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Smaller firm considered for MP Activities fee to increase by 45% Rob Copeland THE CHRONICLE

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ARAMARK. Corp.’s grip on the University’s dining operations may soon loosen, as University officials are considering contracting a relatively small, regional company to run operations at the East Campus Marketplace.

ARAMARK, whose contract is up for renewal in June, will continue providing food on West Campus, unless the controversial Philadelphia-based company is replaced by another conglomerate. Its replacement would also

StudentAffairs will use funds to improve facilities, seatingareas in Bryan Center by

direct operations on West.

Meriwether-Godsey Inc., a Virginia-based food service company, is being considered for the East Campus job, senior Andrew Wallace, co-chair of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, and company representatives confirmed Tuesday.

“We’re very interested in Duke,” said Leslie Phillips, Meriwether-Godsey’s director of business development.

Phillips added that her company has been impressed with the University and its dining culture for a number of years.

“I think that the fact that the students are so involved is a wonderful thing,” she said.

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ARAMARK Corp. could be replaced at the Marketplace by a smaller regional company.

Sections spark RLHS, CC tension by

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In an attempt to diffuse the frustration voiced by Campus Council in a formal complaint filed last week, Residence Life and Housing Services apologized to Campus Council Tuesday for failing to seek the Council’s advice.

RLHSalso agreed to move the Leadership and Civic Engagement Community—the University’s fifth

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Houses M or N in the rear of Kilgo

Quadrangle.

Council representatives were originally upset that they had not been consulted about the establishment of the living group and that the LCEC was given housing facing Main West Quadrangle.

All selective community sections were moved in 2001 so SEE RLHS ON PAGE 8

The student activities fee will increase by nearly 45 percent next year,jumping from $173.50 to $250.50 per semester for the 2006-2007 academic year.

The increase is part of the 4.5-percent hike in total costs —encompassing tuition, fees and room and board—approved by the Board of Trustees last weekend.

“The reason we did this is so that we can provide [the Office of Student Activities and Facilities] and Student Affairs with its own structural support,” said Larry“Moneta, vice president for student affairs.

An administrative fee increase of $lOO, proposed by the Office ofStudent Affairs, makes up the bulk of the $77 difference in the activities fee. An additional $7.50 for Last Day of Classes events, approved by referendum last spring, and an annual 4-percent increase constitute the rest.

In comparison, between the 2004school year and 2005school year, the stu-

dent activities fee only increased by 12 percent—or $16.50—per semester.

All the money collected from the administrative portion of the student activities fee goes directly into the Office of Student Affairs’ budget, Moneta explained.

The Office of Student Affairs will use the more than $600,000 in additional funding it collects to subsidize room rental fees for student groups and refurbish spaces in the Bryan Center and theWest Union Building, he said.

Moneta added that the unusually sharp increase in the fee is part of the budget expansion planned since the Office of Student Affairs took over operations of the two buildings from Campus Services last year.

“There will be a considerable continued intent to improve facilities,” Moneta said, citing the seating area around Alpine Atrium and McDonald’s as locations that may get new furniture.

His office could have gotten the same funds if tuition were SEE FEE ON PAGE 9

Woodruff‘ Brooks to teach PPS Adam Eaglin THE CHRONICLE

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A duo of acclaimed journalists recendy finalized

plans to teach classes at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy next fall. Former CNN news anchor Judy

Woodruff and current New York Times columnist David Brooks will join Duke’s faculty through the Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.

“I think that this is really a move forward for the Dewitt Wallace Center and the whole Sanford Institute,” said Ellen Mickiewicz, professor of public policy studies and director of the Dewitt Wallace Center.

A 1968 graduate of Duke in political science, Woodruffretired from CNN in 2005 to pursue other interests. In her 30-year media career, Woodruff worked as a White House correspondent for NBC, hosted Frondine for PBS and hosted Inside Politics for CNN, among other positions. She recently signed on to undertake a PBS project about young people’s views on religion, politics and other issues, which will culminate in a January 2007 documentary.

Brooks has written for numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. He is a frequent commentator for NPR and The NewsHour SEE PPS ON PAGE 6

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At least 68 killed in Baghdad bombings by

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Sunnis and Shiites BAGHDAD, Iraq traded bombings and mortar fire against mainly religious targets in Baghdad well into the night Tuesday, killing at least 68 people a day after authorities lifted a curfew that had briefly calmed a series of sectarian reprisal attacks.

At least six of Tuesday’s attacks hit clearly religious targets, concluding with a car bombing after sundown at the Shiite Abdel Hadi Chalabi mosque in the Hurriyah neighborhood that killed 23 and wounded 55. A separate suicide bombing killed 23 people at an east

Baghdad gas station, where people had lined up to buy kerosine.

In addition to those known to have been killed Tuesday, police found nine more bullet-riddled bodies, including a Sunni Muslim tribal sheik, off a road southeast of Baghdad. It was unclear when they died.

The surge of violence deepened the trauma of residents already shaken by fears the country was teetering on the brink of sectarian civil war. It also threatened talks among Iraqi politicians struggling to form a government and raised questions about U.S.-plans to begin drawing down troop strength this summer.

Iraq began to tilt seriously toward outright civil war after the Feb. 22 bombing of the important Shiite Askariya shrine in the mainly Sunni city of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad.

President George W. Bush decried the latest surge in sectarian violence Tuesday

Bush still supports ports deal President George W. Bush said Tuesday he remains supportive of a United Arab Emirates-based company's takeover of some U.S. port operations, even though a new, more intensive investigation of the deal's potential security risks has yet to begin.

and said that for Iraqis, “the choice is chaos or unity.”

In congressional testimony, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said a civil war in Iraq could lead to a broader conflict in the Middle East, pitting the region’s Sunni andShiite powers against one another.

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New Orleans hosts Mardi Gras The crowds were small and the costumes wickedly satirical as Mardi Gras built toward its boozy climax Tuesday in this hurricane-buckled city that could use a few laughs. The climax of the eight-day bashfell nearly six months to the day after the Aug. 29 storm.

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Courts rule for abortion protesters by

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WASHINGTON A 20-year-old legal fight over protests outside abortion clinics ended Tuesday with the Supreme Court ruling that federal extortion and racketeering

laws cannot be used against demonstrators.

The 8-0 decision was a setback for abortion clinics that were buoyed when the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals kept their case alive two years ago despite the high court’s 2003 ruling that had cleared the way for lifting a nationwide injunction on anti-abortion leader Joseph Scheidler and others.

Anti-abortion groups appealed to the justices after the lower court sought to determine whether the injunction could be supported by findings that protesters had made threats of violence.

In Tuesday’s ruling, Justice Stephen Breyer said Congress did not create “a freestanding physical violence offense” in the federal extortion law known as the Hobbs Act. Instead, Breyer wrote, Congress addressed violence outside abortion clinics in 1994 by passing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which allows for court injunctions to set limits for such protests.

“It’s a great day for pro-lifers,” said Troy

Prosecutors presented documents Tuesday that they said show Saddam Hussein approved executions of more than 140 Shiites in the 1980s, the most direct evidence yet against the former Iraqi leader in his four-month trial.

Newman, president of Operation Rescue.

Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, said the decision was disappointing because the injunction had decreased violence outside clinics nationally.

She said the clinic access act is problematic because it requires abortion providers to seek injunctions “city by city” and turns back the clock to the late 1980 s when NOW played cat and mouse with Operation Rescue in trying to anticipate the cities and clinics that abortion protesters planned to target next.

Health care worries veterans

While veterans are worried about proposed cuts to their health care, Vice President Dick Cheney tried to reassure the American Legion this Tuesday that the George W. Bush administration is committed to improving the system.

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Just a few weeks after the end of fraternity and sorority rush season, greek life at Duke has come back into the spotlight, being examined by a harsh critic whose anonymous online blog has incited controversy.

Since November 2005, a self-proclaimed Duke student—writing under the alias of “Dukeobsrvr”—has broadcast his comments dirough an online diary on

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The Blackboard Learning System may now face some competition in the form of iTunes University, a hub for classroom media content at Duke.

Apple’s new system is intended to do for audio and video what Blackboard did for text, making recorded lectures, speeches, or movie clips as available as books on e-reserves.

In contrast to Blackboard’s content, which can only be made portable by printing onto old-fashioned paper, students can simply transfer downloaded content from iTunes U directly onto their iPods for lis-

tening on-the-go.

Introduced by Apple Corporation in January, iTunes University is the mature form of a pilot program in which Duke took part alongside Stanford University,

Altliough the blog has generated significant controversy, especially in its online response forums, Dukeobsrvr insists that his postings are not to be taken seriously.

“Hopefully people find this funny and are secure enough to laugh at their own, and everybody else’s, petty hangups,” he wrote. “I’m sorry that questioning of the greek system is too much for some to handle.”

Despite what the lively discussions on the blog’s response forums would suggest, student reaction on campus is relatively understated.

“I think a fair amount of people in the greek system have read it,” said senior Jay McKenna, IFC President and a member of

The entries explore the intricacies of Duke’s social structure, focusing especially on the role of the greek system in determining social rankings.

Dukeobsrvr remained relalively unknown “I was sick of reading watered-down until early this articles and opinions in The Chronsemester when one of his enicle that refused to say anything of tries, entitled “unofficial rush relevance about greek life.” guide,” ranked —Dukeobsrvr Duke’s Inter-

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Brown University, the Missouri School of Journalism and the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin.

Since its unveiling, Apple has been offering iTunes U service to all interested institutions. Todd Wilder, a corporate public relations specialist at Apple, said the company will provide assistance to any school that decides to take part in the new program.

“We work with them to create the interface, and to get the tools in place,” Wilder said.

Wilder emphasized that after the initial setup, institutions would be under no pressure to actually start distributing materials online. “They can get their content up as soon as they feel ready to,” he said.

Samantha Earp, director of foreign SEE iTUNES ON PAGE 9

Council groups and unaffiliated off-campus fraternities in terms of social clout. It went on to describe each fraternity’s “drug of choice” and pledging process.

Dukeobsrvr followed up his fraternity list with a similarly critical entry about the 10 National Panhellenic Conference sororides on campus. His commentary included discussions of each sorority’s relative “hotness” as well as observations about the fraternities with which each sorority associates.

“I was sick of reading watered-down articles and opinions in The Chronicle that refused to say anything of relevance about greek life,” Dukeobsrvr wrote in an e-mail.

“There has always been this big giant elephant in the middle of the quad that everyone can see and loves to talk about in private.”

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“They all have the same reaction as I have: It’s just there to elicit a respouse.”

Some memhers of the

find the blog entertaining and are interested in how their own organizations are portrayed.

“He didn’t hit us that hard, but he also didn’t rank us that high, which wasn’t cool,” said Alpha Tau Omega member Joey Kotkins, a sophomore.

Other students noted that the opinion of one anonymous writer should not be considered as accurate representation of the greek system.

Dukeobsrvr said he plans to continue his commentary as long as there is an audience for it. Under the mask of anonymity, his discussion in the future may go beyond greek life to include other controversial aspects of life at Duke.

“We will see if people care,” he wrote. “A part of me says thestudents just like to hear me bash on the popular kids, but I think I can do a decent job with other aspects at this University.”

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About 25 percent fewer high school students and 40 percent fewer middle-schoolers reported smoking between 2003 and 2005, according to the biennial Youth Tobacco Survey. The drop represents 27,000 fewer teens who reported smoking during the two-year period.

Skin patch to treat depression

The first skin patch to treat depression won federal approval Tuesday, providing a novel way to

administer a drug already used by Parkinson's disease patients but that belongs to a class of medicines that is rarely a first or second choice antidepressant.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the selegiline transdermal patch, agency spokesperson Susan Cruzan said. The drug will be marketed as Emsam, said Somerset Pharmaceuticals Inc, which developed the drug, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., which will market it in three sizes as a once-a-day treatment for major depression.

Chocolate may help health Leave it to the Dutch to help demonstrate the health benefits of chocolate.

A study of older men in The Netherlands, known for its luscious chocolate, indicated those who ate the equivalent of one-third of a chocolate bar every day had lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of death.

The researchers said, however, it is too early to conclude it was chocolate that led to better health.

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UNWIRED More than 55 percent of the U.S. population uses wireless technology.

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One university president fears that students signing in to instant messaging programs or checking their e-mail on quads may also be signing up for a case of cancer.

Even as wireless Internet access becomes increasingly popular, Fred Gilbert, president of Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada, refuses to expand Wireless Fidelity ports on the small school’s campus.

“The jury is still out on the impact of electromagnetic forces on humans,” Gilbert explained.

He said he hopes his decision will open up discussion regarding the potential effects of electromagnetic forces emitted from technological devices that he said could include cancer and leukemia.

He said scientists’ classification of radio wavelengths as “non-ionizing radiation” is too vague, leaving the safety of new technologies in question. “Developing college students” are especially at risk, as more rapidly growing tissue is more suspectible to genetic alterations leading to cancer, he said.

Gilbert, who said he has studied the potential health hazards of electromagnetic waves for nearly three decades, described his decision as “common sense,” citing “inconclusive studies” published by the California Public Utilities Commission.

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Although wireless technology has become standard on campuses like Duke's, some are questioning its effects on human health. introducing something that humans have never been exposed to for long periods of time,” said David Savitz, professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Savitz, who has studied the potential effects of electromagnetic fields in the environment and in the workplace, said Gilbert’s no-

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tion is valid overall, as no empirical evidence exists opposing the Lakehead president’s claims.

“In the past, there was enough concern to generate some fairly substantial research,” Savitz said.

“Evidence exists that electromagnetic waves impact humans—for instance cell phones warming head tissue—but none [at the

level of radio waves] indicates links to health issues.”

In recent years, studies analyzing a potential link between cellular phones and brain tumors found no correspondence among large populations that used cell phones over the span of about SEE WI-FI ON PAGE 11

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FBI: Mystery powder in dorm notricin, despite initial tests The FBI determined a powdery substance found in a roll of quarters at a University of Texas dormitory was not ricin after initial state tests had indicated it was the potentially deadly poison, a spokesperson said Sunday.

The FBI tests did not identify the substance, but they came back negative for the poison diat is extracted from castor beans, said San Antonio FBI spokesperson Rene Salinas.

“There were no proteins in there to indicate it was in fact ricin, Salinas said. He said it was unlikely further testing would be done.

Texas health officials did “just a quick test, and they don t check for the proteins in ricin,” Salinas said.

The mystery powder spilled onto Kelly Heinbaugh’s hands as she unwrapped a roll of quarters in her dorm i oom on Thursday. She said she had used five other rolls of quarters her mother had gotten from the same bank, and none had powder in them. The 19-year-old freshman and her roommate were both evaluated for possible exposure to ricin and cleared at a hospital.

Roughly 400 residents of the Moore-Hill Dormitory were evacuated Friday night while hazardous materials crews sanitized the area where the substance was found.

Juilhard obtains gift of manuscripts by famous composers The Juilliard School has just received a priceless trove of

manuscripts of works by such immortal composers as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, among many others.

Bruce Kovner, who dropped out of a Harvard doctoral program and drove a New York taxi before starting a hedge fund that helped get him on Forbes Magazine's 400 richest list, secretly amassed the collection during the past decade ofauction hunting.

The self-described music lover and amateur keyboard player who was once “absolutely terrorized” by a harmony professor at Juilliard’s evening division announced the donation at a news conference Tuesday, two days after his 61st birthday.

Elon University bans smoking in dorms This fall, Elon University will ban smoking in its dormitories, the last indoor haven for lighting up on the private

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Senior Emma Wallace takes advantage of the beautiful weather Tuesday afternoon byreading in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. school’s campus.

A survey showed that 82 percent of students—including some who smoke—favored the ban, school officials said.

Elon, which in recent years has cut back on areas that permit smoking, allows the practice within 30 feet of administrative and classroom buildings. It also currently has one non-smoking floor or non-smoking dorm in each area of campus.

Wisconsin prof’s book charts hostile trends in lawyer jokes He’s not exactly a seasoned comic, but professor Marc Galanter knows so many lawyer jokes he even has a joke about lawyer jokes.

“A colleague asked me how many lawyer jokes there

are. I told him just three—the rest are documented case histories,” Galanter told an audience this week at Vanderbilt University Law School.

Galanter’sroutine is part of a lecture tour he is doing to promote his new book, which charts the increasingly bitter tone of lawyer jokes over the past couple of decades.

“We have 500-year-old lawyer jokes still in circulation and most of them go back at least 100 years,” said Galanter, a professor at the University ofWisconsin-Madison. “But around the 1980s, there was a great shift. They became much more hostile.”

Culture, In Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Galanter said the animosity is a backlash to the increasing legal restrictions that have reached into American life.

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Pilots risk losing say in their fate after Wed. morning. A Northwest didn’t immediately return a THE spokesperson Pilots at Northwest and Delta airlines phone message Tuesday.

Northwest pilots have struck five times, have until Wednesday to make pay cut most recently in 1998. Delta pilots have deals before they risk losing some of their never struck. control over the matter.

Flight attendant talks continued TuesA bankruptcy judge is set to rule on Northwest’s request for permission to imday, too. But their strike vote runs through March 6. pose its own pay cuts and work rules on piDelta and its pilot union both said talks lots and flight attendants.

Delta’s request to reject its pilot contract would probably continue even if the diswill go to arbitrators if a second long-term pute is submitted to an arbitrator.

Adanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc. and concessions deal isn’t reached. Both Eagan, Minn.-based Northwest Airlines unions are threatening strikes if the airCorp. are the lines impose pay nation’s thirdcuts unilaterally. and fourthBoth airlines “Our goal has been all along to carriers. largest have said strikes Both fded for reach a consensual agreement, could kill them. bankruptcy proAs talks conand we’d like to do that before tection Sept. 14, tinued Tuesday and both have York, New in it’s jeopardized.” said they need Northwest pilots Mark McClain, chair the worker concesappeared clossions to be profto the edge est Northwest branch the Air Line itable again. of a strike Pilots Association Bankrupt carriTwo pay cuts ers can ask a have already judge to let sliced 39 perreject them cent from their union contracts. contracts, of their including More than 92 pilots percent wages.

The high-stakes talks Tuesday were voted to authorize a strike, the union said reminiscent of similar endgames during Tuesday. tylark McClain, chair of the Northwest bankruptcies at United Airlines and US branch of the Air Line Pilots Association, Airways.

Only US Airways mechanics pressed said he’s still aiming to make a deal before until a judge ruled, and negotiations York Allan New bankruptcy judge Cropper’s deadline of 11 a.m. Wednesday. He even then they avoided taking the comsaid the framework for an agreement pany’s imposed terms. So Northwest piabout who will fly Northwest’s smaller jets lots will be in new territory if they reach is still in place. That had been one of the that point Wednesday.

Both airlines have said strikes would be key sticking points early in negotiations.

“We’d certainly like to wrap it up,” he illegal because the unions would not have said. “Our goal has been all along to reach followed the Railway Labor Act, which requires a 30-day cooling-off period after an a consensual agreement, and we’d like to it’s exceedimpasse in negotiations is reached. The pido that before jeopardized” by lots have said rejection of their contract deadlines like the one the judge ing any set for Wednesday.

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JudyWoodruff, who will teach a class at Duke this fall, addresses a packed house over Parents'Weekend. ing journalism has grown immensely on pnC from page 1 ■ ■ campus in recent years. In 2003, the Arts and Sciences Council approved the Policy with Jim Lehrer.

Journalism and Media Studies Certificate in the Dewitt Wallace Center. Since then, Mickiewicz said both journalists comthe certificate has been one of the top mitted to teaching a class for the fall sehowever, More future may three most popular at the University. “That mester. plans, shows that there’s a demand out there [for be in the works for Woodruff. she “We’re hoping that down the road journalism and media classes],” she said.

“We’re talking about broadly understandcourse,” be more than a just teaching may said Bruce Kuniholm, professor of public ing what effect communications and techpolicy studies and director of the Sanford nology have on our lives.”

Despite the high profiles ofboth Brooks Institute. “But at this stage I think she’s and Woodruff, Kuniholm noted that got a lot on her plate.”

Mickiewicz said Woodruff will be Duke’s faculty already includes public politeaching a seminar course on television, cy professors with strong reputations in technology and politics. Brooks will teach journalism, including retired Washington a half-credit class—"part historical, mosdy Post columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner contemporary”—about liberalism and William Raspberry and former Time Magazine associate editor Susan Tifft, Trinity ’73. conservatism in the United States.

“We’re excited about it, but we’re alEnrollment for both courses will likesaid.

Mickiewicz ways excited about these people because ly be application-based, Because of the small, seminar size of the they’re very good at what they do,” said two classes, the professors will choose Kuniholm. “It’s not like this is a departure students who they think best fit the of what we’ve done in the past.”

Woodruff and Brooks could not be class’ models.

Mickiewicz noted that interest in study- reached for comment.

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Campus Council President Jay Ganatra said he accepted the apology from Eddie

Hull, executive director of housing services and dean ofresidence life.

At a general body meeting Feb. 23, Council members voted unanimously to send a letter of complaint to Hull.

The letter criticized RLHS’s handling of the LCEC, calling the addition “a breach of trust.”

Ganatra said although he had heard vague plans for the LCEC months ago, he only learned that the group had been added from a Feb. 21 article in The Chronicle.

“I don’t want to imply that I think they snuck it by us,” Ganatra said at the meeting.

“But it should have come across our table before we read about it in The Chronicle.”

The group’s debate at the Feb. 23 meeting, however, suggested that neither RLHS nor Council members were satisfied with their relationship.

Council members complained that the group is seen as “inept”—nothing but a puppet body—and charged that RLHS only brings policies before them when seeking a rubber-stamp approval.

Campus CouncilVice President Ben Rubinfeld said Nicole Manley, assistant dean for staff development, advising and assessment for RLHS and adviser to the Council, was upset with the tone of the letter.

“She felt the letter was too forceful, that it wasn’t tactful,” said Rubinfeld, a junior. He said Manley felt Campus Council’s aggressive stance could cause administrative backlash.

“If you guys want a reorganization of Campus Council, this is the fastest way to do it,” Manley told representatives at the

general body meeting.

Rubinfeld said Campus Council members are not concerned about such repercussions and added dial Hull said he considered die Council’s advice as important as that of any adviser on the RLHS staff.

Manley and Hull both declined to comment on the situation.

Other comments at the Feb. 23 meeting suggest problems run deeper than the LCEC miscommunication. Council representatives questioned RLHS’s com-

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The newest Living/Learning community will now occupy space in the back of Kilgo Quadrangle. mitment to the group as well as its role on campus “Personally, I’m fed up... with all the editorials saying Campus Council is just a bunch of puppets,” Kilgo Quad representative Collin Walter, a junior, said at the meeting. “Part of that is maybe that I think it’s true.”

Ganatra downplayed those claims after meedng with Hull Tuesday. He said he thought Walter’s comment was inspired more by outside representations of the Council than by internal problems.

“Campus Council members can get upset because we work really hard in this group and then somedmes a staff editorial or a column will attack what we’ve done,” Ganatra said Tuesday.

He added that Campus Council’s achievements this year—from unlocking some residential bathrooms to opening dormitories for more hours—indicated a

stronger and more efficient body than in

the past.

The LCEC represents the second major exception to the moratorium for new housing sections for selective groups. In January, Chi Psi and Delta Tau Delta ffaternides were given housing sections.

At that time, top RLHS officials said no new groups would be added until a fourstep re-evaluation and redesign of selective living on campus had been completed.

Deb Lo Biondo, assistant dean for residence life on West Campus, wrote in an e-mail that the group was not considered under the same guidelines as greek and selective living groups.

Both Council members and RLHS officials said they did not yet know if living/leaming communities would be evaluated under the Selective Community Assessment currently being formulated

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would free them from the RLA. Northwest pilots held informational pickets at Northwest’s hub airports in Minneapolis, Detroit and Memphis, as well as in Seattle Tuesday afternoon. And the union issued a strike manual to pilots laying out union strike procedures.

At Delta, both sides thought it was unlikely they would make a deal before the Wednesday deadline.

That would send the dispute to a threemember panel of arbitrators in Washington, with two weeks of hearings set to begin March 13.

“It’s just the start of a new phase,” said union spokesperson John Culp. “There’s nothing to preclude our talking up to and through the hearings.”

Delta wants at least $315 million in long-term cuts, while the union is currently offering about $ll5 million in average annual concessions.

Pilots already took $1 billion in annual wage and benefit cuts under a five-year deal reached in late 2004, including an immediate 32.5 percent pay cut. The company reported that the average pay of pilots last year who worked the full year was more than $157,000.

“The fact is that the company’s and the union’s positions are far apart,” said Delta spokesperson Bruce Hicks.

A term sheet filed in bankruptcy court in December, when Delta and its pilots agreed to temporary pay cuts, says the arbitration panel’s decision would be binding on both sides, subject to limited rights to appeal.

The union, however, believes it could still strike if the panel were to reject its contract.

The three members of the panel are Fredric Horowitz, a California labor attorney; Robert Harris, a former law professor who has been a consultant for the government of Bermuda; and Richard Bloch, who sided with the Philadelphia Eagles as arbitrator of their decision to bench star receiver Terrell Owens.

Tom Parsons, president of discount travel Web site Bestfares.com, said that even if travelers don’t avoid the troubled airlines, bankruptcy often takes its toll on customer service by employees.

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language technology services at Duke, said 11 spring semester courses are either using or preparing to use iTunes to distribute their content.

“Until spring break, the faculty will be getting comfortable with the new technology,” Earp said. “I think part of the delay is that it takes faculty members a while to figure out how to really use this effectively, instead of just having another add-on.”

Some professors have already embraced the new system. Professor Richard Lucic, associate chair of the Department of Computer Science, was an early adopter of podcasting—a way of distributing audio files online. Lucic has been using iTunes U to provide content for his courses since the fall semester. In his classes, podcasts and other digital materials are just another part of the curriculum.

“Every Monday morning at class we have a discussion about the podcast I sent out the previous Thursday or Friday,” Lucic said.

By posting content for his classes on iTunes U, Lucic said he has been able to move classroom discussions beyond the traditional hand-out ofmaterials. “I’ve expanded its use to where students are actually contributing material themselves,” he said.

On the whole, Lucie’s students were appreciative of the iTunes content. Senior Allison Clarke noted that the service offered a depth of content that could not be found in text alone.

“It captures things that you can’t get by straight transcription,” she said. “For example, recordings of President Brodhead’s speeches would come across completely differently if they were just words on a page.”

So far, the University has not emphasized the extracurricular uses of iTunes U, such as

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increased by $lOO per semester, Moneta said, but increasing the student activities fee eliminates the step of having the money drawn from the University’s overall budget.

“To parents, it’s cash,” Moneta said.

“How it’s distributed is an arithmetic

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As part ofthe Duke Digital Initiative, students in iPod classes have helped test the iTunes University program.

posting audio from on-campus lecturers. Although the iTunes pages for Duke’s courses are alive and well, sections entitled “Duke Life” and “Guest Speakers” have remained unchanged since November.

Other schools have followed different routes. For example, Stanford’s iTunes page includes recordings of faculty lectures, sports news and Stanford-produced music. ATI of Stanford’s material is frequently updated and free to the public.

Duke officials were aware of the iTunes content offered by other schools. “Certainly, Stanford has made a huge splash,” Earp said. “But they’ve been primarily focused on the distributionof public content, while Duke was more focused on the academic.”

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Nevertheless, students have been receptive to the idea of alternative offerings from Duke’s iTunes page. Sophomore Sarah Ellis recommended the setup of a podcast of current campus events by the University or The Chronicle. “Podcasts would really be a great way to let people know what’s going on at Duke,” she said.

Clarke said she was also enthused. “I hadn’t really thought about it before, but I’m [ a residence advisor], and I get students who gripe about there being so much stuff at Duke that they can’t know about because there’s no centralized network,” she said. “A system like that would really head those arguments off at the pass. The more I think of that, the happier I am.”

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No part of the additional funds will be used to pay for construction of the new West Campus Student Plaza, Moneta said Unlike the additional $7.50 for LDOC, which students voted on in April 2005, the administrative increase in the fee was enacted without any student input, Moneta noted.

Instead, approval for the Office of Student Affairs budget went through the Office of the Provost.

“We take [Moneta’s] recommendation,” Provost Peter Lange said.

Administrators have made an effcprt to minimize increases to other fees, Moneta said, noting that the student health fee will remain the same as it was this year.

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Compared to Philadelphia-based ARAMARK Corp., which has 240,000 employees worldwide and recorded $ll billion in sales during 2005 alone, Meriwether-Godsey seems like a small fish in a big pond.

After all, the company has 400 employees and lists $l6 million in revenues for 2005 in its company literature.

Established in 1985 and headquartered in Lynchburg, Va., Meriwether-Godsey has 27 total contracts in 30 locations that range from the Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Va., to Wes-

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Still, the firm's attitude remains upbeat. Director of Business Development Leslie Phillips said the company "would be delighted to have the chance to provide a piece of Duke's food service."

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“Duke would be a huge opportunity for them,” he said of Meriwether-Godsey. “We need to keep the entrepreneurial spirit —that [Director of Dining Services] Jim Wulforst used to talk about—alive.”

Wulforst declined to comment, citing the sensitivity of contract discussions.

Although Phillips acknowledged that Meriwether-Godsey may appear less impressive next to the internationally reaching ARAMARK, she noted that her company boasts 20 years of experience in the food service industry.

“We know food, and we’re passionate about it,” Phillips said.

That sentiment was echoed at Germantown Academy, a 1,122-student day school in Fort Washington, Penn., where Meriwether-Godsey was awarded a dining contract about a year ago.

“They have been excellent,” said Larry Kraut, assistant director offinance for the academy.

Germantown had previously employed ARAMARK with extremely unsatisfactory results, Kraut said, noting that the conglomerate “learned nothing.”

“It was astounding,” he added. “They were less sensitive to our needs and operated very much like a corporate behemoth.”

Meriwether-Godsey has ensured that Germantown’s dining is as comprehensive as any college dining service, Kraut said.

“We want to focus on teaching kids, and we want the food provider to focus on running the f00d.... [ARAMARK] just couldn’t quite get that picture,” he said.

Sophomore Tom Adelman, a Germantown alumnus, had similar recollections of the school’s dining under ARAMARK. “It wasn’t my favorite,” he said. “The quality definitely left a bit to be desired.”

Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, emphasized that the selection process for a new food service provider has just begun. He said any speculation would be “premature.”

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one decade The frequency of Wi-Fi emissions is lower than that of cell phones —suggesting a lower level of cancer risk.

Mohammad Ahmed, assistant research professor in Duke’s physics department, said undertaking a conclusive study of the topic would require a span of perhaps 10 to 20 years, but noted he considers the likelihood ofhealth hazards to be minute.

Moreover, he considers studies analyzing the effects of electromagnetic radiation to be very impractical.

“Randomly, we expect some of these people to get cancer or leukemia anyway,” he said. “Studies regarding the matter would only produce fluctuations of doubt among scientists.”

So far, researchers have come to no conclusion regarding the potential of different sources of microwaves combining to cause health problems.

Ahmed said the best data regarding health effects of radiation at other levels come from studies conducted when knowledge about radiation emissions was

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ABORTION from page 2 Newman said his group and others have set their sights on the clinic access law, filing legal challenges they hope will lead courts—possibly even the Supreme Court—to overturn it.

Abortion opponents hope momentum is shifting in their favor: Last week, the high court decided to consider reinstating a federal ban on what opponents call partial-birth abortion, and the South Dakota legislature passed a bill that would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman’s life.

President Bush, asked about the South Dakota measure in an interview with ABC News’ Elizabeth Vargas, said Tuesday he hadn’t “paid attention to that, to this particular issue you’re talking about” but “I am not going to prejudge how the Supreme Court is going

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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which was used predominandy in criminal cases against organized crime.

The lawsuit also relied on the Hobbs Act, a 55-year-old law banning extortion.

A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction against the anti-abortion protesters after a Chicago jury found in 1998 that demonstrators had engaged in a pattern of racketeering by interfering with clinic operations, menacing doctors, assaulting patients and damaging clinic property.

But the Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that the extortion law could not be used against the protesters because they had not illegally “obtained property” from women seeking to enter clinics to receive abortions.

Justice Samuel Alito did not participate in the decision because he was not a member of the court when the case was argued The cases are Scheidler v. NOW, 041244, and Operation Rescue v. NOW, 041352.

ways been three exceptions: rape, incests and the life of the mother.” Asked if he would include the broader category of health of the mother, Bush said: “No. I said life of the mother, and health is a very vague term, but my position has been clear on that ever since I started running for office.”

In the abortion protest case, social activists and the AFL-CIO had sided with the demonstrators out of concern that the federal extortion law could be used to thwart their efforts to change public policy or agitate for better wages and working conditions.

The legal battle began in 1986, when NOW filed a class-action suit challenging tactics used by the Pro-Life Action Network to block women from entering abortion clinics.

NOW’S legal strategy was novel at the time, relying on civil provisions of the 1970

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But Gilbert maintains that those studies and his own knowledge are enough.

“You’re not going to stand beside a microwave oven if you know it’s leaking,” he said. “It’s just common sense to put as much space between you and sources of radiation.”

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Iraqi residents sift through therubble of a mosque after it was damaged by a bomb attack Tuesday.

IRAQ from page 2 Defense Intelligence Agency chief Lt. Gen. Michael Maples said the sectarian violence stems from a core ofSunni Arab insurgents who can exploit “social, economic, historical and religious grievances.”

“Networks based on these relationships remain the greatest threat to long-term stability in Iraq,” Maples said.

The sectarian violence has hit Baghdad hardest because the population in the capital is about evenly divided between Shiites and Sunnis, more so than in any other region of the country.

At about the same time as the attack on the Shiite Abdel Hadi Chalabi mosque, a mortar round landed near the Shiite Imam Kadhim shrine in the Kazimiyah neighborhood on the opposite side of the Tigris River, killing one and wounding 10.

Those attacks appeared to have been in retaliation for assaults on Sunni places of worship earlier in the day.

North of Baghdad, a blast badly damaged a Sunni mosque where the father of Saddam Hussein was buried in the family’s ancestral hometown, Tikrit. The Iraqi Islamic Party reported a bomb hit the Sunni Thou Nitaqain mosque in the Hurriyah neighborhood at 8 a.m. Tuesday, killing three and wounding 11. Gunmen in two speeding cars opened fire on the Sunni alSalam mosque in the western Baghdad’s Mansour district, killing a guard.

Late Tuesday police reported finding the body of Shiite cleric Hani Hadi handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the head near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad’s notorious Dora neighborhood.

One of the day’s bloodiest attacks came when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest packed with ball bearings among people lined up to buy kerosine at a crowded filling station in east Baghdad. The blast killed 23 people and wounded 51, leaving behind the charred and twisted remains of wheeled carts that customers had used to transport fuel canisters to the station.

A car bombing in the same neighborhood targeted a police patrol and killed five people and wounded 17—all civilians.

Another car bomb hit a small market opposite the Shiite Timimi mosque in the mostly Shiite Karradah neighborhood,

killing six people and wounding 16.

Separately and in an unusual move, the government issued a statement declaring that 379 people had been killed and 458 wounded as of 4 p.m. Tuesday in the sectarian violence tied to the Askariya

bombing.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that more than 1,300 people were killed in the reprisal attacks. The Cabinet statement, however, said “what was reported in a foreign newspaper were inaccurate and

exaggerated numbers of victims.”

More than 60 relatives of the dead—many of them women dressed in black and beating their breasts as they wailed in grief—assembled with empty coffins at the morgue to take away their dead family members. One young man, who refused to give his name, told an AP reporter that his three brothers had gone out to buy bread Saturday night and were gunned down in a drive-by attack.

National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie, meanwhile, traveled to the Shiite holy city of Najaf Tuesday to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the Shiite community’s most revered spiritual leader.

Al-Rubaie emerged to tell reporters “the way to forming the government is difficult and planted with political bombs. We ask the Iraqi people to be patient, and we expect forming the government will take a few months.”

In the south Tuesday, two British soldiers were killed in Amarah, 180 miles from Baghdad, the Defense Ministry reported in London, but gave no other details. A witness said a car bomb targeted a British patrol and helicopters were seen taking away casualties.

The U.S. military reported a U.S. soldier was killed by small-arms fire west of Baghdad Monday. No details were provided. The death brought the total number of members of the U.S. military who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 to at least 2,292, according to an AP count. The figure includes seven military civilians.

In other violence Tuesday, a roadside bomb targeting the convoy of a defense ministry adviser killed five soldiers and injured seven others in east Baghdad. The adviser, Lt. Gen. Daham Radhi al-Assal, escaped unharmed.

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Tallahassee, Fla. left in the regular season—including Saturday’s marquee rematch with the Tar Heels—and the ACC title already locked up, tonight’s matchup against Florida State would appear to be another chance for No. 1 Duke (27-1, 14-0 in the ACC) to falter.

The Seminoles (17-8, 7-7) currently sit squarely on the bubble for the NCAATournament, badly needing a win in tonight’s 7 p.m. game in Tallahassee to gain consideration for an at-large bid to the big dance. A victory over the Blue Devils would give Florida State the statement win that could sway the members of the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee.

“It’s a tremendous challenge but an unbelievable opportunity,” said Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton of playing Duke. “We have to earn the respect of people who make decisions.”

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Freshman Josh Mcßoberts has increased his scoring output,averaging 12.5points over the past four games.

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Danowski’s 4 goals help Blue Devils lance Knights Galen Vaisman

By the halftime break, Danowski had added two more goals and another assist to Behind a five-point second quarter by his tally, helping Duke amass an 8-0 lead by junior Matt Danowski, the No. 2 Blue Devintermission. The attacker finished the ils (3-0) continued their recent demolition contest with a game-high four goals and of unranked opponents with a 16-1 distied Flannery for a game-high two assists. mantling of Division-I newcomer Bel“I got my open opportunities and shot larmine (0-1) Tuesday. smart,” Danowski said. “We played great Following a lackluster opening period, defense and got transition points. We Danowski began played unselfishly, and luckily I was able to 1 his scoring surge make some pretty good plays.”

A finalist for the Tewaaraton Trophy 16 3:05 into the secDUKE ond quarter. Relast season, Danowski entered Tuesday afceiving a Dan Flannery pass to the left of ternoon just fifth on the team in both the cage, the junior rifled a perfectly posiscoring and points. In his team’s 20-3 win tioned shot between the crossbar and the over Butler Feb. 18 and 13-2 victory left shoulder of Knights goalie J.C. against Villanova Feb. 25, Danowski comHutchins to give the Blue Devils a 3-0 lead. bined for three goals and three assists deDuke struck again 69 seconds later, as spite being presented with numerous Danowski charged toward the net and colscoring opportunities.

“Matt has a high standard for himself,” lapsed the Bellarmine defense around him. He then sent a quick pass out to Zack Duke head coach Mike Pressler said. “He’s Greer, and the wide-open sophomore fired gotten his shots but hasn’t put them in the a laser to the right side ofHutchins to give the Blue Devils a four-goal advantage.

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petitor he is, he came back on day two.”

The senior could have placed even higher, Myers said. Blaum came out strong

It wasn’t exactly smooth sailing in Puerin the third round and at one point was Rico for the men’s golf team, who finished ded for seventh after struggling on shooting 4-under par. But like some of his other teammates, the streaky nature of his the aptly-named River Course at the Westrounds was a source offrustration throughin Rio Mar Golf Club.

“There are rivers and water hazards out the tournament.

Senior Nathan Smith, who finished at 1everywhere,” head coach Rod Myers said. under and tied for 14th, was Duke’s top ball well can “Someone who’s driving the make a lot of birdies, but if he slips up on finisher, but even he struggled at several points during the tournament. the tee, he has a much better shot of mak“He was consistent overall, but his ing double bogey than anything else.” rounds were up and down,” Myers said.

The No. 9 Blue Devils ended the tour“He and I are both frustrated that he didnament 33 strokes behind the winners, 3 n’t have a better score because he had so top-ranked Georgia. No. 4 Florida, No. Oklahoma State, Alabama and No. 17 East many birdies and eagles.”

Still, Myers said he thinks that Smith, as Tennessee State rounded out the top five.

The set-up of the course really affected well as the rest of the team, will only get the Duke golfers beginning with the first more consistent as the season progresses.

One of the early surprises of the Classic hole, where there are water hazards on the right side and in front of green, Myers said. was the solid play of sophomore Michael Junior Jake Grodzinsky, who entered Quagliano, who shot even par for the first the Puerto Rico Classic ranked sixth in the two days of play. Quagliano was 5-over on nation, struggled in each of his three the third day and for the tournament, putrounds and finished tied for 59th with a 9- ting him in a tie for 44th-place.

Myers said he is really pleased with the over-par 225.

“Each round he got off to a poor start improvement in Quagliano’s game. The and then had to fight an uphill battle for sophomore was making his return to the lineup after playing much of last spring but the rest of the day,” Myers said.

Grodzinsky was not the only Blue Devil only sparingly in the fall.

Overall, the team seemed to be most who started off slowly in the tournament.

Senior Ryan Blaum shot an 80 on the frustrated by its lack of consistency in each round. opening day of play, but showed his re“We felt like we were giving too many siliency when he fired a 67 and 70 on days two and three, respectively, to finish 1-over strokes away,” Myers said. “But this is that kind of golf course. Once you start making par and in a tie for 23rd place. not off a small mistakes, it starts to take your confisure why [Blaum got to “I’m dence and strokes away.” slow start],” Myers said. “But, like the comto

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Following a 19-5 beating at the hands ofEast Carolina last week, the Blue Devils (4-7) once again suffered a double-digit defeat to the Pirates, losing, 17-4, Wednesday afternoon.

East Carolina (8-3) was already leading 3-0 entering the ECU JJ fourth after a twoDUKE -4 run first inning and a single run in the third. The Pirates five-run performance in the bottom of the inning ran the score up to a crippling 8-0 lead.

After his lead off walk to first, Pirate Ryan Tousley advanced to third on a single.

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For the second time in a week, the Blue Devils suffered a double-digit defeat to East Carolina.

Tousley tagged up and crossed home plate for East Carolina’s first run of the inning.

Then Jimmy Saris, who entered the game part way through the fourth in relief of Duke starter Jim Perry, walked a batter and hit the next two, loading the bases for powerhouse hitter Jake Smith.

Smith did not disappoint, pounding a grand slam out of Clark-LeClair Stadium on a 1-1 pitch to bring the score to 8-0.

Singlehandedly, Smith was involved in eight of the Pirates 17 runs, registering a career-high six RBIs, while going 2-for-4 at the plate and scoring two runs.

Duke tried to mount a comeback, however, scoring two runs in both the sixth and seventh innings to come within four.

Blue Devil shortstop Brett Battles laced a single to left field to start off the sixth, and advanced to third on two subsequent groundouts. Squeezing home on a passed ball, Bardes finally put Duke on the board. An RBI-triple down the right field line by Adam Murray scored Javier Socorro to cap the scoring at two runs.

Duke continued its hitting in the seventh. Jonathan Anderson, who went 3-for-3 from the plate, connected for a lead-off single. Like Murray in the sixth, Sherlock drove Anderson home on an RBI-triple and later crossed the plate himself off a Bardes single, bringing the score to 8-4.

Four runs was the closest the Blue Devils would get, however, as the Pirates rallied for a nine-run eighth inning to seal the victory and cap the score at 174.

Despite the score, the Blue Devils did not statistically appear to struggle at the plate. Duke recorded 10 hits as a team toEast Carolina’s 12, but was not able to manufacture runs.

Blue Devil head coach Sean McNally declined to comment for this story.

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“I think it’s a tremendous accomplishment, considerWAKE -65 ing how we startBC -80 ed. There was a little bit of concern about that,” head coach A1 Skinner said after BC, which started 0-3 in its new conference, beat Wake Forest, 80-65, Tuesday night to clinch a bye in the first round of its first ACC Tournament. “The guys never hung their heads and they’re in a good place now.”

Craig Smith had 23 points and eight rebounds and Jared Dudley scored 22 for the 12th-ranked Eagles (23-6, 10-5 in the ACC). Smith, who hurt his left shoulder running into a pick, iced it after the game but said he expected to be OK for the regular-season finale.

BC, which defected from the Big East over the summer, could improve its position even more Saturday. A victory over Virginia Tech in the regular-season finale could help the Eagles avoid topranked Duke until the conference championship game.

It’s quite a turnaround for the team SEE BC ON PAGE 20

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M. BBALL from page 13 have ended up on the losing end of a number ofclose games.

Before the tight loss in Cameron Indoor Stadium, Florida State lost in overtime to Miami, by one point to North Carolina and by three to Boston College.

Those three nailbiters occurred within a span of 15 days in January.

Hamilton said his team has played, “almost well enough, but that doesn’t count in the win column.”

“In our minds we’re one of the top 64 teams in the country,” he said. “We still have not captivated the imagination of those people who vote.”

But just because the game is a must-win for Florida State does not mean Duke is taking the matchup lightly. With a win tonight and another Saturday night, the Blue Devils would become the first team since Duke’s 1999 squad to go undefeated in the ACC regular season.

Given the hard-fought nature of the teams’ first tilt, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski's squad is keenly aware of how dangerous the Seminoles are.

“They’ve had an outstanding year, but they’re a few points away from an amazing year,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s a good game for us because it’ll make us better going into the postseason.”

JJ. Redick poured in 36 points last time the two teams met. In the past two games, however, Redick has struggled from the field, scoring a season-low 11 points against Temple over the weekend.

Krzyzewski said Redick’s two-game slump is not because of physical tiring, but rather has been caused by the mental drain of setting records on what has seemed like an every-game basis.

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record, the Duke record, the ACC record,” Krzyzewski said ofRedick, who is averaging a team-high 36.9 minutes per game. ‘You can get emotionally drained. But you can come back from that. It was good to see other guys step up.”

Hamilton said he did not plan on using the “junk defenses,” including ones similar to Temple head coach John Cheney’s boxand-one, that have been employed recently against Redick. He said Duke’s other options are too dangerous to lay off of in a game the Seminoles have to win.

‘You don’t have the luxury of doing anything other than giving every one of those players the utmost respect,” Hamilton said.

“The good news is we still have more opportunities to play, the bad news is we’re playing against great teams.”

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1. The University has requested City bonfire permits for March 4, 2006, April 3, 2006 and April 4, 2006. The Fire Marshal has not issued official permits, but will make a game-day ruling when the operating procedures have been fulfilled.

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3. Stacked benches should be no more than 6 feet in height. No more than 2 benches are allowed to be stacked horizontally on top of one another. Benches should not be placed on end.

4. Intermittently, the bonfire must “burn down” to a safe height. During “burn down” periods, no additional fuel may be added into the bonfire. This includes anything flammable.

There are no exceptions.

5. If you carry a beverage, use a plastic or metal container. There will be additional trash receptacles on the quad.

6. Do not sit or stand on building roofs.

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8. Do not add fuel to the fire more than two hours following the game.

9. The use of gasoline or any other fire accelerant is prohibited.

10. Bonfires on any other days or location will not be permitted by the City and are, therefore, illegal. Anyone who participates in a bonfire on any other day or another location will be subject to University discipline and potential criminal prosecution.

The Durham Fire Marshal has the right to revoke this and future bonfire permits if these rules are not followed or the crowd gets out of control. Let’s not abuse this privilege. Celebrating basketball victories with a bonfire is a Duke tradition. Follow these basic safety rules so we can maintain this tradition for years to come.

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box-and-one against North Carolina on Saturday. I say they’ll definitely play a triangle-and-two. Tell us, oh GreatScribe of The Train (U.S. Patent No. 83946006), which of us is right.

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They’re definitely going to go with the one-three-one zone. Or maybe they’ll protect the lines to prevent the other team’s batters from hitting doubles. But maybe they should be going with a Cover-2 —it did wonders for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Actually, now that I think about it, they’ll probably play the same aggressive man-to-man defense they’ve played for the 26 years since Coach K got here. Just a thought.

But you know if a defenseman pinches in off the point, you’ve got to keep a forward back.

Alex, Good God, what have I done with my life. Two years ago, I was on top of the world. I was MVP of the ACC Tournament.

People thought I was the next Stephon Marbury. Somebody has to warn the rest of the world so that this doesn’t happen to anyone else. To paraphrase Ron Burgundy, mailing in my junior year and forcing my coach to basically tell me to forget about coming back to school next year was a baaaaad choice. But if my story can save someone else from the same fate it’ll all be worth it (kind of).

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Of course, the only problem is that you’re doing all of this for Maccabi Rishon LeZion in the Israeli League where the leading scorer on your team is a dude named Omar Sneed. But on the bright side, you’re kind oflike the Marbury of the Israeli League, which is kind of like being the Albert Belle of a synagogue softball league. So you’ve got that going for you, which is nice.

Mr. Fanaroff, You’ve spent time in your columns ripping on Texas, North Carolina, Maryland, Boston College and UConn (among others) , but you’ve never ripped on Memphis.

Do we not deserve it? We’re the No. 3 team in the country. If you’re going to crack jokes at the top teams in the country, then you should at least be fair and criticize all the top teams.

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I’m so sorry. Maybe you could collapse on the floor and cry about it. Not that you’d ever do that or anything.

(Actually, wouldn’t you just love it if JJ. Redick got fouled on a meaningless threepointer with Duke leading by 20-plus and then made the first free throw and winked at the Duke bench before intentionally missing the second two and collapsing on the court in tears? Wouldn’t that just be hilarious? What’s that Mr. Washington, you wouldn’t love that? Oh, my bad.)

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BC was coming off a 74-72, double-overtime victory over the Wolfpack. This one wasn’t quite as challenging.

Wake Forest managed to open a 19-11 lead over BC before the Eagles scored 10 consecutive points —seven of them by Dudley. Of the last 23 points scored by BC in the first half, Dudley and Smith had 17.

“We don’t have anyone who can cover them,” Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser said.

Dudley went 10-for-10 from the free throw line. He scored 16 in the first half, when BC opened a 34-29 lead.

Prosser went berserk after a second-half foul call and threw off his suit coat, drawing a stern look from the referee. With about nine minutes left, Prosser drew a technical; by that time, BC led 61-46.

But Prosser was able to smile afterwards when asked about shaking up his lineup.

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that called not one, but two team meetings to snap out of an early slump. The first one was players only; in the second, Skinner let them know what he thought of comments by victorious N.C. State players that the Eagles had given up “He had some things to say because we weren’t playing up to our potential,” senior Louis Hinnant said.

“This meeting, he was really animated. Me and Craig, we’ve been here the longest. Neither one of us has seen him like that.

“We both took it personally,” Hinnant said. “We wanted to go out with a bang. We wanted to turn it around, and we did a pretty good job.”

BC won seven of its last eight and 12 of its last 14 to clinch a spot in the conference’s top four. That means the Eagles would only have to win three games for a conference title.

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Although the Blue Devils entered the second quarter with a 2-0 lead, the offense as a whole struggled to execute accurate shots for the majority ofthe game’s first 15 minutes.

After a quick goal by Kyle Dowd 25 seconds into the contest, Duke had trouble clearing the ball from its defensive zone, and the Knights attack outshot the Blue Devils, 8-7. “[Bellarmine] is a very unorthodox team,” Pressler said.

“They play a lot of different defenses, and I think they caught us a bit off guard. I don’t think we were as sharp as we should have been, but I think we picked it up from the second quarter on In the second quarter, however, the Blue Devils opened up their transition game and put pressure on the Knights’ defense. Duke outshot Bellarmine 19-3 in the period, while the Knights finished with just 23 shots on goal in the game. In addition, Bellarmine was just 3-for-10 on clears in the quarter and won only four face-offs the entire contest.

The Blue Devils’ large margin-of-victory and shot totals overshadowed what was otherwise a standout performance for goalie Dan Loftus, who made several key saves in the game’s early going to preserve Duke’s slim advantage.

“Danny Loftus was sharp today,” Pressler said.

The junior finished the contest with five saves, and the Blue Devils held the Knights scoreless until a Garett Kikot goal ended the shutout bid with 1:05. to go in the game.

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ters to the editor or guest columns.Submissions must include the author’s name, signature, department or class, and for purposes of identificadon, phone number and local address.

Letters should not exceed 325 words.

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Cons: High probability of break is quickly apfor those concenand that means beard-growing proaching, only one thing—declara- trating in ecology, botany or any tions of majors will soon be due. of the other Hippie Sciences PUBLIC POLICY Now since the majority of you s**t Brown-nosers, For: sophomores probably have not insincere bastards and all eaters, submitted your paperwork yet others with traits that are wellto write are not going people suited for a life in politics one-page papers unless they abAlso For: People who are easisolutely have to—that means that ly impressed by shiny new buildit’s not too late to reconsider.

Why would you entertain such ings with their own delis Pros: Shiny building, deli, the a foolish, last-minute decision? to kvetch endlessly about ability that, most likemind Keep in a three-page memo ly, your major Cons: Politics are will have no for tools on bearing Now for some what you actuquasi-popular candially do with dates: life.

So your FOREIGN LANwhy not reconGUAGE sider trading For: Haters of in that stodgy, greg czaja America and Freeboring major the czaj factor dom for somethin Also For: Foreignmore fun?

Note: Engineers, please do ers, duh Pros; You will spend a semesnot feel the need to read any further. We all know that your major ter abroad in a booze-induced was determined freshman year euphoria Cons: When you return, your

by Dean Kristina Johnson’s predestination machine. Resistance friends will discover that they actually had a better time when you is futile.

Because I am so considerate, I weren’t around HISTORY present to the sophomore class For; People who enjoy the The Czaj Factor’s Guide to Mastudy of people, places and jors. Freshmen, please pay attenthings it’s too to start early tion, not Also For: Students who like to thinking. read Let’s start with the favorites Pros: You will be practically inECONOMICS vulnerable to humor columnists.

For: Prospective I-bankers Cons: Everything you discover Also For: People who are inhas, in away, been done already terested in money (a.k.a. everyPOLISCI one) For: Students who like poliPros: Parents will secretly tics, but just can’t stand writing thank God that you are doing memos “useful” something Also For; People who don’t Cons: Problem sets, math and stats requirements and dealing quite realize that “politics” and with the realization that you are “science” are somewhat at odds nowadays just another brick in the wall Pros: According to the departBIOLOGY ment website, it is the “queen of Pre-meds For: Also For: People who aren’t sciences.” Of course, queens don’t really possess any power in smart enough to be engineers The to Pros: ability pretend the 21st century, but there’s no that you are already qualified to reason to expect political scientists to know that issue prescription drugs —

Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Sanford Institute Bruce Kuniholm on former CNN anchor Judy Woodruff’s future teaching at the University. See story pagel.

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valuing freedhm does not make it right, however.

As students of Duke University, we are accustomed to certain privileges, one of which includes free admittance into all men’s basketball games, granted we are one of the first 1,200 students in Cameron.

As the University community —and probably the rest of the world—is well aware of, Duke students have created a system for managing the line by which students access Cameron and the men’s basketball games that are played within it.

The system includes night after night of sleeping in a tent outside in freezing to

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weather and numerous “tent checks.”

So what do the actions taken against the student, who had been tenting since Jan. 9, communicate?

It teaches that message that you just can’t put a price on K-ville; it’s about time, not money.

Privilege has no place in a free market economy. You cannot set a monetary value to status, entitlement or op-

portunity.

So, students should not think they should be able to put a price tag on something as priceless as their in hard-earned seat Cameron.

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frankly, he is not the first Duke student to have engaged in such a “disrespectful” act.

Graduate students purportedly sell their seats in order to deepen their pockets more frequently than one would expect.

And even undergraduate students—the proud habitants of K-ville itself—swap student IDs in order to allow non-students’ entrance into the coveted men’s basketball games.

The fact that Duke students give student-section seats to non-students frequently and the fact that such behavior is consistent with our nation's system of

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Cons: Endless discussion of the Vietnam War will leave you utterly depressed.

Finally, here’s three suggestions for those who like to think “outside the box”; MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES For: Lovers of the term “wench” Also For: Those waiting out the establishment of an alchemy major

Pros: Guaranteed job waiting Medieval Times Dinner & Performance Cons: 111-fitting codpieces ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE For: Whales, manatees, Mexican staring frogs and other enat

dangered species

Also For: Granola lovers Pros: High likelihood that you will star in an advertisement on a C-l bus Cons; Let’s face it, the environment is doomed.

CANADIAN STUDIES (Second Major Only) For: Duke Club Hockey members Also For: Prospective owners of emerging maple syrup con-

glomerates Pros: Enrollment preference for the wildly popular CANII9, “The Emergence of the Neutral Zone Trap” Cons: Will still be unable to explain why the queen is on all the money Space constraints prevent me from continuing any further. Just promise me that you will consider a wide variety of options before you settle on a major.

I have one final word of advice—make sure you put a lot of thought into that essay. A subpar effort will most likely result in a cage match with Dean Michelle Rasmussen. All losers will be banished to the shadowy, nebulous wasteland known as “Program II.”

Greg Czaja is a Trinity junior.

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senior year in high school, I was voted “Most Likely to Discover the Meaning ofLife Through Differential Calculus.” The following year, in college, I received an A in my calculus IV class. Five years later I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. Now I’m working on my master’s degree.

The only thing is, I’m working on a master’s degree in public policy, not chemical engineering.

Why didn’t I become a chemical engineer? The question has been on my mind a lot the past year, from the time offormer Harvard President Larry _

Summers’ inflammatory hypothesis of why women are underresp-

resented in science and engineering to his resigpreeti aroon nation last week.

Both women’s and aim for the stars racial minorities’ underrepresentation is an important issue not just from a social justice viewpoint, but also from an economic competitiveness viewpoint. Science and technology fuel economic growth, but three forces are beginning to erode U.S. preeminence in these fields.

First, globalization has increased competition for talented scientists and engineers. Historically, the United States filled its labor shortage of scientists and engineers by “importing” them from other countries. For example, 38 percent of doctorate-level scientists and engineers in 2000 were foreign born. Due to globalization, however, other countries are becoming competitive with the United States and attracting scientists and engineers who otherwise would have come here.

Second, U.S. immigration policy has gotten stricter since Sept. 11, making it harder to get a visa. This impedes the brightest international students and researchers from coming to the United States and strengthening its science and technology sectors. In fall 2003, U.S. universities recorded their first decline in foreign enrollment since 1971.

Third, demographic trendsraise the concern ofwho will replace retiring scientists and engineers of the baby-boom generation. From 2010 to 2025, the share of the college-age population that is Hispanic, African American or American Indian/Alaska- Native will increase from 32 to 38 percent.

These groups, however, earn bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering at less than half the rate of whites and Asian/Pacific Islanders.

Given these forces of globalization, immigration policy and demography, what should the United States do "

to ensure it has enough scientists and engineers to remain competitive? The obvious move is to start developing the untapped potential of underrepresented groups—both racial minorities and women.

During the last year, however, we have been fixated on whether women have less intrinsic ability in science and engineering. I am fine remaining open minded to the possibility of innatedifferences between the sexes, but we should not let that debate serve to justify the status quo. Over the past 40 years, women have gradually increased their presence in science and engineering—an advance hardly explained by genetic differences.

Furthermore, even if innate differences do exist, it may not have to do so much with ability as it has to do with preferences. Social science research has shown that girls are more interested in people, social values and humanitarian and altruistic goals. Boys have expressed more interest in things, theoretical values and abstract intellectual inquiry.

Whether this difference is the product of nature or nurture is up for debate. If it is due to innate differences, though, that does not excuse the current degree of women’s underrepresentation in science and engineering. It just means these fields need to be marketed with more of a human face.

And they can be. Engineers develop life-saving drugs, environmentally friendly fuel sources, prosthetic limbs and safer roads. Organizations such as Engineers Without Borders help communities in poor countries develop clean water supplies, irrigation systems, bridges and wastewater treatment systems.

In addition to marketing science and engineering in ways that may appeal more to women and racial minorities, we need to change the cultural attitude that math and science are hard subjects that are acceptable to be bad at. So many Americans have no shame saying, “I’m bad at math; I can’t even balance my checkbook.” But, you’ll never here someone saying, “I’m bad at reading; I can’t even understand the newspaper.”

Turning back to me, I left engineering because it left me unfulfilled. Working at a chemical plant just does not lead to direct, visible improvement of the human condition. Thus, it is no surprise that I am now studying the “save-the-world” field of public policy.

So, while I may never discover the meaning of life through differential calculus, I have enjoyed applying my mathematical talent to my economic and statistics courses here at Duke.

Preeti Aroon is a graduate student in public policy. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Toss in your two cents and learn more about the topic of this column at: http://preetiontheweb. blogspot. com

letterstotheeditor Buying houses not the way to solve town-gown issues The decision for the University to buy up studentrented off-campus houses is insulting, disrespectful and underhanded. In the Feb. 28 article “University buys offEast houses,” John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, refuses to address why the houses were in fact purchased. He simply states that the University does not intend to purchase all of the off-campus houses traditionally rented by students. Without justification from Burness, one must infer that the University is addressing “town-gown” problems, as mentioned by Eugene Brown, Durham City Council Member, in the same article.

If the University does in fact have town-gown problems, then it should address this problem head-on instead of covertly buying up the properties from underneath the student body. Granted, the current lease contracts will be honored, but the fact remains that students typically rent these houses. With this knowledge in mind, the University chose to solve the problem of unhappy neighbors by skirting student discussion and simply opening up its wallet.

Duke is an institution that prides itself in the quality of people that it graduates each May, but it does not trust its seniors to be responsible for themselves in an off- campus setting. I thought living off campus gave you the opportunity to be responsible for your own actions, both good and bad.

If this is not the case, where then do you draw the line? I heard there was noise complaint at Partner’s Place a few weekends ago. The Belmont had the poolparty issue in the fall. Erwin Square can get a little rowdy at times. If these locations start causing additional “town-gown” problems, will the University buy up all these leases as well?

Drew

Hoffman

Pratt ’OB

Don’t cut through Gardens after dusk I live on Central, and, like many, I have to walk back to my apartment in the evening. I’ve noticed, though, that a number of people cut through the Gardens after dark. I believe this to be somewhat careless and fairly unsafe. The posted hours for the Gardens last only until dusk; there must be a reason for that, right?

So I urge all students to just walk the extra distance and to avoid the danger and potential heartache. I feel that it’s worth it.

Joseph Homes Trinity ’O6

When Discrimination Kills

Public

Law 103-160 sounds innocuous enough until one

are treated so shamefully by the government. They should

a physician, someone who bleeds Air Force blue, who is willing to serve, and that you can put in Iraq tomorrow.”

The United States joins the proud ranks of Syria, North Korea and Iran as a country that does not allow homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces. Australia, Canada, Germany and Great Britain have integrated gays into their armed services without difficulty.

President George W. Bush needs to re-examine democracy in this country before he invades anyone else.

Maybe he is afraid of “queers” having a more impressive military record than his, which consists fact, if a soldier were to choose between of prowling the Texan skies for invading Vietcong. I am not sure how much of a liberating having backup or going into combat alone, I would imagine sexual orientaforce our military can be when it practices institutionalized discrimination. The members of tion is of very little importance indeed. stationed in Congress who drafted this policy also need their One sergeant heads looked at. Keeping theirkids out of war is Afghanistan, Brent Geers, feels the marshall one thing, but unnecessarily endangering the choice to allow gay personnel to serve lives of those who do serve is intolerable. should be clear. Writing in Stars and duke underground How does “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” affect Stripes magazine, he notes that money Duke? Military recruiters violate the University’s spent firing “patriotic Americans” could be used for “enough body armor vests to outfit the entire policy forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation. Unfortunately, the recruiters cannot be kept off camAmerican fighting force in Iraq.”

Personal feelings aside, it seems like all members of the pus because any school that tries, including the law schools armed services would benefit from having homosexuals at Harvard, Yale, Georgetown and NYU, would lose federal serve with them. The money our government spends on funding, even for research grants. Duke’s administrators should defend our own policies, and not make an exception training homosexuals, discharging them and recruiting replacements is an unforgivable waste given the strain the War for the government, the institution deserving the least leeon Terror has created. Beth Schissel, discharged from the way on granting equal rights. service for being gay, said, “You don’t just go out on the Jeremy Marshall is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs street tomorrow and pluck someone from the general population who has an Air Force education, someone trained as every other Wednesday.

recognizes it as the infamous “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” not have to hide their true identities, forgo love and work in an environment that places shame on their state of being. policy of the U.S. military. Although Bill Clinton camThe consistentiy promulgated rationale for “Don’t Ask, paigned for president in 1993 with the laudable goal ofallowing homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces, he Don’t Tell” is that it would undermine the cohesion and efquickly backtracked on his promise for the sake of appeas- fectiveness of our military. This reasoning suggests that the ing Congressional Republicans. This homophobic policy is heterosexual members of the military are bigoted and intolnot only ignorant and offensive but takes a heavy toll on this erant, another grossly unfair presumption. The reality is that sexual identity has very little correlation country’s ability to wage war. with one’s ability to do his or her job, esOne statistic released by the Government Accountpecially in today’s high-tech military. In ability Office, an investigatory branch of Congress, sug-

gests that enforcing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has cost the government more than $2OO million already, and thousands of capable soldiers have been discharged from operational units. In fact, from 1993 to 2006, more than 10,000service personnel were discharged for being gay, and such incidents are on the rise.

It makes no sense why any willing, capable soldier would be discharged from the army at the same time National Guard units are being pressed into service, and so many members of Congress and the armed forces have called for more troops in Iraq.

Thousands of homosexuals never join the army because they know they would have to live in secrecy and fear of just being themselves. At a gay rights conference last semester, a friend of mine in the Navy literally had to run from local reporters for fear that her commander would see her on the news. A policy that engenders such conditions seems inappropriate for the Americans who risk their lives defending this country.

It is ridiculous that brave citizens who are willing to give up some of the best years of their lives and risk everything

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