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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, ISSUE 86

84 West bathrooms lose locks RLHS revises next year's housing policy by

Katherine Macllwaine THE CHRONICLE

Although many safety-conscious students appreciate the

locks on their residential bathroom doors, others consider them a major hassle.

This week, several of the latter will be relieved of the inconvenience.

Eighty-four of the 245 bathrooms on West Campus were voted to be unlocked unanimously by its residents. Students living on East Campus voted to unlock about onethird of their bathrooms.

After the issue was raised by Campus Council last fall, residents were given the opportunity to vote on whether or not they wanted their bathrooms to remain locked. Last week, results of the campus-wide vote were tabulated.

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a junior, said he was pleased by the outcome.

“This was a pretty major issue for the students,” Ganatra said. “The voting procedure itself, no matter how it turned out, is a victory. We just wanted to give students the opportunity to vote.”

Of the 84 bathrooms on West Campus to which the change applies, those in SEE LOCKS ON PAGE 4

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Changes include limited bedspace for selectives, abolishment of linking by

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Students on West Campus voted last week as to whether or not they wanted to keep their bathrooms locked. Eighty-four bathrooms will be unlocked this week.

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Residence Life and Housing Services’ new mechanism for upperclass housing selection will make major changes to the process effective this year.

Selective group leaders met Monday night to discuss the changes and to consider how it will affect them in the future.

First, linking has been abolished; independent freshmen will no longer receive West Campus housing dependent on their East Campus dormitory.

West Campus squatting—a term that refers to an upperclassman who chooses to remain in the same room for a second year—has ended.

The maximum number of students in a block has increased from eight to 12 students and will continue to be single sex.

Selective living groups will have a minimum of 16 beds and a maximum of 48 beds. Groups will not be allotted more than the maximum, and those that fail to meet the minimum may be forced to become blocks

The first three changes reflect the suggestions made by a joint student and staff Linking Task Force led by Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of residence life. • The task force includes RLHS staff and members of Campus Council. Its findings were delivered at a Nov. 17 meeting.

The size limitations were announced in a letter Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean of residence life, sent to heads of selective living groups in mid-January.

Selective group leaders remain confused, however, about the reasons behind the size changes and about whether the guidelines will apply for the Fall 2006 semester or start the followmg year.

At least four selectives potentially will be affected by the changes. Maxwell House currently has 53 beds, as does Roundtable; Brownstone has 55.

SHARE’S website lists only nine resident members.

The move is unlikely to affect SEE HOUSING ON PAGE 8

CAPS seeks improvement

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She came to Duke with all the normal feelings of anxd inadequacy. "ngs she thought would be temporary linig her first semester at the University. iey grew.

The student, who wished to remain anonymous, said a month after arriving at the University she was battling a serious case of lepression and turned to Duke’s Counseling and Psychological Services for help.

She said CAPS representatives initially it would be a full month before she could of consultation. Once she told them it was ncy, they gave her an appointment the folmg seen by a counselorand then a doctor, mediately put on antidepressants. She said physical reaction to the drugs and several tor had not warned her about, ask me to come in for an appointment, problem, and I wasn’t monitored at all,”

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:nd result was that I began abusing anoth•pe with the side effects.”

The student overdosed on the addictive medication a few weeks later and ended up in Duke University Hospital.

She said she was told there that she was not fit to continue with the school semester.

“No one from GAPS followed up with me,” she said. “I haven’t heard from them in years.”

Although students’ experiences with CAPS vary, many of the same concerns the anonymous student had with the program resonate with others. They complain of long waitlists as well as overall dissatisfaction with the services provided.

Complicating these problems is many students’ reluctance to seek care because of a social stigma against mental illness—a sense that peers will perceive them as deficient or unnecessarily needy.

CAPS employs 15 doctors and 10 members of support staff including interns and residents. Between 1,200 and 1,400 students personally visit CAPS each year.

Duke has recommitted itself recently to improving the program because concerns about care are prevalent on campus. A new director as sumed her role last July, and funds were allotted by the Office ofStudent Affairs to improve CAPS facilities.

But students and CAPS staff agree that there is still much work to be done.

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Bird flu claims life in Iraq

Senate advances Alito confirmation by

Jesse Holland

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WASHINGTON The Senate on Monday all but guaranteed Samuel Alito’s confirmation as the nation’s 110th Supreme Court justice, shutting down a last-minute attempt by liberals to block the conservative judge’s nomination with a filibuster.

Republican and Democratic senators, on a 72-25 vote, agreed to end their debate, setting up a Tuesday morning vote on Alito’s confirmation to replace retiring moderate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

“I am pleased that a strong, bipartisan majority in the Senate decisively rejected attempts to obstruct and filibuster an up-

or-down vote on Judge Sam Alito’s nominaversible damage to our country,” said Kerry, the Democrats’ 2004 presidential nominee. tion,” President George W. Bush said.

With at least 57 votes committed to O’Connor has been a swing vote on Alito—s3 Republicans and four Democabortion rights, affirmative action, the rats —approval by majority vote in the 100- death penalty and other contentious issues. member Senate seemed assured.

Alito’s supporters needed 60 votes to block the filibuster, and they were joined by A bloc of Democrats, led by Massachu13 Democrats who have announced they setts Senators Edward Kennedy and John will vote against confirming his nomination.

Kerry, unsuccessfully tried over the weekend and Monday to persuade other sena“I believe that Judge Alito’s nomination, if approved by the Senate, would tilt that tors to use a vote-delaying filibuster to stop Alito, a 15-year veteran of the U.S. court in a direction that will restrict perAppeals Court and a former lawyer for the sonal freedoms, strengthen the role of govReagan administration. ernment and corporations in our lives, and “It is the only way we can stop a confirmation that we feel certain will cause lireSEE ALITO ON PAGE 8

Al-Zawahri mocks Bush in new video by

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CAIRO, Egypt In a new video aired Monday, al Qaeda’s No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri mocked President George W. Bush

as a “failure” in the war on terror, called him a “butcher” for killing innocent Pakistanis in a miscarried airstrike and chastised the United States for rejecting Osama bin Laden’s offer of a truce.

Al-Zawahri, wearing white robes and a white turban, also forcefully threatened a new attack in the United States—“God willing, on your own land.”

The video, broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV a day before Bush will deliver his State of the Union address, provided the first concrete evidence that al-Zawahri was still alive after the Jan. 13 airstrike in eastern Pakistan that targeted him but killed four other al Qaeda leaders and 13 villagers.

The message came on the heels of a Jan. 19 audiotape by bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader’s first tape in more than a year. Bin Laden said his followers were preparing an attack in the United States and offered the Americans a conditional truce.

A U.S. counterterrorism official, who

spoke on condition of anonymity, said

there is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the al-Zawahri video, which U.S. intelligence officials were analyzing.

The counterterrorism official noted the video was disseminated quickly, demonstrating al-Zawahri’s ability to get his message out even faster than bin Laden. That suggests the two are not hiding together and bin Laden may be in a more remote location than his deputy, the official said.

The Homeland Security Department has no immediate plans to raise the nation’s terror threat levels because of the Zawahri tape.

The first case of the deadly avian flu virus in the Middle East was confirmed by Iraq and U.N. health officials. A 15-year-old Kurdish girl who died this month had the deadly HSNI strain, which prompted a large-scale slaughter of domestic birds in northern area.

Security Council to review Iran The United Nations Security Council reached agreement Tuesday over Iran's disputed nuclear program, calling on the U.N. nuclear watchdog to transfer the Iran dossier to the Security Council, which could impose sanctions or take other harsh action.

Jury chosen in Enron fraud trial Eight women and four men were selected as jurors Monday for the trial of former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, accused of orchestrating the massive fraud that came to symbolize an era of corporate scandals.

Band wins Pepsi settlement A judge ordered PepsiCo Inc. and its advertising company to pay $250,000 to the 1950 doo-wop band The Flamingos for using their recording, "I Only Have Eyes For You" in a commercial without permission. It's not the first time Pepsi has neglected to pay a recording artist for a song, a lawyer said.

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DUHS selects CEO for Duke Health Raleigh by

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The School ofMedicineoffers Spanish classes to its students to help facilitate communication with patients.

To converse with patients, med students learn Spanish by

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The specialized terms in most medical students’ vocabulary can make them seem like they’re speaking a foreign language.

But after taking an elective medical Spanish class offered at the Duke School of Medicine, some students actually will be.

Created September 2004, the 42-student course is designed to help medical students interact with the rising numbers of Hispanic patients in area hospitals, many of whom have very little fluency in English.

Now in the middle of its second year, the class began as the brainchild of two students in the School of Medicine: third-year Emily Davies and Harriett Purves, Medicine ’O4. After Purves graduated, Davies has stayed with the program into its second year.

Davies was interested in maintaining her proficiency in Spanish, which she had learned while an undergraduate at Brown University, but the courses she looked at

didn’twork with her busy schedule “None of them seemed like the best fit for medical students, either because of their costs, or their timing, or their locations,” she said. Similar courses have been offered both in the Trinity College ofArts and Sciences and the School of Nursing.

At the School of Medicine, the course’s enrollment has quadrupled since its inception, increasing from nine students in its first year to 42 now.

The class, which runs for an entire year, is divided into two sections, each of which runs for two hours every week.

“The first year, we only offered the course to students who had already had a few semesters of college-level Spanish,” Davies said. “This year, because the first year’s program was so successful, and because many people who wanted to get in couldn’t, due to not having enough prior Spanish, we now offer more basic material.”

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Duke University Health System officials announced Monday that Doug Vinsel will become Duke Health Raleigh Hospital’s new chief executive officer.

Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of DUHS, and Ralph Moore, chair of the DHRH Advisory Board, announced the appointment less than a month after former DHRH CEO Jim Knight announced his retirement because ofhealth issues.

“Doug is an experienced leader who has a tremendous understanding of the issues that impact health care in the region and the needs of the individuals we serve,” Dzau said in a statement.

Carla Hollis, vice president for marr keting and public relations at DHRH, noted that Dzau’s focus on collaboration and working within the community drew Vinsel to the post, which he will assume in March.

“He was very excited about what Dr. Dzau’s vision was," Hollis said. “He’s long had a goal of becoming a CEO at a

hospital.”

The timing of Vinsel’s appointment will allow him to assist in the selection of a new chief operating officer for DHRH. The position has remained vacant since the former COO, Tom Hanenburg, left in December 2005.

“A COG will be named shortly after Mr. Vinsel assumes his new role,” Hollis said. “We have several people who have come forward and emerged as excellent candidates.”

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colle eroundu Maternity leave offered to grad students Stanford University has instituted a new policy that seeks to accommodate female graduate students who give birth by granting them up to six weeks of paid time off from their usual commitments to research and teaching.

The policy gives such students an “academic-accommodation period” of up to two consecutive academic quarters, in which they can postpone examinations, course assignments and other course work.

“We want to retain in the academic pipeline women who become pregnant,” said Gail Mahood, associate dean for graduate policy, noting that a majority of college graduates today are women.

Female graduate students supported by teaching or research assistantships or

from staff re orts

fellowships will be excused from their regular duties for up to six weeks but will continue to receive their salaries, stipends and any tuition support they

had been receiving.

Mahood said she is loath to call it “maternity leave” because women who take advantage of it will still be intellectually engaged on the campus.

The policy does not apply to women who adopt children, she said, because the university is dealing only with the fact that women’s most critical professional years often coincide with their peak childbearing years.

That has made it hard to retain top female talent, particularly in the sciences. Women can always put off adopting, she said.

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crimebriefs Law School worker and former employee allegedly fight An employee at the Law School reported Friday, January 27 at 9:45 a.m. that a former employee came into the work area and grabbed her arm during a verbal dispute.

No charges have been filed.

Students tussle in Rick’s Diner, Wannamaker Two students were involved in a fight Saturday, January 28 at 3:16 a.m. in Rick’s Diner. Two other students were involved in a fight Sunday, January 29 at 2:06 a.m. in Wannamaker Dorm. No charges were filed in either incident.

Laptop, Blackberry pilfered Sunday According to a student, a Nextel Blackberry device, valued at $2OO, was stolen from a purse during a party. The woman reported the incident Sunday at 9:47 p.m. in a Edens 3A commons room. Earlier that day, a student reported that a Dell Latitude, valued at $2,500, was stolen from an unsecured location in Perkins Library.

Duke police department vehicle’s window broken A police officer discovered Sunday, January 29 at 4:11 p.m. that a Duke vehicle had been damaged, and evidence indicated the damage was consistent with having the window kicked in. It is unknown if anything was stolen.

Bathroom doors, which had often been propped open, will be unlocked this week if residents voted to unlock the doorsearlier this semester.

Visitor’s car tires punctured An employee reported Saturday at 7:48 a.m. on 2214 Elder Street that someone had punctured her tire between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday while her car was parked.

Edens, Few, Keohane and Kilgo quadrangles have already been unlocked. Students in Craven, Crowell and

Laptop lifted from engineering building A Dell laptop computer valued at |2,000 was stolen from room 235 in the engineering building, an employee reported Tuesday, January 24. The incident allegedly occurred between 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. Monday, January 23.

Tools, toolbox stolen from Old Chemistry building A toolbox full of tools was stolen from a storage room on the first floor of the Old Chemistry Building sometime between January 1 and January 24 at 10:30 a.m., an em-

ployee reported.

Trek mountain bike taken from Social Sciences rack A student reported that a Trek mountain bicycle was stolen from a bicycle rack beside the Social Sciences building. The bike is blue in color and was secured to the rack at the time of the incident.

Phone lifted from Duke Hospital North A visitor reported Thursday, January 26 that her cellular telephone had been stolen from room 4326 at Duke Hospital North. The phone was valued at $lOO.

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Wannamaker can expect their bathrooms to be unlocked by late Tuesday or early Wednesday.

The only significant voting pattern was that male students responded more favorably to the change. Seventy-five of the 84 West Campus bathrooms that will be unlocked are on male halls.

“I think we’ve had more men vocalize votes about the doors being unlocked,” said Deb Lo Biondo, assistant dean for residence life and housing services for West Campus.

Craven, Few and Wannamaker contain the highest percentage ofbathrooms thatresidents voted to unlock.

Despite the prevalence of selective living groups in the locations, Lo Biondo said there was no discemable voting pattern among members of such organizations.

Sophomore Tim Rindler was disappointed by the results of his hall’s vote. His is the only bathroom in his West Campus selective house to be kept locked.

Many students, like Rindler, were surprised by the results. Because the unlocking of any bathroom required the full participation ofeach ofits residents, several students attributed the outcome to those residents who failed to vote.

“I think everyone assumed they would be un-

locked,” Rindler said. “There was no one who was openly against it.”

Sophomore Emily Jones’ bathroom in Edens quad will remain locked, as well.

Jones, who said she voted to have the lock removed, explained that she would not mind maintaining the current situation if one of her hall mates were strongly opposed to unlocking the door. She said she was bothered, however, by the fact that other students did not participate in the process.

“I feel like I talked to almost everyone,” Jones said, referring to her neighbors. “Everyone wanted them off, but people just didn’t vote.”

Lo Biondo disputed the claims of students like Jones.

She used Craven quad as an example of the high rate of participation. In Craven, 339 of 420 residents took part in the process.

Lo Biondo added that the final results were probably not altered by those students who failed to vote.

“I got the sense that folks who opted not to vote were probably going to vote ‘no’ anyway,” she said, adding that students who would vote ‘yes’ but could not participate at their assigned times submitted absentee ballots by e-mail.

Residents of those halls whose bathrooms will now be unlocked responded favorably to the change.

“It’s just an inconvenience,” said sophomore Tom Rourke, explaining why he voted to unlock his hall’s bathroom in Edens quad. “Carrying your keys to the bathroom every time you want to take a shower is kind of obnoxious.”

Despite current support from students like Rourke, the results of the voting may not be permanent. If residents become concerned about the new situation, their doors will be relocked.

“Individuals could go to their [resident advisor] and [residence coordinator] and say, T want my bathroom door locked now,’” Lo Biondo said. “At any point in time, we will relock that door.”

All bathrooms will be locked when residents return to campus in the fall. Students will then have the opportunity to vote again.

Lo Biondo said several steps will be taken to expedite the process in the future. Online voting may be introduced, and students may receive e-mails from their RCs during the summer, so they are ready to vote as soon as they arrive at school.

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ROUNDUP from page 3 Alums protest Newcomb closure About 150 women ranging in age from 18 to 84 chanted, sang and pleaded with Tulane University administrators on Friday not to dismande their alma mater, Newcomb College—an undergraduate division for female students that Tulane plans to close in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The 120-year-old college is slated to be combined this fall with its counterpart college for men into a single undergraduate college at Tulane.

Although Newcomb will no longer exist as a separate degree-granting institution, a committee is studying ways to continue the college’s legacy of supporting women’s education and leadership development, possibly through an institute or foundation.

The consolidation of Tulane’s two liberal-arts colleges, as well as several discipline-specific colleges, is part of the university’s post-Katrina “renewal plan,” aimed at cutting costs and strengthening undergraduate education.

Harassment prevalent on campuses Nearly two-thirds of U.S. college students are affected by sexual harassment—ranging from offensive jokes and gestures to touching and grabbing, according to a study released last week.

Men are more likely to harass than women, but women and men are equally likely to be harassed on U.S. campuses, according to a report by the American Association of University Women.

In a representative survey of 2,036 undergraduates at U.S. colleges and universities, researchers found that 62 percent of college students experienced sexual harassment, and 32 percent of college students said they were victims of physical harassment. Forty-one percent said they had sexually harassed someone.

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professionals will need to confront.

“At Lincoln Health Center in the pediatric area, about 50 percent of the patients are Hispanic,” he said.

Dr. Dennis Clements, chief medical officer for Duke “If they can’t speak English, then the landscape has defiChildren’s Hospital and faculty advisor for the program, nitely changed for you.”

Above all, Davies underexplained that a basic facility with Spanish can still help with lined the importance of compatient care mon ground between med“Even if we still need a trans“I think that understanding ical professionals and their lator, a simple ‘How are you?’ patients. your patient’s language and can show that we have some in“I think that understandterest in them,” he said. their culture are critical to ing your patient’s language Course instructor Grisel and their culture are critical being able to form a trusting Diaz agreed. “When they’re to being able to form a trustspeaking their language, the ing doctor-patient relationrelationship.” doctor-patient students make them feel that ship,” she said. “You can Emily Davies spend all the time in the they’re really understanding their illnesses or ailments,” world figuring out a diagnosis she said. “They will help the and how to treat them... but if patient feel confident.” the patient doesn’t trust you Clements emphasized that the increased number of enough to follow your advice, then your efforts have non-Anglophone patients is an issue that current and fu- been wasted.”

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CAPS from page 1 Growing pains As demands for services have increased over the past few years, resources have been strained both at GAPS and at Duke Hospital’s Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, which offers services similar to those at CAPS. The uptick in demand has resulted in an increased wait time at CAPS that approaches three weeks at its height —usually around exams.

At the hospital’s clinic, the waidist can approach months. Last December, it reached a point at which it could no longer accommodate even urgent cases.

Kathy Hollingsworth, the new director of CAPS, wrote in an e-mail that the patient overflow stems from a general lack of psychiatric resources in Durham.

“It’s probably the strongest concern that I have as a director new to this campus,” Hollingsworth wrote.

Larry' Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said patient overflow and resource concerns are not abnormal.

“There is no immediate issue here,” Moneta said. “Dr. Hollingsworth knows if she needs help in the short term, she can hire short-term staff if we need to. We have a lot of tools at our disposal.”

Moneta added that the patient overflow can be attributed to natural “peaks and valleys” that occur every year between student needs and available practitioners.

It is also a likely product of increased public awareness concerning mental health issues.

Moneta said one solution would be for students to consider other forms of support besides CAPS. Options include talking to resident assistants, professors and peers.

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Kathy Hollingsworth took over as director of a struggling CAPS program at Duke last summer.

“Not everyone’s needed solution is a formal therapeutic appointment,” Moneta said. “We do a lot ofwork to build big safety nets. We’re not perfect, but I think we do a pretty good job.”

Problem of location Nonetheless, officials said CAPS has already outgrown its facilities—a fact that is

hindering its ability

to grow.

The CAPS offices are currendy located on the upper floors of the Page Building, near the Career Center and administrative offices in the Flowers Building.

“We have expanded the present facility as far as we can go,” said Jim Clack, former director of CAPS who stepped down in July. “Part-time people have to coordinate

schedules cause they have to use each others’ offices.”

Other students and officials described the office’s small waiting area and cramped halls are problematic.

In order to make the center more inviting, CAPS underwent a $70,000 renovation for maintenance work in December 2005.

Last semester CAPS officials also opened The Oasis, a relaxing place on East Campus where students can unwind.

Hollingsworth hopes the University administration eventually will provide a new facility for the center and expand CAPS to include branches on Central and East campuses.

“The state of the facilities really contribute to the sense of stigma,” Hollingsworth said.

Another student who spoke on the condition of anonymity described her experience with a CAPS counselor as unpleasant and uncomfortable—much like the current CAPS offices.

“She was cold, uncaring, asking me about problems that were totally unrelated to what I wanted to talk about,” the student said of her counselor. “I must admit I was very surprised with my experience at CAPS, but it was very real and very awful.”

The student said while she knew this was not a typical experience, CAPS needs to “work to be more out there and less of a scary corner somewhere on campus where few wish to venture.”

Libby Webb, associate director for CAPS, said the large demand for services makes it “not uncommon” for students to be disappointed with their experience at CAPS either because of the doctor they get paired with or length of the waidist.

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good fit, but it is something we strive toward—making a good match,” Webb said.

“What we do say is that we encourage students to tell their therapist if they know it is not a good fit or, if they are not comfortable doing that, they can talk to myself or

Tough environment Augmenting the stigma of mental illness are the stresses of living and working at a world-class institution like Duke.

Clack said competing with peers in an elite university places great pressures on students. He said the vast majority of students have had “an unsullied history of success” prior to coming to the University.

Clack added that feelings of inadequacy after students feel as though they have failed in some endeavor are the common causes of student suicide attempts.

There have only been a handful of suicide attempts in the past 10 years at Duke, Clack said. He noted, however, that this trend is not en-

the director.”

Webb said making sure students feel comfortable at CAPS is central to its mission. Creating a comfortable environment starts as soon as a student calls.

Other ways CAPS tries to create a positive experience for students include addressing the staff about what questions tirely due to the to ask as well as “We are lucky that nobody has availability of having offices psychological become desperate and killed that feel warm services. and inviting— “Some is bethemselves.” not clinical and cause of the cold.

Clack, safety net, and And alis sheer director CAPS some though some luck,” Clack students have said. “We are had frustrating lucky that noexperiences with CAPS, others have body has become desperate and killed found their services to be helpful and themselves.” positive.

In actuality, many more students may Emily Bruckner, a junior, said CAPS was have attempted suicide in recent years, but instrumental in helping her overcome her Clack said it is against the law for workers depression. in the emergency room to inform CAPS of “I saw a doctor there who was wonderful any student who goes direcdy to the ER and helped me get better,” Bruckner said. once they have attempted suicide.

Clack said he only knows of the cases Despite her and others’ positive experiences at CAPS, Bruckner noted that that go through CAPS first.

In his last two years, CAPS recommendmany students who need help do not seek it because of the sense of stigma, which ed hospitalization for approximately 23 both Hollingsworth and other CAPS pastudents because they were a threat to tients also acknowledged as being prevathemselves or others. lent on campus.

Hollingsworth echoed the sentiment “A lot of people view it as a personal that Duke has been fortunate to have no weakness [rather] than as a biological dissuicides in recent years. order, which is what it is,” Bruckner said.

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The CAPS office lobby, located in Flowers, has been criticized for its barren and minimalistic appearance. to

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statistically this is against the odds,” Hollingsworth said. “That being said, Duke has an extraordinarily wide and deep safety net for distressed students.”

Looking forward Recognizing the obstacles that need to be overcome, Hollingsworth said that during the remainder ofher first year she will focus on examining CAPS’ infrastructure—all existing programs, policies and procedures as well as the specific needs of Duke students.

She said one of the keys to decreasing the stigma surrounding mental illness is to increase education and foster dialogue.

“The more you talk about these issues, the more they become socially acceptable,” Hollingsworth said. “It’s as if students are walking around in glass bubbles

feeling like their problems are unique.

That’s just part of the human condition.”

She said she also hopes to work closely with student groups like Active Minds, a peer education group devoted to promoting awareness about mental illness and the resources available to manage or avoid it.

In her second year Hollingsworth will target program development, like improving CAPS’ group therapy program, she said.

Other tentative changes include increasing publicity about CAPS-sponsored events and an overhaul of the program’s website, which is still unfinished.

Hollingsworth said she also hopes to increase the center’s funding.

“I am really looking forward to getting to know Duke’s students and working with them to meet their needs,” Hollingsworth said.

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AUTO from page 2 allow the expansion of power of the presidency,” said D-N.D., who announced he would oppose Alito after voting to end debate.

"I find it regrettable that there are those who are trying to resurrect a filibuster even as there is clearly nothing in the record that constitutes extraordinary circumstances,” said Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, the only Republican who is publicly undecided on Alito’s nomination.

Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, the only Republican to announce he will vote against Alito, also refused to support the filibuster attempt. “How are we going to get anything done if we can’t work together?” Chafee asked.

Other Republicans also criticized the attempt to keep Alito from getting a confirmation vote Tuesday before Bush’s State of the Union address.

“If this hyperpoliticization of this judicial confirmation process continues, I fear in this moment we will institutionalize this behavior and someday we will-be hard

Ssn. Byron Dorgan,

pressed not to employ political tests and tactics against the Supreme Court nominee of a Democratic president,” said Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

“We saw no reason for the members ofthis group to support a filibuster,” said senior Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a member of the “Gang of 14”—a group of Republicans and Democrats who have pledged not to filibuster unless there are “extraordinary circumstances.”

At least 53 of the Republicans’ 55-member majority and four Democrats—Byrd, Tim Johnson ofSouth Dakota, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Ben Nelson of Nebraska—already publicly support Alito’s confirmation.

Chafee, independent Sen. Jim Jeffords ofVermont, and most other Democrats are expected to vote against Alito.

Alito hasn’t stopped trying to gain more support. He visited with Sen. Maria Cantwell,JP-Wash., on Monday before the filibuster vote in hopes of getting her vote.

Cantwell said later that she would oppose him. “Judge Alito has a record of concern when it comes to placing and consolidating the rights of the government over the rights of the individual,” she said.

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generally fits between the newly established limits.

“I’ve been approached by selective living group presidents, and it seems like it’s affecting this year’s pledge class and how they do rush,” said junior David Lee, president of the Selective House Council. “Obviously it’s not what they wanted, but they have to go with it since Eddie Hull has mandated it.”

The policy was formulated by RLHS without input from Campus Council or Selective House Council, although Hull informed the Council’s executive board before sending the letter. Leaders remain confused as to the execution of the plan.

Deb Lo Biondo, assistant dean for residence life, was slated to appear before the group but was unavailable because ofmiscommunication.

“I talked to Dean Deb about this, and she said they would deal with each selective house separately,” said senior Steve Tjoe, president of Maxwell House.

Several attendees said, however, their groups were bracing for an immediate implementation of the limit.

Campus Council representatives said at a Nov. 17 meeting that they expected Hull to respond to the Linking Task Force’s recommendations by Dec. 1. RLHS made no public announcement, endorsing the plan, although Hull wrote in a Dec. 2 e-mail, “I have approved these recommendations and we are working out the logistics in preparation for the HOUSe process this coming spring.”

The original proposal called for co-ed blocks, and Hull said he had approved those. A statement on the RLHS website, however, noted that such an arrangement was not logistically feasible for the 2006-2007 school year.

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a junior, said a new software program used for housing assignments could not be altered to allow for co-ed blocks for Fall 2006 but would be ready in the future.

Linking had been under fire since its advent in 2002.

University officials created linking as a mechanism to preserve communities formed in East Campus residence halls.

Many students, however, complained that the system unfairly eliminatedany housing advantages tied to seniority.

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Duke Health Raleigh Hospital is a part of the Duke University Health System. Vinsel will oversee more than 500 physicians in a more than 175-bed facility.

Vinsel comes to DHRH after spending more than 20 years as COO and executive vice president of WakeMed Health and Hospitals.

There, Vinsel oversaw operations at WakeMed’s Raleigh campus and Cary Hospital. As COO, Vinsel helped to create a heart program, a children’s center and an employee gain-

sharing program.

Hollis said Vinsel’s administrative experience is supplemented by his community outreach efforts. He has served as walk chair for the group Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and is currently a member of Raleigh Chamber’s growth task force and a United Way enterprise executive. He has also worked with the Triangle chapter of the American Red Cross.

“I look forward to working with our talented hospital staff, health system leadership and our local medical community to guide the development and expansion of healthcare services in Wake County,” Vinsel said in a statement. “Raleigh is my home and has been for many years. The chance to continue to serve this community is a great honor.”

Vinsel has long resided in the Triangle area. He received his master’s degree in healthcare administration from Duke. Because Yinsel’s family—including five children and four grandchildren—resides, in Raleigh, DHRH’s location added to the position’s appeal, Hollis said.

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DUKE RANKED HO. 2IH HEW PBLL Sunday night's 74-70 loss to the Tar Heels put

the Blue Devils behind top-ranked North Carolina in the Jan. SOAP Poll.

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It’s time. It’s time to give Josh Mcßoberts more than five shots per game. It’s time to let the most physically-gifted player on Duke’s team show off the scoring ability that made him a projected lottery pick coming out of high school.

I understand that there is a learning curve for freshmen.

Mcßoberts is the second post option for the first time in his life, he’s guarding 6michael foot-8 wings that are significantly quicker mnoro IIIUvIC than hjjH anc j adjusting to defenders that he cannot merely dunk over.

But he’s making the turn, and the freshman is ready to be the third option.

Now Duke’s coaching staff needs to develop some set plays or audibles to get Mcßoberts the ball, even while Shelden Williams is in the game.

I hear you, I hear you. We’re 19-1, Redick is averaging 27.8 points per game (speaking of which: Coach K, please give J.J. the green light to go for 81 against Wake. Twenty bucks says he can get it) and other than the Georgetown anomaly, we have looked close to unbeatable.

Why fix something that isn’t broken?

But, as Krzyzewski often says, it doesn’t matter how good the team is now, it is all about getting better toward March.

And the best way the Blue Devils can improve is to develop other offensive threats.

No team in the last decade has ever won it all with two guys accounting for SEE MOORE ON PAGE 12 TIAN, QINZHENG/THE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils are still adjusting to sophomore DeMarcus Nelson's return from two ankle injuries.

For the first time since the second week of the season, the Blue Devils were at full strength when they took the court for their two games last week.

Sophomore DeMarcus Nelson, who has missed a total of 12 games this season with two separate injuries to his right ankle, returned to the lineup against Virginia Tech Jan. 26. He has averaged 18 minutes in the two games since his return. The guard is still not 100 percent healthy, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said, but his presence on the court has made an immediate impact for the 19-1 Blue Devils.

“It’s a plus —believe me —having DeMarcus able to play,” Krzyzewski said. “[lt] makes us an older team, a more veteran team so to speak and definitely a deeper team.”

In some ways the injury to Nelson was a blessing for Duke, which lost just one game in his absence. The Blue Devils’ other key contributors played more minutes and developed their games while Nelson was sidelined. Now with die return of the sophomore, who was expected to be Duke’s third option on offense, the Blue Devils should be even more dangerous on both ends of the court.

No one stepped into his new role better than senior guard Sean Dockery, who is averaging career highs in points, rebounds, assists and steals.

“When people talk about role players sometimes it takes on a connotation that they are less, not really that good,” Krzyzewski said. “Really most players are role players, whether it be at our level or the NBA, and how well do you fulfill that role? Sean has been adaptable to whatever role we put him in.”

Now that Nelson is back, however, both Dockery and freshman point guard Greg Paulus will need to adjust to the incorporation of Nelson into the rotation.

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Freshman Josh Mcßoberts has scored 7.3 points per game this season for theBlue Devils.

Two years ago, Duke won its first meet against North Carolina after 30 consecutive losses to the Tar Heels.

After losing last year’s rivalry match, the Blue Devils are eager to knock off the Tar Heels once again.

Duke will travel to Chapel Hill’s Carmichael Auditorium to take on the UNC grapplers at 7:30 p.m. Although the Blue Devils (0-7, 0-2 in the ACC) have yet vs. to pull out a win this season, they will have a chance to defeat this year’s Tar Heels (12-8-1, 0-2-1), who have been TONIGHT, 7:30 p.m. plagued by injuries.

Despite winning last year’s ACC ChamChapel Hill, N.C. pionship, UNC went without a win in its first three ACC dual meets this season. The Tar Heels’ injury-ridden roster has left them short of last season’s championship form—the squad was forced to forfeit four bouts SEE WRESTLING ON PAGE 12

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The Blue Devils will attempt to pick up what would be only their second win over the Tar Heels in the last 33 meetings tonight in North Carolina's Carmichael Auditorium.

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ACC STANDINGS ACC Overall Duke 7-0 19-1 State N.C. 5-2 16-4 Maryland 4-2 14-5 BC 4-3 16-4 Miami 4-3 12-8 4-3 10-7 Virginia 3-3 12-5 UNO Florida St. 3-4 12-5 Clemson 3-4 142-5 9Ga. Tech Wake 1-6 1 Va. Tech 1-6 11

AROUND THE AGO [ While Chris Paul’s presence in Oklahoma City has made him the front-runner for the NBA’s Rookie of the Year, his absence from Winston-Salem has spelled trouble for the Demon Deacons.

Despite returning its top two

WAKE FOREST scorers from last year, Wake Forest has been unable to find a serviceable floor general as the Demon Deacons have floundered to a 1-6 start in the ACC. Seniors Justin Gray and Eric Williams have continued to put up impressive numbers, but Gray has struggled with his adjustment to the point guard position. He is averaging more than 3.5 turnovers per game.

The turnover bug has hit the entire Wake Forest team and the effects are evident on both

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getting good possessions every time down the floor, it’s pollyannaish to be talking about things like that.”

After Saturday’s 76-70 home loss to Virginia Tech, Wake Forest—which was picked to finish third in the ACC before the season—now sits at the bottom of the conference standings.

Adding to the turmoil are rut Prosser will leave season to take the fling position at the of Cincinnati. Prossised to comment on and has instead foorrecting his team’s ;mg >ues. ive to start turning it dosser said. “We think jood enough guys to >etter than how we are r right now.”

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After leading scorer Chris McCray was suspended for the season Jan. 24, Maryland was forced to restructure its offense around a veteran starting guard, senior Nik Caner-Medley, and a new one, junior Mike Jones.

Since the overhaul, CanerMedley has logged more playing time and has returned to his role as the first offensive option.

Before the Terrapins’ 86-74 win over Georgia Tech Jan. 25, Caner-Medley had been averaging 13.8 points per game.

Against the Yellow Jackets, the guard had 33 points and went 8for-12 from the field, 2-for-2 from behind the arc and 15-for-16 from the free throw line.

“He’s stepped it up, since we lost McCray especially, and he’s more aggressive with the basketball,” Maryland head coach Gary Williams said.

“Our guys are doing a pretty good job of understanding

that he is away we can still score. He’s been rebounding very well and he’s gotten some things off the offensive glass that he hadn’t been getting before. I think he’s picked up the level of his game.”

In Maryland’s Jan. 28 loss to Temple in Philadelphia, Caner-

Medley dropped 30 points to go along with 10 rebounds and five assists.

To complement Caner-Medley’s strong play, Jones has embraced his new role as McCray’s replacement—the junior scored 12 and 23 points against Georgia Tech and Temple, respectively.

“He’s been ready to step in there,” Williams said. “We’ve had good guards in front of him while he’s been here, and now he’s getting a chance to start.

He’s always been able to shoot.”

Although the Terrapins have done well offensively in McCray’s absence from the perimeter, they have struggled on defense.

“Scoring wasn’t a problem against Temple —we scored 85 points,” Williams said. “We just gave up way too many points, way too many free throws.... McCray is a great defensive guard—[losing him] affected our defense a little bit. We have to step it up there.”

In its loss to Temple, Maryland gave up 12 three-pointers and sent the Owls’ guards to the line 35 times.

The Terrapins will take on three conference opponents in the next week—North Carolina and N.C. State on the road and Virginia at home.

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M. BBALL from page 9 Krzyzewski said Nelson’s return should

affect freshman Josh Mcßoberts, whom the team is still determining how to best utilize. Krzyzewski also acknowledged that it will take time to reacclimate Nelson.

“Greg and Sean’s minutes will be affected because ofDeMarcus to where they don’t need to pace themselves at anytime in the game,” Krzyzewski said. “Learning that right now is critical. Same thing for DeMarcus when he gets in—not to pace himself, just to go all out. We’ll figure it out as we’re playing these games.” not

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against Navy and two against Maryland in dual meets Jan. 28.

“They are a tough team,” Duke senior Levi Craig said ofUNC. “They are a little banged up right now, so I think we have a good chance. It’s time to get an ACC win and doing it against Carolina at Carolina would be a wonderful way to do it.”

The 2003-2004 Duke team went on to win the ACC Championship after defeating UNC, but this year’s team is not following along the same path. The Blue Devils have been unable to come within five points of a win in any of their dual meets, including their 21-12 loss to Maryland Jan. 28.

Freshman Michael Degli Obizzi, who was named ACC Wrestler of the Week Jan. 23, said even though the team has not managed to win this year, it has felt competitive in every match. Obizzi said if the Blue Devils had pulled out some <tlose bouts they would have garnered more victories.

After every match this year, the team has left shaking their heads, head coach

Clar Anderson said “We’d like to salvage the year with some wins and wrestiing to the ability that we should be wrestiing to,” Anderson said.

Assistant coach Corey Bell pointed to the upper weight classes —174 pounds and up—as Duke’s best opportunity to pick up some key victories in what he believes are toss-ups.

In the 184-pound weight class, sophomore Dan Tulley will likely face UNC sophomore Justin Dobies, who is undefeated in ACC competition this season.

Tulley has won his last two matches in dual meets against UNC Greensboro and Maryland. In the heavyweight class freshman Wade Van Sickle will have his hands full with 12th-ranked UNC sophomore Spencer Nadolsky.

When Bell—a former UNC wresder and four-time ACC Champion—came to coach at Duke, the team was in the midst of its losing streak against the Tar Heels.

Now, the Blue Devil coach is rooting for another Duke win.

“We broke that record two years ago,” Bell said. “And another win against them would be a good sign that the team is heading in the right direction.”

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Josh Mcßoberts has struggled with hisfree throws, shooting just 52.5 percent from the line this year.

MOORE from page 9 more than 50 percent of their team’s points—the last 10 title teams’ top scoring pair has averaged 42 percent of its squad’s output. This year, Williams and Redick are

accountingfor a nearly unheard of 56 percent ofDuke’s scoring.

Yes, while it is working just fine right now, there is going to be a game in the tournament when Williams will be in foul

trouble. Nearly every championship team has had at least one tourney game where someone unexpected has to step up.

In 2003, freshman Billy Edelin came off the bench to score 20 points and bring Syracuse back from 17 down to beat Oklahoma State in the second round. In ’O2, Tahj Holden scored 13 for Maryland against Kansas when Lonny Baxter was in foul trouble.

Mcßoberts will be that guy for Duke, but only if he has the avenues by which to do it.

Many of his points this season have come off fast breaks, broken plays and times when a team is bold enough to play a zone against the Blue Devils. Against a man-toman in the half-court set, Mcßoberts is a forgotten threat as he sets screens and swings the ball from side to side.

There is one team in particular that necessitates the need to work Mcßoberts further into the offense. I am of course talking about Connecticut—the most talented and balanced team in the nation this year and the reason there are not five banners currently hanging in Cameron.

The Huskies feature a starting frondine of 6-foot-ll Hilton Armstrong, 6-foot-10 Josh Boone and 6-foot-9 Rudy Gay, the kind of size Duke has only seen from one opponent this year—Georgetown.

In each of the previous two Final Four meetings, Jim Calhoun has succeeded in shutting down Duke’s lone inside presence. Only a confident Mcßoberts in an expanded role can keep Calhoun from tri-

umphing again.

While it may seem premature to look ahead to one specific team—the Final Four is a good two months away—this Duke squad has had one stated mission since the beginning of the year. So why not prepare for the best team standing in the way?

One of the main reasons Mcßoberts hasn’t yet been a focal point is his inconsistency from the foul line. He’s shooting a Shaq-like 52 percent from the charity stripe, compared to Williams’ 76 percent.

“He has struggled from the line, but at the beginning of his senior year he was shooting about 90 percent—a lot of it is confidence,” Mark Galloway, Mcßoberts’ high school coach, said. “A lot of times he is hard on himself, he’s almost a perfectionist.”

Short of Redick taking Mcßoberts in front of a bathroom mirror and giving him the “I see pride, I see power” pep talk from Cool Runnings, making Mcßoberls the focal point of some offensive sets seems to be the most obvious way to boost the freshman’s confidence.

And a confident Mcßoberts means a more complete Duke team and a better chance at the fourth banner.

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Because the deadline occurs long bethe beginning ofevery academic year seniors come to the same fore the actuality of graduation enters realization: They only have two most students’ minds, many students semesters left before leaving Duke’s con- never even consider the option. A year fines and venturing out into the real later with a full $15,710 tuition bill cornworld. For the past several ing due, many of them reStdffedltOridl gret that omission. Partyears, that realization has time tuition, which allows been coupled with a new complaint: Why do I have to pay for two for two credits plus a half-credit gym class, is only about $7,500. full semesters at Duke?

Of course, that tuition savings for the The new grievance arises as the soonto-be-departing undergraduates realize student is a major part of why the Unithey have accrued more than enough versity manages to keep the part-time credits to be part-time students during option pretty quiet. In past years, it has their eighth semester, and they simulta- not even been mentioned. This year neously realize that Duke won’t let them students received a long e-mail from their deans that mentioned the Feb. 10 take that option.

The deadline for declaring intent to deadline at the bottom. take a part-time course load during the Duke claims to have good reasons last semester of college occurs nearly a for the early deadline. Budget decifull year before it even begins. By Feb. sions are made during the summer, 10—that is just a week from Friday—junand the constant struggle to balance iors must inform their deans that they the budget comes down to thousands want to be part-time students during of dollars in many areas, and knowing their last semester. exactly how much money is coming __

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Students who fail to declare their part-time intent early can find themselves stuck in a lackluster semester. Because it’s in Duke’s interests to have full-time students, it is easy to stay at full-time status if a student changes his mind. But the move in the other direction is barred.

The solution to this problem is unlikely to be forthcoming from the University. But for all juniors who think they might be eligible to take a reduced load in their last semester, the best move is to declare intent now. You can always change back.

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credit card out of my wallet, one backpack, 16 pounds of top-grade uncut cocaine—l mean, a cell (that’s phone what we call cell phones on Central) and my roommate’s keys.

The thief even took a big jar full of spare change that we had been grodzinsky saving all semes-

lot of people at Duke have a bad attitude about Central Campus. For whatever reason, people do not generally see Central as a desirable place to live. I, for one, am quite perplexed by this view.

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I have lived on Central this whole jake year, and I think it’s great. One of ter. bootyiicious the best things He then drove about living on away in my roomCentral is that you really never mate’s car, but not before he know what to expect. On Central, poured soda all over our laplife is full of fun, little surprises. tops—what a rascal!

For example, not too long My roommate and I have come after moving into our apartment up with a few theories on just how last semester, a stray cat living in a this master thief completed such a street drain right outside our clean job. door had a litter of cute, cuddly The first, and most likely, is that he crawled through the .little kittens.

We fed them occasionally and heating vents in our building had the privilege of watching until he was directly over our livthem mature from little fur balls ing room, then lowered himself to mischievous adolescents, to down on a pulley avoiding the curious young adults and, finally, lasers and the heat-sensitive to mangled bloody half-rotted floor. He then hacked into the carcasses after a sweet little racapartment’s computer system coon decided that the storm and disabled the automatic door drain would be a perfect place to locks (joke’s on him though, start her garbage rummaging op’cause now he’s got avian flu). eration.

The second theory is that he Another time, we found a bird walked in through the front door, living in our air conditioning took the stuff and then left—but vent. Isn’t that something?! To that’s a little far-fetched. make it worse, the first time we However, it wasn’t until well turned on the heat, my roommate after the incident that the real and I both came down with a revelation came to me. I realized that the net worth of our apartnasty flu. It must have had something to do with airplanes because ment and assets had just gone the doctor said it was “avian.” down about $20,000 ($276,000 if The latest fun little surprise ocyou count the “cell phone”), and curred last Saturday. We woke up neither one of us was really that to find that somebody had come upset. into our living room while we How could that be? How is it were sleeping and taken the folthat after having a person violate lowing things: all the cash and the our privacy and security in such

an extreme fashion could we stay so unfazed?

Then it hit me —we’re used to it. We’ve been getting robbed for years—by Duke. We’ve grown accustomed to getting ripped off.

The main difference between Duke and the guy who robbed me is that he had the decency to do it at night when we couldn’t see him. When Duke rips us off, they do it right in front of our faces.

You might think it takes guts to walk into somebody’s apartment while they’re sleeping and rob them. But it really takes guts to rip somebody off and then tell them that you are right and they’re wrong.

Making it even worse, the guy who ripped me off most likely needed the money—I’ll bet he’s never spent a cent over $25,000 on a bench, even if it was “Spanish.”

If this guy really wanted to hurt me, he wouldn’t have poured soda on my computer —he’d have told me that he could fix the computer for free and then put his office in the most obscure part of the Duke campus imaginable.

And when I finally found him, he would tell me to go to the Apple Store, because he didn’t know how to fix Macs.

If this guy really wanted to steal our money and cars, he wouldn’t have taken our credit cards and keys—he would have gotten a job with Duke parking.

Sure, this guy stole my money.

But at least he didn’t charge me $7 for a crappy California roll.

Duke is the true master thief, and it doesn’t even have to use

pulleys.

Jake Grodzinsky is a Trinity junior.

His column runs every other Tuesday.

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lettertotheeditor RLHS lacks sympathy In response to the Jan. 26 article on housing, “Juniors Juggle Housing Plans”: Students who were abroad got that e-mail from Duke (in the second week of November) and were told to choose one of two options.

First: to satisfy the goal of community on campus, we are sprinkling half of the students throughout the empty nooks that no one else wants on each of two campuses—including some great spots in buildings that were broken into multiple times last semester.

The second half of us re-

turning from study abroad get to live off campus—and are given nothing.

I would hope for all of our sakes that we have access and cash for international communication with Durham apartment complexes, not to mention a boatload of time to spend looking into this, because we had fewer than two months to secure an

apartment in a limited market that’s almost at capacity—all while overseas.

Hull Perhaps Eddie should reconsider his comments. Perhaps there are reasons why half-intelligent Duke undergraduates would try to put down a deposit at another housing establishment. Perhaps there are reasons why our “obligation to the University” is not as strongly felt when that University pays lip service to “community” at every turn and then scatters the junior class in order to collect overpriced rent on horrible apartments and dorms that no one else wanted.

Perhaps you could try and fathom a returning student’s situation.

Perhaps this housing process should be revisited.

And RLHS perhaps should try to use its energies to solve this annually scheduled disaster.

Matthew M. Yelovich —

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A call for louder discourse I’mThere,

a Tar Heel for the semester.

I said it.

As part of the Robertson Scholars program I’m spending a semester in residence on UNO’s campus, taking classes and living in the dorms. The switch has taken some getting used mm. to, but I’m really

beginning to enjoy my “study abroad” eight miles down

vironmental history of the Middle Ages. To be fair, I worked hard to pick small, interesting classes from the school’s vast catalogue. Yet, for these past weeks I’ve found myself surrounded by classmates who have been passionate and engaged throughout class discussions. And

most perhaps shocking—some-

times discussion mm the road has even continI’ve been trying ued outside of the david fiocco to put my finger on classroom. why the campus atshades of blue At Duke when the Duke Democmosphere feels so different in Chapel Hill. I’m not rats organized a filibuster and unsure I’ve totally figured it out. Most abashedly spoke from the quad of the time I’m still just trying to about an issue that deeply confind my way back to my dorm. cerned them, they were either igBut one thing I haven’t found nored or ostracized. It was UNC’s is the overbearing feeling of preDaily Tar Heel that was first to reprofessionalism that pervades port on the event.

Duke’s campus.

At UNC, such a display would Instead, I’ve seen a passion and fit right in. The campus is full of a zeal for a huge range of global isactivists sharing their passions and sues—in and out of class. There debating social issues around the world. Last year on UNC’s campus was a packed auditorium for a conversation with the filmmakers of a students slept on the quad in tents new documentary about child for days—except it wasn’t for baslabor. Habitat for Humanity stuketball tickets. The camp was a dent groups traveling to Honduras mock-refugee camp to raise awareand Thailand have hosted several ness of Sudanese genocide. There fundraisers in just the past two was the die-in for Darfur, the Day weeks. And at least in the liberal of Solidarity for Israel and Palesarts classes I’m taking, it seems like tine and a fast-a-thon for world people are interested in what we hunger. Last April, one quad on UNC’s campus played host to are discussing because it’s interesting—not just because recruiters three simultaneous protests from Goldman Sachs or JP Moragainst Sudanese genocide, crisis in Cambodia and abortion. gan might approve of the course.

In fact, in the first three weeks I’m not trying to suggest Duke of class, I’ve had some of the most students don’t care. We certainly have a small population of engaged stimulating discussions of my college experience, ranging from the activists who are just as committed origin of man’s dignity to Socialist as anyone at UNC. And as apathetic Realism Soviet literature to the enas so much of Duke’s population is,

I can’t even prove there is less apathy at UNC. There are a lot more students, so of course it seems like there is a lot more activism.

Whatever the actual proportion of activists is, when I walk across campus at UNC and see multiple groups calling out their messages and flocks of students clustered to listen, I feel a little inspired. I remember that the world outside the college bubble does exist. I see people who are concerned about what’s going on and believe they can make a difference. I become encouraged; I want to make a difference, too.

When students on our campus do stand up and try to raise the level of awareness on our campus, why not create some discourse?

Tell the filibusterers why you think Alito should be confirmed. If you get really ambitious, research a thing or two about Alito before your discussion, and then it could even be an educated conversation.

True, it’s not going to change whether or not Alito is confirmed.

You probably won’t end world hunger no matter how you demonstrate. You can raise awareness though, and that’s certainly the first step to any change.

The 15 minutes you spend might not help a bit when you are applying for that consulting internship, but it will make you a more interesting person. You just may find an issue that you feel passionately about. You don’t have to give up that investment banking or consulting career, but you might find that you can be committed to a cause and make money at the same time.

David Fiocco is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other

Tuesday.

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year, The Chronicle does a little dance with the Interfratemity Council and the Panhellenic Council. It goes something like this: Step 1: IFC and Panhel refuse to release data on how many bids ■R each fraternity and I sorority extended and m how many were accepted, with each chapter referring questions up the chain of command and offering a series of elliott wolf generic, positive adjectransparency tives to describe their respective recruitments (“successful” is the catch-all term) Step 2: The Chronicle, being made up of students who are familiar and even friends with members of fraternities and sororities, makes a few calls and gets pretty much all of the information that IFC and Panhel refused to release.

Step 3: The Chronicle publishes all of the data, along with the fact that IFC and Panhel refused to release them—making IFC and Panhel look as if they have something to hide and making The Chronicle look good for obtaining information that it technically shouldn’t have.

And although this is a very public and well-known example of counterproductive institutional secrecy, it’s unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg; Duke keeps much more significant information hidden, for the same reasons that Todd Adams, assistant dean of students in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, described when I

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asked why IFC and Panhel refuse to release bid numbers: The data isn’t released “because it doesn’t do them any perceivable good” to do so. They are also hesitant “because of the editorializing” that generally ensues, he said.

This is somewhat amusing and also very disturbing considering that we are, after all, a university. We would have a hard time engaging in academic discourse if professors applied those two criteria to the release of their own research and, as students, we reap the benefits of the selfless release of information and the ensuing (often opinionated) discussion.

Ironically, these are the two things that Adams believes preclude the release of the bid data.

But aside from embarrassing IFC and Panhel, such secrecy can have more tangible impacts.

Considering the ARAMARK debacle, Duke (like IFC and Panhel) has had no reason to admit publicly that it erred in bringing ARAMARK here and has every reason to fear the outcry associated with that admission. Although Jim Wulforst, director of Dining Services, has been extraordinarily courageous in his. criticism and honesty, other officials haven’t been as forthcoming.

Instead, The Chronicle is left to “obtain” documents from anonymous sources and dig very deeply to see what factors are really at play. One such document, a January 2003 internal memo from Wulforst to then-Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joe Pietrantoni, described “the general sense of disappointment with ARAMARK at Duke since their arrival at Duke 18 months ago.”

But, had someone not stamped “CONFIDENTIAL” on top of that memo, a public outcry might have saved us from struggling with this for five long years. But instead, three years after Wulforst secretly wrote what was already

on everyone’s mind, we are left to assume the worst as to

why more action wasn’t taken.

Other excellent examples of the so-called Adams Phi-

losophy are seen in publicly available documents as well.

In October, I wrote about a drastic decline in the detail of some of Duke’s public financial reports which detailed profits from housing, cable television and other student services which were seemingly diverted to athletics. Duke officials gave inconsistent explanations as to why such controversial information was no longer being reported, and then later simply removed the new, less-detailed version of the report within 48 hours of the column running.

This is nothing out of the ordinary, and Duke has used its status as a private institution to hide information about the endowment, housing, dining, parking, development and almost every other division. Whether it’s course evaluations or internal budgets, Duke applies the Adams Philosophy to the release ofinformation and dances with The Chronicle and many others over what it will disclose.

This doesn’t make administrators automatically corrupt or prove any malicious intent, but it does leave us to speculate. And given that the Daily Tar Heel was able to sue for the right to sit in on private hearings and can request any document from any division under the Freedom of Information Act, I don’t see any reason why Duke shouldn’t hold itself to the same standard.

But in the mean time, I’m enjoying the rush I get when I see that big red stamp on something that I’m not supposed to have. If the National Security Agency can’t keep a secret, Duke definitely can’t.

Elliott

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a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every

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