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ficially opened its $ 12-million home on the University’s Center for Living campus Thursday, with a night of complimentary food, drinks and massages.

The new facility will combine medical techniques such as acupuncture, hypnosis and massage therapy with more traditional medical practices to treat the “mind, body and soul” of a patient, said Tracey Gaudet, the facility’s director.

The building was funded entirely by the foundation of Christy and John Mack, Trinity ’6B, and opens to the public in January, said Linda Smith, the center’s director ofprograms and operations.

“This is really treating the whole patient and not treating diseases as cells and molecules,” said Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs, and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System. “I hope integrative medicine becomes part of the standard of care that makes Duke health system such a great place.”

Duke IM will influence the entire health system, including the School of Medicine, he added.

Although Duke IM has existed since 2000, with the new building it aims to treat a wider variety ofpatients, Gaudet said, including patients with chronic illnesses, those who have cancer or heart disease

Thursday.

“We’re trying to finalize all the discussions now, and hopefully we’ll be able to report on the successful completion very soon,” said Kernel Dawkins, vice president of campus services.

The coffee shop will likely be located in the Bryan Center, adjacent to the West Campus Plaza—the current location of the Duke University Union and Black StudentAlliance, inside the Office of Student Activities andFacilities.

“A Starbucks would provide a great study space, a meeting space and a place-to-be-seen space,” said Jim Wulforst, director of dining services. “I personally think it would be a great fit for that location.”

Administrators said they are targeting a Fall 2007 opening, although Starbucks would likely operate a cart on the Plaza in advance of the completion of the 1,300-sq. ft. store.

Wulforst was in New York Thursday to research possible layouts. Top executives from the Seattle-based chain were on campus Tuesday.

Others are less enthusiastic about the company—which owns

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Christy Mack, whose foundation funded the new IM facility, speaksThursday night. and patients simply interested in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

“There isn’t a patient we don’t see,” she said.

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Senior Malik Burnett, president of BSA, said he would not appreciate his organization being evicted from its historical location in OSAF. “It doesn’t seem like it would make sense for Starbucks to be in there if it’s a place for student groups to do work,” he said, adding that he felt the decision was made “at the expense of student groups.”

Ensuring that the student organizations are given adequate replacement space is a major consideration, and other locations for Starbucks are still a possibility, Dawkins said.

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A new Starbucks may occupy a space in OSAF that BSA and DUU currently use.

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Russell Robinson (left) chairs the Duke Endowment, which has helped to raise money for the initiative.

One year after Duke’s Financial Aid Initiative was launched, the campaign has raised $l9O million in pledges, officials said this week.

The initiative —announced Dec. 1, 2005 —aims to raise $3OO million over the course of three years.

“It’s making very solid progress,” Provost Peter Lange said. “With all the efforts that are being put in, I think we’ll hit our target.”

Garnering 63 percent of its projected total so far, the FAI has shown steady SEE FINANCIAL AID ON PAGE 7

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Seniors interviewing for investment banking and corporate Jobs have the

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Graduate school applicants, on the other hand, are lucky if they can find a friend to stay with while they travel to interviews Although hot ture corporate and prospective g undergo a complex interview

process preceding their selection, students moving directly into the business world following their senior year receive all-inclusive travel packages wooing them to cities for job interviews.

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MEXICO CITY A strange standoff continued in Mexico’s Congress as rival legislators refused to stop blocking the platform where conservative President-elect Felipe Calderon wants to be sworn in Friday in front of foreign dignitaries including former President George H.W. Bush.

Lawmakers sprawled across the chamber’s green leather seats Wednesday, many with their feet up and newspapers across their laps. They munched on snacks, drank endless cups of coffee and chatted or sent cell-phone text messagesamid sleeping bags and empty foodand beverage containers.

platform.

“We are defending Democracy,” read the conservatives’ sign. “Mexico does not deserve a traitor to democracy as president,” read the leftists’.

Oddly, the conservatives held fast to the left side of the dais while the leftists were on the right.

“We’re never going to recognize Felipe Calderon as president,” said Rep. Raymundo Cardenas of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD. “If he isn’t sworn in he isn't president.”

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tion, Calderon’s National Action Party, or PAN, still wants to make sure he can at least reach the podium. On Wednesday, PAN legislators held a strategic strip of the platform that leads to a side entrance.

Political insiders differ on whether Calderon has to show up at the Congress building to be sworn in, and the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the third-largest in Congress, has suggested the ceremony be held elsewhere.

The Mexican constitution states thatpresidents must be sworn in before Congressional members, but not necessarily in Congress itself. In the past, presidents have taken the oath in stadiums or concert halls.

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records, including where they are from, how they paid for dckets, their motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating preference and what kind of meal they ordered.

The program’s existence was quietly disclosed earlier in November when the government put an announcement detailing the Automated Targeting System, or ATS, for the first time in the Federal Register, a fine-print compendium of federal rules.

Privacy and civil liberties lawyers, congressional aides and even law enforcement officers said they thought this system had been applied only to cargo.

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The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments, which the government intends to keep them on file for 40 years.

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The department said the nation’s ability to spot criminals and other security threats “would be critically impaired without access to this data.”

Still, privacy advocates view ATS with alarm. “It’s probably the most invasive system the government has yet deployed in terms of the number of people affected,” David Sobel, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group devoted to electronic data issues, said in an interview.

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At a brief meeting Thursday, the Academic Council voted unanimously to approve four new graduate degrees.

The council also voted to officially designate the African and African American Studies Program a department.

“The Board of Trustees meets [Friday] and will be acting on each of these items,” said Paul Haagen, chair of the council and professor of law. All of the proposals still need the board’s approval to take effect.

Faculty offered no questions or comments on most of the items, which were presented at the council’s last meeting Nov. 16.

A few professors addressed inquiries, however, to Dr. Sandy Williams, dean of the School of Medicine and vice chancellor for academic affairs, about the implementation and size of his school’s proposed program.

The medical school already has full approval to develop a doctor of medicine program with the National University of

said

Tony Crumbley, vice president of research for the Charlotte Chamber of ComRnpkam merce. “We were unheard of 10years ago.”

The city’s two largest corporations, Bank of America and Wachovia, have led the city’s transformation, Crumbley said.

Charlotte is now home to nine corporate headquarters and 306 Fortune 500 companies, yet the cost of living is still below the national average.

Barbara Hauptfuhrer, Trinity ’O6 and an analyst at Wachovia Securities, said the improved quality of life and low expenses were the foremost reasons she was attracted to a job in the city.

“I can earn Wall Street money here in Charlotte and put a lot more into savings,” Hauptfuhrer said.

The prospect of a more balanced lifestyle has led increasing numbers of Duke students to seek jobs in the area, said Sheila Curran, executive director of the Duke Career Center.

“It appeals to a different type of student,” Curran said.

Crumbley said the aggressive leadership of local banks in the 1980 served as the catalyst for Charlotte’s development.

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At a discussion in the Perkins Library Rare Book Room Thursday night, two scholars pointed to decentralization and organization as the defining dynamics of American Muslim communities in the 21st century.

The talk, titled “Islam in America Post 9/11,” featured Kambiz Ghaneabassiri, assistant professor of religion and humanities at Reed College, and Peter Skerry, professor of political science at Boston College. It was the third program in the Kenan Institute for Ethics’ Changing Institutional Cultures Lecture Series.

But despite the talk’s putative focus on Sept. 11, both speakers emphasized the longer-term assimilation of Muslims into American culture and systems, minimizing the importance of the terrorist attacks in NewYork and Washington.

Ghaneabassiri said Sept. 11 was simply a major chapter in a story that began with the first Gulf War, which cast Saudi Arabian “petrodollars”—traditionally a cash cow for American Muslim groups in a negative light.

“The war pushed Muslims toward independence from predominately Muslim governments and pushed mosques away from affiliations,” he said. “It also made Muslims realize they were in a unique position —as Americans and as Muslims—to influence world events if they organized themselves.”

During his portion of the talk, Skerry said many Americans are concerned with potential foreign influences on American Muslims—much as they were with Japanese citizens during World War II or Catholics in the 19th century.

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Campus Council members discussed residence hall renovations for East and West campuses at the Council’s general body meeting Thursday.

“The majority of the residence halls on West have been in need of renovation for some time now,” said Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services.

Hull said it is highly probable that the University will help pay for the next round of renovations —estimated to cost more than $lOO million—but no final decisions have been made.

“We have a total of 54,000 bed spaces, we could tag [the cost] on to the rent,”

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Residential Life and Housing Services had hoped to begin renovations next summer, but Hull said plans for the project are still in the works. He added, however, that he is confident renovations will begin during the summer of 2008.

Because RLHS is an auxiliary department, it does not receive any funding from the University, Hull said.

He added that the University recognizes it is not practical for RLHS to fund renovations and residence hall upkeep from rental revenues.

The upcoming renovations will begin with Crowell Quadrangle, followed by Craven Quadrangle, Few Quadrangle, Southgate Dormitory and Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory.

RLHS and the University are still in the process of determining how to conduct the renovations, Hull said.

Campus Council Vice President Chris Hopper, a junior, asked how RLHS plans to compensate for the loss of bed spaces due to renovations.

“In providing students with contemporary configurations, we will lose bed spaces,” Hull said. “How many we lose is being looked at carefully.”

He said RLHS is planning to use Central Campus to absorb some of the loss. Hull

noted, however, that Central will also lose some of its bed spaces due to renovations.

“We will most likely have a period of temporary net bed loss,” he said. “Housing does not decide how that is dealt with—the institute will decide.”

Facilities and Services Chair Hasnain Zaidi, a junior, questioned Hull regarding the timeline for developments on Central.

“We shouldn’t hold our breath for Central,” Zaidi said.

But Hull said he is not “obsessed” with keeping a timeline.

“I’ve worked on enough projects to know that allis very dynamic until actual construction takes place,” he said. “Central is an incredible project... and we should take whatever time necessary to get it right.”

Hull said that RLHS hopes to provide great flexibility in residential spaces to accommodate future changes in the function of the halls.

“It’s a transformative process,” he said.

“We want the form to meet the function it needs to serve.”

like it to contribute to the ambience of the entire area,” Dawkins said.

Wulforst emphasized the stimulating effect that the coffee shop would have on the area compared to the space’s current use. “[Organizations] don’t want to lose their presence in the Bryan Center, which I understand, but really what’s there is a lot ofold cubicles,” he said, comparing the current atmosphere to a used car sale.

“I think there are ways to reconfigure thatspace and to make seating for Starbucks in just one space in the comer,” Wulforst said. “That’s where I want to be—whether or not we’re going to get it is the question.”

OSAF Director Chris Roby, who oversees much of the Bryan Center’s operation, said he understands the need to balance his organization’s priorities- with those of the greater University.

“They wanted a storefront location and that was one of the options,” Roby said.

Glass windows were recently installed in the space to allow more natural light, making it an ideal site.

‘We’d be willing to entertain a Starbucks the BC in the future,” Roby added. in He suggested the West Union Building as another potential location, when the building is eventually renovated.

“I think any student union or center should have an anchor location,” Roby said.

The other coffee shops on campus Saladelia Cafe and Bella Union—have the most at risk if Starbucks sets up shop on campus. “The more vendors, the more they’re going to share from the market that’s there,” said Robert Ghanem, manager ofSaladelia’s main location on University Drive. “It cannot bring in more people from outside.”

At the main location there are two Starbucks nearby, but Saladelia’s survives because of its superior service and local customer base, Ghanem said.

Wulforst said he is not highly concerned about the effect on other vendors.

“Every time we’ve introduced new concepts at Duke there haven’t been any tremendous revenue shifts,” he said.

Still, he said Starbucks could hurt existing coffee locations—although not as much as one might expect since Starbucks is a well known brand that markets to people who otherwise wouldn’t buy a drink at all.

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will work for Goldman Sachs after graduation—said he would readily pay the required amount to gain the opportunities that such job interviews open. “[lnterviews without perks] may have been less attractive but I certainly would have paid to go,” Walter said. “The cost to go up there is less than the rewards that they offer.”

Once the job candidate has scheduled an interview time, a representative for the company books travel arrangements to bring the prospective employee to the interview location, Walter said.

“You’re given a PIN number and you contact a travel agent for Goldman Sachs,” he said. “They set up your flight and hotel room.”

Unlike these top firms, graduate schools are unable to provide traveling interviewees with all-expenses-paid trips to and from their school.

Senior Amanda Way interviewed with representatives from the medical schools at the University of Rochester, Case Western University, the University of Maryland and the University of Pittsburgh, among others, and had to secure her own transportation and lodging for each one.

“I saved up some summer money because I was planning ahead,” Way said. “I drove to one of them and flew to the rest.

You just kind ofhave to do it if you want to go to these schools.”

Way said she understands that graduate schools prioritize the appropriation offunds to develop the university and cannot provide for every applicant wishing to interview.

“Medical schools put the money in research and areas that make the students want to come to the school in the first place,” she said. “It’s a shame because I have to pay the money, but I kind ofunderstand where they are coming from.”

Free flights, hotels and cab rides give students interviewing for high-profile corporate jobs an advantage over graduate school applicants, but the extra effort required by graduate schools forces the students to display their dedication to the school, Walter said.

“I’ve definitely heard of some of my friends who have to visit law school or medical school, but it’s a differentprocess in general,” he said. “The student is more responsible to do the legwork behind it. It’s not the job of the university to pay for the interview.”

JOB HUNT from page 1 family trip but added that many of her peers struggle to book the required travel plans for their interviews.

“I’ve heard stories about people who get an e-mail from the school and have to book a flight last minute to get to their interview,” Rajani said.

Lacking a budget to provide interviewees with comparable accommodations, graduate schools force students to pay for their own travel expenses.

Unless a company holds interviews on campus, its recruitment budget generally accounts for the expenses of the prospective employees, said senior Collin Walter, who recently underwent an extended interview process at global investment banks and financial services firms such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and ÜBS, among others.

“A couple of them conducted all their interviews on campus,” Walter said. “[The others] are flexible about covering most expenses. It makes it easier for you.”

Kasey Smith, Pratt ’O5, a representative at a top-tier management consulting firm, said most prominent financial firms offer their interviewees perks and reimbursements.

“All of the companies I interviewed with did in fact pay for the travel expenses,” Smith said. “I feel like that’s fairly common.”

Fully arranged travel itineraries allow the greatest number of qualified applicants to complete interviews. Despite the costs involved, firms are willing to invest in recruiting future employees, Smith added.

“It’s basic economics, where students don’t have the cash where the companies do,” she said. “They don’t want money to be the barrier.” ÜBS offered Walter a round-trip ticket to New York City to attend an interview and set him up in a hotel for the night before. Goldman Sachs rescinded their offer of a free hotel room but still provided many attractive amenities such as cash reimbursement for meals and taxicab rides, Walter said.

“Goldman Sachs was a little more frugal,” he said. “They weren’t willing to pay for a hotel room if I interviewed at 12 p.m., so I ended up paying for it myself. You had to give them receipts but they gave me cash in return.”

Perks and free trips aside, Walter—who to coincide with a

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CHARLOTTE from page 3 Crumbley said. “They encouraged and funded much of the redevelopment downtown.”

Wachovia’s and Bank of America’s assets have grown from $7 billion in the early ’Bos to more than $2 trillion now, Crumbley added.

And the banks’ have used their largesse to influence the political and cultural development of the city as well, he said.

“The banks are still community leaders. They encouraged elected officials to do things, they built office towers,” Crumbley said.

Charlotte was recently ranked second behind Las Vegas, Nev., in attracting 2534 year olds with college degrees.

“The educated workforce wants to be in a community like Charlotte,” Crumbley said.

Hauptfuhrer said the work culture at the banks is a direct reflection of the improved quality of life.

“Nobody’s stressed out in the morning because of their commute,” she said.

“It’s all very low-key, low maintenance, low stress.”

Hauptfuhrer and Crumbley acknowledged that New York City is unrivaled as America’s financial capital, but said Charlotte enjoys a distinct lifestyle advantage over the Big Apple.

“My friend [in New York] wrote me this email saying, ‘The city is wearing on me,”’ Hauptfuhrer said.

Crumbley said the economic growth of Charlotte is expected to continue into the future, but perhaps not at the same pace as in recent decades.

‘Yes, you will see other Fortune 500 companies relocate here,” Crumbley said. “[But] I don’t think you’ll see any more major banks move here because of the competition.”

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grams also have international facets. The Fuqua School of Business plans to offer a master’s of management studies in partSingapore. Now, the council and the nership with Seoul National University.

Board of Trustees are voting only to apThe School ofLaw intends to offer a dual prove the offering of a “truly joint” degree juris doctor/diplome d’etudes specialises from both Duke and NUS, Williams noted. superieures degree with the University of Students in the Singapore-based proParis I and Sciences Po, and the law school gram will follow a medical curriculum will partner with the Pratt School of Engiidentical to Duke’s. With a joint degree, neering to offer a dual juris doctor/master’s both institutions’ names will appear on the of engineering management degree. diplomas of the program’s students.

Offering more international joint degree At the time of the last meeting, Williams programs is among the major goals in the was at the new medical facility in Singapore. law school’s new strategic plan.

“It is a physical place,” Williams said.

Katharine Bartlett, dean of the law “Progress on delivering the curriculum has school, said the same sentimentfueled both been quite strong.... I really have nothing the idea’s inclusion in the plan and the negative to report. All systems go.” school’s desire to participate in the joint The program will enroll its first class of program proposed by the French schools.

25 students in Fall 2007 and has already “It feeds off the same priority on both filled 15 of 50 planned faculty positions, interdisciplinary and international [proWilliams said. He explained that there will grams] Bartlett said. “There probably will be some more [joint programs]. I couldn’t eventually be about 50 students per class.

Two of the other proposed degree protell you in what fields.”

FINANCIAL AID, performance, FAI Director Susan Ross said.

“We are on track, but we’re not way ahead of schedule,” she said. “In campaigns like this, you have your larger gifts at the beginning.” $lOO million of the total amount raised came from the “challenge fund,” which matches financial aid donations through the Duke Endowment dollar-for-dollar, Ross said. She added that $30,000 came from contributions by members of the Board of Trustees.

George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, said administrators will continue their efforts to raise funds.

“The glass is more than half full, but

there’s still a lot of water thatneeds to go in,” “If you’re a prospective donor, and you he said. “It’s just a matter of getting together want to see that you’re making a differwith people and helping them understand ence, it’s so much more meaningful to the needs.” hear it from a stuIn addition to dent,” he said.

Senior Mary faculty and staff, “We are on track, but we’re not several students Reid Ervin, the way ahead of schedule.... In camhave been active council’s other members in solicco-chair, said the paigns like this, you have your group’s success iting contributions to the FAI has sparked ideas larger gifts at the beginning.”

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She added that only 20 percent of the University’s current financial aid budget comes from the endowment, with the remaining 80 percent coming from operating support funds. When the FAI is complete, 50 percent of financial-aid dollars will come from each source, as is the case at Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College and Stanford University.

“We face the difficulty of asking [whether] we want to provide you the very best facilities, the very best faculty and the very best opportunities, or use the exact same dollars to provide you with the most interesting set of classmates,” McLendon said. “We want to do both.”

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DUKE IM from page 1 ley, said she hopes the building is instrumental in incorporating integrative

medicine into the traditional healthcare model Commitment from Duke’s top leaders in both the health system and the University is key to realizing this goal, Mack added.

“Integrative medicine is the soul of medicine and that’s Duke’s promise—to deliver that soul to us,” she said. “It’s for everyone—all socioeconomic levels, races, creeds, healthy people —everybody.”

At the opening, President Richard Brodhead said the commitment to integrative medicine is a unique model that, if effective, has the potential to influence everyone.

“The thing that makes the medical center special is not only the high quality of care it provides but also how it is exploring innovative models ofcare,” he added. “Duke has had real leadership positions on both sides of that equation. This kind of thing is very at home at Duke—it corresponds to the ambitious vision of Duke University.”

Mack, who has been involved in the planning of the building since it began, said she took great care in picking out decorations and furniture that would be inviting and environmentally friendly.

“There’s a lot of intention,” Mack said, noting that even the tissue box holders in patient rooms are made from aromatherapy materials.

Integrative medicine was started by dissatisfied doctors and patients who were unhappy with the impersonal nature of healthcare, Mack said.

Smith added that great care was taken

by Duda/Paine Architects to create a warm and inviting atmosphere for patients—from decorating the building in the colors of the four seasons to the cen-

President Richard Brodhead spoke at Thursday night's ceremony to open the new Integrative Medicine facility. ter’s integration into the surrounding Duke forest to the abundance of circular, glass-enclosed spaces.

“All patient areas are made to feel safe, almost like a spa experience,” said Smith, who called the center the first of its kind in the country. “When people walk in it, they feel a deep connection with themselves, with nature and with healing.”

The building’s feng shui-inspired lay-

out also hosts several meditation rooms, a fitness room, library, nutritional center and courtyards complete with running fountains and a labyrinth for walking meditations. ”We’re very committed to take what we are doing out into the health system,” Smith said. “We’re also continuing to study how we can bring this to the student body.”

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“To me, there’s a pointed question, which I think is the ultimate question, and that’s the political loyalty ofAmerican Muslims,” he said. “I don’t question it, but American people have it on their minds.”

Both scholars said many Muslims have fully embraced the American political system as a method of expressing their political and social views.

“The mantra among American Muslims is that if you organize, the American system is fair and you will succeed,” Ghaneabassiri said. “It’s interesting that this is very different from the experience of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in predominately Muslim countries.”

Skerry added that though Muslims have assimilated well, many advocacy groups have made uneasy alliances with liberal groups based on political views. He said differing social values may cause internal friction in the future, but assimilation will remain strong.

Noah Pickus, interim director of the Kenan Institute and the discussion’s moderator, required students from the Visions of Freedom Focus cluster —in which he teaches —to attend the lecture.

“I think it serves a couple of purposes for die students,” Pickus said. “It breaks down the barrier between ‘this is a class’ and ‘these are ideas.’ It brings things up from class and brings things back to class.”

But freshman Isaac He, a student in the cluster, said he found faults with the discussion. “It kind of reflects that there are some issues that, even in an intellectual setting, you can’t discuss,” he said, citing discrimination as an example. “People are overly conscious when dealing with these issues, but I would have liked to have heard them discussed in detail.”

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In the initial fall rankings, the Blue Devils are in sixth place in the Director's Cup, which measures the success of collegiate athletic programs. The rankings include men's and women's cross country and field hockey.

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With last year’s surprising upset still fresh in their minds, the No. 11 Blue Devils (6-1) feel like they are more prepared to handle the Hoyas’ offense this time around.

Last January, the top-ranked Blue Devils travelled to MCI Center with a perfect 17-0 record in tow. But Duke was defeated 87-84 by Georgetown, despite JJ. Redick’s career-high-tying VS.

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last season. “I think last year we were a little too set on denying the pass which left us vulnerable to the backdoor, where they got a lot of buckets.”

This year, Duke has gotten off to a solid start defensively but has struggled to find an offensive rhythm. The team’s offensive struggles were evident in Tuesday night’s 54-51 win over Indiana. The Blue Devils had multiple extended field-goal droughts and scored only one point in the game’s SEE M. BBALL ON PAGE 10

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In that game, the Hoyas’ Princeton-style offense took advantage of Duke’s pressure defense, exposing the Blue Devils’ to a litany ofbackdoor cuts and layups.

“We overextended ourselves on the defensive end,” said point guard Greg Paulus, who had 14 points and four assists in last year’s loss. “We need to stay in position to make plays this time.”

Having already faced Air Force —another team that runs the same offense—in the semifinals of the CBE Classic, however, the Blue Devils believe they are ready to handle Georgetown this time around. “[They] get a lot of backdoors, and that’s where we got taken advantage of last year,” said Dave McClure, who redshirted court

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Georgetown fans stormed the court to celebrate the Hoyas' defeat of the No. 1 and previously-unbeaten Blue Devils when the two teams met in Washington D.C. last year. In Georgetown's second ever sellout of the MCI Center—both of which have come against Duke—JJ. Redick lit up the Hoyas for 41 points, but he had little help as Shelden Williams scored a season-low four, Duke staged a valiant comeback late, but Greg Paulus' turnover near mid-court on with four seconds to go iced the game. "We've been in the penthouse all season, having room service," head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after the loss. "Somebody jammed up the elevator today."

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When No. 25 Duke takes on Tennessee in Knoxville at 7 p.m. tonight in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the Blue Devils will be using their 2005 postseason experience to their advantage.

“Last year, we didn’t really know what to expect,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “This year, we are more savvy and

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Knoxville, Tenn. were freshmen. Now, with so many players who have playoff experience, the team is hoping to make a serious push deep into tournament.

Eleven of 15 current Blue Devils were members of last year’s squad, which reached the second round of the tournament before falling to eventual national runnerup Nebraska.

Duke is also very familiar with its first-round opponent.

In 2004, the Blue Devils clashed with Tennessee in Knoxville, and they feel prepared for tonight’s game.

“Most players know how it works and know what it’s like,” Hausfeld said. “We played Tennessee last spring, and we’re very comfortable with our position.” ;ee

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JuniorsCarrie DeMange (right) and Ali Hausfeld, the ACC's Player of the Year, lead Duke into theNCAA tournament for the second straight year.

Despite his 5-34 career record at Duke and his team finishing 0-12 this year, Ted Roof will return as the Blue Devils’ head coach next season.

After replacing then-head coach Carl Franks mid-way through the 2003 campaign, Roof has tried to resurrect a program that has not had a winning season since 1994. In fact, the Blue season Devils have won just a single game against a Division I-A opponent over wrapup the last three seasons. Nevertheless, Director of Athletics Joe Alieva has made it clear that Roof will return next year.

“He’s only had two recruiting classes,” Alieva said.

“And I’m pleased with those two recruiting classes. Seventy percent of the football team is freshmen and sophomores.... It would be very premature to make decisions as to the future right now.”

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Although they only combined for nine points in Wednesday's loss to Oregon, the Hoyas' twin towers of 7-foot-2 Hibbert and 6foot-9 Green will create matchup problems on the inside. The pair averages a combined 23.0 ppg and 4.7 blocks per game.

ROY HIBBERT 12.2 ppg, 6.2 rpg JffF GREEN 10.8 ppg, 5.3 rpg DAJUAN SUMMERS 6.7 ppg, 4,3 rpq JESSIE SAPP 9.5 ppq, 2.7 rpg JONATHAN WALLACE 12.2 ppg, 3.0 apg

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M.BBALL from page 9 final five minutes ‘You try not to think about that,” Paulus said. “If we were focused on our offense and how we weren’t putting the ball in the basket, I think our defense would have suffered.. So, it was good mental toughness by us to maintain the focus defensively and really get after them and force turnovers.”

Duke’s defense has been strong all season, holding all but two opponents to shooting percentages below 40 and creating transition chances that have masked the Blue Devils’ lack of an established scorer and struggles in half-court sets.

With the departure of Redick, co-captain DeMarcus Nelson has stepped up as the team’s leading scorer but has struggled late

in games. In both the team’s win over the Hoosiers and loss to No. 8 Marquette, the junior got off to a very fast start only to fade after halftime—averaging just four points in the second half in the two contests.

Fellow co-captains Paulus and Josh Mcßoberts, who were expected to carry much of the offensive load along with Nelson, have had rough starts to their sophomore campaigns. Mcßoberts has struggled at times scoring from the low-post and while recovering from a preseason foot injury, Paulus has averaged 3.7 turnovers while playing just 24 minutes per contest.

“As long we keep playing defense, our offense will come along,” McClure said.

“We’re going to have time to test the waters, make changes if necessary. I think pretty soon we’re going to start connecting and once we do, it will be good.”

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VOLLEYBALL from page 9 The Volunteers (19-11), however, also have plenty of postseason experience—and success. Last season, they reached the Final Four before bowing out to eventual national champion Washington. Although Tennessee lost four players from its 2005 squad, the Volunteers pose a major challenge, especially at home where they are 13-4.

Additionally, Tennessee has performed extremely well against teams from the ACC this season. The Volunteers knocked off Virginia, 3-1, Aug. 25 at home and North Carolina, 3-0, Sept. 2 on a neutral court in Los Angeles. The Blue Devils did clinch the ACC this year with a league-record 21 conference wins, but Duke is the lone conference representative in this year’s 64-team field.

“I’m OK with our seed, but I wish more ACC teams were represented,” Nagel said.

“This year, we have a competitive first-round match. It is a wonderful opportunity.”

A win against Tennessee would pit Duke against the winner of the game between Jacksonville State and 16th-seeded San Diego. Perhaps more importantly to this year’s Blue Devils, a win in the second round could lead to a rematch against No. 1 seed Nebraska in Gainesville, Fla. “We’re not looking ahead, but we’d like to play Nebraska,” Hausfeld said. “Playing in a neutral site would give us a much better shot. It’d be very cool to knock off the No. 1 seed.”

The Blue Devils are 3-1 when playing at neutral sites this season.

Despite the excitement surrounding the possibility of getting a second shot at the Cornhuskers, Duke is fully focused on its first-round game. Armed with a talented squad—including four players who earned ACC honors and Nagel, who won ACC Coach of the Year—the Blue Devils hope to improve upon last season’s finish.

Hausfeld was named as ACC Player of the Year Tuesday, while Rachael Moss earned Freshman of the Year and All-ACC second-team accolades. Tealle Hunkus was named to the conference’s second team as well, and DeMange was named to the first team.

“Last year’s experience should keep away nerves and bring stability,” DeMange said. “It should allow us to come out and play strong.”

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FUTURE PRO All-America candidate cornerback John Talley started the year a d tant nine interceptions away from tying Tar Heel Dre' Bly's ACCrecord of 20 career interceptions. Throughout the season though, Talley, who was recently named first-team All-ACC, picked off seven passes. Although he finished second on the ACC career list, he took over the first place spot on the Duke career list with his 18 in tions. Rich Searl's previous record of 16 picks had stood for 3 CLOSE CALLS ged multiple c Despite a winless s earns. The Blu backs against som of the y Devils' first bid wa d goal.

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Roof has come under fire this season, as the Blue Devils went winless for the fourth time in 11 years. In the face ofpressure to succeed, Roof has consistently said he is trying to restructure the team for the long-term and will not make quick-fix adjustments simply to protect his job.

Other teams across the ACC and around the nation have well-established redshirting policies in which the majority of their incoming freshman classes are held back a year to improve their physical stature and speed for the collegiate game. Roof is attempting to establish that at Duke, and he sat out most of this year’s freshman-class to preserve their four years of eligibility. Blue Devil players believe this is a sign that Roof

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is building for the future. thing is we have to see a more competitive “A lot of people see the change going team on the field—better statistics on the field. We just have to see some progress.... on around here,” running back Re’quan Mistakes are something I look at closely, said.

“Coach Roof is a players’ Boyette coach, and we all love him and nobody and no question those types of things have wants to see him go. Coach Roof is just a to be ironed out and eliminated.”

Even though Roof will be returning great coach and a great man—on and off to the field for the 2007 campaign, it is the field.”

Roof has reeled in top-40 recruiting still unclear whether or not he will make classes in each of the last two seasons, but any changes to his staff. Alieva said Roof the increased talent level has yet to transwill be able to decide which assistants to believes founkeep and which to let go, but Roof said late into wins. Roof said he a he is not ready to think about that anydation must be built first before the program can expect to grow. Although that time soon.

“All I want to do is take care of these may be true, his Blue Devils need to win more games along the way for the athletic players right now,” he said Sunday after the team’s 45-44 loss to UNC. “I’ve got a department to maintain its faith in Roof. to the situation quantify good staff. We’ll evaluate every aspect of “I don’t want has to number of the win ‘X’ he program at the end of the season.” by saying GregBeaton contributed to this story. games,” Alieva said. “The most important

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Chapel Hill protest misguided

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of Iraq, out of our tacks were misguided and seem to reveal a troubling’ schools!”

Those words were national trend, When protesters took to among the many voiced by Franklin locals who took Franklin Street—which editorial Street in Chapel runs right along Hill Nov. 15 to speak out UNC’s campus—the grievagainst the opening of a ances were clear. new Army recruitment cenProtesters said they objected to the armed services’ unter there As casualties continue to fair recruitment practices, climb, a number of Trian- which they claimed target migle-area campuses have seen nority and poor students.

In addition, locals loudly an escalation in protests and even vandalism attacks in reconveyed their distaste for the sponse to the controversial fact that recruiters were making soldiers fight in a war that war in Iraq.

Although protest is an im- the protesters, themselves, do portant and often necessary not support.

In trying to bring a nationpart of the democratic process, especially on college al issue back to the local campuses, the protest on scene, though, the protesters Franklin Street two weeks were attempting to use the creation of a new recruitment ago and recent vandalism at-

ontherecord to hear it from a student.

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And it is not as if minorides and those of lower socioeconomic status are being hoodwinked into enlisting.

The army is a terrific chance to get a secure job and to pay off a few student loans in the process—not to mention a unique opportunity to serve the country.

If anything, the protest on Franklin Street demonstrates that a demographic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is not happy with the war and that the prospect of joining the army is not particularly appealing to that group.

Even if those protesters believe the current war is misguided, it seems presumptuous to extrapolate those feelings in order to argue that joining the military is some-

how an unfavorable option for all people and that the army, itself, should get a slap on the wrist for attempting to recruit soldiers.

With the words “Out of Iraq, out of our schools,” a handful of Triangle residents protested three things Nov. 15: the military’s recruitment strategies, the decision to join the military in general and, by extension, the war in Iraq.

Protesters deserve praise for speaking out against that which they find wrong or otherwise distasteful.

The bottom line, however, is that those locals were wrong to make a recruitment center the object of their complaints and that the arguments used during that protest were unsound.

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site as an avenue through which to condemn the policies of the war in Iraq.

But the two issues are not quite the same, and although one may disagree with the current situation in Iraq, it is ultimately unreasonable, albeit easy, to condemn symbols of the army.

After all, you can not support the war and still support the troops.

Many people in the United States, and indeed a lot of college students, voluntarily join the army or sign up for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps because they view it as a valuable experience.

They don’t necessarily join because a new recruitment center is in their neighborhoods or on their college campuses.

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Olivia

Vaughn, better known to last year’s residents of Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory as “Miss O,” was fired last year on the 89th day of her 90-day probationary job period, a notso-uncommon yet rather disturbing occurrence. Miss O had formed -m* close relationships with many residents of GA, and they would not let this _deciallie VemOtZ sion stand. After a great amount of down and dirty with DSG petitioning and pressure on the part of GA residents and others outraged by this move—including about 50 people sitting in President Brodhead’s office until he agreed to have her case reviewed—Miss O got her job back.

Johnnie Hudson was not so lucky. A former employee of Duke Athletics, he was fired last year after a review citing his poor work performance. Although a public assembly was held in front of the Allen Building and supporters wrote memos and signed petitions to save his job, he was not re-hired. While searching for a new job, Hudson did not have enough money to pay for his insulin; complications from diabetes required a leg amputation from the knee down shortly after his termination.

Though discussion about Counseling and Psychological Services dominated DSG’s meeting Wednesday, political science graduate student David Rice and professor Rom Coles gave a presentation about Duke Organizing, a group concerned with improving working conditions for Duke employees.

And they’re not necessarily talking about your Econ or PubPol professor when they say “employees.”

They are taking a stand to represent the Olivia Vaughns and Johnnie Hudsons of Duke. They are working for those people who mop our floors, clean our facilities and feed us every day, and I applaud them for it.

I live in Alspaugh this year. Almost every morning I see Don; he’s a housekeeper there. On the mornings I don’t happen to see Don, I notice his absence. He’s cheerful and fun, interested in how I’m doing and how life’s going.

I tend to frequent Chick-fil-A, particularly on

those days that aren’t going so well. No, chicken nuggets and waffle fries aren’t my solution to a bad day: the Chick-fll-A ladies are—those happy, charming women who ring up my order, bag my food and wish me well without fail.

There’s also that guy who takes care of the beverage station at the Marketplace. I’m sorry to say I don’t know his name, but I know he sings sometimes. I know he always makes sure I have a cup for my drink. I know that he will refill the hot chocolate packets that I look forward to on chilly evenings, and I appreciate him for it.

It’s for these people that Duke Organizing exists.

“Duke Organizing has always been committed to relational work with employees, and as we move into next semester we are renewing that commitment with plans to step up small meetings in academic departments and dorms between students, faculty and non-faculty employees,” Rice said.

Duke Organizing is having conversations with higher-ups, and they are having conversations with housekeepers. There is no question that there is a great socioeconomic and even racial split between Duke students and employees. Duke Organizing is out to improve relations with and make conditions better for these employees to lessen that divide.

Although DSG Public Relations Director Kevin Troy worried that Duke Organizing is “an instance of the privileged speaking for the powerless,” Rice and Coles assured DSG that they are trying to get employees to have their own voices.

They realize, however, that the reason many employees do not speak up is the fear of being written up or even fired.

I can’t say that I see anything wrong with Duke Organizing’s concept. An active group trying to make conditions better for people we encounter every day and trying to help us all get along; they get two thumbs up in my book.

DSG Community Liaison Daniel Bowes commented that he wished it was not such a “fringe group”—it’s not very well known and undergraduate involvement fluctuates greatly. I encourage everyone to keep an eye out for Duke Organizing and what they have to say. In the past year, a lot of people have spent time pointing out Duke’s problems. Duke Organizing is actually doing something about them.

Allie Vergotz is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every other Friday.

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Farewell to an oldfriend

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20, 2006, Duke University will bid farewell to an esteemed member of its community. The Perkins computer lab will shut offits last flickering monitorfor good, to be replaced by a collaboration space equipped with an OIT Help Desk.

The Perkins Lab is a second home to many of us.

We have camped out there and in the adjacent Deryl Hart Reading Room as faithfully as our brethrens tenting in K-ville. For this eulogy, I inquired about the history of the computer lab, but it apparently outlived James zou OI ins uti nal memory. hello, worid To be honest, the Perkins lab predates most ofmy colleagues,” said Kevin Davis, a senior manager ofOIT. “It may even pre-date the creation of today’s OIT. The best recollection I was able to drudge up from our team was that the lab in Perkins opened in the early 19905.”

The rise and fall of the Perkins lab follows the trajectory of any great nation. In spring 2006, most days show more than 20 students simultaneously logged in to the lab’s Macs and PCs. In January and February, there were as many as 650 logins per day on average.

With the competition of flashy new workstations in Bostock and Perkins libraries, however, the traffic has dropped steadily throughout this semester, to about half of the earlier numbers and continues to decline. The typical day now finds no more than 10-15 students crunching away at the same time.

The campus is changing, and so the lab is adapting to new roles. The lab’s login times are now shorter than those in Perkins and Bostock and computer classrooms like Old Chem. This indicates that more people seem to use the lab for checking e-mail and printing off documents, rather than cranking out 20-page term papers.

The closure of this venerable lab will indeed be a sad day. It seems rather doubtful that other computers scattered in the area can completely absorb the Perkins Lab clientele. A cursory look around during the exam period now shows that almost all of the computers are in full usage. But even more importandy, Perkins Lab has cultivated a unique community equipped with its own loyal residents over the years. It is this population that will be forced into exile, and its culture that we shall miss.

To appreciate the true Perkins residents, we have to first understand who the public computer users are and why they are there. They can be divided into three groups. It is no secret that almost 100 percent of the students at Duke have personal computers, but it is rather cumbersome to drag these around. The public computers are perfect for casual users—e-mailers and e-Printers. This is the first group: the Trespassers. They flock in between classes usually around noon, jam up the printers and disappear for the rest of the day.

On top that, some students like being able to meet somewhere around a shared computer to work on a project together. This is the second group. They are the annoying house guests who talk too loudly, giggle too much and overstay their hospitality.

Finally, there are those students who find the public computer an oasis from distractions popularly known as iTunes, instant messaging and roommates. For these regulars, Perkins Lab is not a computer cluster, but another community. The Mac users are sharply segregated from the PCers. Each person has his or her favorite computer, chosen through some combination of superstition and bounciness of the keyboard.

Like all populations, here too exist social castes. The confident elites usually fill up the first rows, eager to flaunt their typing prowess and electronic drafts to all the procrastinating spectators behind. The last rows are taken up by the shy and the desperate, forced to hunker down but wanting to fade into the wall.

As we enter into its final examination cycle, treasure the community of the Perkins Lab. Treasure the knowing looks of sympathy, from eyes spanning that spacious lab, built upon the shared experience of academic misery and triumph. That companionship has sustained me through countless hours.

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lettertotheeditor Benedict committed to Christian unity Emily Thomey’s Nov. 30 column “A House Divided” brings up crucial issues in understanding Pope Benedict XVI, Chrisdan ecumenism and Christian-Muslim interfaith dialogue. I worry, however, that Professor Guven Guzuldere has mischaracterized the pope.

Giizeldere is correct that the pope cares deeply about ecumenical reladons with Orthodoxy, but he dien implies that the pope does not care deeply about ecumenical relations with Protestants.

Perhaps a better Duke Professor to speak on Pope Benedict XVI would be Geoffrey Wainwright, who worked with Benedict (as Cardinal Ratzinger) on Methodist-Catholic ecumenism for many years.

According to Wainwright, “the new pope is committed to the cause of Christian unity in the truth of the Gospel.” That unity does not extend solely to the Orthodox, but to Protestants, as well. I was for-

tunate to be present at the incorporation of the World Methodist Council into the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine ofjustification this summer in Seoul, South Korea. Ecumenism between Protestantism and Catholicism is, in the eyes of many, at an all-time high.

I also suspect that Benedict is sharp enough to recognize the oversimplification of pitting Protestantism against science. Undoubtedly, there are many Protestants who have “waged war” against science, but the majority ofProtestants recognize that if God truly did create the world, science is an exploration into his creadon. In science, Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox Christians all see the beauty of God, and that’s something I believe Benedict fully recognizes.

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Uncle Moneybags

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recent events are any indication, Durhamites are In fact, the only thing missing from this project is a competing with us for use of the phrase “outrageous financial commitment from (he Durham residents themselves. Aside from Duke’s contribution and the ambitions.”

Case in point: Durham’s plans to build a massive new hotel tax, the Center’s funding comes primarily from the Downtown Revitalization Fund and the sale of sponperforming arts complex.

At 2,800 seats, the proposed Durham Performing Arts sorship and naming rights.

And considering that they will benefit most from the Center will be bigger than the Kennedy Center in WashCenter, I don’t see why Durham residents aren’t paying ington, D.C. (2,442 for at least part of it; Mayor Bell intentionally structured seats), the largest theater the deal to shield his constituents from footing the bill. on Broadway If residents had more skin in this game, I can’t help but (1,940 seats), and only think that the Center’s astonishing size, its rising confour seats smaller than struction costs and its location (across the street from a Carnegie Hall Yes, the notion that jail) would be more of an issue.

Why, then are we going along with this misadvenDurham—with its popture? Beats me. In fact, there’s not even a particularly ulation of 209,000 kristin butler good reason why we need to own Anderson Street. I’m can till regularly with all deliberate speed Carnegie Hall is undetold that “traffic safety, accessibility and crime-related issues” are all reasons why, and that legal ownership will niably ambitious. What’s outrageous, though, is local officials’ plan to have Duke grant us the “privilege” of repaving and lighting the street on our own terms. pay for some of the Center’s $44-million price tag.

Here are the sordid details: After nearly 10 years of John Burness added via e-mail that this money was setbacks, shortfalls and shake-ups, Durham mayor Bill “offered to ensure the long-term viability of Anderson Bell and Duke administrators formulated a plan to as a street with a campus feel,” and that it may be in“sell” us control ofAnderson Street this fall The price? volved in plans for an on-campus “arts corridor.” Yet exThe University “donated” $2 million to the city, an planations as to why this should cost Duke $2 million amount equal to the performing arts center’s emer(especially since the deal saves the city the cost offuture maintenance) have not been forthcoming. gency funding shortfall.

So, Duke administrators, it’s time to face the facts.

Although Duke had already pledged to donate $5.5 million to the center, this $2-million chaser had The millions of dollars you’ve frittered away in the form one important catch: Durham only got $500,000 up of payoffs, “donations,” “contributions” and other fifront. The remaining $1.5 million would be dispensed nancial transactions all add up to one thing: Duke behaves more like a sugar daddy than a partner these days, if—and only if—the City Council approved Duke’s petition to control on-campus portions of Anderson and the impulse is spreading.

Even some Duke professors have jumped on the Street. It eventually greenlighted the plan Nov. 12 by bribe-and-let-bribe bandwagon. My favorite among a vote of 5-1.

Unsurprisingly, it was only due to a technicality (of them has to be Joe Dibona, an associate professor in the the hair-splitting variety) that this deal was permissible education department, whose Nov. 8 letter to the Herald-Sun suggested a $3-million payoff in the lacrosse under North Carolina law. Despite tepid legal assurances, councilman Thomas Stith—the lone dissenter in case. Although he doesn’t specify who’s paying, Dibona the 5-1 vote —called the deal “quid pro quo.” Angry did note that $1.5 million should go to the alleged vicDurham residents also chimed in, denouncing the deal tim and $1.5 million to the attorneys, which would “serve the interests of any parties concerned.” as “bribery,” “criminal” and a “boondoggle.” it’s hard to with them.

This According to Dibona, the payoff would avert more At this juncture, disagree “gift” was a blatant attempt to evade the zoning wars “senseless and bombastic rhetoric in the lacrosse case.” that have plagued other phases of the Central Campus He also assured me in an e-mail that if the “comreconstruction plan. Though I share Duke officials’ plainaince [sic] withdrew all charges, the students would be free of any lingering doubt over what hapfrustrations with those disputes, this was not the solution I was hoping for. pened.” This is presumably why Dibona thinks $3 milKeohane, defer to Nan who dealt lion would be “a small price to pay for the solution of To explain why, I’ll with repeated demands for payouts of up to $2O million this painful affair."

Decide for yourself whether or not you find Dibona’s during her tenure. Commentingfor a 2004 Herald-Sun Nan insisted that “we don’t want to be article, seen suggestions credible; for my part, I found the proposal just as a money bags, as a rich uncle that can solve all of to be as classless as it is misinformed. But the point is Durham’s problems.” She ultimately concluded, that Dibona’s proposal is not so different from what “Donors and parents give money to Duke for projects passes for institutional policy these days, and I think it’s about time we held administrators—and ourselves—to and tuition, not to support the city.”

How true. Even today, it remains unclear to me why a higher standard.

And if administrators won’t listen to their better Duke is paying for the Bull City’s renaissance. And our contribution doesn’t stop at alma mater’s S7 million; judgment, perhaps they’ll listen to Nan Keohane. Uncle Moneybags we are not. more than $2O million in funding comes from a 1-percent increase in Durham’s hotel occupancy tax, paid in Kristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every part by legions of Duke students, their families and Friday. other campus visitors.

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