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Benjamin Mkapa, former president of Tanzania, called on more developed countries to help alleviate Tanzania’s healthcare crisis Tuesday night at Duke.

During his speech, “Challenges in Health and Education: Tanzania and the World,” Mkapa said it was important to establish global health partnerships between the world’s richest and poorest countries in the fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria.

“The responsibility is shared between the developing world and the developed world,” Mkapa said.

More than 50 people gathered at the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences’ Schiciano Auditorium.

Gilbert Merkx, vice provost for International Affairs, invited Mkapa and introduced the speaker.

Mkapa opened his speech by discussing the state of his homeland in 1948, when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The nation, which then had a population of 9 million, had only 64 state-run hospitals and a few volunteer hospitals, he said. “Back then every disease was killer, not just malaria and HIV/AIDS,” Mkapa said.

Although Mkapa praised the progress his country has made since then, he highlighted several challenges the nation continues to face.

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Harvard College has eliminated its early admission policy in an unprecedented move among top private U.S. colleges, Harvard officials confirmed Monday.

The decision has prompted Duke and a number ofother universities to re-evaluate the effect early admission has on their student populations.

“Early-admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged,” Harvard Interim President Derek Bok said in a statement.

“Students from more sophisticated backgrounds and affluent high, schools often apply early to increase their chances ofadmission, while minority students and students from rural areas, other countries and SEE HARVARD ON PAGE 6

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Funds finalized for band Break-in, assault Student groups collaborate for OfMontreal concert reported at Belmont by

Students can expect Of Montreal, a band from Athens, Ga., to be featured on the West Campus Plaza Sept. 29.

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Indie-pop band Of Montreal will likely rock out on the West Campus Plaza Sept. 29.

Funding for the event was secured through complicated wrangling among a number of student groups, with the bulk of the financial support provided by Campus Council and Duke Student Government in agreements worked out late Tuesday night.

Erik Carter, Of Montreal’s booking agent, said Wednesday night is the deadline to secure the $7,000 artist’s fee.

Unless the DSC senate refuses to approve the use of surplus funds for the concert at its meeting tonight—a move DSC President Elliott Wolf, a junior, said is highly unlikely —Duke students can expect a free concert at the end of the month.

“It’s going to be a tremendous show and Of Montrealis going to rock Duke,” saidjack Bury, a student whois thelead organizer of the event.

The concert was initially planned as the

A 21-year-old female student told Durham Police Department officials that she was assaulted Monday night when an unidentified man illegally entered her off-campus apartment.

The assailant attempted to strangle the woman in the 10,000 building at The Belmont apartment complex but fled the residence before police arrived, she said.

The officer who responded said poor lighting in the Belmont complex delayed Durham Police officers’ response.

The woman said she returned to her apartment around 11 p.m. and, without locking the front door, entered her bathroom to change her clothes.

The man came into the apartment shortly after and attempted to open the bathroom door, she said.

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A student who lives at The Belmont apartment complex reported being assaulted Monday night.

“He had a long, black cord and came in and dragged me out of the bathroom into the hallway —1 was completely naked,” the student told The Chronicle.

“He told me to lie down on the floor, he took the cord and... tried to strangle me with it.”

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Syrian guards DAMASCUS, Syria foiled an attempt by suspected al Qaedalinked militants to blow up the U.S. Embassy Tuesday, exchanging fire outside the compound’s walls with gunmen who shouted “God is great” and tried to storm in with automatic weapons and hand grenades.

The brazen, midmoming assault in a heavily guarded neighborhood of the capital could highlight the Syrian regime’s weakening grip on militants, w ho haye battled Syrian security forces repeatedly in recent years.

The attack, which left at least 10 civilians and a Chinese diplomat wounded,

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The rapid response by Syrian guards won rare praise from the United States, which accuses President Bashar Assad’s government of supporting terrorism in its backing of Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants.

“I do think that the Syrians reacted to this attack in away that helped to secure our people, and we very much appreciate that,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. No Americans were hurt, and the embassy was not damaged.

White House spokesperson Tony Snow also thanked Syrian officials and called for

Damascus to “become an ally and make the choice of fighting against terrorists.”

But Syria responded with a sharp criticism of the United States, blaming its policies in Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territoriesfor increasing Islamic militancy.

“It is regrettable that.U.S. policies in the Middle East have fueled extremism, terrorism and anti-U.S. sentiment,” the Syrian Embassy in Washington said in a statement. “The U.S. should... start looking at the root causes of terrorism and broker a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.”

It curdy said that Syria “performed its duties” under the Geneva Conventions to protect the embassy.

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HOUSTON Two spacewalking astronauts Tuesday began installing the first big addition to the international space station in more than 3.5 years, and NASA pronounced the outing a success, even though a small bolt floated off and got lost.

“I felt today like this is what NASA is supposed to do,” said lead space station Flight Director John McCullough. “This is what we're here to do.”

Wearing bulky suits and gloves, the two Atlantis astronauts ventured outside to begin attaching a new 17.5-ton box-like

delivered earlier this week. The job involved— connecting 17 wires or tubes and tightening or loosening 167 bolts.

Astronaut Joe Tanner was working with a 1.5-inch bolt with an attached spring when the washer holding it in fell off. The bolt and spring floated over the head of astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and truss section that the space shutde

skittered across the truss.

While the washer went out into space harmlessly, Tanner worried the bolt and spring could get into the wiring and tubing of the truss and cause problems.

“I just hope that bolt is on its way to

Mother Earth right now and not on its way to a crucial joint,” Tanner said, Even though NASA did not have any video showing the bolt missing the mechanism, officials said they are certain that the bolt flew offinto space harmlessly, “It’s pretty trivial,” McCullough said. “It didn’t go inside.”

Space debris can be dangerous if it punctures space station walls or spacesuits and can jam crucial mechanisms. However, spacewalkers have a long history of losing things in space. In July, Discovery spacewalkers lost a 14-inch spatula that floated away.

The of Gov. Arnold campaign Schwarzenegger's Democratic rival acknowledged Tuesday that he leaked a recording of a private meeting in which the governor described a Hispanic legislator as having a "very hot" personality.

Hurd appointed as new HP chair Hewlett-Packard Chair Patricia Dunn admitted Tuesday that she authorized an investigation that relied on "inappropriate

techniques" to uncover who was leaking boardroom secrets to the media. GEO Mark Hurd will take over.

Officials inspect Smith's death Police investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son said Tuesday that they had no evidence that he that suffered a heart attack or that drugs were involved. Official said medical personnel applied CPR and other measures to save him.

Politicians debate war policy A presidential speech sparked debate over war policy Tuesday. A GOP leader said Democrats seemed "more interested in protecting the terrorists"than fellow Americans.The Democrats contended the president used commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks to bolster support for the Iraq war.

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Like most successful workers and idealistic students, author Barbara Ehrenreich used to believe a college education was enough to project hard-working graduates into a successful job in the real world.

Then the letters started coming: the laid-off chemical engineer living in a homeless shelter, the IT marketer working as a janitor and the media executive driving a cab. She decided to tell their stories in the only way she could—by stepping into their world.

Ehrenreich, author of the best-selling “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” spoke Tuesday night at the Regulator Bookshop on Ninth Street to about 125 students, faculty and Durham residents to promote her second book.

“Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream,” newly published in paperback, examines the struggles of laid-offwhite-collar workers as Ehrenreich goes undercover to experience their plight first-hand.

‘You know how some people crunch numbers? I put myself in a situation and say, ‘Solve it—here’s your problem,”’ she said.

In the five years since its publication, “Nickel and Dimed” has spread the au-' thor’s campaign into both the public and academic spheres by promoting its hands-on approach to workers-rights advocacy issues.

Certain Duke courses have added the book to their syllabi, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made the book required reading for all incoming freshmen in 2003.

By returning to what ■ she calls the “reality I show approach to ecom nomic research” in and “Bait and Switch,” Ehrenreich said she entered into the same scramble for profes1 \ I -1 I I sional jobs that seemed to confound I so many unemployed, • or “in-transition,” work-

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Armed with a pseudonym and a. plausible resume, she applied to more than 200 jobs in hope of impressing potential employers.

“In ‘Bait and Switch,’ the challenge was to see if I could get a white-collar job,” she said. “I maybe set my sights too high at the beginning—l thought I could earn $50,000 a year and have health insurance.”

After spending thousands of dollars on career counselors and image consultants, Ehrenreich said she still struggled to find companies willing to hire her.

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“I started with a career coach I found on the Internet,” she said. “He insisted I take a personality test.... It turns out, I should avoid any occupation involving writing, which was a blow.”

Sophomore Katie Mikush attended the talk to reinforce topics in her Women as Leaders class and said Duke students should act on the issues Ehrenreich raised in her speech and her books.

“College students have a lot more power than they think they do,” Mikush SEE EHRENREICH ON PAGE 8

When the residents in the basement of Craven House VO returned to their dorm rooms Monday night, they were met with an unpleasant stench.

“The smell was just horrendous,” said junior Ankit Shrivastava, who lives on the hall. “Once you opened the door it was just a punch in the face... no one was able to use the bathroom.”

When residents came home around midnight, in addition to the smell, they noticed a ring of standing water in the shower drain.

“Sewage was bubbling up from the shower drain, and it was kind of seeping over the bottom part of the shower,” Shrivastava said.

Junior Ryan Link said he reported the problem to an after-hours maintenance number and the problem appeared to be resolved by the morning.

Shawhan Lynch, West Campus residential facilities manager, said the problem was brought to her office’s attention by a housekeeping supervisor the following morning, and at about 8:30 a.m. the drain was fixed.

Students mentioned Craven’s history of bathroom troubles. “There have been multiple problems with the VO bathrooms before,” said Link.

Last October, a marble partition collapsed in the other bathroom in the basement of House VO. The same year in Craven, a urinal exploded in September and a student reported unclean water flowing from faucets in House R in March. Lynch said many of the problems resulted from misuse offacilities.

“There are not extraordinary maintenance issues in Craven,” Lynch said.

“Last year we had an overflowing commode that leaked into a bedroom. The cause of the problem? A plastic cup in the commode.”

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U.S. gov't studies war syndrome WASHINGTON There is no such thing as Gulf War syndrome, even though United States and foreign veterans of the war report more symptoms of illness than do soldiers who didn't serve there, a federally funded study concludes.

United States and foreign veterans of the Gulf War do suffer from an array of very real problems. Yet there is no one complex of symptoms to suggest those veterans—nearly 30 percent of all those who served suffered or still suffer from a single identifiable syndrome. The VA will rely on the report to determine whether GulfWar veterans are eligible for special disability benefits.

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Does beauty begin in the womb?

Duke researchers recently found that a mother’s diet during pregnancy might have farreaching effects on various traits of offspring—including appearance.

Scientists have long known about the impact a pregnant woman’s eating habits may have on the health of offspring during the prenatal and early postnatal periods—the “early origins hypothesis,” said Dana Dolinoy, a post-graduate student in Duke’s Integrated Toxicology Program.

While studying links between maternal diet and disease prevention, scientists also discovered a link between eating habits and phenotypic traits.

“How much a mother ate could literally reduce the incidence of obesity, diabetes and cancer,” said Randy Jirtle, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology.

Many scientists agree that epigenetics—changing gene activity without alteration of the DNA sequence —will provide new approaches to predicting certain conditions in an increasingly genomic age.

Scientists conducting several experiments involving DNA methylaiton—a process in which a molecule is added to DNA to inactivate that particular DNA fragment—found that “shutting off” the agouti gene in mice causes a number of changes in visible traits.

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Deactivating the gene may also affect predisposition to various conditions including autism, schizophrenia, cancers and diabetes, Jirtle said.

The team gave an experimental group of pregnant mice nutritional supplements of folic acid, vitamin 812, betaine and choline to trigger, which suppressed activity in the agouti gene.

In effect, mothers in the experimental group gave birth to predominantly brown-coated offspring, as compared to the yellow-coated control group that had been fed “standard” feed, the

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“Surprisingly, a variety of phenotypes and complex diseases were subject to the single agouti gene,” Jirtile said. So far, Jirtle and his associates have identified genes in humans as targets for similar mechanisms.

“The methylation process in humans and mice are the same,” Jirtle said, adding he hopes future research dealing with hu-

mans will improve knowledge of disease susceptibility and already plan to study brain disorders in humans.

He noted, however, that visible effects of nutrition observed in humans would likely be less striking than those in mice. “[Their study] has made a worldwide impact on the field of epigenetics,” said Dr. Susan Murphy, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Gynecological Oncology at the Duke University Medical Center. “Their work is absolutely

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A day after the five-year anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, about 80 members of the Duke community gathered to watch and discuss Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’ film “The Road to Guantanamo.”

A screening of the movie in Griffith Theater was followed by an open-panel discussion with six Duke faculty members Tuesday, and many audience members said the film evoked resentment for the

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The film tracks the graphic twists of fate faced by three young Muslim men from Britain, dubbed the “Tipton Three.”

When the friends visited Pakistan to plan a wedding, they stopped in Afghanistan during the first day of U.S. bombing in Kandahar, culminating in a stay at Guantanamo Bay. Audience members said they were most moved during the graphic scenes when

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Bruce Lawrence, professor of religion and another member of the panel, said the movie addressed consequences of brute force and the lack of accountability in U.S. foreign policy.

“The word that keeps echoing as a

theme... is ‘empire,’” he said.

Discussion focused mainly on the politics surrounding the film.

Debate began after one audience member said that the Supreme Court was hypocritical in evaluating the constitutionality' of U.S. military' commissions.

Miriam Cooke, professor ofAsian and African languages and literature, concluded the panel when another viewer said that the U.S. government had a fundamental “seed of evil.”

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council held its first general assembly meeting of the year Tuesday to discuss both changes to the council and upcoming events.

The scheduled events include Thurs“Thirsty days” on the West Campus Plaza and a community service opportunity with the Big Brothers Big Sisters proAudrey Ellerbee gram Sept. 23.

At the meeting, Executive Board members said this year they would work to expand GPSC’s influence to the Durham community.

“What we do here echoes far beyond the 6,000 constituents we represent,” said GPSC Vice President Nathan Kundtz, a graduate student in the physics department. “When you make a difference here, you make a difference in one of the biggest powerhouses in the world.”

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Harvard admissions officials said they hope that having a single Jan. 1 applica-

tion deadline for all students will elimidisadvantage for applicants from lower socioeconomic backgrounds who tend to apply regular decision to be able to compare financial aid packages.

The changes will go into effect in Fall 2007 for students applying to be members of Harvard 's Class of 2012.

Early admission traditionally allows students to apply to a university at the beginning of November and receive their acceptance decision by mid-December.

For three decades, Harvard offered a non-binding early-action application option, through which students who applied early did not have to commit to Harvard if accepted early. Duke, however, subscribes to the binding early-decision option, in which students who apply early must withdraw all other applications if they are admitted. About 10 percent ofDuke’s applicants apply early decision each year.

In the wake of Harvard’s announcement, Duke has also found itself re-evaluating its own policies.

“Over the last 10 to 15 years we’ve discussed our early-decision program several times,” Christoph Guttentag, Duke’s dean of undergraduate admissions, wrote in an e-mail. “Each time we’ve determined that the way we do it strikes the right balance.”

Duke has offered its applicants early admission for at least 20 years but has no immediate intentions to follow in Harvard’s footsteps. Guttentag said committees will continue to discuss the University’s policy, however, in light of Harvard’s changes.

“I expect Harvard was deliberate in their considerations, and we’ll be deliberate as well,” he said. “There are a number offactors to consider, and we need to consider what’s right for our applicants and what’s right for Duke.”

About 20 percent of Duke’s early-decision applicants initially qualify for financial aid, compared to about 45 percent of regular-decision applicants who qualify, said Jim Belvin, director offinancial aid.

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Duke's Office of Undergraduate Admissions said Tuesday it will re-evaluate its policy on early-decision admissions. Harvard eliminated ail early applications Monday. cial circumstances do apply for early admission,” Belvin said.

He added, however, that applicants who express interest in comparing aid packages or being considered for merit scholarships are discouraged from applying early.

For Harvard’s Class of2010, 17 percent of 22,754 applicants applied early action, and 38 percent of the admitted students were admitted early, according to the Harvard admissions website.

The change may affect high school students’ college application strategies and decisions, especially at private schools such as Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., where nearly 17 percent of the seniors apply early to Harvard each year. “[Harvard] is going to have a bigger pool because the same kids are going to have to apply to more places to back themselves up just in case,” said John Anderson, director of college counseling at Phillips Academy. “Overall, kids are going to be applying to more schools, which is sort of the downside, but the upside is that it will take a lot of the mystery

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Along with Duke, other top-tier institutions are also taking Harvard’s announceas an opportunity to evaluate their early-admission processes, but are not anticipating any imminent policy shifts.

“The University of Pennsylvania has no plans, at present, to change its early-admissions policy,” Penn’s Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson said in a statement. “The earlyadmissions process, which we have had for some 40 years, has been very successful for us and for our students.”

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“If we see our peers are moving to a policy of a single admissions date, we would feel comfortable doing so,” said Cass Cliatt, university spokesperson for Princeton.

“The fact that [Harvard has] moved in that direction indicates that the climate is

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Mkapa added that the problem is exacerbated by the fact that talented African teachers and healthcare professionals continue to leave Tanzania, lured by higher salaries in the United States and other more developed countries.

More African scientists and engineers are working in the United States than in Africa, Mkapa said.

“Even as we train more healthcare staff, more leave for greener pastures,” Mkapa explained.

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Mkapa said the cost of treating diseases like AIDS and malaria is unbearable for most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, adding that the burden of paying for medication could be subsidized by developed countries.

“In short, we must educate our people about the common stake in world citizenship,” Mkapa said. ‘“lf a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich,’” he added, quoting former President John F. Kennedy.

Many audience members said they were impressed by Mkapa’s ability to make broad global issues more accessible.

“He outlined the problems very well, as well as what Americans can do.” said Sally Ong, president of Duke’s International Association. “His message was relevant for the audience we had here.”

Patricia Bartlett, who works at Duke University AIDS Research and Treatment center, praised Mkapa’s speech.

“I wish he had said Tanzania is a peaceful nation,” she said. “Americans are generally assuming that it’s very dangerous to go to Africa, which is not true.”

Harry Lyatuu, a Tanzanian native, said he was happy the former president “has committed himself to helping while out of office.”

He said that although unpopular to Tanzanians at the time, Mkapa’s decision to privatize much of the nation’s healthcare ultimately benefitted the population.

Lyatuu also praised Mkapa’s service as president.

“Since he was exposed to international affairs prior to taking office, he knew how to handle the problems,” Lyatuu said.

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said. “Students aren’t the only people on campus—it wouldn’t function without the people working minimumwage jobs.”

Before studying “Nickel and Dimed” in her women’s studies course Gender and Everyday Life, freshman ChelseyAmelkin came to Ehrenreich’s presentation to listen to the author speak in person.

“The course preaches progress in femininity,” Amelkin said. “To see the face that makes such bold statements is encouraging for what we can do for thq future.”

Though Ehrenreich admitted it is easier to advance to a stable job from an elite university, Duke students are by no means immune to the perils of an unforgiving job market.

Assistant Professor of history Felicia Kornbluh said the University’s resources don’t extend to enough types of occupations.

‘You only have the opportunity to get jobs at a narrow selection, mostly corporate jobs,” she said. “It’s worth it for kids to say, ‘We should have options—we should have more and better options.’”

A recent encounter Kornbluh had with a Duke graduate exemplified the dangers of attempting to secure a career, even with a prestigious Duke diploma.

“I was shopping at Ann Taylor and the salesperson said, ‘l’m a women’s studies major and I’m working retail,”’ Kornbluh said. “It’s not a ‘dis’ on the women’s studies department, it’s a ‘dis’ on the economy.”

In her talk Ehrenreich summed up an unsettling reality: the people who work at desks are no more economically secure than the people who clean them.

“We’ve been seduced by the individualism and the snobbishness,” Ehrenreich said. “We need to get over that.”

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The woman, who The Chronicle has chosen not to identify because of the sexual nature of the alleged assault, said she offered the man money and valuables, and he let her go into her bedroom to check how much cash she had.

Once there, she locked the doors and called 911. She also sent instant messages to male friends who live nearby.

“I didn’t hear anything from him after I locked myself in my room,” the student said. “I stayed in my room until the cops got there... 15 or 20 minutes later.”

The suspect had fled the scene by the time DPD officers arrived.

“When I arrived, the suspect was no longer on scene and the canvas [of the surrounding area] proved to be futile,” said DPD officer Shawn Stone, the first to respond.

The suspect is a slim, black male who is approximately 5-foot-10. He was wearing basketball shorts and a t-shirt.

Nothing was taken from the apart-

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merit, the student said

The Belmont is a gated community with 312 apartments, approximately half of which are occupied by Duke undergraduates, a Belmont manager said last spring.

The complex’s reputation as a safe residence was instrumental in her and her roommate’s decision to live there, the woman said. “[The Belmont] feels like a safe place where stuff like this doesn’t happen—but it does,” she explained.

Police are often called to the Belmont for disturbances, but disturbances with weapons are uncommon, Stone said.

The main entrance gate has been broken for about a month, the woman added.

Durham Police officers told the woman they would have arrived at her apartment sooner, but they had trouble finding her building, which is located at the back of the complex.

“They’ve got numbers on the buildings, but the lights that are supposed to be illuminating those numbers aren’t working on most of the buildings,” Stone said. “That complex itself has a poor lighting situation as it is.”

A Belmont manager could not be reached for comment.

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changes made by former GPSC President Bill LeFew to next weekend’s “Basketball Campout.” LeFew said whistles will now be She explained that the committee will used to call random checks throughout only be responsible for the concerns of the 36-hour camping period. the graduate and LeF e w added that a professional students—as opposed of variety “When you make a differto the old commitevents Will be tee, which also ence here, you make a difheld in prder dealt with the conto make the ference in one of the biggest camp cerns of underout graduate students. more excitpowerhouses in the world.”

During the meeting, includNathan Kundtz ing commuing, GPSC Treasurer David Kahler annity service GPSC Vice President nounced a $l5 inactivities on crease in the student fee —bringing morning and the total to $550 per student The money a silent auction accumulated from the increase will go to In addition, quiet hours for the camhelp fund basketball events, community pout will be implemented from 3 a.m to 8 service projects and the programming of a.m. Although no plans have been formalGPSC-affiliated groups. ly made, GPSC also discussed the possibiliThe meeting also addressed the ty of creating a podcast offuture meetings.

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AQUADuke had planned to give $5,000 to bring Of Montreal to Duke but withdrew the offer Sept. 6.

BAND from page 1 capstone event for Coming Out Week, with AQUADuke providing the bulk of thefunds.

Less than a week after a verbal agreement was reached with the band’s representative, however, AQUADuke backed out of its commitment to provide $5,000, Bury said.

“I got a very abrupt, and what I considered to be fairly tacdess withdrawal from [AQUADuke President Norman Underwood] Sept. 6,” said Bury, who first became involved with planning the event after agreeing to help an AQUADuke officer secure a band.

Bury added that he was informed by the Office of Student Activities and Facilities that he would be legally liable for breaking the contract.

“With our Coming Out Week falling among Oktoberfest and other campus events, as well as a budget decrease this year, AQUADuke was unable to offer financial or logistical support to the event,” Underwood, a junior, wrote in an e-mail.

After AQUADuke pulled its funding, Bury was left with $2OO from the Women’s Center, $l,OOO from a student donor and $1,500 from the Duke University Union, which had also agreed to pay stage set-up costs.

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With the bulk of the funding withdrawn a week before the money was due, Bury said he scrambled to make up the loss, approaching a variety of sources.

Late last night, however, it was Campus Council that proffered $2,500, with DSC agreeing to match the fee by drawing on its surplus fund.

“If someone has that much passion for [the band] that makes me think we’d like to bring them,” said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, adding that the council rarely provides more than $l,OOO for concerts.

Wolf and sophomore Alex Crable, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, worked to secure approval for matching Campus Council’s contribution after Ganatra and the Council’s Executive Board reached a decision.

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POKE FOCUSES OH ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT The athletics department hires Leslie Barnes as director of student-athlete development and "life skills coordinator."

MEN'S SOCCER

More fans Duke draws with Virginia Tech will mean more

wins

Wake Forest mastered in one drive Sat-

urday what Duke has been working on for a decade—moving in the wrong direction.

Down 13-7 in the third quarter, Wake Forest’s Riley Skinner connected downfield with his receiver, gaining 58 yards for first and goal at the one-yard line, not to fell mention a great chance to control the game. But three meredith 3 Vince downs, a Ar Oghobaase sack and 5 n 1110 negative-20 yards later, the Demon Deacons were forced by a formidable Duke defense to take, and miss, a chip-shot field goal.

And just like that, for one blazing moment of glory, the Blue Devils looked like a real football team.

Then, the moment was over—about as fast as you can say, “60 days ’til basketball season.”

“There are no magic words that are going to make this hurt go away,” head coach Ted Roof said after the defeat.

I beg to differ.

Some could argue the magic words to cure the Blue Devil Blues would be, “Michael Videira to trade shin guards for helmet in quest to split uprights.”

Others might suggest, “Alison Bales to anchor Duke offensive and defensive lines.”

Alas, these are just pipedreams.

The real problem here, Coach, is that you’re right on a technicality.

On this campus, there aren’t magic words that make the football hurt go away. There’s one magic word that does: basketball. ..

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One game after a second-halfoffensive explosion carried Duke past Wake Forest, the fifth-ranked Blue Devils couldn’t find the back of the net in a 0-0 double-overtime tie with No. 24 Virginia Tech Tuesday night at Koskinen Stadium.

Playing its third consecutive ranked opponent, Duke (5-0-1, 1-0-1 ACC) controlled possession for most of the game but failed to VA.TECH 0 score against the q Hokies’ tight deDUKE fense. Virginia Tech stacked their defensive end with nine players, leaving only leading-scorer Patrick Nyarko upheld.

“It’s a part of the nature of the game sometimes the goals don’t come,” head coach John Rennie said. “They have a good plan where they defend with everybody. To beat a team that defends like that, you have to score goals. Then they have to come out and play.”

Virginia Tech (4-1-1, 0-1-1) attacked early, earning two corner kicks in the game’s first three minutes. Following that aggressive start, however, the Hokies managed only two more comers in the final 107 minutes of play.

The Blue Devils took control of the game later in the first half, creating multiple scoring opportunities with six shots.

Duke with its Joshua Bienenfeld provided best chance to get on the board with a —

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shot from the top of the box, but it harmlessly clanged off the crossbar.

Duke continued to pressure the Hokie defense in the second half but was unable to capitalize. Michael Videira was called for a foul on a deep run to the Hokie net, and several minutes later, Chris Loftus lost control of the ball in the box.

In the second overtime, Pavelid Castaneda narrowly missed a chance to win the game when his blast from just beyond the 18-yard-line bounced off the left post.

“It’s always disappointing,” Videira said. “We hit posts. We had chances everywhere. We did our part defensively, we just didn’t score any goals.”

On the other side of the field, the Blue Devils stifled Nyarko and Virginia Tech’s counter-attack. The Hokies did not seriously threaten Duke goalie Justin Papadakis after halftime, aside from two runs by Nyarko late in regulation. Virginia Tech managed just one shot in the overtime periods.

Papadakis made four saves en route to his second shutout of the season.

“Against Wake Forest, we felt like we got exposed a little bit with people playing over the top, so we dropped the line back a little today,” Papadakis said. “We worked on it pretty hard in practice the past couple of days.”

After the offense bailed him out from two second half deficits against Wake Forest last Friday, Papadakis was happy to return the favor last night.

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Pavelid Castaneda hadDuke's best chance at scoring during overtime, but his shot hit off the left post.

“I was glad that we were able to hold the line for them tonight because they’ve come through for the team the past five games,” he said.

Rennie said that the lack of offense was not cause for concern —heading into the game, Duke was ranked third in the country in scoring, averaging 3.4 goals per game.

“The goal is two inches too narrow or too short,” Rennie said. “We’ve been scoring a lot of goals, but it’s hard to score goals. We needed that first one, and we didn’t get it.”

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The Blue Devils received verbal commitments last week from two players—Jasmine Thomas and Karima Christmas —bringing the team’s total to three recruits for the class of 2007.

Both high school seniors will enter Duke in 2007 as highly-touted recruits who will attempt to bring home Duke’s first national

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Jasmine Thomas, a top-10recruit in the 2007 class, isDuke's third commit for that year.

Thomas, who was named a second-team pre-season All-American by scout.com Monday, is a 5foot-9 point guard from Oakton High School in Vienna, Va. Just 16years old, she was the youngest player invited to try out for the Under-18 Women’s National Team last summer.

“She’s incredibly quick,” said Fred Priester, her high school coach. “A lot of people can be quick without the ball, but she’s quick with it. And she has incredible court vision—that’s what Coach G loves.”

Thomas, who has averaged 22.1 points per game, 4.3 assists per game and 4.5 steals, per game during her high school career, chose Duke over Virginia, Connecticut, Louisiana State and Maryland —the team that beat the Blue Devils in overtime of last year’s National Championship.

“Of all the good schools I looked at, Duke was the best aca-

demic school,” Thomas said.

“And I had a really good relationship with Coach G. She sent really nice letters and wouldn’t bug me on the phone like other coaches. She’d just call sometimes and have great conversations, and not just about basketball, either.”

Considered a smart player and one of the best points guards in her class, Thomas will bolster the back court along with sophomore Abby Waner after Lindsey Harding graduates this spring.

“She has an instinct for the game,” Priester said. “She’s not going to replace Lindsey Harding, but she can step into those shoes.”

Joining the Blue Devils with Thomas will be Christmas, a guard-forward who has twice been named a Street and Smith All-America honorable mention in her three years playing varsity at J. Frank Dobie High School in Houston.

Also a member of her school’s track team, Christmas is noted for her speed and exceptional athleticism. She plays much taller than her 5-foot-l 1 frame, and she enjoys driving to the basket, said her mother, Vennita Christmas.

“She has great jumping ability,” Vennita Christmas said. “She gets a lot of rebounds.”

Coming out of a system that features four perimeter players, Christmas could potentially play

guard or forward, said her high school coach, Doug Gibson.

“She brings a lot to the table with her rebounding and speed,” Gibson said. “The speed of the game picks up with her in it.”

Both new recruits join Krystal Thomas, who committed last spring, as members of Duke’s already-strong 2007 class. Krystal Thomas is a 6-foot-4 forward who was also named to scout.com’s pre-season second team.

“She’s a really big, solid post player who can also run the floor, so I love her,” Jasmine Thomas said ofher future teammate.

Still in Duke’s sights is 6-foot-6 center Kelly Cain from Atlanta, who is yet to decide between Duke, LSU and Tennessee.

Regardless of Cain’s decision, though, Krystal Thomas, Jasmine Thomas and Christmas will have two years with Abby Waner and three years with Bridgette Mitchell and Joy Cheek, who are freshmen this year.

Harding and center Alison Bales are the only seniors on this year’s team.

Gail With head coach Goestenkors continuing to bring in top recruits, Duke’s talent level will remain high for years to come.

“Hopefully sometime within my four years we’ll win a national championship,” Jasmine Thomas said.

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Men’s basketball head coach Mike

Krzyzewski called the spring the “most try-

ing time” he has seen in his time at Duke.

This fall, the Department ofAthletics is trying to ensure it never has to go through that again. The program is attempting to address the issues that have been brought up because of the controversy stemming from charges against members of the men’s lacrosse team.

Among a number pf initiatives this year aimed at accomplishing this goal is an increase in the attention paid toward student-athlete development. To head up this effort, the Department of Athletics has hired a new “life skills coordinator”—also known as the director of student athlete

development.

Leslie Barnes, who had previously

served as life skills coordinator

at

Ohio

State, joined the athletics department staff this summer to fill Duke’s position. Director of Athletics Joe Alieva said Barnes was not hired specifically because of the

lacrosse scandal, but the job had been vacant for four years.

In her new role, Barnes will have a variety of different responsibilities, including coordinating drug and alcohol education, student athlete educational programming and community service.

“I’ve become almost a liaison to the student affairs side of things,” Barnes said. “I always say that life skills or student athlete de-

velopment can be referred to as student affairs on an athletic department’s schedule.”

Coming to Durham while Duke—specifically the athletic department—is still under intense scrutiny, Barnes said she welcomes the challenges presented to her.

“I’ve worked in college athletics long enough to know that it could have been on any campus,” she said. “It’s not an issue specific only to Duke, specific only to lacrosse or specific only to college athletics—it’s a societal issue.... It’s going to be publicized, especially at a university like Duke that’s very prestigious and well-recognized.”

In her six short weeks so far at Duke, Barnes has already made an impression.

She ran dmg and alcohol educational seminars for several teams, and she has begun to coordinate community service efforts, among other things.

The response has been positive from those within the athletics community.

“She can help us in a lot of different areas,” said women’s soccer head coaeh Robbie Church. “She’s tying a lot of things together.... She’s a huge help for the program.”

Both Church and men’s soccer head coach John Rennie said their teams would likely spend more time working with Barnes once their fall seasons are over.

“She’ll help our athletes get out into the community in Durham,” Church said. “I’m excited to find out what it’s all about.”

Bames graduated from Nebraska-Wesleyan, where she played tennis, in 1996. As

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Leslie Barnes worked as life skills coordinator for three years at Ohio State before accepting Duke's position. an undergraduate she studied psychology, and she received a masters of education in counseling and psychological services from Springfield College in 1998.

Since then, she has worked in studentathlete development and life skills coordination at Nebraska-Lincoln, Arizona State and Utah State, before serving at Ohio State for the past three years

As someone who has been involved with athletics for the majority ofher life, Barnes said she is excited about the opportunity to counsel athletes at Duke.

“You have to have a personality and the passion for working with students,” Barnes said. “That’s where I get my energy from ”

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“Any college student goes through the whole transition out of college,” she said. “For ath-

letes, it can tend to be a little bit more difficult because of the time demands placed on them in their sports. So a lot of times they haven’t had the time to extend beyond sports environments, “I see it as an opportunity to come and and collaborate with campus offices to do some proactive, preventive-type programs and get to know some students and offer them additional resources and connect them to opportunities that are out there.”

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SHINER from page 11 And unfortunately, Coach K doesn’t prioritize making his kids into good people and good football players (leaving us no hope for Greg Paulus behind any center but Josh Mcßoberts on a give-

and-go).

The sad truth is, while Duke possesses one of the richest and most vibrant basketball cultures in the country, the football culture at Duke is almost non-existent, making the task of rebuilding Duke football nearly

impossible.

In the PSE (Post-Spurrier Era), one would be hard-pressed to find a Saturday when Wallace Wade was filled—excluding occasions when thousands of fans are drawn to Durham by the allure of big-name acts, like Virginia Tech or Florida State or the Rolling Stones.

Sitting in the stands of Wally Wade (which I have done for almost every game since arriving at Duke), I’ve often thought to myself, ‘How can Roof possibly bring a big-time recruit to town, show him a half-empty stadium and really expect him to choose Duke over another school?’

Obviously—or at least judging by Saturday’s 305-yard passing performance —he did something right in convincing Thaddeus Lewis that the beauty of the Gothic Wonderland cancels out the sterility of Wally’s empty stands.

Yet, until those stands are filled, I fear there won’t be enough big-time players who will want to play without the possibility of a big-time stage.

Here is probably where you’ll feel compelled to interject, ‘Fans would come to the games if the team were better.’

I’m saying the team would be better if fans came to the games.

But Duke is such a small school, you say, the 33, 941 seats at Wallace Wade couldn’t be filled every week, even if the team were really good.

Again, I think the problem

here is with attitude, not numbers. If the University were to build a giant basketball arena—and I am by no means suggesting it should—do you really believe there wouldn’tbe rich alumni buying up tickets? Do you really believe the Blue Devils wouldn’t sell out most every night?

They would.

Even if these arguments hold true, even if there are the numbers within the Duke and Durham communities to fully support the football team, perhaps I am naive in assuming that people at Duke would go to football games. Comparing Duke football to Duke basketball at this juncture in time is like comparing apples to Krispy

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I usually hear a lot of, “At least there’s basketball season,” murmured around here at this time ofyear.

But last Saturday, I heard something else —something that, like Lewis’ arm, gives a glimmer of hope for change, hope for a real football season in Durham.

With 1:28 left in the fourth, Lewis led the Blue Devils in a bonafide 2-minute drill, giving them a chance to come back and win the game. As Lewis hit receiver Jomar Wright in stride barreling toward the end-zone with 13 seconds left, I could hear screams from throughout the quad through my closed dorm windows—the quintessential “Go, Go, Go!” of college football.

People cared—it ended up being heartbreaking—but people cared.

If only the fans’ “Go, Go, Go!” enthusiasm from last game could translate into them go, go, going to the stadium to support the team for home games.

Maybe then they’d have more to cheer for.

There is no doubt the football team is working hard to become a contender. But the road to developing a legitimate program is a long one, and the fans could expedite the process by meeting the team halfway. '

While in Durham Mondayjom Lehman, captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, met with Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

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Tom Lehman sought out a motivational coach in an effort to lead the U.S. Ryder Cup team to its first win on European soil in 13 years.

The Ryder Cup captain spoke with Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski for nearly two hours Monday about bonding the team before it heads to Ireland for next week’s Ryder Cup. “The guy is certainly a genius in what he does best,” Lehman said Tuesday at a luncheon at an Irish pub in Manhattan. “He listens extremely well. He had just a million ideas about what we could do as a team to achieve our ultimate dream.

“Coach K told me, ‘Just follow your gut.’”

Lehman will guide the Americans Sept. 22-24 at The K Club outside of Dublin, trying to stop the Europeans from winning the Ryder Cup for the fifth time in the last six matches.

With Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk and Phil Mickelson on his roster, Lehman has the top three players in the world. But like the U.S. basketball team, which recendy returned with a bronze medal from the World Championships, a star-studded squad doesn’t guarantee success.

At the last Ryder Cup in 2004, the Europeans won by a record margin, 18.5 to 9.5, at Oakland Hills. Woods and Mickelson were paired together and soundly beaten in both their matches on

opening day.

The Americans last won in 1999 at Brookline, Mass.—with Lehman on the team—and they haven’t won in Europe since 1993 at The Belfry in England.

“More than anybody I know, Tiger wants to win,” Lehman said.

“He is definitely engaged in the process. I have his private cell phone number and he says ‘Call me anytime’ and I do.”

It’s likely Lehman will pair Furyk with Woods, who is coming

off his fifth straight tournament win. Woods and Furyk are friends and played together at the Presidents Cup last year, finishing 2-01. On Thursday, both will play in the World Match Play Championship in England.

“I know they want to (play together) and that’s a big part of it, if a player feels comfortable with another player and they bring out the best in each other,” Lehman said.

Woods will provide power on a K Club course that features three par-5s on the back nine, while Furyk adds accuracy.

“They’re both very similar in their style of competing,” Lehman said. “They’re both very private. They go about their work very professionally, almost with a cold kind of. ruthlessness.”

The U.S. team also includes Chad Campbell, David Toms, Chris DiMarco, Stewart Cink, Scott Verplank and rookies Vaughn Taylor, JJ. Henry, Zach Johnson and Brett Wetterich.

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Harvard's changes not ri ght for Duke Leave school and certain it is their first choice. But there are also potential detriments to the process.

The prospect editorial of getting into a college—especially one of Ivyleague caliber—draws some students who only want to go to a school because it has a good, prestigious name. High school students often rush into applying early to a topflight school just to make sure that that school’s name is on their diplomas.

Moreover, there are no tangible benefits—save assurance of a spot in December—for students who get into a school early, especially once they arrive on campus in the fall. At that point, they’re just one among many. Indeed, in many cases, early admission

it to Harvard to set a new precedent. The university announced Monday that it plans to scrap its early admission program next fall. From now on, all applicants will compete in the same regular-decision pool.

Harvard is the first university in the top tier of U.S. schools to make the radical move. The university cited a concern that the early admission process disadvantages poor and minority applicants as the reason for getting rid of the practice.

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Even if Harvard’s decision is not altogether altruistic, however, and even if the new, all-regular-decision process decreases the school’s overall admissions yield in the end,

the University can afford to do it. Its name recognition will not suffer, and its massive endowment will not take a hit.

The press probably won’t be too bad, either.

Duke, however, is not in the position to follow Harvard’s lead. As all members of the Duke community and much of the national public know, the University is at a crossroads. It is facing a very public scandal, enduring decreased rates of prospective student visits, anticipating the possibility of decreased application numbers and acknowledging a small slip in the national rankings. Now is not the time to mess with the admissions program.

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fill up a substantial portion of its incoming classes with early admits.

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Indeed, knocking the system out entirely is not the way to go; doing so would only throw another catalyst into the mix of uncertainty in which Duke currently swirls.

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I called Tim Russert to ask if Dick Cheney had washed his hands after their interview on Sunday.

“No-o-o,” he replied, sounding confused.

Any sort of scrubbing, I wondered? Antiseptic wipet-Purell, quick shower on the way out?

No, Tim assured me, the vice president did not stop at the basement shower at nbc, or even maureen dowd drop by the men’s guest column room you pass on the right as you head out to the parking lot.

According to The New York Times’ health section on Tuesday, Lady Macbeth and Pontius Pilate were not alone in wanting that “damned spot” out.

“People who washed their hands after contemplating an unethical act were less troubled by their thoughts than those who didn’t,” Benedict Carey wrote about a new study published in the journal Science on the “Macbeth effect.”

“In one of several experiments among Northwestern undergraduates, the researchers had one group of students recall an unethical act from their past, like betraying a friend, and another group reflect on an ethical deed, like returning lost money,” the article said. “Afterward, the students had their choice of a gift, either a pencil or an antiseptic wipe. Those who had reflected on a shameful act were twice as likely as the others to take the wipe.”

If Dick Cheney didn’t try to hose himself down after his outlandish performance on Meet the Press, he may be so deep in denial he doesn’t even know he’s ruining America and needs a symbolic moral superwash.

Since W. revealed he’s been reading Shakespeare —including “Macbeth”—l’ve been puzzling over which character the vice president most resembles.

He’s got as much malignant sway over the protagonist as lago, but lago hated Othello.

The Lord of die Underworld is more like Lady Macbeth, who persuades her partner to make a huge error in judgment by taunting him about manliness. If he doesn’t want to be unmanned, he must pre-emptively wield the dagger against his rival. She tells him: When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.

Even though “blood will have blood,” Macbeth decides he must stay on his self-destructive path; I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o’er.

W. and Vice went on TV this week to double down on their dishonest case, now contradicted by a mountain of evidence, once more milking our sorrow over Sept. 11 to justify their errant course in Iraq.

In a speech that Tony Snow promised would be “reflective,” the president used hyperventilated rhetoric about “a struggle for civilization” and cynically retraced a line he now knows is false, again linking Osama and Baghdad: “If we yield Iraq to men like bin Laden, our enemies will be emboldened.”

Bin Laden has become the Willie Horton of the midterms. After letting the CIA disband the unit devoted to hunting for Osama—the Senate took a slap at the White House on Thursday when it voted to reinstate it—Bush now won’t stop talking about the bogeyman he ignored for five years while he transferred all his resources to Iraq.

“The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad,” he said.

Instead of going after Osama, we invaded Iraq.

Now W. says we must stay in Iraq or it will be run by Osamas. We must kill all the terrorists we are creating. American soldiers must keep dying because American soldiers have died. If we criticize Bush, then we’re unmanning the whole country. The logic is deviously Rovian, and we are trapped in their circularity.

On Meet the Press, Cheney warned that America cannot let its adversaries “break our will” and show we “don’t have the stomach for the fight.”

“It was the right thing to do,” Vice insisted of the war in Iraq, “and if we had to do it over again we would do exactly the same thing.”

After all the miscalculations and billions wasted, projects screwed up, lives and limbs lost, foreign enemies made, American stature squandered, Taliban resurgence, North Korean bombs and Iran-Iraq alliances built (visiting the American-hating, Holocaust-denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq called Iran “a good friend and brother”), Dick Cheney wouldn’t do anything differently?

Part of leadership has to be retooling, saying: “You know what? This hasn’t worked. This is making things worse. What else can we do?”

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I’ve grown addicted to the taste, personally, and according to the pretty packaging, a few gulps is the equivalent of a whole piece of fruit.

Yes, single-serving applesauce is great. I very gently popped the foil top the other day, armed and ready for that saucy spurt of t spillover. Sure enough, the cup hiccuped, and a little stream of applesauce poured forth. Scooping the excess off my thumb, I applauded the generosity of the apjane chong plesauce producers. They had the short shot packed in as much mush as they possibly could, wholly in the hopes of pleasing me, the prized consumer; and my little plastic cup runnethed over.

But suspicious college student that I am, the overactive pessimist in me took center psyche. Was it in fact a case of extra applesauce?

Or were they just scrimping on plastic?

This was quite the paradigm shift. In a matter of seconds, the cup went from overfull to half empty, much to my two-tiered dissatisfaction.

Maybe I needed to enjoy my “extra” applesauce the way most of us appreciate e-Print: With the complete understanding that every superfluous page has been paid for, but a cheery gratitude that it’s been snuck onto the tab in feel-good fashion.

But feeling entitled to that extra bit of sauce, and mourning that imagined bit of missing plastic, I found my hunger unabated.

The situation reminded me of the kind of diatribes that float across the walkways after a particularly disappointing lecture. Conflicted souls mull over the 127 bucks they just flushed on what was technically a necessary nap. Sensing dark forces at work, they recognize the unforeseen perk as an offshoot of an inadequately packaged main product.

Reality is harsh, and keen awareness makes it harsher; Mom or Dad or Cramps, or, aid and scholarships providing, Somebody Somewhere paid for us to be here. And evidently we aren’t in any danger of forgetting it; Duke students are said to suffer from a keen and rather unflattering sense of entitlement. One unflattering justification: our time here has been paid for with cash or genes or blood and sweat or any combination of these. Perhaps it can be tempting on a bad day to crossly wonder how you ended up with less than you expected.

So take an uncomplicated look at your younger, more vibrant, less cynical self.

For freshmen remain the freshest examples of uncorrupted, unexhausted freeloaders. I marveled at the Activities Fair last Friday; enthusiastic squeals fairly emanated from the overwhelmed flock as they compared the free merchandise they had amassed. Fluctuating decibels seemed to imply that it all went on an intuited totem pole of value, ranging from much sought-after T-shirts all the way down to fun-sized, one-pop candy bars It was like swapping advice on Halloween, and letting friends in on all the tricks for the best treats. It was inspiring in away, to know the freshmen were working the system with such unaffected zest.

Their faces eager and expectant, they sought out the good stuff: Posters and jelly bands, clubs and activities, fellowships, societies and publications. And all of it, to hear die avid shouts and sense the chaos, was like being paid a big fat bonus for being a much-beloved member of the Duke community.

Freshmen are so smart.

Admiring one freshman systematically snatching chocolate off the tables, I couldn’t help but question where my own pioneering freebie fervor had gone. Its remission made no sense, considering the misgivings with which I had consumed my applesauce, convinced all the while that something righdy purchased was conspicuously missing.

Maybe that something is lost inside me. Am I taking full advantage of my Duke" identity? Better yet, when was the last time I treasured my $5 student admission to any Duke Performance ofmy choice? Did I appreciate the front row seat I had when WXDU faced off against the Chapel bells last weekend? Do I make it a point to pig out at the open barbeques inevitably taking place somewhere on a quad?

The other day, a friend of mine at Penn was shocked by the understuffed state of his green tea bag. The bag was huge but mostly empty and held a poor pinch of greenish granules. Clearly, they had cheated him out of tea.

Or maybe Lipton gave him an extra bag. Perhaps as a Penn man, the possibility was simply outside the realm of his imagination.

Luckily for us, we re at Duke, where we’re handed some spectacularly jumbo goodie bags (with the exception of a piddling fruit cup or two).

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Many to versial posidon —and one now popular among proDuke liberals, andrew qerst fessors, who happen to give grades—seems to be generalize, seem courage one motivation for lambasting America. But more to see the world substantially, it seems that many Duke students, unin shades of gray, intoxicated by cultural relativism. Many Duke conwilling to measure the United States against other servatives, on the other hand, seem to see the world countries, measure it against itself. That is to say, in treasury green, convinced thatAmerica is just one these students seem to believe that the many failmore player in the global free market. Many others ings of our own nation—the annihilation of Nadve American tribes, the World War II internment of in between, it appears, don’t seem to care at all.

It is unclear, that is, that our generation of Japanese Americans, support for dictators in Arab nations, the arrogance singeing American foreign Americans values and actively defends any American or Western political traditions—democracy, diplomacy—mitigate, or even obviate, American capitalism, due process for citizens, freedom of accomplishments. This argument, which really respeech —as superior to other ones—theocracy, turns to nihilism, seems an utterly unrealisdc and communism, martial law, press censorship, to disproportionate basis for judgment. I challenge name a few. Someone will soon ask: Is this a bad anyone at Duke to idendfy a nadon whose proportion of freedoms protected to freedoms dething?But if such a framework is wrong, what comwhere prived—for both its own people and the world, no parison are we to make between a society free expression of religion is legally protected, less—exceeds that of the United States.

But the tradition perhaps most imperiled at such as ours, and one, like Iran, where it is not?

What about between a society where protesters are Duke is the American Dream itself: that, because we free to demonstrate against the policies of their are a nation of laws rather than men, evaluating one another not by race and sex but by the merits own country, such as ours, and one where democsentenced to like of our actions, we may succeed even in the greatest imprisonment, racy activists are Burma—where Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung adversity. Duke—along with the rest of the academSan Suu Kyi has spent most of the last 17 years ic establishment—now propounds the notion that only straight white males are allowed to partake in under house arrest?

As Yale historian Donald Kagan writes of this dream. Departments and programs devoted to the study of a single race, sex or sexual orientation today’s students, “...I find that a firm belief in trato fuel this incredible cynicism by perceiving values is Our is not seem society judged ditional rare.... literature and economics through such a rehistory, the of human societies in experience against other times and places, but against the Kingdom strictive lens. Students, meanwhile, complain incesof Heaven. There is great danger in this, for our sandy about the Areas ofKnowledge, Modes of Insociety, no less than others now and in the past, quiry, and other curriculum requirements without requires the allegiance and devotion of its citizens realizing how critical a common understanding of if it is to defend itselfand make progress toward a our shared heritage is to its future.

Defending America has not been popular in better life.” colleges for a long time. Perhaps with affluence As many a late-night commons room discussion demonstratedfor me, many students at Duke supplanting faith, Duke students can afford not to believe in their nation. But our world cannot. seem unable to distinguish between blind patriotism, based solely on the fact of one’s birth in a Andrew Gerst, a former managing editor of Toweruiew, particular country, and informed nationalism, graduatedfrom Trinity in 2006. He now lives and works in based on a comparative examination of one’s naWashington, D.C. His column runs every other Wednesday. tion’s performance among a reasonable, if arbi-

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