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Early last week, many Duke students received a new Facebook group invitation when logging onto their accounts.

The group, called “The Real Social Disaster” and created by senior Stephen Miller, presents a petition demanding an apology from the 88 professors who signed the controversial advertisement published in The Chronicle last April that asked “What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?” The petition also calls upon Stephen Miller Richard President Brodhead to stand up for Duke students.

“It wasn’t so much that I wanted to start a Facebook group,” said Miller, who is also a Chronicle columnist. “I decided there needed to be a petition for the many students at Duke who are distraught over the behavior of the professors on this campus in the wake of the lacrosse scandal.”

The group had 712 members as of Tuesday evening, including a number of men’s lacrosse team players. When 1,000 endorsements are reached, Miller said he plans to take the petition to the public and to Brodhead.

Miller added that he hopes to publish the petition in The Chronicle “to

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The rapper Common was announced last week as a headliner for the Last Day of Classes concert, but his scheduled performance on campus comes barely a year after he publicly denounced the men’s lacrosse team.

Several students who attended a concert held at Emory University April 19, 2006 said that Common incorporated lines such as, “I’m the boss, f— those boys from Duke lacrosse” into his act while freestyling.

“That was the first time he brought it up—as a punchline —and then emphasized it later,” sdid Tal Hirshberg, Trinity ’O4 and a third-year law student at Emory.

Hirshberg added thatabout 40 minutes after the first mention of Duke lacrosse in the concert, Common said he “really believes in [his] heart that those boys in Duke lacrosse did it—that they raped a black princess.”

LDOC Chair Beth Higgins, a senior, said she had not been aware of the incident during the LDOC committee’s proceedings with Common.

“I am very shocked that that happened,” Higgins said. “I’m surprised he accepted the offer if he felt that way.”

She added that the LDOC committee has now contacted Common’s agency to sort out the situation.

“We have taken immediate acdon and are following up on it,” Higgins said.

Greg Cohen, an Emory senior and president of the school’s Student Programming Council, confirmed that the rapper criticized the lacrosse players during his performance.

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through spring seof his freshman year, Eric Roberts was approached by a close friend at Duke and propositioned to act as witness for a shotgun wedding at the Durham County Courthouse.

“I said OK, and they did the short version,” said Roberts, now a junior, recalling the ceremony. ‘“Do you take her to be mester

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your wife?’ and a notary.”

Though marriage is rare among upperclassmen and virtually unheard of on East Campus, Roberts had reason to anticipate the wedding. The groom had moved his pregnant girlfriend into his Pegram Dormitory double after his roommate relocated.

When the baby was born shortly after the marriage, the newlyweds were forced to move SEE WEDDINGS ON PAGE 9

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Al-Qaida No. 2 criticizes Bush

Al-Qaida's No. 2 said President Bush was an alcoholic and a lying gambler who wagered on Iraq and lost, according to a new audiotape released Tuesday. "Bush suffers from an addictive personality, and was an alcoholic," Ayman al-Zawahri said.

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The Iraqi comBAGHDAD, Iraq mander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced Tuesday that Iraq will dose its borders with Syria and Iran as word emerged that anti-United States cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had fled the country ahead of the drive to pacify the capital.

A senior U.S. official said in Washington Tuesday that the firebrand Shiite militia leader had left Iraq some weeks ago for neighboring Iran and is believed to be in Tehran, where he has family.

In an address to the nation on behalf of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Lt. Gen.

Abboud Gambar ordered the return of unlawfully seized homes. He also said Baghdad’s nighttime curfew would be expanded by an hour and permits allowing civilians to carry weapons in public w ould be suspended during all of the operation, which he suggested could last weeks.

Gambar’s announcement came hours after a suicide truck bomber struck a government warehouse in a mainly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of the capital, killing at least 15 people and wounding 27, according to police and hospital officials. A parked car bomb also exploded near a bakery in another Shiite area, killing four people and wounding four, police said.

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Gambar said those who had occupied homes of displaced families would he given a 15-day ultimatum to return the properties to the original owner or prove they had permission to be there.

“Everyone who is occupying property that is owned by a displaced person bears the legal responsibility for the protection of the property and its contents,” he said.

“Occupants of properties belonging to the displaced have 15 days from publication of this statement to vacate these properties and return them along with their contents to their rightful owners,” he added.

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Ex-CIA sentenced to 8 years A former CIA contract employee was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 8 1/2 years in prison for beating an Afghan detainee who later died, David Passaro,4o, was accused of hitting Abdul Wali with a flashlight and kicking him in the groin.

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A hard-won disarmament BEIJING pact that the United States and four other nations struck with North Korea on Tuesday requires the communist nation to halt its nuclear programs in exchange for oil while leaving the ultimate abandonment of those weapons projects to a potentially trouble-filled future.

In a sign of potential problems to come. North Korea’s state news agency said the country was receiving 1 million tons ofoil for a “temporary suspension” of its nuclear facilities —and failed to men-

tion the full disarmament for which the agreement calls.

It wasn’t clear if the report represented an attempt by the government to backtrack on the deal, or was simply a statement of bluster for a deeply impoverished domestic audience that Pyongyang has rallied around the nuclear program as a cause for national pride.

And by tackling so many issues in a process likely to take years, the deal could unravel, pulled apart by differing agendas of its six signers, which also include China, South Korea, Russia and Japan.

“We have a lot of work to do,” U.S. Assis-

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Secretary of State Christopher Hill told reporters. “It’s certainly not the end of the process, it’s really just the end of the beginning of the process.”

Nevertheless, the agreement marks a turnaboutfor North Korea, which raided the world only four months ago when it tested a nuclear device.

If Pyongyang follows through with its promises, they would be the first moves the communist state has made to scale back its atomic development since it kicked out international inspectors and restarted its sole tant

NASCAR took its strongest stance against cheating Tuesday, suspending the crew chiefs for Matt Kenseth, Kasey Kahne, Scott Riggs and Elliott Sadler and docking all four drivers points before the season-opening Daytona 500 for failing inspections.

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Midway into spring semester his freshmen year, sophomore Isaac Selkow knew the Pratt School of Engineering was not for him.

In summer 2006, he transferred into the Trinity School of Arts and Sciences along with 48 other students.

Although only six more students transferred in summer 2006 than in the previous summer, it is a dramatic increase from two years ago, when only three students switched schools in the summer of 2004.

The number of Pratt transfers into Trinity over Winter Break also rose, from 13 students in January 2006 to 28 students in 2007, Michele Rasmussen, assistant dean of Trinity College and director of the Pre-Major Advising Center, wrote in an e-mail.

“It is hard to know whether [the rise in transfers] is a trend or just an anomaly,” Rasmussen said.

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Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, however, said that these numbers cannot be confirmed.

The net transfer rate for Pratt in 2006 was relatively low at 12 percent, compared to the 60 percent national rate for engineering schools, she added.

“We’ve really improved our curriculum and our school so we’re way below the national average,” she said, noting that Pratt administrators have worked to keep the transfer rate low by implementing innovative first-year programs and recruiting top-tier faculty.

Although the net transfer rate indicates that Pratt loses more students than it gains in a given year, the flexible transfer process is a strong point of the Uni-

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education,

Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College and vice provost for undergraduate education, wrote in an e-mail.

[The transfer process] enables us to attract the highest quality students for both programs and also those student who are unsure of whether they want to be engineers,” Thompson said.

Far fewer students transfer from Trinity to Pratt because the engineering school’s stringent GPAand course requirements prevent them from doing so, Rasmussen said.

Many Pratt students transfer because they are unclear of what engineering entails or because they lose interest in it when they arrive at the University, Tod Laursen, Pratt associate dean for undergraduate education, wrote in an e-mail.

Transfers out of Pratt spurred by changing academic interests are not surprising when one considers how many students change their major during their college careers, Johnson said.

Some students, such as Selkow, also noted a desire for more free time as a predominant factor in their decision to switch. “

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Ben Kennedy, a second-year business student, looks to help shape the"Duke brand" as a Young Trustee.

Kennedy hopes to give back with business savvy by

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Ben Kennedy has always rooted for the Blue Devils.

“I think the earliest thing I can really remember was watching the 1986 National Championship basketball game,” said the Young Trustee finalist and second-year student at the Fuqua School of Business. “I made some cheer sheets for Johnny Dawkins, and I was about eight at the time.”

Kennedy graduated from Trinity College ofArts and Sciences in 2000, and after working for five years, returned to Duke in 2005 to complete his MBA. “The greatest drive that I have for wanting to be Young Trustee is that I feel phenomenally blessed with everything that this

university has given to me,” Kennedy said“l believe that for people that received so

much, they should give back. I believe that I do have a unique skill set and a unique background to be able to give back.”

The current president of the Duke MBA Association, Kennedy said he hopes to use his experiences in the business world as a Young Trustee.

“A university at its highest level really operates as a corporation,” Kennedy said.

“I think that the ability to analyze disconnects between high-level policy thinking and implementable solutions is something that I’ll be able to bring to the Board.”

As an undergraduate, Kennedy served as Duke Student Government vice president SEE KENNEDY ON PAGE 8

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Dieters got a WASHINGTON new tool Wednesday to help them take off the extra pounds—the first government-approved nonprescription diet pill.

The Food and Drug Administration said the fat-blocking weightloss pill orlistat, which has been available by prescription, can be sold in a reduced-strength version over the counter.

Dr. Charles Ganley, FDA's director of nonprescription products, stressed that the drug is intended for use along with diet and exercise programs.

"Using this drug alone is unlikely to be beneficial," Ganley said at a

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Black churches have a history of tackling tough social issues, and are now joining together with the Duke School of Medicine in the fight against Type 2 diabetes in Durham.

The Department of Community and Family Medicine, in collaboration with leaders and organizations from Durham, has created the African-American Health Improvement Partnership to address the health needs of blacks in Durham.

As part of the project, faculty members will teach participants —recruited largely through black churches—about diabetes, healthy lifestyles and what constitutes high-quality heath care.

“Diabetes is on the rise across the country, driven largely by increasing obesity and sedentary lifestyles,” Sherman Janies, professor of public policy, wrote in ail email. “Poor people of color are among the most severely affected groups, and of course that includes many African Americans.”

AAHIP is funded primarily through the National Institutes of Health, which awarded DCFM a grant in 2005. The grant will end in June 2008.

Brian Letourneau, director of the Durham County Health Department, said diabetes is an important concern because it often goes undiagnosed.

'You don’t have obvious symptoms and the disease then progresses to a point where it becomes more and more difficult to treat,”Letourneau said.

James said the community advising board for AAHIP decided to place the project in a black-church setting because of its significance in the black community.

“There are many AfricanAmerican churches in Durham, and they’re really the central hub in the social fabric of the AfricanAmerican community,” Le-

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N.C.caps psychiatric admissions RALEIGH North Carolina mental-health officials have capped admissions at its four state-run psychiatric hospitals as the number of patients continues to balloon.

The cap blocks state psychiatric hospitals from accepting patients from community hospitals when the short-term wards at the psychiatric hospitals are at more than 110 percent of capacity, said Mike Moseley, director of the state division that oversees mental-health services.

Local hospitals will be asked to keep their psychiatric patients until the state hospitals have room for them.

Naps lower heart attack risk CHICAGO —■ New research shows that a little midday snooze seems to reduce the risk of fatal heart problems, especially among men.

In the largest study to date on the health effects of napping, researchers tracked 23,681 healthy Greek adults for an average of about six years. Those who napped for about half an hour at least three times weekly had a 37 percent lower risk of dying from heart attacks or other heart problems than those who did not nap.

Still, it's possible that study participants who napped "are just people who take better care of themselves,"said Dr. Marvin Wooten, a sleep specialist at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee.

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Sherman James, professor of public policy, is working with local black churches to help fight Type 2 diabetes in Durham. tourneau said,

James and" Letourneau said they hoped AAHIP would not only help participants control diabetes, but also contribute to efforts to prevent heart attacks, blindness, kidney failure and hypertension.

“Our goal, after all, is to develop a project that is not only

scientifically sound, but culturally appropriate and sustainable,” James said.

The project plans to enroll 250 to 300 Type 2 diabetic patients, James said. Duke University Health System faculty members will lead educational sessions to help participants make healthy lifestyle changes, including healthy eating, regular moderate physical activity, stress management techniques, improved doctor-patient communi-

cadon and effective daily monitoring ofblood glucose levels.

“I think this is an excellent opportunity to take diabetes out of the closet,” said Cedric Bright, assistant clinical professor of medicine. “There’s so much secrecy in the black community about health-related issues. We need to get to a point where we’re comfortable talking about health-related issues before we can get rid of health disparities.”

Richard Surwit, vice chair of research and chief of medical psychology for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, said he will lecture about progressive relaxation techniques and cognitive reassessment of external events.

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Surwit added that they would also teach participants additional social skills to help them handle stressful situations and become more assertive.

Researchers will collect biological and psychosocial measurements at three points in time: February to April 2007, July to September 2007 and February to April 2008, James said.

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Radios are for more than listening to hip-hop and morning celebrity gossip on

the morning commute—Duke Children’s benefits, annually from a charity radiothon held in partnership with local station MIX 101.5 WRAL-FM. The 13th annual Radiothon for Duke Children's Hospital —which began Tuesday and will run until Thursday night—is being broadcast from a temporary studio set up in the lobby of the children’s hospital.

Radio personalities Bill Jordan and Sheri Logan of the station’s morning show crew will host the event from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day, asking listeners for pledges, with dozens of volunteers manning the phones.

Last year’s radiothon raised $931,000 in three days—an all-time high, said Kristen Johnson, director of special events and communications for the children’s

Hospital

hospital.

“One hundred percent of the donated money goes to the hospital,” said Brandon Alexander, promotion director for the radio station.

Contributions will be used to purchase specialized medical equipment, toys for the playroom and videos for patients. The money will also fund volunteer programs and research, Johnson said.

During the first 12 hours of the radiothon Tuesday, the online pledges exceeded the total amount raised two years ago, Johnson said, adding that incentives for pledging include memorabilia signed by men’s basketball head coach' Mike Krzyzewski. “$2,500 donors get to have dinner with Coach K and watch a closed practice session,” she said.

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Volunteers at the three-dayRadiothon for Duke Children's Hospital work Tuesday to raise fundsfor medical equipment, toys for the playroom and videosfor patients.

MIX 101.5 held the first radiothon in -1995 to generate awareness for the hospital, Alexander said.

“The crew was on air for 101 hours originally, and the first year it raised $125,000,” he added.

The radiothon offers listeners montages of interviews with patients and patients’ families, which radiothon volun-

teers said they found

touching.

“It makes me cry every year after hearing these heartwarming stories,” volunteer Katie Farmer said.

Jordan called the radiothon a “humbling experience,” noting the poignancy of stories told by families who had lost their children.

“Some stories are about survival, some

are about courage, some are about incredible loss,” he said, adding that he was glad to give back to the community by hosting the event, “We spend the other 50 weeks of the year talking about celebrity gossip and stupid stuff,” Jordan said. “These three days are about hearing about real life, whether miracles or losses.”

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The increases were announced last week and differ slightly among the 16 campuses.

At least 25 percent of all tuidon increases must go toward need-based financial aid, and at least 25 percent must go toward faculty salary, said Joni Worthington, UNC associate vice president for communications and special assistant to die president.

Student fee increases will go toward the fees’ designated purpose, she added.

“Admissions officers at various campuses said past years’ increases have been similar.

North Carolina A & T State University students’ tuition and fees—both in- and out-of-state—will undergo the smallest percent increase, rising approximately 3 and less-than 1 percent, respectively.

East Carolina University student tuidon and fees will experience the greatest percent increase for in-state students, rising from $3,816 to $4,181—approximately 9 percent. Tuition and fees for out-of-state students will rise approximately 3 percent.

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UNC at Chapel Hill in-state tuition and fees will rise to $5,176 from $4,875, and outof-state tuition and fees will rise to $20,824 from $19,532.

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Sliding cars and jackknifed trucks snarled highway traffic, and flights were grounded Tuesday as a storm blew out of the Midwest with a threat of up to two feet of blowing, drifting snow.

The Nadonal Weather Service posted winter storm watches and warnings from lowa and Missouri across the Ohio Valley into parts ofNew England.

As the storm plowed eastward, more than two inchesof snow fell by midday at Pittsburgh, while parts ofIndiana measured more than 11 inches with drifts up to six feet, the weather service said.

Up to 18 inches of snow was forecast for northern Pennsylvania, with a chance of two feet at higher elevations. Twenty-inch accumulations were possible in parts of New York state, where communities on the eastern end of Lake Ontario have endured a week of lake-effect snow that totaled more than 11 feet.

Schools were canceled or delayed in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The University of Illinois in Champaign canceled classes for the first time since ’79.

A Pennsylvania legislative committee ended a meeting at Harrisburg early because of the road conditions and canceled Wednesday’s planned session.

At least four traffic deaths were blamed on the snow and ice—three in Nebraska and one in Missouri—and a tornado on the south ofthe weather system killed one person in Louisiana.

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“It’s very dangerous; it’s real bad,” said Gustavo Chavez, who was at a gas station in Sherman, DL, north of Springfield, after paying $2OO to have his car pulled from a ditch. “It doesn’t stop.”

Pennsylvania’s two largest airports —at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh—reported no major problems by afternoon.

Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport canceled more than 500 flights, airport and airline officials said. About 20 percent of the flights out of Cincinnati’s main airport were canceled because ofpoor conditions elsewhere, spokesperson said.

Along the southern edge of the snow belt, freezing rain coated roads, tree limbs and power lines with as much as three-quarters of an inch of ice. About 8,500 Duke Energy customers lost power in Indiana, said spokesperson Angeline Protogere.

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FACEBOOK from page 1 GWU costs rise higher than ssok Last week, George Washington University became the first major American university to raise mandatory costs which include tuition and other required fees—higher than $50,000.

The trustees at GWU, already the most expensive university in the country, voted last week to raise tuition to $39,210, an increase of 3.8 percent.

The change will go into effect for freshmen matriculating at the university in September, and will raise mandatory fees, which includes housing, to —

$50,660.

The decision, however, will not affect any current students, because GWU sets costs for each entering class and freezes them for all of a student’s time at the university.

Clemson pledges to review admissions Clemson University President James Barker pledged Tuesday that he would review the school’s admissions process in light of the recent announcement that two of the school’s top football recruits would not be attending the school due to academic concerns.

Last week, Dwight Jones and Jo Jo Cox, two of the school’s football recruits, were denied admission by Clemson’s Athletic Advisory Review Committee.

Despite some strong criticisms from Clemson community members over the committee’s decision, public concerns arose over the process for admitting student-athletes.

Notre Dame dean acquitted An Ohio jury acquitted Patricia O’-

Toole, dean of students at Notre Dame College, Friday after she was charged with failing to report an on-campus crime.

According to reports from the prosecution, O’Toole did not tell police officers of allegations by three students that they were sexually assaulted in October 2005 because of confidentiality pledges she made to accusers.

She told officials several months later when they asked about the alleged assailant who is now on trial for 21 felonies, including rape and kidnap-

ping.

O’Toole left Notre Dame after she was indicted to take on a similar position at Hollins University.

Judge says professor can grow marijauna An administrative law judge recommended Monday that a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst be permitted to grow marijuana for research purposes, The Boston Globe re-

ported.

Research involving the drug has been restricted in the past, and the U.S. Drug Enforcemnet Administration could reverse the ruling.

Hendrix College takes stance on Darfur Hendrix College has barred the school from holding stocks in companies that support the government of Sudan in the genocide in Darfur.

The college does not have any direct investments in such companies, but has ordered a study of whether any pooled investment funds may contain such holdings, so they can be sold.

demonstrate to these 88 professors what a responsible ad looks like.”

The so-called “Group of 88” has been criticized for their April 6 ad, which highlighted concerns about racism and sexism at Duke brought to light by the lacrosse scandal. Members of the group released a statement last month reaffirming their support for the original ad and stating that it has been widely misconstrued.

Some students said they are hopeful that the Facebook group wall have a positive impact on the aftermath of the case.

“It’s an excellent use of technology, to get signatures,” said freshman David Bitner, a member of the group. “If we can get something in the neighborhood of 1,000plus students and run an ad in The Chronicle, I think it would send a large signal to the administration.”

As of Tuesday, no administrators or members of the Group of 88 had responded to Miller about the petition, he said.

“The thing these professors do best is they turn away from genuine intellectual engagement,” Miller said. “They prefer their own comfort areas. I don’t think they’re particularly interested in getting in touch with me and having a dialogue about this.”

Word of the petition has circulated beyond campus walls and into some circles of parents and alumni.

“My dad has been following the case very closely and I’m not sure how he heard about the petition, maybe through a blogging website or something, but he told me to put his name and my sister’s name on it,” said junior GariyWheeler about her father, Bob Wheeler, Trinity ’74, and her sister, an incoming freshman.

Miller said it is important to note that the Facebook group is meant to unite stu-

dents across partisan lines. Although Miller is the executive director of the Duke Conservative Union, the organization supports the petition as an independent endeavor, he said.

Miller also said he understands that students will sign the petition for different reasons, and immediate change may be an unlikely result.

“I’m not under the illusion that this petition will make Duke change now,” he said.

“My hope is that by having this petition, it will bring the focus squarely on the issues at hand. It will put the ball in their court.”

Some students have also denied invitations to the new Facebook group and are critical of Miller’s apprc&ch to handling the situation.

“It’s disrespectful to demand apologies from faculty members,” junior Ashley Sobel said. “There’s freedom of speech and unless they did something illegal or very, very bad, I don’t think you can demand an apology for anything that was stated.”

But Miller said the petition has raised awareness and provides a forum for students to unite and act in defense of due process and justice.

“Universities are places where people discuss controversial issues,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. “We don’t try to silence people. People have their own opinions and argue them out, and that’s part of what universities are all about.”

Supporters of the Facebook group, including faculty members, said they hope the growing momentum behind the petition will prove successful and evoke a response from the administration.

“I don’t see how you can have that many students take a position and not respond to it,” said Steven Baldwin, professor of chemistry. “It wouldn’t make any sense to me at all.

It would be a public relations nightmare.”

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The general did not say when the borders would close, but another official said it was expected within two days. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists, added that the borders would only partly reopen after the 72-hour closing.

The United States has long charged that Iran and Syria let extremists use their territory to slip into Iraq to attack U.S. and Iraqi forces as well as civilians.

Iraqi authorities have routinely echoed the U.S. charges against Syria* but they rarely make that claim regarding Iran, with which Iraq’s Shiite-led government has close relations.

Gambar said Baghdad’s nighttime curfew would be extended by one hour when the security drive kicks off fully, running from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.

The U.S. military announced last week that the clampdown had already begun, although Iraqis have seen little evidence of that.

for academic affairs and helped create Curriculum 2000.

He said he believes that his combination of experiences as both an undergraduate and graduate student has helped him understand the “Duke brand,” which he is passionate about shaping.

“Is this an elite northeastern institution in the mold of Harvard and Yale?” Kennedy asked. “Or is this an elite research institution that does things a different way, has its own attitude, still strives to be a force in athletics and that has a different mindset about who it is than some of our peers? We have to frame what our brand is—we can’t let it be-a sort of ambiguous, undefined message.”

Kennedy said his other main focus is the role ofDuke’s graduate and professional schools in the University’s strategic plans.

“For many of our graduate and professional programs, this is a critical moment in time,” he said. “They have the opportunity to rise into the truly elite upper-echelon of whatever field they’re in.”

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Vice President of MBAA Raja Gupta, a second-year Fuqua student, said that Kennedy is a great person to work with.

“The biggest thing that he brings to the table is his passion for Duke,” Gupta said. “His genuine passion is going to be hard to match by any other candidate.”

Kennedy said that his love for Duke will extend throughout his life, no matter what the results of the selection process turn out to be.

“Regardless of whether I’m named the next Young Trustee, this isn’t the end of the road for me and Duke,” Kennedy said.

“I’ll always be a strong alumni, I’ll always be there at the Final Four when Duke is there. I will be a presence in the alumni circles, regardless.”

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“It’s passion, thoughtfulness and energy that really sets him apart,” Boulding said. “He has the benefits of multiple experiences at Duke, so he’s brought some of his undergraduate perspective in thinking of his MBA

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“I can [do better in] my classes because I have time to focus on them in depth,” he said.

The Pratt course load is often too much to handle and does not allow for much flexibility in taking humanities classes and studying abroad, said Robin Tan, a freshman who is considering switching into Trinity so she can study abroad in Madrid and pursue a Spanish minor.

A typical week for-a Pratt student includes several engineering core classes that each consist of a three-hour or longer lab, two lectures and a recitation.

In addition to the intense workload, Tan pointed to the competitiveness of engineering and pre-requisite classes as a reason for her frustration and possible transfer.

Sophomore Rhut Vasavada, however, said that Pratt students are not as competitive as one may think.

“Engineers foster a stronger community than Trinity,” he said. “Since we’re all friends, everything is hard but we try to help each other a lot.”

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same person in 10 years,” she said.

Seniors in relationships face the increasing pressure of post-graduation plans. off campus because University policy does O’Flynn knows couples who have decided not permit child-rearing in a dorm room. to move to the same city, and others who Even among the scarce contingency of plan to break up.

Duke students who are engaged and marIn both cases, however, careers facried, this instance was particularly exceptored heavily into relocation, and this tional. would take precedence were O’Flynn in Roberts himself is in a very serious, a relationship herself. long-distance relationship that he antici“I wouldn’t move somewhere for somepates will result in a wedding after graduaone else,” she said. tion. Though he is not formally engaged, Lisker characterized Duke as being typhe said he would get married now if it were ical ofmany colleges, noting that students up to him. at highly selective residential colleges are “I am going to follow her,” he said. often against the idea of early marriage. At “She’s the one with the aspirations.” religiously affiliated schools and . larger At a university of high achievers, public schools with larger populations and Roberts’ willingness to sacrifice professionfewer traditionally aged students, marriage al opportunities for the sake of a serious reis more common, she said.

This past fall, sophomore Katie Mahon lationship is uncommon.

In recent years, Duke’s so-called was asked to be a bridesmaid in one ofher “hgokup culture,” which accounts for a lack best friend’s weddings. Over Winter Break, of dating and serious relationships, has it was “all wedding talk” among her been identified and investigated in medifriends, Mahon said. ums ranging from the Women’s Initiative of Back home in Rogers, Ark., some of 2003 to last June’s Rolling Stone magazine Mahon’s -friends are simply at different feature “Sex and Scandal at Duke.” stages in their lives, she said. Many—inThough the undergraduate population cluding the bride-to-be—attend the Uniis painted broadly with this infamous charversity ofArkansas. acterization, some choose to forgo the no“I know it’s a wide stereotype,” she said.

“But some people tend to get married earstrings sensibility.

“There’s quite a lot of dissatisfaction, lier there.”

At Duke, Mahon said many people are among both men and women, about the ‘hookup culture,”’ said Donna Lisker, di- very surprised to find out that her friend is rector of the Women’s Center. “There’s altheir same age. ways going to be students who make differ“People are still figuring out who they ent choices... and that’s very admirable.” are,” Mahon said. “[Duke students] seem Many Duke students still find the idea to want to use their 20s to start a career. of marriage during and soon after college We’re still just as worried about social relato be premature. Senior Megan O’Flynn tionships, but we try to have both.” said she would worry about limiting herself In a society in which roughly half ofall at this point in her life. marriages fail, according to government “I think about myself in high school verstatistics, it is not uncommon for collegesus myself now, and I realize I won’t be the aged students to wed and divorce while

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Junior Eric Roberts says he knows that he will marry his girlfriend soon after graduating from Duke in 2008.

they are still young.

A sophomore, who asked to remain anonymous, was invited to the wedding of a classmate during her freshman year.

She found out months later that the marriage had ended byway of the Facebook’s news feed feature.

“It said she was single again, and her name had been changed back to her maiden name,” she said.

Roberts said fellow students react in a variety of ways when he tells them about his

plans to marry his girlfriend. “It’s usually a condescending, ‘Oh, how great that is,’” he said. “Most people think it’s ridiculous.”

A common denominator among his critics is a feeling that he is missing out on something, Roberts said. But imbedded in the judgment, he suspects there is a sense of intrigue and envy, “Most people think it’s just a serious college relationship,” he said. “But I’ve known since freshman year that I’m going to marry this girl.”

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COMMON from page 1 The concert took place the day after Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were indicted on charges of rape, sexual assault and kidnapping.

“It was very explicit, very offensive,” said Scott Manson, Trinity 03 and a third-year law student at Emory who attended the concert.

“This was horribly inappropriate for someone like Common to be saying and to be spreading across colleges and universities.”

Manson added that audience members did not appear to react negatively to the artist’s comments at the time.

“If he’s coming to Duke now, he should have to answer to the questions and either apologize or withdraw,” Hirshberg said.

Manson also said Common should explain himself to the Duke com-

Performing the day after 2 Duke lacrosse players were indicted, Common's remarks about the case offended several Emory students.

munity.

“This guy is very irresponsible and a huge hypocrite if he’s going to blast the kids and the school and then turn around and accept the paycheck,” he said.

The Emory student newspaper reported April 21 that in addition to denouncing the lacrosse team, Common also criticized President George W. Bush during the concert.

Common’s agency could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

N. KOREA from page 2 operating nuclear reactor in 2003.

“These talks represent the best opportunity to use diplomacy to address North Korea’s nuclear programs,” Presi-

dent George W. Bush said in a statement. “They reflect the common commitment of the participants to a Korean Peninsula that is free of nuclear weapons.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “strongly welcomes” the deal as “the first practical stage towards a non-nuclear peninsula,” said his spokeswoman, Michele Montas.

Ban, who had been deeply involved in the six-nation talks as South Korea’s foreign minister last year, “is encouraged that this constructive effort by the international community can eventually result in strengthening the global non-proliferation regime,” Montas said. He “urges the participants to make every effort to sustain the current positive momentum and ensure that this accord is implemented as agreed Robert J. Einhom, a former State Department official who visited North .Korea with then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said Americans should applaud the agreement, but he predicted it would come under heavy questioning from both the right and the left.

He said, “I think a number of people are going to ask the question, 'Couldn’t this deal have been concluded three or four years ago before North Korea conducted its nuclear test and acquired enough additional plutonium to build anywhere from six to 10 nuclear weapons?”’

On the right, formerU.N. Ambassador John Bolton said the agreement rewards NorthKorea for bad behavior while encouraging Iran to ignore international demands that it roll back its nuclear program and hold out for a better deal. ”

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covering In April 2006, the month in which the Duke lacrosse story seemed to be spiraling out of control and consuming the resources of the American media, 76 U.S. military servicemen were killed in Iraq.

In light of all that has happened to our school, that team, and this country over the past 11 months, this weekend’s news that Army Rangerjimmy Regan —a midfielder Hk on the Duke lacrosse team from meredith 1999-2002—hadbecome yet another Shiner casualty of the Iraq War seemed not only tragic, but bitterly ironic as well.

The story ofhis sacrifice and his family’s loss will be the first, and perhaps only, story related to the men’s lacrosse team this year thatwon’t make for frontpage news in many paper across the country.

And all this begs the following questions: Has the media become so myopic that it only seeks to report and perpetuate “sexy” stories, like that of Duke lacrosse? Or have average Americans become so indifferent to the news that only these types of stories can catch their attention?

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For the first time in 380 games, Duke will step onto the court as an unranked team when it takes on the ACC’s first-place Boston College tonight in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

The fact that the Associated Press and the coaches left the Blue Devils—who are also in the midst of their first four-game losing streak in 10 years—out of their polls does not conVS, the players, however.

“We don’t pay any attention to rankings,” TONIGHT, 9 p.m. sophomore Greg Paulus Chestnut Hill, Mass. said. “When the ball goes up in the air on the opening tip, none of that matters.”

The last time Duke (18-7, 5-6 in the ACC) was unranked, No. 21 Boston College (18-6, 9-2) was still in the Big East and was not even on the ACC’s radar. Nonetheless, the Blue Devils know what to expect when they face the Eagles tonight after already beating them 75-61 Jan. 28.

In that contest, Duke won the game on the boards, out-rebounding Boston College 41-30. The Blue Devils also controlled the offensive glass, recording more offensive rebounds—ls—than the Eagles’ 12 defensive boards.

Duke also held guard Sean Marshall to seven points on 2-for-l 1 shooting. Marshall enters tomorrow’s game averaging 14.8 points per contest.

“It will be important for us to play him tough and contest all of his shots,” Paulus said. “We can’t give him open looks, and we have to keep him off the offensive glass.”

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Over the past 10 months, Duke’s men’s lacrosse players have faced a media blitz unlike anything their sport has ever seen.

At the epicenter of what rapidly became a story that transfixed the nation, the Blue Devils went from answering straightforward questions about wins and losses to fielding difficult inquiries relating to larger issues of race, sex and privilege in college athletics.

What was at first a trial-by-fire for the players, however, has morphed into an educated, organized approach to the coverage that continues to surround the team. In an effort to more effectively deal with the media, the Blue Devils have established new rules and sought outside counsel to better prepare the team for the difficult questions the players continue to face.

“No one, as far as I know, has had to go through this kind of firestorm before,” senior co-captain Ed Douglas said. “Before, you’re commenting about lacrosse, and there’s not too much in the way of interpretation there.... But when you’re talking about larger issues, like on campus or dealing with the administration, there certainly are some things that you want SEE LAX MEDIA ON PAGE 16

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At a recent home game in Cameron Indoor Stadium, ushers distributed free, posters to all fans. The poster read “You Can’t Control the Elements” and featured photos of Duke’s three All-America candidates—Alison Bales shooting an earth, Lindsey Harding leaving a gust of wind behind her and Abby Waner hoisting a threepointer trailed by fire.

There was no photo of Wanisha Smith.

After all, “unsung hero” is not an element.

But as any opposing coach would undoubtedly affirm, Smith is just as danger-

ous as any other Blue Devil. The fact that top-ranked Duke’s big three—as head coach Gail Goestenkors dubbed the trio of Bales, Harding and Waner—gets national attention while Smith plays in relative obscurity, though, does not upset the junior

combo-guard.

In fact, she relishes her role.

“It doesn’t bother me at all,” Smith said.

“I like to be behind the scenes. I would rather not be talked about so that I can just come out and play and not have any pressure on me.”

While Duke’s triumvirate of All-America candidates takes the pressure off the easygoing Smith, it certainly does not detract from her overall game. This year, Smith is averaging 9.7 points per game —fourth on the team.

Her penchant for performing in big games has been critical for the undefeated Blue Devils all season. In last week’s matchup at No. 2 North Carolina, Smith

Smith started 35 out of 36 games at point guard, with Harding suspended for the year. In her sophomore year, however, Harding*returned and the Blue Devils welcomed the highly-touted Waner to the rotation, and Smith started only 20 games.

Despite the circumstances, there was no semblance of resentment between Waner and Smith. In fact, when Waner took Smith’s starting job, the older guard took the rookie under her wing.

“Wanisha was the first to go up to Abby and say, ‘I am behind you 100 percent,”’ Goestenkors said. “Abby came to me and said that meant so much to her because she was a freshman. It meant a lot to her that Wanisha was pulling for her instead of seeing her as competition.”

This year, Smith has thrived in her return to the starting lineup. The development of her game was spurred by private workouts with assistant coach Tia Jackson, who helped her rediscover her shooting form. Most importantly, Jackson said, she taught Smith to be her own coach on the floor—the guard now is able to make adjustments without being chastised by the coaching staff.

Smith’s position is not truly defined she plays point guard at times, but is more of a hybrid shooting guard and small forward. Goestenkors sees Smith’s versatility and willingness to sacrifice for the team as invaluable traits.

“Wanisha is the consummate team player,” she said. “She is willing to do whatever it takes. She’s done whatever has been asked of her. She’s done a little bit ofeverything for us.”

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Dowdell’s big game helped the Hokies (18-7, 8-3 in the ACC) to an improbable season sweep of the Tar Heels (224, 8-3).

Markus Sailes gave the Tar Heels one last chance when he missed two free throws with 7.1 seconds left. Lawson rushed down the court and took a quick shot which was tied up by Dowdell. Lawson got the rebound and shot again from the lane, but Washington swatted it away.

Wayne Ellington grabbed the ball and the buzzer sounded just before he released and hit a three-pointer.

Virginia Tech won its second straight against the Tar Heels, after beating them 94-88 last month in a game the Holaes led by 23 before North Carolina’s furious rally came up short and its 18-game winning streak was halted.

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Washington had 12 points and 14 rebounds for the Hokies, who made their first visit to Chapel Hill since 1975 and won here for the first time since 1966. It also was their second impressive overtime victory on Tobacco Road, joining last month’s 69-67 upset of Duke.

Tyler Hansbrough had 22 points to lead North Carolina, while Ellington had 14 and Lawson finished widi 13.

North Carolina fell to 14-1 at the Dean Smith Center, where they had been dominant. The Tar Heels entered averaging nearly 92 points at home and winning by an average of 30 points with only one game decided by fewer than 10 points, a 98-89 win over Ohio State in November.

But this time, neither team led by more than eight points.

Virginia Tech could have taken the lead late in regulation when Washington was fouled hard by Reyshawn Terry with 36.4 seconds remaining, briefly leaving the game. The Hokies brought Nigel Munson off the bench to shoot the free throws, and he missed his first shot but swished his second to tie it 73-73.

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Greg Paulus and the Blue Devils' last win came against BC Jan. 28th, when Duke beat the Eagles 75-61. ence player of the year award candidate from page 11 and leads the league in scoring at 20 points per game “They are a veteran team with great last time Duke recorded a victory this seaDuke head coach Mike Krzyzewski Devils have fallen poise,” then, Since the Blue son. all the way from one game out offirst place said. “They’re well-schooled in what they in the conference to a tie for sixth. Despite do, and they play every possession.”

Although Krzyzewski knows it will be a Duke’s recent slide, Eagles head coach A1 Skinner—who has never beaten the Blue challenge for the Blue Devils to end their Devils in his career as a head coach—is not current losing skid tonight, he is encouraged with his team’s state of mind. If it surprised that the team has struggled. were not for a few missed shots at the end “The quality of play in the league dicto he of games against Virginia and Florida tates that that could happen any club,” said. “When you play in a league where you State, Duke could have been at least 7-4 in have the quality of teams that we have, you the conference.

“Losing and how you lose—is it a lack of are capable of losing on any given night.”

While Duke has lost four straight since effort, is it a lack of belief, is it lack of its victory over Boston College, the Eagles work?” he said. “It’s none of those things have* gone the opposite direction, win- for our guys. They believe and they work ning four straight to sit atop the ACC. hard. We just travel a narrow road between winning and losing.”

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161WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2(M)7 the team before meeting privately with the spokesmen.

Pryzwansky provided Douglas, Danowski, McDevitt and Carroll with tips and to be careful about.” training on how to handle different situaAs part of the team’s new procedures retions with the media, as well as techniques requests media, the all interview garding they could use while answering questions. must go through Duke’s Sports Informa“You can’t always control the questions tion Department, and the only players curto the media are but you can always control the answers,” authorized to rendy speak Douglas, fellow senior captain Matt Pryzwansky said. “Sometimes your answers Danowski and seniors Tony McDevitt and can lead to what the questions will be as your interview conCasey Carroll. tinues on.”

Head coach John During the sesDanowski said the “Anything you say can be sion, Pryzwansky and team decided early the players especially on to have a few twisted and bent to focused on developspokesmen for the however the media wants ing words and phrasprogram, settling on es that were legally four seniors whom to make it seem, so you but still acceptable he felt have exhibithave to be very careful conveyed the players’ ed particularly strong

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The coach also said the team has had to be especially careful about its public comments considering the ongoing legal case involving three former players.

“There’s certain things that we’re not able to talk about because we don’t want to hurt the three students and their families,” Danowski said. “The only things that we’ve ducked, so to speak, are anything we think would harm the boys and their families.”

In an effort to arm the Blue Devils’ four senior spokesmen with a sound approach to the media, Art Chase, Duke’s sports information director, brought in a media relations expert to help the players learn how to deal with the tough questions. In August, Scott Pryzwansky, a consultant who specializes in media training and has worked with several different college athletic programs including Duke football, gave a session of general advice

feelings.

“You’ve got to watch your step because anything you do can be held against you in a court of law,” Matt Danowski said. “Anything you say can be twisted and bent to however the media wants to make it seem, so you have to be very careful with your words.”

With the start to the season less than two weeks away, the Blue Devils should be well prepared for the media resurgence that will likely occur when Duke takes on Dartmouth Feb. 24. Once the season begins, more players will again become available to the media, John Danowski said.

“If a player scores five goals, or makes 10 saves or wins a lot of faceoffs they certainly can step up and speak,” Danowski said. “We just want to make sure that the media doesn’t seize the opportunity to start talking about things that just aren’t relevant to the game.”

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Duke expects increased media attention with its first game of the season against Dartmouth Feb. 24.

But after dealing with a seemingly unending train of questions, cameras and comments for almost a year, the team has gotten used to it.

“I’m sure if there’s some sort of circus

outside the first game guys will look at it, but I don’t think it will come down to any sort of a serious distraction,” Matt Danowski said. “There’s nothing to be nervous about anymore.”

SHINER from page 11 blend into the stone of the Duke Chapel, I started to wonder about the state of

journalism.

I grappled with the chicken-or-the-egg dilemmaalluded to above: which came first, the media’s apparent de-emphasis on the wars U.S. soldiers are fighting overseas or the public’s disinterest in them?

Regardless of the genesis of this trend, its effects—the lack of deference to the fallen by our failure to discuss the circumstances surrounding their deaths —profoundly shapes our national dialogue, or lack thereof.

Maybe it is unfair to isolate the story of one particular soldier, but Regan’s case seems somewhat unique, much like that of former Arizona Cardinal linebacker Pat Tillman.

Regan, an academic All-ACC selection in his tenure at Duke, could have done what the rest of his classmates were doing after graduating from one of the nation’s top universities—gone to law school on scholarship or taken a banking job on Wall Street.

But when faced with the opportunity to have it all, Regan chose instead to put his country before himself.

I’m not sure that was the kind of risk he and his fellow Economics majors were taught about in EconlD freshman year.

“For a lot of those men and women, there’s a higher calling,” said Kevin Cassese, Regan’s former teammate and friend, as well as current Duke assistant coach. “[Regan] felt the need to fight for his country, and he fulfilled that duty to the best of his ability.”

Stories like Regan’s or Tillman’s, in which young men give up comfort and advantage for hazard and uncertainty, are so shocking. Maybe it’s because we cannot •

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Jimmy Regan, a former midfielder for the men's lacrosse team, was killed last week in Iraq.

imagine ourselves in their positions, making the choices they made. Or maybe it’s

because we canonize our athletes to the point where they seem indestructible.

Lost in the world the media created for Duke lacrosse—one of overblown elitism and privilege —was the story of a man who gave all of that up to defend our freedom.

Lost thousands of miles away was a man whom Cassese called “the best.”

Lost in our newspapers was his story, because someone out there decided that it didn’tfit into the coverage genre of the “perfect storm.”

If what is happening in Iraq —if the loss of Jimmy Regan and thousands like him—isn’t part of a “perfect storm,” then I guess I don’t know what is.

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ry. Jimmy Soni’s breadth of experience—from chairing the Honor Council to serving as DSG vice president for acaends today.

The four finalists of the demic affairs—results in nuYoung Trustee selection anced and thoughtfully considered opinions. this process As in the past, year comprise editorial there are three a highly qualified group that has big ideas candidates holding imporabout the University and a tant and high-profile campus strong desire to influence leadership positions; but this year there is a fourth who what goes on here at Duke. stands out as something difChrissie Gorman, outgoferent—and we think, as ing president of the Panhellenic Association, has been a something more.

During even a single constrong advocate for women versation with Ben Abram, on campus and has a comprehensive understanding of you’ll see him dripping widi major University goals. David enthusiasm for Duke, and noSnider, DSG vice president for tice that his obsession with this athletics and campus services, school goes beyond the averhas made more tangible age student’s.

Ben is a model for Presichanges to undergraduate life than anyone in recent memo- dent Brodhead’s call for unrace to win the most prestigious honor an undergraduate can win

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Conversations, to engaging the Durham community on an individual level through an impressive mentoring endeavor and academically through research, Ben has walked a non-traditional path through Duke. He is genuinely interested in die real value of higher education and in tune with how to best take advantage of the Duke experience.

With his unique experiences at Duke, he will bring an exciting and fresh perspective to the Board.

The other three candidates have an incredible breadth of knowledge about University issues, and for the most part,

have concrete ideas for how to make specific parts of the University better. But we are more interested in having a Young Trustee who comes from a unique and valuable position from which to critically evaluate issues the Board addresses and act accordingly.

Certainly this means that Abram will have a learning curve to overcome if selected.

Specific details of University issues can be learned; vision and genuineness cannot.

In his general presentation, Abram is less polished than the three other candidates. To some, that may be a weakness.

But we see it as his greatest asset His personal, inquisitive and energetic style would bring more to the Board because it is distinct and more personable.

Abram is capable of truly con-

necting with other members of the Board, and more tapped in to what it should mean to be a Duke student In the end, we do not have the final say. So, to close, we offer some words to the selection committee: Elect the person who will be the most effective in a Board of Trustees meeting. It may be tempting to elect the person who has all the facts memorized, or the person with the most experience working with small-scale campus issues, but these are not always prerequisites for successful Trustees. Votefor someone who has engaged their own education and experience here in a way that coincides with what the University encourages us to do.

The Chronicle formerly endorses Ben Abram for Young Trustee.

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week The New York Times gave readers a taste of the ridiculous extremes to which Cupid has subjected us all. An article on luxury gift-giving examined the price and production of a standard box ofNoka chocolates. While the $2,000/pound price revelation fell short of earth-shaking, even I was a little sad to learn that the advertised “rare, handcrafted, singleestate chocolate truffles” are “molded” blobs of wholesale chocolate, of hazy

geographic origin.

First unveiled by a Dallas food blog, the story was picked up and carried crosscountry by a slew of popular websites before hitting the Times. jane chong Presumably a drop in the short shot Noka sales will follow.

But the Times put displeased consumer response into perspective. After all, when it comes to luxury goods, especially gifts, doesn’t the unfathomable price fulfill an important function?

As I idly worked my way through two bags of Hershey’s kisses, wishing they were Godiva, a more interesting question came to mind: What does the Noka debacle say about widespread price dysfunction? While NoKA (a spicy twist on the names of founders “Noah” and “Katherine”) has broken rules in the eyes of the consumer collective, the husband-and-wife duo was just unlucky. They fed and fed off the perceived link between price and brag-worthy purchase. Their single mistake was ignoring our lingering, albeit antiquated trust in the correlation between price and quality.

You and I are cynical, largely uncritical consumers; we will absorb sticker shock in stride for the critter stuck to your chest and the label sewn to my behind. Not exactly newsworthy. But if your Polo shirt comes apart at the seams, you will make a fuss before returning to the store to buy another one. We recognize our own brandconsciousness as we stroke our Uggs or Escalade, but we have a hint of old-world faith in dollar denominations of quality. A faith that is being undermined categorically by clever marketing that turns it on its head.

Smart packaging is the new millenium’s fastest developing technology. Shrinkwrap is a thing of the past.

Packaging and product have fused. Ifit looks like angora and feels like angora, it’s probably a wool and nylon blend. But if the tag is carefully worded and the price sufficiendy painful, you may never know the difference.

Simply put, retailers are taking advantage of the brand-and-catchphrase craze at a faster rate, incredibly, than buyers are buying it. We cutting-edge consumers are actually, like, totally 20th century. We like to consider fresh-squeezed orange juice fresh and squeezed, genuine leather procured from cows, chocolate made from cocoa beans and Haagen-Dazs somehow linked to Holland, not the Bronx from

whence it sprang. The list ofunrealistic expectations goes on. But we don’tknow what we’re eating, wearing, riding or sleeping on anymore. And paying more provides no quality guarantees. The second part is what disturbs us.

Michael Pollan’s immensely popular book, the Omnivore’s Dilemma, pokes unsettlingly at how organic and whole Whole Foods’ offerings really are. Lawsuits are forcing Capri Sun and 7-Up to drop the snazzy “allnatural” catchphrase from their product descriptions.

Last November, ABC News reported “Good Morning America” had bought and dismantled furniture items from several popular stores and brands. The only thing experts found die Martha Steward “cherry night table,” Ashley “maple nightstand” and $350 “solidly constructed” Glen Eagle “brown cherry desk” had in common: no wood. Materials miraculously ranged from fiberboard to contact paper.

It’s not just our egos or sense of humor or future heirlooms at stake here. We use prices to gauge what is reliable, healthy, imported, quality. Disagree? According to the Times, a 17.6-percent tuition increase at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania yielded a 35 percent bigger freshman class within four years, a visible trend in college education, that luxury good.

And if you pride yourself on quiet quality and can afford overpriced, understated elegance—well, you might consider adjusting your refined tastes to reflect reality. No longer are you afforded the private assurance that you are wearing abstract art. It may be that you’ve donned the flexible equivalent of fiberboard.

Because the age of subde elegance is kaput. The age of even vaguely understanding what goes into our mouths is kaput. Wikipedia waits on us hand and foot, yet it has become impossible to confirm whether the mahogany table that is your mother’s pride and joy is really a stained and sculpted block of compressed woodchips, playground variety.

Take comfort, for you will never know. Not without taking a hacksaw to your environment. Until that desperate moment, at the glorified heights of the Information Age, we drown in a deluge of unanswerable questions: Who am I? What are my values? How do I prefer to indulge? What animal am I really wearing on my head?

Google provides no satisfactory answers. Or so I concluded after multiple attempts at revising the terms of my search.

Money is a universal language. Love is a universal language. Mid-February the stars align and the two are supposed to become.one. But if you’re frantically looking up same-day shipping at this very moment, worry not Because this Valentine’s Day it really is the thought that counts, in an age when nothing else does. Not even the once-mighty dollar.

Jane Chong is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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Humble faith

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our current world of suicide bombers and nuclear warheads, there is one word that scares me more than any other: fundamentalism.

And ever since the tragic events of 9/11,1 am quite confident that I haven’t been alone in this fear. Despite how saddening such catastrophes have been, however, what concerns me most is not the threat of further terrorist attacks, which (thanks to our “code orange” status) continues to loom over our heads. Rather, what I lose the most sleep over is the religious certainty that has seeded and fueled these atrocities in the first place.

It seems to me that any and every time faith is distorted into a type of assured knowledge or self-avowed fact, it’s always dangerous—the violent examples are simply the most I mark StOltGnbGrg visible. Men who run into family restaurants with belts made beyond the bubble of dynamite shouting “praise t be to God” scare me just as much as a president who, in the face of an unprecedented lack of support, says, “My faith frees me to do the right thing.”

The worst part of all is that the intensity offundamentalism’s confidence in itself amplifies both its volume and visibility. The world is left to see religion as dogmatic and intolerant as the shouting televangelist loudly proclaims her possession of “truth” from an adorned studio while the unassuming saint quiedy prays and serves in the forgotten comers of the world.

In his Time Magazine editorial “When Not Seeing Is Believing,” Andrew Sullivan describes how the fundamentalist psyche has caused a polarization between religious literalism and secular subjectivism. The literalist feels religious doctrine is no different than scientific fact and therefore should be pressed upon others; the subjectivist feels there is no such thing as religious truthand thus we should leave each other alone and let each individual figure it out on her own.

There is a third alternative —I would call this approach “humbled faith.” This is a perspective that believes in truth, but is hesitant to say it can know it wholly and perfecdy. The approach says, ‘Yes, we cannot know anything for certain, but we can still try to meaningfully learn and grow through our limited perceptions.” It is a desire to share what has transformed one’s own life while still recognizing how much more there is to learn.

The reason I am addressing these issues is this; I believe fundamentalismhas severely hindered our ability to engage in sincere moral and religious discourse and I believe this is a loss we cannot afford to suffer. And I believe a type of humbled faith may be our way out.

Because the arrogance of many fundamentalists is often only matched by their ignorance, I do not blame the large portion of reasonable and intelligent individuals who no longer want to hear about God, faith or meaning. Every time I am asked “do you have Jesus in your heart” by a complete stranger who knows nothing about me, I often ask myself what the hell I am doing calling myself a believer (and usually respond by saying back to them, “Do you?”).

Admittedly, I also think my last column may have tended toward this type of “self-assuredness” that I am warning against. I think I forgot how tired so many of us are (and rightfully so) of the condescension and pride that is so often included with the sharing of opinions and beliefs.

However, here is the truth of the matter: I came to Duke in search of meaning (or truth or God, whatever you would like to call it), and I have been fortunate enough to find at least a few fragments of it. But I have no way of knowing what they might mean to others, and have no business deciding if they even should. And maybe most importantly, I am also very open to the possibility that they might even be wrong.

Still, Christian, Jewish or humanist: central to each is the recognition that life is not an individual effort. It is a communal endeavor. We can only grow by our willingness to teach and learn from each other through honest sharing and genuine listening.

And to be successful, we must have the courage to discern and share what has formed our own lives while maintaining the patience and humility to be changed by the stories of each other.

Unfortunately, the obstinate voice of fundamentalism has been so loud, the rest ofus have gone deaf even to each other. I think we can work toward meaningful discourse by remembering three things. First, we cannot be absolutely sure of anything.

Second, there is still a very real amount of meaning, peace and truth to be found in this world. And lastly, whatever truth we can find, it is best enjoyed through sharing in it together. |

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Mark Stoltenberg is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

14, 200711 9

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seems Robert Palmer had the right idea. And I don’t mean about the red lipstick and cardboard cutouts of guitars.

As someone who forms addictions with frightening speed and asrility, I feel qualified in saying that the first few days of a new rela■■ tionship engender addicdon at least as much as a hard run (addicted), an out-of-control beach vacation (addicted) or a love-it size dark chocolate mint ice cream with Oreos from J3CCJUI dGIWIIGT Cold Stone (addic-TED). please hire, desperate Both in humans’ subjective experiences and in research on monogamy, our love for another person strikingly resembles addiction. The pleasurable initial rush causes the release ofreward neurotransmitters in the same areas of the brain for both sex and drugs—and rock and roll, incidentally—and both cause a gradual dependence that can result in shaking, crying and vomiting upon withdrawal. And very few things on earth have the power to make us act quite so irrational, save, well, other very addictive substances. (Seriously, you need to see me with a bowl of Cold Stone.)

Even thinking about love can create intense cravings and emotions. Merely name a day a national celebration of love, and suddenly you’ve got to be happy, angry or dejected. Being apathetic about Valentine’s Day is like being apathetic about heroin. It’s not even an option.

But the love-as-drug hypothesis isn’t all bad. The similarities between love and addictive substances can be quite useful, as is already known by every scorned woman who has drowned her sorrows in a bag of mint Milanos.

Addiction obviously doesn’t cover everything about love, but it’s a close enough substitute that it can provide singles some solace from pathological V-Day emotion.

So, for those ofyou who are leaning more toward the angry-dejected end of the spectrum (yes, you, hiding behind The Chronicle on that bench), I thought I’d make some suggestions. .

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Alcohol; This substance is highly addictive to peo-

pie from all walks of life, which makes it a dangerous, albeit commonly used surrogate for human interaction. Like love, it’s possible to overdo it, but in reasonable amounts it provides a physical warmth that’s surprisingly similar to spooning.

Stimulants; Nothing makes your heart pound like a new love, except a line ofcocaine with a yohimbe-red bull chaser. Additionally, the fear of jail and middle cerebral stroke closely mimics fear of rejection. Sweet!

Chocolate; The veritable methadone of love, chocolate is the first line of defense in love substitution. However, unless you have serious masochistic tendencies, you’ll want to avoid the kind that comes in the heart-shaped box.

Sports; Turns out watching or playing sports is addictive, good for you, and not illegal. Who knew? My current recommendations include Duke women’s basketball and swimming (you’re gonna need your joints when you actually DO meet someone, if you know what I’m saying).

Facebook: Let’s be honest, Facebook is as close as most of us are likely to get to crack cocaine in our lifetimes. I mean, sometimes people even meet and start to date over Facebook, I think. You know you’re already addicted, so why date one person when you can stalk 10?

As you can see, there are a plethora of options for dealing with love withdrawal on Valentine’s Day,

thanks to the similarities between love and addiction.

So how about you stop moping and get one of those on the way back to your house/dorm room/shack before you succumb to the inevitable Valentine’s Day withdrawal symptoms and someone has to scrape you off the traffic circle in front ofWest.

And if you are one of the lucky few holed up in bed today with your sweetie eating banana pancakes and listening to Jack Johnson, congratulations! Enjoy your human cocaine, and how about you leave some chocolate truffles at Walgreens for the rest of us, mmmkay? . Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and neuroscience. Her column runs every Wednesday.

letterstotheeditor Disagreement is not McCarthyism I have read the “flyer” for Monday’s “Shut Up and Teach” panel discussion, with its reference to Joseph McCarthy, suggesting that dark forces are trying to silence some politically minded Duke faculty.

In the late 19405, my father, an economist, was attacked in newspaper editorials in The Brooklyn Eagle for teaching communism to nice Catholic boys at St. Johns University. He was, of course, an early Keynesian. In the late 19405, the man who would become my doctoral adviser had to leave the United States for almost a decade to avoid the agitated involvement of the Regents of the University of Michigan in his tenure case, based on his admitted connection with the Communist Party as a graduate student and young instructor. In those years with the Smith Act in place, one could be jailed for being a Communist Party member. That he was doing the work for which he would later win the Nobel Prize mattered not at all to the Regents.

And my college classmate was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s older son.

So I read with astonishment the recent panelists’ invocation of McCarthyism as their characterization of the criticism they have received for their public statements or writings. They face no death sentence, no jail time, no threats from Trustees or administrators of employment termination, no loss of income, no loss of custody of their children, no loss of their passports, no reduction whatsoever in their public or private circumstances.

I don’t ask the panelists to shut up and teach. I ask them instead to understand that for various Duke faculty, staff, administrators, students, parents and alumni to disagree with them in public or in private is neither McCarthyism nor an academic travesty and betrayal of the values of our institution, but is rather an expression of their believing otherwise.

Promote dialogue, not a cessation of monetary giving Stephen Miller’s recent column .(“Alums: withhold your support,” Feb. 12) was misguided, short-sighted and unconvincing. In urging alumni to stop donating to Duke, Miller claims to have the best interests of the University at heart. However, what is more apparent is that he seeks to further his conservative agenda at the expense of the success of this institution. Simply put, the cessation of alumni donations would lead to Duke’s fall in the national academic rankings and the impairment of financial aid programs.

The problem with Miller and the army of conservative bloggers slandering Duke is that they are doing exactly what they accuse the “Group of 88” of doing. They are exploiting a serious issue thatbegs for rational discussion in order to suit their own political goals, and in the process, severely hurting Duke. From Miller’s activities in the “Students for Academic Freedom” organization, it is clear that he seeks an elimination of “radical” professors from the ranks of Duke faculty. Silencing professors’ opinions represents the highest form of political correctness, of which all Duke students should be ashamed.

Certainly, a few professors have gone too far in their expression of their opinions. Professors share a responsibility to the community, and should not attack students with their words. However, to withhold monetary support as Miller urges would only contribute to an atmosphere in which faculty would not feel free to teach, research and associate as they wish.

In the end, the Duke community must realize that we all share a stake in the outcome of the lacrosse case’s aftermath.Extremist liberal and conservative bloggers with no association to Duke do not. Rather than inciting alumni to cripple the University, Miller should be urging a calm dialogue in order to sort out what needs to get done. Until that happens, we can be sure that Miller is attempting to hurt Duke.

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