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Faculty diversity inches ahead

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As concerns rise nationwide about intercollegiate athletics, Duke is beginning its year-long certification process as mandated by the NCAA. Although officials leading the study are not concerned with the basic requirements, they will use the process to look critically at Duke’s athletics policies and allow for open dialogue with the community.

“It ensures we operate with a level of excellence that is critical to the success of intercollegiate athletics,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. “It forces us to take a really careful look at our practices.... The bulk of the work is really a self-scrutiny.”

Assembled into a steering committee and three subcommittees, members of the faculty, staff and student body will assess the current state of athletics. Moneta—who served as the Academic Integrity Committee Chair while he was at the University of Pennsylvania—heads the project and the steering committee, which oversees the three subcommittees: Academic Integrity, Equity and Student-Athlete Welfare, and Governance and Commitment to Rules Compliance.

The process, which began in the fall, includes a comprehensive self-study, an external peer-review conducting a campus visit and a final certification by the NCAA. Moneta and the chairs used the fall to assemble the committees, which began meeting in this month. Duke was initially certified in 1998 and, like all SEE NCAA ON PAGE 14

Black faculty up 94%, Lange still looking by

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Duke has made significant strides in

faculty diversification over the past several years, bringing growing numbers of minority and female hires on board. But

following the first Faculty Diversity Ini-

Lackluster attendance by senators Tuesday night allowed the Duke Student Government to avert a controversial vote on funding allocation for a Lambda Pi Chi sorority-sponsored performance byjose Torres Tama when the governing body failed to meet its quorum by one member.

Sophomore Matt Hoekstra aroused the debate over allocating fiSG funding for the group’s speaker when the senator announced that TorresTama was a controversial figure who made a statement comparing the situation of Mexicans in California to the situation of Jews under Hitler.

Senator Prabhat Mishra responded to Hoekstra’s objections to the allocation, stating that the academic freedom legislation DSG passed earlier in the semester allows the group to fund a speaker, even if he is deemed controversial. “I think it’s just another ploy

tiative update last week, University officials said increasing success is no reason to rest easy.

Data from the initiative, which launched in Spring 2003 as an extension of the Black Faculty Strategic Initiative and Women’s Initiative, revealed that in the last decade, the number of black and female faculty members at Duke grew by 94 percent and 39 percent, respectively. The number of Asian faculty increased by nearly 67 percent and Hispanic faculty by 47 percent over the same time frame.

Nonetheless, of the the University’s 2,524 faculty, blacks comprise only 3.9 percent, women 29.6 percent, Asians 11 percent and Hispanics less than 2 percent. Moreover, members of minority groups are unevenly spread throughout Duke’s various schools and departments.

93.6 percent of all Hispanic and 85.9 percent of all Asian faculty, for instance, work in the College ofArts and Sciences or the School of Medicine.

With these numbers in mind, Provost Peter Lange said the University will “keep looking for opportunities” to attract and retain women and members of all minority groups.

‘The diversity of our faculty has to be understood in a broader, more complex way,” Lange said. “What we want to do is assure that we are taking full advantage of the availability of faculty members of all types in all our fields.”

Emphasizing the need to strengthen the initiative, Lange noted that faculty diversity benefits many facets of academic life.

“Sometimes having faculty members from different backgrounds actually does have an impact on the kinds of questions they address and the way they approach them, and those can really enrich a field,” he said.

Though a priority for the entire

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Although some universities are restricting poker games on campus, Duke students can keep playing.

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Breathe a sigh of relief, poker aficionados—your beloved games of Texas Hold ’Em are safe.

Although poker tournaments held as charity fundraisers at the University of Pennsylvania and Tufts University have been postponed or shut down because of concerns about the legalities of gambling, the administration at Duke seems to have no such problems. “My office is

okay with it. I don’t see us taking a prohibit fun, entertaining activities,” said Larry Moneta, vice presistance to

dent for student affairs.

The Duke University Union-sponsored poker tournament last Friday at the Bryan Center was also free of administrative hassle. “We had no pressure from the University, we encountered no problems and we had no worries about

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newsinbrief Priest on trial for sex scandal A former priest who was one of the most notorious figures from the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal went on trial Tuesday on charges that he raped a boy in the 1980s, with a prosecutor telling jurors that the clergyman once warned the accuser: "If you tell, no one will believe you."

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Hamas’ top leader JERUSALEM told The Associated Press Tuesday that his groiip is ready to suspend attacks on Israel if it stops targeting militant leaders and releases Palestinian prisoners, raising hopes for a cease-fire that could end four years ofconflict.

In another move pointing to a possible end to violence, Palestinian and Israeli generals met to discuss deploying Palestinian police in southern Gaza to stop militants from attacking Israelis. After the meeting, a Palestinian official said the deployment would begin Thursday.

The apparent softening ofHamas’ position raised hopes Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas would soon reach a formal truce with militant groups that could lead to a new round of peace talks with Israel.

Speaking to AP in Beirut, Lebanon, by cellular phone from an undisclosed location, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said the success of the truce effort depended on Israel.

“This is a moment of test,” said Mashaal, who is based in Damascus, Syria.

“It puts the responsibility on the international community and the United States to force Israel to recognize the Palestinian rights.”

“If the Zionist enemy (Israel) abides by certain conditions, such as releasing all prisoners and detainees and halting all acts of killing, assassination and aggression against our people inside and outside (the Palestinian territories), the general national position of all Palestinian factions has become that they are ready to positively deal with the idea of a temporary truce,” Mashaal said.

Mashaal warned that Hamas would respond to any Israeli attacks.

A senior Hamas leader in the West Bank has said the group agreed to sus-

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WASHINGTON The White House will project that this year’s federal deficit will hit $427 billion, a senior administration official said Tuesday, a record partly driven by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The official, among three who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said the estimate was a conservative one that assumed some higher spending than other analysts use. Last February, the White House projected that the 2004 shortfall would hit $521 billion, only to see it come in at $412 billion.

The official said the figure represented progress because it would be smaller than last year’s record $412 billion shortfall when compared to the size of the growing U.S. economy. That ratio is a key measure of the deficit’s potency.

“Our projections will show we remain on track to cut the deficit in half by 2009,” one of President George W. Bush’s budget goals, the official told reporters.

Even so, the number was among a blizzard of figures released Tuesday that illustrated howfederal deficits remain a problem thatBush and Congress must reckon with.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget

Office said that thanks to tax cuts and hurricane aid passed since its last calculations in September, the 10-year deficit had worsened since then by $503 billion, not counting war expenditures.

The congressional analysts projected that this year’s deficit would hit $368 billion—which would be the third highest ever—excluding war costs. Adding expenditures for Iraq and Afghanistan operations would push this year’s red ink to about $4OO billion, said Congress’ nonpartisan budget analyst.

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More students are passing Advanced Placement exams in every part of the country, as college-level work in high school becomes increasingly common. The percentage of public school students who passed at least one AP test was up in 2004, compared with the class of 2000.

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Hard hats and caution signs seem to have become more prevalent on campus than text books.

Although students and faculty may complain of inconveniences with accessibility due to the numerous construction projects, members of the Duke community from all years and academic interests can soon expect to take advantage of from these expansions.

A new dormitory on East Campus, the French Science Center, the Nasher Museum of Art, additions to Perkins Library, the Divinity School and the Sanford Institute for Public Policy and renovations to the School ofLaw are all part of current architectural developments, which are all progressing on schedule, officials said.

In addition, workers constructed over winter break a tunnel to house utility lines between Flowers Drive—at the level of the Allen lot—and Wannamaker Drive. Although plans are uncertain, the tunnel may eventually be used as a pedestrian walkway.

While this list may appear overwhelming, John Pearce, University architect, said it is an average year for construction. “In other years, there have been more projects, but they were less visible,” he said.

“This year they are in and around areas students [can see].”

Former President Nan Keohane initiated plans for these current projects. During her tenure, she oversaw the most construction since the campus was originally built.

President Richard Brodhead has shown interest in Keohane’s developments and officials said the change in administration has not affected construction.

The recent completion of the $lO7 million Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences did not conclude the expansion on Science Drive. The construction of the French Science Center, a 293,000-squarefoot center—housing particularly the chemistry and biology department—is due to be completed by the summer of 2006. The center will feature state-of-theSEE CONSTRUCTION ON PAGE 6

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From staff reports Three Duke students were charged with robbery, motor vehicle theft and false imprisonment following an incident in Beta Theta Pi fraternity section last month, the Duke University Police Department reported Tuesday.

Five students were involved in the Dec. 9 robbery in House Y Following a police investigation, sophomores Jay Baviskar and John Larson and junior Jason Kops were served Friday, and warrants were issued for the two others.

Only Baviskar is currently enrolled at the University; Kops and Larson were suspended at the end of last semester because of a separate incident.

The incident occurred at about 10 p.m. when the victim, a 23-year-old Orange County man, and his girlfriend visited one of the students in his room. The man told police he went to “hang out” and reimburse a student for concert tickets.

While there, the students accused the man of stealing $l,OOO, police said. The man told investigators the students threatened to hurt and kill him and would not let him or his girlfriend leave the room.

The students then demanded the man’s credit cards and took $274 cash and his 1999 Honda Accord, police said.

Leanora Minai, senior public relations specialist for DUPD, said police were “not sure” if drugs were involved.

“Obviously there’s some sort of motive here, and we’re trying to investigate all the possibilities,” she said.

Kops, 20, said he and his friends were “completely innocent” and that when the victim visited the room, he was breaking a court trespassing writ stemming from a previous incident on campus.

“We’re not guilty,” Kops said. ‘They’re crazy allegations from a crazy person.”

Baviskar, 20, and Larson, 19 could not be reached for comment.

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Scientists discover cell regulator Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have identified a critical switch that turns on a blood stem cell's prized ability to regenerate itself while also producing a variety of daughter cells. These daughter cells are capable of becoming mature blood and immune system cells.

Alzheimer's disease crisis looms As the Baby Boom generation nears retirement age, Alzheimer's disease may soon be an even greater health problem for Americans, Duke University Medical Center neurologists said. Some dire forecasts even predict that Alzheimer's could become the single greatest health problem in the U.S. in another 15 to 20 years.

Biologists definesignaling system Duke University Medical Center cell biologists have defined a signaling system between stem cells and the specialized "niche cells" that harbor and regulate them. The findings provide better understanding of the signals that stimulate stem cells to either create more copies of themselves or to differentiate into another cell type, said the researchers.

Quality improves after procedure Researchers at the Duke University Eye Center have determined that patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) experience significant improvement in their quality of life following a surgical procedure called "macular translocation with 360 degree peripheral retinectomy."

AMD is an eye disease that may lead to vision loss in the central region of a person's visual field, a defect that can seriously impact a patient's quality of life.

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In a small, windowless room, a husband and wife are praying.

After removing their shoes, Salem and Khawla kneel on elaborately embroidered rugs, heads down and quietly murmuring. In front of them is a plastic sign that says “Qibla,” indicating the direction of prayer for Muslims and the part of the room that pertains

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their faith The tiny room seems almost out of place, five stories removed from the first-floor tumult of Duke Hospital North. The plain wood paneling, decrepit piano and large, weathered Bible provide a striking contrast to the Gothic architecture of Duke’s better-known chapel at the center of West Campus. Outside, doctors and nurses rush by with to

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Duke University Medical Center is looking for men and women between the ages of 45 and 75 who have high LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and known heart disease and/or diabetes to participate in a research study. This study will look at the ability of a new investigational drug to enhance the cholesterol lowering benefits of Lipitor (atorvastatin).

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Salem and Khawla—who declined to offer their last name have traveled far from their home in the United Arab Emirates.

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$6.7M grant to focus on Div School leadership Duke Divinity School received a “splendid” new $6.7-

million gift from Lilly Endowment Inc. to promote innovative pastoral leadership and excellence in ministry, President Richard Brodhead announced Tuesday.

The grant supports “Advancing Pastoral Excellence,” a new phase expanding “Pulpit & Pew: Research on Pastoral Leadership,” a program based at the Divinity School to fund research partnerships with churches across the country and funded by Lilly, an Indianapolisbased endowment.

‘This splendid new grant from Lilly Endowment will allow Duke Divinity School to become an instrument helping pastors, churches and other institutions address important challenges, effect significant change and implement creative programs to enhance the formation and development ofpastoral leaders and congregations,” Brodhead said.

Party busted off East Campus From wire and staff reports In what was probably not a film class assignment, partying Duke University students were found re-enacting a movie scene involving an inflatable wading pool, a whole lot of baby oil and female students in bikinis.

Police came upon the scene—an apparent homage to the 2003 comedy Old School—in the basement of a home off of East Campus early Sunday morning. Several of the residents are members of the off-campus fraternity Eta Prime, formerly Kappa Sigma.

Police went to the home around midnight to check out a noise complaint and found about 200 students in attendance.

“Inside were several ofAmerica’s future, re-enacting a scene from the movie Old School, where females wrestle in a pool of lubricants,” Durham Police Sgt. D. Gunter said. In their version, the students apparently opted for baby oil.

Officers said they cleared out the house, sending some of the women home in the subffeezing temperatures in nothing other than the bikinis they wore.

Senior Nicholas Roberts, who lives at the address, was charged with violating the city’s noise ordinance, a misdemeanor that carries a $l5O fine.

There has been ongoing tension between students and residents of the neighborhoods that adjoin East Campus.

Other weekend parties in the area resulted in noise ordinance charges and a marijuana possession charge.

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The grant’s goal is to strengthen the effectiveness of Christian leaders through seven identified themes; the economics of pastoral leadership, nurturing healthy pastoral lives, assessment and evaluation of pastors, pastoral placement and fit, calling a new generation of pastors, getting started well in pastoral ministry and pastoral work and the shaping of communities.

“We do have pastors who are dispirited, confused, feeling isolated, struggling in systems that sometimes diminish them and sap them of their passion,” said Kenneth Carder, director of the Divinity School’s Center for Excellence in Ministry. “We will be working with new models, but models that will be rooted in the Christian tradition—indeed, in the Gospel itself. We would like to see in four years a church that has a clearer vision of what quality, excellent ministry means and how to implement and sustain that ministry.”

Casting call announced for NBC’s The Apprentice Duke’s alumni, graduate and professional students might get a chance to see Donald Trump badmouth them on TV—to their faces.

Casting directors from NBC’s hit show The Apprentice are coming to campus next week to audition graduate and professional school students and Duke alumni, MBA in hand or not. The show’s producers have promised short lines for the auditions, which will take place in Von Canon Room B in the Bryan Center Feb. 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The casting call, hosted by the Graduate and Professional Student Council, requires 2Tyear-old applicants to bring their Duke IDs and to submit a completed application that can be downloaded at NBC.com. No videotape or particular area of study is required, and students and alumni from all fields are encouraged to apply.

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CONSTRUCTION research laboratories with modern safety features and new greenhouses.

Philip Benfey, chair of the biology department, explained that in order to reduce inconveniences, workers have been asked to “alert people when they are expected to be noisy.”

The recent decision to increase the Pratt School of Engineering’s enrollment has also necessitated the construction of a new residence hall on East Campus—a $2O million project that is scheduled to be completed by Fall 2005. While most students are understanding, others closer to the construction complain of excessive noise.

“I know some people it really bothers,” said freshman and Southgate resident Kate Gonsiewski. “I sleep through everything so it doesn't really bother me—although sometimes when I’m studying it does.”

Students have also had trouble finding quiet in the library due to the Perkins Library expansion. “Although overall people have been pretty tolerant, staff and students would prefer it to be quieter,” said Aubrey Jackson, building manager for Perkins Library.

Pearce said the library plans ensured most of the noisy work would occur over the summer.

“By and large, considering the scope of the project, [noise and disturbances] have been kept to a minimum,” Pearce said. “Librarians have been very understanding and cooperative.

They are looking forward to their new project.”

Plans to expand Perkins allow for continual use of the library. Next year, however, the first floor will be closed for renovations and entry into the library will need to be through the new connector—due to be finished in August.

Other projects, like the Divinity School, focus on renovation and expansion rather than construction of a separate building.

As opposed to the modern buildings of CIEMAS and ESC, the 45,000-square-foot addition to the Divinity School is being built to directly imitate Main West’s Gothic style and should be completed within the next few months, said Jim Becker, executive vice president ofSkanska —the Boston based construction firm responsible for CIEMAS, ESC and the Divinity School.

The Nasher Museum of Art—located on the corner of Campus Drive and Anderson Street is progressing on schedule and is expected to open to the public Oct. 1, 2005. A new building to house the Sanford Institute for Public Policy is also under construction. art

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CONSTRUCTION AROUND CAMPUS Nasher Museum of Ait Opens Oct. 1 The centerpiece of Duke's focus on the arts, the Nasher Museum will take Duke's primary visual arts viewing space out of a former science lab and is a piece of art in itself. The structure, designed by renownd architech Rafael Vinoly, includes five pavilions—three for art, one for education and the last a lecture hall —in its Campus Drive space.

Perkins Library addition Opens August 2005 The library's latest expansion project will add both new spaces for quite and group study and increased storage for the University's growing collection. Workers are constructing the Duke Stone facade facing the main quadrangle. An archway leading down to CIEMAS will connect Main West with a new space emerging behind the library.

Planners have staged the construction over the next several years as to limit the disruption to library services.

lord Institute Addition The new building next to the Sanford's current home will include offices for the public policy institute's growing faculty, a media lab and additional classrooms. The architecture is similar to the orri-

gional Sanford building with a mix of cream and black sone making up its

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School of law Addition A massive reconstruction of the Science Drive

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when the facade was replaced with window panelling and Duke Brick. A new wing toward the Washington Duke will take longer to complete but will afford the relatively small complex more space.

Divinity Addition Opens Spring 2005 The addition that runs alongside the Chapel is nearly ready for use. One of the last building projects finished off on Nan Keohane's watch, the project looks just like the rest of the school, even many years later.

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from the Duke Conservative Union trying to censor free speech,” said Mishra, a freshman Sophomore Joel Kliksberg, vice president of community interaction, unsuccessfully attempted to table the vote. “A lot of DSG senators are unfamiliar with Jose Torres Tama, and we’ve learned this year that we have to be very careful with the funds we give,” Kliksberg said. “It all requires just a little bit more research on our part before we vote.”

Senior Dave Rausen, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, informed senators that funding allocations were not determined on the basis of judgements of the speakers participating at events. “As all students pay into the fee, it’s not our job to censor the events or

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ideas of individual student groups,” Rausen said. “As long as groups put in the effort to make sure their events are properly registered and in accordance with Duke procedures we are not allowed to deny them from happening, as we have seen from past events such as the Palestine Solidarity Movement.”

The allocation vote was postponed until next Wednesday’s meeting after a legislator called quorum and the body failed to meet it.

Prior to the vote, Senator Joe Fore informally presented an academic bill of rights, which he touted as unique among student government bodies. The bill, which still needs to be presented and discussed by the Senate twice before it is voted on, could ultimately be sent to the student body as a referendum. Fore stated his academic bill of rights serves to define student’s rights and responsibilities in an

all-inclusive manner. He said that in designing the bill, he asked himself, “What can we do that provides a vision?”

Although Fore said the bill is still a “malleable document,” in its current form it addresses issues like academic advising, access to academic facilities, academic trust and freedom and flexibility regarding rescheduling exams and assignments.

The bill will be discussed formally in February meetings.

In other business Deborah Jakubs, University librarian and vice provost for library affairs, and Tom Wall, director of public services, gave a special presentation on the Perkins Library system. Wall spoke about the Perkins Library expansion. Wall described planned group study spaces as areas that students will be able to reserve in advance from their dorm rooms, complete with white boards and

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Wall explained they are studying other schools’ library systems to develop ideas, but they also want user input. “We’re looking to transform all library services to meet your needs, but we need to know whatyour needs are,” Wall said.

DSG chartered dance group Sabrosura, which formally separated itself from Mi Gente because of Mi Gente’s more political aims. The Senate also chartered the Miniature GolfSocial Club and recognized Queer Visions, which presents films depicting alternative lifestyles.

The senate gave $1368.60 for WXDU’s broadcast from Krzyzewskiville and $l,OOO for Duke Moot Court’s conference.

The senate elected three new senators:

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The School ofLaw has one black and one East Asian tenured faculty member but no other faculty ofcolor. Women make University, recruitment efforts are mostly up 22 percent of the overall faculty. In the conducted at the school and departmenFuqua School of Business, 22 percent of tal levels, Lange explained. faculty members are women and 17.7 perThe College ofArts and Sciences hired cent are racial or ethnic minorities.

The Divinity School has five black but 42 black and 144 female faculty members between 1993 and Fall 2004. Retention no Hispanic or Asian faculty members. rates were three percent higher for black Women make up 23 percent of the faculty. faculty but two percent lower for female Similarly, the Nicholas School of the Environment has two Asian but no other racial faculty than the College’s overall 76 percent rate. The College has the largest or ethnic minority faculty members, and numbers of Hispanic and Asian faculty women comprise 18 percent ofits faculty. members outside of the School of MediThe School of Nursing currently has cine, but these groups only comprise two one Asian and two black faculty mempercent and 10 percent of the College’s bers. It also has only five men on faculty, overall faculty, respectively. but men are consistently the minority Of 104 faculty hired in the Pratt School gender in nursing programs. The School of Engineering since 1993, only three of Medicine has focused many of its efwere black. Moreover, only 21 of the 111- forts on placing minority faculty in senior person faculty is either Hispanic or Asian. level positions. Three black and four female faculty members were recently apLange said that recruiting female engineering faculty is difficult because of “a pointed to senior positions, and Dr. Vicpipeline problem” that many women run tor Dzau, the chancellor for health affairs into between graduate school and acaand CEO of Duke University Health Sysdemic professions. tem, is Asian.

“They make choices,” Lange said.

Retention of minority faculty members “Even though they would love to do basic is largely dependent on these schools and research, [they decide] a more applied indepartments’ internal climates. April dustry position fits better with the lifestyle Brown, chair of electrical and computer they want to have. Now many men make engineering and inaugural chair of the inithose same choices, but I don’t think at tiative’s Faculty Diversity Standing Committee, said Duke has already taken steps the same rate.”

Despite this issue, Lange explained, to address climate issues University-wide Pratt has been successful at recruiting feand new developments are on the horizon. male faculty members, particularly in rela“Last summer, Duke piloted a departtion to other engineering schools. Pratt ment chair orientation—or ‘training’ hired 21 women in the last 10 years—five and this is key to helping the department in the last two years alone. Another woman chair understand how to best mentor and is expected to Join the faculty soon. guide faculty for success,” Brown wrote in an e-mail. “We hope in the faculty diversity committee to identify means and provide tools to department chairs to address [climate] issues.... I consider this our most important activity.”

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In addition to conducting exit interviews for departing faculty, the committee will distribute a climate survey in February to identify areas in need of improvement.

Many climate issues, however, were pinpointed in a 2003 job satisfaction survey.

The survey showed that Duke faculty are less satisfied with gender diversity in their departments than faculty at other institutions. Faculty of color said they were less clear than white faculty about their responsibilities as campus citizens and as advisors, and female faculty were also less likely than men to be satisfied with racial and ethnic diversity.

A complex issue documented in both the survey and the update is the relationship between diversity and tenure. The survey showed that faculty of color were less clear about the expectations for tenure than white faculty and female faculty were more likely to believe tenure expectations have worsened in recent years.

The update showed that black junior faculty had a 36 percent tenure rate compared to 49.3 percent for non-black faculty; women had a tenure rate of 45.5 percent compared to 49.8 percent for men. Both women and black faculty, however, also leave the University at a higher rate during the tenure track than do men and non-black faculty. Hispanic, tenuretrack faculty got tenure at a higher rate and left at a lower rate than other groups. Asians also received tenure at a higher rate and left at at lower rate, but their overall numbers were larger than Hispanics.

Brown said the committee plans to untangle these and other issues as the push for faculty diversification continues.

“While it is difficult to define diversity across the campus in a quantitative sense, to me it means that barriers are eliminated at the department level and faculty are working together,” she said.

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God,” Khawla said. “All sick, all good thing or not good thing is like a test. We are all the time praying for Allah—give me health or not health, that’s for God.”

Research: Religion’s Impact on Health Like Salem and Khawla, many are reluctant to consider a direct relationship between their spiritual and physical health. But at the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, which is co-directed by Dr. Harold Koenig and Dr. Keith Meador, researchers have found religion’s impact to be fairly significant.

“We’ve found that people who are more religiously involved, especially in their religious communities, tend to have better health,” Koenig said. “They have less depression, greater well-being, cope better with stress, have lower blood pressure and stronger immune systems, and they live longer.”

Koenig said these differences could be attributed to having a more positive worldview and a greater desire to help others. ‘We think that the greatest effect of religion is that it motivates people to give of themselves and to contribute to others’ lives,” he said.

Meador, however, suggests that some caution be taken in interpreting such results. As co-author of Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity, he suggests the need for balance.

“I think [health care] gets misguided if its dominated too much by either side; that’s why Duke is in such a wonderful setting,” Meador said.

Outreach: Religion and Healthcare in the Community Certainly, the proximity of the School of Medicine and Divinity School has provided ample opportunity for both collaboration and service to those in need.

Shared projects on campus include Caring Communities, which supports the development of health ministries in the Carolinas, and the Health and Nursing Ministry, which offers a joint master’s degree program from the Divinity School and the School of Nursing.

This educational partnership has even extended beyond U.S. borders. Dr. David Walmer, an associate clinical professor within Duke’s medical school, was crucial to the founding of Family Health Ministries, a non-profit organization based in Haiti’s southern peninsula.

Walmer has been working in Haiti for the past 12 years and currently takes students with him as part of a course he teaches. As part of the class, medical, nursing and divinity school students, as well as some undergraduates, spend a week in Haiti participating in the organization’s activities.

“It basically is a course that looks at healing in the developing world from a medical and a theological standpoint,” Walmer said.

Family Health Ministries is rare in that all projects are instituted by the Haitians. “It is strictly an organization of developing relations,” Walmer said. “All of the implementation of the projects is done by the people who live in these communities.”

Lifestyle; Everday Faith While it may appear that contributors to the organization are giving in both the spiritual and financial sense, Walmer explained that the relationship was mutually beneficial.

‘When you talk about poverty, what I’ve recognized is that people in these countries are suffering from a lack of resources—there’s a physical poverty. What Americans have realized is that there’s a. spiritual poverty in the United States,” he said. “Americans end up helping provide resources to the Haitians, but the Haitians teach Americans what it really means to live your life as a Christian. They teach Americans how to incorporate their faith into their daily lives.”

Shared initiatives between theology and medicine may occur as close as North Carolina or as far as Haiti, but the impact upon local lifestyles remains regardless of location. “[The intersection of] religion and medicine is not just an abstract area of theoretical consideration,” Meador said. “It has the ability to transform how we all live together.”

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HAMAS from page 2 pend attacks for 30 days to test Israel’s response, while other Hamas members emphasized that a truce deal was not complete.

Israel’s government has refused to guarantee it will not pursue militants, but has said it will respond to calm with calm.

After nightfall Tuesday, the Palestinian public security commander, Maj. Gen. Moussa Arafat, met with the Israeli commander in Gaza, Brig.

Gen. Aviv Kochavi, at the Erez crossing point between Israel and Gaza, their second session in a week.

They discussed plans for a police deployment in southern Gaza at the

two-hour meeting, which came just days after some 3,000 Palestinian police deployed in northern Gaza to guard against militant rocket attacks on Israeli communities. No rockets or mortar shells have hit Israeli communities since last week.

Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat told AP that beginning Thursday, police would take up positions near Khan Younis and Rafah in southern Gaza—frequent flashpoints of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants. He said another security meeting was expected Wednesday.

Erekat also said he had been in touch by phone with aides of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to prepare for a possible meeting with

Abbas. He said contacts with Israel were going well, but the two sides had not begun to discuss the agenda for a meeting.

Erekat also met Tuesday with Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres, leader of the dovish Labor Party.

Speaking before Israel’s parliament Tuesday, Sharon harshly criticized opponents of his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and dismantle four West Bank settlements by this summer.

Sharon said that “in the past year, there has been an upsurge of voices threatening the integrity of Israeli democracy.” Without mentioning the pullback plan, Sharon complained that a minority in Israel was unwilling to accept the will of the majority.

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amounts of money on overseas websites concerns me a lot more than somebody who might be losing $lO in a residence hall in a game of Hold ’Em.” Duke’s policy seems to be similar to those at other universities where the administration is aware of the growing popularity of poker on campus, but where there are no plans to take regulatory action against the games.

“As far as I know, playing a game of poker is not a violation oflaw or of most college or university policies,” Dan Nelson, senior asso-

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legalities,” said senior Kevin Parker, president of the Union.

Though the Duke Bulletin of Information and Regulations states “it is against North Carolina state law and Duke University policy to gamble,” Moneta said the administration has not been active in enforcing the gambling statute and is not looking to tighten controls on gambling.

“We know that students just gamble for potato chips and raisins,” he said, laughing.

DEFICIT from page 2 Underscoring budget pressures hounding lawmakers, senior administration officials invited reporters to the White House to outline their upcoming request for an additional $BO billion, or slightly more, to help pay this year’s costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“I am grateful that Congress in a strong bipartisan fashion has consistently voted to support our troops, and I urge it to do so again," Bush said in a written statement.

There is little doubt lawmakers will follow Bush’s lead, as they have repeatedly since the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The latest proposal would bring war spending so far to about $3OB billion, including $25 billion to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Congressional Research Service, which provides reports to lawmakers.

Bush plans to send his 2006 budget to Congress on Feb. 7. It will not include a request for more war funds for

ciate dean of Dartmouth College, said of local policy.

The definition of what constitutes gambling also varies from school to school and from state to state. “Our policy is that there’s no gambling because gambling is illegal in the state of Connecticut,” Yale Dean ofStudent Affairs Betty Trachtenberg said.

Dorm room card games, however, seem to be excluded under her definitionof gambling. “Students may play cards, they may play poker, and they may play for some money. That would not bother me,” she said.

Still, there are schools that may join

that year, the officials said, saving that request for later.

Tuesday’s forecast by the Congressional Budget Office was widely awaited at the start of a year when Bush and Republicans are likely to propose tight spending restraints—and battle Democrats and some GOP lawmakers over those plans.

The budget office projected $855 billion in shortfalls for the decade ending in 2015. The office estimated that deficits would gradually fade into slight surpluses by 2012—but not many were taking that forecast at face value.

In making those estimates, the budget office assumed that current tax and spending laws would be unchanged, as it is required to do by law. The practice is designed to give lawmakers a neutral starting point to work from when crafting legislation.

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“We’re concerned, as any college might be,” said Ricardo Hall, associate dean and judicial officer at Wake Forest University.

“It is something we’re going to be looking at as we revise the handbook this summer to come up with more specific restrictions on gambling.”

For now, however, Duke students can enjoy their poker games without fear of restrictions, as long as they bear in mind Moneta’s warning to “be reasonable and be responsible.”

then declines gradually, those wars would add $590 billion to the decade’s deficits.

Bush’s proposal to prevent his tax cuts from expiring—and easing the impact of the alternative minimum tax on middle-income Americans, a move both parties favor—could add red ink exceeding $2.3 trillion, the

budget office said.

The budget office did not say how much Bush’s plans to revamp Social Security would cost, but it has been estimated at $1 trillion to $2 trillion.

On the other hand, the budget office assumed most domestic programs would grow at the same rate as inflation. Keeping such spending at about the same level as this year for the entire decade—which Bush may come close to proposing—could reduce deficits by $1.3 trillion over the period, the budget office said.

Republicans used the deficit figures to argue that budget savings must be found in the upcoming year, including from popular benefit programs.

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FIELD HOCKEY PLAYERS GO NATIONAL Katie Grant and Amy Stopford and former Blue Devils Kim Susko and Angie North were recently named to the U.S. field hockey national teams.

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goodbye to K-ville Join me momentarily on a brief journey into the past—10 days into the past to be exact—to a cold Saturday night, 30 minutes prior to Duke’s 8 p.m. tip-off against Virginia.

After waiting for about a half-hour, I am informed that Cameron is approaching capacity and that the majority of the

students still in line will not be able to see the game.

I look back at the several hundred students still waiting, and I get pretty pissed.

OK, I get really pissed. I vent my anger and badmouth the lucky souls that are already inside.

Picking up on my tremendous jealousy, my friend sarcastically suggests, “If you’re so pissed at them, why don’t you burn down K-ville?”

We both share a good laugh—it’s a pretty ridiculous idea.

But then I start to think about it.

My friends, the end of K-ville as we know it is fast approaching. Like Frankenstein’s Monster gone berserk, K-ville has become a noble experiment gone horribly awry. Now is the time for us to gather in the town square armed with torches and pitchforks, and unite under a rallying cry to “Kill the Beast.”

We have known that K-ville needed to be drastically changed ever since the Line Monitors introduced Black Tenting, a noble effort that inflicted harsher restrictions against students who returned early from vacation in order to secure the best place in line.

Of course, the plan backfired.

“By the Beard ofZeus!” a new crop ofKville residents proclaimed. “I didn’t even know you could tent before classes started!

I gotta get me some of that!”

As a result, an obscene number of students came back early, because if you could survive Black Tenting, you were obviously really, really hardcore.

Now before I continue The Annual Destroy K-ville Column, let me make it clear that I do not support the eradication of tenting altogether. I participated in White Tenting last year. It was a blast. The atmosphere in K-ville the nights before the Carolina game can’t be beat.

That said, things do need to change, because K-ville is slowly degrading this

university.

The first problem is the well-documented effects that K-ville has on physical and mental health of the student body. Since the effects are well-documented, let’s just skip them.

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JJ. Redick's consistency behind the arc will be crucial against Maryland's athletic guards.

month, Terrapins head coach Gary Williams proclaimed them two of the three great ACC teams this year. Duke was not the third.

The Blue Devils (15-0, 5-0 in the ACC) have since passed the Demon Deacons and Tar Heels in the national rankings, moving up to No. 2 Monday, and remain one of three undefeated teams in the nation. Maryland (11-5, 2-3), on the other hand, has struggled in conference play, having lost most recently to N.C. State 8569 Sunday night.

Widely perceived as Duke’s secondbiggest rival—behind, of course, North Carolina—Maryland will visit Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight at 9 p.m. to try and tarnish the Blue Devils’ perfect record.

“When you go down to Cameron Indoor Stadium, no one is going to be there to help us or give us sympathy,” Williams said. “It’s up to us to be strong. Duke’s a great team, but we’ve also played the No. 3 and No. 4 teams in the country. You have to be ready to play at this level. I personally like the challenge.”

In their first game against a high-profile ACC opponent this season, the Blue Devils will rely on their three veterans to continue posting big numbers for the team. The “Big Three,” as Shelden Williams, Daniel Ewing and JJ. Redick are often called, together average 54 points per game.

Williams’ size and strength is unmatched for a Maryland team that lacks a true presence in the paint. Williams has shown that he can take advantage of a mismatch, recording nine double-doubles this season.

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Gary Williams expected a lot this season from John Gilchrist, his junior point guard who capped a solid year by being named the ACC Tournament’s Most Valuable Player last March.

“Now John has his own identity at the point guard position,” Williams said before the season. “He had ups and downs like a lot of sophomores do, and now he is a junior and I expect the consistency level to be stronger this year.”

But coming into tonight’s game against No. 2 Duke, Gilchrist has been inconsistent—to the point where his attitude and his play have forced his frustrated coach to deal

with an identity crisis “We’ve talked a lot,” Williams said.

‘John is a scorer playing the point guard position. When you have a scorer’s mentality, you look at things differently than a point guard who doesn’t shoot as much.”

Statistically, Gilchrist’s season is not significantly different from last year.

His scoring and field goal percentage are slightly down, but his assist average is up and his assist-to-turnover ratio has jumped from 1.62 to 2.25. But Gilchrist has not played well in Maryland’s big games against ranked opponents.

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John Gilchrist won ACC Tournament MVP honors in 2004 but has struggled so far this season.

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also was able to shake .off early jitters during his earlier doubles match loss with partner Peter Shults to win handily, 6-0, 6-1. Shults matched his partner’s dominance, winning by the same score.

In the earlier doubles portion of the match, the No. 1 pairing of Stokke and Peter Rodrigues overcame the 49ers’ top duo 8-2. Amritraj and Zimmermann handled their opponents similarly, 8-5.

The No. 3 doubles team had the most difficulty. Samuelson looked a little nervous giving up some key points with unforced errors into the net. He and Shults dropped the match by a score of 8-5 to the Indonesian and Mauritian duo Mario Santoso and Jonathan Vencatachellum.

Lapidus said after the match that he considered Charlotte’s third doubles team the most

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In Tuesday’s indoor season opener, the men’s tennis team did not lose a set, beating UNCCharlotte 7-0.

Getting over some early-season rustiness in the opening games of the first set, Ludovic Walter, Duke’s CHARLOTTE Q top sin-

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the second flight Stokke was impressive in his straight-set win. The junior nailed powerful forehand winners and cornercatching volleys, leaving his opponent shaking his head on several occasions.

“Stokke’s playing really well,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. “He has improved his fitness and his movement.”

Stokke tracked down a number of his opponent Jonathan Clark’s drop shots and sprinted to deprive the 49er several potential down-the-line winners.

Stokke said he has improved his quickness after altering his diet.

“I used to eat fast food. I would go to ’Dillo every night,” Stokke said of the on-campus Mexican eatery. “And I haven’t had ’Dillo in a month, so my diet’s changed and I feel like I am moving better. My move-

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Duke earned the doubles point and only needed three wins in the singles competition to ice the match.

Lapidus seemed happy with his team’s overall performance looking at the match as more of a gauge for the rest of the spring season.

“We got a couple new people so we tried to get a feel for the new season,” he said.

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Every Duke player handled his respective opponent with relative ease. Jason Zimmermann hustled especially hard in what

was the closest match in the singles bracket, trading games and staying on serve in most of the final set. Zimmermann had the attention of everyone inside of the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Cen-

ter, as his match was the last to finish, showing off his powerful serves in the win.

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[Daniel Ewing] ’s got the ability to handle the ball and run the offense plus put the ball in the basket. Shelden Williams has stepped up his game,” he continued. ‘They complement each other and play well together.”

The Terrapins have four starters averaging more than 10 points per game. Nik Caner-Medley and Gilchrist anchor the squad and provide size at the perimeter.

With the recent injury to DJ. Strawberry, Maryland, like Duke, is struggling with depth and athleticism off the bench. Further, the Terrapins have had a considerably tougher schedule than the Blue Devils thus far, facing Wake Forest and North Carolina early in their conference season.

Duke has only faced one team currently ranked in the top 25.

The Blue Devils will focus their efforts on the defensive end and use turnovers to generate fast-break points.

‘That’s something we’ve been trying to do against all teams,” Shelden Williams said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to speed them up or get some turnovers and convert those on offense.” ‘

team with 5.6 assists per game. Gilchrist is having a tough season to date, but after he

scored 26 points and handed out six assists in the ACC Tournament finals a season ago every Blue Devil will have an eye on the Terps’ dangerous point guard.

Redick, who every Maryland fan loves to hate, has had outstanding performances in recent games, proving he can shoot under almost any circumstance. Redick tallied 31 points against Florida State Saturday, hitting eight three-pointers in one of the best shooting efforts ofhis career.

Especially in front of the home crowd at Cameron, limiting Redick will be one of Maryland’s top priorities. Coach Williams emphasized the importance in guarding Redick’s shot, saying the Terrapins would practice keeping defensive pressure on the outside.

‘JJ. Redick is the best shooter in the country,” Coach Williams said. “I don’t think that’s going out on a limb’

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Guard—JJ. Redick (21.7 ppg, 3.1 rpg) Guard —Daniel Ewing (16.6 ppg. 3.9 rpg) Guard —Sean Dockery (6.5 ppg, 24 apg) Forward—lee Meichionni (7.0 ppg, 2.5 rpg) Forward—Shelden Williams (15.6 ppg, 11.3 rpg)

Guard —John Gilchrist (114 ppg, 5.6 apg) Guard—Chris McCray (12.3 ppg, M rpg) Forward —Travis Garrison (10.1 ppg, 6.7 rpg) Forward —Nik Caner-Medley (16.9 pg, 5.6 rpg) Forward—Ekene Ibekwe (8.5 ppg, 6.7 rpg)

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After he scored a season-high 31 points at FSU, look for Redick, the ACC's leading scorer, to continue to hit treys against the bigger Maryland guards. Williams should own the paint against a Terp team that has no true power forward to match up with him. Pounding the ball down low will open the perimeter for Blue Devil sharpshooters Ewing and Redick.

Look for the team to jump out to an early lead.

Maryland has a bigger lineup than the Blue Devils and should look for open lanes the post. By attacking down low, the Terps will try to deplete the Duke frontcourt by getting Williams in foul trouble. The Terps shoot only 31 percent from three and will have to keep the game close to have a chance. The versatile 6-foot-8 scorer Caner-Medley leads the Terps attack and will try to use his size advantage over the 6-foot-3 Ewing.

Duke is 15-0, while Maryland is fresh off a thorough beating at the hands of N.C. State. The Terps defeated Duke in the finals of the ACC Tournament last year in a epic overtime contest. The Blue Devils will exact revenge on a Maryland team that has not lived up to expectations. Duke's big three of Ewing, Redick and Williams will punish the younger, less experienced Maryland team.

This Duke team remembers last year's ACC Tournament finals well and out of the gate roaring. The Terps have lost some of their star players fi year, and Maryland just does not have enough fire-power from behind Compiled by An keep this one close. Duke wins 84-69.

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how we operate,” Kennedy said. “Not just the principles, but what the advising system is, what health care policy is. Also, our hope is that somebody with a fresh eye will be able to suggest to us ways to make things better.... It gives people a level of comfort knowing that we run a department with integrity.”

Kennedy, who has had extensive experience with the NCAA certification process, coordinated Duke’s initial certification study and has served on two external peerreview committees for other institutions.

When peer reviewers come to Duke in the fall, they will assess the validity of the committees’ reports and identify other areas for improvement.

The Equity and Student-Athlete Welfare committee, chaired by Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs, considers everything from treatment to health and safety of student-athletes. The committee must review certain program areas, which are not exclusive to student-athletes but include the Athletic Department as a whole, including gender issues such as scholarships, accommodations, equipment, facilities, recruitment and publicity.

The Committee on Governance and Commitment to Rules Compliance, chaired

by Kathleen Smith, faculty athletics representative and biology professor, must verify the participation of the university in athletic matters, making sure that athletic departments are kept accountable and communication between the two spheres is present and clear.

This comprehensive report will be available to the campus community once the process is completed, Moneta said.

“One of the real values of this process is that it’s an open opportunity for the campus to critique our athletic program,” Moneta said. “We’ll use the report as a means for inviting commentary about the quality of athletics at Duke.... Certainly, our intent is for public disclosure.”

NCAA from page 1 Division-I institutions, must be recertified every 10 years.

Although the NCAA provides clear guidelines for the internal study, Moneta said the committees will use this opportunity to examine issues beyond those demanded by the certification committee.

He expects that the examination will reveal minor areas where Duke can improve, but he is confident the process would show that Duke operates an excellent athletic program that is fully compliant.

‘When we were certified the last time, there were no areas that were designated for us to get better on,” said Judith Ruderman, chair of the Academic Integrity Committee and vice provost for academic and administrative services. “It doesn’t surprise me that we’re doing fairly well on their questions, and we’re not getting worse—if anything we’re getting better. Second, there haven’t been any surprises because I think our deans and our Athletic Department are constantly scrutinizing the different

processes.”

For Duke, unlike other Division I schools, the graduation rate for student-athletes is equal to that for non-athletes. In 2004, 94 percent ofathletes graduated, giving Duke the highest student-athlete graduation rate of any Division I-A college in more than five years. The national average for Division I schools was 62 percent in 2004.

Members of the Athletic Department will also sit on each of the committees to provide perspective and quick answers to questions that will invariably rise from the process. Associate Athletic Director Chris Kennedy, who will write the final report, emphasized the importance of transparency and improvement.

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This group will focus on the administrative side of athletics within and beyond the athletic department. It will examine the University administration's participation level in athletic decisions and the degree to which the athletic department is kept accountable for its practices. It will study the roles of the President, Athletic Director and other important administrative figures in regards to Duke athletics.

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Things got worse when Gilchrist did not start against then-No. 4 Wake Forest because of a missed academic assignment. Gilchrist played only nine minutes—his shortest outing since his freshman year —and only scored two points. Williams said afterward that he did not play Gilchrist much because he had not practiced enough due to nagging injuries, but Gilchrist told reporters that he could have played.

Those kind of responses and Gilchrist’s attitude in general have drawn even more criticism than his up-and-down play this year. The junior did not respond well to the Wisconsin loss, as he laid face down on the floor for some time after the buzzer and later refused to speak much about the game. While sitting against Wake, Gilchrist appeared to sulk despite teammates’ and coaches’ attempts to encourage him, and at one point he did not stand and cheer with

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his teammates after a hustle play. Even an opposing player has criticized Gilchrist’s on-court actions, as George Washington guard J.R. Pinnock spoke to Gilchrist after Maryland’s loss to the Colonials.

“He plays with so much emotion, sometimes he can get carried away,” Pinnock said. “I just told him that he’s better than that; he’s an all-American and has to perform like that at all times.”

Williams has indicated that he and Gilchrist are now on the same page after the Wake Forest incident, and Gilchrist has played 36 minutes per game in the three contests since the Jan. 11 game.

“It’s a situation that we’re trying to get straightened out because he is a good player,” Williams said. “He was the MVP of the ACC Tournament. I haven’t forgotten that, and we want John to play really well, because when he does it makes us a better team.”

Despite any troubles on or off the court, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils will not be expecting anything less than what they saw from Gilchrist when he scored 26 points in last year’s ACC Tournament final.

“They’re a very talented basketball team, and in Gilchrist you have one of the great guards in the country,” Krzyzewski said. ‘They come to play, and we have to expect that Wednesday night.”

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Second, K-ville tends to breed very boring people. Since we’re right in the middle of fraternity rush, I’ve been talking to a lot of freshmen, and we all know that freshman loooooooove Duke basketball. Here’s my typical conversation with said freshman tenter: Myself: “So what other things have you been involved in on campus?”

Freshman: “Well I’m tenting.”

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M: That’s cool. Shelden Williams’ number. What else do you do?”

F: “Well, I like to play basketball too.”

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days.

There is one last, huge problem. When K-ville residents do finally get into the game, they suck. Big time.

Let’s return to the Virginia game. Eventually I got into Cameron, but I was forced into the upper bowl.

And frankly, guys, from up there you didn’t sound that impressive. Sure got you excited after a big JJ. Redick three or a big Shelden Williams block, but the rest of the game was filled with half-hearted chants, unenthusiastic bobbing and pathetic little “ooooooo”s that sounded like the humming of your average, every-day washing machine.

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John Gilchrist scored 26 points and dished out sixassists during Maryland's overtime victory over Duke in theACC Championshiptitle game. get rowdy, even if you wanted to. Up in that upper bowl, (where, by the way, the TV camera sits) you guys didn’t sound any more impressive than the fans I’ve seen at Illinois, Kansas, or, dare I say it, UNC. “So how do you suppose we fix it?” you might ask.

Here’s my plan.

First, tenting should begin two weeks after the start of classes. That means that tenting would begin today.

Second, tenting positions are distributed by a lottery, and weighted in a manner that rewards seniority and prior attendance. The older you are, and the more games you have attended (a serious problem last season), the better chance you have to get a good spot.

That’s it. Please understand that I am making these suggestions because I truly want to preserve the spirit of, Duke Basketball.

Or maybe I’m pissed because I almost didn’t get into the Virginia game. You choose.

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The change from five registration being-offered earlier will give them more time to organize independent windows to three is intended to studies if they are not interested in streamline the process and reduce problems that arise through regisany of the classes being taught.

The changes also allow for better tration. Although it is unclear if this long-term planning, since students change will help eliminate technical problems experienced in the past will register for summer classes several weeks before registering for the it seems as though having more stufollowing fall semester. Students can dents registering at once would only overload the system —the Office of more easily plan for the fall knowing what classes they will take over the the Registrar is confident it will improve the process. summer.

Overall, the changes to registraUnder the new registration plan, students will be able to register for tion seem like a plan that will be simsummer classes before getting a ple to execute but will yield many benefits—both to students who are PIN. This will be especially important for students who are going to planning their academic careers, adstudy abroad in the fall—and may visers who must fit meetings with be derelict in meeting with their admany students into their schedules and departments that now have an viser as a result—but are taking sumadditional week to organize classes. mer courses. ,

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ontherecord We know that students just gamble for potato chips and raisins.

Gambling online with large amounts of money on overseas websites concerns me a lot more than somebody who might be losing $lO in a residence hall in a game of Hold Em. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, on his concerns with student gambling. See story, page 1.

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Confession:

In the three years I’ve been selective living groups on Duke’s campus) grand total of involve a philanthropic component. Even those group members who don’t directly about one hour participating in community service. A friend had just joined participate manage to contribute by supporting the organizations that embrace the some sort of club that was decorating valenand she didn’t tines for retirees, want to go philanthropic components.

Of course, there are also countless stualone, so I tagged along. In a rush to create an impossibly large number of valentines in dent groups that don’t participate in comthe tiny window in our schedule, we pieced munity service. These, I suppose, are the tartogether a few hearts with glitter and glue, gets of the attacks on the resume-builders. then rushed on to dinner, or a meeting, or But even these organizations provide valuable contributions to the community in whatever it was we had that night. some form or another, whether that means Two years later, I have a hard time imagining that the 10 pieces of construction giving students a forum in which to publish paper I folded that evening made anyone their poetry or organizing a performance feel any better about being alone. In fact, space for local bands on East Campus.

Still, the fact remains that when I imagine a room full these activities, whatever benof seniors watching as a volunteer carries in a box full efit they might incidentally of generic, spangly valenprovide for the community, are resume-building, and tines, I get a stab of lonelitherefore not truly altruistic. ness that sort of makes me Right? wish I’d never done it at all.

Wrong. So-called commuBut of course I should service, like every other nity have done it. In fact, I miller activity mentioned above, should be doing a lot more the grindstone looks wonderful on a resume. community service, accordThanks largely to the kind ing to the Community Change newsletter I received in my mailbox of psychology that gives us the flawed “re“service-volunthis semester. Mary Ellison Baars (’O5) and sume-building” versus Alice Williamson (’O5) set me straight in an teerism” argument, participation in commuessay they wrote for the biannual newsletter nity service helps humanize a candidate for entitled “It’s Not About You.” a job or graduate school like no other activIn this encouraging work (available at ity could. Appearing selfless is a great way to http://esc.studentaffairs.duke.edu), Baars help yourself. and Williamson sympathize with the general Ultimately, then, the popular trend of inability of Duke students to commit to a pitting resume-building against service-volregular schedule of community service. ‘We unteerism fails on two principal counts.

First, resume-building activities almost alhave tests, meetings, due dates, and assignments,” they remind us. Still, we “must reways benefit the larger community. Secondmember that there is a world outside of ly, community service activities inevitably benefit the individuals who in engage in Perkins and the Bryan Center” where an extraordinary number of “people in need them. In fact, the phrase ‘community service’ is something of a misnomer—we nar[are] waiting for a helping hand.” define it as an unpaid activity that rowly the authors that Duke Basically, argue students feel so pressured to prove themreaches across socio-economic borders to selves—building resumes with their ex- benefit the unfortunate.

Really, almost all our extracurriculars tracurriculars, studying for tests, etc.—that provide a community service. they never bother to participate in truly selfTo distinguish our staunchly conservative less Community Service.

Baars and Williamson aren’t alone in view of ‘community service’ as somehow their beliefs. The schism that divides the more elevated than, say, the promotion of realm of extracurricular activities into the the arts community requires an implicit ethmutually exclusive camps of “resume-build- ical or spiritual judgment about the abing” and “service-volunteerism” runs solute value of two different kinds of service. unchecked through the literature of comThe promoters of the old-fashioned definimunity service and our society in general. tion of ‘community service’ have no qualms We come to accept it only by being trained about making that judgment. That seems to ignore a multitude of facts. awfully self-righteous to me.

The first convenient omission regards the nature of most “resume-building” activiJohn Miller is a Trinity junior. His column ties. For starters, some clubs (and all of the appears every other Wednesday. at Duke, I have spent a

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F(d)=uKE “A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates to, and the more extended its area of applicability.”

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Therefore, by Equation 1.4: Happiness (Duke Undergraduate) Recently I have seen too many appalling instances of smokers being “considerate” and blowing the other way in F (Friendship) *F( Heal th)*F (Success) front of nonsmokers or worse, putting out the cigarette in •F(Recreation) the ground where it can never be reclaimed again. I now However, since write to complain that these gents and ladies of considerEncounable consideration are ruining it for all us secondhand ters with Friends and £Pauly Dogs Consumed cancel (Godel’s Gay Healthy Eating smokers. You want to actually be considerate? My lungs Cjilllim need tar too! Don’t stop smoking until I get enough secTheorem), and Eaten and ZTimes slept with Friends’ Romantic Partners also ondhand smoke. Sharing is caring Veritas cancel (Gauss’s Salad Shuts off Your Nuts Case in point, I was leaving the West Union Theorem), F(Friendship)*F(Health) building in ecstatic anticipation of that sweet XHours Spent RunningXdose Relationships^ fresh air God meant us to ZTimes Friends’ BMWs Crashed into Trees on Flowers breathe, but to my utter r"" 7 Dr.XKilograms Nicotine Gum Chewed disappointment, all I inhaled was ordinary, And since XAsian Descent and XCourt Ordered Comunadulterated air. No 3Shwin bhirild nicotine. No carbon munity Service cancel (Model Minority Theorem), £Connections of Parents and XTime Spent Doing Homework monoxide. I don’t bethe ministry of sound cancel (Rich Kids Don’t Work and Spend All Day Freaking icve even coughed once. How am I supposed and EtOH cancel Sorority Girls Theorem), to passively shorten my life span if I can’t even involun(Guns and Alcohol Bad Combo Lemma), and ZTime.

Spent Reading Porn in the Library and Gonorrhea cancel tarily run into secondhand smoke? For this reason I believe it is necessary to institute some changes to ensure (Pornography Stops Fornication and Saves Lives Theothat nonsmokers can go about their daily activities withrem), F(Success)*F(Recreation)= out staying emphysema-free.

The most obvious solution would be if you could just iHours spent watching Duke Women’s Tennis^ 6 have a resident smoker, a “Siamese smoker” if you please, %Body Mass Genitalia*Pratt^ who could just accompany you on all ofyour shenanigans and keep your lungs full of exhaust. As many smokers as Trinity^ we have in our society today, we are distant from this atTherefore by combination and cancellation; ZTimes tractive goal. However, fantasies such as these are best left Friends’ BMWs Crashed into Trees on Flowers Dr. and to Jules Verne novels, as this would-be utopia would in acPratt 3 cancel (Pratt Kids Aren’t that Retarded Theorem), tuality be a financial and personnel nightmare.

Another exciting option is to enclose the campus in a Trinity and ZClose Relationships cancel (Trinity Kids are Narcissistic and Shallow Theorem) so Happiness (Duke dome filled with the glorious fumes of chain smokers.

This idea offers alternate benefits, as people can enjoy Undergraduate)= their sweet gaseous nectar 24/7, unencumbered by a ZHours spent watching Duke Women’s constant companion. Conversely, it could require some advances in ventilation technology, because it is of the utMass Genitalia*ZHours Spent Running most importance that we inhale only the freshest secondhand smoke, straight out of the mouths and nostrils of Nicotine Gum Chewed our financially-drained sponsors. If this is just not possible, you could shrink the dome idea into a more feasible, albeit less exhilarating, secondhand smoking room.

Q.EDizzle Amen People say secondhand smoke kills, but these people are all hip slang-users. Everyone knows that nowadays the verb “kills” is slang for “is awesome” in all cases of Matt Gillum is a Trinity senior. His column appears Wednesconversation, and this case is no different. In addition, days. any hearsay about the ill effects of secondhand smoke comes from scientists with no more credibility than Einstein or Newton. Indeed, the harmful effects of secondhand smoke may be as unsubstantiated as relativity or <w> even gravity.

-s In consideration of all these complex proposals and statistics, what is my point? How did I lose myself in endless ambiguity in a sea of shoddy satire? I am not out to alienate my friends the smokers or on the other side my friends the nonsmokers. Who wants to create discord when we could all be smoking sleek Spanish cigars on even sleeker Spanish benches? My friends the smokers are going to continue smoking and my friends the nonsmokers are going to continue not smoking. However, there is a point around here somewhere.

In essence, consideration is the key. Michael Jackson lyrics may have a keen aptitude for profundity, but common sense is probably better. In good time we will disintegrate into molecules not so unlike those pleasure-inducgOHKHY ing substances we love, and wouldn’t we like to make it better. How much secondhand smoke do I really want to inhale as I walk about this campus? That’s better left up to you to decide, because I am so high right now.

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