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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2006

ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, ISSUE 73

Duke names Wright as Grad School dean

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The start of the spring semester marks the time for new profes-

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Sorority recruitment kicked off Saturday, when 404 freshmen and sophomores —nine less than last year—returned to campus early from winter break to partic-

This marks the secondyear that sororities have returned for the first stages of recruitment before the start of spring classes.

Last year’s process involved some difficulties. Although the problem of unaffiliated students moving back into dorms early in spite of University policy against it recurred this year, officials took

steps to resolve a dilemma from last year’s recruitment: the numher of dining options available to students returning early, During last year’s recruitment, only four food vendors opened to accommodate the potential sisters and their sorority hosts, Alpine Atrium nearly ran out of SEE RECRUITMENT ON PAGE 10

great deal of knowledge about the way the Graduate School operates.”

Wright will succeed Dean Lewis Siegel, who has served in the position for 15 years, pending formal approval by the University’s Board of Trustees.

Lange said Wright will likebe approved. ly “My heart has always been very focused on graduate edu-

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For only the secondyear, hundreds offemale studentsreturned to campus several days early to participate in sorority recruitment.

Administrators announced Monday that Jo Rae Wright will become the next dean of the Graduate School and vice provost effective July 1.

Wright, vice dean of basic science at the Duke University School of Medicine, was selected after a committee spent several months evaluating candidates in a national search. “lam incredibly pleased with the appointment,” Provost Peter Lange said.

With Lewis Siegel's retirement, Jo Rae Wright will take over as dean of the Graduate School, pending Board approval. cation, and it’s a new and exciting thing for me to think about doing,” Wright said.

She noted that she will continue with her duties as vice SEE NEW DEAN ON PAGE 9

Graves takes reigns of campus safety by

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When Aaron Graves assumed his position as associate vice president for campus safety and security Monday, the North Carolina native dove into the task of enhancing Duke’s security strategy.

In the newly created position, Graves will oversee security needs ofall three of the University’s campuses and the medical center. His post is one of three new associate vice president positions in the division ofcampus services.

Graves, the former executive director and chief of public safety at the’University of Southern California said his newjob is appealing for both professional and personal reasons. “It was a great opportunity in my profession coming to an institution like Duke University in this capacity... and this is an opportunity to come back home to be with family two good reasons to be a Blue Devil right now,” Graves said.

A search committee headed by Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, chose Graves from more than 50 candidates in a nationwide search. The committee was formed after former Duke University Police Chief Clarence Birkhead stepped down from his post June 30.

“He’s been doing this for a long time, and he understands the sort ofbroader dimensions of campus security,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said of Graves. “I think he’s going to be quite good.”

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The top-ranked Blue Devils will take on No. 23 Maryland tonight in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Terrapins have defeated Duke in the teams' last three meetings. CenterShelden Williams will be a key presence in the paint. See story on page 17.

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Aaron Graves, the newly hired vice president for campus safety and security, officially began working at the University Monday.

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One of “the top 20 legal thinkers in America”—according to the magazine Legal Affairs—is in the news again.

Erwin Chemerinsky, the Duke professor of law and political science who frequently argues in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, is being considered for the deanship of the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill School ofLaw. Chemerinsky, along with Davison Douglas, professor at William and Mary School ofLaw, and Teresa Roseborough,

a partner in the Atlanta-based Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP law firm, have been named finalists for the position. “I’m honored to be considered,” Chemerinsky said.

He added that he’s “enormously happy at Duke and not looking for change.”

“If nothing came of this, I wouldn’t be disappointed,” he said, noting that he is nonetheless excited to go through the

next step in administrative advancement.

Although more than 40 candidates applied for the coveted position, Chemerinsky was not among them.

“They called me,” he said.

Chemerinsky, a constitutional law guru and leading expert in legal ethics, came to the Law School in Fall 2002 as a visiting professor. After deciding that Duke was located in a “great area [and was also] a great place to raise children,” Chemerinsky joined the Duke Law facul-

ty in 2004.

He had previously spent 21 years at the University of Southern California Law School.

“He’d be a great dean,” said Katharine Bartlett, dean of the Law School. “We’d be very sorry to lose him.

We’d love to keep him and hope he decides to stay. He’s had a very significant impact on the University.”

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Hospitals used stolen tissue in 17 implants by

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Seventeen former Duke University Health System patients received implants of human tissue that was stolen from funeral homes, DUHS administrators recendy said.

The stolen bone and skin—which allegedly were taken from sites in New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, among other places—were implanted in Duke patients in 2004 and 2005.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a national advisory Oct. 26 that the tissue might not have been properly screened.

Investigators think hospitals across the

country received the tissue over the past five years.

Among its many uses, skin tissue is often used in reconstructive surgeries, and bone tissue is used in orthopedic surgeries.

Dr. Michael Cuffe, vice president for medical affairs for DUHS, said nobody has reported any infections related to the stolen tissue.

Four patients were exposed at Duke Hospital, 12 at Durham Regional Hospital and one at Duke Health Raleigh. All affected patients were notified in October 2004 and tested for infection or disease. Duke also offered counseling for SEE TISSUE ON PAGE 12

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Four hundred and sixty-seven high school seniors learned Dec. 15 that they are to become the newest crop of Blue Devils.

The early-decision students, who learned from the admissions office website or by mail that they were admitted as part of the Class of 2010, were selected from 1,501 applicants—the second-highest number on record.

“Each year, I’m deeply impressed with the talent and diversity representChristoph Guttentag ed among those who apply early decision as well as those who apply through our regular decision program,” Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, said in a statement.

The admittance rate of 31 percent remained unchanged from last year when 1,482 early applications were submitted.

The admissions office denied admission to 312 students and deferred admission on 722 others.

So far, the Class of 2010 promises to be diverse, both racially and socioeconomically, according to admissions officials.

Of those admitted early decision, 23 percent are students of color and 47 percent—up from 43 percent last year—applied for financial aid.

The 467 students, who wifi make up approximately 28 percent of the entire class, are split evenly between men and women.

North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida are the best-represented states.

“The balance between their exceptional academic and personal credentials and their sense of commitment that extends well into their communities really helps each incoming class maintain the special

quality of the Duke student body,” Guttentag added.

Seventy-five of the admitted students will enter the Pratt School of Engineering, down from 82 last year.

University administrators announced last year they hoped to increase enrollment in the Pratt School of Engineering by 100 over the next two years.

The University will maintain its selectivity going into the spring process of regular admissions.

“We’re so far ahead in processing regular decision applications at this point that we already know we’ll have a record number of applications,” Guttentag wrote in an e-mail.

Overall, Duke hopes to enroll a class of 1,665 students, about 65 fewer than the record 1,728 freshmen that entered the school in Fall 2005.

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Class may violate constitution A rural high school teaching a religion-based alternative to evolution was sued Tuesday by a group of parents who said the class should be stopped because it violates the U.S. Constitution. Frazier Mountain High School in California violated the separation of church and state while attempting to legitimize the theory of "intelligent design" by introducing it as a philosophy class taught by a minister's wife, according to the federal lawsuit filed by parents of 13 students.

Astronomers photograph star Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a hidden companion to the North Star. Astronomers now have photographic proof that Polaris, as the bright star and navigational aid is formally called, has two stellar companions.The first, Polaris B, has been known since 1780 and can easily be seen with even a smaller telescope; the presence of the second, Polaris Ab,had been only inferred.

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Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, director of the Pediatric Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program and the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank at Duke, received an early Christmas present.

She got a call from White House officials requesting her presence in the West Wing in late December.

The caller announced that President George W. Bush was to sign into law a bill establishing a national umbilical blood bank and registry.

In recent years Kurtzberg visited Washington up to three times each month to speak with politicians and strategize with lobbyists, hoping to increase the availability of stem cells.

The C. W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program, signed into law Dec. 20, 2005, allocates $79 million over the next five years to support the testing and storage of 150,000 units of umbilical cord blood—three times the current capacity—at public cord blood banks. The bill also reauthorizes the existing national registry for marrow donors.

The use of blood cord stem cells for transplants in the absence of bone marrow donors has become increasingly popular since Kurtzberg performed the first transplant in 1993.

For scientists, cord blood serves as a replacement for embryonic stem cells, which has stringent regulations for research.

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Dr. JoanneKurtzberg has been lobbying inWashington for the government to allocatemoney for more stem cell research.

“Cord blood, which is usually discarded following birth, is a noncontroversial alternative to embryonic stem cell treatments,” Kurtzberg said. “Even more important, more than 90 percent of patients who can’t find a bone marrow match find a cord blood match.”

Units are taken from the placentas of qualified mothers following birth and stored using a complex process that involves computerized storage freezers and

expensive testing.

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ailments ranging from Krabbe’s disease to leukemia, and may restore ruined bone marrow in adults—allowing for more aggressive chemotherapy—in cases where strong matches are found. . Bone marrow yields matching cells among siblings in about one quarter of cases and none outside the family.

Large banks ofcord blood, on the other hand, will allow doctors to search tens of thousands of potential matches outside of the family.

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a last source of hope for patients who fail to find matching bone marrow donors for an array of diseases, Kurtzberg said.

Unlike bone marrow, cord blood stem cells are matched using proteins, rather than genes, and have been shown to adapt more easily, she said. They are especially useful for younger patients, whose immune systems respond less aggressively to foreign cells. Storage and classification of the the cells, however, SEE STEM CELL ON PAGE 15

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Former Provost Cleaveiand passes away stepped down from the administrative institutions, Kornberg said Cleaveland would invite him to his home frequently. position.

Former Duke Provost and Professor Political Science Professor Allan Korn“It wasn’t something he did only with Emeritus of Political Science Frederic berg, who me. It was univerCleaveiand died Dec. 21. He was 90 years knew Cleavesal,” Kornberg old. Friends remembered him as being land for 41 noted “He was a very quiet leader. People years, relayed Kornberg’s “very thoughtful, kind and intelligent.” frequendy thought he was a pushover.

Cleaveiand, Trinity ’37 and Graduate some of his friendship with School ’42, completed his Ph.D. at Princefondest memoCleaveland conBut once he made up his mind it was ton University in 1951. He then joined the ries of the man tinued after called hard to get him to change it.”

Cleaveland was faculty of the University of North Carolina he at Chapel Hill. “smart as hell, tapped as Duke’s Allan Kornberg Cleaveland later became chair of the tough as nails, provost.

UNC political science department, a posikind “He was a very always tion he held until 1970. and gracious.” quiet leader. PeoDuke offered him the position of A fresh-out-of-graduate-school Kornple frequently thought he was a pushover,” that all of the was hired Duke’s as recalled. “But once he made up join oversees acto berg faculty Kornberg provost—a post ademic affairs of the University —in 1971. an associate professor in 1965, when his mind it was hard to get him to change Cleaveland served as provost until Cleaveland was chair of UNC’s political it.”

When Cleaveland relinquished the 1978, but remained at Duke as a member science department. of the political science faculty after he Although they were on staff at different reigns as provost in 1978 and joined the by

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Cleaveland had no qualms about working under the man who had previously looked up to him as a leader.

“He never said ‘no’ to anything,” Romberg said, adding that he often asked Cleaveland to head various committees and review documents for the department.

“He was a very valuable senior colleague.”

In 1994 Cleaveland helped start “Plato’s Loft,” a bi-weekly discussion forum at UNC modeled on seminars at Princeton. Members included former students, colleagues and retired diplomats.

Cleaveland is survived by three children, nine grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

His wife Barbara, Women’s College ’4O, who taught in the UNC School of Social Work, died in August.

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Durham city officials announced plans Monday to increase security forces on

“I’m glad someone is reacting and saying ‘let’s put more security on the buses,’” Dewinter said.

Leanora Minai, senior public relations specialist for the Duke University Police; Department, said although Duke-adjacent bus stops are part of the University’s routine patrols, Duke police do not staff security for the DATA bus system.

“Of course we will definitely continue to assess the situation and see if that would need to change,” she added. “But right now we’re not part of the

city transit buses for the next 30 days in response to recent violence.

Saturday Jan. 7 around 4:34 p.m., a 17year-old was shot multiple times on one of the city’s public buses, run by the Durham Area Transit Authority.

There were about 20 passengers on the bus at the time of the shooting.

The event was the most immediate cause for “We’re just trying to reassure increased securithe public and make people feel ty measures, officials said. safe riding the buses.”

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an altercation on a DATA bus—also prompted local concerns about the safety of the bus system.

Philip Williams, watch commander for the Durham Police Department, said more officers will be allotted for security on the buses and more units than usual will be assigned to patrol around the downtown bus depot.

“We’re just trying to reassure the public and make people feel safe riding the buses,” he said.

The DATA bus system—which serves more than 10,000riders a day—has several bus stops bordering campus, including multiple stops along Erwin Road around the Duke University Medical Center.

Many Duke employees use the transportation system to commute to and from their work at the University.

Walter Dewinter, a Duke Stores employee who has been riding Durham buses since 1970, said although news of another shooting “wasn’t unexpected,” he thinks the new security measures taken by the city are a move in the right direction.

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Police have yet to apprehend suspects the two in DATA-related shootings.

Kenneth Patterson and Michael Lee, both 17, are charged with assault with a deadly weapon for Saturday’s shooting.

They were arrested Tuesday.

Lamar Bass, also 17, is still being sought by police as the murder suspect in the Dec. 26 incident.

Six security cameras caught Saturday’s violence on tape. In videos released by DATA officials Monday, a scuffle between several teenagers resulted in gunfire.

Police have also suggested that the shooting may have been gang-related.

The victim was listed in critical condition when he was taken to Duke University Hospital. His condition improved, however, and he has since been released.

Monday’s announcement was only the most recent change in increased city security for DATA buses.

In 2004 Durham provided security for the buses —also in response to gun violence —through a private security firm, Wackenhut Corporation. The firm still provides service at the downtown bus terminal but no longer works on the buses.

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Simmons to head federal relations office Christopher Simmons will join the University in February as the associate vice president for federal relations, officials announced Monday.

An advocate for the higher education community in the United States, Simmons is currendy the associate director for government relations at the American Council on Education. At Duke, he will serve as the administration’s point person on regulatory and legislative issues involving the federal government. He will address areas including financial aid, academic research, international education, tax policies and immigration.

Prior to joining ACE in 2002, Simmons worked as a the senior federal relations office for the Association ofAmerican Universities. He also served as a policy analyst for the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, Filmmaker to participate in MLK weekend As part of this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, Director Charles Stone will come to Duke Friday, Jan. 13 to show clips ofhis films and discuss King’s legacy.

The event will be held at 7 p.m. in Richard White Auditorium on East Campus. It is free and open to the public.

Stone’s films include Mr. 3000 starring comedian Bemie Mac, Paid in Full and Drumline. He also directed Budweiser commercials in 2000 featuring the well-known “Whassup?!” greeting. Stone has also worked with hip hoppers A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy and The Roots on several music videos.

OFT offers new system information feed The Office of Information Technology has developed an RSS feel that sends shortarticles full ofinformation on planned and unplanned maintenance to OIT systems and services to the University community. The feed is expected to keep OIT customers and users updated about interruptions to technology services.

Information on how to subscribe to the service is available at http://www.oit. duke.edu/helpdesk/rss/.

WHO official to give Siegel Lecture Alexander Capron, director of ethics, trade, human rights and health law for the World Health Organization, will deliver the Law School’s fifth annual Rabbi Seymour Siegel Lecture in Medical-Legal Ethics Thursday Jan. 19.

The event will take place at 12 p.m. in room 3041 of the Law School.

Capron is the former chair of the Biomedical Ethics Committee of the United State Congress. He has written more than 10 books and several articles on issues ranging from medical and genetic privacy to stem cell research.

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cine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research from 1979 to 1983. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Georgetown University.

NCCU, Duke collaborate to sponsor speaker Writer Maxine Hong Kingston, a National Book Award winner, will be speaking on peace and community building at North Carolina Central University Wednesday, Jan. 11. The event will take place at 7 p.m. in the B.N. Duke Auditorium. It is sponsored in part by Duke’s Women’s Studies Program.

Kingston’s books include The Woman Warrior and Tripmaster Monkey. She has received the PEN West Award for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Her speech at NCCU is a part of the school’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration.

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Employees participate in exercise challenge To support faculty and staff in their effort to lose weight and improve fitness habits, LIVE FOR LIFE is offering a new program “Duke On the Move—The Million Minute Challenge,” that began January 9. With the “Million Minute Challenge,” Duke is challenging employees to work together to accumulate one million minutes of exercise during the next 12 weeks.

In 2005, the United States Department of Agriculture came out with new guidelines for Americans on physical activity. The guidelines state that for weight loss and maintenance, adults should engage in 60 to 90 minutes ofmoderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity on most days of the week.

Every time participants accumulate 100 minutes, their names are entered into prize drawings.

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Judge throws out students’ citations A second wave of Duke students cited for various alcohol-related offenses in the Alcohol Law Enforcement’s August “backto-school” enforcement campaign beat the charges against them in mid-December.

The Durham County District Attorney’s Office moved to dismiss about three dozen court cases stemming from a party held at 910 N. Gregson St. just before fall semester classes started.

The District Attorney dismissed the cases because they were similar to cases dropped

by District Qiurt Judge Craig Brown relating to a party at 1206 Markham Ave. In that case, Brown ruled that ALE agents acted unconstitutionally by entering the party without obtaining a search warrant.

ALE arrests 48 store clerks in December During December 2005, North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement agents checked 146 retail establishments in Durham and Orange counties and arrested 48 store clerks for selling tobacco to un-

derage persons.

The enforcement effort was part of the statewide Tobacco Compliance Check

Campaign.

The agents issued a criminal citation to each of the store clerks who sold cigars, cigarettes, snuff or bulk tobacco to customers younger than 18 years old.

In recent years, the state has tried to promote a Red Flag campaign to encourage retailers to check the color border around a person’s picture on the North Carolina driver’s license. A red border means the person cannot buy tobacco; a yellow border signifies that a person can buy tobacco but not alcohol; and a green border allows a person to purchase both.

MOP steakhouse closes doors Cattleman’s Steakhouse, a member of the Merchants on Points program, has reportedly closed. A local restaurateur is considering leasing the space and opening a new steakhouse.

This is one of many recent changes to dining on Hillsborough Road near campus. The Italian Garden restaurant next door has also closed.

The person hoping to lease the former Cattleman’s space is considering opening a sports bar where Italian Garden used to be.

Additionally, the former China Inn at 2701 Hillsborough St. is undergoing renovation and may soon become a Mexican buffet restaurant.

Report finds UNC schools restrict speech A report released Tuesday says some campuses in the University of North Carolina system impose unconstitutional limits on freedom of speech.

The report cited examples such as Fayetteville State University’s ban on vulgar language and UNC Greensboro’s prohibition on “disrespect for persons.”

The report suggested the UNC system pay more attention to First Amendment freedoms. It was issued by the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Chief arrested twice, remains on leave Carrboro Fire Chief Rodney Murray will not return to work after being arrested twice in the past few weeks.

Murray was charged with driving while impaired after his car was found Dec. 24 in a ditch in Durham. He was also accused of making harassing phone calls and failing to stop for lights or sirens. A week later, he

was charged with stalking a woman who later filed a domestic violence protective order against him.

He will continue on medical leave until his retirement March 1, town officials said.

Murray has been on intermittent medical leave since he had a heart attack in late November 2005.

Murray has been chief since 1994 and worked for the Chapel Hill Fire Department for 26 years before that.

Assistant Fire Chief Travis Crabtree will continue serving as interim fire chief.

dons during the campaign—more than any of the past three winter campaigns.

The use of more checkpoints contributed to the increase in citations.

North Carolina has a large fleet of “BATMobiles,” or breath-alcohol testing mobile units, which were used in the campaign. The six units are equipped with testing equipment and often a traveling magistrate, that otherwise would be unavailable to officers without leaving the checkpoints. The campaign, titled “Booze It or Lose It,” ran from Nov. 17 to Jan. 1.

Wray to resign amid allegations of racism Greensboro Police Chief David Wray announced his resignation Monday, just days after the city manager locked him out of his own office amid a review of reports of racial profiling by an elite police unit.

The department’s Special Intelligence Section has been accused of treating black officers unfairly. SIS came under further criticism when officers were caught trailing a black officer’s car in June 2005.

The city manager stripped Wray last month of his ability to hire, fire, promote or transfer officers in the department without his permission.

“The city manager and some others have lost confidence and trust in my ability to lead,” Wray said in a statement. “This is my great regret.”

Assistant Chief Tim Bellamy will take over as acting chief.

City lessens water restrictions Because of increased rainfall, Durham officials have lowered the city’s water conservation efforts to Stage I—the lowest

More than 6,200 arrested for DWI During the governor’s holiday drunk driving enforcement campaign, 6,258 people were arrested statewide for driving while impaired. Altogether, they issued nearly 200,000 traffic and criminal cita-

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With its reservoirs drained to less than a two-month supply, Durham instituted mandatory Stage 111 restrictions Nov. 7 that banned watering lawns except during prescribed times as well as washing cars.

As of December, rainfall had replenished the city’s main reservoir at Lake Michie and had filled Little River Lake to less than five feet below full.

N.C. workplace safety data released Three fewer people died in workplace accidents last year than the year before, according to figures from the North Carolina Department of Labor. The data show that 80 workers died in 2005. Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry said the state has worked alongside employers and industry groups to ensure the safety of North Carolina’s workers.

Construction deaths decreased from 37 to 27, although that industry still led the state’s workplace fatality statistics at 34 percent

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dean in the School of Medicine before assuming the Graduate School deanship.

Her main duty in the medical school is to oversee the medicine-based programs in the Graduate School.

Wright said she does not know who will fill the vice dean position or when a successor will be chosen.

Siegel noted that Wright’s work in the medical school gives her a unique perspective, as she is already aware of about a fifth of the offerings of the Graduate School.

“She views herself as a citizen of the [Graduate] School as well as the University,” Siegel said. “She has been one that has done a lot of things, but graduate education is one of her passions.”

Wright joins Katharine Bartlett, dean of the School of Law, and Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, as female heads of University schools, Lange noted.

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A nationally renowned expert in lung disease, Wright studies how immune cells prevent infection and promote normal breathing.

“Students in my lab are very supportive and excited for me,” she said of her new appointment. “They are willing to make it work out.”

Along with the newjob, officials from the American Physiological Society announced Dec. 15 that Wright will receive a lifetime achievement award for her work in the field.

“I thought they had probably made a mistake,” she said. “Makes me feel I’m getting old.”

Wright received her bachelor’s degree in biology and Ph.D. in physiology from West Virginia University. She then went on to complete post-doctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco. Wright joined Duke as an associate professor in 1993.

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because of oil or because of Israel or because we misled the American people,” as well as “defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right.”

With that description, Bush lumped the many Democrats who have accused him of twisting prewar intelligence with the few people, mostly outside the mainstream, who have raised the issues of oil and Israel.

Bush argued that irresponsible discussion harms the morale of troops overseas, emboldens the insurgents they are fighting and sets a bad example for Iraqis trying to establish a democratic government.

“In a free society, there’s only one check on political speech and that’s the judgment of the American people,” the president said to sustained applause from a friendly audience, a gathering ofVeterans of Foreign Wars.

“So I ask allAmericans to hold their elected leaders to account and demand a debate that brings credit to our democracy, not comfort to our adversaries.”

White House press secretary Scott McClellan would not say who Bush believes has been irresponsible:, other than Democratic Party chief Howard Dean, who said last month that “the idea that we’re going to win this war... is just plain wrong.”

In the past, the White House has also singled out, among others, Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., who became a leading advocate for a quick troop pullout, and other Democrats who say Bush has no strategy.

Democrats said Bush has no business trying to define what sort of talk is acceptable.

“Patriotic Americans will continue to ask the tough questions because our brave men and women in Iraq, their families and the American people deserve to know that their leaders are being held accountable,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said loyalty demands that Democrats differ with Bush on the lack of sufficient body armor for troops and other issues.

“From its inception and continuing to this moment, the absence of open and honest debate has been one of the hallmarks of this war,” the California Democrat said.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who met with Bush recently at the White House, praised the president’s efforts to gather differing viewpoints and welcomed the call for a more civil dialogue.

But Schiff said the process must begin at the White House, which he said “brought the debate down a significant notch” when it attacked Murtha, a respected veteran and longtime hawk.

“Some of the worst culprits in worsening the dialogue on Iraq have come from the White House,” said Schiff, who attended Bush’s speech. “It’s got to be a twoway street.”

It was the latest in a series of speeches by Bush aimed at giving Americans more detail and more candor. He predicted more sacrifice and more progress in 2006 in Iraq.

The still-unannounced results of Iraq’s Dec. 15 elections are expected to show the religious Shiite United Iraqi Alliance with a strong lead.

The Shiites will, however, will need to form a coalition government with support from Kurdish and Sunni Arab political groups.

Bush said Iraqis must put aside political, religious and sectarian differences to be successful.

Sunnis, he said, “need to learn how to use their influence constructively in a democratic system,” while Shiites and Kurds must “protect the rights of minorities against the tyranny of the majority.” *•

“Promoting diversity in the senior-level administration is always a good thing,” he said.

Although the offer was extended to Wright before Christmas, she spent several weeks weighing if she would accept the position.

“It’s been great working in the School of Medicine,” she said. “I will be sad in many respects to leave it.”

Wright said she is particularly interested in the strategic planning process.

Duke is currently in the process of drafting a new strategic plan, which guides the goals and priorities of the University. “It is very rare for someone to have an opportunity to take on a role like this when a strategic plan is being developed,” she said. ‘You can leave a stamp.”

One of Wright’s major initiatives as dean will be promoting mentoring.

She has already set up a mentoring program as a vice dean and will continue to focus on developing faculty-student relationship in her Graduate School post.

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RECRUITMENT food, and some students reported going a day without eating.

This past weekend, five additional vendors that normally would not have begun serving until Monday opened to the returning undergraduate women.

The dining changes were instituted in response to an uproar of complaints over last year’s policy, explained Jim Wulforst, director of dining services.

This year he said he made sure that there were more options open, including Alpine Bagels, Armadillo Grill and the new Nasher Museum Cafe.

“I’m glad we opened. We’ve done a good job. Nobody’s told us of any problems,” Wulforst said, although he noted that Marketplace dinner Sunday was attended by less than 100 students.

Students said lines for dinner at campus eateries Tuesday night were nonetheless very long.

Another change for recruitment this year was the addition ofbuses that ran the East-West route for the sororities’ theme

parties Sunday.

Last year, some girls—many in high heels—were forced to walk the 1.2 miles from East to West campus for the sorority parties because there is no regular scheduled bus service on weekends during winter break.

Senior Esther Houseman, vice president of recruitment for the PanhellenicAssociation, maintained that the changes to the recruitment process have had a positive impact on the event.

Panhel also added a “hospitality room” in the lobby of the Women’s Center where girls can relax if they do not have a party to go to, she said.

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Several female students stand in line in the Bryan Center for the second round of sorority recruitment.The process began Sunday and lasts a week. location for girls to stop by in. That was a lot easier than last year,” Houseman said.

Overall, the weekend’s events were enhanced because of improved communication between Panhel and dining services, transportation services and the Women’s Center, Houseman noted.

“I think it’s all gone very smoothly,” she said.

But the weekend was not all fun and

games for unaffiliated students who tried early when the dorms opened for sororities.

Some unaffiliated students said they were threatened with arrest when they tried to return over the weekend, and Houseman added that Residence Life and Housing Services considered those students trespassers.

Houseman said Panhel officials tried to to return to campus

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chapter that any non-members would have to wait until Monday to move back.

“We let them know that they’re the only ones who are supposed to move back in, don’t tell your friends that you can get them in the dorm early,” she said.

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, was unavailablefor comment.

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Graves stressed that in his first weeks on campus he will meet with and seek input from various community members before implementing any security changes. “It’s easy to preconceive what may need to be done,” he said. “But I think you have to do the full assessment to really listen to all the stakeholders involved and find out what are the most important things and develop a strategy and work with the community to cause that strategy to become reality.”

Creating the new associate vice president position and working to integrate safety measures reflects the administration’s renewed focus on working to enhance security on campus, Graves said.

“This is a message to the community that Duke University is committed to integrating and bringing to bear the resources necessary that those thatattend here, work here and live here feel comfortable in their environment,” he added.

Graves said he will act as a buffer between the senior administration and the police department and address Duke’s security needs with a holistic approach.

“Duke Police Department is one component and a very vital component,” he said.

“However, there are other entities that we need to bring to bear, and it’s my responsibility to make sure we’re getting the fullest out of all those other entities through my direction and leadership, hopefully.”

Graves said he will also help integrate more technology into Duke’s security plan. Possible new tools include different access systems and video surveillance systems. He stressed that this technology would be used to augment and supple-

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National and local specialists said He also said Duke officials noticed a there was minimal infection risk from the voluntary recall of the tissue before the FDA issued the Oct. 26 warning and had tissue, since it was processed and sterilized before being implanted in patients. already worked to clear their supply of Cuffe noted, however, that risk could the potentially tainted samples. not be ruled out because donors are usu“This case also highlights the vigilance screened for a of illnesses and you have to have of your vendors,” Cuffe ally variety said. “Having diligence over medical safebehaviors—including certain neurological disorders and infections—before doty is not just wrong patient, wrong pill.”

One of the individuals from whom tisnations are accepted, but because the sue was stolen records of the Alistair stolen tissue was Cooke, the forwere allegedly “This case also highlights the vigfalsified, no mer host of Masterpiece such screenilance you have to have of your Theatre and a took ing vendors.... Having diligence over renowned place broadcaster.

DU H S medical safety is not just wrong His bones some bought patient, wrong pill.” of the tissue were allegedly stolen and sold from RegenDr. Michael for about eration Tech$7,000. nologies, Inc., Cooke died Floridabased company that specializes in tissue when he was 95 from cancer that spread to his bones. His bones would be conprocessing. The company is one of seversidered too old and cancerous by general tissue sources for Duke hospitals.

Regeneration Technologies pur- al implant standards and would not chased its supply in part from the New have been able to be donated. But The Jersey-based Biomedical Tissue Services, Times of London reported that the pawhich investigators think took bone and perwork describing Cooke’s bones was tissue from corpses without permission changed to say they came from an 85from families of the deceased. year-old man.

Other hospitals in the Triangle area Biomedical Tissue Services allegedly altered paperwork that documented have also reported recendy they were afwhere the tissue came from and sold fected by the incident. The News & Obthe samples to five tissue processing server reported Jan. 6 that 30 of Wake companies—including Regeneration Med’s patients received the stolen tissue.

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goals ofDUPD. The expansion of security forces is also a possibility, as Duke’s campus is growing with the new Bell Tower dormitory on East Campus and the planned renovation of Central Campus, Graves said. “DUPD will be poised to make adjustments to meet the needs of the community,” he added.

Graves named improving town-gown relations as another one of his priorities, though he admitted he does not know how he will approach the issue yet.

“We in the Duke Police Department are sometimes on the front line out there dealing with issues with our students and our community, and I think that we want to be a resource and we want to be a facilitator in helping develop much stronger, positive working relationships with the community,” he said.

Robert Dean, interim DUPD chief, will remain in his position until at least the end of the academic year to facilitate Graves’ transition, Trask said. The old position of police chief will still exist in the restructured campus security system.

In early December, Graves turned down an offer to be chiefof police at the University ofTexas at Austin.

“We were unable to get him because he decided to pursue a bigger, higher-paying position than what we could offer him,” Michael Lauderdale, chair of the police chief search committee at UT, told The Daily Texan Dec. 6.

Graves had been chief of police at USC since Feb. 2003. Prior to that, he had been director and chief of police at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1993.

He retired from 20 years of service in the U.S. Air Force in 1992 after serving in Germany and Thailand.

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Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky is one of threefinalistsfor the deanship of the UNC-CH School ofLaw.

In addition to teaching courses, Chemerinsky has shared his legal savvy with the Duke community by serving on numerous panels on topics ranging from ethical military recruitment to Supreme Court nominations. He is also frequendy quoted in the national media when controversy surrounding legal issues arise.

Bartlett noted that although other faculthe Law School would also like to see in ty him forego the post at UNC in order to stay at Duke, they have remained supportive.

“We want each other’s success,” she said Chemerinsky acknowledged that the role of dean is “tremendously different” from that of a professor in a law school. Beyond that, he had little to say about his plans should he be selected for the position.

“Hopefully I’d have a positive impact on

the institution,” he said.

Second-year law student Kimberly Kisabeth, who has worked as Chemerinsky’s research assistant for various projects during the past eight months, said that although she would be sad to see him leave, she would support his decision wholeheartedly.

“He knows everything. He’s an expert in absolutely every area of law, and he’s still so approachable,” she said. “Above all, he’s very genuine and very down to earth.

UNC is hosting an open forum for each candidate to meet with the school community in order to share experiences and ideas about what they could potentially bring to the institution.

Chemerinsky’s public interview is scheduled for Jan. 18 at 5:00 p.m. at the UNC School ofLaw. Officials from the UNC School ofLaw declined to comment for this article.

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for nuclear bombs, depending on the level of processing.

In announcing it would reopen its Natanz enrichment center last week and as the seals were broken Tuesday, Tehran claimed enrichment was not planned.

“What we resume is merely in the field ofresearch, not more than that,” the deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Saeedi, said at a press conference.

“Production ofnuclear fuel”—which would involve enrichment—’’remains suspended,” he said.

Saeedi said the nature of the equipment unsealed was “a confidential issue between us and the lAEA.” But the Vienna, Austria-based International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement later Tuesday that uranium hexafluoride —a gaseous form of uranium—would “be fed into cascades” of centrifuges as part of Iran’s activities.

Uranium hexafluoride gas is spun in centrifuges to separate out fissile isotopes in the process of enrichment that can produce low-level nuclear fuel or weapons-grade material.

Iran claims its contentious nuclear program is for electricity generation, but Washington accuses Iran of seeking nuclear weapons.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier questioned whether European-led negotiations had any future and said Iran had “crossed lines which it knew would not remain without consequences.” He said he had asked El Baradei to quickly evaluate the dangers of Iran’s move.

Britain warned the international community was “running out of patience,” and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tehran had breached lAEA resolutions.

“There was no good reason why Iran should have taken this step if its intentions are truly peaceful,” Straw said.

Japan said the decision was “a matter of deep regret” and the Foreign Ministry called on Iran “to immediately cease the resumption of the research and development activities.”

Iran’s decision to freeze some nuclear activities in October 2003 was voluntary, so the lAEA said it had no option but to remove the seals at Iran’s request.

The move further erodes the suspension ofnuclear activities that has been the centerpiece of Iran’s negotiations with the West since the freeze was put in place as a confidence-building measure.

In August, Iran removed seals at another nuclear plant outside the city of Isfahan and resumed uranium reprocessing—a step before enrichment in the nuclear fuel process.

That move prompted Europe to break off its negotiations temporarily. The talks that resumed in December made no progress but were to continue later this month.

French President Jacques Chirac Tuesday warned Iran it would commit a serious mistake if it ignored the international community.

Iran insists it has the right to develop the entire nuclear fuel cycle under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

The Europeans have been pressing a compromise under which Iran would enrich uranium on Russian soil to safeguard against its diversion for weapons.

Iran says it will not accept proposal if it excludes enrichment in Iran as well. Russian has been deeply involved in Iran’s civilian nuclear program and is a longtime Tehran ally.

But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday his country was “expressing concern” over Iran’s resumption of research “in spite of the moratorium that was agreed between Iran and the European countries.”

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Kurtzberg said she “naively hoped to keep the issue nonpartisan” and started to lose confidence that the bill would ever pass when it was stalled by mainly Democratic congressmen three times between late spring and December.

“I learned the issue was more complicated than I’d anticipated,” she said. “Many Republicans viewed it as a means to relieve pressure to pass stem cell legislation and Democrats viewed it as an alternative.”

She added that the bill only increases storage capacities and doesn’t directly impact stem cell research.

Kurtzberg said she is confident that Carolinas Cord Blood Bank, which houses one-fifth of the nation’s current blood cord units, “will remain at the forefront of advances, hopefully one day involving more diverse stem cells.”

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CAMERON COLLAPSE The once 9-2 Maryland squad Maryland 75, Duke 66 was reeling from a stretch of three losses in five games, while the Blue Devils were one of the country's three remaining unbeaten teams with a 15-0 record. Nevertheless, the Terps entered Cameron Indoor a determined squad and kept it close the whole game. The game was tied at 64-64 with 1:23 left before Duke fell victim to a scoring slump, resulting in an 11-2 Maryland run to close out the game.

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FOULING OUT Maryland 99, Duke 92 (OT) Last year's Duke team was criticized by some for its lack of depth, and it was never more evident then in the Blue Devils trip to the Comcast Center.

Five Blue Devils fouled out leaving them with very little firepower left to match Maryland's intensity during overtime.

Poor shooting didn't help either, as the Terps earned their first season sweep of Duke since 1995 and their first three-game winning streak against the Blue Devils in 23 years.

alley-oop late in the first half against Wake Forest provided the first indication UWjzJ that Nelson’s injured foot has healed.

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Many of Nelson’s teammates stressed the‘importance of regaining the athletic forward, who started the first four games ofthe season before injuring his foot Nov. 23 against Drexel.

“When a team faces some adversity or loses one of its key players it’s always a time when you can take it one of two ways,” senior Lee Melchionni said. “You can go in the tank or get better. I think we chose to get better, and we’re a better team because of it.

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Long days and rigorous workouts during the time off from school, paid dividends for Duke on the court as the Blue Devils won all five of their games during break by an average of 25 points.

see pg. 20 The Chronicle takes a look at the trick that a Maryland fan played on the Cameron Crazies last season when the Terps came to visit.

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Off to the second-best start in school history, the women’s basketball team has looked near invincible as of late.

Coming off an impressive rout ofNo. 6 Maryland, 86-68, Sunday, the secondranked Blue Devils (14-0, in the ACC) will continue their road journey as they travel to Atlanta to y$ take on Georgia Tech (113, 0-2) tonight at 7 p.m.

Duke, the nation’s TONIGHT, 7 p.m. top-scoring team, has won by an average of Atlanta, Ga. nearly 43 points this season, including an average margin of more than 27 points against its first three ACC opponents.

Most impressive about its current winning streak is the manner in which Duke has been winning. Six differentBlue Devils have led the team in scoring this season, and five different players are averaging

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“When you look at their roster they can go nine or 10 players deep,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. “With as many players as they can play, they’re really fresh.”

Sunday’s game was a prime example of how dangerous the Blue Devils’ attack can be. With Alison Bales and Mistie Williams in foul trouble early and Monique Currie struggling with her shot, sophomore Chante Black provided a lift off the bench in the best offensive performance of her career. Lindsey Harding also matched her career high with 19 points.

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Monique Currie is the leading scorer for a Duke attack thatfeatures five players averaging more than 10points.

“We still have some areas of our game to improve upon, but each game helps us prepare for the next,” sophomore center Black said after Sunday’s contest. “This game definitely boosted my confidence for the next game.”

With a combination of strong post players and long-range shooters, the Blue Dev-

ils have shot 50 percent or better in every game except two, and opposing teams have been unable to find ways to combat Duke’s multitude of weapons.

At the same time, the Blue Devils have clamped down on their opponents and

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Bulldogs scrap past Blue Devils From staff reports: In its first dual meet of the new year, the Duke wresding team met a similar fate.

The Citadel (1-2) handed the Blue Devils (04) their fourth loss of the season in Charleston, S.C. Monday.

The Bulldogs raced out to an DUKE early 9-6 lead after The Citadel’s CITADEL 28 Matt Bullwinkel pinned Duke’s Antwone Floyd and Nick Orio defeated junior Danial Shvarstman, 6-2, in the meet’s first two matches at the 141-pound and 149-poundweight class-

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Freshman Addison Nuding countered with a 5-0 decision for the Blue Devils, but then the Bulldogs won five consecutive matches to meet out of reach for Duke. During that span redshirt freshman Aaron Glover suffered a major decision loss at 165 pounds, and junior Rick Lindquist was pinned 4:07 into his match at the 174-pound weight class.

Kellan McKeon collected a win at the 125-pound weight class by forfeit and 133-pound freshman Michael Degli Obizzi won the day’s final match by a 7-6 margin.

In Duke’s other action during the break, the Blue Devils finished 29th at the Southern Scuffle Dec. 29-30.

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JJ. Redick needed a break from winter break. The senior guard said Duke’s practices over the holiday were so intense and draining that he’s actually looking forward to the start of school.

“It’s probably as bad notebook as the worst preseason,” Redick said. “As bad as preseason can get, winter break is just as bad, especially when there’s a big break between

games.”

While classes are not in session, the NCAA’s rules regarding the amount of time a team can spend practicing are relaxed, and the Blue Devils took advantage. Redick

said the coaches scheduled activities for them from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. some days, and that one day he arrived at Cameron Indoor Stadium at 9:30 in the morning and did not leave until 8:30 at night. The NCAA mandates that teams take at least one day off per week when classes are in session, but no such rule exists during a break.

Undoubtedly, the No. 1 Blue Devils’ 5-0 record in games between the end of finals on Dec. 18 and the start of the second semester took some of the sting off the team’s intense schedule. Duke (14-0, 2-0 in the ACC) defeated Valparaiso, St. John’s, UNC-Greensboro, Bucknell and Wake Forest over break, with an average margin of victory of 25 points.

Several of Duke’s players made imporstrides, Redick said, singling out senior guard Sean Dockery and freshmen Greg Paulus and Josh Mcßoberts. The team also spent several days in between the St. John’s game on Dec. 21 and the UNCGreensboro contest on Dec. 31 focusing on help-side defense, which Redick said was lacking against the Red Storm.

“This year I think of any year, we’ve done the best job of improving over Christmas break,” Redick said. “Our young guys are really coming along.”

Mcßoberts, tabbed as one of the nation’s top freshmen at the start of the season, elevated his game after a sit-down meeting with head coach Mike Krzyzewski. tant

“I think he probably had a meeting with Coach K, one of those meetings that everybody talks about where they improve afterwards,” Redick said. “He’s just becoming more aggressive and is looking to assert himself more.”

Mcßoberts’ newfound confidence was on display against Wake Forest Jan. 8. He played 25 minutes despite picking up two fouls in the game’s first four minutes and knocked down a key three-pointer as part of a 14-2 second half run to put the Demon Deacons away.

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When Maryland beat Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Jan. 26, 2005 a clever prank added to the disappointment of the Blue Devils’ first loss of the 2004-05 season and embarrassed one of the most famous student sections in college basketball.

After receiving a tip from what later turned out to be a Instant Messenger screen name falsely claiming to be a Duke student, former head line monitor Steve Rawson CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO added untrue information about Terrapin forward Nik Caner-Medley onto the cheer sheet prepared for the The Cameron Crazies always come out in full force to welcome Maryland to Cameron IndoorStadium. Last year the Terps escaped with a win.

Cameron Crazies to use in heckling Duke’s opponent.

The fan contacted Rawson through his “Cheersheets” screen name and claimed that “NCM’s girlfriend is named Myra, and her pet name for him is ‘Piggy,’” according to the paper that was distributed as Duke fans headed into the game.

The nugget ofinformation was a ploy to get the Crazies to chant “Myra Piggy” or “Myra and Piggy,” both of which in conjunction with the sound like the name Myron Piggie.

Piggie was an AAU coach who plead guilty in 2000 for paying five high schoolers—including Duke standout cordially invites you to the Corey Maggette—over $35,000 while they were still amateurs. Maggette originally denied the allegations but ultimately admitted to having received cash from the former crack dealer. Duke was never punished by the NCAA for the incident even though there appeared to be an infraction because the athletic department learned of Maggette’s wrongdoing only after he had left school for the NBA following his freshman season.

While the Blue Devil fans never did chant anything sounding like Myron Piggie, students did make oink noises and chant “Piggy” in Caner-Medley’s direction. There was also a sign referring to “Piggy” held up in the graduate student section while Caner-Medley was shooting free throws. Caner-Medley ignored the fans’ shenanigans Speaker while leading the Terrapins with 25 points that night.

Nevertheless, news that the Cameron Crazies had been fooled surfaced on internet message boards and was printed in the Maryland student newspaper, The Diamondback.

This year’s head line monitor, senior Lauren Troyer, said the procedure for creating the cheer sheets has changed in response to the prank. Instead of collecting information through an e-mail account and Instant Messenger screen name as Rawson did last year, Troyer is asking her fellow line monitors to ask the Crazies in line for the game for ideas for cheers. This way, she said, only Duke students will be able to submit cheers.

“Last year anyone could submit something and there was no good way of proving who it was from,” Troyer said.

“I don’t think it was that effective. They wanted us to say Myra and Piggy but the bottom line was we never did it that way. They got us, they tricked us. But it didn’t come across as they intended.” ‘

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Rennie adds alum to soccer staff Mike Jeffries, who was the 1983 national player of the year as a Blue Devil, was named the men’s soccer team’s associate head coach.

“I am excited to come back to Duke and work with one of the top collegiate programs in the country,” Jeffries said. “After college I always thought that I would love to get back to Duke and I am fortuFor the third time, Gail Goestenkors will nate that opportunity came up.” coach in a sold out Cameron.

He left his post as head coach at the University of the Incarnate Tennessee contest sold out World to accept the position.

In what maybe a matchup of the Jeffries fills the vacancy left by nation’s top two teams, the Jan. 23 Mike Jacobs, who left Duke to bemeeting between Duke and Ten- come the head coach at Evansville. nessee has sold all available tickets.

It is the third time that the Anderson joins golf program 9,314-seat Cameron Indoor StadiAfter competing on the FUum has sold out for a women’s TURES Golf Tour since graduatgame and the first time since the ing from Duke in 2001, Kalen Anderson has elected to return to Lady Vols last visited in 2004.

Limited tickets are still avail- her alma mater as an assistant able for the game against North coach for the women’s golf team.

Carolina Jan. 29. The Tar Heels The former four-time All-ACC beat the Blue Devils in each of the selection will assist in all phases teams’ three meetings last year. of the women’s program, which captured its third national title Gridiron frosh earns honors last season.

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BLACKSBURG, Va. —As the old man for No. 20 North Carolina, senior David Noel didn’t do a great job of staying on the court against Virginia Tech on Tuesday night.

But even with their leader watching much of the game from the bench because of foul trouble, and with 9,847 fans in Cassell ColiseUNC -5*5 um imploring the VA.TECH 61 Hokies to win, freshman Tyler Hansbrough and the rest of the Tar Heels did just enough to get a victory.

Hansbrough scored four of his 20 points in the final 1:07 and grabbed nine rebounds as the Tar Heels never lost the lead late and held on for a 64-61 victory, their 18th straight over the Hokies.

“It was really important,” Hansbrough, who was 6-for-8 from the field and 8-for-9 at the line, said of keeping the lead. “The crowd really got into it and they had a big effect. There were a couple of times there where I couldn’t hear the whistle.”

That was less true after his shot gave the Tar Heels a 61-57 lead and again after they kept the ball alive three times while nursing a two-point lead. Finally Hansbrough calmly made two free throws to all but clinch it with 9.3 seconds left.

It was, Noel and coach Roy Williams agreed, a welcome escape.

“We didn’t really play our game today,” Noel said after the youthful Tar Heels turned the ball over 25 times, 14 in the second half. “That’s something that we’re going to have to stop doing if we’re going to get big wins in the ACC.”

North Carolina (10-2, 2-0 in the ACC), which started three freshmen, also got 10 points from Noel and nine from

Reyshawn Terry.

Virginia Tech (10-6, 0-3) got 17 points from Wynton Witherspoon in his first start

of the season and 13 from Zabian Dowdell, but failed to grab key rebounds in the final minute, allowing North Carolina to win its fourth straight overall.

“We’ve got to be hungrier and play with just a little more chip on our shoulder to make a play at the end of the game,” Hokies coach Seth Greenberg said.

The Hokies got an improbable chance to force overtime, but Deron Washington’s desperate heave from the right corner hit the front of the rim.

North Carolina outrebounded the Hokies 39-26 and limited Coleman Collins, the No. 3 scorer in the ACC with a 17.9 average, to seven points and three rebounds.

The Hokies opened the second half on a 16-7 run to take a 46-41 lead with 13minutes left, but Hansbrough scored in the lane twice and Wes Miller hit two long three-pointers in a 10-2 run that gave North Carolina a 51-48 lead with 9:26 to play.

The Tar Heels led 34-30 after a bruising first half that leftNoel on the bench for the last 9:04 with three fouls and five other players with two fouls.

The Hokies started fast, taking a 19-9 lead, then went cold when point guard Jamon Gordon went to the bench with his second foul. The Tar Heels quickly put together a 16-1 run over the next four minutes to lead 25-20 with 8:42 left.

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BOSTON Maybe this Atlantic Coast Conference thing wasn’t such a good idea for Boston College after all.

Cedric Simmons scored 17 points on 6for-6 shooting to lead No. 18 N.C. State to a 78-60 victory over 15th-ranked Boston College Tuesday night, dropping the Eagles to 0-3 in their new N.C. STATE 78 conference.

It’s definitely bc embarrassing to come out here for our first ACC game [at home], and to be 0-3,” said Eagles forward Jared Dudley, who had 16 points and nine rebounds. “I expected to do well in this league. We’re 0-3, but we’re going to get wins in this league.”

Cameron Bennerman scored 14 points and Tony Bethel went 4-for-6 from threepoint range with seven rebounds for N.C. State (13-2, 2-1 in the ACC). Forward Ilian Evtimov was in foul trouble much of the game and did not score in 19 minutes.

“The best part of our offense tonight, if you want to simplify it, is that we were able to score in a variety of ways,” N.C. State head coach Herb Sendek said. “We have a balanced team.”

The Wolfpack lost to North Carolina on Saturday to snap a seven-game winning streak. They play four ranked teams in a span of six games, finishing with No. 1 Duke next Wednesday.

“As soon as the game was over, guys were ready to get on the bus, get to BC,” Bethel said. “It shows the character of our team, to win at BC, a nationally ranked team, on the road. That’s what great teams

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Craig Smith scored 14 points for the Eagles (114, 0-3). But he and Dudley were 11-for-34 from the field and Boston College shot just 33 percent to lose their sec-

ond straight game; they fell to 0-3 against ranked teams. /‘This is one that’s just going to have to be forgotten,” Boston College coach A1 Skinner said. “Tonight’s game, there’s

nothing we did well. Previous games, we put ourselves in position to win. There’s nothing tonight on the stat sheet I can look at as a positive.

“As much as I hate to say it, this tape goes in the trash. There’s nothing in it for us.”

BC started last season—its last in the Big East —20-0. But during the summer the school completed its drawn-out defection to the ACC. “I think we have time to recover. It’s not like we’re 0-10,” Skinner said, adding, “Hopefully that’s not a prediction.

“We’re definitely going to get better. It’s unfortunate that we took some losses on the way.”

The Eagles’ first two conference losses were both by two points.

But this one wasn’t even close “We knew it was going to be a tough evening,” Skinner said. “We just didn’t think it was going to be like this.”

Boston College missed 16 of its first 19 shots and trailed 32-28 at halftime. N.C. State opened the second half with an 11-0 run as the Eagles missed their first eight shots. Simmons scored five points in the run and Bethel hit a three-pointer.

Dudley made a free throw and then hit a three from the left corner to make it 4534 and give Boston College a burst of energy. Sean Marshall hit a three-pointer from the top of the key to make it 49-40 with 12:45 left.

But Bennerman answered with a dunk, then scored again driving to the basket to make it a 17-point game.

N.C. State shot 63 percent (26-for-41) from the field, including 60 percent (10for-17) from three-point range.

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Duke led nearly the whole game, and except for a brief moment at the beginning of the second half when the Demon Deacons cut the lead to three points, the outcome was never in doubt. The Blue Devils cruised to an 82-64 win in Lawrence Joel Coliseum, an arena where no member of the current roster had ever won before.

Mcßoberts also starred in Duke’s win over Bucknell Jan. 2, a team that has earned a reputation as a giant-killer after wins over Pittsburgh, Kansas and Syracuse in the last two seasons. The freshman’s 14 points and 10 rebounds gave him his first career double-double. Duke won easily, taking a 21-4 lead eight minutes into the game and never looking back. Forward Shelden Williams added a game-high 23 points, as the Blue Devils won, 84-50.

In wins over Valparaiso and UNCGreensboro, Duke showed off its offensive firepower, scoring more than 100 points in each game. JJ. Redick led the way in both contests, scoring 35 points against the Spartans Dec. 31 and 30 against the Crusaders Dec. 18.

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Pocius shined in the win over UNC-Greensboro, scoring a career-high 10 points and shooting 3-for-5 from three-point range.

Redick scored only 18 points in Duke’s 70-57 win over St. John’s Dec. 21, but his teammates picked up the slack. Mcßoberts and Dockery scored 12 apiece, as Duke used a 26-7 run at the end of the first half and the beginning of the second half to pull away from the Red Storm.

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After starting the season 11-1, Georgia a debate that may be settled when topTech has dropped two in a row to open ranked Tennessee visits Cameron Indoor league play and has struggled recently Stadium Jan. 23. from the field. The Yellow Jackets have Having lost to both of the nation’s top shot less than 40 percent in each of their two squads this season, Frese was quick to past three games. praise the Blue Devils and hint that despite While the Terps managed to make half their No. 2 ranking, they might be the naof their field goal attempts Sunday, Duke tion’s most complete team. forced them into 24 turnovers and trapped “I just think that Duke’s got a lot more as well as it had all season, Goestenkors said. depth right now,” Frese said. “When “Their aggressiveness on defense—they they’re clicking on all cylinders like that, get into you really hard, they make passes a they defend, they score, they don’t turn the lot harder,” Terrapin guard Shay Doron ball over a lot. They really just play a comsaid of the Blue Devils. “They seem a little plete game.”

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“The thing about Maryland is that they always believe they can beat us,” Melchionni said. “There’s no intimidation factor and they’re not scared. They’re going to come in here with fire and fervor and they’ll be ready to play, and I look forward to that.”

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Dockery confessed, however, that the atmosphere in practice leading up to tonight’s game has been different than in years past.

“Last year I just know practice wasn’t the way it was [yesterday] we were just having fun, we were winning,” Dockery said. “You can’t take this team lightly.

They’re a great team and you’ve got to play them hard every play.”

The Terps sport a balanced offense led by senior guard Chris McCray and forward Nik Caner-Medley, who scored 25 points in his last trip to Cameron. The rest of Maryland’s starting five also average double figures in scoring.

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Remember that state-of-the-unionthe website has been operational since October. But the URL to access it is, style speech President Richard Brodhead made last year to undergradulike many internal Duke websites, diffiates? In the March 22 speech, the cult to find without a search engine: president noted Duke students’ re- http://civic.duke.edu/ltmd. And the markable involvepublicity campaign alerting stument with issues to resource has been stdffGditOridl dents and the world besparse if not invisible.

That’s a shame, because the website yond Duke’s walls. Encouraging “chances to connect academic inquiry consolidates a vast quantity of informawith real-world practice,” he promised tion. Duke has a phenomenal number the creation of a website that would list of programs for outreach to Durham, the various opportunities for service North Carolina and beyond. Classes learning and practical applications regularly involve an interactive learnavailable to students. ing component in which students venAs undergraduates gear up for sumture into area neighborhoods to do mer internship searches and vow New something useful with all the book Year’s resolutions to do more for the learning a liberal arts education provides. Money is available in a myriad of community, that website ought to generate a little more traffic this month. places to finance international service Unfortunately, however, the “learn- work and research.

All these programs, however, are ing. .. to make a difference” site proves difficult to find. drastically decentralized. This website According to Robert Thompson, very effectively displays the work that dean of Trinity College and vice students have done and the ways they provost for undergraduate education, set up these projects. The search func-

tion allows students to search by category, location orseason. It instantly organized the vast array of offerings while exposing students to new opportunities.

The website will continue to expand as its administrators become aware of more programs and as new ones con-

tinually develop.

But fundamentally this website seeks

two different kinds of students. The stu-

dents who are highly self-motivatedand are already adept at seeking out extraordinary experiences already know about many of these programs. The website offers no new information for them; it simply consolidates existing info, making it easier to find. The other kind of student is curious and interested in applying his education, but he may not be as willing or able to figure out how. For that kind of student, the one who is overwhelmed by the search for useful opportunities, this website could be an invaluable tool.

The site’s goal, after all, is to motivate less involved students to find

places to apply their knowledge. Brod-

head wants Duke students to have a “strong desire to use their intelligence to solve the world’s problems.” While undergraduates are still sheltered within the institution, Duke wants to teach that desire through the integrated programs offered on this website.

If the school is going to succeed in spurring students to participate like this, its next step would be to make this website übiquitous on campus. Full of mini testimonialsand resources for creating interactive situations, the site is motivating in itself, and its URL needs to be plastered all over campus.

Advisors, career counselors, internship coordinators and directors of undergraduate study should be directing students to this site. With more exposure, students would easily procrastinate by clicking through various searches for international volunteerism and nuclear research. This website is a great resource and students are ready to browse, but they need to know it’s there.

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JACK might as well be at Duke. After BAUER’S BIDET hopes the drive, JACK came to the realyou had a Merry Christ- ization that Durham is boring, mas, Happy (C)Hannuk(k)a(h), JACK has since set many dubious records, world and/or Joyous which in the interdon’t Kwanzaa; est of propriety worry, JACK doesshall remain n’t care how your nameless. religion celebrates the miraculous Just because birth of our Sweet JACK BAUER’S BIDET had a very Lord. JACK Just hopes you had as reproductive doesn’t good a time doing jack bauer's bidet break mean your student it as he did. leaders and adJACK BAUER’S BIDET went back to ministrators spent the whole time his hometown Boston for the “slacking” off as well. Indeed, break, an experience that would JACK did a bit of snooping around and is pleased to report to have been relaxing and restorative had Grandma not gotten you some of the great strides caminto his dad’s special “egg nog,” a pus leadership has made over the secret BAUER’S BIDET family break, while you were at home holiday recipe made entirely out recharging your academic batterof Johnny Walker Red and ice ies.

3 cubes. We knew something wasJACK BAUER’S BIDET accidenn’t quite right when she started tally went to go buy his books at the carping about how she had been Regulator and overheard negotiawaiting 88 years for a Bruins tions between representatives of championship. Granny turns 48 the Freeman Center for JewishLife in a week. (The BAUER’S and the Office of Information BIDETs tend to start early. JACK Technology. Apparently, the two would dearly, dearly like to start groups are' attempting to share as soon as possible. IM “Salty- costs for the next print run of the “Don’t Cut Yourself Off’ posters, in Teer33” if you’re interested).

The end results of the evening, a newly founded effort to increase awareness ofboth Internet security if recounted in full, would undoubtedly offend the sensibilities during school breaks and circumciof this fine newspaper’s intended sion alternatives. readership, so suffice it to say: JACK BAUER’S BIDET decided A. The Big Dig is, for all intents to go check out the new space at Sanford, and it turns out the Instiand purposes, finished, B. The homeless population on tute, so pleased with the success of the south side of Boston will never Gen. Colin Powell, has invited again look at a bratwurst with the Time Magazine’s Person of the same sense of childlike wonder Year Bono to speak. The speech is to be followed by a and innocence, and U 2 concert.

C. The BAUER’S BIDET clan is JACK did some wrangling and his no longer welcome within 30 best Melinda Gates impersonation, miles of a Dunkin’ Donuts and, as and the speech is now scheduled such, has been forced to relocate for JACK’S 78 square-foot Kilgo sinto Atlanta. gle at 8 a.m. The concert is to be held BAUER’S was exBIDET immediately following, in the JACK cited for a while about cheering men’s locker room at Wilson Gymfor the Falcons but then decided nasium. Admission to both events if he was going to watch abortive is on the honor-system, first-come~28-yardi field gpaf attempts,, h$ , ,first-££rve.

On an unrelated note, Faran Krentdl will deliver the commencement remarks for the class of 2006.

Having his fill of intrigue, JACK BAUER’S BIDET went to get a jump on his schoolwork in Bostock, before people started using the bathrooms again. JACK doesn’t like the way the Bostock bathrooms tend to smell like urine. Posted above the urinal was a joint resolution of the InterFraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association. By joint decree, it will be a violation for members of any PanHel group to flirt obnoxiously while in Bostock with members of erstwhile ffaternoties “Eta Prime” and “Delta Phi Alpha.” Naturally, members of IFC and PanHel recognized groups may still socialize and flirt at whatever volume or in whatever numbers they see fit. Pauly will be selling FroYo outside.

Speaking of creative retail space, JACK BAUER’S BIDET was offered a job by Elkus Manfredi Architects to aid in the strategic planning for Central Campus, scheduled for completion in 2020.

JACK likes the job security and predicts the Boston-based firm will secure further multimillion contracts with Duke for the Mexico, Florence and Lunar campuses, scheduled for completion in 2021, 2038, and upon the invention of cost-effective phasor particle disruptionbased transport, respectively.

JACK reminds you to contribute to the Financial Aid Initiative.

JACK BAUER’S BIDET is glad to see you all again and invites you to check out the newly completed Student Plaza. Its early completion is Duke’s Holiday present to you. However, due to union regulations, there will be a mandatory 3-hour jackhammering session at seven a.ra., every weekday for the remainder of the semester.

JACK BAUER’S BIDET is the anonymous humorist this semester. The column normally runs every Monday.

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Catch up on homework or reading? Work?

Sleep? I’ve always seen holidays as an opportunity for uninterrupted data collection myself. But this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is different.

Maybe it’s the recent death of another giant in the fight for civil rights, Rosa Parks. Or perhaps I’m more interested this year because of my own growing interest in educational and cultural events on campus.

(I’m still kicking myself for not attending Awaaz before this year.) Certainly I’m motivated to attend the events this weekend because of my work with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Comheather dean memoration Committhe other side tee, but I hope I would still be interested even if I hadn’t been participating.

Whatever the reason, I’m now looking forward to attending the conversation with Charlps Stone 111 on Friday, the Sunday Service with Harry Belafonte and Ariel Dorfman’s play Speak Truth to Power: Voices From Beyond the Dark on Monday. These are only some of the events planned to commemorate the life and work of Dr. King this weekend.

Working with the committee has made me think more than ever about civil rights and the role that Dr. King has played in American history. The most thought-provoking moment came when a committee member mentioned that students had told her that they were uninterested in MLK Day events because they had “already studied Dr. King and didn’t need to anymore.”

Unfortunately, this is probably a common view. Many of us tend to think that the fight for equal rights was successful and is now over. We each treat everyone around us with respect, regardless of gender or skin color or sexual orientation, so there is nothing more to be done, right? It would be wonderful if it were true.

Even recent studies have shown thatjob or housing applications from a “Shanaysha” are less likely to be accepted than those from a “Jennifer” even by people who feel they are unbiased by race or background. Judging by the number ofarticles and discussions about race relations at Duke in the past few years, this is still very much a concern for students and administrators. Additionally, many students in traditionally under-represented groups have repeatedly raised the issue of the lack ofrole models in their fields. Despite the progress that has been made in our country, African Americans are still often portrayed in the media very differently than Caucasians. There is still a stark socioeconomic difference between the two groups, on average. The United States has yet to elect a black president, or for that matter anyone who isn’t a white male.

So in what ways does it help matters to attend events celebrating the life and work of Dr. King or learn more about the Civil Rights Movement? Events such as these make us more aware ofissues that still exist today despite the fact that there has been improvement on a number of fronts. Listening to inspirational speakers will certainly make us each think about what is still to be done. Even though I often feel that I understand issues of diversity, I leam more at every discussion on the topic and realize how much I never thought about.

Maybe you’ll have plenty of homework or sleep to catch up on this holiday weekend, but if you’re anything like me, you just might later regret not taking advantage of opportunities like this at Duke. I hope I see you this weekend.

Heather Dean is graduate student in neurobiology. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

have an opinion? submit a guest column, maximum length 750 words, e-mail slbl7 and kar2l.

Hollywood and the culture war Syriana.

Munich. Goodnight and Good Luck. Brokeback Mountain. Fun With Dick and Jane (seriously). Notice a trend?

The movie theater is now one of the left’s most powerful tools. Just ask Michael Moore if you don’t believe me All sorts of leftist tripe, subtle and glaring, is fdling our nation’s movie screens. America is in the midst of a huge culture war, and Hollywood has decided to use the assets available to it to take Stephen miller part in the battle—miilertime which of course means be intelligence will not a factor.

American cinema is being converted into a propaganda machine. For the doubters, let me flip it around.

When was the last time you saw a conservative film?

Maybe a movie about the evils of the Islamic holy war, the merits of capitalism, even one about America as a force of good in the world? Or, dare I say it, a movie with a positive take on the Bush administration?

As you know, those movies aren’t being made. That’s because the Hollywood crowd feels sympathy for the terrorists, detests Republicans and sees America as an obstacle to a better world. Like their frequent beneficiaries in the Capitol, the Hollywood elite are growing increasingly disdainful, and accordingly they are using their medium more and more as a means for advancing their far-left agenda.

Of course this is not limited to the silver screen.

Shows like Queer As Folk, The “L” Word, Will & Grace and Sex and the City, all do their part to promote alternative lifestyles and erode traditional values.

When the script writers for The West Wing have Martin Sheen’s character say things like the second amendment is a “stupid-ass amendment,” they’re not just thinking about ratings. Hollywood wants to promote its views—and it knows popular TV shows and movies will do more to change the landscape of America than George Clooney’s moronic interviews ever could.

(Most recently, Clooney showcased his brilliant analytical skills by explaining to Jay Leno that the Iraq War was all about oil.)

Speaking of late-night entertainment, David Letterman, who’s made little effort to hide his contempt for conservatives, recendy demonstrated how far leftist entertainers are willing to go. Letterman invited Bill O’Reilly on the show, and right before O’Reilly came out, Letterman surreptitiously stirred his pencil in-O’Reilly’s drink.

He timed it carefully so that O’Reilly had probably just exited the green room. Since the cup was on Letterman’s desk, O’Reilly later asked if it was his water, and, snickering, Letterman informed him that it was and then got a good chuckle watching O’Reilly take a few sips. It was a disgusting and transparent display.

Of course, this sick little prank was overlooked by the mainstream media. But can you imagine what the outcry would have been if Letterman did that to someone like, say, JesseJackson or Ted Kennedy?

For the entire interview, Letterman attacked and insulted O’Reilly, even telling him that he thought “60 percent of what you say is crap.” Unfortunately for Letterman, he knows nearly nothing about politics and he came off as a typical angry, ignorant leftist. To see for yourself, go to O’Reilly’s website, where a video of the interview is posted.

By contrast, when Jane Fonda was promoting the inspired film Monster-in-Law, she stopped by Late Night and Letterman fawned over her with such deference it looked as though any moment he’d stoop down and kiss her feet.

Maybe he did after the show.

There is no doubt that the left has a monopoly in entertainment and that it’s one they guard carefully. It’s no coincidence that Michael Moore may be sitting at home right now admiring his Oscar while Mel Gibson didn’t even get a nomination for his heralded film, Passion of the Christ. It’s also no coincidence that once-fading star Alec Baldwin, who’s made a name for himself as an outspoken leftist, has now seen a massive career resurgence, along with fellow Bush-hater Sean Penn. Hollywood is in fact so left that its most prestigious members—the actors, actresses and directors who have won Academy Awards give approximately 4,000 percent more money to Democrats than to Republicans.

From Jamie Foxx’s passionate pleas for the clemency of quadruple-homicide convict and Crips founder “Tookie” Williams to Kanye West’s comment during a live Katrina relief concert that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” (I guess he didn’t hear that Bush’s African AIDS program is the largest in American history, or that it turns out the Katrina victims were disproportionately white) America’s entertainers are fighting mightily to promote their leftist agenda. There is a huge ideological war being waged for the future of the country, and after the education system, the entertainment industry is the left’s most influential resource.

And believe me, they are going to use it.

So next time you go see a movie or watch TV think about who—and what—you may be supporting.

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Stephen Miller is a Trinity junior. His colum n runs every other Wednesday.

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