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Students opening their bursar’s bills for Fall 2007 will be greeted by an increased and rechristened student activities fee, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, confirmed Monday.

With the increase, the total fee—to be renamed the “student services fee” —will total approximately $225. The money will go to the Office of Student Activities and Facilities to be used “exclusively for student services,” Moneta said.

He said the student activities fee was created to reduce one-time event costs paid to the University—such as room-rental and security—thereby easing and cheapening the SEE FEE HIKE ON PAGE 7

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Larry Moneta said Monday thatnext year's student activity fee will be $25 higher, for a total of $225.

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Richard Wagoner, chairman and chief executive officer of General Motors Corporation, will deliver the 2007 commencement address, University officials announced Monday.

“It’s a real honor to be asked to speak at such an important occasion for Duke University, this year’s graduates, and their families and friends,” Wagoner told The Chronicle in an email Monday night. “I really look forward to this opportunity.”

President Richard Brodhead said in a statement he was grateful that Wagoner had agreed to speak at this year’s graduation ceremony.

“He loves this university and has served it in a thousand ways,” Brodhead said. “He’ll be great at helping our graduates look into their futures.”

Wagoner, Trinity ’75, is co-chair of the Financial Aid Initiative and a member of the Board of Trustees, servirtg 6h the board’s executive, trusteeship and student affairs committees. Wagoner also serves on the Fuqua School ofBusiness Board ofVisitors.

After receiving his master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1977, Wagoner joined GM, first working as an analyst in the company’s New York treasurer’s office. He then served in leadership positions in Brazil, Canada and Switzerland before he was promoted to executive vice president and chief financial officer in 1992.

He began worldwide purchasing for the company in 1993 and became executive vice president of GM and president of North American Operations the following year.

In 1998, Wagoner was elected president and chief operating officer, before becoming GM’s youngest CEO in histo-

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Richard Wagoner, CEO of GM and a member of the Board, will deliver the commencement address this May. ry at the age of 47 in 2000. He took on the role ofchairman in 2003.

“He is someone who is recognized around the world as one of the most important people in business but beyond that he is a person with great international understanding and also someone with strong Duke ties,” said John Burness, senior vice-president for government affairs and public relations.

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With the creation of a new C-5 bus route, the convenience enjoyed by freshmen traveling to nearby Ninth Street and Brightleaf Square is now a reality for upperclassmen as well.

The University-sponsored bus service runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. between the West Campus and Anderson Street bus stops to several social scenes off East Campus.

After the new 05 bus route enjoyed a successful pilot run during the first half of the spring semester, the administration agreed to take on the service as a permanent offering to students, said senior David Snider, Duke Student Government vice president for campus services.

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As her team gears up RALEIGH for another run at the program’s first national championship, women’s basketball head coach Gail Goestenkors has seen her name circulated recendy in reference to several high-profile openings at other colleges.

Texas, Florida, LSU and Michigan are all in the market for new head coaches this offseason, and Goestenkors is reportedly at the top of the wish list

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Linda Englund placed flowers Monday beside a small white flag commemorating a soldier killed

in Iraq, a friend of her son, who was standing beside him when he was shot in 2004.

“I always feel like another foot, it would have been my son,” she said.

Englund was among the volunteers who erected 4,000 flags in long rows at the city’s Waterfront Park, one of numerous events around the country to mark the war’s fourth anniversary.

A day after at least one demonstration turned violent, protesters peacefully re-

membered the military and civilian dead and ardently called for the United States to bring its troops home.

In televised remarks from the White House, President George W. Bush asked for patience from a public that solidly opposes the war, saying his plan to stabilize Baghdad with more combat and support troops needs time to work.

More than 3,200 members of the U.S. military have been killed in the war. Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated at more than 54,000, possibly much higher.

Englund’s son, 24-year-old Army Sgt. John Englund, was wounded twice in Iraq.

Last week, another ofhis friends was killed

in action, she said, Gazing at the fluttering flags, England said she thought about “the loss of what they all would have done with their lives.

They were all courageous in doing what they thought was right or what was asked of them.”

Organizers said they chose white flags to match the color of grave markers for the slain soldiers.

A rally involving as many as 15,000 people Sunday in Portland, Ore., ended in with scuffles and police using pepper spray.

No such trouble was reported at the much SEE 4TH ANNIV. ON PAGE 8

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The Iraqi government BAGHDAD asked U.S. authorities for custody of Saddam Hussein’s former deputy to hang him at dawn Tuesday, the fourth anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was Saddam’s vice president when the regime was ousted, would be the fourth man executed in the killings of 148 Shiites following a 1982 assassination attempt against the former leader in the city of Dujail.

The executions have outraged Iraqi Sunnis and caused concern among inter-

national human rights groups, which have appealed for Ramadan’s life.

Saddam Hussein’s regime was predominantly Sunni and many members of the sect have protested the executions on the grounds they are politically motivated by the newly empowered Shiite majority in Iraq.

International human rights groups have, by and large, protested that the trial which found the men guilty did not provide them with due legal process.

Officials in the prime minister’s office, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information, said Monday that U.S. au-

thorities had not yet responded to the request for custody of Ramadan but were expected to agree as a matter of course. The U.S. military had no immediate comment.

Ramadan was convicted in November of murder, forced deportation and torture and sentenced to life in prison.

A month later, the appeals court said the sentence was too lenient, and returned his case to the High Tribunal, demanding he be sentenced to death. The court agreed to turn it to a death sentence.

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flight from New Delhi to London awoke to find the corpse of a woman who had died in the economy cabin being placed in a seat next to him."The corpse was strapped into the seat, but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor," the

passenger said.

Gonzales'job still uncertain Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' hold on his job grew more uncertain Monday as the Senate debated removing his authority to unilaterally name U.S. attorneys and the White House said it merely hoped he would survive the tumult.

USS Cole bomber confesses

A Yemeni alleged to be an al-Qaida operative and a member of a terrorist network confessed to plotting the bombings of the USS Cole and two U.S. embassies in Africa, killing hundreds, according to a Pentagon transcript of a Guantanamo Bay hearing.

Gas explosion worst in decade A methane gas explosion deep in a Siberian coal mine killed at least 78 people and left another 50 trapped Monday in Russia's worst mining disaster in a decade.

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What do the French Family Science Center, DukeEngage and University HIV/AIDS research centers have in common?

Melinda Gates and global health Melinda French Gates, Trinity ’B6, Fuqua ’B7 and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has retained an active influence on her alma mater’s global health priorities since she left her position as a member of Duke’s Board of Trustees in 2003.

Gates Foundation spokesperson Marie Groark said about 50 percent of the foundation’s funds are allocated for reducing health inequities throughout the world, while the rest of the funding goes toward civil engagement and education programs.

Recent financial gifts from the Gates Foundation to Duke for the FFSC, DukeEngage and the Financial Aid Initiative resulted from conversations with the benefactors, President Richard Brodhead said.

“I communicate regularly with Melinda Gates and have met with her during visits to the Pacific Northwest.

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Students walking down the West Campus Plaza these days can’t help but notice the new glowing statue, but they might have missed a smaller addition—the Plaza webcam.

Last month, the Office of Student Activities and Facilities installed a camera in the front facade of the Bryan Center in order to capture action on the Plaza. Realtime footage captured by the camera airs on the OSAF website home page.

“It’s just a whimsical way to glance at life passing by,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs.

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MelindaFrench Gates and Bill Gates have shown strong commitmentto both global health and Duke. and furthering advances in global health initiatives.

The Gates Foundation and strategic priorities Duke’s new strategic plan “Making a Difference,” approved in October 2006, aims to invest $1.3 billion above normal budgets throughout the next five to eight years in students, faculty, programming and facilities.

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And the newly opened FFSC—which supports undergraduate laboratory education in biology and chemistry and faculty research in biology, chemistry and physics—will help achieve goals of the strategic plan, said John Simon, vice provost for academic affairs and George B. Geller professor of chemistry.

“The facility has been central to attracting outstanding faculty to Duke.

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Visitor’s car damaged at Med Center A visitor to the Medical Center reported March 15 that a window on her vehicle had been shattered after it had been placed in die care of valet services at the Duke Clinic Building. She dropped the vehicle off with valetservices at 7:50 a.m. and recovered it at 8:30 p.m. Nothing was missing from the car.

The damage was assessed at $5O. iPod taken from West dorm room A student reported March 15 that his iPod was stolen from his unsecured room in House 4B in Keohane Quadrangle. The victim returned to his room around 6:40 p.m. and found a white male, early 20s, six feet tall and around 170 pounds with blond hair standing in the hall, while another white male, fitting roughly the same description, exited his room. They quickly fled the area.

The victim described both as “student age” but said he did not recognize them.

The iPod was broken and valued by the owner at $lO. Central bathroom vandalized An employee reported finding graffiti March 14 around 9 a.m., drawn with permanent marker, on the bathroom wall of 218 Alexander, Apartment C on Central Campus.

Apartment C contains the Central Campus computer cluster. The design was artistic and did not appear to be gang related.

Student reports harassing e-mails A student in Giles Dormitory reported March 13 that she was receiving harassing e-mails. She has asked the sender to stop sending her e-mails and he has continued.

Laptop, iPod stolen in Perkins A student reported the theft of an Acer laptop computer, its case and an Apple iPod from the first-floor lobby area of Perkins Library March 13. The items were left unattended. The stolen items were valued at $2,150. The incident occurred between 10:50 a.m. and 10:51 p.m.

Credit cards stolen, used fraudulendy A student reported the theft ofhis wallet and contents from the sidelines of the basketball court in the Wilson West Campus Recreation Center between 11:30 a.m. and 1:40 p.m. March 9. The items were left unattended.

Credit cards taken with the wallet were used fraudulently within 90 minutes of the theft at local stores. The items stolen were valued at $l3l. Fraudulent charges to the stolen cards exceed $1,700.

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GATES from page 3 Warren S. Warren in chemistry,” Simon wrote in an e-mail. “The education laboratories in [the] Gross Chemistry [Building] were significantly out of date. The undergraduate labs in FFSC enable us to put forth the type of curricular offerings consistent with the aspirations in ‘Making a Difference.’”

After it was originally designated the French Science Center in 2003, the Board of Trustees voted in 2006 to change the name in order to “acknowledge the ongoing support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and express to the Gates Family [the Board’s] gratitude and appreciation.”

The Gates Foundation donated $3O million for the building and $5 million for student life initiatives in 2002.

“Melinda French Gates is a wise and visionary leader at her alma mater. We’re grateful not only for the resources provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but also for Melinda’s personal leadership in helping us shape and implement university priorities,” Keohane said when announcing the foundation’s gift.

Groark said the Gates Foundation’s scholarship donations, such as those for Duke Engage and the Financial Aid Initiative, span all three of the foundation’s priority areas global health, civic engagement and education. “[The Gates Foundation is] building the next generation of leaders to gain an interest in and expertise in helping to solve these problems,” Groark said.

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Global health support at Duke Funding for the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology falls specifically within the global health sector of the GatesFoundation’s priorities, Groark said.

In 2003, CHAVI Director Dr. Barton Haynes and several other global health professionals, including Rick Klausner, then research director of the Gates Foundation, called for a new effort to speed the progress of a preventive AIDS vaccine.

“What followed was a process whereby the Gates Foundation made a partnership with the [National Institutes of Health] and they went together to the [international forum] G8 leaders and got their blessing for the effort,” Haynes said.

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At the same time, the Gates Foundation held a peer-reviewed grant competition for its $287 million, which went to support 16 HIV vaccine research centers worldwide as part of the foundation’s Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise.

Duke received two of the centers—one for Haynes and one for professor of experimental surgery David Montefiori, codirector of the laboratory for immune measurements.

After a difficult application process, Haynes received the Gates Foundation grant in August 2006, he said.

“My Gates grant is to focus on figuring out how to induce the right kind of antibody to make a vaccine,” Haynes said.

“David Montefiori’s center is a central laboratory to test everyone’s vaccines that are

developed.”

In order to receive a grant from the Gates Foundation, an organization must submit a proposal, Groark said. Then the strategy of the proposal, as well as the leadership of the organization, is evaluated by the Gates Foundation.

Haynes said CHAVI plans to apply for funding for the clinical trials of the new vaccines within three years. “[The next step is to] perform studies of our vaccine candidates in monkeys to determine if they make protective antibodies,” he said.

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ner of CHAVI, opened at Duke in November 2006.

Although the institute has not applied for funding from the Gates Foundation,.

GHI Director Dr. Michael Merson has a personal grant from the Gates Foundation thathe brought with him to Duke from his former position at Yale University. “[The Gates Foundation] tends to give support to projects in developing countries,” Merson said. “They have a number of priority areas, such as HIV.” With his grant, Merson works with a project that aims to empower female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, a southern state in India heavily impacted by

HIV/AIDS.

“Sex workers are afraid to ask their partners to wear condoms because they are afraid they won’t want to have sex with them,” Merson said. “[The Gates-funded project] educates them to give them the knowledge and wisdom to insist their partners use a condom.”

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Davidson ends loans for need-based aid Davidson College announced Monday that it will forgo loans when giving out need-based financial aid packages in order to help students graduate free of debt.

A liberal arts college outside of Charlotte, N.C., Davidson is the first college of its kind to do away with loans as a part of the need-based aid it distributes. In recent years the college had moved to cap the amount ofloans given to students qualifying for financial need.

John McCartney, chair of Davidson’s Board of Trustees, announced that the college will work to raise additional funds in order to cover the increased amount of grants and work-study opportunities that the college will give out in place of loans.

In recent years, elite institutions like Columbia University and Princeton University have moved to reduce the number of loans it awards in place of grant funding, but because these changes are expensive, they are less common among small liberal arts colleges like Davidson.

Body found in Purdue University dorm Officials at Purdue University announced Monday that they have discovered a body on campus that may be a student who went missing in January.

Wade Steffey, a 19-year-old student at Purdue, was last seen in the Owen Hall Dormitory. A dorm worker found an unidentified body in a utility room Monday while investigating a reported noise.

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U. of Portland receives SI2M donation In the largest single gift ever given to the University of Pordand, Donald and Darlene Shiley announced Monday that they are donating $l2 million to help fund an expansion and renovation of the university’s engineering building.

The project, which is slated to cost $2O million, is made financially possible by Shiley’s gift.

A 1951 graduate of the University of Portland, Donald Shiley invented a heart valve and other medical devices that brought him financial success and have been credited with saving thousands of lives.

Since selling their business, Shiley Inc., the Shileys have become major philanthropists, dedicating their money to the arts and sciences.

Chinese dean fired for blog posts A dean at the Renmin University of China was fired last Friday for comments he posted online through a blog, officials confirmed Monday.

In the the posted blog articles, Zhang Ming, dean of political sciences at Renmin, criticized his institution for a lack of academic freedom and attacked the bureaucratization ofChina’s higher education system.

Although Zhang’s deanship has been revoked, he reportedly will remain at the institution as a professor for the time being.

The firing of Zhang came as a result of blog posts in recent months that harshly criticized Renmin, including allegations that the university had withheld dissertation subsidies from graduate students.

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“The alums told us that they thought it would be cool to sit up in their offices in New York and take a peek at what was going on at Duke,” he said.

The camera, which Roby said cost less than $5,000 to install, is not related to the statue “Tattoo,” although both appeared on the Plaza at approximately the same time.

“Indirecdy it helps with the security of the statue—but that was incidental,” Moneta said.

Roby said there are currently no plans to install additional cameras in other areas of the campus, but OSAF would be open to the idea if there were significant student demand. “People talk about it around the OSAF office,” he said. “But we’ve been trying to see if there is any

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The lack of response received by OSAF to date may be due to the fact that many students remain unaware that the camera even exists. “I didn’t know it was there, but I think it’s a good idea,” freshman Vanessa Vincent said. “It gives people an idea of what the campus is like.”

Junior Chris Lester said he was not opposed to the idea of a campus webcam but questioned whether the area in front of the Bryan Center was a prime location for its installation. “It’s justpeople walking in and out,” he said. “I guess if they had concerts out here people would be able to see it” Moneta said the webcam was not meant to be a “Big Brother” device of the University, but rather a publicly accessible tool.

Some students, however, said they view the camera as an invasion of privacy.

“It seems sort of stalkerish,” freshman Jorden Jones said.

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“All of the bus drivers did tally counts, and overall the usage has exceeded my expectations,” said Snider, who proposed the new service to the administration earlier this year.

Snider added that DSG sponsored the bus ride for the first few weeks to get the project off the ground and, with the help of the Office of Student Affairs, Campus Council and the administration, was able to extend the pilot until Spring Break.

“Usage went up and down based on how much the ride was publicized,” said DSG President Elliott Wolf, a Junior.

Wolf said there was some confusion among students about how long the service would last, to which lower participation on certain weekends could be attributed, but he added that overall use was still very high.

“Now that it is permanent, I think that students will be even more aware of it,” Wolf said.

Snider said that an average nighdy use of more than 100 students during the trial period was enough to gamer support from administrators.

“I sent the results to the Office of the President, and they decided to continue it for the rest of the semester,” Snider said.

He added that the pilot program received substantial positive feedback from students.

“Not only did friends ofmine who used the bus and loved it talk to me, but I got a lot of random e-mails from people who said they loved it as well,” he said.

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Junior Max Entman said the service confronts important issues of safety for students and the problem of designating a sober driver on nights out.

“It is absolutely a convenience, and it is a very good effort by the administration to minimize dmnk driving,” he said.

“I guarantee it will likely prevent a potential future drunk-driving accident because it facilitates responsible enjoyment of alcohol.”

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Because of the success of the pilot program, the new C-5 bus will take students to Ninth Street and to Brightleaf Square Thursday,Friday and Saturday nights. least once a week since the pilot program began, adding that the service has helped the Thursday night social scene at offcampus venues like Satisfaction Restaurant and Bar. Snider said the success of the project was made possible by DSG’s careftd use of its own money and its ability to convince the administration that the service was important for students.

“I think that this is a really good example of DSG trying things this year that haven’t been done in the past,” he said.

Wolf said that he is glad the University

has chosen to support the new service, despite its financial cost.

“Projects like the G-5 route are a great way to get students out into the community,” Wolf said.

He added that services that are restricted by costs, like parking and transportation, are harder to implement regardless of their benefit to students.

“We hope the administration will continue to support student projects that will enhance students’ social lives and involvement with the community,” Wolf said.

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Wolf, a junior. “My understanding is that this is for furniture, for programming and for a few other things.”

Moneta added that the recent stuprocess for student-group event planning.

“We don’t do the programming. All we dent activities fee hikes have been acwant to do is make sure students don’t get companied by freezes on the percentnickeled and dimed,” Moneta said. “I just age of tuition revenues Student Affairs want to make sure the expenses are put requests. Other fees were also frozen, into entertainment and not recycled into including the student health fee, which Moneta said the University.” did not inThough he crease to said he could match inflation not provide a “We don’t do the programthis year. line- i t e m he Wolf said he budget, ming. All we want to do is make tends to oppose said some of fee increases on the funds will sure students don’t get nickeled toward principle. He go and dimed.” also called on making OSAF to reemployees Larry Moneta Moneta lease his budget. available for VP, Student Affairs “I think it nighttime events would be a posilast live developOf merit to release inyear’s the Student Affairs budget to verify crease —which totalled about $900,000 about two-thirds was allocated to OSAF, [Moneta’s assertions about fee freezes] The Chronicle reported in December. It Wolf said. also helped pay for new computer staHe added that he believes the University should make an institutional decision to tions—a project co-funded by Duke Student Government—and new furniture. spend from its endowment at a greater rate OSAF Director Chris Roby referred to decrease pressure on students’ wallets.

“Our prerogative has always been to questions about how next year’s increase keep fees lower,” Wolf said. “The stu>e spent to dent activities fee has been more than icta. doubled by Student Affairs recently.... If i’ve heard [administrators] value a particular proit this is for a gram, they have money to spend on it. tecific set of It’s not necessary to pass fees along to •rograms that students.”

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have three sons, one of whom, Trip, graduated from the University in May, and a second, Scott, who is currendy a junior.

Wagoner’s father, sister and brother-in-law are also Duke graduates.

“Like all our graduates, when he left Duke, Rick went off to see what he could make of the opportunities of his time,” Brodhead said. “In the process, he became CEO in one ofAmerica’s biggest and most challenging businesses and a leader whose strength and integrity are known throughout the world.”

Senior Andrew Longenecker, a member of the commencement committee, said he looks forward to hearing Wagoner speak.

“He’ll give a great speech,” Longenecker said in a statement. “He will impart a lot ofknowledge and energy to the graduates.”

John Hope Franklin, world-renowned African-American scholar and James B. Duke professor emeritus of history, delivered the commencement address last spring. Duke’s 2005 commencement speaker was Ricardo Lagos, then-president of Chile. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright spoke in 2004.

Wagoner will give his speech to graduates and their friends and families May 13.

country Monday, although San Francisco police arrested 57 people who blocked a streetcar line in the heart of the financial district by lying in the street, draped in white sheets, to symbolize Iraq’s war dead.

Also Monday, 44 people were arrested outside the New York Stock Exchange on disorderly conduct charges.

In St. Paul, Minn., shiny black boots with the name tags of dead soldiers dangling from their eyelets were placed in circles on the floor of the Capitol.

The display included smaller circles of civilian shoes and sandals. One sandal, representing a one-year-old civilian, had the name Mahdey Abed Al-Atheem etched into the tag.

The footwear makes up the traveling exhibit “Eyes Wide Open,” which was created by the American Friends Service Committee, a branch of the pacifist Quaker church. It has appeared across the country.

For several hours Monday, onlookers meandered through the exhibit while speakers called out the names of Iraq war casualties, both American and Iraqi.

“It’s really powerful,” said David Pederson, 16, of Minneapolis, who came to the exhibit with his father, Dan. “It’s easy to forget how many people have died.

This puts real feet in those boots, and faces to the names.”

Waving signs reading “Support Our Troops. Bring Them Home Now” and “Keep ‘em safe. Bring ‘em home,” about 100 people chanted in front of the New Jersey Statehouse. Many passing drivers honked their horns in support.

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“We lost our moral authority and we have to get it back,” said Bruce Tonari, a Vietnam veteran who said he attended the rally despite learning two hours earlier that his 80-year-old mother had died.

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Purse pilfered from hospital A woman reported the theft of her purse from the fifth floor ofDuke Hospital North around 7:30 p.m. March 12. The purse and contents were valued at $lO7. iPod and transmitter taken from car An employee reported the theft of an Apple iPod and Apple AM/FM transmitter from her vehicle parked in Parking Garage 2 at the Medical Center between 6:55 a.m. and 11:40 a.m. March 12.

The employee said the vehicle was secure when she left it and upon her return.

The method of entry is unknown. iPods are hot commodities with thieves A student reported the theft of an Apple iPod from the third floor of Bostock Library March 12. The stolen item was valued at $250.

The incident occurred between 11:35 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.

Students caught with drugs on Central Officers found four students in possession of a small bag of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at an Oregon Street apartment on Central Campus March 9 around 12:30 a.m. The bag of marijuana was valued at $25.

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Saddam’s death was recorded by a cell phone video camera and posted on the Internet, and much of the Sunni Arab world was infuriated by the mockery he faced by onlookers in the moments before his hanging.

Ibrahim was inadvertently decapitated when he was hanged, also causing a furor.

Around Iraq, meanwhile, bombs tore through a Shiite mosque during prayers in Baghdad and struck several targets in the oil-rich city ofKirkuk Monday, killing —

saying his duties were limited to economic affairs, not security issues.

Human Rights Watch and the International Center for Transitional Justice have said the evidence against him is insufficient for the death penalty.

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Execution-style killings usually blamed on Shiite militias have fallen dramatically but bombings have not kept pace in the downward trend.

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I spent spring break with a friend whose catch-phrase is “What’s good, son?” He literally says it all the time—when he walks into a room, when he walks out or when he can’t think of anything else to say.

It’s the type of question that no one ever answers. It’s rhetorical in away. But by the end of break, I knew the answer.

What’s good, son?

Not Duke Basketball.

And—I hate to say it—the Blue Devils were not even close to being good.

This year was supposed to be about learning and growing, getting better as the year went on. There would be rough patches, we all thought, but they would be smoothed out by the end of the year. Sure it was the youngest Duke team in a while, but they had six frickin’ McDonald’s AllAmericans. Take that talent, stir in a little Coach K, and we’d have a winner.

I even insinuated in a column before the season—fine, I basically came out and said it—that this Blue Devil squad had the potential to get to the Final Four.

Instead, we have a team that lost eight ofits last 12 games. We have a team that beat Georgetown, Gonzaga, Indiana, Davidson and Holy Cross (all NCAA Tournament teams) before the conference play started, but went 3-7 against ACC teams that would end up making the field of 64. We have a team that got worse as the season went on, not better.

You could argue that, on offense, the Blue Devils got better as the season progressed. Greg Paulus’ offensive game SEE FANAROFF ON PAGE 16

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Almost exactly one year ago, Duke walked off the West Campus turf fields on a snowy Tuesday afternoon looking lost.

Appearing distracted in their play, the Blue Devils had just expe' rienced an uncharacterismjjm tic defensive breakdown, vs. giving up five goals in the fourth quarter to be upset 11-7 by a Cornell team that Duke had TONIGHT, 7 p.m. soundly beaten in the Koskinen Stadium 2005 NCAA Tournament.

As fate would have it, the reason for the team’s lack of focus would soon become the center of a national media firestorm.

When No. 5 Duke (5-1) and the No. 1 Big Red (4-0) square off in Koskinen Stadium at 7 p.m. tonight, it will be more than just a significant test against the nation’s top team. It will also be a rematch of what ultimately proved to be the Blue Devils’ last game of the 2006 season.

“It was tough for some guys to focus into the game [last year] when so much stuff was surrounding their life and eventually what happened,” senior Matt Danowski said. “No excuses because we were outplayed last year, but it was definitely a distraction. Hopefully this year—nobody’s talked about it too much—so not too many CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO

When MattDanowski tookthe field against Cornell a yearago, he did not know it wouldbe 2006's final game.

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Sophomore Marty Pocius sits in the locker room at the HSBC Center in Buffalo after last Thursday's loss.

RALEIGH The RBC Center, the site of the No. 1 Blue Devils’ first two games in the NCAA Tournament, is just about 20 miles from Duke’s campus. Appropriately, the Blue Devils feel that a game at the Raleigh arena is essentially equal to a contest in Cameron yg Indoor Stadium.

Duke (31-1) is undefeated at home this season hopes to continue TODAY spm that streak in its pseudoRaleigh, n!c. home game tonight at 5 p.m. against eighth-seeded Temple (25-7).

“By no means do we take our fans for granted,” sophomore guard Abby Waner said. “We have a great following in North Carolina. We got really lucky to be here in Raleigh, and we consider it a home game for us.”

For the Blue Devils, one of the benefits of playing so close to home is the ability to commute back and forth from Raleigh to Durham—which would not have been pos-

sible had they been shipped away, like fellow top seed North Carolina was to Pittsburgh. The players who live in dormitories slept at the Washington Duke Inn Saturday night, in preparation for the Sunday game. They also attended their Monday classes before returning to Raleigh, where the Blue Devils spent the night.

The effect of the friendly confines of a nearby gym was evident Sunday night, when Duke beat Holy Cross 81-44 behind Waner’s 26 points. The competition Tuesday evening, however, will be more evenly-matched. Even though the Owls barely snuck by ninth-seeded Nebraska—beating the Cornhuskers 64-61 after closing the game on a 9-2 run —Duke is not looking past its competition.

“We have great respect for them,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I thought it was a great game they had against Nebraska. It showed their athleticism, it showed their fight when they got down early...

They have that never-say-die attitude.”

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Guard Abby Waner led the Blue Devils with 26 points Sunday in the first round against Holy Cross.

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Sophomore Abby Waner and Duke will face a Temple team thatalmost upset No. 1 Maryland in December.

W« BBALL from page 11 was clear Dec. 10 in Philadelphia, when the Owls narrowly missed upsetting then-No. 1 Maryland. Temple led with seven minutes remaining until the Terrapins ended the game on a 194 run to ensure their 77-66 win.

Unfortunately for the Owls, their athletic players in the frontcourt—arguably the team’s greatest strength—will face the formidable duo of 6-foot-7 Alison Bales and Carrem Gay. The two combined for 23 points and 11 rebounds Sunday. With that in mind, Goestenkors said that Temple’s strengths would not drastically alter Duke’s gameplan.

“We’re going to do everything that got us here,” Goestenkors said. “We played other teams that are athletic and like to penetrate, and we feel that the ACC has really prepared us well for this tournament.”

After a disappointing and somewhat

surprising loss to N.C. State in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament, the Blue Devils had no problem dismantling the overmatched Crusaders Sunday. They were keyed by Waner’s shooting, which has been exceptional in postseason play. In the ACC Tournament, Waner was voted to the AllTournament first team after shooting 11for-18 from three-point range. She continued her hot streak Sunday, ending 6-for-8 from beyond the arc.

Despite her rejuvenated touch and the fact that most experts predict that Duke will cruise to the Final Four in Cleveland, Waner said the team’s mindset has not wavered.

‘We don’t have this invincible feeling because that’s a false sense of security,” Waner said. “But we are very confident in our potential as a team, and we know that our potential is an NCAA championship. By no means are we going to stop ourselves short of that goal and second-guess ourselves.” .

Harding has struggled with her shooting, but Waner has compensated for the backcourt duo.

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With her team preparing Monday for its second-round NCAA, game at the RBC Center, Goestenkors said she would like to remain at Duke. She stopped short, however, of guaranteeing her return next season.

“I hope to be staying at Duke,” Goestenkors said. “My focus is just on this team, on this tournament. I’m not thinking about the future except for five games.”

The rumors originally began to circulate after long-time Texas coach Jody Conradt resigned last week, leaving behind a contract that paid her $540,000 in base compensation last season —more than Goestenkors.

Goestenkors’ salary is not public information, but she was not listed among the top five paid employees on Duke’s most recent Internal Revenue Service 990 tax filing. The lowest among those five earned $532,584 in the fiscal year that ended in 2005.

Director of Athletics Joe Alieva declined to discuss the specifics of Goestenkors’ compensation but said she is “very well compensated in the world of women’s basketball.”

Compared to the top tier of coaches in the women’s game, however, Goestenkors’ salary does not stack up. Tennessee’s Pat Summitt is the highest-paid coach in women’s college basketball at an average of $1,125 million guaranteed over six seasons, and Geno Auriemma’s contract with Connecticut guarantees him $988,000 per year.

“They’ve both won a lot ofnational championships and are part of programs that make money for their institutions. They bring in profit for their athletic departments, and that’s not the case for our women’s program,” Alieva said. “I’m sure some of these other institutions will offer significantly large packages to encourage her to go.

“I’ve received calls about Coach G for years. She’s been our coach for the long term, and I hope to keep her as our coach for a long time.... Hopefully when all is said and done, she’ll be our coach in the future.”

According to Duke’s most recent Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act filing, the women’s basketball program operated at a loss of more than $2 million between Oct. 16, 2005 and Oct. 15, 2006. During that same period, Connecticut’s program turned in a profit of close to $1 million and Tennessee was in the black by nearly $50,000.

Despite the discrepancy in salaries between her and her counterparts at profitable programs, Goestenkors said Monday she has not thought about her contract and will not until the season is over.

Still, with rumblings in newspapers and on Internet message boards, Goestenkors addressed the issue with her team this week.

“She said there’s been some talk in the newspapers about her looking at those jobs and just not to read those newspapers,” sophomore guard Abby Waner said.

Goestenkors arrived at Duke in 1992, taking over a program that had reached just one NCAA Tournament in its 17 previous years ofexistence. Since then, Duke has become one of the nation’s elite programs, making it to the Final Four in four out of the past eight seasons. Goestenkors’ teams have lost in their two appearances in the National Championship game, including an overtime defeat to Maryland last season.

Since then, Duke has dropped only one game and enter this year’s tournament as the No. 1 overall seed.

“She is Duke basketball,” Waner said.

“She’s created what this program has become, and people come here to play for her.”

When asked if she thought the coach that recruited her to Duke would be back next season, Waner remained positive.

“We hope so—we’re expecting that,” she said.

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Still, a feeling of deja vu might be felt by some as several players were forced to miss practice last week for questioning at the offices of the two special prosecutors, who North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper appointed after Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong asked to be recused Jan. 12.

“This thing just will not go away,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “We’re living under the mantra of ‘no excuses’ and ‘no whining’ but that’s only natural that [the questioning] would be a distraction for guys. T don’t want to say the wrong thing, I want to do the right thing, I’m worried, I’ve never done something like this’—for somebody this age it’s got to be a distraction.”

Matt Danowski said the meetings have added outside stress to the affected players’ lives, especially since those being questioned had to meet with the special prosecutors before flying out to California for a game against Loyola March 10. Nevertheless, Danowski felt that the legal proceedings have had little impact on the team’s play on the field.

“It’s something that we have to deal with —we can’t whine about it, we can’t moan about it,” Danowski said.

“We just have to do what we need to do for the case and then do what we need to do for lacrosse. It probably was a little bit of a distraction, but nobody’s had to do anything this week so it’ll be OK.” Distractions aside, tonight’s matchup will pit the Blue Devils against a senior-laden Cornell team that John Danowski said is deserving of its No. 1 ranking.

The Big Red features a balanced attack, getting 37 points from both its attack and first and second midfield units, and has outscored its opponents 55-22. Seniors Eric Pittard and David Mitchell lead Cornell with 10 goals apiece, while midfielder John Glynn has registered a teamhigh eight assists.

Duke’s tandem attack ofDanowski and Zack Greer will also have to contend with an experienced keeper in senior Matt McMonagle, who recorded 10 saves against the Blue Devils last year and was named the Ivy League Player of the Week Monday.

“They play really good team defense,” Matt Danowski said. “They slide and recover well and have a really good goalie. Offensively, they have a lot of slick players that do a lot of stuff off the ball. We need to play really disciplined and have our heads up, paying attention to detail if we want to get away with the win.”

Sloppy play in the opening periods has been a problem for Duke in its last two games, as the team has found itself down 5-1 and 6-1 in the first half against Loyola and North Carolina, respectively. John Danowski said he felt his team has wanted to win so badly that it has been afraid to make mistakes and needs to play with a more relaxed attitude.

“We come out with such emotion, everyone wants to make a play to get the team going,” Matt Danowski said.

“That causes us to play a bit undisciplined—unforced turnovers, penalties, stuff like that—so I think we all need to take a collective deep breath before the game and just play a little bit more relaxed. That’s what we do in the second half because we’re already into the game.”

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Josh Mcßoberts asserted himself (just a little bit) more and the Blue Devils had fewer ugly, stagnant offensive trips.

But the team’s defense unquestionably collapsed. The Blue Devils gave up 0.80 points per possession in November, 0.85 in December, 0.90 in January, 1.02 in February and 1.15 in March. Over their last four games, they allowed 85, 86, 85 and 79 points.

If you’re wondering why Duke’s players are sitting at home right now, after ending the program’s nine-year Sweet 16 streak, that’s where you’ve got to look. It’s not the offense—Duke was never going to win games with its offense. The Blue Devils won just one game all season in which their opponents scored more than 70 points.

So Duke’s defense fell apart, and the team got worse instead ofbetter.

But it’s not exactly the first time the Blue Devils failed to improve as the season went on. Last year’s team won 27 of its first 28 games before going just 5-3 down the stretch.

The 2005 squad started 15-0,and then finished 12-6.

To me, this seems like a problem. Getting worse as the season goes on is not good.

Of course, “good” at Duke means something different than “good” just about anywhere else. Only a fool would say that making the Tournament isn’t good, or that making nine straight Sweet 16 trips isn’t good. Those are good things. By the standards of almost any other program in the nation, Duke was good this year.

But this isn’t any other program. And maybe the expectations are unfair, but so is the number of good recruits the Blue Devils haul in every year. And, last I checked, every other program doesn’t have an American Expresshawking coach hand-picked to lead the U.S. national team, and every other program doesn’t broadcast itself to potential recruits 20-plus times per season on ESPN. The Blue Devils have the type of advantages that should make every talented high schooler in the country dream of coming to Durham.

So the expectations should be higher.

And under those expectations, the Blue Devils failed this year. And unless Kyle Singler is the next Kevin Durant or Taylor King is die next Greg Oden, they’re not one (or two or three or four) player away. Without changes, they may well fail again next year.

Duke has to play more players and play at a faster pace. It worked for Roy Williams at North Carolina, and you’ve got to bet that he tells every player he recruits that his system will make them (and their stats) look a whole lot better that Coach K’s will.

Duke has to recruit more good as Duke’s players are, and as high as their basketball IQs are, they’re not athletic. In fact, the Blue Devils were probably one of the least athletic teams in the ACC this season.

They had no one who could get to the basket like Virginia’s Sean Singletary or UNC’s Ty Lawson, and no one who could keep players like those two from getting to the basket. They had no one who could consistently erase shots from the weak side like Maryland’s James Gist, and no one who could finish around the basket like Virginia Tech’s Deron Washington.

Hopefully, Coach K will find the time to sit down in the offseason and think about this year. And hopefully, he’ll make some changes. That way, next year when we ask “What’s good, son?” we’ll get a better answer. improved,

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We applaud The Loop’s ter. Given the diverse tastes and preferences of students, emergence as a late-night oncampus dining option. We the addition of any new venstrongly believe, however, that dor to the Merchants on if the extension of the eatery’s Points plan can only be a service has stopped with a degood thing. And The Loop oflivery option, The Loop and fers a healthier menu than the Duke Dining Services orMcDonald’s or Jimmy John’s ganization has missed an im- for students who are studying portant opportunity—that of late but still want to eat well.

In addition, for students replacing Rick’s Diner as the primary after-hours student living on East or Central campuses, The Loop’s delivery restaurant. Moreover, in light of the Campus Culture Initiaservice provides much more tive’s perceptive recommenconvenient access to this delidations on dining services, cious on-campus vendor. And this opportunity should be for students living on West actively pursued.

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Edens Quadrangle), delivery runners will save an arduous walk of at least five minutes.

(In case you missed it, that’s at least five whole minutes.)

In short, assuming that The Loop’s business will be successful during the extended hours, everyone stands to gain from this new development.

But here is the crucial point. The CCI recommended that Duke Dining Services change the way it operates in order to create a dining plan that is an important mechanism for creating the infrastructure of a positive campus climate and that fosters student interaction.

This board has endorsed that CCI proposal in these pages. But if that recommendation means anything, it is that on-campus sit-down restaurants such as The Loop

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need to be a group of “brothers.” Believe it or not, it can include people whom one wouldn’t choose to live with otherwise—and that’s the point. Some would even say that these types of interactions are a key part of being in college.

But whether an alternative to the current model would accomplish such community is another problem. The architecture of West is certainly different than that of East, and transporting the “houses” of freshman year to respective quads sophomore year may be easier said than done.

Though the labyrinthine structures could be an obstacle, a few renovations might help create sections that approximate the space needed to house a dorm.

Finally there is the matter of social options. In discussions, many defenders of the current model have suggested SLGs are an “only-game-in-town” option for West—that they are the only groups who can and will host parties.

This is a self-fulfilling prophecy and isn’t very

dered—and any imaginable residential scenario would fail to promote community any better than the current mSmk Bm one; and that the range of social opDavid kleban tions without these leather-bound books groups would be inadequate.

Following the first compelling. line of thinking, many point out that groups like Frats’ section parties, while certainly providing an Share and Roundtable are the very picture of diverimpressive showcase for the construction skills ofPike sity. While I’m sure this is the case, unfortunately I members, are usually either overcrowded or quite don’t know anyone from those groups to be able to lame. There is nothing to say that residential sections couldn’t host equally lame parties, too, if provided verify it. I think that points to a problem.

While the internal diversity of this type of group is with some modest resources.

But the purpose of this discussion isn’t to great, it does little to achieve what I think the CCI committee is getting lament the lack of at: broad-based, inoptions—or to shrug clusive communities and unimaginatively Prats’ section parties, while certainly that don’t “select” say that the status providing an impressive showcase for the quo is the only game their members To accomplish in town. construction skills of Pike members, are this, in my last colAdministrators usually either overcrowded or quite lame. have expressed a umn I suggested having the sophocommitment to cremore experience ating new social on West Campus mirror the communities initiated spaces, which if they follow through, could help on East (linking them to quads), and delaying rush solve West’s dearth of fun party options. Creative until fall or spring of that year. SLGs such as Share venues like the Nasher and Bostock and new ones and Roundtable, like frats, should get housing, but that could result from renovations and construction it should be for juniors and seniors on the new Cenmight provide an answer. tral Campus. Before isolating themselves among In a town hall meeting about the CCI, one handtheir selected friends, they can take part in a wider, some devil even suggested that the Main Quad could albeit far less tightly knit, community. be used to have parties on nice afternoons—think This raises a second concern: that SLGs are far better Springtemational, but weekly. at promoting a sense of community than any other conAnyway, I think it should be clear that SLGs aren’t ceivable arrangement. The living groups that are given the only groups that, if given the right spaces and respace on West Campus, after all, help to form close assosources, have the ability to host parties and events. ciations among people who “saw value in” each other Plus, think of how cool it would be if there were during the rush process (to borrow the words of Intraffa- some type of frat row on Central Campus in addition to whatever West holds in the way of social options. temity Council President David Melton, a junior).

Granted, SLGs promote valuable groups of Best ofboth worlds, anyone? friends. But because of their selectiveness, these David Kleban is a Trinity senior. His column runs every hardly count as broad and diverse “communities” of people joined by circumstance. A community doesn’t other Tuesday. .

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The Loop should be viewed as the test-case for the CGl’s admirable assertion that dining services should serve as centralized meeting areas that promote the development of friendships, camaraderie, common purpose and social networks. Late at night, The Loop could provide the slower service, real plates and silverware and better seating that the CCI found to characterize a good “venue for interaction.”

The Loop’s extended delivery hours are a step forward in campus dining, but the restaurant should be encouraged to extend its regular operating hours as well. The result could be a first application of the CGl’s new vision for improving the campus social environment from which all students will benefit late at night.

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should provide students with a place to meaningfully interact rather than a bag of packaged food to be consumed in a dorm room.

In the vacuum of late-night dining left by the departure of Rick’s, no on-campus restaurant has proved itself capable of attracting many bleary-eyed Dukies. McDonald’s is out of the way and unhealthy, and Tommy’s often offers only an empty seating area and mediocre food.

The Loop, on the other hand, is centrally located on campus and its food is universally acknowledged to be some of the best on West. In essence, if the eatery were to extend its full operating hours just as it has extended its delivery hours, it could replace what was lost when Rick’s shut down.

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A sackcloth bikini decided to put Spring Break smack dab in the middle of Lent? Lent, the 40-day period before Easter, is a Christian tradition encouraging discipline and commitment under the guise of promoting self-denial as worship for Christ. The idea is to memorialize his suffering, most notably during the “Passion” (the last 12 hours of his life including his betrayal, trial and crucifixion), the climax of Lent.

Dean of the Chapel Samuel Wells has published a timely book called Power and Passion, considering the lives and motives of six characters involved in Jesus’ Passion.

The nature of these peoEmily thomey commitment is brought ples’ et reiigio into question by Wells, who probes possible motives for their behavior during the Passion and suggests more faithful uses of their individual influences.

Wells portrays the Roman governor of Jesus’ time, Pontius Pilate, as a man unwilling to allow a “discussion of the truth.”

He argues that Pilate shirks his duty as a representative of the Roman government by literally washing his hands of guilt in religious leaders Jesus’ case, and blaming the pressure local commitment to truth to execute Pilate’s placed on him Jesus. and justice wasn’t quite a shining example of the virtuosity of his Roman government Two lesser-known characters, Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, are examples of what Wells calls “disciples by night.” These men have day jobs in touchy political situations, and open knowledge of their faith in Christ would threaten their special positions. So instead, Nicodemus approaches Jesus under the cover of darkness to learn from him, and Joseph ofArimathea, who was a member of the jury who convicted Jesus, didn’t show his true allegiance until he offered his personal plot as a burial cave for Jesus’ body.

Contrasted with these less-than-stellar examples of commitment and personal integrity, Wells examines Mary Magdalene.

Her presence at the foot of the cross and her attendance at the tomb on Easter morning attest to her deep devotion to Jesus.

Though a woman and apparendy unsupported by a husband or father, Mary Magdalene refuses to remain in the shadows of the Passion. Wells even includes the vignette of the unnamed woman who anoints Jesus in his study of Mary Magdalene, citing this woman’s foresight and courage as evocative of Mary Magdalene’s brave character ofcommitment.

Wells emphasizes the new brand of power that Jesus preaches, and the passion each disciple displays in their varying degrees of power-personal, political and spiritual.

There is more in his analysis of these individuals than merely their power and passion. By looking closely at their behavior in the face of challenging commitments, their character of commitment is exposed.

All religions seek to instill this type of commitment in their followers. Lent is about self-denial, an act of worship paying homage to Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice. Islam’s Ramadan, Ba’hai’s 19-day Fast and Judaism’s Sukkot. all require similar commitment among the faithful.

These religious, holidays encourage the development of commitment and self-discipline —important values often lacking in our society—but is religion the best way to acquire these traits?

Fear, guilt and cultural pressure are mighty motivators, but hardly the foundation for sincere spirituality. Religions can demand a level of commitment that strip an individual of his or her identity or even call for suicide (Kool-Aid, anyone?).

On the other hand, religion sometimes helps people find themselves, gives them a sense of purpose and a belief system they can live with. It seems that while religion can crush with its strong fist, its sometimes-gentle hand also nurtures.

Self-discipline and commitment may be easier to develop under the auspices of religion —why not use Lent as an excuse to curb a bincandy addiction? Every time a longing for chocolate pretzels hits, instead one thinks of Jesus much greater suffering.

Still, everyone needs a few days to break loose from fetters, relax and not be concerned with rules or—to a certain extent-self-discipline. So again, moderation seems to be the best poliq .

In that spirit, do you think the Pope might approve a dispensation during Lent for college students on Spring Break?

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Talking the talk a surprise it was to read Elliott Wolfs March 7 guest column, which declared the report of the Campus Culture Initiative “trite” and worth only a “C” in an academic setting. As a memberof the GCI steering committee, Elliott would certainly know. But for him to say so publicly, and in such an honest and candid way, is

What

shocking.

Unfortunately, Elliott’s derision is also emblematic of the Initiative’s process. From concept to execution, the CGl’s attempt to define the “values and behaviors that should guide Duke students in their relations kristin butler with others” has been an with all deliberate speed unmitigated disaster. Its membership has been fractured, its purpose unclear and its process flawed.

Today, its conclusions are widely seen as illegitimate by students. In fact, the CCI has become a caricature of University governance, populated by agenda-driven individuals, operating under cover of secrecy and lacking meaningful student input or support.

As a student who agrees with President Brodhead that this “conversation” about policies encompassing housing, athletics, admissions, race/gender and alcohol is “deeply important,” I find the CGl’s failure regrettable. Which is why I’d like to hold the Brodhead administration accountable for the mess they’ve made of what was actually a very straightforward mandate: sustaining a discussion in the aftermath of what Elliott rightfully termed the “10,000-volt electric shock that was the ‘lacrosse incident.’”

Interestingly, you could trace the CGl’s problems all the way back to President Brodhead’s decision to announce the Initiative in an April 5 e-mail that implicitly assigned Duke students —and particularly Duke lacrosse players —a “culture of privilege,” an “arrogant inconsiderateness” and certain “attitudes of superiority.” Of course, subsequently sprinkling the committee with individuals who decry our “subculture of reckless ‘entitlement,’ sexual acquisitiveness and aggressive arrogance,” to quote CCI member Sam Wells, was equally ill-advised.

In fact, the committee’s highly controversial membership was so poorly considered The Chronicle worried the CCI had been stacked with “critics of ‘white male privilege’” seeking to “pacify countercultural professors, rather than to shape a new and improved campus culture.” Given these serious charges, it is hard not to wonder whether President Brodhead intentionally stocked the committee with voices sure to be considered illegitimate by many in the Duke community. Alternatively, were Allen Building officials so ignorant of student and alumni opinion that they simply didn’trealize their error?

Either way, that mistake left the CCI a virtual caricature of University' governance before it ever began, populated by agenda-driven individuals and operating without a student support. But it’s what came next—i.e., the unbeliev-

ably misguided decision to allow the CCI to operate under cover of secrecy and without meaningful student input that consigned the Initiative to perpetual illegitimacy.

Indeed, the CGl’s rules are such that meetings were —

confidential. This effectively ensures that individual mem hers cannotbe held accountable for their contributions to the report, nor can they discuss the actions of others on the committee. Elliott Wolf noted in an e-mail two similarly troubling characteristics of the Initiative’s process: Firstly, “the committee did not weigh any alternative recommendations and ultimately explain why they chose one specific option.” But even more importantly, “the committee relied heavily on [Consortium on Financing Higher Education] data that could not be released, undermining the public justification for the conclusions, as no one knew the survey methodology or the peer institutions involved.”

Again, if the Allen Building were actively trying to design a committee whose conclusions would not be taken seriously, it’s hard to imagine how they could have done a better job. Unsurprisingly, the CCI had become so fragmented by its end that the Initiative had to agree on the following ambiguously worded statement to get members to sign at all: “Given the size of the committee and the diverse views ofits members, it is not surprising that there are differences among members about specific issues and recommendations. The CCI Steering Committee, however, endorses this report as a reflection of its work.”

Perhaps it should have been no surprise, then, that President Brodhead greeted the CCTs report by noting that “none of the recommendations is a done deal” and inventing a new, eight-month long deliberation of the conclusions—a sort of “conversation about the conversation”—to be led by Provost Peter Lange. This process, which was never mentioned when the committee was formed last spring, is nothing less than an attempt on the part of nervous administrators to bury the CGl’s report, which has long since become an embarrassment.

That attempt will likely be met with success. As administrators well know, CCI members’ plea that the “entire University... must now engage in the discussion and the process of implementation” will not make it so, and students are likely to let the report die exactly the sort of slow, quiet death that is planned for it. Heck, even Lange announced, “We don’t take for granted that all the ideas captured in the report are good ideas” at his first town-hall discussion with students March 6.

So have no fear if your chief concern is that fraternities and selective living houses remain ensconced on West Campus, or that Duke continue selling seats in its freshman class to the underqualified children of wealthy families. But if you, like me, had hoped for the frank discussion •that Brodhead promised us all last spring—a discussion that risked presidential credibility and challenged false illusions in the hope of making this campus stronger —then you’re almost certainly out ofluck. The lessons of lacrosse will go unlearned yet again. ;

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

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Emily Thomey is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other

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