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Junior Jeremy Marshall, president of Duke Allies, says the gay community has had trouble establishing a unified image.

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Amid acclaim and change, Duke’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community will host Coming Out Week

starting Monday.

The week will cap an eventful few months, in which the University was named one of the top-20 schools for gay and

news analysts transgender students and a new director was hired to head the

campus’ LGBT Center.

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and close-minded classmates still hamper gay life on campus. , “Duke has a lot of good policies, but what’s really missing compared to what are considered ‘gay schools’ is a sizable gay student population,” said senior Joanna Noble, vice president of AQUADuke—the Alliance of SEE LGBT ON PAGE 7

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Members of the Academic Council voted unanimously Thursday to “enthusiastically” accept the University’s next strategic plan, “Making a Difference.”

Developed in consultation with the University community, the plan is intended to guide Duke’s development for the next five years, at a cost of $1.3 billion.

The plan will be presented to the Board of Trustees next week for final approval.

At the council’s meeting, its first this academic year, Provost Peter Lange gave an overview of the budget, chapters and goals detailed in the strategic plan. He thanked the faculty for their help in the planning process.

“This plan has been in the making for two years,” Lange said.

“People saw during the last strategic plan... that things that you thought were good ideas could actually come into existence.”

President Richard Brodhead also spoke at the meeting, in which he discussed the plan’s themes and reflected on the University’s successes in implementing its previous strategic plan, “Building on Excellence.”

Brodhead said Duke differs from other universities not in the strategic targets it sets, but in its ability to reach those goals. As evidence, he cited new buildings, such as Bostock Library, and the University’s attraction of grants for international studies.

“These things did not just happen,” Brodhead said. “They happened, in part, as a result of strategic planning.”

There are two broad themes developed in the new plan, Lange said.

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Greek Week is heating up, and this year’s festivities aim to reach out to the Duke and Durham communities, organizers said Thursday.

Members of the University’s greek community said the annual event combines community service work and the chance to encourage exchange between various greek organizations on campus.

“Everyone is working together across the board,” said senior Chrissie Gorman, president of the Duke Panhellenic Association.

The event kicked off Wednesday, when Judge Mitch Crane talked about his vision for the greek community, in a speech hosted by Pi Beta Phi sorority and Kappa Alpha fraternity. Thursday night, a

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leadership banquet was held for the chapter presidents and other leaders in the greek community.

Greek Week will culminate Friday and Saturday. Greek Reach, which takes place Friday, will provide fraternity and sorority members with an opportunity to interact with children in the Durham community.

The annual Greek Week barbeque will be hosted at 5 p.m. Friday evening with music, food and free T-shirts.

“I envision it being all the positive aspects of tailgate,” salt} senior Geordy Horton, Interfraternity Council vice president of chapter services.

Saturday, about 100 fraternity and sorority members will compete in a field day.

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Employees who take classes at most N.C. institutions will have their tuitionsreimbursed by Duke.

Starting Jan. 1, Duke employees will have a chance to experience first-hand the University’s emphasis on education.

The new Employee Tuition Assistance Program will be reimbursing employees for classes taken at Duke or any other institution of higher education under the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in North Carolina.

“Partly this comes from having done a lot of focus groups and discussions with the faculty and staff, and we realized [the employees] weren’t taking advantage of the programs offered,” said John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

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WASHINGTON The White House and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement Thursday on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror. President George W. Bush urged Congress to put it into law before adjourning for the midterm elections.

“I’m pleased to say that this agreement preserves the single most potent tool we have in protecting America and foiling terrorist attacks,” the president said, shortly after administration officials and key lawmakers announced agreement following a week of high-profile intraparty disagreement.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, one of three GOP lawmakers who told Bush he couldn’t have the legislation the way he initially asked for it, said, “The agreement that we’ve entered into gives the president the tools he needs to continue to fight the war on terror and bring these evil people to justice.”

“There’s no doubt that the integrity and letter and spirit of the Geneva Conventions have been preserved,” McCain said, referring to the international treaties covering the treatment of prisoners in wartime.

The central sticking point had been a demand from McCain, Sen. John Warner of Virginia and Sen. Lindsey Graham of

South Carolina that there be ho attempt to redefine U.S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions.

The agreement contains key concessions by the White House, including dropping a provision that would have interpreted Geneva Convention obligations and another allowing a defendant to be convicted on evidence he never sees if it is classified.

The legislation, however, makes clear the president has the authority to enforce the treaty.

CIA Director Michael Hayden has said the agency needed to be confident that its interrogation program for high-value terror suspects is legal.

African Union forces to stay in Darfur by

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The African UNITED NATIONS Union announced Wednesday it will extend the mandate of a peacekeeping force in Darfur through Dec. 31, avoiding a showdown for now over Sudan’s refusal to permit the United Nadons to take over the mission and triple its size.

According to the agreement, the United Nadons will lend material and logistic support to the mission, which has been hobbled by equipment and cash shortfalls.

The Arab League also has agreed to provide funding, said Burkina Faso’s President

Blaise Compaore, head of the AU Peace and Security Council.

The deal, which was reached on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly session, was a compromise by the African Union, which had hoped to turn over control for peacekeeping in Darfur to the United Nations after Sept. 30, when the mission’s current mandate expires.

The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution last month that would expand the mission from 7,000 to more than 20,000 troops and give it new authority to protect civilians.

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About 1,000 Muslim clerics and religious scholars meeting Thursday in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of Pope Benedict XVI for making what they called "insulting remarks"against Islam.

Pentagon rejects accusations A Pentagon report rejects the idea that intelligence gathered by a secret military unit could have been used to stop the Sept. 11

hijackings. The report was ordered following the assertion last year that the unit had identified four of the 19hijackers in 2000.

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But Sudan’s government vehemendy opposes the introduction of U.N. forces in Darfur, where fighting between rebels and government-backed militias has left more than 200,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced since 2003.

The United Nations has called it the world’s worst humanitarian disaster and the United States has labeled the attacks

There is new hope for the families of hundreds of Sept. 11 victims whose remains were never identified, according to the city medical examiner, who sent letters on Thursday saying an advance in DNA technology means "new identifications will be

genocide.

Compaore said the African Union was still trying to win the consent of President

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Each year, students from around the )be flock to the School ofLaw in order to [fill a multi-semester curriculum of study internationaland comparative law.

Duke’s Center for International and smparative Law is home to a number of ograms including the Master ofLaws deee, the Doctor of Juridical Science deee, a joint Juris Doctor/LL.M. program, o summer institutes and countless exlange programs.

There are currently 77 LL.M. students iling from 33 countries and 37 SJ.D. idents in the program. The largest per- , ntage of students come from Japan and rea. China and Germany are perennialpopular as well.

“There are three main factors why inrnational students choose to study law in nerica, and especially at Duke,” said dy Horowitz, associate dean for interna>nal studies.

She explained that a desire to have clients at big U.S. law firms, the incredible influence of American law around the world and the influence of Duke alumni stationed across the globe all play a role in attracting international students to the law school.

All LL.M. students must study law in their home countries before coming to Duke, and most practice law for two to 10 years prior to their study at Duke.

When their studies are completed, the majority of students go back to their home countries. Students’ visas, however, allow them to work in the United States for three months before returning home—an opportunity many students take advantage of.

“I chose to come to Duke because of the prestige of the University,” said Giovanna Moscoso, an LL.M. student from Peru.

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is in Durham,” Smith said of Judge Orlando Hudson’s decision. “I want to know what he based his decision on.”

Durham Public Schools attorney Ann Majestic, Trinity ’74 and Law ’B2, said the plaintiffs case lacked sufficient evidence and contradicted itself.

“One of their main headline arguments was the discriminatory there process—that was a pattern shown by a disproportionate number of black kids suspended—and that’s Orlando Hudson just not enough,” Majestic said. There are so many different situations and reasons for individual sentences that the disproportionate number of suspensions does not prove bias, she said. tem

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A lawsuit accusing Durham public school administrators of racial bias and student mistreatment was dismissed from a North Carolina Superior Court Sept. 18.

The plaintiffs attorney, Patti Solari, an associate law professor at North Carolina Central University, argued that school administrators had systematically discriminated against minority students, unjustly suspending them and mislabeling some as gang members.

Solari represented nine students, including her white daughter Gina, from both Jordan and Southern high schools.

Sheryl Smith, who said she is working closely with Patti Solari to appeal the dismissal, lost her 18-year-old son Todd Douglas to gang violence last November. The school system mistreated Douglas and other students by wrongly labeling them as gang members, she said.

“This just shows how damaged our sys-

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DSG President Elliott Wolf has worked to make the areas surrounding East Campus safer.

Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf, a junior, is spearheading an effort to protect pedestrians at the intersection of Broad and Perry streets after a traffic accident almost killed a graduate student Aug. 11.

An intermediary between the edge of East Campus and popular shops on Ninth Street, the section of Broad Street near Perry Street presents a threat to students, Wolf said.

“I think [Broad Street] is the major focal point of concerns about pedestrian safety,” Wolf said. “It’s an intersection that SEE CROSSWALKS ON PAGE 6

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Campus Council members discussed changing the current quadrangle model on West Campus into a house model at its general body meeting Thursday night.

The discussion was a continuation of the council’s conversation with Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, about the Campus Culture Initiative last week.

Facilities and Service Chair Hasnain Zaidi, a junior, pointed out the structural division within the quadrangle and the constant turnover of the resident body as reasons why it is hard to foster a sense of community on West.

Zaidi proposed the reduction of the current quadrangle units into smaller houses —perhaps dividing each space into four units—to help bring residents closer together.

Some members said this new model might bring more of a sense of community to the residents and help facilitate communications between residents and quadrangle representatives.

“If it is smaller, then it will be less decentralized and easier for the representatives of each house to reflect the opinions and needs of the residents,” said sophomore Molly Bierman, president of Kilgo Quadrangle Council.

Other members, however, said it is not the housing model that restricts residents’ interactions but individuals’ attitudes.

“When students come to West, they already have their niche of friends and they don’t branch out,” said sophomore Daniel Piech, an at-large representative.

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Four new music practice rooms have opened their doors on West Campus, allowing upperclassmen to play their instruments without having to make the long journey to the existing rooms on East Campus.

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, spearheaded the idea, which took two years to materialize.

“The original concept sprouted out of student demand,” Hull said. “Students, from music majors to people who just wanted to play, were tired of making the trip.”

Before the new rooms opened, the only individual practice rooms were in the Biddle Music Building on East, where the Department ofMusic is located, said Randall Love, associate professor of the practice of music. While other pianos were available for use, they were all in public places, such as Wilson Gym and the Mary Lou Williams Center.

Love has followed the idea through from its inception.

“Practice areas had a spotty presence over the years,” he said. “For someone who really wanted to practice, it was a scramble.”

The new rooms were constructed in Craven and Edens quadrangles, directly abutting students’ living space. Hull said they take the place of a former commons room and residential coordinator’s office, respectively.

Hull added that the initial response to the music rooms has been positive.

He noted that even though the practice rooms are open all day, they are commonly full of students.

Students said the closeness of the rooms, however, makes some residents of Craven and Edens nervous.

Although the rooms are on the bottom floors of both buildings, they are directly underneath occupied dorm rooms.

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residential quads could make the commute nearly as long as the one to the current practice rooms.

Alex Bok, a junior who lives in Craven, said he had mixed feelings about the new rooms. “I see a lot of new students coming over with their instrument cases,” he said.

“It’s obviously a good thing for older students who are majoring in music.”

But Bok added that some students are irritated by the constant noise, even when

they are just walking by the rooms.

“I’m sure its a big issue for the peopl living around the rooms—it reverberate through the walls,” Bok said. “I can hean somedmes in my room and I don’t eve live near the practice area.”

Jon Acton, residence coordinator fa Edens, said he has not heard anything ba from students so far.

Hull said no complaints have come way, either.

“There’s no reason for anyone to ha' them,” he said. “We did a good thing.”

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Sophomore Emma Boston, an at-large representative, id she is worried that if a house model is applied, furier separation will be created on West. “There’s already ie greeks and the selective [living groups]. If we add ouses, we’re dividing the campus up,” she said.

Treasurer Ashley Gray, a senior, said the constant lange in the resident body does not allow a strong com-

unity to be formed.

“Every year the residents have to re-create something iw because there is no legacy within the houses,” Gray id. “The new students have no sense of what [the house is] like before.”

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, said iother important factor to consider is the placement of jmmons rooms within the quadrangle.

“On East, as soon as you walk in you’ll see the com10ns room,” he said. “It’s a lot more likely that they’ll rop in and hang out for a while.” the location of commons rooms will be taken into msideration when renovations are made on West, Ganaa said, adding that it is difficult to find the opportune lot due to the structural restrictions of the buildings.

Campus Council is currendy planning to sponsor monthindividual quadrangle activities throughout West simulta ;ously to help bring students together. The series ofevents, lich will include barbeques, is scheduled to start Oct. 20. other business: The announcement of the decision about the possible ilocation of some selective living groups to accommoite new faculty-in-residence on West was on the agenda.

Idie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director housing services, however, was unable to attend and the mouncement has been held off until next week.

Members passed a resolution commending the Resists Life and Housing Sendees for refunding rent credto residents of Evens Quadrangle 3A and 3B in response the termination of their cooling service Sept. 4.

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Lange highlighted changes made since the last draft rculated, including the expansion of chapters on purham, Regional and Global Strategies” and “Assesslent.” An addition to the chapter on “Enduring Themes” uts more focus on the key role played by the humanities ttd social sciences.

Both Lange and Brodhead said the plan will prepare University to succeed in the world of the future.

“The university that begins now to shape itself to do lat will be asked of the university in the future will be ist positioned to be considered excellent at that time,” xidhead explained.

He added that the real work of putting the recommenitions into action is only beginning.

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allow much more interaction within the community than in previous years. “We’re going to about eight schools around Durham,” Horton explained.

This year’s Greek Week community outreach event was organized without the Into the City program, the former co-sponsor of Greek Week’s service outing.

“Because they decided to move [lnto the City] to orientation, we wanted to come up with something new,” Horton added.

Organizers said they received help from other sources in getting greek volunteers out to Durham elementary schools.

“The Community Service Center has been really helpful,” Gorman said. “It’s taken a little extra legwork, but it’s pretty similar to what we’ve done in the past.”

This year’s events, organizers said, should be participant-friendly.

The interaction between greek organizations is a key

element of Greek Week events, said senior Ryan Harris, president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

“I think it’s great that they’re trying to get every organization involved,” said sophomore Lydia Simmons of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. “They’re putting different organizations together and they’re doing a great job.”

During field day Saturday, Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will team up with Alpha Kappa Alpha and Chi Omega sororities. Delta Delta Delta sorority is taking the field with Sigma Chi, Chi Psi and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternities.

Teams are assembled in advance, 'pairing campus greek chapters into ten groups competing for the title.

‘You’re put into teams with chapters you wouldn’t typically do things with,” said Horton. “It’s away of furthering the community.”

Harris added that the barbeque and other Greek Week events give current greek students an opportunity to meet freshmen in a casual environment.

“We want freshmen to get involved so they can meet greek members outside of the typical section party or social event,” Horton said.

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CROSSWALKS from page 3 serves a significant amount of pedestrian traffic and is also very dangerous. I can’t think of any others in the vicinity of the campus that are as hazardous.”

In a Sept. 15 letter to Durham Mayor Bill Bell, Wolf stressed the potential for future injuries and urged officials to consider implementing new features at the affected area ofBroad Street.

“Recent efforts by both the Duke administration and the Duke Student Government have sought to encourage students to regularly interact'with the community,” Wolf wrote in the letter. “Currently, however, students fear for their safety when crossing the street in order to walk only a block from East Campus to Ninth Street.”

Wolf mentioned in the letter several short-term additions initially proposed by the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association that would provide relief to Duke students and the larger Durham community.

The suggestions—including visible signs alerting drivers to pedestrians, extended curbs, a raised crosswalk and

a decreased speed limit—need only a “minimal investment by the city,” Wolf wrote.

In response to Wolfs letter, City Council member Mike Woodard, who has sought changes to the crosswalk since he witnessed the accident last August, assured members of the community-based organization Partners Against Crime that he is working to gain approval from the North Carolina Department of Transportation and produce solidified plans.

He added that one of the city’s senior traffic planners will meet with the NCDOT today to discuss a number of options.

Erin Kuhns, the graduate student in religion severely injured in the accident, said Woodard has not fulfilled his pledge to swiftly address the issue.

“I believe he claimed that he would bring the matter to the city’s attention,” Kuhns wrote in an e-mail. “I would have expected a speedier response.”

Previous pedestrian accidents on Broad Street, including the death of a Duke alumna in September 2004 after a collision with a Durham Area Transit Authority bus, have prompted city officials to install pedestrian features such

as a crossing light at the intersection of Broad am Markham Avenue.

These efforts, however, are far from adequate, Wo said, adding that three Duke students or community men hers have been seriously injured near the crosswalk in th last few years.

“They should put a light at the walkway because non of the cars stop,” freshman Rob Bewkes said after a recei near-collision with an oncoming vehicle on Broad Stree “Maybe a push button with a light so they have to stop fo us to walk.”

Kuhns said accidents such as her’s may occur due to ai unfortunate combination of pedestrian nonchalance an motorist negligence, but the proposed improvement would still help protect students and local residents fron future tragedies.

She added that the city cannot be held responsible fc the decisions of pedestrians or motorists, but it does hav an obligation to protect its citizens.

“When it comes to pedestrian safety, the City t Durham is certainly capable of doing so and has only to b willing,” she said.

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Defendants named in the suit included Jordan print pal Richard Webber, former Southern principal Larry M( Donald and current Southern principal Rodriguez Tea The Herald-Sun reported Sept. 18. Also named were fo mer DPS Superintendent Ann Denlinger, four schoi board members and former board chair Gail Heath.

Majestic said principals have the authority to dispen short-term suspensions of 10 days or fewer. They can re ommend more lengthy suspensions to the superinten ent, who makes the final decision.

Students faced with a long-term suspension may a| peal to the school board but none of the students name in the suit did, Majestic said.

“This is a failure to exhaust administrative remediesit’s one of the grounds to dismiss,” Majestic said, addin that the students involved either admitted or did not den the conduct that led to their suspensions.

Solari, who was unavailable for comment, intended make the case a class action suit in which the plaintif would represent a larger group with common claims. Si sought to include all current and former students undf the age of 21 who have been unlawfully suspended or e: pelled since September 2003, and who are members of, associated with, a racial or ethnic minority group, th Herald-Sun reported.

Majestic, however, said this definition is problematic b cause each student’s case must be decided individually b fore determining whether their suspension was unlawful Majestic is currently preparing arguments for the a| peal, which must be presented within 30 days.

In the meantime, Smith said she and other parents children killed in gang violence will be marching at th courthouse Monday.

“I can prove myself and other parents can too, that how we got this far,” she said. “The battle has justbegun

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“I think we have a lot of students who come here closeted and don’t come out until sophomore or junior year,” she said.

The top-20 ranking comes from The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students, published in August by The Advocate, a popular magazine for theLGBT community.

Using a “Gay Point Average”—a checklist of institutions and services that support the LGBT community —the book gave the University a grade of 18 out of 20 possible points, placing Duke in the nation’s upper echelon.

The Guide identifies the three most supportive academic departments as cultural anthropology, women’s studies and literature. It praises the campus community, but gives the local community middle marks and North Carolina a low ranking.

Some members of the campus LGBT population, however, don’t agree with the assessment. “I think it’s bullshit,” said senior Tony Manela. “Whoever ranked it doesn’t know what they’re talking about.”

Manela referred to the Princeton Review, which, in 1999, ranked the University worst in the nation for acceptance of gay students.

“Schools don’t swing that fast,” he said.

But not everyone is so critical. Jonathan Tarr, Trinity ’O5, works as project coordinator in the Office of the Provost. He said in his five-plus years at the University, LGBT students have made great strides.

“I feel like over the past five years everyone that I’ve interacted with... has been what’s made Duke a place that would even be considered for inclusion [in the Advocate Guide],” he said. “These people work everyday—not just creating programs, but also fighting for change.”

Junior Jeremy Marshall, president of Duke Allies, said his group works closely with AQUADuke. Allies focuses on advocacy while AQUADuke serves a social role.

Despite the advances, there is no sense of solidarity and strong polarization within the community, Manela said. at

tioned in the book, have created divisions, with some gay students deeming the scene “too alternative,” Noble said.

“One of the most difficult aspects of trying to promote the positives of gay people is that people are trying to make themselves appear more fringe than they are,” said Duke Allies President Jeremy Marshall, a junior. “I’ll be honest—there’s a lot of promiscuity and a lot of smoking and other drug use in the gay community.”

Tarr said the presence of distinct groups within the LGBT community is neither unusual at universities nor necessarily problematic, although it is important to alleviate any animosity.

He also noted that it would be impossible to replicate the communities found at larger schools like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which have gay populations proportional to their enrollment.

The goal should be to make all students feel comfortable, Tarr said.

Janie Long, who became the LGBT Center’s director in July, said the problems facing Duke’s gay community are not unique.

“Is Duke a lot worse than other schools?

I don’t believe so, because all campuses have a lot of work to do,” she said.

Often, subconscious, concealed or socially ingrained homophobia makes people uncomfortable, manifesting in übiquitous phrases such as “That’s so gay,” Manela said.

“I don’t mean to give the impression that the campus is homophobic,” he said. “I haven’t experienced any to my face, but a lot ofit goes on behind people’s back. That’s the worst, when it’s not out in the open.”

The SHARE selective living group which the Guide calls the best place for LGBT students to live on campus—has long enjoyed a strong relationship with the LGBT community, students in both groups said. Residents of SHARE are often involved in LGBT programming, while SHARE students turn out in droves to LGBT social events.

But weakening membership and ineffectual recruitment are foreshadowing an end to SHARE—a prospect Tarr, a former —

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“If AQUADuke were to go away for a year, students would create ad hoc ways to replace it,” he said. “What SHARE offers is something that we’re not readily able to replicate in that it’s actually residential.”

“If [SHARE] were eliminated, it would be a real problem,” he added.

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Long said students’ perceptions of how accepting the University hinges on their background, something Noble also noted.

“I think that anyone’s opinion on [acceptance] is going to depend on where they’re from,” she said.

“I’m from Oklahoma and when I came here I immediately thought it was good, but students who come from big cities or New England have a different perspective,” she added.

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tend the University,” he said. “Other people who I have talked to said that they had a lot ofinteraction with the ad-

participated in the program in previous years.”

For some students, Duke’s quality oflife is an attraction.

“Coming to Duke was a tough decision. I was deciding between Duke, Georgetown and Northwestern,” said Juan Schmidt, an LL.M. student from Santiago, Chile. “The deciding factor for me was the incredible quality oflife here.

I have a wife and a one-year-old son, and Duke offers a great environment for my family.”

To maintain the excellence of the program, Duke administrators work to continually attract top international students.

“We send out a variety ofbrochures and posters to help recruit,” Horowitz said. “Many applicants are recommended to us by colleagues in their law firms and many are selected by their home institutions.”

Yasuhiro Izushima, an LL.M. student from Japan, said alumni relations played a strong role in his decision to come to Duke.

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“The deciding factor for me was the incredible quality of life here.

I have a wife and a one-year-old son, and Duke offers a great environment for my family.”

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missions office when deciding to come here.”

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Duke’s program is similar in size to those at institutions like the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, Northwestern University and Cornell University.

The popularity ofDuke’s international program has expanded in recent years.

When Horowitz came to Duke in 1981, she said there were five international students in the LL.M. program.

“There was not a particularly active program when I arrived,” she said. “The past 10 to 12 years have seen the most

growth.”

International alumni share a lifelong connection with Duke School ofLaw. “We have hundreds of students who contact us to stay in touch with the school. We also have active alumni-clubs around the world,” Horowitz said.

She added, however, that Duke’s international program is a mutually rewarding experience.

“The international population definitely enriches classes,” she said.

“The students’ presence adds to the rich atmosphere of diversity, discussion and learning,” she added.

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taking courses at Duke and only partially reimburses their tuition costs.

Any full-time staff member who has completed two continuous years of service within the University is eligible to apply for the new program. Participation requires employees to continue working at Duke for two years after receiving a tuition reimbursement of $2,500 or more.

Recommendations to expand the program came from the 2003 Women’s Initiative report in order to improve career development options for employees, said Paul Grantham, communications director for the Office of Human Resources.

“In terms of looking at staff, one of the primary things that came out of that was a desire for greater opportunities for professional development,” he said, “Where we ended up was a redesign of the program.”

Grantham said the new program, which provides each participant with $5,000 per year in reimbursements, eliminates participant inconveniences such as distance and scheduling conflicts that were prevalent wheft the plan was limited to the University.

He also noted that the expansion benefits the University staffs diversity because it enables employees to take a wide range of classes at many different locations.

“When you think about it, not everyone is going to take classes at Duke,” Grantham said. “We’ve got a broad range of jobs and roles here.”

University officials said they are enthusiastic about the scope of development the program offers staff members.

“I think it’s a great program and a great change to the previously existing program, said Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus services. “It’ll be a wonderful benefit to the employees and offer them a real opportunity to grow and advance their careers.”

The program reflects the University’s continuing attention to improve employment opportunities, Bumess said.

“Duke recruits people from all over the world to be on the faculty, and for all of them we try to be a good employer,” he said. “If you look at the overall benefits Duke offers, it is a very comprehensive range of benefits [for employees] to take advantage of.”

Grantham said the new program potentially benefits the University in two key ways —by preparing employees to continue working at Duke and by investing in their proto

fessional development.

“When people leave, they often cite career development as a reason for leaving,” he said. “The more we look at this investment the better we’re going to do at keeping talent here and encouraging people to grow at Duke.”

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Spencer Wadsworth and the Blue Devils will look to rebound from their first loss of the season with a win Saturday.

But fifth-ranked Duke (6-1-1, 10-1 in the ACC) will have to deal with the defeat and regroup before ACC foe Boston College (4-3, 1-1) visits Koskinen Stadium 7 p.m. Saturday.

“The loss is completely out of our system,” junior forward Spencer Wadsworth said.

“There’s no point in thinking about it. We are looking forward to Boston College.”

Tuesday’s controversial loss to the Seahawks—in which the referee nullified the Blue Devils’ late score because it came after time expired —was highlighted

by Duke’s inability to find the back of the net. Although Duke was shut out for the second time in its last three games—the other was a scoreless tie with Virginia Tech Sept. 12—the team remains optimistic about its offensive chances.

“Getting shots is not a problem,” Wadsworth said. “We just have to take advantage of the opportunities we have. We had an off night against UNC-Wilmington, but it isn’t really that big of a deal. We’re keeping our heads up.”.

Head coach John Rennie, however, said offensively the

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Duke added its 12thmember of the class of 2011 earlier this week, as Danny Parker verbally committed to enroll at the University next fall.

The tight end-defensive end from Our Lady Good Counsel High School in Wheaton, Md., originally played basketball for the school and has only one season of football experience under his belt.

“He was a late riser,” said Bob Lichtenfels, scout.com’s Regional Manager for East Football Recruiting. “He was a basketball guy who blossomed late as a football player. He’s a real physical and athletic kid.”

Parker, who is projected to play on the offensive side of the

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Duke scored just one goal in two gameslast weekend at home but exploded for three Thursday night against Virginia Tech.

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Duke started out its ACC schedule on the right foot Thursday night.

The Blue Devils had played their previous three games without a win, but they throtded Virginia Tech on the road, 3-1, in Blacksburg, Va. “We did well tonight,” head coach Robbie Church said. “Any_

Roof nabs 12th recruit for 2007 ball for the Blue Devils, cited Duke’s early interest in him as a major reason for his decision.

“Duke had been showing me love from the very start of the process,” Parker told to TheDevilsDen.com. “They have been there from day one and the situation there is really something I’m interested in. I can go to Duke, get a degree that will be the best possible and have a chance to play really early in my career.”

Lichtenfels went on to say that partly because ofhis lack of playing experience, Parker remains an undeveloped talent with great potential for the Blue Devils.

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The fourth-ranked Blue Devils play host to the No. 5 North Carolina Tar Heels 1 p.m. Saturday at Williams Field.

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After scoring just one goal in last weekend’s pair of games at home, Duke (5-3-1, 1-0 in the ACC) came out hungry against the Hokies (4-3-1, 0-1). Just seven .minutes into the match, senior Sarah McCabe quickly found the net on a half-volley when senior Darby Kroyer’s shot deflected off the crossbar to McCabe on the right side of the field.

“It was really nice getting the early goal,” Kroyer said. “After stressing all week to stay focused for the entire match, it was good we didn’t let down tonight even after we scored the third goal in the second half.”

Duke’s second goal was also a during the last few matches,” Kroyfollow-up on a previous shot. In er said. “To get the win on the road the 35th minute, freshman Elisa- to start ACC play and to score beth Redmond connected from three goals gives us a confidence

just outside the six-yard box on the rebound of freshman CJ Ludemann’s shot that was blocked by the Hokie goalkeeper.

Although Church said the Blue Devils struggled 'defensively at times, he praised his team’s focus on the field. After troubles putting the ball in the net in last weekend’s Duke/adidas Classic, Church said Duke showed improvement against Virginia Tech.

“We got more consistent for a full 90 minutes tonight—our letdown was smaller,” Church said.

“There has to be a letdown in every game, but tonight we were more consistent over a longer period of time.... There was a full 20minute spurt in the beginning of the second half when we played the best we’ve played all season.”

The Blue Devils’ final goal of the game came in those 20 minutes. With 68:35 on the clock, freshman KayAnne Gummersall received a ball from Lorraine Quinn, then beat a defender and found the net from the top of the 18-yard box, making the score 3-0.

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boost. All three goals we scored tonight were hard-working goals.”

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Senior Darby Kroyer's shot in the first half came up short, but Sarah McCabe knocked in the rebound to put Duke up, 1-0.

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After a disappointing double-overtime loss to No. 3 Old Dominion Sunday, the fifth-ranked Blue Devils (6-2, 0-1 in the ACC) are ready to show that their spirits have not been dashed.

4. Duke has a chance to rebound from two losses the past two weekends in its next VS. match against No. 5 North Carolina (6-2, 0-1) 1 p.m. Saturday at SATURDAY, 1 p.m. Williams Field Williams Field Head coach Beth Bozman said her team has taken the disheartening defeat in stride this week rather than focusing on any setbacks.

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back,” Bozman said. “Sunday, it was a painful loss to a great team and double OT is as close as you can get.”

Despite the loss to ODU, the Blue Devils have proved themselves as a powerful offensive team. Midfielder Marian Dickinson was named ACC Player of the Week after she recorded two consecutive hat tricks last weekend, and the team has scored 14 goals in its last three games.

Keeping up that offensive success will be the biggest challenge for the Blue Devils this Saturday, facing a UNC team that has allowed only nine goals this season.

“We have to keep moving the ball around,” Dickinson said.' “Just capitalizing and taking anything we can get, since we’re both such tight teams.”

The Blue Devils hope what they have been doing is enough to take down the Tar Heels, a team that has given Duke trouble historically. Even though UNC holds a monstrous edge in the rivalry with 58 wins in 68 games, the Blue Devils found success last season, winning 2-1 in Chapel Hill.

The Tar Heels are also coming off a disappointing loss from last weekend—they fell 2-1 to then lOth-ranked Virginia.

Senior captain Hilary Linton said she is looking forward to this weekend’s game after missing the matchup against the Tar Heels last year.

“It’ll be exciting and fun,” she said. “It’s different because all the girls know each other. It’s more intense.”

After losing to two top-five teams the past two weekends, the Blue Devils have a chance to redeem themselves if they can beat North Carolina. To do so, Linton said Duke will rely on “intensity and hard work.”

“We had a lot of intensity in the first half last week, but we didn’t bring as much in the second half,” she said.

Bozman said her team has what it takes to beat the Tar Heels and has not planned any changes for this weekend.

“We’re going to stick with what we’ve been doing,” she said. “It’s working well for us so far.”

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Getting to the top is difficult, but staying there is an even bigger challenge.

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The Blue Devils, (7-2) coming off a 2-1 showing in the Sun Devil Classic, open their 22-game ACC slate this weekend with a pair of contests in Cameron Indoor StadiTONIGHT, 7 p.m.

Cameron Indoor um. The team plays Clemson (5-3) Friday and Georgia Tech (8-2) Saturday.

Both games start at 7 p.m.

Duke’s most recent tournament performance VS. was strong, as the Blue Devils beat Butler and Arizona State before losing in a SATURDAY, 7 p.m close four-game match Cameron Indoor against Notre Dame. In addition to facing good competition, the team cultivated additional depth before the conference season gets underway.

“All of our players on our team gained some valuable experience during the preseason,” head coach Jolene Nagel said.

“Hopefully when they get an opportunity during conference play, they will have that confidence.”

The Blue Devils went on a 10-1 run during the second halfof the ACC schedule in 2005, propelling the team to its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2002. De-

spite this success, Nagel realizes that the momentum built from last season will not automatically carry over.

“We have to re-establish ourselves,” Nagel said. “Just like during a volleyball match, there are a lot of momentum changes, and we’ve got to try to get a strong start and gain some of that momentum.”

Eight of the conference’s 12 coaches selected the Blue Devils as the league’s top team before the season began, but that respect does come at the price of being a target at which the rest of the conference can aim.

“Being ranked No. 1, people are going to have that extra drive to come and get us,” senior outside hitter Tealle Hunkus said. “We know that we have to bring our game every night.”

Clemson and Georgia Tech are both expected to present a strong challenge to Duke, and the Blue Devils certainly understand the advantage of opening the ACC schedule at home.Last season, the Blue Devils split their season-opening road trip, losing to Clemson before bouncing back with a win over theYellow Jackets the following day.

“The fact that we have them at home is a wonderful thing,” Nagel said.

Clemson, led by preseason All-ACC outside hitter Jeanette Abbott and middle blocker Danielle Hepburn, will present the Blue Devils with a powerful offensive challenge. Georgia Tech, ranked third in the preseason ACC coaches poll, features an attack that will force the Blue Devils to play aggressively in order to defend.

“We’re expecting tough matches,” Hunkus said. “It’s going to be a great weekend back-to-back.”

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M.SOCCER from page 9 Blue Devils have to focus on finishing scoring opportunities.

“You worry about two things,” Rennie said. “The first is creating legitimate scoring chances, which we did. We created very good opportunities to score. The second is finishing scoring changes. We just didn’t finish our really good chances, a byproduct of poor execution.”

The Blue Devils cannot dwell on their first loss as the Eagles are coming off a 1-0 win over St. Francis Sept. 19 and a near upset of second-ranked Virginia in.overtime Sept. 15 on the road.

“Rankings mean very little this early in the season,” Rennie said. “Boston College beat Virginia Tech, and we didn’t. Boston College has maybe the best goal scorer in the country in Charlie Davies. They present their own unique challenge, like any other ACC team.”

Last year, Duke cruised to a 3-0 victory against the Ea-

COURTESY OF THE COLLEGIATE TIMES

In last night's battle in Blacksburg, Duke knocked off the home town Hokies 3-1 to improve its record to 5-3-1 on the season.

W. SOCCER from page 9 Julian Johnson sent

a throw-in far into the Duke box and Laurie Beth Puglisi headed the ball into the back of the net. But the Blue Devils halted the Hokies there, preventing them from any further scoring.

With their first ACC win under their belt, the Blue Devils hope to maintain their focus during games and continue with wins in their competitive conference four teams in the ACC are currendy ranked in the top 25 nationally.

“We’re in the top ofthe league here,” Church said. “But we know we’ve got a major task ahead of us in Virginia.”

Duke will travel to Charlottesville, Va. Sunday to take on No. 21 Virginia in its second ACC matchup of the season.

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Picked to finish first in the ACC during the preseason, theBlue Devils will open league play tonight at 7 p.m.

gles on the road, although Davies was not active for that game.

This year, with Davies back in the mix, the Blue Devils know that the game Saturday is going to be a real fight.

Davies has already netted six goals in his first seven games.

Like Rennie, Duke players are not putting stock in the fact that Boston College is unranked.

“It doesn’t really matter,” junior midfielder Joe German ese said. “One ACC team is just as tough as any other opponent, and any ACC game is a huge game. Anybody in the ACC can beat anybody.”

Although the Blue Devils’ undefeated season is over, they are still perfect in conference play and hope to stay out of the loss column with a win against Boston College this weekend.

“Everybody hates to lose,” Germanese said. “We got together at practice, though, and realized we have a very big game Saturday. All of our energy is focused on Boston College.”

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with the kid because he’s so raw,” Lichtenfels said. “But for a program like Duke who needs a foundation, the sky could be the limit for him.”

Parker stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 225 pounds. He has been clocked in the 40-yard dash at 4.6 seconds, which is an impressive mark for a player his size.

“He has a huge upside,” Lichtenfels said. “When he gets to school he’ll probably bulk up to about 245-250

pounds.”

Joining Parker in the Blue Devils’ future receiving corps is Josh Trezvant, Duke’s highest rated recruit to commit thus far. Trezvant, a receiver from Morriltoh, Ark., will likely line up at wideout as a Blue Devils.

Last season Trezvant caught 66 passes for 1,107 yards and six touchdowns. He also rushed for 920 yards and 14 more scores while playing both wideout and tailback for Morrilton High last season. He committed to Duke Aug. 8.

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Danny Parker has verbally committed to Duke. After playing on both sidesof the ball in high school, he will likely be a receiver for the Blue Devils.

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ontherecord I’m from Oklahoma and when I came here I immediately thought it was good, but students who come from big cities or New England have a different perspective.

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Although Campus Council was originally envisioned as an advisory board, it has since become the only student advocate for residence life issues. Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, has an obligation to his residents to respect and incorporate the opinions of their elected representatives.

Administrators’ time at the University far surpasses that of students, and as such administrators are inclined to sacrifice short-term goals for long-term gains. This is understandable. But administrators must also realize that student groups such as Campus Council are not able to serve their constituency or honor their commitment to the student body as a whole if RLHS and other administra-

tive bodies are unwilling to listen to the opinion of student leaders.

Currently, Campus Council is being excluded from the process of adding facultyin-residence apartments to West. Members of the administration have repeatedly refused to provide information about the size, location or cost of the new faculty apartments. Even the rollout plan has been shielded from student involvement and Campus Council is again hamstrung in its ability to represent the students on an important campus issue.

But programs like the Group Living Initiative may offer some hope for future involvement in residential decision-making.

Indeed, while many selective groups may fear the implementation of a revised Annual Review,

the inclusion of Selective House Council, Interfratemity Council and Campus Council representatives ensures a fair and well-rounded process. The GLI and other student-run oversight bodies help to promote necessary transparency and openness.

Moving forward, we should support anefc encourage the creation of programs such as the GLI that maximize student involvement.

Students in residence deserve to be informed and included in decisions that shape its future.

Residence Life and Housing Services must either fully include Campus Council in the process of residential management or drop the facade and admit that RLHS solely intends to use Campus Council as a pro-

gramming body.

letterstotheeditor Column shows lack of respect for women Having been raised in a southern family that instilled in me the importance of gentility and a respect for women, I was troubled

by Steve Brown’s perspectives in his Sept. 20 article “Sit Down For Your Rights.” He attempts to justify his choice to not give up his seat on the bus to a young woman by claiming he was reaffirming that females are just as capable as men. Yet by implying that he was doing her a favor by refusing her request, he wrongly implies that he has brilliantly deduced the answer to the deeper question that her supposedly feeble female

mind could not have discovered. This implied lack of respect for the intelligence of women is startling and offensive; particularly to those women who are intelligent enough to understand that chivalry and gentility are not an attack on their capabilities, but rather a kind gesture from gentlemen who respect them.

Alec Macauley Trinity ’O7 GOP failures good for Democrats I learned two things from Jamie Deal’s Sept. 21 article “Victory.” One, Deal has left the reality-based community and now resides in a world where facts don’t matter. And two, he has a great future as a partisan hack spinning Republican talking points. He claims Democrats are “hostage” to their base, unlike their Republican counterparts. But why then do Democrats have a pro-life leader in the Senate in Harry Reid while Republicans continue to placate their base with gay marriage amendments and billion-dollar tax cuts to oil companies and the über-wealthy? And it’s an insult to reality to call Republican policies such as the recent Medicare Reform Bill arid Patriot Act “pragmatic.” More accurate would be to view them respectively as a sell-out to campaign contributors and a blatant grab for power.

Deal likes to cite recent primary results in Connecticut and Rhode Island as examples of Republican superiority over Democrats. But describingjoseph Lieberman’s loss to newcomer Ned Lament as Liberals purg-

ing “anyone who strays from [their] ideology” is little more than wishful thinking on Neal’s part. The reality is Lamont’s victory is a repudiation of Bush’s failed neoconservative foreign policy, the senator who supported it, and the awkward kiss Bush planted on Lieberman’s cheek. And Lincoln Chafee’s narrow victory over Republican challenger Stephen Laffey? Chafee won after Libby Dole, head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, threw every resource east of the Mississippi into saving Chafee from his own party, abandoning races in Tennessee, Florida and Maryland. So much for pragmatism. And how is Chafee doing now? The latest Rasmussen poll has Democrat challenger trailing Sheldon Whitehouse 51-43.

Only one in four Americans think the Republican-led Congress is doing a good job.

Deal’s hope for a Republican victory despite Republican failures is really just his disdain for facts at work again. People are tired of six years of failure, the Sept. 11 boogeyman doesn’t work anymore, and Democrats will gain seats in the House and Senate this fall. Democrats will finally have something to smile about at the East Campus bus stop this year.

Gregory Feltman Trinity ’O9 Parents pay for better parking As a parent who pays for the parking pass, I expect there to always be a place to park on campus. The issue last Friday where parking was eliminated to host another “camping” event for athletics was ridiculous. If a student arrives on campus for class and discovers the lot is closed (with no alternate direction of where to go), what choice is there but to park in that lot or miss class. Unfortunately, parking in the restricted lot resulted in a tow and fine. This is unacceptable. The University should not close the lots to those with a parking pass during scheduled class hours. Find another place for the TENTS!

Cindy Groh Parent of a Pratt undergraduate

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13, an existing policy was clarified: Students’ off-campus conduct will definitely be investigated and punished by on-campus authorities.

Before administrators get too ahead of themselves, I wish they would consider one thing about our judicial process; It. Doesn’t. Work.

Indeed, although academic infractions are down sharply since the implementation of the Duke Community Standard, non-academic violations—particularly those involving alcohol—have skyrocketed during the past 10 years. In its current state, Duke’s judicial philosophy is wholly unsuited to reduce alarming levels of binge drinking and out-of-control partying; simply expanding the jurisdiction of the Office of

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Because Bryan is correct, students should be acutely alarmed at the prospect of being subject to University punishment for off-campus offenses. For one thing, Duke’s court system uses a “clear and convincing” standard of proof, which is less than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” threshold mandated by criminal courts. Additionally, the procedure for admitting evidence is quite different, eliminating a “technical advantag[e] that exists in the criminal process.” You could plausibly be found innocent in a court of law and yet be guilty by Duke’s standards.

What’s more, Bryan is asking students to trust the Office of Judicial Affairs’ discretion in deciding which off-campus offenses to punish. He went on to cite limited resources as the primary reason why “less serious” violations will (probably) not be pursued.

In reality, this promise will either lead to a remarkably inconsistent application of the policy, or it will invite inequality and opportunism in its enforcement Is it fair that a student offense committed in California is less likely to be prosecuted than one in Chapel Hill? Or is this simply away for administrators to reserve the right to punish whatever crimes they deem “serious,” leaving us all vulnerable to the caprice of policy makers?

A recent controversy underscored these objections after the Undergraduate Judicial Board significantly increased, by precedent, the penalty for driving while intoxicated, but failed to communicate the change to the student body. This lapse guaranteed that the policy’s value as a deterrentwas not recognized. More importantly, our judicial protocol was revealed for what it really is: A trickle-down theory ofenforcement that accords the student body very little access and even less influence.

The considerable difficulty of navigating Duke’s judicial process only compounds these concerns. Only “members of the community” are allowed at Undergraduate Judicial Board hearings, which means that parents and attorneys (among others) are barred from attendance.

Moreover, although both the Fifth Amendment and the DSG Constitution outlaw double jeopardy, Bryan made it clear that administrators will not recognize that prohibition. Since Duke is a private institution, administrators are well within their legal rights to mandate this, but they are unwise to discard student input so blatantly. This adversarial approach only delegitimizes the judicial process in students’ eyes.

There is a better way. Institutions like Skidmore College and the University of Colorado at Boulder—which has experienced its own crisis involving athletics and campus culture —recently embraced an approach called “restorative justice,” which brings together the offender, the victim and members of the community to discuss the consequences of a violation.

Inside Higher Education magazine reported that these colleges have seen a reduction in “recidivism...[and restorative justice] is widely perceived by offenders and victims as fair and better able to meet their emotional and material needs than traditional retributive responses.” Given that a large number ofDuke students take responsibility for their crimes, an approach like this one might be an excellent improvement to our existing mediation protocols Furthermore, administrators should extend this community-focused paradigm to the larger judicial process, inasmuch as privacy and ethical regulations allow. As a first step, the identities of Undergraduate Judicial Board members should be made publicly available; the student body’s interest outweighs Bryan’s concern for members’ privacy in this instance.

Additionally, the process by which University regulations are formulated and altered should be made more democratic; as things stand, the Appellate Board and Larry Moneta are principally responsible for these changes, and yet it is students who must abide by them.

Lastly and most importantly, administrators need to respect our student constitution and embrace this community’s consensus. If they want to make the case that students should be punished twice for one crime (and I believe that they can), then let them. Otherwise, stop masquerading administratively driven policy as a legitimate student judicial process.

Kristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every Friday.

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We are handed their cookie cutter interThe expansion is risky. The further loss of ests and hobbies. We are told where they are from, what classes they aretaking, what clubs chummy exclusivity and privacy is likely to they are in. We are even alerted to their cause an upheaval among its oldest and most birthdays for the perfunctory message on the loyal clients—the college students. If we are wall. Whew. already angry that we have to share our netFor many, it is competition to see who has work with high school siblings, how would we more friends. It is a measure of social prestige feel when Grandma or that eccentric uncle and status. Need an ego boost? Go and inflate starts writing on our walls?

Yet this is all a part of the inevitable prothe number of buddies! (It’s amusing to check out the omnipresent rapport of the so-called stugression. The Facebook generation is growing dent “leaders.”) Oh the horror of not having a up. As we graduate from universities and disprofile, or worse, having only a double digit so- perse into the world, Facebook has to follow cial network. us out of the hallowed walls of campus. As our “It doesn’t mean that you are antisocial, or physical networks change, our virtual netyou are a bad person,” Chris Hughes, one of the works naturally transform along. This is because, as Zuckerberg himself admitted at a creators of Facebook, told The New Yorker.

“But where are the traces of your existence in technology convention, “there might not be this college community? You don’t exist—onany difference between what people are doing online and offline.” line, at least.”

The growth of Facebook is then that of a The youth of the 1960s defined counterculture. From the Free Speech Movementat the Unigravedigger digging his own grave. Maturity versity of California, Berkeley to the Civil Rights is stripping away the very innocent quality Movement in the South; from the psychedelic that makes Facebook unique—the exclusive flower children of San Francisco to the Parisian fraternity of shared classes, professors and exstrikers that nearly toppled the French governperiences—and turns it into just another onment; students confronted traditional Western line public forum, of which there already ideals and embraced new forms of religion, social exist many.

Allowing access from the general community organization and spiritual enlightenment would be the death of Facebook. The same We are revolutionaries and agitators of a difdreadful end suffered by the Children’s Revoluferent breed. tion of the ’6os when students grew up into comWe protest, rally and march under the virtual slogan of “Students Against Facebook News placent Baby Boomers. The cozy cocoon of virtuFeed” (701,676 group members) and “For al egos, friendship and agitation, dreamed up she Every 1,000 Students That Join This Group I score and 15 weeks ago by the wide-eyed kids, of Will Donate $1 For Darfur” (258,410 group the kids and for the kids, will perish from earth. members). We do not face the world and her James Zou is a Trinity senior. His column runs problems, we Facebook them.

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