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Police others remain steady Fuqua dips, investigate bathroom graffiti U.S. NEWS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS

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by Cindy Yee THE CHRONICLE

Duke police have responded to several reported sexual assaults against students over the past couple years. Recently, however, they addressed another issue at the University concerning sexual violence: graffiti in two bathrooms referencing rape.

The disturbing markings come after a student was reportedly raped on West Campus March 19 and another was reportedly sexually assaulted on Central Campus March 21. Although these reported acts occurred over two weeks ago, the graffiti found this week shows that sexual assault remains a prominent issue on campus.

The most recent markings were found in a bathroom in the West-Edens Link and contained the phrase, “I rape more and more,” according to Phyllis Cooper, investigations and community affairs commander for the Duke University Police Department. Students reported the graffiti to DUPD at 10 p.m. April 3, just days SEE GRAFFITI ON PAGE 10

The 2005 U.S. News and World Report graduate rankings brought good news for the School of Law, as it returned to the top 10 in the law school rankings after a two-year hiatus.

But moods were less chipper at the Fuqua School of Business, which saw its flagship program slip from seventh to 11th.

Yet the rest of the University’s graduate programs fared well this year. The Pratt School of Engineering improved from 33rd to 30th, the School of Medicine stayed put with a research ranking of fourth and the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy jumped from 19th in 2001—when U.S. News last ranked public affairs programs—to 10th this year. Other graduate programs were not evaluated this year by the magazine.

The law school had been a perennial top 10 fixture until it dropped to 12th in 2003 and remained in that lower position last year. This year’s upswing represents a victory for Dean of the School of Law Katherine Bartlett, who has long professed a commitment to remaining high in the rankings and has acknowledged their importance in shaping perceptions.

Though Bartlett’s enthusiasm about improving this year was tempered by criticism of the rankings as a legitimate evaluative device, she said she was pleased to be back in the top 10.

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“As between doing well under a flawed ranking system and doing not so well, I prefer the former,” Bartlett said.

Yale University topped the law rankings again this year, followed by Harvard University, Stanford University and Columbia University.

Among business schools, Fuqua departed the top 10 after spending the last decade bouncing between sixth and 10th.

After ranking sixth in 2002 —its highest ranking ever —and seventh in 2003, this marks the third straight year of decline for the daytime master’s of business adminis-

tration program, the main program evaluated by U.S. News and World Report.

Fuqua’s most highly celebrated specialties were marketing and its executive MBA program, both of which ranked in the top five.

Harvard was first in business, with Stanford second, the University of Pennsylvania third and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology fourth.

While Pratt has the lowestrank of Duke’s graduate programs this year, it improved to 30th this year, tied with Rice University.

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Quenchers may set up shop in East's Brodie by

Virginia Russell THE CHRONICLE

The quiet hum of blenders making smoothies is an ordinary noise that students expect and welcome as they enter Wilson Recreation Center on West Campus.

Other students on East Campus may also hear similar sounds from a juice bar in the near future as they work out in Brodie Recreation Center.

Due to Quenchers’ success since its opening five years ago, Jim Wulforst, director of dining services, has recently been investigating the prospect of opening another Quenchers in Brodie, which may open in fall 2004.

Wulforst is exploring the available space in Brodie and estimating the cost of the project until the end of the semester.

“We’re looking into it now because it takes a while to get things going. We’re looking at the feasibility,” Wulforst said.

“If we get approval, [the construction of Quenchers] would be done over the

summer for the fall semester.”

Much of the success of Quenchers may be owed to the efforts of Jack Chao, manager of both Quenchers and Grace’s Cafe.

Chao took over the operation four and half years ago from a different manager and said that his decision to bring in a full line of Gatorade, smoothies, supplements and energy bars greatly increased sales. “[Quenchers’ previous manager] was only bringing in $6OO dollars a day,” Chao said. “We’re about 400 percent over that, and that’s just an average day. It’s not even our record.”

Chao said he regularly sees the same customers at least once a day and said that some students even walk all the way over to Wilson just to sip a smoothy.

Opening a second operation in Brodie has been a goal for both Chao and Wulforst as Quenchers has proven its success on West.

“We were looking at East three years SEE

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U.S. takes hard line against cleric by

John Burns

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. officials stepped up their confrontation Monday with Muqtada al-Sadr, the militant Shiite cleric whose followers launched an uprising in at least six Iraqi cities over the weekend, confirming that they had issued an arrest warrant for him but declining to say when they would execute it.

Monday evening, U.S. troops appeared to be moving into the area around Kufa, where al-Sadr’s followers had seized control and the cleric had taken refuge in a heavily guarded mosque. Al-Sadr shot back a defiant

message saying he would “welcome” a showdown with the U.S. forces he has pledged to drive out of Iraq.

Also Monday, Marines moved into Fallujah, where four U.S. security guards working for the occupation authority were killed in an ambush and then mutilated last week.

In the Fallujah operation, and in the decision to arrest al-Sadr, U.S. officials here appeared to have setded on a highrisk strategy, adopdng a tougher stance instead of seeking as they often have in the past to avoid confrontation that might fan antagonism for theAmericans.

U.S. officials in Baghdad left little doubt that a decision had been made to

try to seize al-Sadr, perhaps by issuing an ultimatum to militiamen who were milling around the mosque and guarding nearby rooftops in large numbers in Kufa, about 100 miles south of Baghdad. Reporters who entered Kufa Monday said that militiamen at the mosque were armed with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades that can destroy tanks, and that they had vowed to die for al-Sadr.

“You’ll know,” replied Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, spokesperson for the U.S. command, when asked when the bid to arrest al-Sadr would be made.

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Sharon threatens action against Arafat by

James Bennet

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel has he that no longer feels bound by a 3-year-old comsuggested mitment to President George W. Bush not to harm Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader.

The prime minister’s spokesperson, Raanan Gissin, said Monday that Israel had no immediate intention to act against Arafat. But the substance and timing of Sharon’s threatening remarks, in an interview published here Monday, were significant.

His comments came as Israelis entered the Passover holiday braced for threatened retaliation by the militant group

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Hamas for the killing two weeks ago of its spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Gissin said that with 58 intelligence warnings of possible attacks “the level of alerts is at an alltime high today.”

Sharon appeared to be signaling that he felt freedom to act against Arafat in the event of a devastating terrorist attack.

Further, he is trying to shore up support among right-wing Israelis who are alarmed by his plan for a unilateral withdrawal from most or all of the Gaza Strip and possibly from part of the West Bank. At a cabinet meeting Sunday, he clashed over the plan with far-right members of his governing coalition.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Iraq power transfer threatened by violence American officials said Monday that additional forces may be sent to Iraq if Shiite violence in the country continues.The surge of violence represented a worrying challenge to their plans to turn over power in less than 90 days.

Mars rover completes primary mission NASA's Spirit rover wrapped up its primary mission to Mars Monday as it continued to roll across the planet's surface on an extended tour that could last through September.

Five Pulitzer Prizes awarded to L.A. Times The Los Angeles Times won five Pulitzers Monday for coverage ranging from devastating wildfires to a civil war on the other side of the globe—the second-most awards ever won by a newspaper.

U.S. plans study on environment and youth In an effort to increase understanding of how the environment affects youngsters'health, the government will track 100,000 children—the largest study ever performed on American youth.

Ceil phones put cops, firefighters in danger

The proliferation of cell phones is having a potentially dangerous consequence for firefighters and police as cell towers in some areas are interfering with radio signals.

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Home-repair controversy dominates discussion by

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the sole dissenting vote “Some mistakes were made,” Clement said Monday night. “As a councilor, I have to accept responsibility.” cast

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The Durham City Council addressed a recent controversy

involving city-funded

repairs on the home of Marylanda Bodison on Canal Street in eastern Durham at its session Monday night.

An April Ist article in the Herald-Sun alleged that Bodison’s home is slated for further repairs, even though Bodison went eight years without repaying a $28,500 city housing loan and currently owes back taxes dating to 1996.

Mayor Bill Bell and council members Diane Catotti, Howard Clement and Cora Cole-McFadden voted in February to forgive accrued interest and penalties on the loan. Council member John Best

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Council member Thomas Stith, who was February meeting, said he thought forgiving the debt was wrong from the beginning and this incident represented one more way in which the public trust in Durham has been “shattered.”

Best expressed disbelief that the council moved forward with services that Bodison was not entitled to and called for a review of policies, procedures and criteria relating to home rehabilitation.

Council member Eugene Brown also called for a review, particularly of the loan plan agreement. Bodison allegedly did not not present at the

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PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico Torrential rains swelled a tributary of the Rio Grande by 25 feet early Monday, causing a flash flood that inundated a Mexican border city, killed at least 31 people and forced hundreds more into shelters.

Floodwaters from the Escondido River had receded and rain eventually stopped, allowing President Vicente Fox to visit Piedras Negras, a border city of approximately 200,000 people about 150 miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas. There was a threat of more downpours, however, and heavy, dark clouds loomed overhead.

Struggling to be heard over cheers and cries of “yes, we can,” the president addressed several hundred people at the municipal gym, which authorities had turned into a makeshift shelter.

‘We will help each and every one ofyou recover your homes, furniture, belongings, and everything else you’ve lost,” Fox said.

Emergency crews had recovered 31 bodies by late Monday night, said Enrique Martinez, governor of Coahuila state,

highest level of protection that can be

given,” said Frank Duke, planning director for the city of Durham.

The overlay puts into effect a plan approved at a council meeting in February calling for the protection of the neighborhood’s historic properties, the prevention of further commercial zoning and the alleviation of traffic congestion.

Tom Miller, a representative with the Watts-Hillandale Neighborhood Association, said the group has been working on this project for a decade. The district plan received 80 percent petition support from affected homeowners and endorsements from other neighborhood associations, the nearby North Carolina School of Science and Math and The Herald-Sun.

least 31; displaces hundreds

where Piedras Negras is located. Two of those killed were children, and more than half were elderly.

Throughout the day, authorities said as many as 75 people had yet to be accounted for, but the governor said many of those originally reported missing had been located.

The floods left houses without roofs, and toppled walls, fences and power poles.

Battered and overturned cars were scattered through the streets.

“We lost everything, but thank God we’re alive,” said Oscar Tapia, 67, who carried a bucket of clothing from his house on the banks of the Escondido River. Tapia and his three sisters waded to safety after their house filled with water.

Jose Luis Zuniga, 31, retrieved three briefcases with birth certificates, passports and other documents from his house two blocks from the river. Everything else was soaked with mud and destroyed.

“We all left quick because the water was coming,” said Zuniga, who escaped with his wife and three children. “I was able to get out in the car with my family but many

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sign parts of this agreement, which required her to live in and maintain the house as a condition of receiving the city’s repair services.

Bell eventually stopped the discussion, as the item was not on the meeting’s agenda.

“I don’t intend to let this issue consume myself or this council,” Bell said.

The council plans to review the case more at its regular work session Thursday.

IN OTHER BUSINESS: The Durham city council adopted a new zoning ordinance for many properties in the Watts-Hillandale neighborhood, thereby creating the largest historic district in Durham County.

‘This [ordinance] imposes an additional overlay on the properties, which is the

people were left behind.”

Before Fox arrived at the shelter, hundreds of people, including dozens of large families, lined up to receive blankets, bottled water and rations of spaghetti, black beans and bread served on disposal plates.

‘That river brought death with it,” said Tomasa Magallanes, who sat outside the shelter with her family on two mattresses.

“You could hear many screams. The current carried cars and furniture as if they were toys.”

The Magallaneses were rescued after spending four hours on the rooftop of their house.

Radio stationsread the names of people staying at shelters to help families find missing relatives.

The heavy rains began Sunday and the downpours intensified around midnight, causing the river to overflow and flooding dozens of houses in a working-class area of tin-roof shacks within 15 minutes, city officials said.

Coahuila Gov. Enrique Martinez called the flooding some of the worst in the histo-

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The Coahuila attorney general’s office said 120 houses were damaged. Authorities had earlier estimated that floodwaters had severely damaged or destroyed at least 500 homes and 300 cars.

Officials were worried about structural damage to the bridge over the Escondido, and restricted cars to crossing one at a time, while asking pedestrians to walk down the center.

Mexico’s Interior Department declared a state of emergency in the area, an action that releases federal funds to help the city clean up and rebuild.

Local factories offered shelter to their workers, radio stations reported. The population of Piedras Negras has swelled in recent years as residents from Mexico’s interior arrived looking for factory work.

Emergency workers patrolled the city, moving residents from low-lying neighborhoods to shelters. Some evacuees were treated for hypothermia and the Red Cross was seeking donations of dry clothing and food.

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Report blames Ohio utility for shed as much as 1,500 megawatts of load in the Cleveland-Akron area” then the blackAn Ohio power company should have out “would have been a local Ohio probprevented last summer’s blackout across a lem,” said Alison Silverstein, senior energy policy adviser to the U.S. Federal Energy wide swath of North America by intentionally cutting off electricity to most of the Regulatory Commission, which was one of the investigators. FirstEnergy’s problems Cleveland area, U.S. and Canadian offibecame acute at about 3:05 p.m., but Silcials said Monday.

In their final report on the Aug. 14 verstein said the cascading failure could have been prevented until 4:05:57, about blackout that darkened much of the Midthree minutes before the blackout began. west, the Northeast and Ontario, a panel Power companies fairly frequently cut convened by the two national governments the blame off Energy electricity to some customers to premuch of on First put Corp., one of the nation’s largest utilities, vent an isolated problem from spreading but they are loath to do so on a large in whose eastern Ohio territory the colfound that not scale. Federal officials say that without a The lapse began. inquiry only did First Energy not “shed load,” or protocol for blacking out a wide area, shut off some customers as a preventive doing it quickly would have been diffimeasure, the company apparently did not cult and chaotic.

“Had we blacked out Cleveland, it may have a plan for doing so on short notice.

“We believe that if First Energy had or may not have prevented the event,” said Chuck Jones, senior vice president for energy delivery at First Energy.

But Jones said the international investigation had An April sth article on this year's Truman Scholars inglossed over the problems correctly implied that no member of the graduating created fact, no member by a rise in long-disclass of 2003 won the scholarship; in tance power transmission in of the applicant class of 2003 won the scholarship. by

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shipped from southern Ohio to Ontario, across FirstEnergy’s territory, was one cause of the company’s problems the day

much of the state.

The U.S.-Canadian panel offered a list of 46 specific recommendations, starting with writing into federal law the rules that are supposed to ensure reliable power supplies, so that there are penalties for utilities that violate them. Until now, the rules—governing everything from how closely utilities monitor their transmission lines to how much information they share with other regions—have been drafted by an industry group, the North American Electric Reliability Council, and no one has any power to enforce them.

Some of those rules also need to become more explicit, the report says. For instance, there is no rule about trimming vegetation around power lines, and there should be. The blackout happened in part because several major power lines in Ohio sagged into trees, shutting them down.

Investigators found that First Energy and the regional agency that oversees it, the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, or MISO, violated several of the reliability council’s rules, including failure to warn their neighbors of a mounting crisis.

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“We have taken exception to the idea that you should interrupt local customers in favor of long-distance transactions,” Jones said.

But First Energy, which promptly rebutted criticism last year, generally declined to respond to it Monday. “We’re looking forward,” Jones said, noting that most of the recommendations in the report involved industry-wide practices that the company supported.

The report does not fully explain why the cascade spread from Ohio to Michigan to Ontario to New York, while other areas were spared. Each region is connected to its neighbors by relays, switches on the major transmission lines, that can cut off the flow of power automatically when serious trouble is detected.

Such relays stopped the rolling power failure from spreading from NewYork into Pennsylvania and New Jersey. But the report does not address why relays in upstate New York did not operate similarly, instead

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Colleges plead with their students to lighten up by

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BRUNSWICK, Maine It was intended as a statement against the kind of perfectionism that drives some Bowdoin students to spend two hours a day on the treadmill: plastered all over campus recently were photographs of naked undergraduate Bowdoin women—or at least their bodies, as the pictures had been shot from the neck down—in all their short, tall, thin, not-so-thin, fit and unfit, anonymous, unairbrushed glory.

Far from being shocked, Craig Bradley, the dean of student affairs, said he supported the women’s group that came up with the poster campaign—anything to get students to stop worrying so much about body image, grades and careers.

Bradley, along with other school officials, has been telling students to get off the treadmill. Go for a walk, Go surfing.

Read a novel just for pleasure. Eat ice cream. Hang out with the knitting club.

Find your passion.

Bowdoin’s efforts reflect the ever-increasing attention colleges across the country are giving to undergraduates’ personal growth and emotional well-being.

It has been more than a decade since colleges became mindful of the new generation of students arriving on campus with mental health illnesses. But these days, as they respond to both rising rates of stress-related conditions on campus and the expectations of consumer-minded parents, many colleges are extending the therapeutic culture far beyond treat-

for clinical depression and bipolar disorders Both private and public colleges have begun offering a wide range of services and activities aimed at helping students negotiate what used to be considered the ordinary rites of passage, from homesickness to sophomore existential angst to romantic relationships.

There are now free massages and dogs to cuddle with at exam seasons, biofeedback workshops and therapists available to help students work through their first low grade.

At Harvard, the training given to graduate students who live in the undergraduate houses has in recent years expanded to include ways to help students fight perfectionism —a theme on many campuses—as ment

well as negotiate matters involving race, class and sexual identity.

At Amherst College in Massachusetts, students can have unlimited sessions with the counseling center’s therapists. They are free to discuss such mundane concerns as their futures and their relationships—with family members, roommates, boyfriends and girlfriends—as well as more serious issues like depression and eating disorders.

In St. Louis, Washington University has established stress-free zones during finals, where students can get back massages and listen to New Age music. Addressing the notoriously poor sleeping habits of undergraduates, the university is celebrating SEE STRESS ON PAGE 9

Bush claims lack of info resulted in 9/11 attacks

by Hope Yen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush said Monday he will tell the commission investigating the Sept.

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“Let me just be very clear about this,” he said. “Had we

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After the attacks, “this country immediately went on war footing and we went to war against al Qaeda. And we’re going to keep after them until they are brought to justice and America is secure,” Bush told reporters while on a trip to North Carolina.

Bush also said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice “knows £xactly what took place and will lay out the facts” when she testifies Thursday before the lOknember bipartisan panel. “I’m looking forward to people hearing her,” he said.

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CLERIC from page 2 “Yeah, let’s just say there will be no advance warning”, said Dan Senor, spokesperson for Paul Bremer, the civilian administrator for Iraq.

Earlier, Bremer, addressing Iraq’s newly established national security council, had called al-Sadr an outlaw and hinted that he would be taken down. “We will not tolerate this,” Bremer said. “We will reassert the law and order that people expect.”

The fighting, mosdy quelled Monday, had resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. soldiers in firelights in the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City Sunday, as well as a score of deaths among black-clad Sadr militiamen and Iraqi civilians spread across the fighting in central Baghdad, in Sadr City, in Kufa and the neighboring city of Najaf and in other cities, including the southern centers of Nasiriyah, Amara and Basra.

U.S. officials said the warrant for al-Sadr’s arrest was issued in connection with the shooting and hacking to death of a rival Shiite cleric at a mosque in the holy city of Najaf the day after U.S. troops captured Baghdad last April. But the announcement, months after the warrant was secretly approved, seemed timed to coincide with a new U.S. military offensive—and, together with the offensive, to bolster U.S. authority at a time when it has been jolted as never before in the 12 months of occupation.

As U.S. tanks and helicopter gunships patrolled alSadr strongholds in Baghdad Monday, mopping up pockets of resistance in Sadr City, on the capital’s northeastern outskirts, and at Shuala, another Shiite slum on the city’s northwestern edge, a separate offensive by U.S. Marines began at Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad.

The objective in Fallujah was to crush the strongholds of Sunni Muslim insurgents held responsible for the ambush of four Americans in Fallujah last Wednesday that produced some of the most grisly images of the war, mob violence in which the Americans’ bodies were mutilated before two burned corpses were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates river.

The Fallujah action, too, had the earmarks of a U.S. military command stung into using some of the toughest tactics at its disposal, beginning with a nighttime curfew, the encirclement of the city at dawn, earth barricades bulldozed across possible exit routes and, in one instance reported by the Associated Press, an Apache helicopter gunship firing a missile into a residential neighborhood that was said to have killed five people. Other news agency reports told of explosions and gunfire in the city center, and of U.S. aircraft bombing.

Reporters reaching the city’s outskirts from Baghdad were turned back at U.S. checkpoints well outside the city, precluding attempts to check the reports from the occupation authority. Kimmitt, spokesperson for the U.S.

QUENCHERS from page 1 ago and have always been toying around with that idea,” Chao said. “In the late afternoon, there are tons of people in Wilson, so a lot [of people] go to East and they want something more lively than vending machines.”

The Quenchers in Brodie would offer the same products and would also be under the direction of Chao.

“Students tell me that [Quenchers] is a great concept and do not understand why there is not one on East,” Wulforst said.

Chao said he feels Quenchers’ location provides a pleasant atmosphere and depends upon the student interaction that flourishes there. ‘The impression I have is that students come here to relax and to take a breakfrom studying.

It does have an impact on students’ lives,” he said.

Freshman and member of the Duke Women’s Lacrosse team Meg Ford frequents both gyms on East and West and said she feels that Quenchers is an important attraction to Wilson as well as a necessary addition to Brodie.

“I think that putting a Quenchers in Brodie is a great idea because everyone will definitely buy their fruit and smoothie products,” Ford said. ‘We don’t have a place on East like that to grab something quick to go and Quenchers is a really popular place.”

Quenchers on West is open seven days a week from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m. although Chao has recently been trying to start operations between 11:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. on weekdays to target those students who have classes in Wilson.

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command, referred reporters to the Ist Marine Expeditionary Force, which assigned a 1,300-man force of Marines and Iraqi security forces to the assault.

The Marines’ spokesperson, Lt. James Vanzant, was brusque. “We are looking for the bad guys in town,” he told an AP reporter. At a checkpoint, Lance Cpl. Paul Vallieres was upbeat.

“We’ve got the place surrounded,” he said. “This operation will go on for 10 days.”

In the Fallujah operation, and the decision to arrest alSadr, the Americans appeared to have crossed a watershed. Faced with rampant insurgent attacks around Fallujah, and with al-Sadr’s relentlessly anti-American pronouncements, the Americans have chosen, often, to avoid direct clashes.

The hope has been that a rapid return to Iraqi sovereignty and a democratic government, coupled with billions of dollars in U.S.-financed reconstruction projects, would erode support for extremists, while harsh military actions might swell the pool ofenemies.

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U.S. command, Kimmitt said the decisions had been forced on the Americans.

“That decision was not independently made by us, the decision to go hard,” he said. Rather, he said, it was made by the mob that mutilated the Americans in Fallujah, and the fighters for al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army who attacked U.S. troops fighting for control of police stations and government buildings in Sadr City Sunday.

“Individuals who execute violence against persons inside of Iraq will be hunted down or captured or killed,” the general said. “It’s that simple.”

What Marines in Fallujah would like to be doing, he said, would be “fixing schools, fixing sewers, fixing health clinics.” But faced with violence, “those same Marines are capable of putting down their paintbrushes and picking up their weapons to defend the people of Iraq and to ensure that the process of taking this country to democracy and sovereignty will not be impeded,” he said.

Senor, Bremer’s spokesperson, said that the attacks on Americans has as their aim derailing the transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi caretaker government on June 30, “and we absolutely will not tolerate that.”

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Finally, Sharon is concerned that his withdrawal proposal might be perceived as a reward for terrorism, emboldening Palestinians to take violent action.

‘The important thing is to exert a stern warning: ‘Doq’t even try to use this to instigate more terrorist activity,”’ Gissin said.

“It’s more of a deterrent measure than an operational message.”

But Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian official, said the threat was “very serious.”

“It’s consistent with Sharon’s exit strategy from the peace process,” Erekat said. ‘That is, destroy the Palestinian Authority, kill Arafat, throw it all into chaos and anarchy and extremism, and say, ‘I don’t have a partner.’”

Friday, the Israeli newspaper Maariv released an excerpt of an interview in which Sharon threatened Arafat by saying he had “no insurance policy.” At the time, his aides said he still felt bound by his pledge to Bush.

But according to the transcript of the interview, published Monday, Sharon noted that since he made his vow to Bush, Arafat’s circumstances had changed. ‘That was a time when he was still walking on the red carpets,” he said of Arafat. In a reference to the United States and other governments, he added, ‘Today, all these people also know the exact extent of the damage he has caused.”

In another interview, with the Israeli radio, Sharon said when asked about Arafat, “Those who kill Jews and order that Jews be killed, because of the fact that they are Jews, are sentenced to death.”

Friday, the Bush administration said it opposed any action to harm Arafat.

Arafat says he is committed to a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict.

But Israel accuses him of fomenting terrorism.

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‘Though I am happy that we see the momentum build from five years of working every day to make this the best engineering school we can be, we also know that we have a ways to go to be recognized as both winners and champions,” she said. “If we teach great classes, mentor our students and give them a bold, personal and multidisciplinary educational experience that prepares them to be leaders and live rewarding and ethical lives, we will be the best—no matter where we are ranked.”

Pratt’s comparatively low rank can be partly attributed to its size; the school is smaller than many other graduate programs in engineering, though Johnson said faculty and program expansion and the currendy under-construction Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Mathematics and Applied Sciences may boost its reputation in the future.

The School of Medicine is Duke’s highest-ranked graduate and professional school. While institutions are ranked in two categories, research and primary care, research is the focus of the University and many other selective private medical schools. Duke scored fourth in this category and 39th in primary care.

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The School of Law jumped two spots to place 10th in this year's U.S. News rankings.

“We are pleased once again that the School of Medicine is so highly ranked,” said Dean of the Medical School Dr. Sandy Williams. “The scoring process used to come up with these rankings should not be interpreted as any absolute measure of quality, but it's gratifying nonetheless to see our faculty and students honored in this manner.”

Other top research medical schools were Harvard, which ranked first, followed

by Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University. The University of Pennsylvania tied with Duke for fourth.

Improving most dramatically—albeit over a four-year period as U.S. News and World Report rates some programs only periodically—was the Sanford Institute. Sanford tied with six other schools: American

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Sanford Director Bruce Jendeson said he was very pleased with Duke’s rankings, which he said will help recruiting.

“I think [the rise in the rankings] reflects the assessment by our peers that we’re doing excellent research, we have a dynamic curriculum, [we have] high-quality students, graduate students as well as undergraduates,’’Jendeson said, “and also that we have an external visibility in terms of our policy engagement that factors in as well.”

Sanford’s improved from seventh to fifth in its specialty, public policy analysis, but dropped slighdy in social policy and health policy and management to 11th and ninth, respectively. Duke’s environmental policy and management program, run mosdy by the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, held tight with the number two rank behind Indiana University at Bloomington.

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Kevin Kruger, the associate executive director for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, with nearly 1,500 members, said the new services were the natural extension of the awareness raised by students with mental health problems.

“This movement is an indication of colleges trying to be more proactive,” Kruger said, rather than waiting for students to flunk out, have a breakdown or whatever the outcome is going to be.”

But many college and university officials also acknowledge that they are responding to the heightened consumer mentality of many parents. “If you’re paying a lot, you expect a lot in return,” said Craig McEwen, dean of academics at Bowdoin, one of the nation’s liberal arts colleges. “Unhappiness is not something you’re supposed to feel.”

Some college officials say that all those services are not only driving up higher education costs but some may also be an extension of a therapeutic culture that has gone too far.

While it is important that colleges talk about “the whole student,” said Steven Hyman, the provost at Harvard, and the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, “that doesn’t mean they should all be in group therapy.” He also doubts the value of the biofeedback and massage, suggesting that it might be more helpful if students learned to organize their lives.

“It’s a difficult tightrope to walk,” said Hyman, who is a psychiatrist. “There’s a risk that we will medicalize what are really developmental issues: negotiating independ“

ence, deciding what your goals are in life, having the courage to explore your interests rather than follow the straight and narrow path of careerism. At the same time, we have to be very careful that we don’t miss serious treatable illnesses like depression, anxiety disorders, and

eating disorders.”

Some college officials see the contradiction inherent in their new efforts to offset stress and encourage the joys of reflection and unstructured time. After all, it was just the sort of multitasking, hyperorganized, resume building behavior that helped some students get admitted to their schools in the first place.

“We admit only the most over-scheduled children and we boast of how many sports they play, how many clubs they organize, how many hours of volunteer service they provide,” said Elaine Hansen, the president of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, in her inaugural address two years ago. How then, she went on, could Bates encourage those same children to risk “moments of woolgathering, daydreaming, improvisation” that she viewed as an essential component of a liberal arts education?

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on the spur-of-the-moment so everyone can enjoy, say, a glorious spring day in Maine. However, she said, “If we do it without a conversation first about why we’re doing it, we’re afraid people will just go to the library and get

caught up.”

In his January letter to parents, Bowdoin’s president, Barry Mills, expressed his concern about what appears to be a national increase in stress-related conditions among college students. Expanding on the president’s letter, Bradley spoke to the college’s trustees about creating a culture that emphasizes the joy of learning for learning’s sake, “a culture that can itself ameliorate the anxiety many students feel about grades, jobs, grad school admissions.”

At the same, Bowdoin officials say they do not want their students to relax too much.

“You still have to accomplish,” Mills said. “You still have to succeed. This is not about relax[ing] and schmooz[ing] your way through Bowdoin.”

Many students here said they welcomed the emphasis on the joy of learning. And many said they were having fun at college. But they were quick to point out the realities of the world they live in.

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The markings in Perkins Library read: ‘They tried to kick me out, but I didn’t not let them. They said I was the one with the rapes on campus. I was the one!” News about the graffiti in Perkins quickly spread across campus through various listservs.

Although the two sets of graffiti both dealt with rape and were both written in black marker, Cooper said there is not enough evidence to link the words together at this time. She noted that Duke police are looking at the markings as criminal incidents, which are not to be taken lightly.

“It could be seen as threatening or it could just be someone playing a sick joke, which concerns us as well,” she said. “We have to look at all avenues.”

Whatever the motives, Cooper said, the perpetrators need to be stopped. She noted that Duke police have collected evidence relating to the two

cases and are looking for more information that could lead to identifying the perpetrators.

“We want to enlist the help ofanyone who can get the word out about our concerns, to help us put these concerns to rest,” Cooper said. “A lot of times, we at the police department can deal with criminal matters but don’t necessarily have the resources like Student Affairs that put us in touch with people who might have information.”

Cooper stressed that people should not delay reporting new graffiti to the police.

“Sometimes it seems like these things get mentioned to everyone else except us,” she said. we ■ “If people report to us as soon as possible, can collect evidence in a timely way and help stop the crime.”

The discovery of the graffiti in the WEL came just one day after the close of the Women’s Center’s Sexual Assault Prevention Week, during which organizers sought to educate people about sexual assault and organize the community around ending violence.

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The River Walk, in case you’re not one of the 30 million visitors it receives a year, is essentially a name that encompasses all the restaurants and clubs that line the San Antonio River. It was designed from 193841, but the construction of two major hotels in 1968 set the area into its current path as a pull for revelers and sightseers.

It’s not a terribly expansive area, but it’s a fun destination nonetheless.

As a result, this is where you go when you come to San Antonio. So my fellow Chronicle staffers and I were seeking out a place to eat Sunday when we spotted a man with grey hair scribbling on paper in between two gentlemen who were continually patting the older man on the back, muttering inaudible words. A few steps closer, and the old man’s identity became clear. It was none other than Roy “Dag gum it” Williams, the head coach of our beloved pet Tar Heels.

My first inclination was to introduce myself to Roy-Will and ask if he actually thought Rashad McCants would stay in college for another year. Indeed, McCants decision will have a considerable impact on the ACC next season. If McCants stays, after all, so too will Raymond Felton and Sean May, and then the Tar Heels could be one of four potentially top-10 preseason teams for our esteemed league along with Duke, Wake Forest and, last but not least, Georgia Tech. If not, UNC will be back to its Doherty Days, losing at will.

A team on the opposite path is the Ramblin’ Wreck. The Yellow Jackets, I’m convinced, are deserving of and well on their way to becoming the next great national power. They’re doing everything right; they’re from a large market starving for a successful athletic program; they’re from a very good school with very good kids; they’ve got an ever-growing bandwagon of supporters; and most importantly, they’re led by the nation's best young coach, the man who was truly deserving of coach of the year accolades.

I’m proud to admit that Paul Hewitt is the man/coach/teacher I’d most like to have at my school outside of Coach K (or his triumvirate of assistants). Hewitt is smart about his program, compassionate about his players and dedicated to his school. He’s not a bad coach, either. As I was telling a friend, if Duke had to lose to anyone this year, I’d prefer us to lose to Georgia Tech. They’ve -

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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS For four years, Taliek Brown had heard that Connecticut could never win a championship as long as he was the point guard.

For four weeks, the Huskies’ national championship aspirations were thought to ride on the sore back of center Emeka Okafor.

For a few moments Monday morning, UConn head coach Jim Calhoun dealt with the disappointment that he had not been elected to the Basketball Hall ofFame.

But after a 40-minute display of heart, determination and dominance on the court, none of that mattered Monday night. The Huskies left no doubt and defeated Georgia Tech, 82-73, to win its second NCAA national championship in six seasons.

lier in the Preseason National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden, with the Yellow Jackets overwhelming the Huskies, 77-61.

“We’ve grown a lot, they have grown a lot,” Georgia Tech guard Marvin Lewis said before the game. “We’ve added pieces, they have added pieces.”

For that game back in November, Okafor was battling acute pain from the back spasms that bothered him for most of the season, and freshman Charlie Villanueva had not been cleared to play for UConn by the Nadonal Collegiate Athletic Association, which was examining his flirtation with the NBA. Rashad Anderson had not shot his way into the starting lineup yet, either.

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But Calhoun recognized then the core virtue that would power Georgia Tech to the school’s first national title game: a commitment to defense.

“I think we saw the prelude ofwhat was going to happen to them through the season,” he said before the game. “When you score on them, they attack you as well as any team in the country. They take it as a personal affront.”

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The freshmen class also included forward Ashley Battle of Pittsburgh and center Jessica Moore, UConn’s first Alaskan recruit, who were red-shirted their freshmen year and have one year remaining.

Taurasi can document her stay at UConn with the numerous awards and titles she’s earned over the past four years, but said that’s just part of the story. What she’ll miss most is being a teammate.

“The Final Four, the national championship, obviously that’s put in the forefront,” Taurasi said. “For us it’s the first day of practice and walking over to the gym in the snow. The bus rides, the plane rides. After four years, you’re like sisters.”

After the ride ends Tuesday night, Taurasi will tryout for the U.S. team and a possible berth in the summer Olympics.

She’s also expected to be one of the top picks in the April 17 WNBA draft.

Moore and Batde have just 40 minutes left with their teammates, ending a journey that began four years ago with much excitement and expectation. They hope to send their seniors out on top.

‘We’re ’The Fam’ and it has been that way for the past four years,” Moore said. “I can’t imagine being at Connecticut without them.”

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On Tuesday night, they’ll close out an extraordinary four-year run by playing in the NCAA final against Tennessee.

“It is hard not to think about,” said Maria Conlon, a homegrown talent out of Derby, Conn. “It’s going to be a really emotional moment. It’s been an unbelievable four years.”

Led by All-American Diana Taurasi, the senior class has amassed a 138-8 record that includes 17 straight NCAA tournament wins and back-to-back national tides. They ended every season in the Final Four, losing the 2001 just one tournament game semifinal to eventual champ Notre Dame.

Four years ago, Conlon and Morgan Valley, a reserve guard from Colchester, Vt., joined a talent-laden team that had just won its second national title in five years by rolling through opponents with ease.

To keep it going, head coach Geno Auriemma landed one of the best high school players in the nation in Taurasi, a flashy California kid who had to get used to wintry walks to practice.

At the final buzzer on Tuesday, the three finish their careers.

‘Just to be a senior and have an opportunity to play this game means the world,” said Taurasi, who has scored 411 points in all four NCAA tournaments, 86 points shy of the record set by Tennessee’s Chamique Holdsclaw. “Every senior in the country right now would want to be playing in this last game.”

Added Auriemma; “This one I think means the end of something really special. It’s the culmination offour unbelievable years.”

Conlon replaced All-American Sue Bird two years ago as point guard, running the Huskies’ offense with a safe, sure hand. Valley has had limited playing time in games, but has established herself as a leader in practice, constantly pushing

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For the third time in a week, it was

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This one finally felt right.

Greeted by a mixture ofcheers and boos on a crisp Monday afternoon, President

Bush threw an inside strike to catcher Mike Matheny before the Cardinals played the Milwaukee Brewers in St Louis.

“It just goes to show you a guy can get lucky occasionally,” said Bush, wearing a Cards warmup jacket.

There were eight other openers in the majors, including Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants playing the Astros in Houston.

Of course, the season actually started last week in Japan, where the New \brk Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays split two games part of baseball’s effort to market the sport around the world. But most fans were sleeping when the first pitch was thrown. Then on Sunday night, the Baltimore Orioles beat Pedro Martinez and the Boston Red Sox 7-2.

But opening day means DAY baseball, with an April chill in the air.

On Monday, it arrived. At last The Reds opened in Cincinnati with a tribute to former owner Marge Schott, a ceremonial first pitch by Vice President Dick Cheney and a 7-4 loss to Sammy Sosa and the Chicago Cubs.

Schott died last month at age 75, ending a tumultuous chapter for baseball’s first professional team. Instead of Schott sounding the siren to start the annual opening day parade in Cincinnati, an elephant did it using its trunk.

Meanwhile, Cheney got a loud ovation

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Eric Milton threw thefirst official pitch for the Phillies on April 4, the second of three opening days. when he walked onto the field. Standing in the grass in front of the mound, he threw a right-handed strike to crouching Reds catcher Jason Laßue.

“It turns out we don’t need a radar gun on him, either,” Bush joked.

Hometown hero Ken Griffey Jr. was out of Cincinnati’s lineup, reluctantly taking a few more days to rest a strained calf. The injury-prone outfielder paced in the dugout with a bat in each hand.

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Other stars missing on opening day: Nomar Garciaparra, Mark Prior, Jason Schmidt and Larry Walker, But not Bonds, who was dogged by questions about steroids all spring. He entered the season with 658 homers, two shy of tying his godfather Willie Mays for third on the career list, “I feel very proud because I had him at 5 years old in my locker many times, and on the field,” Mays said Monday.

From Staff Reports NCAA officials said last Thursday that they would take no action against Duke University in the Corey Maggette scandal, allowing the Blue Devils to keep their national runner-up finish and ACC tournament and regular season championships from the 1999 season.

Had Duke been implicated in the scandal, the Blue Devils might have been forced to forfeit their awards from the 1999 season, which saw Duke win a school record 37 games.

Maggette, a key freshman reserve on Duke’s 1999 squad, has previously admitted to receiving $2,000 from former AAU coach Myron Piggie as a high school student.

Piggie attempted to discredit the NCAA by paying high school stars who had played under him. Also involved in the investigations were former Missouri star Kareem Rush; his brother, Jaßon Rush, who played at UCLA; Andre Williams, who played at Oklahoma State; and Korleone Young, who bypassed college and entered the NBA draft directly out of high school.

As a Blue Devil, Maggette averaged 10.6 points and 3.9 rebounds a game as a freshman. He left Duke after one year and was selected 13th in the NBA Draft by Seatde.

He currendy leads the Los Angeles Clippers with 20.6 points per game while also pulling down 5.9 rebounds a contest.

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Say hey, Willie. Barry is HOUSTON, TEXAS about to catch you.

Barry Bonds hit his 659th home run Monday night, moving within one of Willie Mays for third place on the career list and helping the San Francisco Giants rally for a 5-4 victory over the Houston Astros.

With ‘The Say Hey Kid” in attendance, Bonds lined a first-pitch fastball from Roy Oswalt over the right-field fence in the eighth inning for a three-run shot that tied it at 4.

“It was great to have a game like this early,” said Bonds, who went 3-for-3 with two doubles and a walk. “I Just wanted to hit the ball hard like Willie told me to do and not to think about it.”

San Francisco completed the comeback in the ninth against loser Octavio Dotel, now the Astros’ closer after the offseason trade of Billy Wagner to the Phillies. Dotel hit Tony Torcato with a pitch, and he advanced to second on a bunt and third on a wild pitch before pinch-runner Cody Ransom scored on J.T. Snow’s sacrifice fly.

Bonds’ blow ended what had been a top-notch outing

by Oswalt, chosen to start on opening day over former Yankees Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte.

Oswalt had scattered seven hits and a run over seven innings when he allowed two hits in the eighth before facing Bonds. Manager Jimy Williams conferred with Oswalt before allowing him to pitch to Bonds, who promptly laced a pitch Just over the fence.

“I threw the ball outside. I thought I was going to get him to hit to center field, but you throw it away and he (pulls) it to right field. What are you going to do?” said Oswalt, who chastised himself for throwing a “dumb

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With a nine-man rotation and quartet of swift guards—Bynum, Marvin Lewis, BJ. Elder and Jarrett Jack—the Yellow Jackets had exhausted their five tournament opponents physically and proved stronger than them mentally.

They won four of their five tournament games by five points or fewer, and in the fourth game, the regional final, they needed overtime to turn back Kansas, 79-71.

Most impressive was how the Yellow Jackets had stymied each of their opponent’s best scorer, holding Oklahoma State’s Tony Allen and the Jayhawks’ Wayne Simien well below their season averages.

But when Connecticut took a 41-26 lead at halftime the title game, the Huskies showed they were intent in on being the powerhouse that rolled through the first four games of the tournament, not the big-hearted team that erased an eight-point deficit in the final three minutes of the national semifinal to defeat Duke, 79-78.

The Yellow Jackets had few answers for UConn’s Ben Gordon, who had 14 points in the first half and finished with 21. He stopped suddenly and fired picture perfect 3pointers over Lewis, and he blew past Bynum for muscular, acrobatic lay-ups.

Georgia Tech’s 7-foot-l center Luke Schenscher was unable to stop the agile Okafor from slipping through the seams in the lane for rebounds and spinning low on the blocks for baseline jumpers. Okafor finished with 24 points, 15 rebounds and two blocked shots, and demonstrated the strength and adept footwork that is certain to make him a lottery selection in the NBA draft, if he chooses to take the finance degree he will earn as a junior next month and turn professional.

Before the game, Georgia Tech head coach Paul Hewitt, a New York native and devotee of the ball-sharing philosophy offormer Knicks coach Red Holzman, said his Yellow Jackets were one of only two college teams standing because each player knew his role and played with a

got a Duke bloodline at the point guard in Jarret Jack, they’re driven with the same type of Puritan work ethic that has led Duke to so much success over the years, and they’re all great kids. And though I could likely find equal strengths in other programs, inside and outside of the ACC, no one is led by a coach is amicable as Hewitt. Even the Yellowjackets’ loss in last night’s championship game was cause for admiration, as despite facing significant deficits, Jack and company continued to claw at the Huskies until the final buzzer.

The sports editor frop Georgia Tech’s student newspaper was telling me about how Hewitt had reached God-like status on campus, one of the reasons being his involvement with the student body. This past fall, Hewitt visited every single fraternity and sorority, notifying each group of a nascent competition. Whichever organization had the highest cumulative attendance at basketball games this year—including the postseason tournaments—would be treated to a dinner prepared by Hewitt himself.

Sounds familiar to Coach K’s tactics, right? Come to the games, and he’ll buy you pizza. But Hewitt’s going to make dinner? I don’t care if he pops popcorn or toasts bread, that’s a helluva nice gesture and a helluva nice way to foster support ofyour basketball program.

A coach whose success wasn’t so tangible was Craig Esherick, the former leader of Georgetown. I spotted him at the River Walk, too, having lunch Friday afternoon. The jury is still out as to whether Esherick or UNC’s Matt Doherty did the most damage to the respective program that they coached.

I promise you that I’ve done more than stargazing at coaches past and present, however. Indeed, I’ve also had the chance to rub shoulders with some of the better sportswriters in the business (whether or not that’s an oxy moron, I'll leave up to you). And when I say rub shoulders, I mean our photographer whacked one on the head with the leg of a tripod.

That’s right—-William Rhoden, the award-winning sports columnist for the New York Times was the recipient of a thud from The Chronicle’s own Betsy McDonald. He very kindly turned and acknowledged our profuse apologies, then felt the inevitable knot billowing on the back of his head.

But I digress. I’ve got to run; Georgia Tech’s bandwagon is leaving and I've got a ticket to ride.

long-forgotten purity.

“I don’t think people appreciate a good

team these days, and I mean ‘team’ in every sense of the word,” Hewitt said. “I think we spend so much time focusing on the individual, we forget this is a team sport.”

DUKE MEN’S BASKETBALL CELEBRATION

CANCELLED The welcome home celebration planned for Tuesday, April 6,5 pm, in Cameron Indoor Stadium has been cancelled. Watch for details on a special program celebrating a great season to be held during the upcoming Men’s Basketball Banquet, April 23,2004.

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Alpha Omega: Tuesdays, 7-B:3opm in York Chapel. All are welcome to combine prayer and song with a chance to learn more about the Catholic faith in a large group setting. Each week a speaker covers a different topic selected by students. Newman Catholic Student Center,

Developmental Biology Colloquium: 4pm. Spyros Artavanis-Tsokanis, Harvard University. "Notch signaling and cell proliferation." 147 Nanaline Duke.

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Wannamaker 111 Commons. Comehear DIVING COACH Andy Scott share his faith with us. Maybe he'll surprise us with a little b-box or rap solo. Hope to see you there.

Wesley Fellowship-Getting With God Small Group: Bpm, Tuesdays. Wesley Office. How does the Old Testament help us to grow closer with God?

Movie: 7 & 9;3opm. Panther Panchali. Griffith Film Theater. Movie presented by Duke University Union's Freewater Presentations. Free to Duke students, $1 for employees, $2 for the general public.

Screen/Society Special Events: Bpm. "The Inner World of Shah Rukh Khan," with director Nasreen Kabir!

Richard White Auditorium,

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

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

Theater 2004 New Works In Progress; Workshops and readings of plays by advanced playwriting students. Branson Theater.

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Screen/Society Hip Hop Rim Series: Bpm. 'Tupac: Resurrection.” Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center.

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Exhibit: Through April 9. Domestic Threats works by Barbara Rachko. Louise Jones Brown Gallery; Bryan Center.

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Africa Night: 6-1 Opm, April 10. The North Carolina Peace Corps Association presents its 16th annual Africa Night fund-raiser. Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4907 Garrett Road, Durham.

There will be live music, dancers, a raffle, and a potluck dinner. Proceeds to build primary school classrooms in South Africa. $6 with a covered dish or $ll without.

Information at 596-8919.

Display: Through April 11, Francesco Petrarca, Poet and Humanist. Perkins Library Gallery. Selections from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Petrarch's birth and to honor Professor Ronald G. Witt on his retirement.

Upcoming: April 17. The Duke University Primate Center 6th Annual 5K Run for the Lemurs at the Duke Golf Course Trail. Registration is available online at www.lemurlanding.com.

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.

Volunteer: Community Service Center. Contact Dominique Redmond, 684-4377 or http://csc.studentaffairs.duke.edu.

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problems with student their behavior, and give them behavior, The Bull Durham enough credit to think that they Bar at the Washington are capable of reigning in their Duke Inn is considering terminal- actions. Further, stepping up ing its alcohol on points services, carding efforts and setting drink The management, which serves a limits would go a long way todiverse and upscale clientele, has wards keeping the atmosphere at hinted that the venue is becoming a respectable level.

The second too much of a typiotacc cniinoiAi STAFF EDITORIAL poim to be t;lken cal college hangout, and is thus losing appeal for from this scenario is the necessinon-Duke customers. ty to reiterate the need for an This situation leads to two on-campus bar similar to the conclusions. First, the termina- Hideaway. Students flock to The tion of the alcohol on points Bull Durham Bar because it is program is an overreaction on reasonably close, upscale and in the part of the bar’s managers, a safe environment. Individuals and will negatively impact both do not need to worry about drinking and driving or calling the bar itself and the students.

The program brings tons of cabs —concerns that the Univerrevenue to the establishment, sity has cited in cracking down and halting that source of in- on off-campus parties. With the come makes little sense from relative decline of on-campus their perspective, especially section parties and the sparse when other avenues for solving smattering of University-sponthe problem are available. The sored alcoholic events, the walls management has made a smart are beginning to close in on stufirst move in alerting students of dents’ social lives. The bar at the the fact that a problem exists, Armadillo Grill is a welcome adand that behavior must be toned dition, but it is not large enough down. It is to be expected that in to accommodate a significant a bar atmosphere, college stunumber of students. , As officials plan for the addidents will become more boisterous as the night goes on. Howevtions to campus in the form of the er, the bar could start to enforce new West Campus Student Center and Central Campus University a behavior policy, asking inebrieated to leave if they get to Village, space should be set aside noisy. By creating such a stan- for a bar. The demand certainly dard, behavioral norms would exists, and to be frank, students develop within a few weeks. Give may not be left with many other the students a chance to correct options in the near future.

ON THE RECORD It could be seen as threatening or it could just be someone playing a sick joke, which concerns us as well. We have to look at all avenues.

—Phyllis Cooper, DUPD investigations and community affairs commander, on graffiti discussing sexual assault found in two campus bathrooms in the past week. See story, page 1.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Administration needs to act Our breath catches in our throats when we walk alone in the dark, even across the main quad. We peer under bathroom stalls even during the middle of the day because we are scared to death of being attacked.

We cry while we watch the pain our closest friends endure because of rape and sexual assault. And we’re tired.

It isn’t fair that because of our gender, something we have no control over, we have to carry this fear with us every day we are at Duke. We find it ridiculous that this administration has never, never convicted anyone of sexual assault or rape, even though these crimes are discussed almost daily because of their prevalence.

And now someone, whether or not it is the true perpetrator is irrelevant, is scrawling terrifying messages into bathroom stalls across campus. After the message in Perkins, a second one was found over the weekend in a guest bathroom in the WEL. Many people have doubted the legitimacy of these messages, but honestly, who but a rapist would be sick enough to think of such things?

This person wants to scare us, wants us to know that the lack of punishment can allow him to terrorize this campus again.

The scariest part of this whole situation is the fact that the messages insinuate that the administration knows his identity. Part of the first message that was found said, “They tried to kick me out, but I didn’t not let them.”

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To the administration, to DUPD, why aren’t you protecting us? And on a much smaller level, why aren’t you even promptly informing us when things like this happen? We don’t want to be scared anymore.

Members of this community have been taking huge steps to address the issues of sexual assault and rape. The publishers of Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Duke have made amazing progress in opening dialogue across campus and encouraging awareness. The coordinators of Sexual Assault Prevention Week dedicated so much of their time and energy to empower survivors and promote understanding.

We applaud each and every man and woman who spoke at Take Bac?k the Night; your messages were so powerful. But none of these efforts can have any effect if our university community cannot address the most egregious of these crimes. Violent perpetrators of rape and sexual assault have been allowed to remain at Duke for too

long.

The responsibility for action lies with the administration. Inform us, protect us.

That’s all we ask. We didn’t come to this college to live lives controlled by fear.

Kim Hodgman Trinity ’O6 Erin Phillips Trinity ’O6 Julianna Tabor Trinity ’O6

DSG unfairly criticized Another scathing diatribe on DSG in The Chronicle. I am shocked. Except no, not really. DSG-abuse in this publication flows so readily that the real shocker would be the words, “I’m unhappy with DSG because I haven’t bothered to do anything with it.”

Joost Bosland’s column last Thursday disappointed me. I’m not writing to take a side one way or another, but just to point out the overwhelming apathy of this campus. Bosland is quick to point out that voter turnout was “again pathetically low.”

Why? Because to Duke students, Duke Student Government is “not worth their time.”

So let me get this straight. We expect (no, demand!) a representative body that fully and actively caters to our needs and is comprised of people of our choosing. And we want it all to happen while we sit back and hope that the handful who voted happen to elect people we like.

I think it’s easy to forget that DSG is not some external entity of mysterious individuals, sucking up funds and passing resolu-

tions. DSG is made up of Duke students, chosen by Duke students. Each of us is empowered with the capability to make DSG do whatever we want and yet so many opportunities to make change are passed by.

Additionally, it’s easy to take DSG for granted. Its work can be invisible and sometimes just overlooked. (K-Ville anyone?) In a general sense, it provides an organized avenue by which student concerns can be voiced and addressed. Whether or not that mechanism functions is up to you.

Bosland is right. Pasha Majdi deserves your support. As do each of the new VPs. They deserve your respect, your attention and your participation in DSG. Run or apply for a position, vote in every election, spout off in public forum and e-mail your reps. If all that happens and you’re still unhappy, THEN write to The Chronicle and complain about it.

Eileen Kuo Trinity ‘O5

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Happiness i n your “George lived with his friend, the man with the yellow hat. He was a good little monkey, but he was always curious.” -Excerpt from Curious GeorgeLearns the Alphabet

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many, the idea of random, non goal-oriented existence concluded by absolute death is terrifying. These people look to comforting promises of eternal life.

Pleasant too is the thought that all volcanic eruptions, diseases, pestilence and repressive regimes happen for a reason and, when relevant, will be corrected in the last analysis, with the righteous—those who avoid alienating God through sin—joining him in paradise.

But the element common to a sense of meaninglessness, the fear of death and the recognition of earthly injustice is the effect they have on

ninety-eight percent chimpanzee, Duke undergraduates have ample curiosity and predictably responded with simian bafflement to recent flyers bearing the words: “It is finished.” What was finished? Not many people knew and the ones who did weren’t forthcoming. Only a few days later did the suspense end as students appeared wearing t-shirts emMatthew Gillum humans—unhappiness. blazoned with the same Accepting Christ is away Veritas slogan and a full-page ad to alleviate this suffering ran in The Chronicle exand to find what www.dukeitisfmished.com plaining that “It is finished,” were the last words of Christ as calls, “Identity, meaning, purpose, [and] recorded in the Gospel of John. Accordjoy.” Christianity, in effect, is one solution ing to the advertisement, “Jesus’ life, humans devised to address the problem death, and resurrection finished some of of unhappiness. the greatest struggles in life,” namely; exisYet why are people unhappy? While tence in a meaningless universe, the fear Christians would argue that it has to do of death, the problem of injustice and the with alienation from the creator, Bjorn Grinde, author of Darwinian Happiness, separation from the creator.

And it is easy to sympathize with these presents interesting arguments in support observations about the human condition; of the thesis that human unhappiness results from living conditions that are not our universe can seem like a pretty eccentric uncle sometimes. Physicists talk about consistent with what we evolved to tolermysterious things like dark matter, ate. This makes a great deal of sense and quarks, and the Big Bangs. Even though it finds corroboration in ethology (the study may be tempting to say that dark matter is of animal behavior), which finds that orwhat accumulates under your futon, that ganisms subjected to environments for quarks are in the same genus as Ewoks which they are poorly suited display aband that the Big Bang describes a particunormal behaviors resembling the obseslarly desperate Friday night, they don’t: sive, repetitive actions of humans afflicted no, no and definitely not. As of yet there with mental illnesses. Essentially, his arguare gaps in our knowledge of reality, and, ment is similar that of the Stoics who exas it is with many unknown things, this horted their followers to “live according ambiguity can be scary. Meaninglessness, to nature,” before they had any inkling when invoked, refers to a general absence about genetics. By this logic, human hapof purpose or intent; e.g. there is no reapiness consists in taking a hard look at son for something and that something is what humans adapted to do and in them not headed toward a particular end. To doing that. Happy people are not trou-

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bled by meaninglessness, death, alienation or despair in die face of injustice.

From Grinde’s “naturalistic” vantage point, if we want to be happy, we are advised: “(1) to avoid stress by adjusting the conditions of life to our innate tendencies, and (2) to utilize the brain’s potential for rewarding sensations.” Happiness, then, requires that we figure out what our innate tendencies are and modify our behavior to be consistent with these tendencies produced by evolution.

But what are these tendencies? As Grinde emphasizes, this is where the whole of cumulative knowledge must be tapped, drawing from sociology, biology, chemistry, genetics and psychology to form a complete picture of human nature. Practically, however, we can find out what we have adapted to do—and not do —by cataloging the things that induce pleasure or pain since pleasure is an incentive for doing certain things while pain is a disincentive for doing certain things. Since natural selection has favored organisms that find pleasure in doing these things and avoid misery by not doing those other things, we can say that these behaviors were appropriate for the given environment, what Grinde calls “the environment of evolutionary adaptation.”

If one believes that happiness is superior to suffering, then she is in a position to take action and pursue Grinde’s “good life,” which incorporates the following elements: play, learning, sport, daydreaming, mental discipline, compassion, cooperation, sex, love, art and music.

Human nature being what it is, these are the activities that make us happiest. We get pleasure from playing, because it builds social ties and teaches survival skills, joy from learning, because knowledge conduces to better mastery of the environment and the concomitant reproductive benefits, amusement from sport, because it satisfies our genetic desire for self-assertion and competition, gratification from daydreaming, because of its

limitless potential for envisioning ourselves in pleasant situations of success, satisfaction from mental discipline, because suppressing unpleasant thoughts and emphasizing positive ones contributes to more favorable neurochemistry, enjoyment from doing nice things for other people, because mutualism and reciprocity help humans survive, intense excitement from sex, because replication is our purpose, bliss from love, because attachment to romantic partners helps us raise surviving offspring, joy from art, because our aesthetic sense has much to do with “balance and symmetry” in addition to color (useful in selecting nutritious foods and healthy sexual partners) and pleasure from music, because it appears related, as Grinde argues, to the particularly useful and peculiarly human development of language.

While I sympathize with Duke Christians and feel that we have a common goal—eradicating unhappiness, the foundation of most pleasure-destroying misbehavior —they get some facts about humans wrong and refuse to look at evidence. Surely it is true that religion fosters cooperation, community, compassion, love, art and some of the best music ever created but it is equally true that it causes harm by calling the fundamental human drive—sex—a sin and channeling human aggressive tendencies that would be better released in athletic or intellectual contest into absolutist theological struggles: Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine, to name but a few. For global improvement we need to be right in our understanding of life and humankind, so I challenge those of you who signed onto the “It Is Finished” campaign to take a cue from one of your relatives Curious George —and ask why about everything you believe. Do it for humanity. Do it for your children. Do it for your happiness.

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Matthew Gillum is a Trinity junior. His column appears every other Tuesday.

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where no one is sure who has power, what the law is, when we can celebrate and where the hell the kegs are! Please, penates, let this suffering end! I entreat you; borrow a page from your colleague in godhood, Jehovah. In Genesis 6, when the whole world was diverting from his vision, Jehovah washed away the haters and reasserted his power in an orgy of hope and rage. The time has come for you to take such drastic action: cast the Greeks from your household, and remake the world in your image!

With the conflict ended, and the Greeks biguorum Duke household life is lorded safely delivered to new and fertile offhousehold lands, you, Monetus and Buriover by the indecisive and uncertain gus, will be able to concentrate your attengods Larrius Monetus and Billus Andrew Waugh tions completely on developing a fulfilling others.

Burigus among Despite The Widening Gyre and sustainable social world for generabeing imbued with immense and far tions of family Dukiana to come. No longer reaching power to affect positive with rival civilizations, you will competing the lack change in University, they the clarity of vision to execute any meaningful decree be able to look with favor on your subjects and supply Instead of blessing the student body with their singuthem with the happiness and prosperity that have long lar and infallible vision of household life, the penates been lacking from their lives. Housing restrictions will Dukianae demonstrate a typical weakness of Roman be lifted so that the expatriate Greeks may live with deities: they waste their time embroiled in the conflicts their brothers. Lavish celebrations will be held out in the open, finally released from the secret world of of trifling mortal students—Greek students no less!

Didn’t anyone tell them that Romans are destined to dorm-room catacombs. Bacchus will be welcomed back to campus at last, and with him a long train of exotic conquer Greeks?

Monetus and Burigus must stop dancing around spirit-lifting libations flowing freely for all those who their responsibilities. Their actions thus far clearly wish to partake, all under the guiding hand of your show their enmity for the Greek way of life and their benevolent supervision.

Fellow students: fear not the reckoning that must constant negotiating only serves to cloud their revelations. Constant bickering between the heavens and come to pass! Imagine the world as it would be with earth has rendered Duke a barely inhabitable world continued conflict between gods and students. With are all kinds of gods. Wrathful gods, envious gods, jealous gods, virtuous gods, omniscient gods —whatever the trait, you can find a god who has it.

In ancient Rome, each family had its own penates or household gods, who oversaw the activities of household life and ensured happiness and prosperity for the family. Unfortunately, we of family Dukiana seem to have been assigned a collection of penatium am-

the Greeks constantly exerting pressure on the heavens, challenging their indecisive decrees and keeping the world in a frenzy of embattled confusion, social life has no prospect for improvement. The penates fear and mistrust the social world as long as they cannot control it, and thus they trend towards the conservative. They restrict our ability to live out of household. They take away our alcohol and send legions of devoted personnel to patrol our social functions which we keep hidden deep in the bowels of the University.

Non-Greeks are scattered and disorganized. The Greek parties keep them complacent enough that they do not organize or plan social events, but ultimately, all are left unfulfilled by the state of affairs. If we allow the penates this one chance, perhaps it will forge a new era of family Dukiana where we finally develop a unified social identity that is uniquely Duke.

But woe unto you, penates, if you should cast out the Greeks and fail to invigorate the household spirit!

Though the Greeks prohibit you from fulfilling your vision now, if you remove them and fail to deliver to the students housing options, social opportunities and lenient alcohol policy, you will quickly lose even the few supporters you have! Not only will the people of the household lose faith in your reign, but your superior deities will lose patience with your ineffectiveness. And while you have proven an ability to stand against student dissention and conflict, you will be wholly incapable of preventing the wrath of all-powerful President Brodheadus.

Andrew Waugh is a Trinity junior. His column every other Tuesday.

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April 8 & 10, 7:30 pm, Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus, $lO General, $5 Students.

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LECTURES/EXHIBUIONS Photographic/Sound Exhibition “Oswenka/Swankers of Jeppe Hostel in

Johannesburg by TJ LEMON, JOHN BOWER and LOUISE MEINTJES. New Media Space, Franklin Center, Free. Thru April 9. ”

Ongoing Exhibition “Domestic Threats. Works by BARBARA RACHKO. Brown Gallery, Bryan Center, Free. Thru April 9. ”

Photography Exhibition “Prince St. Girls by SUSAN MEISELAS. Main ”

Gallery, Franklin Center, Free. Thru May 7.

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ON TAP! is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of the Arts in cooperation with participating campus arts departments and programs. For more information about performing arts events, call the Duke University Box Office, 684-4444 or view online at tickets.duke.edu.

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April 9-10, 8 pm, Ark Dance Studio, East Campus, $7 General, $5 Students.

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THEATER 2004: NEW WORKS IN PROGRESS Short plays written and performed by students.

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April 9-10 & April 16-17, 8 pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, $8 General; $6 Students/Sr. Citizens

THE INNER WORLD OF SHAH RUKH KHAN with director Nasreen Kabir. Special Events.

4/7 JOHN RANDALL GUPTILL, visiting director.

Gardens Concert. With Triangle Tuba Quartet.

Exhibition: 2004 Senior Distinction Show

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UNC and response by ROMILA THAPAR. April 13, 4 pm, Franklin Center, Room 240, Free.

TUPAC: RESURRECTION. Hip Hop Film Series. (Griffith)

4/11 GRACE by Nayeli Garci-Crespo & AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE BIBLE

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Faculty Film Showcase.

April 10, 2 pm, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Free.

Works by Lindsay Brown, Charlotte Dauphin, Kim Gogola, Erika Mumau, and Lizz Torgovnick.

Public reception: April 12, 5-8 pm, Brown Gallery, Bryan Center, Free. Thru May 12.

4/12 HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Global!Pop!Culture. (Griffith)

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