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Police have decided not to pursue their own charges following a college-campus altercation that some have likened to the Duke lacrosse case in its involvement of student athletes, race relations and alleged assault.

Six football players at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., were recently charged with misdemeanor assault, and five of them were charged with ethnic intimidation by a magistrate judge in response to complaints filed by three- Palestinian students after ajan. 20 fight outside a dormitory.

“We didn’t obtain any further evidence that would allow us to pursue additional charges, which is what we were investigating,” Lt. Brian James, an investigator with the Greensboro Police Department, told the News & Record of Greensboro Wednesday.

According to court documents, the accusers—two Guilford students and a student at North Carolina State University said several members of the Guilford football team beat them, referred to them as “terrorists” and used racial slurs.

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Duke almost pulled off another miracle. Except this time, it was not meant to be After Sean Singletary swished a falling-down floater with one second left in overtime to give Virginia a twopoint lead, the Blue Devils still had time for some late-game heroics.

On the Blue Devils’ final chance, Greg Paulus caught a pass oh the left wing, shed his defender and took a set shot that looked like it was on its way in.

But the ball clanged off the back iron as fans at John Paul Jones Arena exploded onto the court.

The Cavaliers (14-6, 6-2 in the ACC) improved to 11-1 in their new arena in handing No. 8 Duke (18-4, 5-3) its first loss in six games, 68-66.

“Both teams played their hearts out,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It’s a great win for them and a really tough loss for us, but that’s life, in the ACC.” After a timeout with 17 seconds left, Virginia inbounded the ball to Singletary. A perimeter screen forced Josh Mcßoberts to switch onto the speedy Cavalier guard as time was winding down. On the right wing, Singletary used a head fake to get a step on the Duke forward. As he drove toward the basket, Duke’s help-side defense came over to block the shot. Singletary pulled up on the block and as he was falling backwards threw up a high-arching shot over two Duke defenders that turned out to be the game winner.

“It was a crazy, tough shot,” DeMarcus Nelson said. “We couldn’t have made

Josh Mcßoberts and theBlue Devils were held without a field goal for the final 8:42 of Thursday's game.

him take a tougher shot. He threw a shot up in desperation over two defenders.”

Still, with one tick remaining, the Blue Devils had a chance at their third last-second victory in the past two seasons when Mcßoberts connected with Paulus on a baseball pass. The Virginia defender went for the steal, freeing the sophomore for an open look.

“I thought it was in,” Paulus said. “As

soon as I released it, it felt good. It felt like a normal jump shot, it just didn’t go in.”

For the final 8:42 of the game, that was a common theme for Duke—open looks that did not go through. Mcßoberts made the Blue Devils’ last field goal with 3:42 remaining in regulation as he drove down the lane and was fouled by Jason Cain, SEE M. BBALL ON PAGE 12

Service interest in N.O. declines by

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A year ago, it seemed impossible to walk across Duke’s campus without being flagged down by multiple student groups looking for donations for New Orleans relief.

Stories of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath filled the news, Duke accepted students displaced from their home universities and students substituted community service trips to New Orleans for spring breaks in Cancun.

As the costliest natural disaster to ever hit the United States, the effects ofKatrina are as serious as ever. Many people in New Orleans are still living in FEMA trailers, others are unable to find jobs and some sites remain untouched since the hurricane hit in August 2005.

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2007

Top U.S.general isn't backing Bush

by David Espo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The outgoing top U.S. general in Iraq diplomatically aired his differences with the commander in chief Thursday, telling lawmakers that President George W. Bush has ordered thousands more troops into Iraq than needed to tamp down violence in Baghdad.

Gen. George Casey quickly added he understood how his recently confirmed successor, Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, could want the full complement of 21,500 additional troops that President Bush has ordered to Iraq. Casey said they could “either reinforce success, maintain momentum or

put more forces in a place where the plans are not working.”

As the general spoke at a confirmation hearing into his nomination to become Army chief of staff, the full Senate lurched toward a widely anticipated debate on the administration’s policy, the first since midterm elections in which public opposition to the war helped install a new Democratic majority.

One day after critics of Bush’s revised war strategy merged two competing Senate measures, the White House worked to hold down the number of GOP defections while two liberal Democrats attacked the compromise as too weak. An early test vote on

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the issue is tentatively set for Monday.

“It is essentially an endorsement of the status quo, an endorsement I simply cannot make in light of the dire circumstances in Iraq and the need for meaningful action now,” said Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, who is seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Casey endured occasional sharp criticism as he appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“I do not in any way question your honor, your patriotism or your service to our country, I do question some of the SEE BUSH ON PAGE 8

Experts: Global warming man-made by

Seth Borenstein

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The world’s leading climate PARIS scientists said global warming has begun, is “very likely” caused by man, and will be unstoppable for centuries, according to a report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

The scientists —using their strongest language yet on the issue—said now that world has begun to warm, hotter temperatures and rises in sea level “would continue for centuries” no matter how much humans control their pollution. The report also linked the warming to the recent in-

crease in stronger hurricanes.

“The observed widespread warming of the atmosphere and ocean, together with ice-mass loss, support the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely that global climate change of the past 50 years can be explained without external forcing, and very likely that is not due to known natural causes alone,” said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—a group of hundreds of scientists and representatives of 113 governments.

The phrase “very likely” translates to a more than 90 percent certainty that global warming is caused by man’s burning offos-

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What that means in simple language is “we have this nailed,” said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who originated the percentage system.

The 20-page report, which was due to be officially released later in the day, represents the most authoritative science on global warming.

The new language marked an escalation from the panel’s last report in 2001, which said warming was “likely” caused by human activity. to date, making it

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The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to boost the federal minimum wage by $2.10 to $7.25 an hour over two years, but packaged the increase with small business tax cuts and limits on corporate pay that could complicate its path to become law.

122 levees at risk of failing

Levees from Maryland fo California are at risk of failing, according to a list released Thursday by the Army Corps of Engineers.

There could be danger to people who live in communities near some of the levees as well as a chance that they will have to pay more for insurance, said Butch Kinerney of FEMA's national flood insurance program.

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Engineering Student Gov’t elects 2007 leaders by

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publicity chair.

Other social activities ESG organizes are E-Picnics, softball games, senior wine tasting, civil vs. mechanical engineering pie-eating contests and its biggest event, the annual Engineering Ball held in the

Approximately 300 students in the Pratt School of Engineering cast their votes for the nine 2007-2008 Engineering Student Government officers Wednesday.

JuniorNeha Krishnamohan was elected spring. executive president, and junior Leslie “I go to a lot of [Engineering] Socials,” Voorhees will serve as the executive vice said junior Lee Pearson. “They were kind president, ESG officers announced of intimidating my freshman year, and I felt it was hard for freshmen to fit in.

Wednesday night.

“I really look forward to next year with They’ve done a lot to improve that and I ESG,” Krishnamohan said. “I hope to imhope they do more.”

To help freshman engineering students prove the efficiency ofESG as an organization and to develop more social activities.” make a smoother transition, Voorhees said ESG holds Engineering Socials for unshe hopes to have some sort of E-Social on dergraduates, graduate students and facul- East Campus during orientation week, and ty every Friday and started having themed Krishnamohan said she aims to set up a socials this year, which are usually sponsupport system for them. sored by engineering clubs like the Ameri“I remember being a freshman and incan Society ofMechanical Engineers or Introducing myself as an engineer, and peonoworks, senior Andrew Longenecker and ple would be like, ‘That’s suicide,”’ current ESG executive president wrote in Voorhees said. “I was ready to transfer out an e-mail.

“Engineering is usually quite work-in-

and I hadn’t, even taken any classes yet.”

In addition to addressing Pratt students’

tensive, so we try to hold a lot offun activ-

ities,” said senior Kelly Fitzgerald, ESG

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The Engineering Student Government organizes Friday afternoon events commonly referred to as "E-Kegs."

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The wreck occurred at approximately 4:50 p.m. at the intersection of Campus Drive and Anderson Street when a white Volkswagen station wagon heading toward West Campus struck a blue Ford Escort

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An accident involving a Ford and a Volkswagen slowed down traffic Thursday afternoon on Campus Drive.

traveling east.

A Duke University Police Department officer on the scene said the eastbound car turned in front of the wagon, but would not state which driver was at fault.

No one was injured in the accident, but significant damage was done to the front end of the Ford, which was left perpendicular to the flow of traffic on Campus

Drive. The left front of the Volkswagen also was harmed.

Both vehicles were towed away on flatbed trucks.

Despite the small scale of the accident, it did create an inconvenience for traffic on both streets. DUPD officers helped to conduct traffic through the intersection, but long lines of cars were forced to wait.

Buses on the C-l and 02 routes were also diverted around the scene of the collision, running down Duke University Road to avoid the intersection.

By 5:45 p.m., the scene had been cleared and traffic and bus patterns had returned to standard operation.

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Campus Council members unanimously passed a resolution Thursday night expressing support for Duke Student Government’s pilot off-campus bus route.

The Council also recommended that Residence Life and Housing Services, Student Affairs and Campus Services fund the continuation of the pilot program in the future.

Members listened to a presentation on the cost of living at Duke during the group’s general body meeting.

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, spoke to members about the breakdown of the RLHS budget.

He noted, however, that Duke —as a private university—has a policy not to share any specifics of expenditures.

Hull said that because RLHS is an auxiliary service, it does not receive any financial support from outside sources. Academic year rental revenues constitute more than 90 percent of RLHS revenue, the remaining revenue coming from summer school and program rental fees.

“How much we make in the summer feeds directly into the academic year rent,” Hull said.

Budgets are determined based on the previous fiscal year, Hull said. He added that he just proposed next year’s budget to the Board of Trustees and cannot com-

Non-Discretional Spending: This form of spending remains on the books every year and is built into the annual budget —

Salaries/Wages/ Fringe benefits —19% Debt Services 30% •

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on next year’s rental fees until the

budget is approved.

The RLHS budget is broken down into more than 700 sub-categories—grouped into five sections—that must be examined separately, Hull said. After price adjustments are made, an inflation factor is multiplied to all costs.

For the next fiscal year, approximately 17 percent of the categories’ costs remained the same, 37 percent is scheduled to increase more than the inflation rate and 46 percent has been identified to decrease in cost, Hull said.

“Either we didn’t need as much money as we thought or we identified somewhere else: to spend the money,” he

said regarding decreases in category budget proposal.

Facilities and Services Chair Hasnain Zaidi, a junior, asked what Campus Council can do to help lower rents.

“It’s not likely to see an absolute decrease in rent,” Hull said. “It is likely to decrease the amount of increase.”

He added that students can help lower RLHS expenditures —which translates to rental fees —by decreasing utility consumption and property damage.

“It’s something to think about and for us to work on in the next few weeks,” said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior. “[Hull explained] why we pay what we pay for rent.”

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Capital Project —12% (any project requiring a contract and costing over $100,000) •

Students launch Duke, UNC calendar website

by Lysa Chen THE CHRONICLE

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Workers at theMarketplace attempt to keep diners happy by playing a variety of different styles of music.

Freshmen rock out to Marketplace melodies by

Nate Freeman

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The Marketplace, the East Campus dining hub for freshmen, is known for its welcoming social atmosphere and its all-youcan-eat meals. But students said there was one other thing that made the Marketplace unique—its music.

“Everybody says, ‘Make me a Marketplace mix!’” freshman Kristen Manderscheid said. “They love it so much that they want the music on a CD.” Students said the Marketplace is known for blaring an unpredictable and eclectic mix—everything from classical pieces studied in music courses to the same hit songs students heard the night before at Shooters.

Marketplace Executive Chef Michael Aquaro said the choice ofmusic—which is played from eight different satellite radio stations—should cater to the tastes of students and welcome freshmen into the din-

ing hall that they eat at most often.

“The Marketplace establishes for freshmen a sense of community and music plays a big part in that,” Aquaro said. “I think that students coming in and finding music they like enhances the dining experience.”

After conducting a survey among freshmen to find their musical preferences, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee agreed upon the list of eight stations that Marketplace managers can choose from.

Manderscheid, a member of DUSDAC who helped conduct the survey and select the stations, said the student reaction to the showcased stations has been overwhelmingly positive.

“I think it’s been successful,” she said Aquaro said excluding most of satellite radio’s offerings doesn’t prevent them from changing the musical atmosphere SEE MP MUSIC ON PAGE 5

“Our generation is such an active and involved generation with a keen sense of Students overwhelmed by the clutsocial responsibility,” she said. “[The webtered bulletin boards around campus can site informs us of] opportunities where now turn to babbledocket.com. we can get involved with the community.”

The student-run website—which Junior Nii Ako Ampa-Sowa, a prolaunched Jan. 7—allows registered users to grammer of the website, said Babbledocket is also post and search events hosted at for helpful around groups planor Duke Universining events.

“We got feedback from a num“Sometimes ty and the Uniber of people that they didn’t when groups versity of North Carolina at are organizing necessarily want their events... events, Chapel Hill. they to be seen by UNC students.”

Users can also happen to set save preferred the same time Nii Ako Ampa-Sowa and events on a persame date, programmer, Babbledocket and there’s not sonalized list. a large attenJunior Stedance,” he said. sha Doku, cofounder and team leader of the website, “If you’re planning an event, [Babblesaid she got the idea of creating Babbledocket is] a place to see how available docket w'hen she was studying abroad that time is.” last semester.

Voler said for those hosting events, “I kept getting all these e-mails of Babbledocket is an alternative method of events going on on campus,” Doku said. advertising to posting flyers.

“More advertising never hurts,” she “I thought it would be a good idea to consolidate all the information into one added.

Another important function of the place. [A student could] get one e-mail, website is to further connect the two camgo to one website.”

Doku explained that the name incorpuses, Doku noted.

“There’s so much collaboration beporated the main features of the website.

“The ‘babble’ part is things we’re tween the schools already,” she said. “It’s talking about on campus, things we want important to at least represent that the to go to and things we’re involved in,” campuses are open to each other and she said. “A ‘docket’ is a calendar of allow communication between the sorts that allows students to save events schools a little more.” that they find interesting or want to be Doku said Babbledocket plans to inreminded about.” corporate events at North Carolina CenUNC junior Lauren Voler, co-founder tral University and North Carolina State ofBabbledocket and director of the UNC University by the end of the semester. section, said she and Doku wanted to colAmpa-Sowa said the team is currently laborate on a project that had a positive SEE WEBSITE ON PAGE 7 impact on the campus and community.

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In the widely publicized Duke lacrosse case, a black exotic dancer initially ac-

cused white members of the 2005-2006 Duke men’s lacrosse team of rape, sodomy and strangulation, and neighbors of the house where the party occurred said they overheard racial slurs.

In the following weeks, team members David Evans, Trinity ’O6, and then-sophomores Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were indicted on charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual offense.

Finnerty and Seligmann were placed on interim suspension after receiving their indictments and were offered reinstatement in early January, nearly two weeks after rape charges were dropped Dec. 22.

Neither player has accepted the University’s offer to return.

Due to safety concerns and “heightened tension on campus,” Guilford students involved in the incident were asked by the college to move away from school

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Students at Guilford College hold a candlelight vigil after three Arab students alleged they were attacked.

grounds while they prepare for a hearing with a board of Guilford students and faculty—but will retain all other privileges of full-time students, said Nic Brown, assistant director of college relations at Guilford.

“There have been no findings yet, and until we make a decision about what has happened, our students are still students here,” Brown said. “Our priority is to get this right, not to get this fast.”

Although Finnerty and Seligmann were eventually placed on interim suspension, Larry Moneta, Duke’s vice president for student affairs, said the University followed a similar policy this spring by not taking disciplinary action against members of the lacrosse team until formal charges were filed.

“That’s not uncommon when a behavior is not in the purview of the University,” he said.

Duke President Richard Brodhead said that like at Guilford, the Duke administration was guided by safety precautions in making critical decisions.

“In essence, interim suspension is invoked in circumstances where there is a risk of harm to the community or to the student in question,” Brodhead wrote in an e-mail. “Duke like many colleges and universities has used this measure when a student is indicted for a crime with an element of violence, and in certain other situations with a possibility of danger. This is a way of coping with a possible risk—it is not a disciplinary measure or a judgment of the student’s guilt.”

Moneta said the extremity of the Duke case warranted the players’ suspension.

“We don’t deploy that tool cavalierly —it’s used quite rarely,” he said.

Prosecutors said they will not proceed in the Guilford case until the school completes its investigation, which Brown emphasized will remain independent from all other related investigations.

“They’re like railroad tracks,” he said. “They may run parallel in many ways, but they won’t cross.”

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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Music is often used to improve the atmosphere while freshmen are dining at the Marketplace for dinner.

MP MUSIC from page 4 throughout the day. “[The eight stations] give us a pretty good mix,” he said. “At breakfast we’re not going to be playing the same stuff as dinner.”

Chef Manager James Johnson said the station accompanying most lunches consists of “a little rap, a little R&B and a little everything,” but as the day progresses, the station changes accordingly.

“We change it up,” Johnson said. “Most of the time we keep it on [that channel], but there is another station that has more rap. I would more so use that station at dinner hours when they need something to have a little fun.”

Freshman Will Patrick said the music has a positive effect on the Marketplace workers as well as the students.

“I love it when all the employees are singing along,” Patrick said. “It makes it a at

pleasing experience.”

Students may appreciate the Marketplace’s non-stop playlist, but some faculty and older patrons said they would rather dine in silence.

Former Visiting Professor Norman Fieleke—who said he often stops by the Marketplace on his way to classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute—said the music selection constandy impedes him from having a peaceful and leisurely lunch.

“For the most part I find it intrusive and distracting,” Fieleke said. “Other music I might find more pleasant, but I would prefer no music to what they currently play.”

To accommodate visitors without a taste for the latest hip-hop song echoing through the throngs of hungry students, the Marketplace offers noise-free rooms for faculty, Aquaro said.

“We haven’t had complaints,” he said.

“We have the faculty dining room that gives them a chance to dine without talking over the music.”

Johnson said the inclusion of studentsupported music makes a trip to the Marketplace more than simply a meal—it’s a chance to take a break from work and build up the energy for the hours of arduous studying ahead.

“They only have a little free time, and it seems to pep up their day and gets them going,” he said. “It’s not grocery store music.”

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Duke’s attention was drawn away from partnership.”

Students who traveled to New Orleans the Gulf Coast, however. As time passed, last year have not forgotten the experiKatrina began to fade from the national and some hope to return to continence, and on the lacrosse campus, spotlight, ue their work, case became a We louder issue. w^nt to do another Even Presi“We’re pulling together a small trip,” said sophdent George W. ore Bush seems less . ( back and work this 1 cerghorst. concerned know there’s a about the effects summer.... There’s obviously lot left to do, ofHurricane Ka.-ii i i lots tO Still be QOUe. but I’m not trina, displeaslogically sure ing many when David Schaad how we would he failed to pnjfsm. Rebuilding from Rums mention New do lt "Weiner said Orl Orleans in h'is volunteers are State of the continuing to come to New Orleans, but it Union address Jan. 23. has become harder to raise funds for relief “The work is really only just beginning,” said Mark Weiner, executive direc- efforts.

“The money is more difficult to get tor for Emergency Communities, a nonprofit organization that provides now,” he said. “Donations dropped off community-based disaster relief for New pretty severely once it had gotten pretty far Orleans. “There are some areas that are from [the date of] the storm.”

Though other issues appear to have on the rebuilding stage, but we’re still taken precedence for some people, doing basic relief.”

The decline in current student efforts Berghorst said there is still an interest in to raise money and support for New Orhelping Katrina victims.

“It’s another one of those unfortunate leans stands in contrast to last year’s enthuthings where it’s very much the hot topic siasm for fundraising and volunteering. for a while and everybody is very conDavid Schaad, adjunct assistant profescerned about it, but it’s not necessarily sor and assistant chair of civil and envisomething that everyone’s completely inronmental engineering, took 140 students—many of those members of his vested in,” Berghorst said. “But at the “Rebuilding from Ruins” course—to a same time, I think there are a lot of suburb of New Orleans last year to help [Duke students] who legitimately care about the situation and still want to do in the clean-up efforts.

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WEBSITE from page 4 Student assaults RC over beer bong A student assaulted a residence coordinator in Craven Quadrangle when the RC attempted to confiscate a beer bong.

The RC was not injured and declined to press charges against the student. The incident occurred at Jan. 27 around 12:47 a.m. iPod stolen from Bostock A student reported a missing iPod Jan. 25 from the fourth floor of Bostock Library. A few days earlier, the student was in the library, and after leaving his iPod unattended for 45 minutes, he returned and the iPod was missing.

Car stolen from Yearby lot An employee reported parking her vehicle in the Upper Yearby H parking lot around 6:45 a.m. Jan. 26. When she returned at 4:30 p.m., her vehicle was nowhere to be found.

Contents of purse stolen at Devil’s Den A woman reported a theft from her purse while attending an event at Devil’s Den Jan. 20. Her purse was missing, and when she recovered the purse later in the evening, a cell phone, money and bank card were missing.

Disorderly visitor given trespassing charge At 3:44 a.m. at Duke Hospital North, a visitor was arrested for trespassing and disorderly conduct. The suspect was seen yelling at an employee in the Triage area.

The individual had been caught trespassing on Duke property on a prior occasion.

Items stolen from Wilson Rec Center A student reported leaving his iPod, wallet and its contents, keys and sweatshirt on the basketball court at Wilson Recreation Center between 9:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.

When he returned, the items were gone.

Theft reported from Jarvis room Money was reported stolen from an unsecured room in Jarvis Dormitory. The theft was reported earlier this week, but allegedly occurred Jan. 20. The theft is believed to have occurred between 5:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. from a desk drawer.

DukeCard reported missing from Edens A studentreported a theftof a DukeCard around 9:19 a.m. Jan. 29 in Edens 3A Dormitory. The card was left in the student’s room by a friend around 4:00 a.m., and when the student returned at 8:30 a.m. to retrieve the card, it was missing.

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“Initially, it was designed so that events going on at both UNC and Duke

showed up on the same page,” he said.

“But we got feedback from a number of people that they didn’t necessarily want their events—a frat party for example—to be seen by UNC students.”

Now users have the option to make their events visible only to visitors from their school, he said.

Ampa-Sowa said other users pointed out that Facebook already allows students to inform each other about campus events.

“I think [Babbledocket] fulfills a much greater need,” he said. “I can’t

cizing academic seminars using Facebook. I think this is a medium where we can get students, faculty and administrators, and fulfill all their needs.”

Senior Justin Hilliard, who helped the team test the website under a Macintosh interface, said Babbledocket provides a more cohesive view of the events.

“On the Facebook, your friend might invite you to an event, but you’re not seeing all the events,” he said. “On Babbledocket, people post everything to the public.”

Hilliard said he usually learns about events through flyers around campus.

“If people from every organization post their events [on Babbledocket], that’d be a place I’d check out,” he added.

Items stolen from Edens laundry room A student reported leaving his camera, a cell phone and wallet in a laundry basket in the Edens 1A laundry room Jan. 28. The student left the laundry basket in an unsecured area around 3:00 a.m.

When he returned around 11:00 a.m. the items were gone.

Man with warrants arrested for trespassing A visitor was arrested in Duke Hospital North for larceny of a cell phone and money, as well as trespassing. The incident occurred Jan. 30 around 6:37 a.m. A records check later revealed that the individual had other outstanding warrants.

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He added that ESG holds town hall meetings with students to gauge their interests and concerns and meets regularly with administrators to discuss such matters.

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decisions and judgments you have made over the past two and a half years as commander of Multi-National Forces in Iraq,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. “During that time, things have gotten markedly and progressively worse, and the situation in Iraq can now best be described as dire and de-

“It wasn’t bad,” senior Weston Ijames said. “They gave us Christmas off.”

In a season of increasingly vocal criticism that lumps the Crazies together as a single body, Ijames noted that there are “definitely two groups of fans.”

There are, it seems, two polarized philosophies to fandom; The first lends support to the claim that the Crazies just aren’t that Crazie anymore. The other group—the “few and the proud,” as Ijames called them—turns that claim on its head.

Seniors Emily Schmidt and Kaylene Lewek, the first members of Ijames’ Tent 1, settled in Dec. 17, the last day of the fall semester’s final exams.

This was the earliest anyone had ever begun tenting, Ijames said.

When he arrived Dec. 23, he found that Tent 2 had joined Schmidt and Lewek at the front of the line.

After Christmas, it was 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday with some chairs, a sleeping bag, a football and a deck of cards. There were a few Winter Break home games to occasionally remind Ijames what he was waiting for.

Because rules prevent tenters from setting up the tent itself until Jan. 6, Ijames spent evenings in his Central Campus apartment.

Missing a check, however, was still serious business. “If you miss a check before class starts, you have to wait a week after everyone else has started tenting,” he said.

In previous years, this would have been tenting suicide.

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Senior Weston Ijames, a member of Tent 1, has already lined up for Sunday's game against Florida State. classes began, and at least 10 tents were turned away.

This is where the facts begin to contradict each other. Attendance at men’s basketball games was down. In the fall, the inability to regularly fill the undergraduate student section prompted men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski to comment, “This is not that Cameron [of old anymore].”

In a Dec. 15 campus-wide e-mail, Duke Student Government President Elliot Wolf, a junior, emphasized his general comments on the “less-than-stellar” undergraduate attendance with a “special prod to the freshmen, whose turnout has been especially low.”

Ijames said that the over-enthusiasm of the first few tenters might, in fact, be a deterrent. He said that when someone sees a group sleeping out for a walk-up game, they might not think they have a chance to come at tip-off.

The criticism has mainly been directed at the Crazies’ performance on the inside of Cameron Indoor Stadium, however, not necessarily their enthusiasm outside.

In just four years at Duke, Ijames has already noticed a change.

“It seems more like routine,” he said.

“At a particular point in the game, people cheer this [one] cheer.... People used to come up with cheers for each individual player, but now you just squish dieir name into four syllables and clap.”

As the University grows in other capacities, one can’t help but wonder if a changing undergraduate student body is reflected in the behavior of its basketball fans.

“We’re the best and brightest, though, you’d think we’d be able to step up the innovation a notch,” Ijames said.

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In the peculiar politics surrounding the war in Iraq, the three lawmakers are among the strongest critics of the nonbinding legislation.

It would criticize the president’s decision to increase troop levels as away of stabilizing Baghdad nearly four years after Saddam Hussein was forced from power.

They said they intend to advance an alternative measure setting out the goals that should be met by the Iraqi government, and pledging whatever resources Petraeus requests. “We’ve come to the conclusion that the Petraeus strategy... to buy some time for political reconciliation is our best chance for victory,” Graham said.

Critics of the war, including most Senate Democrats and several Republicans, appeared to be coalescing around a revised measure advanced by Sen. John Warner, R-Va., and a group of lawmakers ofboth parties. It says the Senate “disagrees with the ‘plan’ to augment our forces by 21,500, and urges the president instead to consider all options and alternatives.”

Many Democrats had been supporters of a stronger measure, one declaring that Bush’s plan for more troops was “not in the national interest.”

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strengths in different ways, Ijames suggested.

“People definitely intellectualize getting in line—‘When’s the point when I could get in line, spend the least amount of time, get the best seat?”’ he said. “And I know people who do it.”

Junior Ryan Bott said he tries to go to every game, but usually gets in line an hour or two before the tip off.

“And I always find myself to be in a pretgood ty spot once I get into Cameron,” Bott said. A “pretty good spot,” however, is not what Ijames ever has in mind.

“I’m in the front row for every game,” he said. “Sitting midway up the bleachers is

unacceptable.”

Despite the upperclassman presence in the first few tents, Tent 4 is made up of primarily freshmen.

“A lot of freshmen are still going to tent—it’s a freshman thing,” Ijames said.

And as a member of K-ville’s veteran squad, Ijames is a target for rookie queries.

“People give Tent 1 more credit than we deserve,” he said. “Freshmen are intimidated by the line monitors sometimes, and so they’ll ask me questions, ‘Weston, you know when the tent checks are?’ And I’ll play around, ‘Maybe I do. Maybe I don’t.’”

Thursday morning, a sheet of light snow descended upon K-ville. Schultz granted grace, veritably vacating the tent city for the time being. A makeshift hut of trash cans, sheets and blankets held fast to what appeared to be the front of the walk-up line for Sunday’s game against Florida State.

Ijames was fast asleep.

“Sometimes, when you’re the only person in line you feel like these are wasted hours ofmy life, gone,” he said. “But somebody’s gotta be first.”

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Additionally, the new measure says Congress “should not take any action that will endanger United States military forces in the field, including the elimination or reduction of funds for troops in the field,” a provision that Republicans said was designed to outflank Democrats eager to rein in Bush’s policy.

Several officials said Reid told a closed-door caucus during the day that lawmakers would have an opportunity to vote for binding restrictions on Bush’s war policy in the coming months.

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It seems as though jersey retirement ceremonies are becoming a Sunday tradition at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Last week, Shelden Williams looked on as his No. 23 was unveiled in the rafters.

Sunday, it will be his classmate JJ. Redick’s turn.

Redick, Duke’s and the ACC’s all-time scoring leader, will become the 13th men’s basketball player to have his jersey retired when his No. 4 rises above Coach K Court, joining all-time greats like Grant Hill, Christian Laettner and Johnny Dawkins.

Before Williams, the last man to have his number retired was Jason Williams in 2003.

The ceremony will take place at halftime of No. 8 Duke’s 2 p.m. game Sunday against Florida State.

“For me, it’s the most special honor I could receive,” Redick said. “Growing up a Duke fan and following the team for so many years, to be one of 13 guys is incredibly humbling.... I feel really blessed.”

But Sunday’s ceremony is merely a formality. If Redick’s jersey was not assured of being retired when he won the Rupp Award as National Player of the Year after his junior season, then a four-game stretch during his senior year in which he broke the Duke scoring record, the ACC scoring mark and the national three-point shooting mark sealed the deal.

Redick finished his career as a two-time

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With 55.2 seconds left, a female Virginia fan wearing a giant mustard bottle costume held up a sign that said “Duke doesn’t cut the mustard.”

At that point, the Blue Devils led 61-59, but they were on the ropes. They had led 59-51 with 3:42 to play, but Virginia was on an Cl 8-2 run. Brand-new analysis John Paul Jones Arena was rocking and rolling, and Duke’s players looked rattled. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski took back-to-back timeouts, trying to calm his young team.

In the next 55.2 seconds, the Blue Devils would have to answer one question: Could they cut the mustard in a tight game in a hostile environment?

The short answer: No. Duke lost.

The long answer: Maybe Yes, the Blue Devils failed to register a field goal during the last 3:42 of regulation and during all five minutes ofovertime. Yes, the Cavaliers erased the Blue Devils’ 13point first half lead, their eight-point advantage with 3:42 in regulation and their sixpoint cushion with 2:05 to go in the fourth. . Yes, in the last 3:42 of regulation, Duke turned the ball over twice, missed one free throw and two shots in the paint. Yes, the Blue Devils put the Cavaliers on the line three times—for six points —in that final

stretch of regulation. And yes, Duke let a game slip away in which Virginia never held a second-half lead.

“We have to put teams away and protect our leads,” forward Josh Mcßoberts said. “We were up [l3] at some point and we let them back into it. When you put yourselves in that position, bad things are going to happen, and that’s what happened to us.”

All of that is true, but so is this: Duke could have won. With one less unlucky bounce here, or a quarter of an inch there, Duke would have won a game in which it did so many things wrong down the stretch. For everything they did wrong, the Blue Devils put themselves into position to win.

“We took good shots,” Krzyzewski said ofDuke’s game-ending field goal drought.

“We just didn’t hit them.”

On the last play of regulation, forward Josh Mcßoberts held the ball at the top of the key with 10 seconds to play. He drove, spinning into the lane and got a good onehanded shot off, but it bounced off the inside of the rim and out.

And on the last play of the game, the Blue Devils had one second to go 94 feet and score. Under those circumstances, point guard Greg Paulus’ catch-and-shoot threepointer from just behind die line—a shot that hit die back rim and bounced away was a great look off a perfectly executed play.

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wins—despite making just one field goal

over the last 8:42 of the game.

And the two biggest made shots for Virginia—Sean Singletary’s 15-footer with a hand in his face that tied the game with 24 seconds left in regulation and his driving,

falling, body-horizontal-to-the-floor, higharcing fadeaway jumper with one second to play —were tough, tough shots.

Maybe it’s just JPJ .Arena magic—after

all, the Cavaliers are 11-1 with wins over Arizona, Gonzaga and, now, Duke in the building’s two-and-a-halfmonth lifetime.

But that is probably sugar-coating the truth a little bit too much. It is a problem that the Blue Devils could not make a field goal for the last eight-plus minutes of the game.

Like Mcßoberts said, the best teams do not put themselves into a situation in which unlucky bounces can cost them a game. The best teams take that 13-point, first-half lead and blow their opponents out in the second half. Then, the JPJ Arena crowd never would get rowdy, and Singletary never would have the chance to hit impossible shots.

But this team is not the best team. On the road, in a hostile environment against a good team, Duke may have to get lucky to win.

And tonight, the Blue Devils could not cut the mustard.

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All season long, head coach Gail Goestenkors has warned the No. 1 Blue Devils—if they lack focus and intensity, no matter the opponent, they will lose.

Goestenkors’ words were almost prophetic Monday night, when Virginia Tech gave Duke a scare, with the Blue Devils narrowly edging the Hokies 75-65. After their Jel*® first truly close game against an unranked vs. team, the Blue Devils (220, 7-0 in the ACC) will >*< take nothing for granted ,0,, «hl when TONIGHT, 7 p.m.

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“We’re capable of great things when we intensity,” play with tremendous Goestenkors said. “However, if we’re not all on the same page, if we don’t bring the focus and energy that we need, we’re capable of losing to anybody.”

Even though Duke is ranked No. 1 in the polls, Goestenkors does not yet consider her team to be “great.” Great teams play to their own level, not up or down to their competition, she said. Goestenkors has conveyed that message to her team throughout the season, but it has struck a chord during the past few days.

“We don’t want to be a team that relies on turning it on and off,” senior captain Lindsey Harding said.

The Blue Devils have no problems getting psyched for their biggest games they are 7-0 against ranked opponents. In addition, they are 2-0 against top-five —

13 and then-No. 4 Tennessee Jan. 22.

Against the Lady Volunteers, Duke scored the first 19 points of the game, an indication of its intensity.

Sometimes, though, it can be even tougher to prepare for the lesser-regarded foes, especially with a looming showdown at No. 2 North Carolina next Thursday night. Mental preparation becomes even more challenging for the Blue Devils against these teams, because they have a target on their backs no matter whom they play.

“It’s not difficult for me, because I know we can be beat at any time,” Goestenkors said. “But sometimes for the players, I think it could be a bit difficult. Teams will always be up for us, and we have to be respectful enough to get up for them, too.”

Monday night, Duke’s overall performance was essentially defined by Harding’s individual play —her ups and downs mirrored the team’s intensity. The senior point guard knows she must set the standard.

“I need to set the tone—offensively, defensively, and through emotion,” said Harding, who scored 15 points Monday night. “I am that kind of leader, and want to be the kind £>f leader that leads by example. I put a lot of pressure on me, but not pressure in away that freaks me out I want it.”

Goestenkors may just be talking “coach speak” in constantly warning her team about the upcoming opponent, but she has reason to be wary of tonight’s game.

Virginia has lost its last four ACC games, but Goestenkors knows the Cavaliers are

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After defeating two top-five opponents over a span ofnine days, theBlue Devils have not been as dominant. better than their record indicates. In addition, 6-foot-l forward Lyndra Litdes is a tough matchup for any team. Litdes is currently fifth in the ACC in scoring at 16 points per game.

“They’re an angry team, they’re a desperate team, they’re a team playing at home,” Goestenkors said. “That’s a tough combination, so we better be ready to play because I’m quite sure they will be.”

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REDICK from page 9 ACC and National Player of the Year and the 16th leading scorer in NCAA history.

On the court, he was known for his lightening-quick release and deadly accuracy from three-point range.

Over four years, his Blue Devil teams compiled a record of llb-23. After his senior season, he became the first Duke athlete to win the James E. Sullivan Award, given annually to the country’s top amateur athlete.

He became a favorite target of opposing fans’ venom because of his everyman build, cocky grin and—especially as a freshman and sophomore—on-court antics. Maryland fans chanted “F you, JJ.” late in a Duke win in College Park during Redick’s sophomore year. And at a game against Virginia Tech in his senior year, fans held up a sign that read, “Cave Spring Hates JJ.” —Cave Spring referring to Redick’s high school.

Redick was drafted by the Orlando Magic with the 11th pick in last year’s NBA Draft.

Hill, now Redick’s teammate with the Magic, has been teasing his soon-to-be rafter neighbor about the jersey retirement ceremony.

“Grant Hill is convinced I’m going to cry,” said Redick, who has about 30 family members and friends coming to the game from as far away as Texas and Washington.

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putting the Blue Devils ahead, 59-51.

They missed their final eight field goal tries during the remainder of regulation

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and overtime and turned it over twice more in that span.

Down the stretch, Duke had trouble containing J.R. Reynolds, who finished the contest with a game-high 25 points. Despite dealing with leg cramps, Reynolds made a bank shot with 3:21 and then hit six consecutive free throws down the stretch.

But Mcßoberts’ two free throws at the 2:50 mark had Duke clinging to a 61-59 lead with less than a minute to go.

With a six-second differential between the shot clock and the game clock, Singletary pulled up for a jumper at the left elbow that knotted the score at 61 with 26 seconds to go.

Rather than call its final timeout, Duke elected to put the game in Mcßoberts’ hands. He drove down the middle of the lane and had a good look at the basket, but his shot bounced off the rim, sending the

game to overtime.

“We can’t blame it on missed shots with that kind of lead,” Paulus said. “We didn’t get the job done defensively.”

With 30.2 seconds remaining in overtime and the game -tied at 66, Duke called a timeout to try to ensure a good shot on the critical possession. Jon Scheyer caught the inbounds pass in the left corner, but could not free himself for an open look.

“My goal is not to cry.... I got emotional when I gave my senior speech. I’m hoping I can get through this one because if I cry, everyone on the Magic will laugh at me.”

Off the court, Redick was well-known nationally and locally. His video-game-playing friendship with former Gonzaga star Adam Morrison was national news, and fans frequently stopped him while he was grocery shopping to ask for autographs.

Redick, a two-time captain, always tried to deflect the attention he received to his teammates—even when it was announced Jan. 11 that his jersey would be retired.

“All of the individual accomplishments I achieved were the result of being on great teams,” he said.

Like his classmate and friend Williams, Redick was a good student, graduating on time with a major in history and a minor in cultural anthropology.

Now, Redick’s jersey will hang alongside that of his classmate and friend, Williams. Redick watched Williams’ jersey retirement ceremony on television, and emailed the big man to tell him “how proud I was of him and how deserving he was.”

And the star guard said having their two jerseys hanging next to each other in Cameron’s rafters is a fitting way to commemorate their four years at Duke.

“Shelden was the greatest teammate unselfish, the consummate winner,” said Redick, who added that he still talks to Williams frequently. “It means a lot to me that my jersey is going up next to his.”

JJ. Redick was selected by the Orlando Magic with the 11th pick of last June's NBA Draft in New York City.

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With super-sub McClure already back in the mix, the Blue Devils have the edge in bench depth.

Henderson's athleticism has begun to make an impact on games. No single Florida State reserve averages more than five points a game.

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“It was either going to be one of the two,” Virginia head coach Dave Leitao said of choosing either Singletary or Reynolds on the decisive play. “We were going to win or lose with one of those two and we chose Sean. He’s a big-time player especially in those situations.”

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again it appears Gothic Wonderland for the have purchased the tickets closer to the day of the actual that this year’s Ice Ball spring, they have already esis encountering a tablished a solid network of event, which is currently friends within their dorms scheduled for Feb. 23. mild mix of hike-warm interand are coping Many freshmen also said est from freshwith classes, Kthey were confused by the man students editorial ville and the rush fact that the “Ice Ball” event East Campus to find the right greek had also been dubbed “MidCouncil organizers recently night Masquerade.” announced their intention to group to join.

As a result, an otherwise “I don’t have an opinextend ticket sales for the freshman semiformal, which worthwhile event falls by the ion—l just don’t care much wayside and drops down the for it,” freshman Anant Agarperennially struggles to entice students who are already to-do lists of freshmen on walla said of the ball.

As in years past, miscomoverburdened by other rites East, and ECC must struggle of winter—namely rush and to sell the leftover tickets—as munication and ineffective of Monday, they still needed publicity seem to have tenting. plagued the semi this year Although the idea of to sell about 200 more.

Part of the problem this both of which stem from the holding an annual semiformal event geared specifically year, some students told The fact that the date of the Chronicle, was found in the dance and the window for toward members of the freshman class is on target, the fact that tickets for the event the sale of tickets to it simply ball’s timing is clearly off. were sold amid the hustle and did not line up with stuBy the time first-year bustle of Duke after Winter dents’ schedules.

In response to this, ECC Dukies wrap up Winter Break. Many said it would Break and head back to have been easier if they could should strongly consider —

Grant Hill is convinced I’m going to cry.

—-JJ. Redick, Trinity ’O6 and former Duke men’s basketball player, on having his jersey retired Sunday. See story page 9.

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are less busy and more open to such activities. They should also sell tickets closer to the event’s actual date.

Instead of rushing to plan the dance before and right after Winter Break, ECC leaders would be able to spend more time working together to hammer out the specifics of the event. Since the planning will not be disrupted by a vacation, it seems miscommunication would also be less likely.

In die fall semester, ECC members would also have more time to work to publicize the event and students would likely be more willing to buy tickets in the Marketplace.

Finally, if slated for late Oc-

tober or early November, the ball would serve to unite the freshman class at an important junction in their first semester.

Weeks after the first awkward (albeit nostalgic) days of freshman year and weeks before the spring semester, when every weekend seems to be filled with events, it seems a “Fall Ball” would truly benefit freshman students in away the Ice Ball, in its current form, clearly does not.

Granted, this is a lot to throw on the plate of new EGG members during their first weeks in college. Since the host venue is the same every year, however, planning should not be that difficult and the logistics should not be too tough to figure out.

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are tough. And in these trying times, it seems no one is trying hard enough. The political climate is palled by the gloomiest of clouds. With a forecast of “nothing but trouble,” and an economic atmosphere that I have no informed opinion on but might as well “suck terribly,” current events have evidently fallen ill due to an unidentifiable epidemic. Abortion, I say, Anyhow, one cannot hope tor enthat's it! i'nn leaving. courai ing news in these perverse days To wit, American society has slowly yielded to European immorality, victim to a culture crisis of Olympian proportions, helpless to a creeping sociological decay even Weber would have had trouble with.

In past eras of Arthurian glory, a staple of American culture was celebrating the diversity of a country that accepts people from all over, without an ounce of standards. America was founded on the joy of grouping its citizens according to their strengths and weaknesses.

In America, where we rejoice in being black and being white, having and having not, it was natural and noble to ensure people knew why they were different.

As such, the word “label” used to have a different connotation: “friendly reminder.”

Now it has been tossed in the mud, forced to compete with pigs for survival, a sad symbol of the disgraceful demise of America’s bread and butter, to clear the path for abortionistas and political correctness and giving women the vote.

A modern, albeit busy man can spend the morning smoking ganja and preaching peace, jump downtown to work the afternoon on Wall Street, and finish out the evening thumping bibles. A gorgeous model may be a “self-proclaimed geek" and a Duke student may proclaim herself “spicy-caliente”—am I the only one confused by this possibility?

(In these days of political correctness, an honest man can no longer give an honest answer to the question, “Who are those white-hooded men burning crosses in our lawn?”

“Men of faith, son, men of faith,” he must say.)

Say a little prayer for me. I hear us bemoaning the loss of our society’s simple elegance, but shut your tears. When an American tradition falters, leave it to a homegrown from the heartland to be

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He is Ashton Kutcher, and his word is bond As executive producer of the TV program Beauty and the Geek, Kutcher succeeds in using a subrate reality television show to address the intrinsic incongruence of today’s un-American society. I’m not one to deify, but if possible, I’d like, to make his birthday a galaxy-wide holiday.

The show itself, an “intellectual delight” rare among the transparent emptiness of contemporary programming, harks back to the good old days by dividing the contestants into beauties and geeks and making an emphatic display of their differences.

The show makes a clear implication regarding its title-beauties and geeks are mutually exclusive—and reaffirms an old friend’s assertion that pretty much any two groups of .people are mutually exclusive. Some may say labeling is a thing of the past, like slavery or Mach I razors, forgotten in a future of chimeric personalities, but Kutcher

That’s right, an lowa native has begun to lead us out from the dangerous depths of our contemporary hell back to harmony, a return to innocence.

He is Ashton Kutcher, and his word is bond. provides documented proof, archived in my TiVo, of the simple charm of mutual exclusion.

Scooter knows he can’t seduce a man with his eyes, and Megan knows she can’t assemble a CB radio, so they won’t waste time crossing skill sets and accomplishing nothing. Instead, they can work together as a clearly delineated team for the betterment of society. Specialization of labor defined.

And so what if Megan makes' a little fun of Scooter for being a geek. He had it coming anyway. Twenty-three year old men shouldn’t wear Boy Scout uniforms in public.

Ashiuin Bhirud is a Trinity senior. His column runs every otherFriday.

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on you, Duke University. You position yourself as an illustrious center of higher education, an institution on the bleeding edge of academic progress and advancement. And yet you don’t even have a program in Men’s Studies No, it’s not a joke, nor is it the end part of a rhetorical question meant to sass Women’s Studies (as in, “How brian kindle come there’s no Men’s ad astra Studies?”). Men’s Studies is real; as a movement it’s been limping around since at least the late 19705, halfheartedly attempting to gain credibility and be recognized as its own academic discipline.

I know I’m obligated to make some cracks about how Men’s Studies involves watching guys cheer for football teams and drink beer, but I’m just not feeling up to it. If you’re really hurting for humor about the observation that some men like watching sports a lot, and some women don’t like sports as much (HILARITY), please consult any TV sitcom with Ray Romano.

According to the American Men’s Studies Association, the organization that seems to be nominally in charge of the field, more than 40 colleges and universities currently feature some kind of Men’s Studies program. As far as content goes, it’s what you’d expect: post-modern male identities, post-structural performances of masculinity, post-intelligible mushy language that makes me feel tired and unfortunate, as if these words are somehow stealing my luck.

Absurd? Probably yes. There are thousands of reasons to ridicule Men’s Studies, many of them completely valid. Ahead of its time? Maybe yes to that as well. Men’s Studies, in its own sloppy way, has at least been trying for a while now to respond to a question

that until recently got short shrift from nearly everyone else: how to give some account of the current state of the American man, to figure out what to do with men now that manhood’s been run through the cultural shredder.

It’s a question with increasingly high stakes. Mounting evidence suggests that American men are crashing and burning compared to their female counterparts, at all levels. In the K-12 years, according to the U.S. Department of Education, boys are four times as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as girls, and men constitute a comfortable majority of those with learning disabilities.

In high school, boys are much more likely to be suspended or expelled, to drop out or to commit suicide.

Male under-performance has carried over to higher education, as well. The “gender gap” continues to widen nationally (only 42 percent of American college students are male), and per the 2005 National Survey of Student Engagement, men in college typically spend less time studying than, and skip or come to class unprepared more frequently than, their female counterparts.

At Duke, the situation is not so dire; like other toptier universities, the school’s huge applicant base and selectivity have kept the gender balance even and the quality of the male student high. Even so, Trinity College is 52 percent female, and it has been for a while.

If trends continue, even the fanciest institutions will be forced to make tough choices: accept the imbalance, or accept less-qualified men. It’s a decision that schools like UNC-Greensboro, where women outnumber men three to one, are already facing.

And it’s not just that women have made gains relative to men. In education, at least, the best that can be said is that men’s academic achievement has remained static for 30 years. At worst, men are backsliding, and fast.

Like any social phenomenon, there are a million competing explanations, some intriguing, some stri-

dent and irrelevant, some completely insane. I’m less interested in a definitive diagnosis than in the overall portrait that’s being painted here, one of a culture (campus and otherwise) that’s abandoning its men.

By all accounts, we gave up a long time ago on trying to mold boys into a generally accepted vision of manhood. The social and political movements of the ’6os and ’7os were great at ripping up the (admittedly flawed) traditional masculinities and really terrible at leaving anything coherent in their place. I can’t say whether older, traditional versions of “being a man” were right or wrong. I do know I grew up without one, as did most of my peers.

One of the only coherent articulations of manhood I received was from advertising executives, who unsurprisingly have been very adept at creating a masculinity based on buying things, an eternal adolescence populated by big-screen TVs, big engines and chicks with big boobs who belch, fart and like beer and football (Just like you, guys! How hot is that?).

It’s a de-fanged, dumb-fun image of being a man, sure, but it’s also pretty infantile and unsatisfying. If the most prevalent male identity we can offer is embodied

by Spike TV or Maxim magazine, it’s no surprise that so many men are totally lost.

And no, I don’t honestly believe that a Duke Men’s Studies program (or a Duke Men’s Initiative, for that matter) would be a valid solution to this male vacuum, although I do believe that a huge number of persistent campus problems—misogyny, self-destructive drinking, the replacement of dating with casual sex—have to do with the fact that the freshly minted men of the student body simply have no idea what we’re doing.

I’m not going to throw up some masculine ideal we can all aspire to. Mostly I just want recognition that leaving men to chance or marketing is a pretty poor strategy. “Do it yourself’ isn’t working anymore.

Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His CQlumn runs every Friday.

letterstotheeditor Line policy for men’s FSU game The men’s basketball team plays Florida State University Sunday, Feb. 4, at 2 p.m. A walkup policy will be in place; students may form groups of up to six people, and 50 percent of group members must be present at all times. Registration will begin as the line forms. The walkup line is independent of the personal checks that are occurring for tenting Feb. 2 and Feb. 3. Ifyou are in the FSU walkup line, you must stay in the line to maintain your spot, except to make personal cheeks. You may not leave the walkup line to participate in Krzyzewskiville activities, or you may miss a line check and then will be bumped to the back of the line. Come support our team and see JJ. Redick get his jersey retired!

Mara Schultz Trinity ’O7 HeadLine Monitor Ad misrepresents the Muslim faith This letter is a response to the paid advertisement on page 7 of the Feb. 1 Chronicle. Initially, it seemed to be a joke, but after visiting the advertised website, www.terrorismawareness.com, we realized that it was too elaborate to be considered thus. The ad certainly wasn’t funny; in fact it was offensive and bordered on being blasphemous. We acknowledge the need for terrorism awareness, and if that was the sole purpose of the ad, then its cause should be fully supported. But the ad was an inaccurate depiction of Jihad and manifested a parochial view of Islam. The ad’s inter-

pretation of Jihad was that it is anti-American and aims to exterminate all nonMuslims. In quoting terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, the ad does not help to further Americans’ understanding of Jihad or Islam. It ignores the real meaning of Jihad, which is the protection and defense of Muslims and Islam and a struggle to lead a moral, virtuous life. In fact, the latter meaning is considered to have been extolled more than any other meaning by Prophet Muhammad.

Nowhere in the Qur’an or other holy Islamic literature is there indication that Jihad is a “war against Christians” or a “war against Jews.”

There is no doubt that some extremist groups interpret Jihad as truly the extermination of non-Muslims, but this is a grave misconstruction on their part and by highlighting such misconceptions without actually acknowledging them as such, the advertisement has only managed to further perpetuate them. These extremist groups are' in no way representative of Islam and the Muslim community at large.

The writers of this letter would like to clarify that they are non-Muslims and therefore have no personal stake in challenging the notion of Jihad as presented in this ad. However, both of us are from Muslim-majority countries and feel that we are able to provide non-partisan and accurate representations of Jihad and Islam in general.

Hwee Boon Goh Pratt ’lO Meera Satiani Trinity ’lO

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