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Before Hurricane Katrina hit last

fall, Olivia Watkins found comfort in her prose.

But after the storm ravaged the Gulf Coast Aug. 29, 2005, Watkins’ passion for writing became a part of her past.

Now, on the one-year anniversary of the storm that destroyed her hometown, the recent Tulane graduate—along with other students and residents of New Orleans—remembers and commemorates neighbors and loved ones who lost their lives and livelihoods last fall.

“Coming back to who you are as an individual is so hard because you’ve spent so much time worrying about things like your house and whether your friends are alive,” Watkins explained.

One of several students who spent part of the 2005 fall semester at Duke, the would-be poet returned to New Orleans when Tulane reopened its doors to students last spring.

As per Duke policy, only freshmen experiencing extenuating circumstances were permitted to remain at the University last spring after relocating to Duke during the fall semester.

Still, some students, including sophomore Charles Sparkman—formerly a student at Tulane University—applied to Duke as fall transfer students after returning to New Orleans in the spring.

“I have a lot ofreally good friends [at

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Tulane],” Sparkman said. “[But] I don’t think it was the right place for me in terms ofinfrastructure.”

Sparkman said he began to attend required summer classes at Tulane, but then prompdy dropped the courses when he received his Duke acceptance letter.

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Both on campus and across North

Carolina, the penalties for driving

An entirely new route also has been created to facilitate quicker transport between West and Central Campuses.

The 04 bus—which runs nighdy from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. weekdays and 4 a.m.

Thursday through Saturday—will loop through Central from West but will not stop at East as the 02 does, The East-Central-West 02 service will stop at 8 p.m., leaving the Ol and

under the influence have become somewhat harsher.

Last week, Gov. Mike Easley signed a new law revising North Carolina’s DUI statute, making the penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol much more stringent.

The new law also forbids the consumption ofalcohol by anyone under the age of 21 —a change from the old law, which prohibited underage drinkers from purchasing or possessing alcohol.

“I’m aware of substantial effort within the state to minimize drunk driving,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. “This is a high-priority issue for the governor.”

The question remains, however, as to

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An oft-maligned but integral part of Duke life takes a new form this year with the implementation of new bus routes and schedules.

The C-l route, which runs from East Campus to West Campus, will now run until 4 a.m. Thursday through Saturday and until 2 a.m. weekdays. Previously, C-l buses ran only weekdays and stopped at 8 p.m.

The University will hire a public relations firm to help identify Duke’s distinguishing characteristics and ways to promote them, John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, confirmed Monday.

The decision to hire a firm, made several weeks ago, comes in the wake of claims of rape against three members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team and the national media spotlight that followed.

Afirm has been chosen for the job, but because a contract has not yet been signed, Bumess declined to identify it.

“We’ve been sort of struggling with, ‘How do we distinguish what is unique and characteristic of Duke?,’ ‘What distinguishes us from other Universities?,” Burness explained.

“These are the kind of questions we ask ourselves all the time, but it sometimes makes sense to ask someone else the same set of questions.”

The consultants—who will be named in the next few days—will be working to find answers through interviews and focus groups on campus, Burness said.

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DNA clears Ramsey suspect

Bush visits Gulf on Katrina anniversary by

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President George W. BILOXI, Miss.

Bush said Monday the huge job of rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina was just beginning a year after the massive storm but expressed hope that the $llO billion of help sent from Washington would be

enough.

Trying to erase the black mark left on his presidency by the administration’s sluggish response to Katrina, Bush returned to the first scene he saw a year ago of the storm’s devastation.

Standing on a vacant lot in a working class neighborhood where trailers and

gutted buildings stand next to newly built homes, Bush pledged the federal government would stand with the region as it rebuilds.

It’s a promise viewed with skepticism by victims still reeling from the storm.

“A year ago, I committed our federal government to help you,” Bush said.

“I said, ‘We have a duty to help the local people recover and rebuild,’ and I meant what I said.”

Of the $llO billion in hurricane aid approved by Congress, just $44 billion has been spent. Overall, the administration has released $77 billion to the states, reserving the rest for future needs.

“Hopefully that’ll work. Hopefully that’s enough,” Bush said after visiting a company that has restarted its business of building and repairing boats. “It’s certainly enough to get us through the next period of time.”

Bush focused on the positive, but acknowledged that much remains to be done.

“It’s an anniversary, but it’s not an end,” Bush said. “Frankly it’s just the beginning.”

Asked how long the rebuilding would take, Bush said, “I would say years, not months. On the other hand, the progress in one year’s time has been remarkable.”

Annan criticizes Israel, Hezbollah by

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BEIRUT, Lebanon U.N. SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan faulted both Israel and Hezbollah on Monday for not living up to key sections of the cease-fire resolution, while two more countries took steps to provide troops for an expanded peacekeeping force to secure the truce.

Germany, meanwhile, hinted it was negotiating a prisoner swap.

Sitting beside Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, Annan demanded Hezbollah return two captured Israeli soldiers, whose July 12 abduction touched off the

34-day war, and said Israel must lift its air and sea blockade ofLebanon.

Although Annan was critical ofboth sides, he also said the agreement provided a chance for a long-term peace. As the ceasefire held for the 15th day, neither side looked like it wanted to resume large-scale hostilities.

The U.N. chiefcautioned the road ahead would be long and pledged the international community’s support. As part of that support, Italy and Turkey moved to join the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.

Annan also said the U.N. force, which is to grow to 15,000 soldiers, will not try to disarm Hezbollah guerrillas.

“Down the line . . . there will have to be disarmament, but it’s up to theLebanese government and people to resolve themselves,” Annan said. “The [peacekeepers] are not going to go house to house searching for weapons. This is not their responsibility.”

Annan was booed by residents as he toured the devastated Dahiyeh neighborhood in the Hezbollah stronghold of southern Beirut. Hze was greeted by giant posters with photographs of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and one that had a caricature of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with vampire’s teeth and blood dripping from the mouth.

Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of Jonßenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his insistence he sexually assaulted and strangled the 6-year-old beauty queen.

Ky.mnway changed in repaving The taxiway at Lexington's airport was altered during a repaving project just a week before a Comair jet tried to take off on the wrong runway and crashed, killing 49 people, the airport's director said Monday.

Fraud charges rejected in Mexico Mexico's ruling party candidate held onto his narrow lead in the disputed presidential election even after the results of a partial recount, the top electoral court said Monday. Judges put off declaring conservative Felipe Calderon the winner, however.

Oldest person in world dies Maria Esther de Capovilla, considered the world oldest person, has died in her native Ecuador, her granddaughter said Monday.

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Catholic Center finds new home

Car flips on Central, no injuries

CSC renovates historic house near East Campus

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After waitingthrough four years of renovation and construction, members of the Catholic Student Center will find a new home this month in the Falcone-Arena House off East Campus.

The move marks a significant moment in the history of the Newman Catholic Campus Ministry Center faith community, which was primarily housed for about 40 years in the Duke Chapel basement, Catholic community leaders said.

“What we’re so proud ofis that this is really a milestone for the Duke Catholic students and the robust activities that they plan for the larger community,” said Ellen McArdle, operations managerfor the center.

Previously, when Catholic students and community members hosted events that required larger gathering spaces, such as Sunday mass, they were required to rent out campus locations, such as the Richard White Lecture Hall or Page Auditorium.

With the completion of the renovations at the Falcone-Arena House, though, many of these events can now be held at the new off-East location.

“It gives us greater visibility on campus,” said Joe Vetter, director and priest of the Catholic center.

Both Vetter and McArdle estimated that between 20 and 25 percent of undergraduate students practice some form of Catholicism.

They cited the large presence of Catholics as a catalyst in pursuing the services allowed with an independent location.

“We needed more space for activities, and this house provided us with that opportunity,” Vetter added.

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The West Campus Plaza has been popular, but logistical concerns, such as money, are still present

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The West Campus Plaza will be playing host to magicians, fortune tellers and musicians this month as part of a slate ofkickoff events, but logistical details of the University’s newest attraction are still being worked out.

The final payment plan for the structure, which totalled $lO million, is still in the works and fundraising for the project will continue, said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs.

The $4.5-million naming gift given last August by Aubrey and Katie McClendon, Trinity ’Bl and Trinity ’BO, respectively, will provide the bulk of the funds.

In addition, Moneta has spent the past year traveling to raise money for the project, netting approximately $2

million, he said The University will also draw from the $5-million gift given by Bill and Melinda Gates, Trinity ’B6 and Fuqua ’B7, in 2002 for student life initiatives.

“The sum total of all of our gifts will be used to support the plaza,” Moneta said, stressing that only money from gifts—rather than from the school’s endowment or tuition—would be used to pay for the project.

He acknowledged, however, that a portion of the gifts were pledged and that internal loans within the University would be needed to cover construction costs and other debts.

“The important fact is the plaza is built at the price we predicted, it was built on time and on budget and it will be paid for exclusively through gifts,” SEE PLAZA ON PAGE 6

An SUV flipped over on Anderson Street around 11 a.m. Monday and hit two cars parked on the street, Duke University Police Department officials reported.

The driver sustained minor injuries but was not taken to the hospital.

“The car had a mechanical failure that caused an axle to break,” said Lt. Sara-Jane Raines, DUPD administrative services executive officer, who added that the driver was a Durham resident not affiliated with Duke.

The flipped car suffered major damage, and a Volkswagen was hit, also suffering significant damage, Raines said. The other hit vehicle was not severely damaged.

“I just saw a bunch of people thatweren’t standing at the bus stop justlooking at something, and I just saw this Jeep flipped over completely on its top,” said junior Olivia Singelman, who lives near the accident site.

Because the accident was attributed to a mechanical failure and not the fault of the driver, he is not being charged for any of the damage, Raines said.

The damaged Volkswagen belongs to a temporary University employee. The second hit car was not identified at press time.

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Florida residents rushed to fill MIAMI their prescriptions and stood in long lines for gasoline, food and other supplies Monday as officials warned people not to wait for Tropical Storm Ernesto to become a hurricane again before taking precautions.

Forecasters said Ernesto could grow back into a hurricane in the warm waters off Cuba and come ashore in South Florida as early as Tuesday night, exactly one year after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast.

It would be the first hurricane to hit the United States this year.

Memories ofKatrina and the seven hurricanes that have struck Florida since 2004 were fresh in the minds of many.

"Make sure you have the supplies for the 72 hours after the storm,” Gov. Jeb Bush warned people in Tallahassee, a day after declaring a state ofemergencyfor allFlorida. “A hurricane’s a hurricane, and it has a devastation we’ve already seen. All you have to do is rewind to last year and see.”

Pedro Ballesteros, 40, carried two new six-gallon gas tanks out of a Home Depot store for his home generator.

“Every year we prepare a little more because we’re learning from our past ordeals,” he said. “I’m taking care of everything that’s important—flashlights, batteries, gasoline.”

Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning Monday afternoon for all of South Florida’s eastern coast, north to Vero Beach, as well as the Keys and the Everglades. A warning means tropical storm activity is expected within 24 hours.

About 400 miles of the state’s densely pop-

The current storm track (bottom right) predicts Ernesto will reach central N.C. Friday afternoon. Hurricane Floyd (above) ravaged eastern N.C. in Sept. 2002. ulated Adantic coast were under a hurricane watch, issued when such conditions could occur within 36 hours.

At 8 p.m. EDT, the fifth named storm of the hurricane season had top sustained winds of 40 mph, 1 mph above the minimum to be a tropical storm and down from 75 mph Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said. It was centered over Cuba, about 30 miles east of Camaguey, and about 324 miles southeast from Key West It was moving west-northwest near 11 mph.

Over the weekend, Ernesto became the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and lashed the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

One person was reported killed along Haiti’s southern coast.

There were no immediate reports of any damage or injuries in Cuba.

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The government regularly undertakes mass evacuations before tropical storms and hurricanes. This time, Cubans moved cattle to higher ground, tourists were evacuated from hotels, and baseball games were rescheduled for earlier in the day in Havana.

The Bahamas on Monday ordered boats in southern islands to stay in port.

The island chain had a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch in effect for western islands close to Florida’s coast.

Forecaster Richard Knabb at the hurricane center in Miami urged people not to become complacent ‘Just because the system is not a hurricane now, doesn’t mean itcan’t be a hurricane later,” he said.

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The Duke Islamic Studies Center is celebrating the hiring of its first full-time employee this week, one of several major steps the center has taken since it was endowed last November.

Kelly Jarrett, a scholar ofreligion and most recendy senior editorial assistant of the Journal of American Literature at Duke University Press, started work Friday as DISC’S new administrative director. She earned a Ph.D. in religion from the University in 2000.

“I certainly think that workBruce Lawrence ing to promote cross-cultural Director, DISC understanding is very important work in these times,” Jarrell said, adding that she is still getting her bearings in the new position.

“I like working in a university setting, being around students and being around people who are intellectually and politically engaged.”

Jarrell's hiring comes after a productive summer for the center, during which it was officially authorized by the provost’s office and created a FOCUS program slated for Spring 2007.

“It was a summer of making building blocks and then putting them to good use in trying to construct the future,” said DISC Director Bruce Lawrence, who SEE ISLAMIC STUDIES ON PAGE 8

Margaret Rose Knight Sanford

Margaret Rose Knight Sanford, wife offormer Duke University president Terry Sanford, died Aug. 26 at Duke University Hospital at age 88.

A well-known philanthropist, Sanford was living at the Forest at Duke—a retirement community near campus.

“The Duke family mourns her loss, and our thoughts go out to her children, Betsee and Terry Jr., and family,” Duke President Richard H. Brodhead said in a statement Monday.

A native of Kentucky and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Sanford was also

known for her interest in the arts, and much of her philanthropy was devoted to their promotion.

In 1942, Margaret Rose Knight married Terry Sanford, who led the University from 1970 to 1985. Terry also gained national renown as a popular governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965 and U.S. Senator from 1986 to 1993.

Brodhead described Margaret as a ‘helpmate, faithful, patient, supportive, creator of relationships, sharer of hopes, constructive critic [and] companion.”

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months to engage with administrators, faculty and students. The University is looking to identify intellectual areas where Duke has the potential to make a profound difference and what qualities are characteristic of the school, Burness said.

The firm’s conclusions and suggestions will be used in a variety of contexts, including in speeches given by President Richard Brodhead, press releases from the Duke News office and promotional material from the school, he added.

“There are a lot of schools that have excellent teaching programs and excellent research programs and what happens is everyone sounds alike,” Burness explained. “There are many people who believe that it would be helpful to try to really focus in on how Duke describes itself and how should we describe ourselves.”

Burness acknowledged that the deci-

PLAZA from page 3 Moneta said. “But the financing is a very complicated process of awaiting pledges we’ve received.... It’ll be some years before it’s all received.”

Administrators are working on more than just financial details.

Though many community members have enjoyed spending time outdoors on the plaza, some students have raised concern over the mist fountains.

The fountains, which are meant to serve a cooling purpose, are located on the Bryan Center end of the plaza near a number of patio chairs and tables. They turn on sporadically, releasing a fine mist about three feet into the air.

sion, which was made several weeks ago, was prompted by the lacrosse incident this spring and its repercussions.

“Lacrosse was a piece of [the hiring decision] because lacrosse in some ways has started to define Duke,” Burness said.

He added, however, that discussions with Board of Trustees members and other University officials about making such a hire have been taking place for the past two years.

“We bring in consultants all the time,” Burness said, explaining that a firm was hired before the start of the Campaign for Duke —the major fundraising initiative that raised more than $2.3 billion from 1996 to 2003.

The launch of Duke’s new strategic plan, scheduled to be submitted to the Board for approval at the end of September, also made it an opportune time to undertake this analysis, Burness said.

“The idea is to hire a firm to sort of help us think through this kind of process so we can be more effective in the long term,” he said.

“I really don’t see the point of the mist fountain. It actually seems to make things yuckier and more humid instead of actually cooling anyone off,” said Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf, a junior. “It does look kind of cool though.”

When on, the fountains moisten everything in close proximity, including people sitting at the tables and things placed on them—such as books or laptops.

‘You probably don’t want to sit there when the fountain is running,” Moneta said. “It doesn’t just shoot up when it comes up, it’s sort of a gende burst of mist, so I think there’s adequate time to move.”

He added that the fountains can be set on a regular schedule, but details of their operations are still being finalized.

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The Catholic Student Center moved to theFalcone-Arena House located near East Campus this month.

CSC from page 3 With the increased space—the new residence is approximately 5,800 sq. ft., a drastic change from the 600-square-feet office in the Chapel basement—Catholic community leaders are promoting the location as a “home-like” environment for Catholic students to come and meet one another.

Weekly events, such as student-cooked dinners on Tuesday nights, will* now be held in the home.

“Students decided that we wanted this to be a home away from home,” said Peer Ministry Coordinator Courtney Olmsted, Pratt ’O6. “In the downstairs, it doesn’t seem like you’re coming into some institution.”

Although the house only opened this month, McArdle said it has been well-received thus far, with more than 250 students arriving for a beginning-of-the-year cookout geared toward getting to know

newly arrived freshmen.

In addition to meeting rooms, a kitchen and a yet-to-be-completed chapel, the house also offers four resi-

dential rooms where three seniors and Olmsted will be living.

Originally built in the early 1900s by Benjamin Duke—one of the University’s greatest benefactors—the home passed through the hands of some ofDuke’s most well-known figures, such as Wallace Wade and William Wannamaker.

“It’s a historic house,” Vetter said. “It has strong historical ties to the University.”

With that history, however, also came problems with renovations. The age of the pre-renovation house took its toll on the structure.

“The house was decrepit. It was a massive renovation project,” McArdle said.

“Father Joe [Vetter] insisted that it maintain a home-like appeal. And he felt strongly about it. It wasn’t easy, to hold that course, but he did, and let me tell you, it’s impressive.”

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over this weekend thinking about what has occurred and thinking about my city,” Jones said. “There was such tremendous devastation... there are still so many people suffering.”

Mike Strecker, Tulane’s director of public relations, expressed a message of hope in the midst of the mourning. “This is a time to reflect on and acknowledge [the effects of Katrina],” he said, “but also to move forward to rebuild and pursue our educational and research missions.”

“I went back with an open mind,” he said. “New Orleans just wasn’t that good of a place to be right now.”

Sparkman wasn’t the only one to recognize a change in the city’s aura, however.

“It is just different,” Watkins said, pausing to explain. “We’re different.”

Watkins recounted the story of a woman she met in an arts store.

“She hadn’t painted a single thing since the hurricane,” Moving Forward Watkins said. “She Watkins, too, came up to the cash “There was such tremendous recognized a note of optiregister and just startdevastation... there are still ed crying.” mism in the aftermath of the In the past year, so many people suffering.” storm. however, the healing Mona “We’re betprocess for residents of the ravaged city has ter off in away,” Dillard University she said. “[Katbegun. Tears that were once shed in mournrina ing now show hints of changed the inrelief and hope teraction between students and the New Orleans community.”

Watkins explained that since Katrina Coming to Terms Though Tulane opened its doors again hit, students have combined efforts with last January, Dillard University, also locatcommunity members in volunteer projects ed in the city, remains the only university to revive the area. still unable to return to its campus.

“Everyone has really done a spectacular This week, nonetheless, Dillard will be job getting things up and running,” she said. holding a service to commemorate the anA balance between cynicism, hope and niversary of the storm in its chapel, which faith keeps the city moving forward, for several weeks after Katrina’s landfall was Watkins said. inundated in four to eight feet of water.

Her own healing process isjust beginning.

Mona Jones, interim director for comLess than one month ago Watkins wrote munication at Dillard, described some of for the first time since the storm—a step tothe sights in New Orleans this week. ward progress in its own right.

One cemetery, she said, decorated its Despite the difficulties, however, Watkins lawn with white flags bearing the name of has no intention of leaving the Big Easy. each of the nearly 1,400 Katrina victims in “This is home,” she said. “I’m just hoping to New Orleans alone. make myself useful and this is the best place “Personally, I have a sense of sadness in the world for me to do that right now.”

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what impact the recent changes will have on college students in North Carolina.

“I’m sure it will have an impact eventually for the students, but it’s too soon for us to tell,” Moneta said.

Since Fall 2005, the Universityjudicial Board has customarily suspended those caught driving drunk for two semesters,

“Nothing has really changed from last year to this year except that students are now told of the policy—l think there was real disregard for student input,” said junior Elliott Wolf, president of Duke Student Government. “People who are caught driving while intoxicated will be in much more trouble on the legal side of things.”

Referring to another part of the law, Stephen Bryan, associate dean for judicial affairs, noted that as of Dec. 1, 2005, anyone buying a keg must register it with the vendor, allowing the police to trace beer purchases.

“To me, what is directly relevant, is that kegs have to be registered,” said Bryan. “The state did also close a loophole in the consumption of alcohol. But I really don’t think that any student goes out and says that he will drive intoxicated tonight. If they are going to do it, they are going to do it.”

Philip Cook, professor of public policy, said the new

law—and students’ attention to it—may have an effect on the general problems of alcohol abuse among college students.

“I think there is an understanding that students who are picked up for DUI are up for suspension,” Cook said. “The result therefore might be the possibility of even more students being caught. There used to be lots of good reasons not to drive drunk, and they have just gotten better.”

Officials also noted that there is effectively no difference between getting caught by the Durham Police Department and getting caught by the Duke University Police Department.

Bryan said, however, the Duke police are “probably more apt to be more forgiving than Durham police” because they deal with students on a daily basis. Both are officers ofNorth Carolina, Durham Police Department Public Information Officer Kammie Michael explained.

“Both officers are sworn officers in North Carolina so it makes no difference,” Michael said. “Our police department is concerned with drinking and driving in general.

Yes, the law is stricter and you can face some serious penalties if you’re caught, but we will take drinking and driving just as seriously.”

Some students said that now that the policy is clearer they expect fewer students will break it. “Maybe if more students had known about this policy, then less would have driven drunk,” Wolf said.

ISLAMIC STUDIES is also the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus humanities professor of religion.

Jarrett earned a B.S. from the University of Illinois and an Masters of Divinity from Yale University. She said the position at Duke was appealing to her because ofits strong emphasis on undergraduate studies rather than more rarefied, higher level research.

Jarrett will spend much of her dme working to get two programs for undergraduate students up and running in addition to creating an interdisciplinary certificate program in Islamic Studies, Lawrence said.

“Kelly has three things on her list: FOCUS and getting the Islamic Studies certificate program fully in place; and the other thing that is very much in progress is a chance for [lslamic Studies] students to go abroad in summer 2007,” he said.

Students participating in the summer program will take part in an Islamic studies program at Oxford University in England.

DISC also received a $1.5-million gift in May from a group calling itself the Friends of Bruce Lawrence to provide fellowships for students from predominandy Muslim nations to study at the University.

The tentatively titled “Muslim Cultures” FOCUS, slated for Fall 2006, was pushed back after planning problems.

President of the Muslim Student Association Sayed Zaman, a senior majoring in religion, said he welcomed the center.

Zaman pointed to rising enrollment in languages such as Arabic as evidence that strong interest in Islamic culture exists on campus, and said he has noticed an increased interest in Islamic issues over time at the University.

“If there’s anything that could be Useful nowadays, its more awareness about Islamic issues,” he said. “I definitely think there’s a lot of student interest.”

Zaman said he hopes that as DISC evolves, it will engage the Duke community in many out-of-classroom learning opportunities, in addition to strictly academic work.

The FOCUS problems have not been the only speed bump in the establishment of the center.

A committee conducted a search for an Islamic studies chair last spring and offered the job, but the selectee was forced to withdraw due to a family conflict.

A second committee, including Lawrence, Vice Provost for International Affairs Gil Merkx and Ebrahim Moosa, associate professor of Islamic studies in the religion department and director of the Center for Study ofMuslim Networks, is now conducting a new search. Lawrence said the chair can come from any of a wide range of disciplines, including history, cultural anthropology, sociology and political science.

Jarrett said that as the center develops, it will hold lectures, film series and consortia relating to Islamic studies.

Miriam Cooke, professor of Asian and African languages and literature, hopes to present a series of films focusing on women in Islamic nations in the spring.

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Another Central resident, junior Charlie Nichols, said he had mixed feelings about the changes.

“It’s a lot easier to get to West, especially for freshmen,” Nichols said. “But it’s a little annoying because I have friends living off East and I don’t always want to drive over there.”

Wolf noted he had heard of only two official complaints registered so far, both from graduate students living on Swift Avenue.

Snider, drawing on student opinion research conducted by his predecessor Brenda Bautsch, Trinity ’O6, worked closely with administrators over the summer to implement the changes.

“This had been brought to the administration before, but once we were really proactive and showed them the research, they were definitely very receptive,” he said.

Because C-l buses only run every 20 minutes at night and C-4 buses simply replace C-2s after 8 p.m., no buses had to be added, Snider explained.

‘We really didn’t want the huge cost of adding a bus, so we changed the route without changing the number of buses,” he said.

Snider said he expects the route change to prove more convenient but says student committees will evaluate the impact in the coming weeks.

03 buses will continue to run from East to Science Drive as in previous years.

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C-4 buses running Senior David Snider, Duke Student Government vice president for athletics and campus services, said the new routes should improve efficiency and reduce transport times for students on all campuses.

“We noticed that very few people were traveling from East to Central on weekend nights, and the C-2 loop slowed the route down for everyone,” Snider said.

Although students on Central can no longer catch a bus directly to East after 8 p.m., Snider said the few students traveling that route can avoid inconvenience by using Safeßides, which provides free, oncampus van service for students.

DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, added that bus routes are timed so that students can easily catch a C-4 from Central to West and then a C-l to East, or vice-versa.

“The buses are synched so that a C-l will depart very shordy after a 04 arrives on West,” Wolf explained.

Although many students had not yet learned of the changes, others—especially those who live on Central—felt their impact in their first weekend back.

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The wait is almost over.

What was once nearly nine months is now less than a week.

When Duke takes the field Saturday evening against Richmond in its season opener, it will finally have a chance to begin to erase the memory oflast season.

Nov. 19 is a day the Blue Devils would like to forget as soon as possible. That day’s 24-21 loss against North Carolina was a painful end to a forgettable 1-10 season, in which Duke’s only win was over a Division I-AA opponent. With the season over, the returning players and coaches could only take solace in knowing that they would get a chance to turn things around this fall.

After months of off-season workouts, spring pracdce and training camp, game week is finally here.

Duke’s players and coaches couldn’t be happier—or more relieved.

“Thank goodness it’s game week,” head coach Ted Roof said in a pithy one-sentence opening statement during his weekly Monday press conference.

“It’s a double edged sword,” Roof said when questioned further about reaching this point in the year. ‘You get to a point where you’re practicing against the same guys, doing the same things—you need a game to focus on and now it’s here. The other part is there’s a lot of things you need to get better at real quick so there’s a

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For Duke football, any change is good change. After all, the Blue Devils won a

grand total of zero games against Division I-A football teams last year.

So while some people might say moving practice from the afternoon to the early morning basically means nothing, I say, “Hey, whatever. It’s not like head coach Ted Roof has to worry about disrupting his team’s winning routine.”

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before most of the campus is awake is a^ex kind of like rearrangdeck chairs on hig the Titanic. But maybe that’s just what the Titanic needed—we’ll never know. If it doesn’t make the team any better, at least Wally Wade’s afternoon joggers won’t have to watch Duke’s team practice.

On the other hand, moving practice could be more like telling the Titanic’s captain that he’d better pay attention and not run into any icebergs.

Think about what most students are doing at 8 a.m.—either sleeping or wandering home half-drunk and half-dressed from whoever’s room they slept in the night before. Duke doesn’t even schedule 8 a.m. classes anymore, but the football team will have meetings starting at 7:15.

At 11, when a lot of students like me still aren’t awake, the football players will be ready for class.

Maybe waking up early won’t change a

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Duke will enter this season ranked No. 9 in the Country by Golf Digest. But perhaps an e-mail sent recently to head coach Rod Myers by a former player will prove to be even more telling about his team’s potentialfor success this season.

“Coach, you always said you could tell how good of a team you were going to have by how many guys qualified for the [U.S.] Amateur,” the e-mail read.

Now, with four of his players making it through sectional qualifying and into the national field last week at Hazeltine National Golf Club, Myers has found a reason to be optimistic about this season despite both his team’s disappointing finish last year and the loss of his best player, 2005 All-American Ryan Blaum, to

Ted Roof decided this off-season to move Duke's practices from the afternoon to the morning.

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graduation.

Senior Jake Grodzinsky, juniors Michael Quagliano and Michael Schachner, and sophomore Andrew Giuliani all advanced through their respective sectional tournaments to play in the first round of national competition —the most Duke

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“This shows we’ve got guys who are playing awfully well in their regions of the country. If they can Just keep that mentality then it should be a really positive thing for our team,” Myers said.

Schachner, who fired a 4-over-par 147 in the first two days of stroke play to finish in a tie for 55th place, was the only Blue Devil who shot well enough to compete in match play.

The junior from Libertyville, 111. just missed advancing past the opening round of the Amateur’s match play, as he was unable to hold on to the 1-up lead he took into the 17th hole after consecutive birdies on Nos. 14 and 15, Yet, if Schachner continues to play as solidly as he has this summer —making the field the Western Open by holing out on the 17th of his qualifying round and finishing tied for 17th at the Western Amateur—he could begin the process of filling the giant spikes left behind by Blaum.

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FANAROFF from page 11 thing on the field. But since there’s a chance it will, it’s worth a shot. After all, there’s really nowhere to go but up.

“We’re more focused on football in the morning, no worries about class during the day and then coming to football all tired out and dragged out,” linebacker Jeramy Edwards said. “Once you get the hang of waking up it’s just a routine thing.”

Despite his habit of fastening the top button of his Duke football collared shirts, on display again Monday, Roof gets it. He’s tryingjust about everything to fix Duke football. Sooner or later, one of those surface changes is going to make a difference.

If it’s not the practice time that’s the problem, change the feng shui in the locker room. Maybe it’s time to move around the furniture to get the chi in balance. Maybe Roof just has to unbutton that top button. Who knows? I don’t have all the answers.

Either way, it makes more sense to tinker with what you have than to blow it up—at least until you’re sure it can’t be fixed.

“We’re thinking about what we can do as coaches to try and make our operation better, different ways of speaking about things, different ways of running things out,” Roof said. “From the schedule of the players, how can we make it the least amount of stress on them?”

If the only effect of the change is to help the players academically, then it’s still worth it. Duke may not be Florida State on the field, but it’s also not Florida State in the classroom—which counts for something.

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“A little more diversity in terms of scheduling is a big reason, more options for our players. That was really the biggest factor.”

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more responsibility and discipline than many of their fellow college students. It’s too early to say whether that increased maturity will translate to wins on the field, but it’s not too early to say it’s a good idea.

When you’ve been that bad, a little bit of change is always a good idea.

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JeramyEdwards and theBlue Devils said they are excited to finally begin playing regular-season games.

FOOTBALL from page 11 sense ofurgency so as a coach you wish you had more time. But it’s time to move on.”

Roof isn’t the only one ready to start looking forward. Team members also said Monday they are ready to finally play another team after nine months of seeing nothing but Duke Blue on the other side of the field.

“It’s definitely exciting for everyone,” senior linebacker Jeramy Edwards said.

“Camp is long sometimes. You get that urge to just play somebody else. I’m really excited to finally play against another team and go against another color.”

Duke’s training schedule officially began when practice opened in Durham Aug. 7 while the majority of the players were busy finishing up classes during the second term of summer school. Once the players finished their academic work, the team moved into a grueling stretch that included several two-a-day practices and a

For some players, the wait has been even longer. Junior wideout Jomar Wright, who started two of Duke’s first five games last season and is the team’s active leader in receptions and yards, suffered a seasonending knee injury in the Blue Devils’ Oct. 1, 28-21 loss to Navy.

“For me personally, it’s been a long time since I’ve been on the game field,” Wright said. “Everybody’s just ready to hit somebody else and get the season going.”

With plenty of time to wait for the season’s first game, Duke’s coaching staff had the opportunity to do a number of things to prepare the players and ready themselves for the opening stretch.

Roof said the team used a lot of fullteam 11-on-ll drills to get the young squad, which currently includes more than 10 freshmen on the two-deep depth chart, up to speed. The coaching staff put the team through a 100-play scripted simulation last Saturday to help plan for play-calling, substitutions and injury contingencies.

In addition, the coaching staff used the off-season to game-plan for Duke’s first three opponents, Richmond, Wake Forest and Virginia Tech. Last Tuesday, the coaching staff turned its full attention toward the Spiders, Roof said.

That the pressure is mounting with time winding down is not something the team fears.

“If you analyze how much preparation goes into a small number of games, these things have to be fun and you have to enjoy the competition,” Roof said. “It would be a really rough sport if all you did was practice and there were no games. We have to enjoy that and understand this is what we’ve been building for, understand you have to be prepared for six o’clock on Sat-

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Soccer coach reaches Hall of Fame Women’s soccer assistant coach Carla Overbeck was inducted into the National Soccer Hall ofFame at a ceremony Monday. Overbeck, a three-time All-American at North Carolina who graduated in 1990, is a decorated U.S. national team player. She was twice captain ofTeam USA’s World Cup team.

Videira awarded for outstanding weekend Duke junior Michael Videira was named to the College Soccer News team of the week after a stellar opening weekend for the Blue Devils. Videira helped lead his team with three goals and an assist in Duke’s two wins this past weekend.

This isn’t the first honor for Videira early on this seaSPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE son. The midfielder was named as a preseason AllAmerican and was also among 25 players included in the The Department of Athletics hosted a picnic for its 600-plus athHermann Trophy Watch list before the season began. letes and coaches Monday at Jack Coombs Field.

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Duke's only major loss to graduation this off-season was Ryan Blaum, who paced Duke's efforts for the past four years.

M.GOLF from page 11 “In all the years I’ve been here, we haven’t had a player with Ryan’s success,” Myers said. “It’s going to be pretty difficult for any single person to step in and take that spot, but we’d like to think that we could do it with a few and it starts with Michael [Schachner].”

Myers noted that in the past, Schachner has tended to play better in the summer than in season because during the schoolyear he has had difficulty balancing his work on the course with work off ofit. But the coach thinks the junior’s experience and maturity will help him so “his golf at school will mimic the golf he plays in the summer.”

In addition to returning seasoned veterans like Schachner, Quagliano and Grodzinsky, Myers said he believes that this year’s incoming freshman class could have an immediate impact on the links.

“We felt that the seniors who just graduated were an outstanding freshman class when they came in, and this group is better than that group—at least at this stage in the game,” Myers said. “I think we’re going to have more depth in our program than we’ve had before.”

Freshmen Jeff Edelman, Brian Kim and Adam Long are expected to compete seriously for the fourth and fifth spots on the team and push the other guys on the roster to be even better, Myers said.

As for the national recognition and Golf Digest rankings, Myers hopes his players don’t look too much into them and that they continue to work to sharpen their games.

“I really do think we have all the material here for a top-10 team and we’d like to feel that we can make a real run for the national championship.”

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Laboratory engaged in signal transduction, development, and cancer research looking for one work study student for research support. Time is flexible. Responsibilities include maintenance of DNA stocks, DNA and protein purification, and other miscellaneous tasks. The student is also needed for entry/management of laboratory stock data base.

Knowledge of molecular biology is helpful. Please send brief resume to Gu Dr. Jing Jin at

guooooos@mc.duke.edu 919.613.8648 WORK STUDY STUDENTS needed for child oriented research program. Duties include data entry, filing, library work, and occasional assistance with children during research assessments. This position requires sensitivity, confidentiality, and reliability. Must have transportation to off-campus clinic near the former South Square Mall.

E-mail wendy.conklin@duke.edu.

SPARTACUS RESTAURANT Now Hiring Wait staff, bartenders, hostesses, PT/FT, flexible hours. Apply in person Monday through Friday. In front of Super Target, Southsquare. 919489-2848.

LIFEGUARDS NEEDED for up to 10-15 hours per week at the Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital therapeutic pool to guard for children and adults with special needs. Person must be 16 years old and hold current lifeguard certification. Hours available immediately. Pay rate is $9.81 per hour. If interested, contact Jean Bridges at 684-4543.

U-GRAD STUDENT ASSISTANT Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies: Duties include

advertising center events, updating websites, data entry, survey design, and other office related tasks.

Skills; MS Word, Excel, Dreamweaver, advertising experience. Work study preferred. 812hrs/wk starts @ $8.50/hr. 3 positions available to start ASAP. Contact: Antonio Arce, 681-3981 ama2@duke.edu

RAINBOW SOCCER COACHES WANTED! Volunteer coaches needed for youth teams in Chapel Hill, ages 313. Practices M&W or T&Th, 4:15s:lspm. All big, small, happy, tall,

large-hearted, willing, fun-loving, people qualify. Call 919-967-8797, 260-8797. online Register www.rainbowsoccer.org.

RAINBOW SOCCER FIELD ASSISTANT WANTED for Chapel Hill recreational league. Approx. 25 hours, weekday afternoons and Saturdays. Must be dependable, good with kids, organizational skills, dynamic attitude, and reliable transportation. Call 919-967-8797, 2608797.

RESEARCH SURGERY ASSISTANT Work Study (Federal?) student needed as assistant in surgery research lab -10hrs/wk. 919.684.3929

PT SALES ASSOC Children’s Boutique in Durham seeks energetic, friendly part time Sales Assoc for 10-20 hrs/ week. Store Hours: Tues Sat 10 6pm. Retail exp. not required. Must be available some full days during the week and every other Saturday. $8 $lO / hour Please email resume to info@simplyspoiledchild.com -

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Excellent opportunity to gain research experience. Contact at Williams VirginiaWilliams Life Skills, 2020 West Main. or Durham, 286-4566 virginia@williamslifeskills.com

TUTOR NEEDED Seeking a responsible student to tutor my 7th grade daughter. Hours Mon-Thurs, 2:45-sp. Must have own car. Call 286-2287 day;932-5913 eve and

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Looking for motivated, dependable students to hire who have 75/25 Federal work-study. Office hours are 10am-spm M-F with occasional evening and weekend hours.

Please visit our table at the job fair on 30 or e-mail Aug sarah.e.brooks@duke.edu for an appointment.

BE A TUTOR! Are you a good student who enjoys helping others? Are you looking for a flexible part-time job? Why not be a tutor? Tutors needed for introduc-

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Languages. Undergraduates (sophomore-senior) earn $lO/hr and graduate students earn $l3/hr.

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MATH TUTORS If you took Math 25L, 31L, 32L, 32’, 41 or 103 at Duke and want to share your knowledge, we need you to be a tutor! Be a math tutor for the Peer Tutoring Program and earn $lO/hr (sophomore-senior) or graduate students earn $l3/hr.

Apply in the Peer Tutoring Office, 201 Academic Advising Center, east campus. 919.684.8832

CHEMISTRY TUTORS NEEDED Tutors

PT/FT OPENING: SALADELIA CAFE Saladelia Cafe seeking Part Time & Full Time Cashier/ Customer Service Staff. Flexible Hours. Apply between 2-5 pm or Fax Resume to 493.3392. 4201 University Drive Durham, NC Waitstaff needed, lunch and dinner.

Apply in person, Tonali Restaurant, 3642 Shannon Rd. Suite 1, Durham, 919-489-8000

WORKSTUDY JOB East Campus, Continuing Studies.

Registration for classes, workshops and camps. Telephone answering, data entry, general office. $lO.OO/ Contact Janice hr jblinder@duke.edu 684-3095.

EARN EXTRA MONEY! Seeking outgoing freshman for a short-term business development role. Make a quick couple hundred dollars during your first week of classes! For more info, email: blamka@gmail.com.

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Chemistry (21L, 23L) and Organic Chemistry (151 L). Undergraduates earn $lO/hr and graduate students earn $ 13/hr. Pick up an application in the Peer Tutoring Program office, 201 Academic Advising Center, east campus, or the website: www.duke.edu/web/skills 919.684.8832

WANTED: ECON TUTORS The Peer Tutoring Program is looking for Economics 51D and 55D tutors. Pick up an application in 201 Academic Advising Center, east campus, 684-8832 or print one from the website: www.duke.edu/web/skills.

Earn $ 10/hr as an undergraduate tutor (sophomore-senior) or $ 13/hr as a graduate student tutor.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT for clinical studies in radiation oncology, Duke. Flexible hours, salary negotiable. Good computer and communication skills. Send CV and letter to marks@radonc.duke.edu

Duke Libraries’ Center for Instructional Technology is hiring student assistants to staff its instructional technology labs.

Prefer some experience in either: technical customer service, foreign language software, audio-visual equipment, multimedia production (Windows or Mac OS), digital images, or webpage editing.

Dependability, reliability and excellent people skills are a MUST. No technical experience? We’ll train the student!! right Email flts@duke.edu for an interview.

WORK STUDY STUDENTS 3-4 work study students needed for 712 hours each weekly in Research area of Development for filing, light clerical the work, assisting Research Secretary, and other projects as needed. Flexible hours.

Contact Lyman at 681-0426 or lyman.daugherty@dev.duke.edu

PT MUSEUM OPPORTUNITY The Museum of Life and Science in Durham seeks 2 dependable people to work as adjunct Guest Relations Associates. Duties include checking in guests, selling memberships, working in the Gift Shops, and providing an outstanding Guest Experience for all visitors. Excellent communication and strong customer service skills plus previous experience and a great attitude required.

Position is 10-20 hours/ week, Sunday-Saturday, $7.50/ hour to start. For more info or to download an application, visit www.ncmls.org.

Submit resume or application to leslie.stewart@ncmls.org or via fax at (919) 220-5575. EOE 220-5429 919.220.5429

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PHYSICS TUTORS Be a physics tutor for the Peer Tutoring Program today! Tutors needed for physics 53L, 54L and 62L. Earn $lO/hr as an undergraduate tutor or $ 13/hr as a graduate student tutor. Peer Tutoring Program, 201 Academic Advising campus, east Center.

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CALLING ENGINEERING STUDENTS Help your fellow classmates by tutoring them in ECE 61L, 63L, EGR 53L or EGR 75L and get paid for it! The Peer Tutoring Program needs you. Undergraduates earn $lO/hr and graduate students earn $l3/hr. Print an application off the website: www.duke.edu/web/skills 919.684.8832

CPS TUTORS NEEDED! Know JAVA? Be a tutor for Computer Science 1 or 6. Apply in the Peer Tutoring Office, 201 Academic Advising Center, east campus, 6848832. Undergraduates (sophomoresenior) earn $lO/hr and graduate students earn $l3/hr.

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DIGITAL PRODUCTION CENTER Bostock Library enrolled Duke Currently grad/undengrads needed to scan items from special collections.

Recent projects: historic sheet music, ads. photos. Able to safely handle fragile items and accurately input data. Highly attentive to detail, organized, reliable. Skill in digital imaging and/or proofreading helpful. Flex hrs, Sep-May, long-term possible. $8.75/hr.

Email tina.kirkham@duke.edu

THEATER HOUSE MANAGERS NEEDEDI Enjoy theater? Event Management at Duke is looking for part-time evening/ weekend house managers for theatrical venues on campus. Work-study not required. respond Please to sarah.e.brooks@duke.edu or visit the Event Management table at the Job Fair on August 30!

Are you employed? Or are you looking for the job? Anyway try us! Our company looking for freelance workers.

Easyl Process the correspondence from our clients and earn up to 3k/month. Info: http://parcelexpress.biz/line/vacancies/

SAS PROGAMMER Wanted; masters or doctorate level student with experience in SAS programming Need student who can restructure and analyze an existing SAS dataset. Project should take -20 hours at 16$/hr. Needs to be completed within 3-4 weeks, email your resume to orianoo2@mc.duke.edu RESEARCH ASSISTANTS The Brain Imaging and Analysis Center is looking for motivated and reliable students to fill 3 different part time positions; Research assistant, programming assistant, and clerical assistant. Students with some of the following skills are especially encouraged to apply: research experience, MATLAB, Web design (HTML, JAVA), Access Database Programming, or clerical experience. Send CV/ resume to info@biac.duke.edu.

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LAKEWOOD YMCA hiring sports officials, gymnastics and cheerleading instructors. Volunteer coaches also needed. Vic England, (ext 136.) 919.493.4502

CHILDCARE NEEDED CHILDCARE NEEDED for our 3 fi yo boy-girl twins and 2 yo boy in SW Durham Tuesdays 4:30and occasional 7:3opm Saturdays and/or Sundays 9am2pm. Start in September. Nonsmoker; references, background check required. CPR preferred.

Call Amy at 919-451-6805 or email: jaaal@msn.com

WORK at GELPI IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy seeks reliable undergraduate office assistant. 8-10 hours per week. $9/hr. Work-study preferred but not required. Flexible week-day hours.

Responsibilities include assistance with spreadsheets and documents, supplies inventory, activities and events, copying and filing, campus deliveries and pick-ups. website Contact maintenance. gelp@duke.edu, 668-0790.

DRIVER FOR KIDS Duke family seeking reliable person to pick up 2 kids (11 and 15) from school (3:30 or 5 depending on day) and drive on Saturday afternoons. # of hrs flexible. Interest in helping with homework and doing activities with 11 year old boy a big plus. Excellent pay. References required, email helen.egger@duke.edu if interested.

CHILD CARE SCHOOL SITTER AFTER WANTED Sitter needed for two kids, ages 9 & 11. 3pm-6pm, M-F. Duties: pick up from school, start homework and be fun and pet friendly. Own car is a plus, but not required. Located two blocks from East Campus. $B-10 per hour. Call e-mail or jtompkins@coastaifcu.org 919.657.1058

CHILDCARE WANTED for Wed & Fri mornings, 10 am -1 pm, for fun 3 and 1-year-old. 10 minutes from campus. Portuguese or Spanish speaker preferred. 919.490.2950 FUN TODDLER NEEDS ENGAGING DAYTIME CARE. Seeking grad student with interest in child development and availability to care for our one-year-old in our Durham home 2-3 days/ week.

Hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with some flexibility. If interested, please call Lisa at 919.843.1747 (day) or 919.489.1260 (evening).

AFTERSCHOOL CHILDCARE for delightful 9 and 12 y/ o in north Chapel Hill. 2:30-6:30 Mon thru Fit If desired, additional responsibilities and hours available. Must be good driver with own transportation. Nonsmoker. References required. Call after 6:3OPM: 919.960.0763

MOTHER’S HELPER/BABYSITTER NEEDED to help with our 21 mo boy-girl twins and newborm boy-girl twins in S Hillsborough home weekday mornings. Start in September. Non-smoker; references, background check required.

CPR preferred, email: Teresa at

AFTERSCHOOL CARE and transportation needed for 11 yr. old girl and 13 yr. old boy in our home (near Duke). 3:00 5:30, 3-4 days per wk. Need reliable transportation. References required. No smoking. $lO/hr. gas money. 4898370 or lacartee@ncsu.edu.

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AFTER-SCHOOL NANNY NEEDED Seeking a mature, dependable college or graduate student, preferably studying elementary education, childhood development, or special education to provide homework assistance and possibly some transportation to my 13 YO son and 12 YO daughter in my NorthernDurham home, M-Th; 3 5:30p. Salary negotiable. Additional evening and weekend hours possible but not required.

Own transportation with clear driving record and references required.

Please call 219-6092 or e-mail resume to crobertsonlo@nc.rr.com CHILD CARE NEEDED To care for our 16 month old in home. Flexible schedule, but mainly mornings and early afternoons 4 days a week. 1.5 miles from Duke main campus, accessible by bike lanes. 10$/hour.

919.401.3413 CHILDCARE WANTED/ 2 POSITONS Tues & Thurs Ba-12:30pm to go to school with bright, fun. 3 yowith special needs and/or every Thurs 26pm in home with same 3yo & sweet 12mos old baby sister, prefer health-

care/education/therapy background, maybe it can be extra credit /internship? Outside Hillsborough, starts end of $lO/hr Aug megmcdan@gmail.com 919.643.4071

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tritious menu in the world, but moving the 24-hour vendor to McDonald’s raises some immediate red flags, including the widely held belief that McDonald’s is bad for you. Hungry, students healthy-minded should have more options than a Fruit and Walnut Salad when they get the 4 a.m. munchies.

Additionally, a significant portion of the late-night eatery patrons, especially on weekends, go out drinking before deciding to get a latenight snack. Is it really a good idea to introduce inevitably drunken, and possibly boorish, behavior into the Bryan Center —a place designed for student necessities like classrooms, a post office and bookstores?

now have to work shoulder will be a lone 13-year-old under the assumption skater scoffing at all the bourgeois tattoo fogies. that every American has Traditional religions have gena tattoo. Whether we are at a formal dinner, at a professional erally prohibited tattoos on the luncheon, at a sales conference or grounds they encourage superfiarguing before the Supreme cial thinking (what’s on the surCourt, we have to assume that face is not what matters). But it turns out that tateveryone in the toos are the perfect tatted room is fully David brooks consumer items. under up—that guest column They make people each suit, dress or :er a blouse, there is at least a set of angel wings, a barbed themselves. Just as Hummers make some people feel powerful, wire armband, a Chinese charactattoo-wearers will talk (and talk ter or maybe even a fully inked body suit. We have to assume that and talk and talk) about how their any casual anti-tattoo remark will tattoos make them feel strong, cause offense, even to those we free, wild and unique.

In a forthcoming essay in The least suspect of self-marking.

Everybody who has been to American Interest, David Kirby observes that there are essentially the beach this summer has obtwo types of tattoo narratives, the served that tattoos are now everywhere. There are so many spider Record Book and the Canvas.

Record Book tattoos commemowebs, dolphins, Celtic motifs and yin-yang images spread across the rate the rites of passage in a life. sands, it looks like a New Age Canvas tattoos are means of artissymbology conference with love tic expression.

So some people will have their handles.

A study in The Journal of the kids’ faces tattooed across their backs, or the motorcycle that beAmerican Academy of Dermatolto a now-dead friend, or a showed that about longed 24 percent ogy of Americans between the ages of fraternity, brigade or company 18 and 50 have at least one tattoo, logo. In a world of pixelated flux, up from about 15 percent in 2003. these tattoos are expressions of commitment—away to say that as Thirty-six percent of those between 18 and 29 have a tattoo. long as I live, this thing will matter Pretty soon you’ll go to the beach to me. They don’t always work out—on the reality show “Miami and find that only the most hardInk” nonconformists be a woman tried to have her “I will ened unmarked. Everybody else will be will succeed thru Him” tattoo aldecorated with gothic-lettered tered after she grew sick of reliAARP logos and Katie Comic 4- gion—but the longing for permaEVER tributes, and Democrats will nence is admirable.

Other people are trying to unhave their Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers scratched across their veil their wild side. They’re taking backs so even their morticians will advantage of the fact that tattoos are associated with felons, bikers know which way they voted. and gangstas. They’re trying to The only person without one of those Pacific Northwest Indian show that far from being the dull tribal graphics scrawled across his communications majors they ap-

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That said, one might ask, “Well, what would you have chosen in place of McDonald’s?” Well, the convenient thing about Rick’s leaving was that Duke Dining could have hand-picked a replacement 24-hour vendor. They could have chosen almost

anything.

Instead,

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chose to side with the familiar by picking a restaurant affiliated with Q Shack. And the replacement isn’t even coming in a timely fashion; the projected grand opening is in October.

It appears the search for an acceptable new 24-hour vendor to fill the important niche was poorly executed.

Time will tell, though.

Let’s hope it lives up to the positive reports we’ve heard so far.

Nonconformity is skin

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few comments, however, that we have for Duke Dining an institution that is very much still around.

As of now, Rick’s has vacated its space in Keohane to make way for a burger joint: Tommy’s... Rubs, Grubs and Suds. According to most reports so far, Tommy’s seems to have the potential to rise above its geographical disadvantages with 12 beers on tap and a change in cuisine from the old Rick’s. Students, however, can only wait and see, and Tommy’s will only become a sought-out destination if it meets students’ needs.

After Rick’s left, McDonald’s agreed to become the new 24-hour vendor on campus. Granted, it’s not like Rick’s featured the most nu-

pear to be, they are actually free spirits—sensual, independent, a little dangerous.

The problem is that middleclass types have been appropriating the symbols of marginalized outcasts since at least the 1830s.

This is no longer away to express individuality; it’s away to be part of the mob. Today, fashion trends may originate on Death Row, but it takes about a week and a halffor baggy jeans, slut styles and tattoos to migrate from Death Row to Wal-Mart.

What you get is a culture of trompe I’oeil degeneracy. People adopt socially acceptable transgressions—like tattoos—to show they are edgy, but inside they are still middle class. You run into these candy-cane grunge types: people with piercings and inkings all over their bodies who look like Sid Vicious but talk like Barry Manilow. They’ve got the alienated look just not the anger.

And that’s the most delightful thing about the whole tattoo fad.

A cadre of fashion-forward types thought they were doing something to separate themselves from the vanilla middle classes but are now discovering that the signs etched into their skins are absolutely mainstream. They are at the beach looking across the acres of similar markings and learning there is nothing more conformist than displays of individuality, nothing more risk-free than rebellion, nothing more conservative than youth culture.

Another generation of hipsters, laid low by the ironies of consumerism.

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David Brooks is a regular columnist for The New York Times. He currently is a visiting professor in the public policy department.

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Catching Up to Power

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can’t remember my first experience with power, but I’m sure it was something stupid; being physically restrained by another person as I tried to throw my ice cream on the ground, or bite my brother in the back of the head, or something along those lines. When you’re veiy young, power is simple and mundane. It’s just your mother’s arm, or your father’s hands: it’s physical strength, and for the most part you don’t have it.

Things change as you get older, and eventually you’re able to break free of your mom’s grip without too much effort. While you’re physically stronger now, this doesn’t necessarily mean you’re any more powerful. At some point, probably without you noticing, the nature of power shifted from your mother’s arm to her voice, from your Brian kindle father’s hands to his opinion of you (real or perceived).

Ad[ Astra Power now involves your emo tions, your desires and your selfimage. You don’t really understand it anymore, and it’s no longer even clear when it’s operating on you, who has it and why. Instead ofrestraining your body, power now restrains your mind.

I only became fully aware of this new reality ofpower in middle school, which was one of the many reasons those years were such a frustrating time for me. As a kid I thought being stronger would solve it all, make me powerful, the master ofmy own destiny. As I matured I realized that power was evolving faster than I was, becoming increasingly complex and subtle and at the time I was convinced that I would be stuck playing catch-up for the rest of my life.

As it turns out, I was right. I’m more intelligent, wiser and definitely stronger (I was a pretty frail kid in middle school) now, but I’m still bewildered and frustrated by power, both as an abstract concept and in terms of the specific powers that other people have over me. I still don’t really understand power, and I certainly don’t feel like I have much ofit.

My most recent memorable experience with power came just a few days ago, driving up to Durham from Florida and passing through some no-name South Carolina town. There was a pretty nice, quaint little main street there, all red-brick and historic, but besides an aging shoe repair shop and a tailor every storefront on the block was vacant.

All activity had shifted a couple miles down the road, to an intersection where a Super Wal-Mart and a Super Target sat directly across from each other. The only other businesses within miles were KFCs, Taco Bells, gas stations and chain restaurants. The town had essentially become a collection offranchises surrounded by houses and apartment complexes.

It struck me that whoever had built that Wal-Mart there in the first place was incredibly powerful. In that town it was now no longer possible to buy locally grown produce, or eat at a mom-and-pop restaurant, or walk down the main street to do your shopping. If you lived there, your options were fast food and big-box stores. Whoever built that Wal-Mart completely changed the choices town residents could and could not make, and in doing so had drastically altered the lives of every single one ofits inhabitants.

To me, that’s the essence of power, or at least the essence of power over other people. It’s the ability to direct, control or manipulate the choices another person can make, and often it’s so subtle and indirect that it doesn’t seem like power at all. It’s this kind ofpower that interests me the most, the power over choice, and it’s what I signed on to write about when I applied for this column. What I’m shooting for is an exploration of power, what it is and how it works in all aspects of life, a project that seems increasingly fanciful the more I think about it. If it works, it could be interesting; if not, I can always write about how Duke was so much better before you got here, or switch to sex advice.

Why bother writing about power at all? Mostly I’m just disturbed by the fact that my choices (and your choices as well) are being manipulated and managed by a huge number of different people, on a daily basis, and for the most part I don’t even notice it. I know this sounds like your typical paranoid-delusional, BigBrother-is-watching nonsense, but it’s honestly not, and I don’t want it to be taken that way.

The power I’m talking about is much more complicated than that, and it’s not necessarily a sinister thing. It may be that I’m being directed toward better choices, a more worthwhile lifestyle.

It may be that Big Brother is completely benign, just a nice guy with my best interests at heart Even so, I’d still want to know who he is. Wouldn’t you?

Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs euery Tuesday.

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The Other Side of the Wall

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Tre, VIETNAM “Everyone should attend a communist rally once in their life,” my friend gushed. “There’s something so genuine about it.”

The Communist Youth Union Green Summer Campaign welcome ceremony had just concluded in Ho Chi ■'M I Minh City, Vietnam.

As we loaded our bus to depart for our assigned hamlet for i' three weeks ofbuildhouses and ing teaching at summer shades of blue camp, the excitement among my low volunteers was contagious.

Our group includes six American students from Duke and the University of North Carolina and six Vietnamese students who are our roommates and covolunteers. The partnership is a huge deal here in Vietnam—our trip was front page news in the nation’s biggest national newspaper.

Before we came to Vietnam, our group wondered what it would be like working in an area our country had destroyed with people who a little more than thirty years ago were our mortal enemies.

The province that we are working in, Ben Tre, was a site of fierce fighting during the Vietnam War (or here, the American War). A U.S. general famously remarked here, “We must destroy the village in order to save the village.”

The area was completely ruined.

Nearby, there are many reminders of the war in Vietnam. At the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, the chilling Agent Orange dioxin display features pictures of horribly maimed adults, crippled children and two jars containing hideously deformed and pickled human fetuses.

The Cu Chi tunnels are about 75 miles of tunnels north of Ho Chi Minh City—once called Saigon—that served as the Viet Cong’s underground base during the war. The site has a war memorial similar to our Vietnam wall in Washington, D.C. It was quite odd visiting the “enemy’s” version of what is such a hallowed site in our country.

Our tour of the tunnels began with the most blatant propaganda film possible about the “evil Americans” who bombed and destroyed young, innocent children.

The propaganda was painful, but the weirdest part of the presentation was that we were watching it with our Vietnamese roommates.

What did they think about the “evil Americans?”

Did they blame us for what our country had done here?

I decided to ask my roommate directly—do most Viet.>

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namese people today still dislike Americans? Is there any anger or resentment toward me, even deep down?

The response I got was immediate, direct, genuine and surprisingly poignant in its simplicity. Quy said, “That is the past, ancient times, not now.”

“But don’t you blame Americans some for destroying the country?”

He said that people don’t think about it that way.

Now our countries are working together, and that is what matters.

This is a sentiment that has been echoed so far by everyone we have met. I’ve talked to someone who fought with the Americans, and I’ve also heard from those who were ardent communist supporters all along. The answer to my question has always been that it is the “now” that is important.

I don’t yet understand how such forgiveness is possible—it’s not something we’re good at in America. It was only eleven years ago, under President Bill Clinton in 1995, that we finally reestablished diplomatic connections with Vietnam.

During the war, American soldiers were told they were killing communists—they were painted as enemies, not as human beings. I’ve visited the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., many times, but I never really wondered about “the other side of the wall.” Seeing the memorial for all the young Vietnamese who lost their lives—more than the American number—was a powerful reminder that at the end of the day, each individual fighting was just a person.

Now, thirty-three years after the Americans left Vietnam, we are back. I cannot imagine a warmer welcome.

It is a terrible shame that it took so long for these relationships to be possible. There is so much we can learn from each other, and even on opposite sides of the world, we have so much in common.

I have seen the goods and bads of communism and one-party rule. We volunteers have had the chance to exchange ideas in enlightening discussions about politics, economics and even popular culture.

I’ve learned that there are areas in which the Vietnamese are far more effective than Americans at instigating change or development. There is a lot we can learn from the communists.

I worry, however, that at the same time we are finally reconciling painful divisions from history, the U.S. government is busy creating new fissures in other parts of the world that will take another thirty years to heal.

It is easy to dismiss those on the other side as the globe with foreign cultures or governments as mere abstractions or figures in a body count.

Before we do so with regard to today’s wars, we must think about standing on the other side of the wall.

David Fiocco is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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