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mi DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 101
DURHAM, N.C.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18,2004
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Students Soros denounces ‘Bush Doctrine’ see selfsegregation by
Chrissie Gorman THE CHRONICLE
This is the second article in a series this week about institutional diversity. by Andrew Collins THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore Michelle Bholan called her mother freshman year, confused and troubled by the lack of interaction among races at Duke. Her mother told her that sometimes, self-segregation is just the way the world works. Several months earlier, in summer 2002, Duke was rated first by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education among highly selective universities for success in integrating African Americans. This disparity between rankings and reality has led many other students to doubt the rankings, saying instead that racial self-segregation is the norm on campus despite administrative efforts toward diversity. Students said a lack of practical diversity in their daily lives belies the high diversity rankings that have been bestowed in the last few years by such publications as JBHE and Black Enterprise. A more salient metric for many was the inclusion of Duke on The Princeton Review’s list of colleges with “little race/class interaction.” ANTHONY CROSS/THE CHRONICLE
SEE DIVERSITY ON PAGE 5
George Soros speak to a packed Reynolds Theater Tuesday about President GeorgeW. Bush's policies.
George Soros has done it all—from surviving Nazi occupation of Budapest, Hungary, where he was born, to living under communism, to establishing a network of philanthropic organizations. But Soros has managed to take on yet another position over the last few months: activist for the preservation of an American open society. In the latest of his eight books, The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power, Soros argues that the current U.S. administration has based its foreign policy on military might rather than principles of international law. Soros, alongside a panel of Duke faculty, spoke about his book’s views concerning the presidential election to Tuesday’s overflowing crowd in Reynolds Theater. “After devoting the last 15 years of my life to open society, we have to focus on the U.5.,” Soros said in a press conference before his speech; “I believe the Bush administration is leading us in a very dangerous direction.” But Bush’s present policies, Soros said, are not the ones that got him elected. The current “Bush Doctrine,” as Soros called it, consists of two factors—undivided support for the military at home and the right to intervene abroad. “[The Bush Doctrine] is not consistent with values of open society and cannot possibly be accepted by the rest of the SEE SOROS ON PAGE 6
Judge warns new greeks about hazing dangers by
Andrew Gerst
THE CHRONICLE
through the aisles of Reynolds Theater, appropriating french fries from audience members and joking Wandering
with present sororities and fraternities all around, judge Mitch Crane managed to weave levity into a grim scare-you-straight presentation on the horrors of hazing
Tuesday night.
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Judge Mitch Crane tells new fraternity and sorority members that they do not need to toleratehazing.
The event, sponsored by Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and the Interfraternity Council, drew nearly 500 students, primarily new greek members, for whom attendance was mandatory. “The basic idea is that for the past 10 years, hazing has been a ‘bad word’ around college campuses—greek life has really taken a hit,” said Joseph Kelly, president of Delta Sigma Phi. “We wanted to show that this University is better than hazing.” Crane, a former attorney, high school political science teacher and civil litigation professor —and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon —blamed the poor reputation many individuals have of greek life on biased media coverage and
lampoon films like “Animal House” and “Old School.” He described an episode of “Friends,” where Rachel runs into current members of her old sorority after marrying Ross on a drunken whim in Las Vegas. The show portrays the sisters as snooty, turning their noses up at Rachel, prompting her to observe, “Man, we really are bitches.” “It had nothing to do with the show, just a little message about being greek,” Crane said. “The laugh track was roaring. Every season there’s an anti-greek episode. “Anyone hear about how a fraternity at Penn State University raised $3 million for cancer research last year?” Crane continued. “No? People only hear about the bad things.” Crane pointed out that George W. Bush and A1 Gore played down their fraternity membership during the 2000 presidential election, as have several of the Democratic contenders have thisyear, for fear ofalienating voters. Despite a tripling of the number of SEE HAZING ON PAGE 7