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Rose Proctor is a typical second grader. A little bit shy, she enjoys playing on the computer and someday hopes to become a brain surgeon, a crime scene investigator or a repairperson.

When asked who her favorite people were, Rose was hesitant at first, but then sputtered out a barely audible, “Miss Lisa,” referring to Lisa Lambert, a staff member of the Ronald McDonald House of Durham.

Life has been all but fair to the eight-year old as she has spent the past seven months as an outpatient at Duke University

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The Ronald McDonald House plans to create a family room in Duke Hospital.

Medical Center undergoing chemotherapy for Ewing’s sarcoma—tumorous cancer of the brain and lungs. For the past month, Rose—along with her mother, Debra Proctor —has time between in spent chemotherapy sessions as guests at the RMH, located on Alexander Street of Central campus.

“It really helps to talk to families that are going through we’re everything going through,” said Debra, a housewife from Elm City, N.C. “We love it here.”

This year marks RMH of Durham’s 25th anniversary.

The 23-room lodge serves as a hostel for families outside a 50-mile radius .that..have, children staying at the hospital and provides warm beds, hot meals and activities like bingo every night.

“A home away from home is what we call it,” said Debra.

“We would have been in debt big time if we had to stay at a motel.”

Howard Stern, RMH Director of Development, fully believes in the value of the house.

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After a lengthy discussion about how to combat the rapidly increasing cost of health insurance, the University has decided to maintain its current insurance plan for next year.

Premiums will rise 21.3 percent next year, meaning that a single subscriber will pay $1,589. Including a family on the plan will cost an additional $3,392.

In an effort to reduce costs,

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Darfur Sophomore Naike Swai writes a letter to President George W. Bush on the steps of Chapel Quadrangle Monday concerning the Darfur genocide, calling for the government to take action

ducing benefits. Ultimately, though, the group decided to leave the plan unchanged—deductibles, reimbursement percentages and maximum out-ofpocket costs will remain constant next year.

Jean Hanson, administrative director for Student Health, said the decision to keep the health plan as is came after serious discussion based on research that started in January—two months earlier than normal. “When it SEE INSURANCE ON PAGE 6

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The $ll5 million French Science Center slowly rises behind the Biological Sciences

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When he came to campus five years ago, zoology and ecology graduate student Mario Vallejo-Marin remembers sharing his lab bench with nine other students.

As he sat looking out at two cranes building Duke’s newest research megacomplex Monday, Vallejo-Marin looks forward to late next year when his departments will move into the $ll5 million French Science Center.

Slated for completion in December 2006, the facility behind the Biological Sciences Building will provide much needed laboratory space and interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities for \mdergraduates, graduates and faculty in the sciences—especially biology and chemistry. When it is completed, the center will be the final piece, following the Levine Science and Research Center and the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences, in the University’s threefold

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plan to improve science and engineering facilities.

“The introductory biology lab space and the intermediate level biology lab space is horrendous. It’s almost an embarrassment,” said Dean of Natural Sciences Stephen Nowicki. “When you have some of the best students in the world and some of the best professors in the world, you want them to be meeting in some of the best labs in the world.”

FSC irdesigned to be flexible, Nowicki said. Unlike the Gross Chemistry Building, the new facility will be able to adapt to the changing needs of the departments as advances occur. Any of the spaces can be modified to meet new research demands without major overhauls, guaranteeing the building’s use well into the future, Nowicki said.

The building will also promote crossdisciplinary exchanges between members of the sciences, Nowicki added, since laboSEE CENTER ON PAGE 8

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Cardinals undecided after Ist vote

by Brian Murphy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY Black smoke streamed from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney Monday to signal that cardinals failed to select a new pope in their first round of voting, held just hours after they began their historic task: finding a leader capable of building on John Paul IPs spiritual energy while keeping modern rifts from tearing deeper into the church.

“It seems white.... No, no, it’s black!” reported Vatican Radio as the first pale wisps slipped out from the narrow pipe and then quickly darkened.

As millions around the world watched on television, at least 40,000 people waited in St. Peter’s Square with all eyes on the chimney, where smoke from the burned ballots would give the first word of the conclave: white meaning a new pontiff, black showing that the secret gathering will continue Tuesday.

In the last moments of twilight, the pilgrims began to point and gasp. “What is it?

White? Black?” hundreds cried out. In a few seconds—at about 8:05 p.m.—it was clear the 115 cardinals from six continents could not find the two-thirds majority needed to elect the new leader for the world’s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics. Only one vote was held Monday.

Few expected a quick decision. The cardinals have a staggering range of issues to juggle. In the West, they must deal with the fallout from priest sex-abuse scandals

Delay favored for Gaza pullout Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday he favors a three-week delay in Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements this summer, ostensibly because of a Jewish mourning period marking the destruction of the biblical temples.

Woman wins fourth marathon After trailing by four football fields at the halfway point of the Boston Marathon, Catherine Ndereba, the Kenyan known as "Catherine the Great," caught Elfenesh Alemu to win an unprecedented fourth women's title Monday, finishing in 2:25.13.

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Black smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel, signaling a new Pope has not yet been selected. and a chronic shortage of priests and nuns. Elsewhere, the church is facing calls for sharper activism against poverty and an easing of its ban on condoms to help combat AIDS. The next pontiff also must maintain the global ministry ofJohn Paul, who took 104 international trips in his 26-year papacy and is already being hailed as a saint by many faithful.

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It was the first time in more than a generation that crowds stared at the chimney for the famous smoke and word of a new pope. In that time, the church has been pulled in two directions: a spiritual renais-

N.C. education jobs at stake The state could eliminate hundreds of university jobs and reduce public school teaching positions next year without additional revenue. Gov. Mike Easley has asked for $3O million more this coming year to assist poor school districts and at-risk children.

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Durham City Council approved a slew ofinitiatives as part of its ‘strategic budget,’ including housing renovations and road construction, as well as yet another extension to the America Theater for the Performing Arts Associates’ planning timeline.

The meeting commenced with residents of the Mutual Heights rental housing complex voicing their concerns over the implications of proposed renovations, which will require the temporary removal ofmany elderly residents.

Some residents, supported in their concerns by council members, asked developers to address the question of how well the plan will facilitate the “human” element of the move.

The group of about 20 residents of Mutual Heights —an area known for its low rate of crime and sufficient employment since the 1950s—recognized the importance of the $500,000 in renovations but stressed their concerns over the

Graduate NEW HAVEN, Conn. teaching assistants at Yale and Columbia Universities kicked off a five-day strike Monday, an effort organizers hope will force Ivy League administrators to recognize them as a union.

It was the first multicampus strike for Ivy League graduate student teachers, who face an uphill battle to win recognition.

University administrators say the strikes should have minimal effect on classes. The number of strikers was not immediately available because graduate students teach classes at different times throughout the day.

The graduate students taking part have pledged not to teach classes, grade papers or host review sessions this week. Their demands include health care for family members and a grievance process that would allow student teachers to raise concerns with the universities.

“Quite a few classes have been either canceled or moved off campus,” said Dehlia Hannah, a philosophy graduate student at Columbia. Yale organizers did not advocate moving classes off campus as

plan’s implementation.

“It’s just like an ocean,” said resident Ellawease Bridges of the flooding from a ditch near her home.

The council also allocated $300,000 to assist in the building of a 60-unit cottagestyle housing complex on East Carver Street in North Durham.

The new complex will target citizens ages 55 and over with incomes below 60 percent of the area’s median income—currendy about $43,000 for a family of four—and will offer rental rates as low as $3lO per month.

The council went on to discuss several road reconstruction projects and an extension granted for the city’s long-awaited art theater center.

an option.

The National Labor Relations Board ruled last year that teaching assistants are students, not workers, and cannot form unions. For the students to get union recognition, the universities would have to grant it voluntarily.

Pro-union groups say universities are increasingly relying on their services and should pay them accordingly. Administrators say teaching, research and grading are part of the educational experience for grad students.

While the arrangements vary, graduate students typically receive free tuition

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Sherman Alexie, Native American writer, spoke Monday about warriors, including his WWil veteran grandfather and Seattleliberals dressed as sea turtles.This was a part ofthe Blackburn Literary Festival.

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crimebriefs Ring removed from patient’s finger A patient's diamond ring was reported stolen April 12 from Duke Hospital North. The ring was removed for a procedure April 5, a family member told police, and then put back on the patient's hand the next day. On April 11, when the family member visited the patient, the ring was missing from her finger, according to a report. The ring is valued at SIO,OOO. Police investigating Epworth fire Fire and police officials are investigating an intentionally set fire on the balcony of Epworth residence hall. Emergency crews responded to the blaze at 11:50 a.m.

April 14. No one was hurt, and the second floor balcony floor sustained about $4OO in damage.

Knife-brandishing woman in ER taken into police custody A woman who brandished a knife April 16 in the Medical Center emer-

from staff and police reports gency room was taken into custody without incident. When officers responded to the hospital at 3:47 p.m., they found the woman holding a five-inch knife above her head. Officers drew their firearms and told the woman to drop the knife. An officer administered pepper spray, and the woman eventually dropped the knife and was taken into custody.

Laptop stolen from office An employee's laptop was stolen April 15 from her office in the Biological Sciences Building. The employee told police she left her office for five minutes, and when she returned, the computer was missing from her desk. The HP laptop is worth $4,000.

Laptop lifted from dorm room A student's laptop was stolen April 13 from his room in Epworth residence hall. The student told police he left his Dell laptop on his desk when he went to

class at 1:15 p.m.. and when he returned 2:30 p.m., it was gone. The computer is worth $1,500.

head woman’s basketball coach Gail Goestenkors. The unknown caller left the message at 10:59 p.m. April 9.

Laptop stolen from Sanford A student's laptop was stolen April 14 from the Sanford Institute for Public Policy. The student told police she left her $l,OOO laptop in Room 102 at 5:30 p.m.

She returned at 11 p.m. and the laptop was gone.

Student’s purse stolen from tent table A student's purse was stolen April 17 from a party tent in the West Quad. The student, told police she had been sitting with friends in the tent near the West Union building. She left her purse on a table at 12:30 a.m., and when she returned at 1 a.m., the purse was gone.

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Coach receives message from threatening caller Police are investigating a threatening phone call made to the office of Duke

Credit cards stolen from purse Credit cards were stolen April 12 from the Facilities Management Department on Buchanan Boulevard. An employee told police she left her office area for a short time, and when she returned, two credit cards and an ATM card were missing from her purse.

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Armstrong to retire after Tour by

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AUGUSTA, Ga. Lance Armstrong is retiring after this year’s Tour de France, ending a cycling career in which he inspired millions by overcoming testicular cancer to win his sport’s signature event a record six straight times.

Armstrong said he remains “fully committed” to winning his seventh-straight Tour de France this year and is strongly driven “by that dream to go out on top. That’s a big deal to me.”

“It will be the last one, win or lose,” the 33-year-old Texan said at a news conference Monday.

The Tour de France ends July 24.

Armstrong said he began thinking about retirement after his victory last year. Spending a month away from his children recently helped to seal the decision.

“That was much more difficult that it had been before,” he said. “They are at a stage now where they change daily, if not hourly.... It’s time for me to not miss key moments in their lives.”

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“Ultimately, athletes have to retire... the body doesn’t just keep going and going,” Armstrong said.

But, Armstrong acknowledged, their competitiveness often does.

He said that while watching a recent cycling race on TV with his girlfriend, musician Sheryl Crow, he was so stirred by the competition, “I couldn’t sit down the entire race.”

Crow then challenged him on his retirement decision.

“She said ‘Look at you. You can’t even sit down. How are you going to retire?”’ Armstrong said. “It’s a great question. I have to tell you lam 100 percent committed and the decision is final.”

Still, come next year, Armstrong knows he’ll probably want to climb back onto the bike.

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which is key to America’s exit strategy in the two-year-old war.

“The city is now under full control,” interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s office said, adding that 10 suspected insurgents were arrested and large amounts of weapons seized.

In Baghdad, Iraq’s most powerful Shiite bloc said it wants ousted leader Saddam Hussein put to death if he is convicted of war crimes. If the interim president will not sign the execution order, he should resign, an alliance spokesperson told The Associated Press.

“This is something that cannot be discussed at all,” said Ali al-Dabagh, a lawmaker from the Shiite clergy-led United Iraqi Al-

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MADAIN, Iraq Hundreds of Iraqi security forces launched an operation Monday to root out Sunni insurgents at the tip of Iraq’s “Triangle of Death,” but found no hostages despite reports that up to 100 Shiites may have been seized.

Iraqi forces fanned through the dusty streets of Madain and took positions on rooftops in the town south of Baghdad, while Sunni leaders dismissed the reports of a hostage crisis as a hoax.

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Interim President Jalal Talabani was quoted by the Bridsh Broadcasdng Corp.

Monday as saying he likely would abstain from signing any execution order because of his opposition to the death penalty.

“I personally signed a call for ending execution throughout die world, and I’m respecting my signature,” Talabani told the BBC. He conceded dial he was probably alone in die government in holding this view. No date has been set for Saddam’s trial.

Madain is an agricultural town ofabout 1,000 families, evenly divided between Shiites and Sunnis, located at the northern edge of a region considered to be a strong-

hold of the Sunni insurgency. When an AP photographer joined hundreds of police entering the town Monday, they met no resistance and found no hostages.

National Security Minister Qassim Dawoud had warned parliament Sunday of attempts to draw the country into sectarian war. Monday, he pledged to “chase down terror everywhere” and said Iraqi forces had discovered mines, ammunition and bomb-making equipment along with six completed car bombs in Madain.

Those detained included four “sword men” believed to have conducted killings for the insurgents, nadonal security adviser SEE

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a direct result of illnesses,” he said. “How many of these families would have gone into bankruptcy if they weren’t staying here? This place is a blessing. It’s God’s work here on earth.”

Although the house has been operating out of a single facility for a quarter of a century, officials said plans are in the works to expand services. These plans include the construction of a family room at DUMC and the renovation of a property that was just purchased to be converted into a second facility.

The RMH family room—which will be located in the Intensive Care Unit on the fifth floor of DUMC—is the first priority of the two projects for RMH. “The institution doesn't have much space at all for helping these people be as comfortable as they need to be,” said Dr. John Falletta, chair of the DUMC Institutional Review Board and member of the RMH board. “In fact, one could argue it is needed in every hospital where children are cared for.”

The family room will be a place where those who live within 50 miles of Duke, or who do not want to leave their sick chil-

dren for very long, can visit, take a shower, do a little bit of laundry or write e-mails to family and friends.

Officials said the need to establish a room was prompted by requests made by patients’ families that needed a place to stay during the day. The 500-square-foot room will feature reclining chairs, computers with Internet access, a quiet area, a fully-stocked kitchenette, shower and laundry facilities.

“We want it to be more like a living room than a waiting room,” said Edith Rosenblatt, coordinator of pediatric volunteer services for Duke Children’s Health Center and former president of RMH. “It’s going to be a place for families to come in and regroup.... [lt will] give families who don’t want to leave their child a place to cry, rest and shower.”

Rosenblatt added there should not be any overlap between services offered at the RMH facility and the family room.

“We’re not duplicating any services available to families already, we’re adding to them,” she said.

Although the room is slated for completion by the end of June, actual construction on the room has yet to begin.

Nevertheless, Rosenblatt is fully confident that once completed, the room will

INSURANCE from page! comes right down to it, it’s really the students’ vote that counts,” she said.

The committee made an effort this year to solicit opinions from the general student body, said Rob Saunders, community affairs coordinator for the Graduate and Professional Student Council. GPSC administered a survey in March that revealed students would rather maintain benefits than reduce services for a marginal cut in premiums.

Although the University’s health plan is administered

by Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina, Duke’s rates are determined solely by its subscribers’ claims.

Much of the public debate about next year’s plan centered on the disparity between the claim rates of single students and families. Last year, families in Duke’s plan logged an average claim that was about double what they paid in premiums; single students on average claimed

be everything the administrators, patients and staff could hope it would be.

“I think it’s going to be really popular,” she said. “We’re looking for tons and tons of volunteers because that’s the only way it’ll be able to run.”

In addition, the RMH recendy purchased the property formerly known as Campus Arms Motel Apartments located on Elba Street across from Duke Hospital North. This property will house the second facility for RMH once renovations are complete. Officials estimate the cost of purchasing and renovating the property will be $3 million.

With the addition of the second facility, RMH will have a total of 49 rooms available to families of hospital patients.

“We have 23 bedrooms now and we keep them full all the time,” Rosenblatt said, adding that more often than not there is also a waitlist offamilies hoping to be able to stay at RMH. Although RMH has already purchased the property, officials have yet to garner the funds needed for renovating and converting the apartments into what it takes to be an RMH. “The money will come from contributions of families, corporations, foundations—benevolent organizations of all

about $250 less than they paid. The health plan services about 268 families and 4,700 single students.

The University mandates that all full-time students maintain health insurance. About 78 percent of Duke’s health plan subscribers are graduate students.

“We sort ofrealized that there needs to be a lot of work done on the Duke side to really help us with the spiraling costs,” said Saunders, who has served on the Student Health Insurance Advisory Group for severalyears. “We’ve done as much as we can about looking through the plan and doing what we can.”

Hanson said Student Health plans to study ways to reduce the cost of care, particularly for family members.

Spouses and children of students are currently not eligible to visit Student Health, which means all of their doctor’s visits results in insurance claims. Hanson said the University would investigate a partnership with area physicians and other means to improve care for non-student subscribers.

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Rose Proctor and mother Debra relax at the Ronald McDonald House of Durham.

portion of it will come from the McDonald's Corporation—that will represent a small fraction of the total,” Falletta said. “We don’t have the money yet to really get going, but we're in a vigorous fundraising activity.”

Falletta said officials are looking to begin renovating the property within the next few months. However, no concrete timetable is set. sorts. A

The University also might consider expanding the operating hours of the Student Health Center to cut down on emergency room visits, she added.

In the meantime, Saunders advised students to contact their department chairs if they are concerned that their annual stipends are insufficient to cover health insurance costs.

“I think the fear is that people will start leaving the plan and go to some cut-rate insurance,” Saunders said, explaining that some companies are able to offer extremely cheap insurance by slashing benefits. Such plans, however, expose subscribers to greater risk of maxing out benefits.

People who leave Duke’s plan also tend to submit fewer claims, which keeps the overall cost of insurance down.

When those students defect, Saunders said, it increases the average payout per subscriber.

“That’s adding an extra layer of complexity to an already problematic situation,” he said.

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Mouwafak al-Rubaie said. Cells for holding prisoners were also found, he said.

The country’s most-feared insurgent group, al-Qaida in Iraq, denied any fighters were captured in Madain, saying in a statement posted on an Islamic Web site that only unarmed Sunni civilians were detained.

Six Iraqi police and special forces battalions, each of which typically includes about 300 troops, participated in the operation, the Interior Ministry said.

Fewer than 200 American troops were on standby to help, including providing air cover, the U.S. military said.

Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, a spokesperson for the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, said it was the first time that Iraqi forces had conducted an operation of this scale on their own. He called it a “significant step forward” for the Iraqis.

Streets were largely deserted as the troops moved in, searching farms and orchards on the outskirts of town as American helicopters circled overhead. At one farm, they found stolen cars, bomb-making materials, training equipment and instructions on how to use weapons, the AP photographer said. He saw no evidence of hostages.

Shiite leaders and government officials initially claimed Sunni militants captured up to 100 Shiites in and around Madain last week and were threatening to kill them unless all Shiites left the area. Over the weekend, Iraqi police and military circled the town and raided suspected hideouts.

By Monday, however, Iraqi officials had produced no hostages, and some were saying the number taken had been exaggerated for political purposes.

Madain residents; the Association of Muslim Scholars, an organization ofSunni clerics; and al-Qaida in Iraq denied any hostages had been taken. Al-Qaida in Iraq said the claim was used to justify a military attack on Madain aimed at Sunnis.

Monday, about 150 Shiites from nearby Hurriyah village staged a demonstration in Baghdad, weeping and holding photos of 18 males they said had been missing for about 10 days. In another protest in Baghdad, hundreds of Shiites demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and condemned all terrorist attacks against Iraqis.

sance under John Paul but battered by scandals and a flock pressing for less

rigid teachings.

But in chilly St. Peter’s Square, thoughts were only on who will next appear under the crimson drapes at the basil-

ica’s central window as the 265th pontiff.

“We thought it was white, then it went black. I had a feeling of exhilaration followed by disappointment,” said Harold Reeves, a 35-year-old theology student from Washington.

Added 20-year-old Italian student Silvia Mariano: “You can’t describe the feeling.

When the smoke came out it looked white and I got chills.”

Even before the conclave began, one of the possible candidates—German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger —tried to set a tone of urgency.

His homily in a special memorial Mass for the pope warned that the church must take a strict line about moral drift and “a dictatorship of relativism” that fights the idea of absolute truths.

“Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today

as a fundamentalism,” said Ratzinger, 78, who has been the Vatican’s chief overseer of doctrine since 1981. “Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and ‘swept along by every wind of teaching,’ looks like the only attitude acceptable to today’s standards.”

Only after listing a series of perceived threats to the church—from Marxism to “radical individualism”—did he note the duty ahead for the cardinals, who must remain cut off from all outside contact until they pick a new pontiff.

“At this time, above all, we pray with insistence to the Lord, so that after the great gift of Pope John Paul 11, he again gives us a pastor according to his own heart, a pastor who guides us to knowledge in Christ, to his love and to true joy,” he said from the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica under the towering bronze baldacchino canopy from the 17th century.

About five hours later, the cardinals assembled for the procession into the Sistine Chapel.

Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals, read out an oath for complete secrecy about the voting. Then he began a prayer in Latin. “May the Lord lead our

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Walking two by two, they chanted the Litany of the Saints. Altar servers carrying two long, burning candles and a metal crucifix led the way, past a line of Swiss Guards in red-plumed hats and up two marble steps into the chapel—where two rows of tables and chairs were set up for the voting and deliberations.

They bowed before the altar, with its backdrop of Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” depicting Jesus among people ascending to heaven and falling to hell.

Then they took their places, which were marked by while name cards.

Each was provided a green book, “Ordo Rituum Conclavis,” which spells out rules for the conclave. Only two of the cardinals were at the last conclave more than 26 years ago.

Some leaned on their chairs for support as the cardinals filed one by one to the Gospels, which rested open on a wooden stand.

For 30 minutes, they each placed a right hand—with the gold ring of the cardinals—on the Holy Book and again pledged never to reveal what will occur in the conclave. The penalty is severe: excommunication.

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America Theater for the Performing Arts Associates, the preferred developer for the arts center that the city approved in 2003, received a 2-month extension for planning purposes. It was the third extension the developer received for the project.

Durham Director of Economic Development Alan DeLisle said his development team will fill in small details pertaining to the theater’s exact cost and location in a meeting between Durham City Council and the

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Although graduate students at Duke have also expressed frustration with the rising cost of health insurance, they have not mounted substantial efforts to

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ARMSTRONG from page 4 Monday’s announcement came the day before Armstrong’s defense of his Tour of Georgia championship. The sixday, 648-mile event he uses as a training tool for the Tour de France begins Tuesday in Augusta.

Armstrong said the Georgia race could be his last professional competition in America, though he left open the possibility of racing in May at another practice event before the Tour de France.

“If there’s a good local race, I’m more than happy to jump in,” he said.

Even before the news conference, Tour of Georgia officials already had been promoting their race as the potential American farewell for Armstrong.

“While we certainly wish he’d never stop racing, as he has done so much for the sport of cycling and American cycling, we’re thrilledand honored that he has chosen the Tour de Georgia as what could be his last professional race here on American soil,” said Stan Holm, executive director of the race.

“Lance is a true hero and inspiration to people all over the world.”

Tour of Georgia officials have received more than 500 media credential applications this year, almost twice last year’s total.

As evidence of Armstrong’s widespread celebrity, the announcement attracted TV crews representing such diverse interests as MSNBC, CNN, Outdoor Life Network, Access Hollywood and ESPN. “This is probably the second-biggest media event in Augusta in recent weeks,” Armstrong said, referring to the Masters golf tournament, as he greeted reporters.

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In addition, students and faculty will be able to walk through the Biological Sciences Building into ESC. From FSC, people will be able to walk by LSRC and CIEMAS to the Medical Center.

“We wanted to have a lot more interaction built into the architecture. We also wanted people to hopefully bump into each other in the stairways and hallways,” said Philip Benfey, chair of

the biology department.

Third-year biology graduate student Arielle Cooley looks forward to the interdisciplinary exchange the new science center promises.

“Hopefully overall there will be more communication. Right now, I don’t ever communicate with anyone in cell molecular unless I make a big effort to trek over,” Cooley said.

FSC will be 255,000 gross square feet, Benfey said, with 48,000 square feet each for biology and chemistry laboratories. Melinda French Gates, the building’s namesake, donated $3O

million to the project.

Both Nowicki and Benfey are confident there will be more than enough room for research, but they are concerned there may be a lack of classroom space. In its initial blueprints, classrooms were placed in the basement of the FSC, but limited funds have prevented the realization of this space. Administrators are now considering converting sections of the Biological Sciences Building into classrooms.

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Second, we discovered that one Duke baseball player attempted suicide.

The combined effects of steroid withdrawal and the psychological abuse he said he suffered at the hands of head baseball coach Bill Hillier were likely part of the cause.

Finally, we heard allegations of Bill Hillier’s oppressive regime. Hillier may have even implicitly encouraged steroid use. Furthermore, we learned about Hillier’s questionable coaching practices, which players said included both emotional abuse and the unbearable physical strain he placed on his pitching staff.

That’s a pretty long list of dirty laundry.

And frankly, I expected a bigger fallout.

Apparently, no one is greatly perturbed by these findings. Sure, all the local media and a few random newspapers picked up the story, and The Chronicle has received a fair number of letters, but I have heard very few rumblings within the Duke community.

Most importantly, the University has taken no recent public action against the baseball program.

So how can we explain the apathy?

First, I believe that most people already believed that college athletes were abusing steroids. We have long suspected that steroids were prevalent in the major leagues, so it was not a far stretch to assume that they would be used by aspiring professionals in the NCAA. A 2001 study by the NCAA proved this fact, stating that 2.3 percent ofbaseball players admitted to using anabolic steroids.

Second, the fact that this is college baseball greatly affects the situation.

There are no sacred records at stake here. There is no race to 755 home runs.

We do not care whether Duke baseball players will have asterisks next to their career statistics.

Third, no competitive balance is being disrupted, because Duke was never a competitive baseball team to begin with.

Fourth, much has happened in the SEE STEROIDS ON PAGE 12

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Duke Law student Jessica Foschi was just 14 when traces ofmesterolone in her system caused her to fail a random drug test at the U.S. Nationals in 1995.

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Fourteen-year-old swimmers are hardly thought of as the stereotype for steroid users these days. But back in 1995, Jessica Foschi, now a student at the Duke School ofLaw, tested positive for steroids at a national swim meet and stirred up a whirlwind of controversy that she is still fighting to invalidate.

Ten years after her doping incident, Foschi’s legal background and personal experience has given her an insider’s perspective on the issues facing steroid testing today.

“The way the system is set up is that you’re guilty and you’re barely even allowed the chance to prove yourself innocent,” Foschi said. “You have to give them a fair chance to make their case.

That’s a fundamental ideal of the U.S. legal system.”

Her story begins in August 1995. Immediately after finishing third in the 1500-meterfreestyle event at the U.S. National Championships, officials notified Foschi that her number had come up for a random drug test. A week later, while SEE FOSCHI ON PAGE 12

Reloaded Duke will dominate ACC

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college basketball.

A year ago, head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils got burned when freshman Luol Deng and prep phenom Shaun Livingston decided to bolt Durham. Duke competed admirably without Deng or Livingston, but the depth void they created caught up to the Blue Devils in the Sweet Sixteen.

Meanwhile, North Carolina head coach Roy Williams got his star freshman, Marvin Williams, to go to school, and secured third years from Rashad McCants, Raymond Felton and Sean May. The Tar Heels stormed to their fourth NCAA title just three years removed from the worst season in school history.

This year, however, it’s the Carolina faithful who are on eggshells. They’ve already lost McCants, and all sources seem to indicate that they’ll lose Felton later this week. Marvin Williams is projected to be a high lottery pick, and May’s draft stock will never be higher than it is right now.

Meanwhile, the Blue Devils lose Daniel Ewing, but add one of the nation’s best recruiting classes to make up for him. Top recruit Josh Mcßoberts has repeatedly proclaimed he will don Duke blue next season, and signs point to Shelden Williams’ return for a senior season. If both happen, Duke will have one of its deepest and most experienced teams in recent memory.

In other words, Tar Heel faithful had better enjoy that national championship, because they’re about to see Duke go through,the ACC like a bulldozer through whipped cream.

Last season, a shaky point guard situation and a lack of post depth prevented SEE ACC ON PAGE 10

DeMarcus Nelson and Duke will be more experienced next year as they compete in a weakerACC.

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They ignored his advice.

The Owls wanted Doherty—and the former North Carolina coach decided it was time to return to work.

Doherty was hired Monday as Florida Atlantic’s coach, starting over two years after he resigned from North Carolina.

Doherty, a former national coach of the year, replaces Sidney Green, who was fired last month after three consecutive losing seasons, including a 10-17 mark this year.

“At every place there’s different problems, different issues,” Doherty said. “And I thought, ‘How cool would it be to come here and build this program?’

“I was going to say brick by brick, but I don’t think as a basketball coach that’s a good term to use, so piece by piece, swish by swish. How cool would that be?”

Doherty agreed to a seven-year contract that pays him a base salary of $171,000 annually; he could also earn bonuses based on ticket sales, and he’ll profit from summer camps and endorsements. Doherty will pay FAU $200,000 if he leaves after one season, $lOO,OOO after two, and progressively less each following year.

“He’s a coach. He wants to coach. He’s not going to go to a place where he doesn’t feel he can be successful,” said Walters, the former Kansas standout who’ll leave his assistant job at Valparaiso to join Doherty’s staff. “He believes and I believe this can b 6 program to be reckoned with. We can win here.”

History suggests that will be tough at FAU, which will play one more season in the mid-major Atlantic Sun Conference before joining the Sun Belt for the 20062007 campaign.

The 2004-2005 team played seven home games before fewer than 500 fans. In 12 seasons in Division I, the Owls are a combined 102-234, with only two winning seasons and one trip to the

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His new players are excited.

“He’s a big name and clearly a great coach. And I think he brings our dream a lot closer,” said guard Tywain McTyer, who’ll be a sophomore next season.

After seven seasons as an assistant at Kansas under current Tar Heels coach Roy Williams, Doherty went to Notre Dame for

the 1999-2000 season, going 22-15.

The next season, Doherty’s first Carolina team went 26-7, was ranked No. 1 in the country late in the year and won a share of the ACC’s regular-season title. He was named The Associated Press’ coach of the year.

But he missed the NCAA Tournament in each of his final two seasons in Chapel Hill, and resigned under pressure in April 2003. Many of the players he recruited to SEE DOHERTY ON PAGE 12

the Blue Devils from advancing past the Sweet 16. This season, Duke brings in three post players —Mcßoberts, Eric Boateng and Jamal Boykin —to provide relief for the overtaxed Williams and Shavlik Randolph. Not only does Duke get players who can help right away in the post, but the minutes Williams and Randolph aren’t playing will keep them fresh and maximize their time on the court.

Duke’s point guard questions will be answered by Paulus, who gives Coach K more backcourt options than a ChooseYour-Own-Adventure Book. For offense, Krzyzewski could go with Paulus, who has shown an innate ability to pick apart defenses, sharpshooter J.J, Redick and slasher extraordinaire DeMarcus Nelson, for example. Alternatively, he could tap Sean Dockery, Nelson and Paulus for a lockdown defensive squad. And I haven’t even mentioned incoming recruit Martynas Pocius, a player good enough to earn a recommendation from Jerry West.

Unfortunately for the rest of the conference, however, Duke’s wealth comes at a time of paucity for the ACC. The aforementioned Tar Heels may have to defend their National Championship without their top seven players from last season. Wake Forest, once a top-10 team, loses guards Chris Paul and Taron Downey, leaving the team with just two scholarship guards next season. Georgia Tech will lose four of its starters to graduation, and the fifth, point guard Jarrett Jack, could be NBAbound. Maryland has developed its young talent, but the Terrapins lose point guard John Gilchrist, leaving them with no point guard on their roster next season. Boston College looked impressive last season, but they just don’t have the talent to hang with a Duke team whose second string could be competitive in the ACC. With one of the weakest ACCs in recent years and an extremely deep and talentedDuke squad, the Blue Devils will make fans forget about North Carolina’s tide run this past season by once again dominating the conference.

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A Chronicle report on the baseball program's struggles and problems under coach Bill Hillier has yet to provoke a public reaction on campus or by administrators.

STEROIDS from page 9 three years since Aaron Kempster and Grant Stanley originally abused steroids.

Since that time, the rumors that Blue Devils may still be taking steroids remain exactly that—rumors. Since the summer of 2002, Duke has increased its drug testing.

Athletic Director Joe Alieva has stated that since then, no Blue Devil has been caught using steroids.

Fifth, the University had decided months ago that it would not renew Bill Hillier’s contract when it expires at the

FOSCHI

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participating at the Pan-Pacific Games in Atlanta, her father informed her that the previous week’s test had revealed traces of mesterolone, an anabolic steroid not commonly found in the United States.

Rules at the time mandated a two-year suspension for a positive test. But instead of agreeing to the punishment, Foschi elected to fight the case through swimming’s legal system, saying that she had not knowingly taken performance enhancing drugs.

Foschi has two theories as to how she tested positive for the steroid. One is that someone looking to damage USA Swimming sabotaged a Gatorade jug with mesterolone, which easily dissolves in water.

Further tests on her urine sample revealed that the levels of mesterolone in her body indicated that it had been ingested less than 24 hours before the test.

The other theory, which she thinks is more likely, is that there was a problem with the testing.

“The problem with sports drug-testing in general is that people go in thinking these tests are infallible—that there’s never a wrong test,” she said. “That’s a ludicrous assumption because these labs do hundreds of thousands of tests a year. You can’t tell me one or two of those isn’t wrong. It’s going to happen to somebody.

“They’ve set up a system to catch people

end of the year if the program did not improve significantly. With a month remaining in the regular season, there is little else that could be done to reprimand Hillier, the source of the program’s decrepit state.

So does this article deserve to be ignored? No, and I don’t think it will be. I am praying that the University is still studying the situation, and I hope that other media outlets will continue to investigate.

I think in the end this scandal will be more about student health than about sports. Duke baseball is an insignificant in-

stitution. The fact that a Duke athlete tried to cheat is unimportant.

What IS significant is that two former students put themselves in severe physical jeopardy by abusing steroids, and that one went so far as to attempt suicide. We have had similar problems with student health/safety, and the University’s outward reaction to these concerns has been equally sluggish.

And while I’m concerned by the slow response, I am resigned to the fact that change takes time.

So let’s wait and see what happens.

who are testing positive, not people who are cheating. You’d have to be saying I’m the stupidest person in the world to say I took

Swimming Board ofDirectors overruled the appeal and suspended Foschi for two years.

A week later, though, swimming’s international governing body, FINA, ruled that Australian swimmer Samantha Riley would not have to serve her two-year suspension because the illegal headache medicine, for which she tested positive was given to her by a coach. The coach was suspended instead.

USA Swimming reversed itself again just days later and said Foschi would not be suspended and would be put on six months of retroactive probation because of the precedent set by FINA’s decision.

Foschi’s case opened the door for anyone caught for doping to challenge the test, saying that they either did not know or did not intend to ingest the illegal drug.

“People were saying the whole system would fall apart,” Foschi said. “But if you look at all I had to show to prove I didn’t do it—I don’t think someone who had done it would have been willing to do that.

“Everyone who tests positive says ‘I didn’t do this.’ And that’s what we were finding. People were like ‘Of course you’re going to say that, you’re at risk to be banned for two years.’”

Foschi worked hard to change the minds of disbelievers within the swimming community, but many still remain.

Carol Zaleski, who was president USA Swimming at the time ofFoschi’s case, declined to comment, saying: “It was a highly controversial matter that I’d just rather

the drug knowing there was a good possibil-

ity I’d be tested,” Foschi said.

Unfortunately for her, the positive test came at a time when steroids were a hot topic in swimming circles. The year before, a slew ofChinese swimmers had tested positive for steroids, prompting USA Swimming to join with its Australian counterpart to fight doping.

Foschi’s situation, therefore, became a test-case for the new, more stringent policies to be enforced. Foschi won a November 1995 appeal before a USA Swimming panel by a 2-1 vote and her suspension was reduced to a two-year probation period.

In attempting to prove her innocence, Foschi passed two sets of polygraph tests as well as a series of physical and blood examinations.

“There was no doubt that it was in her body,” said Jill Sterkel, now the women’s swimming coach at Texas and a panel member who voted in Foschi’s favor. “But medical evidence suggested there was no cumulative effect. Perhaps knowingly or unknowingly it had gotten into her system.”

Of the other two panel members, Jerry Olson has since passed away and Bill Stapleton could not be reached for comment.

Stapleton, a former Olympic swimmer, is now Lance Armstrong’s agent.

In February 1996, however, the USA

mond Felton and Rashad McCants—helped lead the Tar Heels to this year’s national championship.

“I joke, saying I got to buy the groceries and start the meal, but I didn’t get to enjoy it,” Doherty said. “So that was a little frustrating, but I was very proud of what they accomplished and felt a part of it. And as a result, got some credit for it too.”

And Williams, who replaced him at Carolina, often says that if May hadn’t broken his foot and missed 24 games as a freshman, Doherty would still be in Chapel Hill.

“Here’s a guy who’s still in the prime of his career, who’s been to the mountaintop at Notre Dame and North Carolina, who’s now off the mountaintop and somewhere in the valley down here and has a little bit of an edge to him,” FAU athletic director Craig Angelos said. “He has that fervor that’s not going to let him fail.”

Angelos said he talked to Williams and North Carolina athletic director Dick Baddour about Doherty, and heard nothing in those conversations that dissuaded him from believing Doherty can lead the Owls to prominence.

“We’re getting a better coach here than he was at North Carolina,” Angelos said.

Williams agrees.

I’m extremely happy for Matt Doherty but also for Florida Atlantic,” he said.

“Matt will do an extremely good job and he needs to be in coaching. This is very good for Matt and Florida Atlandc, and I have no doubt that Matt will be very successful there.”

Doherty’s already been house-hunting. He plans to meet with members of Green’s staff and indicated he may be open to retaining some of them. And he and Walters have started recruiting, spreading the word about the weather and other pluses FAU can offer.

“I’m here, jumping in with both feet,” Doherty said. “What kind of timeframe?

Who knows. But I’m committed to making FAU basketball a national name.” leave in the past. I was representing USA Swimming investigating a positive drug test, and I’ll leave it at that.”

Foschi’s swimming legacy remains to this day. Testing has become more stringent, and participants have become more careful about their Gatorade and urine samples. All containers are now taped shut at competitions to avoid tampering.

Foschi never did make the Olympics, finishing two places short of qualifying in the spring of 1996 for that year’s Summer Games in Atlanta. She did eventually go on to swim at Stanford, where she won numerous All-American distinctions and was the 2001 NCAA champion in the 500-meter

freestyle event.

Foschi is now studying with Professor Paul Haagen at Duke, who is well-known for his work in sports law. She says that her interest in law was piqued by all of her legal battles throughout the years and wants to use her law degree in part to be an advocate on the issue of doping in sports.

“I’ve been on the side of someone who’s been falsely accused and I’ve also been on the side of it from someone who’s been in the sport for 12 years and doesn’t want to stand up on the block against someone who’s cheated,” Foschi said. “It’s sad because every great performance is questioned. Every time someone breaks the home run record they’re going to be looked at. Every time someone breaks the world record people look at them.”

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Steroid allegations Duke Baseball’s coaching staff implicitly encouraged steroid use; especially performance-enhancing drugs.

I can assure you that the statements that Drew Jerdan and Justin Calliham made to The Chronicle are accurate portrayals of my experience with the Duke Baseball program.

It was only a matter of time for these issues to come to light and for Bill Hillier’s misconduct to come under fire. I imagine that it will be hard for President Richard Brodhead to turn a blind eye to the resounding sigh that I expect to follow these allegations. Nevertheless, if Executive Vice President Tallman Trask is going to do this investigation justice, he will have to do more than merely rely on Joe Alieva and Chris Kennedy. There are obvious conflicts of interest between Joe Alieva and Bill Hillier. Ad-

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ditionally, what sort of confessions can Chris Kennedy expect from athletes that are presently playing for Bill Hillier?

I graduated from Duke University, not Colorado. I expect Duke officials to be more vigilant after two teammates admit to steroid use and 12 former players confirm that steroid use was/is in fact widespread because of the environment that Bill Hillier created/es for his players.

Bill Hillier’s coaching techniques are unfit for Duke University, and I strongly encourage the University to consider seriously the allegations that are being brought against him; I have yet to disagree with one of them.

Evan Anderson Former Duke Varsity Baseball Player Trinity ’O4

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One of the best things about being at a first-class university is to have access to a first-class library, with a great collection and long hours. But perhaps more importantly, it is also to be surrounded by a special group of people who make our libraries a special place —the Duke librarians.

They seem always happy to help out with whatever research questions one has. They locate the most obscure of books or audiovisual materials in any corner of the country

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Student’s question was misrepresented Contrary to what was reported in Monday’s edition of The Chronicle, the question that I asked Professor Dershowitz was about a hypothetical divestment policy from all nations “that engage in WAR.” I did not say all “unethical nations” like what was reported. This is a major difference because it implies that Israel is unethical, which is simply not the case.

Anyone who disagrees should read Alan Dershowitz’s book The Case for Israel. They will find it intelligent, well-written and full of evidence. This is in stark contrast from most of the anti-Israel books out there which are full of hateful, blatant lies.

As President Richard Brodhead said last

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time—the year is just about up, andfinal refleca rained-out cookout and for some reason it just sounds tions are übiquitous. Rather than TAL you how great kindly and wry. As he surely knows, that disarming quality is my column and I are, I thought I’d open up my AC pretty dam useful in turning critics into friends. I just hope Book of Secrets and share some of the great, odd and the substance of his presidency turns out to be as successful notso-great things I’ve discovered in four years at Duke. as his delivery.

Best place to study: The Davis Library at UNC. If the pinBest part of the Bryan Center: The ’Dillo bar. It’s much drop silence and weird social dynamics of the Gothic Readmaligned, but I appreciate both the student bands and the ing Room are proving oppressive, head down Tobacco Road great bartender, Rebecca. Come to thinkof it, except for the for an anonymous study site with a nice background din. portrait of the cheerfully mustachioed Mr. Bryan and wife, Best food: The dim sum at Hong Kong Restaurant. I’d that’s the only good thing in the Bryan Center. Tear that hate to make the lunch wait on Sunday even longer, but the monstrosity down. delicious Chinese delicacies here drive me to madness—and Best random sighting: A duck waddling down a Main not just because of the MSG. Special bonus West path, having strayed from his home in for the woman who works the cash register the gardens. Watching the wayward fowl deand has a large portrait of herself in her terminedly press forward alongside equally workspace grim-faced students and professors, everyBest class: Econ 55. You’ve got to take it. thing starts to make a lot more sense.

If you don’t, you’re going to have a lot of Most obvious reality: Students have no conversations about politics and economics power at Duke. Why else would Provost in which you will make someone storm out Peter Lange be able to summarily halt the fiof the room in frustration. Don’t be that guy. nancial assistance program for student govandrew collins Best professor: Bruce Payne. I’ve written ernment officials, much to their rightful so much about Payne in this space that you hazzards of duke consternation? Why else would all these anmight think I’m getting checks in the mail, nual promises by DSG candidates get abbut the truth is, I am just one of his legions solutely nowhere, year afteryear? The thing of admirers. More than any other faculty member, he has is, so many student leaders are oblivious to the fact that they helped me find the wherewithal to ask myself and others are being deluded by ultra-sawy administrators. Students tough questions. What more could you want from an educa- have two options to acquire real power: directly ask the tion?

Board of Trustees to grant DSG a rubber-stamping privilege Most underrated campus: East Campus. For the life of on certain issues a la Academic Council, or—seriously— me, I can’t figure out why people rip on East. You’re near all strike. But unless our elected student officials get real about the restaurants of Ninth Street. There is plenty of grass, nice their role around here, we can count on more of the same. architecture (except for that hideous Bell Tower Dormitory) Most minor outrage: WHY DON’T DUKE COMPUTERS and a lot of“cultural vibrancy” in the surrounding neighborHAVE ADOBE ACROBAT??? hood. Walking around on East, you feel alive and part of Best dentist: Dr. Alicia Ramos, D.D.S Best advice; College is a time for expanding your perimesomething bigger than just Duke—and I like that.

Best late-night hangout: Surprising myself, I have to go ter. Take weird classes, drink weird sodas, hang out with with Satty’s. It’s spacious, it doesn’t take itself too seriously weird people, start a weird business, drive on weird roads. and its clientele is a refreshingly diverse and kind of nutty Just make sure that the world is bigger when you leave Duke cross-section of Duke. I like both Charlie’s and Verde, but than it was when you got here.

Satty’s will be around long after those places have faded.

Class clown: Richard Brodhead. Everything out of his Andrew Collins is a Trinity senior andformer University editor mouth is hilarious for some reason. He can be talking about of The Chronicle. His column appears Tuesdays.

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four years I’ve had to pee. At least several nights freshmen who knew nothing—this new bathroom was not a week and then several times a night, I’ve had to only a welcome surprise, it was a sign that I stillknow hardpee. Sitting in the Perkin’s Computer Cluster, I ly anything. often find myself needing to go, but knowing that the one In fact, the things I have learned along the way—the men’s bathroom on the floor will invariably be occupied. existence, for example, of an easily accessible bathroom Some lowly undergraduate or uppity loner will be doing that is often occupied—have often served to cripple my his business in there while I squirm and squiggle outside, decisiveness and confuse my preexisting understandings.

That is, the facts and angles I know today that I did not my books nervously pressed against my lap, my eyes darting to the nearby hallway so that I might duck if a cute know when I got here serve mosdy to make me “muddled.” Muddied because the clarity of my girl walks past. Finally, the occupant youthful ideals has faded and been rewould vacate the premises and I would placed by a pensive shiftiness that no longer gleefully enter the squalor and stench of allows me to take firm positions. I leave this the Perkins first floor head. And on the place with fewer hard answers than I came infrequent day when I would find my with and less faith in those I still possess. If own seat inside this bathroom, I would sit there was one thing I lost in college, it was happily and unsympathetically wonder my naive clarity. Thank goodness. who would have the audacity to rap so But, there are, of course, a few things I did upon my chamber door. lurie discover along the way, among them are the folOn die worst days—the days when I lowing: needed to go the worst—I would lightly senior column I don’t think I will ever really love tap the handle, note that the bathroom NASCAR, no matter how much I say I do. of the usual suspects was occupied by one Tony Brown and Bruce Payne have affected my life and I would dart through the library, down a staircase, between the stacks, into the basement, down the hall, and more times and in more ways than I will ever be able to into an obscure bathroom somewhere deep in the bowels tell them.

There is no greater joy than Facebooking people I of the library. don’t know while they sit next to me in the cluster, then tale, I This weekend, however, four years into my torup, going to the bathroom and leaving their prowas getting being tortured, of I learned that in my years being tured by my own ineptitude: there is another bathroom in file on the screen.

A piece of cardboard, a marker and a smile can usuPerkins! When you enter Perkins from the door nearest and get you into anything—though sometimes they get ally your the wall on right dm bus stop, stay close to stone into trouble. If all else fails: run quickly—most securiyou right keep right, Keep down the stairs to your right. go are too preoccupied to chase you. guards through another computer cluster, take another right, go ty Don’t listen to the deans, they’re usually right, but and right another to your down a small hall, take right there is a bathroom. This “new” bathroom is clean and never as much fun.

Cheap, Light and Domestic will always be my friends neat: four urinals line the wall; three toilets sit behind saif we don’t hang out as much in the future. even loon-style oak doors—this is paradise.

And if I search long enough, I might not find all the In this mysterious paradise, directly below the room in bathrooms, but I may just find the one I need. too much which I cranked out much of my best—and far altosomething of my most mediocre —work, I have found Yoav Lurie is a Trinity senior and Recess Senior Editor. He gether new. Years after I proclaimed as a sophomore to used to do other cool stuff here too. know everything—primarily because I had encountered

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was a point in my life when I wanted to become an astronaut. I was pretty young, probably kindergarten or first grade; it was that time where everyone wanted to be a fireman, an astronaut or a princess when they grew up.

My desire to become one of those people who sets foot on the moon, however, quickly ended after I did some research about the position. I read a couple of those children’s books about space flight and discovered that every so often, spaceships blow up. Needless to say, I was heartbroken. As far as I was concerned, I didn’t want to be a flaming heap of blown-up person. That would be gross. I was bummed for a few days, but I did learn a pretty valuable lesson about the importance of research.

I wanted to yell this little lesson at a mom who talked to me on the way over to East last week. As I sat down at the back of the bus, all of a sudden a mom plopped down next to me and smiled. Her kid, who «K looked exceedingly bored, had taken a seat near the front.

As soon as the bus left West, the mom turned to ma tt (fearbom me and asked me where I unreal city was from. I told her California. She seemed a littie bit disappointed and told me that California was “an interesting place.” I hesitantly agreed and asked her about her origins. “Born, raised and still livin’ in Alabama,” she replied with a type of pride only true Dixielovers have. Oh man, I thought. It’s going to be one of those conversations.

After asking me a plethora of questions about Duke, the social life, East Campus, the academics and what not, she stopped talking. I took a breath, thinking we were done.

But then she turned to me. “So, uh, are there a lot of, you know, foreigners here?” I don’t know what stopped me from falling out of my seat laughing, but I think it was partially the guy who was sitting in front of me who was eating something that looked like anchovy salad.

Because I did not break down, I was forced to answer her. “Urn, yes. It’s a diverse school.” Again, she looked disappointed. “And... are there a lot of foreign teachers?” she asked, exposing the last glimpse of hope she had for the school. “Yes,” I responded.

I didn’t really know what to do, but the one thing I was sure about was that she wasn’t kidding. She looked back at me, and then at the front of the bus. “You know, I’m not sure what I think about that.” And that was the end of the conversation.

In retrospect, I wanted to just tell her to do a little bit of research about the school before she took her kid here. Was it really that difficult to believe that Duke, although it may be in the South, actually houses people from different countries?

Originally, her comments really bugged me, but then I came to realize that there are actually people like that in this country. They’re the people who are all about Dixie rising again, the ones who are stuck in the time of the Civil War. The fact of the matter is that it’s been more than 100 years since the Civil War. It’s over. Also, the South is never going to rise again. If you disagree with me, you need to get a life.

The people who have incredible pride for where they’re from and only hang out with people from those places, be it the South, California or a different country, really need to challenge themselves a bit. We did come to Duke to be challenged, right? And I wasn’t lying when I told the mom that Duke is a diverse place, full of interesting people with interesting lives.

The reality of the situation is that if we don’t challenge ourselves, we’ll all grow up ignorant people and grow old ignorant people. We’ll move back to wherever we’re from, knowing nothing about other people with differing experiences. Think about it for a second: it’s really a sad way to live. However, if you really want to live that life, you might as well step on a spaceship.

Matt Dearborn is a Trinity sophomore. His column every other Tuesday.

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