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32 killed in riots in Middle East

GOP agrees on Patriot Act changes by

David Espo

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON A band ofSenate Republican holdouts reached agreement

Thursday with the White House on changes in the PatriotAct designed to clear the way for passage of anti-terror legislation stalled in a dispute over civil liberties.

Sen. John Summit, R-N.H.. noted that the changes, quickly endorsed by at least two Democrats, would better “protect civil liberties even as we give law enforcement important tools to conduct terrorism in-

vestigations.”

The White House embraced the deal.

Presidential spokesperson Scott Mc-

Clellan said the agreement would “continue to build upon the civil liberties protections that are in place but do so in a way that doesn’t compromise our national security priorities.”

“We’re pleased that this important legislation is moving forward,” he said.

The compromise focused on three areas: —Giving recipients of court-approved subpoenas for information in insurgency investigations the right to challenge a requirement that they refrain from telling anyone.

—Eliminating a requirement that an individual provide the FBI with the name of

a lawyer consulted about a National Security Letter, which is a demand for records issued by investigators.

—Clarifying that most libraries are not subject to demands in those letters for information about suspected insurgents.

While there was no immediate reaction from House Republicans, Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, one of the Senate negotiators, said House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., was kept apprised of the negotiations.

Craig said with the Senate and the White House now in concert, “there will be no additional negotiations” with the House.

Reaction from Democrats was divided.

U.S. hostage asks for help in video by

Qassim Abdul-Zahra

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD, Iraq Kidnapped American joumalistjill Carroll appeared in a video aired Thursday on a private Kuwaiti TV station, appealing in a calm, composed voice for her supporters to do whatever it takes to win her release “as quickly as possible.”

Carroll, wearing traditional Arab attire, said the date was Feb. 2, nearly a month after she was seized in Baghdad by armed men who killed her Iraqi translator. She was shown sitting on a chair in front of a wall with a large floral design.

The. 28-year-old freelance reporter for

The Christian Science Monitor said she had sent one letter and was sending another to “prove I am with the mujahedeen.”

“I sent you a letter written by my hand, but you wanted more evidence,” she said.

“I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as possible. There is very short time. Please do it fast. That’s all.”

The 22-second video was carried by A1 Rai TV, a private Kuwaiti channel, and included audio, unlike two previous videos of Carroll that were broadcast by AlJazeera television.

The tape was delivered earlier Thursday

Rai’s Baghdad office and was aired in its entirety, Hani al-Srougi, an editor at the station’s headquarters in Kuwait, told The Associated Press. It was accompanied by a letter written by Carroll.

•■The newscaster said on the air that the station would hand the letter over to authorities but would not disclose the letter’s to A1

content.

“I assume that A1 Rai has given the material they received to the Kuwaiti authorities, who I am confident will take the appropriate action at the earliest possible time,” said Tania Anderson, a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait.

A suicide bomber struck Thursday in Hangu, Pakistan, on the holiest festival for Shiite Muslims, triggering a riot that left at least 27 people dead and more than 50 wounded. In neighboring Afghanistan, hundreds of Shiites and Sunnis clashed in the western city of Herat. At least five people were killed and 51 wounded.

Bush: Spying thwarts attacks Under fire for eavesdropping on Americans, President George W. Bush said Thurs-

day that spy work stretching from the United States to Asia helped thwart terrorists plotting to use shoe bombs to hijack an airliner and crash it into the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast.

Altruist leads in Haitian vote

Rene Preval, a former president seen as a champion of the poor, appeared headed toward victory Thursday as the first partial returns put him in the lead in Haiti's presidential election.

Brit charged with killing wife Neil Entwistle, 27, whose wife and 9-monthold baby daughter were found shot to death in a bed at the couple's home in suburban Boston, was arrested on murder charges Thursday in his native England.

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Residents of Giles Dormitory on East Campus awoke Sunday morning to find their building ransacked.

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Freshman Chris Lee has picked up the hobby of online poker and plays for several hours every week.

Cake batter and eggs were splattered over the walls of the kitchen, a window screen was kicked out and slashed and two fire extinguishers were stolen. Additionally, two paintings had been ripped off the walls.

The total cost of the damage was valued at approximately $1,050.

A student also discovered poster board in the dorm’s oven Sunday morning when she tried to use the stove and smelled the paper burning.

The damages are believed to have occurred sometime after 2 a.m. Sunday morning, but they were not reported until Sunday at 4 p.m., when a resident as-

sistant discovered the wreckage.

“Every indication has been that it was one or two students who are residents of Giles,” said Lisa Beth Bergene, East’s assistant dean for residence life. “There’s a common thread that runs through what people have heard in the Marketplace, on the bus and so on.”

She said all information has been passed to Duke University Police Department, which is conducting an investigation into the vandalism. Because of the cost, it is a larceny violation, Bergene said.

In response to the incident, Residence Life and Housing Services officials have lowered three sanctions on the dorm.

Until March 20, Giles House Council funding is frozen, and card access will be restricted to Giles residents only, 24 hours

Ante up: Students make big bucks in online poker Buzz about theater’s future leads to anxious A&S talks by

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Although many college kids still associate “poker” with plastic chips and pizza in the commons room, a growing number of students are thinking more along the lines of computer screens and bank accounts.

Online poker, an increasingly popular pastime on college campuses across the country, has found its place at Duke.

Every day, students buy into games on sites like PokerStars.com in hopes of becoming poker stars themselves by pulling in tens of thousands of dollars. g “I used to play py & & M JR in high school V4 with my friends £ W f 1 f *9 really casually,” said Jason Strass00 ***** er, a junior and

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Chronicle sports writer who was recently profiled in Sports Illustrated for his online poker skills. “Halfway through my freshman year, someone introduced me to online poker.”

From that point on, Strasser’s hobby became his main source ofincome.

A biomedical engineering major, Strasser made more than $50,000 in 2005 alone according to Sports Illustrated. He has funded his own travels to Europe and other countries where he competes in

high-stakes tournaments.

“I like to travel. That’s what poker has donefor me,” Strasser said.

But he insists that his big spending ends there. Despite his formidable income, Strasser insists that his spending habits are not out of the ordinary for a college student. “I bought a watch.... I eat

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Steve Veres

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Rumors about a significant cutback

to or the possible elimination of the theater studies department were dismissed at Thursday’s meeting of the Arts and

Sciences Council.

There have been talks, however, about changing the structure of the department in some forai, said George McLendon, dean of the faculty ofArts and Sciences.

He added that the decision would be best left up to the faculty.

“I’m quite sure the department won’t be eliminated and quite sure it won’t be substantially decimated,” McLendon said. “If change in some form is the best way to do theaterstudies at Duke, we want to do it the best way we can.”

He pointed to the literature pro-

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gram, which is not a department but is successful nonetheless, as a potential model for change.

“I’m completely agnostic on whether the best way to [improve theater studies] is as a department, which tends to be have a more insular formation, or as a program, which tends to be of more inclusive formation,” he said. “That’s the kind of things that the faculty decide, not deans.”

McLendon said he has talked with the chair of the department and is open to having discussions in the broader community.

Faculty anxiety remained high, however, leading to impassioned speeches at the meeting about the importance of the arts at the University and calls for an amendment to the Council and University bylaws.

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NASHER from page 1 In comparison, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’sAckland Art Museum welcomes around 3,500 visitors each month, roughly halfNasher’s average.

Rorschach estimated that between 25 and 30 percent of the Nasher’s visitors are connected to the University, while an another 50 percent reside in the Triangle.

Bringing in Durham residents, whose visits are subsidized by The Herald-Sun, can help to foster good town-gown relations, Rorschach noted.

Some visitors have complained about the need to pay for parking —a policy intended to prevent University students and faculty from using the Nasher lot.

“People have complained a lot about the fact that they have to pay for parking,” Rorschach said. “They’ve seen that as very unfriendly of Duke.”

Nasher officials said they also recognize a need to work on attracting student visitors.

“We’ve had good success with Duke students, but we can do better,” Rorschach said. “There are many students who 1 haven’t visited the museum yet/ The presence of the Museum Cafe has helped bring students to the facility.

“At the beginning, we didn’t have as many students as we would prefer,” said the cafe’s chef Amy Tornquist, who also founded Sage and Swift Gourmet Catering.

She has tried to appeal to the museum’s diverse visitors with varied menu options. More students are coming now, especially during the cafe’s Thursday dinner opening hours.

Undergraduates also come to the museum to attend the handful ofclasses hosted there or to see—or work —on student-organized exhibitions.

Richard Powell, professor of art and

history, is working with undergraducomplete the exhibition “Conjuring Bearden,” honoring artist Romare Bearden, which will open in March.

“The facility is 10 times better than our previous facility,” Powell said, referring to the former Duke University Museum of Art that once existed on East Campus.

Such educational activities are major components of the Nasher’s mission.

Patricia heighten, professor of art and art history and chair of the department, described the museum as an integral part of a broader administrative initiative to more strongly emphasize all the arts at the University.

At the moment, heighten said, the visual arts program suffers from a lack of both faculty and funding, which has resulted in large waitlists for many classes. “[The Nasher] is kind of a spearhead to bring attention to the visual arts at Duke,” heighten said. “We’re hoping that faculty positions will be central to the vision... of improving the profile of the arts at Duke.”

The Nasher’s collections and exhibitions have been major draws for visitors and boons in the University’s push for an enhanced arts community. An exhibition of former Duke and NBA basketball player Grant Hill’s collection of African-American art is expected to attract more visitors when it opens in March.

Despite its initial successes, the Nasher is not settling. In addition to seeking even more visitors, it will expand its permanent collection, which Rorschach described as strong but “disparate.”

She said she intends to acquire mainly modern works, noting that Nasher is courting several potential donors with contemporary art collections.

“We want to do everything better,” Rorschach said. “But you learn by doing.” art

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Vandalism in McClendon Tower and Giles Dormitory were topics at the Campus Council meeting Thursday.

CC from page 4 walkway or removing all furniture from the area permanently.

“We’ll then have a wonderful space that no one could use,” he said.

The vandalism problem is not limited to the McClendon Tower walkway, Council representatives noted. They also addressed damages to Giles Dormitory Feb. 5.

In the early morning hours, an unknown group of students tore pictures from the walls, punctured a window screen in the laundry room and splattered raw eggs in the kitchen.

In addition, three of the dormitory’s five fire extinguishers were hidden in a refrigerator, and the other two disappeared.

The vandals also placed pieces of poster board in an oven.

“To me, it’s not the cost. It’s the behavior itself,” Hull said. “The issue is whether or not people are respecting the homes

that people live in.”

Hull added that responsibility falls upon all students.

“There are students out therewho know who is doing this, and they’re allowing it to happen,” he said. “People who think that’s okay have no business being here, period.”

Members of Campus Council discussed ways to better inform students of the dangers of such behavior. The organization hopes to encourage students who become aware of such vandalism to report it.

“It’s a collective action problem,” said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a junior. “When you’re an individual, it’s hard to see the big picture.”

Hull said he hopes such a proactive initiative will be effective.

“How do we instill a society where people take account for their actions?” he asked. “I refuse to accept that as a community we cannot adopt a principle that refuses this kind of behavior.” .

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Arts and Sciences faculty should happen department was safe. it immediate unless it comes through this body,” said “Although appears that no structural change will take place at this Naomi Quinn, professor emeritus of the time, the level of faculty anxiety is still too Department of Cultural Anthropology. “I high, questions regarding process linger do worry that down the road there will be and clear and effective communication some dean that doesn’t decide he is going across units broke down,” Baker wrote in an to listen to this body or solicit our opinion. e-mail to members of the Council Feb. 7.

I have lived through enough deans to Representatives also wanted assurance know that that happens.” that the Dean’s Office will consult the She called for a joint committee from Council on decisions affecting Trinity Colthe Academic Council and the Arts and lege—a stipulation not required constitu- Sciences Council to decide how to implement this change. tionally by the University.

Paul Haagen, professor in the Law The Academic Council must weigh in on major decisions facing the University before School and chair of the Academic Counthey are brought to the Board of Trustees. cil, said as of now, the best way for Arts In contrast, the Arts and Sciences Council and Sciences Council members to voice can determine academic decisions facing their concerns on structural changes is Trinity College, but it only has an advise- through discourse with Academic Counand-consent responsibility to the deans in cil representatives or with other faculty who are on committees that would help response to major changes.

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Sarah Beckwith, professor of English with a secondary appointment in theater studies, said the theater studies department is central to the arts initiative on campus.

“What happens to this small unit could dramatically reduce the future of the arts at Duke,” she said, noting that theater studies needs more funding and support.

She called for a vote of confidence in the continued existence of the department, which the Council applauded.

Lee Baker, chair of the Council and professor in the department of cultural anthropology, said rumors about the department’s elimination have been floating for the last two weeks. They emerged from either the Provost’s or President’s Office, he said.

After speaking with McLendon and other deans, Baker learned that the short-

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the American people sent us to Washington to do,” Bush said before signing the legislation, according to CNN. Congress narrowly passed the bill Feb. 2, with a 216-214 vote in the House of Representatives. Republican members of Congress said the legislation will reallocate funds to address emergency issues, such as rebuilding afflicted areas after Hurricane Katrina.

“Once again, House Republicans are on record as defending budget discipline,” said Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mont.

The bill will slash a total of $39 billion from the federal budget during the next five years and make significant cuts to other programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and farm subsidies.

The night before the bill passed Congress, Bush stressed the importance of education and outlined his plan for the American Competitiveness Initiative an effort to increase student aptitude in science and math —in his State of the Union address.

Many leaders of student and education groups said they believe that these spending cuts are a step in the wrong direction. “[The bill] is going to hurt many —

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relations for the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Association. “In a time where the government should be encouraging students to go to college, [Congress] seems to be discouraging them.”

Approximately 800,000 parents take out PLUS loans annually, according to the Department of Education.

For families taking out a standard PLUS loan of $25,000, the additional interest would be $3,000 over four years.

McDowell said diverting student funds to other areas of the budget is unfair.

“Student aid makes half of one percent of the total federal budget, yet it’s being called upon to make up 30 percent of the budget ofKatrina relief,” he said.

Changes in federal student aid and grant policies are not likely to affect most Duke students, said Director of Financial Aid Jim Belvin, when he spoke to The Chronicle in January.

He stressed that the University will meet the financial needs of all students.

“Students will pay a slightly higher level of interest, but I don’t see that as putting additional pressure on the University,” Belvin said. “I’m not sounding an alarm.”

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The public policy and chemistry double major—who is also working toward a certificate in health policy—is currently in

his sixth semester as a teaching assistant for Public Policy 55. Fellow TA Brenna Benson, a senior, said she admires Sandesara’s dedication to the school.

“He’s very selfless,” she said, describing how Sandesara will stay as long as needed to help answer students’ questions. “He’s the kind of guy who you wish the best for.”

Sandesara, who was a semi-finalist for the position his sophomore year, believes the Young Trustee has the potential to be a great influence on Duke’s future.

“I, as an undergrad, have the power to make of my experience whatever I will. [As Young Trustee], I can shape [the University] in away that will benefit students that are to come after me,” he said. “The job of the Young Trustee is to bring this fresh, new, innovative perspective to the workings of the Board of Trustees.”

More specifically, Sandesara has three main ideas he would like to pursue.

First, his two years on the board of the Duke University Medical Center have led him to advocate for the medical school, DUMC and Duke University Health System collectively to have a more important place in students’ lives. He said students should take advantage of the opportunities the medical institutions offer. The three entities should also be integrated into the undergraduate experience, Sandesara said.

Second, after sitting on one of the Central Campus planning committees, Sandesara said he believes ensuring that Central Campus is both “transitive and transformative” is a crucial issue.

He envisions Central Campus to be a place where freshmen and sophomores can transition into upperclassmen and graduating students can be prepared for their lives after Duke.

“I want to bring both my ambitions and hopes for a really successful Central Campus project, along with some clearheaded thinking about what will and won’t work,” he said.

Third, Sandesara would like to continue promoting student diversity and

Sandesara was involved in raising money and awareness after an earthquake in SouthAsia lastfall.

bringing international students into the University community. “Renewing our commitment

to

financial aid” is vital to

accomplishing this task, he said.

Sandesara said he believes diversifying the student body is only possible if students are offered aid. A “cosmopolitan” community has the potential to bring “Duke’s influence intellectually, academically and as an educating force to places around the world and in turn bring those influences here,” Sandesara said.

But he is well aware of the challenges that will await him if he were to become a member of the board. “At the best I have ambition and perspective,” he said.

“That’s all I can hope to offer.”

Although he has been involved in numerous organizations in his four years at Duke —including Diya and the Global Health Initiative Steering Committee— Sandesara still makes time to watch classic movies at Lilly Library and cheer on Duke basketball.

“He is enthusiastic about everything he does,” senior Julianna Tabor said.

Sandesara is currendy in the process of applying to medical schools and considering a job in healthcare consulting. Ideally, he said he would like divide his time between practicing medicine as a primary care physician and working on healthcare policy, particularly addressing the issue of healthcare for the homeless.

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CHRONICLE “I think we need to be consisAfter playing games in front tent and play with a lot of heart,” of two sellout crowds at home in senior Monique Currie said. the span of seven days, No. 2 “There are a lot of talented teams Duke had a full out there so we want to get what week off before separates us from other teams.

Monday night’s Having a lot of heart and being 73-62 win at Vir- consistent are two things that ycould take us far.” ginia Tech.

Duke’s next obstacle is VirThough the game was never ginia, which the Blue Devils play at 7 p.m. in Cameron InTONIGHT, 7 p.m. in d°ubt in the tonight Cameron Indoor second half, the door Stadium.

Blue Devils (21-1, Virginia (13-8, 2-7) dropped 8-1 in the ACC) learned that con- only one of its first 12 regular seaference play—whether in the lime- son games, to then-No. 12 Minnesota. Despite the hot start, the young Cavaliers have struggled to adjust to ACC competition, and are currendy in the midst of a four-game losing streak.

“I think that this team with so manyyoung players having to play big roles, we’re not quite prepared for the intensity of die ACC,” Virginia head coach Debbie Ryan said. “It’s justtotally different from what they’ve seen early in the season with non-conference games in terms of intensity.”

Ryan has stressed the importance of toughness to her squad.

She attributed the team’s Jan. 16 win over Virginia Tech to intense defensive play.

She said that when her team plays aggressive defense like that, it has the chance to win.

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No. 2 Duke (22-1, 10-0 in the ACC) and Redick have a chance to fix that Saturday. The Blue Devils travel north to play Maryland, the only team they have not dominated for the past three and a half years, at 1 p.m. Redick’s Duke teams are 44 against the Terrapins (15-7, 54), including a loss in the finals of the 2004 ACC Tournament.

“The Duke-Maryland rivalry is very intense, there are not a lot of friendly feelings between the two schools,” Redick said. “Certainly we have respect for their coaches and players and I am friends with a couple of guys on their team, but overall there seems to be an

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After taking home its first win of the season Feb. 4

against Campbell, the wresding team (1-9, 0-4 in the ACC) could not continue its momentum Thursday against Virginia Tech in Cameron Indoor Stadium, losing 21-18 in a meet that came down to the last bout.

The matchup pitted the ACC’s last two winless squads.

A major decision victory by 18 DUKE Duke’s Dan Tulley over Mark Czarny and a forfeit victory for Konrad Dudziak tied the meet at 18 going into the heavyweight fight between Blue Devil Wake Van Sickle and Hokie Mike Faust.

Faust jumped out to an early lead against Van Sickle and never looked back, closing the meet with a 13-6 decision that gave Virginia Tech (1-15, 1-3) the win.

Throughout the meet, close matches and missed opportunities characterized another Duke loss in a season of disappointments.

“You couldn’t write a B-rated flick as bad as this,” head coach Clar Anderson said.

The Hokies jumped out to a 12-0 lead after winning

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With Thursday's loss to Virginia Tech—their fourth ACC defeat of the season—theBlue Devils dropped to 1-9 on the season.

the first three matches “We didn’t expect to get pinned at 141,”Anderson said, referring to Wes Kuser’s match against Virginia Tech’s David Hoffman.

Duke was also surprised by freshman Michael Degli Obizzi’s loss at the 133-pound weight class. After a back and forth match resulted in a 9-9 tie at the end of regulation, Obizzi lost quickly in overtime.

“I don’tknow what happened,” Anderson said. “He just gave out. I don’t know if he’s getting sick or something.”

Despite the early deficit, the Blue Devils came back with a strong showing by Daniel Shvartsman at the 149pound weight class, in which he earned a technical fall victory, 21-6, over Joe Thompson. A win by Cameron Harms over Dave Kiley at 157 pounds put Duke within four.

Tough losses at the 165- and 174-pound weight classes, in which Aaron Glover and Levi Craig had trouble initiating offense, put the Hokies temporarily back in command.

But the Blue Devils came back once again.

Anderson said that the dual meet could have gone the other way had either Glover, Obizzi or Tulley—all of whom nearly pinned their opponents—finished his adversary off.

“It’s just frustrating on all accounts,” he said.

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Coming off a 5-1 defeat to High Point in their season-opener Wednesday, the Blue Devils are ready to get into the swing of things.

Duke will take the diamond at Jack Coombs Field again this afternoon at 3 p.m. for the first of three games against Seton Hall.

The Blue Devils (0-1) will finish up the series Saturyj day and Sunday at 1 p.m. and noon, respectively.

After getting off to a start bad Sean McNal3pm FRIDAY debut, head coaching s ty’ Jack Coombs Field the Blue Devils are eager for their three-game stretch against the Big East opponent.

“More than anything else we’ve just got to get on the field and play games,” McNally said. “I think that’s the best teacher.

That’s what’s fun about baseball, college baseball. You get so many chances. We don’t have to wait a week to play again. We get right back out on Friday and play three games. That’s the best thing for us.”

With only one game under its belt, Duke has already played more than Seton Hall, which will open the season with today’s road game.

And with the first-game jitters out of the way for his team, McNally is focusing on improving and gaining experience, rather than worrying about securing his first win as the Blue Devils’s head coach.

“In professional baseball, I lost my first one, then we won the second one, and then we lost five in a row,” McNally said. “So you

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“I really wanted Takisha to take a look at the defensive end of the court from the bench for a little while and then go in and make a difference,” Ryan said. “I think Takisha plays a much better game when she’s playing solid defense. She finds her offense a little bit better. She’s a rhythm player.”

For a team that relies on defense to generate offensive momentum, the Cavaliers could

struggle against a Blue Devil defense that only allows 62.1 points per game, which is second best in the ACC. The Cavalier defense must also deal with the Blue Devil offense, which is No. 2 in the ACC at 80.3 points per game.

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Blue Devil pitchers gave up five runs on 12 hits during Wednesday's season-opener against High Point. never know what’s going to happen. We’d like to get our first win, but we want to build and get better and better. That’s the biggest thing. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Fifty-six games is a long time.”

The Blue Devils struggled both on the mound and at the plate against High Point Wednesday, hitting only .205 as a team.

Duke’s only run of the game was driven in by a single to left field by designated hitter Javier Socorro in the fourth inning.

The Blue Devils made no errors in

their home opener, however, despite sporting a roster that included three freshman starters.

“There are some things we can do better,” McNally said. “I feel good about the way we’re playing. I feel a lot of positive things happened... I was happy with the way we caught the ball and we did a lot of good things.

“We play each game at a time. Seton Hall is a good opponent. I’m excited about playing them this weekend.”

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intense dislike between the two schools.”

At the Comcast Center, Redick’s Blue Devils are 1-2,with the lone victory coming in 2004. But that 68-60 win became more notable for what happened in the stands than on the court.

As Redick—who nailed 5-of-6 threepointers and finished with 26 points stepped to the free throw line with a chance to ice the game, the Terrapin student section chanted “F you, J.J” loudly enough to be heard on television.

The incident prompted a national media firestorm. In response, Maryland implemented policies to improve its fan behavior, forming a Student Sportsmanship Committee and enlisting head coach Gary Williams to be the face of the effort.

Last year’s game at Maryland went off without incident, though it was surely not pleasant for the Blue Devils. Four Duke players fouled out and the Terrapin fans spilled onto the court after their team’s 9992 overtime win.

Redick was taunted during the game several signs and chants made reference to —

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Redick’s then-12-year-old sister Abby. But throughout his reign as one of college basketball’s most hated players, Redick has said the jeers have never bothered him. He has averaged 20 points per game in Duke’s three trips to College Park, but he shot just 5-for-19 in last year’s game and finished with 21 points.

“It is not difficult to block out the crowd and sometimes play along with the crowd, especially during warm-ups,” Redick said.

“Once the game starts it is easy for me to just focus on what is going on in the game.”

In light of Redick’s success in hostile road venues this season—he scored 29 points at Indiana Nov. 30 and 35 at North Carolina Feb. 7—Maryland forward Nik Caner-Medley made an unusual request of the home crowd.

“I think it would probably be funny if somebody went into an arena, like J.J., and he didn’t hear anything,” Caner-Medley told The Diamondback, Maryland’s student newspaper. “It would probably throw him off, because you’re used to hearing stuff.”

Redick is unlikely to get the silent treatment. Rather the Comcast Center environment is expected to be loud as ever.

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Despite the recent strong play of Caner-Medley and Jones, the Terrapins still miss the presence of suspended star Chris McCray. When the teams last met, the Blue Devils held trio of Caner-Medley, Jones and Strawberry to 17 points.

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Although the Blue Devils beat the Terrapins 76-52 at Cameron Jan. 11, winning on the road in a hostile atmosphere in College Park may prove to be more difficult. In the end, though, the Maryland backcourt, playing without its leading scorer and best defender, will not be able to handle Redick and Williams.

Without McCray in the lineup, Maryland's bench has been shortened significantly.

The Blue Devils' bench is not very deep either, but the recent return of DeMarcus Nelson gives them more depth in the backcourt.

Blue Devils win, 74-65 —Compiled by Meredith Shiner

Though the atmosphere will be tough, the Terrapins have struggled recently. Maryland lost at Duke 76-52 Jan. 11—the Blue Devils were led by Shelden Williams’ tripledouble and forced 29 Terrapin turnovers.

Since senior captain and leading scorer Chris McCray was declared academically ineligible Jan. 24, Maryland has gone 2-3, with the only two wins coming over Georgia Tech and Virginia.

And even in its home win over the Cav-

aliers Feb. 7, Maryland trailed by nine with 10 minutes to play before pulling out the comeback win. The victory stopped a three-game losing streak for the Terrapins and gave head coach Gary Williams the Maryland record for most career wins at the school.

“It was definitely a huge win for us. It was a team win,” Caner-Medley said afterward.

“We’re happy to get this win for Coach, and now we have to get ready for Duke.”

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tivated students recognize mentoring as a priority is only the first step. The next is to begin to create a more structured system to help match students with mentors. Students must have available to them University-supplied resources that help connect them to willing mentors with similar interests in their particular fields.

Creating a position of “point person” in a department or school whose job it is to help students find appropriate matches is one possibility.

Institutional support for student-led programs is also crucial. In order to encourage and help the maximum number of students find mentors, graduate and professional schools should supplement the student-run initiatives already in place and encourage the development of more.

Such added structure would accomplish two things. First, it would send a message to students about the importance of having a mentor. Over time, this could help create a culture in which mentoring is viewed as an indispensable aspect of the graduate or professional school experience. New students and potential mentors would then see the importance of the relationship; the former would be more inspired to seek out a mentor, and the latter would be more interested in taking on proteges.

Second, adding structure to mentor-seeking would help those students who, although possessing a desire for mentors, have little idea where to go or whom to ask.

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For this reason, institutions, in lending structure to mentor relations, can only do so much. They can provide “matchmaking” services to the willing, but they must not mandate relationships that would not occur naturally.

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months and years that went into my decision to come to Duke, and around the Marketplace and in Writing 20 classes, you can still hear the old “So why’d mmm' you come here?” raaaa| being used to break the ice.

Answers to that question can inOliver sherouse volve anything you tell me from research to the location to beauty of the campus, but overall one can sense that there’s a lot of enthusiasm for Duke among its newest students.

I’ve started to notice, however, that as students get closer and closer to graduation they also get farther and farther away from the energy and enthusiasm that I presume they also shared on their arrival.

One only has to look at extracurricular activities to see this trend at work: nearly every club or organization I have been a part of is overwhelmingly dominated by the Class of 2009.

And now, as we move steadily to the end of our first year here, I’m starting to notice negativity seeping into conversations with my fellow freshmen as well. Someone will mention that Princeton does this or that, or that such and such a program is so much better at MIT, and then we sit silently for a moment as the unspoken “but we’re stuck at Duke” casts over the conversation.

Given this rather disturbing development, I was glad to read the report of President Brodhead’s speech on Monday. Before an audience of students, he claimed Duke, in the future, would strive to create a “culture of initiative” in which students can take a lead role in determining the nature of their four years at Duke.

Brodhead’s strategy is refreshingly reminiscent of my dearly loved free market capitalism, where new ideas and innovations have a chance to develop and entrepreneurs can take advantage of limitless opportunity. The difference is, instead of entrepreneurs, the driving force in the culture of initiative would be the students—you and me.

And who better?

Duke’s students are intimidatingly smart, endlessly creative and wildly diverse both in opinion and background, yet we constantly shortchange our-

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selves, second guess ourselves and shoot ourselves down. If a group with such concentrated talent were to truly involve itself with the school, who could rival it? The ever self-conscious Ivy Leaguers?

I think not.

To be sure, some students are already taking the initiative in improving the school. My favorite example here is the Duke Political Union, because they, like me, aim to encourage civil political discourse, which is why I am a member. Born out of the 2004 presidential election, this student group has worked tirelessly to raise political awareness through events like an affirmative action debate and by bringing in speakers, such as Terry Sullivan, formerly of the James Baker Institute, who will be on campus next Wednesday.

These students have applied their various talents to bring what they consider to be an important change to Duke’s campus. President Brodhead’s culture of initiative can only further the work of groups like DPU and inspire new ones, not just in the realm of politics but in all the myriad areas that interest and concern Duke students.

When other freshmen ask me why I came to Duke, my answer is simple: I believe that it is the best all-around university in the United States, if not the world.

Don’t get me wrong—I know there are problems. I’m as annoyed as anyone with ARAMARK and the lack of parking spots. Duke, however, is not stagnated by tradition nor weighed down by history, and this is to its great advantage because the school has the potential to be constantly improving. If the driving force for that improvement comes from the students, so much the better.

Of course, the culture of initiative depends entirely on the students actually taking some, and some cynics will say that this will never be the case.

I disagree.

Even if right now the student body is losing interest, even if it sometimes feels like the whole system is built to strangle the enthusiasm out of us, I still believe that we, the students ofDuke University, have a lot to contribute to this institution before all is said and done. I still believe that, given the opportunity, we can do great things in our time here, but it is up to us to rise to the challenge and take the control offered to us.

President Brodhead, build your culture of initiative. We are ready.

Oliver Shmuse is a Trinity freshman. His column runs every other Friday.

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Allen delivers a monologue at the beginning of Annie Hall recounting an old Groucho Marx joke that goes “I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member.”

Allen goes on to say, “That’s the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationship with women.”

That idea kills me, that a single joke, a single anyeverson thing, can be the key. one fine morning So let me tell you about favorite my key; my song.

It’s by “The Only Band That Matters”: The Clash. It comes in the middle of this roaring torrent on London Calling. Eight songs deep, when everything is starting to melt together and become indistinct, the key song of my young life shows up.

Amid the greatest punk album ever comes this moment of quiet reflection. It’s the same gimmick The Rolling Stones use for “Tom and Frayed” on Exile on Main Street, and it kills me there too. But nothing can compare to “Lost in the Supermarket.” It comes on with this almost whispered guitar line. It’s simple and rhythmic and then the chorus comes puttering out, “I’m all lost in the supermarket.”

That’s it; A simple line that conjures a relatively nonsensical existential image of a guy wandering around trying to find ketchup in a jumbo-Food Lion.

And the words that follow are perfect and knock me down every time. Here is this guy railing against society, expressing his angst in the most famous, violent words of his times, and he takes the time to settle down, to look back and say, “I wasn’t bom so much as I fell out. Nobody seemed to notice me.”

He examines his guts and his past and he screams against the feelings he had as a little kid and the way he was made to be the man he is now. But he screams in a saddened whisper, like he knows he’s already lost and can’t change it.

He remembers being a timid littlekid when he “heard the people who lived on the ceiling screaming and fighting most scarily,” and the memory makes him want to curl up inside the bass line, which came up with the verse and is now powering the song and which wants to protect him as much as he wants to be protected.

You know that he is what he learned as a child when he says, “hearing that noise was my first ever feeling” and he evokes the truth: It’s the last feeling he’ll ever have, too, one he can’t escape at this point.

“I empty a bottle, and I feel a bit free;” “Long distance callers make long distance calls, and the silence makes me lonely.” These aren’t normal words to me; these words sum up my fears and the cobwebbed recesses ofmy mind.

Not that I was neglected as a child or surrounded by anger and screaming. I wasn’t, But I am a human being and usually proud to be who I am, ready to speak my mind about things around me, to express my heart and soul in whatever capacity I can. I want to tear into the world around me, and the stupidity of people like The Clash do on the rest of the record, but in the quiet moments there is always the shadow that everyone should have, the desire to become the person that, deep down, you want to be.

What “Lost in the Supermarket” tells me is not to rely on the outside world to “make me noise for company.” And I think about Duke and my life and my major and sometimes it is easy to blame the world. If only ARAMARK made my chicken tenders a little moister, and my TA didn’t lose my paper, and Frat X hadn’t cut me, and girl Y hadn’t dumped me—everything would have been perfect.

Then the song seems to end with a few repetitions of the chorus. “I’m all lost in the supermarket. I can no longer shop happily. I came in here for a special offer: a guaranteed personality.” But there are these barely perceptible words near the end. “But it’s not here. It disappeared. I’m all lost.”

These words dismiss the world around you as a source of your unhappiness, explaining that, if you are lost, you are responsible for finding yourself. Duke can’t provide you with a “guaranteed personality,” nor can your club or fraternity.

The Clash is urging you to look inward and backward. But they have an ultimate sense that you have to move forward, that “the powerful play goes on and that you may contribute a verse,” and that you can must change and become better.

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Originally commissioned in September 2005 for the independent Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the boston cote cartoons have bethe naked truth come emblematic of the negative stereotypes propagated and fueled by the U.S.-led War on (Islamic) Terror.

Negative stereotypes abound: Mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his turban; Mohammad standing menacingly before two veiled women with a crescent shaped sword in his hands; Mohammad telling a long line of what appear to be terrorists that heaven has run out of virgins. In yet another cartoon it is written, “Prophet!/daft and dumb/keeping woman/under thumb.”

Now, these cartoons may have been intended to express the artists’ indignation over terrorist acts committed in the name of The Prophet. But the cartoons’ vitriolic messages pushes the tenuous excuse of political expression.

Freedom of expression includes a certain responsibility.

If Danish cartoonists and editors are free to print their opinions and political cartoons, then Muslims should absolutely be free to express offense at the material. However, while the former assumed “the pen is mightier” route, many radical members of the latter have taken to the sword.

Although Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has been issuing public apologies for the cartoons, hordes of outraged Muslims in European and Middle Eastern cities have continued to express their outrage in the most brutal of ways: Flags have been desecrated, Rasmussen has been burned in effigy, embassies in Beirut, Lebanon, Damascus and Syria have fallen in flames, and protesters in London are threatening a Sept. 11 of their own. Atone rally, Londoner protesters carried signs that said “Europe take some lessons from 9/11” and “Slay those who insult Islam.”

By all reasonable standards, this very vocal and volatile minority of Islamic protesters is doing precious little to change the cartoons’ negative portrayal of Muslims. People who respond to the caricatures with such aggression and violence only reaffirm the stereotypes portrayed in these political cartoons and

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Frankly, I feel badly for moderates on both sides of the debate. Muslim clerics and political leaders who have tried to advocate a moderate voice and agenda are being met with only violence as a reward.

In an effort to avoid further aggravation, some news sources have refused to print or broadcast the cartoons in question.

CNN issued the following rationale: “CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of the Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.”

USA TODAY similarly disclosed that it is seeking to avoid “symbolism likely to be perceived as gratuitously offensive to readers’ religious beliefs.”

While I am in part disappointed in that these images will remain inaccessible to much of the American public, I’m also thankful that many American news editors have astutely discerned the volatility of the situation and accordingly opted to promote vibrant debate without creating a vehicle for violence.

I wholeheartedly believe that a free press should be provocative without being intentionally incendiary. But I do, howsoever reluctantly, support the decision of news sources to not reprint the cartoons in question.

What I simply cannot condone, however, is the decision of a prominent Iranian newspaper to hold a cartoon competition to test whether the West will similarly defend freedom of expression if the subject is the Holocaust and Nazi genocide against the Jews.

The controversial Prophet cartoons have already claimed far more lives than they should have, and I can only imagine that the ensuing Holocaust and Nazi genocide cartoons will further kindle, rather than abet, this global inter-creed cruelty.

Regardless of how well the West tests in this newspaper’s social experiment, the publication of anti-Semitic hatemongering cartoons will only incite further bloodshed.

Although the stakes are high, this is no time for national political figureheads to start issuing apologies on behalf of cartoonists or independent newspapers.

This is no time for retaliatory, punitive action. And this is certainly no time for an Iranian newspaper to host a potentially explosive social experiment.

This is, rather, a time to reassert the concepts of freedom, toleranceand responsibility. To foster mutual understanding and forgiveness. And to ask for peace, despite all of our differences.

Optimistically assuming, of course, that peace is even possible.

Boston Cote is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every Fri-

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