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The Duke University School of Medicine has appointed Dr. Harvey Cohen as interim chair of the Department of Medicine, officials announced Thursday.

The position became vacant last week when Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt, current chair of the Department of Medicine, announced that he has accepted the role of senior vice president of medical affairs and dean of the of University Miami’s Leonard Miller School of Medicine.

Cohen’s selection was jointly announced by Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, and Dr. Sandy Williams, dean of the School of Medicine.

Dzau and Williams said the department SEE COHEN ON PAGE 5

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JJ. Redick is 29 points shy of tying Duke's all-time points leader Johnny Dawkins.The nation's leading scorer, who has poured in at Feast 30 points in each of the past four games, will go for the record Sunday against Miami in Cameron Indoor Stadium. SEE STORY PAGE 9

Provost Peter Lange and Academic Chair Emeritus Nancy Allen presented the final draft of the Faculty Survey Report to the Academic Council Thursday afternoon.

The survey, taken by 1,367 faculty members and distributed in Spring 2005, asked professors how satisfied they were with their career, workload and work environment, quality of life, University resources and services and the mentoring, promotion and tenure process.

The final draft takes into account responses from faculty in the entire University—including the undergraduate and graduate programs and the medical center. The data will be broken down by department and distributed to the specific schools later this year.

One trend Lange noted was that female faculty members are less likely to feel valued by their colleagues, report higher stress levels and feel they have to work harder than their male counterparts.

He pointed to a significant disparity in responses to the question, “I have to work harder than my colleagues to be perceived as a legitimate scholar.” While SEE CLIMATE ON PAGE 8

Reports of vandalism drop over past 6 years by

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Vandalism is a hot topic on campus following the recent ransack of Giles Dormitory and other destructive events.

Eddie Hull, dean ofresidence life and executive director of housing services, said he has witnessed a general increase in the levels of vandalism since he arrived at Duke in 2002 and noted that many of his colleagues at other schools have reported similar trends.

But since 1999 there has been a net decrease in annual reports ofcrimes related to vandalism, according to statistics provided by the Duke University Police Department.

DUPD does not keep statistics specifically pertaining to vandalism, saidLt. SaraJane Raines, administrative services executive officer for DUPD. Under North Carolina law, most incidents fall under the rubric of either injury to real property or injury to personal property-damage to SEE VANDALISM ON PAGE 7

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The halls of Giles Dormitory were ransacked by vandals, causing $1,050 worth of damage Feb. 5.

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U.N. urges U.S.to close prison

White House ordered to release papers by

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WASHINGTON A federal judge ordered the George W. Bush administration Thursday to release documents about its warrantless surveillance program or spell out what it is withholding, a setback to efforts to keep the program under wraps.

At the same time, the Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee said he had worked out an agreement with the White House to consider legislation and provide more information to Congress on the eavesdropping program. The panel’s top Democrat, who has requested a fullscale investigation, immediately objected

to what he called an abdication of the committee’s responsibilities.

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled that a private group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, will suffer irreparable harm if the documents it has been seeking since December are not processed promptly under the Freedom of Information Act. He gave the Justice Department 20 days to respond to the group’s request.

Justice Department spokesperson Tasia Scolinos said the department has been “extremely forthcoming” with information and “will continue to meet its obligations under FOIA.” On Capitol Hill, lawmakers also have

been seeking more information about Bush’s program that allowed the National Security Agency to eavesdrop—without court warrants—on Americans whose international calls and e-mails it believed might be linked to al Qaeda.

After a two-hour closed-door session, Senate Intelligence Chair Pat Roberts, RKan., said the committee adjourned without voting on whether to open an investigation. Instead, he and the White House confirmed that they had an agreement to give lawmakers more information on the nature of the program. The White House also committed to make changes to the current law.

Avian flu claims 2nd victim in Iraq by

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BAGHDAD The deceased uncle of an who died last month after contractgirl Iraqi ing bird flu also had the disease, U.S. and U.N. officials said Thursday, citing test results at a U.N.-certified laboratory in Egypt.

One further test must be carried out by a London laboratory certified by the World Health Organization before the United Nations confirms that the uncle did in fact have the HSNI bird flu virus.

In Europe, German and Slovenian officials confirmed their first cases of bird flu.

Countries from Liechtenstein to Romania

ordered poultry indoors or quarantined villages to stem the spread of the disease.

A European Union panel called for a 6.5-mile quarantine and surveillance zone around suspected or confirmed outbreaks.

The Iraqi man, who lived in the same house as his 15-year-old niece, died Jan. 27—10 days after she became Iraq’s first confirmed bird flu-related death.

A U.S. official said the uncle’s samples came back positive from Cairo for HSNI. An official from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization confirmed that a sample from the uncle tested positive for HSNI when analyzed by the U.S. Navy

Medical Research Unit laboratory in Cairo To date there have been no confirmed cases showing that HSNI has mutated into a virus capable of being passed direcdy between humans. Experts fear such a development could lead to a global pandemic.

The HSNI strain has killed 91 people since 2003, with most victims infected direcdy by sick birds, according to the World Health Organization.

As the number of cases mounts, European authorities pushed ahead with measures to boost defenses against the disease and prevent a large outbreak when migratory birds begin traveling north next month.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday said that the US should close the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, backing the conclusion of a U.N.-appointed independent panel, who reported that it is a torture camp where prisoners have no access to justice.

Glaciers melting into Atlantic Warmer temperatures over the past decade have sped up the march of Greenland's southern glaciers to the Atlantic Ocean, where the ice and water now dump in a year twice as much ice into the Atlantic as they did in 1996,researchers said Thursday.

Patriot Act proceeds in Senate The Senate pushed the Patriot Act a step closer to renewal Thursday, overwhelmingly rejecting efforts to block it 96-3. Passage is expected next month for extending the law that was passed weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as a weapon to help the government track terror suspects.

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Friday, Feb 24th 4:00pm: Unheard Voices, the Women’s Center, Come hear the unheard voices of Duke Students as they recount their personal experiences with disordered eating.

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Georgetown University will host the annual Palestine Solidarity Movement conference this weekend. The event generated heated campus controversy in October 2004 when it was held at Duke.

Nadeem Muaddi, spokesperson for the PSM, said Students for Justice in Palestine, a group at Georgetown, was selected to host the fifth annual PSM Conference from among a number of universities across the United States.

“We couldn’t really resist,” Muaddi said.

“It’s Washington D.C., and bringing the issue of divestment to our nation’s capital shows how prominent the idea of divestment has become.”

The PSM, an umbrella organization, is

interested in achieving divestment from Israel, among other goals.

Muaddi defined the objective as “dis-investment” from institutions that fund Israel. He said the PSM is asking universities to not invest in companies that help to give money to Israel.

The focus of the PSM conference this year will shift from the topic of “why divestment?” discussed in past conferences to “how to achieve divestment.”

Muaddi hopes the Georgetown conference will attract between 500 and 600 attendants—similar to the number of participants at Duke. “The Duke conference was the best one that we had so far.... We hope that Georgetown will be SEE PSM ON PAGE 8

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When Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond opened his speech Thursday with a quote from Vice President Dick Cheney, the packed audience in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy’s Fleishman Commons was both amused and perplexed.

“The American way of life is non-negotiable,” Diamond

Pulitzer Prize-winning author JaredDiamond discusses societiesand individuals in crisis at the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy Thursday.

quoted, jokingly noting that Cheney was on to something.

Diamond’s speech was this year’s Crown Lecture in Ethics, named afterLester Crown, chair of the Material Service Corp. board, and president of Henry Crown and Co. The lecture series—which has previously brought speakers including Thomas Friedman, columnist for The New York Times, and Jody Williams, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997—was established to examine the role of ethics in all areas of academia, from the arts and sciences to business and law.

Diamond, a professor of geography at the University of California at I*os Angeles, focused his 45-minute speech on the way individuals and societies respond to crisis and change. The issue was certainly nothing new for Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs and Steel, which uses environmental and geographical reasoning to explain the development of the Western world that is lacking in today’s Third World.

In his recent novel Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which was released in 2004, Diamond expands on this concept and uses the context of the collapse of historical civilizations as a warning to modern societies of the

danger in inflexibility. “[ln Collapse] I tried to understand why some societies succeeded in solving problems where other societies did-

n’t,” Diamond said. “Every society has its core values, but values thatworked in the past may not be fit for the future.”

Diamond dedicated the first portion of his speech to individuals facing unavoidable crises, saying they need to “reevaluate” and “reappraise” their values and identities.

These people, in the ways they approach change, are models for the way societies must function in a larger scale to adapt and confront crises. Thus, just as he explained individuals must “build a fence around [their] problem,” societies too must learn to focus their attentions.

“A society in crisis must realize that not everything is wrong, just specific things are wrong,” Diamond said.

“What ofyour old self can you hold onto and what of your old self should you jettison?”

Expanding on the idea of individual crisis, Diamond moved on to address more long-term crises facing individuals, including career shifts—an area in which he has SEE DIAMOND ON PAGE 5

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After its resolution to extend the hours was rejected, CampusCouncil discussed opening quads earlier.

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“No one needs to be in a quad after if they’re not with someone who lives in the quad,” Ganatra said.

But students may soon be able to gain entrance to other quads earlier in the morning.

Ganatra said each quad council will vote on whether to open their quads at 7:30, 8:00 or 8:30 a.m. or to maintain the current policy of opening at 9:00 a.m.

Campus Council proposed opening the dormitories earlier in order to make access to ePrint stations easier for students with early morning classes, among other reasons.

“It will be somewhat of a pilot program,” Ganatra said, adding that the changed times will go into effect after spring break.

Ganatra noted that allowing card access as late as 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. may be two

Members of Campus Council learned

Thursday night that Residence Life and Housing Services will not approve a resolution extending DukeCard access hours to 4 a.m.

The resolution, which the Council passed Feb. 2, called for access hours which are currently 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. for quadrangles other than a student’s own —to be changed to 7 a.m. to 4 a.m. on both East and West campuses.

“For multiple reasons, we’re not for the four o’clock extension,” said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a junior.

He cited recent quad damages as a primary reason for the resolution’s failure.

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director for housing services, made the decision not to extend the hours after receiving feedback from members of his staff, Ganatra said.

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What box should a transgendered man or woman check when filling out a form? Which public restroom should he or she use?

Gunner Scott, a publicist and community outreach organizer for The Network/La Red—a domestic abuse center for lesbians, bisexual women and transgender individuals—discussed these questions and more at the School ofLaw Thursday afternoon.

Students posed questions during Scott’s presentation “Crossing Lines of Gender: A Discussion on Transgender Law in the United States,” about the complex lives led by individuals who live “sexual extremes.”

“We’re practically all cross dressers just look around the GAP and you’ll see a pair of khakis is a pair ofkhakis,” saidScott, who was bom female and now identifies as being a man.

In a discussion revolving around societal and legal aspects of gender, Scott, a member of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, stressed that misperceptions of gender among heterosexual and homosexual individuals are manifest in the hardships of all people who cross gender boundaries.

“Transgender is about gender identity and expression—not sexual orientation,” said Scott, who used the relatively new term “genderqueer” to describe individuals who choose not to conform to gender norms of their born sex.

The range of transgendered people spans from those who identify as the opposite gender through their choices in clothing to those who undergo full-body sex changes.

Scott used the medical and legal elements of sex and name changes to demonstrate conflicts faced by transsexual individuals who change their gender.

Sex-change procedures cost an average of about $25,000, he said, adding

that contrary to popular belief, less than 10 percent of transgendered individuals opt to undergo surgical procedures.

“But a range of issues are faced even among those who undergo expensive procedures,” Scott said.

He described the choices transgendered individuals face daily, noting that his most difficult challenge has been to decide which restroom to use.

“My identification says ‘F’, so I could be arrested for using the men’s room,” Scott explained. “I take the safe route by using the women’s restroom, but even then there could be stares and people telling SEE SCOTT ON PAGE 7

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“We are very fortunate to have in Dr. Cohen a highly respected leader,” Dzau said in a statement. “Harvey is a gifted teacher who is revered by students, residents and faculty across the medical

school.”

Cohen has spent several years at Duke.

He has served as vice chair of the Department of Medicine for faculty development and affairs for the past three years.

Cohen is also chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and serves as director of Duke’s Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.

The School of Medicine’s geriatric medicine program was ranked 4th na-

tionally in U.S. News and World Report’s 2005 rankings of top medical schools.

Cohen, who spent his residency at Duke, is an expert in hematology and oncology for the elderly.

In the 19705, Cohen helped the divi-

sion of geriatric medicine expand and worked to establish a fellowship program in the department.

From 1999 to 2003, Cohen served as chair of the National Institute of Aging’s Board of Scientific Counselors.

He is currently president of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology and has published more than 250 ‘articles and book chapters.

Cohen also has ties outside of Duke

University Hospital.

He directs the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Durham.

particular expertise. Diamond is formally trained in five disciplines and attempts to fuse them in his studies of society.

Finally, he addressed the issue of how Western societies must respond to our changing world.

America, he explained, must question its traditions of high consumption rates and isolationism in foreign policy, and the country must learn to balance the rights of individuals against those of society.

“We have our own values that have made us free and rich, but these values are in trouble today,” Diamond said. “If there is one thing you remember from today’s lecture, it should be the number 32. Thirty-two is the ratio of consumption rate of the First World to the consumption rate of the Third World. We have to reappraise our misbelief that consumption rates lead to high standards of living.”

Diamond went on to explain ways that the United States could invest in Third World countries to sponsor development and healthcare, but only if American society looks to redefine its outlook on the world and its identity.

Diamond concluded his lecture with a return to the words of Cheney.

“Negotiate with whom?” he asked. “We are not going to negotiate with others, but really the people we have to negotiate with is ourselves. It remains to be seen whether we Americans are going to be able to negotiate with ourselves and our American ways of lives.”

The conclusion of the speech was greeted with tremendous applause from the students, faculty and visitors who filled the Commons and spillover lecture hall, where many audience members were forced to sit on the floor and along the walls.

Jared Diamond, author of Collapse, urges the audience to question traditions of overconsumption.

For Tami McDonald, second-year gradstudent in the biology department, Diamond’s speech echoed important concerns facing today’s society.

“It’s absolutely time that we in this country are going to have re-evaluate our way of life and our patterns of consumption,” she said. “If we can do so in away that preserves some core Americanism while jettisoning wastefulness and belligerence, the world would be a much better place.”

For other students, the presence of a speaker like Diamond on campus was a thrill in itself. “[The speech] was amazing, -especially the question-and-answer session,” freshman Jamie Friedland said.

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of 2004, we only had about $3 million in licensing revenues.”

Nolan said the average in licensing and “I’ve found that virtually any arena I’ve research revenues for the top 100 research been in, both of those disciplines have realuniversities is between $l2 million and $l4 million annually. But as a school of high ly shined as being really helpful and advancaliber, Duke should be working towards tageous,” Nolan said of his decision.

Upon graduation this spring, he will the top range of earning approximately head to Palo Alto, Calif., to work at New $4O million, he noted.

York-based law firm of Simpson Thacher Although the University is already strivand Bartlett. ing for globalization, Nolan believes more But Nolan feels that even after he leaves drastic changes are necessary.

“Where I think we’re failing is dial we Durham, he can still contribute to the Duke community. need to have a centralized strategy of areas Nolan said his reason for running for we want to go into in die [world],” he said His solution involves setting up satellite Young Trustee is simple: He sees areas where Duke can improve and has ideas he campuses in these areas to attract the best students around the world. hopes to implement.

“The most valuable assets I have are Lasdy, he hopes to make improvements my degrees,” he said. “I want to make in Duke’s interdisciplinary studies and sure that value of a Duke education conjoint degree programs. tinues to increase and continues to at-’ “If you talk to any joint degree particitract the best people.” pant, you will hear that there is no overNolan said Duke was his first choice sight, there is no one looking out for for graduate school due to the quality of them,” Nolan said. ‘We need to have a education, attention to students and atmore coordinated approach.”

He said although he respects the autontractive campus.

“This is obviously a beautiful place to omy of Duke’s various schools and prospend four years if you have to keep your grams, it is difficult as a joint degree particnose in the law books most of your life,” ipant to manage the competing policies of he said. different schools.

Duke’s “brand name” also contributed The Los Angeles native graduated to his decision. “Everyone you ever talk to summa cum laude from the University of thinks well of Duke, unless of course you’re Notre Dame, where he studied finance and business economics. While there, in the basketball arena,” he joked.

Nolan’s platform for Young Trustee is Nolan worked in a consulting firm and comprised of three categories: intellectual was involved in an organization that focused on developing businesses in Third property, globalization and interdiscipliWorld countries. nary studies.

Nolan defines intellectual property as Nolan’s former college roommate Casey assets, such as knowledge or patents, that Mangine described his friend as perfect for an institution holds. He believes Duke can the position of Young Trustee. do a better job taking advantage of the in“He’s the kind of person who will estellectual property of its faculty. sentially make decisions that are always “Look at the ratio of licensing revenues based on a very broad spectrum of inforto research expenditures,” Nolan said. “As mation,” Mangine said.

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readdressed after after students become more aware of the recent quad damages. He said students need to realize the liabilities related to keeping the dorms open at such late hours.

The group also discussed changing the composition of next year’s West Campus quad councils.

Under the new plan, all rising juniors and seniors deciding to remain in their current quads next year would be eligible to run for newly instated senior advisor positions on their quad councils.

Ganatra said that because the majority of West Campus residents are sophomores, these younger students—who are more well-known than juniors and seniors among their fellow residents but

have no experience living on West Campus —are most likely to be elected to quad council positions.

Jen Frank, assignments coordinator for RLHS, noted that the elimination of the linking process next year is unlikely to change this pattern.

She refuted the common expectation that the new policy will force all sophomores to live in Edens, which would lead to a dominance of juniors and seniors in other quads.

“Because Edens only has so many beds, all of the other quads will have sophomores,” Frank said.

Ganatra added that the presence of more juniors and seniors on quad councils would provide the organizations with greater knowledge and collective experience. It would also allow for more continuity from year to year.

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personal effects such as computers or cars.

Other related crime categories include damage to landscaping, damage to coinoperated machines and damage to car windows from break-ins.

Statistics provided by DUPD for these five areas from 1999 to 2006 show a net decrease of 68 in reported crimes. In calendar year 1999, 338 reports were tallied, while there were only 270 in 2005. In 2001, however, there was a dramatic spike in the index, with 196 more reports than in 2000.

Despite the overall decline in reports, Hull told Campus Council Feb. 9 that the culture of the University’s residence halls is too permissive of vandalism.

“I can’t believe you’re not absolutely incensed that this is happening on your campus,” Hull told the Council after showing photographs of destruction on campus.

Overall, vandalism costs the University about $60,000 every year—about the annual cost of accommodation for five students—although Residence Life and Housing Services’ officials said it is sometimes difficult to separate problems caused by wear and tear from those intentionally inflicted.

Potential damages are not included in RLHS’ annual budget, Hull said, so any vandalism costs force a reallocation of funds from other programming.

A Feb. 5 incident involved approximately $1,050 worth of damage to Giles.

Although the destruction occurred throughout the building, no resident or resident assistant has identified a culprit, despite an investigation by DUPD and a potential fine for all Giles residents if no one is identified by Feb. 20. A paving stone was also thrown over the side of the McClendon Tower walkway in late January.

me that I’m in the wrong place.”

Scott said he has witnessed numerous conflicts involving the complexities of transgendered life during years as an activist, ranging from job losses among transgendered individuals to confusion among police officers when deciding where to take arrested transgenders.

“The folks making the rules had no understanding of the community,” he said. “[To change one’s sex on a drivers’ license], some states require proof of a complete lifestyle change. Others require

‘completed’ surgical procedures—what

does that mean? For some people, after spending $25,000 to be who they are it may not be considered ‘completed.’”

For many transgendered individuals, he said, these changes simply depend on the clerk at the office.

Scott said he advocates expanded sexual categories on forms in many cases and less stringent federal and state regulations that govern sexual classifications as potential solutions to these problems.

About 30 students and professors attended the talk, which was sponsored by Duke Out and OutLaw DukeOut. Many said they admired Scott’s efforts to highlight the plight of “genderqueer” individuals.

“I thought it was very insightful,” said second-year law student Eileen Kuo. “It was a little surprising how much they struggle just to enjoy the same rights everyone else has.”

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The walkway from Main West Quadrangle to McClendon Tower was the site ofrecent vandalism.

Hull said such incidents can only be avoided if students hold each other accountable, but he acknowledged that students often find it difficult to stand up to their peers. RLHS’ role, he said, is to provide education about how a successful community interacts.

“Universities are very good at wagging the proverbial finger and saying, ‘Thou shall not,”’ he said. “I’d much rather talk about what you can do.”

Robert Cook-Deegan, research professor at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, is a faculty member-in-residence in Alspaugh Dormitory. Two years ago, a poster on his door in Alspaugh was defaced, which led him to send an e-mail he described as “vitriolic” to residents of the dorm. But he said he does not see any broad cultural trend toward vandalism in the student population.

“I was in a freshman dorm a long time ago—it was 1971—and it was at least as bad as today,” he said.

In fact, Cook-Deegan said, the students in Alspaugh are less rowdy now than they were even three years ago.

When his poster was vandalized, CookDeegan said his impulse was to blame fraternities because the incident occurred during rush. After getting several responses from students addressing the accusation, he changed his mind.

There seems to be little correlation between destruction and fraternity rush and pledging, as the month of January ranks fourth in reports of vandalism.

Both Cook-Deegan and Hull cited alcohol as a major instigator of vandalism.

“It’s part of the causal chain, but a lot of students drink and don’t do this kind of thing,” Cook-Deegan said.

He added that ultimately, students have to take steps to change the dynamic of their residence halls. “I don’t even know if there’s a policy that can deal with it,” he said. “The most important thing is for people to take care of each other.”

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be only 12 counterprotesters.

John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, even better,” he said would not confirm how much Duke spent Erik Smulson, assistant vice president on security for the weekend, stating that for communications at Georgetown, said the University never publically disclosed the decision to allow the SJP to host the the figure. But Bumess said there were 23 conference at Georgetown was in line with protesters in total.

Muaddi said he is not certain what to university’s policy governing events.

“Georgetown student groups and facexpect in terms of protester presence this ulty have the right to invite speakers and weekend. “A lot of people [last year] said conferences to campus in accordance that they would come down in busloads, with Georgetown University’s speech and and a group of 50 people came down to protest,” he added. expression policy,” Smulson wrote in an email. “The ability of members of the uniBumess said part of the reason Duke atversity community to invite speakers or tracted fewer protesters than the hundreds host events does not imply university enthat showed up at past conferences was bedorsement of the speakers or their views.” cause the University publicly asserted its Administrators at Duke used similar willingness to spend any amount necessary on security. language when explaining University poliBoth Smulson and Georgetown’s webcy to critics who opposed PSM’s conference in Durham. site only make general comments about seGeorgetown University President John curity plans for the upcoming weekend.

DeGioia said that while Georgetown sup“We’ll have appropriate security measported divestment from South Africa in ures in place throughout the conference, the 1980s, it would not support divestment and Georgetown faculty and administrafrom Israel today, according to an online tors will monitor the conference closely press release that quoted his statements at to ensure that both conferees and proa faculty town hall meeting. testers are complying with Georgetown’s “I do not support divestment from Isspeech and expression policy,” Smulson rael,” DeGioia said. “It is clear there are a explained. wide range of opinions on the conflict in Moises Mendoza, editor-in-chief of the Middle East and that the appropriate Georgetown’s campus newspaper, The way for Georgetown University to address Hoya, said Georgetown students “seem the situation is through dialogue, research pretty apathetic” about the conference. and intellectual discovery.”

“The main people who are writing in to Rann Bar-on, a member of Hiwar—the the paper are the people who are on the exstudent organization that brought the tremes,” said Mendoza.

PSM conference to Duke—and the local The Hoya recendy refused to publish adspokesperson for the PSM conference in vertisements concerning the conference 2004, praised the cooperation between submitted by the Jewish Defense League, a Duke officials and organizers. The thirdorganization that plans to protest the PSM year graduate student in mathematics said this weekend. On its website, the JDL said, the University even went so far as to spend “The Jewish Defense League will be at $75,000 on security for what turned out to Georgetown University in full force.”

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CLIMATE from page 1 men somewhat disagreed with this statement, women were almost completely neutral on the subject.

“These are not good findings,” Lange said. “These are findings that bring up concern. We need to dig down further before we think what policy implications the result might have. The issue is we really don’t

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“The interesting thing about current salary is we keep close tabs on Duke salaries compared with our peers,” Lange said, adding that

know why this is the case.”

He added that before more is known about the root cause o: Duke is usually the “There is a general discontent ranked between finding, sixth and eighth University about the quality of classrooms. should not asplace in salary sume it is a relevels.

The If you go school by school, that sult of gender schools that discontent varies substantially.” discrimination place above the The report University are loPeter Lange also showed cated in places that 57 percent st? wi.th higher agher stanof female and dards of living, he added 41 percent of male faculty delayed parenthood or decided not to have children beThe survey also revealed that faculty in cause of career considerations. the Pratt School of Engineering, the huLange said this statistic could explain manities departments in Trinity College of the “leaky pipe” phenomenon, where some Arts and Sciences and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences professors drop out of the tenure process.

“This data might have an inverse,” were less than satisfied with their classLange said. “We don’t know the number room space. of women facing the same decision that “There is a general discontent about are dropping out of the professorship.” the quality ofclassrooms. If you go school According to the report, tenured fac- by school, that discontent varies substanulty members were more likely to rate tially,” Lange said. “The strategic plan is their workload as heavier than unobviously the ideal time to be thinking tenured professors. about classroom issues.”

They agreed in the survey that long hours show commitment, but do not alIn other business: The Council unanimously agreed to ways equate to excellence.

For the satisfaction with Duke and career change the name of the art and art history section, faculty ranked aspects of their work department to the Department of Art, Art life including curricular requirements, ben- History and Visual Studies.

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They reported that the intellectual stimulation of their work was most satisfying.

‘You would hope that would be true at a research institution,” Lange said. “If that hadn’t been the case, I would have probably sent you home to do more work.”

Lange said it was not surprising that faculty were least satisfied with their cur-

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to Duke with a good attitude, an impresSUNDAY, 4 p.m. sive shot and an Coral Gables, Fla. accent that quickly became the source of chuckles during team practice.

Senior Jessica Foley has played multiple positions for theBlue Devils throughout her career, including point guard.

“A lot of people had a hard time understanding me freshman year, and so people were giggling at everything that I said,” Foley said. “Every time I said something I’d turn around and half the team was sort of snickering at me—it was funny.”

Since then, however, the Blue Devils have relied on Foley for more than a laugh or two over lexical differences like calling her jersey a “singlet” and her locker a cupboard.” In fact, the senior has evolved into an all-around player that can—and does—fill any gaps the Blue Devils may have on the court.

Last season, Foley played in several positions for a Duke team that struggled with depth, including the point guard spot.

“We needed her last year,” Goestenkors said. “We didn’t have much depth, and we didn’t have the numbers. She’s such an intelligent basketball player. She knows all of the positions on the floor, and she’s willing to do whatever we need her for, whether it’s start, come off the bench, play a lot of minutes, play at the point, play at the post—she’s kind of become a jack-of-all-trades for us.”

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son a year ago, but you have to reTHE CHRONICLE member we were in two champiThe Blue Devils were so close onship games and lost in both,” a year ago. head coach Mike Pressler said.

Up 8-6 in the second half of “We lost the ACC final and the nathe national title game against tional championship, so as far as Johns Hopkins, the Duke men’s championships go we didn’t grab lacrosse team one other than the ACC regular couldn’t hold season championship. So for us on as the Blue it’s about getting back—hopefully preview Jays scored the to each one of those games—and : game’s final if we’re lucky enough, turn the three goals and celebrated an unoutcome around.” defeated season.

With nine preseason AllBut now a year older and with Americans, Duke certainly has nine starters returning, the No. 2 the talent to make a return visit Blue Devils are primed to make a to the title game. run at the program’s first nationThe Blue Devils led the naal championship. Duke begins its tion in scoring last year, with a season Saturday at Koskinen Sta13.35 goals per game average, dium at 1 p.m. against Butler.

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Senior JJ.Redick needs 29 points to tie JohnnyDawkins as Duke's all-time scoring leader. He currently has 2,527 points.

When JJ- Redick takes the floor Sunday against Miami for his second-to-last game in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Cameron Crazies will have one number on their mind—3o.

That is how many points the senior needs to pass associate head coach Johnny Dawkins and become Duke’s alltime leading scorer. And since Redick is averaging 34.5 points per vs. game in his last six contests, he has a strong shot at setting the record at home Sunday before the Blue Devils.

SUNDAY, 5:30 p.m. (24-1, 12-0 in the ACC) embark on a Cameron Indoor three-game road swing.

“I’d like to see him get it at home,” freshman Greg Paulus said. “He’s definitely going to do it. It’s just a matter of when. We’re all going to feel very special to be a part of.”

Redick, who broke the NCAA record for most career three-pointers against Wake Forest Feb. 14, has scored 2,527 points, which ranks second on Duke’s

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With the team score knotted at three points apiece, all eyes were on freshman Tara Iyer, as she fought for the decisive fourth point that would give fifth-ranked Duke a victoI 7 over No. o milfc PUKE I 3 28 William & W&M 4 Mary (7-2).

Iyer, who played at the second singles position, was up a break in the third set at 5-3, serving for the match.

But her opponent freshmanKatarina Zoricic—ranked 50th in the ITA—battled back to take the final set to a tiebreaker.

At 3-3 in the tiebreaker, Iyer could not convert on any of the next four points, resulting in the second-straight dual match loss for the No. 5 Blue Devils (4-2), 4-3.

“Everyone on our team is going to be in that position some time,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We’re going to win some and lose some. I don’t think it’s a freshman thing. Its a tough situation to be in.”

A comeback performance from junior Kristin Cargill, who claimed the final set 6-3 after splitting the first two, tied Duke with the Tribe at 3-3, setting up Iyer’s decisive match.

Before that, Duke had suffered two straight-set losses from No. 27 senior Jackie Carleton and freshman Jessi Robinson, posting final

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In its second day of competition, the women’s swimming and diving team continued its streak of record-breaking performances at the ACC Championships in College Park, Md. The Blue Devils (5-6, 1-5 in the ACC), however, dropped from seventh to ninth place in the standings Thursday.

“We started off a little rough again, but it got better as the day went on,” head coach Dan Colella said. “We had 15 season-bests this

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morning’s preliminaries, but only three—Ness, Stupp, and junior Jackie Rodriguez —qualified for

final heats.

Stupp finished 20th in the 200-yard IM and Rodriguez swam to 22nd place in the 500yard freestyle.

The championships continue today with seven more events.

“We want to move up those team standings, which we have the opportunity to do,” Colella said. should be a good day for us.”

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After losing their second match of the season Thursday, the No. 5 Blue Devils have a 10-day break before playing Northwestern in their home-opener. scores of 7-6 (4), 6-2, and 6-3, 7-6

(6), respectively.

Earlier, freshman Melissa Mang had dropped the first set 64 at the four spot, but quickly turned the match around and topped her opponent in the remaining sets, 6-0, 6-2.

“She actually did the same thing last week,” Ashworth said.

“She just played a little more aggressive, smarter. We’ve talked about it. If you’re going to lose points, make the girl hit winners.”

The Blue Devils pulled out the doubles point with two 8-6 victo-

ries from the duo of Mang and Jennifer Zika and the pair of Iyer and Robinson.

The Blue Devils were playing without their top singles player, Daniela Bercek, who sat out with a shoulder injury. The junior has won every singles match at the top flight so far this season, but Ashworth said Bercek’s absence was not an excuse for the Blue Devils’ loss.

‘We’re a young team, but when we have the opportunity to finish games, finish sets, finish matches, we have to do it,” Ashworth said.

M. BBALL from page 9 scoring chart and fourth on the ACC list—60 points behind conference-leader Dickie Hemric.

Despite the significance ofRedick’s feat, there has been little talk about the record within the Duke program —even between Redick and Dawkins—Paulus said.

“I haven’t heard him say anything everyone around here is trying to get better as a team, getting ready for Miami,” Paulus said of Dawkins. “He’s the best player the school has ever had, the leading scorer. He’s done so many things around here as a player, as a coach. I’m just glad he’s still around here, so I can grab some knowledge from him.”

As he has closed in on Dawkins, Redick has maintained that he does not want his personal accomplishments to distract from the team’s overall goal of winning a national championship, and he is taking that same approach in his preparation for the Miami game.

“He’s doing a really good job of setting the tone for us,” Paulus said ofRedick. “It’s a special record and an achievement that we’re going to look back on and be like, ‘Wow, we’re a part of this.’ But we’re trying to get better, and I think he’s done a really good job of saying, let’s get better as a team. It’s nice to break the record, but lets move on and get better.”

In the past, Duke has usually elected to honor its best seniors by retiring their jerseys on the second-to-last home game of the season, but no plans have been made to raise No. 4 to the rafters until after the season has concluded.

Still, most of the pregame talk will be focused on Redick and his record pursuit.

The Blue Devils, however, are aware that Miami (14-11, 6-6) and its talented backcourt of Guillermo Diaz, Robert Hite and

The Blue Devils’ 200-yard freestyle relay team, comprised of seniors Nora Stupp and Julia Lewis and sophomores Anna Rogers and Danielle Spearman, set a school record with their

time of 1:35.86. Their performance left them with a ninth-place finish in the event.

It was the second day in a row that a Duke relay record was broken after the 200-yard medley relay record was toppled Wednesday.

In the 200-yard individual medley senior Katie Ness, the 2004 ACC Champion in the event, posted a season-best time LAURA BETH DOUGLAS/THE CHRONICLE of 2:02.71, but it was only good The women's swimming and diving team enough for fourth place.

Eight Blue Devils set individual dropped two places to ninth after the career-best times during the second day at the ACC Championships.

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The Blue Devils will be going for a 13-0 start in the ACC when they meet Miami Sunday at 5:30 p.m.

Anthony Harris will provide a difficult test.

The trio accounts for nearly 65 percent of the Hurricanes’ scoring and each of them can penetrate effectively and create their own shots, Paulus said.

“We need to do a goodjob ofcontaining the dribble,” he added. “Sometimes we’ve had trouble with that, and sometimes we’ve been very successful. So we’ve been really focusing on stopping their drives.”

Duke defeated Miami in both of the teams’ meetings last season, and Redick scored 29 points in the latter game.

Sunday, the Blue Devil faithful and Redick’s teammates will be hoping the AllAmerican can one-up that performance.

“He’s had a great career here,” freshman Josh Mcßoberts said. “To be a part of it and to see it finish up, and for him to get all this recognition and awards, is a good experience for me.”

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Miami (14-11,6-6)

JOSH MCROBERTS 8.1 ppg, 4,5 rpg SHELDEN WILLIAMS 18 4 ppq, 9 8 rpq J.J. REDICK 28.9 ppg, 2.0 rpg SEAN DOCKERY 9,0 ppq, 2,8 apg GREG PAULIIS 6.5 ppq. 5.3 a

ANTHONY KING 9.0 ppg, 6,8 rpg GARY HAMILTON 3 8 p sa, 5.8 rpc ROBERT HITE 16.9 ppq, 5,4 rpg GUILLERMO DIAZ 16,6 ppg, 3.0 apg ANTHONY HARRIS 11 1 ppg, 3.4 apg

The Hurricanes' frontcourt is anchored by 6-foot-9 King. A Durham native, King averages 1.9 blocks and 6.8 rebounds per game. Even so, King will not be able to stop McRoberts and Williams, who combined for 38 points Tuesday night.

Hite will pose a challenge for Duke to defend. The senior scored 18 points in Miami's loss at Boston College Feb. 16 and shoots 47 percent from the field. Diaz and Harris join Hite to make up one ofthe best backcourts in the ACC.

Duke has the edge off the bench with reserve DeMarcus Nelson, who scored 10 points for the Blue Devils against Wake Forest. Lee Melchionni has struggled from the field as of late, but still provides invaluable senior leadership.

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Foley from putting forth her best effort.

“You just make the most of your minutes when you get in there,” Foley said. “I mean, we’re so deep I think even without an injury I was never going to get the sort

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In his career, senior midfielder Kyle Dowd has won 44 games, just 11 victories shy of an NCAArecord.

M.LAX from page 9 and return all three attack players. The trio of senior Dan Flannery, junior Matt Danowski and sophomore Zack Greer combined to score 157 goals.

After last year’s Tewaaraton Trophy winner Kyle Harrison graduated, Danowski may be the leading candidate to win the honor this year. The junior, who was the nation’s third leading scorer, was one of five finalists for the national player of the year award.

Aiding the attack will be an All-American line at midfield, which is led by senior Matt Zash. The second-year captain plays both offense and defense, as well as taking Duke’s face-offs.

“We have great senior leadership and a lot of the juniors playing too,” Greer said.

“The younger guys have to look up to them, follow in their footsteps, and be on the same page so that we have all 46 players working together.”

The biggest loss from last season’s 17-3 squad was the graduation of National Goalie of the Year Aaron Fenton. Junior Dan Loftus, who has seen limited action over his first two seasons, will start the year in the cage.

Despite the loss of Fenton, the defensive unit, which was third in the nation in goals against average in 2005, includes two preseason All-Americans in Tony McDevitt and Casey Carroll.

“I think we have to become a better defensive team,” Pressler said. “I truly believe that, because whoever is in the goal we can’t expect that they’re going to have a first team All-American year like Aaron did. We hope, but in order for us to help and support them, we have to play better defense in front.”

Even with all their experienced talent, the Blue Devils realize they cannot get complacent and must continue to develop.

“A very important thing for us is to really improve, our face-off statistics,” Pressler said. “We were sub-50 percent, and a goal of ours is to get as close to 60 percent as possible. Once we have the ball, we feel we’re going to score.”

Coming off a 5-8 season, last year’s squad exceeded expectations. Now as one of the nation’s best teams, Duke is facing a different set of challenges.

“I wouldn’t say we feel too much pressure,” midfielder Nick O’Hara said. “I think last year we were coming off of a rough season and we just came out really hungry.

This year our focus is to stay hungry.”

ofminutes I got last year. So, you just need to make the most of the time that you’re out there and give 100 percent and go until you’re absolutely dead tired.”

This attitude is part of what has made Foley an asset to the team, not only as a player but as a leader. Goestenkors said the senior guard is a calming force on the court and a teammate that every player can relate to because she has taken on so many different roles.

“Jess is probably the team favorite,” Goestenkors said. “She’s always been able to get along with everybody, and she’s someone they all know they can turn to to help them out if they have a problem.”

Foley has even become close friends with her coach—Goestenkors and Foley started a book club this year after sharing a common passion in reading.

On the court, however, Foley was not always so versatile. Although the guard has always boasted the ability to hit the open shots—she made a buzzer-beating threepointer to knock off No. 1 Connecticut her sophomore year—Goestenkors said Foley struggled with her defensive play as a freshman and had to work to improve it.

“When she came here, she could just shoot,” Goestenkors said. “Her defense was not good at all, and she knew it. She wanted to guard Alana Beard, and the first season it was not a pretty sight, but it made her better. That’s why she came here, because she knew she would really be challenged every day in practice to become the best player she could be, and I think she has.”

Foley will continue to challenge herself on the court after graduation, when she said she will return to Australia and begin playing professionally in the Australian National League. And although the senior said she does not feel Australia is much different than the United States, she will miss the Blue Devils.

“It’s definitely gone really fast,” Foley said of her time in Durham. “Freshman year felt like it took about four years, then the last three years have just absolutely flown by. I think it would feel a lot different

if I didn’t have other basketball to move on to, but it definitely will be sad to leave Duke in a couple months.”

When No. 1 Duke (23-1, 10-1 in the ACC) travels to Coral Gables, Fla., to take on Miami (15-9, 5-6) Sunday, Foley will make an important contribution for the Blue Devils—regardless of where and how much she plays.

“I’ve always known that Jess was very accepting ofany role that she’s been given,” Goestenkors said. “We knew that she would be okay with whatever came along. She obviously wants to start and play a lot just like any player does, but she wants what’s best for the team more than anything else.”

Notes;

Goestenkors was named as an assistant coach for the USA Women’s World Championship Team, which will compete in Brazil Sept. 12-23.

“I love USA Basketball, and I love the opportunity to learn and grow,” she said.

“You must test yourself, day in and day out, to be a better coach. I’m always striving to improve, and USA Basketball has helped me to hone my skills and get better.”

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officials announced Monday that from here on out, faclories producing apparel bearing the Duke brand name will be governed according to a new policy with workers’ rights in mind.

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask—who negotiated the agreement along with John Burness, senior vice president for public and government relations, Jim Wilkerson, director of trademark licensing and stores operations, and members of Duke’s chapter of Students Against Sweatshops—said the new policy “will require that -25 percent of the production of Duke logo apparel be moved to a smaller number

of designated factories... which can more easily be monitored.” In addition, the policy will allow workers the right to determ ne f? r them J whether or selves not they wish to bargain collectively through a union.”

Further, the policy will effeclively guarantee its workers the right to a livable wage.

Duke is the first university in the United States to codify regillations of this nature, and that is no coincidence considering the fact that officials accomplished a similar feat in 1999, when they were the first to enact a code of conduct that toughened apparel manufacluring standards that existed at that time.

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Further, this development proves that University officials are bona fide trendsetters.

Combined with the unprecedented agreement that was reached in 1999, the new policy demonstrates a commitment on the part of our administrators to responsible business practices in the ap-

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It is also important to remember that the University has bills to pay. And its worldwide reputation as an esteemed institution of higher learning would be non-existent without adequate revenue. With these factors in mind, it is quite impressive that administrators have chosen the high road, because livable wages, the option to unionize and more monitoring of standards will not be fattening the University’s profits on apparel manufacturing. This policy sets an example to students of the University, who will be the leaders of tomorrow, and also to other American universities, because it shows that it is indeed possible to make

money and be responsible at the same time.

This decision also comes at a time when local activists are campaigning for the adoption of a living wage throughout the area.

Although Duke is not exactly in tune with the aspirations of these activists, the new apparel policy shows that administrators at least understand the virtues behind such a plan of action.

Duke is an institution with a highly recognizable brand name that reaches countless numbers of people outside of the Duke community.

The University therefore has a responsibility to ensure that it runs an apparel manufacturing enterprise of impeccable integrity.

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into her heavily laden spoon.

She sits alone wherever she goes. She has no friends, but far more depressingly, crowds magically disperse in her presence, even during peak hours at Lilly Library and Trinity Cafe.

Such is the inexplicable stuff Froshlife movies are made of. When asked by our dorm’s impressive crew whether I was interested in helping out, I didn’t hesitate to give my enthusiastic consent.

When I found out I would be working on camera rather than behind the scenes, I remained surprisingly calm. This was no big deal, right? And so it wasn’t until I reviewed the first take that I remembered I’ve historically had problems with this whole being recorded/looking ridiculous/people watching thing.

The last time I recall being on film, I was an eighth grader arguing pro-Kerry in a mock debate prior to the 2000 presidential election. The tape shown to my social studies class revealed my painfully conspicuous nose-twitching tick, a brief stage I was unluckily going through at the time. I hid beneath my desk all day.

If that doesn’t sound bad, it’s only because I’ve blocked out the worst of my memories. This dread goes beyond standard recognition of the asymmetry of your face on screen or bafflement at the bizarre nasality of your voice on playback. It’s about cringing and coughing, crawling into cupboards or through barbed wire for the sake of leaving the space that has been afforded your prerecorded double.

So my opinion seemed settled, as a wise freshman entering college with a world of experience tucked into her carry-on. Cameras are dangerous.

And I didn’t intend to get in front of one until well into the future, when for a cool and calm Duke grad, it would cease to pose a threat.

Man plans, and video recording devices laugh.

And so in the name of Froshlife 2006 and Wilson House victory, my newfound friends and I broke mirrors and busted milk bottles, fractured kneecaps and put homework aside for a week of Frosh fanaticism.

Somewhere along the way, I stopped railing against the director’s choice of cuts and close-ups.

Well, I complained less often and less ferociously.

Somewhere between criticizing the unflattering and the unconvincing, the unpretty and the imperfect, something changed. Maybe the fun I was having skewed my objective perspective —of my lack of experience acting and the funny way the light bounced off my face It was fun, bonding in the rain. It was pretty fun despite the rain and the bitter cold. It was great fun despite the rain, the cold and Shang the Deranged Director’s insistence on using the water hose because the real rain wasn’t “visible enough” on the sadly outdated camcorder.

It was unexpectedly fun, just laughing at freshly filmed scenes, watching Muyan shatter my Hollywood heart, sympathizing as Jake suffered stunt after stunt, observing Yi compose and play an incredible original score, listening to Jeff the Editing Expert scream late into the night when equipment malfunctioned. We admired the good, poked fun at the bad and improved whatever we could. And it was fun.

A few days ago, I received a very special card from the Wilson Froshlife crew. As wide as I am tall, complete with metal hinges, this magnificent artwork included 32 blooper shots of me at my worst.

The most hideous pictures they ever did see, they admitted. And I loved it.

If you’re like most people, you probably realize you’re not perfect. In fact, sometimes you probably think you look horribly unattractive or hopelessly foolish. The thought of that being captured on tape, or get this, streamed onto the worldwide web, might be enough to scare the Chunky Monkey out ofyou. But perhaps it’s time for you to reassess.

Instead of attempting to attain the altogether miserable Objective Perspective, try what five great guys taught me: love your own charm, howl at your own quirks and of course, marvel at the magic the technicians spin behind the scenes.

Because let’s admit it. You’re a Dukie. You could very well face the press and grace the screen in years to come.

So get ready for the world, and get ready for you.

Grab a spoon, don a smile, settle down with a sweet treat. Just watch yourself.

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an emergency appointment with a doctor, filling a prescription or even getting to a family planning clinic within a 72-hour window is not always possible for women—especially over holidays and

weekends when doctors are difficult to come by It’s even harder when pharmacies refuse to fill prescriptions.

Plan B, an emerboston cote gency contraceptive the naked truth pill, vastly increases a woman’s chances of preventing pregnancy and preemptively eliminates the painful decisions women endure in the face of an unplanned pregnancy.

Of course emergency contraception has its opponents, including anti-abortion groups, the Vatican (which opposes any interference with human eggs) and Wal-Mart.

The retail giant has refused to carry the pill in its pharmacies—except in Illinois and, as of yesterday, in Massachusetts where pharmacies are legally bound to provide the drug.

Conservative arguments against the morning-afterpill that liken the medication to an “early abortion” are entirely moot. If a pregnancy is already established, the morning-after-pill has no effect—thus allowing the drug some escape from the conservative bombardment against the “abortion pill,” RU-486.

According to CNN, widespread use of emergency contraception in the United States could prevent up to 1.5 million unintended pregnancies and 700,000 abortions each year.

Since the pill has FDAaproval, why not make it readily available to women?

Wal-Mart representatives claim that they are indeed concerned with women’s health. I have no doubt that they think they are being sincere. But Wal-Mart is not willing to make the pill available in all 50 states. Instead, the company has waited for state and federal directives mandating its compliance with its duty to provide common medications.

If Wal-Mart really cared about women’s health, this would not be an issue.

Individual pharmacists throughout the United States have objected to providing women with access to the drug. But regardless of personal convictions, they are, after all, pharmacists and they have to do their job.

A favorite dissenting opinion of mine is that greater access to emergency contraception will invariably lead to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

But what, pray tell, are the grounds for that assumption?

There is no evidence that greater access to emergency contraception makes women increasingly careless about safe sex or more negligent with other methods of contraception. It is unfair and demeaning to assume that women will stop having safe and responsible sex given greater access to emergency

contraception

Honestly —there is nothing like women’s reproductive issues to get the American public talking about women’s capacity to take care of their bodies.

Women deserve to be as informed as is necessary to make responsible decisions. They deserve as much access to as many reproductive options and resources as possible. And most importantly, women must be trusted to make wise decisions about their own bodies.

So Wal-Mart needs to make the drug available in all ofits pharmacies.

It is not just a retailer. Its a freakin’ pharmacy, and as such, it has a responsibility to dispense medications quickly and discreetly to those who need them. If WalMart really does not want to carry Plan B, it should stop claiming that its drug aisle is a pharmacy.

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my own business in my room, my computer’s away message suddenly received a handful of instant messages in rapid-fire succession. My friend was sending me a link to a blog site that she had just been sent by another buddy online, urgently

telling me to read the entry that had been jPfo. posted. I left it on my until I fincomputer ished Law and Order: Wm SVU, then sat down to check the site that she was so frantically urging laura zwiener me to check. What I the i spot read disturbed me more than the sex crimes of SVU; I found that I had been transported back to a meaner version of high school on Duke’s campus.

The blog site featured an anonymous online diary belonging to “dukeobsrvr.” The title of the piece, posted on Valentine’s Day, was “Dukeobsrvr’s how-to guide to banging a sorority girl.” The “guide” is aimed at getting young freshman boys some loving, because apparently they can’t find it without the watchful eye of Dukeobsrvr. The author rates the Greek women of Duke on a scale of “hotness,” “sluttiness” and “insecurity,” information that he self-admittedly gleaned from spending over “four hours stalking the facebook.” He goes on to further stereotype and “rank” several sororities in his perceived measures of their drug use, social climbing tendencies and personal preference of the frats that “make their way into bed with.” He goes on to say that the Greek system at Duke “... leads to unhappy, insecure girls all fighting to get rammed by someone of status,” all while never revealing his identity'.

Dukeobsrvr goes on to say; “.... You see the level of desirability or ‘hotness’ of a guy at Duke increases linearly from his freshman year, reaching its peak senior year. The female curve is the inverse function of the male’s, peaking at roughly this time freshman year.” He closes his entry with the message: “Guys, as you can see it’s not that easy getting laid at.... Do not fret, give it a year and that girl who you are probably eyeing hard right now will come crawling back for you.” Apparently, Dukeobsrvr sees no other value to one-third of his female peers than his mathematical interpretation of the inverse function of their attractiveness curve or their inevitable desire to come crawling back to boys they once turned down their freshman year.

Despite my initial shock at Dukeobsrvr’s highly biased outlook on not only a large social organization in his Duke community but his female and male peers in general, I began to think about how his entry made me feel. Beyond my own biases in being negatively stereotyped by a stranger that chooses to remain anonymous rather than back up his own opinions, I felt as though I was reliving

the worst parts of freshman year of high school, listening the stereotypes and gossip around me, trying to figure out “who” everyone was because at the time, it seemed like the only safe way to figure anybody out.

Similarly, I began to think about Dukeobsrvr’s possible motives in writing the entry in- the first place. “He” has saved himself from any sort of ramifications for his mass announcements because of his choice to remain anonymous, but the sad fact is that Dukeobsrvr could be anyone; male, female, greek, non-greek, Duke student or even a faculty member. How can any real context be derived from the opinions of an anonymous source? Dukeobsrvr’s entries send a message out to the entire cyberspace community that Duke is a place where depraved behavior not only thrives, but is glorified, and values are tossed in favor of social standing and sleeping your way up the fraternity ladder. This is not the Duke that I go to.

Is the behavior that goes on in greek life really that differentfrom that of non-greek life? Don’t we all go to more or less the same parties, the same venues, the same Shooters? Why do we feel the need to continue to bash the choices people make to join organizations that they are willing to devote their time, energy and money to? I thought that graduating from high school and going to Duke would prevent my being judged or worse, cruelly criticized for my personal choices.

College is a time oflife and a place where people come to grow up. However, some people struggle to grow up while at Duke and instead revert back to the days of high school, where making fun of the “nerds” or the “jocks” was so much easier to do as long as you weren’t in the front of the classroom or on the playing field with them.

These people then graduate and move on to college and find once again that they need to act out their own hurt feelings by criticizing other groups around them—whether it’s the “athletes” or the “dorks” or the “sluts.”

At Duke, the greek system becomes one of the easiest targets for criticism, as two-thirds of the student body are unaffiliated and most social events each week center around greek sponsorship or organization. Beyond the anger and bitterness passed around campus and expressed by Dukeobsrvr, we need to ask ourselves: Does the greek community at Duke really warrant such an attack, or do we all contribute to the behavior described in this blog?

For those among us that feel compelled to continue to try and re-create a miniature high school of bashing others based on stereotypes or hearsay, then keep making fun of who you believe to be the “frat guys,” the “sorority girls,” the “jocks” and the “nerds.” Hopefully we can all reassess for ourselves just what exacdy the roots of all of these stereotypes are, and why they are such hot-button topics on campus. Only then can we all graduate from Duke University and not Duke High School. to

Laura Zwiener is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every otherFriday.

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