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'NO MATCH' Lawyers say DNA tests exonerate lax players by

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Defense attorney Joe Cheshire and his colleagues revealed Monday thatthere were no positive DNA matches in the lacrosse rape case.

"If themedical exams show that injuries are consistent with rape, then police should continue with investigations to find out who did this."

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State investigators found that no DNA of any member of the Duke men’s lacrosse team matches evidence obtained from a woman who claimed she was raped by three players at a March 13 party, defense lawyers said Monday.

The lawyers said they believe the case should be closed, although District Attorney Mike Nifong said Monday night that he will continue the investigation regardless of the DNA test results.

No charges have been filed.

“I’m not saying it’s over. If that’s what they expect, they will be sadly disappointed,” Nifone said at a Durham candidates’ forum Monday night. “They can say anything they want, but I’m still in the middle of my investigation. I believe a took place.”

The lack of DNA evidence is the latest in a string of information that defense lawyers say casts some shadows on the alleged vic■ tim’s claim that she was raped, choked and sodomized by three members of the lacrosse team in a bathroom at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.—a house leased by three members of the team.

“There was no sexual assault in this case,” lawyer Wade Smith said Monday afternoon at a press nee in front the Durham County Court House. “We very much hope that with these an-

fully prepared test, that perhaps this community can heal.”

There was no foreign DNA present in or on the alleged victim’s body —including her fingernails, which investigators found in the bathroom—on her belongings or on her clothes, lawyers said.

Investigators found no DNA of the alleged victim in the bathroom where the woman claimed the incident occurred, defense attorney Joe Cheshire added. The only DNA found in the bathroom matched that of two lacrosse players who live in the house.

State investigators compared evidence gathered from the alleged victim’s body to DNA from cheek swabs that 46 of the 47 members of the lacrosse team provided 10 days after the incident.

“It is a false accusation. It has been used to tear this community apart,” said Cheshire, who is representing 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. resident and senior lacrosse captain Dave Evans. “It’s SEE DNA ON PAGE 5

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Members of the Duke and Durham communities expressed emotions ranging from acceptance to surprise after lawyers for members of the men’s lacrosse team announced Monday that DNA taken from players did not match any samples obtained from a woman who claims she was raped by three players March 13.

John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said, however, that until legal clarity is established in the case, the University administration cannot take any actions.

“From the start, we’ve said that it’s important for [the investigation] to be completed,” he said. “We must have confidence that the investigation will get to the truth.”

He added that University committees

formed last week to examine broader themes—such as social life and lacrosse culture—will continue to look into issues raised by the incident, regardless of the outcome of the investigation.

“The incident on March 13 has raised questions about the University and its values and culture that the independent review will explore,” Bumess said. “It will help everyone understand the issue better.”

Some Duke students said the results were surprising, but they noted that the lack of a DNA match does not necessarily close the case. Several said their skepticism stemmed, in part, from the strong assertions of guilt made by District Attorney Mike Nifong and the alleged victim’s medical results.

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Italy vote ends in split parliament by

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ROME Italy’s parliament appeared headed Tuesday toward a split between the conservative coalition headed by Premier Silvio Berlusconi and one led by his centerleft challenger—an election result that could stall the formation of a new government.

Final results in the two-day vote ending Monday showed Romano Prodi’s center-left coalition winning control in the lower house of parliament, with 49.8 percent of the vote compared to 49.7 won by Berlusconi’s conservatives. The winning coalition is automatically awarded 55 per-

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According to the results, Berlusconi’s conservative allies held a one-seat lead in the Senate, although six seats elected abroad were still to be counted.

“We have won, and now we have to start working to implement our program and unify the country,” said a jubilant Prodi, speaking to his supporters.

“I am grateful to all of you because it has been a very difficult batde,” Prodi said.

“Until the very end we were left in suspense, but in the end victory has arrived.”

Berlusconi’s spokesman contested the victory claim, and Prodi’s allies conceded

after his announcement that results in the Senate were still not complete.

During his tenure, Berlusconi, a flamboyant billionaire, had strongly supported President George W. Bush over Iraq despite fierce Italian opposition to the war.

Prodi, an economist, said he would bring troops home as soon as possible, security conditions permitting. But the issue was largely deflated before the campaign began, when Berlusconi announced that Italy’s troops there, would be withdrawn by year’s end.

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Bush denies planning strike in Iran by

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President George W. WASHINGTON Bush dismissed as “wild speculation” reports that the administration was planning for a military strike against Iran.

Bush did not rule out the use of force, but he said he would continue to use diplomatic pressure to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon or the know-how and technology to make one.

“I know here in Washington prevention means force,” Bush said at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. “It

doesn’t mean force, necessarily. In this case, it means diplomacy.”

Several weekend news reports said the administration was studying options for mil-

itary strikes. The New Yorker magazine raised the possibility of using nuclear bombs against Iran’s underground nuclear sites.

“I read the articles in the newspapers this weekend,” Bush said. “It was just wild

speculation.”

Taking questions from the audience,

Bush also said he declassified part of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq in 2003 to show Americans the basis for his statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

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Bush said he could not comment on the CIA leak case because it is under investigation.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, sent a letter to Bush on Monday asking him for details about how the document was declassified. “There are many questions that the president must answer so that the American people can understand that this declassification was done for national security purposes, not for immediate

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Attorneys debate potential implications of DNA results Although he stressed that the results do not prove the allegations are false, With the release of negative DNA reShohat said the DNA results are signifisults Monday, many members of the cant because they were made so by DisDuke community are wondering what trict Attorney Mike Nifong. The DA has comes next—for the case, for the lacrosse repeatedly insisted that a rape occurred and called for DNA samples to be taken players and for the alleged victim.

Although lawyers and experts have from 46 members of the lacrosse team.

“The DNA tests is a major blow to the differing opinions on exactly what the DNA results mean for the legal case, most prosecution,” Shohat said. “The prosecuare in agreement that the proceedings tor took his investigation public with the DNA tests, and now in essence he has to are far from finished.

While defense attorney Wade Smith eat the results.” claims the DNA results prove no rape ocIf the prosecution decides not to the curred, some pursue crim i n a rape allegations, Shohat lawyers, like Ed “The prosecutor took his invesShohat from said some tigation public with the DNA the Miami firm lacrosse playBier m an ers could still tests, and now in essence he has be charged Shohat, Loewy & Klein PA, to eat the results.” with a hate aggradisagree.

Ed Shohat, criminal lawyer crime, vated assault, “The fact that no DNA or even kidwas found napping doesn’t end Campbell, the inquiry—especially if there is an ashowever, said it is much too late for the sertion that the rape involved the use of prosecution to issue additional charges a prophylactic,” said Shohat, whose or offer up more evidence for existing daughter currently attends Duke. allegations.

“There are basic biological functions “If there were eyewitness identifications that had been made, then arrests and that occur during intercourse that—depending on how the victim described charges should have already been lodged,” the account —may [account for the lack Campbell said. “If some eyewitness identification is made now, that would be very of DNA evidence].” suspect and very questionable.”

Defense lawyers, however, noted MonThe alleged victim could be facing day that the question ofcondom use was some charges of her own if the players not present in search warrants or the alleged victim’s account of the incident. are found innocent in light of the new evJoe Cheshire, attorney for senior lacrosse idence. Charges against her could incaptain Dave Evans, noted that there was clude making a false police report, issuno evidence of lubricant or latex found ing a false statement or committing on or in the victim. peijury—for which she could face up to Lawrence Campbell, the acting public five years imprisonment.

Shohat said the incongruencies bedefender for Durham County, Trinity ’76 and a North Carolina Central University tween the DNA results and the alleged law school graduate, called the new DNA evidence “very compelling.”

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Several dozen Duke students participate in the National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice Monday.

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“No mas miedo”—no more fear—was the message white-T-shirt-clad ralliers tried to convey, as dozens of Duke students, faculty and staff opted to skip work or class Monday in favor of raising awareness about immigrants’ rights.

The protest, a part of a continuing national effort taking place in several cities over the past few months, began at 11:30 a.m. at the Levine Science Research Center.

It concluded approximately two hours later on the Chapel Quadrangle, as demonstrators joined the effort at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill via the Robertsons Scholars bus. From there, ralliers traveled to Siler City, N.C., where an estimated 3,000 activists gathered at the Town Hall for a peaceful demonstration.

Duke organizers said demonstrators

marched to various locations around campus, especially where there is a significant Latino employee presence.

The group encountered a lone challenge—a patron at The Loop who informed them that “he felt he shouldn’t have to hear it if he didn’t want to,” said junior Ted Gilliland, who witnessed the incident at the restaurant.

Monday’s national effort, termed the National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice, is what some are calling the largest national mobilization of immigrants in American history. National organizers expected a turnout of 2 million people to rally across the country.

Currently, the United States has approximately 12 million illegal immigrants, a figure that has tripled since 1980. North Carolina is home to an estimated 350,000 SEE RALLY ON PAGE 6

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Outsider Wolf outlines goals for DSG presidency by

“I will be defining positions throughthe year as issues arise and projects are created,” Wolf said. “I just want DSG to be able to point to things and say, ‘We accomplished them.’”

As of now, Wolf plans to create two new positions —a community liaison and a webmaster.

In addition, he will try to reinstitute a University-wide server and continue to promote the online course evaluation system he founded last year.

The community liaison will regularly attend community meetings in order to establish better communication between the University and Durham residents, he said.

Wolf explained that the position would have been useful in addressing recent concerns about allegations against members of the men’s lacrosse team and the University’s purchase of properties in Trinity Park, a neighborhood near East Campus.

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Elliott Wolf is not a typical Duke Student Government president-elect.

When he assumes the position in late April, the Chronicle columnist and Angier B. Duke Scholar will become the first rising junior in recent years to be DSG

president.

An outsider to the DSG stage, Wolf has never served in a University leadership position —a fact he acknowledges but does not view as negative.

“I’m excited that this is a different thing, but I do have a lot to learn,” he said. “I’m going to do whatever I have to do to be an effective DSG president.”

During the next few weeks, Wolf said he plans to create new positions in his cabinet. By establishing specific job descriptions, he hopes to help the organization achieve more concrete goals.

“When Trinity Park is discussing obnoxious Duke students, there should actually be a Duke student there,” Wolf said.

The second position, the webmaster, will be responsible for keeping DSG’s website up to date.

Wolf said the website has been sub-par in the past. He added that he will begin to revamp the website over the summer to make it more reflective of student needs.

The improved website will feature student polls and a running list of the ideas DSG will present to members of the administration.

“As the student voice, we want to make sure we’re actually representing the student voice,” he said.

“We want to be able to back our positions with clear evidence that there’s support from students.”

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Sophomore Elliott Wolf will lead Duke Student Government as president in the next academic year.

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The Academy Award-winning film Crash explores issues of race in society—the topic discussed by the film's director in a Duke seminar.

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When Paul Haggis began to sketch out the first draft of the movie Crash one morning, he didn’t think he would tackle the issue of racism.

“Maybe intolerance and fear,” explained Haggis, whose film won an Academy Award for Best Picture in March. “But really, I was just fascinated by how strangers affect eachother without ever knowing that they affect each other.”

In a Monday afternoon conference call from Los Angeles, Haggis spoke about the complexity of race and class relations to a graduate and senior seminar. Throughout the past semester the class, “Race and American Politics,” has dealt with a number of complicated and often touchy issues highlighted by the film.

The discussions have become all the more timely after three members of the men’s lacrosse team were accused of a March 13 rape, said Paula McClain, the political science professor who teaches the class. “[Haggis] hit so many things that we’ve been talking about here,” McClain said. “Then the lacrosse allegations intervened, and so it became much more relevant—that this wasn’t just what we were reading in class.”

Although Haggis said he did not want to answer questions about the alleged incident, he did applaud the ef-

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forts of the class to do so ‘You’re in a difficult situation down there, but you’re addressing it,” Haggis said to the class. “What I encourage you to do is talk and be useful. You’re going to be ashamed, but out of the truth, will come resolution. So I applaud you.”

The class conversation occurred just hours before attorneys for several of the lacrosse players announced that none of the team members’ DNA was found on the alleged victim and that they believed their clients should not be charged.

Senior Christopher Dekom, a Los Angeles resident, arranged for the conference call after he used clips from Crash to approach the topic of politics and race in a group project better. Class members presented Haggis with questions regarding the production and impact of Crash.

“In the movie it shows the complexity of racism,” Dekom said. “I think the complication is the best part of the movie.”

Senior Wintta Woldemariam, another student in the seminar, said she was particularly taken by the idea of embracing different perspectives, no matter how troubling they might be.

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DNA from page 1 time for all of the healing to start.”

The new information leaves a strained community questioning how to proceed.

The investigation began when an exotic dancer, a 27-year-old black student attending North Carolina Central University, claimed that three white members of the men’s lacrosse team gang-raped her.

The University has already said it will investigate the many tensions sparked by the alleged incident. It also plans to examine the lacrosse, team’s culture and racial divides highlighted by epithets that neighbors said came from members of the team the night of the alleged rape.

Although the national media attention and community protests that the rape allegations have sparked may dwindle, broader issues of race, class, neighborhood relations and raucous partying will remain under the microscope.

“I’m not saying that underage drinking did not go on [at the party], that there wasn’t excessive noise, thatracial slurs were not used. Those things are all wide open and ought to be talked about,” Cheshire said.

“Unfortunately, people have meshed those things with this sexual assault and tried to make them one thing.”

The players remained mostly quiet after their lawyers released the results Monday afternoon. Several declined to comment, asking a reporter to leave their residence hall section.

“We saw it coming,” said junior Matt Danowski, the only player to speak to The Chronicle Three other players watched the news conference in Edens Dormitory, not far from sophomore team member Ryan McFadyen’s room, which investigators searched March 27.

In response to the rape accusations, reports from neighbors and a related vulgar e-mail sent from McFadyen’s account the night of the alleged assault, head coach Mike Pressler resigned, and Duke cancelled the men’s lacrosse season and suspended McFadyen last week.

IMPLICATIONS from page 3 victim’s accusations, however, would not be enough to warrant peijury charges.

“In my opinion, you need a lot more to go after a witness,” he said. “The only way to go after it is if they had gotten a sworn statement from her.”

He added that charging an alleged sexual assault victim of peijury is unlikely because of the implications it carries for future reports of sexual assault. Victims may be less likely to report crimes if they fear prosecution, he said.

James Coleman, a professor of the practice oflaw at Duke, explained that he is worried about the effects the incident has had on the community as well.

“What the DA did was regrettable and so unprofessional,” Coleman said. “The public was left so confused.... He got way ahead of himself.”

Coleman accused Nifong of treating the whole episode as “a photo opportunity.”

Nifong did not respond to requests for comment, but he said at a candidates’ forum Monday that he will proceed with the investigation regardless of the DNA test results.

Joe McCulloch, a criminal lawyer and the head of the Innocence Project of SouthCCarolinaa—a program that works to free wrongly accused inmates with DNA evidence—emphasized the importance of the DNA results, saying that without them, the case would just be one person’s word against another’s.

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The defense, however, has pointed to

McFadyen’s e-mail as evidence that an as-

sault did not occur. In the e-mail, he wrote he would invite other strippers to his dorm room that next night and skin and kill them.

“When people do something bad, they wouldn’t be writing e-mails about it,” Cheshire said when news of the e-mail broke last week.

Lawyers did not hesitate Monday to describe the emotional ordeal they say the players and and their family members continue to experience. Cheshire said one of his clients mothers has been having trouble eating and sleeping.

“This has been an absolute nightmare for these boys and their families,” Cheshire said.

The lawyers also noted that the results of the DNA tests came as no shock to the players. Captains of the team “unequivocally” denied the accusations in a statement March 28.

“None of the boys are surprised in any way, shape, or form,” Smith said about the results their lawyers told them about shortly before the press conference.

Forty-six players on the team underwent DNA tests March 23, after a judge issued a non-testimonial order forcing the players to comply or face criminal punishment.

March 27, the DNA was sent to the State Bureau of Investigation, which faxed the results to Nifong’s office and made them available to police and lawyers Monday at 4 p.m.

Nifong said in a statement minutes before the news conference that it would be inappropriate for him to release the results but that any of the multiple attorneys representing players were free publicize them. The attorneys did not do so, however, choosing only to comment on the results.

Despite the lawyers’ assertions that the DNA exonerates the lacrosse players, details from the alleged victim’s account continue to trouble many members of the Duke and Durham communities.

The players are under investigation for first degree forcible rape, first degree kidnapping, first degree forcible sexual assault, common law robbery and felonious nized and a more reliable form of evidence if sampling is done appropriately,” McCulloch said, adding he believes that testing of this magnitude would have been done carefully.

Another more recent accusation on the part of the defense is that the procedure for taking DNA from 46 of the 47 lacrosse players was unconstitutional, but McCulloch disagreed, saying this is not an unusual request. “There was an entire village in England where the men of the town were subjected to DNA testing because of an alleged rape,” he explained.

McCulloch, who has been involved with several NCAA court cases including ones concerning steroid allegations at Michigan State University and the University of South Carolina, said a case involving athletes adds a higher degree of both local and national public interest.

“It has been my experience that players get treated differently,” McCulloch said. “Sometimes they get beneficial treatment, but sometimes they get beaten up for receiving beneficial treatment.”

Whether or not the players are cleared of the rape allegations, the racial implications that surfaced from the case have become a point of interest and concern for the community.

“I’ve been following this very closely,” Shohat said. “My daughter loves the school and is personally very upset by the allegations of racial slurs, which she has not found previously at her time at Duke.

This is very disappointing for a University like Duke.”

Jared Mueller contributed to this story.

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None of the men's lacrosse players' DNA samples, which were taken March 23, matched that of the accuser.

strangulation.

According to a search warrant issued for the Buchanan Boulevard residence, the al-

leged victim and a second woman made an appointment to dance at the house March 13. Once they started dancing, shortly after

11:30 p.m., the men became “excited and

aggressive,” the report said.

“The victim and her fellow dancer decided to leave because they were concerned about their safety,” the warrant stated.

When the dancers were getting into their vehicle, neighbors said they heard party-goers yell racial slurs at the women.

One of the three suspects allegedly apologized and convinced the pair to come back inside—shortly thereafter, the two women were separated.

According to the warrant, two men then pulled the alleged victim into a bathroom, where three men raped, choked and sodomized her for approximately 30 minutes.

Nifong said March 28 that he was convinced a rape occurred, citing testimony from a nurse who examined the woman that she had “injuries consistent with being

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“You definitely can’t discount that because those results are negative that a rape did not occur,” said Chalice Overy, a thirdyear student in the Divinity School. “If medical exams show that injuries are consistent with a rape, then police should continue with investigations to find out who did this.”

Other students said they anticipated that the DNA tests would return negative and supported the lacrosse players’ innocence.

“I expected this just from talking to the guys on the team,” said Harrison Anthony, a sophomore. “There’s no story anymore—all the assumptions from the past two weeks have been false.”

Freshman Lili Hasse said the allegations have been ruining the players’ lives and that the DNA results are good news.

She added, however, that even if the players are found innocent of sexual assault, the DNA tests do not exonerate them of expressing racial slurs at the party.

“Duke-Durham relations have been affected irreparably,” Hasse said.

Residents of Trinity Park neighborhood, who live near the house at 610 N. Buchanan Boulevard where the victim alleges she was raped, said the results of the DNA tests were not what they expected.

“The [other] evidence would lead you to believe they were guilty,” community member Pattie LeSueur said. “I don’tknow what to think. I’m very surprised.”

Many neighbors said they do not believe that the results mark the end of the case.

raped and sexually assaulted vaginally and anally,” according to a search warrant.

In addition to repeatedly stating that the DNA results would prove their clients’ innocence, the defense team pointed to inconsistencies in 911 tapes from the night of March 13, questioning the motives and identities of the callers—one of whom claimed that men in Buchanan Boulevard house hurled racial slurs at her.

Several lawyers also said they have timestamped pictorial evidence that the woman had bruises on her body before she started dancing. After the two women stopped dancing, the players’ lawyers said the women locked themselves in the bathroom —where the alleged rape occurred for about 27 minutes.

Photographs taken after the gap show the woman smiling and wearing a negligee that Cheshire said shows no signs of damage or violence, Cheshire told local press.

The lawyers said they have no immediate plans to release the photos.

Jared Mueller, David Graham, Gregory Beaton and Ryan McCartney contributed to this story.

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“From what I understand, the DNA results aren’t necessarily proving anything,” said a Durham resident who wished to remain anonymous. “The neighborhood would like to see something —one or more found guilty.”

He added that he hopes Nifong will take a “bold next step.”

Nifong’s handling of the case has been criticized by both students and members of the community.

“I have concerns about the way the DA has been handling this,” said Durham City Council member Thomas Stith. “Above all, the DA should remain objective.”

Freshman David Tapke also said he thought Nifong had acted inappropriately and had just been “fueling the fire” for the media.

Durham Mayor Bill Bell said he hopes the incident will allow Duke and the surrounding community to re-evaluate their relationship and make strides to move forward.

“Sure we’re divided as a community by race, but are we divided on issues—even this issue? I don’t agree,” he said. “We’re going to be a better community after this because we’re willing to examine ourselves.”

Despite some of their reactions, Durham residents also hope that if team members are innocent, some good will result from the scandal.

“I really do feel that there’s more to this story... but I think something positive will come of this to help the relations of Duke, in particular with the Trinity Park community,” said Durham resident Sabina Sager.

Meg Bourdillon, Sarah Kwok, Mingyang Liu, Shreya Rao and Andrew Yaffe contributed to this story.

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Lawmakers in Washington have struggled to find a solution for the issue over which many Americans are split.

On the one hand, many people are in favor of providing immigrants with better opportunities, and pro-business

“The movie’s not straightforward because whoever you are it’s important to step outside yourself.” Woldemariam said. “What’s the point of being here if you’re not willing to admit that there are other opinions.”

The writer, director and producer said he was inspired to write the screenplay after he and his wife were held at gunpoint and their car was stolen by two men.

“You form a perfect image of who that person is in your mind—he’s an asshole,” Haggis said. “And you go right and that person goes left, and I asked, ‘What happens to that person?’”

After a resdess night of sleep, Haggis woke up and began to write the script at 2 a.m., beginning to construct a possible background for the two men.

“We think we know what’s going on—we don’t know,” Haggis said. “We don’t know anything until you actually know the given circumstances of someone’s life.”

Haggis said he then proceeded to connect the story of others.

“I tried to write it not so much as a film but as a series of experiences—in fact I didn’t even know if it was a movie when I finished,” he said.

As he worked to connect the experiences, Haggis read more than 30 books on the topic of intolerance and class relations. He focused on the times when these topics are magnified by stress and societal pressure.

Crash begins at the breaking point when all these pressures come together, he said to the class.

“We have to ask ourselves what would we do in these moments. Would we act in the moment the way we see ourselves?”

Haggis asked.

Although Haggis said the issues of race and class are complicated, he said it is important to question one’s own certainty and address problems head on.

“I see the world going straight down the toilet, but I still hope,” Haggis said.

“I do know that people surprise you, and that we do embody great contradictions. Every time someone says, ‘I know who I am,’ they’re headed straight for a fall,” he added.

thinkers support contributions to the labor force that many immigrants provide. Others, however, do not condone the relative amnesty being given to people that are breaking the law, individuals who potentially pose a threat to national security.

Many of the protests were launched in response to legislation calling for enhanced border patrol and the felonization of illegal immigration. The bill—Hß 4437—passed the House of Representatives in December.

Pedro Lasch, interim director of the Latino/a Studies Initiative and visiting assistant professor of the practice of visual arts, said Sunday that a “core group of organizers” support the McCain-Kennedy

legislation.

The compromise bill, which was shot down by Congress last week, includes enhanced border-security elements and a

provision that would allow immigrants who have lived in the country for at least five years to earn full citizenship, granted

they meet key requirements.

Many protesters are hoping that the recent flurry of demonstrations will urge law-

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Students take part in a national movement Monday to promote immigration reform in theUnited States. derstands the significance of the issue.

“Duke doesn’t provide the space to engage this type of conversation,” she said.

Lopez added that the University will have to play a significant role in “crystal-

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Organizers of Monday’s Duke-based effort, which Lasch dubbed a “walking discussion,” sought to raise awareness about issues pertaining to immigrants’ rights—legislation, new developments and the way the cause is portrayed in the mainstream media—within the Duke community.

“The people here aren’t only interested in standing outside, but also coming up with solutions,” said senior Tomas Lopez, co-president of Mi Gente.

Lopez added that the biggest challenge facing the group now is “sustaining substantive conversations.”

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WOLF from page 4 Wolf said students have responded favorably to projects he has already undertaken during his time at the University.

He added that he will continue to improve these efforts as president.

He said the administration has granted the course evaluation website, which he created in November, a server and staff so that it can become a permanent feature of the University’s databases.

Wolfalso described another major online initiative—pushing the University to fund a news subscription server that

would replace the website Wolf was the University of North Carolina at forced to shut down in February.

Chapel Hill, the University of Indiana The site aland Purdue University. lowed students to download “I’ve person<<T IVC personally been told that freely from a lially been told brary of thouthat the conse th e consequences would be very1 1 sands of quences would movies, televihigh if I put my Server back up.” be very high if I ,

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premiership with an often squabbling coalition of his Forza Italia party, the former neo-fascist National Alliance, pro-

For hours after the vote ended Monday, projections and returns swung dramatically back and forth between the two, and without the vote from abroad, the elec-

Vatican forces and the anti-immigrant Northern League.

Prodi, 66, was making his comeback bid with a potentially unwieldy coalition of moderate Christian Democrats, Greens, liberals, former Communists and Communists.

Italians were mainly preoccupied by economic worries. Berlusconi failed to jump start a flat economy during his tenure, but promised to abolish a homeowner’s property tax. Prodi said he would revive an inheritance tax abolished by Berlusconi, but only for the richest; he also promised to cut payroll taxes to try to spur

The Senate and lower chamber of parliament have equal powers, and any coalition would have to control both in order to form a government. Both center-left and center-right leaders have said if neither side controls both houses, new elections should be called.

“If there’s a different majority between the Senate and the Chamber we need to go back to the polls,” leading center-left lawmaker Luciano Violante said earlier in the day.

Even with a slim majority in parliament’s houses, a coalition would officially win. But it would find it extremely difficult to pass legislation.

If parliament is split between the two coalitions, the president could try to name a government of technocrats at least until another election. He could also seek to fashion a coalition of left and right, but considering the bitter divisions among Italy’s political parties, that seemed unlikely.

Berlusconi, a 69-year-old media mogul, was battling to capture his third

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“The way most divisions of the University operate is through donors,” he said.

“If the administration can ask for money on the students’ behalf, then we should be able to ask for money.”

As an outsider to DSG, Wolf said he will approach all of his goals with a fresh

“Someone else could start one up, and I’d be fine with that.”

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perspective.

“I don’t have hang-ups about how things should go,” Wolf said. “I like to think I’m more objective.”

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Still, the candidates seemed to hurl more insults at each other than comprehensive plans for turning around the economy.

The premier’s critics have accused him of having used his coalition’s comfortable majority in parliament to push through laws to protect his business interests. He founded a business empire that expanded to include Italy’s main private TV networks, the Milan soccer team, as well as publishing, advertising and insurance interests.

Berlusconi, in turn, depicted Prodi as a front man for communists in a campaign to

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Before Duke seniorLudovic Walter even

stepped into Ambler Tennis Stadium for the first time as a freshman in 2002, he already possessed a combination of impeccable discipline and a tenacious work ethic.

Throughout his career, he spent countless hours running, practicing volleys and lifting weights during his time in Durham. His hard work helped Walter elevate his game on his way to breaking the

It was May 30, 2005 and I was sitting in the stands of Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia watching the Duke lacrosse squad battle for the National Championship with No. 1 Johns Hopkins.

With less than a minute remaining in the third period, the Blue Devils hung on to a one-goal lead, and I had visions of witnessing the eighth NCAA title in Duke’s illustrious history, But minutes later, that opportunity had

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with its first lacrosse tide since 1987.

I was pretty upset at the time. More than anything, I felt bad for Duke’s players.

I especially sympathized with the seniors because I knew that the rest of the team would have another chance this season.

With many of Johns Hopkins’ stars graduating, the 2006 National Title seemed like the Blue Devils’ to lose.

Boy, was I wrong.

Now that the players’ attorneys have said that DNA results do not match any of the players, however, the topic must be discussed—how fair was the punishment President Brodhead meted out?

To be honest, I haven’t completely decided myself, but it is a necessary debate to help set a future precedent. It is doubtful that this is the last instance in which a group on campus will have a misstep and the University will have to decide a fate prior to the justice system.

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SeniorLudovic Walter's total of 121 career singles victories is good for the top spot in the Dukerecord books.

Dunphy leaves Penn, takes over at Temple by

Dan Gelston

Fran Dunphy PHILADELPHIA pointed to the spot where he listened to John Chaney’s rambling, rollicking farewell speech four weeks ago, then made his first promise as Temple’s new

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The Blue Devils have not been on the field for a game since an 11-7 loss to Cornell March 21.

Blue Devils’ all-time record of 119 career victories in singles play this past weekend.

“He has one of the best work ethics that can come through the program,” head coach JayLapidus said. “Whenever he’s on the court, you know he’s trying to become better. You always feel like there’s a purpose when he’s on the court.”

The senior from Vannes, France, who is ranked fourth nationally, is currently 121-39 in career singles matches and 25-8 this season. With his 120th win last weekend against Boston College’s Soma Kesthely, Walter surpassed the record set by current assistant coach Ramsey Smith in 2001.

Smith, who gained notoriety playing in the second and third slots for Duke, recognized the magnitude of Waller's accomplishment at the top-ranked singles spot Before the start of this year’s tennis season, both of them discussed the milestone.

“We started talking about, it during die first practice, justjoking about me bearing his record and stuff like 'that,* Waller said.

Smith closely monitored the progress of

basketball coach: “I will not talk as long,” Dunphy said, smiling and standing at that same podium.

The brevity in Dunphy’s remarks are far from the only change at Temple now that he took over from Chaney Monday.

The early morning practices will likely go the way of the set shot. No more stories stuffed with cussin’ and Cosby.

Temple is counting on another transformation with the 57-year old Dunphy—making the Owls NCAA Tournament regulars again.

“I’d be delighted if we could get a lot more of those opportunities now that I’m at Penn, sorry, Temple,” Dunphy said.

“First of many times, probably.”

Dunphy can be excused for the slip.

After all, he won 10 Ivy League Championships, three “Big 5” city series titles and went 310-163 in 17 seasons at Penn.

His 191 Ivy wins put him second on the career list.

Now Dunphy will try to win games with scholarship players and in the Atlantic W instead of the Ivy League. And he will d© it all with Chaney’s blessing.

“I will meet with him whenewr lie tiesires,” Chaney said. “He made some mm: overtures to me that, he wanted i«>' support and I’m going to siippoit Mm.*’ The 74-year-old Qaartf' wired. last month after guiding Tfenipie to 17' NCAA. Tournament appearances in 24 seasons., Dunphy inherits a program that went 1715 this season and has dipped this decade, playing in five straight NITs. The Owls have only had. four other coaches since 1942 and two are in the SEE DUNPHY ON PAGE 12

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THE WEEK AHEAD IN DUKE SPORTS

Kimel, Chrest receive honors

Duke women’s lacrosse head coach Kerstin Kimel was named the top coach in the country for last week by Inside Lacrosse Magazine after her Blue Devils beat two top-10 opponents over the weekend. The magazine’s media poll also ranked Duke as No. 1 in the country this week, making it the first time since 2002 the Blue Devils are rated as best in the country.

Kimel’s squad beat then-No. 1 Northwestern—which had won 31 games straight coming into the contest—16-10, Friday evening. The Blue Devils then squeaked past Notre Dame, 1110, Sunday afternoon.

Katie Chrest earned ACC CoPlayer of the Week honors for her role in the two wins. She had a team-high four goals in the win over Northwestern and she added one more score in the Notre Dame game.

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Game of the Week: Men's Tennis vs. North Carolina With the Blue Devils one game ahead of the Tar Heels in the ACC standings, there is much more on the line Wednesday afternoon than just Tobacco Road bragging rights,

Mang recognized for 3 wins Duke freshman tennis player Melissa Mang was awarded ACC Co-Player of the Week after she went 3-0 in singles action in Duke’s undefeated week. All of the Blue Devils’ wins came over top-25 opponents, including No. 5 North Carolina.

Mang, ranked No. 109 in the nation, clinched Duke’s win over 24th-ranked Clemson Sat-

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urday when she earned the team’s fourth point with a victory in her singles matchup.

Varsity Eight garners ACC award With two wins at the Lake Wheeler Invitational, Duke’s first varsity eight crew was named the ACC Crew of the Week for the second time this season.

The Blue Devils won their first heat in a time of 6:48.20, downing Washington, SMU and Tulsa to advance to the Grand Finals.

The crew then beat George Washington, Navy and North Carolina with a time of 6:43.00 in the finals to take the crown.

ACC changes men’s lax tourney After Duke’s decision to cancel the remainder of the men’s lacrosse season, the ACC has revised seeding procedures. Conference officials instituted a new bracket for the 2006 ACC Men’s Lacrosse Championship on April 28 and 30 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. Duke’s win over North Carolina March 18 and its loss to Maryland March 4 will be viewed as “no contests” for seeding purposes. There will now be just one semifinal game between the No. 3 Tar Heels and No. 2 Terrapins April 28. The winner of the semifinal will go on to play Virginia, the top seed, at 3:30 p.m. April 30 in the ACC Championship.

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League dominance that included the last two conference titles, four of the last five, six of the last eight and 10 of the last 14.

Hall of Fame Dunphy, who earned a master’s degree Dunphy’s connection to Philadelphia at Villanova, is the first person to coach basketball stretches back more than 35 two “Big 5” teams.

“This is a wonderful opportunity and years. He started at La Salle where he was a co-captain and helped the Explorers to a now it’s up to me to seize it and surround 23-1 record in 1969 under coach Tom Gola. myself with some pretty good guys,” DunDunphy considered returning to La phy said.

He has not decided about his assistants, Salle two years ago after the program was rocked by a rape scandal before deciding though he would consider members of the Penn and Temple staffs. Mark Macon, perto stay at Penn.

“Things change in a two-year period of haps Temple’s greatest player and third-year assistant, wants to stay with the program. time,” Dunphy said.

“I’m a Temple alum, am loyal to Temthe automatIvy League’s Penn has won ic bid to the NCAA Tournament nine times ple, but this is business,” Macon said.

Dunphy was considered the top candisince the 1992-93 season. This season, the date almost immediately after Chaney the first round.

Quakers lost to Texas in “We would have liked to have won stepped down. Each day brought another rumor that Dunphy would finally be ofmore, but I thought we had great opportufered the job. said. nities during those years,” Dunphy It’s all his now.

Hired as coach in 1989 after one sea“I absolutely enjoyed playing for son as an assistant under Tom Schneider, two him,” had seasons his first Penn guard Eric Osmundson said. losing Dunphy to demands Penn before it a 16-10 “He perfection as all good at leading years mark in 1991-92. That started a run of Ivy coaches do.”

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The lacrosse team has not practiced since PresidentRichard Brodhead canceled the season April 5.

YAFFE from page 9 When I first heard the allegations and the punishment, I supported President Brodhead’s decision to indefinitely suspend the team.

And if the alleged victim’s claims are eventually proven true, I would have no qualms with the University suspending the lacrosse program for a period well beyond this year.

There are certainly issues that the Duke administration and the athletic department need to deal with in terms of the behavior of the lacrosse team. It is entirely unacceptable for a team as high-profile as Duke lacrosse to have a laundry list of mistakes so long.

People on campus have worried for years that the actions of the lacrosse team were a public relations accident waiting to happen—ask anyone who has ever been to a tailgate.

As Blue Devil athletes, these players should unquestionably be held to a higher standard than a typical Duke student. Since the allegations have come up, questions have been raised about oversight from both former head coach Mike Pressler and Director of Athletics Joe Alieva.

It makes total sense for the entirety of the program and its members to face a critical evaluation by the powers that be, and I fully understand why President Brodhead chose to cease the program for the remainder of the season.

But as more and more evidence arises that begins to questions the validity of the alleged victim’s claim, I can’t help but feel a hint of sympathy for certain members of the team.

The 11 seniors on the squad have poured so much blood and sweat into turning this lacrosse team that had a 13-15 combined record their first two seasons into a NCAA contender their final two years.

Hour after hour, they practiced in the scorching North Carolina sun on those painful turf fields just for a chance to take home a National Championship.

One embarrassing party —and a possibly baseless rape allegation —later, three years of hard work have gone for naught.

Not only is it possible that no charges will ever be brought, but it is undeniable that several uninvolved players have been punished, as well.

For these players, even if it was merely the few who did not attend the fateful party, it can’t help but tug on at least one string somewhere deep in your heart.

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demeanor and unwavering motivation have also affected those that surround him on the Blue Devils.

“He doesn’t care about the individual things,” Lapidus said. “He’s very much about the team. When we struggled early [this year] in doubles, he just said, ‘put me at three doubles, and I can hold it down in that spot.’”

Walter’s senior year, watching him turn the goal into a reality.

The senior, however, struggled in late September and early October, falling in the Southern Intercollegiate Championships in the second round and the AllAmerican Tennis Championships in the third round.

One month later, Walter rebounded and went on a tear in the National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, defeating the nation’s No. 5, No. 25 and No. 9 players consecutively in straight sets, which marked the turning point of his season.

“When I look at National Indoors, which is my benchmark, I served and volleyed and played aggressive,” Walter said. “The key for me to play well is to be aggressive, to stay close to the baseline and take every opportunity to come to the net.”

Against Florida’s Ryan Sweeting in the quarterfinals of the National Men’s Team Indoor Championships, Walter took the first set, but quickly fell behind, 6-1, in a second-set tiebreaker.

Despite facing five set points, Walter roared back and claimed the next eight points to put away his opponent.

“He always seems to be able raise his game in tight situations,” Smith said.

“That’s how I differentiate between good players and great players. Even if he’s losJESSICA SCHREIBER/THE CHRONICLE ing, he finds away.”

Though Walter has proven to be a Ludovic Walter has compiled a 6-1 record in conferdominant force on the court, his humble ence play and a 14-4 mark overallthis season.

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Is it time for TV to be sorry? team itself, the transgressions and to a sensationlacrosse program at al local and national media force, Duke and our athletic is no longer what it once was. program at large are collective- Words like racism, alcoholism, ly breathing a sigh of relief, recklessness and sexism are now While the players involved in associated with Duke lacrosse, the rape allegations have not and perhaps aspects of Duke in general, even if yet been completepeople on this enly exonerated, the StSTfCJOltOflcli tire campus that likelihood of their such unsavory behavis far now exemplify innocence greater that DNA results are in and iors are few in number.

How about the argument demonstrate the absence of that Duke offers a great educaon the alany player’s DNA tion and is a top-five school? leged victim’s person.

And yet, the reputational Certainly we can still promise that as a benefit unique to damage accrued is staggering.

It comes as no surprise that Duke —and as a reason to stay.

Harvard, Princeton and several of our players are conWith no sidering transferring.

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national media into our daily lives, into the lives of our unassuming prospective freshmen roaming our campus and into the lives of many Duke athletes—and of their friends, dormmates and professors.

If the media wants to clear its name, to regain credibility in the eyes of the University and the country, and if these young men prove entirely innocent, then every news station and newspaper following this event must not lose interest in the story now. They must continue to accord front-page or prime-time space.

Today, this story is looking less like a made-to-be-Lifetime-movie special. It’s looking like it will sell fewer papers, gamer lesser ratings for the evening news.

But that’s no excuse. If you’re ethical, don’t bury or forget the story now.

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year ago, on a C-2 bus, I met a mother and son visiting Duke for the first time. She leaned over to ask the location of a particular building, and we soon started chatting about the University, why I chose it, what I liked about it At one point, she leaned in further and whispered, “I haven’t seen many black students around. jimmy son!

Are there quite a few?” I answered matter of fact that Duke ranked high among its competitors in how manyAfrican American students attended the University. She paused, then responded quietly, “But I hope there aren’t many that teach classes. Do they let them do that?”

I froze for an instant, her earnestness caught me off-guard. Was she serious? I was flabbergasted; in my heart of hearts, I wanted to yell and scream about her insular, racist questions, but I sadlyaccepted that no tantrum from me was going to reverse a lifetime of prejudice. I responded with the facts: we had dozens of black professors, and arguably our most distinguished faculty member of all, John Hope

Franklin, was African American. He worked on that case that helped to integrate schools way back when.

The conversation ended.

I hope they send your son a thin envelope, I remember thinking.

I felt helpless and frustrated that day; angry, too, that I had to pause before answering.

Identical feelings reemerged two weeks ago, upon reading that members of our lacrosse team —of our stock—allegedly hurled racial epithets at passersby. I ask myself, as I think many have, how a team that SEE SONI ON PAGE 15

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the end ofyour four years.

But having your reputation dragged through the mud roughly translates into minimal job security. If the first thing that comes up when Googling your name is “alleged rape” and “felonious strangulation,” law school hopes grow fainter and fainter.

If the names of those accused of rape and other wrongdoings are cleared, and if our players still migrate up the coast in search of greener playing fields, who is to blame?

Not the University, which maintained a stance of cautious optimism, while simultaneously condemning the racism and sexism that emerged as serious issues.

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Patience is a virtue Now that “the innocent can be ruled out” I hope that the opportunistic Mike Nifong, the Durham community, the media and the nation can apologize to the Duke men’s lacrosse team just as quickly as they crucified them. It seems only appropriate as they essentially temporarily, if not permanently, ruined these kids lives. Aside from die “pot and pan banging” and the übiquitous brouhahas instigated by the protesters, these kids were defamed and ostracized by their own university and their peers.

In no way do I condone rape, underage drinking or anything that is criminal, but aside from the underage drinking, which is ever present on Duke’s campus, I don’t think these men committed any criminal actions. People were so quick to condemn the issues that they ignored the facts.

Speaking as a senior I feel truly sorry for the seniors on die lacrosse team. Instead of enjoying their senior season and graduating from Duke as a student-athlete, these men are blessed with no season and potentially jeopardized futures. I sincerely hope that these seniors are able to celebrate graduation with the rest of us.

As for these rest of the members of the team, I encourageyou not to transfer. People here support you. The DNA was meant to rule out the innocent, and it seems it has.

While having a party with strippers and un-

derage drinkers was probably not the smartest thing, it is not rape. The lacrosse team should not be charged with a crime they didn’t commit by the courts, by the media, or by their peers.

I plan on going to law school next year and this travesty has only confirmed my conviction that things need to be changed. Scheming prosecutors, media moguls and overzealous protesters need to wait to make judgment until they have all the facts. The public’s thirst for justice should be greater than its thirst for a good story.

After all, patience is a virtue.

Jenny Mendelsohn Trinity ’O6

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my last column, I urged people to avoid the Blame Game during these times of blurred clarity despite the fact that many have painted the lacrosse situation black and white.

Though I questioned neither the guilt nor the innocence of the accuser or the accused, I received responses claiming I was racist, ignorant and a privileged white girl living in a bubble, among other things.

I defended my position to no avail with some, while still today I continue healthy debates that have stemmed from mallory pickard my column. The former was diary of a transfer my wake-up call to the pertinence of everyday kindness Many people in the community, myself included, have taken these allegations as an opportunity to voice their own personal grievances. These grievances range in gravity from too much partying at Duke to media manipulation to racism in schools and in America in general. With such heavy topics on the table, we all become vulnerable to attacking one another. After all, in a sociological mental superstructure, our values stand at the highest tier above emotions, traditions and rational action.

The debates I have gotten involved in over the past few days have not been about the guilt or innocence of a few lacrosse players, but about values—how they transpire and differ for each individual.

At first, I was purely on the defense. I matched underhanded insults with similar insults and slowly began to realize that this would not solve anything. As a community, we cannot divide ourselves further by rejecting all values that do not match our own as ignorant or biased or disillusioned and then walk away. Nothing positive will come from this conflict if many of us continue to look through our narrow peepholes at the issue and simply scorn the opposing side.

We should open our doors to the ever-evolving madness that is not only the Duke community or the Durham community, but the nation and the world.

I have a good idea what some of the skeptics are thinking.

This girl is a raving idealist. She has no idea how the world really works.

This may be true, but I know from a personal standpoint that cynicism will only create barriers to resolution. Last year when I was a freshman at Appalachian State, something slightly short of war occurred between liberals and conservatives around election time. There were rallies, drunken comments occasionally spurred all-out physical fights, and many friendships dissolved due to the political rift.

I kept quiet about the issue in public as I watched the rift grow, and I settled on thinking that all of the liberal students were simply hippie extremists who were just waiting for a presidential candidate to say “Legalize all drugs!” This in fact was not the case, and one of the most memorable conversations of my life started with a liberal student who in my presence declared that all conservatives were money-hungry descendants of plantation owners.

“Wow,” I replied suppressing my own stereotypes, “You’re one of the most politically informed people I know at App. Why the hell would you make a generalization like that?”

He immediately laughed and put his guard down. We then talked for an hour about the frequently exaggerated political rifts that had grown at our school. My sword was kindness, not an equally stereotypical generalization about liberals. Neither of us changed the other’s opinion on being a liberal or a conservative, but we respectfully accepted these opinions without resorting to insult. The only things damaged were our own stereotypes.

A couple of days ago when I was caught up in stereotyping again, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement came up. I started reading through famous MLK speeches soon afterward—where better to look in a time of conflict than to a historical figure who ignited successful change in a much greater conflict—and came upon these words: “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Let’s end the insults, the empty words, and the stereotyping.

We can all certainly make a difference by joining a club or an action committee, but bureaucratic methods aside, hold fast to simply treating people with kindness every day. Stereotypes are an ugly obstacle to real understanding and positive change.

Our community is evolving, and if we meet hatred with hatred or prejudice with prejudice, the rifts will grow so deep that they cannot be filled.

Mallory Pickard is a Trinity sophomore. This is herfinal column

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needs to do is to continue in the direction that Moneta has taken us.

He should not be part of this initiative and arguably bears as much responsibility for whatever happened on the night of March 13 as Mike Pressler, the former lacrosse coach who “resigned” last week. If the behavior of the lacrosse team and other students off campus is any indication, Student Affairs has spectacularly failed in whatever it was trying to accomplish, and it’s time to go in new direction. snowballing lacrosse scanEugene Brown, a Trinity Park resident who sits elliott wolf dal. on the Durham City Council, said it’s “almost a fact One of the and not an opinion” that “after Duke instigated transparency their ‘get tough’ policy against alcohol, there cerive s ;eps ou lined is a “Camtainly has been an increase in parties and underage pus Culture Initiative” meant to “take a hard look drinking in rental houses primarily in Trinity Park.” at our institutional practices to assess the extent to Other community members have expressed which they do, or do not, promote the values we similar sentiments and continually bemoan Duke’s insistence on forcing inevitable underage drinking expect students to live by.”

In introducing the initiative, the original letter off campus. Student Affairs has responded mainly sent to “everyone@duke.edu” on the night of April by reminding everyone that underage students 5 stated: aren’t supposed to drink and taking futile steps to “I have asked Vice Provost for Undergraduate prevent them from doing so.

Not surprisingly, senior Duke officials interEducation and Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson to direct a Campus Culture Initiative vened and took the radical step of simply buying up properties occupied by students in Trinity Park involving faculty, students, and staff.”

Just to set the record straight, the “letter to the (including 610 N. Buchanan) and announcing Duke community” posted on the Duke News webthey would be evicted. site dated April 5 now states: Student Affairs was not involved in the decision, and Moneta continues to galavant around the have asked Vice President for Student Affairs “I Larry Moneta and Vice Provost for Undergraduate United States seeking about $4 million to finish Education and Dean of Trinity College Robert the West Campus Plaza—just as the administration Thompson to direct a Campus Culture Initiative spent almost exactly that much evicting students from Trinity Park and cleaning up the mess that involving faculty, students, and staff.”

Student Affairs couldn’t.

What’s the difference? L-Mo. What’s the solution? Do a 180; loosen policies And it seems perfectly reasonable to have our vice president for student affairs take an active role and enforcement in order to bring drinking back in this initiative. As the vice president for student out into the open and back on campus. Let affairs, he is ultimately responsible for building Thompson, a psychologist and well-respected procommunity among students and generating and fessor, take the lead on the “Campus Culture Inienforcing disciplinary policy. WTto better to lead a tiative” and implement meaningful reforms—not “Campus Culture Initiative” than the one man with just continue to tighten enforcement as Student Affairs has done year after year. the single greatest power over campus culture?

Durham residents seem to agree. Kellyjarrett, a Indeed, since his arrival, Moneta’s initiatives have involved new buildings, staff and offices, in Durham resident and Duke employee, asked in a addition to a slew of restrictive policies surroundposting to a community email list: “am I the only ing alcohol and event registration—all designed to one who is dismayed to learn that President Brodbring about, as Moneta wrote in a 2003 Chronicle head has appointed Larry Moneta to co-chair the column, “stronger and more interactive communiCampus Culture Initiative committee?”

Nope. ties, better facilities and resources and enhanced intellectual and social engagement.” Sounds like Elliott Wolf is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs “Campus Culture” to me.

Unfortunately* however, the last thing Duke every Tuesday.

Wednesday, students received an e-mail from President Richard Brodhead about the “issue that is troubling our community.” It listed five widereaching (and so far well-received) steps that the Uni*r> versity is taking to address the

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counts an African American as one of its own could

have said such things without forethought orremorse?

Shame replaced confusion. Shame in the face of cameras on Main West and stories in the broadsheet.

Shame that we—as classmates, as parents, as a community—had failed to help them understand the destructive legacy of those words.

Unfortunately, we have a greater share of that legacy than we’d sometimes like to think. It encompasses a party with an ill-chosen theme, a column with poorly researched claims about a culture, a sports article comparing an athlete to an animal.

The sheer volume of protest, complaint, argument and defensiveness suggests the general sense that something is sick at Duke.

To respond to these issues by citing numerical diversity, as too many have done, neither does justice to the questions nor moves the conversation forward. The rhyme; one-third of our students are minorities. Great, as if the solution were as simple as meeting a quota.

To respond with top-down administrative declarations, as many have suggested,-sets us up for failure. Policy change that precedes culture change is almost always a futile exercise. Harassment codes and bias response programs are not magic bullets; it is clear that scholarship and conversation—even if imperfect, interminable, frustrating—will go a longer way toward healing old wounds than any executive order.

The first step is to engage in a constructive, re-

spectful and often uncomfortable dialogue about the problems we must confront as we move for-

ward. Are we content to accept social arrangements that seem to prevent white and black stu-

dents from breaking bread together at the Ajre we not upset that we have allowed white fraternities to dominate West Campus and historically black fraternities on Central Campus to segregate us socially and physically? Why do we charge students more money to live on West than on Central?

Cynics claim that race is either not at issue here or that racial tension is an immutable reality. They ignore decades of hard-won progress in this University, this city, the country. What I marvel at, what gives me such hope, are the people who choose to engage in this work—groups in Duke and Durham, pushing us forward step by awkward step.

On second thought, I withdraw my earlier wish.

I hope the student I met on the bus was admitted.

I hope his mother is made a part of the extended Duke family.

And I hope the Duke they enter is one that dissolves their homegrown beliefs. A Duke that pushes, prods, annoys, provokes, upsets and surprises.

Our task, our obligation, is to make that Duke a reality—there is no greater challenge.

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Jimmy Soni is a Trinity junior. This is his final column

16ITUESDAY, APRIL 11,

2006

THE CHRONICLE