociologically intriguing.

And yet, forward-thinking communities sometimes need to let go of the good ol’ institutions we love so dearly to make room for better ways of life.

Thus, I would agree with Napoli’s fictional “Frat Guy #2,” who sees incoming President Richard Brodhead as inheriting a weighty baton regarding the future of students’ social and residential life at Duke University.

David Hsu Trinity ’O4

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Jack Chao is In response to Christy Choi’s article “Quenching the thirst of students...,” Jack Chao is officially my hero.

As a senior and former two-year resident of Trent Drive Hall, I ate at Grace’s five nights a week and have not encountered a more friendly, interesting, likeable or hard-working staff anywhere else at Duke.

I have also frequendy come into contact with Jack at Quenchers and have witnessed first hand the interest he shows in students’ lives.

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I was extremely disappointed with the lack of correct analysis presented in Anthony Resnick’s column concerning President Bush. Primarily, it is obvious that David Kay’s entire address was not heard.

Kay claimed to have found no weapons of mass destruction, stating evidence that they were probably destroyed and shipped out of the country before the multilateralinvasion.

In addition, Kay then stated that the U.S. and the world dramatically underestimated the resolve Saddam had to obtain these weapons. He stated that, ifwe had known of the amount of programs Hussein desired to create, we would have attacked sooner.

Saddam did possess the weapons, as every intelligence industry claimed. There was no “grievous error” that Bush made in agreeing with all of the best intelligence in the world, and with Saddam himself, that he had weapons. If we underestimated the amount that we would find after the war was

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and has a progressive mind that is always open to new ideas. What other juice bar would sell roses for Valentine’s Day? Only Jack Chao and his staffcould keep Grace’s not only surviving, but thriving in Trent, a building in which students no longer live. It would have been easy for him to shut her down and move on, but instead he adapted.

Is a little snow going to stop Jack Chao?

No way, buddy. He even told me how he sacrificed his knee and fired up his own car to make that final delivery on Central Campus during the snow day. That is the type of dedication that Duke needs more offrom everybody.

Jesse Swanko Trinity ’O4

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over, this is not Bush’s fault.

We elect Presidents to make difficult decisions on information obtained by the best sources in the world. If even Chirac agreed that there were weapons in February, and the U.N. overestimated the amount Hussein had, there is no reason to point fingers at Bush as if he were the reason all of this information was obtained.

What is troubling to me is the fact that Kerry and most others in Congress voted to

give the President the “go-ahead” when they were presented with the same information that Bush received. Now, Kerry is spinning on his heels because he has no backbone to maintain a position he believed in. Integrity? Look no further: President Bush had every reason to do what he did, and he even has the integrity to defend his past actions.

Stephen LaFata

Trinity ’O7

I think that the Duke Conservative Union has a point. There certainly is discrimination against Republican faculty on campuses across America.

However courageous, their cry for justice is likely to fall on deaf ears because it is way ahead of the times and people are afraid to face the truth. I will suggest away to end this discrimination once and for all but, to ensure acceptance of the Republicans’ case, my plan requires time and the bipartisan cooperation of all Democrats. I propose that the Democratic Controllers of the universities immediately define Republicans as bio-

logically inferior and force large numbers of them to work on campus without salary or benefits. Democrats should also make liberal use of beating, rape, prison and lynching.

After about 200 years of this, Republicans will have a real tight case, and they could perhaps find another David Horowitz, their Martin Luther King, to lead them into a bright future of fairness, equality and freedom just like the one currently enjoyed by most African Americans.

Daniele Armaleo Assistant Professor of the Practice, Biobgy

DCU’s position illogical, problematic Remarkable in the Duke Conservative Union’s survey of faculty political affiliation and the ensuing discussion are just how many categorically binary and problematic assumptions are embedded in discussing intellectual diversity and its meaning.

This has already been pointed out by others in the assumption that affiliation as a “Democrat” or “Republican” is any kind of honest indicator of what intellectual positions people actually hold and the diversity of their views. Indeed, my guess is that the “left” that the DCU seems so preoccupied with are themselves likely see little underlying meaning in such party distinctions in what might simply be called a “Republi-cratic” American political system. Equally confusing is the assertion of skew or disparity in the Humanities faculty’s political affiliations.

Skew compared to what other group? Duke students? North Carolina voters? Faculty in ‘The Sciences?” Without an explicit comparison to an expectation, the claim of “skew” seems empirically empty of meaning.

The implicit (and untested?) assumption within the data collection itself that a politi-

cal bias is more likely within the Humanities faculty or that somehow skew would matter more with these professors than those in other disciplines presents a whole other set of problematic assumptions.

The comments in the letter-to-the-editor

by Herb Childress do little to help this muddle, perpetuating yet another false dichoto-

my between “the Humanities” and “the Sciences” and the intrinsic characteristics of people in these disciplines (Science is less collaborative? Professors in the Humanities less concerned with reputation?!). It seems wholly conjecture that these asserted disciplinary boundaries relate in any meaningful way to political or intellectual diversity. It is both ironic and symptomatic that in being so concerned to address intellectual diversity we resort to the pat and misleading binaries such as “left” and “right,” “Humanities” and “Sciences.” If we are really concerned with intellectual diversity, let’s start ourselves by moving at least a little beyond a world view of O’sand Ts. Andrew Yang Graduatestudent, Department of Biology

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Democrats are really centrists I was having trouble understanding why the Duke Conservative Union was so fired up about some Democrats on campus, but then their executive director, Madison Kitchens, revealed their faulty logic.

He said that the preponderance of Democratic faculty is indicative of humanities departments where the ideologies are skewed toward the left. Relative to Republicans, most Democrats are indeed politically to the left. However, relative to the worldwide scope of academic discourse (which is the correct level of comparison), the Republicans are practically off the scale to the right. Indeed, Democrats are really centrist, and you have to look to the Green Party or some other political affiliation to find views that even approach the “left”.

One of the primary requisites of being a

good teacher and an academic is an ability to be open-minded and see both sides of

an issue, thus most academics have a liberal world view (in the classic use of the term) and a centrist political outlook on . the personal level.

It hasn’t always been thus, but the farright have hijacked the Republican platform, resulting in a closed-minded party which is the barest shadow of what it used to be. The only place left for centrists is in the Democratic Party (given the restrictions of our two-party system), which is exactly where you would expect to find most well-versed academics who teach balanced courses in prestigious humanities departments.

Ahrash Bissell

Learning Specialist, Academic Resource Center

Organ donors make The Jesica Santillan tragedy created lots of publicity about the need for more organ donors. A year later, the organ shortage continues to grow.

The shortage of human organs for transplant operations kills over 6,000 Americans every year. The solution is simple—if you don’t agree to donate your organs when you die, then you go to the back of the waiting list if you ever need an organ to live.

A grass-roots group of organ donors called Life Sharers is making this idea a reality one member at a time.

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This creates a pool of organs available first to members. The existence of this pool gives other people an incentive to sign donor cards and join the network, and this incentive grows stronger as the network expands.

Anyone who wants to donate their organs to others who have agreed to donate theirs can join LifeSharers at http://www.lifesharers.com. Membership in the organizaton is free.

LifeSharers has been in operation for 20 months, and has attracted 2,047 members in 49 states and the District of Columbia, including 95 members in North Carolina.

David Undis Executive Director, LifeSharers

Nathan Carleton was right in his Feb. 9 column, “Little bags filled with flour: The future of the Cameron Crazies.”The Cameron Crazies really need to step it up. Let’s face it.

The chants in Cameron are painfully unoriginal. They all basically go to the same

rhythm.

I remember the good old days ofWisconsin Badger football games. Here are a couple fan favorite cheers: Suppose a player on the opposing team gets hurt. You chant, “Shoot him like a horse!” I tried this one last year at a game in Cameron, but the people around me thought I was insane.You need to share the Igve with your fellow fans, so be-

tween student sections (we could do this between the undergrad and grad sections in

Cameron), you chant back and forth, “F*@# you!”...’’Eat S#&*!” Say an opposing player makes a turnover. It’s nice to point out the mistake to him, so you'chant, ‘You F#s%ed up!’That’s what makes Madison the best college sports town, according to Sports Illustrated, and took us to three Rose Bowl victo-

ries in the past ten years. Maybe that’s what Duke needs to put up another banner in the rafters this year.

Dan Lee Graduate Student, Department ofPolitical Science

ID and evolution should be taught Kevin Ogorzalek wants evolution alone be taught in schools. Rather than waging war through The Chronicle, I wish only to point out flaws in his argument and express my hope for a reasonable alternative.

First of all, Ogorzalek assumes that “misunderstanding evolution . . causes resistance to acceptance.” However, to negate his example, I assert that one who rejects evolution because of wrongly assuming that it claims men descend from chimps would reject the claim that they share a common, less advanced ancestor.

Secondly, intelligent design claims no religion. Some non-Christians accept intelligent design. If ID were merely another attempt by creationists to return to the classroom and had no scientific standing, no atheist scientists would accept it.

Ogorzalek explains that with new contradicting evidence, Darwinians are “bound to change their views.” However, evolution operates on a “foregone conclusion;” when new evidence is discovered it is worked to

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forthrightly into the evolutionary frarpework

without consideration that evolution could be a false conclusion. Quoting atheist philosopher and self-proclaimed evolutionist David Stove: “In neo-Darwinism’s house there are many mansions: so many, indeed, that if a certain awkward fact will not fit into one mansion, there is sure to be another one into which it will fit to admiration.”

Perhaps Ogorzalek’s most dangerous claim is that “evolution is not a threat to religion” because of certain religious endorsements. If all Christians took the pope’s word for everything, then surely Christianity wouldbe an opiate for the masses. Following Ogorzalek’s reasoning, one can claim that eugenics is not a threat to evolution because some famous Darwinians have endorsed it.

Evolution and ID should be considered in schools, devoid of religion. Known mistakes propagating evolution in textbooks should also be addressed.

Stephen Paul Trinity ’O6

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JonathanStokke and Duke could not overcome the mini's singles lineup.

So close, yet so far away.

The sixth-ranked men’s tennis team got their hearts broken by topranked Illinois, dropping a closely contested 6-1 loss in front of a capacity crowd on Valentine’s Day. The loss perpetuates a 40-game Illinois (8-0) win streak dating back to last year. Both of Duke’s (5-2) losses have come against the Illini.

“We knew their level, and they knew ours,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. ‘They’re national champions, and they just showed why.”

The Blue Devils fought admirably against the defending national champions despite the lopsided score. Duke got an early 1-0 lead by winning the doubles point. The nation’s second-best doubles team in sophomore Ludovic Walter and junior Jason Zimmerman defeated the Illini’s top combination, and freshman Peter Rodrigues and sophomore Stephen Amritraj proved too much for Illinois’ Pramod Dabir and Ryler DeHeart.

“We’re very, very good in doubles.” Lapidus said. “I think we’re the best doubles team in the country.”

Unfortunately for Duke, however, the doubles loss galvanized the Illini, who responded by winning all of the singles matches.

Amritraj and Zimmerman fell first in straight sets to Ed Jones and Michael Calkins, respectively. Sopho-

more Jonathan Stokke then lost to Chris Martin in three sets, and freshman Peter Rodrigues lost a third set tiebreaker to Ryler DeHeart shortly afterward to decide the match.

However, .the game never seemed out of reach for a resilient Blue Devils team that, despite the experience of the Illini, kept the match remarkably close. The game never appeared out of reach until DeHeart’s match-clinching win.

“The whole match was really close,” said senior Phillip King, who was nursing a sore ankle. There was no momentum switch at all, it was just a nailbiter every match.”

Despite the loss, Lapidus remained upbeat about the Blue Devils’ season and their national champi-

onship hopes.

“I think we can’t hang our heads,” Lapidus said. “I think we’re legitimately the second-best team or third [in the nation], we’re right up there this year.

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Equally confident, the team hopes to get another shot at the defending national champions later in

the season.

“I just feel like we have the potential to beat them.” Rodrigues said. “They’re a very good team; they’ve proven it twice by beating us.

But as [Lapidus] said, if we play outside, and everyone plays at the top of their game, we have a really, good chance of beating them. Hopefully, that will happen.”

Amanda Johnson and the Blue Devils made easy work of Big 10foe Indiana.

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For the first time this season, the tenth-ranked women’s tennis team (4-1) swept all six singles matches, as it defeated No. 36 Indiana (4-2) by a 6-1 margin on Sunday in Bloomington, Ind. The Blue Devils started the match down 1-0 after losing the doubles point for only the second time this season. Hoosier seniors Karie Schlukebir and Linda Tran, ranked No. 24 nationally, defeated Amanda Johnson and Julia SEE TENNIS ON PAGE 6

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In their most important contest yet this season, both the men’s and women’s indoor track teams placed third at the Armory Col-

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The dream season for the wrestling team just keeps getting better With a dramatic come from behind victory over the Virginia Cavaliers (8-5, 2-1 in the ACC), Duke (7-6,3-0) earned a third conference win for the first time since the 1959-60 season. The Blue Devils also moved one step closer to a perfect ACC season and a conference championship.

“This is incredibly exciting for the young guys because you see all the work that they’ve been putting in all year,” head coach Clar Anderson said. “They’re starting to believe that they can compete in the ACC and hopefully it will continue on.”

Though the match ended in triumph for the Blue Devils, it began in defeat The Cavaliers won the first four bouts to pull ahead 144), including a key match at the 165-pound weight class that showcased Duke senior captain Michael Mitchell against Virginia’s fourteenth-ranked Tim Foley.

“We were hoping to take 165 from them and 157, and we didn’t do that,” Anderson said. “At that point it was kind of like, ‘Hey

guys, just go out there and do your best’” From that point on, Duke’s best was good enough. Beginning at 174, the Blue Devils won three straight matches to take the lead and the momentum from the Cavaliers.

Starting Duke’s run in the 174-pound match, Levi Craig got a quick escape in the second period and proceeded to record three takedowns to win his match 7-4, putting the team score at 143 in favor of Virginia.

In the next match at 184, Duke’s Frank Comely took down Drew Michelotti and let him up before hitting an elevator—a backwards-roll from the neutral position —to bring Michelotti right to his back. 2:21 into the match, Comely had registered a pin, bringing the Blue Devils to within five at 149.

“Levi getting that ‘W really helped fire myself up and my goal out there was to get the stick,” Comely said. ‘1 was definitely favored over that opponent, but to get thestick was exciting.”

Feeding off the momentum from the previous two matches, Tim Marcantonio went onto the mat with a feverish energy.

Though his match-up against Kevin Collier was supposed to be a toss-up, the unfazed

Marcantonio struck quickly, pinning Collier in just 1:25.

“The momentum was in our favor, and I just went out there and gave everything I had,” Marcantonio said. “I knew that ifI got the chance to put him away I just had to do it, and I finally got that opportunity and took advantage ofit” Virginia won a minor decision at heavyweight to pull ahead 17-15, but at that point the match went back to the lower weights, one of Duke’s strongest points.

At 125, Duke’s Christian Smith registered a big win, defeating Brian Sticca 74 to put the Blue Devils back on top 18-17. At 133, the final and deciding match of the night, Adam Benitez scored two clutch takedowns in the third period to beat Steve Hromada and clinch a 21-17 victory for the Blue Devils.

It was a milestone victory for a Duke team that is just beginning to realize its potential.

But with one ACC match left against N.C. State, Benitez explained that the Blue Devils are not yet satisfied.

“We’re on top of the world for tonight,” Benitez said. “After today, we’ll be training for N.C. State.”

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The women, who were in the elite championship division, only placed behind Louisiana State and South Carolina.

The men also finished third in the university division behind St. Augustine's and Manhattan College.

“I have been here 14 years, and this was the best weekend Duke has ever put together on the track and field,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said.

While both teams impressed as a whole, individual records were the highlight of the weekend.

In what Ogilvie called the “top performance of the weekend,” junior Paige Miller setting a meet record in die 3,000-meter run with her 9:18 showing.

“We always knew she had potential,” Ogilvie said. “We are very excited about what she has accomplished and what she

will accomplish.”

In that 3,000-meter race, sophomore Clara Horowitz ran an NCAA provisional time of 9:31. In the mile, fellow sophomore Shannon Rowbury also ran an NCAA provisional time, coming in at 4:43. The depth of the distance squad was also showcased in the 5,000-meter run with two of the five runners—Sally Meyerhoff and Phebe Ko—breaking into Duke’s all-time records list.

Meyerhoff and Ko both qualified for the ECAC Championships along with Jen Faraguna in the mile and 1,000, Allison Hofmann in the 1,000,and Lauren Matic in the 800-meter run.

Ogilvie praised associate coach Kevin Jermyn for the success of the women’s distance

squad.

“He has done a fantastic job with the women’s distance runners,” Ogilvie said. “A lot ofcredit goes to him.”

Freshman Debra Vento increased her school record in the high jump by clearing 5-11.25 this weekend, which should qualify her for NCAA’s.

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After CHAPEL HILL, N.C. battling through a highly contested first half, senior Vicki Krapohl came out of the locker room and made the statement that she did not want to lose to arch-rival North Carolina in the teams’ final regular season meeting. The senior, who lost her starting job to sophomore Lindsey Harding at the beginning of the season, came out and sunk back-to-back three-pointers just minutes into the second half to give the Blue Devils a 14point lead that would be tested but not relinquished.

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The host Tar Heels, playing in front of the largest crowd in North Carolina women’s college basketball history at the Dean Smith Center—rather than their usual home at the Carmichael Auditorium made runs at Duke during the latter part of the second half, but timely shooting, especially by senior Alana Beard, led the No. 4 Blue Devils (20-3,11-1 in the ACC) to an 89-79 victory over No. 15 North Carolina (18-5, 8-4) Saturday night.

“We executed, got good looks when we needed to, and I thought we played with a lot of poise, especially in this environment,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said.

The Duke seniors—Beard, Krapohl and kiss Tillis—led the way for the Blue Devils, scoring 65 of the team’s 89 points while providing leadership and energy on the court and in the huddle.

Krapohl set a career high with 20 points, making frof-10 three point attempts, including the momentum-swinging shots at the start of the second half.

“I am Just really proud of Vicki,” Goestenkors said. “We talked to Vicki when we revisited the roles for the team a couple of games ago, and we told everybody that we wanted Vicki to search for her threes, which is different from just taking the open three.”

The senior, who said she gained confidence when Goestenkors asked her to be more assertive offensively, looked like a transformed player on the court, taking shots with a hand in her face, something she did not generally do earlier in the season.

Krapohl was not the only Blue Devil who had a terrific offensive night, as Beard continued to make her case for National Player of the Year, scoring 31 points in the winning effort. When the Tar Heels made a run at the Blue Devils late in the second half and a successful comeback seemed within reach, the senior hit one ofher four three pointers as the shot clock was winding down. The basket put Duke up by 11 with five minutes remaining.

The myriad Blue Devil attack gave the North Carolina defense trouble, according to head coach Sylvia Hatchell. Krapohl —

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Seniors take over against Carolina CHAPEL HILL, N.C. In a lot of ways, Duke’s game against North Carolina Saturday night was kind of weird.

If you hold the final box score up to the light the right way, it looks like the Blue Devils shouldn’t have won.

If you squint the other way, it seems like Duke should have blown the Tar Heels right out of the Dean Dome.

Coach Gail Gostenkors’ team shot almost 50 percent from the field and tied a school record with 12 three-pointers, yet it let North Carolina shoot almost as well. Duke forced the Tar Heels to commit 17 turnovers, but the Blue Devils ended the game with a minus-13 rebounding margin and allowed the hosts easy access to what seemed like dozens of shots from the interior, The crowd was bigger than normal to say the least—at 10,278, the biggest ever for a women’s game. At times, led by the

Duke fan section, which kept Duke cheers reverbertaing the entire night, the building was eerily loud considering most of the upper deck was full of empty seats and not screaming and cheering fans, a la Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Throw in the extremely physical nature of the game that seemed to feature multiple bodies hitting the floor on almost every possession, and it adds up to an interesting night.

Nonetheless, Duke won, and the Blue Devils would not have escaped with their 11th straight victory over their arch-rival.if not for the play of their senior trio ofAlana Beard, Iciss Tillis and Vicki Krapohl.

Whatever combination of poise, wisdom and maturity that seeps into a player’s body and mind after four years of playing for a program like Duke was on display Saturday night. The aforementioned three scored 65 of the team’s 89 points, made momentum-killing or momentum-starting shots at the right time and didn’t allow themselves to lose for the first time in their collegiate careers to North Carolina.

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Head men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski was displeased with empty seats and the overall performance of the crowd last night versus Clemson.

“N.C. State played a terrific game. They were well prepared.

We were kind offortunate to he down only by 10 [at halftime].They outrebounded us by 22-9 in the first half and shot 60 percent. I thought forcing 11 turnovers kept us in the ballgame.

They’re able to kind of dictate the style, the kind of game was being played and they did it well. Their

Herb Sendek and his North Carolina State men’s basketball players know how to beat Duke; they don’t have to prove that fact to anyone after their 78-74 victory over the No. 1 Blue Devils last night. But there are a lot of teams out there with something to prove: Valparaiso, the rest of the ACC, and any team who might face Duke in the NCAA TourFortunament. nately for these teams, Sendek and the Wolfpack left a blueprint for anyone hoping to defeat Coach squad. The Blue Devils are not a team with a visible Achilles’ heel; neither its early-season loss to Purdue nor its failure to dispatch N.C. State can be ascribed to any one factor. Rather, there are several steps to beating Duke.

Play 40 minutes worth of basketball.

N.C. State jumped out to an early lead last night, scoring the game’s first seven points. The Wolfpack stayed ahead for most of the contest. Although all season long they have been a team that is accustomed to leading early, leading late and leading often, the Blue Devils held the upper hand for only 23 seconds last night The loss at the RBC Center indicates that holding the lead early against Mike Krzyzewski’s team can help opponents hold the lead when the final buzzer sounds.

“Over a 40-minute period, they outplayed us,” Krzyzewski said. “In the second half, we played like crazy; we played our hearts out, but you can’t beat a really good basketball team unless you play for 40 minutes.”

Keep the ball away from Shelden Williams

especially played outstanding. They scan to hit every open three; they can break your back, so to speak. Hodge, Sherrill, Evtimov and those other kids have played in a lot of ballgames. They played like a real veteran basketball team. Over a 40 minute period, they outplayed us. I thought that in the second half, we played like crazy, we played our hearts out, and we had to because State was still playing well. We were able to put veterans

ourselves in a position where we had a chance. I’m proud of the way our guys played in the second half. You can’t beat a really good basketball team unless you play for 40 minutes.”

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With Duke’s loss to N.C. State, the Wolfpack are a mere game back of the Blue Devils (10-1 in the ACC) in the regular season standings. And Coack K’s squad has a showdown in Winston-Salem coming up Wednesday against Wake Forest (ESPN, 9 p.m.).

As of now, it appears to be a two-team race between Duke and N.C. State (9-2). There is a logjam in the middle of the nation’s top conference, as five teams straddle .500, giving the ACC a shot at qualifying seven teams for the Big Dance.

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PACK from Chronicle page 1 The closest Duke was able to get was within two points early in the second half after Chris Duhon hit two three-pointers less than a minute apart The senior point guard had 17 points and five assists while teammate Redick, who was publicly criticized by N.C. State’s Scooter Sherrill during the week, paced the Blue Devils with 28 points.

In the end, it just wasn’t enough to counter N.C. State’s balanced attack and boisterous crowd of 19,722 spectators, for whom Wolfpack head coach Herb Sendek attributed much credit for the win.

Regardless, the conference’s bottom-dwellers, Virginia and Clemson, continue to show signs oflife. The Cavaliers dispatched Georgia Tech Saturday, moving to 3-8 in the conference and 13-9 overall. In addition, North Carolina continued its

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It was the slow start that was Duke’s undoing, however, as the Blue Devils made three crowd-silencing surges at the Wollpack’s lead, but could never take the lead for itself. When N.C. State needed a basket or a stop, it seemed to get it every time, usually at the hands of Hodge, who led his team with 18 points and added four rebounds and four assists, as well.

“We were able to put ourselves in a position where we had a chance,” Krzyzewski said.

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your break so to speak.”

The Blue Devils struggled to find an offensive rhythm all game and hurt themselves by letting the Wolfpack take control early.

Duke went into halftime down ten points, as the ACC’s top shooting team missed 20 of its first 27 shots and allowed N.C. State to shoot 61 percent from the field in the opening 20 minutes.

“In thefirst half we didn’t execute with precision,” Randolph said. “We were kind ofloose out there, weren’t precise, and they took advantage of it They were hungrier than we were...Youjust can’t do that against a really in the final minute of the game,Coach Krzyzewski good team at home.” attempted torally the troops in Raleigh.

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Duke’s baseball team did its best impersonation of the Comeback Kids this past weekend, winning two out of three games against the Cincinnati Bearcats in stunning comefrom-behind fashion.

The comeback began for the Blue Devils (42) after dropping a 3-2 12-inning decision against the Bearcats (1-2) Friday. Trailing 3-1 in the seventh inning Saturday, Duke exploded for 11 runs in the seventh and eighth frames for a solid 12-3 victory.

“I’m really happy with the way our guys battled all weekend,” head coach Bill Hillier said.

“I’ve said all along that I’ve been very pleased with the way they’ve been competing.”

However, the Blue Devils may have saved their best for Sunday, when freshman JJ. Koterba drew a two-out, bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the eighth inning that brought in pinch-runner Santerrio Landrum for a 7-6 Duke victory.

Duke fell into an early hole when pitcher Greg Burke was shelled early, allowing four runs before notching his second out.

Nonetheless, the Blue Devils responded admirably. Freshman Eric Baumann opened the scoring in the bottom of the first with his second collegiate hit, a double to right that plated fellow freshman Jonathan Anderson. Groundout RBIs in the first and third frames by sophomore Brian Hernandez cut the deficit to 4-3.

The Bearcats responded with two runs in the top of the fifth, but RBI doubles by Koterba and sophomore Javier Socorro in the fifth and sev-

enth innings, respectively, cut the deficit to 6-5, setting the stage for a wild finish.

After an Anderson foulout, three consecutive Blue Devil batters reached base on a walk and two hit batsmen, Hernandez then drew a walk to tie the score, and a strikeout by junior Bryan Smith set up Koterba’s game-winner.

Freshman Danny Otero pitched five scoreless innings in relief for his first collegiate win.

“I think it was a great win today for us.” Hernandez said. “They got on us early, but our pitching held them.”

In the series’ first game, the Bearcats nudged the Blue Devils after a wild pitch by freshman David Torcise scored Bearcat outfielder Erik Eitel. The loss spoiled Blue Devil Anderson’s first multi-hit game and a sterling pitching effort from Tim Layden, who allowed only three base runners and no runs in four innings of work.

The second matchup the Blue Devils put the game out of reach with a nine-run seventh inning. Smith provided a bases-loaded double, and Hernandez supplied the exclamation point to the inning with a two-run shot to left.

“It was unbelievable,” Hernandez said of the home run, smiling. “I’ve been waiting for over a year now, and it felt good to finally do it.”

The victories have sent morale through the roof on this young Blue Devils squad.

“We’re just sky-high right now; we’re so happy.” Anderson said. “It’s great to have two come-from-behind wins especially like yesterday and today, and hopefully we’ll carry it forward to Wednesday against High Point and this weekend against Radford.”

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The Duke men’s and women’s lacrosse in scrimmages Saturday in preparation for their first regular season games later this week.

Blue Devil head coach Mike Pressler was pleased with his team’seffort against Hofstra.

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many years,” he said.

The men’s team is young, playing many freshman and sophomores, and the underclassmen satisfied Pressler with their efforts.

The coach added that the team needs to cut down on its turnovers, specifically in its

clearing game.

“We are very optimistic that this team can be very competitive nationally, but we kind of just need to get back to taking it one day at a time, one play at a time, and not get too caught up in the big picture.”

The Duke and North Carolina women’s lacrosse teams hosted the eighth annual South of the Border Tournament this past weekend. Duke played several short scrimmages against Georgetown, the Japanese National Team and James Madison. The Blue Devils also played a full-length game against Virginia midday.

T think overall I’m pleased with our performance,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said Saturday. “Am I satisfied? No, but I don’t think they are either.”

Kimel was happy with the way the team made adjustments between games, especially after beginning the day slowly against the Hoyas. In addition, Kimel and her staff were impressed with the team’s offensive showing.

“I thought we scored well, which is something we struggled with last year,” Kimel said. “We finished well and we had

Freshman Jonathan Anderson and theBlue Devils moved to 4-2 on theyear after downing Cincy.

TENNIS from page 2 Smith 9-7 at the No. 1 position, while Indiana’s Martina Grimm and Sarah Batty edged Jennifer Zika and Kristin Cargill 9-8 (2) at the second slot.

Duke did pick up a victory at No. 3 doubles, as Tory Zawaki and Saras Arasu knocked off their opponents 8-6.

“We played scared in doubles,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We didn’t play aggressive and didn’t take any chances. We’ve got to leam to move more and put more pressure on people.”

When the Blue Devils lost the doubles point against Vanderbilt earlier this season, they were subsequently swept in singles.

However, Duke reversed that trend on Sunday, led by quick straight-set wins from Cargill and Smith at the sixth and fourth spots, respectively.

Cargill evened the overall score at 1-1 with her 6-1; 6-1 victory over Cecile Perton, and Smith gave the Blue Devils the lead for good by downing Laura McGaffigan 64, 6-1.

‘We said after we lost the doubles point against Vanderbilt that we needed a quick sin-

gles win, but we weren’t able to get it then,” Ashworth said. “Both [Cargill and Smith] won in under an hour, and those wins neutralized the [lost] doubles point and gave us thelead.”

The four remaining singles matches all went to three sets, but each time the Blue Devils came out victorious. Austrian native Zika, ranked No. 64 in the nation, defeated Batty 76, 4-6, 6-3 at third singles to put Duke up 3-1, and fellow freshman Zawaki clinched the victory with a 6-7, 6-3, 6-3 victory over No. 81 Tran at the No. 2 slot “I was really tight in the first set, but that motivated me to play well in the second and third sets,” Zawaki said. “I thought I played well, better than I had been.”

Fifth-ranked Johnson and No. 91 Arasu rounded out the victory with three-setwins for Duke. Johnson, a three-time All American, outlasted No. 48 Dora Vastag 6-3, 2-6, 7-5.

“I think that I had some ups and downs, but as a whole I played better than I have been playing,” Johnson said. “The more matches that I play the more match tough I’m getting.”

The Blue Devils will return home to the Sheffield Tennis Center next Thursday with a 4 p.m. contest against Old Dominion.

good opportunities.”

Recognizing that Saturday was just a scrimmage, Kimel is optimistic about the up-

Bret Thompson and the men's lacrosse team showed great enthusiasm over theweekend.

coming season.

“It’s only February 14th, and we are shooting for May 14th and later,” Kimel said. “As long as we appreciate that perspective and know that we have a lot of room to grow. This just shows us how good we can be.”

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from everyone who ran on Friday.

The men’s success was capped by the distance medley with Jon Amt, Steve Craig, Nick Schneider and Dan King combining for an NCAA provisional mark of 9:43. In his first “serious attempt at a 3,000,” according to Ogilvie, Schneider set the school record with a time of 8:14. King, a freshman, also earned an individual school record in the 400 with a 48.89.

Duke dominated in the pole vault with Jeff Buttacio, Brent Warner and Jeremy Davis taking the first three spots. The only downside of the weekend was Davis injuring his ankle in his final jump.

Although questionable for this weekend’s ACC Championships, Davis should be ready for ECAC’s in three weeks.

ITie meet served as an opportunity for the both the men and women to compete with some of the top talent in the nation, and prepare for this weekend, along with the IC4A and NCAA Championship meets.

While the team had high aspirations going into this weekend’s competition, even Ogilvie did not expect a third-place finish for both the men’s and women’s teams, calling this weekend’s success a “huge surprise.”

“This weekend in New York could be a turning point for the Duke program,” Ogihde said. “We certainly gained respect [from] some of the best programs in the nation.”

While not the flashiest Blue

Devil, Williams may be the most effective in terms of dependable scoring. No matter what Sports-

Center tells you, every 94-foot coast-to-coast sprint followed by an up-and-under layup is worth exactly as many points as one of Williams’ standard bank shots from three feet away. It’s just that the latter is a whole lot easier to manufacture repeatedly.

Williams, ordinarily a viable option for the Duke attack, was effectively taken out of the game last night, accounting for only four points. None of these points came in the second half, when Shelden’sfourfoul status kept him from effectively laying down the law against N.C. State’s post players. Williams’ foul trouble in the game’s latter frame and maladroit ballhandling in the first half kept him from scoring.

Equally as important, it kept him from drawing defenses inward away from Duke’s guards.

‘The worst part of our game tonight was when we did get the ball [to the post players], what happened,” Krzyzewski said.

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TAR HEELS from page 4 Beard and Tillis get the most ink of the three, but it was Krapohl who had the most noteworthy night.

The senior guard from Mount Pleasant, Mich., scored a career-high 20 points on 6-of-lO three-point shooting and collected four assists and one steal. It was the second career-setting game in a week for the mechanical engineering major after Krapohl scored 18 points last weekend against GeorgiaTech.

In the days following Duke’s upset loss to Florida State several weeks ago, after Gostenkors examined each ofher players’ roles, Krapohl was, simply put, encouraged to shoot more.

T’m really proud of Vicki,” Goestenkors said. “We talked to her when we redid the roles of the team a couple of games ago and told everybody that we wanted her to search for her three. That’s different than just taking the

open three; she needed to start to search for it because she is such an excellent shooter, and we need that from her.”

Having to force Krapohl to shoot more from the outside might seem like a pointless excercise because if standing 5foot-5 and being a mechanical engineering major wasn’t atypical enough, Krapohl is a statistical phenomenon.

UNC from page 4 attributed her offensive burst to the attentionTar Heel defenders had to give to her teammates.

“We have so many great players that they can’t stop everything,” Krapohl said.

“When Alana is driving or Lindsey is driving and we get the ball inside to Mistie [Bass] and kiss it is just really hard to start everything. And today I got wide open looks and I was just able to knock them down.”

Tillis added 14 points and established herself early in the game. Making a pair of threes and driving to the basket for a layup, the senior forward led Duke to a quick 14-8 advantage. The Blue Devils maintained their early lead for the majority of the first half, keeping the crowd of 10,278 under control.

The Blue Devils’ 48 percent shooting from the floor could have been demoralizing for the Tar Heels, but Hatchell’s team continued to fight Freshman point guard Ivory Latta—who bruised her elbow during the contest but played through the pain—led the way for North Carolina on the offensive end with 25

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Duke to make the big ones The last few points scored by each team are telltale signs of how Duke may be beaten. N.C. State’s last 13 points all came from the foul line.

The Wolfpack is the nation’s best team from the charity stripe, and this sort ofmethodical consistency proved the undoing of the Blue Devils.

On the other hand, three of Duke’s final points came on a deep three-pointer by guard JJ. Redick, who hurled up the shot from between two State defenders. The shot was highlight reel material, and was maybe the game’s most im-

pressive

moment.

It is important to remember, however, that Redick took the shot because he had to. His team was down by five points with 22 seconds remaining in the contest. N.C. State’s methodical play, especially its unfailing free throws, had forced Duke into a position where too many miracle shots were needed.

Krzyzewski will probably fix many of the errors from last night’s game in practices and subsequent contests. But Sendek and Co. have shown the way, and Duke fans everywhere are hoping the Wolfpack will be the last team to exploit the Blue Devils’ weaknesses.

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Over 90 percent of her baskets are three-pointers, of which she makes 45 percent of her attempts. She has made five two-point field goals total thus far in 2004 in the statistic worth mentioning catergory and shoots a surprisingly low 63 percent from the free-throw line.

And she does all this from the bench this season, with sophomore teammate Lindsey Harding having assumed the point guard role Krapohl has held the last two years, something that has not dampened the senior’s season at all, she said.

“I think in the last three games in particular, she’s really been doing that, seeking out her three,” Goestenkors said.

‘This was a big game, and I think Vicki did not want to lose to North Carolina her senior year, and I think she just really stepped up for us. I’m proud of her and happy for her.”

Gostenkors giving her the green light to shoot gave her confidence, said Krapohl, and being far from the focus of the opposing team’s defense also makes things a bit easier.

“We have so many great players that they can’t stop everything,” Krapohl said. “When Alana [Beard] is driving or Lindsey [Harding] is driving and we get the ball inside to Mistie [Bass] and Iciss [Tillis] it is just really hard to stop everything. And today I got wide open looks and I was just able to knock them down.”

points. The Blue Devils struggled to contain Latta’s penetration despite having a quick and athletic backcourt The Tar Heels’ Leah Metcalf personified her team’s resiliency during the very physical game, hitting a number of shots down the stretch to try to marshall a comeback. The junior scored 14 of her 15 points during a six-minute stretch in the second half that began at the 10minute mark. Still, North Carolina never got closer than six after the pair of Krapohl threes.

T think we got stops,” Beard said. T think the whole game they did a nice job penetrating, and I think when the game got kind of close, we got stops.”

The Tar Heels outrebounded Duke by 13, accomplishing one of Hatchell’s primary objectives, and pulled down 20 offensive boards. The rebounding deficit was indicative of the Blue Devils’ mediocre play on the interior, as Bass, Brittany Hunter and Monique Currie struggled to prevent penetrators from reaching the basket and the North Carolina post players from maneuvering to easy layups.

The win, the 11th consecutive for the Blue Devils in the series against their To-

bacco Road foe, essentially secures the team’sfourth-consecutive ACC regular season tide and the No. 1 seed entering the early March ACC Championship. The Blue Devils have lost once in conference, at Florida State, after which Goestenkors reassessed the roles of each member of her team. With only four regular season contests remaining, Duke holds a three game advantage on North Carolina and stands four games ahead of Maryland —the only team besides the Tar Heels mathematically capable of catching the Blue Devils.

All involved noted the excellent atmosphere in this high scoring conference showdown. Goestenkors’ team, which has struggled offensively in recent years when facing ranked opponents in games with national implications, played one of its best offensive games of the season, despite the physical play. And despite the loss, Hatchell was pleased with her team’s effort and the progress she felt her young team made Saturday night “I thought we scored enough points to win,” Hatchell said. “I thought we were ready. Duke made shots, they made three-point shots and that was the difference in the game. But they ain’t going to make those shots every game.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Duke 89, North Carolina 79 Duke (20-3, 11-1) North Carolina (18-5, 8-4)

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PORTAL from page 1 features, including University announcements, personal reminders and bookmarks, e-mail and Chronicle news. Users can customize DukePass to their personal preferences, choosing everything from which “channels” they want displayed to the site’s color scheme.

A similar portal site—owned by the Duke Student Publishing Company, which also owns The Chronicle and The Chronicle Online—was launched in late September after DevilNet merged with MyDuke.com. One of the main differences between the two portals, however, is in DukePass’s elimination of multiple logins to some of the University’s most commonly used sites. With DukePass, a one-time login with Duke Net ID and password gives access to various restricted sites like ACES and Blackboard, all from a centralized location.

The DukePass main page also includes Devil Talk, a discussion board designed to facilitate discussion across the community.

The board is not moderated, but participants are identified through their NetlDs. Other than DukePass’s main tab, students can select from tabs for academics, Blackboard, services, student life, technology and entertainment. There is also a tab for news, from which students can access news feeds from Duke athletics, The New York Times and ESPN. ‘The portal streamlines communication from administrative resources to students, and I find the inclusion of news and the malleability of all the features on the portal extremely attractive,” said Jonathan Bigelow, president of Duke University Union and a member of the student-led team that helped determine the portal’s content. ‘This portal is a step in the right direction for what Duke’s undergraduate

population should be offered in terms of administrative online services.

Ginny Cake, director of Information Technology, said the decision to further develop the DukePass pilot will depend upon student input—a policy in keeping with the three-month development of the program on the whole. ‘This is the first project I’ve been on that has been a full collaboration between students, staff and faculty members on the development team,” she said.

Feedback about the portal will be gathered using online surveys, comments from faculty and staff and information from student focus groups.

Bigelow stressed that DukePass is a work in progress, with some features that may not be fully developed and others that may be missing altogether. “We recognize that the process should be iterative rather than a shot in the dark with a complete project that misses the mark,” he said. “In the future, students will have a much more intuitive method for tapping [into] all online resources at Duke.”

Elizabeth Dixon, Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs and a member of the DukePass content team, said that although the portal does not include all the features she would eventually like it to include, it offers a number of opportunities for expansion and customization.

‘The future holds the possibility of having bursar statements online, as well as FLEX accounts and academic information that is constantly updated,” she said.

Dixon added that she would eventually like to see more “fun,” individualized features—features that could induce students to make the portal their homepage. “In terms of features not pertaining to academic or services components, I think that’s something that will increase,” she said. “For example, right now my home-

page has the TV lineup for the day on Duke cable, movie times and things like comics and the horoscope. That’s the sort of content I’m talking about.”

Brandon Shapiro, president of DevilNet and a member of the DukePass content team, said another feature that could encourage students to use DukePass as their homepage was for the address—dukepass.duke.edu —to go to a default page with links that do not require a NetlD sign-in. He noted that a number ofuniversities with portal sites have just such a default page, which allows people not associated with the university to access some useful information.

Although there are a number of differences between DukePass and Devil Net, Shapiro wondered if the two sites would have to be further differentiated in order for DevilNet to survive. For the time being, Devil Net will keep running alongside Duke Pass, Shapiro said.

Although DukePass is not currently available to graduate students, members of the Graduate and Professional Student Council were involved in its development, and a portal for graduate and professional students is likely if the undergraduate pilot is successful. Rob Saunders, GPSC president and a member of the DukePass content team, said a portal for graduate and professional students could go a long way in increasing communication across the University.

‘There are a lot of little features that, taken separately, may not drastically change the way we communicate at Duke.

But taken as a whole, they could start us on a path to easier communication,” Saunders said. “Graduate students aren’t unique at Duke in the fact that there are not a lot of ways to communicate with each other. Duke has a lot of services to make life easier, but no one knows about them.”

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were up at 7 because of the excitement.”

Across the country, other gay couples didn’t wait for a marriage license. About three dozen same-sex couples exchanged vows at Philadelphia’s LOVE Park Saturday as part of a “mass commitment ceremony” organized by a gay-friendly church.

Led by a minister, the couples gathered in front of Robert Indiana’s famed “LOVE” sculpture—a rainbow flag draped under it —and repeated their vows.

“If they’re not going to let us get married, we’re going to do it anyway,” said Dan Farley, shordy after exchanging silver rings with his partner, John McCann.

Despite legal challenges from advocates of traditional marriage, San Francisco’s wedding march is expected to continue throughout the weekend. By late Saturday, the city had performed over 900 same-sex marriages since the weddings

began Thursday.

San Francisco officials said they expected to hand out about 600 licenses Saturday, and by late afternoon had already recorded 270 same-sex weddings.

City officials said they would welcome license applications Saturday, Sunday and Monday —President’s Day —to accommodate couples that have flocked here from places including Oregon, Minnesota, New York and Seattle.

Friday, a judge denied a petition to block more licenses from being granted.

Two separate groups of opponents were asked to return Tuesday for a hearing.

“No one made the mayor of San Francisco king; he can’t play God. He cannot the vote of the people,” Randy Thomasson, director of the Campaign for California Families, said at a news conference in Los Angeles.

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HIV from page 1 of the men identified as HIV positive in the larger study said they were either gay or bisexual, with 58 percent having had sex only with men in the year preceding their diagnosis and 33 percent having had sex with both men and women. Four percent of the men said they only had sex with women during the same time frame and there was no information for the other five percent.

Just as in the smaller Triangle study, the statewide study found that 88 percent of the students infected with HIV were black males.

Hightow said she was not surprised that most of the students infected with HIV were black, but more concerned that there are college students at risk for HIV who are not being targeted for testing.

“We know that in the South, blacks are being disproportionately affected by HIV, so it wasn’t very surprising that these cases are in young, black men,” Hightow said.

“Although it wasn’t surprising, it still is alarming. We are worried that we’re missing a huge portion of the student population in our prevention efforts, because we know that all students are not going to get tested.”

Hightow added that they will not be releasing the names of the college campuses, at which the incidence of HIV has been accelerating, because she is afraid “it may add a stigma to those colleges.” She said it is important to emphasize that this is not a school-specific situation, but something that affects colleges across North Carolina.

Although there has been a rise in the number of HIV cases since 2000, the study does not point toward any reason for the increase.

“If we knew that, we’d be in a lot better shape,” Hightow said. “We don’t know why we’re seeing this and we don’t know what’s changed.”

Hanson also noted that Duke is similarly in the dark about the reasons why an outbreak of HIV among college students is occurring.

“We, ourselves, are quite interested and curious as to what is happening,” Hanson said. “We are waiting for continued information [and] have not formed any ideas of our own as to why this has been happening.”

Hightow said her best guess is that HFV must have

somehow gotten introduced into a closed pool ofcollege student partners. “When HIV gets introduced to a group, it can spread easily,” she said. “You know, college students tend to sleep with other college students; blacks tend to sleep with blacks; and whites with whites.”

Further compounding the situation is college student health services’ inability to completely determine to what extent the outbreak of HIV is affecting their student populations. Dr. Patricia Geiger, director of Appalachian State University Health Services, said she suspects that there are students who have contracted HIV at Appalachian, but since state health department testing is confidential, students do not need to notify student health.

“We haven’t actually seen an increase in the number at our health services, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not there,” Geiger said. “Even though we can’t tell you how many people have HIV, we can tell you that we have many people at risk. That’s true at any school.”

Geiger said she believes one of the major factors for why this outbreak is occurring is complacency about sexual protection among college students.

“A lot of people have gotten complacent about HIV and are now putting themselves at risk—and the numbers show that this is what’s happening,” she said. “People used to be afraid of it more than they are now. They don’t even realize it’s a problem. It’s never goneaway. It just left the front pages. I know it’s there.”

Duke Student Health Director Dr. Bill Christmas also pointed to complacency among college students as being troubling. Citing Rodriguez, he noted that “students are now beginning to use testing as away of prevention rather than safer sex practices.” Since having learned about the rise in HIV cases, Hanson said Student Health has been trying to raise awareness of the testing options available.

At Student Health, there are two HIV testing options.

There is a traditional, confidential test, where students take a blood test and the sample is sent to the Duke Hospital laboratory to be analyzed. For those students who do not want the test on their medical record, there is the super-confidential Orasure, which tests cheek fluid in the mouth for HIV. Both of these tests are covered by the student health fee.

GUN BILL from page 2 sedation, which represents chiefs of police in the 50 largest cities.

“To give gun manufacturers and dealers immunity from lawsuits is crazy,” Bratton said in a telephone interview.

“If you give them immunity,” he added, “what incentive do they have to make guns with safer designs, or what incen-

tive do the handful of bad dealers have to follow the law when they sell guns?”

“This is not about doing away with guns, but about trying to ensure the safety of police officers and the American public,” said Bratton, who was police commissioner in New York in the early 1990s when there was a sharp drop in homicides, as there was last year in Los Angeles under Bratton.

But a spokesperson for the NRA, Andrew Arulanandam, said most rank-and-file police officers supported the bill, and he dismissed Bratton’s criticism as ill informed.

“My response is, Chief Bratton ought to hire better lawyers,” Arulanandam said.

Arulanandam said the bill “would not grant blanket immunity to every dealer and manufacturer,” because in cases where a dealer or gun maker violated a state or federal law, a person could still sue.

Both Bratton and lawyers familiar with the bill challenged Arulanandam’s interpretation of the legislation, saying it does bestow immunity on the gun industry.

The wording is important, because the NRA began pushing the bill to thwart lawsuits against the gun industry brought by nearly two dozen cities and counties. Of the 23 original lawsuits, 14 have been dismissed by courts, but nine are pending, including suits in Cleveland; Chicago; Gary, Ind.; St. Louis; New York; Los Angeles; and San Francisco.

One lawsuit that could be jeopardized by the immunity bill has been brought by the families of eight of the people killed in the Washington-area sniper shootings. That suit, filed against Bull’s Eye Shooter Supply, the gun shop in Tacoma, Wash., where the snipers acquired theirBushmaster XM-15 rifle, and against the manufacturer, is scheduled for trial this fall.

According to an opinion written by Lloyd Cutler, a Washington lawyer who was Just named by President George W. Bush to the panel that will investigate intelligence failures before the war in Iraq, ‘The bill, if enacted, would require dismissal.”

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“If you read all the statements the administration is

applying to Iraq —that security and logistics do not allow for quick elections—you’ll see that they apply also to Afghanistan,” said Barnett Rubin, a scholar on Afghanistan who is director of the Center for Preventive Action at New York University.

“At least Brahimi is consistent,” Rubin added.

Administration officials say attacks in the unsafe areas are being carried out by forces of the Taliban and al Qaeda and of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a dissident Pash tun commander in the 1980s uprising that drove Soviet forces from Afghanistan. Hekmatyar’s forces at that time were subsidized by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Much of the resources for the fighters now come from drugs, which account for half the country’s gross domestic product.

The insurgent groups active now are mostly in the southern and eastern parts of the country, especially

on the border with Pakistan, where pro-Taliban and pro-Qaeda elements are believed to be sheltering Osama bin Laden. The Afghan authorities have demobilized 2,700 former soldiers of the country’s many militias operating under various warlords, but many more remain active.

It is unclear whether Karzai, who was elected president in a grand assembly called a loya jirga, will run for re-election uncontested, in a vigorously cpntested general election or with token opposition. The hope of American officials is that he will be re-elected with broad support among Afghans.

In part because Karzai is expected to win a presidential contest, parliamentary elections pose a much tougher security problem and more delicate political quandary, administration officials say. Legislative elections, they say, could breed violence and intimidation by warlord groups who might not mobilize in the presidential contest, where they are likely to be marginalized.

The warlords, most of them northern Tajiks, have been the driving force behind Karzai’s presidency,

though lately their independent power has decreased as Karzai has either disarmed their groups or has wooed them into his corner.at in his own travels in the country it became clear that security was too chaotic to hold elections any time soon.

Even many neutral experts and military commanders say a larger force is needed to beef up security before elections. At present, security in Afghanistan is provided by 8,000 to 9,000 American troops, plus 2,000 British, Canadian and other forces and perhaps 5,000 security forces protecting Kabul and Kunduz in the north under the guidance of NATO. There is a plan for 32 small teams of security forces in different parts of the country to help with registration, but administration officials acknowledge that it has been hard recruiting outside forces to serve in

Afghanistan.

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His friend and biographer, Zahid Malik, was arrested after publishing a tell-all book about the program with Khan’s assistance.

But Khan himselfremained in the government’s good graces. He was allowed to build a house on land reserved for a national park and was frequendy seen on television giving huge sums of money to charities and schools. Workers doled out rice to the poor every Friday and Saturday behind his sprawling Islamabad residence—a ritual that is the hallmark of respectability and social responsibility among the upper class.

5 p.m. Tuesday February 17,2004 Reynolds Theater in the Bryan Center International investor, philanthropist, and author George Soros known as the “world’s only private citizen with a foreign policy” is renowned for the work of his Open Society Institute, which has developed social, legal, and economic reform programs in more than 50 countries.

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On the campaign trail Kerr)' surrounds himself with men he calls “his band of brothers,” who served with him on a swift boat patrolling the dangerous Vietnam waters.

In one of the emotional high points of the campaign, resJim Rassman, a former Green Beret whom Kerry cued from a river in 1969, was reunited with the senator at an lowa rally.

Republicans for the most part have avoided attacking Kerry ’s military' service and instead aimed their fire at his war protests and his liberal voting record in the Senate.

The Republican National Committee Web site lists seven times that Kerry- voted for reductions in defense spending in his almost two decades in the Senate.

Kerry clearly held some controversial views after returning from service. In a 1970 interview-with the Harvard Crimson, he said that he would “like to almost eliminate the CIA” as well as “see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”

In his first Senate race in 1984, Kerry responded to pressure from the nuclear freeze movement, popular in Massachusetts, by opposing a number of weapons commonly used today, such as the Apache helicopter, Tomahawk cruise missiles, and the Patriot missile.

Kerry also voted against a resolution authorizing the first GulfWar in 1991, although he supported a measure last year allowing Bush to invade Iraq.

IRAQ from page 7 document listing the names of party members who were regarded as disloyal and unenthusiastic,” he said. “And

Mr. Sabah’s name is here on that list.”

A man stood up in the audience.

“And Mr. Sabah was expelled from the Baath Party Just before the war,” the man said. “I know that to be true.”

With that, Ismail overruled the objection, and the lawyers voted. Each person in the room wrote down the name of his or her preferred candidate on a piece of paper stamped with the official seal of A1 Anbar Province.

Then they dropped their ballots into a large box.

When the votes were tallied on the blackboard, Sabah, the Baath Party man, bested Saidullah by a wide margin. Afterward, many of the lawyers said they had chosen Sabah for his youth and energy, and that his ties to Saddam’s former party did not matter much.

“What’s the big deal?”Abdul Satar, one of the lawyers, said. “Just about everyone here was a member of the Baath Party. And anyway, they kicked him out.”

Satar said most people in Iraq, yearned to govern themselves. But his volubility stopped when the subject came to the insurgents. When asked who they were, two of his companions began to speak, but Satar cut them short.

Although he was skeptical of the U.S. role in Southeast

“He went over and fought. You can’t take that away from him,” said Ed Goeas, a GOP consultant. “But you can question his activities after the war and you certainly can quesr tion his record in the years he has been in the Senate.”

Kerry has said that over the years he has moderated some of his more liberal views about the military and defense spending, supporting some of the weapons systems he once opposed.

John Meehan, a Kerry adviser, noted that the senator last year voted for a defense spending measure that represented one of the largest increases in military spending.

He criticized the Republicans for trying to “cherry-pick” a few of the 6,345 votes Kerry has made during his Senate career to make their point.

That career has been touched by Vietnam, and even took him back there. In 1991 Kerry also took a leading role in trying to close a contentious chapter on the war by chairing a Senate committee that investigated claims that missing soliders remained in Southeast Asia.

After 17 trips to Vietnam, Kerry, working with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a former Vietnam POW, issued a report concluding that no Americans from the war era were left alive in that country. The report paved the way for the Clinton administration to normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam.

While Bush and Kerry share similar backgrounds —educated at New England prep schools and Yale University, where they both joined the exclusive Skull & Bones Society—they took different routes when it came to Vietnam.

Asia and criticized President Johnson in an address at his Yale commencement in 1966, Kerry enlisted in the Navy.

According to Brinkley’s biography, Kerry joined in part because many ofhis friends were doing so and because he was influencedby the late President Kennedy’s call to public service.

It was during Kerry’s second tour of duty in Vietnam in late 1968 and early 1969 that he encountered the gravest danger as he commanded his boat up dark waterways lined by jungles infested with Viet Cong snipers.

After being wounded for the third time, Kerry asked to be transferred stateside and took a desk job in Brooklyn, N.Y Bush, who graduated two years after Kerry, did not publicly express strong feelings about the war, although he did not sympathize with the protests that increasingly dominated the New Haven campus.

In 1968 he returned to his hometown of Houston. His father represented part of the city in the U.S. House at the time, and the younger Bush was able to nab a coveted spot in the Texas Air National Guard along with the sons of other prominent state families.

In 1990 Bush described his reasons for joining the Guard: “I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a (draft) deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada.”

Over the next several years, Bush was a weekend warrior, training at Ellington Field, where he flew F-102s while living at a singles apartment complex.

“Shut up, I know what I am going to tell him,” he told his companions in Arabic, not realizing, apparendy, that he would be understood.

He turned to a visitor.

“It is foreigners who are doing these attacks,” Satar smiled, “not the Iraqis.”

The tentative success of the caucuses is only part of the story of democracy in Fallujah. For every candidate standing for office, and for every translator or contractor who decides to work with the Americans, there is the constant threat of death.

A spray-painted banner on a wall of the Fallujah Primary School announces the menace; “Anyone who helps the Americans in any way is a dirty traitor, and that person is worth killing.”

In July, a platoon ofAmerican soldiers patrolling Fallujah unexpectedly met an angry throng of Iraqis.

The Americans ducked into a walled compound of Sadoon Shukar Mahmood, a 48-year-old father of seven, to avoid a confrontation. After a time, the crowd passed.

The next day, the soldiers pulled up in an armored personnel carrier to thank Mahmood, and they handed out candy to his children.

Three months later, leaflets began arriving on Mahmood’s doorstep, threatening him with death for buddying up to the Americans.

Two weeks ago, the leaflets started coming again, but Mahmood brushed them off, assuring himself and his family he had nothing to fear.

Last Thursday, a few days after another of the leaflets had been dropped by his door, Mahmood stepped into the street to buy eggs and cream for breakfast. A yellow sedan with license plates pulled up next to him, his family members said. Two masked men opened fire; Mahmood died in the street.

“People thought he was cooperating with the Americans,” Dari Abu Hassan, Mahmood’s cousin, said. “But he was not. He was not.”

Such attacks are common. Tuesday, after the inauguration of the Anbar Provincial Council, a suicide bomber blew himselfup at the home ofSheik Majid Ali Sulieman, a tribal leader who had been elected to the council in nearby Ramadi. His guards shoved the bomber out the front door just as he exploded.

The next day, a bomb exploded underneath the car of Stuart Jones, an American who is the political adviser to the local councils in Anbar Province. Jones was fortunate to be driving in the only armored vehicle in his convoy.

“It felt like we hit a deer,” he said.

In Fallujah, as in any fragile democracy, the system will probably survive only if the losers accept the results. One powerful sheik spent much of the week trying to do just that.

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Board plan exploitative Marketplace board-plan pealing dining options, and studefies all logic, and many dents with classes or commitments on West will certainly opt basic principles of economto eat there with some degree of ics. It’s a first-rate anomaly. frequency, all where else do honesty, you In The seven meal plan, in conconsistently spend nine months paying nine dollars a pop for meals trast is quite realistic. Eating dinner at the Marketplace is an imyou don’t eat? Anywhere but a university campus, it portam part of the STAFF ED itorial community-buildwould be considing experience, and many stuered an act of lunacy.

It appears as though the ineffidents end up there many times a week out of sheer convenience. ciency of the current MarketBy continuing to make students place board-plan, which provides five breakfasts, five dinners pay for dinnertime meals in adand two weekend brunches for vance, they will retain a financial $1,380 per semester, has finally incentive to go regularly and eat dawned on Director of Dining with their peers. Brunches have consistendy been the most popuServices, Jim Wulforst. Discustimes to eat at the Marketthe lar currently heading in sion is direction of eliminating weekday place, so it makes sense to keep breakfasts from the meal plan, them on the plan.

The income generated from allowing students to pay on 12-meal plan helps to pay the for those meals instead. the points This change is long overdue, and bank note for construction on will release students from a fi- the East Union Building, where nancially exploitative meal plan the Marketplace is housed—an designed to raise finances for obligation that should not be igother projects indirectly at first- nored. However, it is not right to raise the funds by forcing freshyear students’ expense.

The board-plan currendy forces men to pay for meals that dining all freshmen to pay for 12 meals officials know they will, by and per week. Expecting students to large, not eat. eat both breakfast and dinner at The seven meal board-plan is a reasonable compromise. With any the Marketplace every weekday, and attend brunch on both Satur- luck, giving students the option of days and Sundays is unreasonable choosing which meals to pay for for several reasons. will give the Marketplace added incentive to improve die quality of its First, a great number of colfood offerings. Many students are lege students do not eat breakfast. Many individuals are simply dissatisfied with the meals, and not awake in time to do so, have with the policy of pre-paid meals, early classes or simply wait for the Marketplace has little reason to lunch after attending class. The cater to student needs. When sales grab and go option that was re- are not direcdy tied to quality, cently implemented catered well problems arise. to some students, but by and The Marketplace is an integral large, breakfast has not been nor part of the first-year experience, will be a popular mealtime. Fur- and some meals should be prethermore, expecting freshmen paid. However, Duke students to take all their meals on East is are smart enough to know when a fallacy. West campus has a they are being offered a raw score of more diverse and ap- deal, and they deserve better.

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Deng comment not isolated incident This is in further reference to the racial slur against Luol Deng with which Matt Sullivan and his editors elected to open the article on the Duke-UVa game in the Feb. 12 edition of The Chronicle It unfortunately would appear that Mr. Sullivan's decision to use other species as points of comparison in his descriptions of non-Caucasian basketball players has not been limited to Luol Deng. A previous gem from the vivid imagination of Mr. Sullivan .

has been that basketball recruit Shaun Livingston "might look like more of an alien than Sam Cassell." Messrs, Livingston and Cassell are black.

With (at least?) these two racial slurs being on Mr. Sullivan's record, I am puzzled as to why he apparently will be allowed to continue to write for The Chronicle.

Dan Caldwell Trinity ’ 70

Reporter should resign his position When I am about to read a remark or hear a phrase that someone has already warned me may be offensive, I keep my emotions intact, and I give it a chance. Perhaps it is the type of comment that can be taken the wrong way but can be seen in another viewpoint as positive or affirming. Not this time.

I am assuredly not the only alumna to send you a letter about the article on the Duke men's basketball team’s win over the University of Virginia, but I wanted to tell

you that I was sorely offended by the poorly chosen words used to describe Mr. Deng.

I expected much higher standards from The Chronicle and from a Duke student. I do not think Mr. Sullivan should be forced to resign. However, I hope his conscience and common journalistic decency will lead him to volunteer to do so.

Chloi Estrera Alumna

Deng comment meant Matt Sullivan's comment was obviously not intended to be insensitive to Mr. Deng. Anyone who continues to expound on this as something so awful as to require drastic action needs to reflect on the innocent nature of the remark and the fact that we need to move on.

Beyond the apology that has been made no more falling on the sword is necessary in my opinion, and Sullivan no doubt will be more careful in the future in choosing his

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words and the ledes for articles.

If this is the worst mistake in Judgement that Sullivan ever makes in his life he will indeed be a fortunate individual.

I am a Carolina graduate of the Class of 1953 and this is my first visit to this site. In this case I feel for Duke as much as I would if it were Carolina and feel for Sullivan in particular.

Paul Clark

Reporter should learn from mistakes I, too, was shocked when I read the offensive language describing Luol Deng's play.

The language was, of course, dumb, insentive and insulting. However, from the context of Mr. Sullivan's story, I don’t believe he had any intention of insulting Deng—rather, he seemed to be attempting to write admiringly of Deng's remarkable abilities and play.

I see on your web that some readers have demandedSullivan be fired.

The old saw, "We all make mistakes," is undoubtedly correct. I made quite a lot while I was at Duke, and still, at age 69, have my share (ask my spouse).

Presidents Bill Clinton, and even George W. Bush, were and are not mistake free, and managed to retain their jobs.

The Chronicle has apologized, and I am sure Sullivan has also done so.

Sullivan, I am sure, is deeply embarrased, and has been the target of much abuse. He will learn from this incident and be more careful in the future.

Please do not fire him or accept his resignation. I seem to remember the advice, "Let he, or she,who is without error...."

GeorgeWarlick

Pratt '56

Departments need political balance The Feb. 13 guest commentary, “Clarification and Reflection,” offered by Professor Robert Brandon perfectly illustrates the fundamental issue in this discussion: Brandon seems to think that because he doesn’t see hiring bias in his department that there is none—yet the numbers speak for themselves!

Would Brandon accept that no hiring bias exists in a hypothetical corporation that, upon examination, is found to be run entirely by white males of European descent? Such blindness to any but a stereotypical leftist viewpoint is, sadly, a common characteristic of the modem academic herd.

Of course a professor need not let his/her political beliefs influence their courses, but how could it fail to do so?

While at Duke I had political, moral and

world-view opinions shoved down my throat in the most unlikely courses, and I’m sure it’s grown far worse in the past decades.

The only reasonable remedy is balance by actually seeking out and hiring those whose views represent true diversity.

Of course, with control of the asylum firmly in the hands of the inmates, who will lead the reformation?

The chief offenders-usually found on faculty selection committees—are typically the most convinced that there’s no problem!

Hats off to the students who were willing to take on the task of cleaning up this all too ripe Augean stable. Better get a big shovel....

ON THE RECORD The rise in the number of college students with HIV is a concern

of ours.

We are not in a vacuum.

Ray Rodriguez, administrative coordinator of Student Health and health education specialist, on HIV rates at Duke. See story, page one.

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RayAlbrektson

Trinity 70

COMMENTARIES

THE CHRONICLE

MONDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 2004

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On Not Knowing

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was talking with a friend in the library (of all places) one random night when we started discussing the issue of doubt in our educations at Duke. It went something like this: “So, I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself this summer, much less after

we are not here to find truth, then what are we doing here?

One obvious answer is, ofcourse, for the credentials. We need X degree to get Yjob so that by the time we’re 40 we can have Z pension plan (plus ABC spouse and kids). But this need exists insofar as our society has deemed it necesonly college.”

‘Yeah, me too. There’s so much out there.” sary to have credentials. In its most ideal form, a ‘Tor real. How do some people know so university is the place for discussion of the greatest problems and questions clearly where they’re going in societies. world? don’t have our I sure facing the any Through our work at Duke, of it figured out.”

“Wait a second.. .who does?” we all in some way hope to realize our personal visions We didn’tknow exacdy what for what is the “right” life or understand, to we were trying path in the world. but we understood each other In Nan’s published reperfecdy —clearly, there is a persponse to the DCU ad, she vasive sense of tracked direction Kurian noted astutely, “No single among undergraduate students political perspective has a at Duke, one that often puts the The Pen is Mightier monopoly on intelligence, blinders on for other worthon any topic, and our classwhile experiences in college, or rooms are if the expression of di“real world” thereafter.

But that impoverished shortly in the wasn’t quite the point of the discussion. Our verse views is discouraged.... One of the fundamental tenets of our University is that we conversation was illuminating, not only because I realized that there are other underprovide an environment where multiple views can be raised and students can discern for this who feel the same graduates at University themselves which arguments are more or less but also because it my spurred thoughts way, on the grand question of why we are here, why meritorious. As I noted in my address to the we continue to study and write and produce in Academic Council, ‘Open dialogue between human beings about issues that are subjects of the face of an infinite set of options and choicconflict or misunderstanding is the only sure es constantly begging for our attention.

The recent investigation by the Duke avenue to better understanding and to truth.’”

In academia, as in much of the rest of life, Conservative Union into the political affiliawe must walk a fine line between categorically tions of our professors at Duke raises a numstifling all debate and viciously assaulting unber of significant questions about the purpose of a university. Are professors and other debatable experiences that define each indischolars here to find truth, and if so, does vidual’s personal truths. Approaching our educations with a strictly “I believe this, you believe that truth change with the values and assumptions of the people who are teaching? If that” attitude is just as detrimental to robust in-

Philip

to colleagues with diametrically opposed ide-

ologies or views about the world. Only in this way can we hope to form rewarding, synergistic relationships and at the same timerealize the sheer infmiteness of our possibilities.

Nan’s characterization of truth as the inevitable outcome of serious, forceful debate is widespread. But, in modern American politics, this characterization has reduced “open dialogue between human beings” to the combative war ofideals we see today, where very little, if anything, has to do with die truth, but all the more with how to skirt the issues or appeal to a wider constituent base. The views of the American majority may be the political reality, but they are surely not the truth.

Our valiant desire for individual liberty can never be achieved in a society lacking any semblance of equality in opportunity. It’s about time that our nation’s decision-makers and learned folk own up to the notion that maybe we don’t know the “right” solutions to our conflicts or problems, and—perhaps even more disheartening to some—that there might not befeasible solutions available at all. Even a well considered “either way could work” every now and then would suffice, particularly in discussions about our economy.

But debate we must, and solutions we must offer, because a society (or university) with scarce resources must make hard decisions about what is important. I believe it was Voltaire who uttered the most enlightened phrase, “I know nothing.” So many of us know how insignificantly little we know, yet this un-

derstanding has failed to color our political conversations. I am as guilty as the rest.

Ultimately, though, when it comes down to choosing in the war of ideals, our decisionmakers—of all ideologies—will have to decide, and act as if what they believe is the truth. In this manner, the political arena is really no different than the religious one.

But for now, in college (and for academics, in their careers), we have been given a blessed opportunity, a glorious chance to bask in the warm glow of not knowing. So do everything in your power to catch a glimpse of that glow:read, write, embrace doubt, calculate, perform, suspend judgment, speak, analyze, protest, research, lead, follow, play, and most of all, ask questions. Questions are the ultimate demonstration of wanting to know what we don’tknow.

Often we pass up asking the great question because we’re afraid that others already know the answer or might think the inquiry juvenile or naive. We’re afraid because it’s a huge lecture.

Or we’re afraid because it’s a small seminar.

We can reinfuse our classes with fresh intellectual energy only if we constantly keep in mind the vast expanse of our ignorance, and our unending quest to diminish it. And maybe, just maybe, in this process of not knowing, we might come ever closer to the elusive understanding of truth.

We as scholars study, write, and produce to achieve better understanding. To express our opinions. To debate. To persuade. To rule out the expressions of other individual truths. Yet what we must always remember is that reasons, like all paths in life, are just manifestations of our choices, and nothing more.

Philip Kurian is a Trinity junior. His column

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RAMONA exposes the criminals among us is a word with outmoded images attached to it. just something you do for awhile, clear your head, get your priWhen the average American thinks of a “criminal,” he orities straight, maybe get over a bad breakup. A change of thinks of some archaic villain from a movie or comic pace. Nothing too intense. Plus, the food is terrific.)

RAMONA QUIMBY is now ready to come forward with book, wearing a horizontally striped sweater and a Lone“|”. the Crime Briefs you were never meant to see. mask and a sack marked The avRanger style lugging only Smashed Strumpet Sasses Security erage American, however, is not the sharpest knife in the 268At 3:21 AM on Friday, February 13, Duke Police stopped piece knife collection sold on the Home Shopping Network have Brandy Cressey, a sophomore, on the patio behind Wannain the wee small hours of the morning. As surveys repeatmaker.

Ms. Cressey was holding a mostly-empty box ofFranzia shown, the American cannot locate Canada on a edly average map of the world, Texas on a map of the United States or his and tottering visibly. When questioned by the police, Ms. Cressey attempted a numberof excuses. Among the more noown ass with both hands and several mirrors. table: ‘You can’t arrest me. My daddy owns There is a new type of criminal out the New York Islanders!’ “Of course I m there, who has traded his horizontal striped over 21.1 have every Eagles album. God, I sweater (not flattering) for a Polo shirt \ jdSfaL must be 60!’ and ‘You know, for a pig, 7 J (slimming). Yes, that’s right. RAMONA you’re kinda cute.” When none of these exQUIMBY AGE 38 is breaking the code of sif v cuses worked, Ms. Cressey vomited on the lence. There are criminals among us. Not ~\\ arresting officer, proclaimed bedtime for the gruesome types of criminals who keep overto °k er back to her me >” freezers full of body parts (this type is generbed, but not before dorm and her to put ally identifiable by their nervous twitches and the locks on their Amana doors). Not Ramona Qllimby, Age 38 getting her AIM name. Their date is sched5 U' ed f r 2/2 o the cmlly-disobedient types who break the Monday, Monday p lr Perkins Masturbator Nabbed law to prevent multinational conglomerates At 11:35PM on Saturday, February 14, a from pillaging the wedands (this type is genman referred to as the fabled “Perkins Masr identifiable their Brown by erally placards, degrees, and trust funds). Not even the innoc.ent kind, who turbator” was apprehended at long last. The man, identified as are visited on death row by a crusading 34-year-old Arnold Barkley, is a lifelong Durham resident but nun/joumalist/nephew who tries to have them exonerated has no affiliation with the University. Responding to an anonybut only succeeds in learning to live every moment as if it were mous tip, campus security found Mr. Barkley exposing and their last (this type is generally identifiable by theirBest Sup- fondling himself in Level Dof the stacks. When approached, Mr. Barkley stated emphatically, “If loving yourself on Valenporting Actor Oscars).

This new brand of criminals blends into the Duke commu- tine’s Day is wrong, then I don’twant to be right! This emphatnity so effectively because it is comprised of Duke students. If ic demeanor quickly devolved into one of denial, however, as the Crime Briefs in The Chronicle are to be believed, the Duke he next claimed to be “performing a LexisNexis search for my student body is the single greatest collection of criminals since pants. The perpetrator then tried to escape but quickly realseveral months ago, when the Japanese Yakuza had a bowling ized that running in his condition was painful, embarrassing, mixer with the Portland Trail Blazers. But even The Chronicle and reminiscent of a similar traumatic experience he suffered does not tell the whole story, as too many references to crime climbing the rope in 6th grade gym class. Mr. Barkley was arat the university would deter slumming Ivy League "administra- rested, charged with indecent exposure, and sentenced to 40 tors from taking jobs here. (Apropos of nothing: amongst these hours of community service, in which he will be required to Ivy League administrators, taking a position at Duke is the steam clean the entire Social Sciences collection, Gate Arm Broken, Emasculated equivalent to taking a year to backpack through Europe. It’s

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Campus police responded to a disturbance call sometime after 2:30 AM on Sunday, February 15, and found that the entrance gate arm to the Blue Zone had been vandalized.

The guilty party, a men’s lacrosse player whose name has been withheld due to an ongoing NCAA investigation, was still at the scene. Authorities watched in puzzlement as the subject crouched on top of the splintered piece of wood, punching it repeatedly and shouting obscenity-laced threats.

When campus police closed in, the subject raised his hands in the air and surrendered peacefully, but not before pouring an entire can of Milwaukee’s Best on the pummeled piece of lumber and exclaiming, “Yeah, bitch! That’s right!

That’s right! Who’s the man now?! Who’s the man now?!”

When reached for comment, the anonymous athlete responded. “You know, the gate arm got in some lucky punches, but I know I won the fight.” He added, “Next time I’m going to break that punk’s other arm.”

Cameron Indoor Illegally Entered, Not Filled A silent security alarm alerted police to a break-in at Cameron Indoor Stadium early on the morning of Monday, February 16. Duke Police arrived to find approximately two dozen undergraduate students engaged in various acts of vandalism. The guilty were immediately rounded up, arrested, and the athletic department was notified. Coach K was understandably upset, and in a statement released today, he chided the wrongdoers: ‘Two dozen? Two dozen kids? You guys could have gotten twice that number in ifyou’d really tried! We’re the number one team in the country! Covert acts of illegal entry and destruction of property should be more highly coordinated and properly planned. Did anyone wear all black? Did anyone paint his face camouflage or develop an intricate system of hand signals or rappel in from the roof like Mission: Impossible? No. No, I didn’t think so.” A similar statement from the Office of Student Affairs read, “Maybe this will be a wakeup call for the undergraduate community to budget its time more wisely and be better trespassers and cat burglars.” As punishment, 150 hours of community service have been awarded to graduate students.

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