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The 3,770 students offered spots in the Class of 2011 are a product of an applicant pool that has changed significantly from those of previous years.

And after accepting 19.7 percent of aspiring Blue Devils, administrators said they are now looking for answers to explain the , apparent trends. riPWC

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tions to Trinity College analysis of Arts and Sciences reached an all-time high of 16,132, applications to the Pratt School of Engineering declined from last year—a shift that is currently receiving attention.

“We’ve looked at the characteristics of the Pratt pool from various perspectives and no obvious pattern appears,” Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, wrote in an e-mail.

“At the same time, Pratt has seen a fairly dramatic increase in applicants over the last several years, so this may not be terribly meaningful. We won’t really know until next year.”

Tod Laursen, senior associate dean for education in Pratt, said the school’s applicant pool grew after Pratt expanded two years ago and this year’s number of applications is second only to last year’s.

“The number of [applications] we’re getting still exceeds the number we were getting before we expanded,” Laursen said. “What was the anomaly? Was it this year? Was it last year?”

He added that the drop from approximately 3,400 applications to approximately SEE ADMISSIONS ON PAGE 6

After facing initial technical difficulties with a new online platform, Room Pix ’O7 proceeded smoothly, Residence Life and Housing Officials said Monday.

The entire process—which RLHSwas forced to conduct in person after facing major glitches to a new online system implemented this year—was completed Sunday night.

“It went pretty well considering we had to recreate it all in a matter of 48 hours,” said Marijean Williams, director of housing assignments and communications.

“Most students were very understanding and did what they needed to do to complete their Room Pix.” The slowdown of the online interface was due to complications with background software processes and not a server problem, as officials previously suspected, Williams added.

“It’s not just a Duke thing,” she said.

“There are 12 other schools using the [same] online process and they’ve experienced the same difficulties.”

RLHS is currendy working with Residential Management Systems—the company that developed the platform on which Room Pix ’O7 ran —to fix the problems and have Room Pix proceed online next year, Williams said.

Like the current freshman class, incoming freshmen will fill out their housing applications online, Williams said.

“We ran the process last year and ran into some bumps but managed to resolve them all,” she said. “I’m looking forward to using it for this summer.”

Many students said they were not affected by the switch from the online to the face-to-face process.

“It went better than I expected,” sophomore Vincent Ling said. “It was hectic at first with the whole online process, but once I got there it went just as smoothly as last year.”

Students were divided on whether or

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RLHS officials said this year should be the lastfor in-person Room Fix in Gilbert-AddomsDown Under. not they would prefer to complete Room Fix online in the future.

“In-person is better—if you personally had a computer problem then you can’t do much to fix it,” freshman Kyndal Thomas said.

Triple-room residents were able to successfully conduct their Room Fix process online before the interface was shut down.

“It was very convenient,” said junior Andrew Harkins, who is living in a triple

room next year. “Everything went very

smoothly for us.”

One common complaint among students, however, was a lack of correspondence from the RLHS office to students regarding Room Fix updates.

“They didn’t do a good job communicating with us, we got a lot oflast minute e-mails,” Ling said.

He added that resident assistants did SEE ROOM FIX ON PAGE 7

Freshmen hold forum on CCI Hospital proposes by

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Freshmen gather forfree refreshments and a discussion about the CampusCulture Initiative report Monday night in Lilly Library.

While many students tuned into the NCAA Tournament Monday night, 15 freshmen decided to forego the big game to discuss major issues of campus culture.

The all-student forum, called “Raise Your Voice” and set in East Campus’ Lilly Library, aimed to identify freshman perspectives on the recendy released Campus Culture Initiative report.

Amy Feistel, the FOCUS program coordinator, brainstormed the idea for the discussion, and five former FOCUS students implemented it.

“Students are more likely to say what they really feel if they are not inhibited by administrators being there,” said Sudha Patel, one of the freshman organizSEE CCI FORUM ON PAGE

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Officials at Duke University Hospital North recently filed papers with the state for approval of a multimillion-dollar construction plan.

The proposed addition to Duke Hospital North would span 950,000 square feet and cost approximately $6.3 million, according to a “certificate ofneed” filed with the state ofNorth Carolina last month.

In addition, the Bell Research Building would be tom down to make room for the

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Ukranian prez dissolves parliament Natasha Lisova

President Viktor KIEV, Ukraine Yushchenko dissolved Ukraine's parliament and called early elections Monday, but parliament refused to acknowledge the order and vowed to continue meeting as the country slipped further into political turmoil.

The deadlock follows months of maneuvering by Yushchenko and his rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, and signals the possible return of competing protests, tent camps and political rallies to the streets of Kiev —two years after mass protests helped propel Yushchenko to power.

After holding more than seven hours

of talks with top lawmakers, Yushchenko accused Yanukovych’s parliamentary majority of seeking to expand its power base in violation of the Constitution by recruiting members from pro-presidential factions.

“My acdons are dictated by the strict necessity to save the state's sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Yushchenko said in a live televised address. “It is not only my right, it is my obligation.”

As Yushchenko spoke, parliament met session, where it voted to extraordinary in block money for the new election, which he set for May 27. Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Moroz said Yushchenko had

no legal basis to make such a decision and lawmakers adopted a statement calling it baseless.

Yanukovych’s Cabinet convened later in a special session, where he appealed to Yushchenko to cancel the dissolution and go back to the negotiation table. “In this case, 'the state will live calmly, in a civilized way and develop... all other actions will cause the situation in the country to significantly deteriorate,” a tiredlooking Yanukovych said. He suggested that his coalition was ready for major

Mark Sherman

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The Supreme Court WASHINGTON rebuked the George W. Bush administration Monday for its inaction on global warming in a decision that could lead to more fuel-efficient cars as early as next year.

The court, in a 5-4 ruling in its first case on climate change, declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate those emissions from new cars and trucks under the landmark environment law, and the “laun-

dry list” of reasons it has given for declining to do so are insufficient, the court said.

“A reduction in domestic emissions would slow the pace of global emissions increases, no matter what happens elsewhere,” Justice John Paul Stevens said in the majority opinion. “EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change.”

The politics of global warming have changed dramatically since the court agreed last year to hear its first case on the subject, with many Republicans as well as Democrats now pressing for action. However, the ad-

Iran and Britain signaled possible movement toward ending the standoff over 15 detained British sailors Monday, with Tehran promising to stop airing video confessions and London saying it's willing to discuss ways to avoid boundary confusion in the Persian Gulf.

Reid hopes to end war funding

compromises.

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ministration has argued for a voluntary approach rather than new regulation.

The reasoning in the court's ruling also appears to apply to EPA’s decision not to impose controls on global warming pollution from power plants, a decision that has been challenged separately in court, several environmental lawyers said.

In the short term, the decision boosts California's and 11 other states' prospects for gaining ERA. approval of their own program to limit tailpipe emissions, beginning with the 2009 model year.

SEE EPA ON PAGE 9

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday he wants to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, making clear for the first time that Democrats are willing to pull out all the stops to end U.S. involvement.

Argentina lays claim to islands Argentina on Monday marked the 25th anniversary of its failed attempt to regain the Falkland Islands, reasserting its claim to the South Atlantic archipelago.

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Bodies floated out to sea and thousands of residents camped out overnight Tuesday on a hillside above a devastated town in the western Solomon Islands after a tsunami that struck without warning washed away coastal villages, killing at least 13 people.

News briefs compiled from wire reports "The less routine, the more life."

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In online dating, Duke ranks No. 8

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The Franklin Street storefront formerly inhabited by Rugby now stands empty, but will soon be occupied by Julian's, a menswear store.

College-geared Rugby store closes Franklin Street doors by

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To the dismay of preppy-punk shoppers sporting skulland-crossbones polo shirts, the Rugby Store on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill closed its doors March 10, after just two years of business.

“Rugby had a product and brand thatjust didn’t match our market,” said Aaron Nelson, president and CEO of the Chapel Hill Chamber ofCommerce. “Our men don’t dress that preppy.”

The Chapel Hill closing coincided with the closing of a second Rugby venue in Charlottesville, Va. Downtown Chapel Hill experiences a regular cycle of store closings and openings, Nelson said, and Rugby’s exit is not part ofany trend in excessive store closings. In total, approximately 20 percent of the town’s businesses are owned by national and regional chains, like Rugby.

With other businesses doing fine, some disappointed shoppers said they wonder why the shop was unsuccessful.

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Although Rugby has closed its doors, officials say there does not appear to be a trendofbusinesses closing in downtown Chapel Hill.

Students frustrated with Duke’s hookup culture may need to explore new methods to find that special someone—and according to lamFreeTonight.com, that is exacdy what they are doing.

The free online dating website, which targets college students, ranked Duke No. 8 last week in the Top 25 Colleges for Online Dating.

The list ranks schools based on how many students from a college use the site, what features they use and how often they are contacted by students from other schools, said Clifford Lerner, CEO of eTwine Holdings, Inc., which owns lamFreeTonight.com.

Until last week, Duke was unranked on the website’s Top 25 list—a feature implemented approximately one month ago. The website—which launched in January—attributed the rise of online dating at the University to the men’s basketball team’s early loss in the NCAA Tournament.

“We launched the rankings within a day or two that the NCAA [Tournament] began—it was on everybody’s minds,” said Darrell Lerner, co-founder of eTwine and Clifford Lerner’s brother. “We were looking for interesting correlations, and the tournament was a natural place to turn.”

Clifford Lerner speculated that dejected Cameron Crazies, who would normally be closely following the Tournament, were turning to online dating to occupy their extra time.

The University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, however, dropped out of the website’s Top 25 list after advancing in the basketball tournamerit, Lerner said, adding that other schools’ o rankings also see respond to their the Tournament.

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Group looks to catch Dukies in act of recycling by

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The next time you throw that empty water bottle in the trash can instead of the recycling bin, beware—you could have just lost yourself free Loco Pops, a new bicycle or a host of other prizes.

Duke Environmental Alliance, the student group responsible for the annual Eco-Olympics, has begun a new campaign called “Get Caught Recycling,” which will continue to run through April.

Members of EA have been staking out recycling bins on campus and rewarding environmentally conscious students with free gift certificates, entries into grandprize raffle drawings and praise.

“For most people, waste management—dealing with the material consequences of our consumption —is an invisible process,” EA President Vanessa Barnett-Loro, a junior, wrote in an email. “If we don’t have to see it, smell it or confront it in any way, then that just means it’s working properly. [Members of the recycling campaign] are working creatively to change that misconception.”

Soon, pictures of the recycling Dukies will also be displayed each week on “Look who got caught recycling!” fliers in the Bryan Center and the Marketplace, said junior Jamie Gordon, recycling coordinator for the EA. “The idea is basically to get people to think about what they’re doing, how they are disposing of their trash, what they are using and to really realize that they’re making a big difference when they are recycling,” Gordon said. “It’s a fun, high-energy way to get people involved.”

It may be fun, but it is also a bit of a

plastic

shock for those who are “caught in the act,” said junior Winston Wilde.

“I was in the Bryan Center typing up a paper on my laptop, and you know, as you’re typing a long paper you need a

drink,” he said. “So after I got it and put it in the recycling bin, all of a sudden two people jumped me and said, ‘Hey, you got caught recycling.’ It was all very covert and sneaky... but it was pretty cool.”

Wilde noted, however, that despite raising his own recycling awareness, he was not sure how effective the campaign would be on influencing those individuals who do not already recycle.

And for many of the “EA catchers,” there have been more non-recyclers than were expected.

“I’m just a little bit surprised with the low number of people who recycle,” said freshman Peter Heisler. “You think you’d get at least 10 people an hour, but it’s more on the order of two or three—and I usually watch pretty busy areas, too.”

Gordon said it was difficult to see people not recycling, but noted that the goal of the campaign was to change all that, both by rewarding dutiful recyclers and sometimes, by showing others what rewards they just lost.

“I’ve seen people not recycle in front of and turned to [them] and said, ‘Wow, you know ifyou had put this is the recycling bin right next to the trash can, I would have given you a prize. That’s a bummer,’” Gordon said. “People are saying, ‘Oh wow, I’ll really try and recycle next time’—so even if it’s not for the best motives, at least it’s getting people to think about it... and once you start getting people thinking in those habits, I think the idea is that it’s encourag-

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The Environmental Alliance is offering prizes throughout April as an incentive to students to recycle.

ing those behaviors.”

The “Get Caught Recycling” campaign is just one ofmany ways EA has been working to change the face of sustainability on Duke’s campus, Bamett-Loro said.

“EA’s overarching mission is to minimize Duke’s ecological footprint,” she

said. “Essentially, that’s an acknowledgement of the fact that all of us, in our

everyday lives, consume resources —and that consumption translates into a real

environmental cost that has an impact on the planet’s systems and on its other inhabitants.”

Partial Stories of a film by Azadeh Saljooghi

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The film locates women’s lives in historical-political contexts, captures displacement beyond geographical dislocations, and invites audiences to view displacement as an empowering rather than a crippling modem phenomenon. The understanding that emerges from displacement comes from six women, including the four who directly share their stories with us and self-identify as Palestinian- American, African-American, AfghaniAmerican, and Native-American, plus the two others as Romanian and Turkish. These powerful narratives are interwoven with poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Derek Walcott, and prose written by the filmmaker. (30 min.

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Real estate billionaire buys Tribune for $8.28

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holders and a good outcome for our employees,” FitzSimons said in the interview.

But industry observers said more divestitures or spinoffs are likely, especially as Zell learns the ropes of the newspaper business and a company that has been losing readers and advertisers to the Internet.

“There tends to be a fairly long learning curve with re-

CHICAGO Real estate mogul Sam Zell won the battle of the billionaires Monday, landing media conglomerate Tribune Co. after a down-to-the-wire bidding war.

Even with the buyout’s $8.2 billion price tag, the oudook for the nation’s secondlargest newspaper publisher remained as uncertain as it did six months ago when it newspapers oper“This is unlike any other busiate,” said Sammy began a strateness [Sam Zell has] touched.... gic review to Pappert 111, the boost a lagging chief executive of The stakes are very high.” stock price.

Dallas-based Rich Hanley A big chunk newspaper conof new debt sultants Belden journalismprofessor, Quinriipiac also will be reAssociates.

The quired to pay compathe $34 a share ny’s complex deal cash buyout. Zell is counting on repaying with Zell has a relatively small breakup the debt largely through tax benefits from fee—$25 million—leaving open the possia new employee stock option plan that bility ofanother counter bid from Los Anwould supplement existing retirement acgeles billionaires Eli Broad and Ron counts for the company’s 20,000 workers.

Burkle, who also submitted $34-per-share Aside from selling the Chicago Cubs offers for Tribune.

“A low breakup fee could encourage a baseball team and its stake in Comcast SportsNet, Zell and Tribune executives trumping bid from the Ron Burkle/Eli were mum about prospects for the rest of Broad partnership or another bidder, but the company’s assets, including 23 televithis seems unlikely given the lengthy and sion stations and nine newspapers ranging very public nature of the review process,” in size from the Los Angeles Times and Citigroup analyst William Bird wrote in a the Chicago Tribune to the Daily Press in research note.

Newport News, Va. that will remain after Representatives for the pair declined to two papers in Connecticut are sold. comment Monday.

“Whether someone whose experience Zell plans to invest $315 million in the is in commercial real estate—in steel and media company and will eventually becement and bricks and leases—can navicome chairman of Tribune’s board when the buyout is complete sometime in the gate the ungainly media structure for success remains to be seen,” said Rich Hanley, fourth quarter. The offer needs shareholda journalism professor at Connecticut’s er approval.

The buyout will be conducted as a twoQuinnipiac University. “This is unlike any other business he’s touched.... The stakes part deal, the company said. The first are very high.” stage, expected to be completed in the Tribune Chief Executive Dennis second quarter, will involve a cash tender FitzSimons told The Associated Press offer of $34 per share for 126 million that there are no plans to cut the compashares, more than half of the outstanding ny’s work force or sell off other newspaTribune shares. The remaining shares will be purchased later at the same $34 pers or TV stations.

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new facility. Offices currently located in the facility would be moved to the hospital addition.

The new construction will provide more operating rooms and beds for acute care patients, said Kevin Sowers, chief operating officer of the Duke University Health System.

According to paperwork filed with the state, the predevelopment activities necessary for the major hospital addition are scheduled to be complete by October 2007.

“We are now going through the formal process for the state to approve our plan,” Sowers said. “I don’t see any issues preventing us from getting approval at this point in time, but it’s a process we have to follow with the state.”

The newly proposed construction to the hospital would follow an addition being built at this time, Sowers said.

Currently, renovations underway at Duke Hospital North include revitalizing the present operating room platforms, a more family-friendly waiting area in front of the hospital and offices for the departments of surgery, anesthesiology and ambulatory services.

In addition, Duke opened part of the newly expanded emergency department Monday. The growth of the ED includes increased bed space for patients, updated equipment and rooms with greater patient privacy.

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3,000 seems particularly large due to the small base number of Pratt applicants.

“It seems a little bit absurd to call 3,000 a small number,” Laursen said.

He also said administrators anticipated the possibility of a drop in the wake of the lacrosse case.

“The numbers we got were actually not as far off as we initially thought,” Laursen said, adding that it was not clear why Pratt was especially affected.

Guttentag said that because of the increased size of the applicant pool over time, this year’s drop was unlikely to affect the academic quality of the incoming Pratt freshman class.

“That’s been one of the advantages of a pool that’s so much larger and stronger than five or six years ago,” he said.

Laursen added that an independent committee within Pratt worked with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions to review the applications and was pleased with what they saw. “I’m confident we’re going to get a good class,” Laursen said.

Despite the discrepancy between Trinity and Pratt SARA GUERRERO/THE CHRONICLE applications, Guttentag said the admissions office will seek to maintain a 4-to-l ratio of Trinity to Pratt stu- Admissions officials mailed letters of acceptance to 3,770 students dents, even if that affects which students are selected last week, but applications to Pratt fell slightly from last year's level. from the waiting list.

Although applications to Pratt declined, this year’s na residents and from children ofalumni also hit record highs, but Lange said these increases were not attributaapplicant pool also hit a number of record highs. with to a particular cause or recruitment strategy. were the ble highest in history Minority applications “We don’t really always understand the trends from year 2,190, 1,303 and 5,173 from black, Hispanic and Asian to year,” Lange said. “Our efforts have been pretty steady and Asian-American students, respectively. stu2,292 international there.... Some years you get more, some years you get less.”

In addition, a record-high dents sought admission, marking an increase of 13 perGuttentag emphasized that the patterns applied to applicants, not admitted students—a group he said he cent from the previous year. anticipates to be smaller than last year due to a higher Guttentag said the increases did not reflect any particular recruitment strategies, but Provost Peter Lange expected yield. said the change resulted from the gradual realization of Last year’s initial acceptance rate was approximately 19 percent, but it rose to approximately 21.2 percent in a long-term goal.

“Those have been areas offocus in recruitment for a the aftermath of the lacrosse case.

“We’re obviously very pleased with the size and the number of years and every year you do it you get a little quality of the applicant pool and now it all turns on more increment from it,” Lange said.

Applications from North Carolina and South Caroli- yield,” Lange said.

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The Department of Theater Studies fall shows Pericles, directed by John Clum, and Jazz Loft Project, directed by Jay O'Berski Pericles is T5180.3 (Shakespeare Workshop) and participants in the play must be in the course (credit or not). You can get credit even if you have been in other production courses.

Play runs after Thanksgiving.

Bring a 2-minute Shakespeare monologue.

You may be asked to sing a cappella.

Jazz Theater Workshop is T5180.2 and you don't have to be in the course.

You will be asked to do a reading cold.

Performances are last week in September.

The Audition sign-up book is at the Bryan Center Info Desk.

For more info about auditions, please email

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not hand out information sheets until

after students were supposed to register.

“That’s messed up,” Ling said.

Freshman Elizabeth Rojas said she found the Room Fix website unorganized.

“The website is awful,” she said. “It is not very clear and the [room locator] updater was not working. I think it’s something they can definitely improve.”

In addition to technical problems with the online system, this year was the first time juniors who requested single rooms were unable to get them, Williams said.

A total of nine female students and two male students did not get single rooms.

“The rising junior class is the largest class Duke has seen in a while and it’s something that affects housing every year,” Williams said.

Because rising sophomores are required to live on West Campus, each year some juniors who wish to remain on West are unable to do so and must move to Central Campus, she added.

Approximately 400 juniors, including those in selective living groups, are living in doubles on West next year, Williams said, noting that in contrast to previous years, double rooms on West remained available for juniors for over half of the selection process. “We were expecting juniors who were picking in the first round to take all the West doubles,” Williams said.

She added that doubles for female rising juniors remained open until the third of the six rounds, and the fourth of the six rounds for male students.

“A lot [of students] were choosing to live on Central Campus individually, which is a little uncommon,” she said. “I’d like to think it’s because of the information we sent out to students that helped them make those decisions.”

Romney, Clinton lead money race by

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BOSTON Mitt Romney blew away the top-ranked Republican presidential candidates in fundraising during the first three months of the year, reporting he had raised an astonishing $23 million. Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, favored in the polls, trailed far behind.

The former Massachusetts governor’s first-quarter tally put him on a financial par with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ofNew York, the leading Democratic candidate. On Sunday, she reported raising $26 million.

“People are having a positive reaction to him and are willing to open up a vein for him,” David King, a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, said of Romney.

Former New York Mayor Giuliani, who has amassed a sizable lead in national popularity polls of GOP candidates, reported raising $l5 million this quarter—more than McCain, but still considerably behind Romney.

McCain’s $12.5 million appeared to be another sign the Arizona senator’s campaign is flagging.

“For McCain, it looks like he’s made campaign finance reform work,” King said. Everyone knew he didn’t like the role of money in politics, but one would have hoped he would have liked the role of money in his own campaign.

He’s now coming to this race a day late and $l2 million short.”

One other GOP contender, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, a favorite of social conservatives, reported raising over $1.9 million, including a $575,000 transfer from his Senate campaign account.

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Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has racked up $26 million in fundraising so far.

“The Republican activists who actually get out and do the hard work of winning elections are responding very favorably to Sen. Brownback’s candidacy, and we are looking forward to running a strong issuebased, positive campaign and continuing to activate the grassroots,” Rob Wasinger, Brownback’s campaign manager, said.

Still, the disparity had the potential to winnow the field and trigger a reshuffling

among the top tier ofcandidates. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, had previously trailed not only Giuliani and McCain, but also former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson in some national popularity polls of Republican voters. Thompson has yet to declare his candidacy.

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Yushchenko insisted that “the political situation in the is under control and stable.”

“I am calling on the Ukrainian people to make a fair, conscious and responsible choice which will end this stage of political conflict and will open a new stage for Ukraine,” he said.

The stakes are high for the nation of 47 million, which had counted the last parliamentary elections as its freest and fairest yet but later saw politicians resort to back-stabbing maneuvers during coalition talks.

Anna Skarpenka, a 45-year-old teacher, said she supported the president’s decision, arguing that Yanukovych’s party had given him no choice. They “backed the president into a corner and in this situation he could only act radically,” she said. state

Yanukovych’s backers had set up a tent camp near parliament to pressure the president and several hundred supporters milled around, laying out sleeping bags and setting up cooking facilities.

It was unclear how much parliament’s makeup would change if new elections were held. Polls suggest that Yanukovych’s party and Tymoshenko’s bloc would run almost head-to-head, with Yushchenko’s party a distant third.

The standoff between Yushchenko and Yanukovych arose after 11 lawmakers allied with the president defected to Yanukovych’s coalition last month, in violation of the Constitution, which says the coalition can be expanded only by the addition of entire factions, not individual lawmakers.

Yanukovych became premier last August after his party won the most votes in parliamentary elections, capitalizing on divisions within Yushchenko’s team and widespread disappointment in the slow pace of reforms.

Yushchenko reluctandy agreed to accept Yanukovych as premier but has since accused Yanukovych of attempting to sideline the president.

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“It doesn’t make any sense,” Indaram said. “I’m in a stat class, so I could tell you all about confounding factors.”

Darrell Lerner said the relationship between online dating and the NCAA Tournament was mosdy meant for fun, adding that he and his brother are big basketball fans and Duke fans.

“As much as you can make it a serious, in-depth study, it’s also meant to be fun,” he said.

Many students, however, said they were surprised that the website found online dating prevalent at Duke.

Senior Jud Killion said he has never used an online dating website and does not know anyone who has.

“It’s pretty pitiful,” Killion said. “Go get a date on your own.”

Freshman Chase Macer said he once logged onto a dating website as part of a prank on a friend, but added that he would not use one seriously.

“A lot of the people seemed pretty weird,” Macer said.

“If you have to meet people through online dating, maybe you need to work on your social life.”

Although many students said they would not personally turn to online dating to meet others, they said dating websites might be appropriate for older age groups.

“Duke has a great night social scene—there are so many possibilities for meeting people,” freshman Ryan McDaniel said. “Once you’re out of college, it’s harder to meet people in a social setting.”

Clifford Lerner said students’ surprise at the rankings was fair and expected.

He added that students tend to find online dating websites too serious for the college mentality.

“We want to create a casual dating type of atmosphere with features geared specifically toward college students,” he said. “We looked at social networking features that worked and tried to incorporate them.”

Lerner added that online dating might be more popular among juniors and seniors who have exhausted other methods of meeting people.

Some students, however, said there is no interest at Duke in dating either on or offline.

“I don’t think dating itselfis prevalent enough at Duke for students to be looking for even more ways to meet people,” Indaram said.

Freshman Victoria Sowemimo said this culture was not unique to any particular school.

“Online dating seems like it is more to find relationships, and that’s not what college students are looking for,” Sowemimo said. “When college students want to meet people it is more for a hookup with someone.”

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Environmental activists demonstrate outside the Supreme Court before the decision on emission standards.

ERA from page 2 Those cars begin appearing in showrooms

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stricter each year until 2016.

Automobile makers have said stricter emission limits would be accomplished by increasing fuel-economy standards.

Reacting to the court ruling, the automakers called for an economy-wide approach to global warming, cautioning that no single industry could bear the burden alone.

Monday’s ruling also improved the odds that Congress would take action on comprehensive legislation to reduce global warming, said business groups, environmental advocates and lawmakers. Several measures already have been introduced.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee urged the Bush administration “to work with Congress to enact a mandatory cap-and-trade proposal and other programs to reduce our nation’s greenhouse gas emissions.”

EPA spokeswoman Jennifer Wood said

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the agency is studying the court’s ruling, In the meantime, she defended EPA’s voluntary partnerships to reduce emissions. “These national and international voluntary programs are helping achieve reductions now while saving millions of dollars, as well as providing clean, affordable energy,” Wood said.

Ann R. Klee, who was general counsel at the EPA from 2004 through mid-2006, said the Bush administration’s “options are now considerably more limited.” She said EPA could still decide not to regulate carbon dioxide, but only if it also concluded that such emissions do not contribute to climate change or endanger public health and welfare.

That’s an argument that could be difficult to make given the widespread view among climate scientists that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is the principal heat-trapping “greenhouse” gas that, if not contained, will lead to significant warming of the Earth, rising sea levels and other marked ecological changes.

Carbon dioxide is produced when fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas are burned.

minor event and will not leave a void in the market of local college shoppers.

“We’re always glad to have stores like “I am surprised that the store closed Rugby in Chapel Hill, but being replaced down,” said freshman Anthony Marzocca. by Julian’s is not a devastating change,” “I think that a lot of Duke students either Standi said. “In fact, that’s as good as it didn’t know could get. In the that Rugby exbig picture of isted there or things thats not didn’t make the a big hit for “I think that if Rugby opened effort to go all downtown.” up in Brighdeaf Square it the way over to Rugby stores were launched in shop. The style more would have success, espe2004 by designer may have been cially with Tailgate.” a little aggresRalph Lauren to cater to the colsive for Chapel Anthony Marzocca lege crowd.

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Brightleaf Square it would have more success, especially with Tailgate.”

The Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation gave no official reason for the closing.

“We’re not commenting on the specific business,” Rugby spokesperson Ryan Tally told The Durham Herald-Sun in February. “The decision to close was about a bigger strategy. It’s not necessarily pertaining to the local area.”

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Chapel Hill Town Manager Roger Standi said. Rugby’s departure is a relatively

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Although the chain may be successful in other locations, some feel that Franklin Street was not an ideal choice for the targeted customer base.

“Some of the clothes—particularly ones that were overwhelmingly attacked by skulls and crossbones—were a little too hard for the average person to ‘pull off,’ said freshman Anjali Bhatia. “It was not a popular spot for either Dukies or UNCers.”

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Freshmen gathered in the Chinese Reading Room of Lilly Library Monday to talk about the suggestions proposed in the Campus Culture Initiative report.

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ed in answering the question of whether or not there is a problem on West Campus with largely white male fraternities dominating the social scene.

The participants discussed a number of different solutions, ranging from abolishing fraternity housing to allowing for sorority housing.

Students also discussed whether or not there are enough spaces for smaller student groups to hold social events and whether more of such spaces would enrich the social scene and cut down on dominance of fraternities.

Alcohol was another major topic of discussion. Some students said that a lack of on-campus bars or nearby off-campus bars causes a focus on fraternity section parties as the place to be on weekends.

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Freshman Patrick Ye said the forum was an attempt to have a “bottom-up discussion” dominated by students instead of administrators.

Ye added that he thought it was beneficial to have all the freshmen together to weigh in on “things you wouldn’t have heard in upperclassmen conversations.”

The forum began with an agenda listing three main topics of conversation—residential living, social spaces/social opportunities and diversity of race and gender—but (he discussion extended to many other issues as well.

Several students present were interest-

“We brought about a couple of imporideas and offered some solutions, but I think we need more people to reach a definite conclusion,” freshman Daniel Szoke said.

Szoke also felt that students should have had a chance to interact with administrators and writers of the CCI report.

Patel said a forum including administrators may take place in the future, but the next step is to hold more forums to get more people involved.

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“Facing opponents in an extremely competitive fundraising field who enjoy universal name identification and the clear advantage of existing networks of contributors, Governor Romney’s fundraising totals are indicative of the extraordinary success the campaign has had at building an organization and stirring excitement among grassroots activists responding to his message,” said Romney spokesperson Kevin Madden.

Giuliani, meanwhile, reported raising nearly $l7 million since forming his presidential exploratory committee in November. He also had $ll million cash on hand as of Saturday, the end of the first quarter, according to his aides.

In a statement, Mike DuHaime, Giuliani’s campaign manager, said the campaign was thrilled with the total, despite what he called a “late start” to fundraising.

Yet the ex-mayor held his first major fundraiser in New York in December, while other top rivals didn’t do so until January or later.

McCain’s campaign released its fundraising totals while the senator was on a fact-finding mission in Iraq.

McCain tried to lower expectation last week, saying he didn’t like to raise money, had gotten off to a late start and was “going to pay a price for it.”

Republicans in Washington have privately said that McCain’s rate of spending has been alarming, even as Giuliani has opened a wide lead in national popularity polls.

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TENNESSEE. RUTGERS VIE FDR TITLE Two teams Duke beat this season, Tennessee and Rutgers, play tonight for the women's NCAA Tournament title.

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Forget last night’s game. Clearly, when Florida is on top of its game, the Gators are better than anyone in college basketball.

Now that Florida has steamrolled Ohio State to win its second straight National Championship, they’ve claimed a place in history.

Since UCLA won seven straight titles from 1967 to 1973, only one other.team ■Hp has won back-to-back tides—the 1991-1992 Blue Devils. It’s only natural to compare Florida dynasty to T 3 Hd rOTT those two Duke teams.

So, is this Gator squad better than those Blue Devils?

In a word, no.

Of course, not everyone’s going to agree with me. But this is what people that like sports do: pose unanswerable questions and try to answer them. So here goes nothing.

(By the way, ifyou’re a Florida alum/fan, I have no idea why you’re reading the Duke campus newspaper, but you should probably stop now.)

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Florida, led by headcoach Billy Donovan, celebratesafter winning its second straight national championship.

ATLANTA A long, tough season ended with a Gator chomp again.

Mission accomplished for Florida.

The Gators were too much to handle once again Monday night, keeping their stranglehold on the college basketball world with an 84-75 victory over Ohio State for their second straight national

championship.

A1 Horford had 18 points and 12 rebounds, Taurean Green had 16 and Greg Oden’s 25 points and 12 rebounds weren’t enough for Ohio State (354) to stop the Gators (35-5) from completing the quest they set upon when all the starters delayed their NBA plans for a try at another tide.

“It feels great. This is what we came back to school for,” Florida guard Corey Brewer said. “This is what we’re all about at the University of Florida, winning championships. We’re No. 1 again, two in a row, back-to-back. That’s what we do.”

They celebrated with the usual Gator chomps and took a chomp out of NCAA history, too —becoming the first team to repeat since Duke in 1991-92, the first ever to go back-to-back with the same starting five SEE GATORS ON PAGE 16

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Harding takes home Naismith NPOY award The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Monday that Lindsey Harding was named the 2007 Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year.

The Duke senior became the first female Blue Devil to earn the The Naismith Award, which is given annually to the men’s and women’s players of the year and is widely considered the most prestigious award in college basketball.

Harding adds the honor to an already impressive list ofawards. The senior has already been named the ACC Player of the Year and die national Defensive Player of the Year, as well as ESPN.com’s player of the year.

The 5-foot-8 point guard won the Naismith Trophy after leading Duke to a perfect 29-0 regular season and averaging 14.0 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game.

She was chosen by a selection committee that includes basketball journalists, coaches and administrators. Fan voting

also accounted for 25 percent of the total.

Harding was on hand Monday to accept her award at the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association luncheon in Cleveland, Ohio—site of the women’sFinal Four.

“Lindsey Harding has meant so much to our program and for her to receive the Naismith Trophy is tremendous,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said in a statement. “She had an incredible year for us as she stepped up in every way from scoring, leadership and on the defensive end. This national award for Lindsey caps off an excellent career and is well-deserved.”

Player of the Year awards have been split this year, with Oklahoma’s Courtney Paris taking Associated Press Player of the Year and Candace Parker of Tennessee earning the Wade Trophy.

Harding will be on hand Wednesday along with teammate Alison Bales for the 2007 WNBA Draft in Cleveland.

—From staff reports

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Having already arrived in Arizona when it was announced Saturday that its head coach Rod Myers had passed away, the team focused on moving forward—which is exacdy what Myers would have wanted, interim head coach Brad Sparling said.

“We talked last night about how everybody would be watching them today and how we had the chance to do something special,” Sparling said.

When the Duke players teed off Monday morning, it looked as if they were about to do just that. Paced by freshman Adam Long, who carded four birdies and an eagle for a 3-under 69, the Blue Devils had four golfers at or under par for the first round.

Fellow freshman Jeff Edelman had three birdies over his last four holes to finish at 2-under and junior Michael Schachner and sophomore Clark Klaasen pitched in 'even-par-72 efforts to put Duke in a tie for third on the leaderboard.

“I was really proud of the guys, especially in the morning round,” Sparling said.

“They were out there playing their hearts out, and Coach would have been really proud of them.”

The afternoon round did not go as smoothly, however, as the Blue Devils lost

Duke struggled and its scores suffered in the second round.

“On 16, the flag was back and we had a couple guys go long,” Sparling said. “With that pin location, if you go long, you’re going to get bogey.”

Edelman and Klaasen bogeyed the 16th, and Schachner carded a double-bogey.

Frustrations mounted for the Blue Devils as they continued to hit the wrong spots on the green, miss pins and sink drives into the water. Long fell from fourth to 24th place after bogeying 17 and double-bogeying 18 to end his day at 1-over.

Edelman joined his teammate in 24th place and is followed by Schachner, who shot 3-over for the day to put himself in a tie for 42nd. At the end of two rounds, Klaasen found himself in a tie for 49th.

Senior Jake Grodzinsky was the only Blue Devil to shoot a better second round than the first, going 2-over in the afternoon to complete the day at 7-over.

“We made too many bad decisions and we have to talk about that tonight,” Sparling said. “All five guys just lost focus, but we will play better tomorrow and score a lot better as a result, too.”

The Blue Devils will resume play tomorrow just after 8 a.m. PST.

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CLEVELAND They’ve been dear friends—extended basketball family—for nearly as long as they’ve been college coaches.

For three decades, on separate trails that led both to the Hall ofFame, C. Vivian Stringer and Pat Summitt have consoled each other through hardships. They’ve even shared fashion tips.

Soon, they’ll have Milb something new to discuss, On Tuesday night, the VS. coaching giants who have fjjtepj combined for 1,723 victories in 69 seasons, will s^are c °U e ge basketball’s m TONIGHT 830 pm ’ grandest stage as the ScarA 5 . p Quicken Loans Arena /oH et lights (27-8) meet Cleveland OH the Lady Vols (33-3) in the championship.

For Summitt, this is familiar territory.

Appearing in title game No. 12, she’s going for her seventh national crown, hoping to end a nine-year drought in Knoxville, where cutting down nets and hoisting banners inside Thompson-Boling Arena are seen as birthrights.

For Stringer, this could be the final chapter in an improbable season in which she didn’t expect a happy ending. After a24 start, Rutgers, without a senior on its roster, has scrapped its way to the top with a defense every bit as tenacious as its fiery coach, “Her kids, they just bring it,” Summitt said. “They love their coach.”

The only void on Stringer’s impressive resume is a national championship, and _..

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now she’ll have to beat Summitt to get it.

“I just want to experience it,” Stringer said. “It would be nice.”

The two have met six times in the NCAA Tournament, with Summitt winning five.

Since Stringer took over at Rutgers 12 years ago, her teams have had their seasons ended by the Lady Vols on four occasions, including each of the past two seasons.

Rutgers earned a spot in the final by dominating LSU and its star Sylvia Fowles, the Lady Tigers’ 6-foot-6 center, in a semifinal. The Scarlet Knights made eight threepointers in the first half, built an 18-point lead by halftime and rolled over their more heralded SEC opponent.

Fowles was swallowed whole by Rutgers’ defense, which double-, triple-and quadrupie-teamed her in the post. She finished c nk t t with five points on 2-of-10 shooting, not the kind of night LSU needed from “Big Syl.” Tennessee’s Candace Parker will be Rutgers’ next challenge. The 6-foot-4 sophomore’s versatility presents a whole new dilemma for Stringer, who is concerned about being able to slow the leading Lady Vol. “I don’t know what we’re going to do," Stringer said. “I’ve been up all night thinking about it.”

Earlier this season, Stringer was so upset with her players that she kicked them out of their locker room, took away their redand-black Rutgers gear and basically told them they weren’t worthy of representing the school, Summitt remembered seeing Rutgers play against No. 1 Duke on television earlier this season and worrying about her close _

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Stringer’s diligence paid off with this year’s group, which would like nothing

more than to be the team that finally wins it all for its leader, “It’s been the talk since the beginning of the season,” junior guard Matee Ajavon said. “Coach Stringer is a very special person to us, and I think it would be one of the best things I can do in my life.”

The next hurdle is Tennessee, and Stringer wouldn’t want it any other way.

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First of all, those Duke teams didn’t just win back-to-back tides. Christian Laettner and Brian Davis, the captains of the 1992 Blue Devils, went to four straight Final Fours and three straight championship games. A1 Horford, Joakim Noah and Corey Brewer still have a ways to go before they get to that point.

And don’t forget: The talent level in college basketball in 1991 and 1992 is much higher than it is right now.

To win their first tide, the Blue Devils had to beat UNLV in the national semi-finals. The Runnin’ Rebels were the undefeated defending champions and had won 45 straight games. They were led by Stacey Augmon, Greg Anthony and Larry Johnson—all players who had long and productive NBA careers.

To win its first tide, Florida had to beat George Mason in the national semifinals.

The Patriots were led by Lamar Buder, Tony Skinn, Jai Lewis and some other guys that no one had ever heard of. Then the Gators beat UCLA in the championship game—and though Aaron Afflalo and Jordan Farmar seem like fine basketball players, there’s no way they could have competed with Augmon, Johnson and Anthony.

In 1991 and 1992, the national scene also included LSU’s Shaquille O’Neal, Georgetown’s Alonzo Mourning, the Fab Five (Juwan Howard, Chris Webber and Jalen Rose) at Michigan, Kentucky’s Jamal Mashbum, Ohio State’s Jimmy Jackson, Michigan State’s Steve Smith and Memphis’ Penny Hardaway. That’s not even mentioning the likes of Laettner, a guy who pops up in just about every debate about the best college player ever, and Grant Hill, who some think might have been better than Laettner.

The last two years, the list of guys who went to the NBA early and could be in

school (Leßron James, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Luol Deng) is much more impressive than the players who are actually still in college. JJ. Redick and Adam Morrison were the country’s two best players last year—and they’re a far cry from O’Neal and Mourning. Greg Oden and Kevin Durant might one day be mentioned in the same breath as those two stars, but both of them are still freshman Basically, only a fool would try to argue that Florida faced better competition than the 1991-1992 Blue Devils.

And there’s no way anyone can argue this Florida dynasty’s accomplishments are as impressive as Duke’s. The 1992 Blue Devil team lost two games all year by a grand total of five points. This year’s Gators lost five games, including one stretch in which they lost three of four, with all three losses by 10 points or more It’s possible thatwhen they were locked in and ready to play, these Gators were unbeatable. They sure looked that way against UCLA. They had size inside, defensive toughness, outside shooting, pin-point passing in transition. Their biggest problem, it seemed, was that they weren’t always locked in and ready to play.

Those great Duke teams were always ready to go. Unless a team has extraordinary mental toughness, it doesn’t go 34-2 with a giant “defending National Champions” bulls-eye on its back. Being great isn’t just about talent, it’s about playing up to that talent every time out there.

So even though the Florida teams from the last two years were certainly great, and their accomplishments were impressive, they just weren’t as good as Duke’s dynasty.

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GATORS from page 11 and adding their name to the debate about the best teams ofall time.

Best athletic programs of all time, too This win completes a 2007 championship-game sweep of the Buckeyes in the two biggest college sports —men’s hoops and football. Florida, a 41-14 winner in the football title game in January, remains the only program in history to hold both championships at the same time.

The celebration looked much the same as last year. Lots of jersey tugging, jumping onto press row and Joakim Noah running into the stands to hug it out with loved ones.

Billy Donovan added another gold star to his resume, which figures to command more than his current $1.7 million next season, whether he returns to Florida or bolts for a possible job offer at Kentucky.

“I’m so proud of these guys,” Donovan said. “We’ve had to win different ways and with the expectations, and I think you really have to look at this team, and I’m not saying they are the best team, but you have to look at them and say they are one of the best teams to play this game.”

It was hardly just a matter of Donovan rolling the ball out there. All season the Gators have morphed into whatever kind of team they needed to be to win.

In this one, stopping Oden figured to be the key, but really it was more complex than that. The 7-foot freshman, who may be one-year-and-done with the NBA beckoning, stayed out of foul trouble and played 38 minutes.

Florida’s focus, however, was more on stopping the rest of the team. Oden drew mostly single’ coverage when the ball went into the post. Donovan playecfa lot of zone and mixed his big men in and out, adding 6-foot-10 Marreese Speights to the mix to

give him five more fouls to play with.

That strategy worked well enough—well enough to win at least. Ohio State could not take advantage of any other matchups, especially on the perimeter. Ivan Harris was the only Buckeye to make a 3-pointer over the first 39-plus minutes of the game, and he finished 2-for-8. Mike Conleyjr. finished with 20 points for Ohio State, but lots of them came late after the Buckeyes were playing big-time catch-up.

Meanwhile, one thing Florida has always been able to do is shoot the ball—a nation-leading 53 percent this year—and Monday night was no exception as the Gators went 10-for-18 from three-point range. Florida also had quicker hands.

Horford had a monster game, bodying up with Oden on defense and more than holding his own on the other end. He spotted up and made three 15-plus-foot jumpers and twisted and turned for a few more hoops. Clearly, another year -in college has helped this 6-10 junior, who now looks every bit like a lottery pick.

Noah, who sacrificed the most in coming back to school, might have been the top pick had he left last season, but the presence ofOden and Kevin Durant, to say nothing of Noah’s dwindling stats, have pushed him down.

He finished with eight points and three rebounds in this one, but big individual numbers were never the point with the Gators this year.

They came back for the championship and anything less would have felt hollow.

But there will be no regrets. Instead, how about a nice little debate about the best programs of all dme?

Repeats will almost certainly go down as a rarity in this age of one-year-and-done college players, and nobody in the last 15 years—even before the NBA money started skyrocketing—could do it anyway.

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has a deep and detailed understanding of the important issues facing the undergraduate community and the University at large in the comeditorial ing year.

He has the complementary strengths of DSG experience and innovative thinking that promise to help him lead a successful DSG. Having served as current President Elliott Wolfs chief of staff, Slattery has sat in on most all presidential-level meetings this year. He has been Elliott’s right-hand man in decisions about lobbying

any undergraduon this campus could sit down and come up with reasonable ideas about how to be a decent Duke Student Government president.

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port will continue to have a significant impact both on campus life and on campus discussion. Slattery seems to be the only candidate aware of this fact’s urgency and importance.

Several themes of his platform are based on issues coming out of the CCI report, and his plans for those recommendations make the most sense.

Speciflcally, he is passionate about making auxiliary services more dependent on the University for funding.

Subsidizing dining, parking and housing services would significantly improve student life in the short term;

Slattery understands this point well and has made it a priority to challenge the cost-recovery model of auxil-

iary services if elected.

Additionally, Slattery’s ideas for making faculty interaction more centered around common interest—rather than the current model, which fosters too littier interaction—would be beneficial. This idea makes a lot of practical sense.

So if you are voting for Slattery, you can “Vote the Fro” or for Elliott’s sidekick.

But you are also voting for a genuine, personal, fast-talking policy wonk who promises to build on the large strides DSG has taken over the past year.

The Chronicle formally endorses Paul Slattery for president of Duke Student Government. Elections are

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liotfs endorsement, however, think again. Slattery, on his own, understands how to make DSG effective and how to engage and tackle problems facing students in creative, intelligent and effective ways.

Kristin Pfeiffer and Andrew Tutt, the other two candidates have well thoughtout platforms, but they both lack the diplomatic yet down-to-earth conversation style that Slattery has, and seem to think less creatively and more narrowly on student problems to be effective presidents. Their passion and experiences would be useful in other capacities next year on DSG. In the coming year, the Campus Culture Initiative re-

Isn’t

it interesting that President Richard Brodhead’s first major decision after the release of the Campus Culture Initiative report was... not recommended by the CCI at all?

In fact, Brodhead’s move—which will create a new high-level administrator, to be called the dean for undergraduate education—effectively demotes both die CGl’s chair and vice chair, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Bob Thompson and Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta.

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positively apoplectic that his administrative fiefdom (which up until now reported direcdy to Brodhead) will soon be brought under the direction of—gasp! —an appointed faculty member.

But this is about more than sidelining two powerful, senior administrators. The appointment of this new dean—whose nebulous job description includes responsibilities like combating “compartmentalization in administrative structures” and emphasizing the “continuity” of academic and social experiences—is only the latest in a series of high-level departures that signal a massive consolidation of power underway in the Brodhead Administration.

Just look at the the astonishing rate of turnover in our graduate and professional schools. Duke’s Graduate School got a new dean, Jo Rae Wright, effective July 1, 2006, and Blair Sheppard will begin work as dean of the Fuqua School of Business on July 1 of this year. Similarly, the School of Medicine, the School ofLaw and the Nicholas School of the Environment are all currendy searching for new leaders, which leaves only the Pratt School of Engineering with a dean who predates Brodhead’s tenure. And that dean—Kristina Johnson—is under contract for just two more years.

Turning our focus back to the Allen Building, Brodhead’s relatively recent decision to take responsibility for athletics from Executive Vice President Tallman Trask (formerly a huge part of his job), along with the demotion of Moneta and Thompson, leaves only the provost’s office without a Brodhead appointee in power.

That’s why it may be important to note that Provost Peter Lange is already the second-longest serving provost in Duke’s history.

We should also note that this administrative shakeup has extended all the way to the Duke Management Company (the $7-billion corporation wholly owned

by Duke to manage its endowment), where Neal Triplett took over as director effective Jan. 1. The actuarial tables can’t look good for Athletics Director Joe Alieva either; his department has been racked by scandal after scandal in recent years, from his decision to back steroid-tainted baseball coach Bill Hillier to his perceived abandonment oflacrosse players and their families to his serious injuries following a drinking-while-power boating accident last summer. His behavior has been so extreme that he drew an April 10 Chronicle editorial titled “Fire Joe Alieva” that ended with the line, “Five-plus strikes, Mr. Athletic Director.

You’re out of here.”

But perhaps the most significant power grab may happen at the Board of Trustees. Four members of the powerful 10-member Executive Council—which exercises the full power of the board between trustees’ regularly scheduled meetings each year—will be forced to retire this June due to term and age limits. As a self-perpetuating board, the organization’s remaining members will choose the outgoing trustees’

replacements.

For those of us who have wondered aloud why Chairman Bob Steel—whose high-profile job in the Treasury Department prevents him from fulfilling his ex-officio role on the board of the Duke Management Company—has stubbornly refused to resign his chairmanship, we may now have our answer. Steel, who headed the committee that hired President Brodhead and who has been Brodhead’s most vocal supporter over these past 12 months, will soon be poised to stack with enough pro-Brodhead members to consolidate the president’s power base for good.

If I thought President Brodhead was as talented an administrator as he is a power broker, then this would be cause for celebration.But for those ofus who remain deeply concernedwith the administration’s disappointing showing these past 12 months, along with the amount of faculty infighting, student and alumni dissatisfaction and national criticism that we have recently endured, this turn of events may come as a bitter disappointment indeed.

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

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letterstotheeditor DPU endorses DSG candidates The Duke Political Union would like to endorse the following candidates: junior Paul Slattery and sophomore Alex Crable. For his sophisticated vision and policy-specific platform, as well as his wealth of experience and valuable relationships with administrators, we endorse Slattery for the position of president. Since announcing his candidacy, he has highlighted little-known issues that greatlyaffect the student body. Should he win, we look forward to watching him address these issues. For the position of executive vice president, we endorse Crable. Crable has brought accountability and transparency to the Student Organization Finance Committee and, if elected, would similarly improve DSG. At this time, we are unable to endorse eithercandidate for vice-president for student affairs. Furthermore, as scheduling conflicts prevented us from interviewing all academic affairs and community interaction candidates, we are unable to endorse specific candidates, but wish all the candidates the best of luck.

Elizabeth Kelly Trinity ’OB President, Duke Political Union DCU endorses DSG candidates The Duke Conservative Union formally endorses the following candidates in the upcoming DSG elections.

While we appreciate junior Kristin Pfeiffer’s experience and the relationships junior Paul Slattery has cultivated with the Duke administration, sophomore Andrew Tutt’s professionalism and his focus on accountability and student advocacy particularly appeals to us. We enthusiastically endorse Tutt for president. Sophomore Alex Crable is an excellent candidate, and he earned our respect with his knowledge of funding guidelines and his desire to help student groups. However, sophomore Jordan Giordano has the DSG experience, the leadership skills and the conservative values that allow us to wholeheartedly endorse him for DSG executive vice president.

In the crowded field for VP of academic affairs, sophomore Natalie Barber distinguishes herself by her calls for institutional oversight on professors that overstep their bounds in and outside of die classroom. In addition, we feel her enthusiasm and past DSG experience are particularly suited for the job, and we endorse her for vice president of academic affairs. We also are excited about freshman Lucy McKinstry’s efforts to help student groups like ours through programs such as Duke Dialogues and feel that she has the potential to accomplish great things. We endorse McKinstry for vice president of student affairs.

We are unable to endorse a candidate for the VP of community interaction position because not all of the candidates were available for interviews.

The DCU encourages all students to vote for the aforementioned candidates April 3.

The DCU Executive Board

Diya endorses DSG candidates On behalf of the executive board of Diya, Duke’s South Asian student association, I would like to announce endorsements for Duke Student Government candidates.

Diya endorses junior Paul Slattery for president. We feel that he has a unique platform and a genuine understanding of the issue of diversity on campus. Diya endorses sophomore Jordan Giordano for executive vice president because of his experience and proven track record of getting things done. We were also impressed with his leadership abilities demonstrated in the restructuring of the Young Trustee nomination process. Diya endorses sophomore Madison Li for vice president of student affairs because of her strong DSG background. Finally, Diya endorses sophomore Brandon Roane for vice president of community interaction because of his fresh perspective and ideas about Duke-Durham interactions. Due to extenuating circumstances, we were unable to meet one of the candidates for vice president ofacademic affairs. We are therefore unable to formally endorse a candidate for this position.

Diya feels that these candidates are the best prepared to handle campus issues and encourages all members of the student body to vote for them in the election Tuesday.

Shawn Kwatra Trinity ’OB Political Chair, Diya

ASA endorses DSG candidates The Asian Students Association endorses the following candidates for the 2007-2008 Duke Student Government Executive Board.

Paul Slattery, President—We appreciated both junior Kristin Pfeiffer and sophomore Andrew Tutt’s focus on making a more inclusive DSG, which we thought was lacking at times in this year’s administration. Pfeiffer seemed to have cultural groups such as ASA in mind. However, Slattery’s extensive knowledge of the University, experience and perspective sets him apart from the other two candidates.

Jordan Giordano, executive vice president —Giordano and Alex Crable, both sophomores, are highly qualified and we would be pleased to see either win. Both have track records that demonstrate their abilities to deliver. However, Giordano’s interactions through his current role as VP of community interaction with student leaders who encompass nearly all experiences at Duke give him the perspective that we feel is best suited for executive VP. Joshua Kazdin, VP of academic affairs—Academically, our focuses include increased faculty diversity and support for academic programs in ethnic and regional studies. Out of the four candidates, we felt that Kazdin, a junior, would best represent these goals.

Genevieve Cody, VP of community interaction—We felt that both Cody, a junior, and sophomore Brandon Roane had similar visions in their platforms for engaging Duke students on campus and in the community.

Cody’s experience on the Young Trustee Nominating Committee and her endorsement by the Director of the Durham Human Relations Department, however, separate her from Roane. We felt that freshman Lee Strasburger did not possess enough knowledge and experience for this position.

Madison Li, VP of student affairs—We were disappointed by what we felt was superficial knowledge from both candidates. When questioned about space for student organizations, neither candidate had seemed to think about this issue. We liked freshman Lucy McKinstry’s suggestion for uniting student groups with common service goals, but we felt thatLi’s exposure to the workings of other universities makes her better suited for this position.

Kevin Fang Trinity’o7 President, Asian Students Association Panhel endorses DSG candidates It is important that female students’ interests are well represented on next year’s Duke Student Government Executive Board, especially as many important issues affecting our community of 1,200 women were recently highlighted in the Campus Culture Initiative report. With this in mind, the Panhellenic Association executive board, presidents and delegates would like to announce the following endorsement: For president, we endorse junior Paul Slattery. Through his previous experience as chief of staff, Slattery has developed concrete ideas and a specific plan for achieving them.

Furthermore, he is already focused on important issues that include undergraduate mentorship and the hiring of female faculty. For executive vice president, we endorse sophomore Jordan Giordano. Giordano has a strong understanding of DSG and the potential opportunities for collaboration with the greek community.

For vice president of student affairs, we endorse freshman Lucy McKinstry. While her opponent, sophomore Madison Li, is impressive and shares many of the same objectives, McKinstry is a go-getter who cares deeply about issues including female mentorship. For vice president of community interaction, we endorse junior Genevieve Cody. Cody has tremendous experience and a realistic, creative and concrete vision that would serve her well in this capacity.

For vice president ofacademic affairs, we endorse junior Gina Ireland. She brings a fresh perspective to the position, with new ideas and the diligence to act on them.

The leadership of the Panhellenic Association feels confident that these students will fill their respective positions effectively and work strongly toward further unification of the undergraduate population Kate Guthrie Trinity ’OB President, Panhellenic Association

Duke Democrats endorse DSG candidates The Duke Democrats would like to endorse the following candidates. For president, we endorse Kristin Pfeiffer. Kristin demonstrates an ability to work closely and positively with the administration and with clubs, and is still able to remain strong on the issues without rousing antagonism. Kristin also wishes to see a diverse DSG. Although she understands the necessity of a smaller, decision-making body to move policy efforts, she welcomes the input and the concerns of any member of the Duke student body. She encourages any Duke student to seek close advisory spots to the presidency, including the cabinet. Kristin Pfeiffer brings a lot of openness and integrity to the table as a strong, committed female candidate—that is something Duke needs at this time. For executive vice president, we endorse Alex Crable. Alex demonstrates strength of ideas, a commitment to the issues and effectiveness in his working relationships with DSG. Duke Democrats is convinced that he can get the job done. Alex is also the most qualified candidate for getting increased funding to the various political groups on campus. He is committed to fostering increased political discussion on campus—something that is visibly lacking at this time.

For the VP of student affairs, we endorse Madison Li. Madison is a candidate that demonstrates integrity and authenticity. She is also a major proponent for diversity in DSG. Given her experience, we think she can offer a unique perspective to DSG. These decisions were incredibly difficult as several strong candidates were running for these positions. We wish all of the candidates the best of luck and hope that the Duke student body will participate in this important election.

Adam Mintz Trinity ’O7 President, The Duke Democrats Articles about commencement speaker off the mark Recently, I have read a disappointing series of articles criticizing Duke’s selection of CM CEO Rick Wagoner for this year’s commencement address. I shudder to think what must be going through Wagoner’s mind and heart as he reads these articles.

Wagoner runs a |2O-billion, iconic American company and is considered to be a thought leader of the business world. Additionally, he has consistently demonstrated a passion for serving his alma mater as a member of the Board ofTrustees. In a gesture of complete gratitude to Duke, he volunteered to give a commencement address to the Class of 2007. He does not deserve the disrespect and lack of appreciation that recent writers have articulated in The Chronicle.

There is no question that it is an honor to speak at Duke’s commencement, but students should recognize that it is a privilege to experience the power of a great speaker, not a right. I have the utmost confidence that Wagoner will give a powerful and memorable speech to the Class of 2007, who would do best to emulate his notions of gratitude.

Ethan Fleegler Trinity ’O6 Gratitude for outpouring from Duke family On Feb. 17, our family was faced with an unimaginable tragedy when we learned that my son, Officer Charles Callemyn, was killed while on duty with the Durham City Police Department. Prior to working with- the city of Durham, Charles served with the Duke Campus Police.

During this most difficult time, it has been a great comfort to see the way my Duke family has rallied around my family to support and encourage us. The amount of cards, letters, emails, flowers, prayers, visits, food and donations have been tremendous. It has helped so much to learn the number of people who loved and respected Charles and care for our family.

The purpose of the letter is to say thank you, but the mere words do not seem to say enough. Please continue to pray for our family as we learn to live with the loss of Charles.

Cathy Carter Assistant Director School ofArts & 1Sciences Arts & Sciences Facilities

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