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When Mel Baars was young, she was a tomboy. But as she grew up, she cultivated

friendships with news women Now, more analysis than a decade later, Baars is back in the boys’ game. Right now the senior is the only female of the eight semi-finalists remaining in the race for Undergraduate Young Trustee.

Nearly three years after President Nan Keohane launched the Women’s Initiative to examine the gender climate at Duke, the University’s student leadership remains divided by sex. The current executive committee of Duke Student Government consists solely of men, and for the past five years the presidents of both DSG and the Duke University Union—two of the most visible leadership roles on campus have been male as well. On the other hand, since 1997, —

75 percent of the Community Service Center’s student directors have been women.

There is not a vast difference in campus participation levels by gender—as evidenced by the near balance on the

Inter-Community Council, which is comprised of 21 leaders from campus political and cultural organiza-

tions. There is a clear distinction, however, in the activities which men and women pursue.

Echoing real-world patterns, University women are significandy more involved in organizations that do handson or local work, wl “hard” political, ing organizations’ bodies are predominantly male.

The gender gap in the University’s student leadership parallels a nationwide trend on college campuses.

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North Carolina native Ben Folds, alternative piano rock musician, sings in Page Auditorium Thursday night. Tickets to the concert, which was sponsored by the Duke University Union, sold out more than a week

In a move that signals increased confidence in endowment returns and donations, Duke officials have proposed to increase the cap that regulates yearly growth of endowment funds available to the University. Administrators expect the change to be approved by the Board of Trustees at its February meeting.

JChe increase in the cap from 3 percent to 5 percent would allow the University to spend several million dollars more during the 2005 and 2006 fiscal years. It is designed to ensure continual growth of endowment funds available to the University to keep pace with inflation. This prevents the University from receiving an influx of funds one year and then being unable to withdraw any money for the SEE ENDOWMENT ON PAGE 7

Let Mom get you in: Duke allows personal recs Lindsey Lapin THE CHRONICLE

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Staff in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions file the thousands of applications they receive.

When flipping open their college application packets this year, hopeful high school seniors across the. country discovered they would no lorig'er have to rely solely on teacher recommendations to prove they were Duke material.

Applicants for the Class of 2009 became the first in University history to be offered the opportunity to send in personal recommendations, which could be written by a parent, sibling or friend.

Christoph Guttentag, director ofundergraduate admissions, said that after 21 years ofinvolvement with admissions, he finally came to the conclusion that personal recommendations—which are also accepted at schools like Princeton University, Dartmouth University, Davidson College and Williams College—can only improve the application process.

“It has always been our goal to view applicants as people rather than as credentials,” he said. “We thought there was value in discovering these kids beyond their listed at-

tributes, and who better to help us to do this than the people who know them best?”

Although some current Duke students scoffed at the idea that recommendations from family members and close friends are now encouraged, responses from applicants and their parents have been predorm inately positive.

“We have received word from a number of parents who appreciated the opportunity to tell us about their children,” Guttentag said.

Joanne Zuercher is one mother who took advantage of the opportunity. She chose to explain in her letter a situation in which her daughter, future Dukie Alyssa, was absent from her basketball team for 11 months due to an ACL injury, “Alyssa isn’t the type to say much about herself,” Joanne Zuercher said. “I wanted the admissions people to know that during the period that she was injured, she learned to play the trombone.

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Iraqi rebels kill 12 as election nears by

Robert Reid

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Insurgents stepped up attacks Thursday against polling centers across Iraq, killing at least a dozen people, including a U.S. Marine, in the rebel campaign to frighten Iraqis away from participating in this weekend’s election.

As part of an intensifying campaign of intimidation, an al Qaeda affiliate led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab alZarqawi posted a videotape on the Internet showing the murder of a candidate from the party ofinterim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.

The tape included a warning to Allawi

In the former rebel stronghold ofFallupersonally: “You traitor, wait for the angel of death.”

Jah, where opposition to the balloting is To protect voters Sunday, hundreds of strong, U.S. Marines drove through the city American soldiers began moving out of Thursday, urging people through loudtheir massive garrison on the western edge speakers to turn out Sunday. Spokesman of Baghdad to take up positions at smaller Ist Lt. Lyle Gilbert said the Marines were bases throughout the city to respond more “encouraging people to capitalize on this quickly to any election day attacks. opportunity to exercise their voice by votSunni Muslim insurgents have threating in the upcoming free elections.” ened to disrupt the balloting, when Iraqis Iraqi newspapers also published for choose a 275-member National Assembly the first time the names of some 7,000 and governing councils in the country’s 18 National Assembly candidates, many of provinces. Voters in the Kurdish self-gov- whose identities had been kept secret to erning area of the north will select a new SEE IRAQ ON PAGE 10 regional parliament.

Leaders mark Auschwitz liberation by

Monika Scislowska

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BRZEZINKA, Poland Snowflakes swirled around the crematoriums and barbed wire of Auschwitz, and a shrill train whistle pierced the silence as frail survivors andv humbled world leaders remembered the victims of the Holocaust Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.

Candles flickered in the darkening winter gloom of the sprawling site, which Israeli President Moshe Katsav called “the capital of the kingdom of death.”

During World War 11, 1.5 million people —mostly Jews—were killed at the site.

Others who perished there included Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals and political opponents of the Nazis.

The haunting commemoration was held at the place where new arrivals stumbled out ofcattle cars and were met by Nazi doctors who.chose a few to be worked to death while the rest were sent immediately to gas chambers. Others died of starvation, exhaustion, beatings and disease.

“It seems if you listen hard enough, you can still hear the outcry of horror of the murdered people,” Katsav said. “When I walk the ground of the concentration camps, I fear that I am walking on the

ashes of the victims.”

As night fell and the ceremony ended with a locomotive whisde blaring over loudspeakers, a half-mile of train tracks leading from the front gate to the crematoriums were set ablaze in a pyrotechnic display —two flaming rails amid the snow.

The 30 leaders, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Presidents Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Jacques Chirac of France, placed candles shielded in blue lanterns on a low stone memorial. Soldiers of a Polish honor guard stood stiffly in the freezing

The new Palestinian leadership banned civilians from carrying weapons and indicated it will appoint a new security minister known for his tough stance against militants—-clear signs they are serious about reining in violence, an Israeli condition for peace talks.

Soldier details sexual tactics Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account.

Train crash suspect charged The suicidal man who allegedly parked his SUV in the path of a commuter train and triggered a horrific wreck that killed 11 people in California was charged with murder and could face the death penalty, authorities said Thursday,

Rice steps in as top diplomat Condoleezza Rice worked the phones on her first day on the job as secretary of state Thursday, reaching out to European allies and partners in the war on terrorism and echoing President George W. Bush's inaugural charge to promote liberty across the globe.

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McNuggets, McGriddles, McMuffins and McCoffee? by

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What do you get when you cross a McDonald’s with a trendy coffeehouse? Why a McCafe, of course.

This little-known breed of the international fast-food giant serves up espresso with French fries and cheesecake with Big Macs at more than 300 locations in 17 countries. Though piloted internationally over a decade ago, the hybrid restaurants were only recendy introduced in limited numbers to the United States—and four of them are in the greater Triangle area.

Mark Karle, a customer care representative for McDonald’s, said the cafes were created to expand business in “non-traditional venues” and provide customers with a dining experience unlike anything they would expect from McDonald’s.

‘We consider the McCafes places where customers can enjoy coffee and desserts at a tremendous value in a relaxing atmosphere,” Karle said. “We use fine china and try to offer leather couches and bistro style with regard to the tables.”

McCafes are attached to existing McDonald’s restaurants, so customers can simultaneously sample fare that from a greasy burger joint and a hip java bar, Karle explained. Food options in the cafe portion range from rich desserts like Chocolate Raspberry Rumble to somewhat lighter fare, such as danishes and scones.

And true to McDonald’s tradition, all food can be ordered as carry-out.

In addition to fruit smoothies and hot chocolate, Rarle added, customers can sip steaming hot Lavazza, a popular Italian coffee brand.

Rarle was quick to note that McCafes did not spring up in response to the wave of Starbucks Coffee Company and other coffee stores that have swept the U.S. and other countries.

“Part of the reason they’ve been so successful is because of the growing number of coffee drinkers, but this is something that McDonald’s came up with in a different area and on their own,” Karle said.

“We expect that the McCafes will be different than anything you experience anywhere else.”

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Cashier Decora Martinsatisfies a customer's midafternoon gourmet coffee craving at the recently opened McCafe on South Miami Boulevard in Durham.

Blair Primis, marketing manager for McDonald’s at the Raleigh regional office, said the corporation selected the Triangle as one of the U.S. test sites for McCafes about two years ago because the area has the “right cultural environment.” He noted that all four locations—two in Cary, one in Raleigh and one in Durham—have been ‘Very successful.”

“We’ve developed a normal following,” Primis said. “[Customers] like it and feel it’s a nice destination point. It’s a nice environment to hang out in and be a part of.”

At the year-old Durham location on South Miami Boulevard, customers can

munch on focaccia sandwiches while they sit in leather armchairs below the Van Gogh prints that hang on the walls. If the weather is nice, they can chat outside in the cafe’s al fresco area while they enjoy cups of java from mugs labeled “McCafe” in red script letters.

Or if they are in a hurry like customer David Cromwell, they can order what they need and leave—fast-food style.

Pocketing his change after ordering a coffee Thursday, Cromwell said he frequents the cafe during the week when he his working at his nearby office.

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Punching in an order on her register, cashier Decora Martin said lattes and mochas are the cafe’s biggest sellers. Most customers are regulars, but plenty of new ones come in wide-eyed every day, eager to try an alternative to their usual orange juice and Egg McMuffin.

But despite the cafe’s growing popularity, burgers still reign supreme, Martin said.

“They get busy over there,” Martin said, pointing to the adjacent McDonald’s. “But in the morning, we get pretty busy, especially with it getting colder.”

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Profs push hip-hop culture with appreciation week by

“Besides looking at individual artists and styles of music, [we] look at how~hip-hop affects American society in the broader sense of the word.”

Hudson, who is a student in Neal’s class, explained that for adolescents, hiphop has been an influentialforce over the last two decades. “People often times look at it as music, but if you look at graffiti and break-dancing as well, you really get to see how it serves as a prominent expression of youth,” he said. “We really cover the whole spectrum in terms of what hiphop means in society.”

After spending a summer in Ghana researching the hip-hop influence there, Hudson is excited by the efforts being made here on campus. “I’m glad to be at the University at the time when this is getting off the ground, and I look forward to more things to happen,” he said.

Although advance publicity was slim for Hip-Hop Appreciation Week, Neal said the turnout at the events has been

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On any given day, the tell-tale sounds of hip-hop tunes can be heard seeping through the walls of the dorms. In essence, the campus is constantly celebrating hip-hop. But over the past few days, the University officially recognized the Program in African and African American Studies’ Hip-Hop Appreciation Week.

Mark Anthony Neal, associate professor of African and African American Studies, and junior Brandon Hudson organized many of the events that stretched over the course of this project, which was open to the public. From movies to guest panels to “Hip-Hop Jeopardy,” hip-hop culture became the subject of several scholarly discussions on campus.

“It offers students the opportunity to learn more about hip-hop as a culture [and how] it pertains to the academy,” said Hudson, who coordinated three of the events this week.

On Monday, Associate Professor ofLiterature GrantFarred took part in a discussion with film director Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi after the screening of Inventos, a film about hip-hop in Cuba. “It was a provocative and productive experience,” said Farred, who taught “Introduction to the Cultural History of Hip-Hop” last year. He also noted that different members of the community were engaged in the prospect of discussing hip-hop as it pertains to Duke, since it has always been a part of American popular culture. “[lt was] an opportunity to discuss [hip-hop] in structured form,” he said.

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Students in a hip-hop dance class break it down. Hip-hop is slowly becoming a subject ofintellectual interest. cussions closer to the Duke and Durham communities.

Neal said he arrived in the fall with the intention of bringing hip-hop studies to Duke. The two current hip-hop classes offer “a great way to let the campus know that there are hip-hop scholars here so

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School board member criticizes city system The first allows principals to prohibit from campus anyone who “disrupts school Durham School Board member Jackie operations, is disorderly, damages school Wagstaff is stirring things up in the local property, threatens students or staff or otherwise poses a risk to safe and orderly oppublic school system. erations.”

In the midst of a highly publicized power struggle with The other says that school board members should relay county school administrators, criticisms and complaints Wagstaff—along with Minnie about employees directly to A Brown, a fellow parent and activist—came to Duke Thursday Jm the superintendent for review. to voice her side of the story.

Jm. A Durham advocacy group Students in Associate Profescalled Concerned Black Citizens, of which Wagstaff is a sor of Education Joseph Di jMjHr member, has been lobbying to Bona’s Contemporary Issues in Education class listened to remove Fairley from her role as principal.

Wagstaff s hour-long talk about the controversy and her com- ackieWagst' Wagstaff said Thursday that the Durham she came to the school unanwith plaints school system. nounced so that school officials wouldn’t In the latest chapter of her story in “roll out the red carpet” to impress a memDurham public service, Wagstaff has been ber of the school board. She said that banned from returning to James E. Shepunannounced visits are essential in revitalard International Baccalaureate Middle izing Durham’s struggling schools, which Years Magnet School in Durham after an she says she is passionate about fixing. unannounced visit Jan. 14. Wagstaff visited “If I had been [a product of Durham Shepard along with Brown—the parent of Public Schools] I wouldn’t be up here talka student there—and was asked to leave by ing to you,” she said.

Wagstaff believes that as a school Principal Julia Fairley. Brown was arrested and charged with trespassing after refusboard member, she should be allowed to ing to leave, but Wagstaff left school visit any school to assess its progress. Acgrounds without a citation. cording to The Voice, the Concerned Fairley subsequently banned the Black Citizens’ newsletter, Brown “dewomen from returning to the campus in clares that these acts of intimidation will the future, citing two Durham school system policies.

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the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

“DSG is a microcosm of our higher level governments, which not coincidentally are body presidents are women, even though also male dominated,” Lisker said. “When women comprise more than 52 percent of there are few role models, it’s much more the student body. The same study also redifficult for individuals to see themselves vealed that when universities allocate rein a non-traditional role.”

Baars, whose leadership has been largesources and seek student input, they primarily consider the recommendations ly focused on community service, noted from official organizations, such as student that she shies away from bureaucratic setgovernments—the same groups generally tings. “I didn’t ever want to deal with the dominated by men. disappointment of putting so much time and effort running for a position that I’m Among the top colleges and universities as ranked by the U.S. News and unlikely to win,” she said, referring to stuWorld Report, only eight out of the top dent government races. “It’s not about 26 have a woman as the head of their stuqualifications; it’s about who can get the dent governing body, contrasting with most votes.” the larger female representation at the Community service organizations are high school level, where 27 percent of often considered less cut-throat and more girls and 19 percent of boys participate in supportive, thus drawing a larger portion student government, according to Busiof women. “When you fail, it’s important to be in a supportive environment,” said ness Week magazine.

There are many theories as to why this Baars, co-director ofCSC. trend exists. “We socialize [women] to be empathetic and service-oriented, so it’s Sex and Style The nurturing atmosphere Baars deno surprise they would be drawn to the CSC, which focuses a good deal of its efscribes at CSC reflects research on genforts on children and families in need,” der and leadership that shows men are said Donna Lisker, director of the generally more concerned with systems Women’s Center. and rules while women focus more on reSophomore Holly Lance, an active lationships and atmosphere in the workmember of community service group Cirplace. “While there’s enormous individcle K, health education group PARTY and ual variability, women tend to focus more the Greek Jewish Council agreed on culon inclusiveness and process while men ture’s influence: “Even in this day and age, focus on problem-solving and efficiency,” men are generally taught to be the more Lisker said.

Goodwin personally observed gender aggressive ones, and sometimes aggressive women are looked down upon.” variance in leadership styles in DSG. While a committee member, he worked for both male and female vice presidents.

Attracting Leaders In recent years, high profile campus ‘Working under a male vice president, I leadership positions —particularly those saw more tasks being delegated out to that require public elections—have atevery senator rather than a largely intertracted more male than female candinal operating system,” he said. “Under the dates. “A lot of guys at Duke may be purfemale vice president, I noticed the passuing high profile jobs, and they feel that sion and ownership that seemed to come with each project.”

DSG and Campus Council may be stepStudents noticed the differences of the ping-stones, career-wise,” said senior Alice Williamson, student co-director of public profiles and structures of campus the CSC. Far more women than men, organizations. The Community Service however apply for DSG’s at-large Senate Center, for example, considers its leaderpositions, which do not require school- ship structure to be horizontal, whereas wide elections. “This may support a claim DSC has a clear hierarchy. The contrasting that women feel more comfortable organizational patterns in turn provide a through an interview and application variety of working climates.

“I think there are different qualities process rather than having to go through a campus-wide or class-wide election,” that men and women possess and different said junior Brandon Goodwin, DSG vice job descriptions for each organization —so it’s not surprising that men will feel more president of student affairs.

The general lack of women in high-procomfortable in one organization and file leadership positions in government women in another,” said sophomore Joel and business may also affect female colleKliksberg, DSC vice president of commugians. According to Business Week, 90 per- nity interaction. cent of the world’s billionaires are men. In None of the major campus organiza2004, the United States ranked 57th for tions, however, explicitly build their structures to cater to a particular gender. “It is percentage of women in national parliaments, with approximately 15 percent of reasonable to assume that in five to 10 years the House of Representatives and 14 perDuke may have the exact opposite arrangecent of the Senate being female, according ment of student leaders by gender,” said

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Although both men and women hold campus leadership positions, men dominate the ranks of organizations such as DSG (top) while women make up most of the leadership at the CommunityService Center (bottom).

DSG President Pasha Majdi, a senior.

But the internal structures that organizations adopt may prevent that switch from taking place, as styles of individual groups affect where men and women choose to be active on campus. While Lisker says there is not a superior leadership style among the genders, “they are different, and if an organization comes to be dominated by the ‘male’ style or the ‘female’ style, it may be hard for the other sex to feel comfortable in it.”

What Now? As the Women’s Initiative completed its studies last year, the campus turned its attention to the climate for women. As part of the University’s plan of action, it created the Baldwin Scholars Program, which is designed to foster undergradu-

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think it’s a terrible idea,” sophomore Ashlyn Forde said. “Every mom thinks her child is great, so what’s the point?”

I’m glad that I could tell them.”

Candace Buford, a senior at Memorial Senior High School in Houston, Texas, said she was grateful for the additional opportunity to make a good impression with admissions officers.

“I got the director of a summer program that I did in Oxford, England, to write my rec,” said Buford, who was admitted early. “I think this new development is ideal for those of us who—based on credentials—don’t look like perfect students. Admissions people can’t really get a taste of who we are by reviewing our SAT scores.”

Reactions from some current Duke students were not quite as enthusiastic. “I

Freshman Tom Donaho was also doubtful that the idea was a beneficial development. “Allowing personal applications is essentially adding bias to an already biased process,” he said.

Although it is too soon to determine the percentage of regular decision applicants who took advantage of personal recommendations, Guttentag noted that while a fair amount of students sent in personal recommendations, the majority did not.

The personal recommendation is optional, receiving only a brief mention at the bottom of the personal statement document. Emily Roesing, a senior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md.,

female leadership. “The general sentiment from a lot of women is that they leave Duke with less confidence than they came in with,” said Baars, a mentor in the program.

One of the initiative’s goals is to create more examples of female leadership on campus, providing women with confidence to become leaders—even if it means breaking away from traditional gender roles. Discussions about the roles women play on Duke’s campus are ongoing.

Many of the climate changes, however, will have to be undertaken within individual organizations. “I don’t think the University should be directing where students are involved,” said senior Kevin Parker, president of the Union. “Students will naturally go to where their passion is, and that will serve the community best.” ate

confessed that she had no idea that personal recommendations were even an option. “I didn’t take note of it when filling out the application,” said Roesing, who was nonetheless accepted.

Guttentag said it did not hurt students if they chose not to send a personal recommendation. “I just want applicants to feel as if they’ve had every reasonable opportunity to tell us who they are.”

As for applicants worried about the potential competitive advantage involved in placing too much emphasis on these recommendations—or too little—Guttentag insists they have nothing to fear. “We are not going to base our decision on the recommendations,” he said, “but if they help us to really get to know the student, then nothing but good can come from our reading them.”

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‘This is a sign of great management both of the portfolio and of the market,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said.

Every year the endowment pays out 5.5 percent of its market value to Duke’s operating budget. The 5.5 percent is set by the Board of Trustees and determined by the average market value of the previous three years. If the 5.5 percent generates $1 of income one year but the following year a huge return generates $2, the cap restricts the growth of the cash payout.

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WAGSTAFF from page 5 her in her determination to support her children in The Durham Public School System.”

Referring to the incident at Shepard, Wagstaff thinks that administrators took policies out of context and used them against her. “The policies are so broad.

They interpret them to fit their agenda,” she said.

She also suggested a revision of existing policies. “They need to go through all 7,000 policies and review them,” she said, complaining that there are many “old policies that don’t fit today’s environment.”

She attributes most of Durham public schools’ problems to the 1992 merger of county and city schools, blending what not stop

would be able to spend $l.O5 —not the $2 earned. The current cap would only allow $1.03 of spending. The rest of the money would be reinvested into the endowment, increasing its value.

The cap was lowered in early 2003 from 10 percent to 3 percent so that University spending would not deplete the endowment if it did not grow at a suitable rate. But due to strong stock market indicators, officials now feel confident in a cap raise.

“As the market has recovered, we have undertaken a very thorough analysis —as we did before lowering the cap—and determined that we can now raise the cap on annual growth of available funds to 5 percent without any significant change in the risk,” Provost Peter Lange said.

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Because almost all of the endowment supports academic needs such as financial aid, faculty salaries through endowed chairs and support for specific schools or programs, University officials constantly monitor its growth.

“Simply stated, the Board is concerned with preserving and increasing the endowment’s real value and sustaining its ability to provide necessary revenue for the University,” Peter Vaughn, director of communication and donor relations, said in an e-mail. “To those ends, the Board regulates what may be spent so that an appropriate amount is returned to the endowment.”

Executive Vice Provost Jim Roberts noted that University officials would prefer the cap stay fairly constant for the future

and not bounce around. He said administrators believe a 5 percent cap can be sustained for future years.

Duke’s endowment in June 2004 was $3,313,859,000, which puts Duke 16th on the list of largest university endowments, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers.

Duke ranked between the University of Chicago and Rice University. Investments also climbed 19 percent during the 20022003 fiscal year.

“Our performance was quite good,” Roberts said.

He also noted that Duke had a 6.6 percent annualized return over the last three-year period, which places Duke in the top decile of returns for universities during that period.

Wagstaff dubbed better funded county filed a civil rights lawsuit against Durham schools with struggling city schools. GerryPublic Schools because she claims her son was illegally searched at a Durham mandering benefitted the white population, which seschool in 2003. cured a 4 to 3 Wagstaff also told the class majority vote on the sevenabout her “battle “Right now there is a powder member school of personalities” keg in Durham. I won’t say it’ll board, Wagstaff with Durham said.

“You’d Public Schools get physical, but it’ll get worse.” think that the Superintendent controversy Wagstaff Ann Denlinger. started when “She and I don’t Jackie Waestaff see eye-to-eye on the joined mainly anyBoard,” she said thing,” she said. of herself. “It really started when they She also expressed suspicions of Denlinger merged the systems.” purposefully trying to make her look bad Although Brown did not speak to the in front of her constituency. class, she has complaints of her own. She Audrey Boykin, a retired principal who

spent 40 years working for the Durham Public Schools, spoke candidly on behalf of her colleague Fairley. “Still after all of this, there are only two to three parents that are carrying all of this on,” she said. “[Fairley] wants to focus on educating the students at Shepard and responding to the needs of the parents.”

Kyle Walotsky, a sophomore in Di Bona’s class said that she thought Wagstaff has been portrayed incorrectly by the media.

She enjoyed the speech even though she had doubts beforehand. “I didn’t think I was going to like what she was going to say,” she said.

Looking to the future, Wagstaff said, “Right now there is a powder keg in Durham. I won’t say it’ll get physical, but it’ll get worse.”

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HOLOCAUST from page 2 wind. New Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko gently set down his candle and made the sign of the cross.

Germany’sPresident Horst Koehler placed a candle but didn’t speak, in recognition of his country’s responsibility for the Holocaust, Adolf Hider’s attempt to wipe out Europe’s Jews. In all, some 6 million Jews died in Hider’s network of camps, while several million non-Jews also perished.

Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz and neighboring Birkenau—the occupiers’ names for Polish Oswiecim and Brzezinka—on Jan. 27, 1945.

At the ceremony, young girls brought blankets to survivors sitting in the cold.

Auschwitz survivor Gabi Neumann, 68, traveled from his home in Israel and held up a poster that bore the words, “Stop it before it happens again” and the yellow stars of the European Union flag distorted to resemble a swasdka.

“I made this poster because and-Semitism is a big problem in Europe,” said Neumann, who was an 8-year-old boy

when he was freed from the camp. Originally from Slovakia, he lost a grandmother at Auschwitz.

“But she has no grave,” he said. “I am happy there is snow here because it keeps me from standing on her ashes.”

Putin compared the Nazis with modern terrorists.

“Today we shall not only remember the past but also be aware of all the threats of the modern world,” he said.

‘Terrorism is among them, and it is no less dangerous and cunning than fascism.”

Earlier in Krakow, Cheney noted that the Holocaust did not happen in some far-off place but “in the heart of the civilized world.”

‘The story of the camps shows that evil is real and must be called by its name and must be confronted,” he said.

People at the ceremony expressed concern over recent incidents such as a walkout from an Auschwitz commemoration by far-right local legislators in Germany, and a statement from far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in France, who minimized the brutality ofNazi rule during the occupation by German troops. He said it “was not particularly inhuman, even if there were a few blunders.”

IRAQ from page 2 protect them from assassination.

The interim government will deploy an additional 2,500 troops to help guard the elections, the Defense Ministry said. A total of 300,000 Iraqi and multinational troops will provide security, with Iraq’s U.S.-trained forces taking the lead role.

About 9,000 Iraqi troops are being dispatched to guard oil pipelines, which insurgents repeatedly have targeted.

Iraq’s national security adviser, Qassim Dawoud, acknowledged that security remains shaky in four provinces but expressed optimism that extensive security measures would protect voters and encourage turnout.

However, attacks were reported Thursday in at least seven provinces, including relatively peaceful Basra in the south, where militants fired mortar shells at four schools designated as polling stations.

U.S. troops and rebels also exchanged fire Thursday on Haifa Street in central Baghdad, witnesses said.

One Marine was killed and five others were wounded when insurgents fired mortars at their base near Iskandariyah, about 30 miles south of Baghdad.

Another three Iraqis were killed, and seven injured when a roadside bomb missed a U.S. convoy in Mahmoudiya, a religiously mixed area of Babil province, hospital officials said.

Most of the attacks occurred in Salaheddin province in an area of the Sunni triangle north and west of Baghdad that U.S. and Iraqi officials have identified as one of the key trouble spots. Three Iraqi civilians were killed Thursday when a car bomb exploded in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad.

Hours later, mortar shells fell on a designated polling station in Samarra, police said. Armed men in Samarra blew up a school administration building after first ordering the staff to leave, police Lt. Qassim Mohammed said.

The destroyed building had been scheduled to be a voting center Sunday.

Sporadic clashes also erupted in Samarra between U.S. troops and armed men, killing one Iraqi civilian and injuring another, Mohammed said. A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy near the Salaheddin provincial city of Beiji, witnesses said. No casualties were reported. lii.UU

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With 41 seconds left and the score locked up at 55, Monique Currie peeled off a Mistie Williams screen and found herself wide open at MARYLAND 57 the top of the key looked 60 She DUKE around for a moment and then coolly drilled the jump shot, giving the Blue Devils the lead in the final minute of the game.

Duke (19-2, 5-1 in the ACC) edged out Maryland (13-5, 3-4) 60-57 behind Currie’s determined play. For the second straight game, the junior performed well despite a lackluster performance from the rest of the Blue Devils.

Currie scored eight points in the final six minutes, including two clutch free throws in the last 30 seconds to help increase Duke’s lead to four.

Terrapin guard Anesia Smith responded to Currie’s free throws with a mid-range jump shot to pull the game back within two. After Jessica Foley made one of two at the line, Maryland got the ball and called a timeout with 3.8 seconds left.

Maryland head coach Brenda Frese drew up a play to get Shay Doron a look at a three-pointer to tie the game, but Duke would not let her touch the ball. Instead, Mistie Williams blocked an awkward final attempt at the buzzer from Maryland reserve Ashleigh Newman to seal the game.

Coming off a loss to North Carolina Monday in which Duke’s play was sloppy, the Blue Devils hoped to attack with more precision against Maryland.

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It was a war of attrition—whichever played less poorly would win.

In Thursday’s game, top-ranked Duke was that team, barely not-losing to No. 20 60-57 in Maryland Cameron Indoor Stadigafrte um. The Blue Devils (192, 5-1 in the ACC) and analysis the Terrapins (13-5, 3-4) combined for 41 turnovers, and neither team shot better than 40 percent from the field.

“We were justreally happy to come away with a win,” a relieved head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “It was a really hardfought game. I knew Maryland was a great team and they just keep coming at you at both ends of the court. We just feel very fortunate to come away with a win.”

And fortunate they were. Duke, which averages 80 points per game, scored a paltry 60 and missed all nine attempts from three-point range. Monique Currie, Mistie Williams and Wanisha Smith accounted for all but 10 of the Blue Devils’ points. . Minutes passed a few times during the game when nobody on the floor put the ball in the basket. There were plenty of easy opportunities, like free throws, but nothing came of them. In the span of two minutes midway through the first half, the teams exchanged possession of the ball nine times. Currie and Maryland’s team

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In the aftermath of Wednesday’s loss to Maryland that snapped Duke’s 15-game win streak, players sat hunched in front of their lockers speaking sofdy as reporters asked the very questions that they were try-

Junior guard Sean Dockery drives to the basket during Wednesday night's loss, the team's first this season.

ing to answer themselves.

How do you rally the team after a loss like this?

“I’m trying to figure that out right now,” JJ. Redick said.

The No. 2 Blue Devils (15-1, 5-1 in the ACC) will get a chance to answer that question Sunday at 8 p.m. against ACC newcomer Virginia Tech in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Though picked to finish last in the conference in the preseason media poll, the Hokies (10-6, 3-2) currendy sit fourth in the standings after a shocking win on powerhouse Georgia

Tech’s home court Jan. 22.

After its upset loss to Maryland, Duke recognizes that it cannot afford to look past Virginia Tech, even though the game against the Hokies is followed by a brutal seven-day stretch in which the Blue Devils will play No. 5 Wake Forest and No. 22 Georgia Tech on the road and No. 3 North Carolina at home.

“We’re not even thinking about Virginia Tech right now,” guard Sean Dockery said Wednesday night. “We’re thinking about our team. There are some things we have to work on, as far as being mature. [Thursday] we were supposed to have the day off, but now we’ve got practice.”

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Duke's height at the forward and center positions will again prove to be an advantage against a smaller N.C. State frontcourt. Currie has been explosive this season, even when the rest of the Blue Devil squad has faltered.

She should continue to turn in impressive performances, creating major matchup problems for ACC opponents.

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INTAGBLES

N.C. State has won three straight contests against conference foes, including an upset over then-No. 16 Maryland that vaulted the Wolfpack into the top 25.

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ATLANTA —JarrettJack walked toward the opposite end of the court, struggling to catch his breath. The Georgia Tech guard remembered his WAKE two missed free 102 throws in overG.TECH time, along with a critical turnover that allowed Wake Forest to tie it up in regulation.

He was determined to put an end to a

long, grueling night and get the No. 22 Yellow Jackets back on the right track.

Jack came through, making two free throws with 4.4 seconds left to give Georgia Tech a 102-101 overtime victory over the fifth-ranked Demon Deacons Thursday night. The Yellow Jackets snapped a three-game losing streak in the ACC. “I told myself that I had to come through for my team,” said Jack, who

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Devil fans. The players are not used to responding to a defeat; Daniel Ewing, the team’s lone senior contributor and co-captain, has only played 13 games following a loss in his Duke career.

Ewing and the Blue Devils have only lost back-to-back games twice in the guard’s three-plus seasons and have never lost consecutive home games, and co-captain Redick’s non-response to the question of how he will rally the team after the loss was telling. Though Duke adjusted well to the leadership void created by former captain Chris Duhon’s graduation, winning its first 15 games, the leaders have not had to pick up the team after a loss so far.

After the Maryland game, Terrapin coach Gary Williams spoke about his players’ ability to recover on their own from Maryland’s home loss to N.C. State just days before.

“That was all about the players,” Williams said. “After the N.C. State game,

without me saying much, the players just took it upon themselves to come in here and give a great effort. We had to get it from somewhere that we could come down here and beat these guys, and that’s got to come from the players, it doesn’t come from the coach.”

Blue Devil players will be attempting to rally against a team that has proven itself to be more talented and successful than most predicted at the start of the season.

Guard/forward Carlos Dixon—whose 21 points against Georgia Tech included the game-winning score with 36.8 seconds to play—leads the Virginia Tech attack, averaging 14.8 points per game. At 6-foot-8, his size and ability to shoot from threepoint range could cause the same matchup problems the Blue Devils had against Maryland’s 6-foot-7 Nik CanerMedley, who torched several different Duke defenders for 25 points.

Guard Zabian Dowdell ranks second on the team with 14.6 points per game, and forward Coleman Collins and guard Jamon Gordon have each registered more than 10 points and five rebounds per contest.

Despite its four players averaging in double figures, Virginia Tech has the lowest scoring offense in the ACC with just 70.4 points per game.

Though the Hokies are only giving up 65.2 points per game, they have allowed several players to have big games against them. The team let N.C. State’s Julius Hodge score 27, Florida State’s Von Wafer net 21, Mississippi State’s Lawrence Roberts put in 25 and in just 25 minutes allowed North Carolina’s Sean May to dump 17. They have also been out-rebounded by an average of 4.8 boards per game; their 32.4 rebounds per contest are the fewest in the ACC. “Our role is simple: Each and every day, we’re going to work to get better—win, lose or draw,” Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg said of his team at ACC Media Day. ‘We might lose three in a row, but we’re going to come back that fourth day....

It’s not bad being in the underdog role we have something to prove. Everyone’s expecting us to fail, let’s prove them wrong.”

If the Hokies can shock the world again Sunday and prevent Duke from recovering from its first loss as it heads into the most difficult part ofits season, the results could have a disastrous impact on the Blue Devils.

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Guard—Zabian Dowdell (14.6 ppg, 3.7 rpgl Guard —Jamon Gordon (10.1 ppg, 5.3 rpgl Forward—Carlos Dixon (14.8 ppg, 4.2 rpgl Forward —Deron Washington (84 ppg, 4.8 rpgl Forward —Coleman Collins (tl.l ppg, 5.1 rpgl

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The Hokies have a variety of scoring options, but Carlos Dixon has been the go-to guy so far. Dixon has hit the winning shot in two of the team's three ACC victories, decided by just four combined points. But Duke's defense has held its opponents to poor shooting performances, and the Hokies do not excel at the freethrow line. The Blue Devil defense should stifle the Hokie offense, which ranks last in the ACC in scoring.

INTAGBLES

The Blue Devils have far more talent than the ACC newcomers, but after the Hokies defeated Georgia Tech in Atlanta last weekend, Duke will need to keep its guard up. Virginia Tech will try to match the Blue Devils' grit, and the Hokies are currently averaging more steals per game and forcing more turnovers than the Blue Devils.

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throws, yet nobody could score.

Both teams frequently made errant passes—some to the other team, some to nobody at all.

“I saw some passes that I hadn’t seen in a long time,” Goestenkors said. “We had done a good job of taking care of the ball up until the Carolina game. Even tonight, a couple of Ali’s [Bales] passes —she’s a really good passer for us—she threw a couple where there wasn’t really anybody with a white Jersey that was in the area.”

On Maryland’s side, there were times when the Terrapins would throw up multiple shots on a single possession, only to come away empty-handed.

Despite the subpar play all around, Currie, Williams and Smith played relatively strong games to push Duke ahead of Maryland in the closing minutes.

Williams’ usual intensity helped invigorate the crowd, and Currie hit a couple of key shots near the end to pull ahead.

After a disappointing game against North Carolina, Smith put forward a better effort, scoring 14 points.

Like Duke, Maryland also lost recently to an ACC foe, its loss at the hands of N.C. State Sunday. Coming off last weekend’s losses the Blue Devils and the Terrapins looked tired on the court and sloppy in execution. Duke and Maryland alike saw the shot clock whittle down, and each team rushed shots that invariably caught nothing but air.

“Normally we’re a very good shooting team, and we’ve got a lot of players that can hit the three,” Goestenkors said. “It just wasn’t our night, and fortunately it wasn’t their night either.”

Jessica Foley, the team’s primary outside shooter, took five attempts from behind die arc in the first half. Finding little success, Foley tried driving to the basket and put up shots that are uncharacteristic of the guard, finishing the night 2-for-12.

After showing bursts of promise this season, Bales tallied only three rebounds and four points. She turned the ball over three times with intercepted and misguided passes from the high post.

But, as they say in sports, a win is a win. And after the loss to UNC, a win was all the Blue Devils needed.

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MARYLAND from page 11 the first half,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I want to be aggressive, but we need to find that balance between aggressiveness and execution.”

Duke did not help itself with poor shooting for the second straight game.

The Blue Devils shot just 38.3 percent on the game and failed to hit a three-pointer for the first time in 241 games.

Foley missed all five of her three-point attempts. She struggled all night as her usual outside shots were not open. On a few occasions in the first half she tried to take the ball to the basket, only to have the ball stolen or blocked.

But Foley was not the only player on the court struggling to find her game and playing out of her element.

The Blue Devils turned the ball over 20 times on the night. Maryland did its best to hand the ball back to Duke as often as possible, racking up 21 turnovers of its own.

“We’ve been turning over the ball at a rapid rate,” Frese said. “A lot of that is the pressure ‘D’ we face against Duke.

They play aggressive, they play hard —

they’re a physical team.”

The Blue Devil defense this game was more perimeter-oriented in an attempt to stop Doron, Maryland’s leading scorer.

She finished with 16 points on only 5-for-15 shooting from the floor.

Much of the credit for slowing Doron can go to freshman Wanisha Smith, who took blame after the UNC loss. Smith responded with a strong defensive effort and 14 points and five assists on the offensive end.

“After the [Carolina] game, the coaches took my focus off the game and said, ‘you had a bad one,’” Smith said. “I just tried to move on.”

Over the past two games, Duke has seen a new level of intensity from ACC opponents and has struggled to adjust.

“On any given night anyone can beat anyone from top to bottom,” Frese said.

NOTES 6,524 was a season-high in attendance for the women’s team, spurred by a “Paint Cameron Blue” promotion....

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WAKE/GA. TECH scored 23 points. ‘The mark of a great team is being able to put the past behind you.”

The Demon Deacons got the last shot, but Chris Paul missed at the buzzer. He also had a chance to win it at the end of regulation, but that attempt fell off the rim,

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“Coach said get the ball and try to get to the basket,” Paul said. “I just missed it.”

Georgia Tech (12-5, 3-3 in the ACC) built a 17-point lead in the first half, but Wake Forest (16-3, 4-2) got back in it. Eric Williams led the Demon Deacons with 27 points, but Paul managed only eight on 2of-11 shooting.

“We take pride in stopping great players,” said Will Bynum, who scored a careerhigh 30 points for the Yellow Jackets and spent time guarding Paul. “He’s a great player, so.we try to play him as physically as possible. Don’t let him get into rhythm. Be there in his face every time.”

Georgia Tech’s student body stormed the court after the final miss, setting off a raucous celebration that lasted several minutes. Weary players from both teams struggled just to make it to their locker rooms.

The Yellow Jackets started the season in the top five, but three-straight ACC losses sent them tumbling in the rankings. They had to bounce back from a stunning upset at home by Virginia Tech last Saturday.

“This may have been make or break for our season,” Bynum said. “If we had lost this game, it could have destroyed our confidence.”

It was a game that didn’t want to end, stretching on for nearly three hours and leaving both teams huffing and puffing.

Georgia Tech’s Isma’il Muhammad hobbled off the court with severe leg cramps, but the pain subsided after he was injected

with fluids. He finished the game with both arms wrapped in gauze.

Before his clinching free throws, Jack walked almost to the opposite foul line, gaining a few precious seconds to catch his breath.

Wake Forest took off up the court and Paul missed a desperation shot as the horn sounded. But official Tony Greene signaled that the Demon Deacons had called a timeout, forcing a look at the television replay to determine how much time was left.

The clock was reset to 2.8 seconds, and Paul got one more chance. Jack fell down trying to keep up with the Demon Deacons star, but it didn’t matter.

Clearly, the Yellow Jackets seem to have figured out Paul, the leading vote-getter on the AP’s preseason All-America team.

He was held to a career-low two points in the game at Atlanta last year.

“We have a lot of big bodies,’’Jack said.

‘That’s something he’s not used t0.... Size bothers anybody.”

Williams’ size bothered the Yellow Jackets. The 6-foot-9, 291-pound junior repeatedly muscled through double- and tripleteams to reach the basket.

“I couldn’t let them stop me,” he said.

“No matter how many guys they put on me, I had to get around them.”

But Williams met his match near the end of a game—a cramp that forced him to the bench.

“I was crying after the game. I felt I let my team down,” he said. “I was disappointed about having to come out.”

Downey hit two free throws with 19 seconds left to make it 98-all, and Wake Forest got the ball. But Paul couldn’t convert.

“I’m proud of our guys,” Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser said. ‘We battled back and certainly had a chance to win it in the end.”

GeorgiaTech's Will Bynum intentionally fouls Chris Paul ofWake Forest at the buzzer Thursday night.

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Continue focus on diversity is reassuring to see that despite that the University can rest on its lauits successes in improving faculty rels. The effort to recruit and maindiversity, the University recog- tain a diverse faculty—one more repnizes the need to stay committed to resentative of the population —must recruiting and retaining minority continue to be strong, One area in which and female faculty the University has 131 members.

Staffed itOf done a particularly Now, as the Faculty Diversity Initiative moves forward, good Job with diversity is recruiting the University must continue to women in Pratt. Thanks largely in make strides in increasing diversity part to Dean Kristina Johnson’s presand address the remaining gaps in ence, Pratt has increased its female diversity across Duke’s different faculty from 6 percent in 1994 to 19 percent in 2004. Also, Pratt’s retenschools and departments.

In the two years since the Black tion rate for women is 86 percent, compared to a 60 percent retention Faculty Strategic Initiative ended, imrate for male faculty in Pratt. Pratt is to have faculty diversity provements stalled. After climbing steadily for 10 the only division of the University where women have a higher retention years, the number of black faculty remained at 99 between 2003 and rate than men.

What Pratt has done to diversify 2004, with the number of tenure track black faculty dropping from 68 its faculty in respect to gender should serve as a model for diversity to 65. Although this does not yet constitute a trend, the University must in other areas of the University. Pratt has strong role models for women work to ensure that it does not beand has worked to create a work clicome a trend.

Also, some areas of the University mate that is appealing to female facstill lack substantial diversity. For exulty members. The University should all try to establish minority faculty 93.6 of Hispanic ample, percent and 85.9 percent of all Asian faculty members as role models for incomare in the Trinity College of Arts and ing faculty members throughout the Sciences or the School of Medicine, different schools.

The Faculty Diversity Standing the Pratt School of Engineering only has three black faculty members and Committee plans to conduct a climate the School of Nursing only has one survey in February, but based upon a Asian and two black faculty members. previous job satisfaction survey the committee is likely to find female and The University should address diversiminority faculty are less satisfied with the broader sense and focus its ty in the University climate than their efforts on areas that still need impeers. This is a telling situation that proved diversity.

Overall, Duke’s faculty diversity limits recruiting potential and also numbers remain slightly better than harms retention rates. Hiring a diverse many of its peer institutions and are faculty is useless if that diverse faculty significantly ahead of the pipeline—- does not stay at the University. Thus, the University’s faculty hires are more improving the climate for female and diverse than the qualified applicant minority faculty needs to remain high pool. This does not mean, however, on the University’s agenda.

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know it’s Friday afternoon, but this is around this “community” is about its failure Duke, dammit! The learning should to exist: we can’t get along with the cops, or never stop! To that end, For Good Or we can’t be expected to be honest, or whatFor Awesome presents a fun experiment ever. The lack of a Duke Community, that you can do in your free time, like the though, is not an issue-oriented problem; ones on the side of the Rice Krispies box It’s the inability of this generation to act in when you were a kid who inevitably coated anything but our own self-interest.

Duke is often described as being our own your kitchen floor in foam and splashed vinegar in your little brother’s eyes. This is little world apart from the outside planet, not a chemistry experiment, but rather one but I think it’s worse than that. I think we’ve got 6,400 little undergraduin sociology. I know what ate worlds running around you’re thinking: “But Matt, without a damn thing to do I’m under 6-foot-2 and my with one another. And why jump shot is mediocre!” Fret not. Sociology is for everyone, not? That person you’re holding (or not holding) despite what the Future Burgthe door for now doesn’t er Flippers at College Park mean a damn thing to you might tell you. in the long run, unless Listening, students? Step matt detura they’re giving you one of one: Walk into the Bryan Cenfour things: a grade, a job, a ter. Find somebody who looks |Qr QQo£j or for awesome bid or sex. Is that good like they’re heading out of the karma? I know we, the BC and follow them. (For you Facebook addicts, this may be a little too much-publicized Youth of America, have to easy an experiment; I ask only that you resist deal with some pressing problems. I just the urge to “poke” your stalking target.) Be don’t know how we expect to identify them a step or two behind them as they walk out if we’re all eyes-down-and-moving-ahead.

A final test: after My Big Fat American the door. Now, this is. critical: keep your hands at your sides. I’m not talking about Election two months ago, in which the any sort of heiny-touching urges; rather, I’m whole campus was alight in a “robble-robconcerned with the door that should now be ble-robble” furor... remember? the most swinging back at your face. If the person in important thing ever to happen to us, front of you didn’t hold the door open for ever?... have you, I dunno, been to a rally? you, take one for the team. (You should Written a Senator? Maybe you’re just not a probably wear your Rec-Specs for this one.) political person, okay, that’s fine, but the message applies no matter which issue It’s not vital to the integrity of the experiwe’re being told is important these days. ment that you let the door hit you in the face, but I would like to be able to easily For something that critical to become so unimportant so quickly means that everyidentify who’s been playing my game.

The results are frightening: most Duke body put the newspapers down fast and got students will not only let you catch a door to back to walking around with an ear jammed the oT sniffer, but, and I think my experiin a cellphone and an agenda that’s crowdmental evidence will back me up, they will ed in all the wrong places.

We’re all well aware of how to spell just walk right on, oblivious, while you experience a vicious nose-mashing. Hypothesis? I “team” by now, but we should be counting used to think it was just a lack of social skills the vowels in “community” too. Kids, we around here, that Daddy gave most of us the learned something valuable today: the fakeys to the Corvette but neglected to send bled Duke Community is a myth, and I’ve us to finishing school, but I’m starting to got the icepack on my nose to prove it. Class dismissed. wonder if the problem isn’t something a little more insidious.

Matt DeTura is a Trinity senior. His column A lot has been made of the “Duke Community” recently. Mostly, the conversation appears every other Friday.

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Statistics show seriousness of abortion In Andrew ShadofFs letter regarding ‘The A(bortion)-Bomb,” he calls out Bill English for failing to supply statistics in support ofhis ideas regarding abortion. Given that ShadofF himself cites very little hard data, readers have a right to see some actual numbers.

According to Planned Parenthood, 1.31 million abortions are performed in the United States every year, which boils down to roughly 3,600 abortions per day. Half of all U.S. women will have an abortion by age 45.

One out ofevery five pregnancies in the United States will end in abortion. One fifth of each of the last three generations has been aborted.

ShadofF asserts that “many... who undergo abortions do so only as a last resort, and as a result of rape, incest or danger to the mother’s life.” According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, these combined reasons account for approximately 4 percent ofall abortions, with most studies citing “not ready for responsibility” as the most common explanation for the

decision to abort. And although Shadoff that public opinion on abortion tends static, a Gallup poll from 2003 found that teenagers were significantly more likely to be pro-life than their parents.

The time has come for politicians and citizens to recognize the sheer enormity ofabortion and to give the issue serious and intelligent thought. Statements such as Shadoffs, claiming that “there is merely no room for negotiation” regarding abordon, only lead to division and disagreement.

Very few people would argue that an abortion is a positive experience for a woman.

Activists on both sides of the issue should be working to empower and inform men and women of their right to choose, not to abort, but to avert unwanted pregnancies, and to create a culture that provides real support and encouragement in such circumstances. states to be

Jared McCauley Trinity ’O6

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Against pants

Hail February

We hear it from the cradle to the grave, one overarching desonal relationships as we normally understand them; and mand to warm our bodies (and souls) and cover our natural being involved in inter-personal relationships as we normalstate: Wear pants. No exceptions. Put your legs in the holes and ly understand.them precisely is being exposed to the range of reactive attitudes and feelings that is in question.” zip thefly, and you will be one of us.

Please don’t take my cut-and-pasting of that sentence as If we were all created equal, the meaning ofpantsed and depan tsed would be self-explanatory. Yet this is far from the case: an idle boast. It’s not that I get it and you don’t; I had seSome of us prefer grievously ripped jeans, others going “commanvere difficulty with readings like that, and I still do. I mean do. Some of us cannot afford pants at all. that on a scale from Strawson to “I got so drunk last And the debate is hardly madeeasier by all the painful contranight,” our common talk on the Big Questions falls well dictions inherent in the social strata. Why are we given leave to on the latter end. Those conversations rarely move like lewear bikini bottoms under all circumstances on the beach, and yet gitimate philosophy. only in the classrooms of the most permissive proBy the same token, I can easily talk aboutfootball. ‘The Patriots need to estabfessors? Why does this double standard apply only to women? Why can I walk naked through lish the run early, look downfield for deep a dorm but not through an apartment building? passes and force turnovers on defense.”

The sad truth is that these questions are irreMy friends will agree or disagree vigoroussolvable by even such a one as I. Ifyou desire ly, and we will have a football conversation.

But, of course, we’re not really talking pants tight or loose-fitting, chic or rakishly outfootball: To do that, we’d need to use moded, the path is an easy one. But ifyou yearn terms like “Cover-2,” “zone blitz” and “trap for Edenic nakedness and seek the truth of rob goodman pants, you must look within blocking” and know what they mean.

Each mode ofconversation can inspire lobster sticks to magnet a love of the game, but the loves are of entirely different sorts. The first mode is for The above seems to me a fair representation of most the uncomplicated love you find on barstools and Sportsundergraduate philosophizing. Replace “pants” with “free Center, the second is for 6 a.m. sessions in the film room. will,” “God” or “absolute morality,” and it’s quite common. In fact, Terrell Owens’ love for football is a lot like a real It is, to my mind, elegantly put together. The sentences philosopher’s love for his scholarship: They both recogfollow one another with a semblance of logic. The purnize that their fields usually bruise you, sometimes break pose of the whole is not immediately clear, but it all does your bones, and occasionally leave you exhilarated. But a marvelous job of smelling as if a point is buried someonly occasionally. where. You will read it several times.

We, on the other hand, are lucky enough to be young This is the stuff of the Intellectual Discussion, of amazand free to enjoy the Big Questions. Most of us, though, do far more than that. We conflate pants and Strawson, ing late-night conversations and the vast majority of mindblowings; when we complain that Duke is not smart and we use philosophy to preen. We remark, openly or subtly, on our superiority. We tangle up our talk in self-seenough, we usually mean we would like more of this.

And I love it like I love David Gray and The 0. C. It filled riousness and self-congratulation. whole days of high school for me; it cemented friendships I do it. I try not to. And if I pass by a cluster conversing and fomented crushes; it inspired my Yale application on the afterlife, I’d like to offer the following advice: “You are not breaking ground. You are not deep. You essay on WhyI Want to Major in Philosophy, where I wrote something like, “I want to search for the truthwith a flash- are not, God help you r ‘seekers.’ You are entertaining light instead of a candle.” yourselves.”

But Yale rejected me. At Duke I did manage to pick up Entertainment is wonderful, but in high doses it kills. a minor in the subject, and I’ve learned one overarching How many of us expect to be entertained by this paper, thing: Philosophy, properly taught, is not fun. And con- entertained by our classes, entertained by our friends, entertained all the way to the grave with pauses only for versely, if it is fun, if it regularly amazes us with its deepness, it is probably not philosophy. sleep? How many of us enjoy staring into the abyss and, in My six philosophy classes have been the most rigorthe words ofLionel Trilling, “commending it for being a ous I’ve had here; in them, I read things like the followsingularly dark and fascinatingly contoured abyss, one ing, randomly chosen from P.F. Strawson’s On Freedom sure to survive as an object of edifying contemplation for and Resentment years to come.” That’s college.

‘The human commitment to participation in ordinary In college, most of us agree that philosophy is good. inter-personal relationships is, I think, too thoroughgoing And relaxation is good. So in our ignorance we mix the and deeply rooted for us to take seriously the thought that two together, and we choke without knowing it. a general theoretical conviction might so change our world that, in it, there were no longer any such things as inter-perRob Goodman is a Trinity senior. His column appears Fridays.

Austin Powers were Japanese, he would look like my dad. With his unruly, side-swept hair, thick glasses and goofy grin, my father looks and acts silly. He proudly owns an extensive collection of bowties and bucket hats, sometimes wearing the two together, and he always takes my “Stop Dad, you’re embarrassing me!” command as a cue to continue what he is doing. After last year’s' baccalaureate services culminated on the Chapel Quad, my 5foot-4 father gave senior basketball player Nick Horvath a pat on the back, as if they were old buddies, and uttered just two words: “Work hard.” The look on Horvath’s face screamed, “Who is this man?!”

While my father never fails to make me blush, my mother seems to be attracted to his out-of-fashion style and eccentric personality, probably because she, too, shares these same qualities. Although she is the shortest in the Kubagawa family of four, with her height possibly prohibiting her from riding a Six Flags rollercoaster, she is also the loudest. Even the mute button on our home telephone can’t cover her deafening voice, which serves as a source of embarrassment when my friends call and I can’t come to the phone immediately: “MIHO-CHAN! YOU IN BATHLOOM LONG YOU TIME! OKAY?” Despite my parents’ jfi t IK rnamm. quirkiness, they compleH ment each other well. This closeness developed after having to move from Japan to America at the miho kubagawa start of their marriage, when the University of Aldiscere viviendo abama at Birmingham offered my father a four-year post-doctoral fellowship to do research in 1976. My parents signed the papers signifying their official marriage to each other before movin, and agreed to have a wedding upon their return to Japan. But, after four years had passed, my parents didn’t move back.

I once asked my mother if she regretted not ever having a wedding, a topic of conversation that every Duke girl seems to have at some point in her college career. My mother quickly replied, “I so shy! I would not have like.”

And it’s true; the ceremonial aspect of their marriage held (and still holds) little significance or importance to them. Along with not having a wedding, my father and mother generally treat Valentine’s Day like any other day, an act unheard of here in the Gothic Wonderland. At Duke, February marks the advent ofWaDuke dinner dates and “small box” gifts, given by hook-ups-turnedboyffiends. Before you know it, you will be the only one standing at the bus stop not holding someone’s hand.

While there is no exchange of Godiva chocolate or red roses between my parents, I have never once questioned their commitment to each other. Since their arrival in the States in 1976, marked by my father’s first experience with root beer (what he mistook for as “really cheap American beer”) at the LAX airport, my parents had to heavily rely on each other in order to figure out the American way of life. To start off, they bought a book: How to Watch a Football Game.

Even now, 29 years later and still in Birmingham, they are just as devoted to each other as before, continuing to discover and learn new “American” things and sharing them with each other. I delight in my dinner conversations with them. Once, my mother momentarily forgot Hitler’s first name, and before I could answer, my father interrupted with his, what he thought to be correct, answer.

“Hail.”

After hilarity ensued on my part, I explained to my parents the definition of “hail,” an English verb that they had obviously mistaken as Hider’s first name. They then proceeded to write this new vocabulary word down on the restaurant napkin for future reference, both laughing about their misunderstandings.

These are the everyday moments when I appreciate their never-ending desire to learn more about themselves, each other, and this way of life. Despite their quirks and my father’s uncanny resemblance to Austin Powers, they both share the experience of being first generation immigrants, whose commitment does not comply with America’s commercialized view of relationships and marriage.

My parents maintain a loyalty to each other that, frankly, can never be conveyed in a lavish gift or Hallmark card.

And that is love.

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Miho Kubagawa is a Trinity sophomore. Her column appears every other Friday.

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