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The percentage of professors who allow their course evaluations to be posted online has risen only slightly this semester despite recent student and administrative pressure, Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for undergraduate education, said Thursday.

Fifteen percent of professors have made evaluation data for the Spring 2005 semester accessible to students, Thompson announced at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting. The figure marks only a small increase from the 10-percent figure announced at the Nov. 10 Council meeting.

The increase comes after a representative from Thompson’s office sent memos to the director of undergraduate studies of the Trinity departments. The memos asked the directors to poll the professors within their disciplines on whether they would be willing to make their teacher evaluations available forever, never or for specific courses only. “Regrettably, that’s where we are,” Thompson SEE A&S COUNCIL ON PAGE 6

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When the preseason college basketball polls were released in early November, all eyes imVS. mediately turned to Dec. 10 and a game SATURDAY, 1:30 p.m. that would poEast Rutherford, nj. tentially pit the nation’s top-two teams against each other.

That matchup is finally here.

Both No.l Duke (8-0) and No. 2 Texas (8-0) have maintained undefeated their respective records to set up the first regularseason tilt between the nation’s top-ranked teams since 1998.

The Blue Devils and Longhorns will square off at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday at the Meadowlands in New Jersey.

Duke and Texas spent all week downplaying the meaning

of the early-season game, but it will nonetheless serve as an important barometer for two of the favorites to cut down the nets in Indianapolis in April.

“We were given a preseason rank of No. 2, and that’s not something that we’ve earned,” Texas head coach Rick Barnes said. “If you want to be a No. 1ranked team in the country, I SEE TEXAS ON PAGE 13

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Twelve freshmen who matriculated at Duke after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina cannot apply to transfer to the University next semester, members of the administration confirmed Thursday.

Although officials released the decision in October, the situation was re-evaluated in response to issues raised by Duke Student Government, East Campus Council and other organizations in recent weeks. “We understand the concerns that led to the appeal of the. announced policy, but we are reaffirming our earlier announced decision,” Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College ofArts and Sciences and vice provost for undergraduate education, wrote in an email to the visiting students. “I hope that your semester at Duke was a good experience for you and wish you well as you open this next chapter in your life.”

DSC passed a proposal to change the current transfer admissions policy for the displaced SEE TRANSFERS ON PAGE 7

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Cultural Anthropology Professor Lee Baker led talks about course evaluations at the A&S Council meeting Thursday.

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As final exams approach, time constraints are putting students under more pressure than usual.

Due to scheduling changes, classes will be held Friday, which was designated as. a reading day in previous fall semesters. The alteration has left students scrambling to complete work for Friday classes before ifnmediately beginning preparation for next week’s finals.

“I have papers and tests due until Friday,” said sophomore Caitlin Williams.

“What we had last year was perfect. It gave you time to focus on exams.”

The revision to the schedule was necessary to facilitate a longer Thanksgiving Break, said Judith Ruderman, vice provost for academic and administrative services.

This year, the holiday began Tuesday night

instead ofWednesday afternoon.

The change was implemented to allow equal class time for Wednesday morning and afternoon classes.

To make up for the full Wednesday ofvacation, students must attend classes Friday, Dec. 9. “We needed to regularize the number of minutes that classes meet,” said Ruderman. “We had to find another complete class day to substitute for the half-day that was Wednesday.”

Although several students said they feel cheated of a full free day to study or rest before finals, Ruderman said this year’s reading period is actually no shorter than last year’s.

“There is a basic lack of understanding,” Ruderman said. “We did not shorten the

reading period.”

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Sophomore Wailan Yip, like other students, will not have the usual Friday before exams free ofclasses to study.

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Congress reaches Patriot Act deal

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WASHINGTON Key Republicans from the House and Senate reached a White House-backed compromise Thursday to renew the broad powers granted to law enforcement agencies in the days after the 2001 terrorist attacks on American soil.

GOP leaders pledged to pass the Patriot Act extension for President George W. Bush’s signature by the holidays, although bipartisan criticism flared. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., threatened to filibuster a bill he said lacked adequate safeguards to protect constitutional freedoms.

“We hammered out what I think is a

good bi 11.... Not a perfect bill, but a good bill,” said Sen. Arlen Specter, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who announced the compromise at a news conference in the Capitol.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the measure would assist “in the detection, disruption and dismantling of terrorist cells before they strike.”

Important parts involve the ability of law enforcement officials to gain access to a wealth of personal data, including library records, as part of investigations into suspected terrorist activity.

The measure provides a four-year exten-

sion of the government’s ability to conduct roving wiretaps—which may involve multiple phones—and to seek access to many of the personal records covered by the bill.

Also extended for four years is the power to wiretap “lone wolf” terrorists who may operate on their own, without control from a foreign agent or power.

White House officials signaled their satisfaction, and Specter, R-Penn., has credited Vice President Dick Cheney with intervening this week to help bring the House and Senate together.

Critics from the left and right said the SEE CONGRESS ON PAGE 6

Baghdad suicide bomber kills 32 by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq A suicide bomber detonated explosives Thursday inside a packed bus bound for a southern Shiite city, killing 32 people and wounding 44, police said.

The blast pushed the three-day death toll from suicide attacks in the capital to at least 75.

Meanwhile, a statement posted on the Internet in the name of the Islamic Army in Iraq claimed to have killed an American hostage. The statement did not name him or provide photos, but the group earlier

identified its captive as Ronald Alan Schulz and threatened to kill him unless all prisoners in Iraq were released.

The suicide attack occurred as the bus was pulling away from east Baghdad’s Nadhaa station bound for Nasiriyah, 200 miles to the south. A man carrying a bag suddenly jumped on the vehicle through the open door, apparently waiting until the last moment to board to avoid security checks.

He was challenged by the conductor but insisted on taking a seat, police Lt. Wisam Hakim said.

“He sat in the middle of the bus and then

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Alpizar was agitated at gate The passenger shot to death by air marshals in Miami had been agitated before boarding the plane and was singing "Go Down Moses" as his wife tried to calm him, a fellow passenger said Thursday.

Lennon vigil held in New York Fans of John Lennon gathered by the hundreds, Thursday, in Central Park's Strawberry Fields to remember the pacifist rock star murdered 25 years ago by a deranged Beatles fan. Yoko Ono was among those present.

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the explosion took place,” Hakim said.

Police Lt. Ali Mitaab said 32 people were killed and 44 wounded. Most of those killed were on the bus, which was gutted by flames, but several people around a food stall also died, police said.

Officials at die scene said the death toll was especially high because the blast triggered secondary explosions in gas cylinders at the stall.

Several other explosions rumbled through the heart of the capital Thursday morning, including one that struck an

A jetliner trying to land in heavy snow slid off a runway, crashed through a fence and slid into a busy street. A 6-year-old boy in one of the vehicles was killed, authorities said. He was among eight people hurt on the ground. Two passengers on the plane suffered minor injuries, Aviation Department spokesperson Wendy Abrams said.

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Law schools challenge military recruitment

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Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky has argued before the Supreme Court four times before, but in Tuesday’s Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights case, Chemerinsky was the plaintiff for the first time.

Rumsfeld v. FAIR was brought before the Supreme Court after a third circuit federal appeals court ruled in favor of FAIR, proclaiming the Solomon Amendment unconstitutional.

The amendment was first drafted in 1969 during the Vietnam War to force universities to allow the military access to their campuses for recruitment purposes.

Today’s version of the amendment—instituted in 1996—requires universities to open their campuses to military recruiters at the risk of losing federal funding.

Law schools around the country, in-

eluding those at Harvard University, Yale University and the University of Southern California, argue that the amendment is in violation of a school’s First Amendment right ofassociation.

Under the First Amendment, any organization or school has right to not associate with another organization the practices of which contradict its explicitly stated beliefs or goals.

In an effort to garner the interest of Duke law school students, OUTLaw—a student organization dedicated to vocalizing issues regarding gay, lesbian or bisexual people at the School ofLaw—and the Program in Public Law sponsored a forum in November on the issue presented by the Solomon Amendment.

At the forum, Chemerinsky explained to the audience that law schools, under SEE SOLOMON ON PAGE 8

Professor on leave after simple assault conviction by

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Dr. Samuel Wells, professor of surgery for the Duke University School of Medicine, was recendy found guilty of a misdemeanor charge of simple assault.

He was placed on routine administrative leave while the issue is being resolved, Jeff Molter, director of news services for the Duke University Medical Center, said Thursday.

“Right now, we are awaiting the completion of the legal process,” Molter said. “His access is limited to where his knowledge is critical for patient care.”

Wells, 69 and a resident of Chapel Hill, was convicted by District Judge Jim Hill for grabbing a female administrative assistant’s arm and leaving a large bruise.

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file an appeal. If this happens, he will receive a jury trial in the Durham County Superior Court.

The event, which allegedly took place in front of the Hanes House, was reported at 6:27 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12.

The police took the woman to the magistrate’s office and served the arrest around 12:30 p.m. that same day, Leanora Minai, senior public relations specialist for the Duke University Police Department, said after the initial warrant was issued.

Chris DiFrancesco, associate director of DUMC news services, said Oct. 13 that there is no specific DUMC policy for action following arrests, but it was not unusual for officials to respond in the manner they did to Wells’ situation.

Wells could not be reached for comment Thursday.

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SeniorAnika Dittmar, who is originally from Germany, is one ofmany European students who graduate early.

Senior Jason Griffin plans on spending his spring flying airplanes and hanging out with friends at his off-campus house—all without the pressure of wridng papers or going to lectures.

He is Just one of the approximately 100 seniors—l 2 from the Pratt School of Engineering and the rest from Trinity College of Arts and Sciences —slated to graduate in December, five months ahead of schedule.

Gerald Wilson, senior associate dean of Trinity and adjunct professor of history, said the numbers of early graduates has remained fairly consistent over the past few years. He stressed that deciding to graduate early is a choice students must make based on various individual factors rather than pressure from professors or peers.

“This is entirely a personal matter,” Wilson said. “There’s no general blanket word of advice.”

Senior Michelle Nathan is eagerly awaiting her December graduation and the beginning of her life outside of Duke.

“Learning in the real world would be as adequate, or more beneficial, as learning in the classroom,” Nathan said.

Many students preparing to graduate have expressed interest in traveling and taking a break from school prior to commencing their-careers.

Senior Minti Ray already has an investment banking job lined up for the fall; she will spend the spring in India and Europe.

Other seniors graduating early agree that spring is an ideal time to take advantage of an opportunity to see the world before settling down. “I do plan on going to graduate school, but I didn’t want to take a whole year off,” senior Candis Watts said, noting that she decided taking a break this spring was a good compromise.

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Powder in smoothies could falsify athletes’ drug tests Victoria Ward

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When athletes think of substances they are not allowed to ingest, they rarely consider a smoothie.

Posted several months ago, a sign at Trinity Cafe on East Campus warns NCAA athletes about the possibility of impurities in smoothie boosters that could violate NCAA regulations.

The sign notifies athletes that the impurities within the protein powder could produce a positive drug test.

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A sign at Trinity Cafe warns athletes that the protein powder in smoothiescould cause false results on drug tests.

alert athletes about the situation. ARAMARK manages Trinity Cafe, among other campus eateries.

“We are not concerned and are almost 100 percent certain that these are not a problem,” Franca Alphin, director of health promotion for Student Health, wrote in an e-mail. “However, because we could not get a disclaimer from the company, we felt that it was in the athletes’ best interest.”

Alphin was responsible for the sign being posted at Trinity Cafe.

There are no risks for athletes associated SEE SMOOTHIES ON PAGE 10

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First-years and retired professors alike packed Love Auditorium in the Levine Science Research Center to hear Professor John Haught talk about religious beliefs and evolutionary theory Thursday night.

The Georgetown University professor’s lecture, “God After Darwin; Evolution and the Question of Divine Providence,” was the second in the first annual lecture series sponsored by the Office of the Provost.

Haught began by introducing Darwin’s recipe—a theory that states evolution can be explained by a mixture of accidents, natural selection and deep time.

He attempted to bring the evolutionary concept into the realm of religious studies; For the first half of the hour-long speech, the professor discussed the theories of several modern philosophers and theologians and outlined the current debate of evolution from different perspectives.

The lecture culminated in a discussion of Haught’s theory on the possibility of common ground between evolution and religion.

“Perhaps behind Darwin’s recipe, therefore, there lies a mysterious providential plan to which we simply

cannot and should not have access to,” Haught said.

“This approach is comfortable to a lot of people [because] it allows them to accept both the theological and scientific communities.”

Haught used witty remarks and thought-provoking questions to provoke a “soft sample” of his explanations on evolution.

“Maybe it would be better for us to speak not so much of God’s plan or God’s design but rather God’s vision or God’s dream for the universe as the ultimate context of evolution,” Haught said. “I don’t think this is un-Biblical at all.”

Although many audience members said the lecture was intellectually stimulating, a few questioned Haught’s theory.

“The ideas that he presented were interesting and it was fun listening to him,” freshman Jeremy Welch said.

“But he didn’t provide, or didn’t have the time to justify or provide backing for, some of the ideas.”

Haught said one hour was not enough to fully present the theory. The purpose of the lecture was lo invoke curiosity, he added. .

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In other business: The Council is working with Duke Student Government to install ice machines in Craven and Crowell quads, McClendon Tower and perhaps Central Campus, Greenfield said. DSG passed a resolution approving the plan Wednesday night.

Ganatra and DSG President Jesse Longoria, a senior, met with administrators this week to discuss bench burning festivities after basketball games. DSG and Campus Council members will join the team that regulates the, festivities in order to facilitate communication with students.

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Campus Council reflected on its accomplishments and shortcomings during the fall semester, brainstormed ideas for the spring and heard reports on several ongoing issues at their meeting Thursday night.

Junior Brittany Greenfield, Facilities and Services Committee chair, said that disorganization early in the semester undermined the group’s productivity. “Obviously we got off to a slower start than everyone else this year because we were trying to figure out who we were,” she said, promising a successful and productive second half of the year.

Central Campus representative Meredith Gonsahn, a Junior, also announced that Residence Life and Housing Services is considering a new plan that would make RLHShired students first responders for noise violations, instead of the Duke University Police Department.

“It’s basically to alleviate the problem of police responding first and alleviate the graduate assistants’ responsibilities,” she said.

Currently, Central has two GAs and no resident assistants The plan comes in the wake of a failed referendum to allow noise between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m Friday and Saturday nights. Under the plan, a group of eight to 10 studentswould be the first to respond to any complaint; they would pay for housing but also receive a small stipend from RLHS. “1 can definitely see this plan building community on Central,” said Central Campus representative Shivum Agarwal, a senior. ‘You generally don’t ever see the GAs unless you’re in Central Campus Council.”

Greenfieldalso reported that voting is taking place on East Campus this week as part of a new program to keep bathrooms unlocked in halls where students unanimously support such a change.

Voting on West Campus will not occur until second semester due to the influx of students from abroad. RLHS will implement changes on both campuses early next semester.

Council President Jay Ganatra, ajunior, cited the lock policy as a major success of the fall semester, along with Sausage Fest 2K5 and Devil’s Eve. But he conceded errors in the Council’s response to move-in and move-out changes.

“We could have done a better job with that,” he said. “I think we realized that we need to have better communication with RLHS.” Council members also named some projects they would like to pursue in the spring semester. Ganatra and Vice President Ben Rubinfeld, a junior, listed their three favorite projects as annual evaluations of selective living groups, allowing unaffiliated students to reserve commons spaces and improving involvement in quad intramural sports to promote the quad model.

Ganatraalso said he would like to reexamine how damage costs are paid. Currendy, if no person is identified as responsible, the cost is spread over all students, which causes little noticeable up-front cost but results in longterm increases in housing fees. He described these as “among the highest in the nation.”

A lack of visible consequences creates a lack of accountability, Ganatra said. “If you aren’t paying to fix things, there’s no reason for you to stop causing damages,” he said.

He added that charging costs to all residents of halls where incidents occur might discourage vandalism and help to slow cost hikes.

Other representatives delivered a litany of suggestions for next semester, most far narrower in scope. Gonsahn’s call for picnic benches on Central Campus led to requests for benches on West Campus and at more bus stops. Other members suggested buying pianos for commons rooms and having pop bands and jazz combos perform on the new stage in McClendon Tower.

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said. “We are not at a level where we would like and certainly not at a level where students expect us to be.”

Although some of the directors reported rates of more than 85 percent in favor of making teacher evaluations public, the responses to the poll were not binding —a fact several Council members said was unclear in the memo.

Thompson said some of the directors did not even reply to the survey, upset that they were asked to do the work.

“All along we have been trying to work in a collaborative relationship with the faculty about this issue,” Thompson said. “We have some info back now' which suggests we aren’t going to get a survey that is a real poll, because some people aren’t playing.”

The opt-in policy has been a source of controversy for the Council over die past few years. After substantial debate, the Council voted to keep an opt-in system by one vote in December 2004.

The current opt-in system means professors have to visit a website to make their data accessible to students.

Only a handful of professors, however, have made the effort to reveal their evaluations. “Nobody really believes that 90 percent of faculty do not wish to share the data,” said George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences. “It is easy for me to believe that 90 percent of faculty cannot locate the mechanism to allow this and extremely easy for me to believe that 90 percent of faculty do not wish to take the time to go through a complex process.”

Students and administrators have recently pushed to make a change that would increase the percentage of professors who make their evaluations public.

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legislation was a bad deal.

“Taking away our rights does not make us safer,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., one of several lawmakers in both parties demanding changes in the measure.

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At the A&S Council meeting, officials announced that 15 percent of faculty have opted in to post evals.

day’s meeting asked for last year’s motion Baker, chair of the Council and associate professor ofcultural anthropology, said repealing, rescinding or annulling that decision would take to be revoked, Lee

a two-thirds vote. “What are we going to do, keep coming back until we get the vote we like and then stop coming back?”

Thompson asked. “That’s not a reasonable way to proceed.”

Several representatives said finding the website to opt in was difficult and time-consuming. Others said the scores are unfair because professors—especially new ones —change the format of their classes and teaching styles substantially each semester.

When Baker took an informal poll of the Council members present, only

about half said they have allowed their evaluations to be posted.

Although Baker made clear the previous decision would stand for the time being, Victor Strandberg, professor in the Department of English, proposed that the Council vote on an opt-in or opt-out policy at the meeting. He rescinded the motion after several representatives objected to the vote.

McLendon promised more data will be available from the surveys for the Jan. 12 Council meeting.

McLendon said he will look into finding away to make the informal survey binding for professors who have already said they wanted their teacher recommendations available. “IfI have to personally interview all 600 faculty members, I will,” he said.

Six cridcs, three from each party, said in a statement, “We still can, and must, make sure that our laws give law enforcement agents the tools they needwhile providing safeguards to protect the constitutional rights ofall Americans.”

Feingold, one of the six, went further.

“I will do everything I can, including a filibuster,” to block passage, said the Wisconsin Democrat, the lone senator to vote against the original legislation passed in 2001.

Under a filibuster, 60 votes are required to block a vote on final passage.

Republicans said they intended to proceed without further changes. Some aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that purely in political terms, they relished the prospect of Democrats trying to block an extension of anti-terrorism legislation.

“We should unite in a bipartisan way to support the Patriot Act, to stand up for freedom, and against terror,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.

The agreement capped weeks of fits and starts, and came after a day of confusion and mixed signals.

Specter held a late-morning news conference to hail the compromise and confidently predicted that the five other Senate Republican negotiators involved in talks with the House would back the deal.

But within a few hours, a House Judiciary Committee aide circulated an e-mail notice citing a “misrepresentation by Sen. Specter’s office” and saying the legislation was unlikely to be completed this week.

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The first speech in the five-part lecture series was received with such positive response that many were drawn back to

the LSRC. Several professors of philosophy encouraged their students to attend the series of lectures.

Although students in Professor Alexander Rosenberg’s philosophy class were offered the option of dropping one quiz grade if they attended each of the two lectures this semester, many were surprised to find the topic both relevant and intriguing.

“My initial motivation to going to the lecture was the class,” Welch said. “And

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students Nov. 9. The policy states that students must take two semesters of transferable credit before they are able to matriculate at the University—an impossible requirement for the Katrina freshmen.

“The decision is indeed final,” Provost Peter Lange said. “We took their issues very seriously and... we looked very thoroughly at our decision again.”

Administrators said a revised policy would raise certain institutional concerns and would be unfair to other transfer students, among other complications and difficulties.

“We do feel for the displaced students,

the first lecture was interesting enough motivate me to go to this one.”

Welch is looking forward to attending the rest of lectures during the spring semester even though he will no longer be in Rosenberg’s class.

Provost Peter Lange was enthusiastic about the upcoming speakers.

Ed Larsen, professor of history and law at the University of Georgia, will give the third lecture Jan. 9.

“It’s been going fabulously. I mean just look at the crowds that we’ve had,” Lange said. “These are two very diverse lectures around two very different themes approaching our central topic and to have such a great crowd on the not prettiest of days. It’s great.”

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but to keep them beyond the initial terms of their visit raises non-trivial questions,” President Richard Brodhead said.

DSG leaders said they understood the difficulty faced by administrators.

“Though we are not happy with the outcome, we respect the administration and the decisions,” said DSG Executive Vice President Brandon Goodwin, a senior.

Some student leaders said administrators have shown an unwillingness to listen to student concerns.

Freshman Jordan Giordano and junior Ryan Strasser said they were not able to sit down and discuss the proposal with administrators before the final decision was made.

“I was very disappointed,” Strasser said.

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GeorgetownProfessor John Haught discussed the intersection between science and religion Thursday. have been implemented, it should have been a students-to-administration issue.”

Administrators said they tried to meet with student leaders but decided it was important to release the decision sooner rather than later.

“At some point there was a tension between the timing of the meeting and getting the information out,” Lange said.

The University’s confirmation was released on the same day that Tulane University announced that it will lay off 230 faculty members. Many of of the displaced freshmen—some of whom are from Tulane—said their home colleges will probably look very different than the schools to which they applied last fall.

Undergraduate student governments at

Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Virginia have also called for more lenient admissions policy in response to the extenuating circumstances posed by Katrina.

Although it usually does not accept freshmen transfer applications, Giordano said New York University will make an exception and take applications from its visiting freshmen this year.

“This is an unprecedented situation, and I think it’s unfair to force us to go back again,” said freshman Nichole Kanopoulos, one of the displaced students. “I think the issue is not looking for a big door into Duke but looking for an opportunity to be judged by the same criteria as any Duke student.”

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“That opportunity allows the military students regardless of race, ethnicity, a fair shot at recruiting the best and the gender, religion or sexual orientation.

“Law schools are acting consistently brightest for the military’s critical and with their anti-discriminatory stance,” vital mission,” he added.

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As self-proclaimed anti-discriminator)' that not in favor of the military’s status institutions, the First .Amendment allow with regard to homosexuals do have other viable options. law schools to block discriminatory re“The recipicruiters from ent schools rerecruiting on main free to campus.

“The recipient schools remain free the criticize arFAIR military and its to criticize the military and its poligues that the policies, and military is a cies, and of course they remain free of course they discriminator)' remain free to recruiter as a to deny federal funds altogether.” deny federal result of its Solicitor General Paul Clement funds altogethask, “Don’t er,” Clement don’t tell” polnoted that bars Tuesday. icy homosexuals from revealing their sexuChemerinsky, however, said that such action would be impractical. al orientation in the military.

Based on the unconstitutional condi“Universities depend tremendously tions doctrine, it is also unconstitutional on federal funding,” he said. for the government to provide monetary Though some believe the outcome of convince to the forego benefits to parties Rumsfeld v. FAIR case will help in the their constitutional rights. challenge against the military’s “Don’t In Tuesday’s case Joshua Rosenkranz ask, don’t tell” policy, Chemerinsky said represented FAIR and Solicitor General he disagrees.

“This is really about the Solomon Paul Clement represented the Justice Amendment,” he said. “The constitutionDepartment.

The message the military sends, ality of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ is being chalRosenkranz argued, is implicitly inconlenged separately, and I don’t think this will affect it.” sistent with that of the law schools.

That message is “join the army, but The Supreme Court has until June 30 to issue a decision in the case. not if you’re gay,” he told the justices.

Clement claimed in court that the milChemerinsky speculated that a deciitary seeks only a fair chance to recruit at sion will be given as early as February or March 2006. law schools.

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prefer those hours to be allotted to one full day. Under the current plan, they only have the weekend completely free.

“I don’t think it’s fair because it’s assuming that we don’t need-a weekend,” sophomore Katie Hutcheson said. “I think two or three days is enough, as long as it’s days we don’t have class.”

Many students have also indicated that in comparison to schools that provide extended periods without classes or tests, Duke’s individual blocks of free time do not constitute a sufficient reading period.

Students at Yale University, for example, receive a full week to prepare for their finals, and a policy at North Carolina State University mandates that professors cannot schedule tests or quizzes the week preceding exams.

“All these really prestigious schools that Duke is just as good as or better have a reading period,” sophomore Caitlyn Toombs said. “In a school with such a rigorous academic schedule, it’s necessary.”

Ruderman said such a long reading period would be impossible without major modifications to the academic calendar.

“There just aren’t enough days,” Ruderman said. “We’d have to have a radical change in our schedule to find those extra days.”

Ruderman said such alterations, including a shorter summer vacation or elimination of Fall Break, might not be palatable to students.

“It’s a trade-off for students,” Ruderman said. “If we’re going to have a longer reading week, we either have to cut the instructional period or have students give up something.”

Several students said they would be willing to make the sacrifice.

“Personally, I’d rather just start a week early in the summer,” Toombs said. “For mental health reasons, you just need a reading period.”

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Last year’s reading period included all of Friday and the weekend preceding exams, as well as a mid-week break early Wednesday. This year, to compensate for Friday, students will receive Monday morning and afternoon as well as Thursday morning as free study time.

Although the new schedule affords students the same number of hours to prepare for exams, several said they would

Duke University: Reading period begins Monday, Dec. 12 at 9 a.m. and ends at 7 p.m. Another block is Thursday, Dec. 15 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Exams begin Saturday, Dec. 10. There are two reading days: Sunday, Dec. 11 and Wednesday Dec. 14.

Harvard University: Reading period begins Tuesday, Jan. 3, and ends Friday, Jan. 13. Exams begin Saturday, Jan. 14, but no exams fail on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 16.

Yale University: Reading period begins Friday, Dec. 2 at 5:20 p.m. and ends Saturday, Jan. 10.

Princeton University: Reading period begins Monday, Jan. 9, and ends Wednesday, Jan. 18.

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to complete their degrees early. “I’ve had a lot of good friends who have achieved amazing things at such a young age, so I was eager to get out into the real world,” Nathan said.

Senior Anika Dittmar said she has always planned to graduate in less than four years.

Dittmar is from Germany, where primary and secondary education lasts for 13 years, rather than 12, and students enter college with an intended major and career path in mind. Many European students who attend college in the U.S. graduate early, Dittmar said. “It just feels right,” she said ofher decision to graduate this month.

Several other seniors already have plans to work or attend graduate school. “I’m studying for the LSAT and starting my job in July,” seniorLauren Keyfetz said.

However, she noted that her obligations will not get in the way of her enjoying life after college. “I’m going to stick around here and just have fun,” she added.

Many students cited finances as a factor in their decisions to graduate early.

“I finished all my course requirements for my major and two certificates,” senior Nissa Mohomed said. “Since I can’t take any more certificates it seemed like a good idea to graduate early and save 20 grand.”

Many of the students did not initially intend to graduate in less than four years.

“I didn’t plan it,” Mohomed said. “Just taking courses last semester I realized I could graduate early.”

By overloading and applying transfer credits, some seniors made a December graduation feasible and practical.

“I’m finished with my requirements,” Watts said. “I really don’t see any reason to stay any longer.”

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Their supplier issued a disclaimer confirming that there are no impurities in their smoothies.

Brad Berndt, assistant athledcs director, said the smoothies at Trinity Cafe have posed no substance problems for athletes so far.

Tm not aware ofany positive tests for banned substances based on something that someone might have consumed in an on-campus eating facility,” Berndt said.

The Department of Athletics randomly tests 25 different athletes, five to six times each year, he added.

“During our education session, we tell students not to put anything in their bodies that is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration because if it isn’t approved, there’s no telling what might be in that product,” Berndt said.

NCAA rules limit what type of supplements college athletic departments can provide athletes.

Under those regulations, the NCAA limits the amount of protein that can be contained in supplements.

NCAA rules state that a product cannot contain more than 30 percent protein., “The majority of positive tests that we see for steroids or other performance enhancing drug are coming from dietary supplements,” said Andrea Wickerham, legal relations and policy director for the National Center for Drug Free Sport. “I think that will change over time, because many of the problematic supplements are coming off the market.”

Most of the issues come from athletes who buy supplements at off-campus vendors, she added.

Wickerham recommended that athletes to consult the athletic department before consuming a questionable product.

About 13,000 athletes around the nation are tested every year for drugs.

The percentage of posidve results hovers around one to two, Wickerham said.

An athlete who tests positive is able to appeal the decision to the NCAA Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sport committee. The athlete must have a conference call with the committee members, who include athletic directors, trainers and law professors from NCAA schools around the country.

Shortly thereafter, the committee renders a decision.

The committee hears about 25 appeals a year, but only about five are successful, said Wickerham, who serves on the committee.

At Duke, illegal substances contained in food do not seem to be a problem for NCAA athletes.

They meet with a nutritionist several times during the season to leant about healthy eating and exercise habits.

“The overall most important thing is that if you’re not sure, be safe and don’t eat it,” said sophomore Rachel Shack, a member of the lacrosse team. “We have a list of what you’re not supposed to eat, and most of the things you wouldn’t take accidentally.”

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The bus attack occurred two days after a pair of suicide attackers wearing explosive belts killed 43 people and wounded more than 70 at Baghdad’s police training academy. Most of those dead in the academy and on the bus were believed to be Shiite Muslims. Most of the insurgents are Sunnis.

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During the women’s soccer team’s NCAA Tournament second-round match Nov. 13 against Yale, senior

Carolyn Ford was preparing for overtime with the score tied at one and time winding down.

But with an unexpected last-second goal by the Bulldogs, Ford’s career abruptly ended.

“We weren’t expecting it at all,” said Ford, a twotime captain of the team. “First ofall we lost the game, which is never a good feeling. But second, it’s your last game ever as a Duke athlete with your team. I mean, it’s heartbreaking the way we lost, with their fans rushing the field and no chance of coming back. It’s like you lost a part of you because it’s all you’ve been for the last four years.”

Ford is not alone in her feeling. At the end of their seasons, all seniors must face the reality that their college—and perhaps athletic—careers are finished.

They can never look to the next season, and they never have another chance.

For some, that knowledge is what propels them through their final games. For others, reality does not strike until the final whisde of their last game.

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Understanding exactly what it takes to win, however, is something much notebook different For the Blue Devils’ five freshmen, learning to grasp the concept of Duke’s winning culture is something to which they are still adjusting.

“They have to have time to develop, and in our program sometimes people don’t allow that to happen for kids because they just expect them to win,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

Since the 1997-1998 season, the Blue Devils have spent at least one week as the nation’s top-ranked team in every year with the exception of last season, when they ascended as high as No. 2 in the AP Poll.

Duke has also been ranked in the top 25 for 171 consecutive weeks, the third-longest streak in history. The Blue Devils will move into a second-place tie with North Carolina after next week’s poll is released.

Just eight games into their collegiate careers, the freshmen

have quickly realized that Duke’s remarkable success has not come without hard work. The Blue Devils have been tested in almost every one of their games this season by teams that Krzyzewski said have established winning cultures within their respective programs.

Krzyzewski said Duke’s weaknesses have been exposed because his team has been challenged by a tough out-of-conference schedule.

“A lot of times in our program because we’ve had such great success—and [the freshmen are] good kids don’t get me wrong, these kids have worked hard—but there’s still a little bit about them that feels like gold dust is going to be sprinkled on them and you just win,” Krzyzewski said after the Blue Devils’ first game of the season.

With the unique combination offour seniors and five freshmen comprising Duke’s current rotation, freshmen Josh Mcßoberts and Greg Paulus have been forced to play significant minutes in every game this season.

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less, when it was all over and done with, the seniors all .agreed that they were emotional.

“Regret comes to mind,” men’s soccer midfielder Blake Camp said. “You hear that final whistle and you immediately start thinking what you could have done differently.”

Like women’s soccer, many of this fall’s teams saw their seasons end in disheartening ways. The sixthseeded men’s soccer team was upset in the second round of the NCAA Tournament by No. 11 Creighton.

Despite initially feeling crushed, Camp looks back on the season and the team with nothing but joy and pride, he said.

Field hockey forward Katie Grant’s final game came in the national championship, her third loss in as many appearances. After defeating three-time defending champion Wake Forest in the semifinals, Grant and her team felt confident about their chances to capture a national title, she said.

“I don’t think initially when it ended, I knew it was the end of the career,” Grant said. “It was just another national championship not won. After that initial feeling when I knew we had lost the game, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m not going to have another game to get that back.’ It was really hard, but I just remember SEE SENIORS ON PAGE 14

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Morris also must repay expenses related to tryouts for NBA teams, the NCAA said in a statement The conditions were imposed “based on the seriousness of multiple rules violations involving dealings with an agent and accepting expenses to tryout for NBA teams,” the NCAA said.

Morris will have two years of eligibility remaining after this year.

Kentucky spokeswoman Mandy Policy said the school plans an immediate appeal.

The NCAA student-athlete reinstatement staff said an agency marketed Morris’ skills to NBA teams.

The agency scheduled, arranged and confirmed workouts with NBA teams and sought feedback from teams on Morris’ draft status.

The Division I Legislative Review and Interpretation Committee said those activities represented an implicit agreement with the agency, the NCAA said.

Morris also received more than $7,000 from nine NBA teams for expenses related to tryouts. NCAA legislation states that summer tryouts are permitted, but student-athletes may not receive expenses or other payment from NBA teams.

The reinstatement staff did not declare Morris permanendy ineligible because there was no explicit written or oral agreement with an agent.

Morris started 33 of 34 games last season, averaging 8.8 points and 4.2 rebounds as Kentucky finished 28-6.

After the season, Morris returned to his hometown of Atlanta and entered his name in the NBA draft, however he was not one of the 60 players taken in the June 28 draft.

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Rudy Gay had 17 points and nine rebounds to lead No. 3 Connecticut to a 78-60 victory over Massachusetts Thursday night in the 108th meeting of the New England programs.

Josh Boone had 10 rebounds and scored 60 a n of his 13 UMASS 78 points in UCONN the second half and Rashad Anderson added 15 points for the Huskies (7-0), who avoided consecutive losses to the Minutemen.

UMass (2-2) upset the favored Huskies last year at the Mullins Center and fans stormed the court after the 6159 win. It was UConn coach Jim Calhoun’s first loss to the longtime rival. But a dominant UConn post, Anderson’s outside shooting and the athletic Gay were too much for the Minutemen, who have lost three of their last four. UConn leads the series 69-39.

Rashaun Freeman, who hit the winning basket for the Minutemen last season, had 19 points and nine rebounds, while Jeff Viggiano added 17 points for UMass.

UConn quickly extended its nine-point halftime lead going inside to Boone. His putback with 13:04 left sparked a 9-0 spurt that featured a thunderous roundhouse dunk from Gay. It drew an ovation from the crowd of 16,294 at the Hartford Civic Center and a timeout from first-year UMass coach Travis Ford.

But by then, the Huskies were on a roll and would increase the lead to as many as 23 points.

As he’s done all season, Anderson gave the Huskies the spark they needed off the bench. The senior sharpshooter had eight points in a 21-3 run early in the first half, including consecutive threes. Denham Brown’s three-pointer capped the run and the Huskies had a 23-10 lead.

With Boone in foul trouble, Huskies forward Ed Nelson dominated inside. He had eight points, eight rebounds and a block in 16 minutes in the first half.

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Instead, the Bulldogs (5-2) got 25 points from Adam Morrison and 23 from J.P. Batista, and played some rugged defense of their own in beating the Cougars 67-53 Thursday night.

“That was a great win for us,” coach Mark Few said, noting his team held Washington State to 37 percent shooting while hitting 54 percent itself.

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But freshman guard Jeremy Fargo had four assists and five rebounds in 29 minutes.

“As long as I keep it simple and get it to the guys who can score, I feel good,” Fargo said.

Morrison, who leads the nation with an average of 29 points per game, was 8-for-16 from the field. He scored 43 points against Washington, the second time he reached that figure this season.

“I thought we were respectable against Morrison,” Washington State coach Dick Bennett said.

But Batista was dominant inside, going 9-for-ll with nine rebounds and four assists.

“I never played against anyone so strong,” Washington State forward Chris Henry said ofBatista.

Gonzaga also got 12 points from forward Sean Mallon, and seven from guard Pierre Marie Altidor-Cespedes. Only four players scored for the Zags in

the game Few was not distressed at having so few players score, noting WSU’s team is built around defensive stops.

“The bottom line is getting it done,” he said.

Washington State (4-2) lost for the seventh straight time to Gonzaga. Robbie Cowgill led the Cougars with 14 points, while Josh Akognon had 13. Leading scorer Derrick Low was held to three points and second leading scorer Ivory Nelson did not score.

“We have not shown the improvement I expected,” Bennett said.

The Zags have won 28 straight home games, the second longest streak in the nation.

They have won 40 of their past 41 non-conference home games, and have yet to lose in the twoyear-old McCarthey Athletic Center in 16 games.

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TEXAS from page 1 guess you have to beat a No. 1-ranked team in the country.”

Despite holding top rankings, neither Duke nor Texas has looked invincible so far this season.

The Blue Devils survived Virginia Tech’s late charge Dec. 4 with Sean Dockery’s 40foot buzzer-beater and snuck by ranked opponents Memphis and Indiana.

Like Duke, the Longhorns have also struggled in tough games.

Texas almost lost to West Virginia in the semifinals of the Guardians Classic Nov. 21 but was bailed out when its opponent missed free throws down the stretch. The Longhorns managed to pull away late against lowa in the tournament finals for a nine-point victory.

Part of the adjustment for both teams has been integrating talent that did not play together last season.

Despite not dropping a game, Duke’s offensive frustrations have been wellchronicled. The team has yet to fully integrate the hyped freshman class and has struggled to find a third scorer without sophomore DeMarcus Nelson.

“We’re going to have a hard time, I think, on Saturday,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We’re not that g00d....

We’ve got a lot of young guys with a lot of old guys. We just need to develop along with our pace and not let anybody else set that pace for us.”

Texas is going through similar growing pains. Sophomore point guard Daniel Gibson, considered by many to be the top in the nation at his position, is still getting used to distributing to his two main offensive options, lanky center LaMarcus Aldridge and versatile wing RJ. Tucker.

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half of last season after being deemed academically ineligible. His return to the lineup elevates the Longhorns’ athletic ability.

As Tucker was forced to the sidelines, Aldridge went down with a season-ending hip injury. Now healthy, the sophomore has emerged as one of the nation’s top big men, averaging a double-double and more than two blocks per game.

With the return of Tucker and Aldridge, Barnes has asked Gibson—who is a better shooter than former Longhorn point guard TJ. Ford—to become more of a distributor rather than someone looking for his own shot.

“Daniel has become much more comfortable the past two games,” Barnes said.

“I just look at this group and think we’re not even close to where we can be.”

The thought of Texas even being ranked in the top five was far-fetched when Barnes left Clemson to take over a floundering program in Austin in 1998. Since then, the North Carolina native has made program a powerhouse.

Under Barnes, the Longhorns have increased their exposure by playing games around the country, including games like the one against Duke two seasons ago at Madison Square Garden. The Blue Devils won, 89-61.

“It’s two totally different teams now,” Barnes said. “We love going to the East coast, we think it’s important for our program.... We know that this is DurhamNorth. That’s ok.”

Saturday’s game across the Hudson River will be Texas’s chance to show how much it has improved since the teams’ last meeting.

It will be Duke’s opportunity to prove they are deserving of the No. 1 ranking.

“They’re No. 2 in the country, they’re very talented, they’ve got some great players,” senior Lee Melchionni said. “It should be a hard-fought batde Saturday.

I’m looking forward to it.”

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lific scorer this season said. “On the team, we all got along. We were forced to hang out for four to five hours. We joked around a lot and had fun practices.”

With every player experiencing different withdrawals from their respective sports, they now have to look forward to a future athletics. The players noted that they have taken major life lessons away from their time as Blue Devils.

“It’s opened a new chapter,” Ford said.

“One of the big things is teamwork, just learning to work with a group of people. Obviously, 25 girls don’t always get along. Just being so committed to something, giving everything you have to one thing to be successful. There’s a list, I could go on forever.”

SENIORS from page 11 throwing my stick. I didn’t really know what to think.”

One last go-around Regardless of the emotions that each senior experienced with the end of his or her career, each one agreed that this last season was different than any other. With time running out, urgency became a pervading feeling, Ford said.

“Every single practice and every single opportunity to spend with your teammates, you take advantage of it and have no regrets about it,” said Ford, who started all 86 games over her four years with the team.

“Whatever you walk away from, either a game or a dinner with the team, have no regrets about it. Take it all in.”

Grant believed that being a leader and being a senior went hand-in-hand.

“Other years, you don’t really feel that you need to be a leader,” Grant said. “I felt like me and all the other seniors, from the very beginning we knew we were going to be leaders. Maybe I was thinking every game could be my last.... You feel the need to set the example.”

Camp, who hopes to make the leap from the college ranks into Major League Soccer, agreed that other players looked up to him simply because of his three previous years of experience. But he also said the seniors on the team were able to direct Blue Devils towards the goals they wished to achieved.

“Prior to the ACC Championships, [the seniors] had a team meeting,” Camp said.

“We voiced our opinions that we really felt that we needed to win something in order to submit our place on the wall of history, at least with Duke soccer.”

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Senior Katie Grant lost in three straight NCAA titlegames, and shereplays the mostrecent in her mind often. title, and looking back, Camp is just happy have been a part of it all.

Of course, among the good memories there are the ones that haunt some players.

Ranked in the top-three all-time at Duke in goals, assists and points, Grant said the national championship game has played through her head almost everyday since.

“Everyday I think about this open shot I had,” Grant said. “And I missed it. I think, what if I had made it. But I don’t dwell on it. I don’t think there’s anything to regret.

It was a great career.” to

It’s not easy to walk away With the end of the competition and

the end of athletics, one more thing must come to an end too—practice.

Sarah Salem of the volleyball team will always fondly remember her days as a player but is grateful to have some free time back in her life, she said.

“First, it was kind of sad,” Salem said.

“Then it was followed by relief. Sports take up a lot of your life. Now I get to experience college without five hours taken out ofmy life everyday.”

Still, the team bonding during practices ranks among Salem’s top memories, she said. “[I will miss] not hanging out with the girls as much,” the team’s fifth-most pro-

Ready to enter the real world As the players move from their collegiate careers and into their true occupations, they can begin applying the lessons learned from their sports. Salem said she recognizes the similarities between a sports team and a business.

“I think that playing sports in college teaches you how to work well against all odds,” Salem' said. “You have a coach who’s pressuring you to play and perform well, and then you have to do well in school. You get more time-management skills and how to deal with a boss, even if they’re always on you.”

While the final days of these athletes’ careers at Duke have already passed, they have undoubtedly left an indelible mark on the University. Now they must begin all over again with new teams, new goals and new attitudes.

They would be the first to say thatwhile they are leaving Duke, Duke will never leave them.

“We’re going to pursue things,” Ford said. “And we’re going to take all the things we’ve learned here and be just as successful.”

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back in it.”

The Hoyas were down 15 points at halftime but rallied behind Jeff Green, who scored 19 of his 21 points in the second half. They closed to 5244 on Ashanti Cook’s 3-pointer with 1:10 to go, but then missed three straight shots, were forced to foul and the Illini converted all six free throws before Green scored four points in the final seconds.

“Their defense is terrific,” Thompson said. “That being said, we got shots. I think it was as much us as what they were doing.

Tough defense lifts mini over Hoyas CHAMPAIGN, 111. Bruce Weberknew We were just a little slow to get going there.”

Illinois was only 9-for-25 from the field his young Illinois team would have to play the second half and finished the game succeed in defense it was to against if tight Georgetown’s ball- shooting a paltry 32 percent. They were G TOWN 48 control offense helped by seven three-pointers.

“It’s one of those games that’s a slowILLINOIS 158 Thursday night.

So the coach was down,” Brown said. “There isn’t anything standing on his broken left ankle early in you can do about that. Just find away to the game, waving his arms and exhorting guard and get stops.”

Weber, wearing a boot to protect the his players to stick to the Hoyas like glue. ankle he broke in a household accident It worked.

Georgetown missed eight of its first Nov. 28, stood on the sideline nearly the 10 shots, fell behind by 15 points and entire game. He kept after his players as couldn’t recover, falling to the 11ththey struggled with their shots, shouting at them to go hard to the boards. ranked Illini 58-48.

“The first half was as good a 20 minutes Illinois outrebounded the taller Hoyas defensively as I’ve seen in a long time,” 44-31 and had 21 offensive rebounds.

“The way we’re playing offensively any Weber said.

Dee Brown scored 16 points and James extra possession is so helpful for us,” Augustine had his fourth double-double Weber said.

Illinois’ Shaun Pruitt and Marcus of the season with 10 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Illini (9-0) to their Arnold held Roy Hibbert, Georgetown’s ninth straight win to open the season and leading scorer at 16 points per game, to their 26th in a row at home. four points.

After Illinois jumped to its 10-0 lead, Illinois scored the first 10 points of the game and led 12-2 with 12 minutes to go the Hoyas closed within 12-7 with 10:59 to in the first half. It proved too much for go in the half. But the Illini tightened up their defense again and forced Georgethe Hoyas (3-2).

“We dug a hole that was a little too town to miss nine straight shots and turn deep to dig ourselves out of against a the ball over four times over the next 9:02 quality team,” Georgetown coach John and built a 28-13 halftime lead.

Gonzaga led the entire game, although Washington State stayed about 10 points down for much of the contest.

The Cougars made a rally late in the second half, after Morrison completed a three-point play for a 55-43 lead. A basket

by Cowgill and a three by Akognon brought Washington State within 55-48 with 6:56 left. However, the Cougars didn’t score for nearly 4 minutes.

Freshman Josh Mcßoberts has been inconsistent over the first eight games of his college career.

FRESHMEN from page 11 victim to freshmen mistakes In the first half of Wednesday night’s game against the University of Pennsylvania, Mcßoberts missed the first of two free throws, and senior JJ. Redick immediately got in his teammate’s face and screamed at him to start focusing.

“We have a ways to go,” Paulus said of the freshmen. “Sometimes you see bits and pieces, flashes of what we all can do, and then other times we’re kind of nonexistent. We’re just trying to be more consistent, and I think that’s what the difference is between the freshmen and the upperclassmen.”

Paulus, who has started the last four games at point guard, struggled in Wednesday’s game, turning the ball over five times.

But Krzyzewski said Paulus, who led winning basketball and football programs in high school, is going through the same transition that former Duke greats went through as freshmen.

“The responsibility of running our team will help him get through that process quicker than if he just was off the ball or coming off the bench,” Krzyzewski said. “Jason Williams, Bobby Hurley, all those kids got knocked back at times. Someone else stepped in, and then all of a sudden something hit. It’s the process, and he’s going through that right now.”

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(Less) time will make us better up in the Ivied north, where two days? No sweat. $3OO million of fithe Old Boys Club reigns nancial aid raised in three years? Ha. supreme, students might be Piece ofcake. One million drunken stuable to take their sweet time in all their dents (and one Party Panda) pushed academic pursuits. Being part of that into Wally Wade—all in the 10-minute elite set of schools, it seems, gets you buffer period between tailgate and kickoff? You got it. We can even win a conpampered and coddled to no end.

But down here, down ference basketball game in in this sublime motherstaffeditorlal 1.6 seconds. land we call The South, So while you’re helping we’re doing things a different way. On yourself to a pint at your cozy neighborthe surface, six hours plus a weekend hood bar this weekend, Foppish Ivy might not look like much of a finals League Man, or while you’re lounging reading period. Yet, look harder, and over the Crimson crossword in Widener, Pallid ■ Bookworm Gal, think about you’ll see a life lesson.

Duke hasn’t been around forever, beTHIS: we’re studying really, really hard.

Like, really. We’re so crunched for time, cause masses and masses of people didwe can’t even stop for the game. n’t start becoming addicted to manufactured tobacco products until, like, the Okay, well, maybe just for the game.

But the point is that we’re becoming 1800s. We had to act quickly and efficiently to get where we are today—- smarter than you, fester than you. We’re which is right behind you, HYP, despite amassing real life skills, preparing ourselves for die frantic pace of the world, the 200-year head start you had.

And be afraid, because we’ve transbecause time waits for no man—not lated that compression of time, that even an Eli. Our Double Secret Training Program may seem more outlandish pressure to valiandy and effectively perform in a pinch, to our entire academic and incomprehensible to you than strategy. You want full prep for finals in Bush’s missile defense stratagem. But

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cumulating knowledge at warp speed, will prevail.

So what if, despite our crunch-time studying, the threat offailure looms? So what if we can’t get it all done? Those are piddling concerns, all of them.We’ll have the knowledge, baby, and knowledge is power. We may not pass, we may end up with horrible grades, we may kiss job security goodbye. But in the end, we’ll know what it’s like to work under draconian conditions—all while you recline in your leather commons furniture and dream about being asked out.

You might have the grades and the jobs and the money and the future, but we’ll be able to add up all the loose change in your purse really, really fast.

So from all of us Duke students to all of you in the academic dean’s office: We both salute and heartily thank you for this year’s reading period, by far the most generous and thoughtful gift of the season.

Clearly this is a joke edit, courtesy of the sometimes, but not always, funny Chronicle editorial board. Good luck studyingforfinals!

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I am a feminist and...

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was reminded of these words and the reasons for that drop is much more significant for women. the Faces of Feminism project at a Monday night You might think that beyond graduate school, reception for those involved. These events always there would be such demand for female faculty energize and inspire me even, as they remind me that members that it would be easy to find jobs and feminism and actions based on feminist views are still reach tenure. Unfortunately, there is still very noticeable discrimination in many devery much needed in our society.

Perhaps I should start this with my partments. definition of feminism: “Feminism is Even though plenty of women are g advocating for equality regardless of entering graduate school, many don’t mm mmg make it to tenure. Several departgender. It is the understanding that all PEOPLE are created equal and ments have more female than male the actions that stem from that ungraduate students, but very few female faculty. At least one department derstanding, whether those include actively and openly fighting for equalI know has tenured several men but has yet to tenure a woman from its ity or quietly resisting stereotypes.” the other half own ranks (except for a.case in which Despite what some may think, there are certainly still many obstaone woman sued for tenure and won cles to equality. I can speak mostly to those in scibut decided not to stay at Duke). ence, but they exist in all fields. Let’s start with culThis doesn’t even bring in the childcare issue tural stereotypes. Ask any child to draw a scientist, that many female faculty face. Administrators, and chances are that the picture will be of a man. among others, have told me that having children Request a picture of a hospital scene, and I’d bet while on the faculty slows down a woman’s producthat the doctor will be a man and the nurse a tivity, so that even those women who show great woman. Try CEO of a company or a lawyer. promise as new faculty are less likely to be seen as Once children reach school, many girls are dissuperstars seven years later if they’ve taken time to couraged from pursuing math and science, while have children. Parenting does not seem to affect the boys are encouraged. How many women do you careers of men in nearly as dramatic away. know who will simply state that they are bad at math?

The 1999 Study on the Status ofWomen Faculty How many men? In college, many classes, especially in Science at MIT showed that in many departin math and science, are considered “weed-out” ments, tenured female faculty often felt marginalclasses, encouraging competition. In general, men ized and faced differences from men in salary, are encouraged to compete from an early age, while space, awards and resources. Women in science face women are taught to be cooperative. Thus, competichallenges at all levels. tion tends to turn off women more than men.

These issues are relevant to all women, not just (As an aside, remember the discussions in The those in science. One speaker at the Graduate and Chronicle on the lack of female leadership in unProfessional Women’s Networkjust last week told atdergraduate student government last year? Many tendees that when she was pursuing her Ph.D. in female leaders I talked to said that they didn’t business, she was told that she couldn’t be given an want to run because of the competitive nature of internship because they had to be given to die men, the campaigns.) since men had to support their families. These attiThe women who do make it to graduate school tudes are still around today and likely to affect still face challenges that men don’t. Men are sowomen in all fields at some point in their careers. cialized to speak up, put ideas out there, right or So: “I am a feminist and... I firmly oppose diswrong, a skill rewarded in science. In general, crimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientawomen are more likely to wait to speak up until tion, race, religion, socio-economic status, age or they absolutely know that they’re right. Women place of origin. I resist stereotypes and prejudice, are also much more sensitive to negative feedspeak up when I observe actions or comments that back, and much of the feedback grad students repromote inequity and actively work to oppose bias ceive is critical, from paper reviews to comments in my community and beyond.” on presentations.

Check out the Faces ofFeminism at the old Perk Women’s tendancy to be more sensitive to critiand update your views on feminism and feminists. cism became very clear in the results of the recent Duke Women’s Initiative. Students’ confidence levels Heather Dean is a graduate student in neurobiology. drop soon after entering Duke, and the magnitude of Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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We'll all bounce on-okay?

I’m

not really sure how I got here.

I’ve been having that thought for a while. It started as a classic utterance between a friend and me whenever our surroundings seemed too weird to

comprehend.

First, we’d identify

a situation as decidedly weird or a person as creepily and

unequivocally quirky.

a different animal than the voracious amasser of A’s and athletic awards I was in high school.

How did I get here?

I know I’m not the the wail only one who asks myself this question.

Think about it. What crosses your mind when you awaken at Bostock after a two-hour nap? Or when you’re standing with a dozen teammates in front of the cameras, celebrating a great victory and an ACC tide? When you’re president of your fraternity though you never thought you’d go greek? Or when you wake up one Saturday in somebody else’s bed, realizing you’re wearing a rumpled Party Monitor shirt and XXXL Umbros? I guarantee your first thought isn’t, “Hmm, I haven’t worn Umbros since I was playing sweeper in the nine-and-under league.”

Really, how the hell did we get here?

Can’t say that I know. I know that even while I blink two or three times to make sure I’m not hallucinating, I wind up seeing the same things in my present and future. Writing, maybe, is my most obvious pursuit, and I can’t see a time when that won’t be true for me.

It’s getting deep in here.

But occasionally, my plan to be ever eloquent and profound has backfired. Like that time I forgot the “so irrefutably hot and p” in the “so irrefutably hot and pimpish” modifi-

sarah ball bat! to

We’d then find each other’s eyes, pausing for dramatic effect and sending our eyebrows skyward. Finally, one of us would just say it, whisper it, mouth it “How did we get here?”

There have been so many instances where we’ve applied this rhetorical question. Sitting in a cloud of blue smoke on the roof of Aycock, for example, with two strangers. Watching a gaggle of girls, dressed as the cast of “Miami Vice,” walk down our dorm hall on a weeknight. Staring at a kid doing the “Thriller” dance in its entirety, then watching his roommate photograph women’s high-heeled feet. Walking around at every single tailgate.

It seems that at a substance-saturated college for smart kids, weirdness isn’t altogether uncommon.

But the question isn’t purely a silly punchline for an awkward situation. Take my circumstances right now. I’m sitting here at my desk in a little office in the Flowers building, 25 pages left to write for a final paper, no time to even think about the gym and too food-point-poor to buy either dinner or caffeine (my two finals-period food groups).

Instead, I’m writing a column.

POc.ifi*'

Somehow, some way, I have deemed this both logical and normal—even, as my parents cringe, at the cost of shirking my “real” work. Apparendy I’m

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er I once attached to a selective house.

Sigh. One innocent slip on the keyboard and suddenly, you’re an ahole. At least my bench rights weren’t revoked.

My point is this. Despite being a fairly opinionated person, I don’t think I’m here because I’ve got a clipboarded agenda of things to say.

I think I’m here because I don’t. I like to say what you’re thinking, to write what you can’t stop talking about or what I can’t get out of my head. It’s fun for me to have an experience or to listen to friends’ conversations, then subsequently convert it into an aimless 750-word diatribe with little coherence or style.

(Cue you: “NO, but, we love your column! We’ll miss it so much! It’s a crap-shoot on the coherence thing, but we laugh when you make fun of

yourself!”)

Ahem.

My column isn’t the extent ofmy prodding or pot-stirring, to be sure, but it’s the most visible form of it.

For a while, I’m done.

And though I’ll be heaping plenty ofresponsibility on my plate to fill the void it leaves, I’m hoping I’ll still have time for meditative pondering.

What’s really important, I think, is not how I got here. It matters more why I’m here, at this school and on this planet—and what in God’s name I’m going to do about it.

But for now, kiddos, this ball is over the fence, out of the park and hurdling through the frost-fraught air. When I get somewhere good, I’ll let you know.

Sarah Ball is a Trinity sophomore and the new editorial page editor for The Chronicle. This is her final column.

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letters totheeditor SOFC defends choice about Estacion Libre While many colleges review and approve student groups through their equivalent of our Office ofStudent Activities and Facilities, at Duke it is handled by the students ofDuke Student Government. The Student Organization Funding Committee chair misspoke during his address to the Senate. DSG cannot and does not attempt to control the right of a group to exist. However, DSG does control access to meeting space, bank accounts handled by OSAF and DSGmanaged funding, along with other privileges.

SOFC takes the initial role in the process by meeting with the group both in a small group setting with an OSAF advisor and in a more formal interview with the entire committee. SOFC formulates a recommendation to the Senate about the status of the group based on these meetings and the group’s written application. Although the chair only votes in the event of a tie in SOFC, he is obligated to present the majority opinion of the committee to the Senate (where he can vote).

Eleven of the 15 SOFC members heard Estacion Libre’s case. By a vote of 9-1-1, the committee held that the group failed to explain why it was distinctive from other groups on campus, despite our inclination to err on the side ofrecognition. The SOFC chair offered to yield time to the dissenting SOFC member at the Senate hearing; he declined due to a prior engagement. At the hearing, the group’s founders were given a chance to present a statement in rebuttal. Senators were allowed to question both the group and SOFC chair about their positions. Ultimately, no senator voted in favor of giving the group recognition, with some abstentions.

SOFC is an ethnically, politically and racially diverse coalition of students committed to serving students. We reject the notion that we were motivated out of racism.

Estacion Libre is welcome to exist as an unrecognized group. It is also welcome to reapply to SOFC for recognition. But the group will need to demonstrate coherently and concretely its uniqueness and viability to SOFC and the Senate, something that during its previous interactions with us it failed to do.

JeffFederspiel Trinity ’O7

chair of SOFC and 14 otherSOFC members Geisha’s eyes need to be emphasized Is a picture worth a thousand words without the correct interpretation?

From a purely cinematographic standpoint, the eyes of Sayuri, the main character of Memoirs of a Geisha, have to be exaggerated so that the audience understands the importance of those eyes. By exaggerating the color, the director makes the statement that having those eyes, though beautiful because of their rarity, were also the bane of her existence. The only way to draw attention to her eyes without someone bluntly saying, “Look there at her eyes!

Aren’t they unusually blue!” is to embellish them. In the trailer, Sayuri has gray-blue eyes similar to those of the actual geisha. So, really, the color of the eyes on the poster is a simple advertising ploy to attract the eye (pun intended) and get audiences interested, rather than a sinister scheme to westernize the geisha. And really what is Miho Kubagawa complaining about (“Memoirs of an (American) geisha” Dec. 7, 2005)? The true Sayuri had gray-blue eyes, and the movie poster Sayuri has baby blue eyes. So are you complaining about the specific shade? How silly!

On a Dec. 8 episode of “The \lew,” Michelle Yoeh, who plays an older Geisha, said herself that out of the eight main characters in the film, only three of them are Chinese. Furthermore, Yoeh noted that many actors have played people of different nationalities. How often has Selma Hayek played the non-discriminate Hispanic? Yoeh has even played different types ofAsians in films made exclusively for Chinese and Japanese audiences. Movie-making is about transmitting an idea, not about obsessing over minutiae.

Kubagawa said that “many Duke men have described me as” exotic. What is wrong with being viewed as something special and unique? Is that not what all of us want?

Exotic is simply due to perspective. A white male with blue eyes in China would be viewed as exotic. Kubagawa wants two things at once. She does not want to be viewed as the stereotypical “Asian” female, nor the Americanized Asian.

Senoaah Agyapong Trinity ’OB

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