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Sophomore co-captain Josh Mcßoberts will forgo his final two years of eligibility and enter the NBA Draft, the men’s basketball program announced Thursday.

“This was a difficult decision, but I feel it is the best one for me and my family at this point in time,” Mcßoberts said in a statement. “I will miss Duke, the coaching staff and my teammates, but it has always been [a] goal of mine to play in the NBA.” This past season, Mcßoberts was a second-team All-ACC selection, averaging 13 points and a team-leading 7.9 rebounds per game. In Duke’s season-ending loss to Virginia Commonwealth, Mcßoberts scored a career-high 22 points.

“Josh has been a terrific player for us for the past two years, and he will be even better in the future as a professional,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a statement. “Based on our information, it is time for him to move on to the next level, and we are ready to help him in any and every way during this

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date for such an announcement, parents of the indicted players said Thursday.

Citing information from Inside Lacrosse Magazine writer Paul Caulfield, Foxnews.com first reported Thursday morning that the sexual assault and kidnapping charges against Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann would be dropped within “the next few days.” Parents of the indicted players confirmed to The Chronicle the case was nearing its end but said it was not yet clear when it would formally happen uWedon’t exactly know what the day is,” said Philip Seligmann, father of Reade; “All I can say as far as [the families] are concerned is it can’t be soon enough. We’ve been waiting for that day for almost a year now.”

Reade Seligmann, Finnerty and Evans were indicted last spring by Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong based on accusations stemming from a March 13, 2006 party at a house near Duke’s East Campus. An exotic .

process.”

Most Duke players entering the draft seek guidance from law professor Paul Haagen, who has advised dozens of Blue Devils entering the NBA Draft.

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Sophomore Josh Mcßoberts has decided to leave Duke for the June NBA Draft.

dancer hired to perform at the party later said she was raped, but DNA evidence did not support her testimony and court records showed a pattern of her changing her story, Nif o n g dropped the counts rape against the three Dec. 22, but he said he to planned continue

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standing charges of sexual assault and kidnapping. Less than a week later, the North Carolina State Bar filed an ethics complaint against Nifong, alleging, misconduct due to

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had made to* the media before the indictments.

Under fire from the Bar, Nifong recused himself from the case Jan. 12, and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced his office would preside over the case.

Since then, special prosecutors Jim Coman and Mary Winstead have been reviewing the case file.

The next hearing in the case is currendy scheduled for May.

Muslims seek prayer space Brodhead establishes new undergrad dean Students call campus comfortable 9 welcoming by

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Though many Duke students look to the stately grandeur of the Duke Chapel or the sleek design of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life as their desigReligion nated Places ofworship, the @ space allotted Duke to the UniverI sity’s Muslim Part 3 of 3 population is far less visible and a little more subterranean.

Tucked away in the basement of the Bryan Center, Room 0045 labeled the “Muslim Students Association Prayer Room” —is the only stable place of gathering for Muslims on campus.

Equipped with a few prayer rugs, sparsely decorated with framed verses “

of the Quran on the wall and plagued by a recent ant infestation, the officesized space is visited throughout the day by Muslim students looking to pray and socialize.

In some ways, the prayer room is similar to the presence of the Muslim population on campus in general—a little more under the radar than other religions and, in the view of many Muslim students, in need of room to grow.

Unlike other religious denominations that have a network of faculty and staff support, the center of Islamic religious life on campus revolves around the activities of

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A new administrative position dean of undergraduate education—will be implemented at the University by Fall 2007, President Richard Brodhead announced at Thursday’s Academic Council meeting.

The new dean will serve to better integrate the multiple aspects of undergraduate life—including student affairs and academics—and will act as the University’s principal spokesperson on undergraduate education. “[There is] a certain compartmentalization of the administrative structures,” Brodhead said. “But in student experience, academics and student life tend to be quite continuous—not much boundaries—and as we look to the future, we’re looking to emphasize —

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Dems work for majority on Iraq vote

by David Espo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

On the eve of a critical vote, House Democrats labored Thursday to lock down a majority behind a Sept.

1,2008, deadline for the withdrawal ofU.S. combat troops from Iraq, the sternest test yet for a determined new majority eager to challenge President George W. Bush.

“If it comes off, it’s a superb accomplishment,” said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., as the party’s leaders cajoled liberals who want an even faster timetable and moderates fearful of tying the hands of the commander in chief and generals in the field.

Democratic aides expressed growing

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confidence of success when the vote is called, and four of the bill’s most consistent critics said they had told Speaker Nancy Pelosi they would help pass it, even though they intend to personally vote against it.

“While I cannot betray my conscience, I cannot stand in the way of passing a measure that puts a concrete end date on this unnecessary war,” said one of the four, Rep. Barbara Lee of California.

An aide to Pelosi confirmed the speaker had met with Lee and California Reps.

Lynn Woolsey, Maxine Waters and Diane Watson. But with the leadership lobbying intensively on its own, it was not clear

which lawmakers, if any, had swung behind the bill as a result of the offer the four had made.

Throughout the day, a string of liberal opponents of the war swung behind a measure they deemed insufficient.

“I want this war ended today. IfI thought it would help this war ending sooner by voting against the bill, I would vote against it in a heartbeat,” said Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, who sponsored legislation for a troop withdrawal in 2005. “But I don’t believe that to be the case.”

The legislation marks Congress’ most SEE

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Video urges Iraqi militants to unite by

Maamoun Youssef

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CAIRO, Egypt In a new video posted Thursday on the Internet, an al-Qaida militant who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan urged Sunni militants in Iraq to join the terror group and claimed the U.S. military’s security plan for Baghdad has failed.

Abu Yahia al-Libi, who broke out of the U.S. prison at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul in 2005, said it was the sacred duty of all mujahedeen, or holy warriors, to “stand steadfast together.”

He called on militant groups known as

Ansar al-Sunnah, the Islamic Army in Iraq and the Army of the Mujahedeen to “hurry up and respond to the call of the Quran to become one and... join the Islamic State in Iraq,” an al-Qaida affiliate in the country.

“This is the legitimate duty and urgent need imposed by the circumstances of this stage of the jihad in Iraq,” the blackturbaned al-Libi said, referring to militants’ holy war.

The 28-minute video, posted on a Website commonly used by Islamist militants, shows al-Libi, whose nom de guerre means “the Libyan” in Arabic, with a beard and

wearing a camouflage uniform seated next a Kalashnikov rifle.

The videotape’s authenticity could not be independendy verified. It carried the logo of al-Qaida’s media production wing, al-Sahab. The video was also released by Intel Center, a U.S. government contractor' that monitors al-Qaida messaging.

IntelCenter said the earliest the video could have been made is Feb. 20, based on comments al-Libi makes on the decision by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to withdraw a portion of Britain’s troops from Iraq. Blair’s decision was first reported on Feb. 20. to

Counter-terrorist police arrested three men Thursday in the 2005 suicide attacks on the London transit system, the first major development in the investigation in months.

Two of the suspects were detained as they prepared to board a flight to Pakistan.

Rocket explodes near U.N.chief A rocket exploded 50 yards from the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a news conference Thursday in Baghdad, causing him to cringe and duck just minutes after Iraq's prime minister said the visit showed the city was "on the road to stability."

Edwards continues campaign Democrat John Edwards said Thursday that his presidential campaign "goes on strongly" in the face of a repeat cancer diagnosis for his wife, Elizabeth, a somber development that thrust his White House bid into uncharted territory.

GOP senator seeks lawyer deal A Senate Republican offered President George W. Bush a compromise Thursday in the standoff over the dismissals of federal prosecutors, suggesting that select lawmakers question Karl Rove and other administration officials in public, but not under oath.

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“In vino veritas,” said the Romans.

In wine there is truth, but for senior Ali Herman there is also a part-time job in bartending, where she gets to escape the “Duke bubble.” There is the joy of meeting new locals, making customers happy and serving her Duke friends. And, of course, there are the funny stories.

“There are always really great characters who come into Devine’s [Restaurant and Sports Bar] and there are great regulars who are so funny,” said Herman, who bartended for a year at the former Bully’s Basement and is now a waitress at Devine’s. “After you’re done cleaning at three o’clock in the morning you go home and you’re still chuckling to yourself.”

Herman recalled her first day working at Devine’s when she was confronted with a table full of students who were “obviously freshmen” ordering a pitcher of beer.

“One kid gave me a fake ID who was a friend of mine, and I had to turn him down,” she said. “I think he was a little bit embarrassed in front of his friends.”

After taking a five-week course in bartending at the Columbia School of Mixology, Herman worked bars in New York before working in Durham. She has grown accustomed to the “laid back, enjoy-yourfriends kind of approach” of local customers as opposed to the “fast mentality” up north.

“It’s nice to see how these people can unwind and relax.... I’ve gained more of a respect for the entire area from working [at Devine’s],” she said. “And I’ve definitely learned the accents a little bit better because I have to understand their orders.”

At Tosca Ristorante Italian©, a more upscale venue in Durham, unior Boyu Hu said liting tables for his ts is easier than serving er customers because he feels less pressured from his friends.

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Campus Culture Initiative and the future of the Athletic Council at its meeting Thursday.

President Richard Brodhead and Provost Peter Lange spoke to the council on the CCFs suggestions to improve campus culture and the process by which those suggestions will be discussed and potentially implemented “We have an excellent report which sets a powerful agenda for us with a set of recommendations that need to be taken with the greatest seriousness,” Lange said.

He added, however, that further reflection on the recommendations and increased engagement with the Duke community must occur before anything is

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Some students seek employmenttending bars at off-campus venues, a job they sayis funand lucrative. ternities and sororities often hold formal dinners at Tosca, and Hu said it is fun to work on those nights, especially when the students take advantage of the bar. “[Late-night formals] are always hilarious because everybody orders so much alcohol, so toward the end of the night they start getting pretty drunk and sloppy;” he said, adding that multiple incoherent speeches are usually the result.

Working the bar on nights when Duke students hold a party can get hectic, Herman said, recalling her experience at Bully’s.

“There are so many people and everybody wants you to help them because

they know you,” she said.

While the high pay is one appeal for working in off-campus restaurants and bars, students said they genuinely enjoy the work.

“It’s ajob where I get paid to hang out with people, and it’s fun,” said junior Darby McEvoy, a bartender at Tosca.

And the students contribute back to the bar or restaurant by bringing in business and sharing the camaraderie among the staff, said Gene Devine, owner ofDevine’s.

“It’s nice after [the student workers] graduate to have them call and tell us SEE BARTENDERS ON PAGE 8

“There always was going to need to be another phase after the report came out,” Brodhead said.

Lange said some of the CGl’s recommendations have already been implemented, pointing to DukeEngage as an example.' But those recommendations that haven’t been implemented will be referred to existing committees or will “require extensive engagement of students and faculty,” he said.

Lange added that the biggest challenge facing discussions on the CCI is to “go beyond the ‘usual suspects.’”

“How do we talk to the people who don’t show up at the meetings, who don’t show up at the open forums? That can be not only students, [but] can also be faculty,” Lange said. “We’ve started a process which is designed to show everybody we’re dead serious.”

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Campus Council members discussed the possibility of co-ed blocking next year and the implications of the Campus Culture Ini-

tiative on the social scene at the Council’s general body meeting Thursday night.

The Council proposed increasing the size of blocks and unanimously voted in favor of forwarding co-ed housing, which was approved in a task force proposal in October 2005 but was not compatible with the previous Room Fix system.

Sophomore Molly Bierman, Kilgo Quadrangle representative, said a block has diminished significance if its members are separated.

“It’s important to keep the cohesion of the block,” said Bierman, the group’s treasurer-elect. “We would rather live in a farther location if we were together.”

Sophomore Kelly Jones, an at-large member, disagreed, saying some students would prefer individual room location over block cohesion.

Junior Ryan Todd, Few Quadrangle representative and president-elect, said adjacent blocking rooms can be ensured if there are preset blocks.

“One of the arguments that went against [preset blocks] was that seniority was paramount,” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residential life. “If you’re going to say a block must live here, you’re taking away the availability of certain rooms.”

Facilities and Services Chair Hasnain Zaidi, a junior, said rising seniors’ selection of rooms could operate under a different system.

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CampusCouncil President Jay Ganatra speaks on the Duke party scene and public spaces atThursday's meeting.

“As far as for seniors, blocking is not that much of an issue,” he said. “They’re either going for a single or a double that they’ve been waidng for.”

Todd said it should be feasible for cer-

tain rooms to be reserved for upperclassmen who are not in blocks, Campus Council members also discussed the CCI recommendation for more common spaces that are not domi-

nated by selective living groups.

“If you’re doing an event in your own space, they must be BYOB,” said President Jay Ganatra, a senior. “If you do an event in open space, you need bartenders. If you’re going to buy a keg, it’s really expensive. There are liability issues if you do something on campus.”

Bierman said new common spaces without designation may have no purpose.

“The possibility when you create such a common space that’s everyone’s space is that it becomes no one’s space,” she said.

She added that section parties often do not use their own common rooms but instead confine partygoers to group members’ dormitory rooms.

Campus Council members added that common spaces not affiliated with selected living groups may be better used by campus clubs and organizations to host events in. “[The administration] is trying to change the social culture at Duke,” Jones said. “I don’t think creating a new room will solve it.”

Members discussed how the CCI appears to promote parties such as Nasher Noir and those hosted by DukePlays.

“Harvard hired a party guy whose entire job is to throw parties and that’s not such a foreign concept,” Ganatra said. “If people have a choice to go to a party sponsored by someone or no one, I think people would prefer to go to one hosted by no one because everyone’s welcome.”

Members mentioned, however, that dressing up to drink every weekend is not ideal for college students.

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IRAQ from page 2 direct challenge to date ofBush’s policy in a war that has claimed the lives of nearly 3,200 U.S. troops.

As debate began in the House, Republicans criticized it vociferously. “The bill is a sham,” said Rep. Harold Rogers of Kentucky, adding it would “provide fodder for our enemies abroad.”

Bush has threatened to veto the bill, opposing both the troop withdrawal provision and billions of dollars in spending that Democrats added.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said any delay in approving the funds could “have a genuinely adverse effect on the readiness of the Army and the quality of life for soldiers and their families.”

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Following the speeches, council members discussed the role ofalcohol in Duke’s social life and the CCl’s recommendations regarding alcohol. Brodhead said more social outlets need to be available to students in order to de-emphasize alcohol as the focus of social life.

“The more options we create for people to do other things than drink themselves into oblivion... thebetter off we will all be and the better off our campus will be,” Lange said.

Brodhead also proposed revisions to the Athletic Council, including expanding faculty representation and appointing a faculty member to chair the council.

These revisions are intended to make the council’s work more substantive, to clarify its chain of command and to disassociate the role of its leadership from the role of the faculty athletic representative, he said.

“This is deep bureaucracy,” Brodhead said. “At the same time, sometimes you go into deep bureaucracy in order to lay the administrative foundations for really important things and I think this will be quite important.”

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He said the need for more space is currendy one of the group’s biggest concerns.

[The prayer room] is not an ideal location,” said Youshaa Patel, a first-year graduate student in religion and a member of MSA. “We kind of feel like we’re an ad hoc... an appendage.”

Patel said he eventually hopes that someday MSA will be provided with a cultural center comparable to the Freeman Center, in keeping with the University’s “

commitment to diversity,

“Because Muslims are very stigmatized in public discourse, we feel there should be an emphasis in the Duke community on accepting Muslims. [A center for Muslim cultural life] is sort of an embryonic idea,” Patel said. “We want to review internally about the feasibility of this project.”

MSA currently reserves the Multicultural Center for its Friday congregational prayer and the Women’s Center for its weekly meetings.

But even those spaces are becoming overcrowded and inadequate for the 30 to 40 students that come to these weekly MSA events, said sophomore Junaid Raja, Da’wah chair of MSA.

In addition, the organization lacks a could eat early the next morning. full-time paid chaplain, something many “Why didn’t they advertise that?” Nagji of the Christian denominations and the asked. “That’s a really cool idea, so they Freeman Center have, said Imam Abdul should do a better job of getting the word Waheed, curout.” rent volunteer Junior Shams leader ofMSA. Kazmi, treasurer “[The prayer room] is not an Waheed, a of MSA, wrote in ideal location.... We kind of car salesman by an e-mail that the profession, is availability of the feel like we’re an ad hoc... an prayer room and paid a stipend of $51.40 a the dining venappendage.” month for proues’ willingness to Youshaa Patel open before sunviding his servmember, MSA ices. He has rise during Rabeen at Duke madan are examsince 1998 of the ples “Certainly, I’m hoping to be on campus University’s dedication to meeting the more regularly in the future as a paid needs of its Muslim population. member of the staff,” Waheed said. “I be“The administration—whenever we’ve lieve that this is my life’s work.” brought up an issue—they’ve been fairly reSome Muslim Duke students said they sponsive,” Zaman said. “Things aren’t bad also experienced a few difficulties along the but there’s always room for improvement.”

Other students said they believe the way in adjusting from practicing their faith at home with their families to maintaining University does an admirable Job overall their religious traditions in a campus setting. of catering to Islamic practices. Some also Freshman Sanaa Nagji was not aware said they found the campus generally that the Marketplace opened early during open and interested in the Muslim faith the month of Ramadan to accommodate and culture.

Muslim students who are required to eat Kazmi pointed to the success of past at sunrise every day before fasting. She MSA-sponsored campus-wide events, such said she improvised and took meals to go as Campus-Wide Fast, the Abrahamic Faiths from the Marketplace each day so she Dinner and Islamic Awareness Week.

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“On the whole, the campus is very tolerant,” Raja said. “In terms of ignorance [about the Muslim culture], if people are ignorant, that’s our fault and we try to hold events to educate others.”

Junior Nader Mohyuddin, a member of MSA, said, however, that there have been a few instances that have raised concerns about how Muslims are perceived in the Duke community. Specifically, he said he was concerned widi the reaction to the Palestinian Solidarity Movement Conference that came to Duke in 2004 and the controversial advertisements for the screening of the documentary “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” by the Duke Conservative Union.

“The Palestinian Solidarity Movement definitely brought up a lot of issues,” Mohyuddin said. “And a lot of the flyers for the documentary screening had their own incendiary comments that needed clarification.”

MSA members, nevertheless, said they believe the Muslim community is thriving at Duke and their situation can only get better.

“MSA, in conjunction with the Duke administration and other campus groups, is a testament to the recognition and accommodation of Muslim life on campus,” Kazmi said. “Muslims on campus are students, athletes, professors, researchers, visiting scholars... basically a microcosm of the greater Duke community.”

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for integration, said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs.

“The [Undergraduate Leadership the integration of education more and Group] as convened by the provost has proven to be an outstanding forum for colmore.”

The new dean will work closely with the laboration on behalf of the undergraduate vice president for student affairs and with experience, but it’s been an impossible role the senior administrators in Trinity College for the provost to do himself,” Moneta of Arts and Sciences, the Pratt School of wrote in an e-mail.

“Thus, the model for our work is already Engineering and the Nicholas School of well established, Environthe and the new dean ment and Earth can invest the Sciences. The Culture report “The Campus time and energy dean will report but this to furchange, necessary doesn’t propose to the directly ther advance our provost.

I think this change is very much work,” he added.

“The people The idea for of that work exthe spirit in in who creating the pooffices isting Richard Brodhead sition is not a are excellent... new one president, Duke but they’ve had It has been to wor very up in brought hard to try to the drafting and resurfaced administhe during past across these sorts of cooperate trative chasms,” Brodhead said. “So this of the recent strategic plan, Brodhead said.

Nonetheless, his announcement of the is an effort to put the administrative comes less than a month after the where we want our values to position structure be, in favor of making the whole add up Feb. 27 release of the Campus Culture Initiative’s report that assesses social, residento a whole.” tial and academic life. dean be selected from within will The “The Campus Culture report doesn’t the University, and the search committee will submit a list of candidates to Brodhead propose this change, but I think this change is very much in the spirit of that reand Provost Peter Lange for final considerport,” Brodhead said. The position of the ation by June 1. new dean, however, may help support “It has to be somebody who has a faculideas stemming from the report and subwho knows and loves the ty appointment, world of teaching, who knows and loves sequent campus discussions.

“The r01e... will provide an administrathe world of students through teaching tive means to implement recommendaconcern for the weland who has a deep fare of students outside their teaching,” tions as they evolve over the coming months,” said Moneta, who also served as Brodhead said. chair of the CCI steering committee. collaboration the Vice among Though The search committee will be headed branches of undergraduate life has already been a productive area of focus for the by Peter Burian, chair of classical studies, University, the. new dean will provide the professor of theater studies and former administration an even greater capacity chair of the Academic Council.

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BARTENDERS from page 3 [they] really miss Devine’s,” said Devine, Trinity ’75. “When they come back to have a visit we’re the first place they come to and that’s a good sense of reward for us.”

Herman said she has formed connections not only with the staff but also with the locals who come into Devine’s and share their stories and ask about hers as well.

Devine’s manager Kim Snyder, Trinity ’BB, said student servers like Herman bring a youthful touch to the place.

“It makes a nice level playing field having your 21-year-olds working here bridging the generation gap,” she said. “Our regular crowd who might be 40 to 60 years old look at them more as children—they look out for them, want them to succeed, ask them about their exams

and take a personal interest in them.”

Conversations with locals are not only about the students and their academics, but cover everything from sports to families to politics. Herman recalled an extensive argument in Devine’s about the father ofAnna Nicole Smith’s baby when the celebrity died.

“That Anna Nicole Smith story, I swear, was three straight weeks of conversation topic,” she said.

For the bartenders, one of the best parts of the job may be in gaining the lifelong skill of making all sorts of drinks, including eclectic winners like “nuclear waste,” Herman’s favorite. A mix of vodka, Midori and sour mix, Herman said it has an “eerie” green glow that gives it its name, but is otherwise delicious.

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While most students were relaxing on a beach somewhere, Duke spent its Spring Break getting back to its winning ways.

After falling at No. 4 Maryland March 3, the Blue Devils have reeled off three straight wins over ranked opponents. Fifth-ranked Duke vs.

0-1 in the ACC) hopes to keep the momentum going when it TONIGHT, 7 p.m. clashes with Virginia Tech Koskinen Stadium (4-5, 0-2) in Koskinen Stadium tonight at 7 p.m.

“After the Maryland game, we had time to focus on us,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “It was a tough week of practice, and we were able to improve. Over Spring Break, we focused and prepared well for our opponents.”

The Blue Devils’ three-game winning streak was highlighted by a barrage of scoring—Duke averaged 14 goals over the three contests and attempted at least 35 shots in each game.

“It’s a very experienced group thatshould be able to score a lot of goals,” Kimel said. “We’ve been able to get back to the things we’re doing naturally well on offense like transition. We’re playing fast.”

The Blue Devils were led on offense by

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During practice Thursday, Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors ominously voiced her concerns about the team’s decision making down the stretch.

But if the Blue Devil’s matchup against fourth-seeded Rutgers (24-8) Saturday afternoon at Greensboro Coliseum goes at all like it did in New Jersey back in December, Goestenkors will not even be in a position to worry about anything, let alone decision making.

The showdown between No. 1 Duke (32-1) and t jie Scarlet Knights will be a rematch of the yr Devils’ 85-45 Blue blowout Dec. 4. Rutgers head coach C. Vivian said her young SATURDAV, 230 p.m. Stringer Greensboro Coliseum Payers felt the pressure of playing in the national spotlight that night.

However, with Rutgers having won 10 of its past 11 games, including an upset of top-seeded Connecticut in the Big East Championship, it appears that this goaround has the potential to be closer.

‘You can’t really look at that film because it was die beginning of the year, and they’ve gotten a lot better, and we’ve gotten a lot better, so you’ve got to throw away that tape,” Harding said. “We know that they’re starting to play better as a team, and they’re going to be a tough team to play.”

Harding admitted that the team had not scouted Rutgers yet, but she does not need a tape of any sorts to know just how important Rutgers’ star guard Matee SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 13

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With the pressure of last year’s season-long suspension still weighing heavily on Duke, the Blue Devils feel they have something to prove. And nothing would prove more than winning the

National Championship.

But the players constantly remind themselves to play one game at a time. Despite this outside pressure, compounded by two one-goal losses in its last three games, No. 5 Duke (5-2) hopes to remain focused when it travels to No. 7 Georgetown (4y$ 1) Saturday in Washington, D.C. “They feel pressure that they have to prove everybody wrong—anybody who said anything SATURDAY, 1 p.m. negative about them,” head coach John Washington, D.C. Danowski said. “I think they carry it around like a freaking weight on their necks. I think it’s a very difficult way to enjoy playing lacrosse.”

Infusing a more relaxed mentality into his team, John Danowski has already begun to alleviate some of the stress felt by his players. But his positive attitude still cannot compensate for the team’s lack of experience resulting from Duke’s shortened 2006 campaign.

And it’s starting to show.

“The big thing is game experience,” senior goalie Dan Loftus said. “We have a lot of guys who have never played before. This

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When Georgia Tech hits, it wins—but when the Yellow Jackets struggle at the plate, they are very vulnerable.

Naturally, as the Blue Devils (17-7, 0-6 in the ACC) enter a three-game series with Georgia Tech (12-10, 3-3) this weekend at Jack Coombs Field, they will focus on stopping a /jfc potent Yellow Jacket offense. yg “They’ve got a good offense,” head coach Sean Jblvv McNally said. “That’s one of the traditional things FRI.-SUN. i )out Georgia TechCoombs Field Jack can they really swing the bats. I think the formula will be that we’ll be aggressive on the mound, we’ll go after them and try to use our defense.”

The Yellow Jackets are a perfect 6-0 when they hit .315 or better, but they are just 6-10 when they hit below that mark.

Their offense was a key in their 10-0 victory over Boston College March 16, and Georgia Tech went on to take two of three from the Eagles—a team that swept Duke in the Blue Devils’ first conference series.

“It just comes to making pitches, especially being able to throw more than one pitch for a strike,” pitcher Tony Bajoczky said. “Being able to throw curveballs, changeups—just keep them off-balance.”

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This season, the Yellow Jackets are 1-3 on the road and have yet to play any ACC road games.

“It’s just always better to play at home—it’s always more comfortable,” McNally said.

“We’d rather play them at home than away, but we know they’re going to be tough either way. It’s a good team, but we are glad we’re playing at home, no question.”

The Blue Devils are 15-3 at Jack Coombs Field, but they were swept at No. 7 Clemson last weekend and are still searching for their first ACC win.

“We just need to relax,” said Brett Bardes, who has hit four home runs in the last five games. “We’re a good enough team across the board. We just get a little intimidated, I think, trying to get that first ACC win.”

Duke’s ilext ACC series is against No. 2 Florida State, making this weekend even more important. If the Blue Devils are unable to get on track in conference play against Georgia Tech, they will have an even tougher time next weekend against the Seminoles.

“We know they’re going to get some hits, because it’s a good team and good hitters,” McNally said of the Yellow Jackets.

“The key for us is to minimize big innings and just keep competing and keep going after them all the way through the series.”

Freshman Alexander Hassan (2-0) will take the mound for the for the Blue Devils Friday, opposing the Yellow Jackets’ David Duncan (4-2). Bajoczky (3-2) will get the nod for Duke Saturday against John Goodman (1-0). teams

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Rutgers' bench barely averages double-digit points, whereas Duke has gotten great contributions from freshman Joy Cheek. In addition, the Blue Devils have versatile subs in Brittany Mitch and Bridgette Mitchell.

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Duke guard Wanisha Smith scored 15points and had four steals in theBlue Devils' second-round victory. not just effect Vaughn. Duke also forced 18 turnovers and held the Scarlet Knights to

W. BBALL from page 11 Ajavon is to the Scarlet Knights’ success.

When Ajavon was injured at the beginning of the year, Rutgers struggled to a 3-2 record. With her in the lineup, the Scarlet

Knights have gone 21-6.

Ajavon leads a balanced attack for Rutgers, who have four players averaging at least 11 points a game.

“They’re similar to us in that it’s not about one player,” Goestenkors said. “On any given night they have different players step forward. You can’t just stop Kia Vaughn on the inside [because] they’ve got tremendous guards on the outside.”

In the last game, however, Duke was able to hold Vaughn, who leads the team with 12.9 points per game, to a mere five points, all of which came offoffree throws.

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Duke’s defensive effort, however, lapsed against N.C. State in the ACC Tournament, where the Blue Devils lost their first and only game of the season.

As a result, the team has focused on defense in practice the past two weeks—and it has shown in the NCAA Tournament.

Against Holy Cross, Duke held the Crusaders to just 44 points and stole the ball 15 times. In their second-round matchup with Temple, the Owls did not hit a single three pointer, and the Blue Devils won in part because of a six-minute stretch where they did not allow Temple to score.

“Ever since our first loss, we’ve refocused on defense,” Harding said. “If we win the National Championship or lose our games it’s because of defense.” cent from

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W. LAX from page 11 attacker Caroline'Cryer. The junior now has 28 goals through eight games for Duke—easily on pace to surpass the 30 goals she scored last year.

Senior Kristen Waagbo was also a major part of the offensive surge, as the attacker moved into third place on Duke’s all-time points scored list and fifth on the school’s all-time goals-scored list.

The Blue Devils also benefited from the return ofmidfielder Rachel Sanford to the starting lineup after the senior suffered an ankle injury against the Terrapins.

“Our offense is producing a lot of shots,” Waagbo said. “We’re moving very well together.”

Despite the recent offensive success in wins over No. 9 Georgetown, No. 10

Princeton and No. 18 Vanderbilt, the Blue Devils are not taking the Hokies lightly.

“There’s still a lot of things that we want to work on and improve,” Waagbo said.

Tonight’s game is especially important for Duke to improve its ranking in the ACC. The Blue Devils are currently winless in the conference and have only four ACC games remaining, including a showdown with third-ranked Virginia March 31.

“Our girls appreciate each game as a huge opportunity,” Kimel said. “We need to continue to strive to get better.”

With the offense clicking, Duke understands it can climb right back into the ACC race.

“We’ve got a chance to get to .500 in the conference,” Cryer said. “It’s a Friday night game under the lights and hopefully some fans will get out there. I’m psyched.”

Duke rides a three-game winning streak into tonight's matchup against the Hokies in Koskinen Stadium.

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is their first year making an immediate impact.”

The Blue Devils have been forced to learn as this season has progressed, and their 7-6 loss to No. 1 Cornell Tuesday was their most recent lesson. John Danowski said the game produced many coaching opportunities that the team can learn and improve from heading into the weekend’s contest against the Hoyas.

Specifically, Duke will attempt to shoot more accurately at Georgetown. Against the Big Red, the Blue Devils managed to shoot on target just more than 50 percent well below their season average of 62 percent.

Despite having the necessary skills to shoot accurately, the players have to stay after practice and work on their own in order to further improve that area of their game, captain Matt Danowski said.

“It’s not like [Cornell was] better than us or stopped us,” the team’s leading scorer said. “We did what we wanted to do. We just didn’t fully execute.”

At times, the players seem so eager to win games since so many were taken from them last year—that they struggle to stay loose on the field. Even in the face of its own mistakes, Duke must maintain the more relaxed attitude John Danowski has tried to imbue.

“The more serious we are in lacrosse and the more up tight we are, the tighter your hands are the more turnovers it'causes,” Matt Danowski said. “Playing relaxed—that means you’re confident in yourself and in your teammates, and you believe in what each other’s doing.”

Under the leadership of their coach, the Blue Devils are trying to focus only on Saturday’s game and not on the expectations and pressures surrounding them. Although winning the National Championship in May might be Duke’s ultimate goal, the players know that to win they cannot afford to look past the games in March and April.

“If we just come out and play the right way, play relaxed and confident and play like we know we can, then we won’t have to worry about a losing streak,” Matt Danowski said.

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“The word I had gotten was that there had been a cooling of interest, and he would go somewhere in the early-tomid 205,” Haagen said. “But I believe he’s the type of player with such a unique set of abilities that could change during the individual workouts.”

Even though many people considered Mcßoberts a potential lottery pick last season, most draft projections are in line with Haagen’s projection, placing him in the midto-late first round.

“I’m just happy to see Josh happy,” said Mcßoberts’ mother, Jennifer Mcßoberts. “If [leaving Duke is] what makes him happy, then I am too.

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Sophomore Josh Mcßoberts is the first Duke player since Shavlik Randolph to elect to leave college early and enter his name in the NBA Draft.

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Foxsports.com reported Mcßoberts is expected to hire agent Arn Tellem, the same representative JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams both hired after graduating last year.

Mcßoberts’ mother, Jennifer, called those reports false.

“Arn Tellem is someone I know quite well,” Haagen said. “He’s a very effective representative —one of most experienced agents in basketball.”

The NBA Draft will take place June 28 in Madison Square Garden in New York City. If Mcßoberts does not sign with an agent and looks to return to Duke, which he has given no indication he will do, the deadline for that decision is June 18.

Mcßoberts’ departure will leave the 2007-2008 Blue Devils with nine returning recruited scholarship players on the team and three incotning freshmen.

The coaching staff is still pursuing high school senior Patrick Patterson, a McDonald’s All-American forward, whose decision could be influenced by Duke’s new frontcourt vacancy.

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“It’s an enticing nugget [for Patterson]said Dave Telep, scout.com’s lead basketball writer. “Any time you lose a 25-plus minute per game guy—someone else’s departure is a huge opportunity for another guy.”

In an interesting twist, Kentucky, one of the six schools that still remain on Patterson’s list, lost its head coach Thursday, when Tubby Smith announced he was taking the head coaching job at Minnesota.

“Seismic waves [were] sent across his bow today,” Telep said of Mcßoberts’ and Smith’s announcements. “His timetable has had to change a little bit.”

GregBeaton and Michael Moore contributed to this article.

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At best, then, this recomwill accomplish this goal and mendation will be superfluous, that, the abin assuming in sence of such a requirement, codifying something that students already do on their own. students will languish in a narrow-minded stupor.

At worst, it will be interpreted The CCI recommends as little more than a public remodifying the Cross Cultural lations play—damage control Inquiry requirement so that in response to last year’s events.

Either way, students are likestudents take a class diat prily to chafe against any such marily focuses “on racial, ethnic, class, religious, and/or changes. Students don’t want,

It has to be somebody who has a faculty appointment, who knows and loves the world of teaching, who knows and loves the world of students through teaching and who has a deep concern for the welfare of students outside their teaching —Duke President Richard Brodhead on the ideal candidate for the new dean of undergraduate life position. See story page 1.

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the community or abroad, made possible by everything from the Community Service Center to Duke Engage, students can interact with difference in an authentic and meaningful manner.

In addition, the Steering Committee astutely recognized the need to take advantage of resources that already exist to enhance dialogue and engage difference at Duke. Forums on topics such as race, socioeconomics, gender and religion are a mainstay of campus life, sponsored by a variety of religious, cultural and social organizations. The University should give greater visibility to such groups’ endeavors, whether it in the form of expanded funding or, as the CCI

recommends, the hosting of a conference on engaging difference in the new millennium.

Moreover, the Inter-Community Council, whose membership consists of leaders from student groups across Duke’s campus, is in a unique position to take charge of such a venture, namely by calling on its member groups to sponsor jointly more forums, thereby enhancing their visibility and support.

Engaging different viewpoints and understanding diversity in all of its manifestations is and should be part of the Duke experience. Without altering the curriculum but simply by enhancing the academic experience, we will continue to move in the direction of a greater understanding ofweighty issues and of one another.

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nor do they need, to be forcefed diversity and difference.

One of the strengths of Duke’s curriculum, especially in relation to our peer institutions, is the very flexibility it affords students in choosing classes. Duke should not abandon this factor by narrowing the pool of courses from which one can fulfill a requirement. Instead, the administration should review the courses presendy designated as “Cross Cultural Inquiry” and ensure these courses are fulfilling the objective of that particular Mode of Inquiry.

The Campus Culture Initiative’s other recommendations in the realm of academics are far more amenable. The University should heed the Report’s call to make experiential learning opportunities more viable and accessible for all undergraduates, not simply those

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Spring Break, I had one of those very rare chances to take a peek at how my life might have turned out if I had made a different choice. The choice, which many of you were forced to make as well, would have affected my education, my friendships; my future career and myself as a whole: Go off to the esteemed Duke University way out in Durham, N.C., or stay home and go to state school with the other 90 percent of school your high classmates?

Granted, for many ofyou it may have been an easy decision bestacy tween, say, Duke Unishenanigans versi or the University of Middle-of-Nowhere at Podunk. But for those ofyou from states like Michigan, Virginia or Illinois with very respected public universities, the choice was probably much more difficult.

And so, in order to find out how life might have gone differently, I went down to the University of Illinois this Spring Break. For the noble sake of journalism, I decided to go party Big Ten style.

To better sum up my observations in the field, I have divided my findings into various categories for Duke and U of I to go head-to-head: Residential Life; The winner: Duke.

The sophomore friends I stayed with live in an apartment. A real apartment, with a (mostly) functioning kitchen, separate bedrooms and an actual landlord. Given that my only experience with a landlord was cheering for Shelden Williams last year, I can’t even imagine paying utility bills and cooking for myself as a sophomore.

Although it would be nice to have the kind of independence and autonomy that an apartment brings, I personally like living in a pretty Gothic castle as a sophomore, in the middle of campus and all that is going on. I mean, now that The Loop delivers, who needs to cook anyway?

Plus, sorry to say, their campus is just plain fugly.

Social Life: The winner: University of Illinois.

My God, the options! The sheer options! 63 fraternities, 38 sororities, hundreds of private apartments and dozens of bars boggled my mind. Plus... I suppose they could also party in the library if they want to be cool like u5....

Anyway, when I asked my friends what bar they were going to take me to, they responded, “What are you in the mood for? A Sit-Around-and-Play-CardsBar? A Stand-Around-and-Mingle-Bar? A GrimyDance-Club-Bar? A Grimy-Dance-Club-Bar-Where-

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etting-Creepy-Bar?” Considering the only choice of venues available at Duke is sketchy or more sketchy, I was in ecstasy.

Furthermore, despite the recent concerns of the Campus Culture Initiative, the students at the University of Illinois happen to enjoy their sprawling, mansion-like greek houses. In Champaign, 111., the greeks and the independents peacefully coexist on a campus at which vodka and beer flow like milk and honey.

Academics: The winner: Debatable. Honestly.

According to sheer rankings and name-brand value, Duke appears to be the clear winner. That piece ofpaper with four letters we receive upon graduating is our golden ticket to the top of any resume pile. Furthermore, some of my personal observations happened to back this up.

I went with one of my friends to sit in on her physiology class (yes, on my Spring Break). As I entered the giant, aquarium-sized lecture hall, I thought it might be fun to see what a U of I academic experience was actually like. However, I was shocked and amused to find that the primary textbook used to teach the class anatomy was a coloring book.

That’s right. A coloring book. And they got extra credit ifthey colored it all in by the end of the semester.

While I have heard that this can be a very effective way to memorize the different body parts, I couldn’t help but to let out a chuckle at this.

Coloring books aside, there are some very real arguments for why a school like the University of Illinois might offer a better academic experience. First of all, with 150 undergraduate programs offered as opposed to our puny 40, size really does matter. I realized this after trying to explain in several job interviews that an English major and Markets and Management Certificate are practically the same thing as an advertising major....

Also, with 31,000 students, a large public school like U of I has np problem drawing very famous guest speakers like Dan Rather and Spike Lee and very popular concerts like the Dave Matthews Band. I mean, I love Common and... who is it? TIP... like everyone else, but come on.

All things considered, I think it is difficult to determine if a Duke education really is worth the extra $2O grand a year in the end. But regardless of the fun times I had at the University of Illinois with some of my closest childhood friends, I made my choice to come to Duke, and you can never really know how things might have turned out differently.

I like my Gothic Wonderland just fine, sketchy bars and all.

Stacy Chudwin is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every otherFriday.

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Think about Neil Armstrong. Surely walking on the moon had to be one of his greatest experiences. But that was a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity. Neil Armstrong can’t just go back and visit the moon. So now I guess that everything he does, whether it be holding newborn grandchildren or shouting the correct answer while watching “The Price Is Right,” can never match up to the moon walk, and perhaps there is a part of him that regrets walking on the moon in tire first place.

Maybe the reason that I am so happy now is because I haven’t really done all that much with my life. Aside from going to class, WQrking hard and occasionally writing a column that is not widely despised, there isn’t much I have accomplished. And if I ever do become truly successful, I may have to sacrifice my own happiness to get there.

One thing I found was that pondering my own happiness only diminished it. My advice is to accept your moments of joy and not question them. Because in the end, happiness is a lot like your own conception. Appreciate it; just don’t think about it too much, because you are only going to feel worse.

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of you probably consider yourselves to be normal, happy people. You think that those doing better than you in life are also happier, and the people doing worse than you are most likely less happy. The guy you see at the bar with all of the friends and money and job security must enjoy life a lot more than you do.

On the other hand, the homeless man you pass on your way to the same bar cannot begin to relate to your own feelings of contentment and joy. These all seem like reasonable assumptions, but they are all wrong (or at least we cannot be sure they are right.)

Daniel Gilbert explains axt why in his book, “Stumbling on Happiness.” He describes palindromes the lives of Lori and Reba Schappel, twin sisters who are conjoined at the skull. Most people would think that Lori and Reba live a depressed, bleak existence full of discomfort.

Yet, the Schappel sisters are cheerful, functioning people.

They are jovial and downright optimistic. Reba has even recorded a country music album. Without a doubt, Lori and Reba are happier than a lot of people I know. How can this possibly be?

Gilbert says the explanation for the Schappels’ happiness is actually found within their handicap. Gilbert does not dispute the fact that Reba’s and Lori’s lives are difficult and their experiences are nothing like our own. But despite all of these circumstances, even Lori and Reba continually have moments of happiness and even joy. The key to understanding the Schappels is to realize thatwhat is merely pleasant to us may be utterly delightful to them.

Imagine rating every emotion you have ever had on a “happiness scale” of one to eight. While I have had plenty of happy experiences, there are still only a few moments that I could give an eight. Right now, getting into college, meeting Keira Knightley and beating Mario Golfare pretty much the only eights I have. Most everything else thatmakes me happy falls in the five or six range.

But the Schappels have probably never experienced any of my “five or six” moments. They have never ridden a roller coaster, played a game of basketball, or even gone on a date.

Instead, they have an entirely differentrange of events to use on their own happiness index. Gilbert uses cake as an example. While I think eating cake is just fine, it pales in comparison to most of the other things I have done and therefore gets about a four on my scale.

But for the Schappels, cake might be it. It might be the best part of their day, or even their lives. It maybe the only time they can block out the world around them and forget about their own troubles. As a result, the transcendent sensation Lori and Reba experience when eating cake is an eight to them but just a four to me. The happiness they feel with cake is exactly the same happiness I had in any ofmy “eight” moments.

This makes sense, but I also think it sucks. Not that people like Reba and Lori don’t deserve joy, but there seems to be almost an inverse relationship between success and

Jordan Axt

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things keep going like this, 2006-2007 may very wellbe remembered at Duke as the Year of the Absurdly Lavish Party.

This Wednesday’s Duke Royale (“Dare to Indulge!”) was just the latest in a long line of enormous, gala-type events dotting the academic calendar, from the DukePlays Library Party to Brodhead’s ever-popular Homecoming Ball, all the way back to the Nasher Noir. Enthusiasm for these bashes has been high, turnout generally exceptional and the administration, once severely wary of backing anything suggesting alcohol consumption, now seems bridfl kindle enamored with the idea of ad astra selling us all pricey booze via white-shirted caterers.

Two or three times a semester, we dress up, with varying degrees of success, and spend a few hours wandering around someone’s attempt to recreate the high-school prom closing scene from one of those late-90s teen comedy-drama flicks, probably starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. It’s no longer even novel, and we still love it.

Perhaps it’s dangerous to extrapolate from just a few parties (not that a lack of evidence has ever stopped me before) but to me, these fetes suggest a subtle change in the way the student body perceives itself. Despite their breathtaking price tags (the Nasher Noir, for example, cost more than $14,000) and their potential to undermine a legitimately student-driven social scene, these extravagant undertakings have received very little criticism.

Instead of indignation, the much more common reaction seems to be a weird sense of relief, as if these parties give us a chance to get some great secret off our collective chest. For a while, we can amuse ourselves toying with decadence, without any accompanying guilt.

Under official sanction, with the approval of friends and neighbors, we can finally just admit to each other that we’re really, really rich and fritter the night away doing rich people things.

On a campus often obsessed with difference and wracked with how to bridge it, you’d think it would have made sense to rally around our shared commonality of richness a long time ago. Maybe so, but that wouldn’t be taking into account how deep in the rich closet most on this campus are.

No one wants to own up to being wealthy: You may have just returned from yachting in the Mediterranean, you may “summer” in the Bordeaux region of France, you may occasionally order your buder to smash cases of Dom Perignon for your personal amusement, but by God ifI inquire about your family’s socio-economic standing, you’ll tell me you’re “middle class” (maybe “upper middle” if you’re feeling generous).

I’ve seen this tendency played out everywhere; I’ve seen entire lecture halls of 75+ students put their hands up when asked by the professor “Who considers themselves middle class?” This was before they were told what the middle income bracket was ($22,500 to $77,250 per family in 2006, as per the U.S. Census), after which a grand total of three hands remained up.

No one knows the average family income for Duke students; according to the admissions office, the figures simply don’t exist. What is known is that only around 40 percent of students here receive any form offinancial aid, and of those that do, the median annual package is roughly $22,000 (not counting loans). In other words, a comfortable majority of our parents are wealthy enough to simply pay the current $130,000+ bill out of pocket, and a majority of the remainder still have sufficient scratch to cover more than half that.

We’re not alone in persisting in our middle-class delusions; the rest of the country is the same way. A Washington Post article from last year reports that a measly 2 percent of Americans self-identify as “upper class,” compared to 62 percent for middle class and 27 percent for working class, just a notch below middle. The middle class, for all its disparagement by intelligentsia, still implies something honorable. It has shades of hard work and sacrifice. It’s safe, unimpeachable.

The upper class, by contrast, are those rich jackasses, the world-miners bilking employees out of their pensions while their H2s pour greenhouse gases into A1 Gore’s precious atmosphere, fueling international ire and environmental crises with their conspicuous consumption. Upper class suggests entitled, never worked a day in his life.

Upper class suggests The Man. I can’t weigh in on whether these stereotypes of wealth are right or wrong. There’s insufficient space, and you wouldn't like my answers anyway. But good or bad, they’re ours to deal with. We have to take them up, examine them, accept or refute them, because they’re our stereotypes. To the vast majority of the country (Hell, to the vast majority of Durham), we are The Man. Continuing to insist we’re middle class when we’re clearly not is tedious and poindess. At the very least, collectively acknowledging that we’re wealthy can give us some much-needed common ground in our ongoing effort to piece together a coherent student body. Ideally, it would help us better understand what we owe ourselves and our society, where our responsibilities lie. It doesn’t have to mean taking up some great burden of guilt and shame for being “privileged.” It can simply mean telling ourselves the truth.

So when the next fancy affairrolls around, by all means, dare to indulge in drinks, snacks and ambience. Just try to indulge in a littie honesty as well.

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

letterstotheeditor Politically correct racism In the wake of last spring, we as an institution are terrified of the media hordes that might descend at the slightest whiff of racial intolerance. Thus I reacted with shock, anger, and sadness when I discovered that the Union Visual Arts Committee was hosting the exhibit “Redneck Riviera” in the Bryan Center’s Brown Gallery. Since then, I have seen the exhibit and spoken with the photographer, Patrick Davison.

His intent was to portray the unique culture of Carolina Beach before it is ravaged by corporate America. His sincerity in this purpose is as laudable as his photography is masterful.

I understand that neither Davison nor the Visual Arts Committee anticipated that the tide “Redneck Riviera” could hurt anyone. I ask: Why are they surprised I am angry and consider the r-word to be every bit as hateful as any other racial slur? Why am I seemingly the only person outraged on a campus that aims to ooze with cultural and racial sensitivity?

Let me tell you what the r-word means to me.

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Redneck is synonymous with “white trash” and is used in popular culture to refer to someone who is white, poor, ignorant, uneducated, incestuous,

racist, warmongering, anti-gay, radically religious and mentally impaired. I doubt anyone will deny

that most or any of those connotations exist. So even if one is not so bigoted to intend those meanings, why is it acceptable to apply such a charged word to others?

Because of the power of the n-word, most of us find it too loathsome to even vocalize. This is rightfully so.

Such words hurt; such words can kill. Yet, somehow there has formed a societal disconnect between the known connotations of the r-word and the word itself.

People speak it freely, often, and without malicious intent. Duke cherishes addressing problems through dialogue. I invite one now. Please tell me why we permit one racial slur while banishing all others.

Bradford Morris Trinity 'O7

THE CHRONICLE

FRIDAY, MARCH 23,2007

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