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As William Chafe packs up his belongings and prepares to vacate his comfortable 104 Allen Building office, he will doubtless look back on his tenure as the top man in Arts and Sciences. Perhaps alone sitting amongst boxes, perhaps with a picture frame or a vase in hand, Chafe will gaze out his window onto a dusky Chapel Quadrangle and think about all he has done, and all he Wiliam Chafe did not do. And, if he reminisces with clarity and balance, and goes through all the years of his deanship, a smile will probably creep across his face.

‘Bill, you’ve done a great job.’

If he comes to such a conclusion, he will join the company of a large, diverse group of faculty and administrators, all of whom speak admiringly about the departing dean of the faculty of arts and sciences for surprisingly varied reasons. It is a testament to Chafe’s mastery of academic politics that many of these individuals identify Chafe as a strong proponent of their particular interests—even as a steadily deteriorating budget situation forced difficult decisions that inevitably restricted the flow of resources to departments.

Chair of the history department John SEEICHAFE ON PAGE 8

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Duke honored President Nan Keohane by re-naming the West-Edens Link as Keohane Quadrangle Tuesday. Below, Speak of the Devil croon for Keohane in the McClendon Tower.

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When the blue drape concealing the newly-engraved stone sign fell away Tuesday afternoon, West-Edens Link was officially renamed Keohane Quadrangle in honor of outgoing University President Nan Keohane.

A moment earlier, Keohane pumped her fist in the air and urged the crowd gathered to watch the dedication and naming ceremony to count to three as she and her husband, Political Science Professor Robert Keohane, pulled the drape from the new name plate.

“I love the lettering,” Keohane exclaimed after getting her first look at the

Rising health insurance costs have given Duke students a headache in recent years—but at least premiums won’t be asexpensive next year as students anticipated about a month ago.

During meetings of the University’s Health Insurance Advisory Committee in early April, representatives from Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina announced that premiums will increase next year by 21.9 percent, rather than 27.8 percent, the figure projected at an HIAC meeting in March. The lower rate has received the final stamp of approval from the Office of Student Affairs.

The announcement came after members of HIAC looked into less expensive health insurance options. Out of the 18 companies HIAC contacted, however, only three replied. The amount of money students would have saved from switching to those companies would have been minimal, said Rob Saunders, a member of HIAC and president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council.

Some committee members attribute the lower percentage increase to the negative feedback from students at the earlier HIAC meeting and to the fact that researching other options provoked BC/BS to lower its rates to maintain its relationship with Duke.

“I do think the decision to go out for competitive bids influenced the Blue Cross/Blue Shield decision,” said Dan Hill, founder of the Hill, Chesson and Woody

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Student protesters and members of the local community gathered on the Chapel Quadrangle Tuesday to voice their concerns about Duke University Health System’s sale of its laundry facility to Angelica Corp., a textile services provider that has been accused of ignoring workers’ rights and suppressing attempts at unionization.

The rally, organized jointly by Students Against Sweatshops and the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, gathered a small crowd of onlookers and about 40 protesters.

After speeches from labor lead-

ers, student organizers and a former Angelica worker, the group

marched to the office of William Donelan, executive vice president and chief operating officer of DUHS, to present him with petitions and a pile of dirty laundry.

SAS and UNITE presented a report detailing their concerns about Angelica to Donelan and President Nan Keohane last week, and representatives of SAS met with Donelan late Monday to further discuss those issues.

“We’ve [given the report] to Angelica, and I’m expecting a formal response to that material back to me,” Donelan said, noting that overall he was pleased

with his meeting with SAS. “I’ve told Students Against Sweatshops that I would provide them with that response from Angelica, and I’ve suggested that if they have further questions they can speak with Angelica representatives directly so they have a balanced view of the matter.”

The display in front of the Chapel was the most visible symptom thus far of the controversy over DUHS’s decision to sell its facility to Angelica and sign a 10year service contract with the laundry provider.

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Iraqi leaders BAGHDAD, Iraq named a tribunal of judges and prosecutors to try Saddam Hussein, placing a longtime opponent of the ousted dictator in the forefront of the case against him and his former Baathist inner circle, a spokesperson announced Tuesday.

A senior member of Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress was appointed to head the all-Iraqi tribunal—a potentially controversial choice.

Chalabi, a longtime exile who returned to Iraq and was named to the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Coun-

cil, is mistrusted as an outsider by many Iraqis who want to see Saddam prosecuted by Iraqis who were present under his brutal rule.

Also Tuesday, guerrillas fired a barrage of mortar rounds at Baghdad’s largest prison, killing 22 prisoners in an attack a U.S. general said may have been an attempt to spark an inmate uprising against American guards. The slain prisoners were all security detainees, meaning they were suspected of belonging to the anti-U.S. insurgency or to Saddam’s former regime.

A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the northern city of Mosul: It was the 100th American com-

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AMMAN, Jordan The king of Jordan, one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East, postponed a White House meeting with President George W. Bush this week, questioning the U.S. commitment to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The snub from King Abdullah II comes after the most recent expression of Arab anger at Bush for endorsing an Israeli proposal to withdraw unilaterally from all of the Gaza Strip but from only parts of the West Bank. That would leave Jewish settlements on some West Bank land claimed by the Palestinians.

Abdullah is under pressure at home to demonstrate his

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bat death in April, the deadliest month since the U.S.-led invasion began in March 2003.

At least 1,100 Iraqis have been killed in fighting since the start of the month, according to an Associated Press count based on reports from hospitals and Iraqi and U.S. officials.

Tuesday’s mortar attack was the bloodiest against the sprawling prison complex of Abu Ghraib in western Baghdad. Ninety-two prisoners were wounded, 25 of them seriously, said Col. Jill Morgenthaler, a U.S. military

The Supreme Court appeared unreceptive Tuesday to the White House argument that federal courthouses must remain closed to foreign detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base.

U.N. endorses oil-for-food investigation Security Council members agreed on a resolu-

tion to back an investigation of the United Nations oil-for-food program, a U. N. spokesperson said Tuesday.

inspectors find lax security at anthrax labs

Since the anthrax attacks in 2001 government inspectors have identified weaknesses in security at university laboratories that perform research on anthrax and other dangerous substances.

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U.S. ties can further Arab positions on the Israeli-Palestinian question as well as on the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.

The White House played down any hint of friction with Jordan, saying the Wednesday meeting with Abdullah was rescheduled to the first week of May “because of developments in the region.”

“The king decided this week it was better for him to be in Jordan and we understand that,” National Security Council spokesperson Sean McCormack said.

But Abdullah has been touring the United States since last week, holding meetings in California with business lead-

Iraq rebels fire on a prison for detainees Insurgents fired a volley of mortar rounds into the Abu Ghraib prison Tuesday, striking a camp in the sprawling interior where many of the 7,600 Iraqi political detainees are being held

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Four Duke students will study how microgravity and hypergravity affect bone and muscle cell structures on NASA's'VomitComet.'

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About seven months ago, four en-

gineers sat in the lounge area between the Armadillo Grill and McDonald’s, penning down ideas on napkins—ideas they hoped would blossom into proposals they could submit to NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.

“We thought these napkins would be famous one day,” said Isaac Chan, one of the brainstormers. “But we didn’t use any of those ideas.”

Their ideas did evolve, however.

They eventually hit upon the concept of examining the effects of microgravity and hypergravity on bone and muscle cell structures. Microgravity and hypergravity are forces that are

lesser and greater, respectively, than the normal pull of gravity.

Two months later, in December, Chan and his fellow juniors—Dan Choi, John Fang and Gary Sing were notified via e-mail that they had been accepted.

“I wrote T’m going to be an astronaut!’ on my away message,” Chan recalled. “And then I ran into John’s room and jumped up and down,” This is the first time Duke students will be participating in the program, which selects teams of college students from across the country to perform reduced gravity experiments on a FC-135A airplane, better known as the “Vomit Comet.” This plane simulates microgravity for approximately 30 seconds at a time —

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The four Duke students begin their adventure at Houston in July, in the meantime, they’re preparing for the summer by conducting experiments on-campus. Using a centriftige, they simulate hypergravity at different speeds to see how the extra force effects bone and muscle cell structures. To see how the cells are affected they measure how much the nuclei have moved.

“We want to see how the nuclei react,” Sing explained.

The nuclei are injected with a fluorescent dye that lights them up when viewed through a confocal microscope. This microscope allows

This is the final story of a threefart series.

Form begins to fit function.

Just as interdisciplinary and translational research is evolving and becoming a greater presence in science at Duke and across the world, the actual facilities and laboratories where these scientists and researchers work have also changed.

Interdisciplinary research involves research that is crossdepartmental while translational research, which can also be interdisciplinary, is the process of taking scientific discoveries and applying that knowledge to marketable products.

In order for interdisciplinary research to be effective, one must collaborate with many different professionals including physicians, biologists, chemists, scientists and statisticians. The research has become so focused on interdisciplinary studies that it is not enough for researchers to call each other; it is now necessary to try and force them into “accidental” meetings.

Pat Casey, a James B. Duke professor in the department of pharmacology and cancer biology, said architects are now trying to design buildings around this idea of collaboration.

The concept, involving designs that maximize the probability of encounters between investigators, has become a top factor in the construction of new research facilities at Duke, including the currently under construction Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Science, the planned French Science Center and the already constructed Levine Science Research Center. These buildings were not designed for one department, but for many. “[This concept] is really kind of state of the art in biomedical research buildings now,” said Greg Warwick, the Medical Center and Duke University Health System architect. ‘We are trying to do this with several of the new

buildings.”

Casey said it is commonly known thatscientists need peo-

ple from all fields to tackle “the big questions in science.”

As communication becomes more necessary between

departments, building architects and designers are challenging the long-standing departmental institution and providing subtle “extras” designed to facilitate discussion.

However, the effects of both might not be as positive as originally thought.

As this new interdisciplinary work changes building design, more scientists have offices away from their re-

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Director ofResidence Life and Housing Services Eddie Hull addressed three student-focused Campus Council resolutions late last week.

Hull deferred his response to a resolution concerning the suspension of annual review until later in the week, but agreed to move forward with the Council regarding resolutions about campus safety and sexual assault, as well as standard operations procedures for housekeeping.

The annual review resolution expressed Campus Council’s dissatisfaction with Hull’s decision to discontinue the housing review without consulting the Council, and requested information about the quadrangle model, its components and RLHS’s definition of community.

Campus Council requested a response from RLHS by April 15, but Hull has postponed his answer due to other more pressing commitments. “It was a matter of competing priorities for things that I am working on right now,” he said. “[The response] should be ready by the end of the week ifI don’t have any more emergencies.”

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It is uncertain whether Campus Council will be able to represent the students’ voice in whatever system takes the place of annual review next year. “It depends on the form that annual review takes,” Hull said.

“If we end up having something, then certainly we will want students to be engaged in that conversation.”

Anthony Vitarelli, Campus Council president, was eager to hear Hull’s response. “He has promised us that he is working on it... and we are anxiously awaiting his response to the annual review resolution,” he said.

The Council’s resolution concerning campus safety and sexual assault addressed the student body’s knowledge of safety concerns, crime statistics and the jurisdiction of the various security officials.

The request was made to RHLS to publicize information about crime statistics and incidents relevant to their future campus and dormitory during room picks with the idea that all students can be reached at once during this time.

“If there is an exceptionally high or abnormally high crime rate that would justly lead to the idea that these areas are less safe,” Vitarelli said, “[we] want students to have these statistics when they are picking their housing.”

While Hull plans to make these facts available, he remains cautious about the

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“We have a duty as an institution to reThe addition ofrestricted cleaning servport [crime facts] to anyone who wants to ices on Sundays parallel to those provided see them,” Hull said. “What I’m concerned on Saturdays, is a distinct possibility for aboutis how students may construe a series next fall, depending upon the cost analysis of incidents to mean something general.... that will be completed mid-May, both Hull I want to be careful and give as balanced and Vitarelli said. and as objective reports as possible.”

‘There is not a line-item in the budget Vitarelli emphasized the importance of for next year to cover the expenses,” Hull publicizing this informationand the rights said. “After the cost analysis we can figure of the students to be notified of crime beout if there is any way to absorb it into our fore they commit themselves to housing. current budget. If not, we need to ask the Larry Moneta, vice president for stuquestion of would this be a higher priority than other things the committee had predent affairs, was asked in the campus safetyresolution to clarify the respective police viously decided on.”

Vitarelli underscored the student’s desire departments jurisdictions and quicken the speed in which students were made aware to see such a duty implemented. ‘1 hope of a sexual assault. there is a student voice at the table whenev‘There is no cookbook answer; I agree er there is decision made about housekeepwith the request for timeliness and I would ing,” he said. “Students really want limited also concur the quicker and the more services on Sundays because it is a public thorough the better,” he said. “However, health problem when trash is not collected.”

Moneta was pleased with Hull’s reevery incident is different and requires a different timeline.” sponse to the resolutions and believed it The third resolution concerned the was indicative of a successful year for both standardization of operating procedures Campus Council and RLHS. for housekeeping and expressed the Coun“I could set that he seemed thoughtful cil’s desire for the addition of Sunday and appreciative of Campus Council’s efhousekeeping tasks and the adoption of forts,” he said. “In general, it suggests a the Council’s list of operating procedures. reasonable response and a continuation of This resolution is already in effect and the a great relationship between Campus catalogue of housekeeping tasks and contact Council and RLHS.”

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2004

Road race benefits local health center

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Around campus, many students run to stay fit. But Saturday, May 1, Durham community members won’t just be running for their own health—they’ll be running for the Lincoln Community Health Center.

This year the City of Medicine Road Race will celebrate its 20th year of raising funds for the LCHC, which provides health care access to a wide range of Durham citizens, including many who do not have health insurance coverage. Last year, Duke University Health System contributed $4.7 million in services and funds to the health center, which relies heavily on donations from the

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Dr. Evelyn Schmidt, director of the LCHC, said the proceeds from this year’s race will go to high resolution digital cameras that are used in the screening for diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease caused by diabetes. “They will give us greater flexibility and allows us to screen a larger portion of our patients more accurately and quickly,” she added.

Improving eye care has always been a priority for LCHC and the Road Race. Schmidt said the first race was started to raise money so that the center could open its first

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“Forty-five people a day in America go blind because of diabetes,” Schmidt noted.

Health promotion will be one of the themes of the day’s events, which include several separate races and a health fair, all at the Durham County Stadium. In addition to the main event—a competitive 15-kilometer race —participants will have the option of entering a five-kilometer run/walk or a one-mile Fun Run. The youngest athletes can enter the 150-footWee Walk and 75-foot Diaper Derby.

Before, during and after the races, participants and spectators will be able to enjoy LCHC’s health fair, which will offer blood pressure checks, wellness information and other services, Administrative Manager Claire Crenshaw said. She added that runners will also enjoy special perks, such as free massages and childcare during the races.

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insurance firm, which brokers infor Duke.

“Blue surance Cross/Blue Shield really didn’t want to lose this business, and they ended up doing what they should have done to begin with.”

In March, Hill told The Chronicle he could not understand the 27.8 percent increase, and that he had anticipated a rate somewhere around 20 percent.

Although yearly premiums will increase from $1,063 to $1,310, the rate is more consistent with inflation within the health insurance industry than the original projected rate increase. HIAC members sought to add dental and optical coverage to the plan as well, but only optical coverage was added, for a charge of $l4 more per year. Despite the rising costs, HIAC chose not to cut any benefits.

“Clearly, any increase less than 28 percent is good news, but I wish it had been a lot less” Saunders said. “Unfortunately it’s a nationwide trend, and the number of reasons behind this are unfixable from the student level.”

BC/BS spokesperson Mark Spinneford said the original rate increase had been calculated based on projected costs of insuring Duke students based on recent trends, but a reevaluation of those projections resulted in the

adjusted rate.

“[Duke students] are a group for whom the medical costs and use of services, including some

costly services, is higher than typical customers in our plans,” he said. “Total costs we paid for the group are up 17 percent between 2002 and 2003.”

However, Jean Hanson, assistant director of student health and a member of HIAC, said the original rate BC/BS calculated over-emphasized a spike in hospital visits near the end of the school year. This could have affected the projected trends of hospital visits and thus inflated projected costs, resulting in the high projected increase of 27.8 percent, she said.

“Our argument is that in July a lot of the students use their insurance before they go off of it,” Hanson said. “When they go on to more schooling or a job [and] they get new insurance, they take the opportunity to use that insurance, so we see a spike in July which is not really indicative of a calendar’s worth of claims.”

Spinneford added that the lower percent increase means a riskier year for BC/BS profit-wise. “[The original rate of 27.8 percent] was based on a projection of what we expected the health costs to be in the coming year,” he said. “[With the rate of 21.9 percent] we had some more current data and frankly took a little more risk that the costs will moderate more than we expected them to originally.”

The HIAC will continue to research other options next year in order to make sure the BC/BS rates are competitive with the rest of the industry, Saunders said.

JORDAN from page 2 ers and information technology experts and lecturing on Mideast issues. The king was expected to return home Tuesday, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Government spokesperson Asma Khader told The Associated Press that Jordan wanted a White House meeting but felt more time was needed to prepare for it because “there had been urgent developments since last week, when President Bush made remarks on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and that necessitated more consultations with the administration, to have it clarify its positions on Mideast issues.”

A statement from the palace late Monday said Abdullah had instructed his foreign minister to remain in Washington to continue discussions with officials in the Bush administration and to prepare for the king’s return to the United States in May. The Abdullah-Bush meeting would not be held “until discussions and deliberations are concluded with officials in the American administration to clarify the American position on the peace process and the final situation in the Palestinian territories, especially in light of the latest statements by officials in the American administration,” according to the

palace statement.

Bush’s statement after a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last week constituted a historic shift in U.S. policy, and Palestinian leaders accused the administration ofundercutting the possibility of a negotiated settlement.

Jordan is considered a key moderate ally of the United States and is one of only two of Israel’s Arab neighbors to have a peace treaty with the Jewish state. But some Jordanian citizens question their government’s relationship with the United States, which they accuse of siding with Israel against the Palestinians.

Jordan is especially concerned that a final peace settlement would be at its expense if refugees were dumped into the kingdom, exhausting its meager resources and disturbing its demographic balance.

Roughly half of Jordan’s 5.1 million population is

composed of Palestinian families who fled or were forced out of their homes in 1948 and 1967 Mideast wars.

The rift between the Bush administration and its moderate Arab allies over Bush’s statement on Israeli settlements is one of the worst to emerge in years—and has exacerbated the already tense relations between the United States and Arab countries over the war in Iraq.

Arab leaders have accused the administration of essentially taking away from the Palestinians their primary negotiating levers in any final peace deal the disputes over whether Israel must remove all settlements from the West Bank, and whether Israel must allow back some Palestinian refugees.

Bush embraced Israeli rejection of any “right of return” for Palestinian refugees after his meeting with Sharon. Tensions also were inflamed in the Arab world by an Israeli helicopter strike that killed the Hamas leader Abdel Rantisi.

Saturday, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath also canceled a trip to Washington for meetings in the wake of the Bush announcement on settlements. Secretary of State Colin Powell had been expecting to meet with Shaath Wednesday.

Last week, Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher said his government wants assurances that Washington is still committed to an ArabTsraeli setdement based on land-for-peace and creating a Palestinian state by next year in line with the U.S.backed road map peace plan.

The palace statement said the king sent a letter to Bush on April 8 in which he stressed the Jordanian position regarding ways to end the PalestinianIsraeli conflict through implementing the internationally backed “road map.”

In his letter, Abdullah said an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza must be part of the peace plan and not an alternative to it.

Despite the dramatic step of postponing a meeting with the president, the palace statement said, “Jordan sees that the contents of his majesty’s letter to Bush comprises significant elements for the continuation of discussions between the American and Jordanian sides.”

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dam, who was captured by U.S. troops in December and has since been undergoing “This isn’t the first time that we have CIA and FBI interrogation at an undisseen this kind of attack. We don’t know if closed location in or near Baghdad. they are trying to inspire an uprising or a Though INC head Ahmad Chalabi prison break,” Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt played a leading role in the opposition told AP. In August, six security prisoners were killed in a mortar attack on the lockup, which was once Saddam’s most notorious prison.

Elsewhere, Iraqi security forces, some wearing flak jackets and carrying weapons, moved back into the besieged city of Fallujah Tuesday, part of an agreement between U.S. officials and local leaders aimed at ending hostilities. The accord calls on insurgents to hand in weapons and allows civilians to return.

U.S. officials have warned that if guerrillas do not surrender their weapons, Marines are prepared to storm the city likely sparking a new round of fighting.

In the tribunal appointments, Salem Chalabi, a U.S.-educated lawyer and nephew ofAhmad Chalabi, was named by the Governing Council as director-general of the court, said INC spokesperson Entefadh Qanbar.

Salem Chalabi named seven judges and four prosecutors, and further judges will be appointed, Qanbar said.

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abroad to Saddam, many Iraqis consider him and other Governing Council members as American implants. Chalabi has been trying to gain grassroots support for his faction after decades in exile.

On the council, Chalabi, a favorite of the Pentagon architects of the Iraq invasion, has been a fierce proponent of expunging traces ofSaddam’s regime. He heads an official De-Baathifkation Commission that has

been aggressive in purging Iraqis with links to Saddam’s dissolved party from government positions—so aggressive that even some U.S. officials have complained that it was getting rid of needed expertise.

Any trial ofSaddam is sure to begin after the June 30 transfer of power to a caretaker Iraqi government, after which the Governing Council will be dissolved.

If Chalabi’s status is diminished in that handover, “there is a very good chance this court may see a change in its membership,” said Adeed Dawisha, professor of political science at Miami University in Ohio.

Ahmad Chalabi’s INC held a seat on the Governing Council commission that drew up the Saddam tribunal.

U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has recommended the council be dissolved on June 30 and a caretaker government of technocrats take its place.

‘Then certainly (Chalabi) and the INC will have a diminution in their political status,” Dawisha said.

“If that happens, will the judge who is a relative of Chalabi be able to survive, or will the new government appoint a new group of people?”

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Iraqis—particularly the Shiite Muslim majority repressed by the Baathists—have been eager to try the man who ruled them with an iron fist for decades. Shiites, particularly local leaders with grassroots support, are likely to dominate any elected government and could want to see their own people lead Saddam’s prosecution.

The tribunal named Tuesday will not be an international one. However, its Iraqi judges and prosecutors will be trained in international and war crimes law and look at the experiences of bodies such as the Rwanda war crimes tribunal, said INC spokesperson Entefadh Qanbar, who announced Salem Chalabi’s appointment.

The court will determine charges against Saddam and his fellow Baathists, Qanbar said.

A team of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators has been gathering evidence for a war crimes case against Saddam, while other international groups have been sifting through the mass graves where U.S. officials say 300,000 victims of Saddam’s regime were buried.

Aside from the regime’s brutal persecution of political opponents, Kurds and Shiite Muslims, Saddam’s military used chemical weapons against troops and civilians during the Iraq-Iraq War and a Kurdish uprising of the 1980s.

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CHAFE from page 1 Thompson, a once and future colleague of Chafe’s in the history department, said the dean “has to be the world’s greatest schmoozer.”

Ingeborg Walther, chair of the Germanic languages and literatures department, was similarly impressed by his political abilities. “I don’t know how he does it,” she said, “but I have always left every individual meeting I’ve had with him feeling immensely encouraged and affirmed.”

In addition to the laconic charm that has kept the fundraising dollars flowing and the departments mosdy happy, faculty and administrators said they will remember Chafe for his inscrutable intelligence and intellectualism, passionate integrity and willingness to take big risks.

There is something distinctly king-like about the 62year-old Bostonian. He has a title fit for royalty: dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, vice provost for undergraduate education and Alice Mary Baldwin distinguished professor of history. His meticulously trimmed white beard gives him a somewhat regal visage, and while he is hardly on a tyrant’s power trip, humility is not among the most oft-cited of his attributes.

Like a king, Chafe has been somewhat liberated from daily minutae and has had the opportunity and the motivation to think big for his division and for the University. This is partly due to his 1999 reorganization ofArts and Sciences that split the position of dean of faculty development into two new positions, dean of natural sciences and dean of humanities and social sciences, and bestowed Chafe with the title of vice provost for undergraduate education. As a result of this reorganization, Chafe was able to focus on being an intellectual leader for Arts and Sciences and ushering in bold, if controversial, new undergraduate initiatives, from Curriculum 2000 to residential life.

Of all his accomplishments, Chafe said he is most proud of his advancement of student and faculty diversity, ongoing changes in undergraduate residential life, his push to focus on intellectual vitality in undergraduate admissions and specific improvements in the departments of public policy studies and English. He has also worked to slowly but steadily improve the arts at the Uni-

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Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Chafe’s partner for the last three years in reshaping the undergraduate experience, praised Chafe’s advocacy ofreform.

“I’ll always think of Dean Chafe as champion of many of the reforms now in place. These include the sophomores on West Campus and the realignment of the selectives on West,” he said. “Further, he’s one of the most thoughtful advocates for pluralism at Duke and at the many meetings I’ve had with him has always been attentive to the multiple and distinct communities represented by our students.”

Indeed, he may be best remembered for his commitment to racial and gender diversity. A historian who stud-

“I don’t know how he does it, but I have always left every individual meeting I’ve had with him feeling immensely encouraged and affirmed.”

Ingeborg Walther ies race and gender in the 20th century, Chafe retained his commitment to these issues throughout his deanship.

He has made key hires of black and female faculty and has developed, along with Provost Peter Lange, a more department- and minority-specific conception of diversity to replace the recently expired and successful Black Faculty Strategic Initiative. The mandate that all sophomores live on West Campus, which Chafe had a major role in instituting, was partially designed to reduce undergraduate segregation by campuses.

“He has managed, urged and encouraged institutional change around the issues of diversity,” said Dean of Humanities and Natural Sciences Karla Holloway. “He has understood—both politically and ethically—the

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Chafe’s tenure as dean has not been without disappointments and unenviable situations. Most notably, after years of faculty growth in the 19905, grave budget forecasts forced Chafe to plan a once-unthinkable 20position reduction in the size of the faculty over the course of several years. This year, Arts and Sciences has conducted only 20 searches, down from the standard 30 to 40.

Nevertheless, his frank handling of the situation, via a letter to the faculty Aug. 4, 2003, earned professors’ appreciation and understanding.

Chafe is an Easterner with an Easterner’s classic pedigree. He grew up in Cambridge, Mass., and attended Harvard University as an undergraduate. After a brief sojourn at Union Theological Seminary, Chafe obtained his doctorate in American history in a speedy six years from Columbia University in 1971. In quick succession, he released his groundbreaking monograph, The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic and Political Role 1920-1970, and came to Duke, where has remained since 1972.

Some feared that despite his long stay at the University, Chafe would ultimately depart for snowier pastures.

And indeed, he was highly sought-after as both an administrator and a faculty member. He was a finalist for the top position at Williams College in 2000, but pulled his name out of the race at the last minute, and was also a finalist for the Brown University presidency. His distinguished scholarship led Yale University administrators to try to recruit him to their exceedingly prestigious history faculty.

But in the end, Chafe decided to keep his leadership and his scholarship at Duke. After a sabbatical, he will return to the history faculty and resume teaching and research. Already this semester, he is back in the classroom, teaching an upper-level course on American social movements.

Schmoozer, intellectual titan, passionate defender of diversity—all these titles define the man of many titles, William Chafe. As of July 1, however, the title of scholar will come to the forefront once again.

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From their experiment results, they hope to address “present concerns of muscle atrophy and loss of bone density during extended exposure to microgravity conditions,” according to the quartet's proposal.

The group runs these experiments “as often as [they] have cells,” Fang said. The cells have to be bought, along with almost everything else they need for their experiments at both Duke and Houston. NASA provides little equipment besides the plane.

“NASA didn’t give jack,” said Fang.

Chan added, “We have to pay for our own physicals!”

Their financial woes have been alleviated by a $2,000 grant from the engineering alumni board, and the four students have worked hard to obtain money elsewhere to support their work. Conveniendy, they will temporarily board at Fang’s residence in Houston while they participate in the program.

But the most difficult obstacle for them so far has been finding the right centrifuge.

Initially, they were going to use one of the bigger centrifuges in the confines of their laboratory and adapt their experiments to its size and force.

‘This guy... is huge,” Fang said, hugging the lid of a centrifuge the size of a laundry machine.

Just last month, however, the group discovered the answer to their problems —or rather, Steve Wallace, a helpful graduate student, did.

“He found it on a shelf,” Sing said, gesturing at a simple contraption that barely tops one foot in height.

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Wallace was just one of several that helped the four engineering students along the way. Another crucial person is George Truskey, professor of biomedical engineering and the faculty advisor for the project. Truskey meets with the group on a weekly basis to talk about their progress and any problems they had encountered. He also provides contacts for them, at one time introducing his studentsTo a doctor in California who briefed them on certain protocol.

The real stars of the show, however, are the engineer-

ing quartet.

“They’ve worked as a group and put together a project under these stringent conditions,” Truskey praised. He added that the program was an exciting opportunity for the students to be able to design an experiment that they would later test on one of the NASA flights.

Choi echoed Truskey’s sentiment: “This is cool because it’s an opportunity that only astronauts usually get to experience.”

Although some members of the group are prone to motion sickness, all look forward to experiencing weightlessness amid the “Vomit Comet.”

“It’s every little kid’s dream,” Chan said

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closed doors with a company with a track record like Angelica’s is not acceptable,” said sophomore Rita Bergmann, one of the speakers. ‘The decision to outsource doesn’t mean that Duke gives up responsibility.”

Senior Jessica Rutter, one of the SAS members who met with Donelan, said she was less than pleased with the administration’s response to the allegations against Angelica prior to signing an agreement, both in Monday’s meeting and in the impromptu visit marchers paid Donelan Tuesday. The administration, she said, was not convinced the allegations against Angelica merited any University action, despite the evidence she said her group had presented.

Also among the concerns voiced by SAS and UNITE was the fact that DUHS claimed it had investigated the allegations against Angelica, but decided to contract with the corporation anyway. Donelan defended the research that preceded the contract with Angelica, but noted that “in fact some of the materials [in the SAS/UNTTE report] had more detailed accounts of those allegations than I could find on the web.”

Several themes surfaced during Tuesday’s rally, including the perceived systemic outsourcing of Duke’s auxiliary services, the battle over unionization and workers’ safety and health rights. Members of Local 465, who work with the facilities management department at the University, were especially concerned about the outsourcing of laundry services because they worried other University jobs might be in jeopardy.

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“These are challenging times for the health system,” Donelan said. ‘The principal issue for us was trying to recapture the dollars invested in the laundry so we could redirect them into clinical services.

Being a laundry provider is not a core part of our mission—delivering excellent care is at the core of our mission.”

Completing the final stage of the transaction with Angelica, the laundry facility opened under the corporation’s operation this past weekend, staffed entirely by non-union Angelica employees. The former employees of Duke Laundry, many of whom are members ofLocal 77, were all guaranteed other Jobs within Duke by the administration, and officials have confirmed that nearly all of them have been placed elsewhere in the system. SAS and UNITE are already planning their efforts to spark a union movement at the new Angelica plant.

“Duke students don’t organize unions, but UNITE is probably going to have an organizing campaign soon to organize those workers,” Rutter said. “Students of course will be in solidarity with that union drive.”

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engraving. “I’m still trying to get my head around [the naming], but-seeing the sign makes it real.”

Prior to the unveiling, several students spoke of Keohane’s achievements and praised the contributions she has made to the University during her tenure as Duke’s eighth president.

“For 10 years, she has made Duke a place where young people are encouraged to make scholarship not a four-year endeavor but a steadfast way of life,” senior Katie Mitchell said.

“For a few of us, she does this as a mentor, a friend, a professor. But for most of us, including myself, she does this as a leader, an inspiration and a role model.”

With a grin, Mitchell also explained exactly the sort of leader and role model she believes Keohane to be.

“She is ethereal and powerful,” Mitchell said. “She is the Wizard of Oz, Gandalf, Glenda the Good Witch, Dumbledore, the Goddess of the Gothic Wonderland.”

Vik Devisetty, a student enrolled in the Fuqua School of Business and School of Medicine, touted Keohane’s successful efforts to raise money for the Campaign for Duke, enhance student diversity on campus and expand the Neighborhood Partnership Initiative while simultaneously working to establish meaningful re-

lationships with students in a variety of settings.

“Despite her incredibly busy schedule, she has always made time to be a part of our lives as students,” Devisetty said. “Every year you can see her on East Campus carrying boxes during freshman move-in, at cultural events like Awaaz and Lunar New Year, at sporting events from lacrosse and soccer to basketball and football and everything else in-between.”

Senior Max Perkins recalled the first time he met Keohane, not as a college freshman but as a sixth-grader attending a luncheon prior to a Duke home football game with his grandfather in 1993.

“I was as honored then as I am today,” Perkins said.

The idea of possibly dedicating a campus structure to Keohane has been circulating campus for several years, even prior to her announcement in March of last year that she would be leaving the University this June.

Keohane said Tuesday she could think of no building better to bear her name than the WEL, recalling how she oversaw the planning and construction of the complex during her tenure.

“I am deeply honored and very grateful,” she said to the crowd before posing for pictures on a new dorm bench bearing her name. “I will always have a special place in my heart for this quad.”

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spective departments, putting a stress on the long-standing departmental system, Casey said. Most research institutions still rely on the departmental system for organizational structures, however, interdisciplinary work conflicts with the loyalty one scientist might have to his respective department.

‘There is a loss of belonging to the unit,” he said. “A

department that is too fragmented can be unsetding and almost be counterproductive if there is no unit to belong to. The question becomes how much do you promote interdisciplinary within a single building at the expense of departmental unity.”

This becomes more of an issue with junior faculty, who, Casey said, are more “adventurous” and more involved in interdisciplinary work. ‘Junior faculty needs to be with their colleagues. This is important for tenure,” he explained.

“Also, there is the quesdon whether interdisciplinary work is not as supportive of an environment as the department.”

However, to accompany these major changes in how

buildings are constructed, designers and architects also aspire to increase communication among the workers, sometimes in vastly different fields, through subde, and sometimes minor, structural and aesthetic changes.

Casey said, all the changes in design are aimed at increasing interaction among staff members. One idea involves providing a central equipment and facilities area instead of having individual areas that decrease communication. Other ideas include widening hallways, removing enclaves, installing blackboards and designing pathways which would be heavily travelled—all of which theoretically increase and encourage communication. Another big change is adding a cafeteria or a small coffee shop.

‘The thought behind it is to try and prevent someone from going thousands of miles to a conference to find an answer when someone might be 50 feet away with the same answer,” said Casey. “This also increases the awareness between departments.”

Warwick said another theory that is being used in the designing of facilities is the “Open Bench Lab concept.”

This involves laboratories where people are less walled off and can interact more easily on their research.

Although this awareness and communication is necessary, in actuality, the concept of increasing interaction might not work as well as it seems like it should.

“People talk about how the catwalks in the LSRC were designed so people could see each other and talk with them. However, there just is not enough traffic in that building for this idea to work,” said Vice Provost for Research Jim Siedow. “The concept was good on paper but not in actuality.”

Moreover, Siedow questioned the placement of offices in the LSRC. ‘They built the LSRC with the design to have different people running into people,” he said. “The offices ended up where they did to seem more interactive. But now someone has to make a point to stick their head into somebody’s office.”

However, even though there are difficulties to work out, Siedow is confident that the communication and interaction between departments will only increase.

“It is the wave of the future,” he said. “Science is definitely heading in that direction, and now we just have to cross the silos between departments.”

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Deng A few Thursday afternoons ago, I was sit-

ting in front of the Carr Building on East

Campus in the remaining minutes before my History ofU.S. Immigration class when Luol Deng ambled by with a friend. I watched as a girl approached him, made a few comments, and then extended a piece of paper and a pen. Deng smiled, inscribed what I can only presume to be his name and, perhaps a friendly generic note, handed it over to the now-beaming girl, and then went on his way.

About 18 months ago, it was the Duke basketball community that was left gleaming by Deng’s signature, when he signed a letter of intent to play basketball for Coach K and the Blue Devils. He has since given fans all they expected and more. Deng came into Duke the No. 2 prospect in his class—behind NBA Rookie of the Year Lebron James—and touted as one of the most intelligent, articulate and likable young men around. He’s had adjustments, certainly. But that happens when you’re holding up the mighty onus that is the Duke basketball tradition, the stress and responsibility of which is piled upon the day-to-day strains of being a college student where everyone seems to know who you are-the athletic side ofyou, at least.

Two days ago, a post on an internet message board reported that Deng had decided to enter this year’s NBA Draft. A frenzy of sorts ensued, with people either scram-

Luol Deng averaged 15 points and 7 rebounds in his freshman season as a Blue Devil.

bling for information, seething with anger or struggling to be optimistic.

The frenzy wanted answers. Would Deng really go pro? Say it ain't so! He'd assured reporters after his team lost to Connecticut in the Final Four that he'd return to college. The frenzy said he was too smart to go; his game wasn't ready yet; he likes Duke too much. The frenzy was consumed by it. Some were contemptible, going so far as to renounce Deng as a traitor who had doomed Duke to a challenging 2004-05 season. Some were compliant, saying they saw this dreaded day coming. Some were compassionate, stating that they hoped he'd made the best decision for himself. But no one was compla-

cent. That shows how much people care about the lives and times ofDuke's basketball players. Too much? Perhaps. Such is the age in which sports live.

So it goes.

I do not envy Deng's situation. He is forced to evaluate his past, present and future and make the decision that he foresees as providing the following in both the short and long terms: the most happiness, the opportunity to achieve his goals, the chance to continue learning and building as a person and member of his family, the freedom to be what he wants to be and do what he wants to

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From staff reports Multiple sources close to Duke athletic officials have confirmed that freshman Luol Deng is strongly considering forgoing his final three years of eligibility and entering the NBA Draft.

Deng said following the Blue Devils’ loss to Connecticut in the National Semifinal that he planed to return for his sophomore season. Things changed rapidly after the FinalFFourr r however, when it became increasingly clear that Deng would be a high letter)' pick. The forward is projected to be a top-five pick in the June 24 draft if he does choose to enter, and there is speculation that he may be chosen within the draft’s firstthree selections.

Coming out of high school, Deng was considered the consensus number two prep school player in the nation after Leßron James. He did not disappoint as a freshman, averaging 15 points and seven rebounds per game as one of the major driving forces behind the Blue Devils’ Final Four run. Deng particularly elevated his stock during the NCAA tournament, where he was named the Atlanta Regional’s Most Outstanding Player.

At 6-foot-8 and with a seven-foot wingspan, Deng possesses ideal size for an NBA small forward. Additionally, he has received praise from scouts for his fundamental basketball skills. His especially diverse skill set gives him the unusual ability to play multiple positions on the floor.

Deng has until May 10 to declare for the draft. Should he choose to do so, he will have until June 17 to withdraw from the draft and return to college if he does not sign with an agent.

Also, head coach Mike Krzyzewski will meet with top high school prospect Shaun Livingston Wednesday to discuss his future with the Blue Devils, according to the recruiting site TheDevilsDen.com.

Livingston, the consensus number two player in this year’s high school class, is reportedly also considering a jump to the NBA, where he, too, would likely be a top-five selection.

Forget unselfishness, let athletic glory shine

Here’s a riddle for you jokers who can’t pay attention on the last day ofclasses: What do coaches preach, Boy Scouts promote, and sportswriters eat up like pre-game buffets?

You got it: unselfishness.

There’s a growing obsession in sports these days with unselfishness, and it’s veering out control. Sportswriters fall all over themselves writing stories about players’ unselfishness.

True story: first time I ever wrote a feature article for The Chronicle, I found myself expounding on the subject’s unselfishness—until I realized I had no idea why I

was doing it, other than the fact that damn near every sports article I’d ever read had done so.

There are two problems with the unselfishness craze: one, it’s usually flat-out inaccurate; and two, since when did unselfishness become more important than greatness, achievement and glory—the very essence of sports?

Exhibit A: Chris Duhon leads Duke to the Final Four by playing a brilliant point guard, playing through pain, and generally being the leader-extraordinaire a young Duke team so desperately needs.

Warehouses were depleted from all the ink that was given to talk of Duhon’s exemplary “unselfishness.”

Pardon me for raining on the sportswriters’ parade, but wasn’t Duhon just doing his best to get his beloved Blue Devils another National Championship? Don’t you think his NBA draft prospects were boosted by demonstrating that he could be the pass-first floor general pro teams drool over? Would Duhon really have been better off scoring four more points per game?

Where’s the unselfishness?

Even worse than the common false categorization of

unselfishness is the implicit assumption that we should all at the altar of unselfishness, that it’s not even a matter of debate. Tacit is the accepted notion that being selfish is the worst thing anyone can be.

Look, I realize that sportswriters deal with irresponsible, callous, thoughtless, hedonistic athletes day-in and day-out, and that the kind and considerate athlete is a breath ,of fresh air. But, selfishness is not the culprit here.

It’s important to distinguish between selfishness and unkindness; if someone’s a jerk, call him a jerk, while if he’s a class act, call him a class act.

But there’s more to it than that. There’s a genuine hatred of great athletes who refuse to swallow the humble pie demanded of them. Barry Bonds, for instance, may be the most hated man in America. Why? Because he’s probably the best player in history, he knows it, and he’s not afraid to say it. How un-humble of him! Likewise, even more close to home, Duke men’s basketball is despised nationwide, for the crimes of sustained, unapologetic

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On March 13, Katie Chrest’s shot slid past North Carolina’s goalie Kristen Hordy in the bottom left corner of the net to give the Blue Devils a thrilling 7-6 double-overtime victory. Now more than a month later, as regular season champions, Duke’s women’s lacrosse team will face the Tar Heels again, but this time in the ACC tournament.

The No. 7 Blue Devils (10-4, 3-0 in the ACC) will square off with the 15th-ranked Tar Heels (8-6, 0-3) Friday at 1:00 in Chapel Hill and look to add a first-ever ACC tournament championship to a season full of firsts.

“Everyone’s really psyched, we’ve never been seeded No. 1 before,” senior Meghan Walters said. “Both our defense and our attack has grown a lot of confidence in the past two or three weeks, and we’re going to try to use that to our advantage and really take it to them on Friday.”

Since their last meeting, Duke has played one of the nation’s most difficult schedules, competing against six teams ranked in the nation’s top 10. As a result, it has taken large strides on both sides of the ball.

“I think we’ve learned a lot of lessons from some of the top teams that we’ve played,” Chrest said.

“Something that we struggled with earlier this season when we were playing Carolina was holding on to the ball and just having control of the game. I think that’s the major change that we’ve undergone.”

In the season’s first game, UNC out shot the Blue Devils 31-21. The Tar Heels were able to control the tempo of the game and slow down Duke’s attack.

“Last time we played them we didn’t control the ball at all, and we barely had possession,” Chrest said. “I think we’ve improved on that throughout the season.”

Offensively, the No. 1 seed has received contributions from a number of players, all of whom will have to be on top of their games Friday to earn a spot in Sunday’s championship. Chrest, the team’s leading scorer, is currently fifth in the conference, averaging just over two goals a game.

“I think our offense has really progressed and evolved,” Walters said. “New people have started to step up, and we have a lot of different threats from all over so I think we can score a lot more.”

On the defensive side of the ball, stopping North Carolina will not be an easy task for Duke, despite having had success earlier this season.

“I think we feel like we played really tough and really hard and our defense was really exceptional that day,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said regarding the regular season matchup.

The Blue Devils spent much of their practice time this week preparing for the style of play they expect to see in the upcoming contest.

“We just practiced some tendencies that Carolina has. They like to pull out on the sides and challenge from the corners,” Walters said. ‘They are a really fast team so we just need to be prepared for that, and they really just take it to goal one on one.”

Heading into this weekend’s action, Duke is optimistic about its chances, having worked hard to earn its top seed.

“I think we have to look at [the ACC’s] as an opportunity,” junior Kristy Dirks said. ‘We are here for a reason, and we deserve to be here and we’ve been working really hard.”

The winner of the Duke-North Carolina game will face the winner of the other semifinal between second-seeded Virginia and third-seeded Maryland Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

Stephanie Sparks scored her 16th goal of the season against Johns Hopkins.

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The men’s lacrosse team faces an uphill battle starting Friday at this weekend’s ACC Championships in Chapel Hill.

The team, having gone 0-3 in the ACC this season and 4-6 overall, is the No. 4 seed in the tournament action.

“This year we didn’t have a lot [of expectations],” head coach Mike Pressler said. “We’re in a rebuilding process. Our goal is just to be the best team we can be.

We certainly hope to be in the hunt for an NCAA tournament bid.”

In its first matchup of the championship, a “must win situation” for the team, Duke will face top-seeded Maryland (8,2, 3-0).

The Blue Devils fell to the Terrapins March 6 by a score of 17-12, with Maryland’s Joe Walters scoring four goals and assisting for two more to lead the team.

Duke’s offensive strike was balanced with nine different Blue Devils contributing to the tally. Peter Lamade led the team with three goals, while Chris Haunss contributed a team-high five assists.

As of late, the offense has not been as strong for Duke. During the first five games of the season, freshman Matt WEIYITAN/THE CHRONICLE Danowski led the Blue Devils’ offense, Senior captain Ben Fenton gets past a defender in a recent game versus Johns Hopkins. scoring 15 goals and racking up 10 assists.

However, Danowski has recently faced dent who previously played three years at “We’re playing [against] the best defense tough defense, cooling his offense.

Gettysburg College and was the 2002 in lacrosse right now,” Pressler said. “But we Maryland’s strong defense will not ease National Goalie of the Year, has served as a need to control the game defensively.” the Blue Devils’ offensive woes. The solid base for the Terrapins in the net this On the defensive side, Duke will face a Terrapins had two preseason first team All- season. Against Virginia April 3, he recordMaryland offense that has scored double American defensemen, Chris Passavia and ed 17 saves in the team’s 11-2 win and had figures in seven of its 10.games this season.

Lee Zink. Tim McGinnis, a graduate stu- 14 saves in March 27th’s 10-9 win over UNC. However, the Blue Devils have shown

strong defense recendy, including an April 10th loss to a No. 2 Johns Hopkins squad by a score of 6-5, in which Duke goalie Aaron Fenton recorded 20 saves for the team. Third-ranked Maryland is also coming off a 14-10 loss to Johns Hopkins, a game in which it was out shot 52-32.

After peaking at No.' 5 in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association national rankings in mid-March, Duke has Ipst five-straight games to end the regular season at 4-6. During the losing streak, the Blue Devils fell to both North Carolina and Virginia, who are the two and three seeds, respectively, in this weekend’s competition.

If Duke is able to get past Maryland, it will face the winner of the UNC-UVa matchup.

Although the Blue Devils have lost to both ACC teams, the game versus UNC went into overtime and ended with the Tar Heels edging out the then- No. 16 squad, 10-9.

However, according to Pressler, the team cannot look past its matchup against one of the best programs in the nation Friday.

“With our conference, beating Maryland would be such a monumental win,” Pressler said, noting that the team has beat Maryland in the last three ACC tournaments.

This game will determine the rest of the Blue Devils’ season, as they must win the tournament to secure an NCAA tournament spot.

“Our backs are against the wall and unfortunately we have to win, but we’ve done that in the past,” Pressler said. “Our guys know what is at stake, and they know how to win.”

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Layden scores twice, leads Duke to win collected the RBI to cut Duke’s lead in half, but the Blue Devils prompdy answered.

In the top of the sixth, Layden picked up another douRebounding from its five-game losing streak earlier this month, the baseball team (20-18) won its fifth straight ble, hitting a line drive down the leftfleld line. Bryan over Old Dominion (14-23) 5-3.

Smith recorded his 23rd RBI, grounding up the middle The Blue Devils’ pitching, once again, controlled off of Hunter Hall who had relieved Godin. the game. Tim Layden, who pitched a no-hitter last In the seventh inning, Duke extended its lead with two week against ODU, earned his fifth win despite only runs. Adam Loftin led off and reached second as the two innings on the rubber, and Greg Burke picked up Monarchs’ Derrick James misplayed the ball in leftfield. the save.

Then Kyle Silver walked, and Jonathan Anderson “I was pleased with the way [the pitchers] threw,” head advanced Silver and Loftin off a bunt down the first base coach Bill Hillier said. “It’s another good outing for the line. Socorro picked up his second single of the night, pitching staff. Anytime you hold [your opponent to] three bringing in the two runners on base. runs, you’re playing well.”

In the bottom of the eighth, with Monarchs on first Kevin Thompson took over for Layden in the third and third, Tyler Belcher pinch hit for Kenneth Gram, who inning and struck out two batters in 1.2 innings. Then was 0-for-3. He hit the ball into centerfield, and Anderson Zach Schreiber relieved Thompson in the fourth inning, dove, but missed the catch. Belcher tried to take third as pitched 3.1 innings, registered five strikeouts and walked his two teammates scored, but strong and accurate throws none. Justin Dilucchio and Burke each pitched an inning, by Mike Miello and Smith forced Belcher to turn back to and clinched the team’s fifth-straight victory. second, where he was picked off for the second out. The Duke’s Javier Socorro, who has a .386 batting average inning ended for ODU as Keith Hahn grounded out to on the season, led off the game with a single to leftfield Smith at second base. off of ODU’s Jason Godin, who picked up the loss, his With one out in the ninth, Burke walked Harris and first decision of the season. After a sacrifice bunt and a the tying run came to the. plate, but Arrowood hit into a double play and ended the game, giving the Blue Devils a ground out, Socorro scored when Brian Hernandez singled to leftfield. two-game series sweep.

In the fourth, Layden led off the inning with a double to With three double plays in last night’s game, Duke’s centerfield. Hernandez, who went 3-for-5, singled through the defense and pitching held ODU to three runs on its 12 hits. left side, picking up his second RBI in as many, at bats.

The Monarchs also left 10 men on base.

“Socorro, Hernandez and Layden combined for seven “Whenever you have 12 hits against you, you’re playing of our nine hits,” Hillier said. “They really helped us out pretty good defense,” Hillier said. ‘The pitching helped, at the plate today. We’re hitting timely, we’re pitching well especially when Schreiber struck out three to get us out of and we’re playing pretty good defense. If we keep that up, ajam in the seventh.” we ll be able to beat any team. While we’re not a team that Duke’s pitching has proved to be its greatest asset this waits for home runs, we’ve been able to hit-and-run, bunt season. The team’s ERA is 3.95, and top starters Layden, and play situational baseball, and it seems to be working Burke and Schreiber each have over 50 strikeouts. Layden for us right now. I’ll take the two-run wins.” and Schreiber have both earned ACC Pitcher of the Week After leaving three men on base in the fourth inning, accolades, and Layden was nationally recognized this week ODU was able to put a run on the board in the fifth. With for his performance in his last start. The National two outs, Steven Harris singled and advanced to second Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named the junior on a pass ball. Dana Arrowood singled up the middle and left hander National Co-Pitcher of the Week Tuesday, and by

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Former Ohio star Clarett faces more NFL obstacles Larry Neumeister THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The appeals court said it stayed the earlier ruling to safeguard the NFL from harm and to ensure a more thorough review. Its final opinion will probably be issued after the draft, perhaps weeks from now.

Players are barred from the NFL until three years after high school graduation under current league rules.

If a subsequent ruling makes Clarett eligible, the NFL could hold a supplemental draft, something it has done for players who entered the draft late since 1977, NFL lawyer Gregg A. Levy said.

The ruling came on the same day Southern California receiver Mike Williams filed his own lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan, saying the NFL had issued conflicting statements about eligibility for the draft, thus causing him to sacrifice his college career.

But Williams’ college coach, Pete Carroll, said it was possible the wide receiver could return to school.

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Georgetown put the future ofits men’s basketball program in the hands of a favorite son from the past. John Thompson 111 was named Tuesday as head coach of the Hoyas, the position his father held for 27 years.

Thompson, the head coach at Princeton for the past four seasons, said he hoped to revive a winning tradition at Georgetown, which rose to prominence under his father.

Thompson replaces Craig Esherick, a longtime assistant who succeeded the elder Thompson when he resigned in 1999.

Thompson, 38, was introduced by John J. DeGioia, the university president, at a news conference at Riggs Library on the campus in Washington.

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Thompson said he had grown accustomed to living in the shadows of luminary coaches. He played at Princeton for Pete Carril, then spent five years as an assistant under Carril, then Bill Carmody.

The elder Thompson, who played for the Boston Celtics in the mid-19605, took over a struggling Hoyas team in 1972 and built it into a perennial power. His team won a national title in 1984, was the runner-up twice, and compiled a .642 winning percentage in the NCAA tournament. His career record at Georgetown was 596-239.

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The men’s and women’s track teams will send their very best to Philadelphia Thursday to compete in the oldest and largest track meet in America, the Penn Relays. The stands at Franklin Field will packed with over 100,000 spectators over the course of the weekend, as; the Blue Devils hope to continue their long history of Penn Relay Champions dating back to the 19405.

The women will start the meet for Duke with a host of distance running events Thursday. Clara Florowitz, a favorite in the 3-kilometer race, will go into the meet confident after a strong performance at last week’s ACC Championships.

Also, the Blue Devils have five runners entered in the 5-kilometer race who have been running solidly all season. Heidi Hullinger, Paige Miller, Natasha Roetter, Elle Pishney and Phebe Ko all have one last shot at qualifying for NCAA Regionals in the sk.

Liz Wort, who won the college steeplechase last year, will return to try her chances at the championship level this year.

The highlight of the meet for the women will likely be the distance medley relay, with the team competing at the elite invitational Championship of America level. The team will be comprised of Sally Meyerhoff running the 1200-meter pordon, Lindsay Owen running the 400-meter, Meaghan Leon running the 800-meter leg and Shannon Rowbury anchoring with a mile run.

“We will definitely be competitive with the very best in the country [in this event],” coach Norm Ogilvie said.

Headlining the field events for Duke is freshman Debra Vento, seeded sixth at the championship level, competing in the high

jump. Beth Maher, hot off her record-setting performance last weekend, will throw the shot put this weekend, while fellow freshman Kelly Reynolds will throw the hammer. To round out the Duke women competing in field events, Laura Chen will try to build off of last weekend’s NCAA Regional qualifying pole vaults.

Freshman Keith Kreiger, trying to earn a NCAA Regional qualifying time, will run for the men in the 5-kilometer race to take place Thursday night. While Kreiger’s muscles may be a bit tired from his personal best 10-kilometer race last weekend, he is shooting for a 5k qualifying time of 14:18 Thursday.

“Keith needs to shave off eight seconds,” Ogilvie said. “I definitely think he will be able to do it.”

Similar to the women’s side, the men’s distance medley is likely to be a top race for the Blue Devils. The team is comprised of Casey Reardon running the 1200 portion, Dan Ring running 400 m, Jon Amt running 800 and Nick Schneider anchoring with a mile.

‘This is the best distance medley Duke has put out in 30 years,” Ogilvie said. “All four are in peak condition and are set to run very fast.”

Senior Brent Warner has perhaps the most expectations to meet now that the sakes are high. Warner is seeded second in the pole vault at the championship level, and with a strong performance he could earn himself another All-American honor for the year.

After under-performing at the ACC Championship meet last weekend, Duke’s very best will look to redeem themselves at the Penn Relays.

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they aren’t the best, and that they aren’t really responsible for their own success?

MANN from page 15 excellence and genuine class.

Seriously, have you read the pathetic attempts writers have made to articulate their loathing of Duke basketball? They were everywhere during March Madness.

Michael Hunt of the Milwaukee JournalSentinal sums up the anti-Duke argument pretty well: “Pulling for Duke must've been what it was like to root for Rockefeller and Getty,’’ Hunt opines. “In fact, the NCAA ought to slap a few free-trade restrictions on the Blue Devils for the benefit of the 98% of the country.... As an institution, Duke is too preppy, too smug and too dam smart for its own good.”

There’s the ugly monster laid bare; Duke, like so many other athletes or sports teams, is hated for its greatness and its pride, and attacked by those envious of its success.

What’s so bad about greatness? What’s so evil about pride? Many Duke students go on to careers as doctors, lawyers, bankers, and businessmen; should they have to insist that

When it comes down to it, all star athletes are pretty dam selfish, and that’s a reason for admiration rather than scorn. It takes an awful lot of talent and dedication to become a star athlete, just as it takes years of hard work to become a great lawyer, doctor, banker, or businessman. Should we idolize mediocrity?

Let’s admire athletes—not to mention lawyers, doctors, and businessmen—for their selfishness. Let’s admire Muhammed Ali—he who famously declared, “I am the greatest!

Michael Jordan, Wayne ‘The Great One” Gretzky, Tiger Woods and Bonds for being the best, and knowing it. They earned it, they are what make sports such a source of joy and entertainment, and they deserve every ounce of our respect and admiration. I can only hope to be as great at any one thing as they are at their respective sports.

So next time you read some sportswriter rambling about a player’s unselfishness, ask yourself if it really is unselfishness, and ask yourself if it’s a trait you care to admire in the first place.

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hard it is to do,” Hillier said about Layden’s awards. “He’s going to open a lot of eyes with that type of performance. He’s capable of shutting anybody down when he goes out there and very deserving of the award. I’m happy for him and the team for getting that type of recognition.”

This weekend, the Blue Devils will face No. 18 North Carolina (27-10) at home before going on the road for three weeks.

UNC’s strength is in its bats, as the team averages .302 and has hit 42 home runs, contrasted to Duke’s 10.

On the mound, the teams are a bit more comparable, but UNC still boasts the better

‘These past weeks have shown us what we’re capable of doing,” Hillier said.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to take these wins and carry that momentum against those Tar Holes this weekend.”

However, before it faces UNC, the team will have to take on Davidson (15-20) tonight at 7 p.m. The game will be the second of three the teams play in the regular season Duke lost the first 3-2 in February, and they will meet again on May 2. The Blue Devils will play their three-game series against the Tar Heels Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

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do in the manner in which he sees fit.

The positives and negatives of entering the professional ranks are welldocumented. But suffice it to say that the lure of making several million dollars and being the No. 3 pick in the draft—as he’s expected to be if he does indeed declare—has made Deng strongly consider the league rather than Duke. Such would be the case for most anyone. But that the wasteland that is the field of NBA agents has been hassling him, whispering sweet fame and fortune in his ear, has probably not given Deng more incentive to remain in college.

There's little doubt that Deng is a uniquely gifted individual, in more ways than I could possibly grasp-I don't know him personally, and it's obviously easier to recognize strengths in a person in a more amicable setting.

Regardless, I'm confident Deng knows his game needs significant improvement before he'll be truly ready for the NBA. Consider ESPN.corn's assessment, however, not mine: "His threepoint shooting is still an issue, as Deng is much more comfortable taking the mid-range jumper." But there's also little doubt that the potential to be great is there. That's why Duke recruited him; that's why Duke will lament seeing him leave; that's why the NBA wants him so badly. But this isn’t just about basketball. This is about an individual’s right and responsibility to do what’s best for him. And it’s not just about the money; it’s about the experience and its impact on his future. If heading to the pros is the answer, then it’s the path Deng should take. If remaining with his friends, his coach,

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It’s hard to predict that experience, a practice I find to be fruitless—who would have thought, for example, that Carlos Boozer would be one of the league’s most productive league forwards in just his second season? Very few, to be blunt, thought Boozer would make a mark at all in Cleveland. And who was to guess that Chris Duhon’s draft status would go from top 20 prior to college to second round now having completed his playing time for the Blue Devils? If Duhon is happy with his decision, then that’s all that matters.

It is certainly possible that had Boozer stayed another year at Duke that he would have eventually enjoyed comparable or superior success in the pros —or in life (he got married last year, too). It is also possible that Duhon could have gone league right out of high school and excelled. But then he wouldn’t have had the chance to win a national title, become the NCAA Tournament all-time steal leader or adepdy participate in Duke’s improv comedy group’s skits on multiple occasions.

I would love to see Deng stay in Durham for another season, mostly because I love watching him master the sport that I spent much of my young life trying to become competent at.

But I would much prefer he excel for himself rather than to appease anyone else. He’ll have people like Grant Hill and Coach K helping him to make his decision, two rather qualified basketball pundits.

One thing is for sure, however: the Duke community will have someone to cheer for next season, whether he’s signing autographs for a pro team or as No. 2 for the Blue Devils.

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Dissertation Presentation: 4pm. Andrew Yang (Duke University). Division of labor in ant colonies: variations in form and function of a superorganism. 111 Bio Sci Bldg.

Developmental Biology Colloquium: 4pm. Doug DeSimone (University of Virginia). Cell adhesion in Xenopus morphogenesis. 147 Nanaline Duke.

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Fresh Docs Work in Progress: 7pm. Photo documentary by Abigail Seymour. CDS, 1317 W. Pettigrew St. Please join us for this ongoing conversation about documentary work in its many forms.

Fresh Docs Work in Progress: 7pm. "Devoted: Portraits of Belief." Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew St.

Screen/Society Cine-East: Bpm. "Double Agent."

Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center.

THURSDAY, APRIL 22 Opening Reception: 7pm. “A Sense of Place." During the fall of 2003, students in Alex Harris's advanced documentaryphotography course (PPS/DOCST 1775) were asked to pay particular attention to creating a "sense of place" as they made photographs for their semester-long project. Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew St.

FRIDAY, APRIL 23 Screen/Society Special Events: 7pm. "Duke Student Film Showcase." Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus.

DUKE CHORALE: Bpm. Chorale Celebration! Mary Duke Biddle Music Bldg, East Campus. The Duke Chorale, directed by Rodney Wynkoop, presents its annual end-of-the-year celebration. FREE.

SATURDAY, APRIL 24 Duke University String School: 3, 4, and 7pm.

Baldwin Auditorium. The Duke University String School, directed by Dorothy Kitchen, presents its Spring Festival. All events are FREE and open to the public.

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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.

Upcoming: Bpm, April 24. A Reading By Lucille Clifton.

Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center. This event is Free and Open to the Public. For More Information call (919)6689000.

2004 Senior Distinction Show: works by Lindsay Brown, Charlotte Dauphin, Kim Gogola, Erika Mumau, & Lizz Torgovnick. Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Bryan Center.

Duke University Union Visual Arts Committee exhibit by the five Duke seniors who are completing the Graduation with Distinction Program in the Visual Arts.

On Exhibit: Through June 14.Uncommon Leaders: The Presidents of Duke University. Documents and photographs from the University Archives trace the history of presidential leadership at the university from 1838 until the present, with an emphasis on presidents Few through Keohane. Perkins Library

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On Exhibit: Through July 25. Highlights From the Picture File: A treasure trove of images, including photographs of the Socialist Party of America, ship building in the New York City Navy Yard, and missionaries in various overseas locations. Perkins Library, Special Collections Hallway Gallery.

On Exhibit: Through May 31. "The Innocents" Photographs and Video by Taryn Simon. CDS, 1317 W. Pettigrew St. Juanita Kreps Gallery. These are the faces and voices of the wrongly condemned, of defendants in some of the most scrutinized, contested cases in fifty states, who fought for years to have their innocence finally proven.

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

Volunteer: As little as 2 hours/week. Women’s Center. 126 Few Fed, or 684-3897.

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Keohane’s time as President of Schwartz-Butters and the Yoh Football Duke University, it would certainly be a Center.

She has worked with the administralong list: all-ffeshman East Campus, the Duke-Durham Neighborhood tors in the Medical Center to form one Partnership, the Duke University of the premier University Hospitals Health System, the Robertson Scholars and health care systems in the country.

And she has made an program. The list Editorial effort to better inteStaff on.

The Westgoes grate Duke with the Edens Link (or really Keohane Quad), Wilson Center, the rest of the Durham community.

There are the tangible results of Yoh Football Center. And on. And on. her work—the buildings and the Since assuming the role of president in 1993Keohane has led the Unifundraising—but Keohabe brought so much more than money to Duke over school has to new levels.

The versity grown immensely under her guidance. the past 11 years. Keohane had pasShe has worked tirelessly to improve sion for her job, and in doing so, she academics, athletics, student life and gave passion to the University. She every other area of the University. She brought a unifying leadership style has seen the University through an era that brought the administration toof change, and the University is most gether to achieve results. She had ideas and innovation as well as the certainly better for it.

She has built up the Pratt School of knowledge and ambition to turn ideas Engineering and many of the graduate into action.

The projects that Keohane has schools and has increased the national and international reputation of the worked on throughout the years will be cherished by the University for University. She oversaw the implementation of Curriculum 2000 in an effort years to come. Her legacy will withstand the trials of time. to give students a broader liberal eduKeohane has already been recogcation and has fostered interaction nized for the amazing work she has and communication with the Universidone as president—receiving the Unity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, She created the all-ffeshman East versity Medal and having the WEL renamed Keohane Quad. Nan’s accomoverseeing the construction of Blackwell and Randolph, the first new plishments have not gone unnoticed dorms constructed in years, and then because they have been so numerous building the WEL so all sophomores and so substantial. could live on West.

Next year, as Richard Brodhead She has overseen the growth of the takes the reins, Nan will be missed for athletic department from being only a her strong leadership and remarkable stellar men’s basketball team to having ability to get things done. She has been nadonal championship-caliber teams nothing short of impressive, and —

ON THE RECORD She is the Wizard of Oz, Gandalf Glenda the Good Witch, Dumhledore, the Goddess of the Gothic W

—senior Katie Mitchell, on the characte: Nannerl Keohane at the dedication of Ke< story, page 1.

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Perkins display is propaganda Recently, four pictures exhibited in the first-floor hallway in Perkins library disturbed and shocked the Chinese community at Duke. After many students expressed their deep concerns either through online discussion or direct contact with the library, the librarian in charge of this exhibit explained: “Our public exhibitions are educational in nature and meant to draw people’s attention to the resources in the Special Collections Library so that they might use the materials to further their knowledge. Hopefully, the pieces from Hsinking will serve to alert viewers about the Japanese occupation of Manchuria during World War II.” While we wholeheartedly agree with the value of library archives, we are still deeply concerned that lack of accompanying historical information with this part of the exhibit will in fact mislead the viewer and thereby compromise its original educational purpose. As the representative of the Duke Chinese community, I would like to bring to the attention of the Duke community the historical context under which this piece of propaganda was produced.

The leading picture, titled “Hsinking” (’’new capital”) celebrates the “construction” from 1932 to 1937 of Changchun, the “capital” of the puppet state in Northeast China during the Japanese occupation.

Three accompanying pictures depict the “construction” process and peaceful scenes of life, presumably achieved through the “construction”. However, behind such “achievements” and “amenities” are bloody facts: Approximately 21 million Chinese lost their lives during 1931-1945 due to the Japanese occupation. Around the time this publication was produced, the Japanese army killed more than 300,000 people in Nanking (then capital of China) in about six weeks. During the occupation, the Japanese biological warfare Unit 731 killed 9,000 Chinese civilians (including women and infants) and soldiers by injecting bacteria into them and dissecting them alive. Up to today, chemical weapons left by the Japanese army are still being found and at times injure and kill people in Northeast China.

Representing the whole Chinese community at Duke, I again urge your attention on the historical facts behind the exhibition.

Hopefully, they will supply the minimally necessary context for understanding the exhibit so that the devoted work of our librarians may adequately serve its educational purpose.

Jiayu Song President

ofDuke Chinese Students and

Scholars Association ’

RCs should not function as babysitters Editors Note: This letter was addressed to the student's Resident Coordinator, David Montag, after Montag sent an e-mail to students explaining the University ’5 policy of proactively breaking up any unregistered event on the Last Day of Classes and stating that the only registered events today are the concerts on Main West.

enforcing ridiculous regulations is simply beyond thought.

Spending such an absurd amount of

That the University would hire such a

money to “elevate the academic climate” of residential life before explaining or understanding what that means is simply shocking. All this while multiple women have been raped or otherwise assaulted on campus and while students have been held up at knifepoint and robbed in the student center this year alone.

Why don’tRCs do more to police serious threats to security like rape and theft rather than patrol for accepted social norms like the unregistered consumption of alcohol in violation of Duke’s inane policy?

The greatest irony is that when most of the administrators here went to college, their generation was tearing down the “in loco parentis” model of higher education.

Returning to university life as school officials, they’ve systematically rebuilt and extended the reach of overzealous social engineers seeking their own “ideal” campus community that is far from universal.

You’ve created a large and extensive group of individuals at Duke who love their friends but hate their school. They will never give a dime to this institution and, under the present circumstances, want little to do with this artificially constructed pseudo-community.

There is a serious crisis of residential life here, and the University is heading in the opposite direction of a solution.

large staff of RCs who “have not yet had their job defined beyond its formal description” of babysitting students (RAs, GAs) and

Ryan Turner Trinity ’O6

I hope you can be up-front about who has so adamantly taken a position against students having an “unauthorized gathering.” I hope it is not you. The phrase and the intention strike any rational person as Draconian measures reminiscent of the prohibitions I studied in Dr, Christa John’s Hitler class. I hope you realize that in order to foster a broad community of diverse groups this university needs impromptu “gatherings” like the ones that are being prohibited.

It is unconscionable that this University is planning to proactively implement the outrageous policy of breaking up “events” on the last day of classes where more than one person would be assembled in the presence of alcohol. Many rising male juniors, myself included, have refused to live on campus next year because of the absurd rules and regulations to which on-campus students are subjected.

I speak confidently for dozens of individuals who resent and despise theirresidential experience at Duke. It’s like living in a circus of the absurd or a frightening Kafka

short-story.

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Kennedys without tears

Questions of interest below historical levels because inflation is gone. And on the other side, we need to think about the impact of budget deficits.

Over the past two years, interest rates have been That last sentence will send the deficit apologists to very low. Last June the 10-year bond rate hit a 48-year battle stations (sorry, I can’t avoid politics completelow. Even three weeks ago the rate was still below 4 ly) . For many years, advocates of tax cuts have insisted that the normal laws of supply and demand don’t percent, a level last seen in 1963.

If the economy fully recovers—or even if investors apply to the bond market, and that government borjust think it will—interest rates will rise sharply. In its rowing—unlike borrowing by families or businesses doesn’t affect interest rates. But there’s no argument World Economic Outlook report, to be issued Wednesamong serious, nonideological economists. For examday, the International Monetary Fund urges theFederal Reserve to prepare the economy for higher rates to ple, a textbook by Gregory Mankiw, now the presi“avoid financial market disruption both domestically dent’s chief economist, declares—in italics—that and abroad.” “when the government reduces national saving by runBut how far will rates rise? Let’s not get into ning a budget deficit, the interest rate rises.”

The Congressional Budget Office estimates this year’s Greenspan Kremlinology, parsing the chairman’s the deficit would be if mumbles for clues about the Fed’s next move. Let’s structural budget ask, instead, how much rates will rise if and when norcyclical factors like a depressed economy went away—at mal conditions of supply and de3.9 percent of GDP. That’s almost twice mand resume in the bond market the average during the past 20 years. Standard estimates say this should push up 10My calculations keep leading me Paul Krugrnan to a 10-year bond rate of 7 percent, year interest rates by around 1 percent.

Guest Commentary and a mortgage rate of 8.5 percent Finally, there’s the upside risk. As I’ve with a substantial possibility that the pointed out before, the twin U.S. budgnumbers will be even higher. Current rates are about et and trade deficits would set alarm bells ringing if we 4.3 and 5.8 percent, respectively; you can see why the were a third world country. For now, America gets the benefit of the doubt, but if financial markets decide IMF is worried about “financial market disruption.” that we have turned into a banana republic, the sky’s Why 7 percent? Well, in the past 20 years the average yield on 10-year bonds has, in fact, been about 7 the limit for interest rates.

Now for the obvious point: many American families percent. Why shouldn’t we think of that as the norm? and businesses will be in big trouble if interest rates reSome people say that unlike past interest rates, fually do go as high as I’m suggestture interest rates won’t include a premium for expecting. That’s why the IMF is urging the Fed to get the word out.

Ed inflation. Indeed, over Some peopl say that unlike And one suspects that the the past 20 years the average past interest rates, future infund, which, inflation rate was 3 percent, like Alan terest rates won’t indue a pretends to convey Greenspan, considerably higher than remium for expected inflation. messages in code, is firing a cent experience. But in the over the past Indeed, years first three months of 2004, shot across Greenspan’s bow. A the average inflation rate was number of analysts have acprices rose at an annual rate 3 percent, considerably highcused Greenspan of fostering a of more than 5 percent. That er than recent experience. number included soaring debt bubble in recent years, just as they accuse him of feedgasoline prices, but even the “core” price index, which exing the stock bubble during the 1990’5. Just two months ago, Greenspan went out of cludes food and energy, rose at a 2.9 percent rate. his way to emphasize the financial benefits of adMore to the point, investors expect considerable injustable-rate, as opposed to fixed-rate, mortgages. flation over the next 10 years. The spread between “inflation protected” bonds, whose payments are indexed Let’s hope that not too many families regarded that as to the Consumer Price Index, and ordinary bonds inuseful advice. dicates an expected inflation rate of 2.5 percent durPaul Krugman is a columnist for the New York Times. ing the next decade.

So you can’t claim that interest rates will be far His column is syndicated.

Tes, the republic is in danger,” a friend said. “But rates?” OK,

V'what’s going to happen to interest JL let’s take a break from politics.

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WASHINGTON A stunning new history coming in May about the relationship between Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy came floating into my office. I immediately flipped though “Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House” by Sally Bedell Smith to see if it included “the lunch” of March 22, 1962.

On that afternoon, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover met privately with President Kennedy to disclose what his wiretaps had revealed: A woman named Judith Campbell had been heard frequently calling the president’s secretary to arrange trysts with JFK In that era, a president’s private life was his own business. The Secret Service facilitated arrangements, the press winked, and Hoover’s discretion ensured that he would never be fired. But this case was different: ‘The reason for Hoover’s disclosure,” Smith writes, “was the FBl’s evidence that Campbell was also having affairs with Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and his associate Johnny Roselli, who had been involved in the ClA’s assassination attempts against Fidel Castro. That afternoon, Kennedy called Campbell for the last time and broke off the relationship.”

The secret of the 70 calls held for 13 years. Then a Senate committee investigating FBI and CIA

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the Nixon years ginGuest Commentary m a gerl [y a. footnote to calls from a “president’s friend.” Scripps Howard broke the story; I observed in print “that must have been some lunch”; The New York Times editors decided the Mafia connection was news, and the wall of silence around “the dark side of Camelot” came tumbling down.

With taste and sensitivity, Smith covers this affair and other, less sinister, liaisons with teenage interns and highborn ardsts. After 40 years, it seems everybody became willing to share memories of a beloved, historic figure.

But this prodigiously researched work—with sources cited for just about every page—is not primarily an account of JFK’s off-duty pursuits, which historians already know about. Rather, it illuminates the bygone politics of camaraderie and hero worship in a brittle social milieu that encouraged bonds of loyalty and bouts of back-stabbing.

The reader is placed right there in the salons of Georgetown and upstairs at the White House, reveling in a dinnerparty society that has largely disappeared. (Cheaper brandy now, and no cigars.) I’ve worked in this town for 35 years and regret never having made it to the drunken, grabby brawls described by aging participants in this stereosourced dual biography.

We are shown how some fine columnists put friendship first. Charles Bartlett candidly confesses to Smith in an interview: “Nothing mattered to me more than to have Jack Kennedy succeed as president. It did compromise my role as a journalist.” When Kennedy hand-edited a famous article by Bartlett and Stewart Alsop, the evenhanded Stew wanted to keep die manuscript for history; the faithful Charley consigned it to the flames.

And JFK’s sense of history comes through, too. On July 28,1962, he had a secret taping system installed in the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room and probably the Treaty Room.

“Kennedy recorded just those conversations and meetings he wished to preserve by the flip of a switch.” These included the Cuban missile crisis deliberations; of the principals, only his brother Bobby was aware of the recording, betraying their advisers’ trust but giving the Kennedys an advantage in histories and documentary films.

“Much of what he recorded cast him in a favorable light.

But the whirring tapes captured moments of profanity, pettiness and temper.” These moments apparently remain under seal at the Kennedy Library.

At the core of “Grace and Power” is the complex, farffom-storybook relationship of the husband and wife. Was the perceptive Jackie unaware of his hunger for diversion, serious or sporting, whenever they were apart?

Jacqueline Kennedy is quoted by Smith as saying she did know, but the source the author scrupulously gives is a conversation Adlai Stevenson recounts in the papers of his longtime friend Marietta Tree. That’s secondhand, and I wouldn’t use a direct quotation.

In this unveiling of the Kennedys’ private world, we are left with the impression that this elegant, strong-minded first lady chose not to let on that she knew—a painful decision made before and since.

William Sajire is a columnist for the New York Times. His colruns in syndication.

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