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Students McLendon names top A&S deans to protest in wake of assaults Liana Wyler THE CHRONICLE

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In response to reports of two sexual assaults over the weekend, some students and members of the University community are taking matters into their own hands by staging a protest and hosting forums for discussion about the issue.

Freshman Alessandra Colaianni spearheaded today’s “scream-in” protest, scheduled to take place on the Chapel steps at 2:15 p.m., in the hopes of spurring community members to action before memory of the reported assaults fades away.

“The idea behind the scream-in is to make this problem on campus audible as well as visible —[it’s] symbolic of the screams you don’t hear of women who are sexually assaulted on campus,” Colaianni said.

In response to complaints of a lack of information about the incidents, Edens Quadrangle Residence Coordinator David Montag has planned two open forum discussions to take place at 9:15 and 10:15 tonight in the fifth floor ofMcClendon Tower. He said representatives from the Duke University Police Department, Residence Life and Housing Services, Counseling and Psychological Services, Sexual Assault Support Services and the Office of Student Affairs would all be available to answer students’ questions about the incidents and the University’s current safety policy.

“There was some feedback that I’ve received directly from students who wanted to have a forum in which to discuss concerns, and they wanted to see something done in terms of administrative action,” he said. “They were asking me a lot of questions I didn’t have answers t0.... Especially because it happened around the Edens area, it’s something that I thought needed to be done.”

The protest and open forums will give students the opportunity to air their concerns and seek information about efforts to improve safety on campus, but the reports of two sexual assaults in such close proximity have still left many students feeling vulnerable.

“I think that a lot of the women who attend Duke feel invincible, and I know that most of my friends walk from place to place without a care in the world,” freshman Jenny Feldman said. “Hearing SEE ASSAULTS ON PAGE

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Dean-elect of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences George McLendon announced Tuesday the appointments of three divisional deans in Arts and Sciences to replace current Dean of Natural Sciences Berndt Mueller and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences Karla Holloway.

“I think this is a good time for [McLendon] to appoint his divisional deans,” said William Chafe, current dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for undergraduate education. “And I think they constitute a superb team, with excellent ability to carry forward the work we have begun.”

Effective July 1, Andrew W. Mellon Pro-

fessor of the Humanities Gregson Davis will be dean of the humanities, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Fellow and Professor Stephen Nowicki will be dean of the natural sciences and Professor of psychology Susan

Roth will be dean of the social sciences.

“The divisional deans will work with me and their respective departments and SEE NEW DEANS ON PAGE 8

McDonald’s tops dining rankings ARAMARK’S Great Hall, Marketplace finish at bottom by

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Students who complain about the quality of Marketplace food now have quantitative data to back up their gripes, as the eatery rated dead last in Dining Services’ most recent Performance Assessment for Culinary Excellence rankings. Meanwhile, the world’s common denominator of food, McDonald’s, earned a resounding first place over all other University dining establishments.

McDonald’s 87.44 percent score topped the rankings through March 15, followed by the Faculty Commons at 83.16 percent, Chick-fil-A at 79.69 percent and Blue Express at 79.50 percent.

Much-maligned food service provider ARAMARK Corp. was responsible for two of the three lowest-scoring eateries, as the Great Hall came in at 70.45 percent and the Marketplace bottomed out with 69.18 percent. Also receiving low marks was Alpine Bagel and Brews Co., with a 70.06 percent rating.

All 20 of Duke’s dining establishments—not counting the new law school restaurant, which was not rated—scored either Good or Very Good in the PACE rankings, which were devised by Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst earlier this year to hold food vendors to a tough and quantitative standard of accountability.

A restaurant’s rating is based on an operational performance standards review, conducted by Dining Services, and consumer reviews by “mystery shoppers” and members of the Duke Undergraduate Student Dining Advisory Committee. Later this year, a People’s Choice Award will be added to the complex rating calculation.

The Marketplace’s comparatively low rating comes a month after East Campus Council, DUSDAC and Duke Student Government expressed a lack ofconfidence in ARAMARK and the Marketplace in particular. Last Thursday, ARAMARK resident district manager David Randolph announced the company was relocating him to another account, and Wulforst said ARAMARK and Duke would work together to find a new individual to head up ARAMARK’s efforts at the University. He said, however, that ARAMARK would remain at the University next year. Randolph could not be reached for comment.

Wulforst said he hoped the Marketplace’s disappointing result would be a wake-up call. “For a showplace like the

Marketplace it’s a concern,” he said. “[But] those at the bottom of the list are

saying to us every month, ‘We’re not going to stay at the bottom of the list.’”

The Marketplace and Alpine Bagels suffered two of the most precipitous drops in the rankings since last November’s preliminary scores, which lacked the operational performance standards review that Wulforst conducted just before winter break. Wulforst said Alpine Bagels had some mitigating factors that contributed to its drop, including a challenging transition for new manager Monte Tatum and new operations manager Laura Simmons.

Tatum said it would be necessary for SEE RANKINGS ON PAGE

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The Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas named one of its most combative figures, Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, as its leader in the Gaza Strip Tuesday following Israel’s killing of the group’s founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin.

Meanwhile, senior Israeli security officials said top Hamas leaders would continue to be targets as part of an ongoing campaign against Palestinians linked to violence against Israel.

“Everyone is in our sights. There is no immunity for anyone,” said Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s minister of internal security.

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Rantisi, a pediatrician in his mid-50s, in fact has already survived one such Israeli effort. He suffered multiple wounds when his car was hit by a missile on a Gaza City street last June, but quickly recovered.

While a major figure in the movement, he lacks the towering stature of Yassin, who established the group in 1987. The sheik was killed in an Israeli helicopter strike as he left a Gaza City mosque after Monday morning prayers.

President George W. Bush did not repeat statements made Monday by Richard Boucher, the State Department spokesperson that the administration was “deeply troubled” by the killing of

Yassin. Instead, the president told reporters that he was “worried about terrorist groups targeting America.” He added, “Whether it be a Hamas threat, or an al Qaeda threat, we take them very seriously in this administration.”

Rantisi who speaks frequently to journalists, has been the most visible and fiery Hamas spokesperson in recent years. He vowed that as leader of Hamas from its Gaza stronghold, the group would continue to carry out suicide bombings and other attacks.

“The Israelis will not know security,” Rantisi told the crowd at a memorial SEE RANTISI ON PAGE 11

Taiwan election may prompt conflict

By Stephan Grauwels THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TAIPEI, Taiwan Opposition activists refused to disband protests Monday until authorities agree to recount Taiwan’s weekend presidential election, won by the incumbent one day after he was slightly wounded in a shooting that critics say influenced the vote.

Governments in the region said they hoped that the political turmoil over President Chen Shui-bian’s narrow reelection victory Saturday would not lead to greater tension between the island and rival China.

Chen, who campaigned on a China-bashing platform, won with just 50.1 percent of the vote, compared to 49.9 per-

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cent for opposition candidate Lien Chan, who has pushed for a more conciliatory approach toward China. The margin was just 30,000 votes.

The opposition said voting was marred both by Friday’s mysterious shooting and by voting irregularities. They say the attack unfairly earned Chen sympathy votes, and Lien raised questions about more than 330,000 ballots that allegedly were spoiled.

“The whole world is concerned over whether Taiwan has had a fair election,” Lien’s running-mate, James Soong, said early Monday while visiting opposition activists SEE TAIWAN ON PAGE

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immigrants denied amnesty get second try Thousands of people denied a chance to apply for amnesty 17 years ago will be allowed to apply now, says the Homeland Security Department's Citizen and Immigration Services.

Lawsuit shows toxic chemicals in Army tents Almost three-fourths of the camouflage-patterned tents, tarpaulins and jeep covers used by the U.S. military are made from fabric manufactured with toxic lead compounds that can cause a variety of illnesses including cancer.

Assailants fire rocket at Baghdad hotel

Attackers fired a rocket that struck the Sheraton Hotel housing foreign contractors and journalists early Wednesday. Security guards said there were no casualties.

US military frees 272 Iraqi detainees The U.S. military released 272 security detainees Tuesday from Abu Ghraib prison, once Saddam Hussein's most notorious lockup. Many smiled or flashed "V"-for-victory signs.

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Student Affairs race features fraternity members by

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In a Duke Student Government race for vice president of student affairs that pits members of three different fraternities against each other, sophomore Brandon Goodwin, junior Adam Katz and sophomore Mark Middaugh have placed varying importance on developing campus social life in their bids for the office.

The candidates are vying for a position that weighs in on most aspects of non-academic student life, including student health, campus social trends and student organization concerns. For the first time this year, campus safety will also fall partially under the jurisdiction of the vice president, and dining—which has always been within the domain of student affairs —will be the responsibility of the newly renamed Campus Services and Athletics Committee.

“Student affairs is about a lot more than alcohol policy,” said Elizabeth Dixon, current vice president of student affairs. “It should be more about the Career Center, student health and the multitude of student organizations.”

Goodwin, a DSC legislator for the past two years and former vice chair of the East Campus Council, is the lone candidate with experience on the student affairs committee. He said he plans to focus on improving safety through a student committee designed to “put a watchful eye on the [Duke University Police Department].” He criticized the University’s spending patterns, specifically citing money spent on Segway scooters while failing to make permanent funding for safe rides from the Blue Zone.

Student health concerns also figure prominently on Goodwin’s agenda. “We haven’t taken advantage of the online domain,” he said, advocating an online appointment system for student health services.

Goodwin, a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity who is also Interfraternity Council’s executive vice president of chapter services and director ofinterim annual re-

Junior Chris Carlberg, president of ATO, said Katz has been a reliable leader in the organization. “He is always coming up with interesting new activities and

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Will Connolly, a junior and IFC president, pointed to Goodwin’s vision as one of his greatest strengths. “He seems to have a really good hold on where undergrads are on campus and what things are important to them, and a good grasp of how to communicate that to administrators,” Connolly said.

Goodwin’s vision includes maintaining Duke’s balanced atmosphere. “We have a unique work hard, play hard environment and if we took away this uniqueness of Duke, we would really lose a lot,” he said.

Katz, Alpha Tau Omega social chair for the past two years, emphasized his desire to be an “advocate of the students,” reach-

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“I feel like it’s not fair to take Duke places without consulting the people who are going to be living here,” Katz said.

The majority ofKatz’s platform focuses on the social scene. He said he would work with administrators to authorize party monitors as qualified bartenders and to decrease the cost of kegs purchased through the University.

He is also committed to increasing the role of the student affairs committee in supporting selective living groups. He suggested that the committee become an “advocate when selectives get in trouble.”

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As the only candidate without prior DSG experience, Katz said he would bring a fresh perspective to the table, infuse the organization with creativity and better connect with students. ‘There is a poor communication line between DSG and the students,” Katz said. “A lot ofDSG is top-down when it should be bottom-up.”

Middaugh, a member of the DSG facilities and athletics committee, expressed concern for DUPD’s priorities and spoke out against its expansion to the area off East Campus, citing the poor safety record on campus.

“How many more crimes is it going to take to make a change?” Middaugh said.

“Why are so many Duke police breaking up parties but not patrolling footpaths?”

Middaugh, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, has run track since his freshman year but plans to quit at the end of the academic year due to a recent injury. He said student affairs should concentrate on improving the health facilities on campus. Specifically, he advocated an online appointment system, better parking at the student health facility and staffing the East Campus clinic with doctors rather than nurse practitioners.

Alex Niejelow, vice president of facilities and athletics, acknowledged Middaugh’s drive and initiative as a senator.

“He was an accomplished legislator. He’s very thoughtful.” he said. “However, I haven’t seen Mark in too many leadership positions.”

Middaugh said he would like to make DSG’s and the administration’s decisions more transparent and deepen students’ involvement in the project creation process. He plans to rely on mandates from students rather than solely on DSG initiatives.

“DSG has become way too focused on completing projects behind the scenes and then announcing them,” Middaugh said.

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Student leaders debate academic freedom by

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Despite the “cozy” setting—nine people hidden away in an unoccupied room in Perkins Library —the ongoing controversy over academic freedom flared up again Tuesday night as the administration took on the Duke Conservative Union, College Republicans and Duke Democrats for an hour and a halfof debate.

Senior Madison Kitchens, DCU executive director, and Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College, dominated much of the debate, which the Duke Student Governsponsored.

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primarily in an open letter to President Nan Keohane last month decrying the disparity between numbers of registered Democrat and Republican professors the possibility that such a concentration of Democrats could lead partisan ideology to determine the nature ofcoursework and class discussion sufficiently to intimidate dissenting student voices into silence for fear of receiving a lower grade.

‘The reason I find that [risk] hard to believe is that the whole life of the faculty member is to learn how to engage in this debate,” Thompson said. That’s how they got into this field. That’s normadve. What would be so insulting as to provoke a negative or punitive response?”

Thompson said the process of simply choosing a small number of course texts from an overwhelming array of options represents an inherent and significant bias. As a result, he said he finds the notion of an “unbalanced” course ultimately —

meaningless.

“I don’t give any credibility to that argument,” Thompson said. “Now if a course is comparative, then you have to compare a perspective to something. But if it’s not, it’s to teach something, then you don’t need balance.... All opinions are not equal.

So while we want to protect the right to all opinions, once [an opinion] is expressed, I don’t always see it as useful. We want informed opinions.”

Kitchens countered that Thompson underestimates the extent of political influ-

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Trinity College Dean Robert Thompson speaks duringTuesday night's forum. ence in the Duke classroom “I’m in the economics department,” Kitchens said. “I know that if I were in the cultural anthropology department representing my viewpoints, there’s no way I’d have the GPA I have today.... If you want to have a class called ‘Liberal Perspectives on Inequality,’ that’s fine. But don’t have a course taught by leftist professors using only leftist writers and call it ‘ln-

registered Democrats, four unaffiliated members, and no Republicans—to the more conservative political science depart-

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lectually].”

Kitchens and Daniel Kennedy, DCU vice president, presented the preponderance ofDemocrat professors as a problem affecting Democrat and liberal students as much as, if not more than, Republican and conservative students.

“It’s ironic that the school is interested in diversity in areas like race and gender, but not intellectual diversity,” said Kennedy, who added that he changed his major from history—a department with 32

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“If there were 32 white people and only four of a different race in a department, there’d be a much bigger outcry,” he said.

“I think ifI were in Duke Democrats I’d be worried about not being challenged [intel-

Junior Evan Burness, publicity chair for the Duke Democrats, questioned DCU’s charge for systematic top-down reform, offering instead that students might do well to take their professors’ positions with a grain of salt.

“Don’t take it in a vacuum,” Burness said. The teacher is not God. They don’t expect you to think that.”

The notion of bias in the determination of course offerings proved a point ofbitter

contestation at times throughout the night. When Kitchens suggested that the literature department’s Marxism and Society certificate program relies on an angle “that has been pretty much obliterated in theory and in practice,” Thompson pointed as analogy to the continued usefulness of Freudian thought in academics despite the psychology field’s general departure from the area.

“There were reasons that psychology moved away from it,” Thompson said. “But I’m not going to deny another field the opportunity to build on those concepts.”

Thompson also discussed an “ebb and flow” of thought, suggesting that once antiquated viewpoints may prove of interest once again.

Junior Karan Maheshwari, an unaffiliated panelist hailing from Bombay, provided a thought-provoking look at student comfort levels in the classroom—another key topic—with the assertion that, for many international students, fitting in comes before making a point.

“I grew up in a school where there was no debate,” Maheshwari said. “It was God’s gospel or it was not. It took me a year and a half to make a presentation, even when I was supposed t0.... You have a culture shock. It’s so hard to get out and meet people, you don’t want to have a [political] argument with your roommate.”

Bumess suggested that, in the rare event a student feels he has been graded unfairly due to a professor’s political bias, he could easily rectify the problem by bringing the assignment to the department head or another faculty member.

Junior Lauren Carpenter, vice chair of the College Republicans, said that students who feel uncomfortable sharing a viewpoint in the classroom will likely be even more fearful of escalating tensions with a circumventory meeting with the department head. A more effective solution, she said, would be to allot specific amounts of time to a given position.

“You could structure the class in such away that everyone has the chance to offer an opinion—you have four days, two for one side, two for another,” Carpenter said.

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Kaplan urges media responsibility Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE

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Minutes before President of MSNBC Rick Kaplan’s lecture was set to begin, a flutter of foreign tongues filled the air in the room at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Kaplan had attracted an international audience of professional journalists and students to the Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Communications.

The conversations punctuated by thick German and British accents soon dissolved to silence Tuesday night as Kaplan began, urging a crowd of roughly 50 people to consider their responsibility to fellow citizens when reporting the news.

“Is it not our ethical duty to report the stories that need to be heard?” he asked.

Kaplan, who has won 34 Emmys and previously served as president ofCNN News, spoke of a time when journalists such as famed Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward were idolized and journalism was a highly respected profession.

“Everyone wanted to be a journalist,” he said. “I wanted to be a journalist before I knew I wanted to be a journalist.”

With public skepticism about bias in the media increasing, an influx of information resources at one’s fingertips, broadcast news viewership decreasing and its audience aging, Kaplan said journalists must “get beyond the surface” with their coverage of stories to keep up, reel viewers in and stay true to their mission.

“It comes down to digging deeper—digging much deeper,” he said. “If you just ‘do the news,’ you lose. Isn’t the public right in wondering what we are doing?”

Although he peppered his speech with jokes—including an opening line about the upcoming Friday night NCAA match-up between Duke’s men’s basketball team and his alma mater the University of Illinois—Kaplan charged that today’s news is often being analyzed as if it were an entertainment form. Offering examples from recent evening news magazine broadcasts, Kaplan explained that in treating the news as entertainment, the real issues are being overlooked.

“News ought to be the ultimate reality show, but it’s not,” he said. ‘When news tries to do something it’s not... they get themselves into trouble.”

He cited as an example his decision to ban MSNBC from airing car chases in progress. Instead, his channel has started to feature police specialists who analyze the chases—with the perpetrators’ faces and names purposefully left out—and point out various facets of the pursuit.

Another issue Kaplan singled out as problematic was the stronghold that five media stations—ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and FOX —have over coverage and news outlook.

‘There are fewer editorial viewpoints,” he said.

But he offered caution at the thought that journalism was dying or that “journalism ethics” was an oxymoron.

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‘The idea of delivering the news is a time-honored profession—important for the country—and we’re not going to let it slip away,” Kaplan said. “Some of the finest people I know are journalists. I have a lot of faith in the good sense of the people in those newsrooms.”

Ellen Mickiewicz, a professor of public policy and Director of the Dewitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism, which sponsored the event, heralded Kaplan’s values, skills as a teacher and his experiences as part ofhis draw.

“I think that his values are ones we need to hear,” she said. “His experience runs from journalism to the top of management, every bit of the industry, and you don’t normally get that view.”

Kaplan’s experiences working at four television networks —including his position overseeing Iraqi war coverage at ABC—attracted many audience members, including students Mariah Richardson-Osgood and Rachel Soder.

Richardson-Osgood, a junior, said she was lured by his SEE KAPLAN ON PAGE 10

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Medicare report predicts bleak financial outlook by

Robert Pear

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WASHINGTON Medicare’s financial condition has significantly deteriorated, pardy because of exploding health costs and pardy because of the new Medicare law, the government reported on Tuesday.

In their annual report to Congress, the Medicare board of trustees said the program’s hospital insurance trust fund could run out of money before the end of the next decade.

The trustees have made such projections in the past, but this one was much bleaker than the oudook reported just last year.

By contrast, the financial future for Social Security, though shaky in the long run,

changed little from last year.

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a public representative on the six-member board, who is also a former dean of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, said: ‘The magnitude of the problems is much greater in Medicare.

They start sooner, get bigger and will be much more difficult to deal with. The problems of Social Security are manageable, compared with those ofMedicare.”

In their report, the trustees lobbed a political bombshell into this year’s elections that was immediately seized upon by Democrats to criticize the George W. Bush administration, by saying Medicare appeared unsustainable in its current form.

In addition, the report closely follows

disclosures last week by the Medicare actuary, who accused the Bush administration of ordering him to withhold higher cost estimates of the new law.

The trustees made three blunt statements that highlighted the problems: Under current law, Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund, which pays for inpatient hospital care, will be exhausted in 2019, seven years earlier than forecast.

Medicare will grow much faster than the economy as a whole, increasing from 2.6 percent of the gross domestic product last year to 3.7 percent in 2010, 7.7 percent in 2035 and nearly 14 percent at the end of the 75-year period commonly used for long-range projections.

“Projected Medicare costs would exceed those for Social Security in 2024. By 2078, the level of Medicare expenditures would represent nearly twice the cost of Social Security.”

The new figures set off a political brawl between Democrats and the White House.

“In just one year, George Bush’s reckless policies have sped Medicare seven years closer to bankruptcy,” said Sen. John Kerry, the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

Bush administration officials said Medicare’s financial problems would be far worse if Democrats had prevailed in SEE MEDICARE ON PAGE 10

Killing bin Laden may not have stopped 9/11

by Hope Yen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Clinton and George W. Bush administration officials engaged in lengthy, ultimately fruitless diplomatic efforts instead of military action to try to get Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal panel said Tuesday. Top Bush officials countered that the terror attacks would have occurred even if the United States had killed the al-Qaeda leader.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a strong defense of pre-Sept. 11 actions that have become a major presidential campaign issue, told the federal commission reviewing the attacks that the Sept. 11 plot was well under way when the Bush administration took office in January 2001.

“Killing bin Laden would not have removed al-Qaeda’s

sanctuary in Afghanistan,” Rumsfeld said. “Moreover, the sleeper cells that flew the aircraft into the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon were already in the United States months before the attack.”

Powell said that even if U.S. forces had invaded Afghanistan, killed bin Laden and neutralized al-Qaeda, “I have no reason to believe that would have caused them to abort their plans.”

Separately, President Bush said Tuesday he would have acted before Sept. 11 “had my administration had any information that terrorists were going to attack New York City on Sept. 11.”

The testimony by Rumsfeld and Powell came against the backdrop of counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke’s claim that top Bush administration officials ignored bin Laden and the threat of the al-Qaeda terror net-

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Powell did not mention Clarke, but said, “President Bush and his entire national security team understood that terrorism had to be among our highest priorities and it was.”

Still, according to preliminary findings in one of two reports issued by the commission, it wasn’t until the day before the attacks that the Bush administration had a military strategy to overthrow the Taliban government and get at bin

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Renewed push for domestic oil in Gulf of Mexico Simon Romero

Gulf Of Mexico With energy prices climbing again, amid OPEC threats to cut oil production and concern about soaring demand for natural gas, the Gulf of Mexico is the focus of a renewed push to in-

crease domestic production.

It is not at all clear whether these new forays will pay off, even though the Minerals Management Service, the federal agency that manages offshore mineral resources, recently increased its estimates of reserves of “deep shelf’ natural gas by 175 percent.

Oil production in the gulf has almost doubled in the last decade, and could reach 1.87 million barrels a day this year, according to federal estimates, even as onshore output in the United States has been declining for years.

With energy prices rising, investors are piling back in: the latest round of bidding for federal offshore leases, held last week in New Orleans, attracted the largest number of bids in six years, the minerals agency said.

Skeptics in the oil patch, however, still call the Gulf ofMexico the “Dead Sea” because many earlier production forecasts proved illusory. They criticize investments in the gulf even as many of them praise investments in leases and wells in other, more exotic offshore tracts from western Africa to Kazakhstan to Brazil.

When the Anadarko Petroleum Corp. installed this 12,500-ton floating platform in the waters 160 miles south of New Orleans in January, for example, it was considered a remarkable feat of engineering. But the financial markets were not impressed. Shares in Anadarko, based in Houston, fell more than 4 percent in the days after the installation as investors complained that the company was badly behind schedule.

And Anadarko itself soon cut its own production forecasts, citing stormy weather.

“This is certainly not a positive development for a company aiming to restore investor confidence,” John A. Bailey, an energy analyst at Deutsche Bank, said in a report. Another analyst, John Gerdes of Southwest Securities, downgraded Anadarko.

Even as the Gulf of Mexico’s role in domestic oil supplies has grown more prominent it accounted for 30 percent of domestic production last year, from 16 percent in 1995, and is expected to grow to 40 percent the area is a small part of the global market. by 2010 It accounted for just 2 percent of total world production in 2003, and while production in the gulf is growing and is expected to peak at 2.4 million barrels a day around 2009 or 2010, it is expected to decline to about 2 million a day by 2020, according to the Energy Information administration.

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Gas production, which once was thought to have peaked in the early 19905, is also expected to increase from current levels. Projections of a decline in the gulf explain in part the mammoth investments oil companies are making in other countries with large offshore reserves. In Kazakhstan, for example, a group including ENI of Italy, Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch/Shell confirmed recently that it was proceeding with a $29 billion project to develop that nation’s Kashagan field.

Still, largely because the Gulf of Mexico is so close to major refineries and pipelines in Texas and Louisiana, Robert W. Esser, a senior consultant and director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, said he considered the region “the world’s premier exploration province.”

That may explain why exploration companies submitted 827 bids worth a total of $368.8 million for 557 tracts at

The most sought-after tracts were in shallow waters that could contain gas deposits deep under the continental shelf and in extra-deep waters where technology is allowing drillers to search for gas with greater efficiency.

The main risk of drilling in deep-shelf waters, where wells descend 15,000 feet or more beneath the sea floor, is the possibility that companies might find no gas at all after investing millions of dollars. Nexen, a Canadian energy company, Jolted the industry in February when it reported that a well it had drilled with a unit of Royal Dutch/Shell had come up dry. The unproductive well, at nearly 26,000 feet and the deepest ever drilled on the gulf shelf, cost the companies about $35 million.

“Folks think the Gulf of Mexico is just around the corner again when something like this dry hole pops up,” said William Walker, president of Howard Weil Labouisse Friedrichs, a New Orleans investment bank.

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cover two divisions,” said Roth. “It now makes sense to have one dean for each of the divisions.”

Although in its original conception, the divisional deanships were intended to be separated into the three positions that will exist under McLendon, Chafe said Holloway’s experience and interests made her qualified to take on the division of humanities as well as social sciences.

“I had asked [Holloway] to combine both humanities and social sciences because she came from both English and [African and African-American Studies],” Chafe said. “And we both agreed it was good for her to take on responsibility for both.”

In addition to incorporating a third divisional dean in Arts and Sciences, McLendon also appointed Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson as vice provost for undergraduate education—a decision that Chafe said will make for a good team to lead Arts and Sciences and undergraduate education.

“I am especially pleased that Bob Thompson will become vice-provost,” Chafe, who previously held the title, said. “That task is to help coordinate undergraduate education policy, and no one is better qualified than Bob Thompson to do that.”

McLendon is delighted to have such accomplished faculty agree to help lead Arts and Sciences, he wrote.

Thompson joined the faculty in 1975 and holds appointments in the department of psychology: social and health sciences, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and department of pediatrics. He has been dean of Trinity College since 1999 and was previously dean of undergraduate affairs.

As dean, Thompson helped lead the undergraduate transition to Curriculum 2000 and has since overseen its assessment and evaluation.

Davis is the former chair ofclassical studies and also has an adjunct appointment in the Program in Literature. He served on the provost’s Task Force for Faculty Diversity, was a member of the provost’s search committee and directed the Duke in Venice summer study abroad program.

Nowicki chaired the faculty committee that recently recommended revisions ofCurriculum 2000 and holds appointments as a professor in the departments of biology, psychology and

programs to formulate and implement the strategic plan for Arts and Sciences and Trinity College,” McLendon wrote in an e-mail to colleagues.

Provost Peter Lange noted that the appointment of divisional deans from within the University will help make McLendon’s transition into his deanship easier, in spite ofhis already having a strong knowledge of the Arts and Sciences departments at Duke.

“The fact that he’s new to Duke will mean that [the divisional deans] will be able to offer him important information about the departments,” Lange said. ‘They will certainly be of great assistance to him as dean.”

The divisional deans will also have multidisciplinary responsibilities that transcend their divisions when dealing with issues such as faculty' diversity, McLendon added.

Nowicki expressed enthusiasm about the opportunity to work in concert with McLendon and the other deans to facilitate the broader goals of the University.

‘The divisional deans are all going to be working together as a team,” Nowicki said. “We’re not going to be parochial about it—l’m not just interested in the science departments, I’m interested in Duke.”

Five year ago, Chafe spearheaded the creation of divisional deanships at the University, appointing Mueller and Holloway in order to handle the growing complexity of managing the various departments under Arts and Sciences.

“We needed expertise and hands-on authority,” Chafe said, adding that the implementation of divisional deanships has since made Arts and Sciences more efficient and responsive to the faculty and departments.

Mueller said his experience as dean ofnatural sciences over the past five years has clearly proven the importance of having divisional deans.

“Simply because of the diversity of the school faculty, divisional deans allow for contact with the department and faculty members reasonably often so that contact is sufficiently intense,” Mueller said. “It’s a very fruitful arrangement and I’m neurobiology. glad to see this continue.”

Roth chaired the executive committee of the Women’s InitiaThe divisional deanship arrangement under McLendon, tive and the provost’s Women’s Faculty Development Task Force however, differs from the current system. The position of dean and served on the provost’s Task Force for Faculty Diversity. She of humanities and social sciences, which Holloway currently is the former chair of psychology: social and health sciences and holds, will be split in two. holds appointments in the department of psychiatry and behav“It’s become clear that it’s a lot of work for one person to ioral sciences as well as in the women’s studies program.

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HOUSTON NASA’s Mars Opportunity robotic rover has found the most compelling evidence yet that the Red Planet once had a pond or perhaps even an ancient salty sea, scientists said Tuesday.

Though the finding again raises the prospect that the frigid, dry Martian conditions were once more conducive for life, that issue will likely await future missions to be resolved.

The latest findings were based on Opportunity’s close-up examination of the rocks in the shallow crater at its Meridiani Planum landing site.

The golf-cart-size spacecraft had been examining bedrock in the crater until earlier this week. It descended onto the planet in late January.

Three weeks ago, space agency experts announced Opportunity had found chemical and mineral evidence that the rock formation was immersed in salty water at some point in the planet’s 4.6 billion-year past. But they could not say whether the outcrop was formed from marine sediments or from volcanic or wind-blown deposits resting atop an underground spring.

The experts attempted to settle the matter Tuesday with dozens of close-up pictures of the outcropping taken with Opportunity’s microscopic imager.

The finely focused imagery reveals a distinctive “cross-bedding,” or layering of sediments, that on Earth forms in flowing water, said Steve Squyres (the Cornell University astronomer who serves as the mission’s principal investigator, and John Grotzinger, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology sedimentologist.)

“We’ve found strong evidence the rocks are sediments that were laid down in liquid water,” Squyres said.

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TAIWAN from page 2 rallying near the Presidential Office to demand a recount.

Later Monday, Lien demanded that the president meet with him to discuss the fraud allegations “for the sake of stability, democracy and clean politics.”

Lien already has petitioned for the election results be nullified, and it could take months for the courts to decide how to respond. Taiwan High Court chief Chang Chin-hsiung said Monday that a ruling would come within six months at the latest.

“It could come in one or two months after we finish the investigation and have debates about it,” Chang said.

The election dispute cast a cloud over Taiwan’s stock market, which had already stopped trading for the day Friday when

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Chen was shot. The market’s main index plunged 6.7 percent Monday, close to the daily limit of 7 percent.

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer urged Chen to act with “a very great degree of moderation” in dealings with China, which wants Taiwan to rejoin the mainland.

“I think the last thing any of us want in the Asia-Pacific region is an escalation of tension between Taiwan and mainland China,” Downer said.

In Tokyo, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for moves toward stability.

“It is important that the confusion there ends quickly,” he said.

Adding to the uncertainty, Taiwan’s defense minister, Tang Yiau-ming, submitted his resignation Sunday because of eye problems, the Ministry of Defense said.

Tang had said before the election that he

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intended to step down after the vote Chen and Vice President Annette Lu were shot and slightly wounded Friday while riding in an open Jeep in Chen’s hometown of Tainan. Nobody has been arrested, and police have not identified any suspects.

To head off speculation that Chen staged the shooting, his office released photographs of his wounds, and prosecutors said tests had shown that two bullets found at the scene had been fired from a gun and were the bullets that injured Chen and Lu. The opposition believes the shooting may have given Chen the edge he needed to win the election.

But a referendum championed by Chen and also held Saturday failed because many voters decided to boycott it. The ballot question—Taiwan’s first island-wide ref-

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erendum—was fiercely opposed by Beijing, which saw it as a rehearsal for a vote on Taiwan independence.

China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and China wants the island to rejoin the mainland and has threatened military action if it moves toward independence. The ballot question asked whether to beef up Taiwan’s military defenses against China.

Lien’s party argued that Chen did not have the legal authority to call the referendum and successfully rallied Taiwanese to skip the vote.

Lien’s supporters scuffled with law enforcement officers in central and southern Taiwan after the election results were announced late Saturday, and an estimated 10,000 convened Sunday in front of the Presidential Office to call for an immediate recount.

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have made empty promises for more than a decade.”

Moreover, Duffy said that Medicare’s financial problems resulted more from rising health costs in general twice as much than from the drug benefit proposed by Bush and apthe effort to pass drug legislation costing proved

by Congress last year. the new law. as But the trustees said the drug benefit would indeed be The board of trustees consists of four administration officials and two public representatives, Palmer and a major factor adding to Medicare’s fiscal problems.

The trustees said that Medicare spending on the drug Thomas Saving, an economist at Texas A&M University.

In a joint statement, the two public trustees said that benefitwould start at $B5 billion a year in 2006 and would then grow an average of 9.6 percent a year, to $161.8 bilsurging Medicare costs, combined with the new drug benefit, “raise serious doubt about the sustainability of lion in 2013.

In a separate analysis, the trustees said that the Social Medicare under current financing arrangements.” said, the full board the fiscal outlook may Security trust fund would be exhausted in 2042, but that Moreover, be worse than the official projections indicate, because annual costs would exceed tax revenue starting in 2018. the estimates are based on the unrealistic assumption that Those dates are the same as in last year’s report.

Social Security officials emphasized that the program the average Medicare fee for doctors’ services will be cut would not stop paying benefits even under those assumpabout 5 percent each year from 2006 to 2012, as required under current rules. Doctors will almost surely persuade tions. While the assets of the trust fund would be depleted in 2042, they said, tax income would still cover 73 perCongress to reverse those cuts, lawmakers say.

Though issued by the Bush administration, the cent of benefit costs.

Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund, which now Medicare report was prepared mainly by the office of the who refor 55 percent of Medicare spending, has been Foster, Richard a civil servant accounts longtime actuary, a widely used gauge of the program’s financial condition. cently stirred up a political row when he said he was orIt fluctuates from year to year. dered to withhold some of his cost estimates for the prelast Robert Reischauer, current president of the Urban from the Congress. In year, scription drug legislation he wrote, “the financial status of the hospital insurance Institute and a former director of the Congressional trust fund has deteriorated significantly.”

Budget Office, said: “The date of insolvency moved forFor example, the report says, tax revenue earmarked ward seven years. By my way of calculating, that’s the largest deterioration since we began doing these projecfor the hospital trust fund will fall short of outlays betions in 1970.” ginning this year, not in 2013, as the trustees had preTrustees listed several reasons for the worsening condidicted last March. Similar shortfalls have occurred in tion of the hospital trust fund. Spending was a little highyears past.

Democrats found themselves in a delicate position. er than expected last year, and payroll tax collections They insisted on Tuesday that Medicare was not facing a were lower than expected, because of “very slow growth in fiscal crisis, and they said they saw no reason for alarm. wages in 2003,” the report said.

In addition, it said, the new Medicare law will signifiBut at the same time, Democrats blamed Bush for Medicare’s problems. cantly increase costs for the trust fund, “primarily Kerry said Bush had had an opportunity to shore up through increased payments to rural hospitals and priMedicare’s finances, but squandered it by providing “tax vate health plans.” breaks for the wealthy and a giveaway to prescription The report is full of complex statistics, but the two drug companies.” public trustees explained the significance of the numTrent Duffy, a White House spokesperson, fired back, bers for ordinary Americans.

In 2003, they observed, premiums and co-payments saying: ‘John Kerry would like to steal the drug benefit away from seniors before they even get it. This president won’t for a typical Medicare beneficiary amounted to 15 perallow him to do that. This president has delivered; Democ- cent of the average Social Security benefit. rats

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unique position within the journalism world. “[I am] really interested to hear his position on the media and his interpretation on what’s going on,” she said.

Similarly, Soder, a journalism student at the UniversiofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill and a staff writer for ty The Daily Tar Heel, said Kaplan’s speech showed her a new side of broadcast journalism “I think it’s interesting the kind of circles that broadcast journalism and the media are going in order to cater to the mass audience,” she said.

In a more inspirational moment, Kaplan described a bookmark he found at a Barnes and Nobles bookstore recently, featuring a quotation from George Elliot. “It said, ‘lt’s never too late to be what you might have been,’” he quoted. “To that I add, ‘or what you might need to be.’”

ASSAULTS from page 1 about an attack on women who are similar to our age, who go to the same school, who go to the same parties, who are essentially similar targets makes the whole idea more of a personal concern Such expressions of insecurity were part of the force behind the “scream-in,” Colaianni said, and she hopes the protest will encourage further discussion between students and administrators about the issue.

“I was outraged and felt like something more needed to be done,” she added. “Timeliness was of the essence.

You usually get a lot of outrage right after the event and then things peter out, so that’s why I acted quickly.”

Seyward Darby contributed to this article. ”

FACT OF THE DAY Mary Ann Cross (1819-1880) used the pseudonym George Elliot, because of the restrictions placed on female authors in her time.

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attempted to approach the Jewish settlement of Morag in the southern Gaza Strip.

In Hamas, a group defined by its ex-

service Tuesday for Yassin. “We will fight them until the liberation of Palestine, the whole of Palestine.”

And in remarks directed at the military wing of Hamas, he said: “The door is open for you to strike all places, all the time and using all means.”

The Hamas leadership structure is fuzzy—Yassin held the title of spiritual leader—and the full extent ofRantisi’s authority was not immediately clear.

Khaled Mashaal, based in Syria, remains head of Hamas’ political bureau, a key decision-making body, Hamas officials said.

In an interview Tuesday night with the Arab satellite television network A1 Jazeera, Rantisi said he would “obey” the political bureau.

In the past, there has been tension between Hamas leaders in the Palestinian territories and those in exile.

The killing ofYassin seemed, at least in the short term, likely to increase regional violence as Palestinian groups called for retaliatory attacks.

Israeli aircraft carried out an attack Tuesday night just across the border in southern Lebanon against a group of militants assembling a missile launcher, the Israeli military said. Two Palestinian militants were killed and one was injured, the Associated Press reported from Beirut, citing a Lebanese security official.

Also, Israeli troops shot and killed an armed Palestinian who was crawling as he

treme positions, Rantisi is known as the leader who makes the most vitriolic state-

and who opposes any compromise with Israel.

When Hamas and other Palestinian factions declared a unilateral truce with Israel last summer, Rantisi was a vocal critic of the decision. The truce never fully took hold, and collapsed within a couple months.

Rantisi no longer practices medicine, and in recent years has taught medical courses at the Islamic University, where many students support Hamas.

He spent years imprisoned by Israel, and was sent into exile in Lebanon in 1992 along with several hundred other Hamas activists. The Palestinian Authority—which he frequendy criticizes—also jailed him for about two years.

While Rantisi describes himself as a political figure, Israel says there is no distinction between the political and military wings of Hamas and that Rantisi is among those who have orchestrated the group’s suicide bombing campaign even if they have not planned the details ofattacks.

The death of Yassin brought a deluge of international criticism directed at Israel, and it also produced a measure ofPalestinian political unity, at least temporarily.

The Fatah movement which is more nationalist than religious, is headed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and is the mainrival of Hamas in Palestinian politics.

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limited, if any, use of military and they were relatively free to do whatever they wanted.”

Laden in case a final diplomatic push failed.

However, that strategy was expected to take three years, the commission said.

The commission report said U.S. officials, in both the Clinton and Bush administrations, feared a failed attempt on bin Laden could kill innocents and would only boost bin Laden’s prestige. And the American public and Congress would have opposed any large-scale military operations before the Sept. 11 attacks, the report said.

In the end, it said, pursuing diplomacy over military action allowed bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders to elude capture.

The panel, formally the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is holding two days of hearings with top-level Bush and Clinton administration officials to question them on their efforts to stop bin Laden in the years leading up to Sept. 11. In addition to Clarke, the panel will hear Wednesday from CIA Director George Tenet and Clinton administration national security adviser Sandy Berger.

The commission’s staff has spent months interviewing Clinton and Bush administration officials and poring over documents. Its preliminary findings will be considered by the 10-member panel, which plans to issue a final report this summer.

The staff reports found both administrations lacked the detailed “actionable” intelligence needed to strike directly at bin Laden and al-Qaeda, so they unsuccessfully sought a diplomatic solution to get the al-Qaeda leader out of Afghanistan so he could be captured.

That prompted some angry questioning from commissioner Bob Kerry, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska. He asked former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright why nearly a dozen attacks by radical Islamists against Americans from 1993 through 2001 weren’t enough for Clinton officials to justify force.

“I keep hearing the excuse we didn’t have actionable intelligence. Well, what the hell does that say to al-Qaeda?” Kerry said.

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what the right targets would be. I am satisfied that we did what we could given the intelligence that we had.”

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen said the Clinton administration recognized the dangers posed by al-Qaeda and considered the United States to be “at war” against the terrorist organization.

Three times after the August 1998 alQaeda bombings on U.S. embassies in Africa, Clinton officials considered using missile strikes to kill bin Laden. Each time it was decided the intelligence wasn’t good enough to ensure success, he said.

Among other staff findings: U.S. officials were concerned that Taliban supporters in Pakistan’s military would warn bin Laden of pending operations. The U.S. government had information that the former head of Pakistani intelligence, Hamid Gul, had contacted Taliban leaders as a private citizen in July 1999 and assured them that he would provide three or four hours of warning before any U.S. missile launch, as he had the “last time”—an apparent reference to a failed 1998 cruise missile attack on bin Laden.

Pentagon counterterrorism officials prepared a strategy urging the Defense Department in Sept. 1998 “to take up the gauntlet that international terrorists have thrown at our feet.” But the paper was rejected by a deputy undersecretary as “too out

aggressive.”

Rumsfeld told the commission that “he did not recall any particular counterterrorism issue that engaged his attention before” the Sept. 11 attacks, other than using unmanned aircraft against bin Laden.

Shortly before the attacks, the Bush administration was debating how to force bin Laden out. At a Sept. 10, 2001, meeting of second-tier Cabinet officials, officials settled on a three-phase strategy. The first step called for dispatching an envoy to talk to the Taliban. If this failed, diplomatic pressure would be applied and covert funding and support for anti-Taliban fighters would be increased.

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NEW COURSE EOS 12. The Dynamic Oceans. NS, QID, STS Introduction to the oceans and their impact on the Earth’s surface, climate, and society. Topics include seafloor evolution, marine hazards, ocean currents and climate, waves and beach erosion, tides, hurricanes/cyclones, marine life and ecosystems, and marine resources. Emphasis on the historical, society and economic roots of oceanography, the formulation and testing of hypotheses, quantitative assessment of data, and technological developments that lead to the understanding of current and societal issues involving the oceans.

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115. Waves, Beaches, and Coastline Dynamics. NS, QID, STS Oceanographic and geologic processes responsible for the evolution of nearshore features; fluid motions of many time scales in the nearshore environment, including waves and currents.

Conceptual basis for models of how fluid motions interact with the shape of the beach and bed in the surf zone, giving rise to features such as beach cusps, bars, channels, and barrier islands. Various attempted engineering and coastal management solutions to the global retreat of shorelines. Instructor: Murray.

1265. Field Methods in Earth and Environmental Sciences. NS, QID, R, W Introduction to basic field methods used in the earth and environmental sciences. Field investigations focus on topics such as groundwater and surface water movements, soil chemistry and identification, topographic and geologic mapping, the atmosphere/soil interface, and plant identification and distributions. Design of a field investigation, collection of data to address a specific goal, and interpretation and reporting of the results. Emphasis on learning to report field results in the format of scientific publications. Visits to five local field sites. Open only to juniors and seniors.

Instructor: Klein.

183S. Natural History of Yellowstone Park. NS Includes field trip to park to examine natural history of region and associated environmental problems. Consent of instructor required. Prerequisite: minimum of two classes in Earth and Ocean Sciences, Biology, or Environment. Instructor; Rojstaczer.

2095. Climate Dynamics and the Paleoclimatic Record. Review of climate fluctuations throughout Earth history and discussions ofmechanisms proposed to explain them. Topics include Holocene climate variability, the Pleistocene ice ages, prePleistocene fluctuations, general theory of climate, paleoclimate modeling and comparisons with observations, and methodologies of interpreting paleoclimate records.

Some background in physical sciences recommended; consent of instructor required.

Instructor: Baker.

NEW COURSE EOS 211. The Climate System. NS, QID, STS, R Components of the climate systems: observed climate change, concept of energy balance, basic circulation of the atmosphere and ocean, introduction to climate models, some sample applications of climate models, interactions between the atmosphere, ocean and biosphere, land surface, cryoshpere (snow and ice), chemistry of the atmosphere.

Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Instructor: Crowley.

215. Introduction to Physical Coastal Processes. Nearshore physical processes responsible for the evolution ofbeaches and barrier islands. Various problems and possible solutions arising from human development of retreating shorelines. Involves a field trip and research paper. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Murray.

NEW COURSE EOS 222. The Geology Side of Energy. NS, QID, STS The elementary geology of Earth’s energy resources. Lectures, demonstrations, guest speakers and optional field trip on how the Earth provides usable energy. Introduction to energy exploration. The geology of hydrocarbon, geothermal system, and fissionable elementreservoirs. Alternative energy reservoirs such as gas clathrates and peat. The geologic conditions for CO2 sequestration. Global energy resource assessment. Speakers from industry and government. Optional field tip to active energy exploration and production during Fall Break. Assignment: exercises, case histories, and poster presentation. Prerequisites: upper division or graduate standing.lnstructor: Malin.

240. Introduction to Modeling in the Earth Sciences. Elementary methods for quantitatively modeling problems in the earth sciences. Formulation and solution of classical equations that express fundamental behaviors of fluids, sediments, and rocks.

Examples from different fields of geology. Simple modeling exercises, including a final project. Consent of instructor required. Instructors: Haff, Murray, and Pratson.

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Alpine Bagels to make an adjustment to achieve his eventual goal of topping the PACE rankings. When asked why Alpine Bagels has not met its goals so far this semester Tatum said, “Maybe because peo-

ple don’t like Alpine.”

Other restaurants with steep drops since November were Grace’s Cafe, The Loop and Quenchers juice bar. Grace’s and The Loop had tied for second, with Quenchers not far behind, but they all slipped to the middle of the pack for March. Jack Chao, who owns both Grace’s and Quenchers, said it was important to note that the ratings for his establishments had not dropped, although the rankings had.

Chao said Grace’s and Quenchers had not changed over the course of the year, though perhaps his competition had stepped up the pace.

“We always have the best customer service, the best quality we can, the cleanest everything—that’s our regular practice,” he said. “When other vendors on campus saw the [November dining rankings] article... they said, ‘Wait a minute we’ve got to kick ourself into next gear.’”

With all vendors receiving good ratings, Wulforst said he was not worried about those who were not keeping the PACE. “I keep wanting to say the guys at the bottom of the list aren’t doing a good job. The reality is, those guys are doing a good job,” he said.

As Wulforst is fond of saying, however, “Good is the enemy of excellence”—a quote he assiduously credits to women’s basketball head coach Gail Goestenkors.

With that in mind, he said he gives particular credit to those eateries that show

improvement in customer feedback forms or the semiannual comprehensive evaluations.

Rick’s Diner, which occupied last place in the November rankings, is an example of a restaurant that has made marked improvements over this year. Despite challenges with cleanliness and food that Wulforst admitted was not extraordinary, the restaurant improved somewhat in the most recent rankings.

“We have a touch of a disadvantage at the restaurant because it’s a 24-hour operation and we don’t have time to shut down and get everything spotless, but at the same time we’re vastly and steadily improving,” Lynch said. “I think we constantly have to improve on keeping our dining room in a presentable state. Because we do not have table service... a lot of times, especially on the weekend, you have students lining up out of the door, waiting to be served, and sometimes students will leave a wrapper on the table and then the next group will sit right down.”

Other vendors ascending the rankings were the ARAMARK-managed Chick-fil-A, Trinity Cafe, and most dramatically, McDonald’s.

Wulforst said the Duke McDonald’s was among the best he had ever seen. He said much of their success in setting the PACE had to do with the stringent international standards of McDonald’s for cleanliness, which probably gave it a particular boost relative to last November because attributes such as cleanliness are most easily picked up by Wulforst’s operational performance standards review. McDonald’s store manager Rafael Perez also pointed to such improvements over the course of the year as a better-organized warehouse and Spanish hand-washing instructions posted in a nearby University bathroom.

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The third time is the most satisfying for Alana Beard.

The Duke senior with a smooth jumper and moves to match became just the second three-time member ofThe Associated Press women’s college basketball All-America team Tuesday.

She was a unanimous selection on a squad that also features Connecticut’s Diana Taurasi, Penn State’s Kelly Mazzante, Stanford’s Nicole Powell, and Kansas State’s

Nicole Ohlde The only other player with a trio of firstteam selections was Tennessee’s Chamique Holdsclaw in 1997-99. The AP has been picking a women’s All-America team since 1995.

“Anytime you’re associated with the name Chamique Holdsclaw, it’s always an honor,” Beard said. “And to be a first-team AllAmerican, when there are so many good players out there, and then to do it three times it’s definitely a blessing.”

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. It was Tim Pickett’s floor, but Jake Sullivan’s game.

Sullivan, lowa State’s tattooed, deadly outside shooter, jump started the Cyclones in the first half with three straight 3-pointers and then came up with the critical points late in the game to key his team’s 62-59 second-round NIT win.

“He came out red-hot, killing the crowd, killing our game,” said Florida State’sAdam Waleskowski.

Sullivan and Marcus Jefferson each hit two free throws in the final eight seconds to seal the victory.

Jefferson’s two free throws put lowa State ahead by four points with eight seconds left, but Andrew Wilson’s 3-pointer made it 60-59 before Sullivan iced the game with his two free throws in the final second.

“It ran through my head to miss the last free throw, but so many weird things can happen,” Sullivan said. “I wanted to make sure if anything, we would go into overtime.

Fortunately it worked out.”

Sullivan, who finished with a gamehigh 19 points, put lowa State ahead 1914 with three straight 3-point shots in a 69-second span.

‘Jake Sullivan is a great shooter, we’re going to really miss him,” lowa State coach Wayne Morgan said.

But not before at least one more game.

The Cyclones (19-12) play Marquette in the quarterfinals on Thursday or Friday.

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“I’ve committed to Duke,” Melvin told TheDevilsDen.com. “You can’t get a better education or get into a better academic environment, and the chance to step in and be able to play right away closed the deal.”

Standing 6-foot-2 and weighing in at 198 pounds, Melvin projects to safety at the collegiate level. A tremendous athlete, Melvin sports impressive weightlifting numbers, including a bench press of over 300 pounds, and a 4.45 forty-yard dash time.

The Whiteville, N.C. standout also plays basketball for his high school.

Melvin may be one of Duke’s top football commitments in recent memory. An All-Conference selection at both defensive back and wide receiver, Melvin is considered one of the top prospects in the state by theinsiders.com. The star safety was also receiving college interest commensurate with his status. Penn State had reportedly given him an offer, and Maryland, North Carolina State, North Carolina and South Carolina had all shown serious interest.

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Hunters big 13 minutes propel Blue Devils For Brittany Hunter, it was meant to be a gradual reacclimation to competitive play. For the Marquette Golden Eagles, it turned into a frenetic skill clinic at the expense of their season.

Hunter played limited minutes for the women’s basketball team in Tuesday’s 76-67 win over Marquette in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, but her impact was felt by all involved. The freshman post player was recovering from a knee injury sustained during a Nov. 23 contest against Purdue.

Hunter tore the lateral meniscus in her right knee, limiting her playing time. The freshman roared back from her injury Tuesday,

logging 12 points in only 13 minutes, while grabbing six rebounds. Hunter looks to give Duke an athletic post presence for the remainder of the tournament. was “Brittany huge; we wanted to give her a couple minutes in the game just to get her feet wet,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said, “She made a big splash. She came in, and the first shot she took went in, so I think that gave her confidence.”

Taking the floor for the first time as part of the second half s initial substitution, Hunter made an immediate impact, She entered the game with her right leg conspicuous: a bulky knee brace and high black sock left no doubt that there was a

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A nagging knee injury has prevented Brittany Hunter from having an all-league freshman season.

Hunter’s appearance. The post player hit her first four shots from the floor, providing a one-woman scoring run that the Golden Eagles could not stem.

“I thought she really did a great job today,” Goestenkors said. “She was playing so well, and I know we had played her longer than we had planned. We didn’t play her in the first half. I hope that this will lead to some other good things for her.”

Hunter’s first four shots fell, and she ended up going 6-for-8 from the floor. The caliber of her play was not entirely visible through a look at the stat sheet. The scrappy forward was engaged in tough, physical play which complemented her skill play nicely. This was most evident with a little over ten minutes left in the game, as Hunter was knocked to the ground near the foul line while playing defense. She picked herself up, gathered in a long rebound, and threw a quarerback pass to a streaking Alana Beard for an easy layup, “Brittany’s always ready to play,” Beard said. “I don’t know how someone can sit out a week and come in and go 6-for-8, but that’s pretty impressive. That speaks well about how good she is.”

Hunter herselfhad less to say about the injury, telling a crowd of reporters what anyone watching the game already knew: “Right now, my knee’s fine.”

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close to eight minutes, using their trademark zone defense to force Duke to setde for outside shots. Meanwhile, Marquette continually pushed the ball inside, victimizing Duke’s interior defense. With 13:40 to go in the first half, Marquette forward Crystal Weaver got free underneath the basket and converted an easy layup to pull the Golden Eagles to within 15-14.

“I don’t think [our players] understood the magnitude of that defense,” Goestenkors said. ‘They knew it was a good matchup, but we played so many zones over the course of the year [successfully], so I think they thought we’d be fine. I don’t think until you’re out there and you experience it can you appreciate how good that zone really is.”

The Blue Devils responded to the Marquette zone by stepping up their own defensive pressure in an attempt to get into a fast-paced transition game, thereby neutralizing the zone. Following Weaver’s layup, Duke forward Monique Currie converted a three-point play, and then Beard took over. The senior, who tallied 30 points, registered a steal and a transition layup, and then drew a charge on the ensuing possession.

After point guard Lindsey Harding buried a 15-foot jumper from the baseline, the Duke lead was up to 22-14, and Marquette was forced to call a timeout.

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off of our defensive transition. I think they probably felt like they couldn’t stop everything, so they thought they could come down and stop us in the half-court set.”

Duke’s lead never shrunk to below six for the rest of the contest, though the Golden Eagles refused to let the Blue Devils pull away. The final scare for Duke came in the last two minutes, after Marquette pulled to within 68-61 with 1:16remaining.

However, Harding sank four consecutive foul shots, and the Blue Devils could breathe a sigh of relief.

Duke received a big surprise contribution from reserve center Brittany Hunter, who has seen only limited action due to the lingering effects of a knee injury suffered in November. Hunter didn’t even know if she could play until moments before the game, didn’t enter the game until the second half, and wasn’t supposed to play more than a few minutes, but she managed to give the Blue Devils the post presence they had sorely lacked in the first half. Hunter tallied 12 points and six rebounds in only 13 minutes.

Duke will now have a week to digest its anxious victory and prepare for a difficult Sweet Sixteen with fourth-seeded matchup Louisiana Tech.

“I guess it was frustrating,” Currie said. “[But] I think we’re all proud that we stuck together and pulled out a win. You’re not going to blow out everybody, so you have to be able to play in close games.”

The Chronicle Sports Department would like to congratulate seniors Iciss Tillis, Vicki Krapohl and Alana Beard on four wonderful years, and best of luck the rest of the way in the NCAA Tournament.

Alana Beard and the No. 1Blue Devils will face a very talentedLouisiana Tech squad in the Sweet 16 in Norfolk, Va., this Sunday.

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FULL-TIME RESEARCH POSITION Duke Psychology Lab seeks Lab Manager to start June 1, 2004. Lab focus is on human memory. Duties will include scheduling and testing human subjects, preparation of experimental materials, data input and analysis, library research, and general lab management tasks.

Applicants with prior research experience in psychology are especially encouraged to apply; fluency with computers is required. This is a fulltime position with benefits. To apply, send resume and reference information to Dr. Elizabeth Marsh at

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MEN from page 14 America teams, with players receiving points on a 5-3-1 basis.

Lawrence Roberts of Mississippi State was third with 308 points, while Josh Childress of Stanford had 235, and Ryan Gomes of Providence completed the first team with 208.

The third team was Chris Duhon of Duke, John Lucas of Oklahoma State, Hakim Warrick of Syracuse, Rashad McCants of North Carolina, and Wayne Simien ofKansas.

Okafor and Nelson were on the preseason AP All-America team, along with Ike Diogu ofArizona State (an honorable mention pick Tuesday), Rickey Paulding of Missouri, and Raymond Felton ofNorth Carolina.

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throw, broke the 47-all tie “I just wanted the ball,” he said. “They had some momentum going.” lowa State never trailed again although Florida State pulled within two, 58-56, on a pair of free throws by Tim Pickett with 51.1 seconds left.

Florida State (19-14) fell behind early

and trailed by as many as 14 points at 3521 in the second half. The Seminoles caught up to tie once, at 47-all, on Wilson’s first 3-pointer. lowa State led 33-20 at the half as Florida State shot only 23.2 percent, making only one ofits final 17 attempts before halftime.

Waleskowski led Florida State with 14 points and 10 rebounds and Alexander Johnson added 12 points. Pickett scored seven points and made only l-of-13 tries

from 3-point range.

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“The number one thing in our game plan was to try and make it very difficult for him to score,” Morgan said.

Sullivan said he had some bad nights himself this year.

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Beard was a first-team choice on all 47 ballots from the national media panel that votes on the weekly Top 25, receiving the maximum 235 points. Each voter picked three teams, and players received points on a 5-3-1 basis.

Taurasi had 45 first-team votes and 231 points, Mazzante had 36 and 207, while Powell had 25 and 183. Ohlde received 24 first-team votes and 172 points.

The five first-teamers, all seniors, were on the preseason All-America team in November.

Taurasi, Ohlde and Mazzante were on the first team with Beard at the end of last season, while Powell was a second-team pick. In 2002, Beard made the first team; Powell, Taurasi and Mazzante were on the second team, and Ohlde received honorable mention. Beard received honorable mention as freshman in 2001.

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Academic WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 Developmental Biology Colloquium: 4pm. Robert Ho, University of Chicago. "Early pattern formation in zebrafish embryos." 147 Nanaline Duke.

Documentary "The Series: 7pm.

Imagination." Susan Meiselas, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University. CDS, 1317 W. Pettigrew St. The series is presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University, the Robertson Scholars Fund, and the Department of Art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, in conjunction with the course The Documentary Imagination, taught by Wendy Ewald and Jeff Whetstone at Duke and UNC.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 25 Systematics Seminar: 12:40pm. Petra Korall, Duke University. "Th 6 phylogeny of Selaginellaceae: extreme substitution rates and rate heterogeneity."

144 Biological Sciences.

Popßio Seminar: 7pm. Loren Rieseberg, Indiana University. "Hybridization and ecological divergence in annual sunflowers." Note location! 144 Biological Sciences.

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Come Journey with friends, Pursue truth and Encounter Christ! Nelson Music Room in the East Duke Building on East Campus. Open to absolutely everyone! For more information visit us on the web; www.dukecru.com.

Wesley Fellowship-Senior Small Group: 10pm, Wednesdays. Wesley Office.

THURSDAY, MARCH 25

Weekly Eucharist (Holy Communion): s;3opm, Thursdays. Wesley Office (Chapel Basement).

Graduate Christian Fellowship: 6pm, dinner; 6:45pm, program. Dr. Richard Hays (New Testament) and Dr. Grant Wacker (American Christianity) will be speaking on Christian perspectives on the nation of Israel, ill be ample time for question and answer as well. Q & A. Chapel Basement. Come and bring a see info on Grad-IV friend.

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Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship: 7-9pm.

Presents Professor Robert Jensen, Media Critic and Author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity. Admission for students is $10.00; $25 for individuals or $35 for a couple. Price includes a copy of Dr. Jensen's book. Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is located at 4907 Garrett Road in Durham.

For more information call 968-9184.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24

Health Awareness Week: 11am-2pm. Condom demonstration on quad (Generation HIV).

Health Awareness Week: 7pm. Operation Smile in Faculty Commons.

Women's Revolutionary Knitting Circle: 4:306;oopm every other Wednesday at the Duke Women's Center. ALL knitters and crocheters welcome. Come see different projects, learn new techniques, ask advice from otherknitters, and share in the camaraderie! 6843897.

French Table: Wednesdays, 7pm. Join us for French!

Speak French and meet new people outside of the classroom. Great Hall meeting point: entrance from Bryan Center Walkway.

THURSDAY, MARCH 25 North Carolina Returned Peace Corps Volunteers; s:3opm. Invite prospective and returned Peace Corps

volunteers and their friends and family to join in the monthly Durham gathering at Satisfaction in Brightleaf Square. For more information call 361-9770 or 4032684.

Ongoing Events & 7. The Communications Certificate program from Duke, open to the community, hosts free information sessions on East Campus.

6pm on the sth or noon on the 7th. To register for free session; 684-6259, www.learnmore.duke.edu/shortcourse/comm.

Upcoming: April 5

Upcoming: Angels Among Us 5K Run and Family Fun Walk. Saturday, April 24, 7am registration.

Wallace Wade Stadium, Duke University Campus.

Proceeds benefit the Brain Tumor Center at Duke. For more information, visit angelsamongus.org or call

919-667-2616.

Exhibit: Through March 28. Sebastiao Salgado's “Migrations: Humanity in Transition." Sebastiao Salgado began a photographic investigation into the phenomenon of mass migration at the end of the twentieth century. Call for exhibit hours, 660-3663.

CDS, 1317 W. Pettigrew St.

Display: Through April 4. Portraits of Members: the Photographs of Michael Francis Blake. Perkins Library, Special Collections Hallway Gallery.

Photographs by one of Charleston, S.C.'s first African American studio photographers.

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Wisnewski for EVP the candidates for Duke Stu- agenda, presiding over the legislator dent Government Executive and maintaining efficiency and acVice President, junior Andrew countability.

Wisnewski also has a realistic apWisnewski, the current Vice President to DSG. Instead of running on proach Interacdon, the posses of Community knowledge, experience and personal lofty ideals and promises that look good on paper, Wisnewski is focused characteristics to best do the job. to more on small items that have a role of the is EVP The going chance of being acimespecially prove He STAFF EDITORIAL complished. portant next year as DSG to turn to hopes DSG attempts reinto a more proactive organization, structure and improve efficiency and accountability, and DSG needs, more improve accountability among members, eliminate the current behind-thethan ever, a candidate with a firm unscenes nature of legislation and use derstanding of what being EVP entails and the ability to fulfill all of both internal and external pressure to get things done. these duties.

Wisnewski also wants to make comElizabeth Ladner unclearly Junior mittee minutes available online as part derstands the nature of the position, to make DSG more transof an effort issues and one of her major campaign parent and accessible to all students. is the need to restructure DSG, including the splitting of the EVP position He also hopes that students will utilize the open forum opportunities at meetinto two roles—one primarily legislative and one primarily executive. The ings to increase their input on issues.

He wants to continue the restructuring idea is not a bad one, and if the posiinitiatives begun this year by improvLadner would tion were current split, be a strong candidate for the more ing the definition of individual positions and implementing further constructure oriented position. senior Priscilla Conversely, Mpasi, stitutionaland by-law reforms.

Sophomore Russ Ferguson, alher time as President Pro-tempore, in though he has good ideas, seems to has demonstrated her ability to effeclack an understanding what the job of tively run meetings and enforce cerEVP entails. His platform encompasses tain levels of accountability. Her agenda focuses on conducting meetings all the other vice presidential offices and increasing accountability among and reads more like a presidential platform than an EVP one. However, his Senators, as well as citing the imporplatform does contain many concrete tance of restructuring.

Ladner nor proposals that DSG would do well to However, neither Mpasi seem to have a strong ability to pursue. Although Ferguson is not perform both funcdons of the job. right for EVP, it would be unfortunate Wisnewski, however, combines the if aspects of his platform were not strengths ofLadner and Mpasi to pro- brought up next year.

The Chronicle formally endorses vide die complete EVP package. He Andrew Wisnewski for Executive Vice a of DSG has through understanding and the role of the EVP in setting the President.

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ON THE RECORD I think they constitue a superb team, with excellent ability to carry forward the work we have begun.

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Lifting the shroud From the day it took office, U.S. News & independent evidence confirming the thrust World Report wrote a few months ago, the of his charges.

Did the Bush administration ignore terBush administration “dropped a shroud of warnings before 9/11? Justice Defederal After rorism government. secrecy” over the documents obtained by the Center 11, 2001, the administration’s secrepartment Sept. for American Progress, a liberal think tank, tiveness knew no limits: Americans, Ari Fleischer ominously warned, “need to watch what show that it did. Not only did Attorney Genthey say, watch what they do.” Patriotic citi- eral John Ashcroft completely drop terrorism as a priority it wasn’t even mentioned zens were supposed to accept the adminislist of seven “strategic not ask awkward his goals” but on in tration’s version of events, 10, 2001, he a reduction in Sept. proposed questions. counterterrorism funds.

But something remarkable has been hapDid the administration neglect countertpening lately: More and more insiders are reveal the truth on iserrorism even after 9/11? After 9/11 the FBI the to courage finding requested $1.5 billion for counterterrorism yes, Virsues including mercury pollution ginia, polluters do write the regulations operations, but the White House slashed this by two-thirds. (Meanwhile, the Bush these days, and never mind the science and the war on terror. campaign has been attacking John Kerry because he once voted for a small cut in intelIt’s important, when you read the inevitable attempts to impugn the character of ligence funds.)

Oh, and the next time terrorists launch the latest whistle-blower, to realize just how an attack on American soil, risky it is to reveal awkward they will find their task truths about the Bush adminmade much easier by the adPaul Krugman istration. When Gen. Eric ministration’s strange relucthat Shinseki told Congress Guest Commentary tance, even after 9/11, to a would require postwar Iraq protect potential targets. In large occupation force, that November 2001 a bipartisan delegation was the end of his military career. When Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV revealed that the urged the president to spend about $lO bil2003 State of the Union speech contained lion on top-security priorities like ports and information known to be false, someone in nuclear sites. But Bush flatly refused. the White House destroyed his wife’s career Finally, did some top officials really want by revealing that she was a CIA operative. to respond to 9/11 not by going after alAiid we now know that Richard Foster, the Qaida, but by attacking Iraq? Of course they did. “From the very first moments after Sept.

Medicare system’s chief actuary, was threat11,” Kenneth Pollack, a former Clinton adened with dismissal if he revealed to Conofficial, told “Frontline,” “there administration’s ministration gress the likely cost of the of was a people, both inside and outgroup prescription drug plan.

The latest insider to come forth is, of side the administration, who believed that the war on terrorism” should target Iraq course, Richard Clarke, George Bush’s former counterterrorism czar and the author first. Clarke simply adds more detail.

Still, the administration would like you to of the just-published “Against All Enemies; think that Clarke had base motives in writInside America’s War on Terror.”

On “60 Minutes” on Sunday, Clarke said ing his book. But given the hawks’ dominance of the best-seller lists until very rethe previously unsayable: Bush, the self-proclaimed “war president,” had “done a terricently, it’s unlikely that he wrote it for the money. Given the assumption by most politble job on the war against terrorism.”

After a few hours of shocked silence, the ical pundits, until very recently, that Bush character assassination against Clarke began. was guaranteed re-election, it’s unlikely that He “may have had a grudge to bear since he he wrote it in the hopes of getting a political probably wanted a more prominent posi- job. And given the Bush administration’s tion,” declared Vice President Dick Cheney, penchant for punishing its critics, he must who also says Clarke was “out of the loop.” have known that he was taking a huge personal risk.

(What loop? Before 9/11, Clarke was the adSo why did he write it? ministration’s top official on counterterrorIt’s “more about and a book How about this: Maybe he just wanted the ism.) politics promotion than about policy,” said Scott Mc- public to know the truth.

Clellan, the White House press secretary.

Of course, Bush officials have to attack Paul Krugman is a columnist for the New York Clarke’s character because there is plenty of Times.

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Sex with someone you love

Friends,

I’ve been on a bit of a serious kick lately. My last four pieces have been a disquisition on religion, a meta-column about die editorial page, a lame attempt at surrealism and an impassioned defense of MLK Day. In short, I’ve been terribly pretentious, and I apologize. As penance, here is a column about jerking off.

In his last column, Emin Hadziosmanovic observed that “hooking up is not nearly as wide-spread at Duke as people make it seem.” He’s absolutely right. I can’t provide any statistics, but I’d guess that male sexual frustration at Duke has reached near-Biblical propertions. And all that unused semen isn’t just going into storage. Admit it or not, quality-of-masturbation is absolutely essential to our collective happiness.

But most men won’t even acknowlJaOD edge that “quality of masturbation” exists: it seems that we’re horribly goal-oriented Lobster Sticks even when it comes to self-abuse. Take Andy Johnson, a Trinity sophomore: “It’s really sad whenyou think about it,” said Andy after I got him drunk, steered our talk to masturbation and turned on my concealed tape recorder. “If I have two free minutes before class, bam, I’m done. I don’t even think I enjoy it anymore.”

And is it any surprise? After all, the qualities that make a good lover responsiveness, sensitivity, patience —are pertinent no matter how many partners are involved in the sex act. And those qualities have trouble coexisting with a 3.9 and a killer internship. Masturbation-as-break-betweenproblem-sets is certainly a viable option, but it breeds a whole lot of unhappy investment bankers.

And not only are we in a rush to get ourselves off—we take masturbation completely for granted. Many of us have been ejaculating consistently for nearly a decade. And with unprecedented access to pornography, masturbation becomes yet another automatic bodily function, rather than the magical erotic ballet God intended it to be.

“I really reminisce about sixth grade sometimes,” says Pratt senior Devon Bishop. ‘You go your whole life and then one day you realize your penis can do that—it’s like waking up and discovering you’re Superman! It was just me with a flashlight and the Sears catalogue, terrified my mom would ,

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walk in on me, but, damn, it was incredible. Now I have a single and high-speed internet. Where’s the challenge?”

I suggested to Devon that the difference between the hopeful, carefree masturbator of middle school and the hardened, cynical masturbator of college is that the latter has come to view himself as a means to an end. For all our swagger, when it comes to self-love we treat ourselves no better than cheap whores to be used up and wiped off.

“Honestly, I’ve been trying to mix things up in the bedroom,” says Sam Gherkin, a Trinity junior. “Sometimes I’ll surprise myself and dress up like a French maid, or other times I’ll pretend I’m a policeman and handcuff myself to my desk. But I just feel so dirty afterwards.” as Woody Allen said, the best part of masturbation is afterwards, when you get to cuddle, the missing ingredient at Duke is selfto Magnet respect. But what reasons have we been given to respect ourselves? Our male role-models are appalling, perhaps deliberately so.

Consider Papa Bear, the head of the fictional Berenstain Bears family with which many of us were raised. Here’s what the official Berenstain Bears website has to say about Papa Bear: “He is often wrong but never in doubt. He is a woodsbear and rough carpenter —very rough.”

Gee, thanks. Consider Homer Simpson. Consider A1 Bundy. How can we help feeling worthless when maleness is presented as one vast sea of incompetence? How are we expected to cope in the academic pressure-cooker without literally taking it out on ourselves?

Guys, this is serious: it’s time to stop the cycle of selfabuse. It’s time to learn self-respect. It’s time to treat ourselves right. We deserve more than two minutes.

So do what I do. Take yourself out. to a nice dinner at the Washington Duke. Have a botde of wine. Light some scented candles. Put on the Luther Vandross. And then—only then—go at it. Don’t treat yourself like a piece of meat. Treat your piece of meat like yourself. ~~

Rob Goodman is a Trinity junior. His column other Wednesday.

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Ethnic cleansing, again ALONG THE SUDAN-CHAD BORDER The most vi- Abdulyaya, who is left with five children, cious ethnic cleansing you’ve never heard of is unfolding The Janjaweed regularly invade Chad to seize cattle and here in the southeastern fringes of the Sahara Desert. It’s a attack Sudanese refugees. In addition, the Sudanese army campaign of murder, rape and pillage by Sudan’s Arab has dropped bombs on Chadian villages like Tine and Besa. rulers that has forced 700,000 black African Sudanese to flee These skirmishes are taking place in a sparsely populated land of sand, shrubs and occasional oases. The only roads their villages.

The desert is strewn with the carcasses of catde and goats, are dirt tracks barely navigable by four-wheel-drive vehicles as well as fresh refugee graves that are covered with brush so —except when the rainy season makes the area completely wild animals will not dig them up. Refugees crowd around impassible.

The United Nations’ Sudan coordinator, Mukesh Kapila, overused wells, which now run dry, and they mourn loved described the situation in a BBC interview on Friday as simiones whose bodies they could not recover.

Westem and African countries need to intervene urgent- lar in character, if not scale, to the Rwanda genocide of 1994. ly. Sudan’s leaders should not be able to get away with mass ‘This is ethnic cleansing,” he said. ‘This is the world’s greatmurder just because they are shrewd est humanitarian crisis, and I don’t know enough to choose victims who inhabit a why the world isn’t doing more about it.”

JN ICIIOi3.S KjTStol Coundess thousands of black Sudanese poor region without airports, electricity or have been murdered, and 600,000 victims paved roads.

Guest Commentary The culprit is the Sudanese government, of this ethnic cleansing have fled to other one of the world’s nastiest. Its Arab leaders parts ofSudan and are suffering from malhave been fighting a civil war for more than 20 years against nutrition and disease. The 110,000who have fled into Chad its rebellious black African south. Lately it has armed lighterare better off because of the magnificent response of the skinned Arab raiders, the Janjaweed, who are killing or drivChadian peasants. Chadians are desperately poor themselves, but they share what little food and water is available ing out blacks in the Darfur region near Chad.

‘They came at 4 a.m. on horseback, on camels, in vehi- with the Sudanese refugees.

“If we have food or water, we’ll share it with them,” said a cles, with two helicopters overhead,” recalled Idris Abu Chadian peasant, Adam Isak Abubakr. ‘We can’t leave them Moussa, a 26-year-old Sudanese farmer. ‘They killed 50 people in my village. My father, grandmother, uncle and two like this.” brothers were all killed.”

Let’s hope that we Americans will show the same gumption and compassionTWe should call Sudan before the U.N ‘They don’t want any blacks left,” he added Most refugees have stories like that. ‘They took the catde Security Council and the world community and insist that it and horses, killed the men, raped the women, and then they stop these pogroms. To his credit, President Bush has alburned the village,” said Abubakr Ahmed Abdallah, a 60- ready led the drive for peace in Sudan, doing far more to achieve a peace than all his predecessors put together. Now year-old refugee who escaped to Toukoultoukouli in Chad. want to said Halime he should show the same resolve in confronting this latest Ali blacks,” exterminate us ‘They Souf. Her husband was killed, and she fled into Chad with menace. her infant In the 21st century, no government should be allowed to Once refugees like Halime have fled into Chad, their carry out ethnic cleansing, driving 700,000 people from troubles are not over. The only source of waterfor many bortheir homes. If we turn away simply because the victims are der villages is the riverbed, or wadi, marking the boundary African tribespeople who have the misfortune to speak no between the two countries, and the Janjaweed regularly English, have no phones and live in one of the most remote shoot men who go there to get water or gather wood. parts of the globe, then shame on us.

Zakaria Ibrahim was shot dead a few days ago. “He went Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for theNew York Times. to get sticks to build a hut,” said his haggard widow, Hawai .

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Of God and the Flag WASHINGTON —- mAsa very little boy, I thought the opening words to the recitation required at school every morning were “I led the pigeons to the flag.” Seemed odd, but I figured the teacher knew best.

In my 20s, I noticed how the rhythm of the assertion of national unity at the conclusion of the Pledge of Allegiance—“one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” —was broken into by the insertion by Congress in 1954 of the phrase “under God” between “one nation” and “indivisible.” As a geezer today, I sometimes trip over the inserted piety in recitation.

Wednesday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the argument of an atheist who persuaded the Left Coast Court of Appeals to strike that religious phrase from the pledge recited in public school. Michael Newdow, appearing pro se, without counsel, will urge the court to affirm the decision to which a vast majority of us object.

In my view, the complaining atheist has no “standing” to bring the case in the first place on behalfof the schoolchild.

He never married his daughter’s mother. She is a self-described “committed Christian” who has been rearing their child and wants her daughter to recite the pledge.

Solicitor GeneralTed Olson, the most effective constitutional lawyer in the nation, can be expected to start by tt t* ii r* William oSatire challenging the father’s Guest Commentary standing to sue. However, Justice Antonin Scalia, the court’s sternest stickler on standing, has disqualified himself because he expressed his opinion prejudging the “under God” phrase in a speech last year. (For proper standards on recusal, read Scalia’s persuasive memo on his Cheney nonrecusal at www.supremecour•

tus.gov/ opinions/03pdf/05475.pdf.)

On wider grounds of the traditional recognition of the

deity in American political life, Olson could point to the words “In God We Trust,” put on our coins in Lincoln’s time. Or the fervent reference to “the Creator” as the source of our rights that Jefferson put in our Declaration of Independence. Or the words opening Wednesday morning’s session: “God save the United States and this honorable court.”

Even George Washington, at the end of taking the oath of office as prescribed in the Constitution, was moved to ad-lib the phrase “So help me God,” which has been added by most presidents being inaugurated since.

This sort of general public reverence is part of our political culture.

So what’s the big deal about “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? President Bush has written that the current pledge is away of “humbly seeking the wisdom and guidance of divine providence.”

John Kerry said on Boston television in 2002 that the 9th Circuit ruling holding “under God” in the pledge unconstitutional was “half-assed justice the most absurd thing... That’s not the establishment of religion.” Michael Dukakis vetoed a Massachusetts bill requiring teachers to lead classes in the pledge and paid dearly for it in his presidential campaign. That bill is now law, as are similar statutes in 42 other states. These laws do not conflict with the High Court’s 1943 decision that no student can be penalized for declining to take the pledge.

Agreeing with both Bush and Kerry in support of “under God” are majorities in both houses of Congress and attorneys general of all 50 states. From the liberal National Education Association and American Jewish Congress to the conservative American Legion and the Knights of Columbus (which sponsored this addition 50 years-ago), under-God-ers have weighed in with briefs.

Opposing are the Atheist Law Center, the ACLU, ADL and assorted iconoclasts.

The only thing this time-wasting pest Newdow has going for him is that he’s right. Those of us who believe in God don’t need to inject our faith into a patriotic affirmation and coerce all schoolchildren into going along. The key word in the pledge is the last one.

The insertion was a mistake then; the trouble is that knocking the words out long afterward, offending the religious majority, would be a slippery-slope mistake now.

The justices shouldn’t use the issue of standing to punt, thereby letting this divisive ruckus fester. The solution is for the court to require teachers to inform students they have the added right to remain silent for a couple of seconds while others choose to say “under God.” ...

William Safire is a columnist for the New York Times.

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