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Athletes test scores lag behind average Sarah Kwak

Duke takes its academics and athletics seriously. The University seeks the best the country and the world have to offer, whether in the classroom or on the field.

Studying and sports, however, do not always go hand-in-hand, University officials say.

In a self-study report of Duke athletics mandated as part of the NCAA certification process, one of the concerns highlighted by an intemal committee is Ie academic gap between student-athletes and the student population at large.

Although Duke is a model for other universities because it attracts student-athletes who are relatively strong in academics and graduates them at a near-perfect rate, the academic differences between athletes and nonathletes remain notable.

According to the self-study, the varying levels of academic preparedness are particularly evident in student-athletes’ pre-college test scores.

“There is concern about the growing disparity that exists,” Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. “The gap should not grow further, and we will monitor it and see if it reveals itself in lower graduation rates.”

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“standardized test scores” rated on the Scholastic Aptitude Test scale for incoming freshman classes between 2001 and 2003.

The results are categorized by gender, race, ethnicity and athletic participation.

In the Class of 2007, the 768 male non-athletes averaged 1,438, as opposed to the 42 male studentathletes, who averaged 1,172.

There was a similar disparity between the 786 female non-athletes and 37 student-athletes, who averaged 1,403 and 1,258,respectively.

Among the student-athletes who entered as freshmen in 2002 and received athletics-aid, the 22 football players averaged 1,063, the eight baseball players averaged 1,206and the five men’s basketball scholarship recruits averaged 997.

The 14 other male student-athletes receiving aid averaged 1,258.

The sell-study states that “the basic standard ofadmission—ability to graduate from Duke—is the same for athletes as for all other applicants.” But with the caliber of students Duke attracts, other personal skills and qualities are taken into account when admitting students, Director of Admissions Christoph Guttentag said.

“The number of times where [ability to graduate] is the primary criterion... in offering someone admission to Duke I could probably count on the fingers of one

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Campus leaders cut a cake iced to depict the new West Campus plaza at a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday.

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Bring on the sledgehammers and dump trucks.

After over two years of planning, the University will officially begin constructing the new West Campus plaza in the coming weeks. The project, dubbed “the plaza at Duke,” will involve destroying the Bryan Center walkway and replacing it with a 40,000-squarefoot elevated space that will

connect the West Union Build-

ing, Page Auditorium and the Bryan Center. It is slated for completion by Fall 2006.

At a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday afternoon, a group of the University’s top brass, faculty, staffand students celebrated the upcoming construction of what administrators hope will become the hub of West Campus. Addressing the crowd on the walkway, Vice President for Student Affairs

Larry Moneta said the social atmosphere of the ceremony reflected the “camaraderie” the plaza is intended to generate on campus.

“I’m looking very much forward to the community enjoying the fruits of our labor as we enjoy seeing this vista disappear and the new vista of a wonderful gathering space emerge over the next few months,” he said.

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The Center for Instructional Technology released its evaluation of the iPod First Year Experience to the Duke community Wednesday. The comprehensive survey spans two semesters and includes an assessment of the academic uses for iPods as well as the benefits and problems surrounding the year-old program.

According to the report, 75 percent of first-year students used at least one feature of the iPod received from Duke foracademic use at some point during the year. The report also found that many students and faculty have concerns that the iPod’s file-transfer capabilities that allow students to download lectures from a computer might negatively impact class attendance.

Provost Peter Lange said the report reinforces the administration’sdecision to continue distributing iPods to Duke students next year. The University will distribute them, however, on a course-specific basis, as opposed to last year when it gave them to allfreshmen.

“It’s a good report that accurately captures the quality of the experience,” Lange said. “[The project] prompted ,

As a part of a new technology initiative, members of the Class of 2008 received iPodsfrom Duke when they arrived last August

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of iPod proj ect the innovation that we’d hoped would come from it.

There’s nothing in this report that makes me think that the decision [to continue the program] we made a few months ago was a bad decision.”

University officials also stressed the importance of continuing the program in order to provide an innovative outlet for students and faculty.

“If you give an academic a piece of equipment they will not infrequently push it to its limits,” said John Bumess, senior vice president of government and public relations.

The evaluation stated that there were five general uses of the iPod: the publication of course content, classroom recording, field recording, study support and file storage and transfer. The report found that 27 percent of firstyear students used iPods to store and transfer academic files. It is widely perceived, however, that a large percentage of students use their devices to store and transfer other types of files.

Though he acknowledged that some students used the device specifically to download music, Burness said he SEE IPOD ON PAGE 6

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House limits Patriot Act in libraries library users. They narrowed the proposal this year to permit the government to

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WASHINGTON As an insult to President George W. Bush, lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips.

The House voted 238-137—despite a veto threat from Bush—to block the part of the anti-terrorism law that allows the government to investigate the reading habits of terror suspects.

The vote was reversed from last year’s narrow loss by lawmakers concerned about the potential invasion of privacy of inno-

continue to seek out records of Internet use at libraries.

The vote came as the House debated a $57.5 billion bill covering the departments of Commerce, Justice and State. The Senate has yet to act on the measure, and GOP leaders often drop provisions offensive to Bush during final negotiations.

“This is a tremendous victory that restores important constitutional rights to the American people,” said Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., the sponsor of the measure.

Congress is preparing to extend the Patriot Act, which was passed quickly in the

emotional aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Then, Congress included a sunset provision under which 15 of the law’s provisions are to expire at the end of this year.

Supporters of rolling back the library and bookstore provision said that the law gives the FBI too much leeway to go on fishing expeditions on people’s reading habits and that innocent people could get tagged as potential terrorists based on what they check out from a library.

“If the government suspects someone is looking up how to make atom bombs, go to a court and get a search warrant,” said Jerold Nadler, D-N.Y.

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originally admitted to the United Nations atomic watchdog agency, according to a draft U.N. speech.

The report, to be delivered as early as Thursday to a board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also said Tehran received sensitive technology that can be used as part of a weapons program earlier than it originally said it did.

While not proving or disproving that Iran had weapons ambitions, the details are significant as the agency tries to piece together the puzzle of nearly 18 years of a clandestine nuclear program revealed in February 2002.

The document said that while Iran had stated its plutonium separation experiments were conducted in 1993 “and that no plutonium had been separated since then,” Iranian officials revealed two months ago that there had been linked experiments in 1995 and 1998.

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make weapons. Tehran has acknowledged purchasing much of its nuclear technology on the black market, but it insists its nuclear ambitions do not go beyond generating power.

Marked “highly confidential,” the report to the U.N. nuclear monitor was made available by a diplomat accredited to the agency who demanded anonymity because he is not authorized to release such information to the media.

The three-page report took stock of the present stage of a more-than-three-year inquiry ofIran’s nuclear activities. to

newsinbrief Suicide bomb, attacks kill 50 Five U.S. Marines were killed in a road-side bomb attack in Iraq Wednesday. Meanwhile, a militant strapped with more than 100 pounds of explosives and disguised in an army uniform blew himself up in a crowded mess hall.The attacks across Iraq killed more than 50 people.

No sign Schiavo was abused The autopsy of Terri Schiavo found she was severely and irreversibly brain-damaged, as well as blind. The report, released Wednesday, also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused before she

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Congress debates prison care A senior Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter, urged Congress to clarify prisoners' rights at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday, decrying legal decisions about the military's handling of suspected terrorists. Military officials defended the suspects'treatment.

Flu vaccine dearth predicted Chiron Corp.—one of only two major makers of the nation's flu vaccine-said Wednesday it may not deliver as many flu shots this year as it had promised, prompting the beleaguered biotechnology company to cut its 2005 financial forecast News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Concerns about funding for education and fighting crime loomed large at Durham County’s public hearing for the proposed Fiscal Year 2006 budget Monday night. County Manager Mark Ruffin submitted the budget to the County Commissioners May 23.

More than 30 local residents petitioned the commissioners at the meeting for a greater allotment of the county’s $528.2 million budget. The citizens voiced concerns about an array of issues—from supplementing teacher salaries to adding additional animal control agents—when lobbying for funds.

Most speakers focused on increasing Durham Public Schools’ allotment. Officials from the school system initially requested an increase of $15.9 million in funding. When the budget proposal was released, they were only granted a $4.4 million increase.

At the hearing, the discrepancy between the proposed increase and the $15.9 million requested by DPS provoked residents to express their concerns about teachers’ salaries in Durham relative to those in neighboring counties.

Linda Self, president of the Durham Association of Educators, said with current salaries, Durham County is essentially training teachers to go to other counties. She noted a trend of first-year teachers leaving for neighboring school districts.

Githens Middle School student Breanna Edmunds said that she lost six math teachers in the past year due in part to Durham’s uncompetitive teacher salaries.

“When teachers leave it takes away from our education,” she said.

Commissioners Lewis Cheek, Philip Cousin and Becky Heron also expressed SEE BUDGET ON PAGE 6

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The American Tobacco Project, which involves renovating eight tobacco warehouses into commercial and residential spaces, entered its second phase last week.

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The resurrection of downtown Durham is in full swing.

Two concurrent projects—both entering their second phase of development—are seeking to redefine the city’s landscape and revitalize a once thriving downtown.

The projects are located on the former sites of Durham’s two biggest tobacco rivals—American Tobacco Company, founded by Duke namesake Washington Duke, and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.

The two projects, which include the refurbishment of over two million square feet of former tobacco warehouses, are the largest historic adoptional re-use projects in the North Carolina history.

“A lot of things crucial to a city is a thriving downtown. Together these two projects are a great match to create a real economic boom for downtown Durham,”

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said Frank Duke, director of city and county planning for Durham County.

The second phase of the American Tobacco Project officially began last week. A four part, $lB9-million-dollar revitalization endeavor sponsored by the Capitol Broadcasting Company, the American Tobacco Project aims to transform eight former tobacco warehouses into commercial and residential spaces.

The second phase will include renovations to four facilities located near the intersection of Blackwell and Pettigrew streets.

Across the railroad tracks from the American Tobacco Project, Blue Devil Ventures—a company established by former Duke student-athletes Christian Laettner, Brian Davis and Tom Niemann—is set to kick off the second phase of its revitalization project in September. Expanding upon property revitalized in Phase I, Blue Devil Ventures’ plans for Phase II in-

elude the renovation of eight former Liggett & Myers tobacco warehouses into housing, retail and office spaces.

The buildings renovated during Phase I ofboth projects have filled quickly. All units available for lease have been rented, and Duke occupies space in both complexes.

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Company, Financial Services and the Alumni Records Office are located in the American Tobacco Complex. The University’s architect and its capital assets company are located at Blue Devil Ventures’ West Village site, which also includes apartments and restaurant space.

“The University has an obligation to act as a good public citizen, and we do that by leasing space,” said Scott Selig, associate vice president for capital assets.

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Grad students take turn as professors in summer BY

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During summer school sessions, graduate students instruct classes in several departments.

moving to the head of the class.

In certain departments, such as psycholoeconomics, graduate students are and gy teaching about 50 percent of the classes during Summer Session I. Graduate students also constitute a significant portion of the summer teaching staff in other departments, including political science and philosophy.

The arrangement provides valuable opportunities to both graduate students, who gain teaching experience, and professors, who can use the summer to do research.

“Duke is a research institution, so profes-

sors are heavily penalized if they don’t produceresearch... they’re notjust sitting around in their backyards,” said Ruth Baker, staffassistant to the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. “We wouldn’t have a summer school if our graduate students and [post-doctorate students] didn’t want to help.”

Though selection methods may differ between individual departments, University officials strive to select graduate students with high qualifications for teaching positions. “[The economics department has] a formal evaluation process for the discussion section leaders, so that we can see whether SEE GRADS ON PAGE 6

TIP to begin distance learning via Blackboard Saidi Chen

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classes that interest or engage them.

“I knew that I had to find away to serve TIP students that could not participate in our face-to-face programs,” said Brian Cooper, TlP’s educational resources coordinator. “We knew that students needed more challenge during the academic year, and we wanted to provide that as well.”

Twenty-eight students participated in a pilot program last fall that lasted only ten weeks and offered two courses. The kinks in the system found in the pilot run have been worked out, and administrators say they are ready to welcome more than a hundred students into TIP online classrooms.

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A teenager comes home after a long day at school and an afternoon spent at extracurricular activities. He sits down at his desk, turns on his computer, bypasses the temptations of instant messaging or online gaming and enters... a classroom?

As farfetched as this scenario sounds, it is what Duke University Talent Identification Program administrators say will happen in their new e-Studies enrichment program. Gifted students nationwide in grades eight through 12 will have the opportunity to participate in one of seven courses being offered online using Blackboard technology.

TIP, which has been operating a summer studies program at Duke since 1981, will officially introduce its new distance learning initiative this fall. The 15-week program will cater to gifted youth across the country whose

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Qualified youth across the country will be able to take classes online through the TIP program in the fall.

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crimebriefs Grinch swindles toys, joy Donated toys were reported stolen Thursday from the Children's Health Center. An employee told police that someone rifled through several storage closets and removed toy cars, trucks and Game Boy items. The property, worth $3OO, was last seen June 3.

Counterfeit currency collected Police are investigating the passing of a fake $5O bill Tuesday in parking garage number 2. An employee with Parking and Transportation Services told police a man in a burgundy car paid him, and by the time the attendant realized the currency was fake, the car was gone. The bill was collected as evidence.

Lab chairs carried off Two lab chairs were reported stolen Tuesday from the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. An employee told police he saw two men pushing the chairs—each worth $9O0 —onto Research Drive. Police were notified, but a search of the area was unsuccessful.

GRADS from page 4 the grad student has been well-received by the undergrads in their discussion sections,” Director of Undergraduate Studies Emma Rasiel wrote in an e-mail.

The English departmentrequires graduate students to be in their fourth year of post-undergraduate work and have prior teaching experience before taking on a summer class.

Typically, the graduate students have served as teaching assistants for faculty members during the fall or spring semesters or previously taught summer classes, Baker said. The more-experienced TAs are given priority to teach in the summer in the psychology and economics departments to gain experience as the sole instructors in classroom settings. “[As a TA] you mostly just have office hours, or you grade exams, or you grade papers, whereas when you’re the actual professor you do everything. You choose the textbooks, you write the syllabus, you make up the assignments and exams,” said Melissa Witt, a sixth-year student in psychology currently teaching the summer course “Personality and Social Behavior.”

Summer teaching is also a big factor in augmenting the experience that is important in the academic job market, Rasiel said. Some graduate students sub-

DOWNTOWN from page 3 John Burness, senior vice president for public and government relations, said Duke’s presence and investment in both complexes have helped further the area’s appeal.

“We were the first announced tenants for American Tobacco, what does that say to other companies? ‘lf Duke’s there, we should go there, too,”’ he said, noting that the University currendy leases one-third of all rented space in Durham. “Once Duke signs on it’s possible for others to sign on.”

Frank Duke said he also foresees students’ use of the projects playing a prominent role in the restoration of Durham’s appeal.

“The projects will also help create a continuous passage for Duke students to come from the University to downtown,” he said. “By creating activity, hopefully we can stimulate even more activity.”

Both of the projects are located within a designated national and local historic landmark district. Because of the designation, both companies must be careful to preserve certain authentic aspects of the buildings when revitalizing the structures.

Contractors, for example, can install Mit summer course evaluations to supplement their resumes when looking for a faculty position.

Teaching is also a means for graduate students to earn income during the summer. Often it is an alternative to an internship or grant.

“It’s just a funding issue—the funding is less secure during the summer, and you’ve got to pay the bills,” said Gerald Digiusto, a seventh-year student in political science currently teaching the course “International Relations.”

Despite their lack of training and experience as teachers, many undergraduates praise their summer instructors.

Smaller class sizes and a smaller age difference between instructors and students may contribute to the positive reviews the graduate Students receive.

“In terms of thedown-to-earth factor, I really like the graduate studentsbetter,’’junior ChadFlores said. “These [classes] are probably in the top 10 of the classes I’ve taken.”

Many students, however, say the lack of a graduate student’s teaching experience is a disadvantage.

“They can sort of relate to us on a better level, but they clearly don’t know the material as well as someone more experienced would,” junior Lauren Cochran said. “There are also bad professors, so it’s hard to know what your other option would be.”

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air conditioning or compartmentalize the buildings to construct apartment or office units, but they cannot change the size of windows or remove pillars.

“It’s all about the character of the buildings—that’s what makes them distinctive,” said Sara Lachenman, a Blue Devil Ventures summer fellow. “You get unique features that can’t be duplicated.”

Developers such as Carey Greene, Trinity ’Ol, a lease and marketing associate for Blue Devil Ventures, hope to restore-downtown Durham’s reputation as a cultural Mecca.

“Part of our orientation to Duke was an orientation to Durham,” Greene said. “It would be cool if there was a similar symbiotic relationship in the future.”

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support for increasing the funds allotted to DPS to support pay raises for teachers.

“There’s no better way to spend money in my view,” Cheek said after the hearing.

“If it involves tax increases, so be it.”

Some residents also lobbied to increase the salaries of noncommercial workers, such as custodians and bus drivers.

Other speakers at the meeting expressed concerns about the city’s crime

IPOD from page 1 thinks many students were creative and used them for other academic purposes.

The report found that general benefits of academic uses of the iPod include portability of digital course contents, reduced dependence on laboratory or library hours, feasibility of digital recording and increased student engagement Some of the drawbacks for academic iPod use were challenges in integrating systems, low recording quality in some academic contexts and a general lack ofknowledge surrounding iPod utility, the study revealed.

Although the iPod was expected to be most useful for its audio playback capabilities, CIT found that digital recording “generated the highest level of student and faculty interest.” Sixty percent of first-year students reported using their devices for recording capabilities.

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The report also expounded on several of the project’s institutional impacts, such as significant and unanticipated publicity and “increased visibility for Duke’s institutional commitment to technology.”

The program was evaluated based on focus group interviews with students and faculty, observations of classes and an online questionnaire. Although the questionnaire was available to all first-year students who received an iPod, only 28 percent of the class submitted responses. CIT also conducted telephone interviews with a random selection of 27 non-respondents and found that the responses were generally representative of those who did respond.

A survey was distributed to the professors of first-year students, but it only yielded a 13-percent response rate. CIT was unable to conduct follow-up interviews that would help evaluate whether or not the original responses produced “quantitative information.”

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suggested that more funding be directed towards preventative efforts.

“To be a great city you must first be a safe city,” said Barker French, an official with the Durham Roundtable, an organization that researches local crime.

French and others said the county should step in and supplement state funding for fighting crime.

After considering feedback and discussing the budget proposal, the commissioners plan to approve the budget in a public session June 27.

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These courses, taught by TIP instructors, will require five to seven hours of work per week and be conducted using Blackboard features such as chatrooms, discussion boards and the digital dropbox.

“I think the myth that distance education is easier is usually not the case at all. From my experience, if distance classes are rigorously designed, they can be more difficult and require more work and more time,” said Amy Campbell, assistant director for the Center for Instructional Technology.

Lyn Fairchild, TIP educational resources assistant, said that because most of the activities are asynchronous—students and teachers do not have to be online at

GAP from page 1 hand every year,” Guttentag said.

He added that whenever the admissions office evaluates potential students based on considerations beyond academics—whether it be athletic, artistic or some other ability—“it’s not unusual to find a difference between their academic credentials and the rest of the student body’s academic credentials.

“It’s always a challenge to balance all of the different priorities of the University in the admissions process,” he said.

Relative to many other NCAA Division I schools, Duke student-athletes achieve higher marks on standardized tests and grades in high school. The disparity in test scores between athletes and noti-athletes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is nearly 300 points for males and 150 points for females. Yale’s student-athletes, both male and female,

the same time—students will be able to find times to do classwork that best fit their schedules. They can also send questions via e-mail and expect a response back in a relatively short amount of time.

Before applying to the program, students are asked online how well they respond to written instructions, stick to deadlines and learn without a teacher or other students present.

Formal applications, which are due in early July, are being reviewed on a rolling basis. In addition to admissions criteria based on standardized test scores, the students must be self-motivated to do the work required for each course to participate in the program. “Kids who feel like, T need another challenge beyond what’s going on in my life currently’—that’s usually who applies,” said Fairchild.

She said she thinks the program will draw more than enough applications to fill the 18 spots in each of the courses.

Even though students may be scattered across the country and separated from their teachers, TIP administrators say a sense of community can be created through dis-

“I think the communication tools were very effective in creating that sense of community [during the pilot program]. The students really loved being able to share their work with other students,” Cooper said.

Fairchild added that the live chats were especially popular. “Once we started using the live chats the students absolutely loved them,” she said. “It was actually a very close approximation to a real classroom.”

Although there were instances during the pilot run when individual students

had difficulty connecting to the Internet, Fairchild said most of the problems encountered were due to inexperience with the website. She also said that the Duke IT staff was helpful in squashing any system-wide bugs.

Duke has implemented distance learning in other arenas as well. Both the Fuqua School of Business and the School of Nursing have used forms of distance learning for several years.

In addition to convenience and accessibility to types of classes that students might not odierwise have, one of distance learning’s benefits is that is has widespread applicability, Campbell said.

“I can’t think of a particular area where it would not work,” she said. “Almost any program could be supported to some extent with this distance technology.”

lagged behind their non-athlete counterparts by approximately 100 points on standardized tests.

Vice Provost for Academic and Administrative Services Judith Ruderman noted that standardized test scores are not always the most accurate measure of academic success. She emphasized that graduation rates among athletes, which near 100 percent at Duke, are better indicators •of student-athletes’ academic achievements.

Though the level of some student-athletes’ academic preparedness is not as high as that of many non-athletes, Duke helps compensate for that disparity with academic support services like tutors, officials said.

“The demands of some sports are so huge, our students are practicing and training so much, so we owe them some special attention,” Ruderman said. “They’re a little different from other students.”

The self-study also explained the admissions process for student-athletes, noting

the difference from the standard process for all students. The admissions procedure for athletes is often considerably fasten-and earlier than it is for other students.

A candidate for basketball, for example, can be discussed and considered for admission with only a PSAT score and two years of high school grades. This particular process, however, does not apply to any other sport nor is it used for all basketball recruits. For most other athletes, the process begins during the summer before their senior year.

Junior Danny Miller knew in September 2002 that he would join Duke’s soccer team, but he had to fill out the application before formally being accepted with the Early Decision admits. Nonetheless, his application, along with those of other athletes, was “evaluated on a fast track,” according to the report.

“I think the fact that I was an athlete definitely helped me get into the school, but especially at a school like Duke, you

can’t be nonfunctional in class,” Miller said. “There are definitely certain standards that Duke has that other schools disregard, and that’s what I think is different about Duke student-athletes. They’re equipped academically and athletically.”

But once student-athletes get to Duke, Miller said, there are academic opportunides that sometimes seem closed. He said he cannot take certain classes that meet during times he has games or practice.

Student-athletes, however, are also able to choose their classes before the rest of the student body, which makes it an acceptable trade-off, Miller added.

The self-study reported that academic opportunities and majors are not closed to student-athletes.

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PLAZA from page 1 President Richard Brodhead also noted the unifying potential of the plaza. With seating and spaces that could be used in a variety of capacities, Moneta, Brodhead and other officials anticipate the functions of the plaza will largely be decided by the students.

“If there is occasionally dancing here, if there are plays here, if there is music here, if there is food and other things here, so much the betterbecause those are the very nature of community,” Brodhead said.

Brodhead also emphasized what an aesthetic improvement the plaza will make to the campus, recalling the first time he saw the current concrete walkway.

“I looked at it, and all I could say was, ‘What the hell is that?’” Brodhead said, noting that the chute is “narrow, brutish and long.”

Administrators sliced a cake decorated to mimic an aerial view of the plaza at the ceremony, but the slicing of the walkway will not begin for several weeks.

Chapel Gardens, where workers will fill one of the Bryan Center’s loading docks with dirt to level the ground and provide room to plant trees. The walkway will then be cut into sections and removed by cranes.

Students should expect noise during construction, but the most disruptive parts of the process will ideally take place during academic breaks.

Access to the Bryan Center through the current walkway entrance will not be available during construction. Officials initially hoped to keep the door clear, Moneta explained, but the construction company said it will not be possible once the project is underway because “it’s going to be such a mess.” The entrances next to Alpine Atrium, Griffith Film Theater and the Bryan Center parking lot will still be available.

A new, raised wooden walkway along the outside of the Great Hall will eventually connect the plaza to the Chapel Quadrangle. Due to financial constraints, however, Moneta said initial construction will extend the walkway only to the wall of the Flowers Building and not through it.

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Treat Harvey, major gifts officer for student affairs, said the University currently has $75,000 in confirmed gifts from unnamed donors and several verbal commitments from other prospects.

Moneta said there is “a significant prospect out there” who could potentially provide a naming gift—a minimum of $5 million dollars that guarantees the plaza will be named after the donor. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said there is a donor who may offer a gift that would fund a substantial portion of the project.

Since officials first presented plans for the project in October 2004, the anticipated cost and size of the plaza have changed several times. In its most ambitious form, the plaza was deemed a 60,000-square-foot “village” and expected to cost $l5 million. But construction was delayed in the summer of 2004 when University officials questioned the feasibility of the project due to a lack of funding and potential engineering complications in the

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Most college athletes dream of having a single season impressive enough to attain an AllAmerican honor.

Shannon Rowbury compiled three such seasons over the course of a single year.

With an eighth-place finish (4:17.69) in the 1,500-meter finals of the 2005 NCAA Track & Field Championships, held in Sacramento, Calif., Rowbury earned All-American honors to become the first Duke studentathlete named All-America in three different sports over the course of a single academic year.

A competitor in cross country, as well as indoor and outdoor track & field, the junior had captured All-American honors in the previous two seasons earlier in the academic year and has how received the distinction four times in her career.

“Just being able to peak three times in a year is difficult,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “She showed versatility and the ability to deal with pressure on three different occasions.”

Rowbury, however, was not the only Blue Devil to leave Sacramento an All-American Competing in her first ever national tournament, junior Liz Wort set a new personal record, as she rewrote her own Duke record in the 3,000-meter Steeplechase. Her time of 10:05.39 was good enough for fourth place, and by finishing in

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Shannon Rowbury ran a time of 4:17.69 Saturday in the 1,500-meters at the NCAA Championships.Theperformance earned her a fourth career All-American distinction. the top eight, the junior was named an All-American for the first time in her career.

“It’s just a really big honor, especially considering how many other good runners there are in the country,” Wort said. “I wouldn’t have even thought it was a goal for me earlier in the year.”

Wort’s performance was particularly impressive, considering last weekend’s championship marked the first time the junior had ever competed on a national stage.

“Normally, the first NCAA experience is a tough one—there’s SEE TRACK ON PAGE 12

NBA DRAFT NOTES mm 28 NEW YORK Wake Forest center Eric Williams withdrew his name from considi ation for the NBA Draft Sunday and will return to school for his senii season. Only two teams had said they would consider taking him witl late first round pick, and he did not want to slip into the second roun» •

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Larry Harris, the general manager of the Milwaukee Bucks —the team the No. 1 pick—said the "upside on Marvin Williams is phenomena are speculating the former Tar Heel will be the top overall pick June 28

nity he could not resist. Duke men’s lacrosse lost its top assistant coach Tuesday, when Alberici accepted the head coaching position at Army—where he had been an assistant before joining the Blue Devil staff.

“My career goal has always been to be a head coach at a great institution,” Alberici said.

“When this opportunity at Army presented itself, it was a ‘nobrainer.’ There were no second thoughts. I love this place and what it represents.”

Alberici leaves a Duke program that posted an NCAArecord 17 wins and made the NCAA Championship game for the first time in program history.

“The players will certainly miss him,” Duke head coach Mike Pressler said. “He’s been a great help for the last nine years. It’s a great move for him professionally and personally.”

Alberici served as the team’s recruiting coordinator, and after spending most of his tenure in Durham working with the offense, he made the switch to defensive coordinator this past year.

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The Alfred University alumnus replaces the NCAA’s winningest lacrosse coach, Jack Emmer, who retired after 36 years of coaching—22 of which were spent in West Point.

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For the first time in 27 years, a new face will be guiding the Duke’s men’s and women’s swimming team. Athletic Director Joe Alieva announced June 10 that Dan Colella will take over as head coach of the swimming program.

Colella has spent the last 12 seasons as the head coach of the women’s swimming team at Tennessee. He replaces former head coach Bob Thompson, who retired May 18 after nearly three decades leading the Blue Devils in the pool.

“We are thrilled to get a coach with Dan’s experience and expertise to lead our swimming program,” Alieva said.

“His background, from both an athletic and academic stand-

point, speaks for itself. It is a great fit for our University and our program.”

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Colella coached 10 teams to top-25 finishes.

He also produced 34 swimmers who earned a total of All143 American honors. In contrast,

Thompson had just two All-Americans in his tenure, but unlike the Lady Volunteers Duke does not offer scholarships in swimming.

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One face-off. One ground ball. One save. One shot.

One goal.

Two weeks ago, the difference between the national championship and second place for Duke proved to be a single play. Despite the disappointing finale, the Blue Devils enjoyed a banner year and are looking to carry their success into the 2006 campaign.

“Our goal, as we came one play away, is to maintain this and keep this program consistent at this kind of level,” Duke head coach Mike Pressler said after his team’s 9-8 loss to Johns Hopkins May 30. “We all got our taste of it now, and now how do we turn this into a positive for the ‘O6 season?”

Graduating only three starters, the Blue Devils should be in prime position to return to Philadelphia next year for another shot at the national championship. Returning the same offensive group that made up the nation’s best attack, Duke will again rely on its potent three-way scoring threat of Matt Zash, Matt Danowski and Zach Greer. With another year of experience under its belt, the record-setting trio should expect to shatter more marks next spring.

“We’re sophomores and Juniors with a hell of a lot of experience,” Pressler said. “Youth is only youth when they don’t have experience. When you have youth and experience, throw the youth out.”

The biggest off-season challenge the Blue Devils will face will be finding a replacement for All-American goalie Aaron Fenton. Junior Dan Loftus and sophomore Rob Schroeder will battle for the starting spot in the cage. Of the two, Loftus may have a slight edge having started seven games his freshman year and serving as Fenton’s back-up this past season.

“We’re going to leave that open,” Pressler said. “We have two outstanding players and we’ll decide that in the fall.”

The Blue Devils will also have to contend with the ramifications stemming from their newfound perch among the nation’s elite teams. After being picked to finish

sportsbriefs Howe calls it quits After a career fraught with knee surgeries, Caitlin Howe is retiring from basketball. She will remain on scholarship and serve as a volunteer assistant, while completing her degree next spring.

Once called the best three-point shooter head coach Gail Goestenkors had ever seen, Howe has undergone six surgeries in the past four years.

Goestenkors garners gold, Ul9 team finalized Duke women’s basketball head coach Gail Goestenkors led the USA Women’s Ul9 Team to the gold medal at the 2005 International Sports Invitational in San Diego, Calif. The team, which finished 4-0 at the tournament, will continue trainingjune 28.

Incoming freshman Abby Waner made the final team when rosters were announced Tuesday and will have the chance to play for her future coach at the FIBA Ul9 World Championship July 15-24.

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Junior Matt Danowski, who was a Tewaaraton Trophy finalist in 2005, will be one of a trio ofreturning starters from Duke's top-ranked offense. fourth in the ACC last season, Duke should enter the 2006 campaign with its highest preseason ranking in program history. As a result, the Blue Devils will need to shift their outlook to reflect their transition from underdogs to marked men.

“It’s going to be a different,” Pressler said. “We go from being the hunter to the hunted. Teams are going to be marking us with a red circle. We need a new mindset, and we’ll have to address that before next season.”

Still, the Blue Devils have their hearts set on returning to the “City of Brotherly Love” and leaving Lincoln Financial Field as national champions.

“They’re very determined to get back to the Final Four and change the outcome,” Pressler said.

Clougherty tabbedACC officials coordinator Veteran official John Clougherty was named the ACC’s new coordinator ofmen’s basketball officials Tuesday. Fred Barakat had served that role previously, but John Swofford decided to reduce some ofBarakat’s tasks, as the league expands to include its 12th member. Barakat will still direct the ACC Tournament and assist with scheduling.

Duo earns respective position awards, coach honored The USILA named Matt Danowski and Aaron Fenton attackman and goalie of the year, respectively, after leading Duke to a 17-3 record. Head coach Mike Pressler also collected Coach of theYear at the USILA banquet Wednesday.

Three golfers collect All-American accolades Ryan Blaum was named a first-team All-American, and teammates Michael Schachner and Nathan Smith both received honorable mention.

Blaum also helped lead the United States to a victory in the Palmer Cup—a collegiate competition between the U.S. and Europe —by going 3-1 in his four matches. s

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ALBERICI from page 9 of Duke’s success over much of the past decade.”

A product of Auburn, N.Y., Alberici is familiar with the West Point area. Most of his family still resides in his hometown, and recruiting trips have taken him to central New York on numerous occasions, he said. Additionally, having served as an assistant under Emmer from 1995-1996, he is familiar with the military academy and the unique challenges it poses with regard to recruiting.

“We are going to scour the country to find the best players possible and show them the benefits of a West Point degree,” Alberici said. “Recruiting is the lifeblood of your program. I embrace that. I like to recruit and look forward to showing them what Army lacrosse is all about.”

This past season, the Black Knights made the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive year but lost in the first round to Georgetown.

“Coach Emmer has done a terrific job here and has been a consistent winner,” Alberici said. “I believe Army lacrosse can compete for a national championship.”

As a four-year starter on attack at Alfred, Alberici earned All-American honors in 1990 and 1991, set six scoring records and led the nation in assists as a junior.

This is his second stint as a head coach, having spent the 1994 season at the helm of SUNY Oneonta’s men’s lacrosse program.

Alberici will lead his new squad against the one he helped put together and coach when the Black Knights visit Duke April 22, 2006.

TRACK from page 9 so much overwhelming pressure,” Ogilvie said. “To run your fastest race of the year in the final race of the year is what every runner wants to achieve. She couldn’t have possibly done things in a better way.”

Debra Vento rounded out Duke’s strong performance at the outdoor championships.

The sophomore knew she had to clear 6-feet on her first try in order to have a shot at All-American. Rising to the occasion, Vento hit the mark to earn a third place finish and her first ever All-America distinction.

“Debra had a good year in terms of her consistency,” Ogilvie said. “When she got to NCAAs she wasn’t afraid of anyone.”

Vento’s third-place finish in the high jump was the best ofany Blue Devil and helped vault Duke into a tie for 18th in team competition.

Duke’s only disappointment at the championships was in the 10,000-meter run. Paige Miller’s stress fracture impeded her from finishing the race, and Laura Stanley, who was slowed by a stomach ailment, finished 23rd.

Overall, Coach Ogilvie was very pleased with his team’s performance at the outdoor championships, and felt that the team had competed well with the 18th-place finish.

“We felt very good about the season,” Ogilvie said.

“With three top-20 finishes in cross country, indoors and outdoors, the program showed it can be consistent on the national level.” ,

COLELLA from page 9 Colella admits that coaching a program without scholarships will introduce obstacles he was unaccustomed to at his previous job, but he said he is looking forward to the challenges.

“They are true student-athletes,” Colella said. “Obviously the demands of a school like Duke University are extremely high, but 1 also know the type of students that go to Duke are extremely driven. I’ve had the fortune of talking to a number of swimmers already since my hiring.

Everyone is real excited.”

One of the reasons he decided to leave Tennessee was the lofty expectations that “started to affect the enjoyment of coaching,” he said. Although he realizes there is a strong drive to succeed at Duke as well, Colella said the administration made it clear during his interview that the student-athlete experience is similarly important.

“From 15 years of collegiate coaching one of the things I’ve been telling athletes is that I want them to really appreciate and understand that it’s not just about what it says up on the scoreboard,” Colella said. “There is a lot more that you’re going to experience over these four years.”

A graduate of the University of the South in Sewannee, Tenn., Colella officially begins July 1.

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The image of the plaza set forth in the publicity material would be great for this campus. But, fundamentally the plaza wjust a big, open space.

The success of the space will depend on what people do with it. University administrators have repeatedly said that the responsibility for using the plaza will rest with students. The stage will sit vacant until someone decides to produce a show there, and the mist fountains will remain unused until someone decides to sit under them.

Although it is by no means certain that students will embrace the plaza in that way, giving them the option may go a long way to making the social scene more vibrant. If it works, the credit for its success should largely go to Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs.

From the beginning, the plaza has been Moneta’s pet project. When he first started talking about tearing down the Bryan Center several years ago, he

envisioned a “campus village” and the project included a revitalization of dining options and renovations of the Bryan Center and the West Union Building. This project was initially going to transform undergraduate life. What Duke is now constructing is a much pared-down version of those initial visions. As the plaza has evolved (and shrunk), Central Campus has replaced the plaza as the primary staging ground of what the campus could become.

While the University’s collective imagination has run wild about the future of Central, Moneta continued to advocate for improvements to the center ofWest.

As a result, the transformation of the Bryan Center walkway into an outdoor patio will be the first major capital improvement to student affairs. And as an added bonus, full funding seems virtually guaranteed. Whatever doubts have halted this project in the past, it’s now a reality—and only time will tellwhether it is a success.

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A glossy brochure the University uses will descend upon the vast, narrow cement walkway that connects West Cam- to solicit donations toward the plaza’s pus and the Bryan Center and finally $lO million price tag includes testimoknock it down. In its place will be 18 nials from students about the fact that months of construction followed by this new space will transform social life on campus by bringing people together the much-touted West Campus plaza.

Fundamentally, the plaza is a big, in a central location. The official inforopen space that will be an improve- mation promises equally lofty results. “A ment over the current B.C. walkway, main stage for the art, Plaza dining, The planned space includes multiple small and large group gathering nodes, levels, seating areas, trees and a space and a ‘mist fountain’ will come together for a stage. When it is finally built, the to create a uniquely relaxing outdoor plaza will create something that Duke experience for the Duke University desperately needs—a place where stu- community, enabling a student’s acadents can be virtually guaranteed that demic and social life to naturally conthey will run into friends and acquain- verge,” the brochure reads. sent Wednesday afternoon, but a

When I watched the ’Bos movie Blue Velvet a few Scarlet Letter, I ranted in an elitist monologue at a 16weeks ago, one scene transformed the movie for me person English seminar trying to whip my classmates from a sadomasochistic cream dream into thesis-worinto letting me have it. Give me the thought-provoking conversation I crave! Think a little! Or at least thy material. Up until that scene, I had no real questions. I’d seen Kyle MacLachlan (yes, Charlotte’s yell back at me for being condescending. But I got nothing—no response, no respite scummy first husband from Sex and the from rampant intellectual apathy. .

City) set up as Jeffrey, the slightly prepBlue Velvet delivers the answer free py male protagonist playing at being a detective while diving into his dangerof charge; The Godfather gives you exous sexual side. I’d seen dark-haired actly what you knew you asked for, but Isabella Rosselini set up as Dorothy, maybe The Scarlet Letter, which so frustrated me as ajunior, speaks to me as a the mysteriously vulnerable sex goddess. I saw Blue Velvet exploring the rising senior. The Scarlet Letter works in sexual the blatant symbolism, in narrated senqueer questions, Anne lieberman tences telling the reader exacdy what pain/pleasure questions, the ride into guest commentary the dark side. But it wasn’t until the everything means. Hawthorne hands scene in which Jeffrey and Dorothy you the answer, begging you to find the question. Read at a university which prides itself on meet that I saw Blue Velvet set me up.

In this scene, Dorothy flings open her closet door providing resources for determined undergraduates to discover Jeffrey voyeuristically watching her unwho have found a path even if they haven’t produced dress, and how does she respond? She slowly drops to intellectual curiosity, The Scarlet Letter exposes the creher knees in front of him and takes him by the hips, atively invalid and sympathizes with those who seek the pants down, knife in her hand, her head just below his questions, not the answers. waist. “What do you want?” she asks, articulating the I guess you can escape from Dorothy’s clutches if Big Life Question, the only question that at this point you never have the fantasy of truly higher learning. in the movie requires no articulation. At this moment Maybe you don’t even realize it’s possible because the male psyche is not so terribly complex. He wants you’ve never been challenged beyond memorization whatshe’s poised to deliver. He wants to rescue the vuland a lengthy reading list. Maybe you don’t realize it’s nerable damsel and. have her turn into a sadonecessary because you’ve never sat through a seminar masochist. He wants to fulfill his hero complex while dominated by plot summary, and even that had to be making it hurt. He wants to do Dorothy, the hot fordragged from the mouths of well-rounded, I-expecteign nightclub singer and marry the other female nothing-more-from-college-than-a-greater-amount-oflead, the seventeen-year-old American golden girl. what-I’ve-already-seen gliders. Maybe an undergraduSure, he knows what he wants from Dorothy at this ate student at Duke can slip through the coursework particular moment, and isn’t it ironic that he not only cracks between the absolutely inspiring and the unbegets this overdetermined fantasy but doesn’t even have lievably mundane. Within those mundane classes, to ask? The whole scene was set up; I was set up, anticthough, how can the majority of the Duke communiipating sexual release, the oldest answer. What, then, ty not rise from apathy and demand more? Perhaps was the purpose of asking the question? die University’s lack of faculty teaching incentives conThis business of asking—knowing what to ask for, tribute to the intellectually dead classroom, as one of knowing how to ask, getting what you want—has my professors suggests. But just what kind of “incenhaunted me in the Duke classroom, both within the tive” does it take to convince an internationally actexts that I’ve read and the classroom atmosphere itknowledged theorist/researcher/cultural critic that self. I read the first scene of The Godfather in the first an enforced hour with undergraduates should be dyclass period ofmy first English class at Duke, and my namic? And whatkind of student is satisfiedwith less?

Come tell me that I’m wrong, that Duke demands professor claimed that the Sicilian men went to the Godfather for help with their women. I hadn’t seen its professors to prove their renown in the classroom, that; I hadn’t gotten it from the words. He drew it that undergraduates accept nothing less. Tell me that from the text. No other class at Duke had made me Duke teaches you how to ask instead of rewarding try. I learned in that class that I wanted more from those who come up with easy answers. Come argue the classroom. When the Sicilian men went to the with me. Take a class with me. You can’tescape the fanGodfather, they asked on their knees. They asked on tasy of Blue Velvet, because you have it, too. You just his daughter’s wedding day, when by tradition no Sihaven’t realized it yet. I’m holding the knife, ready to cilian would refuse a request. They knew how to ask give what you don’t have to tell me you want. Let that for what they wanted. I still had to learn. be your incentive. I dare you.

The second time around I knew the potential for classroom intellectualism. So, when reading The Anne Lieberman is a Trinity senior.

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To do the work of Fleet Street London’s Fleet Street was the legendary and historic home to Britain’s major newspapers, and the bars that kept them going for more than 300 years.

But on Wednesday, the street’s journalistic legacy came to an end, as Reuter’s departed the Fleet Street headquarters the news agency had held since before the Second World War. Papers including The mW&tm* mu Sun and The Daily Telem graph lined Fleet Street in massive buildings.

Newspaper alums recall that the building would start to shake when the Emily rotberg industrial presses started checkpoint: engiand to grind. Then, at night, delivery vans clogged the streets to collect the day’s papers and begin distribution.

When technological advances made newspapers less expensive to produce, the industry experienced a shift in production from in-house publishing plants to regional printing centers. Media moguls moved their publications to cheaper and more modern facilities further from the city’s center. Today, the area is known as a legal and banking center. The building that once housed the Daily Telegraph is now home to Goldman Sachs. Duke graduates probably work there.

The ones who suffered, they say, were the journalists, who felt they were kicked out of their village. Fleet Street had evolved into a gritty members-only club in which booze-fueled journalists would congregate in pubs with names like The Scab and Ye Old Cock Tavern to talk, unwind, cajole and fight. Alcohol was the fuel that fed Fleet Street’s finest.

“What Fleet Street had was a certain film noir glamour,” said Kim Fletcher, editorial director of the Telegraph group, who worked on the street in the ’Bos. “Being film noir is slightly seedy but certainly exciting....

Society-reporters might still be wearing trench coats and they might still be drinking too much.

“This was not a time when journalists wentjogging on their lunch hours.”

So imagine the chuckles that must have risen when the former denizens ofFleet Street learned that Reuters had organized a church service to commemorate the area’s history.

“It seems funny that for such an unholy profession, they’re having a farewell ceremony blessed by God,” said Mike Molloy, a past editor-in-chief of the Daily Mirror.

A priest and a rabbi (no joke) presided at the interfaith service at St. Bride’s Church, known as the journalists’ church, and Rupert Murdoch read an excerpt from scripture.

The small church was filled to capacity with suit-wearing journalistic aristocracy and fatigued working reporters. We of the latter caste tried to maintain a reverent air while holding up microphones and noting every spoken word. The priest, who called the church the “spiritual home of all who work in the media,” said the feeling of administering the last rites to the old Fleet Street was appropriate.

“Fleet Street, as the geographical home of the press, is now a deserted village, full of ghosts and memories everywhere,” he said.

I don’t go to church often... by often, I mean ever. But it hit me, during the choral rendition of the Beades’ “In My Life,” that I was witnessing an extraordinary moment.

After the ceremony, I followed the group that knew where to go to the dim, wood-paneled Press Club for drinks and reminiscence. It was as ifthey were determined to raise the ghost of Fleet Street for that one last drink.

But I didn’t know anyone at the reception. I, whose primary consideration when getting dressed had been to grab something clean that wouldn’t get soaked in the morning downpour, found myself lost in a sea of mogul suits.

Truth is, I’m not ready to stand in a group of established newspapermen and remember when. I left the reception, prodded in the back by someone, whose companion said, ‘Make way, editor of The Sun!’ My heels clicked as I walked away down Fleet Street. I made my way back to the bureau to finish the story. To do Fleet Street’s work. *

In this debate, where is Duke?

The vast majority of the bill’s supportSpeaking at a May 16 news conference in Raleigh, Professor John Hope ers are Democrats (who hold a 63-57 Franklin, Duke’s famed historian, majority in the House), but there are urged the state legislature to support more Democrats opposed to the bill a two-year moratorithan Republicans in um on executions favor of it.

The N.C. Senate during which time a a similar vernewly formed statepassed guest commentary sion of the bill on sponsored commission would study April 30, 2003, but the North Carolina’s system of capital house did not follow suit. The House has —at least up to this point —failed punishment. In addition to the notable North Carolinians who joined to support the bill once again. The Dr. Franklin in Raleigh, Herb moratorium survived the crossover Sendek, N.C. State’s current basketdeadline (the time at which all nonball coach, and Dean Smith, UNC’s monetary bills must be approved by legendary basketball coach, ex- at least one of the legislative bodies in pressed their unwavering support for order to remain up for debate) due the bill in letters to the governor and to the nominal funding pledged for state legislature. the commission’s study. But the bill’s “A system that allows innocent people backers are scrambling for the addito be convicted and sentenced to death; tional 3 to 4 votes necessary to send it that results in many of the poorest of our to the Senate. citizens being prosecuted by the death It is quite unfortunate that the bill penalty; where the race of the victim often has become a partisan issue since the plays a role in who gets the death penalty moratorium campaign is NOT about the abolition of the death penalty but and who. does not (and that has such a high rate of error) cannot be a fair and rather about the efficacy of the system just system. I urge our legislature and and pursuit of justice for all North Carolinians, including victims, minorities GovernorEasley to pass House Bill 529.

Dean Smith and the indigent. But having spent the I never thought I would see the last three weeks working with the day when leading figures from all North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium, the most disheartening aspect of three of North Carolina’s major universities—UNC, N.C. State and the overly politicized battle has been Duke—would join together to rally Duke University’s lack of influence in behind a highly charged bill before the matter —and I am not stricdy referthe state legislature. ring to the fact that the legislature is dominated by UNC graduates.

Two months ago, in a guest column on these pages, I urged the Duke Perhaps Duke, often derided as North the University of New Jersey by the to involved in community get Carolina politics and support House rest of the state, deserves the Bill 529. The state legislature has the moniker. I am extremely proud to atopportunity to become the first bi- tend such a prestigious university and have enjoyed reading recent articles cameral legislative body in the counin Time and The New York Times try and the first southern state to apsuch a bill.

And members of about groundbreaking stem cell reprove yet the N.C. House—perhaps out of fear search at the Duke medical center of political retribution in the 2006 and star Duke lacrosse players from elections—have so far failed to upLong Island. But we should not allow hold the state’s reputation as a proour national prominence to blind us gressive force in the struggle for racial to the fact that we are a historically southern university that has played and economic equality in the South.

In spite of gamering an 8-6 victory an important role in state and regionin the House Judiciary Committee, al politics. Although prominent Duke the bill has yet to be heard on the professors such as John Hope house floor. Democratic majority Franklin, James Coleman and Ariel Dorfman have been staunch propoleaders pulled the bill from consideration by the full House when it benents of the moratorium bill, I find it came apparent the bill likely would rather telling that there has not been not pass and be sent to the Senate. a concerted effort by Duke students

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or the administration to assume a more active role in the campaign.

From the Bassett Affair to the 1969 takeover of the Allen Building, Duke University’s adminstrators, faculty and students must build upon the precedent set by previous generations of Blue Devils. North Carolina includes more than the Durham beyond the East Campus wall, and it is incumbent upon the University community to reestablish itself as a progressive force in the state dedicated to issues affecting all North Carolinians. The moratorium campaign is an excellent place to start.

Speaking at his inauguration as Duke's new president, Terry Sanford, the former governor and future senator from North Carolina told the crowd: “I do not propose that we seek for ourselves a homogenized patten! of the half-dozen great private universities of the nation of which we are 0ne.... We strive to be Duke University, an institution seeking the highest scholarly attainment and using to the fullest its own peculiar resources and creative capabilities.”

Terry Sanford, while establishing Duke as a preeminent national institution of higher learning, never forgot Duke’s responsibility to the state. Mr. Sanford was a progressive leader who dedicated his life to Duke and the state of North Carolina. As a man devoted to education and racial progress, he would clearly have pushed for a more active role by all Dukies in the campaign for a moratorium.

This may be your last opportunity before the end of the 2006 legislative session to convince the N.C. House to make the right decision and reevaluate a flawed system responsible for putting innocent people on our state’s death row. In addition to getting involved with local chapters of national advocacy organizations, such as Amnesty Intemation, you can write, call and visit legislators in order to sway the undecided and encourage the bill’s sponsors to keep pushing forward in spite of the obstinate opposition.

Adam Yoffie is a Trinity senior and a Service Opportunities in Leadership intern at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham. For more tion on the moratorium, go to wvm. ncmoratorium.org.

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