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Rev. Samuel Wells, a fourth generation pastor in the Anglican Church, will cross the Atlantic Ocean this August to begin his role as dean of Duke Chapel and chief spiritual figure on campus.

President Richard Brodhead announced his decision to appoint Wells Monday, after a selection committee conducted almost a six-month search for a candidate to replace former Dean William Willimon. The committee—chaired by Rev. Charles Smith, a member of the Board of Trustees—narrowed down an initial pool of 150 candidates, and Brodhead ultimately picked Wells, a Priest-in-Charge of St. Mark’s Church in Cam-

bridge, England.

“His mixture of obvious intelligence, lived humanitarian service, and just the sort of air of spiritual passion he gives off made him seem perfect,” Brodhead said.

Smith said Well’s experience not only as a pastor and as a writer, but also as a community service leader in inner city areas made SEE DEAN ON PAGE 4

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President Richard Brodhead interacts with students during his first week.He will share his conclusions this evening.

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Duke has long been thought of as a “work hard-play hard” campus. This evening its new Ivy-clad president will give his first public remarks about the undergraduate climate.

President Richard Brodhead will discuss the Duke he has observed and the one he would like to shape at 5 p.m. in Griffith Film Theater. The president will open with remarks he

One part convocation address and one part assessment, Brodhead’s speech is an articulate look at some of the strengths and weaknesses of a Duke undergraduate education, said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

“He's talked quite generally about what undergraduate education should be, but this is very

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much more Duke-centered,” Burness said. “I think he will raise some interesting questions and propose some very thoughtful answers.”

Since being named president and taking office, Brodhead has been tight-lipped about his ideas for undergraduate life. In discussions about the future of Central Campus, he has revealed preliminary ideas SEE BRODHEAD ON PAGE

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College admissions go commercial by

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A Duke commercial offers a view of the University aimed at enticing students.

High school is a time when many people expect teenagers to make mistakes and shirk responsibility in the name of fun. But today’s high school student probably spends more time poring over Kaplan’s than pouring a drink from a keg. America’s teenagers have become more familiar with the Fiske Guide than with Ferris Bueller’s escapades.

A dramatic shift in the world of college admissions in the last 20 years towards more aggressive recruitment methods and the rise in the importance of rankings and standardized test scores have made junior and senior year an even more stressful experience.

Since the 1980s, schools 'have been using increasingly more commercialized methods to attract students, handing out nut lions of pamphlets and videos, sending admissions officers across the country, and even advertising on television.

Christoph Guttentag, director of undergraduate admissions, credits this change to an anticipation in the 1980 s of a decline in the number of high school graduates and a progressive rise in the importance ofrankings.

“Since the ’9os, what many colleges have learned is that recruitment paid dividends in terms of the sort of students they were able SEE ADMISSIONS ON PAGE 5

With just under two weeks remaining before the March 31 elections, a dozen rising juniors and seniors were officially announced Monday as candidates for positions on the 2005-2006 Duke Student Government executive board. Of the six offices up for grabs, three are uncontested.

In the running for DSG president are juniors Emily Aviki, Russ Ferguson and Jesse Longoria.

The elected student will serve as a the official liaiI son between the students, UniverTHE DSG sity administravu,t tion and other members of the campus and local communities.

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Senior Elizabeth Ladner, DSC attorney general and coordinator of the impending elections, said she expects a competitive

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lo be a wn done race 'lecaiasr all. thr cmtcjiibties. ace super verv committed to. DSGT Ladner said "We ll just haw to wait, and ,see-what the campaign blinds In the most contested race, juniors Brenda Baitfsch and Hirsh Sandesara and sophomores Daron Gunn and Ryan Strasser will vie for the office of vice president of athletics and campus services. Issues pertaining to student safety, parking, dining, transportation, facilities and athletics will become the elected student’s domain.

Bautsch is currently a senator and Sandesara is active on the Inter-Community DSG-run Council as the co-president of SEE DSG ON PAGE 6

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newsinbrief No decision yet in Schiavo case Armed with a new law rushed through Congress over the weekend, the attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents pleaded with a judgeMonday to order the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube re-inserted, but the judge appeared cool to the argument.

Unit ambushed in Iraq, returns fire by

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U.S. soldiers, amBAGHDAD, Iraq bushed by dozens of Iraqi militants near the infamous “Triangle of Death,” responded by killing 26 guerrillas in the largest single insurgent death toll since last fall’s batde for Fallujah, the U.S. military said Monday.

The high number of deaths in Sunday’s daylight battle south of Baghdad was attributed to the large number of attackers, unusual in a country where most clashes are carried out by small bands of gunmen or suicide bombers.

“I was surprised at the numbers,” said Staff Sgt. Timothy Nein, a squad leader for

the 617th Military Police Company ofRichmond, Ky., and a native of Henryville, Ind., involved in the firefxght. “Usually we can usually expect seven to 10.”

As the U.S. military reported that and other successes against the insurgency, attackers struck several times Monday, killing seven civilians and three Iraqi soldiers. A roadside bomb in Aziziyah, 35 miles southeast of Baghdad, killed four women and three children, police said.

Reporting on Sunday’s big firefight, the U.S. military said MPs and artillery units from the Kentucky National Guard were traveling along a road 20 miles southeast of Baghdad around noon when

40 to 50 militants emerged from a grove of trees and a roadside canal firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled

Sex offender charged in Fla. A convicted sex offender was formally charged Monday with capital murder and other crimes in the abduction and death of a 9-year-old Florida girl. John Evander Couey, 46, was also charged with burglary, kidnapping and sexual battery on a child under the age of 12,officials said.

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The soldiers returned fire, killing or wounding all the insurgents in a field and driving away those attacking from the canal. Seven Americans were reported wounded, but no details were given on their conditions. Commanders said seven wounded insurgents and one unwounded attacker were captured.

The guerrilla death toll—26—was the highest in a single clash in Iraq since U.S. forces took control of the formerly insurgent-held city ofFallujah west of the capital.

Annan to persuade U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan unveiled a plan Monday to overhaul the United Nations and began the task of selling his vision to all 191 U.N. member states, urging them to make the proposals a reality when they meet again in just six months.

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A high school stuRED LAKE, Minn. dent went on a shooting rampage Monday, killing his grandparents at their home and then five people at his school on an Indian reservation. The gunman himself was later found shot to death, authorities said.

It was the nation’s worst school shooting since the Columbine massacre in 1999.

Before the shootings at Red Lake High School, the suspect’s grandparents were shot in their home and died later.

Four students were killed and two others critically wounded. Also killed were a

teacher and a security guard, FBI spokesperson Paul McCabe said at a news conference in Minneapolis.

One student described the gunman grinning and waving at a student his gun was pointed at, then shotting someone else.

“I looked him in the eye and ran in the room, and that’s when I hid,” Sondra Hegstrom told The Pioneer of Bemidji.

McCabe declined to talk about a possible connection between the suspect and the couple killed at the home, but Red Lake Fire Director Roman Stately said they were the grandparents of the shooter.

Stately told several media oudets that the

grandfather was a police officer whose guns may have been used in the shootings.

Students and a teacher at the scene, Diane Schwanz, said the shooter tried to break down a door to get into a room where some students were., “I just got on the floor and called the cops,” Schwanz told the Pioneer. “I was still just half-believing it.”

Hegstrom said students pleaded with the gunman to stop shooting.

“You could hear a girl saying, ‘No, Jeff, quit, quit. Leave me alone. What are you doing?’” Hegstrom said, using the name of the suspected shooter.

Company pays, settles charges Graco Children's Products Inc. has agreed to pay a record $4 million to

settle charges that it belatedly reported problems with car seats, high chairs, strollers and other products that resulted in hundreds of injuries and at least six deaths.

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Facing an audience filled with protesters, the Durham City'Council convened Monday night to discuss an issue it has grappled with for weeks—whether to award a considerable construction bid to Hairston Enterprises, a Durham-based construction firm known for its employment of minorities.

During the meeting, council members faced accusations that they have failed to provide adequate employment and training opportunities forDurham’s low-income demographic and the black community.

Despite the protests of the group, the council voted four to three to award the contract to two competitors—

Raleigh Durham Construction Company Inc. and Blue Ridge Enterprises.

The disputed contract concerns the redevelopment of 32 homes located on Barnes Avenue in Northeast Central Durham—a project worth an estimated $3.4 million.

Hairston lost the contract on 16 of those homes earlier this year to lower-bidder Blue Ridge Enterprises, a company based in Mount Airy, N.C. The protesters, who made up a majority of those present and claimed to be Durham’s jobless and homeless, held up neon posters with messages such as “Weak leadership makes weak communities” and “Blacks are being left out”

The Graduate and Professional Student Council focused on health insurance issues, student happiness and campus safety in its meeting Monday night.

Returning to issues covered in the last meeting, Rob Saunders, community affairs coordinator for GPSC, reported that Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina, the provider of Duke’s student health insurance, will hike the cost of next year’s plan 21.4 percent to a record $1,589. Duke student health insurance increased almost 21.9 percent last year to $1,310 per student. Insurance rates have risen 14 percent annually on average due to the rising cost of healthcare.

Saunders, who did his own research on health insurance rates, mentioned there may be ways of reducing the cost to students. GPSC could seek other insurance providers that offer lower premiums, cut current benefits to keep premiums down or alter the level of family costs to lift much of the payment burden off individual students.

He also said the rates were not highly overpriced compared to other schools considering Duke graduate and professional students visit the emergency room 23 percent more on average than graduate students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Duke students also receive on average 3.3 prescriptions per year, while students at these comparable universities average only 2.3.

Saunders noted that in past years when GPSC has looked to find other insurance providers, Blue Cross/Blue Shield has consistently proposed the lowest premiums. He added that Duke subsidizes its plan considerably compared to an individual plan with this same provider.

GPSC also reviewed a recent Graduate and Professional Student Survey that 2,313 graduate students, about 40 percent of the graduate student body, answered. Troy Powell, a graduate student in sociology, SEE GPSC ON PAGE 7

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crimebriefs Man attempts to assault tow truck operator A Raleigh construction worker was arrested March 9 at the Washington Duke Inn after police said he attempted to hit a tow truck operator with a wooden board.

Michael Tam Cao, 47, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The incident occurred at 9 a.m. at the hotel's construction site. The operator with CPR Towing and Recovery told police he was called to tow an illegally parked vehicle. He told police that as he put chains on the vehicle, Cao jumped on the tow truck and brandished a 2x4 board as if he was going to hit him. No one was injured.

Three men charged with intent to make, sell and deliver marijuana Three Durham men were arrested and charged March 18 with possession of marijuana with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver. Duke police charged Thomas Anderson Jr., 23; Duane Giles, 27; and Lament Liles Jr., 28, after a traffic stop at Markham Avenue and Urban Street.

When an officer approached the 1998 Ford Escort after the traffic stop, he smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle, police said. The men were taken to the Durham County Jail.

The men were unavailable for comment.

Laptop stolen from Bio-Sci Building office stolen An Apple Powerßook G 4 Friday from en employee's office in the Biological Sciences Building. The employee told police he left his office Friday afternoon to attend a meeting, and when he returned, the laptop and a personal checkbook were missing. The laptop is worth $2,500.

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Duke Police charge ‘bookstore bandit’ The man shopped at Duke University Stores, writing checks for sweatpants, hooded sweatshirts and textbooks. Soon after the purchases, he returned the merchandise for cash. But the bank checks Tony Brown is accused of passing since January were bad—written against a closed account in Kentucky.

On March 15, Duke Police charged Brown, 36, of Greenville, N.C., with nine counts of obtaining property by false pretense. The refunds at Duke stores totaled about $1,500. Police say Brown is also a suspect in similar cases at bookstores at UNC-Chapel Hill and UNCGreensboro, Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina State University in Raleigh and East Carolina University in Greenville. Police at ECU also charged Brown.

“He was allegedly writing these checks all over the place,” said Duke Police Investigator Anthony Rush.

Rush began investigating the bookstore swaps in February after learning that the bank checks used at Duke came from closed accounts. The checks had different names, addresses and phone numbers.

In one refund at Duke, Brown told a store clerk that he was returning merchandise for a student who had to drop out of school because her father was ill.

Rush called other college campuses, including ECU, which at the time did not know a man had been passing bad checks and receiving refunds at its bookstore. “I told them that I had received copies of checks that he had written to them and explained to them what he had done at SEE CRIME ON PAGE 6

DEAN from page 1 him an ideal candidate. Smith said he believes Wells embodies the University motto “eruditio et religio.”

“We think he will appeal to the life of the mind as well as to the life of the spirit,” Smith said.

The combination of intellectualism and spirituality that the selection committee found so compelling in Wells, was also a driving force behind Wells’ decision to come to the University.

“The position allows me to synthesize and combine my pastoral, preaching and writing interests more successfully than any position I can imagine,” said Wells, a graduate of Oxford University, Edinburgh University and University of Durham in the United Kingdom. “[Duke] is one of the most intellectual pockets in America.”

The University’s youthfulness was another incentive for Wells. He said Duke is “light on its feet and not bound by tradition.”

Wells said he is looking forward to continuing his research on theological ethics and working with esteemed faculty members such as Gregjones, dean of the Divinity School, and Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe professor of theological ethics, and to forging a healthy yet critical friendship with the Divinity School.

“It will be a privilege to have the opportunity to teach in to me what is the most exciting Divinity school in America,” Wells said.

While Wells’ predecessor Willimon was noted for his progressive policies, Wells said the term “generous orthodoxy” describes the approach he will be taking with the Chapel rather than simply liberal or conservative, two labels he

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Rev. SamuelWells will come from England to Duke in August as dean of the Duke Chapel. to transcend Wells said he is committed to involvement in the Durham community as well as in the University community, as he believes it is important that Durham residents view Duke Chapel as a friend. He said he also hopes to excite the Chapel’s population, specifically by tapping the energy and passion ofyoung people.

“To me Christianity must always be about passion, not about intellectual correctness or moral sobriety but passipnate commitment,” said Wells, who will preach in the Chapel every Sunday. “The faith practiced in the Chapel is thrilling, and my job is to make sure it is.”

Wells will be accompanied by his wife, Jo Bailey Wells, who will be teaching in the Divinity School, and two young children.

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Through marketing,the number of applications to the University has risen by about 1,000 in the past two years.

ADMISSIONS from page 1 attract,” he said. “At the same time people started to pay more attention to rankings.”

Guttentag said his office does a variety of things, including hosting events for students and parents, sending e-mail and regular mail and. paying visits to high schools in order to make sure “outstanding students in the country and in the worldknow about Duke and can make an informed decisions about whether or not to apply.”

“I think Duke is a significantly more visible school, nationally and internationally, than it was two decades ago. I think Duke has been a fabulous place for decades, but its reach for the first part of the century was much more regional,” Guttentag said.

This approach seems to have paid off to

received each year reaching record highs, the admittance rate has reached record lows. Additionally, the student body has become increasingly more racially and socioeconomically diverse.

Still, there are those who see these changes as corrupting to the entire college admissions process.

One of the chief critics is Lloyd Thacker, founder of the Education Conservancy, a national nonprofit group whose stated mission is to help “students, colleges and high schools overcome commercial interference in college admissions.”

“College admissions used to be about counseling, now college admissions is mosdy about marketing,” Thacker said. “It used to be that college presidents were much more high-profile as statesmen of education, and now they’re becoming more and more like CEOs.” Thacker described the admissions offices’ reliance on SAT scores as one of the main flaws in the process. Pointing to affluent students who can afford to pay thousands of dollars to take courses or buy prep books and increase their scores, he believes the SAT is a tool that has been misused.

“Kaplan’s revenue increased 50% this year—that’s not coming from lower-income kids,” he said. “High schools now have SAT prep courses as part of their curriculum. Is that education? Is that what high school is about?”

Duke is certainly not impervious to this shift in admissions. There was a significant increase, nearly 1000 more, in the number of applications received for the Classes of 2007 and 2008 as compared to the Class of 2006, a bump that Guttentagattributed to a colorful new viewbook introduced in 2002.

This fall, the University also premiered a new commercial starring the Blue Devil that has aired during football and basketball games on a number of major networks.

Entided “A Different Shade of Blue,”

the commercial features a number of seemingly stodgy administrators wearing caps and gowns having tea in a library.

Over the strains of classical music, they begin discussing what makes their universities the finest in America, listing “beautiful campuses, illustrious graduates and splendid academics.” They then point to someone off-camera and begin talking about how he is “like us, but different,” citing southern locale, innovative thinkers and athletic prowess.

The camera pans over to reveal the Blue Devil wearing a basketball jersey and headphones, nodding his head to the rock music that begins playing. As the Duke logo and website are shown on the screen, a narrator announces, “Duke University, a different shade of blue.”

Some students who have seen the commercial think that it “dumbs down” the University, while others feel it accurately portrays the more laidback atmosphere at the school, “Our goal with the spot was to show Duke as a top university that had certain unique qualities that set it apart, but also to do this in a somewhat playful, lighthearted way because the spot is seen during a sporting event,” said Cabell Smith, manager of radio and television services in the Office of News and Communications.

“We would hope that it represents the University in away that is positive.”

The idea for the commercial was developed by a group made up ofmembers from various departments around the University, including undergraduate admissions, student affairs and news and communications.

“I can’t point to any increase in applications or giving, it’s only aired three or four times this season,” Smith said. “I don’t believe that people decide to apply to a topcaliber school based on the commercial that it airs during basketball games.”

This type of marketing is what Thacker campaigns against as he speaks to students, parents and educators alike across the country. These views are also reflected in College Unranked, a collection of essays from college presidents and admissions deans discussing different problems in the admissions process. Students are urged to apply to no more than six colleges and not to take standardized tests more than twice.

Guttentag recognize the herd mentality among colleges. “The trouble is colleges all act unilaterally; we won’t act en masse,” he said. “Every college begins by considering its own priorities and its own mission.”

Thacker echoed these sentiments.

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“We’re not serving those values that we’re in the business to serve, and there are lots of indicators that that’s true.”

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CRIME from page 4 Duke,” Rush said. ECU police dug through its incident reports and learned that a man had been passing bad checks and receiving refunds at its store, police said.

Soon, Rush and an ECU police detective were working together and trading suspect photos. Within a week, Brown returned to the ECU bookstore, police said.

A clerk recognized the man and notified police. He was arrested.

Duke Police Major Phyllis Cooper said it was Rush calling other campuses that helped lead to an arrest. “Officer Rush reaching out to other campuses to share information, as well as people calling the police as soon as possible, are what helped solve this case,” Cooper said.

“This was a great multi-agency, community policing effort.”

Student charged with driving while impaired A Duke student was charged March 10 with driving while impaired in die area of Markham and Clarendon streets. Carolyn Hammer, 25, a graduate student, was driving a 1995 Ford left of center as she traveled toward Broad Street, according to a police report and citation.At 2:52 a.m., a Duke Police officer performed a traffic stop and detected an odor of alcohol. Police said her alcohol concentration was above the .08 level at which a driver is presumed impaired. Hammer declined to comment.

Safe stolen from Alpine Atrium A safe containing cash was stolen the week of March 13 from the Alpine Atrium in the Bryan Center. The safe was discovered missing at 7 a.m. March 14. A food service cart, possibly used in the theft, was found nearby. Investigators believe the safe was removed between 4 p.m. Sunday and Monday morning.

Facilities Management radios stolen Motorola radios belonging to the Facil-

ities Management Department were stolen last week from the Buchanan Boulevard office. An employee in the recycling office told police the radios were last seen March 16 and missing the next day. The radios are worth $l,OOO. Car window shattered An employee reported March 8 that the back window of his Volvo had been shattered. Hugon Karwowski told police that he parked his 1997 Volvo 850 in the FEL parking lot and discovered the damage when he returned. No property appeared to be missing. Damage is estimated at $4OO. Diamond earrings stolen from hospital Diamond stud earrings belonging to a patient at Duke North Hospital were stolen March 7. William Jackson told police he gave a bag of his belongings to Duke personnel at 8 a.m. March 7, and when he returned at 4 p.m., the jewelry was missing. The value is $3OO. Computer monitor stolen from physics A flat screen computer monitor was stolen Friday from a room in the Physics Building. An employee last saw the Dell monitor in Room 09 at noon on Friday, and when she returned at 6 p.m., the monitor was gone. The monitor is worth $3OO. Hard and floppy drives stolen from Fuqua A hard drive and floppy drive were stolen from a computer March 15 in the Fuqua School of Business. An employee told police that the parts were last seen at 3 p.m. March 4. The drives were removed from a computer in a west team room.

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Furniture stolen from Randolph dorm Four couch cushions and a chair were stolen March 9 from a commons room in Randolph residence hall. Residence Life and Housing employees said they saw two men walking out of the residence hall with the property, which is worth $l2O.

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Gunn serves on the DSG cabinet as director of external computing. Strasser is a senator on the Athletics and Campus Services Committee and vice president of the sophomore class.

In a head-to-head contest, junior Christopher Chin and sophomore Joe Fore are pursuing the position of vice president of academic affairs. The elected student will deal with faculty-student interaction and direct cooperative efforts with the Arts and Sciences Council and faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering. Both Chin and Fore currently serve as senators on the Academic Affairs Committee.

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Currently the DSG public relations director, Sparkman will oversee the student affairs subcommittee and handle student-related issues—including residential life and event registration —if elected March 31.

DSG President Pasha Majdi, a senior said he is excited for the upcoming campaigns and has high hopes for the next wave of DSG leadership.

“I’m very confident that next year’s executive cotiftidil.'r. "MfFHK-: job,” Majdi said: will be very close, and I hope that everybody votes.”

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for a “growth model” of residential life that would allow seniors a more mature experience than freshmen. On multiple occasions he has also extolled the educational opportunities of a residential campus and the virtues of a liberal arts education.

But he has been adamant about his need to absorb Duke’s character before he develops firm opinions or

plans.

For the past 10 months, Brodhead has traversed campus talking with hundreds of students. Meeting with students in small groups of about 10, he has asked undergraduates what they think about their lives,at school and what distinguishes Duke. He has hosted gatherings at his home and his office, always interested in the way students view their education.

Students are waiting to see what the president will make of the Duke experience—where the same students who wrestle in baby oil spend Tuesday nights in the Gothic Reading Room.

“The next step for us is to see if what he says is in tune with what our own concept of undergraduate life is,” Pasha Majdi, president of Duke Student Government, said, “and if it isn’t, then our job is to convey that to him.”

Bumess, who read an early draft of the speech, said Brodhead has merged reactions from students and faculty with his own perceptions of Duke to identify areas where the University can improve its educational experience.

For many in the Duke community, today’s meeting marks a long-awaited shift from Brodhead’s period of learning to one of policy setting.

“It’s easy to believe that someone comes in as president and has a secret blueprint for every single issue that comes along,” Brodhead told The Chronicle in July. “If that were true of me, I should be impeached. People need to learn the place before they know what’s right and what’s wrong.”

Prior to becoming president of Duke, Brodhead served as dean of Yale College—essentially overseeing all aspects of undergraduate life from residential accommodations to academics. When the Board of Trustees named him to Duke’s top post, it highlighted his experience and expertise shaping undergraduate education there. Brodhead has been clear, though, that he does not intend to model Duke after Yale’s image.

Since arriving at Duke, he has commented little about undergraduate academics or the intellectual climate, which faculty and some students regularly describe as sluggish. Several senior administrators, however, have undertaken plans to improve advising and increase undergraduate research—programs Brodhead has supported.

At the December meeting of the Board of Trustees, the ultimate governing body of the University spent substantial time considering the undergraduate experience. Brodhead, however, will largely set the tone for any development.

CITY COUNCIL from pages before Mayor Bill Bell asked that they be removed in accordance with city council rules.

A majority of the council, including Bell, disagreed with the protesters’ conclusion that Hairston would provide a greater benefit to the community. City Manager Patrick Baker supported Blue Ridge Enterprises and Raleigh Durham Construction Company Inc. and cited commitments by the two contractors to hire more minorities and low-income workers.

Vincent Brown, Hairston’s principal partner, spoke to the council on behalf of many of the protesters.

“I am very saddened by our leadership in Durham,” he said.

Brown criticized the council for failing to address the city’s-impoverished minorities, using the Barnes Avenue contract as the most recent example. Hairston would, he claimed, create much needed work for the jobless and homeless in the area.

“You cry out that you want to help homeless but your actions show you don’t,” Brown said near the conclusion of his speech.

Monday’s vote was the culmination of a discussion that has extended since last December when Hairston filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Although the city voted March 8 to delay a vote on the contract in order to further examine the issue, the final result mirrored the council’s earlier sentiments.

GPSC from page 3 spoke about the results and how the survey defined stu-

dent satisfaction. He noted that, on average, students in the natural sciences and engineering were less satisfied with their programs than students in the nursing and divinity schools. Results were based on how highly students would recommend their programs to others, whether they would choose their programs again given the chance, student-faculty relationships and other categories rated on a scale of one to five.

Leanora Minai, senior public relations specialist for Duke University Police Department, and Eric Van Danen, director ofcommunications for the Office ofStudent Affairs, discussed campus safety. Both have been working for Duke for approximately four months and have spent their time building student relationships and

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“I want to better communicate issues and developments with students and act as a spokesperson,” Minai said. She has begun work on a new police department newsletter, the first of which will be published in April.

Minai said she wants to inform graduate and professional students about significant crime by notifying them of incidents that pose a significant threat to the Duke community through this newsletter as well as a policenews listserv.

“There is no common agreement of how students want to receive information,” Van Danen said. “We are trying to come up with some kind of system to meet the needs of everyone.”

In other business: GPSC will host their annual formal April 8 at the Museum of Life and Science.

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Although they were seeded 10th in 2004, Nevada had a superstar, Kirk Snyder, with a great supporting cast of underclassmen and one of the hottest youdg coaches in the business. Couple that with an easy draw—Nevada s second-round matchup was recent choke artist Gonzaga—and it was almost too simple to pencil the Wolf Pack into last year’s Sweet 16.

This year’s tournament has seen its share of upsets, but only a few mid-majors have made it as far as the Wolf Pack did in 2004. Nonetheless, these three teams in this year’s tournament have the potential for a deep run next March; Wisconsin-Milwaukee; No, they won’t beat Illinois Thursday, but in just four years, head coach Bruce Pearl has morphed the Panthers from a relative basketball backwater into one of the nation’s hottest mid-majors. Last season, Wisconsin-Milwaukee made its first NCAA Tournament. This season, Pearl has guided his team to its first Sweet. 16, extending his own career record to a ridiculous 297-72.

The secret to the Panthers’ success is a suffocating full-court press that has generated 41 turnovers in tournament victories over Alabama and Boston College.

Their all-out style doesn’t hurt, either—the Panthers probably had more hustle plays in their 85-73 win over BC Saturday than Rashad McCants had all season.

In 2006, they’ll still have the personnel to terrorize the Horizon League. Wisconsin-Milwaukee returns four starters from its tournament run this year, including budding star Joah Tucker, who buried Boston College with 23 points. With those players and their superstar coach back, the Panthers are primed to make another big splash in 2006.

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Chante Black and theBlue Devils are a very post-oriented team with Jessica Foley out with an injury.

Two teams, both battling injuries, square off tonight at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill with their sights set on a trip to Chatanooga, Tenn. and a spot in the Sweet 16.

Second-seeded Duke (294) is looking for its eighth straight trip to the NCAA Tournament regionals, but future ACC member and seventh seeded Boston College (20-9) stand in the Blue Devils’ way.

The game is set to tip off at 9:30 p.m.

“I think the teams are kind of similar in that we’ve both undergone some adversity with injuries,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I think they’ve really pulled together and are playing excellent basketball right now.”

The Eagles have gone just 5-5 since leading scorer Jessalyn Deveny was forced to the sidelines when she ruptured her right Achilles’ tendon Feb. 2. She had been averaging more than 17 points per contest.

In her absence, Brooke Queenan and Clare Droesch have increased their production to make up for the scoring deficiency. In Boston College’s 65-43 first round win over Houston, Droesch scored a season-high 23 points. It marked the fifth time in the last eight games she had scored in double figures.

“I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they are mostly team players and they aren’t selfish and work very hard,” Eagles head coach Cathy Inglese said of her team’s adjustments in Deveny’s absence. “I think over the last month or so we’ve become a better defensive team. They know SEE BC ON PAGE 10

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After two frustrating years, Duke’s midseason report shows the program is back on track. In fact, the team is off to its best start since 1998.

Ranked third nationally, Duke has a perfect 7-0 record and a leg up in conference play (it has a 2-0 record with one ACC game remaining). Most recently, the Blue Devils came from behind to beat rival North Carolina 12-10 on the road.

In five games against weaker teams, Duke has been in control, outscoring its opponents 57-30. Against top-tier Maryland and UNC on the road, the Blue Devils figured they would need to score in double digits and likewise hold the opposition to less than 10 goals. With the exception of one garbage score at the very end of Saturday’s contest in Chapel Hill, Duke has done that. It also managed to

put together decisive multi-goal spurts in the second half to overcome deficits in both of those games.

In contrast, Duke lost all three of its biggest games of 2004 by a single goal.

“When you go 7-0, it’s the level of consistency,” Duke coach Mike Pressler said of the key to his team’s success. “I’m not saying we have been great every week, but we haven’t had any of those valleys yet.

“Our guys have worked our tails off in practice. It’s a hungry team based on the past two years: 8-7, 5-8. The juniors and seniors don’t want to go down that road

again.”

Led by midfielders Brad Ross and Dan Oppedisano, Duke is far from in control of the face-off circle, winning 46 percent.

But the team isn’t scratching for possessions as it was last year—losing all of the SEE MEN’S LACROSSE ON PAGE 12

The Blue Devils, who play Vermont today at 3 p.m., have improved in the faceoff circle this season.

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Several players have stepped up when BC lost its leading scor er, but filling Jessalyn Deveny's shoes on the offensive end has proven challenging. The Eagles are just 5-5 since their star went down. Even though BC slipped from No. 16 in the nation when Deveny ruptured her Achilles Feb. 2, the team had little trouble on the offensive end, shooting 54 percent from the field in their opening round win

Duke is young but enough players have seen this stage before, and the Blue Devils have not lost prior to the Sweet 16 in eigh years. If the game gets close or Duke has a dry spell on the offensive end, Currie has shown she can take any contest over.

Boston College, without its top scorer, doesn't have a similar option if it gets in a bind. And although the crowd at the Smith Center isn't going to be huge, it should push Duke along.

Currie, who is one of four finalists for the Naismith trophy, will lead the usually does, even if she has to handle the ball more with Foley out. Du to Chattanooga to face sixth-seeded Georgia, which took out a dangero compile ed Texas team Monday. Duke wins, 70-55.

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Droesch sat out of Monday’s practice with a sore heel but said she does not expect it to affect her play tonight.

Meanwhile, the already short-handed Duke team is dealing with an injury to its three-point leader, Jessica Foley. The junior snapped a streak of 98 consecutive games played when she sat out the Blue Devils’ 80-48 victory over Canisius Sunday.

“I think she’s still questionable —I’d say day-to-day,” Goestenkors said. “She shot around today. She’s feeling better today than she did yesterday, so we’ll just have to wait and see.”

In Boston College’s defeat of Houston Sunday, the Eagles held the Cougars to just 21.2 percent shooting for the game, while connecting on half of their own shots. They have run an efficient offense all year long, ranking third in the nation in field goal percentage “Obviously they’re a good team,” Inglese said of Duke. “We hope that we can do some of the same things as far as our movement on offense is concerned, taking great shots and getting our defense down.”

The task will not be easy considering the Blue Devils are now the single season NCAA record holders for most blocks with 251. Sophomore Alison Bales has led the team with 124 of those rejections, which is 22 more than Duke’s opponents have recorded against the Blue Devils this year.

Her ability to protect the basket has allowed the team to change the way it defends, Goestenkors said. The Blue Devils have been able to take more chances around the perimeter since the players are confident that Bales and forward Mistie

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“She’s certainly a presence,” Inglese said of Bales on the defensive end. “She’s hovering around the key and forces you to do a few things you don’t want to do. But we have a few things that we want to do to try to take her out of that situation.”

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face-offs in its loss to UNC, for example Duke learned to cope with holding the ball less than its opponents last year, which seems to have carried over this season. The Blue Devils weathered a barrage of shots in the second half against Maryland March 5, making the most of the possessions they had.

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Last year, opposing defenses were able to key on attackman Matt Danowski. Improved play by linemate Dan Flannery (11 goals, seven assists this year) and the emergence of left-handed finisher freshman Zack Greer (23 goals, three assists) have freed up Danowski (12 goals, 12 assists) in 2005.

“We certainly are pleased,” Pressler said. “The thing for me is that the guys have played like they have practiced.”

The Blue Devils’ win streak will be on the line when they host Vermont today at 3 p.m. Vermont is an emerg-

ing program from a second-tier conference, America East. The Catamounts are strong defensively, led by goalie Mike Gabel, and they return six of their top eight scorers from a year ago.

Not that Pressler has begun to think about Duke’s next game, another road showdown against No. 5 Georgetown Saturday.

“We are going to take care of business,” Pressler said.

“We saw what happened to Syracuse in basketball with Vermont. If you don’t show up, you can be had.

“It’s on the bulletin board in the locker room —beat Vermont.”

With Duke’s permission, Vermont coach Steve Beville—whom Pressler is friendly with dating back to Pressler’s earlier days coaching at Ohio Wesleyan —and his Vermont squad are spending spring break in Durham.

The Catamounts are one of several teams to visit Durham this spring.

“When I was at Ohio Wesleyan, so many D-I schools would look down their nose at us,” Pressler said.

“We don’t open up to everybody, but to our friends we certainly do.”

NEXT YEAR from page 9 the most difficult of mid-major conferences, but they sure took care of business this season.

The Eagles went 15-1 in the Big South and ran off 18 consecutive wins before the tournament. The end result was a 27-6 record and a team that gave third-seeded Gonzagaall it could handle before falling in its first-round matchup.

“They had a swagger about them, they were playing with a great deal of confidence,” Gonzaga cbach Mark Few said after his team’s 74-64 win. “It reminded me of our first one in 1999.”

Not only do the Eagles know how to win, but they are extremely well-coached and play very well together as a team no Winthrop player scored more than 13.1 points per game last season, although six averaged better than six points per game. In addition, the Eagles are very young; Winthrop returns the top nine players in its rotation for the 2005-2006 season, six of whom are freshmen and sophomores.

Nevada: The Wolf Pack are no stranger to winning postseason games. This year marks the secppcj tive season Nevada has made a mn into the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

In fact, the team has set itself up for 2006 much like it did in 2004. New head coach Mark Fox has done an admirable job, winning 25 games in his rookie season. Like 2004, Nevada looks to have a superstar in Nick Fazekas, the WAC Player of the Year with nearly 22 points and 11 rebounds a game as a sophomore. He’ll be joined by guard Ramon Sessions, the WAC’s Freshman of the Year, physical junior forward Mo Charlo, who scored 12 points against Illinois Saturday and the rest of a Nevada team that loses just two major players.

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Playpens at school The lack of affordable child care fix it. The Divinity School addition is on campus was first raised during nearing completion and will add the Women’s Initiative study, and it 47,000 square feet of space. The addiremains an important issue. A tion will include a number of classdearth of child care can be a deter- rooms, seminar rooms and other rent to women purspaces; one of these St3tTG(lltori3l areas could easily be suing careers in academia, as they are made “child-friendly” often responsible for child care, so that parents could feel comfortable Likewise, a family-friendly environ- bringing their children to campus, Student parents could supervise ment could help Duke recruit and retain graduate and professional stu- their own children or help each other dents with families. out, or they could even bring their When the Women’s Initiative reown babysitters—and there are plenport was released in 2003, the Steerty of undergraduates on campus who ing Committee was proud of the fact could be up for such a job. Most gradthat it had already taken action on uate students do not need full time, 8 some of the problems identified, noa.m. to 6 p.m. day care. They need tably the lack of affordable child care child supervision for the few hours a on campus. Sure enough, an expanday when they are in class or working, sion to the Children’s Campus was and with appropriate space on camcompleted before the report’s repus this becomes a much easier task. lease, nearly doubling the on-campus It is not the University’s job to sinchild care center’s capacity and opengle-handedly provide child care for ing it up to children of graduate and all parents at Duke, but to the extent professional students. The center was that it can assist with its students’ previously only open to children of needs, it should certainly do so. Even faculty and staff. if Graduate Student Affairs is not Even with the expansion, however, making the arrangements, it can and there are only 153 spots available at should offer students who wish to orthe Children’s Campus, and the cost ganize their own co-ops or other lowof about $l,OOO per child per month cost child care options on campus the remains out of the reach of many advice and basic support they need. graduate and professional students.

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we approach the season of the the Middle East expert Stephen Cohen, Nobel Peace Prize, I would like to “Sistani did not build his politics on negatnominate the spiritual leader of ing someone else.”

Saddam built his politics around negatIraq’s Shiites, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, for this year’s medal. I’m serious. ing America, Iran and Israel. Arafat built his If there is a decent outcome in Iraq, whole life around negating Zionism President George W. Bush will deserve, and rarely, if ever, speaking about Palestinian receive, real credit for creating the condieconomic development or education. The tions for democratization there, by daring politics of negation has a deep and rich histo topple Saddam Hussein. tory in the Middle East, because so many But we tend to talk about Iraq as if itis all leaders there are illegitimate and need to about us and what we do. If some kind of negate someone to justify their rule.

What al-Sistani, the late Lebanese Sunni democracy takes root there, it will also be due in large measure to the leader Rafik Hariri and the instincts and directives of new Palestinian President the dominant Iraqi Shiite thomas friedman Mahmoud Abbas all have in communal leader, al-Sistani common is that theyJ rose to guest commentary r It was al-Sistani who inon a posrpower by focusing sisted that there had to be a live agenda for their own direct national election in Iraq, rejecting people, not negating another. the original goofy U.S. proposal for regionThe second thing that al-Sistani did was al caucuses. put the people and their aspirations at the It was al-Sistani who insisted that the center of Iraqi politics, not some narrow elections not be postponed in the face of elite or self-appointed clergy (see; Iran), which is what the Iraqi election was all the Baathist-fascist insurgency.

And it was al-Sistani who ordered Shiites about. In doing so he has helped to legitnot to retaliate for the Sunni Baathist and jiimize “people power” in a region where it hadist attempts to drag them into a civil war was unheard of. by attacking Shiite mosques and massacring In Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine—where Shiite civilians.

Hamas recently said it would take part in In many ways, al-Sistani has played the parliamentary elections—the ballot box role for Bush that Nelson Mandela and and popular support, not just the gun, are Mikhail Gorbachev played for the elder showing signs of becoming real sources of George Bush. legitimacy. Both Hezbollah and Hamas will It was Mandela’s instincts and leaderhave to prove—with turnout, not terrorship—in keeping the transition to black ism—that they are entitled to a larger slice rule in South Africa nonviolent—that ofpower.

Third, and maybe most important, al-Sishelped the Bush I administration and its allies bring that process in for a soft landing. tani brings to Arab politics a legitimate, And it was Gorbachev’s insistence that pragmatic interpretation of M'atn, dfie' th&t the dismantling of the Soviet Empire, and says Islam should inform politics and the particularly East Germany, be nonviolent constitution, but clerics should not rule. that brought the Soviet Union in for a soft The process of democratizing the Arab world is going to be long and bumpy. But landing.

In international relations, as in sports, it the chances for success are immeasurably is often better to be lucky than good. And improved when we have partners from withhaving the luck to have history deal you a in the region who are legitimate but have Mandela, a Gorbachev or an al-Sistani as progressive instincts. That is al-Sistani. your partner at a key historical juncture—as Lady Luck has shined on us by keeping alive this 75-year-old ayatollah, who resides opposed to a Yasser Arafat or a Robert Mugabe—can make all the difference between in a small house in a narrow alley in Najaf U.S. policy looking brilliant and U.S. policy and almost never goes out the door. How someone with his instincts and wisdom looking futile.

Al-Sistani has also contributed three critcould have emerged from the train wreck ical elements to the democracy movement that was Saddam’s Iraq, I will never know. in the wider Arab world.

All I have to say is: May he live to be 120 First, he built his legitimacy around not and give that man a Nobel Prize. just his religious-scholarly credentials but around a politics focused on developing ThomasFriedman is a syndicated columnistfor Iraq for Iraqis. To put it another way, says The New York Times.

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sits today at the University ofArkansas at Little be released. The possibility would be a caveat to tenure and Rock a bright young scholar. She obtained her docetched into all contracts, eliminating the specter oflawsuits. torate from Harvard and produced a well received It is important to include other elite schools in die system so dissertation. Her research at UALR has been stellar and that Duke does not put itself at a competitive disadvantage. her teaching has been inspiring. She’s happy enough at Think about the vast positive implications of such a sysUALR but sometimes wonders what it would be like to tem. Motivated scholars would be unaffected, but diose few teach at an Ivy League or comparable institution. So far, with lagging efforts would suddenly feel a distant force imthey aren’t calling. pelling them to perform—an obligation felt in nearly every Another bright young Ph.D. is sitting at home, scanning other American profession. The quality of Duke’s teaching the classifieds. His dissertation was fine and his graduate and research could only improve, however imperceptibly. school was plenty respectable. But it’s tough to get a univerWhen the unproductive oudiers are thankfully fired, unsity job, and for the time being, his formidable credentials deremployed professors from other universities will be able to step in and immediately improve Duke’s just aren’t enough. Meanwhile, here at Duke, an augusdy proportioned professor faculty. Qualified-butjobless scholars can fill toasts the arrival of spring. Time to get out the void at less prestigious universities. The in the yard and appease the old ball and university faculty job market, which currentchain. Time to strut around the Washingly offers too few positions for extremely able ton Duke jogging trail and shed those winapplicants, can enjoy a beneficial correction. ter pounds. Time to cook up some of that Who might object to such a system? NatNorth Carolina barbecue that he has been urally, the faculty. Unchecked tenure exists several reasons, one ofwhich is the sense enjoying for, oh, the last 30 years. He might andrew collins for make a few forays into his office or the liof relief it confers on the scholar who has hazzards of duke been poor, insecure and overworked since brary, but diere’s really no rush. He is, after all, a tenured professor, and he has every time immemorial. Sorry, but this argument holds no water when you look at the right to freeload for the rest of his life.

Not a bad situation for Contestant #3, eh? He takes it easy plumbers, businessmen and waiters who work just as hard and nobly but will never enjoy perfect job security. at the expense of the UALR professor, the unemployed Another justification for tenure, this one more legitischolar, his students, his fellow faculty members and the Duke administration. Few, if any, Duke professors resemble mate, is that it protects scholars from being canned due to this bum. Duke has a numberof protections against this sort personality clashes with capricious administrators or beof loafing —from hiring only serious scholars at the outset to cause they conduct controversial research. Academic freedom is indeed a critical commodity and must be protected. subjecting all tenure candidates to a rigorous and multitiered promotion process. Even those with declining reThat’s why any release of a tenured professor should be subsearch or teaching quality can usually ascribe the letdown to ject to approval by the Academic Council as well as the appropriate deans. This will ensure that the firing is rare and a legitimate cause, like the birth of a child or an administrative appointment. only occurs in the most egregious cases of disregard for But to the extent that even one professor consistently Duke’s standards.

Look, I’m not calling for the end of tenure. It’s one of abuses his .tenure privileges and becomes a long-term drain on Duke and the academic job market, the administration the unique features necessary for the unique environment should have the right to terminate him. It can currendy do of a university. But by denying the administration an escape so in extraordinary cases but rarely does because of the hatch, everyone but the freeloaders suffers. Let’s make it a threat of campus turmoil and lawsuits. Duke should work better system. with its elite peer institutions to establish an annual “release Andrew Collins is a Trinity senior and former University Editor allotment” of a few faculty members per university. Under this framework, a few freeloading professors per year could of The Chronicle. His column appears Tuesdays.

X-celling over men

Men

are always telling me not to generalize about ofjust a single kind of cell throughout.”

This means men’s generalizations about women are corthem.But a startling new study shows that science is rect, too. Women are inscrutable, changeable, crafty, idiome here.

Research last week up backing published in the journal Nature reveals that women are genetically syncratic, a different species. “Women’s chromosomes have more complex than scientists ever imagined, while men remore complexity, which men view as unpredictability,” said David Page, a molecular biologist and expert on sex evolumain the simple creatures they appear. tion at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in “Alas,” said one of the authors of the study, the Duke University genome expert Dr. Huntington Willard, “genetically Cambridge, Mass. Known as Mr. Y, Dr. P calls himself “the speaking, if you’ve met one man, you’ve met them all. We defender of the rotting Y chromosome.” He’s referring to are, I hate to say it, predictable. You can’t say that about studies showing that the Y chromosome has been shedding genes willy-nilly for millions ofyears and is women. Men and women are farther apart now a fraction of the size of its partner, the than we ever knew. It’s not Mars or Venus. maureen dowd It’s Mars or Venus, Pluto, Jupiter and who X chromosome. “The Y married up,” he knows what other planets.” Women are not notes. “The X married down.” guest commentary Size matters, so some experts have sugdifferent from men than we only more gested that in 10 million years or even much knew. Women are more different from each other than we knew—creatures of“infinite variety,” as Shakesooner—100,000 years—men could disappear, taking Maxim magazine, March Madness and cold pizza in the morning wrote speare “We poor men only have 45 chromosomes to do our work with them.

Page drolly conjures up a picture of the Y chromosome with because our 46th is the pathetic Y that has only a few as “a slovenly beast,” sitting in his favorite armchair, surknees,” which below the waist and above the genes operate Willard observed. “In contrast, we now know that women rounded by the litter of old fast-food takeout boxes. “The have the full 46 chromosomes that they’re getting work from Y wants to maintain himself but doesn’t know how,” he and the 46th is a second X that is working at levels greater said. “He’s falling apart, like the guy who can’t manage to than we knew.” Willard and his co-author, Laura Carrel, a get a doctor’s appointment or can’t clean up the house or molecular biologist at the Pennsylvania State University Colapartment unless his wife does it. I prefer to think of the Y of think that their discovery may help explain as persevering and noble, not as the Rodney Dangerfield lege Medicine, why the behavior and traits of men and women are so differ- of the human genome.”

Page says the Y—a refuge throughout evolution for any ent; they maybe hard-wired in the brain, in addition to being gene that is good for males and/or bad for females—has hormonal or cultural.

So is Lawrence Summers right after all? “Only time will become “a mirror, a metaphor, a blank slate on which you can write anything you want to think about males.” It has intell,” Willard laughs. The researchers learned that a whopto the on the second spired cartoon gene maps that show the belching gene, the genes ping 15 percent —200 300—of X chromosome in women, thought to be submissive and inability-to-remember-birthdays-and-anniversaries gene, the inert, lolling about on an evolutionary Victorian fainting fascination-with-spiders-and-reptiles gene, the selectivecouch, are active, giving women a significant increase in hearing-loss-”Huh” gene, the inability-to-express-affectiongene expression over men. As the New York Times science on-the-phone gene.

The discovery about women’s superior gene expression reporter Nicholas Wade, who is writing a book about answer the age-old question about why men have troumay it to me: human evolution and genetics, explained “Women are mosaics, one could even say chimeras, in the ble expressing themselves: because their genes do. sense that they are made up of two different kinds ofcell.

Maureen Dowd is a syndicated columnistfor The New York Times.

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DSG senate recently passed a constitutional amendment submitted by sophomore Joe Fore and senior Chase Johnson that addresses “Academic Expectations and Responsibilities.” It will be presented to students as a referendum during the Executive elections on March 31. We should consider this legislation carefully, as it represents an opportunity to define the type of community we wish to build.

The amendment, if passed, would address several aspects of campus life. More a statement of principles than a concrete set of policies, it asserts the value and necessity of intellectual discourse and scholarly achievement.

Moreover, it describes the type of climate necessary for these things to take place. I think students will find that it is precisely what we need at this stage of our de-

velopment.

After myriad portrayals ofcampus life by Tom Wolfe and others as definingly “hook-up” obsessed, there is a sense of disillusionment regarding even the most prestigious universities.

It seems that perhaps they are not the scholarly bastions we once assumed. Duke, about which national headlines seem to always involve david kleban basketball or baby oil, leather-bound books faces an especially difficult identity crisis.

As we often reassure ourselves, the Duke undergraduate community is one of the most talented and intelligent in the country.

But in order for this outstanding group to fully realize its potential, we need to foster the type of climate described in Fore’s amendment—one “where the intellectual experience permeates daily campus life.”

The legislation attempts to find a balance between students’ own responsibilities and the expectations they can reasonably have regarding their academic experience.

For example, it unambiguously upholds the Community Standard as an ethical guide but requires instructors to make clear precisely what behavior is and is not acceptable in each particular course.

Other provisions aim to guarantee vital components of an undergraduate education. Academic advising is addressed in the legislation, which highlights the need for “advice from someone in [an advisee’s] chosen field of study, or, for undeclared students, from someone well-versed in a breadth of academic options, based on the student’s interests.”

Whether such advising is presently available must be determined and addressed, but the importance of this inquiry is established by the amendment in question.

The overall vision presented is of an atmosphere where students of diverse talents, interests and goals find unity in their common devotion to learning. More than just a group of individuals seeking easy admittance to Wall Street or medical school, Duke would be a community of scholars who are largely responsible for their own education.

We cannot expect the simple passage of the amendment to have any immediate effects of its own. But as a statement of direction, it will serve as a guide to future legislation that will shape the Duke experience.

Because it will be presented for the student body’s approval, the DSG amendment has the potential to be truly significant.

Rather than having our rights and responsibilities dictated from above, we will be able to declare for ourselves the type of climate in which we want to study.

This is why, before voting for the amendment, students should familiarize themselves with its vision and make sure that it is in line with theirs.

If the amendment is passed, it will only be a small step towards realizing the goals it sets forth. Elegant, smart policymaking is the next step —a fact that DSG is surely aware of.

But this does not diminish the significance of a statement by the Duke student body that it is serious about building a Duke Community—one based on scholarship, integrity and respect.

David Kleban is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears every other Tuesday.

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