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ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, ISSUE 66

THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Hospital to stretch legs with expansion of Trustees to see proposed plans for $73.2M addition project Board by

Steve Veres

and Victoria Weston THE CHRONICLE

Duke University Hospital is receive a $73.2-million facelift with an expansion of its surgical and administrative facilities. The project is up for approval by the Board of Trustees this weekend.

Beginning in 2006, the proposed five-year project includes the construction of an eight-story, 77,600-square-foot addition adjacent to Duke Hospital North.

The expansion would be the largest to take place at the hospital in more than a decade.

Plans call for building an expansive family waiting area, increasing the patient recovery area from 51 to 70 bays and adding 11 operating rooms four more than the hospital currently has.

“We’re going to build the operating rooms of the new millennium to keep up with the ever increasing technological advances in modern surgery,” said Dr. Greg Georgiade, vice set to

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chair of surgery and operating room CEO. “It will give us improved pre-op and post-op areas and make it more comfortable for the patients and their families.”

The project will also include the relocation of a helicopter pad to Duke North’s rooftop, a connector to the Children’s Hospital and an overhaul of the third floor, where surgeries are performed. “It will primarily improve patient satisfaction, and it will give us less pressure on our overall capacity, which will make it easier to get our surgical volume done,” Georgiade said.

After the new building is completed in 2011, officials will move hospital support services and physician offices out of Duke North. The vacated areas will be renovated into the larger surgical area.

The new addition follows a wave of construction currently underway, including a $29.8million emergency room expansion and a $17.6-million nursing SEE HOSPITAL ON PAGE

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Board ofTrustees Chair Bob Steel addresses a crowd of trustees and guests at theFinancial Aid Initiativekick-off gala Thursday.

Duke launches S3OOM aid push by

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Anne Curry applied to Duke with a form her mother retrieved from a trash can. Curry did not have a guidance counselor, and she had never heard of financial aid.

Speaking Thursday night at the official kick-off of the public phase of the University’s Financial Aid Initiative, Curry, Women’s College ’65 and founder of a successful Atlanta, Ga. consulting company, noted that she could not have attended Duke had she not received $1,200 in aid.

“No amount of money I could ever give back to Duke would [repay] it,” she said of the assistance she received.

Curry was one of several alumni, campus figures and current students who offered testimonials about their experiences with financial aid at a gala in honor of the launch of the Initiative.

President Richard Brodhead announced earlier Thursday that the University hopes the Initiative will raise $3OO million in the next three years. If the goal is reached, total aid monies would increase to more than $1 billion, compris-

ing about a quarter ofDuke’s full endowment.

Officials hope the Initiative, which has been in a “quiet phase” since Jan. 1, will increase undergraduate aid by $245 million, athletic scholarships by $l5 million and graduate and professional school aid by $55 million.

Approximately $148.6 million has been raised for the Initiative to date. Gifts include a $75 million donation from the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment the largest single gift in the —

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CDC director talks avian flu Council to review all selective living groups by

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The nation’s

most

senior

public health official discussed the need for foresight in addressing health issues in her

speech at Duke Thursday night.

Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Dis-

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Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses pandemic influenza in a speech at the Fuqua School of Business Thursday.

ease Control and Prevention, gave her speech “Beyond Katrina: Scaling Up for Pandemic Influenza,” at the Fuqua School ofBusiness.

“We need imagination to deal with problems that are facing us,” Gerberding said. ‘We spend 95 percent [of funds] on helping people with complications, instead of trying to prevent the complications from occurring.”

The lecture focused on the CDC’s response to one of today’s most pressing health concerns—the avian influenza, SEE GERBERDING ON PAGE 7

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David Graham

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Campus Council will institute a new system for evaluating selective living groups, Campus Council Vice President Ben Rubinfeld, a junior, said at Thurs-

day night’s meeting.

The new evaluation is likely take effect in the 2006-2007 school year, and the first repercussions will likely occur in the Fall 2007 semester.

The Council will have the final say in all decisions, which may include approving new housing sections for selective groups, reducing the number of beds allotted, taking away dedicated commons rooms and revoking the privilege of housing.

“The bottom line is that to

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Council President Jay Ganatra leads talks about a new annual review Thursday.

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Pace reviews Iraqi troop readiness by

Robert Burns

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON If theAmerican public has a distorted picture of the combat readiness of Iraqi troops, the U.S. military is largely to blame for it, the most senior American military officer said Thursday.

“We have done ourselves a disservice in the way that we have defined how we are tracking the progress of Iraqi forces,” Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience of military and civilian students at the National Defense University.

It was his first public speech focusing on Iraq since he became Joint Chiefs chair-

man Oct. 1, and his remarks came one day after President George W. Bush outlined his administration’s strategy for achieving victory in Iraq.

Also Thursday, Bush’s chief of staff told GOP congressional leaders that the White House would communicate more with lawmakers about Iraq. The leaders welcomed Andrew Card’s commitment and followed it by providing “constructive criticism,” said a Republican official who attended the GOP retreat in St. Michaels, Md. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was private.

Pace was among several senior officials who spoke publicly Thursday about the

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strategy for winning in Iraq. Eric Edelman, the under secretary of defense for policy, spoke to and fielded questions from members of the Council on Foreign Relations, along with Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the senior assistant to Pace.

Edelman, whose predecessor, Douglas J. Feith, was considered one of the architects of the Iraq war, said senior U.S. military commanders told him on a recent visit to Iraq that they are very optimistic about stabilizing the country.

“Overall, when one considers the challenges that Iraq faces—not least that of SEE TROOPS ON PAGE 8

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RALEIGH A convicted murderer was put to death Friday in the nation’s I,oooth execution since capital punishment resumed in 1977.

Kenneth Lee Boyd, 57, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m., said state Department of Correction spokesperson Pam Walker. Boyd was convicted of killing his estranged wife and father-in-law in 1988.

His death case after both Gov. Mike Easley and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene and stop the execution.

Larger-than-normal crowds gathered prison in Raleigh, where prison officials tightened security. at the

Police arrested 16 protesters late Thursday who sat down on the prison’s four-lane driveway, officials said.

Boyd, 57, did not deny that he shot and killed Julie Curry Boyd, 36, and her father, 57-year-old Thomas Dillard Curry.

Family members said Boyd stalked his estranged wife after they separated following 13 stormy years of marriage and once sent a son to her house with a bullet and a threatening note.

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Christopher was pinned under his mother’s body as Boyd unloaded a .357-caliber Magnum into her. The boy pushed his way under a bed to escape the barrage.

Another son grabbed the pistol while Boyd tried to reload.

The Supreme Court in 1976 ruled that capital punishment could resume after a 10-year moratorium.

The first execution took place the following year, when Gary Gilmore went before a firing squad in Utah Boyd told The Associated Press in a SEE EXECUTION ON PAGE 4

After deliberating for five hours, jurors recommended the death penalty Thursday for Joseph Smith, a Florida mechanic convicted of abducting and killing an 11-year-old nirl in an attack that was taped by a surveil:e camera and broadcast worldwide,

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Students confess to their quirky pre-exam rituals by

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Chapin THE CHRONICLE

With final exams on the horizon, students are preparing to don their comfy pajamas and to tune in to their iPods, among other personal quirks.

However normal or bizarre their routines may be, students say these customs help to relax and ready themselves mentally for a long day of testing.

“Besides wearing Superman underwear, we don’t endorse any rituals in particular,” said Jeff Olson, research director for Kaplan. “Studies have shown that the higher the stakes on the test, the more rituals there are. It is natural for people to respond to some of these tests as if they were the Superbowl.”

Students said one popular pre-test routine is exercise.

“I tend to go to the gym a lot more,” said Matt Kligerman, a freshman. “It helps

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Sophomore Caroline Mix obsessively changes her calculator's batteries, especially before exams.

me relax and get my mind off the test.”

Few stories, however, trump Jonathan Arak’s. When the premier tutor and trainer for Princeton Review took the SAT, he wore a cummerbund to help his posture.

He claims that it helped him increase his oxygen intake. Arak went so far as to buy a tuxedo to go along with his cummerbund since he thought it would look strange worn with just a T-shirt and jeans.

“Some kids asked me if I was going to a Bar Mitzvah after the test or even if there was a dress code for the SAT,” he said. “I thought I looked dumb! I preach this to my students now. Why slump over in sweats and a ripped T-shirt? Go to the test with the same attitude as if you were going on a hot date.”

Olson said rituals have not changed much over the years except for the music students listen to—from Nirvana and Pearl Jam to Eminem and Death Cab for Cutie.

“While I was in college, my roommate and I used to blast LL Cool J songs,” said Zak Boas, a second-year medical student.

“We would always play that and run up and down the hallways before our chem-

istry exams.”

Pre-exam rituals can be important not only for superstitious reasons, but also students’ health.

Staying up many nights in a row on caffeine and drugs can only lead to a student’s downfall, said Jean Hanson, administrative director of the Duke Student Health Center.

“Start preparing early with good nutrition and normal rest patterns,” Hanson said. “If you don’t push the save button, you lose it—sleep is your save button.”

Kaplan and Princeton Review do not require their tutors to instruct their students to sleep for a certain number of hours or perform certain rituals, but the majority of tutors, like Arak, are pro-routine.

Arak emphasizes to his students that they must sleep because they need to be SEE RITUALS ON PAGE 7

Nobel Prize winner and chemistry professor Peter Agre talks about winning his award Thursday.

Agre recounts winning chemistry Nobel Prize by

Rebecca Friedman THE CHRONICLE

Nobel Prize winner and Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology Dr. Peter Agre addressed a packed audience in the Von Canon meeting rooms to retell his Nobel Prize acceptance speech Thursday afternoon.

“I remember when I got the call at 5:30 in the morning from Stockholm, and I was so delighted,” Agre said. “But I have great sympathy for the current winners because your life is sort of turned upside-down.”

Despite an adolescence of less-thanstellar grades—even in college chemistry classes—odd jobs in a machine factory and a self-proclaimed “footloose and fancy-free” attitude, Agre is now considered a leading scientist in biology and chemistry.

His speech was scheduled to coincide with the same week he received the Nobel Prize. Agre is hoped to be only the first in a series of Nobel Prize win-

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Agre’s major breakthrough came to fruition in 1991, when his laboratory discovered aquaporins—channels in mammal, bacteria and plant proteins that explain water movement in and out ofcells.

These findings help researchers and scientists target more precisely areas associated with many kidney, muscular and organ diseases.

Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, led an effort to recruit Agre, who has been at Duke since July. Officials have said they hope Agre’s presence will attract premier scientists and students to the Duke community.

“This is a time for celebration of great discovery of scientific principles and things that can transform our understanding of biology, medicine and other types of science,” said Dzau in his SEE ACRE ON PAGE 8

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2005

Parts of faculty report presented by

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Academic Council Chair Emeritus Dr. Nancy Allen reclaimed the floor Thursday afternoon at the Council’s meeting to update members on the progress of the Faculty Diversity Initiative.

As part of the presentation, Allen, the chair of the Faculty Diversity Standing Committee, gave members some of the preliminary results of the Faculty Climate Survey, which was administered in Spring 2005.

Although she admitted officials still had to finish analyzing the large amount of data, she said she was surprised by the fact that the data had revealed few surprises so far.

“This is just a teaser to the said, overall report,” Allen

adding that she hopes the findings will eventually allow her committee to make recommendations to Provost Peter Lange.

Allen noted that one of the more interesting findings was that women feel more scrutinized by colleagues and feel they have to work harder than their coworkers to be perceived as legitimate scholars.

She also said the data revealed that women feel they do not have time to manage both personal and professional responsibilities.

Several women noted they would be happier at an institution with a lower level of stress, Allen said.

The survey was conducted by the Office of Institutional Research and the Faculty Diversity Standing Committee. It allowed professors to rate areas related to

en With the Financial Aid Initiative in full swing, students share their opinions about financial aid and the push for support on campus.

"I think more financial aid is always better, but think that Elliot Wolf raised some interesting I issues in his last column about where the financial aid is going and whether or not it's a front to push money different places.

I think that it's interesting that Johnny Dawkins is getting involved with it so much because it's not like he's an administrator, but 1 think that more important than Johnny Dawkins sending out an e-mail are the people who've been going around the Great Hall trying to get people to sign a petition. I think that's probably a more direct and more important way of moving it into the public sphere because it's students doing it and not Johnny Dawkins, who, while he may be respected as a coach and former player, 1 think people kind of see it as not exactly his area."

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teaching, research and overall University climate.

It was adopted after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey and other universities across the nation administered similar. surveys. Officials will be able to compare Duke’s results to other schools.

“This will tell us how much [of the results] are a reflection of the culture that is broadly characteristic of faculty and what is institutionally unique to Duke,” Lange said. “We are going to reap great advantages over time because we are going to control for some factors that we could not otherwise even begin to control for.”

A total of 1,184 people responded to the survey—55 perSEE DIVERSITY ON PAGE 7

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Dr. Nancy Allen presented findings from the Faculty Climate survey to Academic Council.

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"I think it's a good idea, I definitely don't agree with how the government is cutting financial aid, so I like that Duke is doing the opposite.

I thought using Johnny Dawkins' name was a good idea to get students' support because I probably wouldn't have opened the e-mail, I may have just deleted it."

—Adam Lesser, junior "I think that in years past schools like Harvard and Yale have done a good job of meeting expectations, but I think that Duke has nized it has fallen behind other Ivy League-quality schools.

And this year with the Financial Aid Initiative I think they're really trying to step up their efforts, and that's something that accepted students or applying students think about during the application process. They have taken steps this year, more than in years past, in a good direction."

—Michael Moody, junior

school building, among other projects.

Preliminary approval for the construction has already been granted by the University and the Duke University Health System Board of Trustees. Final approval will hinge largely on the proposed addition’s appearance. The Board of Trustees will see renderings this weekend.

the new era of medicine. “The way we provide health care has changed,” he said.

Modern operating rooms are significantly larger than older ones because they must accommodate big technological devices. The rooms at Duke now are about 400 square feet. The proposal calls for operating rooms as large as 650 square feet.

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As the execution drew near, Boyd was visited by a son from a previous marriage, who was not present during the slayings.

“He made one mistake and now it’s costing him his life,” said Kenneth Smith, 35, who visited with his wife and two children. “A lot of people get a second chance.

I think he deserves a second chance.”

Smith’s wife planned to witness the execution, as did two other family members of the victims whose relationship was not immediately clear. Boyd’s lawyer, a small group of law enforcement officials and journalists also planned to watch through the thick, twin glass panes between the viewing room and the death chamber.

the infamous numerical distinction. “I’d hate to be remembered as. that,” Boyd said Wednesday. “I don’t like the idea of being picked as a number.”

The I,oolst could come Friday night, when South Carolina plans to put Shawn Humphries to death for the 1994 murder of a store clerk.

In Boyd’s plea for clemency, his attorneys said he served in Vietnam where he was shot at by snipers daily, which contributed to his crimes.

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Affording Opportunity DUKE’S FINANCIAL AID INITIATIVE

Duke’s Financial Aid Initiative Financial aid is the investment we make to produce the trained talent our future world will require.

RICHARD H. BRODHEAD, PRESIDENT

Duke University seeks to raise

$3OO million

in endowment for financial aid by the end of 2008

—5245 million for undergraduate scholarships and $55 million for graduate and professional school students. To date, the university has raised over a third of this $3OO million goal, including $lOO million

in challenge funds.

DUKE’S FINANCIAL AID INITIATIVE STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL Mary Reid Ervin T’o7 (Norfolk, VA) Cariy O’Connor T’os (Kenfield, CA)

Co-Chairs

Joycelyne Absolu T’oB (Naples, FL) Iris Afonso T’o7 (Bogart, 6A) josh Ashley E’o7 (Fort Walton Beach, FL) Eileen Braxton T’oB (Graham, NC) Omar Cameron T’oB (Great Neck, NY) Joanna Childers T’o6 (Statesville, NC) Katie Chrest T’o6 (Hampstead, MD)

Emmanuela DelinceT’o9 (Brooklyn, NY) Collin Doherty T’oB (Morristown, NJ) Emily Holmquist T’o6 (Big Rapids, Ml) Corinne Low T’o6 (Glen Ellyn, IL) Michael Moody T’o7 (St. Petersberg, FL) Addison Nuding T’o9 (Reading, PA)

NJ) Grace Shih T’oB (Rockville, MD) Ryan Sparrow E’o7 (Johnstown, NY) Eyan Townsend T’o7 (Lenoir, NC)

Wintta Woldemariam T’o6 (College Park, GA)

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plinary reports as possible areas for review.

One major issue to be addressed during

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the establishment of the review is the moratorium on selective housing expansion.

Currently, no more than 50 percent of beds on West Campus can be dedicated to selectives, and no selective groups have housing on Central Campus. Several groups have requested housing on Central.

Council members asked questions about a tiered sanction process, which features progressively harsher penalties. Rubinfeld cautioned, however, that such a system might make the new system just as ineffective as its predecessor.

Ganatra said he expects the development of new evaluations to extend for several weeks and to include input from a variety of sources.

housing is a privilege, not a right,” Rubinfeld said. “The problem is that the old annual review had no teeth and was all

quantitative.”

Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean of residence life, abolished die evaluadon process in Spring 2004.

Annual review was the process by which administrators evaluated selective living groups on dieir contribution to the residendal community “Annual review—that’s in the past,” said Council President Jay Ganatra, a junior. The new review will be more qualitative, offering selectives more flexibility in fulfilling the requirements.

When annual review was nixed, Hull said he sought a larger role for RLHS in decisions of citizenship, instead of leaving the evaluation to a predominandy student committee. He was also concerned about the potential detrimental effects of selective groups on the quad model.

The new plan, however, will place final decisions solely in Campus Council’s hands.

“What he said to us was that he doesn’t want to have control over the process—he wants students to have the control,” Rubinfeld said ofHull.

Rubinfeld outlined a proposed multistep process. A review cbmmittee will be

INITIATIVE from page 1 University’s history—and $25 million in challenge funds that will be used to encourage others to donate funds that will be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Brodhead, who has reiterated the need to augment Duke’s financial aid coffers since assuming the presidency in July 2004, said Thursday that increasing aid offerings will strengthen the University by attracting accomplished and promising students regardless of their ability to pay for their education. “If you are a university that does not have great students, you don’t have a great university,” Brodhead said at the gala, addressing a crowd of some 330 Board of Trustees’ members, administrators and students. “There would be something profoundly incomplete about that.”

mittee will give the group feedback, and a second hearing—probably in January will review the group’s progress and make a decision on whether to impose any sanctions. Their decision will be forwarded to Campus Council for final approval.

Categories for evaluation are yet to be finalized, but Rubinfeld named community service, educational programming and disci-

In other business: A referendum which would have allowed for shortened quiet hours on Central Campus appeared headed toward defeat because oflow turnout, said Central representative Meredith Gonsahn, a junior.

To pass, the referendum required a twothirds vote of all Central residents. With about 330 votes for and 100 against, it fell well short of the approximately 500 ‘Yes” votes required to establish a pilot program.

Ganatra said RLHS may make a vote part of the housing application for students who will live on Central next year.

Initiative is going to succeed—it’s got to succeed,” said Trustee Emerita Sally Robinson, one of the co-chairs of the Financial Aid Initiative Development Committee, which will guide the progress of the project.

The need for a significant financial aid push arises from the increasing number of students applying to college, the rising cost of higher-level education—Duke’s full cost jumped to more than $40,000 this year and the decreasing amount ofaid offered by the government.

Brodhead noted in the first meeting of the FAIDC Thursday that when he was in college, the state and federal governments covered about 25 percent of aid costs nationally. Today, they share less than 9 percent of costs.

Recent efforts by Republican members of Congress could augment the problem. A budget reconciliation bill currently in con-

sideration would cut student loans by $14.3 billion. “We want to be ready to make sure if that happens students don’t have to pay the penalty,” said Susan Ross, director of financial aid development.

At the gala, moderator Judy Woodruff, Trinity ’6B and former CNN anchor, led a discussion that highlighted the stories of students who have received assistance, including men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski, James B. Duke Professor of English Reynolds Price, Trinity ’55, and Woodruff herself.

Also at the event, leaders of the Financial Aid Student Advisory Council presented Brodhead with the signatures of 2,767 students who have pledged support for the Initiative by signing an online petition. “I succumb to your pressure with great pleasure,” Brodhead said when accepting the signatures.

Campus Council discusses thereturn of an annual housing review for selective living groups on campus.

composed of six members, two each from Campus Council and the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life and one from the Selective House Council. The last committee member will be drawn from the quad council of the group in question, but cannot be affiliated with the selective group.

Selectives groups will make a presentation to the committee each fall. The comThe funds raised through the Initiative will be earmarked as part of the University’s financial aid endowment, which includes money raised from investing and earning interest on the endowment principal.

Duke currently draws financial aid for students eligible for need-based assistance from the endowment and the University’s operating budget, which also funds various other expenses, including salaries, programming and renovation costs.

This year alone, approximately 80 percent of aid funds were drawn from the operating budget. Other schools with larger endowments, such as Harvard University and Princeton University, drew only about 20 percent of aid from their

operating budgets.

Through the Initiative, officials hope to bring the University’s endowment to a level closer to those of its peer institutions. “This

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GERBERDING from page 1 which has been confirmed to exist in parts ofAsia and Eastern Europe this year. Gerberding said the United States must approach the disease with special precaution.

“We believe an outbreak that appears anywhere could eventually reach the United States. We need to scale up our investment in vaccine production to deal with it,” Gerberding said.

In 120 cases of the avian flu, the rate of fatality has been 50 percent, she added.

Gerberding said the SAKS virus shows how a disease can spread quickly across the globe. SARS was first contracted in China in 2003 and soon spread to

Ireland, Singa-

Gerberding was selected to lead the GDC in 2002—making her the first woman to become director.

At the end of the lecture, one audience member asked Gerberding what incentive a company would have to produce vaccinations for the flu, citing legal problems and uncertain profit margins as deterrents.

Gerberding said the shortage of vaccines made by pharmaceutical companies is a concern for the GDC. “We’ve got to do more to encourage investment in the production of vaccines,” she said. “We are hoping Congress will pass a bill that helps that, but they won’t do that right now.”

Gerberding also discussed the expansion of disease

“We believe an outbreak that appears anywhere could eventually reach the United States.”

Dr. Julie Gerberding,

control centers

and the crepore, Germany ation of a globand the United al health netStates. to work She also said combat disterrorist and eases efficientbioterrorism atly around the director of the Center for Disease Control tacks illustrate world. the importance “We cannot afford to be of preparedness in addressing potential threats. proud for very long, because complacen“We learned many lessons from the cy is our biggest enemy,” she said in referWorld Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11,” ence to the constant need for the CDC Gerberding said. “We couldn’t imagine a and government organizations to be preplane crashing into a building and de- pared.

“Having such a senior government offistroying it, and because we couldn’t imagcial come to Duke is a huge honor,” said Dr. ine it, we couldn’t prepare for it.”

Gerberding also discussed the bioter- Kevin Schulman, the director of Fuqua’s rorism attacks in the months after Sept. 11, Health Sector Management program.

A number of audience members said when anthrax-laced envelopes were sent out in New York and Washington D.C. they felt Gerberding did a good job of “It is hard to believe that a few letters outlining the relationship between politcould create such a massive threat to our ical concerns and current health issues.

“She did a great job tying together polpostal system,” she said. Gerberding icy and science,” said Collin Davidson, a played a major role in leading CDC’s reresearch associate at the School of Medisponse to the 2001 anthrax attacks. Because ofher leadership during that threat, cine. “It was a great lecture.”

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“on their game” for the four-hour test.

He tells students not to eat sugary breakfasts because of the fleeting high

they provide.

He also believes his students should have a sandwich with anything but turkey before tests.

“Kids need to be on a nice, even keel throughout the test,” Arak explained.

“They need to eat whether or not they are hungry. Kids think that eating cereal and fruit is a good breakfast, but it isn’t.... They need to keep their energy level constant.”

Most students said there is no rhyme or reason to their routines, but they tend to stick with them if they are successful.

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“I always wear the same pajamas to big tests,” said Mike Renner, a freshman. “I did well on one test, and now I’ve kept it going.”

Sophomore Caroline Mix believes in rituals but more in keeping her body in a normal pattern prior to large exams.

“Usually 10 minutes before the test, I try to do something not at all related to the test,” Mix said. “I also make sure that I have plenty of time to press the snooze button.”

For some students, it can be the smallest things—sitting in the same seat when studying, using the same pencil for every test or listening to the exact same sequence of songs before an exam.

“I always wear fuzzy socks and birkenstocks to a big test,” freshman Jessica Lohrman said. “I don’t have a reason, but they just give me moral support.”

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of all eligible faculty.

In other business: The Doctor of Theology initiative in the Divinity School was approved unanimously by Council members. For officials in the program to begin admitting students as planned for Fall 2006, it still must be approved by the University’s Board of Trustees and the Association of Theological Schools within the next few months.

The Council approved changes to the Tenure Clock Relief Policy, which grants faculty time off for medical or family reasons. The changes grant the primary caregiver of a new child two semesters or one year of parental leave time and relief from the tenure process.

Members ofthe Office ofNews and Communication gave a presentation on the new Duke home page and news website Duke Today, both of which will debut in January.

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Now Agre, who earned his graduate degree in medicine and cell biology from Johns Hopkins University in 1974, balances responsibilities at Duke and those associated with being a Nobel Laureate—pursuing strategic directions in science and lecturing around the globe.

“I’ve been very eager to come to Duke for a long time,” Agre said. “I am here to catalyze activities in science policy.”

Agre entertained listeners with a fewjokes before delving into the history and mechanics of aquaporins.

He added that much of his work sprang from a larger interest in human health, rights and ethics.

“As a medical doctor, I am very interested in the consequences of my work for human diseases,” Agre said.

Agre’s speech drew both graduate and undergraduate students in addition to faculty and staff.

“This was my first time seeing Agre, but I heard about him a lot during my undergraduate career,” said Kris Spaeth, a fourth-year graduate student in the molecular genetics and microbiology department. “It’s always great to see someone who does great work in a similar field.”

Agre heads back to Sweden to lecture and host a roundtable discussion for the BBC Tuesday.

“Going to Stockholm two years ago for the Nobel was mind-boggling and exhausting, so I didn’t get to really enjoy it,” Agre said. “Now I’m looking forward to going back.”

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TROOPS from page 2 overcoming the political and social effects of three and a half decades of monstrous tyranny—what is most impressive to me is not how much remains for them to do, but rather how far they have come in less than three years,” Edelman said.

Edelman also emphasized the benefit of eventually reducing the American troop presence in Iraq.

“We need to, over time, bring down the number ofU.S. troops to lessen the feel of occupation in Iraq,” he said.

Aji important element of Bush’s strategy is building Iraqi security forces that can defend the country on their own. Pace said the U.S. military’s own means of measuring progress in training Iraqi forces have created confusion in some quarters.

“In an attempt to be very precise with ourselves, to give ourselves metrics that we could all understand, we have done ourselves and everyone who is listening to us a disservice,” he added.

Pace made the remark after mentioning that people often ask him, “How can there be only one—count them—only one Iraqi battalion capable of independent

operations?”

He was referring to the public stir that arose when Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, told Congress in September that the number of Iraqi army battalions rated at “level one” proficiency—meaning capable of combat with no U.S. support —had dropped from three to one. Some interpreted that as evidence the Iraqis were regressing.

Pace indicated that Iraqi units do not have to reach “level one” proficiency to be capable of fighting the insurgency, and said that even some battalions in the American military would be rated below “level 1.”

He cited his own experience as a Marine battalion commander from 1983-85 and noted that his unit was reliant on either the Navy or the Air Force to transport it to the batde front and that if required to remain in combat for more than 60 days, his battalion had to rely on the Army for resupplying.

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Despite winning its first five games by an average of 43 points, Duke is losing its grip on the No. 1 spot in the nation.

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Point guard Lindsey Harding is one of only two Blue Devils to average more than 20 minutes per gameso far thisyear.

points, and actually garnered more first-place votes than Duke.

The Blue Devils said the rankings mean nothing, though, and they just want to play their game.

“It’s just another game,” center Chante Black said. “We’re just looking to keep doing what we do, and playing to win, of course.

Trying to improve ourselves and make sure that we’re up to being the best that we can be this year.”

Although their closest game thus far has been a 26-point victory at Penn State, the Blue Devils expect more out of Texas. Despite the temptation to try to prove something to the nation, Duke is confident that its play speaks for itself.

“I think we know in our hearts that we can be the No.l team in the country in the end,” guard Lindsey Harding said.

“Because, you know, it’s all rankings right now, it doesn’t matter right now. But for us, I think we’ll get more satisfaction out of it because we know that [Texas] is a really good team.”

The Blue Devils know they will have to adjust to the change in competition. No longer will a single-digit lead be a disappointment, Harding said.

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It had the makings of a total confidence killer.

With Duke clinging to a 70-65 lead with 1:04 to play Nov. 30 against Indiana, Blue Devil point guard Greg Paulus stepped to the foul line.

With 17,343 VS* white-clad Indifans chanting “Air ball”—a reminder of the SUNDAY, 8 p.m. freshman’s secCameron Indoor ond half shot that missed everything—Paulus missed the free throw.

On its next possession, Indiana hit two free throws to cut Duke’s lead to three.

When Duke (6-0) inbounded the ball to Paulus, the Hoosiers almost immediately fouled him and as the freshman took the long walk to the line, the “Air ball” chant resounded in the arena. It was clear that unless Paulus made the ensuing free throws, his 39minute, nine-point, six-assist night would not mean a thing.

With ACC play just days away the Blue Devils open the conference schedule at home Sunday at 8 p.m. against Virginia Tech (52) —the last thing Duke needed was for Paulus to squander such a confidence-building night in the game’s final stages.

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It takes a lot of determination to turn a team’s season around, but Duke head coach Jolene Nagel and the volleyball team did just that.

In the second half of the season, the Blue Devils, who had been picked to finish first in the ACC during the preseason, transformed their record VS, from a modest 15-7 to an 818 impressive 23-7 mark.

Duke finished on an winning TONIGHT, 6 p.m eight-game Lincoln, Neb. streak, moved up to third place in the ACC and earned its first bid to the NCAA tournament since 2002.

“I’m not only pleased, I’m proud of our strong finish,” Nagel said. “We stuck together and challenged each other, one match at a time. The ACC is a tough conference, and we hit the rough patch early.

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I’m proud that we stayed focused.”

Idle Blue Devils will square olf against American University (25-9) in the first round tonight at 6 p.m in Lincoln, Neb. The winner will meet the victor between top-seed Nebraska and Alabama A&M Saturday.

Since losing to North Carolina, 3-2, Nov. 4, Duke has dropped just six games over its last eight matches, including a 3-0 sweep over then No. 24 Maryland—its first win over a ranked opponent since 2002.

“We gained a lot of confidence when we started winning consistently beginning in the middle of the season,” sophomore Ali Hausfeld said. “That confidence will hopefully carry over into the NCAA tournament as well.”

American, which won its fifth straight Patriot League Championship this season, enters the tournament with an 0-7 record in NCAA Championship play. Still, the Eagles defeated the Blue Devils, 3-2, in the SEE VOLLEYBALL ON PAGE 12

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Over the next three games, Duke showed why it was the preseason No. 3 team in the country.

The Blue Devils rolled through Virginia Tech and then-No. 1 Maryland in the first two rounds and defeated North Carolina in penalty kicks in the title game to become the lowest-seeded team ever to win the ACC Championship. The victory captured the program’s second ACC Championship title.

“I think we’re very proud of the season that we had,” head coach John Rennie said. “We had some great wins, we won the ACC Championship, we just had a disappointing game at the end.”

Senior captain Danny Kramer echoed Rennie in saying that he was satisfied with the season and added that he has no regrets.

“I’m definitely looking back happy at what we accomplished,” Kramer said.

“Clearly you want to win every championship possible, but we won the ACC Championship, which is definitely a very big accomplishment, something only one other Duke team has ever done here.

Yeah it’s disappointing to lose in the NCAA Tournament, but clearly only one team can win the championship and this year wasn’t our year.”

After its run at the 2004 College Cup, during which the Blue Devils thrived off the youthful intensity of a talented freshman class, Duke may have become a victim of its own success in the 2005 NCAA Tournament.

Duke’s largely intact core, comprised mostly of sophomores—had to cope with not being able to sneak up on opponents anymore. The Blue Devils were the team to beat.

“Last year we were the classic underdog,” Rennie said. “Perhaps we over-

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Senior Blake Camp earnedthe tournament MVP award, as Duke won its secondACC Championship this year. achieved at the end of the year.... This year there was a lot more pressure and a lot more awareness of who we were.”

Whether they folded to Creighton because ofpressure or not, the Blue Devils’ second half meltdown against the Bluejays was indicative of a problem that had plagued Duke the entire season: finishing games.

The Blue Devils’ defense was almost perfect in the first half this year. Duke scored 24 goals while allowing only two in the opening period. However, the Blue Devils actually lost the second-half battle to their opponents, allowing 22 goals while netting only 18 of their own.

Coach Rennie commented that he felt that his team’s second-half struggles were not indicative of poor defense, but of difficulty scoring and a propensity to give up goals in crucial situations.

“It certainly is disappointing to give up a lead in the second half of any game that you play,” Rennie said., “I think it was really a case of not scoring enough, considering we gave up the same number of goals this year as we did last year.”

Although the Blue Devils played four fewer games this season than in 2004, Duke let up just two more goals but netted 15 fewer this year than last.

Although Duke’s 1-10record this season may have been discouraging, football fans can take solace in one point—the season has not drastically dampened head coach Ted Roof s success on the recruiting trail.

At this point last year, Roof had already secured eight verbal commitments from players rated three stars or higher according to scout.com. Although Duke has just six such commitments this season, Roof continues to attract ACC-level talent to Durham with three three-star prospects in town this weekend.

Among those prospects is Justin Roper, the Blue Devils’ top quarterback target. Standing 6-foot-6, the lanky quarterback’s athleticism and throwing ability have attracted interest from some of the nation’s top offenses. Roper has received scholarship offers from Oregon and Louisville and has received interest from Tennessee, according to Buford High School athletic director Dexter Wood.

“He’s got excellent mechanics and his dad’s a former college coach, so he was raised from the get-go with the proper fundamentals of throwing the football,” Wood said. “He’s quite a phenomenal athlete.”

Roper used those athletic skills to guide his Buford squad to a 12-1 record this season. Earlier in his career, Roper was part of a team that set the Georgia high school consecutive wins record with 47. Although he is used to a winning culture, the Blue Devils’ recent struggles have not diminished his interest in their program.

“The attraction to Duke is that they’re building and he really has connected with the coaches, probably more than anyone,” Wood said. “He really feels like he could succeed in [offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien’s] system and help build the program.”

Roper would not be the only Buford alum fighting to return Duke to respectability. Sophomore linebacker Zach Smith and freshman wide receiver Ryan Wood both attended Buford, and Duke verbal commit Matt Pridemore, who will also be visiting this weekend, currendy plays with Roper.

“That’s a huge attraction,” Dexter Wood said. “I know he loves seeing Zach and Ryan on the field.”

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home game will not offer the same hostile environment as the Indiana contest, but Paulus will again be counted on to perform.

The Blue Devils, however, know they can through and the second was a perfect swish. Paulus made two more free throws rely on the freshman. Senior JJ. Redick said in the game’s final minute—both the biggest lesson the team learned Wednestouched nothing but net —to help the day night was that they could count on Paulus and head coach Mike Krzyzewski Blue Devils seal the victory. praised the point guard’s poise.

“I really wanted a chance to redeem myself,” Paulus said, smiling when the subject “I love what Paulus did tonight,” of the one missed free throw was brought Krzyzewski said. “In this atmosphere, that up. “I got a chance to do it, and knocked pressure, him being a freshman and this them down.” being our first road game of the year—he No. 1 Duke’s win in Bloomington may played very well.” have been the point guard’s coming out The Hokies finished tied for fourth in party, but a Blue Devil team left shorthanded the ACC last season with an 8-8 conference

by DeMarcus Nelson’s injury needs Paulus to mark, but they have lost to Ohio State and deliver quality minutes every night. Sunday’s Bowling Green in the early part of this season. Entering the week they were only scoring 69 points per game, which ranked second-to-last in the conference.

But the Blue Devils know better than to take Virginia Tech lighdy. The last time the teams squared off, Feb. 17 in Blacksburg, Va., the unranked Hokies toppled then-No. 7 Duke, 67-65. Returning starters Coleman Collins, Zabian Dowdell and Jamon Gordon each played a big role in the Hokies’ win.

Gordon tipped in a rebound with 32 seconds left to give the Hokies a two-point lead, and Duke answered with a three-pointer of its own. But with 15 seconds to play, Dowdell drained a three-pointer to provide the final margin. Collins grabbed 18 rebounds, earning ACC Player of the Week honors.

This season, the trio of juniors has continued to impress. Dowdell is averaging 14.4 points per game, and fellow guard Gordon is averaging 5.3 assists, which is tops in the league. Collins, a center, shook off an inconsistent start to the season to post back-toback 14 point, 14 rebound games.

For Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg, the game will mark his first return to With DeMarcus Nelson out, Duke will rely on Greg Durham since being ejected in Virginia Paulus when it opens ACC play Sunday.

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Redick has shown excellent shot selection (51.1 FG%) so far this year, He, along with Paulus, will be important in countering Tech's pressure defense. Gordon is one of the most versatile guards in the ACC and must be contained.

Pocius should see more playing time and Melchionni appears to be coming out of his slump. Injuries to projected starter Wynton Witherspoon and backup center Robert Krabbendam have decimated the Hokies' frontcourt depth.

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“American is a good team and they’ve won a lot,” Nagel said. “Their greatest strength is that they get the most out of every player. They’re a tough team mentally, and they will capitalize on any and all of our weaknesses. They also have some international players who have different styles of play, which tends to throw people off.”

Although three ACC squads earned berths in the 64team field for only the second time in the past five years, none of the league’s teams are currendy ranked—a sign of how good the rest of the competition will be in the NCAA tournament.

Sophomore middle blocker Carrie DeMange said she expects Duke’s opponents to exhibit better ball control, to be taller and to take advantage of their athleticism more than some of the team’s the Blue Devils faced earlier this season.

“We’re going to be facing tougher competition and we’re going to have tougher matches,” DeMange said.

And with only four players who have NCAA tournament experience, Nagel is focused on keeping her team relaxed.

“This is still a volleyball court,” Nagel said. “The net is the same height, and the ball is the same size.” two

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basket at a time. And obviously from the teams that we’ve played, we’ve had unnecessary turnovers because we were such in a rush to go up by 40 automatically.”

One of the things that has contributed to Duke’s success so far this season has been its depth. Only two players are averaging more than 20 minutes of time.

“We knew that was one of the strengths of this year’s team going into the season,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said of the team’s depth. “I think it’s good. I think the players are adjusting and understanding that while they’re in, they need to give their all. And they need to be more productive in fewer minutes than they-had last year.”

As the players adjust to this style of basketball, the numbers clearly indicate what Goestenkors is aiming for.

Each member of the starting five is averaging around 20 minutes a game this season, but are still scoring almost twelve points each in that limited time.

While coming in and out every few minutes might make it difficult to maintain focus for some, Black insists it actually forces the team to stay even more involved in the game.

“Usually [frequent substitution] makes me more focused,” Black said. “Because you know you’re only going to be in there for three or four minutes. So, you need to go in and dominate for those limited minutes.”

This will be the team’s first televised game of the season, and the Blue Devils are anxious to notch their sixth victory of the year and the first over a ranked opponent.

“I think we’re all really excited,” Goestenkors said. “I think we’re very excited for this opportunity to find out where we are.”

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The benefits of waves Project Waves only lives up to a to an experiences and a kind of cliche, then it will be little more than knowledge that they might not have classes, a trip to the beach. But this new pre- access to through regular focuses on Outward Bound orientation program promises more PWILD skills and group bonding. Project than a week of surfing and boating.

Project Waves received a $15,000 Build concentrates on community service and building trust, donation last week that The information about to its StaffedltOriai allow it take will marine life that Project place as the third pre-orientation programs open to incoming Waves will offer is similarly intriguing supplementary information. students. In the week or so prior to oriBut at their hearts, pre-orientation entation, about 160 soon-to-be freshthese indeprograms are away for freshmen to men flock to campus for meet each other in an environment that Although pendent bonding camps. they are supported by the University, encourages close relationships. These programs require students to live in these pre-school programs are indeclose proximity, work together and build studentrun and are largely pendently teamwork and communication skills. administered.

Given the inadequacy of the official In recent years, student interest in orientation as away to meet people, Build has Wild and Project Project grown substantially, and more students these programs provide a unique opporhave been turned away due to space tunity to develop close communities imlimitations. While Project Waves is only mediately, and those individual and going to accept 30 students, this will small-group friendships can be crucial help accommodate freshmen who in easing the adjustment to college.

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From an educational point of view, efit. It will take place at the Marine Lab these programs all introduce students in Beaufort, NC. In addition to offering

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but in some years the program has struggled to garner enough interest to be viable financially. When students receive information about Project Waves the summer before they begin, this will give the Marine Lab a chance to advertise itself. And students who come back from Project Waves will be able to give personal testimonials about the Beaufort campus.

The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences is also helping sponsor the program. This will give freshmen automatic exposure to the services of the Nicholas School, one of Duke’s few professional schools that actually offers opportunities for undergraduates as well.

If Project Waves can form itself into a full program, it could provide a variety of benefits to Duke in addition to the students who participate. If not, well, at least the beach is fun.

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participating students a glimpse at a part of North Carolina, this is a fantastic publicity opportunity for the Marine Lab.

She had been uninjured after totaling her car but was afflicted with a case of total body hives combined with a fear of driving. She was given medication to suppress the hives at Student Health which made her too drowsy to study, and the itchy blotches came right back when she quit taking the medication. I spent 15 minutes after class teaching her how to do EFT with immediate success.

She started by repeating a typical EFT self-acceptance statement, “Even fulfilling prophecies. though I had a scary, though t-I-wasGetting ready to take a test going-to-die car accident, I deeply and and remembering the last time completely accept myself,” while rublarry burk you choked on an exam is a bing what is known as the “sore spot” on form of negative visualization. guest column her chest a few inches below the midIn contrast, sport psychologists clavicle. She rated her anxiety about the know that performing a positive visualization ritual on the foul line helps quiet the statement in Subjective Units ofDistress as an 8 on negative self-talk long enough to get in the “zone” a scale of 1 to 10.

I then guided her to repeat just the distressing and sink the crucial free throw. While visualizations and affirmations have known benefits, for part of the phrase known as the EFT “target” while tapping seven times each on a series of EFT some frustrating reason they don’t always work.

The best explanation for why they don’t is a acupuncture points with her middle finger. The phenomenon known as a tail-ender, the “yes, but” points most frequently used are the inside of the that occurs spontaneously after your well-intendeyebrow, on the side of the eye, under the eye, ed affirmation and undermines your success. In under the nose, in the middle of the chin, on the hypnosis theory, everything that comes before a inside of the clavicle, on the side of the chest “but” in a suggestion is negated, thus your positive under the arm and on the top of the head.

She noted that the SUDS dropped from 8 to 4, language is often replaced by a more powerful so I asked her if there was any other aspect of the negative tail-ender.

One of the best ways to deal with tail-enders is event that was still bothering her. She said she felt guilty about totaling her dad’s car, and that was off to tap them away literally using a new energy psychology approach known as Emotional Freedom the SUDS chart at an 11! She used that as her next Techniques, which involves self-tapping on the target for another round of tapping after which acupuncture meridians while holding a negative her SUDS decreased to 2. She later tapped on all her other past car accidents, regained her driving thought in your mind.

This scientifically-validated method for relief of confidence and never had another hive.

Cognitive memories of past traumas that have anxiety and other ailments is easily learned by downloading a free 80-page manual from power over you are usually associated with energetic body memories thought to be stored in the www.emofree.com. meridians, i.e., those sick feelings and also learned it three signed acupuncture I up years ago to receive free weekly e-mail updates from Gary you get when thinking of past failures. EFT works Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer, investment by deleting those disruptions in your energy sysmanager, and personal coach whose mission is to tem, so that you are free to perform at your best.

You might want to start with, “Even though I almake EFT available to everyone. ...”

I soon had the opportunity to test it out with ways procrastinate until the last minute one of my students who had recently been in a seDr. Larry Burk, Trinity 77, is a physician in Durham. rious car accident.

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many students perform up to their potential in the classroom or on the playing field? What holds you back from achieving the best that your talents would allow? Often it is anxiety related to the thought of -past failure that distracts you from the focus required to accomplish your goal.

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precedented effort by the economics department to improve itselfand its ability to teach undergraduates. Three major ini-

The enrollmentfor this class is more than 300 people, yet there are days when fewer than half of them show up. The material seems so pointless and irrelevant that

tiatives have been set son to waste their in motion: the eliminatime by going to tion of the Bachelor of Arts major, the addiclass. Cutting class m tion of four different is made even easiconcentrations within er because the the field and the initiaclass is Just a slow presentation of tive to hire a large number of faculty in andrey fradkin slides that are althe coming year. ready posted oncogito These changes aim line. There are to add rigor and consisnumerous times tency to the department. They are when my peers and I fell asleep to intended to help undergraduate a slide —only to wake up 15 minecon majors conduct research and utes later looking at the same learn about cutting-edge developexact slide. Not that this matters ments in the field. The changes will for the tests because with the help simultaneously free professors to of the TAs and practice exams, it is teach classes, decrease class sizes pretty easy to go over and memoand allow for more student-faculty rize all of the standard templates interaction. However, thereremains for questions. a significant problem with the unMany smart people who were dergraduate major. Economics 55 once interested in economics have should be made an optional course been turned away from the subject after taking this class. This class for sttidents who know calculus. leads students to believe that ecoAs the second course in the economics core sequence, Econ 55 is nomics is nothing more than drawsupposed to serve as the lynchpin ing generalized graphs of supply for the major. Its objective is to and demand functions. The knowlcover the topics of demand, supply, edge that students gain from the competitive equilibrium, income, class can be summarized in a few substitution effects and uncompensentences. But the mathematical sated demand. But the class fails to techniques required to demondo these topics justice. It skims over strate that this knowledge is true the basics at such a low level that it are not taught until Econ 105.

At its highest levels, the science gives students no real tools in order of economics models itself after to solve even basic problems. Almost every assignment associated physics. Like a true science, it atwith this class requires little more tempts to describe economic phethan regurgitating a graph that was nomena using rigorous matheshown in an earlier lecture. Practimatical models. This rigorous cally no critical thinking is required. approach stands in sharp contrast .

to the material in 55, which seems designed to avoid any hint of mathematical rather than graphical solutions to problems.

Every single introductory physics class at Duke has basic calculus as a prerequisite. It is almost

inconceivable to think about and solve problems of velocity and acceleration without the use of derivatives and integrals. But similarly pivotal concepts in economics such as marginal cost and marginal revenue are not discussed as derivatives until Econ 105, the third class in the core sequence.

In general, Econ 105 teaches the same exact material as 55, but it uses mathematics to help students see the reasoning behind the properties of commonly used economic models. Since 105 goes over almost every topic in 55, there is really no point for students who have taken calculus to take 55 at all. Without the 55 requirement, motivated students would have the chance to take more advanced classes such as econometrics and industrial organization as early as their freshman year. This means that by the time they are juniors, they will have enough knowledge to conduct meaningful research and solve real problems.

Currently, an econ major usually has to wait at least until junior year to take the really interesting classes that make economics great.

The elimination of Econ 55 as a prerequisite would make it much easier for students to take the interesting classes earlier.

Audrey Fradkin is a Trinity sophoHis column runs every other Monday. more.

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missed out on writing about my favorite holiday of the year. But I still wanted to say that whether spent with your family or drunkenly threatening teenagers at Waffle House at 3 a.m., Thanksgiving is always magical. Now, since I have to settle for writing about the festival of commercialism they call Christmas, I present my Christmas wish list: I want the Duke Conservative Union to ask for a disclaimer on Stephen Miller’s column: “The views represented by this columnist in no way reflect those of the DCU, conservatives in general or anyone else for that matter. We are crazy, but not joe cox that crazy.” not quite fiction I really think Elliott Wolf is onto something with his proposed opt-in online rankings of professors. However, what I really want is some system that allows you to actually go to a class for a couple of weeks at the beginning of the semester and see if you like it. At the end of that time you can either stay in the class or get out of it. We could call it Stay or Go or Drop or Add or something like that.

I would like a job for next year, obviously. Then I could go back to partying all the timeand not feeling guilty about it. “Will drinking this extra beer help me find gainful employment in the future?” A question for the ages, one that is so complicated that I end up needing a beer to relax after contemplating it.

I would like to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder in time for exams. I could use some Adderall for the upcoming paper crunch, and selling the leftover pills would give me some extra money for Christmas presents.

While we are on the subject of drugs, I would like two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of highpowered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine and a whole multi-colored collection ofuppers, downers, laughers and screamers. Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Christmas break in Alabamy can be a tad boring.

I wouldn’t mind a bonus tailgate. I know Sig Ep already tried this (though I have no clue if they succeeded or failed, so I will assume failure for the purposes of this list), but there is no way that one frat can duplicate the egalitarian, almost democratic atmosphere of tailgate. Someone could easily devise a location and excuse for a tailgate-style'party, but only the University has the impartial clout to host such a shindig. So if DSG really wanted to help the students, they would just cordon off some asphalt and watch the spontaneous beauty that springs up. (To plagiarize Tupac: “A rose grew from the blacktop in the Blue Zone.”)

I wish I was sure that I had fulfilled all of my graduation requirements.

To paraphrase my academic advisor: “I hope you know about the University requirements, because I don’t have a clue.” True story. Then he proceeded to misinform me about major requirements and not have my pin, forcing me to register late. Glad I had to ask that guy whether or not my schedule was okay.

I wish I had more time at this school. This place grows on you after awhile, but by that time you are a junior and the real world is looming. The resources and opportunities that are offered here are complemented perfectly by the lack of interest most of us have in doing them or really anything at all.

When I think about how many clubs, organizations, sports, activities and the like I did in high school and then think about how I did absolutely nothing for three years here...well, I hope I was just burned out from all the work in high school, and I didn’t undergo a paradigm shift in productivity.

Last but not least, I want to come back and still have my stuff in my house.

I love living in a house off of East, but I guess I didn’t realize it entailed getting burglarized (twice so far). I guess unless I take the time to move everything out of my house and into storage for break, Santa Claus is going to come early for that guy who steals bikes or the guy who asks me for cigarettes every time I go outside.

Bah, humbug.

Joe Cox is a Trinity senior. His

column runs every otherFriday.

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