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Campus student plaza is proceeding on schedule, administrators

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Dinesh D'Souza discussed the left-right split in American politics Tuesday night.

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Construction of the West Campus student plaza is on schedule to be completed by Fall 2006,administrators say.

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upcoming projects confirmed this week.

And as the project progresses, administrators are looking ahead to renovating the Bryan Center and West Union Building.

With the removal of the Bryan Center walkway complete, workers have begun construction of the foundations that will support the elevated plaza—scheduled to be completed in Fall 2006.

‘You can see it coming out of the ground,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, pointing to the handful of pillars that are already in place. “It’s very exciting.”

Construction crews are also erecting a retaining wall on the side of the Bryan Center that faces the Duke Chapel. The wall will hold soil in place to form what Moneta termed a “planter box” for trees.

Nearly $6 million has been

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America and the Culture War.” D’Souza, who served from 1987 to 1988 as a senior policy analyst in the White House under former President Ronald Reagan, discussed issues ranging from outsourcing to the Crusades. He cited capitalism, foreign policy and rivaling moral codes as new sources of tension between liberals and conservatives.

While an undergraduate at Dartmouth University, D’Souza helped to found the Dartmouth Review, which became a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.

“The enemies of capitalism grant it works. In fact, one of their objections is that it works too well,” he said. “The objection to capitalism is not in the name of efficiency. It is in the name of morality.”

He added that outsourcing has proved to be the most successful anti-poverty program because it fosters productivity and replaces foreign aid and loans.

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cial equality,” he said.

D’Souza traced the declining correlation between economics and voting behavior. Wealthy Americans no longer invariably vote Republican, just as the lower classes do not necessarily support the Democratic party, he said.

“Economics is no longer the basis upon which American politics turns,” he noted.

In addition, D’Souza discussed foreign policy in the Middle East, Islamic fundamentalism and torture.

“Foreign policy is fundamentally about morality, but it’s also about self-interest,” he said. “Foreign policy is about making things better, not making things perfect.”

He called the war in Iraq “a noble experiment” its attempt to establish democracy. Democracy has never existed in the Arab world, D’Souza said.

“There is a need to go back a little bit to the drawing board on the war against terrorism.... The loss has to be measured against what you’re trying to do—the goal,” he added.

From the perspective of Middle Eastern countries, America is viewed as a morally depraved society, he said. “It’s one thing for America to be a sick, demented, depraved society. It’s another SEE D’SOUZA ON PAGE 8

East options

To protect the dining employment infrastructure, students will only be allowed to use $4 out of the total $5 cost of their breakfast meal toward lunch, Director of Dining Ser-

in the works. vices Jim Wulforst said.

Officials approved the revival of the meal He added that the new option will not equivalency program at the East Campus increase spending for ARAMARK Corp., the eatery a few months ago, and freshmen Philadelphia-based company that operates were able to use it for the first time Monday. several of the University’s dining facilities.

Negotiations are also underway to install a Dining Services will reimburse ARAMARK permanent vendor in the Upper East Side of $4 each time a student uses the equivalency the Marketplace. option, Wulforst explained.

The reinstated equivalency option allows When a student uses the program, dinstudents who miss breakfast at the Marketing earns $1 from the missed breakfast meal place to use the money toward lunch at the instead of $5, as they did before the option eatery that same day. was in place.

The credit cannot be carried over to anWulforst said extending the program for other day. use on West Campus was discussed, but offiA pilot program was conducted for a cials ultimately determined it was not a vicouple of weeks at the end of the spring se- able option because it would not protect mester. The program was well received by employment at the Marketplace. students and prompted the permanent Several students on East said they were t change this year, said said Andrew Wallace, thrilled with the charge. co-chair of the Duke University Student “This is very convenient,” freshman Claudia Gasiorek said. “I don’t like getting Dining Advisory Committee.

“We didn’t like having such a high missed meal factor,” he explained.

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Bush: Early Iraq exit a mistake President GeorgeW. Bush said Tuesday a U.S. military pullout from Iraq would be a terrible mistake, beginning a new push defending his embattled war policy. His Pentagon chief said,"Quitting is not an exit strategy."

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Al-Jazeera broadcast video Tuesday of four Western peace activists held hostage by a previously unknown group, part of a new wave of kidnappings police fear is aimed at disrupting next month’s elections.

The news station said the four were seized by the Swords of Righteousness Brigade, which claimed they were spies working under the cover of Christian peace activists. The captives —an American, a Briton and two Canadians—were members of the Chicago-based aid group Christian Peacemaker Teams, which confirmed they

The kidnappers threatened to kill Sudisappeared Saturday.

The footage showed Norman Kember, a sanne Osthoff and her Iraqi driver unless retired British professor with a shock of Germany halts all contacts with the Iraqi white hair, sitting on the floor with three government. other men. The camera revealed the 74Also Tuesday, two American soldiers year-old Kember’s passport, but the other were killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, a Sunni cleric was assassinated as hostages were not identified.

However, Christian Peacemaker Teams he left a mosque, and six Iranian pilgrims identified the other hostages as Tom Fox, were seized near a Shiite religious shrine.

In a statement, Christian Peacemaker 54, of Clearbrook, Va.; James Loney, 41, of Toronto; and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, a Teams said it strongly opposed the U.S. inCanadian electrical engineer. vasion of Iraq and blamed the kidnapping The brief, blurry tape was shown the on coalition forces. We are angry because same day German TY displayed a photo of what has happened to our teammates is the a blindfolded German archaeologist being led away by armed captors in Iraq.

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Va. governor grants Lovitt clemency by

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RICHMOND, Va. Virginia’s governor this Tuesday spared the life of a convicted killer who would have been the I,oooth person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.

Robin Lovitt’s death sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole a hide more than 24 hours before he was to be executed by injection Wednesday night for stabbing a man to death with a pair of scissors during a 1998 pool-hall robbery.

In granting clemency, Gov. Mark R.

Warner noted that evidence from the trial had been improperly destroyed, depriving the defense of the opportunity to subject the material to the latest in DNA testing.

“The commonwealth must ensure that every time this ultimate sanction is carried out, it is done fairly,” Warner said in a statement.

Warner, a Democrat, had never before granted clemency to a death row inmate during his four years in office. During that time, 11 men have been executed. Virginia is one of the most active death-penalty states, having executed 94 people since 1976.

The I,oooth execution is now sched-

uled for Friday in North Carolina, where Kenneth Lee Boyd is slated to die for killing his estranged wife and her father.

The 999th execution since capital punishment resumed a generation ago took place Tuesday morning, when Ohio put to death John Hicks, who strangled his mother-in-law and suffocated his 5-year-old stepdaughter to cover up the crime.

Lovitt’s lawyers, who include former independent counselKenneth Starr, and antideath penalty advocates had argued that his life should be spared because a court clerk illegally destroyed the bloody scissors and other evidence.

A convicted murderer was indicted Tuesday for the 1983 slaying of a 10-year-old girl in the Chicago suburbs. Brian Dugan was charged with the death of Jeanine Nicarico, whose slaying attracted national attention after two men were convicted and sent to death row, then freed years later.

businesses while showing the nation "that we are building New Orleans back."

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Peter Agre, MD, Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Presents his

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N.C. could execute I,oooth After Virginia Gov. Mark Warner granted clemency to a convicted killer scheduled for execution Wednesday, North Carolina stands in line to execute the I,oooth person in the United States since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.

Kenneth Lee Boyd is scheduled for death by lethal injection at 2 a.m. Friday in Raleigh’s Central Prison.

Boyd was convicted in the 1988 shootings of his wife, Julie Boyd, and her father, Thomas Dillard Curry, in Rockingham County.

Early Tuesday, the N.C. Supreme Court and a federal district court refused to delay Boyd’s execution. Gov. Mike Easley is con-

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DSG is trying to lobby for transportation, namely bus routes,to off-campus apartment complexes.

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Off-campus transportation may become much easier for students living off campus thanks to Duke Student Government DSG is looking into ways to improve transportation for the significant portion of University seniors living in apartment complexes on and surrounding LaSalle Street.

Apartment complexes in this area include The Belmont, Blue Crest townhomes, Erwin Terrace, Partners Place and Campus Walk.

DSG had previously initiated negotiations with members of the University’s administration to implement a bus program from West Campus to the LaSalle Street area three years ago.

In September of 2002, however, officials at the Duke Parking and Transportation Services opted to build a park-

ing lot in order to ameliorate commuter woes for off-campus students rather

than start a new bus route.

Since that time, bus routes for students living off campus has remained on DSG’s agenda.

This year, DSG representatives have suggested making a bus stop in the LaSalle Street area to remedy the lack of parking options on campus.

“The issue has been brought to the attention of DSG of making West [Campus] more accessible for class, and also as a viable social outlet for events that occur on campus such as jazz nights and arts events,” said senior Jesse Longoria, president of DSG. Last spring, there was a push for the H-6 bus route, which runs by the hospital, to stop at LaSalle Street and continue to SEE BUSES ON PAGE 6

Phone line to help reduce truancy Various Durham officials are promoting a newly created hotline that was established to help reduce the area’s school truancy rate.

Durham’s rate is among the worst in North Carolina. It sits at 105th out of 115 school districts.

Individuals who see school-aged children on the streets on an official school day can call either 697-9024 or 697-9025 to report them to the Sheriff Office’s truancy officers.

The hodine is one of several recent initiatives to improve school attendance, which outgoing Schools Superintendent Ann Denlinger announced in August would be a priority this academic year.

Since then, the Sheriff’s Office has assigned two deputies to work as truancy officers. Social workers and court representatives have also offered to assist in remedying the problem.

DPS representatives propose rezoning School officials in Durham are recommending several changes to local zoning.

Under proposed plans, 15 elementary schools and most middle schools and high schools would undergo minor

boundary changes.

Officials say the schools most-affected by the changes would be E.K. Powe Elementary, C.C Spaulding Biosphere Magnet, YE. Smith Science & Technology Magnet, Lake-

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The School Board will hold a public hearing Dec. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the StaffDevelopment Center on Hillandale Road to allow parents to voice their opinions about the potential changes to school zones.

Events to kick off holiday season In downtown Durham this Saturday, two events will highlight the beginning of the 2005 Christmas season.

Light Up Durham’s “Talent All Over Town” Holiday Extravaganza” will begin at 9 a.m. It will feature 1,400 local youth as members of numerous choral groups, dance troupes, step teams and bands.

They will perform at the American Tobacco Complex, Carolina Theater, Durham Arts Council and Hayti Heritage Center.

The Extravaganza will end at 1 p.m.

At 2 p.m., Durham’s Holiday parade will begin at the junction of Jackie Robinson and Blackwell streets. It will end at the comer ofFoster and Corporation streets.

Both Saturday events are free and open to the public.

Weyerhaeuser to cut 200 jobs Approximately 200 workers in Plymouth, N.C., located in the northeastern portion of the state, will soon find themselves without work.

Weyerhaeuser Co., a major manufacturer of forest products, announced Tuesday it is limiting production on its containerboard machine in Plymouth to improve business. The company said it will support the 200 workers’ salaries with benefits and meet with the employees’ union to discuss the situation.

Weyerhaeuser also announced plans to sell its composite-panels business, which has plants in five U.S. cities and Ireland.

Early College to relocate at NCCU The Early College High School, current-

ly housed in the School ofEducation buildat North Carolina Central University, will move to the more spacious Robinson science building next fall.

Early College opened at NCCU in 2004.

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An estimated 40,000 people have been infected with HIV in the U.S in the last 10 years.

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N.C residents struggle to fund HIV meds Environmentalists criticize U.S. actions The United States defended its decision not to sign the Kyoto Protocol Monday, saying during the opening of a global summit on climate change that it is doing more than most countries to protect the earth's atmosphere.

The U.N. Climate Control Conference is considered the most important gathering on global warming since Kyoto, bringing together thousands of experts from 180 nations to brainstorm on ways to slow the alarming effects of greenhouses gases.

Leading environmental groups spent the first hours of the conference blasting Washington for not signing the landmark 1997 agreement that sets targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions around the world.

Chinese water no longer contaminated Water tainted by a toxic chemical spill upstream from the northern Chinese city of Harbin was declared safe for drinking Tuesday, a week after supplies to 3.8 million people were shut down. But residents remained wary about taking the first sip.

The spill was a political disaster for President Hu Jintao's government and cast a harsh light on the environmental costs of China's breakneck development, prompting Hu's governmentto apologize to China's public and to Russia, where a border city downstream is bracing for the arrival of the 50-mile-long benzene slick. lowa professor asks to build body farm Tyler O' Brien, a biological anthropology professor at the University of Northern lowa, envisions turning some prime lowa pasture into a body farm, where human bodies—buried, stuffed in car trunks or exposed to the elements—can provide scholars and criminalists with new benchmark data on human decay.

"To answer the question of how long a body has been dead, how long a person has been missing, is critical to criminal investigations," O'Brien said.

O'Brien is seeking a grant of $400,000 to $500,000 from the National Institute of Justice and other organizations to obtain the land and set up the project.

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Like many patients afflicted with HIVAIDS around the world, North Carolina residents diagnosed with the disease face numerous health challenges. But the state’s stringent qualification requirements for state and federal aid have left many of its citizens unable to pay for costly life-sustaining medications.

N.C. residents who earn more than $ll,OOO per year do not qualify for the state’s AIDS Drugs Assistance Program, which uses a combination of federal and state-allocated funds to help individuals pay for HIV-AIDS medicadons.

North Carolina’s thresholdfor eligibility to receive ADAP funding represents one of the nation’s strictest income requirements—many other southern states, such as South Carolina and Tennessee—cap annual income requirements at $26, 400.

“The high threshold is in part because state budget levels for last few years have failed to raise the funds. We are excluding poor people,” said lan Palmquist, executive director ofprograms at Equality N.C., which advocates for gay, lesbian and transgender individuals by working with state leaders.

Shortages of funding for eligible ADAP applicants have made North Carolina one of only nine states with waiting lists for the program.

Laini Jarrett-Echols, director of client services at the Alliance of AIDS Services Carolina, said state allocations over the past few years have been “a roller coaster ride.” Insufficient funding has resulted in long waiting lists for financial assistance and a loss of initiative to work among many patients who cannot afford the drugs, Echols said.

In September 2005, 1,085 of the 2,187 patients represented on ADAP’s national waiting list were N.C. residents.

Echols, who primarily works with pa-

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North Carolinians cannot receive state funding for HIV-AIDS medicine ifthey earn more than $ll,OOO per year. dents who receive little income and lack

private insurance plans, said it is common for her clients to feign disabilities and leave their jobs in hopes ofreceiving financial support from Medicaid. Patients hope

to avoid paying high insurance premiums and co-payments, which can cost up to |3,000 a month for those who are ineligible to receive ADAP funding.

“Every year there’s a struggle with the General Assembly to attain more sufficient funding,” said John Hamilton, director of the Center for Infectious Disease at Duke.

Hamilton added that increased advocacy among patients has raised awareness of the issues—but not more funding.

Advocates, however, have high hopes that positive changes will emerge once the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency Act, which supports ADAP, is reevaluated. North Carolina receives about $l5 million from the act each year.

“Because there are more groups speaking out on the issue, we’ll be able to ensure that more people will get the treatment,” Palmquist said.

Congress was supposed to re-evaluate the act in late September but has yet to do so.

Nonetheless, Palmquist said he believes the program will probably be sustained.

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Federal rules used to determine WASHINGTON who is disabled are nearly 50 years old and need to be updated to reflect economic, medical and technological advances, a government panel says.

Many Americans with disabilities are willing and able to work but remain thwarted from seeking jobs by Social Security Administration guidelines that discourage economic independence, according to the National Council on Disability report being released Wednesday.

Applicants for disability insurance must prove a complete inability to engage in “substantial gainful activity,” according to rules adopted in 1956. About 6.5 million people received disability benefits in 2002, according to the latest available data.

“Our nations current disability benefit programs are based on a policy principle that assumes that the presence of a significant disability and lack of substantial earnings equate with a complete inability to work,” council chair person Lex Frieden wrote President George W. Bush in submitting the report, which assesses efforts to promote employment among the disabled.

Also, federal efforts to make it easier for the disabled to work have had little effect since few people are aware of the incentives and how they affect access to benefits and health care, the report found. And the months and years it can take beneficiaries to convince Social Security that they are disabled and cannot work can leave them leery of enrolling in any employment or training program that might jeopardize their benefits, including Medicaid or Medicare, it said.

“We will be looking carefully at the recommendations,” Social Security Administration spokes person Mark Lassiter said.

Congress and the agency have made it easier forAmericans who collect disability to make more while retaining their benefits, according to the council. However, less than halfof one percent of those receiving either supplemental security income or disability insurance ever leave the rolls to seek work, the council said, citing Social Security and General Accounting Office reports.

“The bottom line, from my perspective, is the biggest programs that serve people with disabilities are from an era when expectations were not as great as they are today,” said Andrew Imparato, president of the American Association of People with Disabilities. There was no expectation that the disabled would ever want to buy a home, have a career or start a family, Imparato said.

“We still more significant reforms of some of these big programs,” he added.

When the Eisenhower administration created the disability insurance program, the government presumed that the disabled, once classified as such, would never return to work, the National Council on Disability said in the report. Changes since then make that presumption outdated and incorrect, it added.

“The current eligibility criteria ignore the incredible advances in medicine and technology that enable many individuals with severe disabilities to lead independent and economically self-sufficient lives,” the report said.

A 2005 GAO report found federal disability programs were “neither well aligned with 21st century realities nor are they positioned to provide meaningful and timely support for Americans with disabilities.”

The National Council on Disability is an independent federal agency made up of 15 members appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. It advises both the president and Congress.

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Christian Peacemaker Teams does not consider itself a fundamentalist organization, a spokesperson said.

“We are very strict about this: We do not do any evangelism, we are not missionaries,” Jessica Phillips told The Associated Press in Chicago. “Our interest is to bring an end to the violence and destruction of civilian life in Iraq.”

The group’s first activists went to Iraq in 2002, six months before the U.S.-led invasion, Phillips said, adding that a main mission since the invasion has been documenting alleged human rights abuses by U.S. forces.

Loney, a community worker, was leading the Christian group’s delegation in Iraq.

Fox, the captive from Virginia, has two children, plays the bass clarinet and the recorder and worked as a professional grocer and at a Quaker youth camp, according to

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Sooden was studying for a masters degree in English literature at Auckland University in New Zealand to prepare for a teaching career.

Kember is a longtime peace activist who once fretted publicly that he was taking the easy way out by protesting in safety at home while British soldiers risked their lives in Iraq. He and his wife of 45 years have two daughters and a grandson, the group said.

The German woman and her Iraqi driver were kidnapped Friday, the German government announced.

ARD public television said it obtained a video in which the kidnappers made their threats.

The station posted a photo on its Web site showing what appears to be Osthoff and her driver blindfolded on the floor, with three masked militants standing by, one with a rocket-propelled grenade.

A German newspaper, the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung, reported that Osthoff had received a kidnap threat last summer from extremists linked to al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and that U.S. soldiers brought her from Mosul to Baghdad for her own safety.

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Residents oftheLofts at Lakeview near LaSalle Street could commute to campus ona proposed off-campus bus.

Research Drive Officials found, however, that an additional bus would be needed for the route in order for it to be successful.

The H-6 was already crowded with numerous employees of the hospital, and the transportation department noted that it lacked the funds for another bus or extra drivers.

“It all comes down to money,” said DSG Vice President of Athletics and Campus Services Brenda Bautsch of the failed H-6 plan.

A bus stop by LaSalle Street is just one of the possible solutions to parking and transportation issues caused by the increasing number of seniors choosing to live off campus every year.

DSC is also considering ways to improve the Safeßides program, add a Ninth Street bus that would stop at West and East campuses and expand bus routes to serve other off-campus areas.

Bautsch, a senior, describes the transportation and parking issue as a “high priority” for her committee and has put a survey about it on the DSG website.

Among other questions, the survey asks students if they would be willing to pay a fee to cover the cost of a bus route to LaSalle Street or places off East.

“A student fee could be a feasible idea because there is precedent for it as we have athledcs and activities fees already,” Bautsch said.

She noted that some students will be against the fee because not all of them live off campus, and not all off-campus students live off LaSalle Street.

“If it’s just students living in the area the bus runs by, that’s okay, but I don’t

think it is fair that all students would pay a fee for that bus,” said Sara Lau, a sophomore who said she does not plan to live off campus her senior year.

Bautsch said there is also an option to have only off-campus students pay for the bus. This would be funded by requiring off-campus students to buy a bus pass instead of a Blue Zone pass.

Some students also said they do not support the proposal because they prefer other methods of transportation.

“I thought part of the point of being a senior was that you don’t have to ride the bus anymore,” senior Rachel Feinberg said.

Fellow senior Erin Phillips, who lives at The Belmont, prefers to drive her car to campus and would not ride a bus even if it were an option.

“It’s a pain to pay for the Blue Zone pass, but it’s worth it to come and go as I please,” Phillips said.

However, other students would prefer riding a bus to driving a car.

“I lived at Erwin over the summer, and it was pretty difficult. I had to drive and got lots of parking tickets,” sophomore Eileene Braxton said. “Having a bus around Erwin and Belmont makes sense.

So many people live there, and it’s not that far off the Science Drive route.”

Bautsch expects that the survey’s findings will be fairly differentiated based on where students live.

However, she said she is looking for a consensus of off-campus and on-campus students as to what transportation issues are most pressing.

Once the survey’s results are in, DSG will negotiate with the transportation de-

partment early next semester.

The survey can be accessed at the DSG website and will be available through January 2006.

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The construction of the plaza is the first part of a three-stage plan to renovate the student-service areas on West Campus.

“To make the plaza work you have to connect it better to both the Bryan Center and West Union,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said.

Administrators said they plan to renovate the other two facilities after the completion of the

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raised for the project, he said, and administrators are hoping to raise another $4 million to fund the plaza fully. Although the University could use the SS-million giftgiven

by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2002 for student life initiatives to pay for the project, Moneta has repeatedly said he hopes to ovation schedules raise the money “Our game plan has always will be dictated by from other donors been plaza, West Union, funding. as he travels the “Our game country to talk to Bryan Center as all one alumni and parents plan has always been plaza, West project done in phases.” of students “I’m optimistic Bryan CenLarry Moneta Union, ter as all one projthat we’ll have ect done in phasmore gifts,” he es,” Moneta said. said. “I can’t tell you how much it will be, but we have a “And now with plaza underway, we need to whole spring of major events scheduled.” turn our attention to West Union.”

The designs for the plaza already include Moneta said the school is also considersome details that will help connect the three ing borrowing money to pay for the project, but the final funding decision will be structures. Two of the concrete panels on dependent on how interest rates compare the currendy inaccessible side of the Bryan Center will be replaced with glass to bring to returns from University investments.

This summer, the University received light into the structure, Trask said.

In addition, two windows in the Great a $4.5-million naming gift from alumni Aubrey and Katie McClendon, Trinity ‘Bl Hall will be transformed into doors that and ‘BO, respectively. An official name for lead directly out onto the plaza. “It will the plaza will be announced in late be a much more elegant entry off the spring, Moneta said. quad,” Moneta said.

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Although federal allocations to North Carolina’s ADAP program have increased by $1 million over the past two years, Sherman said that past increases have been very modest.

Recent federal initiatives to provide funding for patients on waiting lists allocated $2O million to patients on ADAP’s nation-

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Outsourcing and foreign policy were among the topics about which Oenish D'Souza opined Tuesday.

D'SOUZA from page 1 thing to ram that down our throats threatening traditional Islam itself,” D’Souza explained, speaking from the viewpoint of Islamic fundamentalists.

D’Souza noted that the argument about declining morals in America is a result of a massive shift in the source of morality.

Conservatives have an external moral code, referring to what is right and wrong regardless of personal opinion, D’Souza said. Liberals, on the other hand, look to their inner hearts for morality, he added.

“Liberalism believes in an external moral code when it comes to liberal values,” D’Souza noted.

For example, liberals think that laws

against discrimination should exist because discrimination is wrong, not because people necessarily oppose it, he said.

Although D’Souza was catering to a conservative crowd, the question and answer period exposed several opposing viewpoints in the audience.

“I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says,” freshman Rachel Wolf said.

She attended the program because she remembered D’Souza being a dynamic speaker when he. spoke at her high school last year.

The speech was sponsored by the Duke College Republicans, Duke Political Union, Duke Conservative Unioh, Diya and the Hart Leadership Program.

D’Souza is currendy the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

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up in the morning. This way I’m not wasting all the money.”

One hundred and fifty students used the breakfast equivalency option the first day it was offered, Wulforst said.

“I think it’s going to add between 200 and 250 customers to [the Marketplace’s] existing lunch [crowd] of 200,” he added.

The breakfast equivalency option is likely the only major change students are going to see in dining on East this year, Wallace said. He added, however, that more improvements are needed.

“I don’t think it’s enough giving the equivalency to freshmen because it forces you to go back to East for lunch,” he said.

Other possible changes on East include installing a new late-night eatery.

“It’s very important that we expand the options available for freshmen because I think what they’re getting now is just not cutting it,” Wallace said.

Dining Services and DUSDAC are currently looking for a “cutting-edge” vendor for the Upper East Side of the Marketplace, he added.

“The space is large enough to put in a small counter-service venue, something with a simple menu and can be easily manned by a couple of people,” Wallace said. “It is cost-prohibitive to run the Marketplace past nine.”

If another vendor is brought in, the cost could be as high as $500,000, Wulforst said.

He added, however, that money is not a concern for a new eatery.

al waiting list. But such temporary boosts to federal support may only precede a future ofinsufficient funding, Sherman noted.

Other sources of funding may be on the horizon.

Sherman, who described state allocations as “reasonably generous,” noted that expanded options for assistance, such as high-risk insurance pools, may lessen the need for ADAP funding among the poor and unemployed in other states.

“States with more ADAP funding and better eligibility requirements have more options,” Sherman said. “North Carolina’s position is complex.”

“I never want to letmoney get in the way of a good decision,” Wulforst said. “It’s always good to invest in concepts that have long term benefit to the Duke community.”

Representatives of the popular hamburger restaurant chain Johnny Rockets came to see the space a few weeks ago, but “they were interested in other space besides East Campus,” Wulforst said.

“They were more interested in a West Campus location, which we don’t have the real estate for right now,” he noted.

The open space on the Upper East Side is the only place to expand dining on East, Wallace said.

“We’ve considered doing lots of things,” he explained. “We considered changing Trinity Cafe to a sandwich or late-night venue shop. We also thought of putting something in the lobby of East Union.”

Another possible vendor is Aromi d’ltalia, a gelato distributorfrom Baltimore, Md., Wulforst said.

“The gelato [provider] will have a very strong appeal to the Duke community,” he noted. “It will be a great supplement to the Trinity Cafe.”

Wulforst explained it would be relatively inexpensive to bring a gelato cafe to the Upper East Side.

The main cost would come from buying gelato cases, which cost about $lO,OOO each.

Wulforst said he hopes to find a new vendor by late December.

“We might have to push hard for it to happen, but I’d like to announce [a new vendor] for the spring semester,” he said.

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A travelling media circus has arrived in Durham to inspect JJ. Redick, Shelden Williams and the top-ranked men’s squad.

But right now, Gail Goestenkors’ women’s team is looking like the Duke team most

likely to add to the University’s seven national championships in April.

The (Lady) Blue Devils have won by an average of more than 43 points, while beginning the season with five straight wins.

They have yet to play a ranked opponent, but the teams Duke has beaten were not powderpuff squads either. Penn State and Old Dominion are perennially strong programs that have reached Final Fours.

And Auburn, who the Blue Devils blew out, 69-37, Nov. 27 is an up-and-coming program in the SEC. After the game Sunday, Auburn head coach Nell Fortner was wowed by Duke’s

performance.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt—I think that Duke is the No. 1 team in the country,” she said. “They have all the pieces. I think this is the best team [Goestenkors] has had. I know they’ve been ranked No. 1 to start the season many years, but I think this is her best overall team. She’s got it inside, outside,

point guard—everything.”

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Although Josh Mcßoberts will be returning to his home state for tonight’s game against Indiana, the freshman is hardly expecting a warm welcome.

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At the same time, though, he disappointed a number of other top programs, including Indiana—a decision he knows Hoosier fans will not let him forget.

Ever since he verbally committed in September 2003, he has been the victim of ridicule from the Indiana faithful. Hundreds of Hoosier fans flocked to his high school games over his final two seasons to express their discontent, he said.

And in his first true road test 3s a college player tonight at 9 p.m. at Assembly Hall, Mcßoberts expects the atmosphere to be even more hostile. In fact, he even told his mother not to attend the game so she would not have to deal with the rowdy crowd.

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just using that as motivation, preparing himself to the best ofhis ability in order to go out and perform well,” freshman Greg

Paulus said. “I’m sure he wants to go home and play well, but I think he understands that as long as we get the win, that’s saying all that needs to be said.”

As Duke is coming off its championship run at the NIT Season Tip-Off last week, No. 17 Indiana (3-0) is looking to make a statement of its own.

The Hoosiers have averaged more than 100 points and 28 assists per contest in their first three games, none of which were against ranked opponents.

And their fans are riled up for the consensus No. 1 team’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge visit. The Student Athletic Board and Student Alumni Association have planned a pregame pep rally, and all students have been urged to wear a white shirt in an attempt to create a “white out” effect for Indiana’s first nationally-televised game of the season.

“We know it’s going to be a hostile environment,” Paulus said. “We know they’re going to try to get after us. We know we need to come out, get a quick start in and keep the pressure up defensively.”

In their two games at Madison Square Garden, the Blue Devils began sluggishly, falling behind early and allowing their opponents to shoot 50 percent or higher in the opening half.

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Last year the team was good, but it had some serious holes. Goestenkors’ roster had only eight active players after Lindsey Harding was suspended and Caitlin Howe’s career was ended by injuries, Sometimes the rotation went only six or seven deep as Jessica Foley suffered from foot problems late in the season and Laura Kurz did not see significant playing time in big games.

Last year’s squad also lacked athleticism, In three losses to North Carolina, the Blue Devils were exploited by the Tar Heels’ quickness on defense and in transition.

This year, though, Duke appears to have solved the problems that prevented the team from advancing past the Elite Eight last spring. In terms of depth, the Blue Devils now have 13 scholarship players on their roster. Even with freshmenKeturah Jackson and Brittany Mitch and sophomore transfer Emily Waner missing time recently with injuries, Goestenkors has been able to employ a full 10-woman rotation.

In Sunday’s win, she subbed in five players at a time to spell the unit on the court that had been relentlessly pressing the Tigers. The first five off the bench were not

after being named Mr. Basketball as a high sc hool senior and whose father helped lead the Hoosiers to the 1976 NCAA title.

The jeers got the best of May, who was held to just eight points and four rebounds—both well below his season averages. But the Tar Heels got the last laugh, as they escaped Bloomington with a close win.

“Hopefully we’ll have the same result as Sean May did,” McRoberts said with a smile. as effecti ve as the starters, but they were still better than their opponents.

The athleticism is also at a new level this year. Abby Waner and Lindsey Harding comprise a much quicker backcourt than Wanisha Smith and Jessica Foley did last year. Lanky sophomore center Chante Black has been inserted into the starting lineup over lumbering 6-foot-7 junior Alison Bales, allowing the starting five to become an exciting running and pressing unit.

Smith and Foley now come off the bench, giving Duke’s second unit playmaking and sharp-shooting ability in the half-court.

And although Monique Currie has started the season slowly, it is only because her teammates have proven to be more capable this year. If any of Duke’s opponents can keep a game close this year, Currie will be the one the rest of the Blue Devils look to in clutch situations, This year’s team has it all. Even though freshman phenom Candace Parker and Tennessee are creeping up on Duke in the polls, the Blue Devils look like they will be difficult to beat. The nation’s top-two teams will fight it out when they meet at Cameron Jan. 23.

People should start paying attention, because this could be the Blue Devil team that will cut down the nets in the spring.

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Hous ng plan la cks logic, vi on Linking purportedly strengthens began clamoring for an the before the quad model by allowing alreadylinking system end even began. When Duke an- formed communities from East Camnounced in 2002 that all sophomores pus to be functionally transplanted would be required to live on West and into quads. But in practice, the conthat every East Campus dorm would nections have little to do with quads, feed into a single Quads are so much larger than Campus dormitories that the West Campus staffeditOrial East existing communities are geoquadrangle, students cried “unfair.” They resented the graphically dispersed, And students often use linking as a end of a seniority-based housing systern, and they immediately saw the lim- strategic real estate move. Not all West Campus quads are built equally, and itations of linking.

Three years into linking, students’ini- students with favorable quad links dal criticisms have proved persistent de- often choose linking to get a room in tractions to the housing assignment sys- an optimal location, The current linking process also tern. Their early complaints are showing themselves to be more than mere under- shuts out upperclassmen from prime graduate whining. And it’s time the Uni- rooms on West Campus. After a certain number of beds in each quad are earversity abandoned linking all together.

A task force of students and adminis- marked for sophomores, juniors and seniors who want to remain on West get trators has been considering that issue oflast and year, since the spring Thursday scattered among quads rather than havit finally recommended an official end to ing the option of finding rooms togethlinking. Campus Council called for abol- er. With the limited number of bed ishment last March. With all these recom- spaces in each quad, it has been funcmendations, Residential Life and Hous- tionally impossible for most juniors to live in the same quad for two yeas. This ing Services needs to react.

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In place of this system, Campus Council has proposed expanding the maximum number of students who can form a functional housing block from eight to 12 people. It has also suggested allowing men and women to be in the same housing block. Under current policy, all members of a block must be of the same gender.

Both of these ideas are valiant moves toward improving the housing system. They are, however, only useful if linking is actually abolished. When quads are no longer automatically home to a dorm of people, the option of larger groups will help to fill a community void. Most dorm community occurs in smaller groups, and expanding the numberof students who can request sequential lottery numbers will help preserve existing associations.

Twelve is a large enough group that it allows for some people to be mere acquaintances rather than close friends, but it is not so large that it would allow a single unit to dominate an entire sec-

tion of a residence hall. If groups such as greek pledge classes want to live near each other, a maximum size of 12 would still force them into several units, preventing the formation of unofficial selective houses.

Co-ed blocks are also theoretically a good idea, but because of the unequal number offemale and male beds available on campus, it would be a practically difficult one. The lotteries are currently divided by gender, and rooms are clearly segregated by sex. Still, allowing male-female proximity in housing might help foster more diverse communities and friendship groups.

Housing lotteries will always seem unfair to some people, as someone always has to have the last pick. These proposed changes offer some improvements, but they by no means fix the process. The end of linking would open up prime bed spaces for upperclassmen and allow them a greater chance of being able to live near one another, as they would not have to choose between good rooms or their friends. At least these are steps in the right direction.

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MCAT assertion incorrect I agree with the overall positive view expressed in The Chronicle article ofNov. 18, 2005 with regard to the computer-based MCAT. There will be a number of advantages to the computer-based format. However, I wanted to clarify a misconception that I have heard from some students and that also appears in your editorial (“A new test, a new test culture,” Nov. 29 issue). You state, “Students cannot skip sections or return to check their answers.” This is misleading. There are four sections on the MCAT—Verbal Reasoning, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences and a Writing Sample. MCAT takers have never been able to go back to one of those sections after it was completed. Within a section, the paper and pencil test allowed applicants to answer questions in any order and return to questions to go over and to change answers as they wished—until the time was called for that section. The same will be true with the computer based format of the MCAT. I recently confirmed this fact with Dr. Ellen Julian, VP of the Association of American Medical Colleges and Director of the MCAT. Dean Kay Singer Director, Health Profession Advising Center Columnist’s dismissal of pay gap unfounded With regard to Stephen Miller’s column “Sorry feminists,” (Nov. 22 issue)—as the creator of the fliers he alludes to and her boyfriend —we can only say, “Sorry, Stephen.” First off, the idea that legal equality is the end of the struggle would have rendered the Civil Rights movement superfluous after segregation was declared unconstitutional in 1954.

But history tells us that it was crucial; that legal equality was not and is still not enough. Miller’s claims that the pay gap gets smaller with adjustment for hours worked; yet even when surveys control for hours worked, level of education, type of work and years on the job, the pay gap remains substantial.

Second, Miller discusses men’s entrance into more lucrative or hazardous fields. Even within such dangerous fields, women make less money. While Millerwould deny their existence, female truck drivers make 76 cents for every dollar a male truck driver earns. A study in Sweden showed that female professors had to be 2.5 times as productive to receive similar ranking and esteem to their male colleagues.

In a case study of transsexuals, women who became men almost invariably received a pay increase while men who became women earned less money after the operation. These studies are only the tip of the

iceberg.

He also says that women only recently entered the

work force, but women of color have been working outside the home for centuries. Furthermore, women are not responsible for the fact that they were systematically excluded from the workforce. Discrimination against women in the past does not justify it in the present. Similarly, due to the expectation that women will leave their professions to raise their children, women are often ignored for promotions.

It is not that they do not ask for raises. It is that people like you would prefer women to be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. You think that closing the pay gap would mean women giving up the joy of being home during their child’s first years of life. We have a solution: You stay home and witness that joy. Or is that also an idea that you cannot stomach?

Amy Levenberg, Trinity ’O7 Aaron Johnson, Trinity ’O7 Show your support for Financial Aid Initiative Without the University’s commitment to financial aid, we wouldn’t all be here.

Currendy, 20 percent of Duke’s financial aid payments come from the University’s endowment. The other 80 percent comes from its operating budget, which is the same pool ofmoney used to pay for most other expenses. Such dependence on the operating budget for financial aid funds could become untenable given the continuously rising costs of maintaining quality faculty, facilities and research.

Our school needs to continue to build its endowment to make sure that funding for financial aid becomes more permanent and stable in the future. We need to catch up with our peer institutions like Harvard and Stanford. The University knows this, and it is now launching a Financial Aid Initiative in response. This Initiative will ensure the long-term stability offinancial aid at Duke. It will thus ensure that Duke remains at the forefront ofeducation and that students like us can continue to come here and have the same experiences that we’re having now.

The Board of Trustees will be visiting here early next month. Let’s show them and all of Duke’s supporters how much we appreciate them bringing us all together. I have been serving this fall as a member of the Financial Aid Initiative Student Advisory Council, and it has opened my eyes to how far a hide student support can go. There will be an e-mail sent out to all students in a few days—sign it, show your support and make sure to pick up your “I Support Financial Aid” button outside The Great Hall Dec. 1 and 2.

David Shapiro Trinity ’OB

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re you overweight? Do you smoke? Are you female? Do you

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If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you’re exMm pensive. Your healthcare costs are, on average, higher than the costs preeti aroon of those who answered “no aim for the stars This issue of being “expensive” emerged at the Nov. 21 GPSC meeting during a presentation on Duke’s student health insurance plan. Currendy, single students subsidize those with families. To illustrate: During the 2003-2004 academic year, single students paid $1,063 for health insurance but only rang up an average of $757 in medical costs. Meanwhile, students with families paid $2,282 for insurance but rang up an average of $4,773 in medical costs.

In January, the University will begin negotiating the terms of next school year’s insurance plan. GPSG is interested in feedback from graduate and professional students about the current plan, which has its merits. Customer service is excellent. If you get sick, you’re covered wherever you are in the world. You can see whichever physicians you want, even if they’re not in the plan’s network. The $lOO deductible and $l,OOO coinsurance maximum are reasonable.

But let’s go back to the issue of families. I support a generous subsidy for spouses and children. Most of us here at Duke have been—or currendy are—on our parents’ insurance plans, so we’ve likely benefited from this type of subsidy. Plus, most of today’s single students will one day have families of their own. Now is hardly the time to set a precedent for families to pay even higher health insurance costs.

And as goody-two-shoes Lisa Simpson says, “Children are our most valuable natural resource.” They’re a positive externality that benefits us all, even childless people. As adults, they’ll pay our social security checks, fatten our retirement portfolios and provide the human capital that keeps our economy humming along.

While family subsidization is important, the issue that elicited the most visible reactions at the meeting was the proposal for tiered plans in which older students would pay more than younger students. Older students are more likely to have health problems, so it seems “fair” that they should pay more than younger ones. But G&P students tend to be older—hence all the murmurs and whispers I heard when tiered plans were proposed.

Aside from subsidization, there are other issues that GPSC and Duke administrators should consider when negotiating the terms of next school year’s insurance plan. First, it’s shocking that the plan does not cover routine physical exams. It’s common knowledge that preventative care is one of the most highly effective ways to reduce healthcare costs. Yes, students can get physicals from random employees at Student Health Services, but that’s not the same as getting them from their trusted family physicians with whom they have established comfortable rapports over manyyears.

Worse yet, spouses have zero coverage for routine exams since they can’t even resort to Student Health. Children can get wellchild visits up to age six, but no other physicals are covered.

Granted, the plan covers limited forms of preventative care such as gynecological exams and prostate screenings, but people have body parts other than their genitals.

Meanwhile, emergency room visits have been one of the factors contributing to the rapidly rising cost of Duke’s insurance plan.

Correlation isn’t causation, but the lack of coverage for routine physical exams has got to make you wonder.

Duke’s insurance negotiators should also determine what safeguards are in place to ensure that students aren’t overcharged.

I myself was recendy overcharged for prescription drugs. The pharmacist at Student Health told me that Merck Medco Prescriptions—the prescription management company the student insurance plan uses—had a system problem in September. Many students were overcharged.

I called Hill, Chesson and Woody, the agency through which Duke obtains its student plan, and was told by Jeff Powell, one of the agents there, that just under 100 students were affected. Reimbursement checks, Powell explained, are in the process of being mailed.

Of course, my name didn’t appear on the initial report, which makes me wonder how many other students may have been missed.

At any rate, the health insurance plan can only serve your needs if make them known. GPSC is soliciting feedback through Dec. 15 to prepare for January’s negotiations. Email ”

Greek tragedy and war

Just

before Thanksgiving, the Department of Theater Studies produced a version of Euripides’ The Trojan Women that may have escaped the notice it deserves. It is a play that speaks to any generation embroiled in war— sidra d. ezrahi both the tremen-

But the production was not withoutflaws. It was misconceived as a cross between tragedy—located in the dialogue and gestures of the characters and musical theatre—as evidenced by strategicallyplaced songs.

Though ably composed by Allison LeytonBrown, and ably performed by all the singers and musicians, the lyrics and the score carry the unmisguest commentary takable stamp ofAndrew Lloyd Webber. There is, I believe, an unbridgeable chasm between contemachievement and the tremendous flaw are, in fact, illuminations of porary American musical theater and the relentthe contemporary American perception of war and less tragedy of The Trojan Women-and it could be seen every time one of the characters burst into tragedy.

The director, Ellen Hemphill, and the actors, song, as an audible sigh—of relief? exasperaespecially Maggie Chambers in the part of Hecuba, tion?—escaped from the audience. showed a profound understanding of these truths.

Three years after The Trojan Women, Euripides Both the dramatic conception and execution of wrote another play on the same theme, Helen, which would have lent itselfbetter to the sentimenthis production were spellbinding. Chambers mantal sensibility ofmusical theater. The later play also aged to maintain the balance between rage, despair and the vestiges of a regal bearing that belied incorporates a harsh critique of war, but it is cast in her rags and her pitiful fate. The stage setting as a the comic mode. Although it thus shows the Trojan circus with the gods in the role of ‘ringmasters’ was War to have been a devastating error from the beginning, it is a ‘comedy of errors,’ —light-hearted also very promising.

The play is quintessential tragedy, but not in the enough to sustain the kind of music, as well as the usual Aristotelian sense—not as a drama in which carnivalesque stage setting, appended to the Sheafer Theatre’s production of The Trojan Women. a hero’s hubris brings about his inevitable downThree and a half years into the misconceived fall. It is, rather, one of the earliest and most enduring meditations on the pity of war. It is a series war in Iraq, I wonder whether a contemporary auof dirges, elegies and laments; set in a devastated dience is capable of sustaining the unmitigated Troy, the characters onstage are the women who grief of Euripides’ earlier vision. It has often been are left behind, the women who endure the final observed that Americans are inherentiy sanguine by nature and lack a sense ofevil and the tragic. throes of the city’s humiliation.

But we do have our O’Neills, our Tennessee there is the of meddling presence Though Athena and Poseidon, this is a drama in which the Williams and our Arthur Millers. The generation gods are more projections of human passions and that brought an end to the war in Vietnam, bred desires than makers and shakers, which is what on memories of the victims of the Holocaust and makes it so powerful for contemporary audiences. veterans of the war against the Nazis, did have an And these perceptions —like the stage itself—real- imagination for the horrors of war and ambitions ly belong to Hecuba, bereaved mother and queen, of empire.

And yet it seems that the audience to whom this who manages to articulate the pain of grieving wives and mothers everywhere. production is directed can only come as close to the tragic as Les Mis permits. If the best that this Euripides set the drama in the mythical Homegeneration can muster is a kind of melodramadc ric past, but every Athenian who attended performances at the Great Dionysia in 415 B.C.E. tempering of the tragic imagination by such lyrics knew that the real subject was the conflict between as T will be there,’ —well, maybe the movement against the war hasn’t really taken off.

Athens and Sparta—now known as the PeloponAt the very end of the performance, there was a nesian War. And every audience since then knows that within 11 years of this performance, Athens’ melodic dirge intoned by all the women, which ended in a silent shriek. Had this silent shriek been imperial ambitions would leave it devastated.

The play is a surprising exercise in empathy in a sustained throughout, it would not only have been time of war, as the Athenians were asked to imagine more authentic but would have comforted those the pathos of their ancient victims, the Trojans; their looking for an end to the sentimentalization of war ‘own’ Greek heroes are depicted as cruel and vengein our time. ful generals. But even beyond that, what makes this Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is a visiting professor of drama so compelling for generations ofaudiences is that war reveals itself as the most pitiful—and most African and Asian Languages and Literature and Jewish Studies. poetic—of human activities.

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