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revamps courses Lindsey Lapin THE CHRONICLE

Rest easy, future community leaders. The Service Opportunities in Leadership program, a subset of the Hart Leadership Program, isn’t going anywhere.

The increasingly popular program, which helps students initiate service-oriented projects, is currently on a year-long hiatus in order to revamp its course offerings. Officials said they hope these changes will make SOL more prestigious and academically rigorous.

SOL originated as a summer internship in Croatia and soon developed into a three-part program, in which a house course in the spring prepared participants for summer-long community outreach internships. The third component was a fall follow-up course, in which students reflected on their experiences and linked them to academic pursuits.

The program hit a snag last year when Ellen Wittig, associate dean of Trinity College, announced that house courses could not be reserved for a select group of students such as those in the SOL program —the courses must accommodate any student who wants to participate. In addition, new University policy now requires house courses to be “stand-alone” courses that can-

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exist for preparatory purposes. This policy left SOL’s spring course in jeopardy, since the sole purpose of the house course was to train and prepare participants for community service projects in the summer.

After these policy announcements, Alma Blount, director of both the Hart Leadership program and SOL, decided the best thing to do would be to put SOL on hiatus for a year in order to update the program’s academic courses.

“Approval for new courses takes a long time, and the changes we want to make require approval from a lot of people,” said Bridget Booher, assistant director for the Hart Leadership Program. “Even if we dropped everything else to focus on SOL, we still wouldn’t have time to finish revamping before this spring.”

The new, full-credit spring course, which will be introduced in 2006, will no longer be considered preparatory, nor will it continue to be categorized as a “house course.” The course will be open only to SOL participants and will particularly emphasize academic and research aspects of not

community projects.

“We plan to focus more on topics such as research methodology, SEE SOL ON PAGE 7

Duke regroups safety efforts Kelly Rohrs THE CHRONICLE

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In an effort to improve safety on campus, the University is instituting a series of wholesale changes that will shift the burden of large-scale campus security to the University infrastructure, freeing the Duke University Police Department to concentrate on crime-related matters.

Executive Vice President Tailman Trask, who oversees the police department as well as most other non-academic aspects of campus, is trying to establish a “clear line of authority around all that touches security.”

“What I’m trying to do is stop parsing security out,” he said.

Security officers of various types are currently scattered throughout divisions of the University, including parking, facilities management and DUPD. Uniformed officers in all these areas are effective as a crime deterrent, Trask said, but the groups have difficulty collaborating and often “engage in various turf wars.”

Efforts to synthesize security into a single entity began last year when the University created the Department of Campus Services and named Kernel Dawkins as vice president. Campus Services controls most security-related divisions and has partial authority over the police department.

Other than Dawkins, there are few other links between security officers from DUPD and other

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areas. “We are trying to integrate all of those,” Dawkins said.

‘We’re trying to have a more broad-based view that is not com-

partmentalized.”

The University’s first step will be to consolidate communication about safety and security issues.

This week Leanora Minai, who has served as a crime reporter and a public relations specialist, will come to the University to assume an expanded communications job SEE PUPD ON PAGE 7

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The Duke University Police Department plans to focus on crime enforcement.

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On the heels oflast year’s ACC and national title game losses, winning a championship was the field hockey team’s clear objective. But after their failures in the conference tournament, the Blue Devils have just one more chance.

The NCAA Tournament committee, however, did not do the field hockey team any favors.

The Blue Devils will likely have to beat No. 1 North Carolina (201) in order to return to the Final Four, instead of hosting first and second round games or having to play in a different regional.

Duke, travels to Chapel Hill Saturday at 2 p.m. to face No. 12 Old Dominion in the first round of NCAA Tournament. The Blue Devils (15-4) have defeated the

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After going to the NCAA finals a year ago, Duke hopes to return. But to earn a spot in SEE FIELD HOCKEY ON PAGE 13 theFinal Four, theBlue Devils will have to get past several formidable opponents.

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Uptown Seafood was suspended from the Merchants on Points program Thursday following the release of the Durham County Health Department ratings this week, in which the restaurant failed to make the A grade necessary to remain a Duke vendor.

The restaurant, which was approved last year to participate in Merchants on Points, is subject to quarterly inspections by the Health Department. Uptown Seafood fell from a grade of 90 to 82 percent last quarter.

Jim Wulforst, director of Dining Services, said Uptown Seafood is the first restaurant during his eight-year tenure at the

University to be suspended for failing to maintain an A grade.

Section 15 of the Merchants on Points contract states that restaurants must both maintain an A rating and notify the University when their health rating is less than that. But Uptown Seafood failed to contact Dining Services, which learned of the restaurant’s “B” rating Wednesday through a local newspaper, Wulforst said.

Although Uptown Seafood can continue to operate with its current Health Department rating only restaurants that score below a C must suspend operations the vendor cannot serve Duke until it obtains an A once again.

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Fallujah insurgents challenge U.S. cordon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

across the Tigris river in an apparent bid to relieve pressure on their trapped allies

Insurgents tried to break through the U.S. cordon surrounding Fallujah Thursday as American forces launched an offensive against concentrations of militants in the south of the city.

Some 600 insurgents, 18 U.S. troops and five Iraqi soldiers have been killed in the four-day assault, the U.S. military said.

U.S. troops, meanwhile, went on the offensive Thursday in Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city, after militants launched attacks against police stations and bridges

in Fallujah.

A U.S. official acknowledged it might take “some time” to secure the city, 220 miles to the north.

Elsewhere, a series of attacks throughout central Iraq underscored the nation’s perilous security. In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded Thursday moments after a U.S. patrol passed on Saadoun Street, killing 17 bystanders and wounding 30. There were no U.S. casualties.

Another car bomb exploded in Kirkuk

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as the governor’s convoy was passing by, killing a bystander and wounding 14 people. Three Iraqis were killed in a shootout

between U.S. troops and insurgents in Samarra. Two car bombs injured eight people in Hillah.

Al-Jazeera television aired a videotape showing what the station said was an American contractor of Lebanese origin held hostage in Iraq. The balding, middle-aged man, who carried a U.S. passport and an identification card in the name of Dean

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African leaders decry Ivory Coast violence by

Parfait Kouassi

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast Staring with tears in their eyes, Ivory Coast’s people emerged from their homes Thursday to survey the wreckage of five days of violent upheaval and stock up on food.

France and other Western nations flew out hundreds of their nationals in a second round of evacuations, while South Africa convened urgent talks, warning the crisis could destabilize West Africa.

The commercial capital, Abidjan, experienced the first day of calm since anti-foreigner mobs took to the streets Saturday after a sudden, deadly clash between the forces of Ivory Coast and its former colonial ruler, France.

Some shops reopened and traffic returned to streets strewn with charred vehicles and the remnants of roadblocks. Residents crowded supermarkets and waited in long lines to withdraw cash from ATMs. A woman stood horrified amid the burned-out wreckage of a

French bookstore. Employees at an Ivorian frozen-foods company found the doors kicked in and the freezers empty.

‘They took everything, even the carpet,” a delivery man said, too afraid to give his name. “Our entire future is in question. A boss can’t pay people who can’t work any more.”

Once one of West Africa’s most prosperous and stable countries, Ivory Coast has been riven by instability since a 1999 military coup ignited ethnic and regional tensions between the predominantly Muslim north and mosdy Christian and animist south.

France, with some 14,000 citizens in the nation, sent helicopters Wednesday to pluck trapped foreigners from villages and bring them to Abidjan’s international airport, crowded with frightened families waiting for flights out.

A woman cradling her baby in the departure hall said she had just minutes to decide whether to stay where she has lived for 15 years or

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12,

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Italian retools curriculum

BY LEANN WIDMARK THE CHRONICLE

Roman ruins, DaVinci’s paintings and gladiators’ battles are making their way

minutes. One of the more comprehensible plays in the set, Shanley’s drama raises the nagging question of “What if?”

‘The Cure,” named after a T-shirt depicting the band, is the only student-written play of the set. In it, Adam Sapieri, Trinity ’O3, also presents the problems resulting from lack of communication. Junior Alberto Mendoza makes a convincing Man, narrating the thoughts that go through a man’s head as his love goes apparently unrequited.

It is a stale relationship; the Man and Woman, sophomore Alessa Colaianni, irritate each other on purpose and share neither breakfast nor love, only the breakfast table. The apparent oxymorons of their relationship make it anything but an ordinary overnight date, forcing the audience to wonder about the purpose behind their own actions in certain situations. Sapieri leaves the audience wondering; Is there a cure for a communication deficit?

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into Italian classrooms earlier in an attempt to enrich the department’s introductory level courses.

The faculty in the University’s Italian department have recendy revised the program to make classes more academically rigorous and attractive to students. Students in Italian 63, for example, are required to attend two cultural activities such as film screenings, games and cooking groups, which also helps to foster a sense of community.

“We’re focusing more on content and culture rather than just grammar,” said Luciana Fellin, director of the Italian Language Program. “Language is a vehicle of culture.”

Despite officials’ lofty intentions, some students said these changes translate into more difficult workloads in classes taken simply to fulfill graduation requirements.

“My professor is a really good professor but really demanding and expects you to always know how to say things in Italian,” sophomore Jeffrey Abrams said.

With limited high school experience, most students take Italian courses 1, 2 and then 63. Abrams noted that the jump from the elementary level to the intermediate is too big. Intermediate level courses generally demand a high level of proficiency among students.

But some students said they enjoy the increased level of communication that comes with more challenging classes, especially as they prepare to study abroad.

“I think it’s better because if you were to actually go to Italy, you could communicate and understand the language,” senior Tate Hodges said. ‘The most important

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Freshman Alex Warr and senior Melodie Hunter perform in a seriesof one-act plays in theDuke Players Lab Theater presentation Thursday.

Cerebral one-acts showcase directing Cheryl Ho THE CHRONICLE

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At least once a semester, the Duke Players Lab Theater presents entirely studentproduced and directed works. This weekend’s series of one-act plays promises hours of thought-provoking amusement, but beware of the heavy content in the selections that makes the evening exhausting for the audience to sit through.

“Action” by Sam Shepard opens with two men desperately trying to tune a radio—foreshadowing the lack of communication to come. “It’s hard to have a conversation,” Jeep, played by freshman Philip Wolfe, announces to an unresponsive group gathered for dinner. A sense of desolation envelopes the four characters, as their Christmas dinner is interrupted periodically with angry spasms, disjointed conversation and a dancing bear convincingly played by junior Ryan Morgan. In the end, it can only be left up to interpretation whether the characters will realize the purpose of their existence is more than simply regretting the past.

In the second play, John Patrick Shanley’s “A Lonely Impulse of Delight,” two

friends wander into Central Park at 2:10 a.m. to ponder the wonders oflove. Walter trusts his best friend Jim enough to risk being thought of as, insane in order to show Jim the one love of his life: a “freshwater mermaid” who lives in Central Park Lake. Walter, played by senior Alex Perez, successfully portrays a man in love with the intangible. Despite minimal action, the actors hold a strong sense of suspense as the audience wonders whether or not love is meant to be shared.

In ‘The Red Coat,” also by Shanley, John, played by freshman Alex Warr, hopes his beloved Mary, senior Melodie Hunter, will pass by. John has apparently been waiting months to confess his love to Mary, and his breaking heart propels him to finally tell her. John says he first noticed her because of a red coat she was wearing one day.

The red coat is the one thing that connects them both, and the two lovers come to a deep understanding ofeach other within

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Faculty consider compensation. evaluations by

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Conflicting opinions kept the Arts and Sciences Council far from consensus Thursday as members debated the contentious issues of faculty compensation for performing extra duties and student access to course evaluation data.

Currently, rewards for faculty service outside of research and teaching responsibilities —such as serving as director of undergraduate studies or editing a scholarly journal published at the University—vary widely between

departments.

George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, sought feedback about the possibility of creating a set of suggested compensation rates or offering research funding in place of course relief, or a lighter teaching load, which is currently the most widely used reward. He noted that individual departments would not have to pay for such research funding out of their own budgets.

Under previous administrations, McLendon said, only those who knew that resources were available and asked for them directly received compensation for performing many extra duties.

“My concern is, that’s neither transparent nor fair,” he said.

Faculty comments revealed a general lack of knowledge of common practices.

Only through informal shows of hands were council members able to find out the policies used by departments other than their own.

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Several council members said any sort ofreward at all would be an improvement for some faculty members, particularly those in smaller departments.

“We have absolute equity that is, so far as I know, no one gets anything, or ever has,” said Joshua Sosin, associate professor ofclassical studies.

Many faculty members emphasized the impossibility of offering standard benefits to those taking up certain positions because the duties and time commitments required can differ among departments.

“We really are trying to get standards, and people can buy into those standards or not,” McLendon reassured the faculty.

“We don’t anticipate that one size would fit all.”

Kathy Ewing, council chair and associate professor of cultural anthropology, said that in keeping with the council’s goal of being “a truly useful advisory board to the dean,” an ad hoc committee would conduct further discussions with the intent of producing recommendations for McLendon within two months.

Student access to course evaluations was a late addition to the agenda. It was prompted by a Duke Student Government proposal to create an online database linked to reviews posted on the national, independent website

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Lester Thomas, who is responsible for the Cary Kwanzaa celebrations, speaks to students at Duke Thursday.

Campus Council ponders RA description, duties Paul Crowley THE CHRONICLE

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Campus Council discussed the role of resident assistants in building community and enforcing University policy in residence halls at its meeting Thursday. Senior Josh Alien-Dicker, president of the Student Staff Advisory Board —a group designed to represent the interests of RAs and graduate assistants addressed the council, speaking about current problems and potential improvements for the role of the RA. “Personally, I think it’s a voice that is not heard all too often on this campus,” Alien-Dicker said.

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Dicker called an opportunity to discover “what students want from their RAs,” began with a list of initiatives supported by StAB, most notably a system of identification designed to allow police officers to seek out the RA when responding to a complaint.

Alien-Dicker predicted the system will be in place by January.

Council members noted the similarities between the council and Residence Life and Housing Services staff in terms of programming duties and overall goals, and Alien-Dicker cited one example of overlap between RAgenerated and Quad Councilbased programs.

“I feel like, with Quad Coun-

cils and RAs, there’s a direction we’ve been trying to take—we’ve been trying to do programming, to improve life on campus,” said junior Brenna Benson, the council’s programming chair. “But we’re not pooling resources.”

Although sophomore Damian Denoble, vice president of the council, suggested tb,at RAs make a greater effort to befriend their neighbors, Alien-Dicker stressed the delicacy of the situation when RAs fraternize with those they discipline. Both policy enforcement and community-building are key components of the job, according to the description of SEE CAMPUS ON PAGE 8

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Palestinians mourn Arafat, elect new leader by

Ravi Nessman

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RAMALLAH, West Bank Palestinians at home and abroad wept, waved flags and burned tires Thursday in an eruption of grief at the death of Yasser Arafat, the man they consider the father of their nation. The quick appointment of successors did little to dispel the huge question marks now hanging over Mideast peace efforts.

Although Arafat’s death at 75 led some world leaders to talk about the possibility of a new era, the outlook was also shadowed by fears of a chaotic transition and a strengthenMourners kiss a poster ofYasserArafat in Ramallah Thursday,following the announcement of his death. ing of Islamic militants.

The burial arrangements in themselves showed how disrupted the region is. The international funeral was to be held in Egypt, because few Arab leaders would travel to Israeli-controlled Palestinian land; Arafat was to be buried in the West Bank town ofRamallah because Israel refused to approve interment in Jerusalem; and most mourners from the Gaza Strip would be barred from traveling across Israeli territory to Ramallah, a security official said.

Workers in Cairo scrambled to lay new carpet and mow the lawn at a small mosque near the airport where dozens of foreign dignitaries will honor the Palestinian leader in a modest ceremony Friday morning, before Arafat’s body is flown to Ramallah for a burial service.

In France, where Arafat died before dawn Thursday after 13 nights in a Paris military hospital, eight pallbearers carried his flag-draped coffin past an honor guard Thursday evening as a military band played the French and Palestinian national anthems and a Chopin funeral march.

Arafat’s widow, Suha, stifled sobs as the coffin was transferred from a French military helicopter to the official French airplane heading to Egypt.

Though it had been expected for several days as he fell into a coma, Arafat’s death stunned Palestinians and left them wondering who could possibly replace their leader of the last four decades.

Arafat had not anointed a successor, but the Palestine Liberation Organization elected former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas to replace him as its new chief, virtually ensuring he takes over as Palestinian leader, at least for now.

The Palestinian legislature also swore in Speaker Rauhi Fattouh as caretaker president of the Palestinian Authority, the self-ruling power in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, though that position will likely have far less power than SEE ARAFAT ON PAGE 9

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Scientists research new immu nocontraceptive Randolph Schmid THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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WASHINGTON The world of male contraception has been limited to condoms and vasectomies. But researchers now point to a new method that shows promise—a shot that prompts an immune reaction to a protein produced in the male reproductive system.

The method worked in experiments on male monkeys, most of which regained their fertility when the treatments Were stopped, researchers report in Thursday’s issue of the journal Science.

“Immunocontraception for males is a possibility and hopefully will be developed for human use over the next several years,” said Dr. Michael O’Rand of the

University of North Carolina.

O’Rand, lead researcher in the project, said that progress depends on funding for the work and that even with unlimited money, translating the findings into human use could take a decade.

“This is a proof of principle. It could be adapted for human use with continued development and the appropriate safety-toxicology tests,” O’Rand said.

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WHO recommends to allow research on smallpox by

Paul Elias

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An influential World Health Organization committee is sending shock waves through the scientific community with its recommendation that researchers be permitted to conduct genetic-engineering experiments with the smallpox virus.

The idea is to be able to better combat a disease that is considered a leading bioterror threat despite the fact that it was publicly eradicated 25 years ago.

The WHO had previously opposed such work for fear that a “superbug” might emerge. Because the disease is so deadly, the WHO has even at times recommended

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Atlanta and in periments, Ken Alibek which would inthe former Sovidude splicing a et Union. “marker” gene The recommended policy shift has reignited a debate into the smallpox virus so its spread can be over whether such research will help or better tracked in the laboratory. hinder bioterrorism defenses.

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genetic engineering experiments would speed depletion of the remaining smallpox virus stocks.

It has been U.S. policy to refrain from genetically engineering smallpox, but that would undoubtedly change if the WHO endorses such research.

“It’s absolutely the right decision,” said Dr. Ken Alibek, a former top scientist in the Soviet biological weapons program who said the Soviets covertly developed smallpox as a weapon in the 1980s.

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DUPD from page 1 includes being DUPD’s official spokesperson. The duties of Minai’s post were previously split among student affairs, that

DUPD and other offices.

At first, Minai will primarily explain security developments to the community, officials said, but eventually she might take on a larger role coordinating among different divisions with security interests. She will also educate people about proper safety practices.

“It is not just reporting on crimes and incidents but helping us think about safety and security in a much broader fashion,” Dawkins said.

Many of these developments have been in the works for about a year, but a flurry of armed robberies at the beginning of the academic year spurred their immediate implementation.

Officials are also examining the particular challenges of patrolling and securing Duke’s campus, which is sprawling but designed for pedestrians. The campus, which also includes the Duke University Medical Center, has an unusually large number of access points connecting Durham and the University.

Campus security forces made efforts to legitimize their authority in the mid-19905, during a time of rapid growth in the Medical Center. The security force, then known as Public Safety, moved into its current fa-

cility on Central Campus in 1995. A year later, it became the Duke University Police Department and trumpeted its role as “law enforcement officers.”

With the police department came a patrolling model that exchanged some officers on foot and bikes for officers in vehicles. DUPD’s focus also shifted from community interaction to crime prevention and response.

The latest moves aim to create a security presence that extends beyond law enforcement. Since 2002, the University has expanded its force of security officials who are not full police officers. Currendy, about 10 Duke security officers patrol on foot or bike during each shift. After a series ofincidents, the University added about 20 con-

Previous summer internships have included opportunities in Croatia, Nicaragua, South Africa, Namibia, Honduras, Malawi and Costa Rica, as well as cities withas well what it truly means to take part in community-based in the United States. research,” Booher said. “Community-based research essenSophomore Suparna Salil traveled to Chicago to tially means that students who participate in SOL will be work with inter-faith refugees and immigration ministries last summer and is anxious to get the program working in conjunction with a community partner organization and a dedicatedfaculstarted once again. “I am disappointed about the hiatus,” she ty mentor.”

“We put these students out While SOL changes its said. “I miss working with a comat Duke that is politically munity curriculum, it is continuing there in the community and to provide students with active and gives me sense of social responsibility.” summer research grants, alsometimes the are in over Senior Chris Carlberg also inthough fewer than in years their heads, but that’s okay.” terned in Chicago, volunteering past. SOL plans to offer $2,500 summer grants to 10 at a shelter for homeless youths.

Bridget Booher students this year, whereas “I was attracted to SOL because it allowed a diverse group of people it previously offered at least 16. This will change, however, when the program is back to come together for interesting social work,” he said. on course. ‘The plan is to come back in 2006 with the full “And it also didn’t hurt that funding is provided.”

Blount said the SOL program hopes to continue to program,” Booher said.

Booher encourages students to get involved once provide students with the opportunity to apply their own SOL returns in Spring 2006. “We put these students out questions and ideas to community-oriented policy issues. there in the community, and sometimes they are in over “An important thing to note,” Blount said, “is that their heads, but that’s okay,” she said. “SOL is designed SOL was a student-created initiative. The driving energy to show them the real world.” of this program has always been Duke students.”

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traded security officers, nearly doubling the number of personnel on duty.

“Safety and security issues on university campuses have been evolving for a long period of time,” Dawkins said. “We move back and forth across a variety of continuums depending on the nature of the incidents that we are trying to respond to.”

The eventual result of the changes will be a shift in the role of DUPD and the creation of a single security entity that will be able to consider issues like lighting, parking, construction and landscaping in away that DUPD is not equipped to do.

“It has changed the way we do business,” DUPD Chief Clarence Birkhead said. “It allows the police department to focus on crime issues and strategies.”

ITALIAN from page 3 part of learning a language is being able to understand and communicate.”

Fellin said Italy is the second most popular study abroad destination at the University, adding that students are now enrolling in more Italian classes. For example, only 112 students enrolled in Italian classes in Fall 1999.

This semester, the number grew to 269 students.

“We actually have had an increased enrollment in higher levels, evidence that people are doing well and enjoying the program,” Fellin said.

Other students said they welcome a more interactive style of education, not just grammar memorization.

“I feel like I’ve learned a lot more about Italy this year than in the past two semesters combined,” said Toby Benenson, a sophomore currendy taking Italian 63.

Italian professors pointed out that learning grammar builds a foundation, however, for more advanced language classes that can focus on cultural aspects instead of the mechanics of the language.

“We are working very hard to make sure the lower levels get a high level of grammar so that they can take the higher levels of literature and grammar courses,” said Laura Orsi, visiting assistant professor of romance studies.

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‘We just have our own expectation that any vendor, whether it’s on campus or off, will have an ‘A’ rating or above,” Wulforst said. ‘We do not want to do business with anyone that does not maintain a safe, sanitary environment.”

Senior Danny Kedem, Merchants on Points recruiter for the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, said the restaurant was originally approved because of its ability to fill the seafood “niche” missing from the Merchants on Points program, but that students have issued complaints about the restaurant’s food quality and delivery time. He also said the restaurant’s suspension will be considered when its oneyear contract is considered for renewal.

“I believe that any violation of a contractual agreement with Dining Services demonstrates that one of our merchants is not necessarily fulfilling the needs of the student body,” Kedem said. “And as a result, ifthey have not shown good faith by the end

THEATER from page 3 the longest and perhaps most strenuous play of the set to endure. A nervous Hugo, played by senior Doug Mishkin, is scheduled to meet Carlotta, played by junior Amy Rosenthal, with whom he had a previous two-year affair. The foreign accents seemed a little forced, but the dialogue between Hugo and Hilde, sophomore Meredith Musselman, is very well performed, coming across as genuine arguments typical of a husband and wife of 20 years. The entire play hinges on Carlotta’s and Hugo’s past and its effects on their present lives. As a result, the entire play is one drawn-out argument. This makes for a

of their contract, it will be a serious consideration as to the renewal of their contract.”

Uptown Seafood owner Steve Niu said the restaurant receives “quite a lot” of business from the Merchants on Points program and the rating is “just an accident.”

Niu cited problems with the landlord’s trash bin disposal, unrelated to restaurant management, as the reason for a five-point deduction in the inspection process. Regarding the loss of the other 13 points, Niu said “[the health inspector] just came in at the wrong time. We were just too busy.”

The restaurant will remain suspended from the program until it undergoes another Health Department inspection and receives an A rating, meaning deliveries to students will be suspended “until further notice,” Wulforst said. When a restaurant requests a follow-up inspection it is usually completed within 15 days, he added.

Niu said he has been in contact with the Health Department, and he anticipates a new inspection soon.

“Uptown Seafood is not going to go out ofbusiness because of Duke,” Wulforst said. very long time for the audience to hold its breath, waiting for the anger to dissipate.

While it is clear that the series of plays were run on a small-scale budget, the costumes and minimal props were creative and successful in portraying the settings. Overall, the blocking, directing and acting were superb and the entire crew is commended for their evident hard work. Sitting through both a Sam Shepard play and a Noel Coward play in one night, however, would be trying for even the most avid theater-goer. Instead of analyzing the content of the plays, save your energy to enjoy what is actually a rather impressive feat of student directing.

The plays run Nov. 12 to 13 at 7 p.m. and November 13 at 1 p.m. in room 209 of the East Duke Building.

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“They want somebody who’s wellrounded and active on campus, but duty starts at 7 p.m., which pretty much precludes all extracurricular activities,” AlienDicker said.

He submitted a revised version of the requirements to the council and said he would welcome any suggestions.

300,000 residents fled the city before the assault. It is impossible to determine how many civilians who were not actively fighting the Americans or assisting the insurgents may have been killed.

Commanders said 1,200 to 3,000 fighters were believed to be in Fallujah before the offensive.

Most of the insurgents still fighting in Fallujah are believed to have fallen back to southern districts ahead of the advancing U.S. and Iraqi forces, although fierce clashes were reported in the west of the city around the public market.

American officers said the majority of the insurgent mortar and machine-gun fire Thursday was directed at U.S. military units forming a cordon around the city to prevent militants from slipping away.

Officers said that suggested the insurgents were trying to break out of Fallujah rather than defend it.

Meanwhile, two Marine Super Cobra attack helicopters were hit by ground fire and forced to land in separate incidents near Fallujah, the military said. The four pilots were rescued, though one suffered slight injuries.

At a U.S. camp outside Fallujah, Maj. Gen. Richard Natonski, commander of the Ist Marine Division, said the operation was running “ahead of schedule” but he would not predict how many days of fighting lay ahead. to

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Sadek, was shown sitting in front of a

green wall. Al-Jazeera did not air any audio but quoted Sadek as saying all businesses should stop cooperating with U.S. authorities.

The four-day Fallujah offensive has wounded an additional 178 Americans along with 34 Iraqi soldiers.

As night fell, U.S. Army soldiers and Marines attacked south of the main eastwest highway that bisects Fallujah, a Sunni Muslim insurgent stronghold 40 miles west of Baghdad.

An Iraqi journalist in the city reported seeing burned U.S. vehicles and bodies in the street, with more buried under the wreckage. He said two men trying to move a corpse were shot down by a sniper.

Two of the three small clinics in the city have been bombed, and in one case, medical staff and patients were killed, he said.

A U.S. tank was positioned beside the third clinic, and residents were afraid to go there, he said.

“People are afraid of even looking out the window because of snipers,” he said, asking that he not be named for his own safety. ‘The Americans are shooting anything that moves.”

Many, if not most, ofFallujah’s 200,000

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ARAFAT from page 2 when Arafat held it. Fattouh is to serve for 60 days until elections can be held, though the law may be amended to allow parliament to choose the new president.

Thousands of Palestinians flooded the streets, many weeping and clutching Arafat’s photo. Even members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militant groups, often critical of Arafat, mourned his death.

Safra Hassan gave birth to twin boys in Gaza a few hours after Arafat died and said she was naming them Yasser and Arafat. “I’m so proud that the name of Yasser Arafat will be in my house every day, just as the name ofYasser Arafat will be in every Palestinian house forever,” she said.

Black smoke from burning tires rose across the Gaza Strip and gunmen fired symbolic volleys into the air. At Arafat’s battered Ramallah compound where he will be buried, flags flew at half staff. The radio played somber music, church bells in the partly Christian city rang out, and Quranic verses were played for hours over

mosque loudspeakers.

By Thursday evening, though, the mourning had given way to subdued can-

dlelight vigils.

The Palestinian Cabinet declared 40 days of mourning, and the A1 Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Gaza, a militant group

uations. Faculty must then follow a specific procedure to make evaluation information available.

Many at the meeting said they did not know this procedure. Only about 9 percent of faculty have given student access to the data, said Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College.

McLendon urged the council to thoroughly reevaluate the issue at its Decem-

ber meeting.

“I asked [DSG] as a personal favor not to do anything about this until the faculty have had a chance to discuss this thoroughly,” McLendon said.

Addressing fears that wider availability of course evaluation data would encourage grade inflation, Thompson argued that more openness would not necessarily have such negative effects.

linked to Arafat’s Fatah movement and responsible for many suicide bombings in Israel, changed its name to the Martyr Yasser Arafat Brigades.

Palestinian refugees scattered in neighboring countries, for whom Arafat symbolized the dreams of returning to their homes in Israel, marched shouting “Death to Israel” and “We will return to Palestine.”

Some burned American and Israeli flags.

“It feels like I lost a father and a good friend,” said 55-year-old Mohammed Sbeiha in Jordan.

Though Israel sealed the West Bank and Gaza Strip and increased security at Jewish settlements, the mourning occasionally turned to violence as Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli cars and soldiers responded with tear gas and rubber-coated bullets, the army said.

Palestinians from across the West Bank will be allowed to attend the burial, but only a select official group will be let in from Gaza, according to a security official who asked to remain anonymous. Palestinian forces will be responsible for security inside Ramallah, but Israel will ring the city with troops.

The Palestinians originally insisted Arafat be buried in Jerusalem in the A1 Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest shrine, built on the hill worshipped by Jews as the site of the biblical Jewish temples.

IVORY COAST from page 2 go when French soldiers swooped into Jacqueville, about 25 miles west of Abidjan.

“I grabbed my baby and I grabbed my photo album and I jumped in the helicopter,” said the French woman, who gave her name only as Caroline.

The violence began when Ivory Coast warplanes killed nine French peacekeep-

ers and an American aid worker in a Saturday airstrike on the north during three days of government bombardments that violated a 2003 cease-fire in a now 2-yearold civil war.

Within hours, France had wiped out the nation’s newly built-up air force, sparking an uprising by loyalist youths, who took to the streets with machetes, iron bars and clubs.

Amid the chaos, more than 4,000 inmates of Ivory Coast’s largest penitentiary escaped through sewers over the weekend after military police guarding the prison were diverted to deal with the street violence, the Justice Ministry said. Officials said initially about 2,000 had escaped but increased that figure Thursday.

Many of the prisoners including murderers, robbers and other hard-core offenders are believed to have made their way into the center of Abidjan, the official said.

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Owen Astrachan, professor of the practice of computer science, was more skeptical than McLendon.

“There’s a substantive difference in terms of how that [unofficial] data is going to be accessible,” he said. “It smells like blackmail.”

Gbagbo’s fiercely patriotic supporters and checked only intermittendy by his gov* emment, has been condemned by fellow African leaders and generated moves toward U.N. sanctions.

South African President Thabo Mbeki opened talks Thursday in Pretoria with the country’s political representatives, including opposition leader and former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara. A spokesperson for Ivory Coast’s main insurgency said they would not participate.

“We are counting our dead and defending our frontiers,” Sidiki Konate said from the rebel-held city of Bouake. “If we were to go to South Africa, it would be to discuss a future in Ivory Coast without Mr. Gbagbo.”

Nigeria—which currently chairs the African Union—said it had invited Gbagbo to a summit of African leaders to discuss the crisis in Ivory Coast in its capital Abuja Sunday, along with Mbeki and the presidents of Ghana, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Gabon.

The north has been without electricity and running water since last week, when authorities in the south are believed to have cut power in rebel-held areas. The U.N. Children’s Fund warned Thursday that lack of safe drinking water could rent

spark epidemics.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan reiterated his call Thursday to all parties to

end the violence.

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sperm production. This work is now in trials.

In O’Rand’s experiments, which did not involve hormones, monkeys were immunized using a form of eppin. That is a protein produced in the testis and epididymis, the tightly coiled ducts that carry sperm.

Male monkeys that developed a strong immune response to the eppin were still able to copulate but could not impregnate females, the researchers said.

“We don’t understand the exact mechanism yet, but we think the immunocontracepdon works by preventing the sperm from freeing itself from the seminal fluid to make its way to the uterus and oviducts to fertilize the egg,” O’Rand said.

In the experiments, designed in the United States and carried out in India, seven of

The findings are valid and interesting, said Douglas S. Colvard, associate director of CONRAD, a cooperative organization based at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va. The group organizes and funds contraceptive development research, including O’Rand’s project.

Colvard said that what needs to be done now is to repeat the experiment in other animals or in more monkeys. He also said researchers need to show that what happened in monkeys is likely to occur in humans, too. ,■ Colvard said that while O’Rand’s findings demonstrate a target for a potential male contraceptive, he believes hormone-based male contraceptives are closer to reaching the market. Indeed, he said, two major European drug companies are currently collaborating to develop such products.

tibodies against its own proteins, she said.

But, DeLeon said, the testis and epididymis are protected by a barrier so the muniz at i on protein never stopped. They gets into the were injected “We don’t understand the exact bloodstream. with eppin about mechanism yet, but we think So, when eppin every three weeks was injected into maintain the to the immunocontraception the bloodstream immunization works by the sperm Patricia the immune sysDr. Anastasia DeLeon tem did not recitself from the from freeing ognize it and of the University of Delaware said produced antiseminal fluid” bodies. the results were Dr. Michael O’Rand “I think it’s significant and that scientists significant bewere lucky to get cause the reis a protein that versibility would produce antibodies very attractive,” said DeLeon, who was not Normally the body does not produce an- part of the research team. the nine males tested developed high antibody levels. Five of the seven recovered fertility once the im-

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WHO from page 6 University, said it is now possible to genetically engineer smallpox to render current vaccines useless.

“The bad guys already know how to do it,” Alibek said. “So why prohibit legitimate researchers to do research for protection.”

Other scientists argue that such research has little value and is too risky.

“We have seen no evidence of a threat that would justify this research,” says Sujatha Byravan, Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics, a Boston nonprofit. “A decade ago, the WHO was planning to destroy the worlds last remaining samples. Today, it is proposing to tinker with the virus in ways that could produce an even more lethal smallpox strain. This is a devastating step backwards.”

Smallpox has plagued humans for centuries, and it’s

ing recommendation is a subcommittee of the international organization’s Advisory Committee on Variola Virus

Research. News ofits decision, in a meeting in Geneva last week, was first reported by National Public Radio.

The committee said further research should be carried out before a final decision is made.

“It will go through the bureaucratic process,” WHO spokesperson Dick Thompson said. “It will be a political decision.”

He said the modified version of the virus would only be used in testing drugs for people who already have the virus and not for smallpox vaccines.

Today, the only smallpox vaccine available is unsafe for people with weakened immune systems, and can even seriously harm some healthy people, because it is made with a live virus called vaccinia that can spread through the body.

Smallpox is the only major disease to be successfully eradicated under a WHO-sponsored vaccination program.

The last known case was in 1978.

hemorrhaging.

A similar debate was set off last year when researcher Mark Buller of Saint Louis University announced that he had genetically engineered a mousepox virus that was designed to evade vaccines. Buller created the superbug to figure out how to defeat it, a key goal of the government’s anti-terrorism plan. He designed a two-drug cocktail that promises to defeat the exceptionally deadly virus.

Buller said similar smallpox protections could be developed if researchers were free to experiment responsibly with genetic engineering. Mousepox is a close relative of smallpox.

Buller’s work improved upon research done in 2001

by Australian scientists who created a mousepox strain so powerful that it killed even those mice inoculated against the virus.

The WHO committee that made the genetic engineer-

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“So, we’ll obviously play to that.”

Randolph and Williams have exploded in each of Duke’s exhibition matches this season—they scored 35 combined points against N.C. Central and 54 in Duke’s first exhibition win over St. Francis Xavier.

“They are the two most competitive players I have every played against,” N.C. Central forward Jonathan Moore said.

“They are very strong.”

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Robbie Church said.

The No. 18 Blue Devils (13-7) have spent this past week preparing for Friday’s opening round matchup with Virginia Commonwealth (15-6), which will get underway at 7:30 p.m. in Charlottesville, Va. The winner will face either third-seeded Virginia or James Madison Sunday with a chance to advance to the Sweet 16.

Duke has been resilient this season rebounding from its setbacks and defeats.

The Blue Devils only lost consecutive games once, when Maryland and North Carolina beat them in the final two games of the regular season. In the game against UNC, however, Duke fought to a 2-1 loss but the team said that it played some ofits best soccer of the season.

The Blue Devils have not advanced past the second round in their last seven appearances in the tournament, a streak that dates back to 1994. But the team believes that this year may be its chance to get back to the SAS Soccer Complex in Cary for the College Cup Final Four.

Virginia Commonwealth received an automatic bid after winning the

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Center Shelden Williams—who put in

25 points on the night—slammed down an emphatic dunk, sending an Eagles defender to the floor. On the subsequent inbounds pass, the Blue Devils immediately snatched the ball and relayed it to Daniel Ewing. Beyond the three-point line, Ewing squared and scored to bump Duke’s lead to 35.

This inside-outside action epitomized the Blue Devils’ play as they capitalized on their talents.

“Inside play is definitely a strength of the team,” forward Shavlik Randolph said.

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Clemson is looking to secure its place as the comeback kid of college football for the second season in a row.

This Saturday, the Tigers (5-4, 4-3 in the ACC) will try to notch their fifth win in a row when they play a Duke team (1-8, 0-6) in the midst of a four-game skid at Wallace Wade Stadium at 1 p.m.

After beginning the season with a disappointing 1-4 record, Clemson is now in a position to extend its about-face winning streak and become bowl-eligible with a victory in Durham.

“Coming back from a 1-4 start says a lot about the character of this team,” head coach Tommy Bowden said. ‘You would rather not be in that situation to begin with,

but we have and we have responded well.”

Defensive improvements have been key to the Tigers’ recent success. After allowing an average of 422 yards of offense during its first five games, Clemson has tightened up, permitting an average of only 265 offensive yards in the last four contests. Bowden marked a players-only meeting before the Utah State game Oct. 16 as the turning point for his team’s defense.

‘There’s a sense of urgency,” senior defensive end Mo Fountain said.

Linebacker Leßoy Hill has been a source of renewed vigor for the Tiger defense. Hill, the current ACC leader in sacks and tackles-for-loss, could be dangerous to Duke quarterback Mike Schneider.

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Virginia-bound The women's soccer team heads north for a Round 1 matchup with VCD. If the Blue Devils win, they will likely face UVa,

Back home Head coach Ted Roof and the football team look for their firstACC win when

Clemson visits Saturday.

The season begins The women's basketball team plays Davidson in its home opener without suspended point guard Lindsey Harding,

Gridiron matchups Minnesota travels to Lambeau Field to face the Packers, and the Jets host Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens.

Duke’s home opener will be a matchup between two squads starting uncertain seasons.

The No. 6 women’s basketball team takes on Davidson Friday at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium for the first round of the preseason WNIT. The Blue Devils will be without starting point guard Lindsey Harding, who head coach Gail Goestenkors suspended indefinitely prior to Duke’s first exhibition game.

In the Blue Devils’ last scrimmage against EVI Monday, Goestenkors tried three different players at the point.

Junior Jessica Foley, freshman Wanisha Smith and junior Monique Currie all shared time filling in for Harding.

Foley struggled Monday, turning the ball over four times and scoring only six points. Despite her shortcomings at the point, Foley is listed as the probable starter for tonight’s game.

Smith, however, is the Blue Devils’ only true point guard besides Harding.

The freshman scored 16 points in 23 minutes off the bench against EVI, going 5-for-10 from the field and 5-for-5 from the line.

Goestenkors will also have to carefully watch sophomore Caitlin Howe and senior Wynter Whitley. Both players missed most of last year with injuries, and are currently hampered by sore ankles. The two, however, are expected to play.

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Mistie Williams at 6-foot-3 and Chante Black at 6-foot-5 will likely be effective inside. In exhibition play, Black, a freshman, averaged 9.5 rebounds, 6.5 points and 3.5 blocks. If she earns the start, Black will only be the seventh freshman

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Despite their difficult draw, the Blue Devils are looking at the bright side.

“I think we were a little shocked at the seed,” senior Johanna Bischof said. “I think we were really hoping to be the No. 4 seed, but it could work out really well.

If we beat UNC we’ll be in a great position for the Final Four. And it gives us good competition going in there, so we don’t get shocked when we get to the Final Four.”

The Blue Devils put themselves in this difficult situation by losing to Maryland in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament. Duke fell to 1-3 on the year against the nation’s top three teams UNC, Wake Forest and Maryland—which hurt its case to be seeded in the NCAA Tournament. If the Blue Devils had beaten the Terrapins, there is little doubt that they would have avoided North Carolina’s regional.

Several costly defensive errors hampered Duke last weekend, and in practice this week head coach Beth Bozman tried to ameliorate the problem.

‘We switched our defense up a little bit,” Bozman said. We made a lot of mistakes in that game, and I think that we really focused hard on fixing those things and fixing our defensive corners.”

Bischof hopes her team has a better attitude than it did in the conference tournament, and Duke knows its next loss will be its last.

“I think it was a lack of preparation on our part,” the senior midfielder said. “We weren’t really fired up for the game. We —

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The field hockey team will try to move past last weekend's ACC Tournament loss to Maryland, during which a few defensive mistakes cost Duke the game. did make a lot of mistakes, we did do a lot of good things too, but I think all in all, we didn’t make up for each other’s mistakes.

It wasn’t the mistakes that cost us the game, it was the fact that we weren’t there to cover each other’s back.”

Even though a North Carolina-Duke matchup appears likely on paper, the Blue Devils are not taking the Monarchs for granted. The scores in both games against Old Dominion did not reflect the play, Bischof said. The Monarchs have also defeated the Terrapins 2-1 Oct. 15.

Old Dominion is also guided by Beth Anderson, considered one of the top coaches in the country. The 24-year veteran has made a trip to every single NCAA

Tournament. Delaware, however, upset the Monarchs in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament semifinals.

“They are a dangerous team,” Bozman said. “When you get into the tournament your record is 0-0.1 think that is why there are so many upsets in the tournament.”

Last year, the Blue Devils plowed through their regional on the way to the Final Four. Duke beat American and Old Dominion 3-1 and 8-2, respectively.

‘We try really hard not to talk about what we did last year,” Bozman said. “When you dwell on what you did, you are not going to do it again. That’s a big reason why teams don’t go to the final four two years in a row.”

Heading into the ACC Tournament, Bozman said there was no clear favorite.

Things have changed, though, and North Carolina is still perfect against ACC competition and has established itself as the favorite to win a national title.

“The difference between UNC and the other teams in the ACC is that they play hard for 70 minutes,” Bozman said. ‘They never, ever let up. They are an incredibly passionate team and they just go after you for 70 minutes.”

If the Blue Devils can make the Final Four, they will face the winner of the Michigan regional. That opponent, on paper, will likely be a less challenging task for Duke than North Carolina.

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FOOTBALL from page 11 Schneider and the Blue Devil offense had trouble gaining

yards against the tough Florida State defense last week, and the renewed Clemson defense is not likely to be any more suscepdble to big plays.

Duke’s leading rusher Cedric Dargan said he is looking forward to the challenge of playing against Hill, a personal acquaintance, but he is focused on his team’s offensive performance, not the Clemson defense.

“I’m looking for our players to make big plays, and that’s about it,” Dargan said.

Turnovers have plagued both the Tigers and the Blue Devils this season. But while Clemson has improved its turnover margin in recent weeks, Duke has continued to struggle, committing five turnovers last week against Florida State.

Head coach Ted Roof has addressed this problem by emphasizing ball handling in practice this week and focusing on retaining possession for his team.

“We’ve got to protect the football and take care of it,” Roof said. “We spend a lot of time talking about taking care of the ball, about it being more precious than gold.”

Clemson’s offense has been lackluster this season, only showing improvement in the last few games. Quarterback Charlie Whitehurst had difficulties with accuracy early on, throwing 11 interceptions in the first five games, compared to only three in the last four. Reggie Merriweather became the first Clemson player to rush for more than 100 yards this season in Miami last week.

One exception to Clemson’s middling offensive production has been standout junior Justin Miller on special teams. Miller currendy leads the nation in yards on kick returns and is second in the ACC for yards on punt returns.

Duke will look to take advantage of any Whitehurst miscues, as the Blue Devils have had success in forcing interceptions. John Talley leads the league with four interceptions on the season, and Codey Lowe had a pickoff that led to Duke’s only touchdown against Florida State.

Whitehurst does have a history of success at Wallace Wade Stadium. The junior’s first college start was at Duke in 2002, when he threw for a school-record 420 yards and surrendered no interceptions in a close 34-31 victory. “[Whitehurst] makes good decisions,” Roof said. “He’s got enough evadability and escapability to stand the rush and deliver the ball and make a big play. It’s dangerous.”

Clemson is a hot team on a four-game winning streak, but it does not have a history of dominance in Durham. Six of the last seven games between the two programs at Wallace Wade Stadium have been decided by a margin of a touchdown or less. This weekend, the Blue Devils hope to use their home-field advantage to end their own four-game losing streak and the Tigers’ winning streak in one blow. “[The Tigers] are getting a lot of confidence,” Roof said. “But they all count one, and this one counts the same as anything else. We’ll go to work and see what happens.”

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MEN'S BASKETBALL fom pagen games to further define individual roles, while Williams and Randolph refined theirs. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski expects this process to continue when Duke opens its season against Tennessee-Martin Nov. 20.

‘The role doesn’t change, no matter whom they go in with or whom they go in for,” Krzyzewski said. “They must assume their own roles. With this team, it is even more important to define these roles.”

JJ. Redick went 4-for-7 from three-point range as Williams and Randolph lured the Eagles defense inside.

Duke’s other guards also benefited from the open outside looks. Ewing sank a trio of three-pointers and Lee Melchionni and Sean Dockery each added one.

The Blue Devils have still not definitively filled the point guard slot. Ewing and Dockery alternated running the offense, yet neither clearly commanded the position.

For each player, becoming the team’s offensive leader has been an adjustment.

“It’s a difficult task rallying the team making sure everybody is in the right spots,” Ewing said of the position. “It is difficult, but we’re in great shape with all the

conditioning.”

David McClure—who expected to be a role player off the bench—has adjusted well to the position, playing pri-

marily off the ball. Gathering seven boards and nabbing three steals, McClure scored both of his baskets after

recovering a teammate’s missed opportunity.

“You just have to stay hungry on every play,” McClure said. “You’ve got to value the ball. When you see the ball, you just have to go after it, and that’s what I do.”

N.C. Central was aggressive inside, fouling Duke 25 times. Forward Mintrel Abney and center Jason Hervey fouled out at the beginning of the second half, leaving the Eagles to depend almost solely on Moore to defend in the paint.

“I was pleased with this game,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought it was very competitive. You know we’re more talented, but I thought they played as hard as we did. I thought they played with just the same amount of purpose.... They played with a lot of pride, never let up.”

With the mismatch of talent, it was no surprise that the Blue Devils would run away with the win, but ,as the regular season quickly approaches, Krzyzewski said Duke will need to prove its dominance against teams with comparable talent.

“A lot of people have said that we don’t have a lot of depth, but we’ve shown that we can go at least eight or nine deep,” Williams said. ‘We have the same number of guys as most teams, and we keep using those seventh, eighth and ninth guys and they keep stepping up and

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WOMEN'S SOCCER from page 11 Colonial Athletic Association title for the first time in its school history and dedicated the season to Nicole Megaloudis, a team member who died in a February car accident.

The Blue Devils are coming off both a 4-2 loss to the Tar Heels in the conference tournament semifinals, during which Duke had led 2-1, and the letdown of not hosting the first two rounds of the tournament.

The Blue Devils are looking to bounce back against VCU, a challenging opponent who has some “soccer savvy-” international players, Church said.

“They’re very strong in the middle and that is something that we have to be aware of,” defenseman RachelRose Cohen said. “This is a tournament so every team is going to come out and play their hardest. So we just have to come out and play just as hard or even harder.”

ACC Offensive Player of the Year Casey McCluskey has led the way all year with 16 goals. Junior Carolyn Riggs has found her stride late in the season, scoring four goals in the team’s final three games. Against the Rams defense, which has held opponents to a goal per contest, the Duke attack will have to continue clicking.

“Our forwards have been doing well, Riggs has really stepped it up,” sophomore Darby Kroyer said. “She’s been getting goals and stuff, and we all know that Casey can get a goal or two. We’re just relying on everyone to do what they’ve been doing all year.”

The Rams have a different formation than Duke is accustomed to playing, and Church said the VCU players are particularly skilled and creative down the middle of the field.

Although the Blue Devils are not overlooking Virginia Commonwealth, Duke is eager to get a chance to play Virginia, the ACC Tournament Champions, after losing to them 2-1 earlier in the season. The Cavaliers beat topranked North Carolina in a shootout to win the schools’ first ACC tide.

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Allow sale of Duke Forest land trail between the Forest and Jordan Lake. As part of the purchase agreement, however, Duke required Crosland to preserve, some of the land as park-like space. Thus, 21 of re acres mentally unfriendly 14 "I St3tTGultOri3l main undeveloped— are unfounded. In the developers are fact, the development conscious environmentally Durham’s being will promote growth.

In the late 1980s Duke’s Board of even without the intervention of outTrustees commissioned a study of the side groups. Although the walking Duke Forest, found certain tracts of trail may have to be altered some, any land to have minimal academic use changes will be minor.

Furthermore, Durham will benefit and decided diese areas had the potenfrom the development of this land. tial to be sold in the future. The University is now trying to sell 42 acres of Durham is in need of new upscale that land to Crosland, which plans to housing. Right now, the city lacks that build 49 upscale houses there. type of housing and is losing potendal Problem is, the Erwin Area taxpayers to places like Cary or Neighborhood Group, a coalition of Chapel Hill. If Durham hopes to at19 neighborhoods in the area, does tract residents to the city, it needs not want the land developed and is housing developments such as the trying to prevent the sale by blocking one Crosland is planning.

Crosland has already sunk money necessary county and city approvals Crosland needs to proceed. The into developing the land, and there is Durham County Commissioners no legitimate reason why it should have exercised their right to reserve not be allowed to continue. The reacland being considered for purchase, tion from the Erwin Area Neighborand the coalition has 120 days in hood Group is extreme—Crosland is which to raise the money necessary being environmentally conscious, half of the land will remain open to buy the land.

For the University, who buys the space and the walking trail will not be land is really a non-issue, since it will significantly affected.

If Crosland is not allowed to buy get paid eitherway. The county, however, should not block land sales without and develop this land, it will set a danany justifiable reason, and the bigger gerous precedent. It will discourage fuissue is that preventing the land sale to ture development, and without this Crosland will be detrimental to type of development Durham will have a harder time growing and expanding Durham’s growth.

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Wisdom gained by caring for the dying

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Death ofIvan Illyich,” Maya Angelou’s poem was struck by the recent column, “In Appreciation of Life,” written by Anne ‘The Last Decision,” Anton Chekov’s short Katharine Wales. She made many interstory “Misery” and Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro” are rich in examples esting and moving points.

Anne said her grandfather’s funeral was that help us contemplate basic truths and wisdoms about the human condition that are the first she had attended, and she remarked “how scared I felt.” Our parents uncovered through the lens of death and and grandparents had a clearer view of dying. Those of us who have the privilege to death as part of the natural cycle of life. In be in their presence and have the courage to look into our souls and confront our own infact, it can be said that birth is the leading evitable mortality as we care for dying percause of death. In 1900 the average life exsons often feel transformed and wiser as a repectancy was 47 years, and death often happened in the home with families, friends sult of these experiences.

As director of the Institute on Care at the and even neighbors in attendance. A centulater, because of the End of Life in the Divinity ry School here, I invite Anne advances medical in many and all members of the Duke science, life expectancy has richard payne doubled to commun t>' 87 years nearly Join f, in ur ; guest commentary mission to be a catalystt tor Although more than 70 percent of Americans say they growth and transformation, a wish to die at home, only 25 percent of all global resource and to improve care for deaths occur at home; the vast majority of those at life’s end. The institute pursues deaths now occur in sanitized institutions scholarly work in many disciplines inside such as hospitals and nursing homes. It is and outside of traditional medical practice no wonder that for young adults such as related to end of life care, and it is working Anne, unfamiliarity with this part of the life to translate knowledge to improve the care of the whole person facing life’s end. This cycle is so “scary.” care also extends to the person’s family and Anne also said her grandfather’s death occasioned meaningful interactions with her other loved ones. Duke provides a unique family and friends. It is often the case that and highly productive environment in caring for a seriously ill or dying relative and which to do this important work.

As Anne reminds us, particularly as we apthe grief and bereavement associated with the loss of a loved one can bring families closproach the holiday season, let us express our love and support for families and friends coner. This process often triggers profound introspection on the part of caregivers and tinuously, for they are our only real treasures. loved ones. People who are dying often exRichard Payne directs the Duke Institute on press profound wisdoms about life, which are left as legacies for the living. Our literature as Care at theEnd ofLife, urunv.iceol.duke.edu, locatembodied in stories such as Tolstoy’s ‘The ed at Duke Divinity School. °

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iPods, not wePods was walking to class on East, when I heard a voice start ing poker with people, some people win $30,000 on Pokersinging some ’9os pop “classic” behind me. I turned Stars.com without having to look at the faces of the people around to see some dude with white plugs in his ears they are putting in the poor house. Sweet life.

I don’t even understand the logic in needing music to belting out the chorus to a Vertical Horizon ballad, or something equally terrible. His eyes were closed as his go to class. I can understand running, studying, sitting. head swayed soulfully. He HAD to have known that he was But walking? To class? You’ll get a good one, maybe two 1. Singing out loud, 2. in public and 3. SINGING OUT songs out of that 50-yard trip. Then you forget to turn it off and you drain your battery, leaving you extremely anLOUD. I looked at the other people around me, but it’s like, noyed and without music for the 50 yards back.

When we put on those precious white buds, we isolate they all had white plugs in their ears, were bobbing their heads, mouthing words, consumed in their bubble of iPod ourselves from everyone else. “I don’t want to be bothered by anybody who doesn’t think I should glory. I was the only person in the little radius around this kid, who has awful taste in ‘drop it like it’s hawt.’” The closest interaction we get is a smile or one of those music, to notice. I wanted him to stop, but cool head nods that mean, “’sup?” . of course, I was fairly amused. In some twistWe’re completely content with moving ed way, I think I almost liked it. And if he’s about our business alone as long as there with like this in public, singing totally okay is music there to accompany us. We don’t then I’m totally okay with making fun of need to make eye contact or idle chitchat. him in my column.

We’re so independent that we don’t need iPod, freshman has an and Every many Sarah kwak it. By listening to iPods on campus, what upperclassmen have them as well, myself inkind of message are we sending? Nope, cluded. And sure, I listen to it from time to the skwak box don’t really want to talk to you. I’m way time on my way to class. A good song makes too involved in this song that is terrible. the bus ride seem to go by... at exactly the same rate, but We’re getting more and more cut off from other peoat least you have a soundtrack to it. Also, listening to music is a GREAT alternative to listening in on inane conple with every new technology that comes around, and it must stop. The kid I saw the other day was oblivious and versation on the bus—of which there are many.

Duke should have given iPods to the freshmen and inconsiderate of those that happened to be around him—me. The common courtesy of making conversation on the said, “For you, to become even more self-involved and unbus or walking to class is just eradicated because we’re too aware of what’s going on around you.” I would’ve respected that a lot. So am I saying that we should just hold in absorbed in our own ißubble. The moment those ear buds go in, the world becomes whatever is inside our head our innermost desires to let the music move us?

Absolutely. regardless of what is around us.

So, I propose that we bring back the inane conversaWe’re so into what we’re doing in our own menial existions on the bus, and the awkward chats on the pathways. tence during the day that socializing has become something only appropriate at night. Technology in general has Why? Because without any human contact, we all may as taken away from social encounters. AIM and text messages well be singing Vertical Horizon to ourselves. let people communicate and even fight without interactSarah Kuak is a Trinity sophomore. ing whatsoever. Instead of sitting around a table and play-

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posturing of the election is over. There’s a rare They don’t need superior logic to win the debate, only a pause in campus and national rhetoric; people are larger megaphone and a more complicated theory of disthinking. They no longer have to convince them- crimination, neo-discrimination or neo-neo-discriminaselves that the candidate they supported is perfect. tion so that only those who have gone to graduate school Of course, we can only expect a short breather before can contribute to the debate. They are the protesters who the Republicans are again accused of unflinchingly killing seek to not just block Campus Drive every few years, but poor urban, orphaned children and Democrats are again they want to block thought and debate. We need particiaccused of being girlie, tax-and-spend pants in debates, not dictators. anti-Christs. So let’s take advantage of Many on campus are scared of honestly this moment of relative introspection; discussing race, ethnicity and religion, along it’s something that this country and cerwith many other issues that could bring politically tension. As a result, people on campus tainly this campus could use. only broach sensitive issues in small groups of Campaigners and strategists seek short-term dominance, not a healthy sopeople that are already likely to have the same opinions. People become so scared of ciety. Any self-doubt they have just makes rebuke and venomous confrontation that them scream more loudly. Republicans musselwhite they avoid speaking across the political speccan easily cow Democrats by questioning trum. Isolated communities of thought form. their masculinity and patriotism while constructive criticism Democrats seek to paint Republicans as As a result of the lack of open dialogue, few ideas get challenged. provincial and/or cruel Little room is left for those who could see selective Although it is true that social and political intimidation compromise as a road to strength or those who think re- on campus holds down the number of discriminatory distribution of wealth can be harmful to all members of thoughts expressed publicly, there is a price. Like people society. And that’s the point. Rhetoric is designed to limit converted to religion by force, many on campus go choice and thought. through the motions of being politically correct. But what Although it makes sense that national campaigners do they really think? As we saw a few weeks ago, every once seek to draw caricatures of each other in 15-second bitein a while someone slips up and blurts out something that is logically questionable and somewhat offensive. But desized attacks for television, it doesn’t make sense for a dialogue on Duke’s campus. Yet people do it anyway. Take, stroying people who speak their mind only further intimfor example, the discussion of race, ethnicity and religion idates the dialogue. The harder we make it for people to discuss sensitive issues, the more likely it is that the only on campus. Anyone who deviates from the politically correct line is demonized. The veracity ofhis argument is no people who publicly speak outside of the politically corlonger the first consideration. All that people at Duke rect line will be extreme. We need to encourage people to want to determine is whether or not the argument is poexpress their ideas without fear of fire and brimstone so that they can be debated instead of repressed to volatility. litically correct. not It is better to convince people of an argument than to that we should embrace discriminaI’m suggesting tion, but rather that we should disprove it on its factual intimidate them into believing it. When we drop the rhetand logical inaccuracies. Although the issues involved can oric and allow our arguments to be exposed to questionbe sensitive, that is not a good enough reason to poison ing, we may convince those that think differently or even debate and dialogue. We don’t need to attack the people re-think our own arguments. We have to expose ourselves to the possibility of being offended to be able to win the who make the arguments; we could just consider the arguments themselves. service of minds instead of just lips.

The self-proclaimed opponents of discrimination know that they can intimidate their opponents into silence.

Paul Musselwhite is a Trinity junior.

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literary powers that be always consider the release of a new Tom Wolfe book the literary event of the season. His last two works, The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full were monstrous best sellers and raved by most critics.

Now comes his latest work, I Am Charlotte Simmons.

His past works have tried to take his readers into unknown worlds—upper class New York, big-business machinations—and his latest work decides to delve into the world of college. It has already been speculated by many, although North Carolina native and Duke parent Wolfe denies it, that the fictional college in the book is based on Duke.

The News and Observer of Raleigh wrote as much in one of its articles on the book. It’s not hard to make the connection. Though set in rural Pennsylvania, the fictional ‘ ty‘is Dmpon tU mversr a small top-ten U.S. private university with Gothic architecture and a perennial powerhouse basketball team. Like that doesn’t seem familiar. pattillo So not being one from inside the bubbie to miss the literary event of the season or a pop culture aficionado going to pass on a novel about life at Duke, I went to Barnes & Noble to pick up a copy. It was there I discovered the book to be 676 pages long and thus passing my 100-page limit for any book to read.

Plus the book also had really small font and lacked the pictures I fondly remembered from my elementary school days. So I decided to take a pass and do what every wanna-be reader does when they want to learn about books and read about the novel in the New York Times Book Review, which also published a chapter of the novel.

The novel in a nutshell is about a young naive girl from the country who is an overachiever in high school and gains admittance to one of the most elite universities in America. Once she gets there, her roommate is a sex-crazed Groton grad snob who is obsessed with chasing lacrosse players.

The story goes on to tell about the protagonist’s fall from innocence amid the typical college stereotypes of sorority girls, fraternity boys, nerds and hanger-ons. The book is laced with four letter words and other suggestive stories of what goes on -

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I remember reading in the News & Observer that some within the administration at Duke were concerned the novel would reflect badly of Duke; that Wolfe would paint it as some modern day Gothic Gomorrah.

The admissions department or the administration should not worry. First off, the activities described in Simmons are not unique to only this school, they go on at all universities across America. If anything, Wolfe appears to embellish on college life by so blatantly sticking to stereotypes and not fully-fleshed characters (the innocent freshman, the ambitious wanna-be Rhodes Scholar, the hot shot basketball player, the jerk fraternity boy).

Readers across the nation should not take Duke or college students as what is portrayed in the book. Though some stereotypes like the ones in Simmons do exist, there is a happy balance between the one extreme Sodom-like portrait of college Wolfe paints and the saintly place of academic at the other end of the spectrum that some see in movies like Dead Poets Society.

In the meantime, I will probably not wish to indulge myself with a fictitious book about college when in the meantime I can live a factual life at college.

Where everyone is not a dirty tramp from prep school New England, a work-a-holic obsessed with becoming Phi Beta Kappa, a suburb athlete or in a fraternity.

Jonathan Pattillo is a Trinity junior.

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