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Black Enterprise rankings reveal top schools for blacks by

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Black Enterprise, a major national black business magazine, named Duke one of the nation’s 50 Top Schools for African Americans Tuesday.

A team of black academics ranked the University the 14th best of more than 1,400 institutions for black students in a special report released in the magazine’s September issue.

The placement represents a four-spot drop since Duke placed 10th in Black Enterprise’s 2004 survey, and comes hot on the heels of Duke’s three-slot slide in the 2006 U.S. News and World Report ranking of best colleges.

Florida A&M University tops the Black Enterprise list, followed by Howard University and Greensboro’s North Carolina A&T State University, Harvard University and Spelman College rounding out the top five.

Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University are among the SEE RANKING ON PAGE 7

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8. Columbia Univ.

9. University of Pennsylvania 10. Wesleyan Univ.

11. Dickinson College 12. Wellesley College 13. Amherst College

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15. Smith College

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With Duke's recent changes to keg-purchasing rules, it will now beabout 50 percent cheaper for studentgroups to provide alcohol at events like the Old Duke Party (above).

The price of University-sponsored kegs will drop by more than 50 percent this year, likely spurring an increase in the number of on-campus kegs, officials and student leaders said Tuesday.

The savings will result from the University’s decision to pay for licensed independent bartenders—a responsibility that formerly fell on the student group placing an order for a keg.

With two bartenders required for each event, labor added a minimum of $l5O to the cost of the keg, said Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst. The beer itself costs between $B5 and $125 per keg.

The program will be financed through Executive Vice President Tallman Trask’s discretionary fund, and the benefit to students is estimated to be $lO,OOO in the first year.

The goal is to increase the number of events that can compete with traditional alcohol venues—not to blanket the campus with more drinking, said Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf, a junior, who worked on the changes during

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the summer.

Wolf said administrators concluded that keg events were a relatively cheap way to bring students together.

“It’s not just a normal section party with an additional distribution point,” Wolf explained, referring to events frequently hosted by fraternities and selective living groups that are technically

bring-your-own-beer.

One unanswered question, however, is whether the cheaper kegs will lead to more drinking on West Campus, where the majority of residents are underage.

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Citizens show support for Nifong

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After several weeks of public scrutiny, Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong is receiving positive attention from some Durham citizens.

In the face of groups created to campaign against Nifong in November’s election, two Durham residents—Kim Brummell and Victoria Peterson—are voicing support for the controversial DA. The two women founded “Citizens for Mike Nifong” in an effort to keep Nifong in office.

Even though Nifong clinched the Democratic Party primary, his position was thrown back into question when approximately 10,000 Durham voters signed petitions to place Durham attorney Lewis Cheek’s name on the ballot.

Brummell, a corporate security officer and writer, said the lacrosse case would best be resolved by a jury rather than a “court of public opinion.”

“We feel Mike Nifong is the best

person to handle the lacrosse case and other cases as well,” Brummell told The Herald-Sun Aug. 27. “If Mike Nifong was to lose the election, there would be a slimmer chance of [the lacrosse] case going to trial.”

Peterson, a community activist and former city council contender, also asserted her confidence in Nifong.

“Mr. Nifong has almost 30 years of experience here in Durham County,” Peterson told The HeraldSun. “You have a man who knows what he is doing.”

Though Nifong said he did not play a role in the formation of the group, he told The Herald-Sun that the support “made me feel good.”

Mark Edwards, a Durham criminal trial lawyer and Nifong supporter said that though he hadn’t heard of the group, he maintains his support for the DA. “He really believes in the case SEE NIFONG ON PAGE 8

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Durham resident Victoria Peterson (above) co-founded "Citizens for Mike Nifong/'a group that is working to get DA Mike Nifong re-elected

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Iran criticizes U.N. Security Council by

Ali Akbar Dareini

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TEHRAN, Iran Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday challenged President Bush to a televised debate, a proposal the White House immediately dismissed as a “diversion.”

The challenge came during a freewheeling, two-and-a-half-hour news conference and only two days before a U.N. Security Council ultimatum demanding Iran roll back its suspect nuclear program.

Ahmadinejad said no one can prevent Iran from pursuing what he called a peaceful nuclear program —not even U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who

was expected to visit here Saturday.

“Mr. Annan, too, has to move within the framework of international regulations.

No one has a special right or advantage,” he said.

The U.N. Security Council has set Thursday as a deadline for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment—a process that can produce eitherfuel for a reactor or material for weapons. Iran has refused any immediate suspension, calling the deadline illegal, and instead this week offered a counterproposal that the United States and some European nations said fell short.

Ahmadinejad’s latest show of defiance seemed to solidify the country’s determina-

SAT scores fall on by

Justin Pope

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The high school class of 2006 got stuck with a new, longer version of the SAT and didn’t fare well on it. Average reading and math scores fell a total of seven points—the sharpest decline in 31 years.

Experts agreed the dip in combined math and critical reading scores on the college entrance exam was related to the new version of the test—but differed as to how.

The updated exam, with a new writing section, also features more advanced math questions and replaces analogies with more reading comprehension.

tion to snub the Security Council, following a string of war games and uncompromising public statements this month on

the nuclear standoff. But whether the United States can muster enough support on the 15-nation council to impose economic or political sanctions remains in question.

In his criticism of the Security Council, Ahmadinejad singled out two ofits permanent members with veto power—the United States and Britain—for what he called their failure to listen to the needs of other countries.

“The U.S. and Britain are the source of SEE IRAN ON PAGE 8

new. longer test

Average reading scores fell from 508 to 503 and math scores fell from 520 to 518, the College Board announced Tuesday, with the changes hurting boys more than girls.

Boys’ reading scores fell eight points, and girls’ dropped just three. And girls scored 11 points better than boys on the new writing section. Boys’ and girls’ math score fell two points each to 536 and 502, respectively.

The College Board, which owns the exam, downplayed the drop, saying it amounts to a fraction of one question per

exam. The board’s explanation: fewer students took the exam a second time, which

typically raises combined math and reading scores 30 points. Of the 1.5 million testtakers, 47 percent took the exam only once, up from 44 percent a year ago.

The College Board also insisted fatigue wasn’t to blame. The new exam has been expanded from three hours to three hours, 45 minutes, and can take more than a full morning counting prep time and breaks. Some parents and fair-testing advocates predicted the longer exam would cause scores to decline, but the College Board said its research showed no drop-off in student performance as the test goes on.

ter group—-Warren Steed Jeffs—was arrested outside of Las Vegas late Monday after more than a year on the run and faces charges for arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.

More charged in bomb plot British anti-terrorist police charged Mohammed Yasar Gulzar, Mohammed Shamin Uddin and Nabeel Hussain late Tuesday with planning to commit terrorism by helping in an alleged plan to bring explosives aboard U.S.-bound planes.

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FY 2006 gift total rises, donors fall by

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Dollars raised during Duke’s collection of charitable gifts during the 2006 fiscal year broke records, but the overall number of donors decreased.

The University collected $341.9 million, which surpassed the 2005 total by $66.1 million and broke the school’s record of $302.6 million, set in 2000.

The total dollar amount came from 95,614 donors—including 41,000 alumni—marking a drop from the 2005 total of 100,031.

Although officials cannot pinpoint the exact cause of the drop in the number of donors, some said the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is the most likely explanation. Contributors may have shifted their donations to other causes,

they explained.

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CAPS appointed Gary Glass senior coordinator of outreach and development programming in August.

CAPS appoints Glass to coordinate programs by

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In the past few months, along with a new waiting room, improved lighting and a fresh coat of paint, Duke’s Counseling and Psychological Services has gained a new face.

Gary Glass joined the CAPS staff in early August as senior coordinator of outreach and development programming.

Glass was appointed by a committee, which included Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, and CAPS Director Kathy Hollingsworth, who joined CAPS in July 2005.

Glass will be in charge of overseeing the organization and implementation of group therapy programs within CAPS, along with outside seminars on topics such as eating disorders and relationship problems.

He will also be responsible for serving as a liaison between GAPS and other campus organizations to develop collaborative programs or address concerns.

In his first semester on the job, Glass will focus mosdy on evaluating campus culture and the particular mental health problems

“We have a lot of competition from other charitable organizations,” said Robert Shepard, vice president for alumni affairs and development.

“Those important events in terms of national catastrophes often draw a lot of donors.”

Shepard added that the University temporarily stopped soliciting donationsfrom alumni in the Gulf Coast region during the second quarter of the fiscal year.

Peter Vaughn, executive director of alumni and developmental communications, said the University followed the same policy for alumni living in the New York and Washington D.C. areas after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and saw similar trends in donations.

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Officials added that rape allegations against members of the men’s lacrosse team, however, were unlikely to have caused the drop in donors.

The allegations emerged in March, and donations were highest during the fourth quarter, which lasted from April 1 to June 30.

Vaughn said the drop in donors is not a source of concern because the total numbers for both 2005 and 2006 were than higher 92,000, the annual average for the past five years “It may be that the year before was an anomaly,” he said. “The final dollar total speaks for itself. Ideally, we’d like to have more donors and more funds, but we see no cause for concern here Both Vaughn and Shepard said the University managed to collect the recordsetting dollar amount because members of the smaller pool of donors gave aboveaverage amounts.

“We had an abnormally large number of large gifts,” Vaughn said. “Fewer people gave more money.”

Officials said several of the large gifts were likely in response to the December announcement of the Financial Aid Initiative, which aims to gamer $3OO million over three years. ”

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health&science I^^ Plague cases increase in U.S. Thirteen cases of ATLANTA plague have been reported in the western United States this year—the largest number since 1994, health officials said Friday.

The increase probably stems from human encroachment into areas where infected rodents live, said Hannah Gould,a CDC epidemiologist. It also may be due to a phenomenon in which cases multiply in the summer following two consecutive February-March periods with high precipitation and an intervening cool summer, she said.

N.C. plan to fight obesity RALEIGH, N.C. The plan entitled, "Eat Smart, Move More," outlines four goals: encourage policy changes that result in healthy living, get more North Carolinians to a healthy weight, increase the number of state residents eating a healthy diet and raise the percentage of adults and children who exercise.

North Carolina ranked 17th in adult obesity, according to the national study. The fattest state was Mississippi.

Body part brokers chided

RALEIGH, N.C. The panel that oversees funeral homes and crematoriums in North Carolina on Tuesday urged the industry not to collect payments from body parts brokers.

"We need to do everything in our scope to assure the public that if their mother or father is coming into one of our preparation rooms" that the body will be treated with dignity, said Briggs, who is president of more than a half-dozen funeral homes in central North Carolina.

Ttte board's discussion came in response to the recent federal shutdown of a Raleigh business that dealt in human tissues.

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About one year before the new National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School is to enroll its first class, Duke administrators and faculty are already voicing enthusiasm for the School and making plans for future collaborations.

In order to diversify and enhance the nation’s biomedical cluster, the government instituted the Singapore Biomedical Science Initiative in 2000.

Duke and NUS formally

joined in April 2005 to develop

the nation’s first graduate medical school within NUS—aiming to bolster Singapore’s reputation in the areas of biomedical research and clinical application.

“In terms of official planning, we’re well on our way with all the milestones,” said Dr. R. Sanders Williams, who will serve as the dean of Singapore’s QMS. Under the seven-year agreement Duke will help NUS develop a graduate medical school with a parallel infrastructure and curriculum, while NUS will invest more than $3OO million—a large portion of which will be dedicated to research.

Faculty already hired to teach at the graduate school will study areas ofmajor focus at Duke such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, emerging

infectious diseases, neurobehavioral disorders and metabolic and eye disorders, said Williams.

Dr. Terri Young, who studies eye disorders, is one of a several Duke faculty who will visit NUS for collaborative learning and re-

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search efforts during the life of the seven-year partnership.

On a continent where as many as 90 percent of the population suffers from myopia, the epidemiological resources for studying certain eye diseases in Singapore significantly surpass those in the United States.

Duke will gain much more than money through its collaboration with NUS. “The collaboration will give Duke access to numerous resources outside of the official arrangements,” Williams said.

Duke researchers will have access to alternative bioethics regulations and the county’s nationalized health care system, noted for its organization ofhealth data for a vast number of Singaporeans of various socio-economic classes.

Additionally, the arrangement will allow various Duke faculty affiliated with NUS to ally with researchers in Singapore’s new Biopolis—the major research and development hub ofAsia that has recently made international news headlines for its success in recruiting top stem cell researchers.

Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, said he is most excited about “promising advances in stem cell research” not permitted in the United States.

“This is not away to get around any form of government policy, but away to collaborate—to go around and exchange resources,” he said.

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Dr.R.SandersWilliams willserve as thedean ofDuke'saffiliated medicalschool in Singapore.

eventually pave the way for joint efforts

between global researchers, Williams said.

As is common with other U.S. schools affiliated with Asian universities, however, no Duke researcher has voiced intentions to work alongside stem cell experts in Singapore so far—and the nature of future collaborations remains uncertain. When asked what form joint ventures between the schools could one day

Singapore’s “enlightened” bioethics regulations could

take, Dzau noted that the most

promising outcome would be “shared knowledge among a global community.”

Dzau added Duke’s unprece-

dented approach to Joint biomed-

ical affairs in Asia promises to have a major impact on how nations around the world make advances.

“It reminds me of early experiments [with Western biomedicine]... in China,” he said. “This is an enormous project.”

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Students can receive HPV vaccine Law, Fuqua search for new deans by

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Health Center and three shots, female

students can now protect themselves from the risk of developing cervical caner.

Student Health has begun to administer Gardasil, a drug touted as a vaccine against cervical cancer.

Produced by the pharmaceutical company Merck, the drug was approved for use by the Federal Drug Administration in June.

The vaccine protects women against the four most common strains of the human papillomavirus which cause 70 percent of cervical cancer and 90 percent of genital warts.

HPV is one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted diseases, with 6.2 million Americans contracting it annually.

“This is something that would be beneficial to most of the female population at Duke,” said Lindsey Bickers Bock, health education specialist for Student Health.

“It’s pretty amazing in the world of preventative medicine.”

The full course of the treatment requires three shots and Student Health has begun administering the first shot to students who have requested the vaccine after learning about it from their doctors or parents, Bickers Bock said.

The health center will also be promoting the vaccine, which is approved for use in all females ages nine to 26.

“We’re using the resources we have through our health promotions service and doing more education with our faculty and staff,” said Devdutta Sangvai, medical director at Student Health.

Despite its benefits, however, Gardacii’s main drawback is its price. Each shot is

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The Duke Student Health Center has started distributing a highly effective HPV vaccine.

$l4O and the full course of treatment of $420 is only covered by approximately 50 percent of insurance providers, Bickers Bock explained.

“It is a costly vaccine,” she said. “But there are insurance companies that have

committed to cover it.”

The drug’s expense is partly due to its effectiveness but mostly because of its novelty.

“It’s not uncommon when any new thing that comes out on the market for insurance companies to check into cost benefits,” Sangvai said.

Student Health is charging no addi-

tional fees to administer the drug, Bickers Bock said, although the Duke insurance plan provided through Blue Cross and Blue Shield does not cover the vaccine.

“This was just approved in [June] so we may have some leverage for next year’s plan,” she added.

The drug is most effective for women who have never had vaginal sex because the likelihood of exposure to HPV increases with sexual activity.

But even when a woman is exposed to one strain, the vaccine will protect against the other three strains, Bickers Bock explained.

Nationwide searches for new deans of the School of Law and the Fuqua School of Business are proceeding on schedule, officials said this week.

Law school Dean Katharine Bartlett and Fuqua Dean Douglas Breeden announced their resignations in the spring and will step down from their posts June 30, 2007 The two schools began courting candidates in late spring and early to summer begin their terms in the fall of 2007 “Both committees are hard at work,” Provost Peter Lange said. “They have identified long lists of potential candidates and are now winnowing those lists, and I’m very satisfied with their progress.”

He said the University hopes to have short lists of candidates in time to bring them forward for the February meeting of the Board ofTrustees.

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“It costs enough to go here as it is... I’ve been trying for years to stop nickel-andwho manage to get a beer or two,” Wulforst diming student organizations,” Trask said, said. “I can’t just hire more people and With the lower price, there will be have them walk around with coats on that more orders from students who have complained about the bundled price of say ‘beer police bartenders Wolf exand kegs in pressed a simithe lar concern. past, “It costs enough to go here as it Wulf or st “University i5.... I’ve been trying for years to bartenders do said.

The subcard how stop nickle-and-diming student sidized baradept they are at spotting fake tenders will organizations.”

ID’s is not my have greatest Tallman Trask concern,” he on impact said, adding Executive VP student that he is trying groups who to attract gradalready have events or uate students to be bartenders speakers as another point of savings. planned and who are now able to add beer Other administrators said the underto the equation, Wolf said.

The discounted price is part of an graduate alcohol policy has not been changed and that previous penalties for array of changes that students will see to campus social life in the upcoming year, underage consumption remain.

“Students need to have the opportunity said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. to develop their social life in a responsible and respectful way,” explained Provost Although he declined to name specific Peter Lange. “This policy seems entirely initiatives, Moneta noted that there cannot consistent with that.” be a static approach to alcohol on a camTrask laughed at the idea that inexpenpus with such a range of ages. sive kegs by themselves could transform “I have no problem with our alcohol social life. policy—I have no problem with enabling He said he was motivated more by a studehts to drink,” he said. “This will not sense that the old policy was “annoying” be an opportunity for underage students and puts too much of a burden on stuto drink even more.” from page

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non-historically black colleges and universities that outranked Duke.

“I think it’s inevitable that HBCUs will be rated higher because they offer a different experience,” said junior Robyn-Ashley Hall, sitting among four black students in von der Heyden Pavilion Tuesday afternoon. “I would think we have a better environment [for black students] than Penn and Stanford.”

Hall added that she had considered those schools but opted for Duke because of its more robust black community.

Hall’s friends, however, suggested that the ranking probably had more to do with academics than anything else.

“Duke’s going to be in the top 20 because they’re good at educating students,” junior Morgan McGhee said. “Are they good at educating black students? They’re good at educating students.”

Others voiced mixed responses to the survey’s results.

[The Black Enterprise rankings] highlight some of Duke’s strengths as well as areas where improvement is needed,” senior Malik Burnett, president of Black Student Alliance, wrote in an e-mail.

“Among our peer institutions, we boast one of the highest percentages in black enrollment. Areas which need improvement include those pertaining to the need for a more inclusive social scene and an increase in the number of black faculty, who in addition to providing support networks, act as role models for black students on campus.”

Mark Anthony Neal, associate professor and director of undergraduate and graduate studies in the Department of African and African-American Studies, said Duke’s excellent academic reputation and location

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Senior Alexandria Thomas said she disagreed with Neal’s assessment ofDurham’s role, however.

“Even as a black student, I’ve been told since freshman year, ‘Don’t wear stuff with Duke on it because people aren’t receptive,’” she said. “Whether or not that’s true, Durham isn’t a big draw for black students.”

Hall, McGhee and Thomas all said a strong black community is a result of actions by students themselves and not of University policy, noting they would like to

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see stronger recruitment of non-athlete black males.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said he was pleased with the news and pointed to increased numbers of black faculty, work to recruit talented students of all races and the Mary Lou Williams Center as major initiatives intended to make the University a good place for black students.

“I think the reality is we’re doing the right thing,” he said.

Moneta cautioned against reading too much into the drop or connecting it to last spring’s lacrosse scandal.

“One of the great dangers is we’re be-

ginning to link anything and everything to lacrosse,” he said. “I absolutely don’t think

that was a factor.”

Burnett pointed to other studies that have yielded high grades, citing a 2003 study in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education that rated the University as first in the nation for black students.

But Burnett also acknowledged issues with residential segregation, high black faculty turnover and little interaction between black and white students.

“We have come a long way,” Burnett said. “But there is definitely a lot of work to be done.”

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IRAN from page 2 many tensions,” he said. “At the Security Council, where they have to protect security, they enjoy the veto right. If anybody confronts them, there is no place to take

complaints to.”

“This [veto right] is the source of problems of the world,” he said. “It is an insult to the dignity, independence, free-

dom and sovereignty ofnations.”

The United States’ ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, dismissed Ahmadinejad’s remarks, and Britain’s ambassador to the world body suggested, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that the comments were

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District Attorney Mike Nifong has come undercriticism for hisactions in the aftermathofDuke rape allegations.

NIFONG from page 1 and that’s the bottom line for me,” Edwards said.

Edwards, who worked with Nifong for nearly 16 years, said he did recognize flaws in Nifong’s handling of the lacrosse case.

“He’s made some mistakes in the case [like] talking to the press,” Edwards said.

“It sounds like the defense has a pretty strong argument.... I’m of the opinion that if the case plays out, it’ll be difficult for Mr. Nifong to get a conviction,” he added.

Still, Edwards said he understands why Nifong has pursued charges.

“Things are fairly clear-cut for him,” Edwards said. “Even if he thinks it’s a weak

case, he’s the kind of guy that will prosecute. There’s not a lot of gray in his world.”

In November, voters will have the choice of voting for Nifong, Cheek or Steve Monks, who is conducting a campaign as a write-in candidate.

Even if he receives the most votes, however, Cheek said he will not accept the job and the decision will be turned over to

Gov. Mike Easley.

Nifong criticized Cheek’s candidacy in a July 28 press conference, saying it was wrongly based on one case.

“The office has never been and can never be, about just one case,” he said.

“And yet, this move by a few of Durham’s citizens to recruit someone to run for the office based on their dissatisfaction with the handling of one case was an attempt to make it just that.”

James Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of law and chair of the law school dean search committee, said the search is on schedule to provide three unranked names for the position by the end of the fall semester.

“We’re at the early stages, and we’ve been conducting a national search and casting oulr net broadly,” he said.

Though he said the committee is looking at candidates “on the planet Earth,” Cox declined to name specific schools whose employees under consideration.

He added, however, that the law school search is successfully creating a candidate pool that places emphasis on women and people of color.

“We’re looking for someone who can... continue the steep trajectory the law school is enjoying with the present deanship,” Cox said. “It would be an individual with a great public presence as

mild compared to Ahmadinejad’s past sharp rhetoric against Israel and others.

“Given some of the comments he makes, we should probably take that as a compliment,” Ambassador Emyr JonesParry said.

After an opening statement, AJimadinejad allowed Iranian reporters to ask questions. One Iranian journalist stood up and showered him with praise.

The local reporters were more casually dressed than the foreign press, who later were allowed to question him about a range of topics. At one point, the president joked that he would call on a particular reporter because he and Ahmadinejad were wearing similar outfits. well as a scholarly presence.”

Bartlett stepped down as the law school completed a five-year strategic plan, and she will continue teaching and conducting research after taking a one-year sabbatical.

Lange said the search for the Fuqua dean, which began late in the spring, is also proceeding as planned. The committee is in the process ofvetting and screening candidates through November.

Like the search in the law school, the committee is working in a “cocoon of confidentiality,” and thus will not reveal specifics until later in the process, Lange added.

The committee is searching for someone who is an intellectual leader, an energetic and conscientious administrator and a strong advocate for the teaching and research mission of the school, the website devoted to the Fuqua dean search said.

Breeden resigned from his position with several years remaining in his contract and will also remain at Duke to teach and conduct research.

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The two were visiting a Duke student and were intoxicated, Duke University Police Department officers reported. They are accused of activating a fire extinguisher, which filled a corridor with yellow chemical retardant and activated the fire alarm system.

They ran from the scene, but were followed by witnesses, who alerted DUPD officers to their location. The two visitors were also banned from campus. The court date is Oct. 26.

Blackberry missing from top of car

A student reported that she left her Nextel Blackberry on top of a car unattended for about a half hour near 1911 Yearby Ave around 11 p.m. Thursday.

When she returned it was gone.

Money taken from purse A student reported that she left her purse unsecure and unattended at 9:00 a.m. in the Pegram Dormitory commons room Aug. 22, while she was assisting with freshman move-in. When she returned for her purse, her cash was missing.

Valuables reported stolen from DUMC lot An employee reported that she parked her Honda Civic at 11:00 a.m. in the Upper H parking lot at the Duke University Medical Center Thursday.

When she returned, someone had entered her car and stolen the JVC CD play-

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2 men charged after stealing bike tires A Duke security officer saw two men

riding bicycles on Research Drive Friday,

each carrying an extra mountain bike tire. The men were stopped by DUPD officers.

One man had an outstanding warrant for which he was arrested. The second man had previously been caught trespassing.

He was arrested for second-degree trespassing and told officers the first man took the tires off of a bike at the Bryan Center. Both men were charged with larceny.

Laptop pilfered from Med Center office A DUMC employee reported that she left her laptop in an open, unsecured office Aug. 18 in the Medical Science Research Building. When she returned to the office, the computer was missing.

Headphones taken from Flowers Building An employee from the Flowers Building reported that sometime in between Aug. 7 and Aug. 11, two sets of audio headphones were stolen. The employee reported that both sets of headphones were left out in the open. The office suite in which the headphones were left is card-reader controlled.

Duke students face, he explained.

He also hopes to improve and utilize the center’s website, which has been neglected as a resource in past years.

Glass said he expects Duke students to face many of the same problems as students at other universities—problems such as isolation, inticonmacy ““Students have cerns and community-

building

with the imposing task before him.

“There’s no way the work could kill me because while it takes energy, at the same time it gives me energy,” he said.

Prior to moving to Durham, Glass taught at schools such as Tufts University, Georgia State University and Boston College.

He also managed his own practice for a few years in Atlanta but said he longed to be in a university

all the tools, they just haven’t realized the tools are inside themselves.”

environment

again—leading led him to take the position at Duke.

“To me it was just a very alive campus,” Glass ex-

across racial and cultural boundaries.

“We have Gary Glass to make sure stuDuke plained. dents know He also themselves and ways to connect with pointed to the friendly and ambitious each other—person to person, across CAPS staff as another motivating facrace, gender and class lines,” he said. tor for joining the University’s staff.

In the next few weeks, Glass will be “I’m amazed at how the vision Kathy meeting with student organizations, such Hollingsworth has about CAPS is very as Healthy Devils. Through these meetbroad-based,” he said.

“There’s this phenomenal connecings, he hopes to “get arms out in the community”—a strategy he sees as the tion between CAPS and Student Afkey to making CAPS more approachable. fairs..,. I met Dr. Moneta right away —in “Students have all the tools, they just other schools I’ve worked at it would haven’t realized the tools are inside have been three weeks before I met with themselves,” he said. the vice president.”

Glass added that the unique situaIn preparation for the year, Glass has tion of having CAPS under the Divispent the past few weeks getting to know the University, analyzing the needs of sion for Student Affairs facilitates this CAPS and of students and holding regurelationship and makes CAPS more lar sessions with patients. than “just an office that helps kids Glass said he is not overwhelmed with problems.”

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Apparently Alana Beard could enough of Duke.

After four superb years, including two Final Four appearances, not get

she is back for one more shot at a

championship —a world championship, that is.

Beard, a Blue Devil from 2001

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to 2004, is a member of the USA Women’s Senior National Team that began practicing Tuesday and will continue until Sept. 6 in preparation for the FIBA World Championships in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which begin Sept. 12.

“It’s a great feeling to have, coming back to Cameron,” Beard

Scholars from the Class of 2006 Four: the number worn by JJ. Redick—the face of Duke University last year.

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fair or not, brilliant jump shots get immortalized on ESPN Classic. There is no ESPN for brilliant strides in the classroom.

Despite what they may say, athletes aren’t just regular students here at Duke—some are campus celebrities, a select few are national ones.

“Fundamentally, student athletes are one of, if not the most, visible faces of the University,” Senior Associate Athletic Director Chris Kennedy said. “A lot of people derive their impressions of Duke or their views about Duke from what they see internationally on the basketball court and locally in all of our other sports.”

Underneath the tidal wave of media coverage that swept across Duke Athletics this summer—from the lacrosse scandal to Redick’s DUI arrest to the suspension of sophomore quarterback Zack Asack—is an undertow of serious questions facing the Duke community, particularly its athletic community.

The pressure of being the best, of embodying the excellence with which the Duke name has grown to be synonymous, has always weighed heavily on its student body. Yet, the pressure on athletes on this campus has never been more intense than it is right now.

A certain sense of pride is stitched into the D-U-K-E of every jersey. Tacked along with that pride is the responsibility of maintaining it.

Kennedy said athletes are certainly held to higher standards in public —when they’re on the field and in the spodight —but SEE SHINER ON PAGE 14

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said. “I think the best thing about it is that I can look into the rafters and see my jersey is hanging up there and sort of remember what it took to get that up there—you know the late nights in the gym, my entire four years here.”

Before being drafted second ' by the WNBA’s Washington Mystics in 2004, Beard was a dominant force in Cameron. As the Blue Devils’ first scoring option, she racked up 2,687 career points —the highest total in Duke history, man or woman, until JJ. Redick passed it last spring. She was also a three-time All-American and the 2004 Wooden Award winner and AP National Player of the Year.

Duke retired Beard’s No. 20 jersey Jan. 24, 2004, making hers the first women’s jersey to hang from Cameron’s rafters.

Now, she said, she couldn’t be more excited to return to the gymnasium where she accomplished so much.

The decision to hold practice in Cameron was made before Beard was named to the national team, but nonetheless she was thrilled to find out she had the opportunity to return to her alma mater.

“I was like ‘man it would be the perfect situation,”’ Beard said. ‘“I could get named to the team and be able to be back at Duke for two weeks and play in Cameron, be able to relive the old times.’”

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When she returned to Duke for training camp this August, senior Rebecca Moros didn’t have the usual what-I-did-on-my-summer-vacation story to tell.

Moros, one of the women’s soccer team’s tri-captains, spent the past summer playing for the Under-21 U.S. Women’s National Team. Her experience, which began when she trained with the team in the spring, culminated in a selection to compete for the United States in the 2006 Nordic Cup in July.

The team—coached by UCLA’s head coach Jillian Ellis and composed of college and high school players from across the country—spent two weeks in Norway for the tournament and lost to Germany in the championship game, 2-0.

But Moros’ summer didn’t end with that loss. After completing her stint with the U-21 team, Moros returned to the United States and played for the Long Island Fury of the Women’s Premier Soccer League, an elite amateur league The midfielder scored the game-winning goal for the Fury in the

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SAITAMA, JAPAN As the United States was rolling through play in the world championships, Dwyane Wade couldn’t help but notice that something seemed

missing.

“No booing,” he said.

The absence of those ugly sounds was a welcome change for Wade, Leßron James and Carmelo Anthony, who listened to them on a nightly basis while playing for an unpopular U.S. Olympic team two years ago.

“We heard some real foul stuff back in 2004,” Anthony said.

But it’s been almost entirely cheers this time for the Americans, who headed into their quarterfinal matchup with Germany Wednesday night as perhaps the biggest tournament favorites, both on and off the court.

In their first game here Sunday, the Americans were cheered on by a crowd that included one fan from the Philippines who was wearing a James Cleveland Cavaliers jersey and holding a sign that asked Wade for marriage.

‘You go out on the court and you see all the fans chanting ‘USA,’ and they’re not from the USA,” James said.

Terrorism fears following Sept. 11, 2001 kept many American fans—not to mention some NBA players who were supposed to suit up for the U.S.—from traveling to Athens. With little support from their own fans and declining U.S. popularity around the world because of the war in Iraq, the Americans felt like they were playing road games most of the time.

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It was obvious how much things had changed starting in Sapporo, Japan, where the Americans closed group play amid chants for Wade, who sat out that game because the result was meaningless.

“We weren’t even expecting any cheers coming out here,” Wade said. “It was a surprise to us, it was a great surprise, that we could come out here and gain some fans.”

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James has spent part of the last two summers in Asia making promotional appearances for Nike, with stops lastyear in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. His shoe marketed only in China sold out in two hours.

“I was here last summer, so I kind of knew what to expect,” James said. “So I was kind of just propping the guys, letting them know, ‘Well, it’s not going to be that good.’ Then when they got here it was all crazy, so it’s been everything I’ve expected and more.”

U.S. and Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski attributed his team’s popularity to the way his players have acted. More likely, it has to do with the way they play.

“Japanese people are fascinated with strong teams,” said Masa Oshima, a Tokyo resident who is working as a media conference interpreter for FIBA. “If it was a major league All-Star team, the same thing would be happening. But if it was the American soccer team, they wouldn’t think twice.

They would rather follow England and David Beckham.

“They pretty much just want to see a good show, lots of dunks and stuff.”

The Americans quickly seized on that, with James and Dwight Howard frequendy drawing roars after their dunks—and that’s during pregame warmups.

“Playing overseas, the crowd is a little different than NBA crowds, so just try to get them going,” Howard said. “Get the crowd into it early, that way when the game comes they’ll be so hyped because they saw us doing all those dunks that they’ll want to see them in the game.”

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MOROS from page 11 league’s title match July 29.

Now at the beginning of the Blue Devils’ season, the two-time All-ACC honoree is bringing her experiences back to Durham, where she is expected to be a team leader for Duke in the fall.

“Consistency is really important as a leader,” Moros said. “People can look to you and they know what they’re going to get from you game after game—that’s priceless for me. Working on developing that in that kind of environment just makes it easier to execute it here.”

Moros said her consistency was one thing the national team coaches encouraged her to develop during training. The positive qualities noticed by the national team coaches have been apparent to

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Rebecca Moros started 20 games for Duke in 2005, tallying four goals and fourassists.

Moros’ teammates and coaches at Duke for three years.

“People respect Rebecca because of her passion for the game and the way she takes care of herself,” head coach Robbie Church said. “They see what she’s capable ofand they say ‘this is what it takes to play at that level.’ Any time you train with the best we want you to bring that back to show the rest of the takes.” players The senior’s national team experience began in March when Ellis chose Moros as one of 25 athletes to participate in a 10-day training camp.

Missing classes for several periods of time—including one during finals week for a trip to Holland and Germany Moros trainedwith the pool until she was finally selected to the U-21 team in June.

Although she was was absent from Duke’s spring practice at times, Moros did not feel it affected her role on the team.

“I missed some things but I made it back for pretty much every game we played so I didn’t feel like I was letting people down,” Moros said. “It makes me a better player, which helps me come back here and be a better player here, and [Church] is absolutely supportive of that.”

The midfielder said she enjoyed her times with the other girls on the national team, from dancing in the hotel rooms to walking down cobblestone streets to visiting the harbor in Norway.

But she also said she is excited to be back with her team at Duke, trading international adventures for activities like team mini-golf in Wilmington, N.C. during preseason workouts.

“You’re meeting people, you’re having a good time, you’re playing soccer,” Moros said ofnational training. “Duke is really like a family, I don’t know any other way of describing it.”

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Alana Beard (left) shares a light moment with current Blue Devils duringTuesday's practice at Duke.

BEARD from page 11 Besides lacing up on her old court,

practicing at Duke provides another homecoming of sorts for Beard. She is reunited with Blue Devils’ head coach Gail Goestenkors, who is serving as an assistant coach for the national team.

The two have maintained a close relationship since Beard graduated two years ago, speaking weekly and instant messaging often, Beard said.

“It’s like I never thought I would play for her again,” Beard said. “Just the thought of coming back and seeing her face, to walk into the gym everyday and see Coach G’s face just sort ofmade me smile.”

Though Goestenkors will not act as head coach, her position leaves the two in a unique position to continue their playercoach relationship.

“I can’t wait to have Alana back in

Cameron and work with her,” Goestenkors said in early August. “She’s excited. We stay in contact a couple of times a week. So when I found out that she had made the team, she was on cloud nine.”

The last three seasons, Beard has played for the Mystics. In 2005, just her second year in the league, Beard earned a spot on the WNBA All-Star team. This season she was sixth in the league in scoring at 19.2 points per game while she led her team to the playoffs for the second time.

Even so, her time in the nation’s capital is hardly comparable to her days at Duke, she said.

“Cameron is one the of the top facilities to play in,” Beard said. “One thing that I remember is the floor, just walking in and stepping on that floor because it is just so soft. It makes my feet, my knees, my body just feel g00d....

But it’s very competitive, it has so much history in it and I’m just going to be so excited to be back on that court again.”

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Upon hearing this, some may find this new protocol harsh. But here’s the reality: when an athlete signs his (or

SHINER from page 11 that those same high standards extend to what they do in their private lives as well.

“When JJ. has a DUI, it’s front-page stuff across the country. When Joe Student does, it’s not back-page news anywhere,” Kennedy said. “So both in the public arena and in their private lives, [athletes] are subject to greater scrutiny and have to be more mindful of how they behave.’’

Starting this semester, student athletes will have to be even more mindful of their actions than ever before.

The previous policy of the University was that Student Affairs would only send a report to the Athletic Department if an athlete was cited for a suspendible offense. Now, if an athlete is written up by an R.A. or cited for anything on campus, the Athletic Department will be informed.

“We’ve been pretty good at cracking down on behaviors that we thought were inappropriate,” Kennedy said.

“The difference is going to be that we’re going to know a lot more of them than we did in the past. We’re already

her) letter of intent, when he steps into Cameron or Wallace Wade or Koskinen, when he puts on his Duke jersey, he is committed to Duke. He chooses to become a representative of this university.

In deciding to come to Duke to play sports, an athlete has selected a certain path for himself. Just as some might choose to spend their four years here in the library or doing research or partying, his choice of paths has its consequences, its sacrifices.

Maybe it’s not fair that an athlete’s extraordinary talents also carry the burden of extraordinary responsibility.

There are a lot of talented kids around here who do not face the intense scrutiny an athlete does. But you can’t change the fact that people care about sports. You can’t just lift away the attention athletes receive.

This is especially true for the lacrosse team.

So far, it seems as if everyone on campus has been pushed to one side or the other: either they unequivocal-

ly support its players and swear their innocence or they vehemently attack them as elitist bigots and womanizers.

There is a middle ground.

Legally, the lacrosse team may be innocent of wrong-

doing. But regardless of whether a rape occurred in that house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., as prominent representatives of this university, the team let the Duke community down by not living up to its commitment—not living up to the standards its players chose for themselves when they chose to put on Duke Blue.

The players of the lacrosse team reminded the world (not-so-subtly) that student athletes are human—actually, even more, they reminded us that student athletes are still 20 years old. But the consequences of their actions, of their mistakes, have affected an entire university profoundly.

“The events of March 13th and 14th created this great big spotlight and shown it on our 650 some-odd kids, so that every time one of them pops up, it’s cast a very long shadow,” Kennedy said.

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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 weekends.

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RIDING LESSONS Beginner to advanced. Convenient to Chapel Hill and Durham. Reasonable rates.

919-968-4808 for info.

PART TIME SERVERS & HOSTS Carolina Ale House- Work in the #1 sports themed Restaurant in the Chapel Hill/ Durham area We are seeking high-energy applicants for full and part time server and host positions Please apply within M-F 3911 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd EOE 919.851.0858

HELP WANTED!!

Want to make some good money in a fast paced sports enviroment.

The Original Steakhouse and Sports Theatre is looking for experienced help to carry them through the fall sports season. Part-Time and Full Time Available. Now Looking for Servers, Bartenders, and Hosts. 919.402.8717 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 Wait staff, bartenders, hostesses, PT/FT, flexible hours. Apply in person Monday through Friday. In front of Super Target, Southsquare. 919489-2848.

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9:00 AM 6:00 PM Apply in person at; LongHom of Apex Beaver Creek Commons Dr. 1411 Convenietly located off 1-55 and 1-64 across from the new movie theater Apex, NC 27502 P) 919.306.1389 For those Team members interested in a career in the restaurant industry, we offer opportunities for professional growth. Many Team members go on to positions such as in-store Trainer, Corporate Trainer, Key Employee, and Corporate Support. LongHom also actively seeks to promote employees into management.

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.

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RESEARCH Work Study (Federal?) student needed as assistant in surgery research lab ~lohrs/wk. 919.684.3929 The Kenan Institute for Ethics needs dependable, motivated undergraduate office assistants for courier service, mailings, research, database entry, etc.

Flexible day-time hours. $8.25/ hr. Work-study preferred but not required. Send resume to

kie@duke.edu. 919.660.3033 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@sim-

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LongHorn Steakhouse offers one of the best employee experiences in the restaurant industry. Our casual atmosphere lets you work comfortably, while our hours of operation allow you to balance your workload and personal life. We are currently hiring fun, energetic, and dedicated team members for ALL POSITIONS at our NEWEST LOCATION:

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.

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GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MOAT, TOEFL Advance your career with a graduate degree! Attend PrepSuccess™ courses during the evenings or weekends throughout the triangle, pr access the live web cast or streaming video recordings. One low price of $420 $699 gets you 36 60 hours of classroom instruction plus FREE tutoring and mentoring after each class. We also offer tutoring services in trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus, physics, and differential equations. Visit www.PrepSuccess.com or call 919-791-0810

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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.

PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH COMPANY seeks fulltime research technician to assist in conduct of clinical trials of stress management video products. Duties include psychosocial and physiological data collection from research subjects; data entry, management and analysis; and participation in preparation of papers describing findings.

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

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, Tonal! 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 hr Janice iblinder@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.

PART TIME GOLF JOB PART TIME CART & RANGE ATTENDANT NEEDED AT CROASDAILE COUNTRY CLUB (3 MILES FROM MUST BE ABLE TO DUKE) WORK WEEKENDS MUST HAVE DEPENDABLE TRANSPORTATION $6.50 PER HOUR GOLF PRIVILEGES START IMMEDICALL SCOTT ATELY 919.383.2517 -

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 UNIVERSITY BOX OFFICE

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 Aug on 30 or e-mail 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 introductory Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Math, Physics and Foreign

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

Print an application off our website: www.duke.edu/web/skills or pick one up in the Peer Tutoring Program Office, 201 Academic Advising Center, east campus, 919.684,8832

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

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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 $lO/hr as an undergraduate tutor (sophomore-senior) or $l3/hr as a graduate student tutor.

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 $l3/hr as a graduate student tutor. Peer Tutoring Program, 201 Academic Advising campus, east Center, 919.684.8832

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Developmental Specialists to support children newborn to 3 years old with developmental delays.

Educate families on child development. Flexible schedule. Degree in related field.

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CALLING ENGINEERING STUDENTS Help your fellow classmates by tutoring them in ECE 61L, 62L, 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

weekends free Auxiliary Finance Office

Save that gas money you would spend commuting and earn $8.97 an hour working on West Campus.

Work around your class schedule, 10-20 hours a week between 8:00 and 4:30 Monday through Friday. Two students needed for data entry and general office work. Call Barbara at 660-3766.

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CENTER Bostock Library Currently enrolled Duke grad/undergrads 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. tina.kirkham@duke.edu

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STUDENT TECHNOLOGY JOBS 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? Well train the right student!!

Email flts@duke.edu for an interview.

BILINGUAL RECEPTIONIST Graham based company seeking

Bilingual Receptionist/Office Support person. Multi-line phone system, office support, computer

(Word, Excel, Outlook) tasks. Multitasking abilities a plus. Permanent, full time M-F position with benefits after successful probationary period. Salary depending on experience. Drug Screen required. EOE. Send resumes to: HR Dept. P 0 Box 598, Graham, NC 27253 by September 6, 2006.

Phone calls will not be accepted.

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, SundaySaturday, $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

BARTENDERS NEEDED!!!

Earn $2O $35 per hour. Job placement assistance is our top priority.

RALEIGH’S BARTENDING SCHOOL. Have Fun! Make Money!

Meet People! Call now for info about our BACK TO SCHOOL TUITION SPECIAL! (919)676-0774 www.cocktailmixer.com -

CERTIFIED LIFEGUARDS NEEDED $lO/hour; M-F 8:00am-noon and 2:00-6:00pm and Sat/Sun 10:00-3:00. Call Gerald Endress at Duke Diet and Fitness Center, 6883079 ext. 277. Duke is Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.

website: www.duke.edu/ web/ skills 919.684.8832 STUDENT OFFICE ASSISTANT

WORK ON CAMPUS

DIGITAL PRODUTION

position open to work-study or nonwork study Duke students. Call OTS 919.684.5774

CPS TUTORS NEEDED! a tutor for or 6. Apply in Office, 201 Center, east 684-8832.

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

Know JAVA? Be Computer Science 1 the Peer Tutoring Academic Advising campus,

THEATER HOUSE MANAGERS NEEDED! 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!

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

136.) 919,493.4502

WORK STUDY STUDENTS 3-4 work study students needed for 7-12 hours each weekly in Research area of Development for filing, light clerical work, assisting the Research Secretary, and other projects as needed. Flexible hours. Contact Lyman at 681-0426 or lyman.daughWORK-STUDY STUDENT needed at the Duke Center for Living to work 10-12 hrs/ week with a cardiology/exercise physiology research team. Hours flexible. Duties include data entry, general office support.

Call or email Lucy If interested: lucy.piner@duke.edu

STUDENT WORKER NEEDED The Center for Computational Science, Engineering and Medicine seeks a student worker to update our web sites and maintain order in our lab.

Dreamweaver and php skills a plus.

Work-study preferred. $lO/hour, 6-10 E-mail hrs/week. .duke.edu,

erty@dev.duke.edu

919.660.6781

PORT CITY JAVA HIRING BARISTAS Hiring friendly, energetic coffee lovers. TWo positions available. Cafe Hours: M-F 6a-6p.

919.286.6050 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 orlanoo2@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, Access Database JAVA), Programming, or clerical experience.

Send C V/ resume to info@biac.duke.edu.

WORK at GELP! 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.

WORK STUDY: Neurobiology lab looking for work study student to work approximately 8-10 hr/week. If interested contact please

ellison@neuro.duke.edu WORK-STUDY POSITION The Fuqua School of Business Executive MBA Operations department is seeking a student to work as a general office assistant. Responsibilities would include data entry, filing, assistance with mass mailings, and other projects as assigned. Flexible work schedule available totaling ten hours per week. Team oriented person, strong work ethic, and willingness to have fun at work required. Students with work study funding are encouraged to apply. Email resume to

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Electrical & Computer Engineering is seeking student help for general office support. Work-study is required. Students need to be able to work 8-10 hours per week.

Please e-mail Call Patricia Tirrell at patricia@ee.duke.edu for more details CHILDCARE/TUTOR After school helper for friendly, talkative 14 yo girl with cerebral palsy; help with homework, community outings M-F 2:45pm -6:3opm. CPR cert required, use of vehicle. $l2/hr to start. Ph. 781-3616 x223 or des-

CHILDCARE WANTED for Wed Fri mornings, 10 am 1 pm, for fun 3 and 1-year-old. 10 minutes from campus. Portuguese or speaker preferred.

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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).

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

CPR preferred, email: Teresa at

tkbkbaby@hotmail.com

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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@coastalfcu.org

919.657.1058 AFTERSCHOOL CHILDCARE for delightful 9 and 12 y/ o in north Chapel Hill. 2:30-6:30 Mon thru Fri. If desired, additional responsibilities and hours available. Must be good driver with own transportation. Nonsmoker. References required. Call after 6:3OPM: 919.960.0763 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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Call Amy at 919-451-6805 or email: jaaal@msn.com

khoch@duke.edu.

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 yearold boy a big plus. Excellent pay. References required, email helen.egger@duke.edu if interested.

METRO 8 STEAKHOUSE is now hiring servers, bartenders and hostesses. Full time and part time evening shifts. Apply in person at 746 9th Street between 2 and 4 pm.

AFTER SCHOOL CHILD CARE Duke family with 6, 10 and 12 y.o. children. 2-3 days/week 3:00-6:30 pm. Nonsmoker. Excellent refs and driving record. $ll.OO/hr 401-8585

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APARTMENTS FOR RENT One BR Carriage House APT, oneminute walk to East. AIC, W/D, $650. Avail. 8/1 540-226-1369

HOMES FOR RENT DUKE PARK RENTAL 3/1 w/ enclosed patio and wash/ dryer hookups, enclosed patio. 1/4 acre lot quiet neighborhood,

contact Bumpanella@hotmail.com

408.286.5151

5 MINUTES FROM DUKE Unique 3 bedroom 2 bath house, quiet, safe neigborhood, lots of light and high ceilings whirlpool tub, W/ D large deck, available July 1 $1275 919.264.5498

PART-TIME NANNY needed for cute 3 y.o. girl. 6-10 hrs/wk, during weekday afternoons. One block from East Campus. $lO- Call Chris 919.613.7247

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or Administrative Support? With more than 15 years of experience, we specialize in assisting busy professionals, executives, and small businesses. (919) 732-6483 or ondemandsupport@earthlink.net

FURNITURE FOR SALE Couch/ love set -$4OO, coffee/2 end table set -$2OO, area rug -$lOO, dining room set- $4OO,- kitchen table set $5O, sm fridge $4O. Excell, cond, negotiable, call Gary after 6 pm 919.572.6655

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GREAT LOFT BEDS FOR SALE 2 metal loft beds with built-in desks for sale, really classy! great for dorms, perfect condition, all parts, instructions. Bought for ssoo+, selling for $3OO 080. (919)699-7787 or thj2@duke.edu

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CHILDCARE needed in our home near campus for twin toddlers on Tu and Th, 9:00 4:30 (hrs flexible, about 15 hrs/wk). Experience and ref’s req’d. w/toddlers 919.260.9942 -

PART-TIME CHILDCARE NEEDED for our charming 11-month infant in our home. Flexible schedule. Either mornings, early afternoons or a combination of both, M-F. Duke/ Durham location. Perfect for graduate or mature undergraduate. To Please call asap. start 919.824.5446 or e-mail skrtravers@yahoo.com

ENERGETIC SITTER NEEDED REALLY cute 4 year old needs sitter from time to time. North Durham location. 919.479.5548 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 Northern 5;30p.

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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

BEAUTIFUL HOME FOR RENT This 3 bedroom 1 bath house at 2015 Carolina Ave. is in an excellent neighborhood just a short distance from Duke. Yard maintenance is included as part of the rent. The house includes all brand new appliances, new carpet, central air and a lovely gas log fireplace. The home sits on a 1/2 acre fenced yard. Owner is seeking a responsible person/ s to rent and take care of this property. Monthly rent is $9OO. Contact Wayne (919) 638-614 1 e m a i I : wsmithls47@aol.com

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Reformer classes and private sessions. $25-$6 O. 1010 Lamond Durham.

Avenue, MetaformMovement.com 919.682.7252 EXPERIENCING HAIR LOSS???

If you are suffering from Alopecia, Chemotherapy, or any other type of hair loss problems, or just want to look fabulous, we will design a custom made Hair Unit according to your needs. Call today for a free Consultation. 919.451.5497

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DUKE IN THE ANDES Quito, Ecuador with Duke in South America for a semester or academic year. Courses, taught in local universities, include sociology, cultural anthropology, history, art history, literature, Andean and Latin American regional studies, and many more!

Spanish 76 or equivalent proficiency required. Spring 2007 applications due October 2, 2006. For more information and an application, please visit

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www.aas.duke.edu/ study_abroad/. Regional director from Quito will be at the Study Abroad Fair on September 19 in the Bryan Center.

625 STARMONT DR &LT;IMILE TO DUKE Large 5 bedroom/2bath house in quiet family neighborhood.

Huge fenced backyard I 2 fireplaces. appliances.

New $l7OO/month. Broadband Internet included. 919-931-0977

TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE FOR SALE TOWNHOUSE $174,900 Beautiful 2003 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath townhouse with an office/study and detached 1 car garage in Thaxton Place in HVF. Great Location, convenient to Duke and Southpoint Mall.

Many upgrades. Call for a showing.

919.765.9706

ROOM FOR RENT Private room in home. Separate

entry and bath. Fully furnished. All utilites paid. Available 7/15 for summer session or coming school year.

Close to East Campus.'High-speed internet. 286-2285 or 383-6703.

Sain Hands-On Experience Cutting-Edge Research techniques Biology 205L: Developmental/Molecular Genetics Lab Dr. Alyssa Perz-Edwards MWorTTh 1:15-5: JSPM With over $1 million of research-grade equipment available, students can explore embryonic development using essential technologies such as: digital imaging, fluorescence microscopy, mutant analysis, molecular genetics, immunolocalization, and in situ hybridization and microarray analysis. Student projects may be suitable for publication in undergraduate scientific journals. www.biology.duke.edu

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ORLEANS Doing his stations of the Katrina cross, President Bush went for breakfast with Mayor Ray Nagin at Betsy’s Pancake House.

As Bush tried to squeeze past some tighdy placed tables, a waitress, Joyce Labruzzo, teased him, saying, “Mr. President, are you going to turn your back on me?”

“No ma’am,” he replied, with a laugh and a pause for effect.

“Not again.”

I maureen dowd It was a rare unguarded moguest column ment—showing that his towering Katrina failure is lodged somewhere in the front of his cerebral cortex—in a trip of staged, studiously happy settings, steering away from the wreckage of buildings and people so searing for anyone who loved the saucy and sauce-laden New Orleans of old.

W.’s anniversary contrition for the cameras was a more elaborate version of his famous Air Force One flyover a year ago, when he had to be shown a DVD ofangry news coverage of apartheid suffering here before he belatedly and grudgingly broke off his five-week Crawford vacation.

In an interview on the Upper Ninth Ward’s desolate North Dorgenois Street, the president told NBC’s Brian Williams that, besides Camus, he had recently read a book on the Battle of New Orleans and “three Shakespeares.” A White House aide said one of them was “Hamlet.”

What could be more fitting? A prince who dithers instead of acting and then acts precipitously at the wrong moment, not paying attention when someone vulnerable drowns.

Asked by the anchor whether he was asking people in the country to sacrifice enough, he replied briskly, “Americans are sacrificing—we pay a lot of taxes.”

The last two days in Mississippi and New Orleans were W.’s play within the play. He took the rote of the empathetic and engaged chief executive, rallying resources to save the Gulf Coast, even as the larger tens showed a sad picture of American communities that are still gutted and hurting, white the Bush administration’s billions flow to reconstructing —or rather not reconstructing—Iraq.

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talked about restoring “the soul” of New Orleans. It always makes me nervous when W. does soul talk.

He was brazen enough to pose as the man of action even in a city ruined by his initial and continuing inaction. “I’ve been on the levees,” he told a crowd at a high school here on Tuesday. Tve seen these good folks working.”

He spoke to a small number ofresidents in the boiling sun before the one house that had been tidily restored in a blighted working-class neighborhood in Biloxi. Outside the TV frame, there was a toilet on its side in the yard of a gutted house full of dangling wires, iron scraps and other sad detritus. On one fence spoke there was a child’s abandoned stuffed toy.

At a stop at a building company in Gulfport, Miss., he chirped biblically: “There will be a momentum, momentum will be gathered. Houses will begat jobs, jobs will begat houses.”

Douglas Brinkley, the New Orleans writer who recounted the history of the trellis of failure, Republican and Democratic, federal, state and local, in “The Great Deluge,” noted that Bush was merely “sweating bullets trying to get the visit over with.”

“In the Republican playbook, Katrina’s a loser.”

Bush tells journalists he has been reading prodigiously, 53 books so far this year, with three bios of George Washington, two ofLincoln and one of Mao. He seems more attuned to his place in history and yet he doesn’t really seem to get that his presidency will be defined by rushing into one place too fast and not rushing into another fast enough.

He let Dick Cheney and Rummy launch attacks on critics of the war this week. Darth Vader reiterated his nutty pre-emption policy, and Rummy compared critics of Iraq to Chamberlains who appeased Hitler, noting that “once again we face similar challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism.”

Somebody needs to corner the defense chief and explain that it’s not that we don’t want to fight terrorism, it’s that we want to do it efficiently and effectively. Why is it necessary to scare the country, make false connections between an ill-conceived war and fighting terror, and demonize critics with outrageously careless historical references to Hitler and fascism.

W. needs to restore the soul, not merely of the Big Easy, but of the White House.

Maureen Dowd is a regular columnist for The New York Times.

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Freshmen, as official college students, size. Freedom has never been free, granted, but now the very word FREE floats you are now completely FREE*: to eat and along unabashedly fettered with the drink whatever and whenever you please, mandatory terms and conditions that to sleep anywhere, bathroom stall and have put the rest of the commercialized stranger’s bed not excluded. Expect no world in chains. fine print, save those little letters on your How free are you really, Mr. FREE*? final grade report. In 10 years, you’ll be You not only insult the intelligence of glad to be FREE* of recollection, your obsessive e-mail checkers everywhere, memories washed away by lovely Friday

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Sadly, any sense of completeness is, by nature of the term, a farce for those freshmen who feel FREE*. The sophomore experience is infinitely more exhilarating, for they already have tasted the forbidden fruit of parental independence and moved on to more luscious varieties. This University will no longer hold your hand. Suck it up; that is, the sweet juice of liberty. There are no SACS to interfere with your newfound autonomy; the bother of a hundred hands moving you into your dorm is gone; you can finally sweat it out yourself, and haul butt and box up three flights of stairs in the privacy of your own sauna.

Oh, the joy we must contain.

Juniors and seniors frolic in a FREE*dom kingdom beyond that of grads and other undergrads alike. These upperclassmen live outside and between two worlds, both of which present those limitations that make our friendly asterisk weighty with deceit. Frosh and soph are green and so uncouth, constrained by their own immaturity; grads are old and sensible, and if not married, all too ready for the picking. As for those over the drinking age, you’re living it up and not even troubled with knowing it, what with fun distractions like internships and interviews

and parents who’ve forgotten you by now.

For those just short of hitting blackjack, flaunt those plastic cups with facebookworthy indiscretion, and in your silly state, hope the cops just can’t do math. Swap dates, forget dates, take advantage of everyone younger thanyou, because every weekend is So Totally Dynamite.

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College can be a tough place. This is an architecturally well-fortified university; mixed signals roam the tree-lined paths and bounce off concrete columns. So when befuddled by ads and nonsensical deals, and in need of a trusty frame of reference, cheer up, cool down and consider switching off the brainpower that got you here.

Whether you’re feeling ridiculously chipper or inexplicably alone, there’s just one thing to do. Shake it off, and throw math and grammar out the door. ’Cause baby, you and me and everything is absolutely FREE*.

Jane Chong is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every Wednesday.

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is not the enemy,” declared the English and Al-Siyada, which ran in Arabic.

San Francisco Chronicle in an Oct. 14, He came to the U.S. after his newspaper offices were bombed.

2005 staff editorial. “Islam is not America’s enemy in terror war,” wrote the Daily Jawad says international media have not Herald, a Provo, Utah newspaper, when focused enough on the non-violent Musheadlining an Aug. 20 column by Charles lim community. He adds, however, that Haynes, a scholar at the First Amendment newspapers alone are not responsible for Center in Arlington, Va. the dearth of material.

“Muslims themselves The peace-loving, tolerant were unsuccessful to presnature of the vast majority ent this issue,” he said. of Muslims has become a tenet of post-9/11 Ameri“They should be playing a very active role defending can thought—and for the image of 151am.... The reason, because good by the numbers, it is true media should give a hand But if millions of Musto moderate Muslims, let Andrew gerst them take the lead in their lims do not support terrorunited we stand ism actively, their silence own community. It’s time now to advocate peace, tolmay be doing so passively. erance, faith and good relaAt a time when hundreds ofIslamic clerics, leaders and “activists” are tions among all religions in the U.S.” In polite society, and especially a “poopenly fostering sectarian Shiite-Sunni violence, offering financial incentives for the litically correct” one, membership in any families of suicide bombers, and even callgroup offers greater—perhaps even the ing for the annihilation of Israel—all in only—authority to criticize it. This is the the name of their faith—there has been no unspoken problem plaguing America commensurate response from the Muslim today: non-Muslims simply lack the politmoderates. The silence is deafening. ical capital Muslims have to criticize milare afraid of the terrorists themitant Islam on a fundamental, doctrinal “They selves—those who threaten and harass level. That is to say, when individuals and open-minded secular people,” said Abdul organizations representing other reliSattar Jawad, visiting scholar at the John gions speak out against fundamentalist Islam, the public may write off these Hope Franklin Center. “There are religious militia hiding behind who will kill comments as mere self-interest, ignorance or hate. Observant Muslims alone, people who criticize and attack them.” in theory, have the experiential knowlJawad, who describes himself as a secular liberal, taught literature in Iraq for al-. edge—from their lives—and moral clout—from the very fact of their obsermost forty years and edited two newspapers, the Baghdad Mirror, a publication in vance—to condemn radical Islam in a

profoundly meaningful way. And in practice, not nearly enough are doing so.

Many well-intentioned people seem to perceive the demand for everyday Muslims’ dissemination of a peaceful Islam as a McCarthyist witch hunt for terrorists.

On the contrary: it is in fact the audience of this message, rather than its speakers, who matter most. Thousands of impressionable, college-aged Muslims are caught in a labyrinth of radical clerics’ terror propaganda. “There is no other way for the youth of this nation other than suicide operations,” wrote Kamal AlSaid Habib in the February 2003 edition of British-based journal Al-Sunnah. The Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist group, publishes in London Risalat al-Ikhwan, a publication which declared recently, “Muqaawamah [active resistance] to the occupation [of Iraq] and the use of any available means to resist it are a religious Moslem duty, a national duty, and a natural right anchored in both international law and the United Nations Charter.”

Politicians may try to put these men in jail and ban their publications. But to truly win the war on terror we must convince their followers that they are wrong.

It is this fortress of lies and hate that we must break. And with an audience so deeply programmed to despise non-Muslims, it is, sadly, only with Muslim-to-Muslim discussions of faith—through opinion pieces, advertisements, panel discussions and the like—that the West has a prayer.

So where is the moderate Muslim re-

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sponse? The slim handful of public intellectuals who fall in this category —people like Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran; Kamal Nawash, president of the Free Muslims Coalition; and Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America—are virtually unknown. This approach is inadequate.

A unified and well-publicized moderate Muslim condemnation of terror has become even more urgent, as support and sympathy for Islamic terrorists have in fact entered our own nation. At a number of U.S. summer demonstrations in support of Hezbollah—a group whose 1985 founding manifesto cites “the necessity of the destruction of Israel”—protesters have held signs with the Nazi swastika beside the Star ofDavid. This juxtaposition is not an isolated incident; rather, it has become a relatively common, incendiary propaganda to equate explicidy Israelis, and often implicitly Jews, with the very force that nearly exterminated them.

If one must phrase things in terms of the Holocaust, then an analogue far closer to the truth lies between the moderate Muslims of today and the moderate Germans of 1938. Hider rose to power on the backs of a people who turned away, some in fear, some in apathy. Today militant Islam, threatens to do the same, hijacking a religion whose mainstream adherents do not speak out.

Andrew Gerst graduatedfrom Trinity College in 2006. He is a former managing editor of Towerview. He now lives and works in Washington, D.C.

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