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More than five months have passed since three members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team were charged with rape, but the case is still in its preliminary stages.

The defendants and the University have remained in the national spotlight for months, as the controversy and media frenzy surrounding the news case continue. analysis With the reputations of both players and school on the line, the pace of the trial is a significant concern for the campus and community.

“You have an impression that it is taking a long time, and it is said Robert Ekstrand, a lawyer who represented 35 lacrosse players this past spring, none of whom were indicted.

Some other people have questioned whether the defendants in the lacrosse case are receiving the speedy trial they deserve. They have also noted that the right to a speedy trial protects a defendant from unnecessary personal damages before a case is tried.

Although the alleged crime occurred on the night of March 13, the case will likely not go to trial until Spring 2007 nearly a year after the investigation and accompanying media coverage began.

“The discovery phase is taking an inordinate amount of time,” Ekstrand said.

He added that the state’s investigative file, which must be provided to the defendants in a speedy manner, has been a long time coming.

“There have been sizeable installments of documents month after month,” he said of the thousands of pages of statements, audio transcripts and other components of the file.

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Law another major facelift at its meeting last weekend.

Administrators are currently making progress in the design phase of the project, which will include renovations to the library and the addition of an atrium and event space.

Thomas Metzloff, head of the Building Committee and professor of law, said the project will cost “upwards of $2O million.” He said officials hope to break ground after graduation in May 2007.

“This will be a real jewel for both the University and the law school,” Metzloff said. “I think the University understood that if we wanted to be a top-10 law school, we needed to have a top-10 facility.”

The addition, which was conceived in the school’s master plan in 2000, comes after last year’s completion of a $2l-million renovation that added a 40,000-sq. ft. wing to the School of Law. Metzloff said he is particularly excited about the new 4,200-sq. ft. atrium, which will share both the look and architect of the University’s von der Heyden Pavilion and host major speakers and alumni events.

“Its main use will be day-to-day for our large community to have a pleasant place to study, relax and get together,” Metzloff said.

Officials said they hope the law school’s renovated reading room will become the center of activity in the library, where students and faculty will be able to check out books and ask research questions.

“The way people use libraries is

Lawyers in the lacrosse case have expressed concern about the speed of the progression of the case.

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changing, and law libraries need to be able to keep up with the way that law students, law faculty and others do research with their materials,” Provost Peter Lange said.

The School of Law has raised more than $l7 million so far for the project, said Sarah West, associate dean for alumni and development at the law school.

West added that the law school had the best fundraising year in its history in 2005, with an alumni-giving pardcipation rate ofabout 30 percent.

‘When there is a special project, you see an upturn in your giving,” she said. “[Alumni] will make a second gift in many cases.”

Housing assessment proposal set

ing Thursday night.

The Selective Community Assessment’s procedures have been finalized within the SCA'committee, announced junior Hasnain Zaidi, a committee member and Campus Council facilities and service chair. The,assessment is part of the University’s new Group Living

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Once the criteria are determined, the SCA will be presented to Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services.

Campus Council President Jay Ganato approve tra, a senior, said Hull is likely

the procedure. “I don’t foresee any problems with it,” Ganatra said. “It is well thought out and we worked hard on it.”

If the assessment is approved, it will be implemented as soon as January, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life.

Zaidi said the mechanics of the assessment are all in place except for the manner in which new groups will be assigned housing.

“The underlying assumption of the assessment is that housing for selective groups is a privilege,” Zaidi said.

He explained that housing reassignment will occur every three years based on how well the groups score in evaluations during each cycle.

Group representatives will present to the SCA committee every spring, said junior Chris Hopper, Campus Council vice presi-

dent and a member of the SCA committee.

The groups will be evaluated based on the goals they set for the year and the contributions they make to the community and their quad, Zaidi said.

Due to the differences between selective groups on campus, they will be divided into three categories according to,size, Zaidi said, adding that group size correlates to the resources available to the groups.

“We don’t want to compare apples to oranges,” he said.

Zaidi explained that groups will only be compared to those within their category. Top scorers will have the choice to “squat”—stay in the same location—or have first pick for new sections.

Smaller groups will also have the opportunity to expand their sections and SEE COUNCIL ON PAGE

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Oil prices settled above $6O a barrel Thursday on expectations that OPEC would soon cut its output, even though a representative of Saudi Arabia denied there was a deal to cut production. Concerns also grew about the stability of world oil supplies amid violence in Nigeria and as the United Nations considers sanctions against Iran.

APEX, N.C. Authorities asked about 16,000 residents of this suburban Raleigh town to evacuate early Friday morning as they struggled to deal with a hazardous material fire at an industrial plant.

No serious injuries were immediately reported, although a spokeswoman at Raleigh’s Rex Healthcare hospital said six people were in good condition as they received oxygen because of respiratory

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problems.

“This is truly awful,” town manager Bruce Radford said. “It is the worst potendal hazardous materials fire that you can expect.”

As the fire continued to burn in the early morning hours, a yellow haze lingered over downtown and there was a faint smell of chlorine. Police lined up along the main street that runs through the town’s business district, blocking both ends of the road.

Officials said the fire started around 10 p.m. Thursday at EQ Industrial Services,,a hazardous waste business that town manager Bruce Radford said housed a variety of volatile chemicals, including chlorine.

He said when he arrived at the scene, a chlorine cloud rose 50 feet in the air. He estimated that 20 to 30 explosions had occurred at the plant.

“We’re not even being able to get close to it because of the heat and the contaminate materials,” Radford said. “As of yet, we’ve not touched this fire.”

NATO extended its security mission Thursday to all of Afghanistan nearly five years after the West began its war to defeat the Taliban, taking command of 12,000 U.S. troops in the war-battered country's east.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, visiting Baghdad Thursday, warned Iraqi leaders they have limited time to settle their differences and thatthe escalating waves of violence are intolerable.

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A plant fire caused the evacuation of more than 16,000 people in Apex, N.C. late Thursday night.

The evacuation order generally covered the west side of Apex, located about 10 miles southwest of Raleigh. Authorities opened a shelter at an elementary school on the town’s east side, and the parking lot was full around 1:30 a.m. as residents and their pets milled around, waiting for news about the fire. Radford said it would be also be safe to take shelter at hotels in

nearby Cary. Friday classes in Apex schools were canceled, he said.

Radford said some residents who live near the fire, in an industrial area near one of the town’s oldest residential neighborhoods, had not heeded the evacuation order. He begged them to get away from what he called a “black, smoky cloud” that was covering downtown.

Three hockey players and two Yale football players, including the starting quarterback, were arrested after a fight outside a downtown market and charged with breach of peace. Police said a window at Gourmet Heaven on Broadway was broken during the scuffle early Sunday.

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Duke’s Fulbrights settle into global programs Michelle Mangan, Trinity ’O5, chose to study in Senegal on the Fulbright scholarAdam Yoffie, Trinity ’O6, has been inship for the 2005-2006 academic year. terested in HIV/AIDS research since he Mangan said she spent her 10 months doing things like eating daily meals of was eight years old and saw Magic Johnson, his favorite basketball player, cryrice and fish with her hands, interviewing women in rural villages, attending confering on television. ences, teaching English and selling hot Fifteen years later, Yoffie is one of several Fulbright scholars from Duke and is dogs at American embassy softball games.

She said she attributed her currendy studying public health in Israel.

He began a 10-monthprogram this Aumulti-faceted experience, however, to gust, working with a professor of public her “personal initiative” and not to the health at the Hebrew University of design of the program.

“I was told to expect that [the FulJerusalem and with the Jerusalem Open House—a lesbian, gay, bisexual and bright Program] would be rather unstructransgender organization that provides tured and to push myself to complete my free and anonymous HIV/AIDS testing. project because there was very little accountability on the side of the Fulbright Yoffie is one of more than 1,200 students currently studying as Fulbright Association,” Mangan wrote in an e-mail. scholars around the world, according to “In the words of one of my advisers, ‘You the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of could sit on the beach and still get paid Educational and Cultural Affairs. for it, if you really wanted to.’”

The Fulbright Scholar Program proThough many Fulbright scholars acvides grants for graduating college senknowledged the “unstructured” nature of iors and graduate students each year to the program, they said the lack of specifigo abroad and conduct research or teach cations did not hinder their experiences. in elementary and secondary schools for SEE FULBRIGHT ON PAGE 5 one academic year.

In the 2005-2006 academic year, 22 of Duke’s seniors and graduate students were awarded Fulbright fellowships.

Jessica Ward, Trinity ’O5, said participating in last year’s Fulbright program In the 2005-2006 academic helped her to better understand the 22 Duke students were seyear, world. Ward was part of the Okavango lected to the Fulbright Scholars Lion Research Project in Botswana.

Program.

“I performed daily behavioral research, which generally involved finding Fulbright Scholars are chosen lions and watching them for long periods their leadership potential. for of time,” Ward wrote in an e-mail. “Of Since its inception, there have the course, the experience of living in been more than 273,500 particibush was perhaps even more important pants in the program. and noteworthy than the research itself.”

Ward said life in Africa took some get•The grants fund a variety of edting used to and was an exercise in flexiactivities, including lecucational bility and adaptability. turing, advanced research, gradu“At least twice, I got flat tires right ate study and teaching in next to a big pride of lions and had to elementary and secondary schools. maneuver the high-life jack while also trying not to get eaten,” Ward said.

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The Graduate and Professional Women’s Network met Thursday night to discuss the role of women in politics as part of a biweekly dinner discussion series held in the Women’s Center.

Representatives from the Chapel Hill chapter of the American Association of University Women, which promotes equal opportunity in education through grants and scholarships, led the panel and shared their experiences with the group.

The discussion focused on balancing professional and family life and dealing with social bias.

“Where a man is assertive, a woman is a bitch,” AAUW representative Mary Paterson said on the discrepancy in behavioral expectations of female and male

politicians.

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Many women said they were hesitant to get involved in what they perceived as an unethical, male-dominated political system.

“You either have to act masculine, or you have to give in,” Paterson said.

Some students said gender socialization teaches women that competing in politics means sacrificing femininity.

Attendees said that although women have recently become more of a presence in many professions including business and law, the trend has not translated into the political realm.

International students noted that women’s involvement in politics in the United States is lagging in comparison with other modern countries.

The discussion then shifted to the question of how women can change the system and become more politically involved.

Paterson and AAUW representative Kay White said women need to form solid political opinions about candidates and issues before participating in politics.

If women can establish themselves as an informed political presence, social bias against women politicians may decline, some panelists said.

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Additional circumstances have also

delayed the pace of the trial.

The School ofLaw has raised more than $l7 million toward an expansion project that will include an atrium.

LAW SCHOOL from page 1 To fundraise specifically for this phase of renovations, the school organized a brick campaign, selling more than 700 bricks to alumni at $2,500 each. The bricks, engraved with the name of the donor, will appear in and around the new atrium, West said.

Unlike public schools, which receive money from the state for construction and other expenses, private universities must rely primarily on their endowments for funding.

Although the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a $33-million endowment, officials are now planning at $65-million expansion with possible funding from the North Carolina General Assembly.

Duke Law’s endowment of more than $l2B million has increased 108 percent since 1999, when Katharine Bartlett be-

came dean of the law school “She is the single greatest reason that the law school’s trajectory is moving forward so strongly,” West said.

“She has been quite eloquent in making a very solid case to our stakeholders about the role of private support in moving our school forward,” she added.

MetzlofF said students, alumni and officials within the University have been supportive of the law school’s plans for physical improvement.

Nicole Guerrero, a second-year law student, said the construction of the new atrium is an example of how law school administrators are working hard to enhance every aspect of student life, including comfort.

“There is not enough common space for students to sit together and have lunch, to relax in between classes, or have a study group outside of the library,” she said.

“The atrium is really going to help the overcrowding we get.”

far is typical of cases like this.

“The wheels of justice grind slowly for a reason,” Vidmar said.

The complicated preliminary components of the case are only intensified by disputes between prosecution and the defense that must be settled before the case can continue.

‘You really need to be inside it to see how complex it is,” Vidmar said.

He added that it is difficult for people to understand that for the lawyers to do their job properly, they have to spend a lot of time on the investigation.

As long as the lawyers on both sides are active in moving the case forward, it is as speedy as it can get, Vidmar said.

And even though the case is one of the most high-profile in the state right now, it does not get special permission to move ahead ofother cases.

“It has to take its place in line,” said

One reason is that the original to the case were only temporary.

“They did not want to set rules for the case that would bind the final judge,” Ekstrand said.

He added that the appointment of Judge W. Osmond Smith as the single and final judge of the case is a sign that things will begin to move much more smoothly from now on.

Even so, some lawyers said it is hard to predict exactly how this case will turn out in the upcoming months.

“We don’t know how long this case is going to take,” Ekstrand said. “We just know how long discovery is taking.”

And time is not the only factor affecting the case and the community.

“There are so many dimensions to it,” he said. ‘We do not yet know the full reach of the case. But it will be significant.”

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The discussion series is part of a full schedule of GPWN activities designed to provide networking opportunities to female graduate students, administrators, faculty and community members while also encouraging discussion of campus and community issues.

Future events include a panel on gender in sports, a workshop on meditation and a workshop on car maintenance and repair, all co-sponsored by graduate student organizations and the Women’s Center.

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Overall, attendees said the panel was successful in highlighting concerns of the graduate and professional women’s community and was a valuable networking tool.

“You have to have some belief in your own opinions and your own philosophy and you have to stick with it,” Paterson said.

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other scholars waste their time inside apartments instead of experiencing Senegalese “I had very little contact with Fulbright culture. administrators other than occasional eYoffie said “it is a bit too early to tell” mails,” Ward said. “The whether the research team that I program has joined provided for all “The experience of living in the fulfilled his exmy practical needs, so I pectations, but bush was perhaps even more remained fairly indehe said he is impendent from the Fuland with important pressed than noteworthy bright itself.” the freedom he the research itself.”

Mangan said she also has been given. spent her time abroad Ward hisAlthough working with another informal FulFulbright Scholar, Trinity ’O5 stitution in addition to bright orientathe Fulbright Program. tion in Israel “By completing indewill occur in pendent research and working for an NGO mid-October after the Jewish High Holiat die same time, I had so much more supdays, Yoffie said that he has already had port than I would have had if I had ap- “a challenging time, spiritually and intelproached the research completely inde- lectually.”

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The assessment’s criteria are scheduled to be completed by the end of the month, Ganatra said.

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The low number of participants did not give a good indication of student reaction and the survey will be extended for another week because of the low response rate, Hopper added.

Members will work toward increasing awareness of the program before the next home game. “A lot of the negative responses came from not understanding why we’re doing this,” Hopper said.

In other business: Gonzalez announced that all commons and study rooms on West Campus will have wireless access by the end of this week or early next week.

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Freshman KayAnne Gummersall was named co-ACC Player of the Week after scoring in bothDuke games last weekend.

Koskinen Stadium, the Blue Devils (7-4-1, 3-1) are peaking at just the right time.

“I feel really good about where we are right now,” head coach Robbie Church said.

“We’re improving—we can get better and we will get better, but I think we’re playing at a pretty good level right now.”

The team’s solid play of late comes at a critical point in the season. The Blue Devils are entering one of their toughest stretches of the year—they play UNC, Wake Forest arid Maryland in a six-day span. All of Duke’s focus now, though, is on the traditional powerhouse Tar Heels.

After dropping its season opener, North Carolina has won its last 12 games. Senior forward Heather O’Reilly, a member of the U.S. national team, has also been on a tear, notching four points in her last two games. But containing UNC’s potent attack will be just part of Duke’s game plan.

‘You’ve got to compete for 90 minutes,” Church said. ‘You’ve got to finish your chances, because there aren’t a lot of chances out there. And you have to do a great job defending—both individual defending and collective defending.”

Despite the Blue Devils’ 228-1 all-time record against head coach Anson Dorrance’s Tar Heels, they have a reason to SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE 7

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road, Duke lost to No. 7 Tennessee, 23-6, in 2003.

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football profor the SATURDAY, 7 p.m. Sram Tuscaloosa, Ala. first time when they step into Stadium in Bryant-Denny Tuscaloosa, Ala. Saturday.

“There will be over 90,000 people, one of the toughest stadiums to play in,” sophomore linebacker Michael Tauiliili said.

“We’ve been in those situations before. We’ve been down to play Florida State in their stadium.

We recendy played at Virginia Tech. It might be one notch up, but we’re ready for it.”

Duke (0-4) has not fared well over the past two seasons outside CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO of Wallace Wade Stadium versus tough competition. On the road The last time the Blue Devils faced an SEC team was in 2003,when they lost to Tennessee. against ranked ACC opponents, the Blue Devils have lost all their ‘You’re playing the best comDuke will also complete its home and home series with Alabama in matchups by a combined score of petition and getting noticed, play171-14, including their 36-0 loss to ing on TV, pretty much a no-brain2010 and plans to continue to Virginia Tech earlier this season. er,” Tauiliili said. “We play some of schedule such high-profile games But road games against non- the top notch teams, and that conin the future, said Chris Kennedy, ACC, premier opponents like Altinues to change year in and year senior associate athletic director. abama (3-2) give Duke exposure out. Next year we play Notre ‘You want to balance having a in a demographic outside of the Dame, and those are the types of manageable non-conference usual ACC venues. The added games you might want to be in.” schedule and also, from time to The Blue Devils will begin a time, being in a big-time game in publicity could benefit the program in recruiting and players try- home and home series with Notre ing to impress NFL scouts.

Dame on the road next season.

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The men’s golf team will play for the first time since its upset victory at the Fighting Illini Invitational when it hosts the Coca-Cola Duke Classic Sunday at the Washington Duke Golf Club.

The No. 9 Blue Devils, who were named by Golfweek as the National Team of the Week for the first time in program history following their decisive team win in Illinois, will headline a 15-team field that features only two other squads in the top-25—No. 19 North Carolina and No. 25 Charlotte.

Home course advantage has been in Duke’s favor recendy, as it has won the past two Duke Classics. Yet there is still pressure that comes with playing on your own turf.

“The only trouble widi playing on your home course is you’re dealing with expectations,” Myers said. ‘You think you know what you can shoot, and how your shots are going to play, but it doesn’t always work out the way you expect.”

The pressure for Duke to play well at home is even greater this year coming off such a strong performance that brought so many accolades and attention to the team,

and in particular freshman Adam Long.

Long, who has played in only one collegiate tournament, is currently ranked No. 1 in Golfweek’s individual performance index ranking after losing by one stroke at Olympia Fields. ’ “I think Adam is certainly going to keep that in proper perspective,” Myers said. “Hopefully, he can keep right there with his game. There’s no reason to think he can’t play like he did in Chicago.”

Junior Michael Schachner, who is No. 35 in the Golfweek standings, will join Long, Michael Quagliano, Clark Klaasen and Jake Grodzinsky in this weekend’s team lineup. Sophomores Andrew Giuliani and Justin Hare and freshman Jeff Edelman will also compete individually.

“I think everything has been really positive,” head coach Rod Meyers said. “We’ve been working hard and trying to emphasize our short game.”

In addition to putting and chipping, the team focused its energy this week on conditioning, as the Blue Devils will face their only remaining 36-hole day Sunday, Myers said.

Play at the Duke Classic will begin with an 8:30 a.m.

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Duke looks to take down UVa Austin Weiss CHRONICLE Coming off a tough loss to No. 2 Maryland, the Blue Devils are gearing up for their second matchup in one week against a top-three opponent.

Duke (7-2-1, 2-1-1 in the ACC), which dropped to 15th after last Friday’s 1-0 defeat, hosts No. 3 Virginia (10-1-0, 3-1-0) tonight at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium. The team spent the week preparing for the Cavaliers, invs. cluding an intense scrimmage during Wednesday’s practice.

JusSm “Anytime you play Virginia, it’s going to be a cracial game,” senior defender Kyle TONIGHT, 7 p.m.

Helton sa d The intensity is going to be Koskinen Stadium there. It s a battle every time we play.

A Blue Devil victory tonight would provide a critical boost to the team, with ACC soccer experiencing a remarkably competitive year. In addition to Maryland and the Cavaliers, No. 4 Clemson, No. 6 North Carolina and No. 11 Wake Forest could all compete for the national title.

“Everything is so tight in the ACC right now, one loss and LAUREN PRATS/THE CHRONICLE you’re pretty much on the lower end of the standings,” junior midfielder Michael Videira said. “We’re focusing on get- Junior Michael Videira is second on the team withfive goals scored so far this season. Duke hasnetted just one goal in its past three games. ting our intensity, getting our game up.”

Trying to avoid another ACC loss tonight, the Blue Devils have poured everything they’ve got into preparing for called “two of the league’s best dribblers,” will be feeding Virginia, even with matchups against other league powers the ball to Reyering.

Even with all the talent on the opposing team, the slated for later this month.

“We’re not even thinking about Clemson or UNC yet,” Blue Devils are focused on improving themselves in order to pull off the upset against the Cavaliers.

Helton said.

“We’re concentrating on us as a team,” Rennie said.

Focusing this week on taking down the Cavaliers, Duke “We’re going do our thing.” first must deal with the focal point of Virginia’s offense, AllIf the Blue Devils wins tonight, Rennie will earn his American forward Yannick Reyering, a sophomore origi389th victory at Duke, surpassing former Clemson head nally from Mettingen, Germany. coach I.M. Ibrahim for the most career wins while coach“We call him ‘The German Pro,”’ head coach John Rennie said. “He’s their leading scorer, and he’s just a big, ing at an ACC school.

“We wouldn't be where we are today if it weren’t for his strong guy. They do a lot of things off of him.” and his leadership,” Helton said. “It’s the last experience Colaluca, All-ACC second team junior midfielder Nico and freshman midfielder Jonathan Villanueva, who Rennie year for me, but he’s got a lotof good years in front of him.” by

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FOOTBALL from page 6 the large stadiums like they have in the SEC,” Kennedy said.

Although the different atmosphere may motivate the Blue Devils, they must contend with the extraordinary crowd noise and distractions from the Crimson Tide fans.

But Duke will not enter the game unprepared for the conditions. Not only are they used to playing in front of distracdons like Seminoles fans’ incessant war cries and tomahawk chops, the Blue Devils changed their method of play-calling this week in practice to accommodate for the excessive crowd noise.

“We’ve been sending the plays in with different players, sending them in with running backs so there’s no problems with communication between offensive coordinator and quarterback on what play to call,” junior wideout Jomar Wright said.

If Duke wishes to silence the Alabama fans, the Blue Devils will have to improve on their 100 total yard performance in their loss to Virginia, 37-0, last Saturday.

“If we don’t come out and execute, we’re going to be embarrassed," Wright said.

W. SOCCER from page 6 be confident. Last year, they upset UNC 2-1 in Chapel Hill, behind then-junior midfielder Rebecca Moros’ two scores. The Duke victory snapped North Carolina’s 41game win streak.

A key to the Blue Devils’ recent success has been the emergence of the team’s five freshmen. In the win over N.C. State, freshman KayAnne Gummersall and Elisabeth Redmond accounted for both of Duke’s goals—the Wolfpack also added an own goal for the final margin. Gummersall was named co-ACC player of the week Monday.

Duke’s youngest players are especially looking forward to their first game against their biggest rival.

“I think we’re all really excited,” freshman defender Sara Murphy said. “I’m not sure what to expect.”

The seniors, too, are relishing what could be their last game against their biggest rival.

“We don’t downplay it, I think we really embrace it,” Moros said. “It’s just a fun rivalry. We really enjoy it.”

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is a tale of two predators. The first is a congressman who befriended teenage pages. He sent them cajoling instant messages asking them to describe their sexual habits, so he could get his jollies.

The second is a secretary, who invited a 13-yearold girl from her neighborhood into her car and kissed her. Then she invited the girl up to her apartment, gave her some vodka, took off her underwear and gave her a satin teddy to wear.

Then she had sex with the girl, which was interrupted when the girl’s mother called. Then she made the girl masturbate in front of her and taught her some new techniques.

The first predator, of course, is Havid DrOOKS hmokc aaVICI Mark Foley, the the new york times Florida congressman. The second predator is a character in Eve Ensler’s play, “The Vagina Monologues.”

Foley is now universally reviled. But the Ensler play, which depicts the secretary’s affair with the 13-year-old as a glorious awakening, is revered. In the original version of the play, the under-age girl declares, “I say, if it was a rape, it was a good rape, then, a rape that turned my [vagina] into a kind ofheaven.”

When I saw Ensler perform the play several years ago in New York, everyone roared in approval. Ensler has since changed the girl’s age to 16—the age of Foley’s pages—and audiences still embrace the play and that scene at colleges and in theaters around the world.

But why is one sexual predator despised and the other celebrated?

The first and obvious reason is that male predators are more disturbing than female predators. But the second and more important reason is that they exist in different moral universes.

Ensler’s audiences are reacting to the exuberant voice of the young girl, who narrates the scene.

They’re embracing—at least in the fantasy world of the theater—a moral code that’s been called expressive individualism. Under this code, the core mission of life is to throw off the shackles of social convention and to embark on a journey of self-discovery. Behavior is not wrong if it feels good and doesn’t hurt anybody else. Sex is not wrong so long as it is done by mutual consent.

By the rules of expressive individualism, Ensler’s characters did nothing wrong. They performed an act that was mutually pleasurable and fulfilling.

This code dominated cosmopolitan culture during the 1970s and 1980s. When Rep. Gerry Studds ofMassachusetts was censured in 1983 for his relationship with a 17-year-old page, he argued that the sex was

consensual, and he was re-elected several more times But there’s another and older code, and people seem to be returning to this older code to judge Mark Foley. Under this older code, we are defined not by our individual choices but by our social roles.

Under this code, when an adult seduces a child, it tears the social fabric that joins all adults and all children. When a congressman flirts with a page, it tears the social trust that undergirds the entire page program. When an adult seduces a teenager, it ruptures the teenager’s bond with his or her family and harms the bonds joining all families.

This older code emphasizes not so much individual exploration as social ecology. It’s based on the idea that people are primarily shaped by the moral order around them, which is engraved upon their minds via a million events and habits. Individuals are not defined by their lifestyle preferences but by their social functions as parents, job-holders and citizens, and the way they contribute to the shared moral order.

In this view, the social fabric is a precious thing, always in danger. And what Foley, and the character in the Ensler play, did was wrong, consent or no consent, because of the effects op the wider ecology.

In discussing the Foley case, the political class, with its unerring instinct for the aspect of any story that will be the least important to average Americans, has shifted attention from Foley’s act to House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s oversight of it. It has fled morality to talk about management.

But the real import of the Foley story is Foley’s act itself. In a country filled with parents looking for a

When an adult seduces a child, it tears the social fabric that joins all adults and all children.When a congressman flirts with a page, it tears the social trust that undergirds the entire page program.

way to raise their children in a morally disordered environment, Foley’s act is just one more symptom of a contagious disease.

In the long run, the party that benefits from events like the Foley scandal will be the party that defines the core threats to the social fabric, and emerges as the most ardent champion of moral authority.

David Brooks is a syndicated columnist for The New York Times. Heis a visiting professor at Duke this semester.

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letterstotheeditor Roles of athletics and academics should intertwine In their recent guest column, Richard Hain and Fred Nijhout call for a thoughtful debate about the role of athletics on campus. They conclude, “Let the debate begin.”

Very well, let’s debate. First, let’s set one rule that would seem to be a given for any honest, open and vigorous debate. Every idea and suggestion shall be taken seriously and discussed. Ideas and suggestions will not be fodder for public humor bordering on ridicule. I refer to the treatment given to Paul Haagen’s Faculty Athletics Associates Program by Hain and Nijhout. Their “humorous” response was shameful. Although they are correct that issues surrounding athletics are much larger than a lack of communication, understanding and communication between all parties is a good, reasonable first step towards addressing the larger issues.

Hain and Nijhout state that the Athletics budget has grown at twice the rate of the Arts and Sciences budget. They offer no reasons as to why this might be.

Could some donations and gifts be directed specifically to athletics and skew these numbers? Further talk of budget concerns the construction of new athletic buildings and whether or not this money could have been used for academic purposes.

They fail to mention the amazing construction that has transformed the Duke campus in the past decade.

Among these projects are the Nicholas School of the Environment, CIEMAS, Bostock Library, the Divinity School addition, new dorms and Smart House. Academics would seem to be well represented in new construction projects.

Hain and Nijhout state that athletics serve an auxiliary role to academics. This is where I disagree. The role ofacademics and athletics should be intertwined.

They ask if the demands we put on student athletes are fair. Life itself is not fair and it is far from ideal. We would all like more time and to have our schedules line up perfectly. They don’t. Student athletes know this. They have volunteered for their way of life and embrace it.

I could go on about the teachings of athletics but I will end with one teaching that Duke may need in a greater quantity: Oneness. We work together in order to reach goals we cannot achieve alone. We give of ourselves to achieve a common good. We support our comrades when they fall.

I believe this is one of the reasons that the U.S. military academies require athletic participation for their students. For them, working as a group effectively can mean life and death. For us, we become better people through the support we give and receive.

It is time for debate. I would like to see Haagen’s program instituted as well and its reciprocal proposed

by Hain and Nijhout. Professors should go to practice and games to understand the student athlete. Coaches should go to class to understand the academics.

It’s not a fix. It’s a start.

*cough,* you’d think Duke would build a large enough parking deck to alleviate most or all of its

persistent parking problems.

It’s sad to say, but my ticket is probably nothing compared to what some of you have received here at our school. The irony here is that not only do I get charged for something out of my control, but I Travis Nesbit don’t even get back the fifty cents I wasted on their Engineering ’96 f—ed up meter.

My fifty cents

“Appeal Note Code: Knowingly parking at an inoperable meter or pay station is a violation. Judgment

Decision: Call [Parking and Transportation Services] at 684-PARK at time of meter/pay station malfunction.

This citation has been upheld by the Appeals Committee. Payment is due upon receipt.”

Knowingly parking at an inoperable meter is a violation? Whose responsibility is it to provide working parking meters? And what if that was the only lot one could park in during an emergency, as I had that day? When, not just one, but ALL the meters are broken, is it my personal responsibility to make a judgment call and choose to wait around for Duke Parking rather than attend to a pressing personal matter?

This is the most ridiculous citation I have received in my years at Duke. Until the administration fixes or at least attempts to fix the plague that is Duke Parking, this will remain but one small fault in a parking system that is failing, and failing MISERABLY. The shortcoming lies solely on the administration’s end of the stick and we, the community, have to suffer for it. There’s something to be said for bureaucracy, but bureaucracy only serves to piss people off like those polite little perfunctory reminders they send telling you that you’ve just been sacked by the University again.

And at the same time they send you the e-mail, they’re already preparing to charge the ticket to your Bursar because they sure as hell know no one is going to pay willingly. So they certainly are a clever bunch.

And it’s almost scary how, as I write this letter, I can’t help but feel the all-knowing eye of the administration on my back (just received an email from Duke Parking Services listing the lots open to undergraduates during off hours not to mention where to report equipment malfunctions... ha).

As if that would placate me and all the other students wrongfully cited. I wholeheartedly agree with the Sept. 22 letter to the editor written by a Pratt parent whose son had to choose between either missing class or parking in a lot closed for graduate tenting. If not for a lack offunds *cough* BC plaza

Tong Hao Trinity ’O7 Ethics plays critical role in scientific discovery Don’t be fooled by those who formed the group Scientists and Engineers for America about their motivations. They want you to think that they are defending science against those who want to manipulate it for political purposes. Not so.

The job of scientists is to make discoveries about our physical world, to investigate what makes it work and how we can use that knowledge to our advantage.

Merely having the knowledge, however, does not mean that we should use it however we want.

For instance, many scientists claim that by blocking federal dollars for additional stem-cell research, President George W. Bush is rejecting science in favor of ideology. That bit of spin may sound compelling on the surface, but what is lacking in this debate is the glaring role that ethics plays. The decisions we face are not between science and ideology. They are instead all rooted in ethics, with science providing the landscape of possibilities that we can choose from.

Those that support stem-cell research believe that the benefits we can derive by potentially finding cures for cancer, alzheimer's and other afflictions makes the research practically irresistible. Opponents, including those who agree with supporters of stem-cell research on its potential benefits, believe that the ethical cost of destroying human embryos outweighs the gains to any cures that are found. In short, science has no values, or at least it shouldn’t.

Those who advocate specific scientific policies do so because their ethics dictate that increasing sciendfic knowledge outweighs all or at least many other ethical considerations. Only when scientists admit their hidden ethical assumptions can we correctly place science back in the domain of agnostic discovery, and scientific policy back in the domain of ethical debate.

Aaron Hedlund Trinity ’O6

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