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Duke’s financial aid endowgot a $2O million boost from alumnus William Gross, Trinity ’66, and his wife Sue, President Richard Brodhead announced Wednesday.

The Gross gift—which matches one donated by Bill and Melissa Gates in 1998 as the largest from individuals for scholarship development at Duke—will provide aid for students who demonstrate both academic excellence and significant financial need. $l5 million of the gift will fund scholarships for undergraduates, and $5 million will assist students in the School ofMedicine.

Brodhead said he was “elated” about the gift, noting that it provides substantial, long-term support for the University’s needblind admissions policy, to which he has reiterated his commitment since taking office as Duke’s ninth president in July.

“I’ve been talking about the need for endowment for financial aid and our obligation to keep the University open to all without regard to their ability to pay, and this gift will support these goals for generations yet to come,” Brodhead said. “Many people are going to want to give gifts for financial aid... [and] they will all be very welment

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ulty and students alike first described as unprecedented and uncalled for, the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty decided last week to discontinue Hispanic and Latino students’ eligibility for the Duke Endowment Fellowship, the largest single-funded program at the Graduate School.

The committee made its decision based on a report of the 15year-old fellowship program’s history that found Hispanic and Latino students receiving the fellowship attained a 40 percent Ph.D. completion rate, whereas Hispanic and Latino students without the fellowship attained a 55 percent completion rate both figures well below the overall Ph.D. completion average of 63 percent.

After the decision was made, the executive committee promised to develop a more efficient strategy for providing funding to those Hispanic and Latino students that demonstrate merit.

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On Wednesday, the first day it snowed this school year, people like Eui Joong Kim (top, on Science Drive) waited for C-2 and C-3 buses that didn't come midday. The effects of snow and ice spanned campus, from the Duke Gardens (left) to Pauly Dogs (right).

William Gross '66, founder of PIMCO, boosted Duke's latest financial aid push. come, but a gift of this size takes us a giant step forward.”

An additional $3.5 million, separate from the financial aid gift, will go to faculty development and support in the Fuqua School of Business.

Gross, the chief financialofficer and founder of Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO), one of the world’s leading bond management firms, said

Wednesday’s gift was a “logical extension, though on a grander scale,” ofhis and his wife’s philanthropic commitment to education SEE GROSS ON PAGE 5

Hondas targeted 8 make next trustee round in car robberies by

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A spree of Honda break-ins has plagued Duke students, visitors and employees parking in Duke-owned lots for months, and about a half-dozen of these crimes occurred in the last week alone.

According to Duke University Police Department statistics, 40 percent of all vehicle larcenies during November and December 2004 involved Honda Accord or Honda Civic cars. The crimes have occurred in the Bryan Center parking lot, several lots on Central Campus and two locations on Hillsborough Road.

Though the Hillsborough lots are not on the Duke campus, they are used by employees every day.

“The issue for Duke right now

is Hondas are being targeted,” saidLeanora Minai, senior public relations specialist for DUPD. She noted, however, that none of the cars have been stolen.

Of the 36 Hondas broken into during the 2004 calendar year, 23 had their car stereos taken. Other commonly stolen items included laptop computers and cell phones. Anthony Rush, a DUPD officer in the criminal investigation division, said these items sell easily on the street.

Rush also said thieves wander around Duke’s campus and notice cars with loud stereos. These criminals then watch where students park and strike the target later that night.

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Eight campus leaders with resumes that bulge with prestigious University positions, academic accolades and distinguishing internships progressed to the next round in the undergraduate Young Trustee selection process

Wednesday night.

The Young Trustee Nominating Committee, composed of 16 members from major campus organizations, halved the pool of 16 applicants in this first part of the appointment process.

The committee will reduce die eight applicants to three Jan. 31.

After a joint vote of the Duke Student Government Senate and the nominating committee, the young trustee will be selected Feb. 16. The undergraduate Young Trustee is appointed to SEE TRUSTEE ON PAGE 6

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Senate panel endorses Rice Condoleezza Rice won strong but not unanimous endorsement as secretary of state from a Senate panel with a 16-2 vote, assuring skeptical Democrats she welcomed debate about foreign policy and wouldn't sugarcoat advice to President George W. Bush.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Insurgents unleashed a wave of five car bombings across the capital Wednesday, killing about a dozen people, despite stepped-up U.S. and Iraqi measures to protect this month’s elections. North of Baghdad, insurgents killed a British security officer.

Iraqi police also said insurgents kidnapped a Japanese engineer, but officials in Tokyo cast doubt on the report Thursday, saying they had no information on die incident.

Gunmen also fired on the Baghdad office of a major Kurdish party and two senior officials escaped assassination in separate attacks in the north. .

The U.S. military put the death toll from the day’s Baghdad bombings at 26, saying the number was based on initial reports at die scene. Iraqi officials gave a lower toll—l 2 people killed in the bombings and one at the Kurdish office.

Sunni Muslim insurgents have threatened to disrupt the elections, and the five car bombings—four widiin a span of 90 minutes—underscored the grave threat facing Iraqis at this watershed in their history. U.S. and Iraqi forces have stepped up raids and arrests in Baghdad, Mosul and other trouble spots as the elections approach.

Nevertheless, the attacks had little effect on preparations for the Jan. 30 ballot-

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Tennessee officials are asking why it took so long for Pfizer to release an alternative decongestant without the ingredient used to make meth. Pseudoephedrine is an active ingredient in Pfizer's Sudafed and Actifed, but it can also be used to make methamphetamine in homemade labs.

S.C. group gets cash for tags A South Carolina Senate committee has passed a bill that would allow the Sons of Confederate veterans to receive some of the money made by selling its special license plates. Although the SCV license tags have been on the road for years, profits from them now go into the state's budget.

A 115. soldier surveys Wednesday's wreckage in Baghdad, where 26 died justtwo weeks before elections. ing, in which Iraqis will choose a 275-member National Assembly and regional legislatures. At Baghdad airport, Iraqi authorities Wednesday received the largest shipment of ballot boxes and other elections equipment to date.

Elections official Farid Ayar said 90,000 ballot boxes had already been flown to Iraq along with millions of ballots printed mosdy in Canada and Australia.

Throughout the morning Wednesday,

the routine clatter of big city traffic was punctuated by the crisp sound of distant explosions. U.S. military helicopters raided low overhead, roaming the bright blue sky for any sign of trouble.

A1 Qaeda’s branch in Iraq claimed responsibility for the first of the day’s blasts, which occurred about 7 a.m. at the Australian Embassy in the capital. A truck SEE BAGHDAD ON PAGE 5

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FBI alerts Boston of suspects The FBI notified law enforcement officials Wednesday to be on the lookout for four Chinese nationals described as possible terror suspects who may be headed to the Boston area. Federal law enforcement officials said they had received a tip.

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It would take nearly the first 16 years ofher life forjhyrve Sears to receive the kind of medical assistance she needed for a disease that restricted her to crutches for the past two years.

Then, events turned in Jhyrve’s favor not only once, but twice. After she underwent treatment at Duke University Medical Center, producers from ABC’s hit television show Extreme Makeover: HomeEdition picked her home to receive a complete renovation.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition chooses a different family each week that has overcome personal challenges. The show’s design team then remodels the family’s house during the span of one week.

Jhyrve’s story will premier Sunday at 8 p.m.

“ABC entered Jhyrve’s life and became a part of her healing process,” said Karen Sears, Jhyrve’s mother. “She’s got a home now where she can be herself.”

Jhyrve spent seven weeks at DUMC with her mother by her side as she underwent chemotherapy for a rare genetic disorder, Krabbe Disease. The disease, which attacks the central and peripheral nervous systems, has plagued Jhyrve throughout her life but was only identified when she was 15 years old. Although current residents of Martinez, Calif,, the Sears family packed up their belongings in early March after Jhyrve was admitted to Duke Hospital.

As a consequence of the disease and treatments, Jhyrve has a very weak immune system —one threatened by seemingly everything, even the state of her own home. Herb Ankrom, an Extreme Makeover associate producer, noted the team had to be particularly meticulous about cleanliness. ‘"When we demolished the house we saw more than that it was just old, it was covered in mold and bacteria that could make Jhyrve very sick,” .Ankrom said.

Jhyrve required an extremely clean, bacteria-free household to stay healthy following her treatment, which her previous living situation did not provide.

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Summer registration will take place spring than it has in the past, while students registering for the fall semester will have a little longer wait. In addition, the number of enrollment windows will be reduced to three from five.

The decrease in the number of enrollment windows comes after a review of the level of technical support that registration requires and problems with the existing procedure. A committee chaired by University Registrar Bruce Cunningham recommended the changes in order to lessen pressure on faculty advisers. Because the system requires students to enter PINs before they can register, students and advisers were being forced to have their advising sessions early to exchange information, as many summer classes fill up on the first few days of registration.

“Pre-major advisers wanted to be deliberate, careful and thoughtful in terms of advising for fall,” said Paula Gilbert, assistant dean and director of continuing education and University summer session.

With the changes, summer registration will start before fall registration and before PINs are issued. The window will close at. the beginning of spring break and PINs will be issued then. This will allow students to register for summer classes without a PIN and meet with their advisers later, during the drop/add period. Because PINs are not terra-specific, the system cannot require a PIN for one term and not the other.

The earlier start time also lets summer session officials see enrollment patterns two weeks earlier this

After treatment at Duke Hospital, 16-year-old Jhryve Sears got a new pad on ABC's Extreme Makeover.

It was here that the Sears’ longtime friends, Steve and Lisa Wallace, stepped in.

The couple, along with Karen Sears, sent in video clips ofboth the Sears’ home and family to try to convince .ABC to pick them for a home makeover.

“We were so excited and thrilled to learn that they had chosen us,” Karen Sears said. “Outside of the shock of being picked, we were just happy to know we had somewhere to go. I had been so busy with Jhyrve that I had not thought much ahead of what we might do after the hospital.”

The Sears home was soon razed and rebuilt within the span of one week and the help of 1,000 volunteers and production staff.

“In four hours we had demolished the house, and in about five and a half days later built her a completely new home,” said Chris Goettsche, a design producer for Extreme Makeover. “Everything was proofed to be medically approved.”

Jhyrve’s new home includes amenities such as multiple remote-controlled devices, a stair lift priced at more than $lB,OOO and television and computer equipment that cost more than $45,000 all of which were donated primarily by local residents of the Sears’ community.

Tate was looking out for us on this job,” Ankrom said. “We were getting down to the wire and missing the little tilings, but at the last minute people donated things, such as window treatments and wall accessories, to help us finish the home.”

Plans for a viewing party of tire episode for Jhyrve’s family and volunteers is scheduled for later this week. It is at this party that Karen and Jhyrve will meet the volunteers who took time out to build their new home.

“Now that Jhyrve’s friends have all had their flu shots they can come visit her and her spirits have lifted 100-fold,” Karen Sears said. “It was an answer to our prayers and a dream come true.”

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Move out of the way, eßay Dukeßid.com is sauntering into Duke’s ecommerce scene.

Conceived by Duke Student Government last semester and created over winter break, Dukeßid.com provides the only online market specifically for Duke students and faculty. The Internet auction site, modeled after eßay, allows users to buy and sell items, including clothes, furniture, jewelry and textbooks. The site differs from eßay, however, because buyers and sellers have to meet to complete a tr ansaction; no money is sent prior to receiving tire item.

Dukeßid.com is already beginning to claim a space on the “favorites” toolbar of many Duke community members.

“The site was so popular in the first day and got so many hits, that it is now shut down,” senior Aneil Lala, creator of DukeBid.com and DSG’s chief of staff, said earlier this week. “Approximately 250 students registered in die first eight hours ofoperation with more than 4,000 hits. We are now upgrading the server to handle more traffic, and it will hopefullybe trp later this week.”

Lala attributes much of die site’s popularity to the Duke community’s perceived need for it.

“We are hoping that Dukeßid.com will—in good spirit—compete with the Duke stores for customers,” Lala said.

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Naomi Chazan knows about highpressure speaking gigs. An 11-year Israeli

Parliament member and current pro lessor of political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she found an easier crowd when she spoke at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life Wednesday night. Chazan briefed a crowd of about 60 people on the currents of change and continuity present in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Chazan, a member of the far-left Israeli political party Meretz, began by requesting that the audience forgive her if she was “a bit provocative.”

She then walked the crowd through a crisp, fast-paced analysis of the three “new-old governments.” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s third government in four years, newly elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s consolidation of power and U.S. President George W. Bush’s second-term administration are all recent manifestations of longstanding political patterns that affect the Israeli-Palestinian arena, she ex-

plained.

“This is the last opportunity we will have to cement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Chazan said.

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The homepage of Dukeßid.com, a sleek new websitefrom Duke Student Government where members of the community can auction econ textbooks, lawn chairs and video games at theclick of a button.

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packed with explosives blew up outside the concrete barriers in front of the embassy, killing two people and wounding several, including two-Australian soldiers.

“A lion of monotheism and faith...Carried out a martyrdom operation nearby the Australian Embassy,” the group al Qaeda in Iraq said in an Internet statement. The group is led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has allied himself with Osama bin Laden’s terror network.

Lt. Col. Steven Boylan, director of the U.S. military press center, said U.S. officials could not explain the discrepancy between the American and Iraqi figures “but we are holding to our numbers.”

A half-hour after the embassy blast, another car bomb exploded at a police station next to a hospital in eastern Baghdad. The U.S. military said 18 were killed there, but the Iraqi Interior Ministry put the death toll at six, including a policeperson.

A third car bomb struck at the main gate to an Iraqi military recruiting center located at a disused airport in central Baghdad.

Police said the driver told guards he was delivering potatoes and detonated his explosives at the gate, killing three Iraqi soldiers and injuring one American.

The U.S. military also said a car bomb detonated southwest of Baghdad International Airport, killing two Iraqi security guards. The fifth car bomb exploded around noon near a Shiite mosque and a bank in north Baghdad, killing one person and injuring another, police said.

Also in the capital, insurgents in a car fired on an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, killing one ofits members and wounding another, party officials said.

Elsewhere, an Iraqi police officer was killed Wednesday in another car bombing in the largely Shiite city of Hillah south of Baghdad, the Polish military said.

In London, Janusian Security Risk Management, Ltd., confirmed two of his employees—one Briton and one Iraqi —were killed and a third, also a foreigner, was missing after an ambush in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. .Also in Beiji, gunmen killed two Iraqi policemen and abducted a Japanese engineer, police Lt. Shaalan Allawi said. The engineer’s name was not released.

initiatives. But he added that receiving the Angier B. Duke Scholarship—one of the University’s most prestigious undergraduate merit-based awards—also inspired him to augment Duke’s financial aid endowment.

“I wouldn’t have gone to Duke without dial scholar ship,” he said, noting that he has kept his scholarship medal in his library since he graduated nearly four decades ago. ‘This particular gift is being structured in just that fashion, so that other kids can say that same thing 42 year s from now.”

Brodhead applauded Gross for giving back to his alma mater “on a very great scale of generosity.”

“He came here on a scholarship, and [the Grosses] have a very serious cornmifrnent to financial aid and a personal understanding of what it makes possible,” Brodhead said.

“I love it when people later in life remember what helped them and make it their business to help to others who come after them.”

Beginning in Fall 2005, the Gross gift will fund three new endowments. The William and Sue Gross Honorary Undergraduate Scholarships will be awarded to academically gifted students whose family income falls below the median of students who received financial aid the year before. About 20 students will receive the awards once they are fully funded.

The School of Medicine will award scholarships in the Grosses’ name to students in need who are pursuing either an M.D. or joint M.D.-Ph.D. degree. These scholarships may range from partial to full tuition.

The William and Sue Gross Distinguished Research Scholars program in Fuqua will help attract and support esteemed faculty—mostly rising full professors. Each scholar will also join the Fuqua Society of Fellow's, a forum that meets for discussion and research in business management. Gross said his career in business was the impetus for donating to Fuqua, and he hopes the gift will help the school earn a topfive ranking.

A native of Middletown, Ohio, Gross served in the U.S. Navy before receiving his MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles and founding PIMCO. His daughter, Jennifer, graduated from Duke in 1997. The Gross gift is the largest award donated by individuals that the University has received since Peter and Ginny Nicholas gave $72 million to the Campaign for Duke in January 2004.

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If it hadn’t been for a snowy January morning like Wednesday, William Gross might never have become a successful businessman.

“It was fraternity rush, and 1 was driving to pick up some doughnuts for my brothers when the car slid off the street and hit a tree,” Gross said, describing the accident that almost claimed his life during his senior year at Duke.

In the accident, Gross nearly lost his head—literally. The crash sent him through the windshield of his car, cutting a section off the crown of his head. After being rushed to Duke Hospital, doctors were able to repair the damage, and Gross said he donated $5 million of Wednesday’s $23.5 million gift to the School of Medicine partially “to say thank you for putting my head back on straight.”

Unable to go to class during his three-month stay in the hospital, Gross read a book on the card game blackjack, learning how to beat gambling odds. After being released from the hospital and graduating, Gross said he headed to Las Vegas to test his newfound knowledge. Gross said the reading proved fruitful, helping him earn a substantial sum of money and develop an interest in business.

‘That led to my career at PIMCO because it took the same skills—math prowess and initiative to try and beat the system,” Gross explained.

Now the manager of the world’s largest bond mutual fund and an investor responsible for nearly $6OO billion, Gross credits that January day with starting his career and providing him with the means to give back to Duke Wednesday, another snowy January day.

‘That snowy morning at Duke started my career, and it’s fair to say that it’s come back full circle,” Gross said.

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Mary Ellison Baars is a student co-director of the Community Service Center and executive vice president of die Panhellenic Association. Baars, a political science and women’s studies double major, founded and was president of Duke Students for Dole.

Baars is a member of Dukes and Duchesses, a tour guide and a Baldwin Scholars mentor.

She is active in the Chapel Choir, the FAC program and the Duke Annual Fund.

Former president of the Duke UniverUnion, sity Jonathan Bigelow chaired the student advisory board for the Nasher Museum of Art, worked for the Office of Information Technology and is active in Round Table selective living group and the Chapel Choir. He is a classical studies major with minors in English and German.

Former university editor for The Chronicle, Andrew Collins is a history and public policy studies major with a French minor. He serves as a columnist, senior editor and film editor for The Chronicle, vice

as a member on three Board of Trustees committees, was a Campus Council officer for two years and East Campus Council president. He is a member of Maxwell House selective living group.

David Strauss, an emergency medical technician for Durham County, teaches EMT classes at Durham Technical Community College and directs Duke Emergency Medical Services. The chemistry major and economics minor, who is also earning a certificate in health policy, worked on the mental health magazine Active Minds. Strauss is part of Wayne Manor selective living group.

Two-year Campus Council president Anthony Vitarelli is a public policy and economics major. He is Phi Beta Kappa, a Truman scholar, chief student marshall and an Eagle Scout Vitarelli founded the Universi-

ty Greening Initiative and is vice president of moot court He has also been on the Board ofTrustees Students Affairs Committee for two years. Vitarelli is a member of Wayne Manor selective living group.

Triathlete Ryan Welsh is an English major and philosophy minor. He is a performer in and financial manager of Duke University Improv. Welsh has co-chaired die First-Year Advisory Council, coached swimming at Durham Academy, tutored at George Watts Elementary School and was president of the Self Knowledge Symposium. Welsh has performed on and off campus as a part of Duke Players, Hoof n’ Horn and Manbites Dog Theater.

Andrew Wisnewski is DSC executive vice president. Wisnewski also served DSC as vice president of community interaction. He is majoring in public policy studies and obtaining a markets and management certificate.

Wisnewski has been a member of the Student Organization Finance Committee, the Cadiolic student center and on the Community Service Center programming staff.

Lefty praised DSG for taking the initiative to create the site.

“It’s a great system for arbitraging the huge difference between die price the book store charges and the price they pay during book buy back,” Lefty said. “I’ve actually been thinking for a long time about creadng a similar system for buying and selling books... but I guess [DSG] beat me to it.”

Despite Dukeßid.com’s recent success, however, many students are eidier unaware of the website or remain pessimistic about its future.

“It probably won’t work very well unless it receives more publicity than it has now,” sophomore Lauren Morse said. “The idea sounds promising, but if students don’tknow

much about it, they’ll be reluctant to use it.”

Morse noted that DukePas University-run pilot web portal for undergraduates—also has a message board where students can buy and sell books, but because it is not well-advertised, few students take advantage of it.

Still, Lala said, DSG believes that DukeBid.com “has a lot of potential to do a lot of business” and, based on initial user numbers, will become an increasingly popular market ‘The auction site will not only help students save money throughout their college career,” Lala said, “It will also provide an impetus for students to meet other members of the Duke community, including graduate students, faculty and anyone with an e-mail account.”

Dukeßid.com allows students to exchange electronics, among other things.

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Sophomore Joel Kliksberg, chair of the nominating committee and DSC vice president of community interaction, said he felt the new online application procedure attracted more attention from students who might not have previously considered the position, but ultimately many students decided not to apply after viewing the application procedures. In addition to submitting a resume, applicants were also required to answer six essay questions. The committee original!)' ranked applicants without knowledge of candidates’ identities, using the responses they submitted for five of their essays. After the first ranking, the remainder of the candidates’ applications were reviewed.

Kliksberg said the committee will most likely make its next round of cuts based on the ability of candidates in the interview round “to stand out in a board room.” He

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Many students, like junior Paul Varnado, have gripes with Duke Stores’ prices and see Dukeßid.com as a potential remedy for their money woes.

“The Duke textbook store has long lines and a huge price markup on everything in their stock,” Varnado said. “It surprises me that almost everyone condnues to pay above retail price for books from Duke when it’s not really any less convenient to order online.... I diink [Dukeßid.com is] a great idea for Duke students to save some money, particularly on textbooks.”

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FELLOWSHIP from page I The committee hopes to implement the new funding program for Hispanic and Latino students beginning in the 2006-07 school year and will allow Hispanic and Latino students to continue to be eligible for the Duke Endowment Fellowship for the 2005-2006 school year, as in years past.

“The issue is straightforward,” said Lewis Siegel, dean of the Graduate School.

‘There is never a question as to whether or not we will support Hispanic students—it’s what type of support” By excluding Flispanic and Latino students from the program, tire committee will limit the fellowship—a four-year award providing full tuition, registration and health fees as well as a $21,000-peryear stipend—to Black and African American students and American Indian and Alaskan Native American students starting in tiie 2006-07 school year.

The announcement initially triggered concern from many members of the Duke community, as a memorandum circulated on various e-mail lists last week that proclaimed Hispanic and Latino students would no longer be eligible for the funding but failing to communicate that die Executive Committee was working to develop an entirely new and differentfellowship program for those students. Siegel sent out a memo apologizing for whatever harmful effects the first letter may have caused, writing that the first e-mail was supposed to be accompanied by a memo calling for the immediate formation of a task force to develop a more adequate program than the one currently in place.

“This action by the grad school is being circulated on e-mail networks throughout the U.S. and has been very harmful to what Duke is supposed to

stand for,” said John French, director of the Latino/a Studies program and associate professor in die history department.

“Dean Siegel recognizes that, which is why he revoked the decision. But why did it have to get to that point? Revoking the decision that the grad school made is only the beginning of the University being more supportive ofLatino issues.”

Although the committee’s report found that Hispanic and Latino students with the fellowship completed their Ph.D. degrees at lower rates than those without it, the report also revealed that the Black and African American graduate students with the fellowship attained a Ph.D. completion rate of 70 percent, whereas only 60 percent of those without the fellowship completed their degrees. Duke is one of die only universities in the nation where the Ph.D. completion rate of Black and African American students is higher than the overall Ph.D. completion rate.

The committee decided that rather til an changing die program entirely, it would be better to create a new program for Hispanic and Latino students and continue allowing Black and African American students to benefit from die Duke Endowment

Fellowship.

“Do people come for the ‘goodie’ and then don’t do the work? Is there a support system in place?” Siegel asked.

“Maybe there needs to be a more serviceoriented program—this fellowship program doesn’t support that. We really want to think this through.”

Siegel wrote in another memo that the committee charged with developing a new fellowship strategy' for Hispanic and Latino students will consider various modes of support, such as dissertation year and research support instead of some of the support that is now in place and has been marked as ineffective. Siegel also hopes die committee

will foster a better intellectual and social environment for Hispanic and Latino students, which would improve the chances of completing their Ph.D. degrees.

Still, members of the Duke community remained unconvinced that the University is sufficiently addressing Hispanic and Latino student issues.

“1 think the action by the grad school which was very insensitive and inappropriate—runs counter to the direction dial die University is taking towards providing support for other ethnic and cultural groups,” French said. ‘The problems being faced can’t be thought about as a grad school thing; the University has to make a commitment to take action. Growing visibility has shown and convinced many people that Duke needs to do something.”

Student leaders hope administrators will come through on die committee’s new plans.

‘This is indicative of a larger problem Duke has understanding the Latino community —Duke’s lack of effort recruidng Latino students and retaining Latino students,” said Victoria DeFrancesco, president of the Duke Latina/o Graduate Student Association. “I view [the report] as a biased sample, because when you don’t put in effort to recruit the best students you’re already sabotaging your efforts.”

Undergraduate student leaders are also unsure of Duke’s commitment to dieir community. “Do we feel valued here?” asked junior Tomas Lopez, co-president of Mi Gente.

“Are there systems in place that they have set up to fully support our needs?”

Though die Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty’s decision caused widespread controversy, it also brought the Hispanic and Latino community at Duke together. “Presendy,” DeFrancesco added, “North Carolina has the fastest glowing Ladno population in the country.

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SUMMER from page 3 earlier. This gives officials the benefit of more time to make necessary adjustments.

While summer registration is moving up to avert the need for PINs, fall registration will be moved back a week. Fall 2005 registration will begin April 6 for graduate and professional students and April 7 for undergraduates, and freshmen will register in July. This timing will reduce the number of schedule changes and give faculty longer to get organized.

“It gives departments a little more time to get their schedules together,” Cunningham noted.

The changes streamline the registration process by reducing the number of windows.

“We wanted to see if we could shrink the time frame because we heard from students that it seemed like an inordinate amount of time,” Cunningham said.

He added that no student will be disadvantaged by the changes. Those in line for the first window will still receive it, and all seniors will still register in one window. Some students will benefit, however. For instance, a student with the third window last fall wall be in the first window this spring.

Gilbert noted that with earlier registration students make their plans sooner and sometimes forget to correct their schedules, however she does not expect this to be a big problem at die University.

“Duke students are generally very responsible with registration and remember to go back and change it if their plans change,” Gilbert said.

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“It will not, happen by itself.”

Abbas represents a departure from earlier Palestinian leadership due to his nonviolent platform. Abbas has openly described his desire for negotiations with the Israelis and is willing to come down on Hamas, she said. But Chazan clarified that as a contemporary of late Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat and a co-founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Abbas still represents the Palestinian old guard. Chazan predicted to the Freeman Center audience that Abbas would have a problem with new generations of Palestinian leadership.

In the Israeli sphere, Chazan said the prime minister’s newly reformed government only has one purpose. “This is a disengagement government,” she said. One-third of the Likud, Sharon’s own party, voted against the leader in the recent election due to his marked departure from their right wing agenda in the form of the disengagement plan The Israeli government’s policies toward the Palestinian population, however, have not changed, Chazan said.

“Checkpoints are a daily humiliation,” she said. She also pointed out the special chemistry between Bush and Sharon and predicted that the relationship between the two historically right-wing leaders would only strengthen.

Chazan praised what she views as Bush’s new commitment to diplomacy and his recognition of the “direct correlation between the Arab-Israeli conflict

and the War on Terror.”

There arc some overarching trends, however, that are especially troubling for Chazan. One she noted is the Palestinian people’s inflated optimism and expectations following their successful democratic election, while in Israel the peace camp is “at best skeptical.” Further, the “lack of confidence and trust between Israelis and Palestinians is now part of the conflict,” she said.

There must be a global effort to resolve the IsraeliPalestinian conflict immediately in order for all sides to avoid the most negative outcomes, Chazan said. She emphasized that Palestinians need massive infusions of monetary aid.

“Palestinians need some tangible evidence of an easing of daily life,” she said. “They need to be able to go out at night and not see Israeli soldiers.” In return, she noted that the Palestinian leadership would have to make major and convincing efforts to rein in extremists.

Chazan urged her engaged audience to become involved. The first step—even from a place like Duke—is to “stop this non-conversadon” between superficially opposing sides, she said.

She also said that divestment, which encourages selling stocks involved in Israel, is a mistake because of the backlash it incurs on peace-seekers such as herself within Israel and because it does nothing to make the situation on the ground better for people working for peace.

Still, Chazan ended her speech on an optimistic note.

“1 tun more hopeful than I’ve been in many years,” she said.

BREAK-INS from page 1 Security in these lots is decentralized as Duke requires die University departments that primarily use each lot to install their own security equipment. Rush said he encourages them to do so because the greatest deterrence to break-ins is surveillance equipment. The DUPD lot, however, has not been equipped with a security camera.

Minai noted that it only takes a criminal a few seconds to break into a car and diat criminals often leave die scene even if police are notified prompdy. Vehicle burglaries, however, are typically not reported until several hours later, according to a compilation of crime reports.

She also stressed that vehicle larceny is not a Duke-specific issue.

“It is a problem on campuses everywhere—in the community too,” she said.

“The key is to educate people on how not to be easy targets.”

But Randy Young, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Public Safety spokesperson, said that vehicle larceny is “not particularly common” on die UNC campus. Karen Breseman, a spokesperson for the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Officers said that colleges across the country have not notified lACLEA of a problem disproportionately involving Honda vehicles.

“It’s not something that anyone has ever discussed to my knowledge,” she said.

According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau website, the 1994 Honda Accord and 2000 Honda Civic were die second and third most stolen car in the United States, respectively. In North Carolina, the Honda Accord and Honda Civic ranked first and sixth, respectively, among the most stolen cars.

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“Hondas are fundamentally no easier to break into than any other car,” Marie said.

DUPD officials encourage students to park their vehicles in well-lit areas or parking garages, lock doors and close windows, activate alarm systems and remove valuables from their cars.

“People need to take responsibility’ for their own belongings,” Rush said. “One step can prevent thousands of dollars in

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Hoof ’N’ Horn takes on a dark comedy with Bat Boy, opening tonight, the story of a creature who is half-bat and half-boy. While the character ofBat Boy is the center of the musical, “It’s hard to describe briefly what the show is about,” as Louisa Watkins, playing the role of Meredith Parker, said. The members of the dysfunctional Parker family who adopt Bat Boy and their neighbors are as vital as the main character. The line between animal and man is tested and morality is questioned all because of the presence of an outsider in their community.

Bat Boy’s creators came up with the musical after reading reports in the Weekly World News of a similar bat boy creature in

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West Virginia. Director Colleen Denny said Hoof ‘N Horn chose to put on “the only muscial based on a tabloid story” because “it’s brand new,” having been written in the ’9os, which is practically yesterday in theater years.

In the last decade Bat Boy has gathered a large following despite having never been performed on Broadway. Batophiles, as fans call themselves, have created a plethora of websites including comics, blogs, and discussion boards. Followers are very protective of keeping the show’s bizarre ending from newcomers.

The music also reflects Bat Boy's modernity as songs include a rap by teen characters and gospel, in addition to more traditional Broadway tunes. The shows live

instrumentals provide a strong backing to the lyrics, but often prove overpowering as the music drowns out some performers.

The musical is simultaneously a comedy and a tragedy. In one song and dance number, Dr. Parker sings of trying to bring romance back into his marriage while holding a syringe with a lethal injection in his hand.

Each morbid and twisted instance brings comic relief and sheds light on the characters’ impure reasons for their actions.

The cast is made up of various citizens of the small town, who pride themselves on their Christian principles, and support themselves financially through a cattle slaughter house. Contradictions between see

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cally homeless” at 17, Jonker had no resources to support a budding film ca-

Leif Jonker’s developmental years reer. He moved back home with his were steeped in the big-budget movie mother and killed time delivering pizculture of the 1970 s and 1980s. Like zas. The young artist started pitching his most nine-year-olds, he dreamed of ideas to investors, seeking to raise bringing down dark empires and begged $lOO,OOO. When these efforts failed, his mother to let him see the R-rated Jonker decided to make a movie on the Alien. When Jonker saw a making of Star cheap to raise money for future projects.

Wars special on TV, he said he “realized Darkness was born. that people actually made movies.... I was With a gory vampire script under Iris blown away.” He was also determined to arm, Jonker mounted a shoestring search for a cast and crew. He met Darkmake his first film, Alien 2.

At the age of 12, Jonker made his ness lead actor Gary Miller working at a first short film and financed it, selling video store. Miller had a limited knowlthe acting parts to his friends. Soon, he edge of makeup effects that would prove was setting his sights higher. “My sister handy on set. said I was going to be a filmmaker, and The movie was shot on inexpensive I was going to have a movie going by super-eight film with used cameras—one the time I was 18. Suddenly, it was like I bought for 50 cents at a junk store—and had a deadline.” cost a total of $5,000 out-of-pocket. In Estranged from his parents and “basi- order to keep the film alive during hard

Jonker moonlighted in an assortof odd jobs.

“I drove a forklift; I washed dishes; for the last half of the movie, I worked this third-shift hotel desk security job,” he said. At one point, the entirely teenage cast and crew started selling their plasma to buy film.

With no pyrotechnics, no digital editing, and no experience, Jonker and his crew managed to create splatter scenes and outrageous death effects using papier-mache dummies. All blood spurting, flesh tearing and melting gore was done with basic household supplies. One shot that shows a woman getting her throat ripped open was done with “mashed potatoes, a little liquid latex, food coloring and a condom,” Jonker said.

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Although Bright Eyes has already attained cult-like status within its indie fanbase, Conor Oberst’s musical vehicle now hopes to expand its audience by releasing two albums on the same day: Digital Ash in a Digital Urn and I’m Wide Awake, It's Morning.

Digital Ash is the self-dubbed “electronic” album, which seemingly strays from the folksier, more grainy sound for which the band is known. But even though these new effects and instruments are definitely audible, the Bright Eyes sound has not disappeared, making the release all the more pleasing. The group has always had away of using subtle recording effects to enhance its sound. Its past release, Lifted, or The Story is in the Soil So Keep Your Ear to the Ground is littered with the gradual increases in resonance and filtering techniques that appear throughout Digital Ash. Digital Ash deftly melds together everyday sounds and classical instruments to create a sound that is true to the original meaning of electronic.

From the upbeat maracas and swimming guitars of “Arc of Time” to the darker, keyboard-heavy “Down a Rabbit Hole,” each of the songs on the Digital Ash are distinct in both their see bright eyes on page 7

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sandbox As President George W. Bush is sworn into office today, many Americans will dutifully listen to the wordsof the man whom they fought to elect. Many more, however, will wait eagerly for his doubtless mis-steps and verbal blunders, but we at recess will focus on one thing: what is he wearing?

As with most important events, our minds are completely foggy and our thoughts misplaced, but we have sobered up just long enough to recount some of the key fashion elements to look for in the ceremonies and galas that will clutter CNN over the next 24 hours.

Today marks the 164th anniversary of the now infamous day on which the Whig party president-elect William Henry Harrison bucked the presidential trend and refused to wear a hat in spite of the stormy chill in Washington on the morning ofhis inauguration. This may not have posed such a threat had it not been for Daniel Webster, who crafted Tippecanoe’s twohour speech, by die end of which the newly inaugurated president had caught a case of pneumonia that would take his life within a month.

But far more interesting than the president’s attire is that of the women in his life. Who can forget the long wedding-dress-like train that followed Lucreda Rudolph Garfield to her husband’s inauguration in 1881 or the demure and always elegant Jackie Kennedy with the tradidonally stovepipe hat capped JFK in a little floor length cloak? Of course, all of these were upstaged when Hillary Rodham Clinton covered a bad-hair day with a pointy witch's hat in 1993.

At the bashes tonight First Lady Laura Bush is rumored to lie following in Clinton’s 1996 footsteps by sporting a classy Oscar de la Renta number.

Daughters Barbara and Jenna are apparently shunning their beer-chugging college days and going adult-sexy with designer Badgley Mischka, who has also been seen on J. Lo and Winona. As for me, I'll be wearing my standard black-tie garb: a pair of blue and white polk-a-dot pajama pants, hopefully with an accent of Cheeto crumbs and a hint of Busch Light cologne, because the only inauguration balls that I’ll l)e attending will be my own.

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5. Jack Bauer 24's Agent Jack Bauer may have changed Jobs, but one thing hasn’t changed: kicking ass. Enemies of the United States tremble at the mention of his name, and as long as Jack’s on the prowl, recess will be ready with the DVR and popcorn.

4. Apple Downsizing Don’t fret, Steve Jobs is downsizing Apple in all the right ways. With their announcement last week about the iPod Shuffle and Mac Mini, Apple is proving that small is the new big. iPod Shuffle and Mac Mini also come with shrunken price tags, making them not only super cool but super affordable as well.

3. Whudat.com Tags Everyone knows that Eminem’s real name is Marshall Mathers, and fans of MTV know that Snoop was born Calvin Broadus. But who knew that Method Man’s real name is Clifford Smith? The folks at Whudat.com, that’s who. The website’s government tags section lists the real life monikers for hip-hop’s biggest and not-so-big stars.

Although the list includes the obvious (Usher’s real name is Usher Raymond), some of the entries illustrate why many of these artists opted for pseudonyms.

2. Award Prognosticating The Golden Globes might be a thing of the past, but award season is just getting under way with the granddaddy of them all to come Feb 27. Sadly, seeing who eventually takes home the statue isn’t nearly as fun as arguing about it a month ahead of time.

1. Drop/Add Period The first couple of weeks in January are the hottest time of year for Duke undergrads. Sleep in fellow seniors, it’s still drop/add period.

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After a year that saw Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson extending their limited musical wings and Kevin Spacey providing the soundtrack for his Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea, recess decided to investigate this phenomenon by reviewing three of the most recent releases from singing actors and acting singers.

By Robert Winterode

I act; therefore I sing?

Minnie Driver

Playing the role of a sleepy-voiced Appalachian chanteuse, Minnie Driver achieves a quiet success with Everything Eve Got In My Pocket.

Unlike the typical product of Hollywood’s celebrity culture, Driver wrote all of the album’s lyrics and chose to showcase them in the decidedly strippeddown acoustic and earthy genre of alt-country.

Behind atmospheric guitars and a group that consists ofmembers of The Wallflowers and Pete Yorn’s band, Driver conjures up memories of a younger Lucinda Williams or a current Gillian Welch.

Driver focuses on detail and seeks to create a certain type of mood. Her first single “Invisible Girl” begins with a meticulous observation: “Panda eyes and your sister’s dress that you took and you tore / And you know that you got a long walk home.” The song itself is a perfect example of Driver’s strengths. With her slight country twang and phrasing that elegantly trips over some words and combines others, she beautifully murmurs the lyrics in front of a musical landscape that could be from any American outback.

On the album, none of the songs deal with fame, success or anything remotely celeb-oriented. It’s as if Driver has stepped into the life of one of her characters and gives one of her most flawless performances to date. The only misstep is Driver’s cover of the

Springsteen classic “Hungry Heart,” where her singing sounds stilted and passive. It’s a rare low point on an album that points to Driver’s future success as a songwriter and a musician.

Robert Downey, Jr. There’s nothing really wrong with Robert Downey, Jr.’s debut album, TheFuturist. He can sing. The production is nearly flawless. His voice is bolstered here and there by a light groove. It’s actually an impeccably good-sounding release except that Downey fails to offer anything distinctive.

The disc could have been produced by a standard adult contemporary star like Phil Collins or Michael Bolton. There’s nothing remarkable about Downey’s singing except on Yes’s “Your Move” and Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile.” The title track never really explains what Downey means by the word “futurist” and instead relies on a weak chorus of ‘They’ll take the walk / We’ll sage the world / Sounds like October / A Futurist nose / Our furious, curious, fantasist code.”

Other songs, like “Broken,” fare better. The song contains a neat riff where the instrumental background rises in volume and comes to the forefront of the track and Downey showcases some rock ‘n roll sensibility.

However, the moment is only thirty seconds long and the rest of the album dissipates into elevator

Muzak—perfectly attuned tunes that are neither offensive nor attractive to the ear.

Lindsay Lohan Overexposure queen Lindsay Lohan started gracing magazine pages without much of a resume. She had done one or two films but hardly anything else.

Not since J. Lo has someone achieved celebrity by doing so little, and, like J. Lo, she decided to launch a music career. Her first single, “Rumors” asserted that people were talking endlessly about her and precipitated her debut album Speak, where she sounds like Vanessa Carlton, Amy Lee and Kylie Minogue with way too many problems and paparazzi.

Her influences are all over the map, with one song, “Disconnected,” sounding like an Avrilized version ofRadiohead’s “Paranoid Android.” None of the imitations come off as genuine or even good, as her voice often sounds sharp and off-pitch. Whether it’s because of possible digital manipulation or the use of two different singers, the vocals on “Rumors” do not sound as if they were sung by the same person as the rest of the album.

In fact, there hasn’t been such shoddy packaging and production since Kelly Osbourne’s critically bulldozed debut. The album’s lyrics are sexual but trite, the production trips from neo disco to Pink rock and, perhaps most unfortunately, the requisite star power is decidedly missing.

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{Assault on Precinct 13} The 1976 John Carpenter version of Assault on Precinct 13 is a cult classic with lots of violence and arguably one of the most memorable scenes in film history. What it lacks is a coherent plot and character motivations. The 2005 JeanFranyois Richet version ofAssault succeeds by tweaking the plot to correct previous shortcomings, but loses a lot of the original’s shock value. The 2005 Assault contains some inspired moments of violence, however the audience in our society, desensitized by ultraviolent movies like Pulp Fiction and Man on Fire, barely blinks an eye when a character takes a bullet to the forehead.

Both die old and the new Assault revolve around die premise dial a police precinct is shutting down forever, but a bus hill of dangerous prisoners is forced to stop at the rundown, short-staffed station on its last night of operation.

Then all hell breaks loose as a group of ruffians lay siege to the precinct for reasons diat are unknown in die first film, and made clearer in die second. This time, LA has been changed to Detroit, the lead character has been recast as

Theatre directorJim Carl noted the difficulty in getting some of the non-mainstream works before they are either released on DVD or sold to a distributor.

“The hardest thing about programming these festivals is the turnaround time between when the filmmaker finishes the film and when it shows up on DVD, You’ve got a three-to-four-month window, max.”

Another obstacle is the indecision of distributors about what approach they want to take in marketing a given film.

“We had at least three titles,” added Carl, “that we pursued—and I thought for sure we were going to have—and we did

get.” Carl noted that many other festivals supplement the new work they have with classic tides, but explained he’s always wanted Nevermore and The Catolina’s other festivals to offer fresh material and provide a much-needed oudet for budding filmmakers.

Jesse Spencer, writer and director of Comer of Your Eye, has benefited from Carl’s persistence in seeking out unusual, challenging works. “[My film] is a non-traditional horror movie,” Spencer noted, “and currendy there’s a big trend towards traditional horror movies, slasher movies.” Spencer explained how unusual it is to fin da festival willing to “go not

Precina remake assaults oriqina Ethan Hawke, and most notably, the street gang attacking die precinct of the first film has been changed to a stardingly different group.

The first Assault was littered with horrid dialogue (“Days are like women...,” “like chicken night in Turkey,” etc), but diat was a big part ofits campy appeal. Though die main actors in the new Assa ult do a much more credible job than in the first—Laurence Fishburne is die essence of cool in his role as a gangster—die supporting characters are rather one-dimensional. It's hard to tell if it's the acting or the writing, but Drea de Matteo's sexed up secretary, John Leguizamo's loudmouth junkie, and Maria Bello's cutesy psychologist are all pretty expendable. Not to mention Ja Rule and his penchant for speaking in the third person.

Despite a commendable directing effort and great leaps in plot, acting, and dialogue, die new Assault on Precinct 13is inferior to die old for one single reason: Richet’s terror resides solely in the corporeal whereas Carpenter’s managed to su ike a much deeper chord.—Katie Somers

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From the blood-splattered Christ allusions of Gory Gory Hallelujah to the nonlinear absurdism of Corner of Your Eye, the Carolina Theatre’s sixth annual Nevermore Horror, Gothic, and Fantasy Film Festival offers everything from the disgusting to the spine-tingling to the macabre, with more than a few artsy misfits along the way. Featuring 10 films in limited theatrical release or without release planned in the Triangle, Nevermore presents a unique opportunity for horror fans to see the latest in both lowbudget innovation and expensive cinema spectacle.

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Tale of Two Sisters Sisters, like other Asian horror classics such as The Ring and The Grudge, stands poised to be remade by Hollywood, but for now, don’t let the subtitles deter you; This might be your only chance to see the original version in North Carolina and you don’t want to miss it. A stunning, smart horror film in the style of M. Night Shyamalan, Sisters’slow pace and creepy mood masterfully raise the hairs on your arms before delivering two impeccably orchestrated plot twists.

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couple sharing a one-room unit in an empty tourist town as it is about the ghosts that haunt them, Off Season is a promising effort from both

emerging writer/director James Felix McKenney and star Christina Gampanella. Prepare to scream, shudder and never shower in a motel again.

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Grace, Quaid make good company In Good Company exemplifies the safe filmmaking style that has taken over Hollywood. It is a good film that chugs along nicely, with strong performances from leads Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace. But there’s something

missing, and when the film turns sappy in the last third, the result is something enjoyable but forgettable.

Paul Weitz, who wrote, directed and produced the film, is clearly trying to carve out his niche in the genre of male-friendly romantic comedies. His directing has a nice fluidity to it, and he does a good job eliciting poignant performances from his male actors. However, Weitz may also have hit his peak with About a Boy, a brilliant adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel that somehow managed to avoid Hollywood cliches better than his latest effort.

In Good Company tells the story of Dan Foreman (Quaid), a veteran ad sales executive forced to adapt when the popular sports magazine for which he works is sold to a modern media conglomerate. In comes Carter Duryea (Grace), a rising star in the organization, who becomes Dan’s boss, and it doesn’t take long for the Dan vs. Carter soap opera to begin.

There’s a huge opportunity here for Weitz to challenge the current corporate landscape, but instead he chooses to play it safe. Weitz does throw us a twist, but it’s sadly not that groundbreaking: the two salesmen kind of like each other.

It turns out that Dan has always wanted a son, and, well, you wouldn’t believe it, but Carter is one lonely corporate phenom. Soon, Carter has taken the newly demoted Dan under his wing, and Dan has brought Carter into his home for a lovely pizza dinner.

Just when you think the two are going to coexist peacefully, Carter decides that Dan’s daughter (Scarlett Johansson) is what he’s been looking for in a companion. The narrative strands collide and Weitz rachets up the emotional tension, before completely abandoning the romantic subplot. The movie refocuses on the relationship between Carter and Dan and finally sputters to a contrived, happy conclusion.

The performances are quite good: Quaid continues to establish himself as a great middle-aged leading man, and TV’s Grace shows that he’s got what it takes to play on the big screen. Johansson sleepwalks through her performance, but she’s so talented that it doesn’t really matter.

All in all, In Good Company is a fine film, although it passes on the opportunity to really attack the hypercompetitive mentality of corporate society. Instead, the film is stuck somewhere between the mainstream and arthouse markets. Weitz may continue to make'his mark in this genre, but it would be to his advantage to return to the literature-based source material that he found in Hornby’s novel.—Brian McGinn

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American auteur Tim Robbins remakes this classic Roald Dahl story with a little help from Johnny Depp. With Hollywood’s it-guy in the leading role, this retread will utilize new technologies and techniques to completely reimagine the devilish world of the Chocolate Factory.

Last year, Pitbull’s “Culo” infiltrated radio stations everywhere. This Cuban-American rapper, however, is not just another one-trick Spanish crossover. With impending singles from his LiT Jon-produced debut Money Is A Major Issue (M.1.A.M.1.) and a nifty rap in a current radio hit (Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina”), Pitbull’s musical bite is bigger than his bark.

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With the South by Southwest Festival looming large and Austin’s top acts moving to the forefront, this group is positioned for a breakout year in ’O5. The band is expected to release their debut album this year and unleash their super-melodic synth/guitar creations upon us all.

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This on-again-off-again property rocketed to the top of recess’ list of must-sees when Memento director Christopher Nolan signed on board. With a cast of talented actors, this comic book exploration has the chance to set a new bar for perfection within the genre,

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Sony’s new handheld streets this spring and gives a glimmer of hope to all those who have sought to weaken Nintendo’s stranglehold on the market. The PSP’s lush graphics and stylish design (along with a reduced pricetag) should make a huge splash.

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Reclusive director Terrence Malick has emerged as a powerful player in 2005 with his lush exploration of John Smith’s clash with Native American’s in the 17th century. Working on only his fourth feature and first in seven years, Malick will again have to prove himself worthy of the hype.

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Director Ridley Scott returns with a massive retelling of the crusades of the 12th century. If he can match even a tenth of the look and feel of his Oscar winner Gladiator, then Kindom ofHeavenmW be a success.

FX’s Golden Globe winner returns for a triumphant third season. Nip/Tuck, like the beauty its plastic surgeons strive for, shows that television, too, can be more than skin deep.

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Nintendo’s link returns in 2005 for a new (and highly secretive as of yet) adventure. Not much has been released, but the few screen shots indicate dial Nintendo has left the beautiful yet childlike, cell-shaded look for a realistic, harder edge.

Survivor, American Idol and The Amazing Race have all proven that they have more than justreality appeal. Each returns in 2005, and while we might not admit it in public, recess will be watching.

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TV’s funniest sitcom is back on Fox, and the laughs roll out stronger than ever. This dysfunctional family keeps it primed for another solid run, only this time, audiences will be tuning in.

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Rigger, faster and wilder than before, GT 4 will be the new gold standard in high performance racing. Sony is pulling out all the stops to bring the heat and leave the rubber on the pavement.

EA’s popular Street franchise spreads its influence to the world's game. The tough treatment will have players square off in 4-on-4 match-ups or 1-on-l. Either way, look for big hits and high flying bicycle kicks.

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The Sri-Lankan MC has already appeared on the October cover of music magazine Fader with only one single under her belt, and her profile is increasing all over the music media world in anticipation of her February debut Arular. Sounding sort of like an edgier version of Ms, Dynamite, she raps over beats that are half-banghra and half-dancehall-inspired and perhaps the freshest sound of 2005.

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moods and instrumentations. But the album does a

good job of holding them all together with some especial-

ly smooth song transitions.

The lyrics on Digital Ash are also a unifying force.

Oberst sings of alienation and loneliness, and at times being just downright jaded and detached—despite all the alarms and sirens scattered throughout the songs that seem to scream: Wake up!

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning is the more stripped-down of the two albums with a sound the most similar to that of Bright Eyes’s previous albums. The production is grainy and

the vocals are as raw and gritty as ever.

I'm Wide Awake is full of songs that tell stories. Wliile die plots of each are extremely specific, their intense all-encompassing emotions—from the detached terror of “At the Bottom Of Everything” to the big-city loneliness of “Lua”—create a universal appeal.

The melodies are simple and slow, allowing one to focus in on the sophistication of the guitar techniques.

The strumming is meticulous, with pauses and silences that are as stirring as the notes themselves. The songs gain an added dimension when Oberst’s vocals are accompa-

bat boy from page 1 their Christian beliefs and their behavior is a pervasive theme. While they pride themselves on their compassion, they shun Bat Boy from their community and their cows are so malnourished that the slaughter house has to be shut down. Even Meredith Parker, who saves Bat Boy from death, does not have altruistic intentions.

Consequently, Bat Boy shines through as the only character who remains true to his morals.

As Bat Boy transforms from a wild monster into a cultured young man, we see the other characters become more beasdy and instinctual. Russell Hainline, as the title character, does an excellent job of portraying a creature who cannot talk at first, relying on unusual noises, vivid facial expressions, and physical movement.

The plot becomes increasingly outrageous as Bat Boy transforms into a much more civilized creature than those who persecute him. The story iself is completely farfetched and unbelievable, yet the spectrum of emotions and the unpredictibilty of the show are compelling. As Watkins aptly stated, ‘We don’t know whether the audience will leave laughing or crying.”

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nied by guest vocalist Emmylou Harris.

So although I’m Wide Awake is supposedly the simpler of the two releases, the universal-yet-spedfic lyrics and multifaceted vocals and arrangements make this just as complicated an album as the one saturated with electronic squeals and growls. And the results are just as ear-pleasing.

Bright Eyes has released two albums almost as different as possible, yet both beautifully crafted and produced. Very few bands have created even one album of this quality; here, Bright Eyes has released two, simultaneously. Make sure to pick up both of them.

darkness fom page 1 “was added, when I get hit in the head with the bottle of holy water. Those bottles cost $l2 each, and we missed twice.” .Although Jonker notes the film was intended as something like “a garage band demo tape," the finished product ended up being released on video in Europe and .Asia and ultimately sold thousands of copies through small video stores in the United States. Blockbuster Video was even interested for a while, before deciding the cover art was too gory for its stores.

Now, 15 years after its original creation, Darkness has been re-mastered and is poised for a major DVD release. Jonker and the cast will be present at The Carolina during the upcoming Nevermore Film Festival to film question and answer sessions with the audience as well as audience reactions for the DVD. Jonker is currently out of Wilmington on some new film projects, including Darkness 2. His debut “demo” film, he said, “became this wholeother monster that we never intended it to be.”

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Why not babysit or provide elder care for Duke families this Spring? interested students and staff can register to be listed in the Spring edition of the Duke Babysitting and Elder Care Director Call Staff and Family Programs at 684-2838 or 684-9040.

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This production looks at womanhood, friendship and race through the language of two poets, exploring the diversity and commonalities in their rich worlds.

Friday, January 21,2005 at 8 pm Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, Duke West Campus Tickets $5, Duke students/employees Free Tickets: 684-4444, tickets.duke.edu, or at the door.

Saturday, January 22 Luncheon and workshop with the artists 12- 3pm, Mary Lou Williams Center (Limited space—must RSVP 684-3897) Open Mic at the Coffee House Bpm, Duke East Campus Free and open to the public & poets!

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After graduating from Duke in 1998 with a BA in visual arts and art history, I matriculated at Harvard’s four year masters program in architecture. June 2003 I completed my degree and began working for a small architectural firm in Cambridge, MA. The firm is unique in that the office is located in Cambridge, but the projects are sited in Lebanon, I have helped manage the design and construction of a Lebanese beach club and an Agriculture and Community Center.

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. For one night, Shaquille O’Neal was not Miami’s premier attraction.

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After only one season at Duke, assistant coach Tom Knotts has stepped down to return to high school.

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coaching at the high school level Ix'fore accepting an offer to coach at Duke.

He has not announced where he will coach next season.

“Tom’s contributions to the Duke football program as an assistant coach and former player are greatly appreciated,” Roof said.

“We wish him well as he follows Ills passion for high school football.”

Knotts, the former quarterback coach, is the second offensive coach to leave head coach Ted Roofs staff. Roof announced Dec. 19 offensive coordinator Marty Galbraith had also decided to leave the program; Bill O’Brien was later named his

replacement.

During Knott’s one season at Duke, three different quarterbacks took a significant number

of snaps, which created instability for the offense. The Blue Devils won just two games, and their attack ranked last in the league in scoring, total offense and red zone offense. The team also ranked next-to-last in the conference in passing offense.

None of Duke’s three quarterbacks were as talented as those Knotts coached at Independence High. He tutored Chris Leek, a sophomore at Florida, who won the SEC Freshman of the Year award during the 2009 season. Knotts also coached talented current high school senior Joe Cox, who said he would play for Duke before accepting an offer from Georgia.

All but one of the high school quarterbacks Knotts coached signed a Division I or Division lAA scholarship.

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Hot shooting was contagious for theBlue Devils—Daniel Ewing went 7-for-10 from the field, and Duke shot 61 percent overall.

three of its fust four conference games. The football-mad university packed the Convocation Center to see if Miami could upset the No. 4 Blue Devils.

The first 20 minutes of the game were close and although Duke grabbed the early lead, Miami’s strong post play kept the team in the game. The excitement was sucked out of the building at die second half, however, as the Blue Devils went on an early run and compiled a double-digit lead from which the Hurricanes would not recover. Despite poor second-half defense, Duke went on to win, 92-83.

“I think this game ranks up there as one of the best this season,” said junior JJ. Redick, who finished the game with 21 points.

“Especially to do it on the road.

We did a really good job of executing, especially in the second half. And when you have a player as efficient as Shelden Williams, it makes everyone a lot better.”

Williams led the offense with a career-high 30 points, eight of which came in the first half and allowed the Blue Devils to open up an 18-10 lead. The early advantage came as a relief to a Duke team that has been susceptible to SEE MIAMI ON PAGE 12

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the high pass nearly two feet above the basket to slam the ball through the net.

Such was the night for the Blue Devils. Duke did everything it does well, only better and more pronounced in playing its best basketball game of the season.

The team shot 61 percent from the field, including an impressive 10-for-21 performance from behind tire three-point line.

Shelden Williams had a careernight, shooting 11-for-12 from the field and 8-for-8 from the charity snipe on liis way to 30 points.

“We got [Williams] involved a lot tonight and exploit him down low,” Ewing said. “He did a good job of finishing buckets and not forcing it. He let the

game come to him and when he didn’t have it, he kicked it out.”

Williams performance was so dominant that it obscured the contributions of Redick and Ewing, who combined for 37 points. When Miami had the ball, the Blue Devil perimeter defense held the leading scorer in ACC play, Robert Hite, scoreless until there was only 6:22 left in the game. The only thing that kept the score respectable was an inspiring performance by the underrated Hurricanes, whose effort never subsided even as Duke led by as much as 19 points late in the second half.

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JJ. Redick went 3-for-10 from three-point range, but the team went 10-for-21.

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Jessica Foley (top) had her third straight double-digit scoring game, hitting 3-of-6 threes to score 15 points. tory, noting the improvements that Wake Forest has made under its firstyear head coach. She said she expects ACC play to be competitive and very difficult this season.

“We’ve come to a point when we welcome the challenge of getting a team’s best effort,” Goestenkors said. “In the long run that will pay off. We want to be prepared for anything come NCAA Tournament time.”

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With die game WINSTON-SALEM tied at 30, Mistie Williams spun from the left block into the lane and made a short layup. The Blue Devils scored on each of their next six possessions during a 16-0 run that put the game out of reach for Wake Forest 86_ DUKE jo -ranked 99 Duke (18-1, 4-0 in WAKE the ACC) went on to win a shootout, 99-86, over the Demon Deacons (12-5, 1-3) at the Joel Coliseum.

Williams scored six of her season-high and team-high 22 points during that stretch when Duke had its way in the paint, particularly on second-chance opportunities.

‘The biggest thing for them was us being able to defend their first shot, but not their second or third,” Wake Forest head coach Mike Petersen said of the decisive run. “We had trouble rebounding due to their height. Rebounding is usually a team function, but unfortunately we lost a lot of the individual battles, which led to their rebounds.”

Throughout the night, Duke’s goal was to work the hall inside to centers Williams and Alison Bales, who possessed significant height advantages over their Wake Forest counterparts. Bales added a career-high 21 points as the duo worked effectively together with a strong highlow post game.

“We work on that in practice all the time,” Williams said. “With the plays that we have, it gives us the opportunity to get each other the ball instead of relying on the guards to get it into us.”

Duke went into the half with a 52-35 lead, and it looked like Duke might run away with its 16th straight victory. The Demon Deacons were persistent in the second half, shooting 59.4 percent, including 5-of-l 2 from three-point range.

Wake Forest’s backcourt of junior guard Cotelia Bond-Young and red-shirt sophomore Porsche’ Jones anchored the attempted comeback. The pair exposed Duke’s poor transition defense, and BondYoung finished the game with 24 points and 11 assists.

“Wake Forest gave a supreme effort and their shooting was phenomenal,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “They have five guards out there that can all shoot the three, but we did have a size advantage on them. Wake Forest is a tough team. They can score points. They caused some matchup problems for us tonight.”

Every time the Demon Deacons seemed to get close in the second half, the Blue Devils responded with a big basket of their own. Duke’s smallest lead in the final 20 minutes was seven—an 80-73 margin.

Monique Currie responded with back-toback baskets and then assisted Jessica Foley, who nailed a three.

After that stretch, the Blue Devils returned to inside play, which had brought them success to that point. Williams drew a foul, missed the free throws, but then came back down the court and liit a running layup from die right side. Bales followed it widi another easy layup offof an inbounds play.

“They are really, really tall. They do a great job inside, setting up, playing and finding one another,” Petersen said. “In the second half, we made them play over the top of us more, but we definitely knew their height would be an issue.

We lost control of the tempo, which is something we need to force in order to win the game.”

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WINSTON-SALEM When 6-foot-7 Alison Bales and 6-foot-3 Mistie Williams took the court for Duke Wednesday night, the center duo and their teammates were facing an undersized Wake frontcourt.

Despite an impressive performance by game the Demon Deacon guards, Duke pulled analysis out yet another victory with the help of dominating performances from Bales and Williams under the rim.

For just under five minutes in the first half, Bales and Williams sat on the bench as their teammates relinquished an early 11-point lead. With the game tied at 30, the pair re-entered the action and sparked a 16-point run. Though the Demon Deacons fought back by drawing fouls and using their speed, Duke held the lead for the rest of the fast-paced game.

Bales and Williams scored 21 and 22 points respectively —a career high for Bales and season high for Williams—and racked up 16 rebounds combined.

Coupling Williams’ experience with Bales’ increased agility has created a frontcourt that arguably has been the key to Duke’s somewhat-unexpected No. 1 ranking. The duo, however, had not yet shown their dominance to the degree it did against W7 ake Forest.

Bales’ size has always made her a strong presence under the basket, but it is her increased athleticism that has given her more offensive confidence. Wednesday night, several of Bales’ seven field goals came on mid-range jumpers. .As W7ake Forest head coach Mike Petersen said, Duke opposition is better off pressuring Bales to take those 15-foot shoots, rather than letting her control the paint. Bales showed, however, that even this strategy presents a problem for defenses.

In years past, the Duke squad has relied on an outside game, head coach Gail Goestenkors said. But this season, with a short roster and a change in personnel, the Blue Devils were forced to adapt their style of play.

“We have four tremendous post players,” Goestenkors said. “We have been a perimeter-oriented team the last few years, and we decided to take advantage of die post game this year.”

Although the Blue Devils have focused their offense around the paint, die combination threat of Bales and W7illiams has freed shooters Jessica Foley and Laura Kurz for open three-point looks. Foley went 3-for-6 from long-range and Kurz made her only attempt.

Bales and Williams have been working together in the post during practice, which has certainly improved their flow on the court.

Positioned at the high post for most of the game, Bales had no offensive rebounds but nine defensive rebounds. On the other hand, Williams had a lone defensive rebound but grabbed six offensive boards, many of which she put back for easy' baskets.

W7 idi upcoming games against No. 9 North Carolina and No. 16 Maryland, Bales and Williams will need to play well or the Blue Devils will be left scrambling around the perimeter and out of their No. 1 ranking.

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Tin a bad coach man, I don’t know,” he joked when asked to explain how Duke shot better than 60 percent from the field. “What do you want me to say? They made a lot of shots. I think we contested a lot of shots. They had great execution, too. They’re getting better. If you go back and watch tape on them, they’ve been playing better over the last couple of weeks.”

Duke’s role players, too, had a better collective effort

than at any other point this season. Lee Melchionni scored 14 points, demonstrating that his career-high 16point performance at N.C. State Jan. 13 was not a fluke.

Sean Docker)' nailed two three-pointers and DeMarcus Nelson’s only field-goal came at a key moment. With Duke holding onto only a one-point lead with 12:30 minutes remaining in the first half, Nelson glided into the lane and lofted a shot over the rumbling Hurricane big men to quiet an amplified crowd.

Although Miami was on the wrong side of an explosive performance from the No. 4 team in country', the Hum-

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poor first halves.

“We know we’ve been getting off to slow starts and been becoming a second half team,” Williams said. “That was one of the things we’ve been trying to change, and come out strong from the beginning, scoring early, and having our defense complement our offense.”

Although Williams propelled the Blue Devils (14-0,4-0 in llte ACC) to a torrid start, Miami (12-4, 3-2) kept the game close because of gritty frontcourt performances from William Frisby and Anthony King,, who combined to score 14 first-half points. The Hurricanes also crashed the offensive boards and came away with eight second-chance points.

Duke was able to effectively neutralize the Miami backcourt of Guillermo Diaz, Robert Hite and Anthony Harris.

The trio scored just 14 points in the first half.

“We tried not to let Hite or Diaz touch the ball,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Our younger guys couldn’t guard Diaz. He is so strong and he is a heck of a competitive player.”

In addition to the game’s outcome, a significant amount of pride was at slake when it came to the matchups between Duke’s and Miami’s guards.

“We knew that a big key to this game was to shut down that backcourt,” senior Daniel Ewing said. “We feel that we have a real good backcourt with myself, Redick and [Sean] Dockery, so for them to be a new team in the conference and say that they have best backcourt in the ACC, that wasn’t going to sit well with us.”

When the game resumed in the second half, however, Duke was able to pull away. The Hurricanes started the stanza by pulling to within three points, but Duke went on to score 10 unanswered. Ewing, who had been victimized by Diaz with a humiliating first-half alley-oop, energized his team with a dunk of his own. Duke, which shot 61 percent from the field, went on to build a 17point lead.

“I got a little mad,” Ewing said of Diaz’s dunk. “It got die crowd into it with the oohs and aaahs.... I think I got

canes did prove they belonged in the newly expanded conference. When Miami was admitted to the conference with Virginia Tech, many basketball purists claimed the expansion would hurt die conference’s hardwood reputation because of the Hokies and Hurricanes’ lack of interest and talent in basketball.

But for the Duke game, Miami students lined up for dckets hours before the game for the first time ever. On the court, Guillermo Diaz showed All-ACC potendal, die Hurricane big men proved themselves as good of offensive rebounders as any team the Blue Devils have played thus far and Haith demonstrated an ability to inspire a squad to its maximum potential even when an opposing team seemingly could not be stopped.

“It was a really good ACC basketball game, I’m just glad we won,” Krzyzewski said. “[Haith] looks like a guy who’s been here for a while, not a guy in his first year. And his team looks like a team that has been coached by him for a while. I’m very impressed widi what they’re doing....

They have good kids, I like their kids a lot. They’ve got a good spirit.”

Although Wednesday was clearly Duke’s night, the Blue Devils may need another impressive effort to get past the quickly improving Hurricanes March 3 in Cameron. a good one back with mine in the second half.”

The Blue Devil defense was not spectacular in the second half—Miami scored 49 second-half points. Diaz led the Hurricanes with 25 points.

“Our assignments got messed up, and [Diazj got going,” Ewing said. ‘When he’s going he’s able to take shots anywhere on the court.... \bu never know what he’s going to d0.... We let up a little bit, but dial’s just how some games go.”

Duke got strong supporting performances from juniors Dockery and Lee Melchionni, who combined to shoot 5for-7 from the three-point line. Foiward Shavlik Randolph played 12 minutes offof the bench in his second game back after a bout widi mononucleosis and helped his team’s effort by drawing a pair offirst-half charging penalties.

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an average year, Durham gets dents living on Central access most of 7.5 inches of snowfall. Although Duke via the buses. During cold the amount is paltry when com- weather even people wiio regularly pared to blizzard-blessed New Eng- ride bicycles or walk are more likely land, even Just a dusting of the to pile onto heated buses, When the buses flakes leaves transit St3TT6(lltori3l are not running, inin North Carolina tracampus transport crippled. Duke is no is limited. Just as local governments exception.

When less than an inch of flakes tell citizens when roads are closed for fell Wednesday morning, Duke sus- construction, Duke ought to inform pended Central Campus bus service people when it shuts down bus sendee, Cancelling bus sendee may have as well as Science Drive buses.

Classes continued as they were been the best safety measure—clearscheduled, and community members ly bus routes should not function if had the same travel needs as they conditions do not permit buses to would on a day without snow dusting run safely.

From a practical perspective, there die ground. Duke Parking and Transpollution Services issued no an- was no need to cancel classes. Most nouncement about the buses, and a professors were already at work by the staff member answering the tele- time the snow started falling and the phone said the division had no proce- logistical challenge of making up for a lost day was not worth the hassle at a dure for announcing bus changes.

This fundamental breakdown in university that houses a majority ofits communication about the bus service undergraduates on campus and many is wholly unacceptable. of its graduate students within five The University has multiple miles. To lose a class so early in the semeans of informing the community mester would also have been frustratabout suspended bus service. It can ing to students and professors, as the send out mass e-mails; it did not. drop/add period is only useful if peoThe University website, which is pie have the chance to attend classes used to inform people when classes before cementing their enrollments. are cancelled, is the standard forum At 3 p.m., multiple students refor weather-related schedule ported that Campus Drive buses changes; no announcement was zoomed between East and West, failposted. Even DukePass, the website ing to stop as would-be riders stood Student Affairs has encouraged unon the side of the road. The people dergraduates to check regularly for stranded dong the icy street in 22-degree weather had no idea that some announcements, never noted that bus routes were closed. some buses were not running.

As a campus, Duke fundamentally Parking and Transportation Serrelies on its transit services. Even if vices officials said all routes were some administrators would like to functioning by 5 p.m. But somebody consider the University a pedestrian should have told the thousands of campus, nearly everyone—faculty, people who live and work on campus staff and students—uses the buses to that their primary means of transshuttle between East and West. Stu- portation was out of service. ,

ontlerecord The key is to educate people on how not to he easy targets.

Senior Public Relations Specialist for DUPD Leanora Minai on the recent rush of Honda break in on campus. See story page 1.

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student will end up going to a more highly a recent meeting I attended at Duke, ranked was made that we should department. Thus, we end up (in the argument abandon using GRE scores in our gradu“equilibrium,” as economists say) admitting a mix of students—some having very high GRE ate school admission decisions (or at the veiy least allow departments to opt out of requirscores but less promising indicators elsewhere and some having lower GRE scores but ing GRE scores for graduate school applicamore promising indicators elsewhere. tions). The reason for this is the now wellIf my department makes just the right known finding by the Graduate School that tradeoffs between GRE scores and other parts there is no statisdcally significant relationship between GRE scores of incoming graduate of tire application, then the student who students and their ultimate performance. scored an 800 on the math GRE will be exactAfter the meeting, however, I began to wonly as likely to succeed as the student who der whether that finding is not leading to scored a 700 on the math GRE. Thus, after we observe both types of students go through more confusion rather than clarity.

I have no reason to doubt the extensive our program, we should expect to find no staanalysis conducted by the Graduate School tistical correlation between GRE scores and and will simply take as given that the data reperformance even though GRE scores themveal no apparent relationship between GRE selves have a clearly positive role in the admisscores and performance for sions process. The fact that there is no statistical correlagraduate students at Duke (or at any other school, for that. nechyba don between scores and performance for those that are matter). Nevertheless, I beguest commentary enrolled therefore has nothlieve the conclusion that this means that ORE scores ing whatsoever to say about should not factor into admissions decisions whether GRE scores “matter.”

Were we not to have access to the math (or are somehow currendy being overemphaGRE score, we would end up rejecting stusized) may be deeply flawed. In fact, if admissions committees are using GRE scores as dents whose high GRE score tells us someonly one of many factors considered in adthing positive about them even though the mission decisions (as the Graduate School rest of their application looks less imprescorrectly urges departments to do), we sive. Often these would be students who come from undergraduate institutions that should expect the ex-post data to show precisely no relationship between GRE scores of are not well known to us and for whom it is admitted students and their ultimate perdifficult to signal that they might in fact be formance regardless of whether the GRE very good graduate school candidates. More scores themselves predict graduate school privileged students from well known undergraduate institutions like Harvard or Princeperformance.

The argument is subde and most easily ton would then have a much easier time getseen in a stylized example that generalizes to ting our attention than less privileged the more complex setdngs most departments students that possess talents titey are not easface. Suppose, for instance, that GRE math ily able to demonstrate within their underscores are strong but noisy indicators of math graduate institutions.

I therefore applaud the GraduateSchool’s ability which is in turn a strong indicator of the ability of a first year graduate student in efforts to urge departments to consider applieconomics to make it dirough an economics cations in their entirety' and not to make arbiPhD. program. Of course there are other trary' cut-off decisions based on GRE scores. I traits—such as motivation, creativity, perseveram skeptical, however, of the notion that deance, more general conceptual dunking skills, partments around the country have all someknowledge from particular classes taken as how been duped by the creators of the GRE into placing too much value on the informaundergraduates and so forth—that also matter a great deal. A good admissions process tion contained in GRE scores. These scores takes all these into account when malting adare likely to matter a lot in some departments missions decisions even though some of these and very little in others—but there is no way factors are difficult to quantify and require to tell for which departments they matter from the data analyzed by the Graduate nuanced judgments on the part of faculty.

School. In fact, the very data the Graduate These considerations may then lead a deSchool is using to suggest that departments such as mine admit someone to partment who scored a perfect 800 on the math GRE are making irresponsible use of GRE scores may in fact suggest that departments are even though the rest of the application showed some weaknesses elsewhere while at using these in exactly the way the Graduate the same time admitting someone that School suggests—and that abandoning GRE scored a 700 on the math GRE but showed scores would make the process more arbigreat strengdis elsewhere. My department trary and less fair. probably will not be able to enroll someone Thomas Nechyba is chair of the Department of who scored both an 800 on the GRE and showed no weakness elsewhere because that Economics.

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Science according to Ron Burgundy

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past Friday, at an academic conference on major to complement that. women and minorities in the science and engiIn all fairness, Summers was self-admittedly attemptneering workforce, Lawrence Summers, president ing to “provoke” his audience into an intellectual deof Harvard University and former Secretary of the Treabate challenging present beliefs about socialization facsury of the United States, came to the same conclusion tors on women’s professional career success. At the as Anchorman Ron Burgundy on the role of women in soconference, Summers stressed that people would “prefer to believe that differences in performance between ciety. President Summers hypothesized, based on “scientific fact” (of course), that fewer women succeed in scithe sexes are due to social factors” rather than innate bience and math careers due to innate biological ological predispositions, and that further research on differences between men and women. Summers further this needs to be conducted. In 1991, as a chief econoclaimed that genetic predispositions, rather than socialmist for the World Bank, Summers himself published a ization factors, are more influential on research report illustrating that the edunatural ability than previously thought. cation of girls in developing countries Ron Burgundy’s Channel 4 News was a worthwhile investment because of cote Team elucidated for us, “It is anchorman, “high returns.” not anchorlady. That is a scientific fact!”

But we have to question Summers’ jingyi President Summers also offered three own performance record at Harvard conother possible scientific explanations for guest commentary sidering that only four of 32 tenure job the limited number of women in highpositions were offered to female Harvard level science and engineering positions professors last year. In fact, Summers has 1) Women who are mothers are reluctant or unable to work been repeatedly criticized for allowing the number of 80-hour weeks. This trend clearly begins at an early age, senior female positions to drop in each of the past three according to Summers, who cited the example of one of years of his presidency. In the wake of Summers’ disquihis daughters who in early childhood named two toy eting personal record, he has stated in decisive terms trucks “daddy truck” and “baby truck,” much like dolls. that he is “absolutely committed to promoting the diverThe lesson here: women are naturally predisposed to be sity of the faculty.” But then, “what in the hell’s diversimotherly, especially towards inanimate mechanical play- ty?” Again we turn to our chief anchorman, Ron Burthings with wheels. Furthermore, women pose a clear gundy, for the answer: “Well, I could be wrong, but I and present danger to any workplace. Channel 4 News believe Diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was discovered that “periods attract bears. Bears can smell used during the Civil War era.” (Obviously.) the menstruation.” The womb really is a hazardous, hazWhen the president of a venerable institution such as ardous thing.

Harvard University adheres to archaic views on diversity 2) Beginning at the high school level, girls score lower than and the appropriate roles of women in both society and boys on science and math tests. Well, duh. I mean, like, Ron the workplace, it is difficult justify grander social transBurgundy like totally points out that like “You’re just formations on academic grounds. We thus invoke Presi[women] with a small brain. With a brain a third the size dent Richard Brodhead, with the seemingly insurof us. It’s science.” Perhaps we would have figured this mountable task of creating a hospitable academic out sooner if we had the extra two-thirds brain power to environment in which undergraduate, graduate and factake a biology class. Oddly enough though, girls tend to ulty women can compete fairly with their male counterscore higher than boys on science and math tests up parts without fear of chastisement for just being women. until high school. Hmm... perhaps someone keeps We cannot expect dominant social mores to change if telling them that they aren’t supposed to be as good as the vanguard world of academia appears to be abrasive men? to women. So give us the chance prove ourselves to 3) It is unclear as to how much impact discrimination acthose who doubt us. Give us a forum in which we can astually has on the number and advancement of women in the sert ourselves as equals. And give us the opportunity to science, math and engineering fields. How silly to assume be both women and successful. As a wise bartender once that there are actually some men out there who are distold anchorman extraordinaire Ron Burgundy, “You criminatory against women! After all, Ron Burgundy as- know times are changing. Ladies can do stuff now. And sures us that “[women] are just dying to quit [their] you're going to have to learn how to deal with it.” So job[s] so that [they] can take care of me and have ba- deal with it. bies.” We have to agree with Ron Burgundy. Our sole You stay classy, Duke University. purpose of coming to Duke was to garner our MRS degrees, and we resent that there isn’t a Home Economics Boston Cote and Jingyi Zhang are Trinity juniors

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one tiling when Duke administrators open their arms shadowy individuals tied to violent organizations. It’s anodier when they cancel classes for them.

On Monday, our University attempted to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a series of speeches and discussions that culminated with a keynote address by Angela Davis of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Davis is a former Black Panther and Communist Party candidate for vice president. As one might expect, University press releases did not advertise these parts of Davis’s bio, instead calling her an “activist” and “criminal justice critic”—a reference to her view that prisons should be abolished.

In her speech, Davis told listeners that U.S. President George W. Bush does not really want to spread democracy to the Middle East, but simply wants to exploit Arabs for economic profit. She then went on to accuse the United States of spreading “war and torture” around the world in the name of peace. Davis even called capital punishment a modern-day form of slavery.

The speech was wildly one-sided, conspiratorial and unscholar ly. It was also a perfect demonstration of the utter absurdness that exists in Duke’s handling to

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I wrote about MLK, Jr. nathan carleton Day once before, and pointed out that Duke is poker the only school of its kind that celebrates it but no other single-day holidays. Some may also remember a Chronicle article a year ago which said administrators were supposedly considering canceling it because too many students were using the day to sleep in and relax instead of attend the events, as a vast majority probably did Monday.

Today there are as many problems as ever with Duke’s only holiday outside of a break, and they need to be resolved.

Low attendance at events is not the biggest reason why MLK, Jr. Day needs to be reevaluated as a University holiday.

It needs examined because Duke administrators should not be deeming one holiday more important than all others—which is exactly what they are doing—and then “celebrating” it in a divisive and offensive way—which is exacdy what they are doing.

Duke’s current position on MLK, Jr. Day, at least according to various quotes from administrators, is that it needs to be a University holiday so that Dr. King can be properly honored, while other holidays like Independence Day and Easter should not be University holidays so that the school year isn’tany longer than it has to be. And while this explanation once seemed like a harmless double standard, it is now grounds for outrage given Monday’s keynote speech. For if an agenda headlined by a political hit from a Communist who wants the prison system abolished merits the canceling of classes, then certainly our nation’s founding does as well.

Even more important, to cancel classes on a holiday so that everyone can commemorate it, only to design a radical and extremist commemoration for that day is especially inconsistent It is indeed very hard to see a brutally divisive message from a brutally divisive person like Angela Davis bringing anyone together. It’s also very hard to see outsiders being impressed with newspaper headlines like “Activist gives blistering address at King celebration,” which ran in Tuesday’s Durham Herald-Sun. Perhaps intellectuals at Duke want to impress intellectuals at other schools with their sophistication and progressivism, in this case by hosting programs featuring hard-hitting speeches by famous “activists” like Angela Davis. But Davis’s very inclusion in this year’s commemoration and a glance at other speakers this year and in years past shows that MLK, Jr. Day events here at Duke are actually always lacking in diversity, at least in diversity of opinion.

It’s time to reconsider what Duke does to honor Dr. King, and for a variety of reasons. If the day is truly deserving of a University holiday, then aren’t at least a couple of other holidays deserving of one as well? And if MLK, Jr. Day is in fact deserving of a day off for commemoration by all, then a program aimed at everyone should be designed, not another that results in low attendance, shock, resentment and the extremizing of opinions. Otherwise, just save the time, money, effort and political correctness by canceling it altogether.

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