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Planning for the first phase of the new Central Campus has officially begun. After months of refining and publicizing their overarching vision for the new “village,” administrators, faculty and student representatives have begun researching what exactly should fill the 278acre campus once its current buildings are razed.

At a kick-off meeting last week, the Central Campus Planning Committee tackled the first stage of Central’s overhaul, which includes building new residential accommodations and eateries as well as venues for classes and other activities. Three subcommittees were created to address specific areas of life on the revitalized campus: Housing and Dining, Academic Programs and Spaces and Extra-, Co-curricular and Recreational Activities, Services and Spaces. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said a separate group was formed to handle communication with the greater Durham area to make sure that “people understand what we’re doing here and what we’re not doing, because there is a lot ofcommunity mistrust.”

Provost Peter Lange said the committees were “sent on their way” after the meeting to probe their particular areas and told to report back with “their broad

conceptual thinking.”

“We’re going to take all that stuff and the Central Campus Planning Committee and senior leadership will look and say, ‘Here are all the ideas, how do we mix them into a more coherent model?”’

Lange said. “Then we’re going to project them back out to those committees and say, ‘Now here’s what you need to plan in more detail.’”

The subcommittees’ initial reports are due in four to five weeks, and the sum of their SEE CENTRAL ON PAGE 8

While significant surfacelevel changes have been made to the linking process for the next academic year, more substantial changes to the program may loom ahead.

The links from dormitories on East Campus to quadrangles on West Campus have been shuffled around for Fall 2005 due to increased class size, a gender imbalance and two new living-learning groups—the Baldwin Scholars and the Wellness Living Learning Group that require housing. These changes made it impossible to guarantee beds under the old linking configuration, said Jennifer Frank, housing assignments coordinator.

A new linking pattern has been proposed by the Office of Housing Assignments and will be made official Jan. 31 after discussions with both East Campus Council and Campus Council.

‘The proposal is based entirely on the this year’s numbers, and the fact of the matter is that it is just a very different demographic group than it has been in the past,” Frank said.

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Misfires, turnovers cost Duke ACC loss by

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him. His two free throws made it a four-point game with a minute to play.

After Lee Melchionni’s three-point shot went in and out, Ibekwe’s two free throws with 46 seconds remaining sealed the game, and Maryland snapped Duke’s 15-game win-

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With less than two minutes

remaining, Shavlik Randolph grabbed the rebound after

Shelden Williams missed the first of a one-and-one. The junior forMARYLAND -75 ward DUKE 66 held the ball in the lane for what seemed like an eternity before pivoting and hitdng a layup from the right side.

Randolph’s basket tied the game at 64, and Cameron Indoor Stadium was rocking.

Maryland took a timeout to try to stop Duke’s momentum, but it was all but settled—the Blue Devils were going to extend their winning streak to 16 games.

But the Terrapins had other ideas. A quick score by Ekene Ibekwe off the inbound play

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put-back, we were going to come down and get a stop and

Nik Caner-Mediey scored 25 points against theBlue Devilsand hit shots during key stretches of the second half. put Maryland ahead 66-64.

Daniel Ewing missed a threepointer, and the Terps’ Travis Garrison corralled the rebound and Randolph promptly fouled

then really just take hold of the game here on our home court,” Melchionni said. “But that wasn’t the case, and we really just gave it away.”

Duke (15-1, 5-1 in the ACC) suffered its first loss of the season to Maryland (12-5, 3-3) in a game that see-sawed back and forth throughout the second half. Head coach Mike SEE TERPS ON PAGE 13

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U.S. helicopter crashes in Iraqi desert Jason

Keyser by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD, Iraq A U.S. helicopter crashed in a desert sandstorm in the early morning darkness Wednesday, killing the 30 Marines and one Navy sailor aboard. Six other troops died in insurgent ambushes in the deadliest day for Americans since the Iraq war began nearly two years ago.

A search and rescue team was at the site.

The vicdms were 30 Marines and one sailor, said Lt. Gen. John Satder, the top Marine commander in Iraq—the most American service members to die in a single incident since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The deadliest previous incident for U.S. troops was also a helicopter crash: a November 2003 collision of two Black Hawk helicopters that killed 17. Before Wednesday’s bloodshed, the most Americans killed in one day came on the invasion’s third day—March 23, 2003—when 28 troops were killed during the U.S. military’s drive to take Baghdad and topple Saddam Hussein.

The U.S. military has not seen such a high loss of life in one day in 15 years since an explosion ripped through a gun turret on the USS lowa during a training exercise in the Caribbean in April 1989, killing 47 sailors.

Violence has only increased ahead of Sunday’s election, which will create a 275member National Assembly and regional legislatures. Sunni Muslim extremists have —

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Condoleezza Rice won confirmation as secretary of state Wednesday despite blistering criticism from Senate Democrats who accused her of misleading statements and said she must share the blame for mistakes and war deaths in Iraq.

Israelis, Palestinians in talks Israeli and Palestinian negotiators achieved significant progress Wednesday toward resuming peace talks, completing a plan for deploying Palestinian forces in the Gaza Strip and aiming for a summit within two weeks between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Bush asks for patience on war Bush pleaded for Americans' patience Wednesday on "a very discouraging day" of deathand violence. He urged Iraqis to defy terrorist threats and vote in Sunday's elections. Bush held a news conference hours after more than 30 American troops perished.

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A US CH-53ESuper Stallion helicopter similar to this one crashed in Iraq Wednesday. threatened to sabotage the election, and many Sunni clerics have called for a boycott because of the presence of U.S. and other foreign troops.

The group calling itself al-Qaeda in Iraq warned people to stay away from the polls, threatening attacks. “Oh people, be careful. Be careful not to be near the centers of infidelity and vice, the polling cen-

ters... Don’t blame us but blame yourselves” if harmed, a Web statement issued

in the group’s name said.

The day’s deaths brought to at least 1,409 the number of members of the U.S. military who have died in Iraq, according to an Associated Press count.

A month after killer waves swept away more than 140,000lives, survivors remembered the tragedy and carried on with the struggle to rebuild their lives. But behind the public grieving was a deepening sense of frustration at the slow pace ofrecovery.

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It’s 1 a.m., you’re out with your tends, and you’ve had a few too many 3ng Island iced teas. What do you do? hip out the cell phone, of course.

Looking through your phone book, decide to call your ex-boyfriend, or naybe that certain someone you’ve >een eyeing in your history class. Regardless of who it is, you will probably 'ou

egret that call in the morning—if you emember it at all.

Drunk dialing. It’s rampant on college campuses. But soon there may be something you can do to prevent it.

The cell phone company Virgin Mobile Australia introduced a new service in December that is specifically designed to avoid drunk dialing—or “dialing under the influI ence.” For 25 cents per phone I number, customers can dial 333 I plus the number they do not want

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call, and Virgin Mobile will block that number until 6 a.m. This service is currendy only being offered in Australia, but it may be added in the United States as well.

“It’s under consideration, but we don’t have any firm plans,” said Sue D’Agostino, a media contact for Virgin Mobile.

Andy Mallison, brand and marketing director for Virgin Mobile in Australia, said the service is “going extremely well.”

“We have about 50 people per day using the service, which is far better than we expected,” he said.

The service has the potential to be popular if introduced in the U.S., Mallison added. Virgin Mobile has a similar target market—lB to 30-yearolds—in both Australia and the United States, and “this service fits right in the middle of that group.”

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Black to run N.C. House in 2005 Gary Robertson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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RALEIGH For the second consecutive session, a closely divided state House agreed Wednesday to a power-sharing arrangement, this time with Democratic Speaker Jim Black clearly in control.

By a vote of 100-20, chamber members chose Black, D-Mecklenburg, as their speaker and gave the No. 2 job to Rep. Richard Morgan, R-Moore.

Black and Morgan shared the speakership for the past two years because the House was deadlocked and House members couldn’t decide on a single leader after a week of intrigue.

This year, Democrats had a 63-57 advantage and Black the support of party colleagues to be the only speaker. But with Morgan now as speaker pro tempore, Black can be confident of Republican votes to

push through key legislation. not to work togeth-

“It’s kind of foolish

er,” Black told reporters after his election at the opening of the 2005 legislative session. “That’s not a huge majority anyway.

You’ve got to have people on both sides of the aisle.”

In the Senate, chamber leader Marc Basnight, D-Dare, won re-election by a voice vote to a record seventh term in that post. Democrats outnumber Republicans 29-21 in the chamber. .Morgan and Black declined to discuss details of their power-sharing arrangement, saying all of them haven’t been figured out. But the resolution the House voted on to elect the pair stated Morgan would choose some committee leadership positions determined by Black.

Speaker pro tempore at times has been a ceremonial post, presiding over the chamber in the speaker’s absence. Morgan is expected to expand the position’s power under the deal.

All Democrats joined 37 Republicans in

electing Black and Morgan.

Morgan said the votes reflect a desire by

members “to diminish our differences and unite this body.”

‘The 2003 session marked a first in North Carolina history,” he said in his speech after his election. This 2005 session brings a new twist in the ribbon of coalition government.”

Republicans opposed to Morgan’s tactics to become co-speaker two years ago refused to go along Wednesday, saying Morgan was selling out and fracturing the party.

The Democratic leadership will continue to give him a little bone of power so he can keep the Republican agenda a little suppressed,” said Rep. John Rhodes, R-Mecklenburg. During Wednesday’s roll-call vote, Rhodes called out a “Big No” on whether to support the Black-Morgan coalition.

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Doug Keith could have avoided an embarrassing late night phone call.

“Freshman year, I was really drunk on a bus ride,” Keith explained. “I got it in my head that I would call my exgirlfriend and tell her off.”

Keith called his ex-girlfriend’s home number instead of her cell phone, however, and ended up yelling at her dad after mistaking him for one of her friends.

And Keith is not alone. According to a survey conducted by Virgin Mobile, 30 percent of drunken calls are made to ex-partners, and 19 percent are made to current partners. Of the 409 people surveyed, 95 percent admitted to making drunken calls, and 54 percent of them did so as often as one to three times

during a single night out.

Junior Kate Abramson said she “would readily invest in the service to SEE DIALING ON PAGE 8

Corrections: In a story about a Duke Student Government meeting that ran on page 1 ofThe Chronicle Jan. 26, the group seeking to sponsor controversial speaker Jose TorresTama should have been identified as Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Inc.

In a correction that ran on page 3 of The Chronicle Jan. 25, the potential changes to Latino student fellowships in the Graduate School were not appropriately clarified. Fellowships for Latino students are currently being reviewed by the Graduate School, but there has been no definite decision to eliminate Latino student fellowships from The Duke Endowment.

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New center added to IGSP

by Tony Tu THE CHRONICLE

Officials at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy announced Wednesday the creation of a new center that will study how genetic variations among patients can be used to improve current methods, diagnosis and treatment. Researchers at the new center will seek to improve current strategies for treating many diseases, such as cancer.

Dr. David Goldstein, director of the new Center for Pharmacogenetics and Population Genomics, has studied the methodologies of pharmacogenetics at University College London and University of Oxford.

David Goldstein He intends to direct the center’s efforts toward addressing the broader implications of genomics and health care.

Population genomics provides the information that drives research in pharmacogenetics. Pharmacogenetics is the study of the genetic details behind drug responses of various patients. Researchers say one of the upcoming successes in pharmacogenetics is likely to be in the treatment of cancer. “Because the use is often right on the razor's edge, getting the specific dosage and medicine exactly right for an individual patient is of particular importance,” Goldstein said. Pharmacogenetics has the potential to improve diagnoses, providing more detailed information about the patient, such as adverse drug responses.

“The attraction of advancing this research at Duke is the very intricate, interdisciplinary approach to genomics that the IGSP supports,” Goldstein said. “AlSEE IGSP ON PAGE 9

AP tests to by

narrow in scope

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Remember anything from AP physics? The College Board announced plans to change the Advanced Placement program in high schools nationwide in order to ensure that more students will be able to answer “yes”—and generally retain more of what they learn in the fasttracked classes.

The plans, announced Tuesday, will narrow the scope of material covered in the end-of-year exams. College Board officials hope the changes will allow the subject courses to be taught at a more collegiate level, giving students a deeper understanding of the material.

“We change exams all the time,” said Ayeola Boothe Kinlaw, director of access and equity initiatives for the Advanced Placement program and Trinity ’96. “We have to keep up with what’s going on at the college level.”

The College Board will seek input from college professors and high school teachers in order to focus the tests and allow for subjects to be explored in greater depth.

These changes come at a time when a higher percentage of students are attaining success on the college-level AP exams, according to a College Board press release issued Wednesday. A recent report on the end-of-year exams, outlined in the press release, found that 13 per-

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of students in the class of 2004 attained a score of three or higher on a given subject test, whereas only 10 percent of students accomplished this feat in the class of 2000.

“We usually see a little change in score [after modifications]” Kinlaw said, adding that the difficulty of the course will not increase despite changes.

“We want there to be a balance in rigor from year to year,” she said.

High school teachers will have to adapt their curricula in accordance with these changes. At Marlborough School in Los Angeles, Calif, Upper School Director Laura Hotchkiss said she believes narrowing down the scope of curricula will make the courses more comparable to those taught in college.

“AP Physics is a survey course that covers such a wide range of topics,” Hotchkiss said. “I’m sure college courses don’t cover things as broadly. At the end of the year students don’t have a recall [of information] as high as we would like.”

Despite some criticism of the AP system, Hotchkiss still believes the tests are a good measurement of how the school performs nationally.

“There are definitely teachers who wanted to do away with the AP program,” she said, “but we will have APs here fora long time.” cent

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L.A. commuter tragedy kills 10, injures 180

by Tim Molloy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A suicidal man GLENDALE, Calif. parked his SUV on the railroad tracks and off a crash of two commuter trains Wednesday that hurled passengers down the aisles and turned rail cars into smoking, twisted heaps of steel, authorities said.

At least 11 people were killed and more than 180 injured.

The SUV driver got out at the last moment and survived.

The collision took place just before daybreak on the outskirts ofLos Angeles.

Employees at a Costco store rushed to the scene and pulled riders from the tipped-over double-deck cars before the flames reached them. Dazed passengers staggered from the wreckage, some limpset

ing. One elderly man on the train was covered in blood and soot, his legs and arms apparently broken.

“I heard a noise. It got louder and louder,” said passenger Diane Brady, 56. “And next thing I knew the train tilted, everyone was screaming and I held onto a pole for dear life. I held on for what seemed like a week and a half it seemed. It was a com-

plete nightmare.”

Dozens of the injured were in critical condition, and more than 120 people were sent to hospitals in the nation’s deadliest train accident in nearly six years.

Killed were one woman and nine men,

including sheriff s Deputy James Tutino, 47, whose flag-draped body was saluted by RINGO CHIU/ZUMA

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A commuter train smashed into an SUV driven on the tracks by a suicidal man early Wednesday in California.

Broken pipeline spills oil into Kentucky River by

Bruce Schreiner

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CARROLLTON, Ky. —A pipeline broke and spilled an estimated 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the Kentucky River early Wednesday, creating a 12-mile-long slick that crews were racing to contain to keep it from contaminating drinking water.

By afternoon the oil spill had crept within five miles of the Ohio River, which several communities in northern

Kentucky rely on for their water supplies, said Environmental Protection Agency onsite coordinator Art Smith.

The Kentucky River is not used for drinking water in the

fined area where the goo could be skimmed from the

area.

It was not immediately clear what caused the rupture of the pipeline, which carries about 180,000 barrels ofcrude daily from the Gulf Coast to refineries in northwest Ohio, The break, about 50 feet from the north side of the riverbank, sent oil gushing into the waterway, said Dan Harden, area supervisor for Mid-Valley Pipeline Co. ofHebron, a division ofSunoco Inc. and owner of the pipeline.

The pipeline and the river are usually farther apart, but recent rain and snow swelled the waterway.

Workers battled the slick by deploying a boom across the north-flowing Kentucky River to divert the oil to a con-

water.

Gov. Ernie Fletcher flew over the spill and met afterward with officials involved in the cleanup. “Clearly the concerns that we have is to make sure the cleanup is done well (with a) minimal amount of environmental impact,” he said.

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Rumsfeld adviser to resign this summer in March 2001 and was confirmed by the Senate four months later. As Rumsfeld’s WASHINGTON Defense Secretary top policy adviser he manages an organizaDonald H. Rumsfeld’s top policy adviser tion of about 1,500 people and represents said Wednesday he has informed Rumsthe Pentagon in interagency forums where feld that he will leave his Pentagon posinational security policy is made.

Feith has stirred considerable controtion sometime this summer.

Douglas J. Feith, the undersecretary of versy during his four years at the Pentadefense for policy and a driving force begon. He oversaw the Office of Special hind the Bush administration’s strategy Plans, which critics said fed policy-makfor fighting the global war on terror, said ers uncorroborated prewar intelligence in an interview that he decided it was time on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, especially inhe devoted more time to his family. He volving purported ties with the al-Qaeda has four children. terror network.

“I informed the secretary that I plan to Army Gen. Tommy Franks, the retired leave in the summer,” he said. commander of U.S. Central Command, He offered no specific resignation raised eyebrows in Washington when he date and stressed that he was leaving on took a verbal shot at Feith in his autobioghis own terms. raphy, “American Soldier.” Franks, who Feith would be the highest-ranking wrote the war plans for the invasions of Pentagon official to leave the administraAfghanistan and Iraq, wrote thatFeith was tion. The No. 2 official, Deputy Defense “getting a reputation around here as the Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, said recently he dumbest (expletive) guy on the planet.”

Franks wrote that while Feith, a lawyer plans to remain.

Rumsfeld told reporters on Capitol schooled at Harvard and Georgetown, Hill that he had wanted Feith to stay had academic credentials and was personlonger and is sorry to lose him. ally likable, he posed “off-the-wall ques“I’m hopeful he will stay until we are tions without relevance to problems.” able to find an appropriate successor,” Larry Di Rita, the chief spokesperson Rumsfeld said. In a brief written statefor Rumsfeld, said Wednesday that Feith ment issued later, Rumsfeld called Feith is respected by military commanders. He creative, well-organized and energetic. noted that after Feith made a policy pres“He has earned the respect of civilian entation Wednesday to a group of senior commanders, the chairperson of the and military leaders across the government,” Rumsfeld wrote.

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Ambassador concerned about border violence by

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MEXICO CITY U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza told Mexican leaders Wednesday he is concerned growing drugrelated violence and kidnappings on the border between the two countries will have a “chilling” effect on trade and tourism.

Garza’s comments in a letter directed to Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez and federal Attorney Rafael Macedo de la Concha explained the

motives behind a public announcement from the U.S. State Department to citizens thinking of traveling to the region.

The department alerted Americans visiting Mexico Wednesday that violent crime, including murder and kidnaping, has increased in its northern border region. The alert attributed the increased crime to a war between criminal organizations struggling for control of the lucraSEE MEXICO ON PAGE 10

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Residence Life and Housing Services and Campus Council, however, are currently examining the linking process in general in order to ascertain whether the system merits more considerable changes in the future. In the upcoming semester, Campus Council will evaluate linking to determine whether the program achieves its goal of translating community from East Campus to West Campus.

In Spring 2003, one year after its inception, the linking process was placed on a one-year probationary period by Campus Council so that the council could assess the institution more accurately. This spring, the council has returned to the linking discussion and will extensively re-

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view its success or failure for the first time since its creation in Fall 2002.

“Linking was created to transfer that wonderful, happy, everybody-loves-eachother, East Campus community to West Campus,” Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli said. “We can all agree that the sophomore experience lacks that cohesion present on East.”

Campus Council will be working with students and administrators in RLHS to understand the history and goals of linking and to feel out alternatives to the linking process, Vitarelli said. The council will begin its investigation in tonight’s meeting with a presentation by Frank.

“Maintaining community has been achieved in some housing links, but we have to see if there are other ways to achieve that same goal that are better,”

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findings and recommendations will be presented to the Board ofTrustees for approval in May. Senior Anthony Vitarelli, Campus Council president and a member of the Housing and Dining subcommittee, said generating a report for review in the next month is “ambitious, but doable.”

‘The committees are populated with very serious people who approach this with a creative and innovative perspective,” Vitarelli said. ‘The folks on these committees will do what research is necessary to come up with a truly unique Central Campus.”

Several core principles will guide each of the subcommittees’ work, Lange explained, including how best to create a residential experience conducive to seniors and graduate students who “want a differentresidential experience than they did when they were freshmen.” Lange noted that figuring out how to incorporate the area and its activities with the rest of the University is also key in the planning process.

“Central is not to be a suburb, it is to be an urb,” he said.

“It is not to be a place where people get up in the morning,

said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of residence life.

Possible alternatives to linking range from abandoning the system all together to increasing the size of blocks to making no changes and maintaining the current linking process, officials said. “Everything is on the table,” Vitarelli said. “The prospect of making a recommendation to abolish linking has been discussed and will continue to be discussed.”

Administrators and student leaders agree that the linking system has not created the same community on West Campus that can be found on East Campus. Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean of residence life, said the problem lies in the fact tha students are treating linking as a locatior opportunity, “Students may just be using linking] for a

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Judith Ruderman, vice provost for academic and administrative services and a member of the Academic Program and Spaces subcommittee, said the new committees were told to “think broadly and imaginatively” and “take a very broad blue-sky sweep” in their research. She noted, however, that President Richard Brodhead and other top administrators at the meeting emphasized the need to keep goals in check.

“We don’t want to build a campus that will be so far superlative that everybody will say, ‘lf I can’t live on Central, I don’t want to live anywhere else,”’ Ruderman said.

Trask said he expects the first phase of Central’s reconstruction to cost “north of $2OO million.” The University has not decided how to fully fund the project, but Trask emphasized the need to lay out specific plans and priorities before delving into finances.

“We need to figure out what we’re going to do before we worry about money,” he said.

There will be follow-up discussions about funding after the subcommittees meet independently in the coming weeks, Trask added.

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Abramson already uses Virgin Mobile, so the service would be at her disposal if and when it becomes available in the U.S. But Abramson did not think that it would be worth it for someone to switch phone companies for the service if they did not already have Virgin Mobile.

“Drunk dialing is a very accepted and expected occurrence,” Abramson explained. She added that it can be avoided simply by taking away a drunk friend’s phone which does not require changing phone companies.

Keith said he would not use the service to avoid drunk dialing because “it’s more fun if you just let it happen.”

But for some, the consequences of drunk dialing are not always fun. “A guy in my fraternity called his girlfriend, got in a fight with her and told her to have sex with every guy she saw in Chapel Hill. And then he broke up with her,” sophomore Henry Colen said.

When Colen’s fraternity brother called his girlfriend the next day to chat, Colen said, she asked if he remembered breaking up with her the night before.

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Vitarelli said linking has not translated community to West Campus because not enough freshmen participate in the linking process. “Linking numbers are high, but they are not high enough to produce an exact replica of East Campus,” he said.

University administrators, who have defended linking for the past several years, are open to serious discussions about ways to advance the goals behind linking.

“The notion was brilliant, but the practical application was challenging at best,” said Assistant Dean of Students Deb Lo Biondo, who helped pioneer linking. “There are a lot of factors that hinder us in achieving what linking was intended to do.”

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margin was greater than the 89-31 vote in 2003 naming him and Black as co-speakers —a sign that lawmakers like what they’ve done so far.

“We’re moving in the right direction,” he said.

Having Morgan and his GOP allies on board will give Black some breathing room with legislation that may upset liberal Democrats or conservative Republicans.

“When you have a narrow majority, you become so confrontational and polarized, and you get little done,” said Rep. Lucy Allen, D-Franklin.

But having Black alone at the top means more controversial topics—such as a lottery, death penalty moratorium or cigarette tax increase—could get hearings this year. Morgan’s opposition to these ideas stifled debate on those the past two years.

Black and Morgan largely avoided those topics in a news conference, saying it would depend on whether there was enough support on such bills for a debate.

But Black mentioned in his speech that lawmakers “need to review and reform our death penalty laws and protocols.”

Lawmakers returned to Raleigh facing a budget gap of at least $1.2 billion for the fiscal year that begins July I—the result of expiring taxes, flat sales tax revenues and growing medical costs for the poor and state employees.

Basnight said in his acceptance speech an increase in the cigarette and alcohol taxes should be examined and that it was time to pass a lottery—North Carolina is the only state on the East Coast without one.

“I think it is ever so important that we look at optional taxes that no one has to participate in and that you put it on the table for discussion up or down,” he said.

Basnight later said that he hoped the Senate would approve legislation as early as next week to allocate money to help western North Carolina residents, business owners and local governments recover from two major tropical storms last fall.

A legislative task force has drafted a $316 million assistance plan, paid for through the state’s reserve fund and money returned by state agencies to Gov. Mike Easley’s administration.

“People are hurting today,” Basnight said.

Black said he didn’t want to rush the bill through without being sure of the scope of the problem. He also was interested in looking a temporary revenue source to pay for it.

Black’s fourth election as speaker ties him with the late Rep. Liston Ramsey, DMadison, with the most terms as House leader dating back to the Civil War. Senate Democrats also firmed their grip on power in the Senate by passing new legislative rules designed to make it harder for Republicans to get their proposals heard.

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IGSP has dedicated individual centers devoted to technological research, clinical applications and policy implications.

Although these centers each have different titles, the collaboration is so tight that there is often overlap among researchers from multiple centers. “Duke is so special because it will allow each center to participate in all of these questions,” Goldstein said. “This will allow us to minimize the time it takes to translate the basic research advancements into improved clinical practices.”

The much more typical model at other universities is to have centers for specific diseases without the ability to di-

undergraduates.

“The science is excellent and interesting, with such a bearing on broad topics from basic science to ethics, law and policy, to the treatment of disease,” Provost Peter Lange said. “The breadth of this program shows Duke’s commitment and makes us stand out.”

IRAQ from page 2 A string of political violence continued. Several schools slated to be used as polling stations were bombed overnight.

A suicide bomber detonated a fuel tanker at the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the town of Sinjar, southwest of Mosul, killing five and injuring at least 20 people, KDP officials said.

Earlier in the day, gunmen opened fire with machine guns on the local headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Communist Party in the city of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, killing a traffic policeman. The KDP and PUK are the two largest Kurdish groups in Iraq and have formed a coalition along with other

Kurdish groups to run in the election.

Insurgents also set off three car bombs in rapid succession in the town of Riyadh, north of Baghdad, killing at least five people—including three policemen.

Four American soldiers were injured in a car bombing Wednesday in Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit, the U.S. command said. Another car bomb targeted a multinational forces convoy on the road to Baghdad’s international airport, injuring four soldiers, the command said.

The attack temporarily closed the airport road, known as one of the country’s most

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The latest expansion of IGSP is a collaboration between Duke’s Trinity School ofArts and Science and the Medical Center. Goldstein, while leading the efforts of the center, will also be teaching a new population genetics course to

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TRAIN from page 5 law officers and firefighters as it was carried from the wreckage.

An 11th body was discovered in the wreckage after nightfall. Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Jim Wells said he did not know whether the body was that of a man or woman.

Before his rescue, one trapped man apparendy used his own blood to write a note on a seat bottom. Using the heart symbol, he wrote “I love my kids” and “I love Leslie.” The man’s identity was not known, but Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Rex Vilaubi said the man was alive when he was removed.

The wreck set in motion a huge rescue operation involving more than 300 firefighters, some of whom climbed ladders to reach the windows of the battered train cars. A triage center was set up in a parking lot, where the injured lay sprawled on color-coded mats—red for those with severe injuries, green for those less seriously hurt.

Authorities said Juan Manuel Alvarez, 25, of Compton, parked his sport utility vehicle on the tracks and got out before a Metrolink train smashed into the Jeep Grand Cherokee. The train then derailed and collided with another train going in the opposite direction. That train also jumped the tracks.

Alvarez was arrested and expected to be booked for investigation of a “homicide-related offense,” said police Sgt. Tom Lorenz. Alvarez had also slashed his wrists and stabbed himself, but the injuries were not life-threatening. Authorities said Alvarez had a criminal record that involved drugs. District Attorney Steve Cooley said no decision had been made on charges in the wreck.

‘This whole incident was started by a deranged individual that was suicidal,” Glendale Police Chief Randy Adams said.

“I think his intent at that time was to take his own life but changed his mind prior to the train actually striking this vehicle.”

Alvarez’s sister-in-law, Maricela Amaya, told Telemundo TV that he had separated from his wife, Carmelita, three months ago. She said the wife got a court order to keep him away, but he had tried to see his wife and son.

“He was having problems with drugs and all that and was violent and because of that he separated from her,” Amaya said in Spanish. “A few other times he went around as if he wanted to kill himself. I said if you’re going to kill yourself, go kill yourself far away. Don’t come by here telling that to my sister.” She said he had also threatened suicide in front of his son.

According to the request for a temporary restraining order, which was granted Dec. 14, Carmelita Alvarez said her husband “threatened to take our kid away and to hurt my family members.”

“He is planning on selling his vehicle to buy and gun and threatened to use it,” she said in the court documents. “He is using drugs and has been in and out of rehab twice.”

The crash occurred at about 6 a.m. in an industrial area of Glendale, a suburb north ofLos Angeles. One train was headed for Los Angeles’ Union Station from Moorpark, a western suburb. The other train was outbound from Union Station to the San Fernando Valley.

Costco employee Jenny Doll said trapped passengers—some of them severely injured—screamed for help as flames raced toward the front of the train car and smoke and diesel fumes filled the air.

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probably float, said Mark Marraccini, a spokesperson with the Kentucky Depart-

The spill posed no public health risk, despite a strong diesel fuel odor, Smith said.

There were no reports offires or injuries.

Several dozen geese were seen landing in the spill, and a handful of birds re-

quired treatment.

The effect on wildlife may be minimized by the time of year and by the

ofFish and Wildlife.

The pipeline, which runs 1,072 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to refineries in northwest Ohio, is checked periodically by sending electronic devices through the line, Harden said. The section ofline that ruptured was last checked in the past few years, he said. ment

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Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers,

delivered a glowing tribute to Feith and thanked him for his contributions over the past four years.

In the AP interview, Feith said he was not sure what he will do after leaving the Pentagon. He said he intends to remain in Washington, where he has lived since the 19705. He said he was especially proud of his contributions to improving the relationship between the Pentagon’s civilian policy-makers, the combat commanders and the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“Many people have said it is now better than it has ever been,” Feith said.

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MEXICO from page 6 tive narcotics trade. It said the leaders of several major criminal organizations have been arrested, creating a power vacuum.

“U.S. citizens should be aware of the risk posed by the deteriorating security situation,” the department warned. It added that the great majority of victims are Mexican citizens.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico distributed Garza’s letter to news agencies after issuing the alert.

A Mexican Foreign Relations Department spokesperson, Allan Nahum, said officials “have received the notification and we are going to pass it along to the appropriate authorities so that they may respond” as they see fit.

The advisory came just days after the Mexican government sent soldiers to patrol the streets of the border city of Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, at the request of local authorities who said the crime and violence had become too great for them to handle.

It also comes as officials crack down on top-security federal prisons housing reputed drug traffickers who allegedly have continued to operate their businesses from behind bars with the help of corrupt -

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In a telephone interview Wednesday evening, Sharp said Feith insisted on a new, more effective approach to developing policy options for Rumsfeld and Myers. Rather than have the civilian and military staffs work separately on issues, they have closely coordinated at the lowest levels so that recommended solutions could be agreed on before the issue reached Rumsfeld for a decision.

“I have found him to be a person who wants and seeks military advice,” Sharp said. “I’m going to miss him. The relationship he has established between OSD (Office of the Secretary of Defense) and the Joint Staff is just a model.”

city of the same name across from Brownsville, Texas, after six prison employees were slain and their bodies dumped outside the prison gates last Thursday.

In the latest move against prisons, federal agents and soldiers seized the top-security Wednesday in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, after six prison employees were slain and their bodies dumped outside the prison gates last Thursday.

Investigators say the Matamoros prison employees were apparently killed by drug traffickers settling turf disputes and prison vendettas.

Garza noted that while the great majority of border violence victims are Mexican citizens, “the elevated level of violence generally has resulted in greater risks to the thousands of American citizens visiting and passing through the border region every day. Increased numbers of murdered and kidnapped Americans in recent months bear this out.”

Garza went on to say that he worried “the inability of local law enforcement to come to grips with-rising drug warfare, kidnappings and random street violence will have a chilling effect on the cross-border exchange, tourism and commerce so vital to the region’s prosperity.... We certainly do not want at this time to advise Americans to refrain from traveling to Mexico by land or to avoid the border areas, but it is our responsibility to alert them to the enhanced risks,” Garza said.

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His argument this time around is that snapsecond decisions can often be better than those made after a long period of contemplation. Your first impressions may actually be more accurate than you might think.

Fair enough.

Gladwell acts as a dutiful reporter, bridging the gaps between fields as varied and disparate as classical music, racial politics, television sitcoms and food criticism. He’s an interdisciplinary sophist.

whelming data from a multitude of fields. Blink is chockfull ofevidence—so much that often you’re not exactly sure how conclusively he’s substantiat-

ing his claim. Methinks a popular author might need a Writing 20 class.

He uncovers why New Coke was so astoundingly unpopular as well as why Rodney King was beaten so brutally. “Thin-slicing” is what he calls this method of arriving at conclusions quickly. The reason why these conclusions are correct is because, at least in part, the human animal is able to mind-read, and by doing this, our unconscious will lead our conscious to the right decision.

But you can thin-slice incorrecdy too. That’s how America elected the worst president ever: Warren Harding. And how the whole Rodney King/ L.A. riot thing occurred. Or something like that.

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post-modern landscape.

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While Jeunet has previously been criddzed for favoring style over substance, no such claim can be leveled against Engagement. Without sacrificing his trademark style, Jeunet manages to provide both reso-

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a game of free association, the word “Palestinian” might not conjure up images of pen-pal programs, love triangles or sightseeing tours. Indeed, after last semester, the word might more aptly raise emotions that have more to do with Duke students than with Palestinians themselves—memories of editorials, speeches and ceaseless arguments are all more accessible than are mental maps of shifting boundaries.

But Through PalestinianEyes: An Exploration into Palestinian Representations of Self seeks to bring the focus back to the humans who experience the real struggle—Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The semester-long film festival includes films by women, experimental shorts, documentaries, a memorial to late Palestinian academic Edward Said and, of course, politics. “We didn’t want to just have documentaries and have it be Just about politics,” said organizer Ellen McLarney, assistant professor of the practice of Asian and African languages and literature.

The effort is the culmination of nearly a year of preparation by the festival’s organizers. McLarney began working with Nadia Yaqub, assistant professor of Arabic literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, during March 2004. The two procured seed money for the project in the form of a grant from the Robertson Collaborative Fund. Then they began the selection of films.

“We had a summer of Palestinian film-watching,” McLarney said. She and Yaqub viewed film after film, but not together. McLarney spent the time in California and was able to take advantage of the University of California at Berkeley’s extensive collection of Arab cinema.

‘The way we came up with the films was a little chaotic,” she said, due to her and Yaqub’s interest in representing different aspects of Palestinian culture.

The opening event, which occurred

this past Monday, featured a night of films by Palestinian women, showcasing a short film and two documentaries.

Like Twenty Impossibles blurs the line between documentary and scripted film by placing a realistic cast in an all-too-realistic situation. When a film crew tries to skirt the long lines at a border checkpoint, the director decides to drive around the checkpoint and enter Israel through a secret back road.

That risky decision endangers the entire crew when the van is stopped at a surprise military checkpoint. Soldiers open the van and separate the crew, but the intrepid cameraman keeps filming throughout the encounter.

From there, everything falls apart: communication dissipates, the sound disintegrates, the film flashes in and out and the actor is held on a rocky hill as his crew drives away down the road. The audience is left helpless in the final long, bumpy shot.

Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir was on hand after the screening to moderate a discussion that quickly turned to the subject of politics. She called her film a metaphor for the situation of broken borders. Jacir’s presence, McLarney said, was a good way to frame the entire festival through a discussion about objectivity and representation.

“It’s all representative. History is sometimes no more factual than a literary perspective,” McLarney said. Still, “the films tend to be so very politicized that I do worry about it being propa-

gandists.”

The festival comes to Duke at a time when sensitivities are especially heightened. McLarney said that when the Palestinian Solidarity Movement conference “really started brewing,” she wished the festival could have run concurrently because of its different approach. “A film festival is relatively benign in that respect: it’s passive viewing; you can get a perspective without arguing with an actual human beings,” she said.

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One piece of el-Hassan’s project is supposed to be a film for a friend about her mother Hagar, a woman made legendary by her successful fight to bring her husband’s body home from Colombia.

Another woman who lost her father, Ra’eda, calls on el-Hassan to piece together the death of her airplane hijacker father over 30 years before. El-Hassan, happy to oblige and ready to exploit Ra’eda’s emotion, follows Ra’eda to the Old City of Jerusalem to meet men who admired her father and to a cafe in Haifa to meet an Israeli who calls her father a terrorist. Ra’eda never knows that the ‘lsraeli’ is an actor hired by el-Hassan.

In Frontiers of Dream and Fears, two teenage Palestinian girls living in refugee camps in different countries come into contact through an intercamp penpal program. When Israeli forces unilaterally withdraw from Southern Lebanon in May 2000, the girls meet for the first time at the border between Israel and Lebanon. Contact deepens what were previously pen-and-paper relationships by matching a face to a letter.

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McLamey is aware that the festival will not be all things to all people, -shiyiqp “I am the Arabic professor, so my field of representation is the Arab world.

I don’t want to be biased, but there’s no way I could ever talk about Israeli cinema, or even that side of the issue, because my whole training has been in Arabic and Arabic literature. It’s not some sort of intentional elision of the Israeli side of the story,” she said.

Through Palestinian Eyes; An Exploration into Palestinian Representations of Self continues through the semester with screenings at both Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The next presentation, an evening of two documentary films honoring the late Edward Said, is on Wednesday, Feb. 16 in White Lecture Hall.

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The game’s tagline, “If you see it, you can drive it, fly it, steal it, destroy it,” manifests itself in several varieties of trucks, tanks, helicopters, armored personnel carriers, mobile surface-to-air missiles, buses and even that cart that carries your luggage at the airport. On top of that, the weapon arsenal outnumbers pizza toppings at The Loop, and each anti-hero has the option of calling in aerial strikes—for a price of course. Beware, though: the same characteristics that make Mercenaries enjoyable will be the same ones that make you barricade yourself in your room, stay up until all hours of the night, and miss classes and/or extracurricular activities.

A Ball of Fun I shall endeavor to describe Katamari Damacy in 10 words or less: Campy, Japanese, Contagious, Offbeat, Refreshing, Colorful, Zany, Simple, Humorous, Unconventional.

Katamari Damacy, exclusively for Playstation 2, puts you in the role of the Prince of the Cosmos after your father, the King, has accidentally destroyed all of the stars in the Universe. It is your job to collect everything in sight with your gravity ball in order to reconstitute the Heavens before time expires. This humble objective results in the acquisition of everything from tulips to giant squid to Ramen to small children, who continue to squirm even after they’ve been apprehended.

The controls consist of only the two analog sticks, making for intuitive navigation requiring next-to-no learning curve. Gameplay is further facilitated by a well designed camera system that automatically adjusts scale and perspective as necessary.

As this frantic puzzle game progresses, the tasks become more specific, requiring the little prince to grow his ball to a particular circumference while absorbing only particular types ofitems while avoiding others. The multiplayer mode can be a lark, especially when you are rolling in more ways than one. Although the game can easily be completed in a single day or weekend, the soundtrack alone is nearly worth the $2O purchase price.

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any theatrical production. “It is the regional theater that keeps good plays alive, giving them the time they need to become works of lasting significance in the repertoire,” Hammond said.

Regional theaters have the ability to interpret less well-known plays from their own perspective, and add their own fresh take on the script. Local companies also have the opportunity to involve the community in a dense and complex play in more ways than just observing from the audience.

Play Makers, in collaboration with several departments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is working to strengthen the link between the theater and its neighbors. Several seminar discussions about the play and about physics are being held and are open to the public.

Copenhagen is showing at The CenterFor Dramatic Arts in Chapel Hill through February 13. For more information, check out playmaker-

It turns out you can only sometimes get it right if you rely on your first impressions.

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Gladwell also stipulates several restrictions on instant decision-making including, autism, personal bias or high blood pressure. The latter, Gladwell says, causes one to think like the common canine.

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During past seasons, the women’s basketball team had a few powder-puff ACC opponents to roll over after a tough game with North Carolina.

But that is not the case this year in the conference with the highest RPI in the nation and five teams in the top 25. Just three days after losing in Chapel Hill, the Blue Devils, top-ranked for the moment, take on an up-and-coming No. 20 Maryland team tonight at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Maryland is also feeling the effect of playing in what Duke coach Gail Goestenkors calls the best conference in America. The Terps fell to No. 25 N.C. State, the Blue Devils’ next opponent, 6755 at home Sunday.

“It is really difficult,” Goestenkors said.

“There is no time to worry about the past because you have to focus to what is ahead. Both of us are upset with the way we played in recent games. I think it will be a huge battle.”

Both teams are coping with injuries during their critical stretches, but while Duke has settled into its rotation of eight players, Maryland has been prone to scoring droughts that head coach Brenda Frese attributes to injuries.

Shay Doron and Kalika France, the Terps’ sophomore guard duo, have been banged up in recent weeks. Doron is averaging 19.5 points per game despite sitting out of practice for the past two weeks with shoulder trouble.

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Wanisha Smith will be matched up against Maryland's tough guards, Shay Doron and Kalika France.

The Blue Devils struggled offensively, shooting 33.3 percent from the field. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski attributed the poor figure to missed opportunities inside.

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So Duke’s run through basketball fantasy land finally ended last night. Hey, we all knew it couldn’t last.

Thanks to the Terps, it’s time to wave goodbye to that unbelievable No. 2 ranking and that surprising 15-0 record. perfect fiHIHP Anyone with slightly realistic expectations analysls knew the team wasn’t going to end the season like it started, but dropping the first one in Cameron, especially to Maryland, doesn’t make it any less painful.

Of course, with the unrealistic ranking and record behind the Blue Devils, the silver lining is that they can now stop pretending to be one of the best teams in the ACC and start playing as the motley group of scrappers they need to be in order to be successful the rest of the season. Don’t forget that after Virginia Tech, games against the ACC’s big guns—North Carolina, Georgia Tech and Wake Forest—are next.

What led Coach K to admit after the game that his team lacked the “attitude” it has played with all year and even that it did not deserve to win?

‘That’s not easy for me to say,” Coach said.

“But they deserved it.”

K Was the Blue Devils’ effort there? No question. Did the team play carelessly?

Not really. But did the team’s key members—JJ. Redick, Daniel Ewing and even Coach K —do what was necessary to

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win last night?

No As Maryland’s Nik Caner-Medley and John Gilchrist willed their team down the stretch, Ewing, who didn’t make a basket in the game’s last eight minutes, and Redick, who had eight turnovers, failed to do the same.

Duke had a 58-57 lead at the under-

66. In the final three-and-a-half minutes, the Blue Devils were outscored 114.

Sure, Ewing had enough attitude to stare down Gilchrist after a pivotal defensive play with 10 minutes remaining, but where was Ewing the magician after that?

Redick, for his part, did make most of Duke’s biggest shots down the stretch, but it took him 21 shots to get his 20 points.

The real victim in last night’s game was Shelden Williams, who didn’t get the ball in the right spots. Williams failed to emerge at the end of the game, as the team struggled to finish from in-close. Big men,4iowever, are a little harder to blame.

Unlike guards, they rely on others to get them the ball.

“It’s crazy how many opportunities we had inside,” Krzyzewski said. “We missed five or six shots inside. You do that.... You lose balance.... I’m not blaming the kids, but that’s the story of the game.”

Williams was getting enough touches.

He finished with 15 shots. He just wasn’t receiving the ball in the right spots.

Williams was being guarded by a player named Will Bowers, who is listed as 7-foot1, 248 lbs. Bowers, who went to a high school near mine, was making his first career start last night.

Imagine if Duke started Patrick Johnson in a upcoming game. Would do you think North Carolina’s reaction would be when it walked onto the court and saw Patrick Johnson guarding its frontcourt star? Sean SEE STREAK ON PAGE 14

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Guard —Shay Doran (19.5 ppg, 4.0 apg] Guard Kalika France (11.5 ppg, 5.8 rpg) Guard —Anesia Smith (4.9 ppg, 6.8 apg) Center —Crystal Langhorae (16.1 pg, 9.1 rpg) Forward —Jade Perry (3.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg)

Guard —Wanisha Smith (11.9 ppg, 4.5 apgl Guard —Jessica Foley (10.9 ppg. 5.0 rpg) Center —Alison Bales (8 1 ppg. 4.1 bpg) Forward —Mistle Williams (11.6 ppg, 7.8 rpg) Forward—Monique Currie (18.3 ppg. 7.7 rpg)

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Doron has been having an excellent season, and Smith may be called on to guard the sophomore. Duke cannot afford to double-team because Crystal Langhorne has been one of the nation's best post players this year. The Maryland offense has been sporadic, and 6-foot-7 Bales has four inches on any Terrapin player. Bales could easily have another eight-plus block game if Doron and France drive into the paint.

Cameron has been relatively empty for most women's games this year, and a "Paint Cameron Blue" promotion has been launched to try to fill the arena. Recorded phone calls from Goestenkors were sent to many students, and tickets will be given to non-students for just $2 if the person is dressed in blue. Duke has beaten Maryland in nine consecutive meetings and won by 30 points last year in Cameron.

Both teams are coming off tough losses, but Duke returns home and n faces the pressure of a 16-game win-streak. Look for the Blue Devils t( strong in the first half and maintain a solid lead throughout., compiled by Patrick B' Duke wins 83-70.

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Alison Bales will defend Maryland's less experienced and smaller post players.

W. BASKETBALL frontpage 11 in some offensive rhythm,” Frese said. “We are also still really young, and you can see that in the turnovers and the decisions that we make.”

When the Terps played Duke in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament last season, they were a guard-oriented team, led by Doron and France. With the addition of freshman Crystal Langhorne —who has posted eight double-doubles and is averaging 16.1 points per game—Maryland now has an inside threat to match up with Duke’s quartet of big bodies.

“I think Crystal is just having a phenomenal year,” Goestenkors said. “They have a great inside-outside attack, as we do, and so I think both teams are going to try to utilize both aspects.”

Goestenkors said she would match different post players against Langhorne, depending on the situation, and the 6-foot-3 forward could struggle to defend the 6foot-7 Alison Bales.

Still, as in years past, Goestenkors thinks

the game will be decided on the perimeter.

The Duke coach is worried about Maryland’s ability to jump out in transition.

“I think the guards will dictate how the game goes, but part of that is going to be how much the guards get it into the post,” Goestenkors said.

Even though she knows her team has a disadvantage in size and experience down low, Frese believes Maryland’s ability to prevent Duke from scoring inside will be crucial.

‘The guards may neutralize each other,” Frese said. “[With] the depth of their post players versus our post players and obviously our youth —starting two freshmen —they definitely have the experience factor. I think it will come down to the post play.”

Especially after Wednesday’s night’s 75-66 men’s thriller, Duke and Maryland are hoping to use the success of the men’s rivalry to generate interest in their women’s programs during a year when the ACC has more parity than it has seen in recent seasons.

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critical period. I Just think he overpowered us a few times,” Krzyzewski said. “If there’s one thing that won the game it Krzyzewski and his players defined the was that his desire to win was great.” game by Duke’s lack of effort and inabiliFor the game’s final 13 minutes, neither team was able to build a lead of ty to finish plays around the basket.

“We weren’t the Duke team that played more than four points until the Terrapins 15 games where we were hungrier than pulled away at the end. Part of the reason our opponent,” guard Sean Dockery said. the Blue Devils sputtered on offense ‘Today we didn’t show any of that. We were only scoring 19 more points over the final 13 minutes —was the squandered just running through the motions.”

After opening the second half with a 34- chances that Krzyzewski said plagued the 30 lead, the Blue Devils had a chance to team all game. put the Terrapins away for good. Dockery In that 13-minute stretch, Williams stole a Maryland pass and passed upcourt missed two close-range shots and let a to Melchionni. The junior forward tipped layup chance bounce off his hands and the ball back to Dockery, who streaked out of bounds. down the right side of the court for a layup “We had missed opportunities throughto give the Blue Devils a 38-30 edge. out the game,” Krzyzewski said. “Whether On Maryland’s next possession, Terps’ it was on breaks or when we had the ball center Will Bowers slapped guard John inside so many times and just came up Gilchrist’s inbound pass out of bounds. empty. We just can’t keep doing that.”

With Gilchrist visibly frustrated and the The Terrapins spent the majority of the momentum firmly in the Blue Devils’ first half in the lead before Redick—who favor, the home team was unable to capitalscored 13 of his team-high 20 points in the ize as JJ. Redick missed a jumper. first half—was fouled while shooting a Maryland then went on a 18-9 run in three-pointer. His three free throws gave less than five minutes to take the lead, 48- Duke its first lead of the game, 26-24. The 47. The spurt featured four points and sev- Blue Devils entered halftime with a foureral hustle plays by Gilchrist and seven point advantage. points by Nik Caner-Medley, who finished Coming off a home loss to N.C. State, with a game-high 25. Chris McCray added Maryland viewed this game as an opportua three-point play when he was fouled nity to reaffirm itself in the fiercely comwhile converting a dunk and capped the petitive ACC. run with a layup in transition.

“After the N.C. State game, without me “[Caner-Medley] kind of took the saying much, I think the players took it game over in that time upon themselves to come in here and give a great effort,” Terrapin head coach Gary Williams said. “We played with a lot of confidence down the stretch when it was really tough.”

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What was happening when you guys had about six or seven possessions without scoring?

After we had a great time down in Miami, this is just unacceptable the way we came out and played tonight.

We we were just sloppy. We didn't play like a veteran team and we weren't sharp on offense.

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got that offensive rebound and put-back.... I don't want to take anything away from Maryland. They played a heckuva game.

Well, we've got to get back in the gym. We've got some things that we need to work on and take care of and sharpen up.

That's just something we've got to do as a team, try to get in the gym and look forward to practice.

We've got to work on our defense. I mean, we gave up 45 points in the second half and that's unacceptable.

Again, a veteran team coming up with those empty possessions and not being sharp down the stretch is just disappointing, it's unacceptable.

able to put these guys away and not let them up off the mat?

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You haven't had any games this season that came down to the last couple minutes. Was that a factor that you haven't had any experience in that situation?

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May would be getting the ball until his arms fell off.

But Duke’s guards didn’t do that, and it appears that Krzyzewski didn’t tell them to at any point. Williams finally received a decent entry pass on the team’s fifth possession. For the rest of the night, the big man got touches away from the basket or in a crowd.

“I'm behind my guys all the way,” Krzyzewski said. “Sport is about human nature and recognizing your group and who you are and how you respond.”

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Nobel winner a good addition addition of Dr. Peter Agre, trained scientists and those whom winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize science affects. Science is often in Chemistry and Duke’s first thought of as both boring and diffiNobel laureate, to the Duke Universi- cult to understand. Most people ty Medical Center is a smart move would rather leave the science to researchers in a lab, but that will improve the *AC "I St3TfoClltOl*S3l believes it is Agre University’s image necessary, and possiand help with future ble, to present science in such away recruiting. that an educated population can vice chancellor for Agre’s position, science and technology, is the first of both understand it and make inks kind and was created especially for formed decisions based upon it. him by Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor Thus, one of his goals is to work with for health affairs and CEO and presi- educators to change the way science dent of Duke University Health Sys- is taught in classrooms, Agre also sees the need for science tern. In addition to assuming the publie role of Duke’s first Nobel Prize to be applicable to real life. Instead of winner, Agre will work to improve sci- making scientific discoveries for the ence education and transform the sake of discovery, Agre believes that research should aim to solve probway people understand science.

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Abortion argument lacks statistics With all the material published about the ever-present abortion issue, I would expect a political science grad student like Bill English to be able to form a truthful and coherent argument regarding his thoughts on the matter. Unfortunately, he achieved neither.

In my Public Opinion class last semester, we learned about American trends in abortion opinion. Abortion has most certainly not, as English claims, “increasingly lost ground in its public perception.” Peoples’ views on abortion are extremely strongly held and are not subject to much fluctuation.

Many studies confirm this fact. Just because very few people change sides does not mean that the issue is not salient. There is merely no room for negotiation. You tend to either believe in abortion (at least in certain cases) or you don’t.

English accuses those who undergo abortions of having “shallow and pathetic... circumstances,” an idea, he claims, that a “large and increasing” group of Americans has come to realize. These claims are just false.

First, many of those who undergo abortions do so only as a last resort, and as a result of rape, incest, or danger to the mother’s life. These are hardly shallow and pathetic, and I sure hope that any sane human being would agree. Second, these three cases are supported by a vast majority

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After reading ‘The A(bortion)-bomb,” I feel the need to enlighten Bill English about the differencebetween pro-abordon and prochoice. I would not have expected this misconception that all pro-choice activists are running around inciting people to kill unborn babies from a political science graduate student. Democrats are not pro-abortion.

They simply believe it is a woman’s right to choose to have a child and not the government’s place to tell her otherwise.

The potential Supreme Court nominations are undoubtedly as important as English argues, but only because they could effectively erase the great strides our government has made to ensure civil rights over the past few decades. Even more of a concern is that our president is so preoccu-

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of Americans, in some studies as many as 75 to 80 percent of people support abortions under these extreme circumstances. As for the “increasing” group, the number of people who hold more anti-abortion opinions compared to before is not numerically significant.

English’s unconscionable comparison of abortion to slavery, which he calls “a legal norm as wicked as abortion,” is truly out of line. I do not think any retort I could offer would be able to capture my feelings, and those, I’d hope, of many on this campus, to any degree. I can only paraphrase one of the best lines of last century and say, “Mr. English, have you no sense of decency, sir?”

In summation, English offers no statistics to back up his ideas, and those that he attempts to offer are completely incorrect. His ability to offer such hogwash and then proclaim that he knows what is right (i.e. a reversal of Roe v. Wade, one of the “greatest scandals” of our time, at least according to him), disgusts me.

English offers no coherent support for his argument, and I only hope that nobody was simple-minded enough to be completely swayed by it.

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pied with having Roe v. Wadereversed and establishing democracy around the world that millions of Americans are still unemployed and without healthcare, feeding to those “desperate, shallow and pathetic” circum-

that cause so many abortions in our nation, according to English. I have always found it amazing that a political party devoted to preventing government interference in our lives is so adamant about denying women the right to choose. With the potential for four more Scalias taking the Supreme Court bench in the next four years, I advise women, gays and racial minorities to run for it could be a rough 30 years. stances

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As a fellow pro-lifer, I was very impressed with Bill English’s Jan. 24, 2005 column.

However, I wish he would have covered the whole contract in being a card-carrying member of the culture oflife.

Actually, it is very hard to be pro-life. It definitely means more than once a year marching in Washington. It means being willing to pay more taxes to provide adequate healthcare to children. It means suporting a living wage. It means opposing the death penalty. It means opposing a meaningless war in Iraq. It means lobbying for life-saving medications for AIDS victims in Africa.

What many in the pro-life

movement fail means protectpro-life ing the dignity of every individual, from the unborn child to the convicted prisoner. Indeed, it is very difficult truly to be pro-life.

This is the reason why both political parties are lacking in this area.

I may be cynical, but I will be convinced of the sincerity of outspoken pro-lifers like English when I see them demonstrating against the war in Iraq.

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recently saw a bumper sticker identifying Jan. 20, 2005 as the “National Day of Mourning.” I greatly appreciated the sticker’s reference to Inauguration Day, but not for the same reason the car’s owner did.

What I mourned last Thursday was not the supposedly “dangerous” direction President George

W. Bush has our country headed in, but instead the reality that his time as our president is now more than half over.

The difference between America’s two parties could not have been clearer this week. While President Bush was outlining and immediately beginning work on an ambitious and clear-cut agenda derived from strong convictions and principles nathan like freedom and ownership, his opponents were, like usual, strategically changing their positions on important issues in an already-begun contest to attain power in 2008 Take especially the recent actions of Senators Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.

In case you missed it, Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y, last week articulated two positions that would ordinarily make her party’s base cringe. The night before Inauguration, Clinton spoke at a fundraiser in Boston and offered resounding support for faith-based initiatives, which Democrats often criticize Republicans for supporting. Said Clinton: “There is no contradiction between support for faith-based initiatives and upholding our constitutional principles.” As she also told the crowd of clergymen, the religious need to be able to “live out their faith in the public square.”

Just five days after voicing this support for faith-based initiatives, Clinton made comments even more headturning and inconsistent with her past positions. This time, they dealt with abortion, which she now calls a “sad” and “tragic” choice for many. The usually avid supporter of abortion rights even called for “common ground” on abortion, in a speech that The New York Times reported was received by some audience members as “politically calculated.” Seeing that Clinton has

people if they trust them. The president also pledged to rework government programs like social security, further reform the education system and attack the remnants of racism that still exist in America today. As he coincidental.

The other Democrat who seems more focused on put it: “Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of our ideals.” winning caucuses in 2008 than solving America’s problems today is none other than John Had the president’s speech been delivered word-forword by Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, everyone from Kerry. Last week, John Kerry, D-Mass., enTed Kennedy to Dan Rather to Barbara Streisand would gaged in two blatantly political maneuvers aimed at securing votes in ’OB. On have noted its brilliance, poignancy and historical signifMartin Luther King, Jr. Day, the senator icance. There was literally not a word in the president’s address that liberal elitists would made phantom accusations of “suphave called “far right” or “jingoistic” Had the president S speech were it coming from the mouth of pressed” voters in carleton Ohio when speak- been delivered word-for-word someone other than George w Bush. Yet for liberals still bitter and ing to African poker Americans. Later,

by Bill Clinton or Barack angry at the president for winning he cast a pointless and Obama 6VerVone from Ted re-election, attacking anything “No” vote against Condoleezza everything he says or does is just Rice’s nomination for Secretary Kennedy to Dan Rather to routine. the conclusion of his Inaugurof State in the Senate Foreign Rear ara Streisand WOUld have al At ations Committee. Kerry’s be- B h speech the pres ident met with havior jives well with other prepa- noted its brilliance, poignancy Congressional leaders, watched the rations he has made to run again, Inaugural parade and then made HlStOnCdl OnO Significance... brief stops at all nine of the Presiwhich led one of his preparations own aides to tell Newsweek: “He Yet for liberals still bitter and dential Inaugural balls. He was thinks he’s the front runner for home at 10 p.m. and promptly in angry 3t tnC president tor bed, just as he is every day, be it New ’OB without recognizing that he ar s Eve > Su P er Bowl Sunday or needs to do some soui-searching winning reelection, attacking J this case his final Inauguration. As If he wants to come back, he 11 have to come back as a different anything and everything he one attendee of Inauguration put it; Hes a machine candidate, not the stiff who plays rnntinp r Hnoc sa y s OF 11065 ic 15 Jinct USI rouime In President Bush, Americans it safe and takes four sides of have a leader who is drivissue.” currently every Amid all this political maneuvering, President Bush en, dignified, principled and obsessed with protecting stood before the nation last Thursday and pledged to them from harm. His re-election showed that Americans “preserve, protect and defend” the U.S. Constitution. prefer resolute leadership over political flip-flopping, He then presented a deeply thematic and philosophical and history will one day prove us wise. argument for freedom as a cure for oppression, pledged Nathan Carleton is a Trinity senior. His column appears on America’s support to those who rise up against oppressors and declared that foreign rulers can only serve their Thursdays. already taken a hard-line stance on immigration and hired a high-ranking DNC official as a fundraiser, it seems unlikely that her sudden shift on social issues is

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Passing the buck think it’s about time for one of those “random hardships, like the six Duke University Health System thoughts and missed headlines” columns—there are Angelica workers who faced 49-degree temperatures at just too many crazy things going on in the world and their workplace and had to walk out in protest. Luckily, they got their Jobs back and the heat will now be turned at Duke to choose just one. on before they arrive for work, but the struggle for livDuke cut current endowment for 1.) may funding Latino graduate students beginning in 2006-07. ing wages, benefits and the right to collective bargaining Did everyone else catch this story too? A fraternity still rages on. During Chapel services for Martin Luther party ridiculing Latinos was burden enough for Latino King, Jr. Day, I heard both President Richard Brodhead and Duke University Health System CEO Dr. Victor students to bear, let alone the weight of Dzau speak to the need for equality and institutional discrimination as well fairness. I nodded my head and tried to Where is the uproar? The discussion? catch Dr. Dzau’s eye from too many pews While administrators claim that future back as he championed healthcare funding will simply be better tailored to the needs of Latino students, this aprights. Many Angelica workers can’t afford health care on their substandard pears spurious wages.

2.) Africa.

4.) Guantanamo Bay and the lawlessYes, I meant that to be overly simpliness of the United States. fied. Africa has totally dropped off the newman bridget At a party at my apartment recently, map in the past few months—not that it looking for the holes one of my good friends was like, “Yeah, ever was on the map of many Americans. not be a downer, but what the *& A % is up The tsunami disaster, while horrendous, with Guantanamo Bay?!” (Don’t worry, we also drank has completely wiped out concern for most other hubeers and had a good time!) We all shook our heads as manitarian causes. For some reason, if a tsunami devastates your country we care, but if AIDS, hunger or the we looked helplessly at one another. “I mean, we are legacy of colonialism emaciates your country from the talking straight up torture —shackling in the fetal posiinside out we don’t. We don’t even like to see movies tion for hours, solitary confinement in &*s% boxes... about Africans. I was watching CNN Tuesday morning We need to do something about this!” And we do. And and a young black guy was discussing Hotel Rwanda and it is inexcusable. And it is pointless.

(Oh yes, I am so much safer because some young award nominations. He pointed out that Hotel Rwanda wasn’t nominated because “no one wants to see a movie Arab kid is being tortured in my name... Is this what freedom feels like, then?) about Africa anyway.” I thought he was trying to illumi5) Medicaid cuts were made throughout most of the nate this injustice, but instead he went on to explain United States, with Florida enacting the most punishing that The Incredibles wasn’t nominated, either.

3.) Bus drivers and many other workers at Duke face reforms of all.

While many states have moved to cap Medicaid costs difficult working conditions and substandard wages.

This issue will probably be here for a long time, but (and put the health of millions of low-income people at it doesn’t have to be—the Duke community can and risk), Jeb Bush is pushing for a complete privatization of should lift up campus workers in recognition of their Medicaid in Florida. Basically, low-income people in service. Outsourced workers at Duke face the greatest Florida will get a health care allowance based upon their

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condition and then some guidance as to how to choose a provider. There is no regulation of private insurance companies and what kind of services they are obliged to cover. Read: Low-income mothers choosing hare-bones plans for themselves and their children in order to have more money for rent and food. Read: No recourse for low-income people unable to get the treatment they need to live healthy lives. Of course, Medicaid costs were spiraling out of control in Florida and many other states, but why don’t we turn to the employers who pay their workers below living wages? (Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Duke, etc.) These guys turn the profits while their workers get the shaft and then turn to government social services. Overburdened, the state is now passing the buck onto the workers themselves, who of course have no bucks themselves because they make $7 an hour.

6) Campus safety is still a concern, but Safeßides still rocks.

As a woman, I know campus safety is still a concern for myself and many others on campus. I am personally grateful for Safeßides and the kind drivers who take me home just about every night. Yes, sometimes you have to wait a while, but I see how those guys swing back around for folks who missed them the first time. We need other services as well, and recent student initiatives to escort fellow students are to be applauded. Safeßides drivers really do care (and I think I have ridden with just about all of them by now) and if anything Duke should hire more drivers and buy more vans.

And are the stone benches really better than our old wooden ones if they freeze your bum in the winter (and will most likely scorch it when the heat turns up)? Does having an iPod make me a drone-like Pod person ready to join the capitalist ranks? May I curse “the system” while I also enjoy catered receptions and cherish my Duke degree? Is there any escape from hypocrisy?

Bridget Newman is a Trinity senior. Her column every other Thursday.

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