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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 94

PPS refines major, adds course paths by

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In an effort to strengthen and diversify students’ academic experiences, the public policy department has revised its undergraduate major requirements.

Changes to the major include the creation of thematic curriculum pathways, enhanced opportunities for undergraduate research and new course prerequisites. Some of the requirements will apply to current public policy majors; others will affect students matriculating in or after Fall 2005.

Unlike past revisions to the major, which were mainly technical changes to the set of classes students are required to take, the new changes are meant to Enhance students’ ideological understanding of public policy and their hands-on experience in the academic field. Director of Undergraduate Studies Jay Hamilton, who oversaw the revision process, said the restructuring of the major is not a competitive response to other schools’

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policy programs but an attempt to provide students with

stronger liberal arts skills that will prepare them for public policy-related jobs in a rapidly globalizing world.

“If you ask people what you want liberal arts majors to do, you want them to be able to reason analytically, you want them to be able to write well, you want them to have some appreciation ofother cultures and history and also be able to tie what they’re learning to the real world,” Hamilton said. ‘You can do all those things with the current major, but you’re going to be able to do them better when the major is revised.”

Bruce Jentleson, director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, said that after hiring expert faculty members and developing several programs of study in recent years, there was a need to connect the different components of the department and add “structure, depth SEE PPS ON PAGE 8

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Shelden Williams fouled out with 40 seconds left in regulation after grabbing 16rebounds and shooting 8-for-10from the field.

FOUL PLAY Undermanned Duke falls to Terps in OT by

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. DeMarcus Nelson and Patrick Davidson positioned themselves

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under the hasket in what is normally Shelden Williams’ real estate. But with the Landlord and three other Duke regulars evicted, Maryland forwards reached right over the makeshift front line to snatch shot after shot bouncing off the rim in overtime.

The Blue Devils did not score a single field goal in overtime Saturday night, while the Terrapins nailed 9-of-12 free throws as Duke continued to foul away. By game’s end former manager Ross

Perkins was the best remaining option as the Blue Devils fell, 9992, sarcastic echoes of “Not our rivals!” reverberating through a packed Comcast Center before fans stormed the court.

“It was pretty frustrating,” said Nelson, who tied the game with 33 seconds left in regulation.

‘You got a body on guys and blocked them out, but guys were reaching over me and getting rebounds. I can’t reach that far—that’s out ofmy hands.”

The No. 8 Blue Devils (18-3, 8-3 in the ACC) have now lost three straight to the Terps (157, 6-5) dating back to last season’s ACC Tournament overtime thriller. With the loss, they also fell out of a three-way tie atop the conference.

Despite Duke’s foul troubles,

Maryland struggled to close the door in overtime, misfiring from the field and turning the ball

over several times. With Duke down 93-90 midway through the extra period, JJ. Redick threw a pass out of bounds between Nelson and Davidson, and Chris McCray sunk two free throws on the

ensuing possession.

The Terps would go on to hit four more free throws, and Duke tossed up three-pointers against a Maryland perimeter defense that was tight all game. Daniel Ewing fouled out 13 seconds into overtime, and by the time it was over Lee Melchionni and Sean Dockery had joined Williams and Shavlik Randolph—neither of whom even SEE OT ON SW PAGE 5

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woiidandnation Iraq elections Shiites and Kurds win by

Robert Reid

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Clergy-backed Shiites and independence-minded Kurds swept to victory in Iraq’s landmark elections, propelling to power the groups that suffered most under Saddam Hussein and forcing Sunni Arabs to the margins for the first time in modern history, according to final results released Sunday.

But the Shiites’ 48 percent of the vote is far short of the two-thirds majority needed to control the 275-member National Assembly. The results threw immediate focus on Iraqi leaders’ backdoor dealmaking to create a new coalition government —possi-

bly in an alliance with the Kurds—and on efforts to lure Sunnis into the fold and away from a bloody insurgency.

Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, the secular Shiite chosen by the United States to lead this country for the last eight turbulent months, fared poorly—his ticket finishing a distant third behind the religious Shiites and Kurds.

“This is a new birth for Iraq,” election commission spokesperson Farid Ayar said, announcing results of the Jan. 30 polling, the first free election in Iraq in more than 50 years and the first since Saddam fell.

Iraqi voters “became a legend in their confrontation with terrorists.”

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Iraqi Kurds danced in the streets and waved Kurdish flags when results were announced in the oil-rich, ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk. Thousands more Kurds —a people who were gassed and forced from their homes by Saddam’s forces—turned out in Sulaimaniyah, firing weapons in the air and carrying posters of their leaders.

“I feel that I am born again,” said Bakhtiyar Mohammed, 42. “I am very happy because we suffered a lot. Now I can say that I am an Iraqi Kurd with pride.”

President George W. Bush praised Iraqis and said America and its allies SEE

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Sharon orders control of extremists by

Josef Federman

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JERUSALEM Responding to death threats against government ministers, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered law enforcement agencies Sunday to crack down on Jewish extremists opposed to the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Cabinet ministers said the charged climate is reminiscent of the period before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin who was in peace negotiations with the Palestinians. One minister warned Sharon himself could become a

target. Extremists have put up posters across the country that say Rabin and the prime minister’s deceased wife, Lily, are “waiting for Sharon.”

Despite the concerns, Sharon’s Cabinet approved a list of 500 Palestinian prisoners to be released in coming days, and several hundred Palestinian workers were permitted to return to jobs in Israel in line with agreements reached at a Mideast summit last week.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, was to present a new Cabinet to his Fatah movement for approval Tuesday. Abbas was expected to appoint new in-

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Israeli officials have voiced concerns about extremist opposition to the pullout plan for months. But with this summer’s planned withdrawal quickly approaching and a recent warming of ties with the Palestinians, the level ofalarm has been raised.

Sharon instructed law enforcement agencies to report back to the Cabinet as soon as possible with steps that can be taken to “rein in the violent rampage” of SEE ISRAEL ON PAGE

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Returning to the world's most storied pulpit for the first time since his hospitalization, Pope John Paul II addressed a sea of worshippers Sunday from his studio in St. Peter's Square and gave with his presence strong assurance that he's on the rebound.

North Korea calls for dialogue

In an attempt to diffuse tension created by its announcement that it is a nuclear power, North Korea has demanded bilateral talks with the United States, U.N. envoy said in a South Korean newspaper Friday.

The White House said it was not interested in one-on-one talks.

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Attorneys in Michael Jackson's child-molestation trial are turning to the tough job of finding jurors who can judge the pop star not as a legend but as a defendant.

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Justin Klein carried his

enthusiasm for Blue Devils basketball all the way from his days as a Duke undergraduate to the Duke School of Medicine, where he introduced his new classmates to the venerable tradition of campVounO ing out for admission to bastrUStee ketball games. Friends deflnalists scribe Klein, who is now one final vote 2i3i of three finalists for the graduate and professional student Young Trustee position, as one of Duke’s most loyal activists.

The third-year medical student will also complete his law degree at Harvard University in June. Prior to entering medical school, Klein spent a year working in health care administration for Duke University Health System handling special projects and consulting for Student Health Services.

“Justin convinced us to hire him by negotiating several projects that administrators and physicians would fund,” said Brenda Nevidjon, associate clinical professor at the School of Nursing. “Everyone found his work outstanding and would have continued his employment had medical school not been in his future.”

Often joking that he may seem to be a “professional student in more ways than one,” Klein said he takes the potential responsibility ofYoung Trustee with grave seriousness. “My leadership at Duke has been deep, but it has also been very broad because of my diverse experiences here and outside of the University,” he said. “I can serve as a member of the Board of Trustees offering unmatched insight into the issues facing all of the constituencies of our community.”

First on his agenda is the development of the next strategic plan for the University. “At this stage in Duke’s development, with the exception of the 20-year Central Campus initiative, we are concluding the facilities and hard infrastructure investment phase,” Klein said. “The next phase should be to invest in our people.”

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The University of North Carolina system’s Board of Governors rejected a tuition increase for in-state students Friday, despite requests for the hike by chancellors and trustees at UNO’s 16 campuses looking to boost faculty recruitment and retention.

The tuition shift, which was proposed by the schools’ Boards ofTrustees last week, focused on separate increases for students from in and out of state $2OO and $950, respectively, at UNCChapel Hill. But after Gov. Mike Easley (D) released a statement-to the UNC Board of Governors Thursday strongly denouncing the hike, the Board decided to freeze the in-state tuition increase and defer action on tuition for out-ofstate students until March.

“I’m disappointed with the decision.” said James Moeser, chancellor of UNCChapel Hill. “I think it very well could decrease the [quality] of our education.”

Richard Williams, the chairman of the Board of Trustees at Chapel Hill, said Easley’s position had too great an influence on the Board of Governors, whose decision he thinks puts UNC at risk of “a loss of tremendous quality” in its faculty.

“I think it’s short-sighted and political,” he said. “I don’t think the new decision is in the best interest of the campus.”

Ray Farris, a member of the Board of Governors, agreed that UNC-Chapel Hill needed more financial assistance to remain a competitive research university, but he argued that the school should look to state funding instead.

“You can’t treat all campuses the same way,” he said. “Some of the other North Carolina universities do not face —

JustinKlein's top priority as Young Trustee would be the development of Duke's next strategic plan.

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Non-Duke computers face Oil Help Desk delays by

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“!!!!!Attention!!!!! Current average wait time for all computers not purchased business days.” through Duke is This eye-catching sign next to the door at the Office of Information Technology Help Desk in the Bryan Center tells observant customers the consequences of not buying their computers through Duke. The Technology Advantage Program, a two-year-old collaborative effort between OIT and Duke Computer Stores, sold more than 750 computers this year—along with a littleknown promise of a premium spot in line to get them fixed.

The OIT website states that the Help Desk “provides TAP customers with priority service and support.” As part of the policy, students with TAP computers are serviced before those with independently purchased ones, no matter who comes to the Help Desk first.

Debbie DeYulia, senior manager for OIT Technical Support, said the average turn-around time for a TAP computer is two to three business days. For computers not purchased through Duke, she said, “It varies so much depending on the time of the year, whether there has been a virus outbreak, etc. A lot of times we can turn it around in five business days.”

But many students with non-TAP computers have had to wait as long as a month for repairs. Often repairs only take a day or two, and the delay results from TAP customers coming in and taking priority service over the non-TAP customers.

“It is absolutely ridiculous that just because I didn’t purchase my computer through Duke I should have to wait an extra three weeks to get my computer fixed,” freshman Melissa Schneiderman said. “And even then I get bumped to the back of the line whenever more Duke computers are brought in.”

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Junior Megan Brudney turned in her computer, which she did not buy at Duke, to theOIT Help Desk Jan. 12. It was returned Feb. 8, nearly a month later.

bring in their computers with a warning message, the Help Desk still often gives priority to TAP students. Sophomore Daniel Bowes said OIT suspended his Internet service because his computer was sending

out a virus. He waited five weeks for repairs after he turned in his computer to the Help Desk. “They were always pretty cordial and friendly, but friendliness only goes so far,” Bowes said.

Sophomore Marc Gasale waited a month after turning in his computer for reasons similar to Bowes’ unintentional virus problem. “I was a bit disgusted,” he said of the delay. ‘You don’t realize how huge an impact your computer has on

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your life until you have to live without it for a month.”

While OlT’s website makes it clear that TAP customers receive priority, some students were unaware of the policy even after they turned in their computers.

Sarah Kim, a sophomore who bought her computer through Dell, was generally satisfied with her experience at the Help Desk but was still caught off guard. “They didn’t mention anything about my cornputer not being bought through Duke,” she said. “If there is a discrepancy, that’d be way uncool.”

The waiting time for non-TAP customers is especially long during busy peri-

ods at the beginning ofeach semester or if there is a widespread virus affecting campus computers, DeYulia said. A new OIT service also allows students to bring in their computers to the Help Desk to be up graded with anti-virus software and security updates while they wait.

DeYulia hopes that this new preventative maintenance service and OlT’s continuing efforts to educate students in how to properly care for their computers will calm impatient students.

“That will take“fare of a lot of the problems that would cause students to bring their TAP or non-TAP computer in to begin with,” she said.

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House to make states verify drivers' legal status by

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WASHINGTON Hoping to keep drivers licenses out of the hands of terrorists, the U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to make states verify that applicants are U.S. citizens or legal immigrants.

Republicans pushed the measure through on a 261-161 vote despite protests from governors and state motor vehicle departments that it would be too costly and would require them to take on the role of immigration officers.

If the bill passes the Senate, North Carolina drivers’ licenses could not be used for federal identification purposes unless the state changes its requirements. North Carolina drivers do not currently have to prove U.S. legal residency.

The bill also would make it easier for judges to deport immigrants seeking political asylum if they think they might be terrorists.

“Common sense says we should not allow suspected terrorists to be able to stay inside our borders if they could harm us,” said House Speaker Dennis Hasten.

The measure was rejected by Congress and the White House in December as part of a bill reorganizing intelligence agencies in response to flaws found after the Sept.

11, 2001 attacks. It was revived with newly won support from the George W. Bush administration.

“Today there are over 350 valid drivers license designs issued by the 50 states. We all know it’s very difficult for security officials at airports to tell the real ID cards from the counterfeit ones,” said the bill's sponsor, House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner.

Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said the new features that states would have to include on drivers licenses would prevent terrorists from using them as identification to board planes like the Sept. 11 hijackers did.

Governors, state legislators and motor vehicle departhave all argued that requiring verification of background information such as Social Security numbers and whether a person is in the United States legally would be burdensome.

The National Governors Association and a group representing motor vehicle department administrators saidjn a letter to House leaders that the measure is a “massive unfunded mandate.”

The bill is expected to have more difficulty in the Senate, where several Republican lawmakers have said they want it considered as part of a broader immigration package.

Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the Senate Judiciary immigration subcommittee, has said he supports Sensenbrenner’s proposals to bar illegal immigrants from using driver’s licenses as identification to get on airplanes or enter federal buildings. ments

Charles wins 8

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LOS ANGELES Ray Charles, whose legacy erased boundaries between genres and generations, received a fitting musical eulogy Sunday night as his final album, “Genius Loves Company,” won a leading eight Grammys.

Charles’ album of duets, recorded in the final months ofhis life, was the clear sentimental favorite. It won album of the year and best pop album; the song “Here We Go Again,” with Norah Jones, won record of the year and best pop collaboration with vocals.

“I’m going to cry, actually,” Jones said as she accepted the trophy for record of the year. “I think it just shows how wonderful music can be.”

Other winners included Alicia Keys and Usher, each nominated for eight Grammys. Keys won four while Usher had three. They shared one award, for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals for their chart-topping duet, “My Boo.” three awards, including best rock performance U2 by a duo or group. Green Day, the most nominatedrock act with six for their politically charged punk opera “American Idiot,” won best rock album.

“Rock V roll can be dangerous and fun at the same time, so thanks a lot,” Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said as he accepted the award.

Keys had a chance to win more than any other woman in one evening. In 2002 Keys won five Grammys for her debut album, “Songs in A Minor,” becoming only the second woman to win that many in one night. (Lauryn Hill won five in 1999; Jones matched Hill and Keys’ feat in 2003.)

John Mayer was one of the artists who prevented a record night by Keys, as his mellow tribute “Daughters” won song of the year.

The most nominated artist of the year was perhaps the most multifaceted—Kanye West, the songwriter-producer who made his rap debut in 2004 with the cutting-edge CD “The College Dropout.” He was nominated for 10 Grammys, including album of the year, but only took home three, including best rap album and best rap song for “Jesus Walks.”

He was upset in the best new artist category, losing to Maroon 5 in a race that also included country singer Gretchen Wilson, the Los Lonely Boys and soul siren Joss Stone.

Maroon s’s Adam Levine seemed almost apologetic after winning.

“Kanye West, I want to thank you so much for being wonderful,” he said. The camera cut away to West, who looked less than pleased.

Some expected West to have a meltdown like at the American Music Awards, where he complained bitterly backstage after losing the same award to Wilson. But Sunday night he went on to deliver an eye-popping performance of “Jesus Walks” and an emotional acceptance speech for best rap album.

After referencing the car accident a few years ago that almost took his life, West promised to live life to the fullest:

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ON-for-food program chief under scrutiny by

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The U.N. oil-for-food NEW YORK program chief under scrutiny for alleged corruption and mismanagement blocked a proposed audit of his office around the same time he’s accused of soliciting lucrative oil deals from Iraq, according to investigators.

A U.N. auditing team, which was severely understaffed, said running the $64 billion oil-for-food program was “a high risk activity” and a priority for review. But Benon Sevan denied the internal auditors’ request to hire a consultant to examine his office in May 2001 an act top investigators of the program are now calling into question.

“I think the auditors thought they were steered away from some areas,” Paul Volcker, who’s leading the independent probe, told The Associated Press. “Our judgment is that the main office should have been audited. And that leaves the inference that perhaps the auditors were not encouraged to do the work. I think we draw the inference that it was at least suspicious.”

Two months after Sevan refused the auditors’ request, a Panamanian company, African Middle East Petroleum, purchased 1 million barrels of oil, which Iraq had allocated to Sevan one of nine allocations made between 1998 and 2002 involving Sevan and believed to have netted the company $1.5 million, said an interim report Volcker’s committee re-

leased this month The head of AMEP, Fakhry Abdelnour, a friend of Sevan, told investigators he paid $160,000 as a kickback to an Iraqicontrolled account in Jordan in October 2001 under one of the oil-for-food schemes under examination.

Volcker did not say that Sevan received kickbacks but expressed concern at $160,000 in cash that Sevan said he received from an aunt in his native Cyprus in 1999-2003. The investigative report questioned this “unexplained wealth,” noting that the aunt, who recently died, was a retired government photographer living on a modest pension.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan last week suspended Sevan after Volcker accused him of a “grave conflict of interest,” saying his conduct in soliciting oil deals for AMEP was “ethically improper and seriously undermined the integrity of the United Nations.”

On the day Volcker issued his report, Sevan’s lawyer, Eric Lewis, accused the panel of trying to make his client a “scapegoat,” saying: “Mr. Sevan never took a penny.” He said Sevan was proud of his 40-year U.N. career and of the oilfor-food program, which saved tens of thousands of Iraqis “from death by disease and starvation.”

The oil-for-food program was the largest U.N. humanitarian aid operation, running in 1996-2003. It was designed to

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RALEIGH The state is taking back $675,000 worth ofAustralian-made gas masks bought for police after Sept.

11, 2001, because they don’t protect against even basic irritants such as tear gas.

The masks also do not meet recently adopted federal standards for protection against a terrorist’s toxins.

The move comes after nearly two years of warnings from the North Carolina Department ofLabor and the state Department of Health and Human Services that the 2,400 masks bought for troopers, Capitol police and other law enforcement officers lacked any kind offederal certification.

Labor Department officials said the Crime Control department told them several times that the devices would be removed, only to find them in use later.

“I’m fairly upset that they haven’t seen fit to take care of this issue for the safety of their employees,” said Allen McNeely, a deputy state labor commissioner who oversees occupational safety and health.

Crime Control officials and the manufacturer say the problem is a technicality and the masks are safe.

But the department began pulling the masks three weeks ago until they win certification. If certified the masks will be redistributed to employees.

In the meantime, the state has spent about $45,000 on 300 new, certified masks for essential emergency personnel.

After the terrorist attacks of 2001, state officials realized that old gas masks with rotting seals and leaky filters were all they had to protect police from nerve gas, anthrax or other deadly airborne agents.

State lawmakers quickly gave them money to purchase new ones.

But with no federal standard in place for such masks, the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety bet on an Australian company’s newly designed model.

Crime Control Secretary Bryan Beatty defended his initial decision to equip troopers, Alcohol Law Enforcement agents and other police and rescue personnel with the masks.

“We kept the masks because we know,they worked and we knew they may be needed,” Beatty said.

He said the department has begun removing them from service because the manufacturer—Safety Equipment Australia—has yet to get them certified after missing several deadlines to do so.

“It’s a technicality,” said Bengt Kjellberg, president of the company’s American subsidiary. “It’s not like somebody’s going to die if they run around with one of these masks.”

McNeely, the Labor Department official, said he can’t accept the “technicality” argument.

“We don’t know if they work, and we’re not in a position to test them,” he said.

Other states, including New York, have also returned the masks.

North Carolina and federal occupational health and safety laws require public and private employers to provide gas masks that have approval from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Employers can face fines if someone is endangered or harmed while using noncertified equipment. A serious violation can lead to a $7,000 fine for each infraction.

So far, the state Labor Department, which handles occupational safety and health regulation for the federal government, has not levied fines against Crime Control.

That’s because no one has been exposed to harmful gases since the masks were purchased. There have been no riots, SWAT-type operations or accidents that would require their use.

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The Shiites stand to gain up to 140 seats with the Kurds could end up with about 75.

“This is a great victory for the Iraqi people,” said Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon protege and member of the Shiite ticket who is lobbying for the prime minister’s post. “We will have an assembly which is elected by the people and the government which is completely legitimate and elected by the people.”

Other leading contenders for the top post include fellow Shiites Ibrahim Jaafari, a vice president; Finance Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi; and former nuclear scientist Hussain al-Shahristani.

Abdul-Mahdi told al-Arabiya the next Iraqi government is burdened with “difficult and complicated responsibilities that require national unity and the wide support of the national assembly,” and the presidency. He said his alliance is “seeking to realize a wide national harmony in choosing” for those positions.

The election results highlighted the sharp differences among Iraq’s ethnic, religious and cultural groups—many of whom fear domination not just by the Shiites, estimated

IRAQ from page 2 should be proud for making the election possible. “I congratulate the Iraqi people for defying terrorist threats and setting their country on the path of democracy and freedom,” he said in a statement. “And I congratulate every candidate who stood for election and those who will take office once the results are certified.”

The Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance ticket received 4,075,295 votes, or about 48 percent of the total cast, officials said.

The Kurdistan Alliance, a coalition of two main Kurdish parties, finished second with 2,175,551 votes, or 26 percent. And the Iraqi List headed by Allawi stood third with 1,168,943 votes, or nearly 14 percent.

Parties have three, days to lodge complaints, after which the results will be certified and seats in the new Assembly distributed. Seats will generally be allocated according to the percentage of votes that each ticket won. It appeared only 12 coalitions would take seats.

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60 percent of the population, but also by the Kurds, the pro-American group with about 15 percent.

The results also draw attention to the close and longtime ties between now-victorious Iraqi Shiite leaders and clerics in neighboring Iran. The Shiite ticket owes its success to the support of Iraq’s clerics, including Iranianborn Grand Ayatollah Ali al-iSistani.

In contrast, many Sunni Arabs, who make up an estimated 20 percent of the population, stayed home on election day, either out offear of violence or to support a boycott call by radical clerics opposed to the U.S. military.

Overall, national turnout was about 60 percent, the commission said—but only 2 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots in Anbar province, the Sunni insurgent stronghold that includes Ramadi and Fallujah.

Turnout was also low in the Sunni Arab provinces of Ninevah and Salaheddin, both insurgency centers. An American soldier was killed and another wounded in Salaheddin as the results were being announced in Baghdad.

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and rigor” to the major.

‘You want to try and make all ofyour parts fit together well,” he explained. “We didn’t think [the major] was broken, but the best time to make changes is when you think you’re building on strengths and you’ve got some issue you have to deal with, but you want to deal with them before they become major problems.”

Under the new major, students can opt to follow a curriculum pathway, which is constructed around a cluster of elective courses and research and internship opportunities in a specific policy area. The new pathways include global policy, social policy, economic policy, health policy and policy journalism. Jentleson said the pathways are meant to provide students with direction early in their undergraduate careers, coherence in their selection of electives and expertise in a particular policy area that may help them in the job market after graduation.

To encourage more students to conduct research, the department will also offer two distinct academic routes for writing a senior honors thesis. Whereas students currently begin the process of writing a thesis in the fall of their senior year, the new major offers juniors the opportunity to take a research methodology seminar in the spring and complete their theses the following fall semester. Students who do not take jthe spring seminar will also be able to complete a thesis by translating a paper from a class or seminar into a broader, independent study honors project.

On a more technical level, though PPS 55, 114, 116 and 128 are still the core courses for the major, students must now take PPS 55 as a prerequisite for PPS 114 and 116. Hamilton said the goal of structuring the course sequence is to provide students with the memo-writing and cost-benefit analysis skills they learn in the introductory course before they enter higher-level classes.

Students matriculating in or after Fall 2005 must also take a history elective and cannot count more than two transfer or study abroad credits toward the major. To reverse the trend of students taking electives before core courses, majors must take all of their core courses as well as Economics 55 and Statistics 101 before taking the required internship, which most students do the summer after their junior year.

The department has also established new mean grade targets for both core and elective classes and will begin encouraging more majors to participate in the public policy study abroad program at the University of Glasgow.

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. Not even the cheers and taunts of 17,243 Maryland fans could stop Duke’s women’s basketball team Sunday.

In front of the largest crowd ever to witness an ACC DUKE 60 women’s basketball game, No. 3 MARYLAND 49 Duke surged past I No. 19 Maryland Sunday in College Park, 6049.

“I know it wasn’t a pretty game,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I know both teams missed some open shots that we normally hit, but I think the defense was really good for both sides.”

With neither team shooting accurately, rebounding proved decisive in the contest. The Blue Devils (23-2, 9-1 in the ACC) topped the Terrapins (17-6, 6-5) on the glass 48-38, grabbing 27 rebounds in the second half.

Center Chante Black led the team with 13 boards, and Alison Bales grabbed 11, nine in Maryland territory.

Goestenkors emphasized how important post presence would be in this game and told the squad to make a concerted effort on the glass.

Maryland came on strong after the break with a 9-0 run, pulling ahead of the Blue Devils, but Duke regained its momentum after Wynter Whitley layed up an easy basket on a fast break, generated by Monique Currie’s lone steal of the game.

But a Blue Devil possession in the 17th minute of the second period typified a game marked by low offensive production and strong defense. After Bales blocked a short jumperfrom Terp center Jade Perry, Currie grabbed the defensive board. Currie drove down the court only to miss a three-point shot. She then grabbed the rebound and missed a layup.

Bales recovered the missed shot and dished the ball to guard Jessica Foley, who missed another three. Maryland’s Shay Doron snagged the board.

Both the Blue Devils and the Terps posted their second-worst shooting percentages of the season, sinking only 35.1 percent and 33.8 percent of their baskets,

respectively.

“I think both teams played exceptional defense,” Goestenkors said. “I don’t know that it was necessarily poor offense.”

Duke’s bench players gave the team a much-needed scoring boost, with reserves netting 19 points. Senior Whitley scored 11 points in 19 minutes of play, and freshman Black scored eight points and grabbed 13 boards in 23 minutes off the bench.

“Our game plan was to give [Whitley] the open shot. She was the X-factor in my opinion,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. “All eight players on their team SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 6

Junior guard Jessica Foley and Maryland's Jade Perry reach for a loose ball during Sunday's game,which theBlue Devils won 60-49.

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groove.”

Despite a Maryland Eastern Shore rally in the late innings Sunday, the baseball team managed to close out the game 8-6 to sweep a threeU IVIES -6 game series this DUKE 3 weekend at Jack Coombs Field.

At the plate, two freshmen showed off their power as Ron Causey and Brett Bardes each hit over .600 on the weekend, and three other freshmen picked up hits.

“Our freshmen today had eight hits. I knew we had brought some power in that freshman class, and they showed it today,” head coach Bill Hillier said after Sunday’s game.

With Duke (4-1) up 3-1 entering the bottom of the fourth, Causey led off the inning with a home run that just barely cleared the fence in left-centerfield. After Bartles doubled to rightfield, another freshman, Jimmy Gallagher, took UMES starter Daniel Sterling long for his first career home run.

In his first career start after making several relief appearances last season, sophomore David Torcise dominatedUMES (0-5) on the mound, striking out nine of the 20 batters he faced. But after Torcise came out in the sixth with his pitch count nearing 80, the Fighting Hawks began a comeback run.

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Although the Fighting Hawks scored three runs in their last at bat, Bajoczky managed to get Duke out of the inning with a win.

‘You can’t complain with a sweep ever,” Causey said. “This weekend was really good for us because we got three wins, which is the big thing. At the same time we figured out what it’s going to take to go down and play teams like Wilmington on Wednesday and Cincinnati next weekend.”

Greg Burke, Danny Otero and Torcise started on the mound for the Blue Devils this weekend and collectively gave up five runs in 14 and two-thirds innings over the three games.

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The men’s and women’s track teams traveled to Virginia Tech this weekend for indoor action at the Hokie Invitational.

Because each team can only bring 28 athletes to the ACC Indoor Championships Friday, head coach Norm Ogilvie wanted to try some of his runners in different races in order to field the best team next weekend.

Ogilvie also decided to rest some ofhis top performers from the indoor season, including triple jumper Jade Ellis and some of the women’s distance runners.

“Everybody is in a slighdy different place—it was a different group,” Ogilvie said of the Blue Devils who competed this weekend.

Previously undefeated, Debra Vento tied Hyleas Fountain and North Carolina’s Sheena Gordon with a jump of 1.78 meters Friday, but Vento placed third because she took more tries to reach the height. All three competitors attempted but failed to hit the NCAA Indoor Nationals automatic qualifying mark of 1.84. Vento appeared to clear the mark, Ogilvie said, but the bar unexpectedly fell.

Meghan Leon placed second in the 800-meter run, setting a personal indoor record with a time of 2:11.79. Leon started the race conservatively, but picked up her pace after the first 400 meters. Leon kicked hard in the last 100 meters but did not have enough to beat Eastern Carolina’s Tara Deßrielle, who was a half-second faster than Leon.

Fifth-year runner Lauren Matic also took third place in the 800-meter run.

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After two straight-set victories over top-10 opponents during the indoor season, Ludovic Walter faced his first true test Saturday.

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The Blue Devils fencing team secured victories over rival North Carolina in both the men’s and women’s competition this weekend at the Duke Invitational.

It was the final competition of the season for the Blue Devils as a team, but many individuals will continue on to the Junior Olympics next weekend and the regional qualifying tournament in March.

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week, every competition,” head coach Alex Beguinet said. “Right now I think they all fenced very, very well. I’m very pleased. I have to give them more credit than what I thought they would have done. It was a very nice surprise.”

In Saturday’s women’s competition, Duke won the overall epee title and finished second in the saber weapon.

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Unranked Mark Dietrich forced Walter to play a third-set TENN. tiebreaker, but the junior preDUKE 5 vailed to lift Duke to a 6-1 win over No. 22 Tennessee in the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

Walter, who had difficulty handling Dietrich’s serve, won the first set in a tiebreaker but lost the next five games and the second set, 6-3.

“He had one of the biggest serves I’ve ever seen,” said Walter, who is now 5-0 in singles. “He played really well for five games. He didn’t miss any balls and made every return.”

Both players held serve throughout the third set,, and Walter took the tiebreaker to clinch the team victory for the Blue Devils (4-1).

“Ludovic usually rises to the occasion,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. “He wins a lot ofclose matches. Ludo held in there, and to his credit, he showed a lot of composure.”

Walter was not the only Duke player to successfully win a third set tiebreaker against the Volunteers (4-2).

Down 5-3 in the third-set, No. 52 Jonathan Stokke fought off four match points and came back to break Morgan Wilson’s serve on his way to a 6-1, 3-6, 76 (6) victory.

“I felt like I just needed to keep myself in the points,” Stokke said. “I kind of used my energy to scrap out a couple.”

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UNC 77-CONNECTICUT 70 Rashad McCants and Raymond Felton had big second halves Sunday to help No. 2 North Carolina (20-3) beat No. 19 Connecticut (15-6) 77-70.

McCants had 11 of his 15 points in the second half for North Carolina, while Felton had 14 of his 16 points and seven of his 10 assists in the final 20 minutes.

The Tar Heels committed only four turnovers the second half while forcing the Huskies in into 13 of their 22. (AP)

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Tech Sunday night.

Jack hit a jumper near the foul line with 42 seconds remaining, tying the game at 51.

But the Georgia Tech guard slipped at the other end while guarding Bethel, who burst along the baseline for a layup that put the Wolfpack (14-10,4-7 in the ACC) back ahead Georgia Tech (14-8, 5-6) had one more chance, but B.J. Elder missed a three-pointer from the corner as the buzzer sounded. (AP)

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lights around the backboard turned on to signify the end of the game, Maryland forward Nik Caner-Medley’s fall-away jumper floated through the air.

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fans waiting in hushed anticipation, the shot bounced twice off the rim before falling harmlessly away, sending the

game into overtime.

But even before Caner-Medley’s shot left his hands, the outcome of the game was all but decided.

With forwards Shavlik Randolph and Shelden Williams on the bench, disqualified after picking up their fifth fouls, the Blue Devils were going to have a tough time playing with the Terrapins inside in overtime.

“Overtime was frustrating. We were definitely at a disadvantage,” JJ. Redick said.

“They just had more overall athleticism than we did during the overtime.”

Well, duh Despite a valiant overtime effort by 6foot-3 “center” DeMarcus Nelson—who badly lost the opening tip to Maryland’s 6foot-9 Ekene Ibekwe —Duke never really had a chance to stop the Terps. The extra period was just a formality.

Of the seven overtime points Maryland scored before the Blue Devils started fouling intentionally, five came after offensive rebounds. Before the period was over, three more Blue Devils—Daniel Ewing, Sean Dockery and Lee Melchionni would foul out attempting to stop the bigger and taller Maryland players.

By the time Patrick Davidson entered the game with more than three minutes to play and Duke trailing by three, it was apparent that if the Blue Devils were going to win, it would have to be in Pantheon-ofGreat-Duke-Games fashion under the subheading “JJ. Redick steals a game.”

But Redick’s shots just wouldn’t fall—he made just 5-of-19 and missed all five of his attempts in overtime—and Maryland continued to dominate the Blue Devils on the offensive glass.

Ibekwe scored the Terps’ first point in OT on a free-throw attempt when Ewing fouled him on a put-back. Travis Garrison’s short second-chance jumper over Patrick Johnson—who contributed nothing but four fouls and appeared overmatched all night—provided the Terps’ fourth and fifth points.

But the most telling play might have been Maryland guard Mike Jones’ plucking a rebound off the top of Davidson’s head before finding teammate Chris McCray,, who was fouled by Johnson.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski was careful not to chalk up any of the Blue Devils’ struggles to his team’s much-noted lack of depth. Instead, the coach placed blame on his players for getting into foul trouble.

And although the five fouls the injured Reggie Love could have contributed underneath might have kept Williams and Randolph in the game longer, the two big men must keep themselves out of foul trouble.

Randolph did draw one of the tougher defensive assignments—following the big and versatile Caner-Medley around the court all night (or the 11 minutes Randolph actually played). But he can make no excuses for picking up two fouls in four —

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mitting his third foul immediately after reentering the game later in the half.

Williams, despite a great game statistically and playing well while he was in foul trouble, took a step back Saturday. It was

the first time since Duke’s win over PrinceJan. 5 that the junior forward committed four or more fouls in a game, and it was his first disqualification since last year’s Final Four.

Duke has known since the start of the season that it would need Williams and Randolph to avoid foul trouble and play a lot of minutes to compensate for a roster that has only two true big men. In overtime against the Terps, the Blue Devils faced their worst case scenario. ton

Unfortunately, Duke’s nightmare overtime overshadowed a night in which the team did so many things well, especially on offense. Ewing played one of his best games of the season, scoring 23 points, and Duke was able to mix drives to the basket, longrange shots and Williams’ inside dominance on its way to 88 points during regulation.

Duke’s offensive success and secondhalfeffort that Coach K went out of his way to praise just made the hellish overtime period tougher, as the Blue Devils found a new and frustrating way that ACC foes could beat them.

“It’s once in a blue moon that five guys foul out,” Redick said. “This league will take you prisoner and make you stay awhile.”

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RANDOLPH Duke's second big man picked up five fouls in just 11 minutes and had three by the end of the first half. He got his first two within four seconds of each other.

WILLIAMS Williams picked up two offensive fouls in the first half that sent him to the bench.

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made it to OT—on the bench Throughout the overtime period, the Blue Devils were resolved to drive to the basket even though everyone in the building knew Redick’s threes were Duke’s best remaining weapon. Without Williams to distract attention, the slashing Blue Devils were routinely stuffed before getting to the basket.

“I’m exhausted, but I’m so happy and overwhelmed that I can’t describe it. I left it all on the floor,” Maryland point guard John Gilchrist said. “Any opportunity that I saw, I tried to seize the moment.”

Gilchrist had a chance to win the game at the end of regulation, but his shot in the lane on an isolation play missed the mark. The rebound landed in the hands of Nik Caner-Medley, whose fade-away at the buzzer hit the rim twice before bouncing off.

Duke led by nine with 10 minutes left in the half and then again by four with just 1:36 remaining after Dockery drained an open three. Melchionni then fouled Gilchrist, who still muscled in the layup and hit the ensuing free throw.

Redick missed a trifecta, and the Terps came down to get another and-one when Ekene Ibekwe put in a rebound waiting for him on the rim andWilliams picked up his fifth foul.

With Duke down 88-66, Ewing penetrat-

ed into the lane and fed Nelson, who cut in from the comer for two to set up Maryland’s failed final possession.

“There were a couple of key moments during the game where I felt if we would have gotten a few key stops or a bucket we could have pulled away,” Redick said.

“Give them credit, they had a great effort.

They really fed offof their crowd’s energy.”

Ewing, Redick and Williams all scored more than 20 points, but before Williams fouled out the Blue Devils focused on getting the ball down to their big man. With Randolph already disqualified after playing just 11 minutes, Williams was Duke’s only post presence, but Maryland still could not block him out. He grabbed four rebounds and scored five points as Duke clung to its lead in the final five minutes.

Mike Jones, who helped McCray chase Redick around the perimeter and through screens all night, almost singlehandedly brought Maryland back starting at the 8:26 mark. The sophomore scored eight consecutive points to cut Duke’s lead from nine to one in 90 seconds.

“With the team we had, nine points doesn’t seem too difficult to overcome,” Jones said. “I didn’t really realize what was going on and that I scored all eight points.

I just knew whenever I had a smaller guy on me to take advantage of it.”

Neither team had more than 11 turnovers in a game that, aside from Duke’s 31 fouls, was played cleanly from the start. Matched up against each other,

Gilchrist and Ewing opened the game on a tear, scoring 10 and seven points, respectively, in the first five minutes.

“We were both just trying to make plays for our team and start off strong,” Ewing said. “I made some plays* early to get us going.”

Dockery then began guarding Gilchrist, who scored only nine more points but came within an assist of & triple-double.

By halftime Maryland led 4843, but Ewing, Randolph and Williams each had at least two fouls. Redick would quickly give Duke its first lead since midway through the first half when he hit two quick threes on the team’s first four second-half possessions. The Blue Devils scored the first 11 points of the second half.

Many of Duke’s fouls' came off loose balls, especially going after defensive rebounds. Led by Travis Garrison, who scored 17 points to go along with 11 boards, the Terps outrebounded Duke 5041.

“It was a tough loss for us,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I thought our kids played their hearts out, especially in the second half and overtime.

“It was a disruptive game for us.”

NOTES: If Gilchrist had dished out one more assist, he would have earned the first Maryland triple-double in more than 18 years....

Redick shot just 5-for-19 from the field but still had his 16th 20-plus point performance of the season. The junior was on the court

balls. His final hack was inconsequential as the game was already decided late in the overtime period. all 45 minutes and has played a complete game in three of Duke’s last four contests.

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Monique Currie was playing through pain, Chante Black was bringing the pain

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Freshman center Black dominated the glass in the second half she grabbed nine reas oame bounds, including five offensive boards. Her analysis presence allowed Duke to get second and third looks at the basket that eventually wore down the Maryland defense.

“If we could keep them off the glass and if we could become more aggressive on the glass, I thought that would be the difference in the game,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “We made a commitment to rebounding in the second half.”

Black also contributed to the Blue Devils’ defensive effort with a career-high four blocks. Sophomore Alison Bales rejected five balls as Duke’s daunting post defense forced the Terrapins to routinely setde for contested perimeter shots. As a result, Maryland shot 34 percent for the game, the team’s second-lowest percentage of the year.

“I think a lot of times we were just rushed,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. “We needed to be more fluid with what we were doing in terms of working the ball and a lot more movement on the offensive end.”

The Blue Devils’ static offense also seemed to lack purpose as Duke went through several scoreless stretches. The team did not score for the first five minutes of the second half and had a similar drought midway through the first period.

Duke shot 35.1 percent for the game, well below its season average of 45 percent.

The Blue Devils’ offensive deficiency was pardy because Currie, slowed by a stress fracture in her left foot, had scored only five points with two minutes remaining in the game. Despite her struggles, Goestenkors said that Currie’s presence still made a difference.

“She demands attention—the best defensive player is going to be on Monique, and if she gets the ball people are loolting to double-team her,” Goestenkors said.

“She can change the game just with her presence on the floor.” to

MONIQUE WITH

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How do you feel playing in front

of the home crowd?

It's always fun to come home. Obviously, it was a struggle, but Maryland has always been home to me, so it's exciting.

How do you feel about being among the finalists for National Player of the Year?

It's definitely an honor. I'm just trying to focus on continuing to win as a team.

You struggled with your shot tonight. Was it your foot, or something that [Maryland] was doing

defensively?

I really don't have any excuses. They did a great job. France was face-guarding me a lot of the time, and a lot of my shots were deflected, so I guess it was a combination of great defense and not being balanced.

How is your foot?

It's all right for what it is. It's pretty uncomfortable playing, but I'll deal with it.

FLORIDA ST. 71-WAKE 69 Holly Johnson's jumper with three seconds remaining capped a dramatic comeback in the final four minutes as No. 24 Florida State rallied for a 71-69 ACC victory over Wake Forest (13-10,2-8 in the ACC).

The Seminoles (21-5,7-4) ended the game with a 14-2 spurt'after trailing 67-57 with 3:43 remaining. (AP)

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can step up and shoot the ball. They all have a tremendous role on their team, and they did a tremendous job with it tonight.”

Doron, the Terps’ leading scorer, brought in 18 points, but Maryland’s offense was not evenly distributed. The Terps’ bench contributed only two points, as Doron and Kalika France carried the team. France, the only other Terp to score in double-digits, netted 13 points.

In a clean game with few free throw opportunities, the Blue Devils made their chances at the line count, while inaccuracy hurt the Terrapins. Duke sank 15-of-19 at the stripe, and Maryland made only 1of-6 free throws.

“I’ve never seen us be so passive,” Frese said. “But a lot of that is the physicalness of Duke.”

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Senior forward Wynter Whidey also added 11 points off the bench, something Maryland coaches did not expect. Frese said she was willing to let Whidey shoot while double-teaming other Duke options.

Over the last six games, Duke has averaged 61.7 points per game after coming into this stretch averaging more than 80 points per contest. Granted, the Blue Devils have played better defensive teams as of late, but problems remain. Mistie Williams, a dominant post presence earlier this season, has averaged just five points and five rebounds

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rebounds per game over the last three contests. When Duke sees even stronger competition in NCAAs, Williams will have to reassert herself as the go-to post player.

With five ofits previous six games against ranked opponents, Duke has escaped its toughest stretch of the season with a 5-1 record despite an injury to its All-American and difficulties on offense. The Blue Devils’ inside presence on both ends of the floor has kept them afloat, but the team must get its offense in order to have a chance at a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.

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Tasha Humphrey scored 25 points, and Cori Chambers added 22 to lead No. 18 Georgia (20-6) to an 88-60 win over Clemson (7-16) Sunday.

Humphrey, a freshman, also had 11 rebounds for her 11th double-double of the season, tops in the Southeastern Conference. (AP)

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NOTES: Black posted a career-high four blocks.... Jessica Foley had a season-high eight assists.... Duke currendy sits atop the conference with a 9-1 ACC record.

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Blue Devils take lopsided bout From staff reports The Duke wrestling team (64) defeated Gardner-Webb 364 Saturday, ending the team’s two-match losing streak.

Coming off defeats at the hands ofNorth Carolina and UNGCreensboro, the Blue Dev-36 Us won 9-of-10 individual matchDUKE es, including pins by Frank CorG-W -4 nely and Mark Thompson, in their most lopsided of the season Saturday.

The Blue Devils jumped out to an early lead, winning the first three matches to take a 9-0 advantage. Freshman Kellan McKeon defeated Jon Neal 3-0 in the opening bout at 125 pounds. Bryan Gibson, at 133 pounds, won 7-2, and at 141 pounds, Wes Kuser won for the first time in three

matches with a 7-6 decision.

Dan Shvartsman lost a 25-10 technical fall to Daniel Elliot in the 149-pound weight class for Duke’s only loss of the night, but the Blue Devils rebounded quickly with a 9-4 win by Zach Weisberg at 154 pounds. Steve Smith then captured an 8-7 victory, and Levi Craig won 6-0 to push Duke’s lead to 18-4.

Two pins by Comely and Thompson and a Gardner-Webb forfeit in the heavyweight division sealed the win.

Duke wresdes Campbell and Duquense Tuesday before a matchup with Virginia in Charlottesville Friday night.

Last year the Blue Devils fell behind the Cavaliers 14-0 before staging a comeback and eventually winning 21-17.

Breaking their two-match losing streak, the Blue Devils took alt but one individual bout against Gardner-WebbSaturday.

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Peter Rodrigues, Peter Shults and Charles Brezac outplayed their opponents and won in straight sets. . Stephen Amritraj suffered the only loss of the match, dropping his third consecutive singles contest. Lapidus attributed Amritraj’s recent woes to a combination of tough matchups with players that hit strong passing shots and his junior’s dependency on his serve.

“Stephen always brings a lot of energy out, and he’s going to keep working,” Rodrigues said. “The wins will

race and as anchor in the Feb. 6 4xBoo-meter win were not expected by the coaching staff at the start of the season. The graduate student had surgery on both of her feet last summer and was not expected to be able to compete this early in the year.

“Made returning is big news for the women’s team,” Ogilvie said. “She’s only been running for a few weeks and has the potential to get much better.”

Junior Allison Nesbitt posted her personal best in the 55-meter hurdles with a dme of 8.11 seconds in the semifinals. Nesbitt’s time was only a hundredth of a second off of the Duke record.

“She certainly has some ability to score some points at the ACC meet this weekend if all goes well,” Ogilvie said.

Nick Schneider defeated all of the ACC competidon in the 3000-meter run, finishing second to Georgia’s lan Burrell with a dme of 18:17:71. Schneider, who had the flu three weeks ago and has only competed in one other meet this season, wanted to get more race experience prior to the ACC Championships.

Freshman Jon Brockhart posted a strong time of 1:05.75 in the 500-meter dash to earn fourth place.

Brockhart was only 0.07 seconds slower than the thirdplace finisher, who ran in a faster heat. Joining fellow freshman Peter Lewellen, Brockhart qualified for the IC4A eastern championships in the 500-meter dash.

Rounding out the top men’s performances was the 4xBoo-meter relay team, which again posted a strong finish this weekend—this dme with a different lineup. lan Cronin, Tommy Colven, Chris Spooner and Cameron Bell ran to a third place finish in 7:44.02, five seconds faster than last week’s dme.

come.”

The Blue Devils entered the match 7-5 in doubles, but Lapidus decided to mix up two of his teams. For the first time this season, 20041TA Indoor Champions, Walter and Zimmermann, played together during Saturday’s match.

The other new pairing featured Amritraj and Shults, while the team of Rodrigues and Stokke remained intact.

The changes worked, as the Blue Devils swept the Volunteers 3-0 to secure the doubles point.

“We didn’tfeel like our No. 2, Stephen and Jason, were all that comfortable. Their styles weren’t really meshing that well together,” Lapidus said of the team he decided to split. “A bunch of guys came to me and said that we maybe needed to make a change, so we’ve been practicing different combinations.”

The Blue Devils travel next to the ITA Indoor Championships, which begin Thursday, where they will face the nation’s other elite teams before beginning ACC play March 2.

“I feel like we’re ready,” Lapidus said. “I feel like we’re playing well. Everyone there is good—it’s going to be a tough tournament.”

Jason

Charles Brezac easily defeated Kaden Hansel 6-4,6-2 in the No. 6 singles slot Saturday aftemoon.The Blue Devils lost just one singles match.

BASEBALL from page 2 Devil victory. Burke pitched four innings and gave up no earned runs as he picked up his second win of the season.

Murray struck again from the plate in Saturday’s game, going 4-for-4 with two RBIs. With the score tied at two, Murray scored the go-ahead run in the third inning to give the Blue Devils a lead they would maintain until the end.

Although Duke has improved at the plate since last weekend, defense continues to be a sore spot for the Blue Devils. In Friday’s game, Duke committed four errors, allowing UMES six unearned runs—a problem Hillier hopes will improve with time.

“The more we play, the better we’ll get,” Hillier said of his defense. ‘You just have to get a lot ofrepetitions in.”

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competitions, beating UNC, Air Force and Johns Hopkins, but losing to Notre Dame 16-11.

Marilyn Tycer fenced to a 10-2 record in foil bouts and sophomore All-American Ibtihaj Muhammad had perfect 3-0 records against the Tar Heels and Johns Hopkins in saber. All-American Anne Kercsmar and Dorothy Hubbard led the epee squad to a series of 8-1 wins.

“I think everyone was just more consistent today than on other days,” captain Jaimie West said. “We all really like fencing here because it’s our home meet. It’s nicer to be at home.”

In a tighdy contested match on the men’s side, Duke earned 5-4 victories in the epee and foil weapons to down the Tar Heels 14-13. Senior captain Nathan Bragg and freshman Zachary Moss led the epee squad with 2-1 records.

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ate student fellowships and better financial aid packages for all students in order to bring a more diverse student body to campus. “We also need to invest in our faculty’s recruitment and retention, as well as develop strategies to encourage the intellectual development of undergraduate and graduate life outside the classroom,” Klein said.

He said graduate students play an integral role in enhancing the University’s intellectual vitality through structured interaction between Trinity College and the graduate and professional schools.

“I want to elevate the Board’s appreciation for the critical role that graduate and professional students can play in the missions of the University,” Klein said. “I believe that once the Board’s awareness of our value is heightened, many of the perennial issues that graduate students face, such as residential planning, social space, Central Campus renovations and improved financial aid packages, will then be better addressed.”

This kind of synergistic approach is characteristic of Klein’s platform, which also includes further internal and external integration of the Health System. Klein hopes to better align Duke’s clinical information systems, patient care and quality standards to serve the community.

Duke’s development of a signature interdisciplinary program is of premier importance to Klein. Citing the rising cost of the Duke educational experience, Klein said it is important for the administration to look at new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration both internally and with other institutions.

Klein has taken his own advice to heart—far from restricting himself to an ivory tower, he has explored the private sector and has ambitious plans to apply his medical and law degrees to a career in health care venture capital.

“I think his best quality is his leadership and the fact that he always takes initiative,” said Karen Joynt, one of Klein’s medical school classmates. “He showed us all what it was like to cheer for Duke.”

Duke has always been Klein’s first choice. “When I set foot on campus during a high school visit, I knew instandy that Duke was the place I wanted to be,” Klein said. “Of course, I didn’t know I was going to be here for 10 years and two degrees, but the University has really become a home.”

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let Saddam Hussein’s government sell limited amounts of oil in exchange for humanitarian goods as an exemption from post-Gulf War sanctions imposed in 1991.

Faced with a $64 billion program involving multiple U.N. agencies, the small team of auditors assigned to monitor it were overmatched and underfunded. For other programs, Volcker’s investigators said, the United Nations mandated one auditor for every $lOO million in funding. At that ratio, the oil-for-food program managers should have expected more than 160 auditors, because the program’s budget totaled about $l6 billion in 2000.

Instead, in 2001, they had only five, according to Volcker’s report.

Volcker’s report said structural problems within the U.N. audit system undermined auditors’ authority. In many cases, auditors were forced to seek funding from the budgets of the programs they sought to monitor, giving the managers an implicit veto which Sevan exercised.

A little-noticed portion of Volcker’s report details how Sevan steered auditors away from his office and its regulation of the oil and humanitarian goods contracts that allegedly were the source for a massive kickback scheme run by Saddam’s government, which investigators estimate brought in between $1.9 billion and $2.9 billion.

In April 2001, the head of the five-member U.N. auditing team, Esther Stern, wrote to Sevan requesting funds for an outside accountant to evaluate the management of the main oil-for-food office he ran at U.N. headquarters in New York, according to Volcker’s report.

Because the auditors’ own resources were insufficient for the $70,000 fee to the accountant Arthur Andersen—by protocol—they needed Sevan’s approval.

He declined.

After considering the matter for a month, Sevan responded to the letter, saying that because of uncertainty about how much longer the oil-for-food program would

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continue, he could not justify the expense. About the same time, Sevan and his team moved into a new office at a cost of more than $3 million.

After that exchange, the auditors, following the advice of Sevan’s office, used their resources to review programs inside Iraq, the auditors told investigators in interviews.

“There were other instances where they were dissuaded from looking at the main office,” said Mark Pieth, one of the two other committee members on Volcker’s investigative panel and an expert on money laundering. “The problem we see is that there was no independent institution that regulated audits across the U.N. and could step in when these instances occurred.”

Investigators told the AP they have no evidence Sevan’s office coerced auditors to look the other way but instead steered them to other work outside his office.

“They were influenced in some cases, but whether they were influenced for nefarious purposes is another question” Volcker said. “They could always say, don’t bother with us, your priority is to go investigate in Baghdad. The underlying problem was that the auditing force was so small, was so in demand and did not have strong enough reporting lines to overcome any

problems.”

Investigators suggested that if Sevan’s office would have been audited alleged abuses of the oil-for-food program would have almost certainly been uncovered.

“There are some features of the contracts, that had they been audited, it could have brought the whole scheme into question,” an official close to the investigation said on condition of anonymity.

The U.N. audit team did carry out more than 50 audits of U.N. agencies, which spent Iraqi oil revenues under oil-for-food or the U.N. Compensation Commission that was established to make payments to countries, businesses or individuals harmed by Iraq’s 1990 invasion ofKuwait. The audits, which Volcker released last month, uncovered extensive mismanagement by the agencies of multimilliondollar deals with contractors and fraudulent paperwork by its employees.

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Farris said the most important factor in the Board’s decision was the current state of the economy, especially given that the system has raised tuition more in the past seven years than ever before.

Members of the Board surveyed the system’s campuses since December to find out whether the increase was feasible, and despite proposals from 15 of the schools searching for a new funding flow, the multiple Boards of Trustees and government wrangling cluttered the

potential change.

Easley has pledged to take into ac-

count the financial needs of some of the

campuses in his budget recommendations to the state legislature, but any decision on state funding will not be reached until July.

“The process is more complicated here than at Duke, because we have not only trustees but also a Board of Governors, which is more similar to Duke’s trustees,”

GRAMMYS from page 5 “I plan to celebrate and scream and pop champagne every chance I get because

I’M AT THE GRAMMYS BABY!” He also referenced his American Music Awards embarrassment. “Everybody wanted to know what would I do if I didn’t win. I guess we’ll never know,” he said, holding his trophy up high.

At least West didn’t have to wait decades to get a trophy, as did some veterans finally honored by the Recording Academy.

Steve Earle’s left-leaning “The Revolu-

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Despite Easley’s warning that a tuition

hike for locals would not “maintain the goodwill of the people,” Farris held that the Board of Governors still had the final call. “I think many followed his view, but the Board members already wanted this action to be taken,” he said.

An increase for out-of-state students, however, remains a distinct possibility.

There have been debates as to whether it would be fair to raise tuition for out-ofstate students so soon after freezing the hike on North Carolinians, but talks will resume in March.

“If I were a betting man,” Williams said, “I would bet for a tuition hike for out-of-state students.”

Farris pointed to the taxes in-state students’ families pay to North Carolina as reason enough for an out-of-state hike.

He added that any imbalance between two pools of students might not make for a noticeable gap, though Moeser and Wegner called for a re-thinking of the delicate situation. tion Starts...Now” won for contemporary folk album. And Rod Stewart—who had complained in recent years about never winning a Grammy—won for traditional pop vocal album for his standards recording “Stardust...The GreatAmerican Songbook Vol. III.” Brian Wilson, who released his album “Smile” after a more than three-decade wait, won best rock instrumental performance for “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow.” He had never been honored before, even as leader of The Beach Boys. The big irony: the man who did more for vocal harmony than anyone in rock ’n’ roll won in an instrumental category.

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Several Cabinet ministers said they have received threatening letters in recent days, and last week Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had his tires slashed and slurs shouted at him while attending a wedding.

Netanyahu, a former prime minister, was targeted just days after Education Minister Limor Livnat was whisked away from an event where she was screamed at by hard-line Jews.

Meir Sheetrit, one of the ministers who received a threatening letter, said every step should be taken to punish those behind the threats.

“It sets off a warning light, and we should take tangible steps before there is another political murder,” he said.

Cabinet minister Binyamin BenEliezer presented the ministers a copy of a letter he received. The letter described the Iraqi-born Ben-Eliezer as “the epitome of evil, a miserable Iraqi, a Nazi with Arab blood. You love Arabs more than Jews.”

Ben-Eliezer then said to the ministers: “I am telling you: They will try to kill the prime minister,” according to the Haaretz daily.

Sharon was outraged.

“I am shocked by this savagery. We need to take immediate practical steps,” Sharon was quoted as saying before ordering police, legal authorities and security commanders to take action.

At Sunday’s meeting, the Cabinet approved the release of 500 Palestinian prisoners in the near future, one of a series of agreements reached at last week’s

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With all the articles about the horrors of “catering to minorities” at Duke, how many minorities were responsible for theviolent rampage after the UNC game?

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Mideast summit in Egypt, Israel will also allow several dozen Palestinian militants who were expelled from the West Bank to return to their homes and gradually hand five West Bank towns to Palestinian control.

Senior commanders from both sides met late Sunday to coordinate the handoverof Jericho, the first town to be turned over. Army Radio reported that the handover would take place in about 48 hours.

In line with the summit agreements, Israel will release another 400 Palestinian prisoners within three months.

The Palestinian prisoners to be freed constitute only a small fraction of the estimated 8,000 in Israeli jails. Palestinians are demanding that all be freed, while Israeli officials insist that with few exceptions, prisoners with “blood on their hands” cannot be considered for release.

Several hundred Palestinian workers from Gaza returned Sunday to jobs in Israel under the summit agreements. Before the outbreak of fighting more than four years ago, more than 100,000 Palestinians worked in Israel.

Also, the Israeli army said the bodies of 15 Palestinians killed last year during attacks on Israeli settlements and army bases in the Gaza Strip would be handed over Monday to Palestinian authorities in Gaza for burial.

Palestinian officials said on condition of anonymity that the new Cabinet would include Brig. Gen. Nasser Yousef, a military official; Mohammed Dahlan; and possibly Nasser al-Kidwa, the current Palestinian envoy to the United Nations and Arafat’s nephew, as the new foreign minister.

The current foreign minister, Nabil Shaath, would be shifted to another Cabinet position, the officials said.

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The responsibility in controlling ketball matchups with heated rivals are a long-standing tradi- the bonfire does not fall entirely on tion at Duke. They are one of the few the shoulders of the students. Altimes when students come together though the bonfire rules were printed in an advertising in on the Main Quad, StflfffiultOl 13 1 The Chronicle, they and for many they were not well publiare one of the most memorable college experiences. cized. It is not reasonable to assume that all of the students involved in the After the UNC game bonfire, howevbonfire read and remembered all of er, students may lose one of their fathe stipulations of the permit. It is also vorite Duke pastimes.

The Durham County fire marshal the responsibility of the administrarevoked Duke’s bonfire permit tion and fire officials to make students Wednesday, and firemen extin- aware of the rules and prevent people from breaking them. It would have guished the blaze after only 45 minbeen useful for administrators in the utes. Since students violated the conditions of the last permit, it is possible quad to have bullhorns so they could communicate better with the crowds. that Duke will not have a bonfire perBonfires are too valuable as a trantit for this Sunday’s game against Wake Forest University or any basketdition for Duke to lose them. They ball games in the future. are fun events that serve the rare function of bringing students togethThis is not the first time the University has had its permit revoked. In er. There are, however, recognizable 2001 students started an unsanctioned safety concerns, and the University should do all it can to create a fun fire following a game against the Uniand safe environment. Permits are a versity of Maryland and the UNC bonfire permit was temporarily rescinded. necessary part of ensuring bonfires The fire marshal has the right to safety because they offer structure take away Duke’s bonfire permits and regulation.

Another aspect important to mainsince students failed to adhere to the taining safety is behavior of the stuprovisions set by the permit. The University, however, should do whatever dents. It is possible for students have it can to keep Sunday’s permit intact. to fun at the bonfires without getting College students, particularly too rowdy and causing a dangerous those who are intoxicated—either situation. If there is a bonfire Sunday, from beer and from the thrill of just students need to realize that the winning an exciting basketball preservation of the bonfire tradition game—are subject to mob mentality depends on their actions.

Bonfire permits are the best way for and are likely to celebrate, perhaps with a bonfire, whether Duke has a the University to maintain order folpermit or not. Although we do not lowing basketball games that students have reason to celebrate. It is everycondone this type of delinquent behavior, it is better for there to be a one’s responsibility —students and administrators—to make sure that bonwell-regulated bonfire than a spontaneous, and potentially dangerous, fires stay a fun, safe Duke tradition. „

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Head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski on the 99-92 overtime loss to Maryland. See story, page 1.

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to a quivering heap. Fortunately, Roy’s chokeTOMMY SEABASS’s last column was not very popular in certain cirjob didn’t matter, as Wojciechowski stopped his cles of the Duke community. TOMMY pursuit after spotting a half-empty bottle of his SEABASS does not understand why there was Grandpa’s cough medicine in die grass.

Relieved, TOMMY SEABASS went home outrage from here to Bombay, though, as the and rested up for the big game. Everything column was intended to be helpful. The questions were clearly labeled ones NOT to ask went well, and he was able to secure a quality fourth-row seat directly below Coach K at Tuesday’s Q&A, the Crazy Towel Guy’s mail and TOMMY SEABASS was order bride.

TOMMY proud to see that none were SEABASS thought the highasked. TOMMY SEABASS is Jii light of the game was the remore than willing to take heat turn of Speedo Guy. He hadn’t if it means saving 10 of his fellow Crazies from public huseen that much hair on one person since the last full miliation moon, when walk-on Ross TOMMY so, Even seabass tommy Perkins, a.k.a. “The Mammal” SEABASS hadn’t seen such monday, monday as nicknamed by his teambloodlust on campus since the mates, turned into a perversely Physics Professor who feeds the cats was nearly tom to shreds after running nymphomaniacal werewolf. out of Meow Mix two years ago. In particular, (You probably think TOMMY SEABASS is message boards were abuzz with homers spout- joking. If you don’t believe him, do a Google search for “Karen Dior’s Mammal”.) ing threats against TOMMY SEABASS. TOMMY SEABASS was cheering wildly The outrage over last week’s column actually put TOMMY SEABASS’s life in jeop- and sweating profusely at the game; he needardy. Last Tuesday, TOMMY SEABASS was ed some A.C. This was actually TOMMY grabbing another bottle of Olde English SEABASS’s first game of the season, and he when he noticed that a note had been stuck was glad to see one of the cheerleaders got a underneath it. new pair of shoes.

After the suspenseful Duke victory, “Mr. SEABASS,” it said, “I can protect you.

Meet me in the woods behind the Dean TOMMY SEABASS rushed out toahe quad and attempted to uproot the $40,000 Spanish Dome. —A friend” TOMMY SEABASS was conflicted about benches planted around campus.

“Hell yeah Seabass, get that Euro-trash out turning to a Tar Heel for help, but he realized that desperate times call for desperate of here,” one particularly inspired onlooker measures. Rather nervous, TOMMY shouted as TOMMYSEABASS cocked his axe.

“Hold up there sport,” said a goofy yet faSEABASS took the Robertson bus to miliar voice. It was President Brodhead. ‘You Chapel Hill and walked towards the rendezvous point. can’t destroy those. They’re going to be my TOMMY SEABASS realized he had been legacy here. I’ve ordered five more for my led into a trap immediately upon arrival. $BOO,OOO rec room. Boy, how about that Sean May?” added the jovial President, “He must Standing before him was Steve Wojciechowski, holding a chained leash attached to a be on the ‘Fatkins’ Diet. Hahaha.” snarling silver fox. TOMMY SEABASS turned “Whatever,” said a disappointed TOMMY to run, but Wojo’s minion was quickly upon SEABASS. Brodhead’s obstruction turned out to be him. The silver fox gnawed at his ankle for a few seconds, but TOMMY SEABASS kicked inconsequential. The fire department ended him aside and sprinted toward the Dome. up rushing onto the quad a few minutes after Upon entering the arena, TOMMY the fire started and turned hoses onto it and SEABASS was relieved to find UNC coach the crowd. As TOMMYSEABASS watched the Roy Williams. spraying, he was delighted to see it quickly “Coach, you gotta help me!,” said TOMMY turn into the first annual Duke wet T-shirt SEABASS. contest. However, the buxom winner was not “Well, shucks, SEABASS, I liked that dang a beautiful blonde, but the “Number 1 Fan” ol’ column ofyours so much, I reckon I could and DSG president Pasha Majdi. Disgusted, he turned away from the ashes and headed help you.”

“Thanks Coach, this really means a lot to back to his dorm. me,” replied TOMMY SEABASS. That stateTOMMY SEABASS wonders how much longer ment actually proved to be a near-fatal mistake on TOMMY SEABASS’s part, for once Roy-Will the Mcßib will be around. The date of its departure realized the gravity of the situation, equivalent is supposed to be kept secret, so please keep this into that of, say, a late-round NCAA Tournament formation out of the hands of Head Line Monitor game, Roy’s knees buckledand he was reduced Steve Rawson.

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Trees on quad could not burn I arose last Thursday morning with much joy in my heart following the epic basketball

win over the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This merriment was soon doused with the wet news that the celebratory bonfire was cut short. While I cannot dispute whether various strictures were violated, I do take issue with the misplaced fear that encouraged the call to the fire department.

The Chronicle cites Leonora Minai as stating that officials feared the fire would burn the trees. This apprehension, must be allayed for the sake of future bonfires.

According to a fire ecologist at the Yale School ofForestry and Environmental Stud-

ies, it is nearly impossible for an oak tree, barren of leaves—as those currently lining the quads have been reported—to burn from such a fire.

The fire would most likely not effect the tree at all and at most and least it would kill the tree. The concern for Duke’s trees is admirable, but a greater degree of knowledge pertaining to fire and its effects on the genus “Quercus” would be advisable to prevent future misconceptions.

Kevin Ogorzalek Trinity ’O4 Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

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breadth of knowledge about how Duke works and similar access to high-level university officials,” there exist important differences. Vitarelli is the consummate policymaker whose love for Duke and passion for residential life shine through his glasses and quirky persona.

“Duke has been the most formative experience of my life,” he said. “I want to give back and make a difference.”

Vitarelli’s strength lies in his broad perspective—putting Duke in context with national university trends—and in his keen understanding that “function follows form” when it comes to academic and residential spaces.

If Vitarelli is the politician of the group, then Bigelow is the artist. Bigelow, a selfdescribed “glass half-empty kind of person,” quietly revolutionized the Duke University Union during his tenure as president. His focus-on-the-weaknesses leadership style has transferred beyond the Union’s programming to all sectors of the University, noting gaps in his own kurian Duke experience.

“I was significantly impaired entering is mightier my Duke education. That’s not anyone’s fault, but we don’t do a good enough Job of differentiation [in advising],” he said. “I started taking risks, but you can’t make students take risks.” While Bigelow stresses the importance of nurturing less sexy academic pursuits like Germanicand classical studies, he understands the “huge potential” of the Central Campus renovation and the Medical Center for our larger communities.

Wisnewski’s approach is more colloquial than his counterparts. While he cites his “aggressive enthusiasm” as his most outstanding quality, Duke has helped him grow “competent in [his] confidence.” With strong faith in the University’s mission and fearlessness in asking questions, Wisnewski believes his experience as YTNC chair, in DSC, and in the community makes him distinctly qualified for the position.

“Duke is unique in its success as a young institution in the South,” he said, “but we must take a more proactive role in everything we do.”

Who should receive the honor?As a North Carolina citizen from rural Lumberton, Jonathan “Deuce” Bigelow is uniquely suited for the role of Young Trustee. His first interaction with Duke brought him to the Medical Center, where he familiarized himself with its structure and challenges as a patient. While not as good off-the-cuff as Vitarelli or Wisnewski, Bigelow brings a rare thoughtfulness to the table. He listens well, speaks only when necessary, and does not couch his comments in vague generalities. Furthermore, he is unapologetic about directing constructive criticism toward the University he loves.

These traits will serve him well in the high-powered environment of the Board ofTrustees.

“We have a lot of maturing to do as a university,” he said. And with the great power of the Young Trustee’s post, Vitarelli, Bigelow or Wisnewski will have a lot of maturing to do in responsibility.

most seniors, this Valentine’s Day signals the end of a passionate love affair with the University. For one, however, this week will mark the beginning of a new chapter in an enduring romance with Duke: He will begin his post-graduate journey as our next Young Trustee.

What is the Young Trustee?The highest honor Duke can bestow upon an undergraduate, the role ofYoung Trustee is a privilege given to the student body. In his 1977 memorandum, former Duke President Terry Sanford oudined the rationale behind selecting a Young Trustee: “The reason for including students on the Board of Trustees was quite different from representation. The desire was to get younger members on the Board... whose viewpoint, close to the students, would be a valuable addition.”

Like anyone in a trust position, the Young Trustee cannot be a representative of the student body or any other constituency, but rather—in the interests of the entire institution—s/he would be a gate-keeper whose dose-to-college perspective could add new dimension to the the pen Board’s deliberations Why all this fuss about it? Most student governance bodies at Duke have little direct influence on the direction of university policymaking. While these organizations play a significant role in student lives, they make recommendations that are often accepted, but not required to be heeded, by the administration.

The Young Trustee is entirely different. Duke entrusts in this position the power to serve on the Board of Trustees for a three-year term-alongside the likes of Peter Nicholas, David Gergen and Dan Blue. The Young Trustee has thus been given a tremendously influential role at the highest level of decision-making in the University.

How is the Young Trustee selected? Chaired by DSC VicePresident for Community Interaction Joel Kliksberg, the Young Trustee Nominating Committee had the unenviable job of narrowing the field of initial applicants (including myself) down to eight semifinalists, and then after a round ofinterviews whittling the elite eight to three.

The YTNC consists of the Honor Council chair, the Student OrganizationsFinance Committee chair, a Community Service Center co-director, and the presidents of East Campus Council, BSA, ASA, Mi Gente, Diya, MSA, Freeman Center/Hillel, Duke University Union, Campus Council, IFC, Panhel, NPHC and AQUADuke. A student representative to a Board ofTrustees committee is also invited to serve on the YTNC. At the DSG meeting this Wednesday, the Senate and the YTNC will choose one finalist via secret ballot to be our next Young Trustee.

What are the finalists like? When I think of the Young Trustee, I think of the very best that Duke has to offer, its unparalleled commitment to undergraduates, and a passion for truth that motivates the entire educational enterprise. Anthony Vitarelli, Jonathan Bigelow and Andrew Wisnewski are all exemplars of these virtues—and people I have the privilege to call friends.

While Kliksberg describes the candidates as equally “charismatic, intelligent student leaders with a wide

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have nothing to say about romance, so if that was reason you began reading, stop. I do have something to say about raucous parties off East Campus, which have gathered such infamy of late. President Brodhead take note. I have chronicled the decline of Duke social life since the late-’9os. In many ways, my history with Duke is similar to yours with Yale, except I don’t have a distinguished scholarly career or a moustache to show for it. Yet. Many years ago when I was young (i.e. an undergraduate) it used to be that parties off East Campus were always second rate. They happened primarily because older fraternity members living off campus were too lazy to mobilize themselves for an evening out, or for the explicit purpose of dirty rushing freshman candidates in the fall. The fact that parties off East are now considered “ftm” and attract “people” is a damning indictment of social life on campus. When I was a freshman we threw parties in East Campus dorms that would have put any “Old School” reenactment to shame. (Alumni—dare I mention “Downtown Brown?”) And when I was a freshman, upperclassmen threw parties... on West Campus! Real parties, not just a collection of dumb, sweaty crowds sipping “natty-lite” behind closed doors. Furthermore, bill english although there were some the critical theory notable exceptions, the parties of Duke past were, overall, significantly less debauched than the basement bikini oil wrestling shindigs of today. I am not suggesting there was any golden age, but rather that things were and could be much better than they currently are.

Nor am I taking up the banner of hedonism. Rather, I mean to affirm the deep moral and intellectual purposes of a good campus social life. Very little true education takes place in the classroom. In most cases, classes simply introduce one to some raw knowledge, which requires the interest and challenges offriends to refine it into worthwhile understanding. Friendships furthermore, beyond being enlightening, shape us into the kind of people we are and will be. Are there, then, the social conditions for friendship on Duke’s campus? Of course there are, in some respect, on sports teams, in dorms, through various clubs and such. But Duke has little public culture or public space beyond these particular compartmentalized niches in which social life can flourish. One exception is the celebration ofbasketball—an interest in which most of the student body shares. Even it suffers, however, like so many other social occasions, from over regulation by the law and administration (or the administration’s overenthusiastic enforcement of the law). In the past few years, the closing of the student run campus bar, the crackdown on fraternities and the increased red tape associated with organizing campus events have all had the effect of constraining the possibilities of campus life.

One might object that there are plenty of symphonies, string quartets, plays, movies and ’Dillo bands coming through campus. Isn’t that a cultural base? Unfortunately it is not, for attendance at any of these events tends to be occasional and take the form of distracted entertainment.

Perhaps the most overwhelming problem, however, is that Duke students are incredibly busy people and even their group pursuits can have a private character. Incredibly, too, more than a few undergrads have lives as pathetic as mine now and spend Saturday evenings doing homework or writing Chronicle columns. If students do engage in special Valentine’s Day activities today, they are likely to entail some version of “speed dating” or attending that banally awful production, The Vagina Monologues.

For civic friendship to flourish in the Gothic Wonderland is there anything that can be done short of flooding the quad with free beer every Friday? Indeed I hope so, for we are in circumstances so challenging that even alcohol may not help. Perhaps on this Valentine’s Day we should recall that any community is constituted in a fundamental sense by common objects of love. The support ofand sharing in these objects is what characteristically gives purpose and vitality to a society. Can students identify common goods worthy of their efforts and can administrators give them the liberty to pursue them? Or will the basements off East continue to be a sign offrustrated desires?

Bill English is a political science graduate student. His colappears every third Monday.

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