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The new Perk opened in the von der Heyden Pavilion Monday. Its food is now provided by Mad Hatter's Cafe and Bake Shop.

Perk offers new cuisine options by

Jared Mueller

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Fresh sandwiches, gourmet pastries and organic coffee drew more than 850 patrons to Monday’s debut of Mad Hatter’s Cafe and Bake Shop in the Karl and Mary Ellen von der Heyden Pavilion.

The Perkins Library eatery, which is also known as The Perk, buzzed with chatter and classic

songs by the Beach Boys. The Perk opened at 7:30 a.m. Monday, and by 5:15 p.m., it had already run out of eight of its 10 main dishes.

“I’m very happy for the opening,” Mad Hatter’s owner Jason Balius said. “It was great.”

The sleek cafe, enclosed by glass and outfitted with stainless steel appliances, was originally scheduled to open Oct. 12, but its

debut was twice hindered by construction delays.

Patrons said the new Perk compares favorably to the cafe’s previous incarnation next to Perkins’ Gothic Reading Room.

Sara Berghausen, Perkins’ literature and theater librarian, said she was pleased by the SEE PERK ON PAGE 8

Many political battles will take place today in municipal elections, including a rematch from 2003.

Mayor Bill Bell will face off against his challenger from two years ago, Supervisor for the Department ofHomeland Security Jonathan Alston. Bell won 88.2 percent of the vote in the Oct. 11 primary and is favored to win the general election.

City Council seats for Wards 1, 2 and 3 are also up for grabs. Eight bond referendums totalling $llO million are also on the ballot.

Incumbents Cora Cole-McFadden and Howard Clement, running in Wards 1 and 2, respectively, are in positions to win, based on the primary results. Cole-McFadden garnered 72 percent of the vote while Clement received 55.3 percent.

In Ward 3, Mike Woodard, a Duke administrator in financial services, gained the people’s support in the primary over incumbent, John Best.

Officials and candidates said they hope the people of Durham will respond better in the general election than they

cent of registered voters out Oct. 11.

“I’m disappointed in the low turnout,” said Mike Ashe, director of the Durham County Board of Elections. “These people who we elect will be making the rules for us to live by. I’m optimistic, however, that we as a community will do better this time around.”

Bell, who defeated Alston in 2003 with 83 percent of the vote, hopes to become the first official in more than 40 years to gain the city’s top position for a third straight term. Bell, however, is not declaring victory just yet.

“I don’t take any election for granted,” Bell said. “I will be out working the polls and doing what I have typically done in the past.” voter

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Public policy prof set Durham residents to vote on 8 development bonds to lead La. recovery by

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Taking on high-profile responsibilities is nothing new for James Joseph.

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco announced Friday that Joseph —associate professor of the practice in the public policy studies department, former ambassador to South Africa and diplomat who has served under four presidents —was selected Chair of the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation by the organization’s Board of Directors.

The Baton Rouge-headquartered organization was established in response to disastrous hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It will act as the primary advocate for residents ofLouisiana.

Joseph said LDRF will allocate funding given to the the state ofLouisiana to various charitable organizations. “[Joseph] has a proven knowledge of Louisiana and a history of community serv-

ice alongside his many accomplishments,” Blanco said in a statement. ‘Joseph is also a leader in philanthropy and will bring valuable experience to creating and sustaining this important recovery hind for Louisiana’s

people.”

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“This is an opportunity to serve the people ofLouisiana,” Joseph explained.

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With garages crumbling and sewer pipes collapsing in some parts of Durham, municipal officials have formulated a plan to repair damages around the city. But the decision to carry it out lies in the hands of voters in today’s elections.

Over the past two years, city staff members, along with a 20-person citizens’ group, have developed the “8 Bonds for a Better Durham” plan to repair infrastructural damages throughout the city.

The bonds, which will total $llO million if passed, seek to improve public safety, renovate cultural landmarks, improve parks and recreation, repair public facilities, encourage commercial development, pave broken streets and sidewalks, replace old water and sewer mains and improve parking decks.

Today voters will have the opportunity to vote for each bond separately. If passed,

the approximately 80 projects included io the eight-bond plan are scheduled to begin within one and three years.

The bonds are government obligation bondsand have received fervent support from top city officials. They are being promoted through a campaign co-chaired by Wanda and Nathan Garrett and Cynthia Brodhead. wife of President Richard Brodhead.

“These things must be done, ami without the bonds, it will just be more expensive.” Wanda Garrett ■said.

Government obligation bo-ads alow the city to raise money for public projects with the pledge to pay the bondholders principal and interest over a predeteriiiined amount of time, which in this case is estimated at 20 years.

“We’ve- calculated the expenses, and in a worst-case scenario-, taxes result in an additional eight dollars in taxes and water [per SEE BONDS ON PAGE 6

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High Court to review wartime powers by

Gina Holland

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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a constitutional

challenge to the George W. Bush administration’s military trials for foreign terror suspects, stepping into a high-stakes test of the president’s wartime powers.

The court’s intervention is troubling news for the White House, which has been battered by criticism of its treatment of detainees and was rebuked by the high court last year for holding enemy combatants in legal limbo.

The justices will decide if President Bush overstepped his authority with plans

for a military trial for Osama bin Laden’s former driver, who is being held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It would be the first such trial since World War 11.

New Chief Justice John Roberts took himselfout of the case because as an appeals court judge he backed the government in the same appeal. IfBush nominee Samuel Alito is confirmed, he could be a pivotal figure when the case is argued next spring.

The Pentagon announced Monday that five additional terror suspects at Guantanamo will face military trials on various charges including attacking civilians and murder. That brings to nine out of about

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500 detainees at the facility who have been charged with criminal offenses.

Announcement of thecourt’s move came

shordy after Bush, asked about reports ofsecret U.S. prisons in Eastern Europe for ter-

rorism suspects, declared anew that his administration does not torture anyone.

“There’s an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again,” Bush said during a news conference in Panama City with President Martin Torrijos.

“So you bet we will aggressively pursue them but we will do so under the law.”

“Anything we do to that end in this efSEE COURT ON PAGE 8

Australian police arrest terror suspects by

Mike Corder

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Australian auSYDNEY, Australia thorities arrested 16 terror suspects Tuesday—including a prominent radical Muslim cleric sympathetic to Osama bin Laden—and said they had foiled a major terror attack on the country by men committed to “violent jihad.”

The Australian Federal Police said seven men were arrested in Sydney and nine in Melbourne in coordinated raids that also netted evidence including weapons and apparent bomb-making materials.

“I was satisfied that this state was under an imminent threat of potentially a catastrophic terrorist act,” said New South Wales Police Minister Carl Scully.

Police commissioner Graeme Morgan said one of the men arrested was shot and wounded by police in the raids, which followed a 16-month investigation. .

An Associated Press photographer saw a bomb squad robot examining a backpack the man was wearing when he was shot.

Morgan said it contained a handgun.

Police declined to give details of the likely target of the attack, but Victoria state police chief Christine Nixon said that next

year’s Commonwealth Games, to be staged in Melbourne, were not a target.

Among the men arrested was the outspoken radical Muslim cleric Abdul Nacker Ben Brika, also known as Abu Bakr—an Algerian-Australian who has said he would be violating his faith if he warned his students not to join the jihad, or holy war, in Iraq.

Abu Bakr was among nine men who appeared Tuesday morning in Melbourne Magistrates Court charged with being members of a terror group.

Prosecutor Richard Maidment told the SEE ARRESTS ON PAGE 9

France will impose curfews under-a stateof-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."

Gls killed in suicide attack A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at a checkpoint south of Baghdad and killed four American soldiers Monday, the military said. The U.S. command also announced five soldiers from an elite unit were charged with kicking and punching Iraqi detainees.

Search continues after twister Crews began draining a pond next to a smashed mobile-home park in a search for bodies Monday after a tornado ripped through Indiana and Kentucky and killed at least 22 people.

Israelis receive boy's organs The father of a Palestinian boy shot dead

by Israeli soldiers said Monday he believes his son's spirit is alive in "every Israeli" after donating the boy's organs to Israelis waiting for transplants. Ismail Khatib said he was extremely proud of his decision.

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Riots across regions of France have shocked residents and the government alike. All Duke students studying in and near Paris are safe, officialsreported.

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For Matthew Yelovich, a Junior studying abroad in Paris this semester, hosting

friends from the Duke in Florence program this past weekend proved a disquieting experience.

“Our inevitable trip to the Eiffel Tower was marred by views of billowing smoke in the distance,” Yelovich wrote in an e-mail.

The smoke was issuing from the Paris suburbs, where racially fueled rioting took hold after the Oct. 27 deaths of two black teenagers. Local residents blamed the deaths on Paris police.

The violence has since spread to other parts of France, including central Paris, where some Duke students are living.

“The rioters burned cars in my neigh-

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borhood on Saturday night, which is the first time that the violence reached into the center of the city,” junior Steven Bressler wrote in an e-mail. “I don’t know exactly whether or not to feel threatened, but it is important to know that the school has informed us to be ‘on guard.’”

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin called for curfews Monday under a stateof-emergency law. He also said police reservists would be summoned to stop the rioting that has spread into hundreds of cities and towns across the country.

Jean-Jacques Thomas, professor of romance studies, literature and linguistics and on-campus director for the Duke in France program, said all Duke students are safe. The Paris office for EDUCO —a cooperative program between Emory

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University, Cornell University and Duke—is conducting meetings with students to discuss security.

“We got a notice From our program telling us to be careful and giving instructions on how to stay safe—to travel in groups, to avoid really crowded areas, to leave if we see something happening,” juniorMegan Erickson said.

Michele Longino, a professor of romance studies and the visiting faculty director for Duke in France, noted that the EDUCO consortium has an evacuation plan that has been reviewed by staff and is ready to be put into action if the need arises. “Depending on the situation, the students would be evacuated out of the city

As part of Campus Equity Week, professors at universities across the country held protests to raise awareness about their posts as contingent faculty members.

CEW, which took place last week, is a national annual event that aims to inform the public about the disparities in employment practices for tenured and nontenured professors.

According to a study by the American Association of University Professors, only 35 percent of faculty in the country currently have tenure, which guarantees them full-time positions, or are on the tenure track. The study states that the percentage of non-tenured, or contingent, faculty members is growing annually.

At Duke, professors who do not have tenure are in one of two situations. They are either on the tenure track and will eventually apply for it, or they are on an established non-tenure track because of the nature of their teaching. Non-tenured professors are required to do less research, but their position provides long-term contracts and a set system of promotions.

Sixty-three percent of Duke faculty are tenured or on the tenure track.

“At other schools—especially at many public —there are many faculty who have neither of these characteristics,” Provost Peter Lange said. “They have one-year contracts, they’re hired at wi11... so they’re in a much more precarious position.”

He added that Duke does not usually encounter such problems because the employment situation is more stable than at larger schools, where decisions to hire contingent professors on shorter contracts often stem from financial restrictions.

“As universities come under financial pressure, they sometimes seek to relieve

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Eugene Brown and other City Council members mulled over various development issues Monday.

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With the “8 Bonds for a Better Durham” referendum up for vote in today’s election, Monday’s Durham City Council meeting centered around issues of funding for capital improvements as well as plans for an increased police force along the Fayetteville Street corridor.

The meeting opened with an announcement by council member Diane Catotti concerning the referendum, which consists of eight bonds totaling $llO million. Proponents have said the bonds will help fund the repair of infrastructural damage in the city of Durham.

City Manager Patrick Baker explained that the referendum results will likely affect funding issues to be raised by a group of Fayetteville Street community members. These concerns involve work-

force initiatives and streetscape programs, which will be addressed at the Council’s work session Thursday.

Fayetteville Street community members will also engage in a dialogue with Durham police concerning the reallocation of officers to District 4 in order to reduce crime along the Fayetteville Street corridor.

“We’re trying to be as efficient with our resources there as we can,” Deputy Police Chief Ron Hodge said. “We recognize there are some issues and hot spots in that area that we need to address.”

Hodge reported to the Council that Durham police will be meeting with members of the Fayetteville Street community before finalizing its planned allocation of new officers to the area. “We thought it would be more appropriate to SEE CITY COUNCIL ON PAGE 7

Student punched, robbed off E ast by

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A Duke student was approached by four men, assaulted and robbed as he was leaving Cosmic Cantina early Sunday morning, according to a police press statement. It was the second robbery that occurred this weekend near East Campus.

Leaving the Perry Street restaurant located one block off East —around 1:45 a.m. by himself, the student was confronted by four men who asked him for money, Duke University Police Department Maj. Phyllis Cooper said.

After the student ignored the request —

twice, one of the men punched him in the face, Cooper added. The man then took the student’s wallet, which held $25 in cash, credit cards and a driver’s license.

The 20-year-qld student was not badly injured and called DUPD once he had returned to his Kilgo House M dormitory room, Cooper said, adding that he was then referred to the Durham Police Department.

Cooper said she did not know how many officers were on patrol around East Campus Saturday night or Friday night—when the first robbery occurred inside the Duke stone wall near Buchanan and Main streets.

In the fall of 2004, DUPD began joint

patrols with DPD in an extended jurisdic-

tion off East. In addition, two DUPD officers were assigned to a new patrol route on the perimeter of East this August.

Cooper said she did not know why there was an increase in the number of robberies this weekend or if the two incidents were related. She encouraged students to use safety precautions when trav-

eling at night.

“You can reduce your chances of being a target by either taking a cab or walking in pairs,” Cooper said. “If you’re drinking or you’re out late, following some of the safety precautions will help not being a target.”

Professor arrested, cited with DWI An assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry was arrested Thursday on a charge of driving while impaired. Don Coltart, 36, was arrested at about 3 a.m. in the Levine Science Research Center parking lot and taken to the Durham County Jail, according to a police report. Coltart was unable to be reached for comment.

Secured bike stolen A student reported the larceny of her

$300.00 burgundy bicycle Tuesday at 2:42

p.m. The bicycle was last know secured at the Brodie Gym bike rack at 1:30 p.m. and was discovered missing at 2:40 p.m. The front wheel and the U-lock were still attached to the bicycle rack. Most of the bikes that have been stolen were secured with cable locks that were cut or were improperly locked.

Powerbook pilfered A student reported the larceny of a $2,500 Apple powerbook Tuesday at 10:50 a.m. The student left the powerbook in Commons Room 3 of Wannamaker Residence Hall Monday at 10:00 p.m. and discovered it missing Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.

Visitors’ vehicles vandalized Three visitors to the Duke Forest Gate #3 on Highway 751 reported damage to and items missing from their vehicles. All the cars were parked Monday at approximately 10:00 a.m., and the damage was found at approximately 10:30 a.m.

The owner of the 2003 Saturn lon had window damage to the right front door and a wallet—containing cash and credit cards—stolen.

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collegeroundup No wires attached for MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology extended its wireless network to encompass its entire 9.4 million square-foot campus this month.

The network also provides users with information regarding exactly how many people are logged on at any given location at any given time.

MIT researchers did this by developing electronic maps that track across campus, day and night, the devices people use to connect to the network, whether they are laptops, wireless PDAs or even Wi-Fi equipped cell phones.

University of California provost resigns M.R.C. Greenwood, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of the University of California system, stepped down Friday.

The resignation was prompted by an internal investigation into whether she had played too big a role in the system's hiring ofher son and of a friend. Greenwood had been the first woman to hold the secondin-command post.

University system President Robert Dynes said in a statement that Greenwood would “return to her academic pursuits.”

Greenwood is a professor of biology at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Largest gift ever given to Tufts Tufts University benefitted from a $ 100-million gift last week. The donation, made by alumnus and eßay Founder and Chief Executive Officer Pierre Omidyar and wife Pam, is largest monetary gift in Tufts history.

The University plans to utilize the funds

by making small loans throughout the developing world.

The strategy is designed to yield good returns and trigger economic growth in

underprivileged regions.

San Francisco State to look into profs arrest Allegations of racial profiling at San Francisco State University prompted the appointment of an independent committee to look into a situation in which a professor was arrested outside his department two weeks ago.

Antwi Akom, an assistant professor of black studies, said he was on his way to retrieve a book from his office around 11 p.m. Oct. 25 when he was stopped by. a campus security officer and asked to show identification.

The police said Akom refused to comply with the request and scuffled with university police officers, injuring one officer.

Akom was arrested and charged with both resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.

He was held overnight in the San Francisco County jail before being released the following afternoon.

Yale to offer free education in music A $lOO million donation is about to make paying for the Yale’s School of Music much easier.

The anonymous donation, announced this past week, will make advanced music education free beginning next year.

Music scholars hope it will pressure other schools to do the same.

The current year’s tuition at the Yale School ofMusic is $23,750, and about 200 students are enrolled each year.

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pate in deliberations about their future.”

Although Joseph has yet to witness the disarray the hurricanes’ aftermath “I’m honored to have been asked, but I left in certain areas of Louisiana, he view it more as an opportunity than an maintained that his new post will not rehonor.” quire him to be in the state more than As chair of the board of directors of twice each month.

LDRF, Joseph is responsible for appoint“I will continue my responsibilities at ing executive officers and overseeing Duke,” he said. the staff and the distribution of funds From 1982 until 1995, Joseph served as president and chief executive officer acquired by the organization.

One of his major goals is to strengthfor the Council on Foundations, an inen the nonternational aso profit secsocia aon tor foundations The truth of the matter is I do Louisiana. and corporate “The not intend to rebuild Louisiana as giving protruth of the grams whose it was. I want it to be a better matter is I constituents do not inhold more Louisiana than the one I knew as tend to rethan $2OO bila child growing up there.” build lion in assets.

Louisiana Joseph Joseph served as it was,” as the he said. “I want it to be sador to South a betterLouisiana than the one I knew as Africa from 1996 to 2000. He currendy a child growing up there.” heads the United States-South Africa The Opelousas, La., native said he Centers for Leadership and Public Values views LDRF as a “vehicle for the people.” at the Graduate School of Business at the The aftermath of the hurricanes unUniversity of Cape Town and the Sanford veiled the “persistence of an underclass Institute of Public Policy. that had been ignored and marginalJoseph was presented an award by the Louisiana State Senate and House of Repized,” Joseph said.

“The organization will provide a reresentatives for “meritorious achievesource to ensure access and opportunities ment” earlier this year. to the people who, traditionally, have not At that time, he was also presented had a voice in the rebuilding,” Joseph with the Chancellors Medal by the chansaid. “[LDRF will] enable them to partici- cellor ofLouisiana State University.

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BONDS from page 1 month] for a homeowner with a $150,00 home,” Nathan Garrett said. “We understand that eight dollars isn’t cheap to a lot of people, but it isn’t unreasonable either.”

The GOP party of Durham, however, has taken a stand against all eight proposed bonds. Chair Steve Monks attributed his party’s opposition to several issues.

“They’re spending money on the wrong things,” Monks said. “The number one concern of Durham residents is crime, and these bonds don’t address crime. It’s like making a decision to stain the floors in your house without putting out the fire in the kitchen.”

Beverly Thompson, Durham public affairs manager, disagreed.

“These are projects selected and listed as a priority by a citizen panel as a matter of urgency to them,” she said.

In addition, Monks said he fears a lack of accountability with the bonds. Issues that he said worry him include provisions to redistribute money between bonds and reissue two-thirds of the value of the original bonds after one year—all with-

approval.

“They’ve done it twice before, and they’re going to do it again,” he said, referring to incidents in previous years when funds for city bonds were poorly managed.

Though Thompson agreed that the bonds allow some flexibility in city spendout voter

cannot be redistribing, she uted into different categories.

The Garretts supported Thompson’s view. “The main objection with the bonds goes back to criticisms of the way bonds were handled previously, and the city is very sensitive to that,” Nathan Garrettsaid.

“But it is an open process this time with a new administration, different City Council, and different mayor. We have to look at the past, leam from it and move forward.”

The new bond proposition is being carried out with as much transparency as

possible, Thompson said. With an oversight committee and a website that lays

out how the bonds would function, the “8 Bonds for a Better Durham” committee hopes to arm citizens with the ability to learn about the bonds, track the progress of the projects and hold the city accountable, Nathan Garrett explained.

Wanda Garrett had one reminder for voters. “Realize that this city belongs to all of us,” he said. “Each person should feel responsibility, and each person should reap its benefits.”

The "8 Bonds for a Better Durham" The GOs would allow Durham to raise plan features what are called general money for infrastructural improvements with the pledge to pay the government obligation (GO) bonds. bondholders principal and interest A GO derives its interest and principal over 20 years. payments from the taxing power of the municipality. In this case, that's Each of the eight bonds would fund specific projects and money could not the City of Durham. be redistributed to other areas. Voters Interest income on a GO is exempt will vote on all eight bonds individually. from federal taxes.

of people call me about my proposals for crime reduction, and it is good to hear that people are concerned. People will hopefully begin to wake up.”

Cole-McFadden will face Victoria Peterson, an outspoIf re-elected, Bell said he will continue his focus on decreasing the crime rate, increasing the police pres- ken community activist, in the election. Cole-McFadden, a Ward 1 representative since 2001, has lived in Durham for ence in communities with high crime, helping redevelop the downtown area and striving to better the lives of more than 30 years and said she is in love with the city.

“It’s wonderful for me as an incumbent to receive so youth in Durham.

“There has been a community effort in reducing many supporters,” Cole-McFadden said. “I’m excited crime,” Bell added. “I would be the first one to admit about what I have done and looking forward to what I though that no one is comfortable with the number of will do when I’m re-elected. Because of who I am, I’m homicides that have taken place. Although Jonathan ran very high on Durham and have a very positive outlook two years ago, I don’tknow what he’s done since then. I’ve on what we can do.”

Peterson declined to comment. proven I can work with the people.”

Alston is prepared to devote himself to curing In the Ward 2 race, Regina Stanley-King will try to unDurham’s crime and budget problems. He believes the seat Clement, who has endured six elections and spent 44 years in the Durham community. people of Durham are ready for a change in leadership.

“I like to think that the people ofDurham support me,” “The people have to decide what they want,” Alston said. “A lot of people are afraid of change even though Clement said. “I’ve been out trying to win an election. I they might not be happy with Bill Bell. I’ve had a number took all afternoon Friday to ride buses around the com-

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Where: If you live on East Campus, you will vote at Watts Street Elementary School at 700 Watts St. Walk to the wall behind the Marketplace and Brown Dormitory and cross the street. Keep walking to Urban Ave. Walk one block on Urban to Watts St. The school is a red brick building on the corner of Urban and Watts streets.

If you live on West or Central Campus, your polling place is the W.l. Patterson Recreation Center at 2000 Crest St. From Flowers Dr. or Anderson St., turn left on Erwin Rd. Then turn right at the light onto Fulton St. The recreation center is behind the veteran's hospital on the corner of Fulton and Crest streets.

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portunity to connect with the voters.”

Stanley-King could not be reached for comment.

Ward 3 was the only seat in which the primary results did not favor the incumbent. Woodard received almost twice as many votes as Best. Having lived in the Durham community for more than 20 years, Woodard believes he is well qualified for the City Council position.

“I hope that voters will look at [the two candidates] and select the one who will provide the best leadership,” Woodard explained. “I feel that I provide better leadership and that I have the time to commit to the job of City Council.”

Best looks to continue his run on Durham’s City Council, despite having to handle recent publicity of his jail time for failure to pay child support.

“I work for a living,” Best said. “If people haven’t decided who they are going to vote for by now, they will flip a coin. My life does not depend on whether I win or lose. I will move on regardless of the outcome.”

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explained.

Showing frustration at the delay of the finalized plan, Mayor Bill Bell agreed to postpone the presentation until the Nov. 21 City Council meeting.

The Council then entered into a discussion of the proposed renewal of a lease agreement with the Members Credit Union.

“Our goal was to try to keep the rent at a reasonable rate because of the services the employees supply to the city,” said Sandra Harper, real estate administrator for the City ofDurham.

The intent of the dialogue between the city and the Members Credit Union was to make the lease agreement mutually beneficial to all parties involved, including the city, the employees and the credit union, council member Thomas Stith said.

“I see it as a balancing out, and I think the employees deserve that,” Mayor ProTempore Cora Cole-McFadden added.

The final decision on the lease agreement has been postponed because the Council believes more negotiations are necessary and that some monetary issues may be addressed as a result of the bonds to be voted on today.

“I think this is worthy of one more round in terms of negotiations,” Council member Eugene Brown said. “The moral of this story is please, let’s pass these bonds.”

Another similar concern involves the proposed agreement for the city to authorize a 20-year lease of a portion of the Old North Durham Park to Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, Inc. for the sum of only $l.

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Bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, has been in U.S. custody four years. He and three other terror suspects are to be tried before military officers.

Hamdan, who was captured in Afghanistan in November 2001, denies conspiring to engage in acts of terrorism and denies he was a member of al Qaeda. He has been charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes, murder and terrorism.

The Bush administration had urged the high court to stay on the sidelines until after the trials, arguing that national security was at stake. “The military proceedings involve enforcement of the laws of war against an enemy force targeting civilians for mass death,” Solicitor General Paul Clement wrote in a filing.

Scott Silliman, a Duke University law professor, said the court in taking the case seemed to be making a statement that it would “define the perimeters of this war and what tools the president has available to him in this unique environment.”

In 2004 the justices took up the first round of cases stemming from the war on terrorism. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who is retiring, wrote in one case that “a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation’s citizens.”

Arguments in the Hamdan case will be scheduled in time for O’Connor’s successor to take part Senate confirmation hearings are planned for January for Alito, who often has been deferential to government in his appeals court rulings.

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“It seemed like there was a lot of work and a lot of socializing going on,” Berghausen said. “The space is so much more pleasant.”

Balius said many vendors vied for the swank von der Heyden location. A committee of library staff evaluated each proposal before offering the contract to Mad Hatter’s.

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Randy Mayes, Trinity ’B2, said he admired the architecture, but was ambivalent about the Perk as a study space.

“They had music on earlier, and that was kind of obnoxious,” Mayes said.

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The Perk’s successful debut, however, does not concern the owner of Duke’s other late night cafe.

“We’re a great study hall area,” Blue Devil Beanery owner Rick Lynch said. He added that the Beanery’s proximity to residential halls is a powerful attraction for customers.

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that financial oppression by hiring more [faculty for] jobs that people with regular rank would do,” he said. “They tend to hire more people whom they can deal with more flexibly.”

Duke’s employment practices were not regularized until the early 1990 when the position of professor of the practice was introduced, Lange said. According to the Chairs’ Handbook, the position has a long-term contract and requires academic preparation, professional development and significant activity in the field.

Before the implementation of professor of the practice positions, the University had more faculty on one-year contracts than it currendy does. Now it is the primary alternative for professors not on the tenure track.

“The University has been very responsible and very much in the forefront in identifying and creating these kinds of positions for faculty who are not tenured but with which the University still intends to have a long-term relationship,” said Alexander Motten, associate professor of the practice of biology.

William Noland, associate professor of the practice of visual arts, applied for his position when it was implemented several years after he became an artist-in-residence. The position was offered to non-Duke artists or writers affiliated with the University on a shortterm basis.

“At a certain point we discussed the possibility of going in the tenure track or staying in the professor of the practice, and I chose to stay in the professor of the practice,” Noland said. “I think that the way the whole [tenure-track] system is set up, it’s not the way that’s made to gauge the performance of artists, as opposed to academic knowledge.”

Despite certain disadvantages —such as unpaid leave—many professors of the practice at the University are satisfied with their positions because it gives them opportunities to do what they enjoy.

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“Each of the members of the group are committed to the cause of violent jihad,” he added.

Rob Stary, a Melbourne lawyer who said he represents eight of the nine men arrested there, including Abu Bakr, earlier had emphasized that the charges involved only membership in a terror group.

“They are not charged with being involved in the planning or preparation (of a terrorist act),” he said.

In an August interview with the ABC, Abu Bakr said that although he is against the killing of innocents, he could also not discourage his students from traveling to Afghanistan or Pakistan to train in insurgent camps, Abu Bakr told the ABC he is not involved with any terror cells in Australia.

However, he said he supports al Qaeda’s aims and praised the group’s leader.

“Osama bin Laden, he is a great man,” Abu Bakr said. “Osama was a great man before 11 September. They said he did it and until now nobody knows who did it.”

Australia has never been hit by a major terror attack, but its citizens have repeatedly been targeted overseas, particularly in neighboring Indonesia.

Last year, the country’s embassy in Jakarta was badly damaged by a suicide bomber, and dozens of Australians were killed in bombings in 2002 and last month on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

Prime Minister John Howard’s opponents say his strong support for the U.S.led war in Iraq and decision to send troops there and to Afghanistan have made an attack on Australia inevitable.

Just last week, Howard warned that Australian authorities had received specific intelligence about an attack on the country and pushed for changes to existing anti-terrorism laws.

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and to a safe place in the country, or repatriated to the U.5.,” she wrote.

It has been reported that thus far one person has been killed, nearly 5,000 cars have been torched, at least 108 police officers and firefighters have been injured and hundreds of people have been arrested. The violence is considered one of the most serious challenges to French governmental authority in recent decades.

Longino noted, however, that parents, friends and administrators should not be greatly alarmed by the unrest.

“While it is a severe crisis for the French, it has not had any serious consequences for our students here,” she said.

Several Duke students said they have not witnessed or been directly affected by any of the violence.

“I didn’t know that anything was going on until I checked the news online,” wrote junior Evelyn Chang, who lives near the St. Sulpice district. “Life in the city is still very normal, and it feels safe.”

Yelovich noted that the atmosphere in Paris has not changed apart from a noticeable increase in security personnel in the city’s busier districts. He said he was recendy stopped by the RATP—the major

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transit authority in Paris—for the first time during his trip.

“I still feel safe, but should the violence escalate further in the capital that sense of security may change,” Yelovich wrote.

Junior Flora Maclvor added that with the bus system and metro lines limiting service to the city’s north side and running more slowly, public transportation has become a problem for residents ofParis.

“Normally the metro is really efficient here,” Maclvor said. “But this weekend it was taking five- to 10-minute stops instead of the usual 20-second stops.”

Faculty and students in Paris commented on the rioting as a part of a larger social and political problem.

“It has taken place in the suburbs where the housing projects are concentrated, where the unemployment rate is high, where the youth feel totally alienated from French society and see themselves without a future,” Longino said.

Junior Taylor Jacobson wrote in an email that he disapproved of the French political response to the violence.

“Sadly the riots have turned into a jockeying opportunity for the 2007 political candidates, a fact which has dominated the news here much more than the actions being taken to ameliorate the situation,” he wrote.

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No one has ever doubted Mike Krzyzewski’s ability as a college coach.

His three national championships are ded for first among active coaches, and his Duke teams challenge for the NCAA dtle every season.

But when Krzyzewski accepted the position to coach Team USA for the next three years, many people wondered how the NBA’s superstars would react to the appointment of a college coach.

“Well I can only speak for myself, and he has my respect 110 percent if there was such a thing as 110 percent,” Los Angeles Lakers’ All-Star Kobe Bryant said of Krzyzewski in a statement to The Chronicle. “That is my guy. I am a big fan of Coach K” Krzyzewski has always prided himself in being a basketball teacher, which is a reason why he has flirted with the NBA but remained in the college ranks. The NBA game is more star-oriented, and players are often more dismissive of their coaches’ tutelage.

Still, Krzyzewski has plenty of

This basketball season has

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and Shelden Williams are in top form, freshman Josh Mcßoberts looks like an NBA-caliber prospect and the team is deeper than any squad in America.

Duke is clearly the favorite to win the National Championship.

But to the kids who I see preparing to rush the Cameron floor after the Blue Devils capture the NCAA title, you are jumping the gun. Many of the same problems that have plagued this team in the past have not goneaway.

The first problem Duke may face this year is finding a consistent rhythm from its offensive star.

Redick is by far the most prolific scorer on the team, but he tends to score his points in bunches and often has long periods where he is invisible.

Take last year’s game against Oklahoma at Madison Square Garden, for example. Redick was passive early, and the team fell behind, 41-29, in the opening minutes of the second half. Duke then made a run that was topped off by an incredible sequence by its

suddenly aggressive sharpshooter—an old fashioned three-point play, followed by two consecutive treys on the ensuing possessions.

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al talent—the Hall of Famer has coached 36 players drafted by NBA teams, including 18 firstround selections over his 25 previous seasons at Duke.

“He’s coached some great players in the past,” Washington Wizard’s All-Star guard Gilbert Arenas said in a statement. “I

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a conference meet in seven years, while the women’s streak reached back twelve seasons.

But with the arrival of new head coach Dan Colella from the University of Tennessee and a revamped training routine, the Blue Devils accomplished the previously unthinkable when both the men and women’s teams won Saturday.

“The fruits of their hard labor came to fruition this weekend,” Colella said. “To do that on the same weekend for both the men and women was exciting.”

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from freshman diver Nick Campisano the men defeated the Maryland, 126-115, while senior Katie Ness led the women past Miami, 125.5-117.5. The women even showed improvement in a loss, falling short of defending ACC champion Maryland by Just 25 points—a year after losing to the Terps by a 117-point margin.

‘You hear people talk about the team effort, and it really was this weekend a huge team effort,” Colella said. “Everybody contributed to the wins.”

With one goal crossed off the list, the Blue Devils seem poised to tackle their next objectives, which include securing a strong seed in the ACC Championships and having individuals qualify for the NCAA Charppionships.

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The men's swimming and diving team secured its first conference win in a dual meet in seven years when it defeated Maryland, 126-115,Saturday in College Park, Md.

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As the bracket suddenly flashed on the screen revealing Duke as a No. 3 seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament, the women’s soccer team didn’t quite know how to respond.

The stunned silence was quickly followed by groans and grumbling as the players realized not only were they a three seed, but also they would not be hosting the first two rounds.

The Blue Devils will travel to New Haven, Conn, to face Fairfield in the first round Friday, and host-schoolYale will take on Central Connecticut St. in the other matchup. xAll three of the other teams in Duke’s group were conference champions this season.

“More than anything else, I’m disappointed for our eight seniors dial we have because we really wanted to play at home and have the first two games at home for them,” head coach Robbie Church said. “We thought we had done enough on our resume during the regular season to be at home.”

The NCAA revised the tournament’s configuration this year and now ranks only the top four schools in each of the four 16team brackets.

In addition, rules prohibit seeded teams from facing off in the first two rounds and schools from the same conference from meeting in the first round.

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Duke climbed as high as No. 6 in the nationthis season, but will have to settlefor a three seed in the NCAAs. “With the NCAA, it’s a cost question,” Church said. “Instead of flying three teams into Durham—when you look at Yale, Central Connecticut St. and Fairfield—it’s eas-

ier to fly one team out.”

Unseeded Yale is the only team in the group that the Blue Devils have played this season. Duke batded to a 1-0 victory over the

bracket.”

If the seeded teams prevail in the first two rounds, Duke would play second-seeded and Big East champion Notre Dame in the round of sixteen. First-seeded and West Coast Conference champion Portland and fourth-seeded Brigham Young round out the top four teams in Duke’s bracket.

The ACC-leads all other conferences with seven teams in the 64-team field. Topseeded North Carolina and No. 2 seeds Virginia and Florida State join Duke to give the ACC four seeded teams, also tops among conferences. Wake Forest, Clemson and Boston College will also represent the conference.

“There’s no question we’ve got the best league,” Church said. “We’ve had the best league all year long. I’m very excited for the other six teams and I think the other six teams will represent the ACC to the fullest.”

The 2005 Women’s College Cup will be played December 2 and 4 at Aggie Soccer Stadium in College Station, Texas.

It’s first things first for the Blue Devils, however.

“I’m focused to play Fairfield,” tri-captain and ACC Defender of the Year Carolyn Ford said. “It’s one game at a time at this point, and I am not going to look past that game.”

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After losing the Carlyle Cup to the Tar Heels last year, 15-11, Duke is on pace to bring it back up Tobacco Road. One third of the way through the athletic year, the Blue Devils are ahead 4.5-1.5.

The competition between Duke and UNC—sponsored by jewelers Carlyle and Co. and established in 2000 —divides 26 points between the universities for contests in 23 sports.

Before the 2003-2004 season, a change in the rules for the Cup designated two points for series wins in football and basketball and one point for a series win in nonrevenue sports. If Duke and North Carolina tie the season series in any sport, the point total is split between the two rivals.

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onships and earned two points for Duke.

The top-ranked women’s cross country team defended their ACC title while the men’s team placed fifth, bringing the overall Carlyle point total to 4.5-.5.

Since then, however, the Tar Heels have picked up ground. Duke lost to UNC in both women’s soccer and volleyball Nov. 4, splitting the points for these teams after earlierBlue Devil victories. on Oct. 9, the then-No. 11 Duke women’s soccer team upset the then-topranked Tar Heels 2-1 at UNC’sFetzer Field.

The win was only the second for the Blue Devils against North Carolina in school history and the Tar Heels’ first loss in 41 games. It was also the Tar Heels’ first home loss in over six years.

Duke field hockey won the first Carlyle point this season with a 2-1 win Sept. 23 in Chapel Hill. Although this win has earned the Blue Devils a full point so far, Duke could split the point if they face the Tar Heels in the NCAA tournament and lose.

Last season, the rival squads split the point.

The Tar Heels won the 2004-2005 Carlyle Cup when UNC swept Duke in baseball April 24. In total, North Carolina either won or split points in 14 sport series that year.

In the competition’s history, the Blue Devils lead Carolina in winning the Cup 3-2.

With the gap closing quickly, tonight’s swimming and diving dual meet in Chapel Hill is important for Duke’s points standing. The Blue Devils have not beaten the Tar Heels in a dual meet since Carlyle Cup play began. Duke, however, heads into the matchup after the women won their first ACC dual meet in 12 years over Miami and the men won their first in seven years over Maryland Oct. 5 The final Carlyle points for the fall season will be up for grabs when the Duke football team takes on Carolina in Chapel Hill Nov. 19. .

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With its win over Virginia Tech, Miami remains undefeated under Larry Coker when it is the underdog.

N.C. State defeated Florida State for the third time in the last five years. The Wolfpack has beaten the Seminoles more times—four—than any other team in ACC play.

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by Barry Wilner THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FOXBOROUGH, Mass.

Quarterback Peyton Manning led the Indianapolis Colts over their nemesis, the New England Patriots, 40-21, Monday night.

Manning shrugged off his 0-7 record at Foxborough with an intelligent dissection of the two-time defending champions. Aided by star running back Edgerrin James’ 104 yards on 34 carries, and 100COLTS Zr yard receiving games from MarPATRIOTS vin Harrison and Reggie Wayne, Manning kept the Colts perfect through eight games to remain the NFL’s only undefeated team.

Whatever secret formula the Patriots held against Indianapolis wasn’t evident this time. Manning believed jumping in front was crucial.

“We wanted to execute and get a lead on this team.

We haven’t had a lead on this team in a long time,” Manning said. “The idea is to try to dictate to the defense.”

While the Patriots have struggled mightily with injuries, an undependable running game and a leaky defense, their hex over the Colts was the major theme. But the Patriots (4-4) were the inferior team Monday.

“We got our butts kicked tonight,” Brady said in a short statement before husding out of a news conference.

New England still leads the AFC East, which doesn’t put them within shouting distance of the Colts, who looked mature, savvy and resourceful, all elements they have lacked against the Patriots in recent years.

The last time Indianapolis was here, in January, it managed all of three points in a divisional playoff game.

Although Josh Mcßoberts hasbeen rated the top freshman recruit in the country, it may take him time to adjust to the physicality of ACC play.

STRASSER from page 11 ability to create his own shots and become more consistent as a scorer last year.

He was at his best when he got some easy points in transition and cut to the basket, and not when he just setded for shots from the outside. Regardless, expect there to still be stretches where opposing teams find away to quiet Duke’s best player, maybe even for a whole game.

Against Delaware State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament last year, Redick finished with a sloppy seven points on l-of-7 shooting in a surprisingly close 11point victory. If the Hornets could shut him down on a given night, any ACC team can.

It would also be naive to ignore the impact fouls could have on Duke’s frontcourt. If Williams and Mcßoberts have their minutes cut because offoul trouble, Duke turns into a much less formidable team. Williams has, at times in the past, had problems avoiding cheap fouls, especially on

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Mcßoberts will also have to deal with the transition to the physical style of ACC play. Even Luol Deng, who was very similar physically to Mcßoberts, had a few rough games before feeling comfortable.

Another possible concern for the Blue Devils this year is clock management at the end of the game. Krzyzewski likes to slow the game down when his team is up late in the second half. Greg Paulus and Sean Dockery will probably be asked to dribble the ball up the court and run an offensive set until there are 10 or 15 seconds left on the shot clock before setting up a play.

Duke usually builds big leads by getting quick points on fast breaks and secondary breaks, but this trademark style seems to disappear at the end of some games. And sometimes leads have away of evaporating when the Blue Devils slow themselves down.

Life is good in Krzyzewskiville, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves too much.

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The men's swimming and diving team faces North Carolina today, coming offits first conference win in seven years.

To these ends, Colella has instituted a practice schedule that includes more specialized training and a less repetitive routine, which he says the players both enjoy and benefit from.

“It’s been a very educational process,” Colella said.

“They’ve been really receptive in really learning what it takes to swim fast.”

The results of the hard work were on display last weekend when Ness won her third straight 200-meter individual medley, Campisano swept the diving events, and senior Andy Storm captured two individual titles.

Colella insists, however, that his changes are not solely responsible for the recent success. He cites his players’ diligence, talent and attitude as being just as important in ending their winless streaks.

“They’ve been excited since day one,” he said.

“This team is probably one of the tightest teams I’ve ever seen. They’re super supportive of each other through the good times and the bad.”

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don’t think it will be a problem for him to coach this caliber of player now.”

Team USA, once considered virtually unbeatable, has been through rough times the past three years.

At the 2002 World Championships in Indianapolis, Argentina ended Team USA’s 58-game winning streak with squads featuring NBA players, and the Americans struggled to a sixth-place finish. In the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, the red, white and blue lost three times on its way to a disappointing bronze medal. It marked the first time the USA had not won gold at the Olympics since professionals began competing in 1992.

The 2004 games were particularly troublesome. Led

by Larry Brown, then head coach of the Detroit Pistons, the team lost toAArgentinaa —a squad that featured only three NBA players.

Many blamed Brown for the loss, stating that he failed to unite Team USA. Critics were upset thatLeßron James, one of the best young basketball players in the world, sat on the bench for much of the Olympics.

The team’s turbulent experience will likely change the approach used by Krzyzewski —he said he intends to focus on finding both stars and complementary role players.

“When you think about what happened the last time [in Athens], I think everybody will be on the same page,” Arenas said. ‘You always want to be the best, and everybody will go there with the same goal—to win the gold medal.”

But recruiting players could be a difficult task for USA Basketball and its Managing Director Jerry Colangelo because players are being asked potentially to devote three straight offseasons to the national team.

In the past, many NBA stars have refused to play on the Olympic Teaurbecause of the time commitment. In 2004, Kevin Garnett, Shaquille O’Neal and Bryant—three of the NBA’s premier American stars—all turned down invitations to play for Team USA in Athens. Bryant, however, does not think it will be an issue this time around.

“If you look at things that have been going on in the world, all the soldiers that are fighting for our country, and we play basketball,” Bryant said. “A three year commitment to play basketball and to establish ourselves as being the best basketball country in the world is not too much to ask. If they can go over there and fight wars and be away from their family for years upon years, then we can do a three-year commitment to bring the gold medal back to a place it belongs, right here in the US.” The squad will travel to Japan next summer to compete in the World Championships, where it can qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with a win. If Team USA fails to claim the World Championship title in Japan, the squad will attempt to qualify in the summer of 2007.

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his proven record of lead- laurels and not change much in a ership, incumbent Bill Bell is third term.

But Bell must refocus his initiastill the best candidate for the tives. Bell should address Durham’s job ofDurham mayor.

Jonathan Alston is a familiar chal- crime problems more concretely and lenger—he faced Bell in the last elec- prevent the gentrification of the city, The most vocal and frequent critidon also and lost by a considerable cism of is that he has margin. Although Alston is right tp point out staffeditorlaf done little to reduce crime in Durham. In his previwhere Durham’s government is failing, in this election, he is ous terms, Bell has generally pushed this responsibility to private organizanot saying anything new.

Alston is unqualified to take the tions and federal institutions, helm of the Bull City.

Bell should take the initiative to In a municipality notorious for its create more local programs that deal activism and its diversity, Bell, a for- with the issue directly, mer Duke administrator, has been Although Bell has overseen the reable to step in, unite political factions vitalization of downtown Durham, he and enact legislation that is good for should not ignore the poorer resithe city, even though at the time it dents this revitalization does not necessarily affect. may have been viewed unfavorably.

The most striking example was his Focusing on building things up is decision to merge the county and city fine. It can do wonders for a specific school boards. Although this was an area, but it does not always address unpopular move at the time, and he ways to fix the deteriorating, poorer lost political support by doing it, in areas across the city, the end it was successful.

Bell has shown in the past four Polling data suggests Bell will win years that he is currently the best canthe Nov. 8 race; he won the primary didate for the job; he should continue with well over majority of the vote, to enhance his legacy in his next term.

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Body Rock a disappointment I left the Body Rock concert extremely upset and disturbed. I was expecting a benefit performance to raise awareness about sexual assault and dating violence. Instead, from the performance I repeatedly endured racial slurs. The Pitchforks performed a rap song by Trick Daddy and LIT Jon titled “Let’s Go.” I had heard this song before and was aware of the profanity in the song.

A lot of the words where edited out in the Pitchfork’s performance, but one they failed to omit was the term “nigger.” Not only was I appalled that this acapella group used a benefit performance as their venue to exclaim racial slurs, but the member of the group to repeatedly use the n-word was white.

I am extremely offended by the lack of respect the Pitchforks had for the audience, as well as the concert itself.

They picked a song that not only degrades women, but they chose to selectively edit the song to their liking.

I hold responsible the Pitchforks and the event’s sponsor, Sexual Assault Support Services, for not screening the perform-

ances previously.

From what I understand, this was not the first and only time this song has been performed.

It is simply appalling and surprising to me that this issue has not come up sooner, especially because the Pitchforks have more than one minority member, one of which is black.

This epithet was once used in this country to degrade and to humiliate African Americans. It is a term that many activists in the past worked hard to over-

come. The term nigger is no different from cracker, spic, chink or any other racial slur. It is a disparaging term for a black person. The n-word is a paradigmatic racial slur that I find offensive and hurtful.

Why would the Pitchforks consider this a tolerable term to use in their performance? We cannot continue to ignore the moral and ethical issues this word raises for all of us.

Ibtihaj Muhammad Trinity ’O7 DSG committed to evals Last Thursday’s editorial “Better than the Grapevine” did an excellent job of capturing students’ frustration toward the lack of course evaluation data available on ACES. Students need to make intelligent choices regarding their academic careers and in order to do that, they need the most complete and accurate information available.

DSG has recognized the problems with course evaluations for years and has taken steps to address these concerns. While it would be great (and easy) to simply establish a new DSG-sponsored course evaluation website, experience has shown it is extremely difficult and ineffective to try to operate a system completely independent of the University’s evaluation process.

Seven years ago, in October 1998, DSG launched an independent online database called Duke Undergraduates Evaluate Teaching (DUET), which allowed students to answer numerical and free-response questions, and to view other ratings posted by fellow students.

However, less than a year later, the site was taken down due to protest by faculty members.

In the early 19905, the Undergraduate Publications Board attempted to synthesize evaluations in the Teacher-Course Evaluation Book (TCEB).

However, that project also folded due to inadequate staffing and a lack of participation by many professors and departments.

Given the sensitive nature of course evaluations and concerns of many faculty members, it is imperative that we first seek faculty buy-in. Without their (at least tacit) support, new initiatives are likely to go the way of DUET and TCEB. DSG has worked to improve the faculty opt-in rate, which, although still woefully low, is increasing. Last week, the Academic Affairs Committee sent letters to every faculty member on campus encouraging them to go online and opt-in. We will continue push for an opt-out system through the Arts and Sciences Council, which, if ratified, would substantially increase the amount of data available on ACES. . We are also pursuing with the faculty and administration ways to make qualitative comments available.

Course evaluations are an essential resource, and DSG is committed to ensuring that students have access to the most helpful and accurate information possible.

Joe Fore ’O7 Vice President of Academic AfTrinity

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Not executing a man for breaking into a woman’s home, holding her at knifepoint, then violently raping her in front of her husband—the case in question before the court.

To so utterly, maliciously and sadistically violate a woman absolutely deserves a punishment of death. If anything, the painless exit of a lethal injection is insufficient.

God forbid, if someone I cared about were raped, and I were able to get my hands on the rapist, I’d take them apart piece by piece.

Since the court’s decision does not cover the rape of children, in the five states where rapists can face death, those who turn innocent children into objects of sexual torture can be executed.

Frighteningly, one in six acts of rape is in fact perpetrated against a child under twelve. All states should be pushed to make child rape a capital offense. At the same time, we should get justices on the bench who will correct the irresponsible Coker v. Georgia decision so that anyone who commits first-degree rape can be put to death.

Moreover, the sentences for all classes of rape and sexual assault should be increased across the board and harsh minimum sentences imposed.

There is no excuse for letting thousands of sexual offenders back onto the streets every year to begin hunting for more victims.

If we want to fight this epidemic, our message must be loud and clear—commit heinous acts of sexual assault, and you will find no mercy.

Try to take a woman’s dignity or a child’s innocence, and we will take your life.

That is justice.

bet that every man reading this column has had those words hurled at him at some point in his life. I remember getting annoyed by them in elementary school.

Whenever I got sick, my mom would break out the medicine cabinet, enforce bed-rest and m : keep bringing me soup or tea. My father couldn’t stand to watch such erosion of my masculinity and would inevitably interrupt with some- GlTlill hadziosmanovic thing like “Oh come the other side on—be a man! You don’t have to lie in bed all day.”

I guess I was a pretty stupid kid, thinking I needed antibiotics when clearly testosterone could have cured me.

Of course, my father didn’t care for me any less than my mother, nor did he express a sentiment any differentfrom what fathers have been telling their sons for ages.

Yet, that sentiment is still there. What is interesting is that men use the archaic notions of masculinity to not only oppress others, but to also, indirectly, oppress themselves.

At helm of this self-oppression is the need to repress emotions, or at least emotions that exhibit weakness.

Therefore, you had better hold back tears —if you should ever be tempted to shed any—and instead channel your feelings into something that exemplifies strength, such as anger or violence. I read somewhere that swearing is to men what crying is to women, which sums up this whole concept pretty accurately.

As Freud argued a century ago, repressing something will only make it appear elsewhere. An example of this in action is the Napoleon complex, which holds that, since manhood is typically equated with size, a man lacking vertical (or horizontal) stature will try to compensate for it in a variety of ways.

For example, are men really buying enormous pick-up trucks because they need to haul lumber; are they buying huge SUVs because they go driving through the Grand Canyon? We drive our trucks across Wal-Mart parking lots, not mountains. But this doesn’t matter. What does matter subconsciously, ofcourse—is that a pick-up truck or an SUV is often as large as the owners other possessions are small.

Did you ever notice how the loudest jerks and biggest class clowns are almost always below average height? And speaking of height, how many men are willing to date a taller woman, or even a woman with a bigger paycheck?

Freud was right. Napoleon rears his ugly head again.

Although these anecdotal examples are minor, masculine norms cause significant problems by creating an atmosphere where men are willing to oppress others in order to reaffirm their own masculinity.

If you’ve ever been on a sports team, you know that the repressive aspect of masculinity' can find no ground more fertile than a locker room. In here, the mob mentality, along with the fact that every 1 man’s biggest insecurity is out in full view, are combined to create an apex of masculine conformity’.

Despite all of this, if you pull a man aside and ask him about all the offensive comments and jokes that are said in such an environment, he will probably tell you that he doesn’t agree with them; that he’s perhaps even bothered by them.

And the point? He’s probably telling the truth.

The problem is that it’s extremely hard to speak out when you know your manhood will be automatically questioned. Any dissenter from the locker-room mentality will be automatically emasculated or—even worse—accused of being gay. The only thing that will silence a man faster than a threat to his masculinity is a threat to his heterosexuality.

How ironically sad is it that men, while repressing women and gays, are also doing a hell of a job ofrepressing themselves? All those comments and oh-so-funny jokes about gays and women create an environment where men have to disregard their own feelings in order to escape the jokes that they once aimed at someone else.

And how darkly funny is it that this self-inflicted restraint manifests itself in our willingness to be violent, start wars, buy large cars or date small women—and all to make ourselves look and feel like bigger men by comparison?

Maybe “funny” isn’t the right word, but it seems the only other option would be to cry. If only all of us boys hadn’t learned early on that crying is actually never an option.

Stephen Miller is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

Emin Hadziosmanovic is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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woman is raped in the United States every six minutes. Almost 20 percent of all -women will be the victim of a rape or an attempted rape during the course of their lives. Nearly half of the victims will be under the age of 18. It’s beyond sickening. But at least there’s justice for the victims, right?

Wrong. In those cases where we are actually able to convict the rapist, he is lookstephen mg at an average senmliiertime tence of only nine years, and an average time served of only five years.

So while their victims are suffering from profound and possibly lifelong psychological trauma, the rapists are playing sports at lunch, lifting weights in the afternoon, dining a la carte in the evenings and watching television at night.

That’s not justice. That’s an insult.

Since prisoners are afforded so many luxuries, for jail to even constitute a meaningful punishment for rape, it has to rob the convict of a significant portion of his life. Five years doesn’t cut it—doesn’t even come close. Not to mention that for the many equal-opportunity rapists, prison would practically be a reward. So what do we do?

The first step is to put the death penalty on the table.

Execution must be an option. While states do provide more severe sentences for rapes deemed to be especially vile, such as rape under the threat of violence (often classified as first degree rape) or the rape of a child, these punishments are just not severe enough. They are actually rather weak. Those who commit rape in the first degree or who rape a child should be put to death.

It’s as simple as that.

Instead, many states have low or no minimum sentences in these cases and maximum sentences as light as 20 years. Plus, rape convicts serve on average only 56 percent of their sentences, and of all rape convicts released, 40 percent will commit another sex crime.

Misguided compassion has led to devastating consequences.

There must be no tolerance for this heinous, inhuman act. Those who prey upon the women and children of this nation should expect no mercy. We must not confuse criminal rights with leniency.

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chance. It is up to God to forgive such detestable scum; it is up to us to make sure they never see the light of day again.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has been an obstacle in efforts to deal justice to rapists. In 1977 the high court’s activist judges ruled in Coker v. Georgia that the sovereign states of the union had no right to put any man to death for raping a woman.

The reasoning? Such a punishment would be “grossly disproportionate” to the crime and therefore in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

Really? Grossly disproportionate? I would say that executing a man for petty theft or vandalism would be

grossly disproportionate.

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