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Minority GPSC names past president to Board enrollment by

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Minority student enrollment at institutions of higher learning increased by more than 50 percent nationwide during the last decade, according to a report released last week by the American Council of Education. Mimicking this national trend, the matriculation of African-American and black, Hispanic and Latino, Asian-American, and Native American students at Duke has increased by 26.5 percent over the last four years alone.

“I think Duke is increasingly viewed nationally as a diverse and welcoming environment for people from many backgrounds,” Christoph Guttentag, director of undergraduate admissions, wrote in an e-mail. “I think we’ll always be interested in a multi-faceted and multi-talented student body.”

From 2000 to 2004, the number of Asian-American high school students enrolling in Duke’s freshman class has increased by 48.6 percent —by far the largest increase of any of the four racial minority groups on campus. AfricanAmerican and black high school students enrolling at Duke increased by nearly 14 percent and Hispanic and Latino high SEE MINORITY ON PAGE 6

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Fifth-year physics graduate student Rob Saunders will serve a two-year term as Young Trustee.

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council named Rob Saunders the new Young Trustee Tuesday night.

A fifth-year physics graduate student and two-time GPSC president, Saunders defeated professional students Justin Klein and Omar Rashid for the prestigious position.

As Young Trustee, Saunders will serve as a member of the Board for two years and will become a voting member during his second year.

“The process has been incredibly humbling, and I have met a lot of very talented people,” Saunders said. “I look forward to working with [senior and fellow Young Trustee] Anthony Vitarelli over the next couple of years, and I hope we can see some very exciting things happen.”

Each candidate presented a five-minute speech followed by ten minutes of questioning from the GPSC General Assembly.

Saunders focused on topics ranging from the future of Central Campus to overall academic growth at the University.

He also mentioned the importance of focusing on current students’ experiences and being receptive to their needs.

Saunders said he is committed to making personal connections with both the undergraduate leaders and faculty.

“I hope to get to know people, keep an ear open and talk to people to find out what the issues are,” he said.

Current GPSC president and fifth-year graduate student in neurobiology Heather Dean said she fully supports Saunders.

Duke Dining Services suffered a setback last week with the sudden departure of ARAMARK Corp.’s top on-site administrator.

Kim Davis, ARAMARK’s resident district manager, told administrators he was leaving ARAMARK, which manages five on-campus vendors: the Marketplace, the Great Hall, Subway, Chick-fil-A and Trinity Cafe. Jim Wulforst, director of dining services, characterized Davis’ departure as a “huge loss” to the dining program. Wulforst had repeatedly voiced his faith in Davis as the man to get ARAMARK’s dining operations to the level of excellence students demand.

“I’ve always felt that with the right leadership, we can make [ARAMARK at Duke] work,” Wulforst said. He added that Davis made strides toward improving the dining program.

The announcement came as a surprise as Davis’ tenure at Duke was a short-lived five months. Davis said only that his decision to leave was a ‘personal choice” and declined to elaborate on the circumstances surrounding his departure.

“I think the relationship between ARAMARK and Duke is going to continue to move forward and I wish everyone here the best of luck,” Davis said.

Wulforst added that he “was shocked” when Davis informed him of his decision and that it was not an institutional move.

Chuck Moyer, ARAMARK’s senior district manager, refused to comment.

Wulforst pointed to the high turnover rate in ARAMARK managers as a “revolving door” of managers that poses an ongoing challenge to the management and impedes progress toward consistency in quality.

Davis’ predecessor had a three-year tenure as resident district manager, but there have been 25 different lower-level managers since the company came to Duke in 2001. Davis’ replacement has not yet been announced.

Wulforst acknowledged a level of student dissatisfaction with ARAMARK that has led to two no-confidence votes from Duke Student Government, one last February and one in November.

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President BRUSSELS, Belgium George W. Bush and French President Jacques Chirac said Monday they had patched up their differences over Iraq as Bush appealed for European unity in helping to spread democracy across the Middle East.

At the same time, Bush prodded Russia to reverse a crackdown on political dissent, suggesting Moscow’s efforts to join the World Trade Organization could hinge on it. He said he would press the point when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin later in the week.

those values are important,” Bush said.

“They’re not only important for people who that live within Russia, they’re important to have good relations with the West.”

He also demanded that Iran end its nuclear ambitions and told Syria to get out ofLebanon.

On the first full day of Bush’s fencemending tour of Europe, Bush and Chirac said they were committed to restoring good relations despite their disagreement over the war in Iraq.

“I’m looking for a good cowboy,” Bush joked when a French reporter asked him

whether relations had improved to the point where the U.S. president would be

inviting Chirac to the U.S. president's ranch in Texas.

Chirac said that U.S.-French relations have been “excellent for over 200 years now.”

“That doesn’t necessarily mean we agree on everything at every time,” Chirac added. The two leaders made the comments before they sat down to dinner.

The two leaders issued ajoint statement calling for passage of a U.N. resolution insisting that Syria withdraw its troops from Lebanon and calling for a full investigation SEE BUSH ON PAGE 8

N. Korea will talk if conditions met Sang-Hun Choe THE ASSOCIATED PRESS by

SEOUL, South Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong II told a visiting Chinese envoy that his government will return to sixparty nuclear disarmament talks if the United States shows “sincerity,” the communist state’s official news agency said Tuesday.

The announcement—the latest in more than two years of conflicting statements over North Korea’s nuclear program—came less than two weeks after Kim flouted Washington and its allies by claiming it had nuclear weapons and would boycott the talks.

“We will go to the negotiating table any-

time if there are mature conditions for the six-party talks thanks to the concerted efforts of the parties concerned in the future,” Kim said Tuesday, expressing the hope that the United States would show “trustworthy sincerity,” according to the Korean Central News Agency.

Kim spoke of his government’s new position over the nuclear issue in a meeting with Wang Jiarui, head of the Chinese Communist Party’s International Department, KCNA said.

Kim also said North Korea “would as ever stand for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and its position to seek a

peaceful solution to the issue through dialogue remains unchanged,” the news

agency said.

KCNA did not elaborate on what conditions Kim cited during his talks with the envoy from China, which is his impoverished country’s only remaining major ally.

In Washington, State Department spokesperson Lou Fintor said U.S. officials were “aware of the report” about Kim’s remarks, and the U.S. position on resuming the six-party talks is well known.

“The United States remains ready to SEE NORTH KOREA ON PAGE 7

newsinbrief Freed prisoners welcomed Palestinians gave a jubilant jwelcome to 500 prisoners freed Monday by Israel as part of a truce, but many complained that uprising leaders were not among those released. Palestinians called for the release of 7,000 more prisoners.

Frail pope resumes activities Three weeks after being rushed to the hospital with breathing problems, Pope John Paul II is resuming his regular activities with no intention of stepping down.The Vatican said he will not preside at his weekly public audience Wednesday,

Malcolm X remembered The Manhattan theater where Malcolm X was assassinated held a commemoration Monday, the 40th anniversary of the civil rights leader's death. The Audubon Ballroom is where the activist was gunned down Feb. 21,1965.

EU to open training office The European Union agreed Monday to open an office in Baghdad to coordinate the training of Iraqi judges, prosecutors and prison guards in a step hailed as a sign

of unprecedented unity over Iraq within the 25-nation bloc. For now, the training of some 700 Iraqis will be held in EU nations.

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Star-studded Vidal play brings Civil War to Duke by

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What do you get when you bring together one ofAmerica’s most notable writers and an elusive Sex and the City star?

Surprisingly enough, it’s a Civil War play in Reynolds Theater.

Starting tonight, actors will present a re-

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hearsal-like performance of Gore Vidal’s latest play, On the March to the Sea. Theater Previews at Duke is sponsoring the production, and Vidal will also participate in several academic events on campus.

Duke lured Vidal with its artistic and academic package. “I didn’t choose to come to Duke, Duke invited me,” he said.

Veteran playwright Vidal said he is “continuously learning from actors and from the live stage.” Driven by his belief that actors are the essential element of a play, Vidal hopes to gauge his play’s impact by watching his actors—including Chris Noth, known for his roles as Mr. Big on Sex

And The City and Detective Mike Logan on Law and Order, and Michael Learned, who played Olivia Walton in The Waltons.

Noth first worked with Vidal in the revival of The Best Man in New York. Other notable actors such as Isabel Keating, Harris Yulin, Richard Easton and Charles During will also join the cast. All of the actors said that Vidal’s reputation as a novelist, screenwriter and political essayist drew them to the project.

Since the two-week stint at Duke is one of the first productions, the actors will be reading from the script without scenery, props or costumes. The responsibility to bring the script to life and interpret each character will be on the actors.

Vidal is the second famous and critically acclaimed thespian to visit Duke this semester. Ariel Dorfman, distinguished professor of literature and Latin American SEE VIDAL ON PAGE 7

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RALEIGH Gov. Mike Easley told the General Assembly Monday night it was time to raise North Carolina's cigarette tax “significantly” and better prepare students and laid-offworkers for a high-tech work force.

In the biennial State of the State address to a joint legislative session in the House chamber—his first since winning a second term in November—Easley also said he would ask lawmakers to increase spending for poor school districts.

Hinting at his plan to reduce a potential budget gap of $1.3 billion next fiscal year, Easley said he would stick to a spending cap and raise the 5-cent-per-pack tax on cigarettes, calling it a health issue.

North Carolina’s tax is the second lowest in the country. He did not say what amount he plans to seek in his budget proposal later this week, but some have pegged the proposal at 50 cents.

“The bad habits of some drive up costs for all. This

change,” Easley said. “The time has come to significandy increase the cigarette tax and reduce teen smoking must

in North Carolina.”

On education, the state Supreme Court's “Leandro” ruling last summer upheld North Carolina’s requirement to provide a “sound basic education” for students, and a Wake County judge says the Legislature must eliminate inequities in schools.

“It is past time that we provide adequate funds to those counties that lack the ability to provide for themselves,” said Easley, who was fighting a scratchy throat due to illness. “Just as we will be judged individually by how we treat the least of our brethren, so shall we be judged as a state.”

In his 30-minute speech, Easley said the two-year budget proposal he would release later this week would increase supplemental spending to low-wealth schools by more than 50 percent. The schools now receive $lO9 million annually.

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Headlining “Celebrating Our Bodies star of television’s The Sopranos, discussed in Page Auditorium last night her batde with an eating disorder and emphasized the importance of creating a positive body image from widiin.

An animated speaker, DiScala combined humor with seriousness to explain how she skyrocketed to fame but almost lost it just as quickly.

“I have a story to tell,” she said.

Despite DiScala’s success at being cast as Meadow Soprano in the HBO series, her self-image was far from positive. She pointed to an unexpected break up with her first serious boyfriend, combined with the stress of beginning her junior year of high school, as triggers that led her to question her body image.

Like many who suffer from eating disorders, DiScala described her health issues as ones that started innocently enough. Her friends suggested she lose weight to make her boyfriend want her back. From there, an obsession with gaining control over her life through weight loss consumed her, and DiScala succumbed to exercise bulimia. She began a strict daily regimen that included five hours ofexercise before school and almost no food, culminating in a loss of nearly 40 pounds.

“Everything revolved around getting exercise and sticking to a schedule,” DiScala recalled while blinking back tears. “I remember just sitting there thinking, T hate this life. I hate what I’ve done to myself. I don’t even want to live any more.’ And for me to contemplate suicide was the scariest thing in the world,” she said.

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Her wake-up call came in 1999, when she returned to the set to begin shooting the first season of The Sopranos. There, the producers threatened to take away her role, stating, “She’s not the girl that we cast.”

Faced with sacrificing her dream, DiScala decided to turn her life around. She redoubled her efforts to gain weight and also began helping others who suffered from similar disorders, a distinct contrast from the clueless teenager who originally auditioned for The Sopranos.

Looking back, DiScala recalled one of the misconceptions that nearly cost her a shot at the silver screen.

“I got this call for a new TV show called The Sopranos,” she said, “And I was like, well it’s The Sopranos, and that’s so cool because that must mean it’s a musical. So I showed up at the audition with all my sheet music, like, ready to belt out a number for them and obviously they just laughed at me.”

Luckily for DiScala, the rest of the audition went well, and she landed the role of Meadow.

Describing her work as a spokesperson for the National Eating Disorders Association as “uplifting” and “empowering,” the 24-year-old DiScala emphasized that using her fame to aid others is one ofher passions.

Her speech received a warm reception across the board.

“I’ve had a lot of friends struggling with eating disorders, and it just is really relevant to a lot of experiences people I know have had,” said sophomore Bethany Schraml. “It was really great to hear her talk about her recovery.”

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The Durham City Council approved a proposed plan for a new performing arts center despite oppositions from downtown business owners and other townspeople.

The City Council decided that the construction of the theaterwas necessary and rejected requests to relocate the 2,800-seat-theater or postpone the decision to a later date Several residents complained about the fact that the new theater house—which the city intends to construct—would be situated across the street from the county jail. “What kind of a plan is this—putting a theater next to a jail?” asked Josh Parker, a former County Commissioner candidate He argued that city government should work on a more feasible plan. He questioned the local leaders; “Whose deadline are we working on?”

Parker and other supporters of relocation claimed that the theater’s location will benefit Capitol Broadcasting Company, the development company that founded the American Tobacco project downtown, rather than small-business owners.

Several community members proposed to move the theater away from its current site near Mangum and Vivian streets to another site in downtown Durham, near the Durham Armory. The council unanimously denied it.

Victoria Peterson, a fervent Durham resident, bemoaned the lack of attention paid to African-American issues in the theater’s development. She said she wanted the theater to be close to the jail for the “privileged” people to see black men playing basketball when they are going to an arts center. “In the African-American community, we are getting zero,” she said.

Durham Mayor Bill Bell said he consulted experts before determining the location of the theater and that he was confident in his decision. “They told me that the site that they preferred is the one closer to the jail,” he said, nodng that he agreed with the consultants.

Bell also said American Tobacco has nothing to do with this new project. In response claims from some residents that a secret society is ruling Durham he said: “If there is a secret society, Bill Bell is not a part of [it].”

John Best, a City Council member, claimed that Duke has discussed a performing arts center in Central Campus but has withdrawn its plan. “Let’s get an official position from Duke University,” he said. University officials have repeatedly said that any potential theater to replace Page Auditorium would not be built until far in the future.

Duke has pledged to contribute about $3 million to the project, which is estimated to cost about $35 million.

The council also voted 6-1 to approve a $248,000 contract with the performing art center’s architect, Philip Szostak Associates. The contract will be used for design and planning of the theater.

In other business: The City Council approved a plan that will promote talks with Duke for construction of a boat house, a floating dock, parking facilities and supporting infrastructure on Lake Michie property, which is used by Duke’s women’s and men’s rowing teams.

The purpose of this plan is mainly security. “We want to enhance the security and to know who’s coming in and out,” said Terry Rolan, director of water management.

From staff reports Student cited for alcohol A Duke student was cited Saturday for underage possession of alcohol in front of House GG 1 at 3:55 a.m.

Freshman James Kenyon, 19, said he was intoxicated and vomiting on West Campus Friday night when some police approached him. “I guess I feel like I still didn’t really do anything wrong,” Kenyon said. “I just got unlucky because they didn’t want me puking.” He said the police kept him on West for four hours before taking him home.

Employee arrested An employee ofRick’s Diner was arrested Sunday on charges he stole money from a cash register. Toussaint Powell, Jr., 35, of Chapel Hill, was charged with larceny by an employee after investigators said he removed an undetermined amount ofcash from the register and put it in his pocket. A woman who answered Powell’s telephone said he would not comment.

Colin Anderson, a manager at Rick’s, said Powell will no longer be working at the diner.

Spray paint damage reported A vehicle and wall at Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory were vandalized this week with red spray paint. Graffiti was sprayed on the west exterior brick wall between Tuesday Feb. 14 and Wednesday Feb. 15, resulting in $5O in damage. Freshman David Hankla also reported that the hood and hood ornament on his 1998 Mercedes were sprayed with red paint, causing $l5O in damage.

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rollment has gone from five students in 2000 to two students in 2004.

There has been some discussion among students and faculty in recent months about the number of Afro-Carribean and African students at the University in the context of the number of African-American students. All of these ethnic groups fall under the racial category of “black,” and the issues that arise out of these comparisons have sparked considerable debate.

Over the last year, scholars have been engaged in discussions on college campuses about the fact that, despite the lack of a report to indicate actual statistics, Afro-Caribbean and African students possibly make up anywhere from one-third to one-half of black students, although they

only make up about 6 percent of the national black population in 2000. Many Duke community members question how the Office of Undergraduate Admissions will address this issue and the fact that despite the various ethnic backgrounds of black applicants, there is no place to indicate black ethnic diversity on the undergraduate application.

“Our overarching philosophy is to consider each applicant as an individual, not simply as a member of one group or another,” Guttentag said. “As we seek a student body that is both diverse and talented, we think of diversity not in terms of a box that was checked on an application, but in terms of a student body that embodies a healthy and interesting mix of backgrounds, values, interests and experiences.”

For the first time, the report, “Minorities in Higher Education: Twenty-First Annual Status Report,” included a category for the group of students who choose not to indicate their race or ethnic back-

ground on college applications, totalling 938,000 in 2000. Reporting race and ethnic background is an optional component of Duke’s application for undergraduate admission, and whether or not an applicant indicates his race has no bearing on admissions outcome, Guttentag said.

“For students who decline to respond to the question, race is just excluded as a factor,” he said. “We never have exactly the same information for each applicant in any case, so we just go ahead and make decisions with the informationavailable to us.”

Although the report indicated that minority presence on college campuses is, and has been, on the rise, there is still a gap between the percentage of white high school students who enroll in college following high school and their minority counterparts. Whereas 45.5 percent of 18- to 24-year old white high school graduates had enrolled in college from 2000 to 2002, only 39.9 percent of African-American and black students and

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did not hire the proper managers, such as managers trained to deal with unions, which led to unhappiness with the corporation among students and staff.

Wulforst said that a majority of student complaints concern the Marketplace and issues such as menu fatigue and general quality. ARAMARKand Dining Services are concentrating their efforts on the freshman dining hall, including offering later hours and testing a late-night food option. When freshmen return to campus after spring break, they will also have the opportunity to try a new initiative allowing them to use up to 80 percent of their dining plan points allotted to breakfast toward lunch meals.

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Wulforst also said Dining Services is striving to bring employee training to the level ARAMARK promised, despite unfounded concerns by employees that ARAMARK was blocking them from promotion. A halfdozen Dining Services employees have gone through Duke’s Professional Development Institute to further their careers, including two who chose to join the Duke University Police Department.

“I think when we entered into this relationship, it was the right thing for us,” Wulforst said. “It’s just a matter of the right leadership, and consistency will come. I think [ARAMARK] is capable of excellence, and it will be the result of good leadership.... We are poking them big time to make sure they do everything possible.”

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“The biggest issue is having consistency—we’re not nearly as consistent as we’d like to be,” Wulforst said.

ARAMARK’s promise to bring an extensive training program to Duke was one of the primary reasons for bringing the company here, Wulforst said.

“Those resources should have been available at the touch of a keystroke,” he explained, adding that the program did not meet expectations. “The real issue is that everyone here expected more from ARAMARK that was not delivered... but [Davis] was going to make it happen.”

Davis oversaw the ARAMARK management team at its dining operations and reported to Wulforst. Wulforst attributed many of the problems with the Market-

34 percent of Hispanic and Latino students had done the same.

“I think this is an issue that reflects, and is affected by, many elements of society, and should be addressed by educational institutions and policies at every level from preschool to college and beyond,” Guttentag said. “I think colleges like Duke have a role to play in addressing this issue, but we are but one part of a large and complex array of factors and

approaches.”

The report also found that although minority enrollment at colleges and universi-

ties grew from 1991 to 2001, white student enrollment fell 4.6 percent. This drop in enrollmentamong white students is reflective of a decrease in the population of white college-aged people nationally. Because there is a cap on undergraduate enrollment at Duke, the increase in minority enrollment means that there has been a drop in white student enrollment here as well, officials say.

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studies, also recently workshopped a play at Duke.

On theMarch to the Sea spans American history. Set in the Civil War era, the play portrays the wartime experience of a self-made man, Mr. Hinks. Hinks is faced with the decision of whether or not to burn his newly built mansion for the sake of the Confederacy. He also faces the moral issues that go along with sending his two sons to fight in the war.

[The script] articulates what happens to people in war and what people do in war, unlike how we tend to abstract it and glamorize it,” Noth said.

Vidal chose to write about the Civil War because no such play exists. “The Civil War never ended. We never put a finish on it,” he said. “It’s our Trojan War—the only thing that makes this country interesting.”

On the March to the Sea began as a play called Honor that Vidal wrote for a television theater program in the 19505. Vidal described the show, Playwrights 56, as the end of theater on television.

Although Honor was only 47 minutes long, it follows the same story line as On the March to the Sea. “What you will be seeing is the ultimate version. It’s a very different play because it’s a very different world,” Vidal said.

Vidal also believes the play is unusual in American theater in that it is political in nature. At a press conference Friday, Vidal showed a great appreciation for Mark Twain, an exception to typically timid American writers. “Political art hasn’t been popular in the United States,” he said. “Twain was the last to do it and had a hard time.”

Vidal plans to rekindle political theater after his stint at Duke by traveling to Seattle, Los Angeles and

“He has taught me everything I know [about GPSC] and has been a mentor,” Dean said. “He has been great in representing us.”

Saunders graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in physics from William and Mary College and is currently a student representative on a subcommittee of the Board ofTrustees.

When he was GPSC president, Saunders restructured the council’s charter and created GPSC News, an e-mail communications service between GPSC and the graduate schools. He hopes to graduate in December and begin a career in science policy.

resume the six-party talks at an early date without preconditions,” said Fintor.

He said, “The six-party talks are the best way to resolve through peaceful diplomacy the international community’s concerns about North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and to end the North’s international isolation."

In its rejection of further meetings over the nuclear issue on Feb. 10, NorthKorea said it would only return to the talks that include South Korea, China, Russia and Japan if the United States drops what it called a “hostile” policy toward the North.

In his meeting with Kim Monday, Wang relayed a verbal message from Chinese President Hu Jintao, KCNA said.

“Hu Jintao in his verbal message clarified that it is in the fundamental interests of the Chinese and DPRK sides to maintain the stand ofrealizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and protecting its peace and stability, settle the nuclear issue and clear the Korean side ofits reasonable concerns through the six-party talks,” KCNA said.

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In other business: GPSC voted to allocate a total of $10,650 to various groups for use during the spring semester.

The council also voted to charter 20 new graduate and professional student groups, increasing the number of student groups to 105.

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Assembly showed little enthusiasm for

The governor also wants a better accountability model for spending money in the public schools on at-risk kids to find out which programs work or fail.

Easley also put the General Assembly on the spot to expand the “Learn and Earn” program so that by 2008 students in all 100 counties can attend high schools where they can receive a community college degree with completion of a 13th grade.

Easley touts “Learn and Earn,” which is already underway in several counties, as a way to reduce the dropout rate and train new workers.

“If we are to close the achievement gap, increase the graduation rate and prepare every student for the global economy, we must address the whole child,” Easley said.

He also vowed to enforce child neglect statutes if parents “intentionally interfere” with their child’s education to the point a student’s rights are violated.

Highlighting his first four-year term, Easley praised lawmakers for approving economic development tools to attract new jobs.

Class sizes are smaller, the governor said, and the More at Four program now educates more than 15,000 preschoolers.

“The important part is we did all this while restoring fiscal discipline, we did all this by cutting waste, and we did all this by putting a cap on government growth,” he said.

To benefit Big Tobacco, Easley also said the cigarette tax increase should occur with legislation requiring smaller cigarette companies to pay into the 1998 national tobacco setdement.

Senate leader Marc Basnight, DDare, said the cigarette tax should have

it. “I don’t think it got very much applause tonight,” he said.

Democrats in tobacco-growing districts and many Republicans will be hardpressed to back anything that increases overall taxes.

“It appears the solution to all of our problems seems to me to be more money,” Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger of Rockingham County said after the speech. “My solution is to closely examine our spending and find efficiencies in government.”

Easley did not say whether his spending plan would allow two temporary taxes passed in 2001 to expire this year.

The governor has been targeting the elimination of an 8.25 percent marginal income tax rate.

Easley also pushed again for a lottery to provide additional education revenues.

South Carolina and Tennessee began their own lotteries since then and more North Carolinians are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lottery tickets by going across borders.

Speaker Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg, predicted the House will vote on a lottery.

“We really need that money in our own coffers,” Black said.

Blaming the federal government for $3.2 million in Pell Grant cuts to 15,000 students, Easley said his spending plan would pay to restore them from Raleigh.

“Washington may leave [students] on the curb, but North Carolina will not,” Easley said. “Our budget will fund what Washington shamefully cut.”

As at his inauguration last month, Easley highlighted North Carolina’s military involvement in overseas wars and honored servicemen sitting in the House gallery.

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In a speech to the European people, Bush did not rule out using military force in Iran, saying all options remain on the table. Addressing widespread concerns in Europe that Iran is the next U.S. target after Iraq, Bush said; “Iran is... different from Iraq. We’re in the early stages of diplomacy.”

Bush’s speech on a five-day trip to im-

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DISCALA from page 4 Other students reacted to the pressure that DiScala had faced because of

public scrutiny.

“I really respected her for her struggles,” said senior Kristen Dennis.

“She doesn’t seem like a superficial actress person. She’s a real person, and people should definitely be more sensitive to that.”

DiScala’s speech was primarily sponsored by ESTEEM Peer Educators and the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, who respected DiScala’s personal experience with an eating disorder. Courtney Wisotsky, program coordinator at the Freeman Center, said, “For such a prominent topic, it constant

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prove relations with traditional U.S. allies was aimed at both U.S. and European audiences. “In a new century, the alliance of America and Europe is the main pillar of our security,” he said.

He used the word “alliance” 12 times in his speech to underscore his aim to repair relations frayed by the war in Iraq. But not all ofBush’s speech was conciliatory.

He had pointed criticism for Russia three days ahead of his meeting with Putin in Slovakia. Referring to Putin’s recent steps to consolidate power, roll back democratic reforms and curb press and political freedoms, Bush said: “We must always remind Russia that our alliance stands for a free press, a vital opposition, the sharing of power and the rule of law. The United States should place democratic reform at the heart of their dialogue with Russia,” he said in his speech.

Later, when a reporter asked Bush if U.S. support for Russia's bid to join the WTO might depend on Russia renewing its commitment to democracy, Bush suggested it might be a factor.

“Part of the WTO requirements are that there be an open market, that there be a liberal economy,” Bush said.

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The ACC released Thursday the men’s basketball schedule for the next three years. An hour later, the league rescinded the schedule.

With the ACC expanding to 12 teams next season, a number of differentbasketball schedules have been discussed to replace the double round-robin format used before Miami and Virginia Tech entered the league this season.

Fred Barakat, the conference’s associate commissioner and scheduling gum, released a schedule last week that only slightly altered the status quo. Each team would have kept two “primary partners” and, of the other nine teams, it would have faced three only at home, three only on the road and three in both places.

ACC athletic directors, who approved the schedule, said it was the best possible solution until a reporter noticed an obvious flaw: Wake Forest’s schedule featured North Carolina twice in the 2006-2007 season but the Tar Heels were only slated to play the Demon Deacons once that same season.

“The symmetry of the schedule we had was beautiful. That’s the way it’s supposed to be,” Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser said. “But that’s not the reality of college athletics now.

“When you have these mega-conferences, the purity of a double round-robin is not going to occur.”

Thursday’s released schedule was the latest solution proposed by the league since expansion talk began several years ago. When the ACC bumped up to 11 this season, teams began playing six teams twice and four teams once.

Another solution involves home-andhome series with each offive primary partners and six single-game opponents with rotation from season to season.

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Against Wake Forest Saturday, Shavlik Randolph played three minutes, scored no points and committed one foul. In each of the six games before that, Randolph played 20 minutes or less and had either four or five fouls. In those six contests he failed to score more than eight points or grab more than nine rebounds.

So what has happened to Shavlik Randolph? In high school, Randolph put up 30 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks per game as a senior. He was regarded as a blue chip prospect —one that would’ve probably been able to jumpstraight to the NBA and be selected in the first round.

Then he came to Duke and got bigger.

And for Randolph, bigger was not better.

He was supposed to be a guy who could handle the ball and shoot, as well as bang in the paint.

Instead, he turned into a lumbering, soft big man who struggles to match the physical aggression of other forwards and centers in the ACC. He has also turned into a foul machine and has forced head coach Mike Kr2yzewski to play Reggie Love and even Patrick Johnson on the interior.

Even though Randolph hasn’t been scoring, the biggest reason for his decline in playing time has been his poor defensive rebounding. The Blue Devils have plenty of firepower on the offensive end—the team needs bodies in the paint.

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Shavlik Randolph is scoring 5.2 points per game this season, the lowestaverage ofhis Duke career.

When 38th-ranked junior Nathan Smith reached the 13th tee Monday at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., he was even for the MercedesBenz Collegiate Championship. Six holes later, he was five over par.

Smith was not the only Blue Devil to struggle down the stretch. As a unit, 11thranked Duke was a combined 12 strokes over par during the final third of the day.

The team fell to 28 over for the tournament and 11th place in a 17-team field.

“We were playing really solidly after 12 holes and then everything just disappeared,” head coach Rod Myers said. “I told our guys that we really need to have some patience.”

Ninth-ranked junior Ryan Blaum, who has been the most consistent Blue Devil,

has been under the weather lately, losing 12 pounds in three days last week. Despite his illness, he continued his steady play, notching a two-over 74, bringing him to three over. The junior finished the day in 10th place, five strokes back with one round left to play. His scorecard was marred in the final five holes as well, finishing that stretch two over par.

“I played okay,” Blaum said. “The course is playing really rough, and I didn’t play that well, but my score was not too bad considering what everyone else is shooting.”

Sophomore Jake Grodzinsky also struggled mightily during the final five holes. Starting the stretch at two under par for the day, Grodzinsky rode two bogeys and two double bogeys to a four-overpar round.

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SCHEDULE from page 9 discussed creating two divisions within the conference, much like the ACC will use in 2005 for football. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said he opposes this option because it further eliminates the unity of the conference.

If the league wanted to return to a double round-robin, it would have to sacrifice games against non-conference opponents as it would push the ACC schedule from 16 to 22 games.

Unless the ACC returns to the double round-robin, it will be impossible to crown a true regular-season champion because of

unbalanced schedules “The double round robin, great rivalries and true [regularseason] champion is the idealistic way of playing basketball,” Krzyzewski said.

This season the four teams Duke faces once are N.C. State, Clemson, Florida State and Virginia—the four bottom teams in the ACC standings.

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“The unbalanced schedule is a result of expansion. It is never ever going to be balanced. It will always be inequitable with different degrees of inequity, but that’s the schedule.” Prosser said. “They send you the schedule and you go play where and when you’re supposed to play.”

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“The wind was a tremendous factor down the stretch,” Myers said. “On the last three holes, there was a strong crosswind right-to-left that put three ofour guys in the water on 18. The one thing that can have a huge influence on golf scores is the wind.”

Duke was not the only team to succumb to the poor conditions. At three over par, Alabama was the lone squad to finish less than 12 strokes over par for the day. The Crimson Tide lead the field by four strokes over UCLA and South Carolina.

Individually, a measly four players, including two members of the Crimson Tide, shot under par for the day. The current leader, however, is Major Manning of Augusta State at three under par.

“The golf course played very difficult today,” Myers said. “Especially with this kind of wind, this course was very frustrating.”

Neither of Duke’s final two scoring members broke 80. Junior Alex Wilson, whom Myers has counted on for leadership, had a rocky round. After starting off with a bogey and a double bogey, Wilson never recovered and finished with a nineover-par 81 to put him at 16 over and in a tie for 77th.

Accompanying Wilson in 77th place is freshman Bryce Mueller, who did not have the same trouble closing out the round as his teammates. Instead, Mueller, who badly sprained his wrist on the second hole, stumbled out of the gate shooting nine strokes over par through six holes.

He settled down, however, to finish 13 over for the day, ending with four pars.

“I think we’ll come out tomorrow with a pretty good attitude and be positive,” Myers said. “We know not to take ourselves too seriously and just go out there and play our best.”

In their last five games against Virginia Tech, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia Tech and Wake Forest, the Blue Devils have given up 16.2 offensive rebounds per contest. Many of those rebounds have led to put-back dunks and easy layups. Quite often Randolph’s defensive assignment has done the damage.

Randolph has not been the victim of a few lucky bounces. Even though he seems strong and looks big, he constantly gets pushed around. Randolph also can’t jump at all. It’s almost painful watching him try to get off the ground to grab a rebound. In high school, scouts liked Randolph for his explosiveness around the basket. But ever since he put on weight at Duke, he has lost this ability. It really seems like Randolph is just not meant for his bigger body.

His three minutes Saturday are a sign that Kr2yzewski is not going to settle for Randolph and would rather go with Love, a much less talented player.

All Love gives the team is an athlete who is strong and can jump, but at this point that is far more valuable than what Randolph can offer.

The bottom line is that Randolph is out of excuses. When he first came to Duke, he played hurt during his freshman and sophomore seasons. Sometimes people cited his propensity for picking up fouls as an explanation for not living up to his hype. At the start of this year, Randolph had mono, which was a legitimate reason why his production was low.

But now, there is really no reason why he shouldn’t be much better than he is. In one of the biggest games of the

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Community interaction the University proceeds with gather more community input, but planning the redevelopment currently the subcommittee primariof Central Campus, it needs to ly needs to maintain open lines of include a community member in the communication with Durham resisubcommittee formed to facilitate dents. Having a community member n communication with Srou P wou ld *MX A'*I S I3TT C Oricli send a strong mesthe Durham area. sage to the city—the Executive Vice University does not want to appear President Tallman Trask said the raclose-minded or isolationist. tionale behind having a group dediThe individual should be selected cated to community interaction was by the University, not elected by the to ensure that “people understand what we’re doing here and what community, because as soon as the we’re not doing—because there is a person begins serving on the commitlot of community mistrust.” If this is tee, he would be an advocate for one of the University’s goals as it Duke rather than for Durham. Having an elected community member moves forward with the redevelopCentral, of it would be a great would be counterproductive, since he ment would be more likely lobby for indisymbolic gesture to appoint a comvidual interests and not contribute to munity member to the group. the overall mission of the committee.

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When camels fly good news, bad news time again for on a fool’s errand in Iraq. I write it to unthe Middle East. The good news is that derscore that we are on the first step of a what you are witnessing in the Arab long, long journey. The fact that the exworld is the fall of its Berlin Wall. The old tremists and autocrats have had to resort autocratic order is starting to crumble. The now to unspeakable violence shows how bad news is that unlike the Berlin Wall in much they have failed to win the war of central Europe, the one in the Arab world is ideas on the Arab street, But the emerging progoing to fall one bloody gressive forces still have to brick at a time, and, unfortutllOmaS friedman prove that they can build a nately, Vaclav Havel, Lech dlffer nt olidcs around Walesa and the Solidarity P guest commentary united national communitrade union are not waiting ti es> not a balance of sects, to jump into our arms on the and solidarity from shared aspiration, not a other side.

No one is more pleased than I am to see shared external enemy.

There is still, throughout the Arab world, the demonstration of “people power” in Iraq, with millions of Iraqis defying the “you vote, a very weak notion of statehood and citizenship. And there are still very few civil socieyou die” threat of the Baathists and jihadists. take the ty institutions outside the mosque, and little No one should lightly willingness of the opposition forces in Lebanon to historical experience with a free press, free stand up and point a finger at the Syrian markets or real parliamentary democracy to regime and say ‘J’accuse!” for the murder build upon when the walls fall.

Overcoming that challenge was what of the opposition leader Rafik Hariri. No one should dismiss the Palestinian election, Rafik Hariri, an imperfect but progressive which- featured a real choice of candidates, soul, stood for. And that is why so many people, particularly young Arabs, are so upset and a solid majority voting in favor of a demodernizing figure —Mahmoud by his murder. He represented a break from cent, the wasteland that has been Arab politics Abbas.

No one should ignore the willingness of for the last 50 years, and if you want to know some Egyptians to demand to run against how much many Arabs want a break read President Hosni Mubarak when he seeks a just one editorial—the essay last Friday in Lebanon’s leading newspaper, An Nahar, by fifth—and so far unopposed —term.

These are things you have not seen in Samir Kassir. Tell me when you’ve read the Arab world before. They are really, realsomething like this in an Arab newspaper under Syrian occupation; unusual—like camels ly watching fly.

Throughout history, Beirut’s streets have Something really is going on with the proverbial “Arab street.” The automatic as- been reserved for the “defense of pan-Arab sumption that the “Arab street” will always causes,” wrote Kassir. But with the funeral rally to the local king or dictator—if that for Rafik Hariri, Arab nationalism has taken king or dictator just waves around some on a new aim, he declared: “Today, the nationalist cause has shrunk into the single bogus threat or insult from “America,” “Israel” or “the West”—is no longer valid. Yes, aim of getting rid of the regimes of terrorthe Iraq invasion probably brought more ism and coups, and regaining the people’s anti-American terrorists to the surface. But freedom as a prelude to a new Arab renaissance. Thus hundreds of thousands of free it also certainly brought more pro-democracitizens walked in Rafik Hariri’s funeral—cy advocates to the surface. while only a paltry cortege mobilized by the Call it “Baghdad Spring.”

But we have to be very sober about what single party and its intelligence apparatuses is ahead. There will be no velvet revolutions walked in (former Syrian President) Hafez al-Assad’s funeral a few years ago. (With the in this part of the world. The walls of autocHariri funeral) Beirut was the beating heart with one will just good not collapse racy push. As the head-chopping insurgents in of a new Arab nationalism. This nationalism Iraq, the suicide bombers in Saudi Arabia is based on the free will of citizens, male and female. And this is what the*tyrannical and the murderers of Hariri have all signaled; The old order in this part of the (Syrian) regime should fear more than anyworld will not go quietly into this good thing else if it tarries about ending its hegenight. You put a flower in the barrel of their mony over Beirut and Lebanon.” gun and they’ll blow your hand and your Thomas Friedman is a syndicated columnist head right off. write all this not to that we are I suggest for The New York Times.

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Sticking up for the big guy There

Dear Old Duke

is a lot of anger about wealth among Duke studone nothing but right. dents. We tend to scorn the practice of admitting stuThe Nicholases have not gotten the unblemished praise dents based orv legacy and financial donations. Some they deserve for their gift, and neither have the coundess of our poorest financial aid students can get rueful when other donors who keep Duke afloat and thriving. Maybe we rich peers make personal finance gaffes. Rich students can think they have so much that they don’t care about attention be oblivious and insensitive to others’ constraints, and often or kind words. Maybe we’re just jealous.

It seems that everything associated with donations gets an get irritated when their less well-off friends can’t keep up with the price of social life. undeserved skeptical eye from our student populace. From the way the Development Office is perceived, you would We also send our resentment up the food chain, most notably and egregiously to the donors who drop big bones to think it was raising money for bonsai kitten farms. They and keep Duke humming along. At best, a hefty donation is the University’s top administrators do a fantastic job with greeted with a mixture of “That dude is fundraising—which, far from being the rich” and “Too bad I’m not going to be here seamy underbelly of a university, is one of to enjoy it.” At worst, the donor—invariably the most noble aspects and should be resporting a dopey grin and clutching a paperspected as such. weight in some Chronicle file photo—is the University fundraising is nothing like political fundraising, where power and influobject of derision. Mostly, nobody cares.

But let’s pause for a moment to think ence are traded commodities and genuine about what it means to actually give someconviction is usually an afterthought. Such a thing like $72 million to Duke, as Peter and cynical arrangement may exist to some exandrew collins tent at universities, but most of Duke’s Ginny Nicholas did last winter. You can say it’s small change for them, but it’s not. It’s a donors are primarily motivated by their aphazzards of duke huge chunk of money that they could have preciation for the University.

Perks like President’s Box tickets for passed along to their children and grandchildren, but instead gave to Duke. That’s sacrifice. You can Duke football games, personal notes from big shots and the say it’s about getting some building, school or institute occasional naming opportunity are nice, but they do not named after them, but it’s mosdy not. The crazies among come close to compensating for the value of the gifts. The you can say it’s a nefarious conspiracy designed to raise the real payoff is seeing Duke sustain its excellence and goodbar on giving, but it’s most definitely not. ness as an institution.

So the next time a big gift is publicized in The Chronicle, In truth, the Nicholases’ gift was a nearly pure manifestation of goodwill, love and respect for Duke. Much of the let’s not react by questioning the donors’ motives, ridiculing their clothes or making asinine claims about their links to al money will fund the next generation ofresearch and teaching at the Nicholas School for the Environment. It was the Qaeda. Let’s give them a big, hearty “thank you” that honors 15th-largest charitable donation in the country in 2003. The their generosity with commensurate respect. As much as the Nicholases should be hailed as heroes and bestowed with all little guy needs a lift up sometimes, the big guy doesn’t need to be dragged down through the mud. the adoration of Coach K and President Brodhead combined—and yet we, as students, stop short.

To Peter and Ginny Nicholas, David Rubenstein and At some level, I believe this strange phenomenon is a reeveryone else who gives to Duke; thanks, from the bottom of sult of our propensity to discriminate against the wealthy. my heart.

Many of us fault the Nicholases and others like them for Andrew Collins is a Trinity seniorand former University Editor being rich, successful and able to spend it. We vaguely feel they have committed some wrong, when in fact, they have for The Chronicle. His column appears Tuesdays.

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CHICAGO It was a marriage made in heaven, as this industry over theirrefusal to support his plan to import prepolitics-saturated city probably understands heaven. Rod scription drugs. He proposes getting junk food out of Illinois schools and banning the sale of “violent or sexually exBlagojevich, the future governor, met his future wife at a fundraiser for her father, the alderman from the 33rd Ward for 30 plicit” video games. This lawyers’ delight would require years now. Herewith a story about the perils of politics in what litigating, yet again, the meaning of the phrases such as “apis—the state’s license plates say so—the Land of Lincoln. peal to the prurient interest” and “sexually explicit.”

Illinois’ northern border is north of Cape Cod and the He voted for Reagan twice—this son of a Serbian immisouthern tip is south of Richmond, Va., but the state’s beatgrant steelworker was the archetypal Reagan Democrat ing heart is Chicago. Here the alderman and his son-in-law and still picks his own political paths: He is at daggers drawn recently had a falling-out that began at a family Christmas with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who wants casino gathering where talk turned, naturally enough, to a Joliet gambling that the governor opposes. “It’s just too easy, all landfill that was violating laws. The landfill’s operator was a this found money,” Blagojevich says. When Daley asked him, relative of the alderman’s family—a second “Don’t you want the money?” Blagojevich cousin of the governor’s wife. replied, “Frankly, no.”

This was a test for Blagojevich, 48, a forHe actually is a reformer of sorts. “I’m a george will mer congressman. Because he hails from Democrat from Chicago,” he says with guest commentary bumptious disregard for the mayor’s feelthis city, and because his opponents warned that he would be a pawn of the alderman ings, “so I can talk about waste in governwho launched him into politics, and because he replaced a ment.” He has reduced the state government’s work force Republican who has been—like four previous Illinois gover- from 69,000 to 59,000. Before his administration, state emnors —indicted, Blagojevich wants to be seen as reformer ployees paid no share of their pensions. Now, in exchange from the city where, years ago, a politician cheerfully and acfor a pay raise negotiated with AFSCME, the public employees union, employees must contribute 4 percent of their pay. curately declared, “Chicago ain’t ready for reform yet.”

Blagojevich lives in Chicago, not in die governor’s manBlagojevich closed the landfill. The alderman said he felt like a first wife discarded for a trophy wife. He also accused sion in Springfield, and is thought to be interested in movthe governor of trading appointments to state boards and ing on, to the president’s mansion, as the White House was commissions for campaign contributions, thenretracted the originally called. There is, however, a new problem. The statement. The governor said, “I’m glad my father-in-law fi2004 elections produced an Illinois superstar with national possibilities, Sen. Barack Obama. nally told the truth.”

The truth, says a Blagojevich aide, is: “The people who For nine decades of the last century, Illinois was the naare qualified to serve in these appointments are by definition’s political barometer, voting with the winner in all but tion people who are active in government and active in their two presidential elections, 1916 and 1976, both years when communities. So it should be no surprise that they are active the country would have done itself a favor by emulating Illinois. But in the two elections in the 1990 s Bill Clinton carpolitically.” So there.

Sleek is the mot juste to describe Blagojevich—elegant ried it by 15 and then 17 points. Since then Republicans dark suit, glistening white shirt, subdued tie and a shock of have not competed here: Bush lost it by 12 points in 2000 jet-black hair that Elvis would have envied. He has mended and 10 in 2004, when the Republican candidate for the U.S. his ways since being criticized for sending six Illinois state Senate was a gasbag from Maryland, Alan Keyes.

Blagojevich already has $10.4 millionfor a 2006 re-election police cars and 10 bodyguards for his fund-raising trip to Beverly Hills, where at one point they blocked intersections campaign, and although serious Republicans are looking to run, he probably can count on the 33rd Ward. Probably. to speed his passage.

He has a penchant for policy flamboyance, too. He has George Will is a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. excoriated the federal government and the pharmaceutical —

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events have put Duke’s alcohol policy in the spotlight. Numerous incidents that have taken place at off-campus parties as well as the rising animosity

felt by Trinity Park residents towards the growing mass of inebriated students frequendng dieir neighborhood are raising significant questions about changes in the administration’s treatment of alcohol consumption.

These changes include the arrival of the Residence Coordinators in 2001 and the increasing propensity of the University to break up on-campus parties and punish students for underage consumption. They are almost singly responsible for the recent migration ofmany large-scale parties offcampus, causing significant consequences for students, our neighbors off ofEast campus, and the culture of the University as a whole. The alcohol policy itself is aimed largely at stemming underage consumption. Ho\yever, contrary to the insistence of most parents, police, and Duke administrators, underage drinking is not the inherently evil “crime” that it is often made out to be. The United States is currently the only nation in die world with a drinking age of 21, and that age was only instituted widiin the past 20 years.

Thanks to the efforts of Ronald Reagan and the overzealMothers Against ous Drunk Driving, among others, we live in a country where 18 year-olds can vote and be drafted, yet cannot legally drink. And surprise, ■ surprise, the national explosion of binge-drinking at college campuses ocelliott wolf curred almost directly after the enactment of the natransparency tional 21 drinking age As a result of this inherently counterproductive and unjust law, coupled with similarly counterproductive University policies, students are only changing where and how they drink. Laws and University policies have forced students to migrate away from a controlled on-campus party scene to dangerous and uncontrollable locations off-campus, but have done nothing to stem consumption; now, alcohol is simply the “forbidden fruit.”

Consequently, Duke is faced with several very important questions: Would it rather for students to party on Buchanan, or in Wannamaker? Would it rather students to be under the watchful eyes of EMTs and friends who can offer assistance, or under the watchful eyes of peeping busboys at Parizade?

As a private university, Duke is not charged with enforcing either federal or state law. Although Duke could refer every underage student caught drinking to the police, it could also do nothing at all—and for the most part, it does not involve the police in instances of underage drinking or drug use. Duke is obliged, however, to ensure the safety of the student body.

It is clear that encouraging students to go (and potentially drive) off-campus into less safe and less controlled environments is not fulfilling that obligation. The policies and their effects all point to one conclusion—that Duke is less concerned with underage alcohol consumption and with student safety than it is with its own image. Duke has policies on the books and institutions in place to “deal” with alcohol abuse and stem parties on-campus, but those policies do very little to actually improve student safety.

It’s quite likely that the “free-for-all” parties from the 1980 s and 1990 s were somewhat extreme, but it is doubtful that anything ever approached the level of baby-oil wrestling in a packed off-campus basement. Ironically, in its attempt to clean up Duke’s image, the actions of the administration have generated an environment that produces such sensational situations that catch national attention.

Therefore, I appeal to all of the alumni who experienced “Dear Old Duke”—The Duke that existed before the administration cared about underage consumption—to try and bring back an integral aspect of Duke’s culture. You survived, and so will we. Yes, we could have another Raheem Bath, but conditions are now as ripe as they have ever been for a student to be seriously injured or killed.

No new law or administrative action could ever significantly curb alcohol consumption by students; it is, however, up to the administration whatkind ofenvironment in which that drinking takes place —a safe, on-campus environment, or an unsafe, off-campus environment. So I ask again, are we concerned with our safety, or with our image? Do we embrace our culture and the will of students, or do we simply dump them in our neighbors’ yards?

Elliott Wolf is a Pratt freshman. His column other Tuesday.

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On the March to the Sea

By GORE VIDAL. Directed by WARNER SHOOK and produced as a staged theatrical concert reading. Featuring MICHAEL LEARNED, CHRIS NOTH, and CHARLES DURNING. Feb. 22-March 6, Tues.-Thurs. 7:3opm, Fri.-Sat. Bpm, Sat.-Sun. 2pm. Reynolds Theater. $2O-$39 (discounts for students and groups).

Duke Symphony Orchestra HARRY DAVIDSON, music dir. with guest artist BRIAN JOHNSON, baritone. Riveting Russians: Glinka, Overture to Russian and Ludmilla; Mussorgsky, Songs and Dances of Death and Pictures at an Exhibition.

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Duke Wind Symphony JOHN RANDAL GUPTILL, visiting dir.

The English Concert: works by Holst, Vaughan Williams, and Grainger.

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Sarah Jones’ Show: Waking the American Dream Playwright/poet/actor/activist SARAH JONES stars in an electrifying one-woman show that punctures stereotypes and tugs at the heartstrings.

Feb. 28, Bpm. Reynolds Theater. $lO General, Free forDuke Students & Employees (with ID).

Master Class With PAUL RANDALL, trumpet.

March 1, 7:lspm. Baldwin Auditorium.

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Lecture with Linda Austem Teach Me To HeareMermaides Singinge: Embodiments of (Acoustic) Pleasure and Danger in the Modem West Feb. 25, 4pm. Room 101 Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Book Talk jtik Pulitizer Prizewinning historian MBt RICHARD RHODES discusses his new book, John James Audubon: The Making ofan American. The library’s double elephant folio edition of Audubon’s The Birds ofAmerica will be on display.

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PRODIGAL SON FOLLE EMBELLIE (G) with director Dominque Cabrera LE LAIT DE LA TENDRESSE HUMAINE (G) with director Dominque Cabrera MOOLAADE (G) 7 & 9:3opm CHARISMA (G) AFTER LIFE (G) IN THE LINE OF DUTY 4: WITNESS

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Comic Book Cultures Selections from the comic book collections of the Duke and UNC-CH libraries.

March 1 thru May 15. Perkins Library Gallery.

Body Perceptions JENNIFER ANDERSON, PETRA KRALICKOVA, and KIMBERLY WITHAM, Thru March 7. Brown Gallery.

Travelling Light An exhibition of 25 years of work by South African photographer PAUL WEINBERG. Open Wed., Fri., Sat., 12-spm. ThruMarch 25. Hanks Lobby Gallery, Reynolds Theater.

Something Deeply Held A student exhibition of toned black-and-white silver gelatin contact prints

made from 4-X-5inch negatives using large-format view cameras in a Center for .

Documentary

Studies course.

ThruMarch 30.

Porch Gallery, Center for Documentary Studies.

Early Comic Strips Selections from the pages of 19th and early 20th century newspapers in Duke’s American Newspaper Repository.

Thru April 3. Perkins Library, Special Collections Gallery.

Wednesdays at the Center Series TIMOTHY TYSON. BloodDone Sign My Name:Race, Class, Gender, BourbonaddledPoets, Rebel Church Ladies, Negroes With Guns, and My Crazy Uncle Earl.

March 2,12pm. John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. Free.

Martin Rosenthal Hear from a founder of the photography collective ph!s, which puts cameras in the hands of teenagers from some of the most violent and impoverished barrios in Buenos Aries, Argentina.

March 2,12pm. Centerfor Documentary Studies. Free.

Exhibition Rites/Rights/Rewrites: Women’s Video Art from India, a show of work by contemporary Indian video artists curated by Arshiya Mansoor Lokandwala, Cornell University.

March 2 thru April 1. Opening reception March 2, 6-7:30 pm. John Hope Franklin Center Gallery. Free.

Photo by Jerry Blow

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

The new art museum, designed by worldrenowned architect Rafael Vinoly, is taking shape on Central Campus, adjacent to the Sarah R Duke Gardens.

Opens Oct. 2.

Arts Around Duke coordinated by

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