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When the drab buildings of Central Campus fall to the wrecking ball later this year, University administrators hope to see a shining “academic village” rise in their place.

University officials have outlined plans for Phase I of the major renovation project, and they will present them in a meeting with the Durham community Tuesday night.

In Phase I, the University will construct 14 buildings and spend approximately $240 million.

The anticipated improvements include thousands of square feet of performance space, a new centralized arts community and a combined Alumni Affairs and Career Center facility.

“We didn’t want to create a bedroom suburb, and a lot of thinking from the academic side has been toward that,” Provost Peter Lange said. “It creates a community—a village.”

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Twenty students were officially announced as candidates for the 2006-2007 Duke Student Government Executive Board Monday.

Juniors Remington Kendall, Felix Li and Thomas Storrs and sophomores Elliott Wolf and Hasnain Zaidi are running for DSG president.

DSG Attorney General Bryce Walker, a senior, who is the coordinator of the elections, said the pool of presidential candidates is larger than in previous years. Three candidates ran for the position last spring.

“I think it will be a very competitive race,” Walker said. “It will give people a lot of choices they didn’t have in the past.”

Kendall, a DSG senator, is the only candidate who is currently active in the organization. Li is the president emeritus of the Center for Race Relations. Storrs is an active member of the Duke-Durham Watershed Initiative, which works to restore creeks in the area.

Wolf, a Chronicle columnist, serves as chair of the Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship’s recruitment committee. Zaidi is sophomore class president and a Campus

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Monday when approximately 17 buildings on West Campus and

Of the 800,000 total square feet projected for construction, approximately 150,000 will be designated for academics. Space will be created for 1,200beds in apartment-style living, eateries, a bookstore, fitness facilities, a basketball practice facility and a replacement for Uncle Harry’s Store, which will be tom down in the renovation process.

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Council at-large representative.

The next DSG president will serve as a link between students, administrators and various groups both on campus and in the local community.

Campaigning for all DSG executive committee positions began at 12:01 a.m.

Tuesday and will continue until the March 30 elections.

The executive vice president position will be held by one of three juniors— Damjan DeNoble, George Fleming or Joe Fore. The winner will preside over weekly DSG meetings and oversee the organization’s legislative body.

Fore is currently the DSG vice president of academic affairs, and Fleming is the DSG president pro tempore. DeNoble is the national marketing coordinator for a studentled effort to bring aid to Darfur, Sudan.

Four candidates are running for both vice president of student affairs and vice president of community interaction, making the two races the most hotly contested next to the presidential election.

Juniors Maggie McGannon and Ryan Strasser and sophomores Tina Hoang and Lee Komfeld are all in the race for vice SEE DSG ON PAGE 8

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The blackout trapped individuals in elevators, set off fire alarms, disrupted Internet access and forced professors to cancel classes and managers to close eateries.

Power was restored to all buildings by 4:20 p.m.

Parts of West Campus and the hospital that did not completely lose power experienced other forms of electrical disruption, including loss of Internet access and flickering lights.

The outage was the third in the past week. Power was previously lost March 13 and March 17 for about an hour each day.

As of 6 p.m. Monday, administrators had not determined the exact cause of the most recent failure.

“There was an electrical surge, and that tripped the substation,” said Kernel Dawkins, vice president of campus services.

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CLEVELAND Beginning the fourth year of an unpopular war, President George W. Bush defended his Iraq record on Monday against skeptical questioning.

He said he could “understand people being disheartened” but appealed to Americans to look beyond the bloodshed and see signs of progress.

Bush fielded questions for nearly an hour at the City Club, a forum known for its tough interrogations of world leaders.

Not only was he grilled on Iraq, but he also was asked to justify his warrantless wiretapping program, United States relations with

Pakistan and his domestic priorities.

The president was asked why he deemed Iraq—which turned out not to have weapons of mass destruction—as enough of a threat three years ago to launch an invasion, in contrast to nuclearambitious Iran today.

“One difference was that, in Iraq, there was a series of unanimous (U.N. Security Council) resolutions that basically held the Iraqi government to account, which Saddam Hussein ignored,” Bush said. Still, he said Iran was a concern, on the question of nuclear weapons and on its role in Iraq.

The White House has accused Iran of meddling in Iraqi politics and of support-

ing armed militias in Iraq by sending men and weapons, including components for increasingly lethal roadside bombs. Iran and the United States have agreed to talk about Iraq, but Bush said, “It’s very important, however, for the Iranians to understand that the discussion is limited to Iraq. We feel like they need to know our position.”

As the president delivered the latest installment in an upbeat defense of his Iraq policy, opponents used the day after the third anniversary of the invasion to step up their criticism.

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Powerful cyclone strikes Australia

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Soldiers carINNISFAIL, Australia ried aid to the cyclone-shattered town of Innisfail Tuesday as residents picked through streets littered with rubble and mangled roofs destroyed by one of Australia’s most powerful cyclones in decades.

Troop trucks rumbled through the streets of Innisfail, the town of 8,500 that bore the brunt of category-5 Cyclone Larry when it hit the coast ofnortheast Australia just before dawn Monday. By Tuesday, it had been downgraded to a tropical storm.

“One of the most immediate needs is to

get shelter over roofless homes, and there are many,” said Charlie McKillop, a spokesperson for Attorney General Philip Ruddock, whose department was helping coordinate aid.

The storm caused no reported fatalities, and only 30 people suffered minor injuries.

Reporters who flew into Innisfail on Tuesday saw scenes of devastation—rain forest shredded by the winds, acres of sugar and banana plantations flattened, the trees and cane on the ground next to their stumps, pointing in the direction that the cyclone tore past.

“It looks like it’s just been napalmed,”

said helicopter pilot lan Harris. “That’s normally pristine rain forest.”

An apartment block with itsroof tom off looked from the air like a doll’s house. A resident was inside picking through the

wreckage.

The town’s main street was littered with mbble from badly damaged,buildings and the corrugated metal used for roofing in the region. In some parts of the street people waded through knee-deep water.

Stephen Young, deputy executive director of Queensland’s Counter Disaster and Emergency Services, said relief was flowing to Innisfail from all over Australia.

At least 39 people were killed by insurgents and shadowy sectarian gangs in Iraq,police reported Monday—continuing the wave of violence that has left nearly 1,000 Iraqis dead since last month's bombing of a Shiite

Muslim shrine.

U.S. troops in Iraq to increase Troop levels in Iraq may temporarily bump higher this year, even as Iraqi forces take control of larger portions of the country, the top U.S. military commander said Monday. American forces in Iraq this year currently total about 133,000 troops.

Wal-Mart to expand in China Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., plans to hire up to 150,000 employees in China over the next five years, five times its current work force there, as it expands its number of stores, the company said Monday. Wal-Mart has targeted China, which has long been a major supplier of its products, as a key region for its international store growth.

4 killed in Mo. plane crash A twin-engine plane crashed in the heart of Branson, Mo., Monday, killing all four people aboard and setting fire to a building near the main drag of tourist nightclubs, theaters and music halls.

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Blue Devils will jam to not one, not two, but three musical acts to celebrate the Last Day of Classes April 26.

The LDOC committee announced Monday that it has secured hip-hop artist Rahzel as an opening act for alternative rock band Custer.

The committee’s announcement closely followed Custer’s decision that folk rock singer Matt Costa will be its own opener. “[Rahzel’s] great. He’s awesome live,” said senior Mark Middaugh, chair of the LDOC committee. “We’ve talked to several people who saw him live as a headliner, so we’re really excited to see him as an opening act.”

Rahzel—a former member of the hiphop band The Roots—refers to himself as a “vocal percussionist” because of his mastery of the beat-box art form. Rahzel released his latest album, Rahzel’s Greatest Knockouts, in June 2004.

“What he does best is beat-box. He calls himself the ‘Godfather of Noyze,’” Middaugh said, citing the song, “If Your Mother Only Knew,” in which Rahzel beat-boxes the bass line while simultaneously singing the chorus.

In the past, Rahzel has collaborated with artists such as hip hoppers Q-Tip and LL Cool J and alternative rockers The Shins and Everlast. The beat-boxer also performed alongside O.A.R. at Yale University last April.

“What Guster and Rahzel have in common is that they’re awesome live acts,” Middaugh said. “We’re shooting to have the best performances possible. He was, by leaps and bounds, our first choice for the opening act.”

As for Ouster’s own opening act, songwriter Matt Costa is influenced by popular singer JackJohnson. The two collaborated on Johnson’s album, Sing-A-Longs & Lullabiesfor the Film Curious George, which was released last month.

Costa will visit Duke following the end of the JackJohnson Europe Tour.

[Costa] is Ouster’s choice,” Middaugh said. “We think that if Ouster is excited “

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Hip-hop artist Rahzel, a former memberofThe Roots, will bring his beat-box rhythms to Last Day ofClasses. about playing with him, then he’s going to do a great job.”

Planners are continuing to work out the daytime programming details for LDOC, which is expected to start in the early afternoon April 26. The three live acts will begin performing at 5:30 p.m.

“We’re having a three-band set for the first time,” Middaugh said. ‘We’re going to have [to allow for] more time to run sound checks and more technical stuff than in years past.”

He added that the committee will work out the details over the next few

weeks.

Several students said the three LDOC acts appeal to many musical tastes.

“I think it’s cool to have such a diverse array of music for LDOC,” sophomore Meagan Gray said. “I like Matt Costa because he does that one song ‘Lullaby’ with JackJohnson.

Others said they are looking forward to the live beat-box in Rahzel’s act.

“He definitely sounds an entertainer and not much of a musician,” senior Joanna Hundley said. “It’ll be cool to see him live. People love that.” ”

from staff reports One week after a young woman was allegedly raped at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., the Durham Police Department is still investigating the situation, saying “the suspects have not been clearly identified.”

The house, which was recently purchased by University subsidiary Durham Realty, was the site of a party that involved both Duke students and non-students, said Sgt. M.D. Gottlieb of Durham Police District 2 Investigations.

Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students, said the University will not take action until the police department’s investigation is finished.

“From what I understand, the situation is under investigation by the Durham Police Department, and we will await that investigation,” she saidLarry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, added that the University would take appropriate measures, pending the police investigation.

Gottlieb said any man that attended the party March 13 would be a viable suspect but refused to go into further detail.

The residents of the house have been cooperative with DPD in locating any suspects, he added.

The residence was one of 15 properties—three lots and 12 houses—Duke bought from Trinity Properties, a local real estate firm, earlier this month. The University paid approximately $3.7 million in the deal.

The houses, located in the Trinity Park neighborhood near East Campus, have mostly been rented by students in the past, but Duke hopes to turn them into singleoccupancy residences in the future.

Many local residents in the Trinity Park area have long complained about noise and litter associated with parties at several of the houses.

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2005 and effective next year, that will subsidize the health insurance costs of all eligible Ph.D. students. The strategy will force the of participation younger men or international students—who otherwise might not have chosen the Duke plan. Administrators hope the policy will slow the rate increase, benefiting those who buy into the plan and are not provided the policy through University funds.

“When you bring new, healthy students into the plan, it helps the plan,” said Dan Hill, founder of Hill, Chesson & Woody.

The health insurance rate for the plan offered to students by the University will rise only 1.2 percent next year.

The rate hike stands in sharp contrast to a 21.4 percent increase this year, and a 21.9 percent increase in 2004.

The projected rates were announced Monday night at a Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting by officials from Hill, Chesson & Woody—the agency that brokers Duke’s plan with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina insurance company.

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City Council hears optimistic report on local crime

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Durham Police Department Chief Steven Chalmers presented a favorable annual crime report at Monday’s City Council meeting, noting that Durham is moving in the right direction and anticipating that "2006 will be the best year yet" for the city.

He reported that there were fewer crimes in all but two categories that the U.S. Department of Justice tracked in the past year.

The improvement was primarily because ofthe 25-percent decrease in the number of violent crimes, including murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery. The number

of robberies dropped 23 percent to a fouryear low. Chalmers said he does not know the reasons for

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Durham resident attacks DUPD officer A Duke University Police Department officer tried to stop a suspicious vehicle March 16 at 11:33 p.m. on Perry Street.

The driver stopped, then started again, striking the Duke officer in the legs. Two Durham Police Department police officers, who were also on scene, chased the car to Club and Onslow Street.

Joshua Alan Shipman, 35, of Durham, was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon on a government official, two counts of resisting a public officer, felony fleeing to elude arrest, possession of cocaine, driving while intoxicated and displaying a fictitious registration plate. He received a $50,000 secured bond and could not be reached for comment.

Tire slashed in Circut Drive lot An employee reported March 17 at 10:14 a.m. that his tire went flat while he was parked in the Circuit Drive Parking Lot the previous day. When he took the tire for repair, he was told that the side of the tire, valued at $5B, was cut.

Cardboard plate taken in Parking Garage 2 A woman reported March 17 at 11:37 a.m. that the temporary registration plate from her vehicle was taken at Parking Garage 2 between 10:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The value of the plate is $35. The plate, which is made of cardboard, bore the number 14524695.

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Wallet stolen from ED parking lot A woman reported March 18 at 9:22 p.m. that some time between March 13 and March 18 at the Emergency Department parking lot her wallet was taken from the center console of her vehicle at the ED parking lot. Stolen were a brown leather wallet, valued at $35, a N.C. driver's license, two social security cards, two debit cards, a N.C. DMV Vehicle Registration card and cash.

Lots of loot lifted from vehicles It was reported at 2:50 p.m. at the Highway 751 parking lot near the A1 Buehler Jogging Trail that three vehicles arrived at the lot at about 2:00 p.m. The drivers left personal property in their cars while using the trail. When they returned, the windows ofall three vehicles had been broken out and the property was stolen.

The vehicles were a black 2006 Range Rover, a blue 1990 VW Jetta and a white 1991 Toyota 4Runner. The damage to the vehicles totaled $9OO. Stolen were the following items: pair of diamond earrings, valued at $20,000, jewel encrusted Sidekick cell phone, $B5O, Louis Vitton purse, $l,lOO, Louis Vitton wallet, $450, Louis Vitton picture holder, $2OO, Victoria Secret gift card, $6O, Barney's of NY gift card, $BOO, TJ Maxx gift card, $4O, debit and Master Cards, $3O, two Mont Blanc pens, $4OO, Canon SD4OO digital camera, $5OO, custom ear phones, $2OO, Bluetooth headset, $lOO, black GAP purse, $3O, and a blue and silver Samsung cell phone, $2OO.

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7:00 pm, Saturday, March 25th at Beth El Synagogue corner of Watts & Markham Candlelight havdala service followed by readings, and a performance of original music and musings inspired by Amichai’s poetry Sunday, March 26th at Duke University

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Biden said it was time for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to “be told to go home” and for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff “be given his walking papers.” Richardson said U.S. involvement in Iraq had been “badly mismanaged by the administration.”

Hagel, in an interview at the conference, said many of the predictions and promises made by the administration have fallen short, such as that oil revenues would pay for the war and the conflict

would be short. He also pointed to Vice President Dick Cheney’s assertion last May that the insurgency was in its “last throes.”

“There’s been a credibility erosion for three years,” Hagel said.

On Capitol Hill, some Democrats said there had been progress in Iraq, as Bush asserted, but they said it was clouded by problems across the country. They said Bush had gone to war without enough troops.

“Some positive signs do not mitigate this administration’s gross miscalculations and stunning incompetence in Iraq,” said Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat in the House.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the “policies of the Bush administration and the civilian leadership of our military have made America less safe and left Iraq on the precipice of all-out civil war.”

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Consider the impact you could have on the life of another person in a developing nation. Your education and experience might be used to start a sustainable development project in forestry, agriculture, HIV/AIDS education, teaching math, science or English, IT, helping with a youth development program or building a water and sanitation system for an entire village.

The opportunities to share and learn and the lives you can change are many. And, you can make a difference in another life yours!

Peace Corps service is 27-months and open to U.S. citizens over 18-year of age no upper age limit. Benefits include language and cultural training, complete medical and dental, paid vacation, living stipend, and post-service financial and educational opportunities. Add the experience of a lifetime and memories those are the extras.

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Marilyn Lineberger, a spokesperson for Duke Power—the independent company that supplies power to the University—said Duke operates on its own distribution system. She blamed the outage on that local distribution system.

Aurel Selezeanu, the University official in charge of high voltage power, declined to comment on what caused the outage.

Although there was speculation from administrators and employees that the outage was related to construction on the student plaza, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said this was not the case.

Jeff Molter, a spokesperson for the hospital, said patients were never in danger and emergency generators kept the power running in the affected areas of the hospital.

He added that fire alarms were set off by the loss of power rather than any fires or smoke, and Duke University Police officials confirmed that several alarms throughout campus were set off in a similar fashion.

The outage left several community members stranded in elevators. In Perkins Library, visitor Ele Belfiore and theater studies graduate student Anna Upchurch waited for 30 minutes before being rescued.

“It was not anything traumatic by any means. We thought it was sort of funny,” Upchurch said.

Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, said all elevators were cleared by 3:15 p.m.

The blackout rendered DukeCard readers useless, effectively locking buildings and disrupting retail service.

Affected restaurants —including the Great Hall, The Loop and Subway—closed soon after the outage.

Alpine Bagels also closed, but acting manager Herbert Brown let students take some of the non-refrigerated food. “We believe everyone’s honest,” he said, noting the students would pay for the food on their next visit.

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A number ofclasses across campus were cancelled, including several in the Languages Building and in the Bryan Center.

Some language professors said they could not even swipe into their classroom, much less conduct class. “I can’t teach without a board,” said Sara Saba, an instructor in the Romance studies department.

Barbers at the Duke Barbershop huddled around four lit candles. Owner David Fowler said the outages have made it difficult to operate on a set appointment schedule. Last week, Fowler had to finish a

haircut outside in the daylight.

The outage in the hospital primarily affected the Duke South clinics.

Shortly after the outage began, loudspeakers in the hospital repeatedly announced a “Code Black” in the clinics.

“Code Black” is the term used for an electricity failure, a hospital official confirmed.

In Clinic ID in Duke South, most work stopped with the outage. “Everything we do is dependent on computers,” said Chris Hudson, a patient service associate.

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Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said the 1240million figure is based on a cost estimate of $3OO per square foot and includes all projected costs, including infrastructure. The means of funding are not yet solidified.

“There are a number of possible sources, including our money, some private funds and some partnership money,” Trask said. “We’ll undoubtedly do it as a tax-exempt project. It will be largely debt-financed.”

Lange said the University hopes to centralize arts teaching in new spaces along Anderson Street, using the new Nasher Museum of Art as an anchor. Classroom spaces will be shared by several departments with overlapping missions.

Internal and cross-campus dispersion of similar departments and new opportunities for interaction between them are major incentives for the plan, Lange noted.

The Departments ofArt, Art History and Visual Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, German, Romance Studies and Asian andAfrican Languages and Literature are slated to move to Central as part ofPhase I. The theater studies and dance departments will also be allotted some space.

The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Office of Study Abroad and the Program in Film/Video/Digital will also be moving to new spaces on Central.

John Clum, professor and chair of the Department of Theater Studies, said he is looking forward to the possibility of collaborative projects with other departments for theatrical productions.

His wish list includes a theater with 200 to 300 seats and a single building that would include acting classrooms, dance studios, a set shop, offices and performance spaces. But Clum said he is skeptical about the projected time frame for Phase I. “Everything about Central is pie-in-the-sky, and yet they say something is going to happen in 2008,” he said. “A lot of it depends on how much money they can find. You can’t just build a campus for $39.95.”

Sheila Curran, executive director of the Career Center, presented her plan for a combined alumni and career space to Duke Student Government March 8.

“It’s a wonderful addition for both [the Career Center and Alumni Affairs],” Curran said. “When I first heard we were going to be on Central, I was very worried. Since then, the plans have really changed so it’s going to be a vibrant community.”

Trask anticipates that Phase I will comprise about 20 percent of the final renovation. Although Phase II is slated to involve faculty housing, he said it is not clear how many phases will be involved, what the final cost will be or when it will be completed.

‘You try to think about it as people thought about East and West [Campuses],” Trask said. “Somebody was obviously very thoughtful about East and West, and I hope down the road people will thinkthe same thing about this.”

He added that he hopes within a century, the project will create a single unified campus where the distinctions between East, West and Central cease to exist.

Lange said the project will not stop at the boundaries ofCentral Campus.

“We have spaces we need to do work on, on both East and West—Baldwin, Page, the West Union,” he said.

“We’re going to have to do a more sustained reworking than just renovations to allow current use.”

John Schelp, president of the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association, said some of the animosity regarding Central Campus that generated between the University and the Durham community over the last few years dissipated with Duke’s decision to request University-College zoning for Central.

The designation—which East and West Campuses already have—limits any retail to businesses that are integral to the academic mission of the University. It was seen

by OWDNA as an essential protection for local businesses from potential tax-exempt on-campus competition.

“Peter Lange has accomplished more [in terms of community relations] in two months than the public relations office was able to do in two years,” Schelp said. “But it’s still the same set-up, where Duke talks for 45 minutes about what they’re going to do and when we ask questions the answers are always, ‘We’ll get back to you.’”

Nevertheless, Duke officials are optimistic that positive changes will be felt by many generations of future students once the new Central is built. “It’s fabulous,” Lange said. “It’s an incredible chance.”

Phase I of the Central Campus renovation is set to be completed in Fall 2008. Tuesday night, University officials will describe details of the phase to the Durham community—including the total cost and projected square footage of the project as well as the buildings that will be constructed on the campus.

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CITY COUNCIL from page 4 percent of North Carolina’s gang population. Such a discrepancy in estimates attracts negative ' publicity for Durham, Brown explained, because it suggests that city leadership may be adjusting the numbers for political means. Brown insisted that “numbers do matter.”

Chalmers agreed to review the numbers with the sherifFs department.

The discussion Monday night about gangs in Durham did not end at the conclusion of Chalmer’s report.

Victoria Peterson, a member of Triangle Citizens Rebuilding Communities—an organization aimed at providing counseling and training for ex-convicts—appeared at the meeting to express her concern about the role of gang violence in Durham and the Council’s plans to resolve the issue. “[ln the past year] there were 26,338 crimes in this city and county,” she said.

“That is unacceptable. Crime is wreaking havoc on the African-American community. Where is our plan?”

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dan members on the Council, quoted the Bible as she continued her attack. “Without a vision the people will perish,” she said. “Well, they are perishing.”

The biweekly meeting opened with a presentation by Mayor Pro Tempore Cora Cole-McFadden in support of a resolution requesting approximately $9,000 for the Hillside High School drama team.

McFadden explained that after seeing a production of a play entitled “Perilous Times” that addressed the issue of urban gangs, she suggested that the team present the play in the Carolina Theatre to the larger Durham community. “I offer this resolution as a step towards doing something for our students in Durham,” she told her fellow Council members.

■“With all of the negative press we’ve been getting about our schools in Durham, we need to show [the students] that we do love them and we do support them,” she added.

Many Council members, including Thomas Stith and Diane Catotti, insisted that the Council was still too ill-informed on the issue.

The Council deferred a vote on the issue to Thursday’s work session.

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and freshmen Jordan Giordano and Maya Salwen are running for vice president of community interaction. The winner will enhance relations between Duke and Durham.

Bowes, a Chronicle columnist, is the president of the American Civil Liberties Union at Duke. Salwen is a tutor for Partners for Youth and is active in the Duke Symphony Orchestra. Gross and Giordano are both DSG senators.

The races for the two remaining executive positions will be head-to-head batdes.

JuniorJimmy Soni, a Chronicle columnist, and sophomore Mark Jelley are running for vice president of academic affairs. In

ences Council and faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering.

In the past two years, Snider served as a senator on DSG’s Athletics and Campus Services Committee. Melton is a justice on the DSC Judiciary.

The winner of the race for vice president of athletics and campus services will deal with issues regarding safety, parking, dining, transportation, facilities and athletics.

DSC President Jesse Longoria, a senior, said he is looking forward to the elections.

“It’s an exciting time for any organization when you elect the new leadership,” Longoria said. “There are a lot of very good candidates.”

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Todd Hill, also ofHCW, called the difference in the rates increase from 2005 to 2006 an “anomaly.” In the past year, the small minority of members that usually makes the majority of claims happened to make fewer claims, he said, noting that this accounts for the smaller rate increase.

The annual jump in rates is also based on inflation and the rising cost of health care.

Dan Hill said the “great news” of a small rates increase will facilitate a balanced re-evaluation of the current insurance plan, which will create a more sustainable system for the University.

“The easy thing for us to do would be to announce the 1.2 percent and then fold it up and leave,” he said. “This is an opportune time to look at the structural plan.”

Todd Hill outlined the problems with the current plan and the potential changes recommended by his agency, which include increasing the deductible to adjust for inflation and setting up different rates based on the age of the insured and the number of dependents.

With the current Duke plan, younger students—who statistically generate fewer and less expensive claims—pay the same premium as older students.

Other plans that differentiate by age offer lower premiums. Competition on the open market draws away young, healthy men —which pushes up the premiums for students who remain with the Duke plan, Hill noted. “With a price differential, how many younger students—26 and under—are going to keep enrolling in the Duke plan?” Todd Hill asked.

Statistically, single students and younger students pay premiums that are disproportionally high to the number of claims they make under the current Duke plan. Studentswith spouses or children pay less than they receive in benefits, Hill said.

Single students receive $0.66 in claims per dollar in premium, while a student with a family receives $1.65 in claims per dollar in premium, he noted.

The suggestions to implement price differentials based on age or number of

Presenters at the GPSC meeting Monday night announced the University's new health insurance rate. debate among GPSC members. “Do we want to price insurance so that older individuals can’t afford higher education?” asked Heather Dean, a sixth-year graduate student in neurobiology and a Chronicle columnist.

“Students are students.”

Members of the Health Insurance Committee have been debating the implications of the proposed changes for the past several months. “There are valid philosophical consequences,” said Justin Klein, a sixth-year medical student and a member of the committee.

But decreasing the premiums for individuals under 26 years old could have the added benefit of attracting more undergraduates to the plan, which would bring down rates for all, Klein said. Currently, 79 percent of the students who choose the Duke plan are graduate and professional students, Todd Hill said.

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As the clock wound down on the first game of the NCAA Tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., Wisconsin-Milwaukee held the ball just inside half-court, having already sealed an 82-74 win over Oklahoma.

A few players raised their arms, others gave high fives, but the celebration was subdued at best. This was a No. 11 seed topping a— No. 6 seed. This was a rnichae! team that went through the regular season unranked downing a team that had been ranked in the top five early in the season.

But the Panthers knew the truth—this was not an upset. Despite what Billy Packer may think, the gap between the BCS conferences and the mid-majors is shrinking.

Just a year ago, then-Wis'consin-Milwaukee head coach Bruce Pearl explained the predicament that the selection committee faces in picking the 34 at-large teams. He said the committee faces the challenge of rewarding mid-majors for their performances during the regular season and selecting power-conference teams that can compete with the higher seeds.

Slowly, that distinction is being erased.

It’s not just the five schools from non-BCS conferences that are in the Sweet Sixteen (though to be fair, only three are surprises—Wichita State, George Mason and Bradley). It’s not just the eight double-digit seeds that made the second round. It’s that nearly every game is competitive.

Compare this season to just six years ago. The top-seeds beat the No. 16 seeds by an average of more than 24 points per game then—this year the margin was 14.5.

The rested and rejuvenated Blue Devils will try to advance to the Sweet 16 tonight when they take on the battle-worn and depleted Trojans.

The winner of tonight’s matchup between top-seeded Duke (27-3) and No. 8 seed (jggEi Southern California (1911) will take on the winvs. ner of fourth-seeded Michigan State and fifthseeded Kentucky in the round of 16.

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“We are very excited Norfolk, Va. about the opportunity to play USC,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I think they are an outstanding team. We know we’re going to have to be ready to play.”

The Duke starters will be well-rested after the team dismantled Southern, 96-27, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Sunday. No starter was on the floor for more than 25 minutes against the Jaguars, as Goestenkors rotated all of her players in and out of the game and went deep into her bench during the rout.

The Trojans, on the other hand, will have less than 48 hours to recover from their down-to-the-wire win over South Florida Sunday. Leading 65-64 with 16 seconds left to play, USC center Chloe Kerr blocked a layup attempt by South Florida’s Jessica Dickson. The Trojans took control of the ball and were able to hold off the

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Bulls, 67-65.

Unlike the Blue Devils, who gave significant playing time to six players on their bench, the Trojans were only able to play two reserves because of injuries the team has incurred throughout the season. Their latest casualty was junior forward Markisha Lea, who broke her arm in practice March 14 and will be out for the entire NCAA Tournament. None of USC’s starters got significant SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 14

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Duke’s seniors are preparing to enter familiar territory.

They’ll be making their fourth appearance in the Sweet 16 during a stretch ofnine straight years in which the Blue Devils have advanced to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament.

And although Duke’s streak dwarfs of an y oth er school—the next longest active run is two consecutive appearances in the Sweet 16—the Blue Devils’ postseason has disappointingly ended with this game in two of the past three years.

The relaxed demeanor and enthusiasm, as well as the smiles on the faces of the players following practice Monday, signaled that they certainly are not ready for this season to end just yet.

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bly can’t appreciate until you graduate from here,” senior Lee Melchionni said. “But we feel like we’re not done yet.

We feel like we have some unfinished business.”

The Blue Devils will leave tonight for Atlanta, where they will meet LSU Thursday at 7:10 p.m. for a spot in the Elite Eight. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski holds a career 124record in Sweet 16 games, with half those losses coming in the past three years to Kansas and Michigan State in 2003 and 2005, respectively.

“I don’t think it’s anything about the game, it’s about the opponent,” Krzyzewski said. “As you advance you’re going to face better people.”

Despite the stiffer competition, however, senior JJ. Redick has had some Sweet 16 shooting performances he would rather forget.

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The winner would go to the Final Four, the loser would be sent home, and Duke was ahead 4-3 at the half.

Then just 20 seconds into the third period, defenseman Casey Carroll saw a golden opportunity, picking up a loose ball and scoring his first career goal to ignite a 7-0 Duke run VS. against Cornell. year the Blue Devils used that game-changing play to advance to the TODAY, 3pm. Final Four its Koskmen Stadium ~r . tournament life is not at stake, No. 2 Duke (6-1) expects a similar battle against the thirdranked Big Red (4-0) when the teams meet at Koskinen Stadium Tuesday at 3 p.m.

“It’s not much different than a year ago,” head coach Mike Pressler said. “We expect Cornell to play outstanding lacrosse. We expect it to be a one-goal game, most likely decided in the end. The winner isn’t going to the Final Four but I think we’re going to see the same type of atmosphere tomorrow.”

In last year’s quarterfinal, Cornell managed to hold Duke to only one goal in the second quarter while the Big Red scored three of its own. Following the 7-0 Blue Devil run, the Big Red struck back with a 50 spurt, but it wasn’t enough—the game ended at 11-8.

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going to score,” attacker Dan Flannery said. “I’m more concerned that they are a quality team, and any time you have two quality teams playing against each other, the game is going to be decided on the little things—groundballs, faceoffs, whose goalie plays better, those sorts of things.”

Flannery speaks from experience. In Duke’s last matchup against a top-five team, No. 4 Maryland ended the Blue Devils’ 14-game home-winning streak. The loss came when the Terrapins netted a goal in overtime after a back-and-forth contest in which neither team could gain control.

“A lot of times we’ve had games where we’ve gotten things started right off the bat,” Carroll said. “I think [against Cornell last year] everyone was looking around waiting for something to happen. It was just one of those things that gives the team a shock, and it’s a lot easier to get something going after you get that first tough goal.”

Unfortunately for Duke, Tuesday’s rematch will happen without Carroll’s defensive presence. The junior will be out for the rest of the season after suffering a torn ACL and sophomore Ryan McFadyen will be replacing him.

“We’re still adjusting,” Pressler said.

‘You just don’t replace, arguably, one of the top defenseman in the game overnight. I’m very pleased with Ryan’s performance to date, but he’s a totally different player. For us to get through this we all have to step it up. If you look at Casey’s box score, he’s got groundballs, intercepted passes, he reaches the break, he shuts down the opponent’s best offensive guys. For us to absorb the loss, it can’t be done has to be done collectively.”

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Despite a winless series against Miami this past weekend, Duke remains optimistic and ready for its two-game series this week against Maryland-Baltimore County.

The Blue Devils (8-16) will batde the Retrievers (6-7) at Jack Coombs Field in the first game of the series today at 5 p.m, while Wednesday’s first pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.

The Blue Devils had a tough vacation, dropping VS. of their seven games over spring break, including three consecutive TODAY, 5 p.m. games to ACC powerjack Coombs Field house Miami (21-6) Duke senior infielder Adam Murray, however, continues to remain confident in the play of the Blue Devils.

“I think we have a lot of momentum right now,” Murray said. “I know it doesn’t look that way on our win-loss record. I think this weekend we played three pretty good games. And I think it’s important for us to get back out there in a game situation as quickly as possible.”

Duke, which has struggled both'from the mound and in the field recently, appears to have strengthened these aspects of its game lately.

“I think something we’ve been stressing the past couple of weeks is the importance Even though they lost all three games, Duke's starting pitchers performed well against Miami. of playing good defense,” Murray said. “I think that’s something that we’ve imwill be good against Florida State and we’ll get the bats going so we can carry some offensive momentum into this weekproved upon a lot since last year. It was an throughout the rest of the season.”

While Duke’s Danny Otero, Jimmy Saris end.” aspect that hurt us a lot last year and I think for the past couple of weeks we’ve and Jonathan Anderson received the losses After this series and a three-game visit been playing really solid defense.” in their respective starts this past weekend, to Florida State, the Blue Devils will have In terms of pitching, there was only Murray insists the pitching staff did not get played nine games in a mere 12 days. one word that kept coming up to deDuke’s busy schedule has allowed the adequate support from the Blue Devil bats. scribe the performances of the starters in Duke struggled at the plate, mustering young Blue Devils to gain valuable game the Miami series. just 14 hits compared to Miami’s 30 knocks. experience and to continuously improve “I think our starting pitching this week“I’m very excited that we have been throughout the season. end was phenomenal,” Murray said. “To pitching so well and playing strong de“I think we’re just excited to get back hold Miami down the way they did was very fense,” Murray said. “But I think I speak out there and play again as soon as possiimpressive.... I think that’s something that for everybody when I say I’m disappointed ble,” Murray said. “I think we’re all fortuthey should be proud of, and our team is in our offense this weekend. We let the nate enough to have a game [today] and definitely proud of them. Hopefully, they’ll pitching staff down.... In that respect I’m a Wednesday so we can build some momenhave continued success in that area, which little disappointed and hopefully this week tum up for this weekend.” _

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In 2000, there was just one 2-vs.-15 matchup decided by fewer than 10 points, while this year there were three. The closest 3-vs.-14 game in 2000 was decided by 15 points; this year, one No. 14 seed won and two others lost by just four points each.

The exodus of many players from the top programs to the NBA accounts for much of this parity, as it has had the double effect of decreasing the raw talent discrepancy as well as giving nearly every mid-major an experience advantage.

“These aren’tjust fly-by-night operations, diey are quality schools, quality programs coached by really good people,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “More recognition should be given to programs than teams.

Take those two coaches—[George Mason’s] Jim Larranaga and [Bradley’s] Jim Les they have developed programs at those schools. They have been there long enough.

They are not just trying to get the next big conference job, they have made a commitment to diose schools.”

Many national experts have thanked the three-pointer for the increased parity—Dickie V called it “the great equalizer.” But the fact is that the mid-majors who have had success rely on the three much less than their high-major opponents.

In the second round, Wichita State attempted 15 threes, while Tennessee hoisted 29. Pittsburgh’s Carl Krauser jacked up as many threes—six—as Bradley’s whole team did. George Mason made a total of nine threes in its two upset wins, while its opponents hit 20.

In fact, if you look at the top 50 teams in three pointers per game, you will find only three still in the Tourney—Duke, West Virginia and Villanova.

These Cinderella teams are just solid defensive squads that force turnovers and get to the free-throw line. The three Sweet Sixteen surprises outshot their second-round opponents by a combined 80-28 from the charity stripe. And because they are not Duke, we know it’s not due to a conspiracy, but rather to aggressive play and an emphasis on pounding the ball inside.

These mid-majors aren’t going anywhere, even with the new NBA age limit.

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W. BBALL from page 11 the tight first-round game, which featured 12 ties and 19 lead changes.

Goestenkors said the Trojans remind her of last year’s Blue Devil squad that played only eight players in the 2005 NCAA Tournament. She said fatigue played a key role in that team’s 59-49 loss to LSU in the Elite Eight of last year’s Tournament and can foresee the Trojans facing similar issues.

“We understand that USC really goes seven players,” Goestenkors said. “It was a battle, the game they just had with South Florida. We’re hoping fatigue is a factor.

We’re certainly going to try to make the most of our depth and hope that becomes a factor for us in our favor.”

Duke’s crushing victory over Southern was a confidence builder for a team that dealt with two tough losses before the NCAA Tournament—the latest of which rest in

was a disappointing 78-70 loss to Maryland that sent the Blue Devils packing in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.

The Trojans, however, boast a more talented and athletic lineup than the Jaguars squad that Duke held to the lowest scoring output in NCAA Tournament

come in the Sweet 16 or beyond.

In the NCAA Tournament, he has scored nearly four points less per game than his career average, which has spurred questions about fatigue and whether playing so many minutes during the regular season has worn him out in the postseason.

But his teammates’ confidence in their leading scorer has not wavered, particularly with him shooting .500 percent from the field through the first two rounds.

“The past is the past,” Melchionni said of his teammate. “WeTe not worried about what happened last weekend or last year.

As far as we’re concerned, JJ. has been an All-American and a Player of the Year, and we know he’s going to show up and have a great game for us on Thursday.”

Duke will return to the regional sight in which Redick has had the most tournament success—the Georgia Dome. As a sophomore he averaged 15 points in two games en route to capturing the Atlanta Region and securing the senior class’ only trip to the Final Four.

“We can’t look back and say we only went past the Sweet 16 one time,” senior Shelden Williams said. “This is a different team, and this is a team that we think can do something special.”

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history.

USC is led by junior guard Eshaya Murphy, who posted 21 points in 37 min-

the Women of Troy in their openround ing victory.

Goestenkors said her team will have to key on stopping Murphy but still be keenly aware of USC’s other weapons.

“Everybody talks about [Murphy] because she can hit the three and can penetrate to the basket,” Goestenkors said.

“We’ve got to be real smart and make her really work for all her points. We hope to contain her and not let somebody else go off and have an All-American night because it’s not just about [Murphy]. She’s surrounded by tremendous players as well.” utes for

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But as for adding more cameras—the current project of Graves and Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services—we’re left scratching our heads. While specific

locations for new cameras have not been released, it seems from preliminary discussion that dorm foyers, archways and other outdoor locations along major campus thoroughfares are the primary locations for these new monitoring devices. The motive? Eromoling a safer campus atmosphere, first of all—one in which perpetrators, whether of small-scale, petty crime or of serious felonies like rape and assault, will be less likely to dwell. Secondly, as touted dually by Hull and Graves, the additional cameras will deter vandalism and make vandals far easier to

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dalism this semester occurred in Giles Dormitory Feb. 5, and was said to have occurred sometimearound 2 a.m.

Had a camera been monitoring the people entering and exiting the dorm around this time—keep in mind that it was the wee hours of a Sunday morning, when most students are returning from Saturday-night thrills—monitors probably would have generated a list of at least two dozen suspects.

What then? Would security personnel have strapped each student to a polygraph, interrogate him, his roommate and his friends, detained him until the culprit was found?

We don’t know what these cameras really mean, or where they will be, and we can’t be certain their function won’t degenerate into a mechanism for monitoring student drinking—though we believe Hull when he says they will not.

But we do worry that their presence, costly and threatening all Dukies’ privacy as it is, may be purely cosmetic.

In the name of promoting true safety, we hope we are wrong.

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sive technologically complicated, potentially invasive monitoring system.

The cost of the cameras, the cost of replacing those cameras if they, in turn, are vandalized and the cost of hiring a full-time staff to monitor the cameras’ projections will add up to no insignificant sum—all in the name of having one admissions-tour factoid to add to the old “There are blue phones everywhere!” soundbite.

Why not spend that money to better combat students’ fears that a trip to Cosmic, an evening stroll around Trinity Park, a jog on the trail or an innocent meandering off concrete sidewalk will result in rape, robbery, assault or local gang run-ins?

As for the argument that cameras will deter vandals, think again. Whether intoxicated, simple-minded or both, vandals are not going to be dissuaded by an outside camera—especially when the high-traffic nature of West Campus dormitories, and the low-resolution nature of surveillance cameras, makes their capture seem unlikely.

The most egregious incident of van-

for their double standards in handling criticism; specifically, a Duke ments and the efforts of those facebook.com group called “Camwho gave their spring break in pus Jihad for Allah”, (a spoof of another college religious organizaNew Orleans, I was somewhat disappointed with the presentation tion, Campus Crusade for Christ) of both pieces in the Chronicle was cited (“Double standards,” (“True service lies in sacrifice,” March 20). The group has been “Students help rebuild New Orused to rant against Muslims on a leans from ruins,” March 20). variety of global and even local Having spent my break on the events. If critics spend more time Duke Chapel Mission trip to Hontalking to Muslims instead of “reduras, I too felt the moving effects searching” on facebook.com, they of helping out people who are might leam why Muslim sensibiliseemingly helpless. However, the ties might be offended by carlanguage of both articles I feel ig- toons depicting Prophet Monored the world and assumed Kathammed as a terrorist or how rina as the only disaster of the last Mohammed Taheri-Azar’s ramtwenty years, including a quote that page through UNC was the act of stated Katrina as the worst natural a deranged individual, not some disaster of “recent memory.” I fanatical group. They might also would hope Duke as a whole does leam that there were Muslims, not make the ignorant mistake of many of them Americans, with ignoring either Hurricane Mitch families of their own who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. (due to which I saw current-day effects despite eight years of attemptBut even with facebook.com stalked recovery) or the deadly tsunami ing, they could easily discover that in late December of2004—both of the “Campus Jihad for Allah” which killed more than Katrina. group was founded by a non-MusBoth articles are critical of the U.S. lim and almost all of its members government’s response: While fair, are non-Muslims, as well. If anythis does not paint the full picture. thing, Muslims should be the ones Honduras (like many others after most offended by this and should Mitch and the tsunami) has providbe pointing fingers at others while ed little or no help simply because berating “Christian/Jewish” douit has no money, infrastructure, or ble standards. material assets to provide help.

If you want to continue to lisI am not saying New Orleans ten to ill-informed diatribes from (and Mississippi and Alabama and people who rely on facebook.com the other cities of Louisiana that as a platform to discuss religious were not mentioned) should be communities and global politics, listen to such critics. If you want down played or ignored. I am simply stating the the memories, to actually learn about Islam and prayers and actions of our Duke what it’s followers believe and Community need to go out to how they feel about meaningful more than just a single city victimissues, then talk to Muslims themized by a single disaster. I applaud selves. The Duke Muslim Student the efforts of those who spent their Association is open to anyone time in New Orleans and everywho wishes to leam more about where else in the world, and I Islam and Muslims.

Those critics have my personal highly encourage every student at Duke to follow the advice of Bowes invitation. by giving your time and efforts to Yousef Mian those who are less fortunate.

Trinity ’O6 Reid Simpson The merits of tolerance Trinity ’OB Allow me to explain the foundDouble standard, indeed ing of the facebook.com group Muslims have been censured Campus Jihad forAllah. It began

in K-Ville last year, where the evangelical Christian group CRU was handing out mugs decorated with its logo. I soon discovered CRU stands for Campus CRUsade for Christ. Though lam a Christian, I thought it odd that any religious group on campus should adopt the word “crusade” as part of its name while facing little or no criticism. Sure the alliteration is nice, but we all know that the word “crusade” refers to the centuries-long Christian military campaign to seize the Holy Land from its occupants. The Crusades were wars fueled by ignoranee and hate that resulted in the senseless deaths of thousands of Muslims and Jews. In the context of Christianity, the word “cmsade” carries this violent connotation, and as a Christian, I feel that the Crusades leave a stain on my religion. In contrast, the word “jihad” is more important to most Muslims as a peaceful spiritual struggle, which could reasonably be included in the name of a Muslim student organization, While sipping hot chocolate out of this mug in K-Ville, I decided to create a facebook.com group to indicate the double standard. The facebook.com page for Campus Jihad for Allah (JIH) is a parody of the most popular of six Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) groups on facebook. The logo is merely the above-mentioned mug with “CRU” crossed out and replaced with my group’s name. As for the student who has a link in his profile to the A1 Qaeda training manual, that link is hosted by the Department of Justice; our government, concerned as it is with its War on Terrorism, has no problem showing the world this manual, and so fail to understand why you some students are offended that an undergraduate provides a link to it.

The group most certainly is not, as critics say, a joke about the murder ofAmericans and Israelis; rather, it is a warning of the dangers ofabandoning religious tolerance.

Alec Gibson Trinity ’O7

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Duke

students have had to cope with a lot since 2001: 1. Full-time Student Affairs staff were hired to live in residence halls with students; they were given judicial authority to sanction violations of

University policy.

2. Selective living groups,

the hubs of the Duke social scene, were banned from the m t. main quad 3. Students were mandated to live on campus for their first three years. elliott wolf 4. Kegs were banned without prior approval and supervitransparency sion by an authorized University bartender.

5. All social events were required to be registered and subjected to inspection.

6. Duke Police extended their jurisdiction off campus into areas immediately adjacent to Puke property.

7. The Office of Judicial affairs began to sanction students for conduct that occurred off-campus.

8. The Hideaway, a student-run bar housed in the basement of the West Union Building for 27 years, shut down.

9. The Office ofInformation Technology instituted Internet bandwidth caps on student computers.

10. Student Affairs restricted tailgating, requiring (among other things) that all students leave the Blue Zone by kickoff.

11. Line monitors were told to enforce restrictions on drinking games and alcohol consumption in Kryzewskiville.

12. Citing “neighborhood stabilization,” Duke purchased 12 houses adjacent to East Campus, most of which are rented by students and frequendy used to host parties.

Taken individually, many of these restrictions seem perfectly reasonable; they are not necessarily overarching, and are (arguably) legitimate steps taken in the hopes of providing some tangible benefit to the Duke community.

But taken together, they represent an unprecedented and colossal shift in all aspects of student life over a few short years. Since 2001, administrators have tried to significantly influence (largely through restrictions) on-campus behavior, offcampus behavior, alcohol consumption, computer use, student organizing, student self governance, housing options, basketball rituals, football rituals, event registration, the use of student funds, student privacy expectations and many other aspects of undergraduate life.

And now after our almost every move is traced through the DukeCard and Student Affairs employees live with us in dorms, one more item is about to be added to that list: 13. The addition of a network of security cameras to monitor the “perimeter,” among other places, of residence halls, as part of a new “master security plan,” as described by newlyarrived Associate Vice President for Campus Safety and Security Aaron Graves.

While some students don’t particularly relish the idea of the Duke University Police Department or Residence Life and Housing Services being able to monitor almost any outdoor area of the campus at will, such a plan has obvious benefits for campus security.

Graves made valid points, including that DukeCard readers are not perfect indicators of who is in a building and that the presence of security cameras would sometimes prevent the need for DUPD to send officers to investigate some incidents.

Despite these and other benefits, which can be easily explained to students so we can decide for ourselves, it appears we will have almost no say in how the plan is carried out or any way of preventing it from moving forward. Eddie Hull, director of RLHS, said Monday that “often times you can be too close to the forest to see the trees,” noting that students cannot objectively decide on this plan and that student opposition would not prevent it from moving forward.

Graves echoed Hull’s sentiment. After being asked whether an emphatic ‘no’ from the students would nix the plan, he asked me, “How can you say that you don’t want something that you don’t understand?”

Given a willingness to at least consult the students—those whom this plan is meant to protect —and some (no matter how small) indication that this isn’t just the latest extension ofadministrative influence into students’ lives, a meaningful discussion of the ups and downs of this proposal could continue.

But that doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen. Consequently, we have no reason to believe Hull’s and Graves’ insistence that the cameras will not eventually be used to invade student privacy and further clamp down on what little social scene we have left; the line must be drawn.

In the (adapted) words ofThomas Payne: no regulation without consultation.

Elliott Wolf is

a

Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Tuesday.

TUESDAY, MARCH 21 ,2006119

Using our resources Everyone

seems to have some-

thing to say about Duke’s so-

cial scene or lack thereof.

We’ve all heard the lists of rants: nothing to do on campus, no campus unity, greek life dominates, nondrinkers are out of luck, there is no dating scene—the list david goes on

shades

problem: Rarely

does someone offer any solution.

When alternative social events pop up, people don’t go. Either they don’t know what’s going on or really just want to go drink anyway, but in the end, we sound like a bunch of spoiled complainers looking for a reason to whine.

It isn’t just at Duke that students complain. Campuses everywhere struggle with ways to get rid of the “work hard, play hard” maxim. Over these past few months I have watched how UNC has been working to change this.

Forget about the rivalry for a few minutes—there is a lot we can learn from their model.

UNC just introduced an incredible new website called “Slice”— the Student Life Integrated Calendar of Events. Each student organization lists its group’s events for the month on their own personal Slice webpage, and then the site compiles all events into a huge master calendar.

The website has been highly publicized, and six computers in its union are always open to the calendar. It is incredibly easy to figure out what is going on when and where, solving a big problem on campus: not knowing about an event until the day after it hap-

pens. Even better, everything on the site is student-generated so students can take ownership of what’s going on We have all the groups UNC offers.

There is ample funding for events and a full staff of event planners to help. The key is figuring out when each group is meetfiocco ing, who to contact of blue to get involved and how to join. A website like “Slice”, could fix all that. In our upcoming DSG elections, I hope some candidate can embrace this simple idea.

The gathering at UNC isn’t just online. At the center of campus is “The Pit”—a big outdoor square that serves as the central meeting point on campus, day and night.

Pretty soon, our “Pit” equivalent will be even better; the new multimillion dollar plaza will be waiting when we get back next fall. There will be space for performing, promoting events, activism and perhaps most importantly, a central place to hang out. As long as groups are able take advantage of the space, its potential is enormous.

Right off ofCarolina’s Pit is their new student union building. The union was recently renovated, and now it is the place to study, meet friends or chill on campus. Walk into Carolina’s union any night of the week and it will be packed. Perhaps if the Bryan Center was called the “Bryan Student Union” people would think ofit as more of a gathering point. Just as Bostock has become “Study Central,” the BC should be “Hangout Central.”

At Duke, our union has 12 subcommittees that work on a constant array of student program-

ming. Concerts, movies, activities, budgets—students do it all, and there is plenty of room to get involved.

Twelve committees can either mean a lot of bureaucracy or many chances to get involved. We need the Union staff to take effective leadership in increasing student involvement and publicizing what they offer.

Especially for non-greeks, the Union can fill a huge hole in creating cohesive social opportunities, connecting groups with similar interests and generating publicity and support for events of all types on campus.

Two years ago Duke began the Provost’s subsidy for performing arts allowing all students to get tickets to an event for just $5. By last April, ticket sales increased by 300 percent to nearly 5,000 tickets sold in that academic year.

Yet with 6,000 undergraduates able to attend music, dance and theatre performances by worldclass ardsts, 5,000 dckets sold for the endre year seems rather pathetic. Maybe these events need to be publicized better, but the next time you need an idea for a date, think about a Broadway show, a famous politician’s speech or an orchestra or ballet concert. If you don’t have $5, admission to our $ 13-million art museum is free.

The time for change couldn’t be better. It’s not that Duke doesn’t have the resources. We have an array of new facilities about to open and more money than some small countries. All that is missing is initiative. Shouldn’t we be able to fix the problem we all whine about?

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

Tuesday.

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