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The Chronicle vi 32 KILLED IN VIRGINIA TECH MASSACRE 200 milesaway, Duke students hold vigil,admins offer support by

Gunman takes own life after deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history

by Sue Lindsey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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After violent shootings shook students and administrators on Virginia Tech’s campus Monday, members of the Duke community gathered last night to mourn and come to terms with the tragic events of the day.

Just 200 miles southeast of Virginia Tech’s home in Blacksburg, Va., Duke students said the news sent a shock wave through the campus. For some, the shock was followed by fear for friends and loved ones in Virginia, but for others fear was displaced by disbelief and worry that a similar event could take place at the campus they call home.

And for one group of students, the natural response to the news was to pray.

About 30 students gathered on the steps of the Duke Chapel for an emotional vigil and prayer session for the victims of the shooting, their respective families and the gunman Monday night.

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Students gather on the steps of the Duke Chapel as part ofa vigil for the students murdered atVirginia Tech.

BLACKSBURG, Va. A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history Monday, cutting down his victims in two attacks two hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warn students.

The bloodbath ended with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping die campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy, perhaps forever.

Investigators gave no motive for the attack. The gunman’s name was not immediately released, and it was not known if he was a student.

“Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said.

“The university is shocked and indeed horrified.”

But he was also faced with difficult questions about the university’s handling of the emergency and whether it did enough to warn students and protect them after the first burst of gunfire. Some students bitterly complained they got no warning from the university until an e-mail that arrived more than two hours after the first shots rang out.

Wielding two handguns and carrying multiple clips of ammunition, the killer opened fire about 7:15 a.m. on the fourth floor of West Ambler Johnston, a high-rise coed dormitory, then stormed Norris Hall, a classroom building a half-mile away on the other side of the 2,600-acre campus.

Some of the doors at Norris Hall were found chained from the inside, ap-

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An ambulance prepares to remove a body from Virginia Tech's Norris Hall, where 31 people died Monday.

parently by the gunman.

Two people died in a dorm room, and

31 others were killed in Norris Hall, including the gunman, who put a bullet in his head. At least 15 people were hurt, some seriously. Students jumped from windows in panic.

Alec Calhoun, a 20-year-old junior, said he was in a 9:05 a.m. mechanics class when he and classmates heard a SEE VA. TECH ON PAGE 6

Locals express relief University selects 4 to Lax Durham natives get honorary degrees eager to move on

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national media often portrayed Durham as a apart by race and class divisions that had been led by the then-fledgling lacrosse scandal, later, with the case’s conclusion last Wednesday, ich ofthe community is breathing a sigh ofrelief.

Days after all charges against the three former men’s lacrosse players were dropped, Durham Mayor Bill Bell said residents are ready for the healing process to begin.

“I’m convinced that this community will ,

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Duke will award four honorary degrees during this year’s commencement ceremony May 13, President Richard Brodhead announced Monday.

The recipients will be computer scientist Anita Jones, South African church leader Peter Storey, Tony Award-winning dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp and Florence Wald, who started the American hospice movement.

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Cleric pulls ministers out of Iraq gov't by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Cabinet ministers loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr quit the government Monday, severing the powerful Shiite religious leader from the U.S.backed prime minister and raising fears alSadr’s Mahdi Army militia might again confront American troops.

The U.S. military reported the deathsof seven more American service members: three soldiers and two Marines on Monday and two soldiers on Saturday.

In the northern city of Mosul, a university dean, a professor, a policeman’s son and 13 soldiers died in attacks bearing the

signs of al-Qaida in Iraq. Nationwide, at least 51 people were killed or found dead.

The political drama in Baghdad was not likely to bring down Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government, but it highlighted growing demands among Iraqi politicians and voters that a timetablebe set for a U.S. troop withdrawal.

The departure of the six ministers also was likely to feed the public perception that al-Maliki is dependent on U.S. support, a position he spent months trying to avoid, Late last year he went so far as to openly defy directives from Washington about legislative and political deadlines.

In an appearance with families of mili-

tary veterans, President George W. Bush said he had spoken with al-Maliki. “He said, ‘Please thank the people in the White House for their sacrifices, and we will continue to work hard to be an ally in this war on terror,’” Bush said.

White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said al-Sadr’s decision to pull his allies from the 37-member Cabinet did not mean al-Maliki would lose his majority in Iraq’s parliament.

“I’d remind you that Iraq’s system of government is a parliamentary democracy and it’s different from our system. So coalitions and those types of parliamentary democracies can come and go,” she said.

Spring storms pummel East Coast by

David Bauder

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CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. A menacing spring storm punished the Northeast for a second straight day Monday, dumping more than 8 inches of rain on Central Park and sending refrigerators and pickup trucks floating down rivers in one of the region's worst storms in recent memory.

“This one is really a horror show,” Gov. Eliot Spitzer said after touring hard-hit areas north of New York City.

The nor’easter left a huge swath of devastation, from the beaches ofSouth Caroli-

na to the mountains of Maine. It knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people and was blamed for at least 12 deaths nationwide, including a New Jersey man who drowned inside a car.

The storm showed no immediate sign of letting up. The National Weather Service predicted showers through Wednesday night in the New York City area, with rain mixed with snow at times.

The storm was especially harsh in the Westchester County suburbs north of New York City and in Newjersey, where the state was placed under a state of emergency and more than 1,400 residents were evacuat-

ed—many by boat.

Vermont got about 17 inches of snow, with flakes still falling Monday across sections of Pennsylvania, New York and Maine.

“We have incredible amounts of damage,” said Steve Costello, a spokesman for Central Vermont Public Service, describing power lines brought down by high wind.

“I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Newjersey authorities called it the worst storm to hit the state in 15 years. Five homes burned down in one town after fire crews could not reach the buildings because of floodwaters.

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Sudan agreed Monday to let 3,000 U.N. peacekeepers deploy in Darfur with attack helicopters, opening the door to the first significant U.N. force to help beleaguered African Union soldiers who have been unable to halt the region's four-year war.

Bush, Dems clash on war bill President Bush surrounded himself with military families Monday to push anew for a war-funding bill that isn’t tied to pulling U.S. troops out ofIraq. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev„ responded that Bush must choose between holding to "discredited policies” in Iraq or working with lawmakers on a new course.

McCain blasts GOP spending

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain chided his own party Monday as he called for an end to wasteful government spending and for a rededication to the

principles of free trade.

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President Hugo Chavez attempted to derail a U.S.-Brazil ethanol agreement as host of an energy summit Monday, offering his own development plans for South America using Venezuela's vast reserves of oil and natural gas. .

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Response: Strong gusts blast Duke, Durham Campus bus damaged, DA apology Durham Bull loses head not enough by

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Even though Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong issued an apology last Thursday to the three former Duke lacrosse players, some members of the University community are saying it was insufficient after his conduct throughout the case.

“I don’t think he can ever adequately apologize given his language and some of the excuses he used,” said junior Elliott Wolf, president of the Duke Student Government.

Nifong apologized for his mishandling of the case one day before appearing before the North Carolina State Bar, which charged him in January with ethics violations.

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Several studentssaid Durham DA Mike Nifong's apology did not make up for his behavior in the lax case.

The famous snorting bull at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park and a C-l bus were only two of the numerous victims of violent winds Monday, which also broke tree limbs and shattered windows before setding down in the late evening.

The high winds knocked the bull’s head off its pedestal atop the park’s left-field wall, and the head came crashing down onto the field. Minor league baseball players traditionally attempted to hit the bull—which appeared in die movie “Bull Durham” throughout the past 13 seasons in order to win a free steak from the Athletic Park.

“Mother Nature did what some pretty strong ballplayers never could,” Mike Birling, general manager of the Durham Bulls, told OurSports Central. “I hope she doesn’t expect her free steak, though.”

Although no catde were threatened around Duke’s campus, a C-l was en route to East Campus when a tree branch hit the rear of the bus. Other buses were delayed by fallen branches obstructing their routes, but no one was injured, said Peter Murphy, assistant director for transit operations.

“There were only four students on the bus [that was hit] —it wasn’t at a class change time,” he said.

The students on board the bus were not required to stay while members of Parking and Transportation Services surveyed the damage. Murphy said it was unknown whether the bus would continue operating as part of the C-l fleet, although it was driven back to East to be looked at.

PTS used detours—Swift Avenue for O 1 buses and the Nasher Museum of Art parking lot for 03 buses—to avoid the limbs that had fallen across the tree-lined streets connecting East, West and Central campuses, Murphy said. 02 buses did not require re-routing.

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Fierce winds downed trees across campus, including one thatfell on a C-l on Campus Drive around noon. when the wind caused a tree to burst through a window—showering the floor of their West Duke Building classroom with glass.

“A guy was closing a window, and he dove to the side when it was approaching—he was basically cowering in the corner,” freshman Zita Luo said. “People were straggling in, and [the professor] told people to watch out for all the glass in the back. We just kept going with class, but [th professor] took a minute t make sure the guy was oka Maintenance services s boarded the broken wii and posted a sign instructin dents not to enter the firsf classroom. Some classes, however, were still held

in the room later that afternoon.

Classes were not canceled, but some students said they were inconvenienced by the effects of the severe winds, which approached 30 mph.“l was walking to my morning class, and I felt like I was going to blow away,” junior CatherineFuentes said.

Though the winds gave way to a peaceful evening, the splintered wood scattered across campus, thewhisde of a more serene wind and the decapitated baseball nameited that the weather had not been calm throughout the day.

“It was a sad sight to see when I arrived this morning,” Biding said, adding that he had already contacted a “veterinarian of sorts” to attend to the bull’s missing head.

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Students will officially launch Duke’s chapter of the American Medical Student Association at a meeting tonight, creating the University’s first comprehensive undergraduate pre-medicine group.

AMSA is a national student organization representing physicians-in-training.

The Duke chapter plans to combine re-

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When students first arrive on campus, two of their main concerns are

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classes and choosing majors.

And although many do not know where to start, the Academic Advising Center is designed to be a primary resource for students in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. analysis Still, some have complained about the inefficiency of the advising process at the

University.

“The main responsibilities of the academic advisers are to help our new students make a successful transition to academic life at Duke,” Michele Rasmussen, assistant dean of Trinity College and director of the Pre-Major Advising Center, wrote in an e-mail.

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But although the center has created academic advising groups on East Campus as well as a new peer advising network, some students have continued to complain.

The primary criticism has been that faculty, though eager, are not knowledgeable about a student’s particular interest, sophomore Dan Freshman said. Some also say that many advisers do not have a broad enough range of knowledge, particularly for students who are unsure about their major when they come to Duke.

“From my experience, the academic advisers have little vested interest,” Freshman said. “They put little effort into advising.

Whether that is a factor of their lack of knowledge about advising, or if they simply are preoccupied elsewhere, I don’tknow.”

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sources with similar organizations on campus to help students find research and internship opportunities.

AMSA will also sponsor educational events so undergraduates can hear advice from physicians and medical students, and will help students network with people associated with the profession.

“The need was always there, there’s not a central pre-med organization at Duke for everyone,” said sophomore Alex Mathai, co-president of the AMSA chapter, noting that prior to the group’s launch, the only pre-med groups on campus were organized around race or ethnicity.

“There’s not a resource for information for guidance from older students [and] there’s no one really putting on informative sessions regularly for premeds,” he added.

The group is not being founded to replace the current pre-med groups on campus, but rather to create an “umbrella organization” of pre-med students, said sophomore Bilal Lateef, co-president of the AMSA chapter.

“Working together is going to make everybody’s projects more successful,” Mathai said. “When they do projects, we can help support that, and when we do projects, they can help support us, and it’s just everybody working together for the same goals.”

Lateef said he observed that some students were either becoming or dropping pre-med for the wrong reasons. He added that pre-med students tend to focus too much on grades and not enough on community service and work

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“Even though you may not be doing well in chemistry, don’t drop pre-med,” Lateef said. “Go to the hospital, shadow a physician, talk to different med school students.... We’re trying to bring an extracurricular component of pre-medicine to the students at Duke.”

AMSA will help the Health Professions Advising Center address student concerns direcdy and enable students to learn more about the resources HPAC offers, Mary Nijhout, associate dean of Mary Nijhout Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and interim director of HPAC, wrote in an e-mail. “[l] hope that AMSA will coordinate programming for pre-health students to make it clear that admission, especially to medical school, will require strengths in service and patient-centered activities,” she said.

Current projects AMSA is planning include a mentorship program between medical students and pre-med undergraduates, a program for pre-meds to sit in on medical school lectures and a program for admissions officers and medical students to critique pre-med students’ resumes.

“One of the things we want to do is to be a venue for student leaders to step up and lead projects,” Mathai said. “Every kid should have something they can talk about in... their application for med school ofhow they took a leadership role

doing something.”

Some students said they think AMSA will increase opportunities for pre-meds to learn about available resources and help them plan their four years at Duke.

“I’m pretty set on medicine, but I’m not exactly sure where to start—I don’t know which different types of medical schools are out there,” said freshman Upom Malik, a member of Duke’s AMSA chapter. “I basically expect away to organize my future.”

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Panel condemns Wal-Mart’s employee

by Lysa Chen THE CHRONICLE

One-stop shops like Wal-Mart and Tar-

get might seem like the best options for college students strapped for cash—but for employees, the low prices offered by such stores might come at a high cost.

Speakers from the Wal-Mart Food and Agricultural Workers Tour talked to students Monday night about the poor working conditions of farms and plants that make products for the superstore.

Several students said the presentation helped them appreciate the work that goes into the products they use every day.

“It was like, T was there, this is what happened and I am a fellow human being,’” senior Katherine Wingate said.

Lorena Ramos—one of three featured speakers —described her experiences working at the Smithfield Packing Company in Tar Heel, N.C. Ramos said Smithfield slaughtered about 24,000 pigs each day when she started working there, but the company was eventually killing around 32,000 pigs each day with the same sized staff.

“It is too much work for the same amount of people,” she said in Spanish, with the aid of a translator. “We had to work more quickly. We were cutting each other, our hands and legs. One woman almost lost her eye.”

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“[The vigil is] not just to console people, but also to know that there is a community that is here to support people and that as a community we need to act together,” said sophomore Ashley Dunfee, who attended the event. “We have a root that we act from and that ultimately should be the source of what we do and where we’re going.”

President Richard Brodhead, in a statement released to The Chronicle, recognized the magnitude of the events at Virginia Tech and emphasized efforts the University is making to reach out to membersof both the Virginia Tech and Duke communities who were affected by the tragedy.

“This is the deadliestcampus shooting in United States history and a profoundly sad day for everyone directly affected—and the nation as a whole,” Brodhead said. “On behalf of the entire Duke community, I express my condolences to those who are grieving at Virginia Tech. They are enduring a time of unspeakable loss this evening.”

John Burness, senior vice president for government affairs and public relations, said Brodhead also reached out following news of the event to Charles

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“Every month, there was a raffle for one item, and a group could win the item if they didn’t report any injuries,” Placencia said in Spanish, with the aid of a translator.

She added that when one woman hurt her finger in a carrot-cutting machine, the woman was too afraid to ask for medical help. “Her finger was almost completely detached, and she said, ‘Oh no, our team is going to lose the prize,”’ Placencia said.

Trina Tocco, campaign coordinator of the International Labor Rights Fund, emphasized that although the tour focused on Wal-Mart, the superstore was not the only perpetuator ofpoor working conditions.

“We talk about Wal-Mart, because it is a really good poster child,” Tocco said. “But don’t think for a second that others aren’t trying to aspire to Wal-Mart’s level.”

Senior Kyrsten Skogstad, a member of Duke Students Against Sweatshops, which co-sponsored the event, said she thought the presentation was a success.

“I didn’t recognize a lot of the faces, which is good,” Skogstad said. “There’s always a fear that you’ll be preaching to the choir.”

Tocco said students often feel detached from labor issues.

“We talk about globalization, some sort of vague notion, in the classroom,” she said. “But we forget that we’re part of this process just because we buy stuff.”

Injured workers were immediately sent back to their posts, and those who refused to work were fired, Ramos added.

Billy Harpe, who worked at Tyson Foods in Georgia for 15 years, said the biggest problem for workers there is that medical doctors are controlled by companies.

“They try to minimize treatment and put you back as fast as they can so they don’t cost the company any money,” Harpe said.

Harpe added that when he filed grievances against Tyson, his doctor made him return to normal work even though he was injured. As a result, Harpe said he developed carpal tunnel syndrome, Although many employees were hurt on the job, the speakers said their companies discouraged workers from complaining, Paula Placencia said the salad plantation she worked for used “incentives” to set employees against each other.

Steger, Virginia Tech’s president, to offer his sympathies.

Brodhead said the University is working to provide support for students on Duke’s campus who have been personally affected.

“StudentAffairs is in the process of trying to identify every Duke student with Virginia Tech connections and to make personal contact and to offer counseling,” he said. “Our Religious Life staff is also available for counseling and the Duke Chapel will be open as always for those who wish to seek a quiet place to reflect.”

The Duke Chapel and the Duke Religious Life staff have organized an interfaith prayer vigil to be held on the Chapel steps at 2 p.m. today.

“This vigil is a small gesture at being in solidarity with those in Blacksburg,” Craig Kocher, assistant dean of the Chapel and director of religious life, wrote in an e-mail to the student body last night.

Kocher said the vigil will include a time of silence followed by prayer and a bell toll for each person who died yesterday and will conclude with an open session for students to speak about the experience. Virginia Tech will be hosting a similar event on its campus simultaneously, Kocher said.

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Edens Quadrangle, said he understands complaints from students because it is impossible for an adviser to know about The University ofSouthern California’s every major.

Office of College Advising is run in much “I have had a really good experience the same way as Duke’s, said sophomore with advising,” Acton said. “I want to get as Nikke Soremekun, who works in the advismuch individual attention to each student. ing center there.

Trying to have a She said stugood concept of bidents are assigned ology and sociology “The main responsibilities... to advisers in their at the same dme and particular areas of just going back and are to help our new students interest. For some forth from one discimake a successful transition concentrations, pline to another is however, several not easy.” to academic life at Duke.” students can be asThe two-year pesigned to a single Michele Rasmussen riod that students adviser. are given in which director, Pre-Major Advising Center “It real! deto declare their mapends on what jors is helpful, exmajor they have cept it can be overchosen,” Soremekun said. “If they are in whelming if students are switching from the business school, they are not assigned one discipline to another, sophomore a specific adviser. For smaller majors, like Christian Holmes said. classics, students will receive one adviser.”

“Having advisers keep more close conShe added that advisers at USC, like tact with advisees would have been helpthose at Duke, help students declare their ful,” Holmes said. “Since students will not know exactly what they want when they get majors and choose classes for the upcoming semester. to Duke, they should have someone to talk USC sophomore Chris Reynolds, to who can advise them about their specifthough, said his advising experience has ic interests.” been anything but helpful.

Vickie Eason, an instructor in the De“My advisor was assigned to me the day partment of Biology, however, said she I got here,” Reynolds said. “I’m pretty sure tries to accommodate all students, even there aren’t any other choices for English if she is not familiar with their particular interests. Eason added that the Academic majors besides her, which is terrible, because she’s practically incompetent. She Advising Center is doing what it can to tells people she will give them access to place particular students with professors classes and then forgets to do it so that her who fit their needs. advisees end up not being able to get the “There are general ways in which we can classes they want.” help students even if they are not in our At Duke, Rasmussen said the advisers’ exact area,” Eason said. “It is much more main responsibility is to help a student’s helpful to have students paired up with adoverall transition to the University. visers in areas that they are going to potenIt is the role of individual departments’ tially major in. I have had the occasional directors of undergraduate studies as well student that is an economics or environas departmental faculty to help students mental sciences major and it’s much more discern major requirements. difficult for me to advise these students.”

“We take the work we do in academic adRasmussen said the Academic Advising vising very seriously and are continually Center is one of many resources for students. looking for ways to enhance the advising ex“Every Trinity student has access to an perience of our first-year and sophomore advising system that is not limited to a sinstudents,” Rasmussen said. “We still pay atgle person,” Rasmussen said. “From this tention to comments and suggestions from constellation of people, students can glean students and advisers and make enhancethe information they need to make inments to our electronic tools, training opformed decisions about their academic life at Duke and truly take ownership of their portunities and process accordingly.”

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thunderous sound from the classroom next door—“what sounded like an

enormous hammer.”

Screams followed an instant later, and the banging continued. When students realized the sounds were gunshots, Calhoun said, he started flipping over desks for hiding places. Others dashed to the windows of the second-floor classroom, kicking out the screens and jumping from the ledge ofRoom 204, he said.

“I must’ve been the eighth or ninth person who jumped, and I think I was the last,” said Calhoun, of Waynesboro, Va. He landed in a bush and ran.

Calhoun said that the two students behind him were shot, but that he believed they survived. Just before he climbed out the window, Calhoun said, he turned to look at the professor, who had stayed behind, perhaps to block the door.

The instructor was killed, he said At an evening news conference, Police Chief Wendell Flinchum refused to dismiss the possibility that a co-conspirator or second shooter was involved. He said police had interviewed a male who was a “person ofinterest” in the dorm shooting who knew one of the victims, but he de-

dined to give details.

“I’m not saying there’s a gunman on the loose,” Flinchum said. Ballistics tests will help explain what happened, he said.

Sheree Mixell, a spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the evidence was being moved to the agency’s national lab in Annandale, Va. At least one firearm was turned over, she said.

Young people and faculty members carried out some of the wounded themselves, without waiting for ambulances to arrive. Many found themselves trapped behind chained and padlocked doors.

SWAT team members with helmets, flak jackets and assault rifles swarmed over the campus. A student used his cell-phone camera to record the sound of bullets echoing through a stone building.

A White House spokesperson said President George W. Bush was horrified and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia. “The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed,” spokesperson Dana Perino said.

After the shootings, all campus entrances were closed, and classes were canceled through Tuesday. The university set up a spot for families to reunite with their children.

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Every year, Duke gives out honorary degrees to recognize extraordinary professional and personal achievement within a variety of fields.

“Each of those we honor was once upon a time starting out his or her own career, full of hope and promise,” Brodhead said in a statement. “Having these accomplished individuals with us at commencement gives our students wonderful images of how they might put their own learning to use in the future.”

A Christian minister and leader in South Africa, Storey served as professor of the practice of Christian ministry at Duke’s Divinity School from 1999 to 2006.

“Duke has come to mean a great deal to me, therefore to be honored by this fine University is both humbling and gratifying,” Storey wrote in an e-mail. “Apart from anything I may have done I would like to think that this degree recognizes the positive transforming role faith can play in the lives ofindividuals and society.”

In South Africa, Storey was active in the opposition to apartheid, writing sermons and organizing church resistance campaigns alongside Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Storey said these experiences provided him with the perseverance to achieve his humanitarian goals.

“I see those ingredients as still very much needed in the world our graduating students will be entering with the immense privilege of a Duke education,” he said.

Jones, who served as director of defense research and engineering for the U.S. government until 1997, is now a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the MIT Corporation and was a visiting lecturer in Duke’s Department ofCom-

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has written two books on comsoftware and systems and has won puter several awards, including the 2007 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Founder’s Medal and the Department of Defense Award for Distinguished Public Service.

Tharp, a nationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer, founded Twyla Tharp Dance in 1965 and served as lead choreographer with the American Ballet Theater until 1991.

She has created more than 120 works throughout her career, written two books and won three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award for the play “Movin’ Out.” Wald founded the first hospice in the United States and served as dean of Yale University’s School of Nursing from 1959 to 1968. She has been called a “living leg-

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Wald, who is turning 90 Thursday, remains a world-renowned leader in nursing research and hospice care. She was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1996 and the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1998.

The Committee on Honorary Degrees, a group of Trustees and faculty members, spends more than a year evaluating nominations from faculty, deans and Trustees, which are then approved by the Academic Council and the Board of Trustees.

“The group runs a whole gamut of things that people can do, yet every one of these individuals was judged to have made great contributions,” Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, professor of medicine and cardiology and

member of the committee, said of this year’s honorary degree recipients.

Members of the committee added that they seek nominees who can represent not only the undergraduate commencement experience, but also that of the graduate schools and the University as a whole.

“The University is a big and complex place and finding distinction in individuals who reaffirm Duke’s connection to all of those kinds of communities is an interesting job,” said professor of economics Roy Weintraub, who is also a member of the committee.

Although Duke usually awards an honorary degree to its commencement speaker, this year’s speaker Richard Wagoner—Trinity ’75 and chair and CEO of General Motors Corporation—is a Duke Trustee and is therefore ineligible to receive a degree.

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wrongly accused,” Nifong said in a statement. The Bar denied a motion Friday to

dismiss the serious ethics charges brought

against him.

Law Professor James Coleman, who has publicly spoken out against Nifong’s handling of the case on several occasions, said the apology failed to address key criticisms of Ni“I don’t think fong’s conduct as

don’t think it has to do with that so much as the fact he’s an elected official and the community is united in believing he handled the case badly.”

Several students said Nifong’s claim does not justify his actions throughout his handling of the case.

“He certainly claimed to have a whole lot of evidence—that was the entire point of the case,”

[Nifong] can ever adequately apologize given his language and some

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Hejlek said. “When he came into the media, he said it rock solid that him to say that he was of the excuses he used.” these guys did it. was wrong to conElliott Wolf He had to have duct the investigation in the way that enough evidence president, DSG then, or he was just he did, that he was wrong to indict these making it up.” students without havOthers critiing any facts on which he could base the cized Nifong—who did not meet with the prosecution [and] that he was wrong in indicted players to consider evidence the manner in which he condemned them against the accusations—for presuming publicly,” he said. “Anything short of that their guilt and publicizing it in the media. is simply trying to avoid having to acknowl“The fact of the matter is, even if there was evidence that he didn’t have, there edge what he has done.”

Senior Malik Burnett, president of was no evidence against the lacrosse playthe Black Student Alliance, however, neiers,” sophomore Ben Wales said. “He had ther condemned nor condoned Nifong’s nothing to prove their guilt, and it’s also shown he tried to hide DNA evidence, apology.

“We should all focus on rebuilding and which was potential exculpatory evidence for the [indicted players]. So, he really re-establishing relations within the comhad no leg to stand on.” munity,” Burnett wrote in an e-mail.

The embattled district attorney said in Some students, however, said apologizhis statement that North Carolina Attorney ing was the right move for Nifong, given General Roy Cooper, who last week dishis position. missed all charges against the three former “It was an honorable thing for him to men’s lacrosse players, had access to addido, even though it came very late,” sophotional evidence while reviewing the case. more Had Shankar said. “It was definitely “[Nifohg’s claim] sort of implies that something that needed to happen, but it Cooper’might have seen something that still doesn’t excuse what he did before.”

Nifong didn’t, which I think is just a really Nifong potentially faces being removed bad excuse,” Wolf said. “I think he’s just from office, and several campus leaders trying to deflect personal responsibility.” supported the charges brought against him.

Wolf added that the statement seemed “I really hope that the lacrosse players like a publicity measure to boost Nifong’s are very successful in taking every cent that image in front of the community rather Nifong has ever earned in his entire life,” than the Bar. Wolf said. “And I hope he resigns and/or “The State Bar is going to dispassionate- is disbarred as soon as possible.”

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move forward, and we’ve already begun to move forward,” Bell said. “The rela-

tionship the city has had with both [North Carolina Central University] and with Duke is stronger today than before.

As a community as a whole, I think

Durham handled itself very well.”

In Walltown—a neighborhood just off East Campus, near the North Buchanan Boulevard house where the accuser alleged she was assaulted last March—residents say they believe the situation was blown out of proportion and received excessive media attention.

“In the beginning, everyone jumped into it with the cameras, helicopters and even the [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People],” said a Walltown resident who asked not to be identified by name. “It was a whole big mess. It could have been handled a little bit slower.”

Trinity Park resident Tom Brothers said he believes that dropping the case was an appropriate decision, and that continued investigation of Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong’s conduct is warranted.

JerryJackson, another resident of Trinity Park, said the development of the lacrosse scandal led to a decreased amount of noise and disruption in his neighborhood. “I’m just glad the team’s not in the house anymore,” Jackson said.

“The parties went away. For the neighborhood, it’s going to be a net positive because they’re going to be private homes.”

The house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. was among 12 off-East houses bought by the University last year.

Charlie Parish, a Walltown resident, said she felt the case was mishandled and will cause irreparable damage to the three former Duke players.

Despite a general sense of relief that the case ended, some residents lamented that the case has had negative effects on the community.

“It’s been botched the whole time,” said James Henderson, a longtime resident of Southwest Durham. “It’s one of the biggest tragedies to the city of all time. It is a real black eye to Durham.”

Rony Camille, a senior at North Carolina Central University and editor of

the school’s student newspaper, the

Campus-Echo, said that when the news first broke, he noticed a range of reactions on NCCU’s campus—the school where Crystal Gail Mangum, the accuser in the case, was enrolled.

He added that most students are now happy the case has come to a close.

“I’d say it was much more of a relief because students were tired of this whole media coverage of Duke and NCCU and this whole case,” Camille said. “They want to focus on their studies. It would be better for us to move on and to focus on the relationship of Duke and NCCU and the community.”

Camille noted, however, that some students still held reservations about the dropped charges and were disappointed that the case was not pursued further.

“Some students were like, ‘Hey, I think it’s time to drop it.’ Others were like, [Mangum’s] been through a lot—that’s why she’s changing her story five or six times,’” Camille said. “There were a lot of mixed feelings.” ‘

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“What’s new?” Starsia asked John Danowski, a Mend and colleague Starsia has known for more than 30 years.

Of course, plenty was new.

Thursday was the day after the charges were dropped against three former members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team and two days before the then-No. 2 Cavaliers were set take on the fourth-ranked Blue Devils in front of a packed house in Koskinen Stadium.

Duke ended up beating Virginia with a thrilling sudden-death goal that made SportsCenter’s top plays Saturday night.

But everyone involved in the game knew the outcome on the field was less important than what happened last Wednesday in Raleigh, when North Carolina Attorney General declared David Evans, Collin Finnerty andReade Seligmann to be “innocent,” and the three players spoke emotionally to a national audience in their own news conference.

For the past 13 months, the media frencreated by the Duke case has stirred the lacrosse community nationwide. And although the most significant impacts of the scandal were felt by the indicted players , their families—and to all those related the Duke program—the effects have ripled throughout the sport.

Last spring, Starsia watched as his close Mend Mike Pressler—whom he had recruited as a player more than two decades ier—was forced to resign from his po-

sition at Duke, and as some mediaused the case’s image to condemn the behavior of college athletes, specifically lacrosse players.

“Last spring there was a sense of terror among college lacrosse coaches that they were coming to get the rest of us,” Starsia said. “In a very close community like college lacrosse, it affected us all in a very real way and quite dramatically.”

Outside of Duke, Starsia’s Virginia program was one that was particularly affected. Matt Ward, last year’s National Player of the Year while a senior for the Cavaliers, grew up with Evans and inscribed his initials on his helmet as Virginia marched to last year’s national title. And this spring, die Cavaliers got a fresh taste of the bitter circumstances surrounding Duke lacrosse when Pressler brought his Division II Bryant to Charlottesville to train with ginia for five days.

As the news media took the as an opportunity to focus on' ceptions of out-of-control hoi consumption and an overinflated sense of privilege within the lacrosse community, coaches like Starsia were forced to watch as the reputation of the sport they loved was tarnished.

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Exploring the Tuesday morning hate-mailbag Usually, I know that I’ve written a controversial column as soon as I’m done writing it. But I never know how controversial it is until I wake up the next morning.

As a general rule, if I wake up and I have an e-mail waiting dtm in my inbox, I know I wrote a very controversial column.

As a more specific aex rule, if I’m eating lunch and l a phone call and a threat, I know I just wrote a column about the time that Tyler Hansbrough thrust his face into Gerald Henderson’s elbow.

That afternoon, I got an IP relay phone call. IP relay is a fantastic invention that allows deaf people to talk on the phone: They type something to an operator, and the operator dictates the message to the person on the other end of the phone. Unfortunately, IP relay also allows people to ——

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‘You better watch yourself, Fanaroff,” the operator’s voice said. “Chapel Hill isn’t that far from Durham, and I know where you live.”

After I changed my underwear, I decided the person probably wasn’t serious. I also decided that they cared way too much about sports and probably had no life.

Anyway, there are two things that being a student sports columnist has taught me. The first is that I’m a terrible prognosticator.

I wrote two columns chastising members of the Associated Press for putting a team other than Duke in the top spot.

Both times, these members of the media were the only voters that didn’t have Duke No. 1. Both times, Duke didn’t win the title. Both times, the team that lone member of the media picked did.

Lest you forget, I’m the guy who started SEE FANAROFF ON PAGE 10

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For the past few weeks, Duke has gone up against the ACC’s—and the nation’s—best teams in games against No. 1 Florida State, No. 3 Virginia, and No. 2 North Carolina.

The non-conference matchups did not get any easier, as the Blue Devils had to stave off a late rally from Campbell and contain one of the top offenses in Davidson.

With just 16 games remaining in the regular season, though, it appears that Duke (23-15, 4-14 in the > h ACC finally gotten past the TONIGHT, 7 p.m. lts schedule and will not Jack Coombs Field meat °f likely face a ranked opponent for the rest of the season.

The closing stretch for the team begins today at 7 p.m. against UNC Greensboro (18-18, 6-6 in the Southern Conference) at Jack Coombs Field.

“It was nice to come out with some wins each weekend,” senior Jonathan Anderson said. “We can take advantage of these series and win two out of three—maybe sweep them—and we could find ourselves in the ACC tournament.”

With one surprise victory over each of their three top ACC foes, the Blue Devils have made positive strides yet still have plenty of room for improvement, head coach Sean McNally said.

The Spartans, meanwhile, come into tonight’s game in the midst of a midseason slump with losses in four of their past six games, half of which were by double-digit runs.

Against ACC teams this year, UNC Greensboro has gone 1-3, losing to North Carolina, N.C. State and JAMES RAZICK/THE CHRONICLE Wake Forest by scores of6-2, 6-0 and 14-3, respectiveMichael has been solid for Duke and held North in 10-8, the Freshman Seander relief year. early in ly, while defeating N.C. State, Carolina scoreless inthe ninth inning of the team's last winning effort.

On the stat sheet, Duke also owns a sizable advantage. The Blue Devils, even with some severe offensive droughts at times, still lead UNC Greensboro in 12 runs. The Spartan offense, while inconsistent, has struck nearly every batting category, including runs per for double-digit runs nine times this year, justthree fewer than game, total hits, doubles and triples. The only advanthe Blue Devils’ offensive production.

‘You can’t always look at the numbers,” Anderson said. tage the Spartans have is their power—they have hit six more home runs than Duke this season.

“We’ve struggled a little bit with our numbers in the ACC, and The pitching staff, with ace Tony Bajoczky, also yet I think we’re still a pretty solid club.” owns an advantage with an E.R.A. nearly half a run Nevertheless, the Blue Devils will finally get the chance to lower than that of UNC Greensboro’s. compete as the favorite for the first time in several games.

The Spartans, however, have shown potential to “Our blueprint is always the same,” McNally said. “We have win games by large margins. UNC Greensboro domibeen very consistent in our non-league games, and it’s somenated Davidson, 14-2, a team to which Duke gave up thing we’re looking to continue.” '

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The Train. And while I did get a t-shirt out of it, The Train derailed in the Sweet 16—never making it to its Final Four destination of Indy. The only time I was right was when I started The Anti-Train and predicted Duke Football would finish this season 0-12. But it’s not like you had to be a sports columnist to predict that.

The lesson: I’m a moron.

(The corollary to that lesson: You’ve been reading a moron for two years. Who’s the moron now?)

The second lesson has to do with that first lesson: Not only am I a moron, but the Internet allows people to call me a moron (and worse) every time they disagree.

Here are samples from my favorite hate e-mails. If you see yours on here, good work! You are particularly clever!

Written in Carolina Blue font: “YOU SIR, ARE A COMPLETE IDIOT AND IT’S NO WONDER WHY EVERYONE ACROSS THE COUNTRY HATES DUKE AND ALL THEIR ALUMNI/SUPPORTERS. WHY DON’T YOU SAVE US THE TROUBLE DOWN HERE AND JUST STAY UP NORTH AND ATTEND RUTGERS.” “Idiot.”

“I am honestly embarrassed for you. You should be ashamed of yourself.”

‘You are a dope. You should not be involved with work that deals with observing things and then telling other people about them. Swinging elbows in basketball without possession of the basketball is dirty business in basketball.” (THREE “basketballs” in one sentence!

That’s talent.)

“The moron store called, and they are out of you!”

(I’m a best-seller at the moron store! That’s much better than sitting in the back gathering dust.)

From an LSU fan, regarding The Train: “you are a [bundle of sticks] choo! choo!” (Check your dictionary) “May the best team win, but you’ve already proven you’re the best flamer out there in the AP.” (Note: I’m not a member of the AP.)

‘You don’t have to tide your e-mail ‘Very nice article’ or ‘Nice column,’ especially if you have a UNC e-mail address and I just wrote about how Hansbrough deserved to get hit in the face. I know what’s coming.”

“Tell the classless Mr. Fanaroff we in cajun country guess the train got DE-RAILED!!!”

There was also an e-mail that included one particularly ingenious fan’s rewording of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” about Duke’s loss to LSU in the Georgia Dome. Unfortunately, it was too long and dumb to include.

The fun thing about e-mail is that people can immediately call into question my sexuality and intelligence without even speaking to me. It’s kind of like IP relay, except less creepy. Technology is fun!

Anyway, here are a few things you should know about your hate e-mail. First, I read every e-mail that you send me. It makes me wonder why you’re reading a student newspaper, taking the time to look up my e-mail address on Duke’s website and sending me an e-mail. Also, I wonder how big a loser someone has to be to send an email to a 21-year-old telling him his opinion about sports is dumb.

If you’re sending me an e-mail at 10 a.m., why aren’t you at work? Is it because you care entirely too much about sports and got fired? Do you live with your

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Second, you don’t have to tide your e-mail “Very nice article” or “Nice column,” especially if you have a UNC e-mail address and I just wrote about how Hansbrough deserved to get hit in the face. I know what’s coming. It doesn’t get my hopes up.

If you’re going to slam me, at least tide the e-mail, “What A PoorExcuse of a Human Being,” so I can laugh at your terrible use of idioms.

Third, and finally, send me something meaningful.

Make a reasoned argument that disagrees with me.

Don’t just call me a moron. I know that already.

(Yes, I wrote this entire column just to prepare you for my “Let’s find a new men’s basketball coach” column next week. Why else would I do it?)

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major network’s national news programs, but chose not to for fear that his words could be misconstrued in a 20-second sound byte.

“It was never about sport of lacrosse —it was more a college athlete issue, and it happened to be a men’s lacrosse team,” Starsia said. “It was indicative for a period of time when people were cherry-picking to make their point. They could have found similar things on any college campus Many of the coaches were upset that issues like un“It was never about sport ing transferring to derage drinking of lacrosse—it was more a Harvard. were over-simplitransfied by outsiders college athlete issue, and it fer Harvard’s process, howevwho did not understand the climate happened to be a men’s er, is still a month or two away from compresent on college lacrosse team.” pletion, Anderson campuses. None of them condoned the Dom Starsia, said, and Finnerty and Seligmann will actions from the Virginia men’s lacrosse head both be considered March 13, 2006 by the admissions party —for which that office now the Duke players have since apologized—and the coaches charges are dropped.

At Duke, the win over the Cavaliers cathave used this as an opportunity to influapulted the Blue Devils to No. 2 this week, ence off-field behavior.

“There are a million lessons to be trailing only Cornell. As wins and losses learned—one is that athletes are very and poll standings will continue to grow in much in the public eye and subject to the importance now that the criminal legal issensationalism that was applied to this case sues have been resolved, Danowski said his by all differentforms of media,” said Scott program will continue to move forward.

“Some wise woman or man once said Anderson, Harvard’s men’s lacrosse head coach. ‘You can’t ignore that. It’s part of that there’s no such thing as bad publicity; the additional responsibility that comes in this case I’m not so sure if it’s applicable,” with the privilege of being an athlete and Danowski said. “When people who don’t know hear ‘lacrosse’ now they think ofDuke representing your school.”

Lacrosse. As we’ve said from the first day, The wounds from the past year will likely never heal completely—Starsia said he we’re going to try and use it as a positive.

“What other option did we really have?” had “never been witness to a most hurtful” ”

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situation—but Cooper’s forceful words last week were a step in the right direction.

At Virginia, Starsia watched the Attorney General’s press conference before telling his players that afternoon that the moment —the exoneration of the Duke players—was more important than lacrosse.

At Harvard, Anderson said there has been a “general shift in attitude” to be more accepting, even as residual effects of negative perceptions continue to be held by those who have not followed the case as closely. Anderson’s campus may get a chance to experience it more first hand, as both Finnerty and Seligmann are reportedly consider-

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silence saturat- filled with images of bloodied ed campuses across the young bodies, terrified faces country yesterday, as and drawn guns—bring viothe death toll at Virginia Tech lence and death close to home, climbed to at least 32 fellow stu- As young men and women now in college, we can dents. The deadGUltOTIdl only hope (alliest mass shootthough likely and ing in United States history can be described sadly in vain) to never see a day like this past Monday again. only as a true tragedy.

And during such times, To begin, as members of the Duke community we ex- there is a very human urge press our sincerest condo- to point fingers —to place lences to families and friends blame on administrators for of the deceased and wound- not responding effectively or ed and to the entire Virginia efficiently. But scenarios like Tech campus. Our hearts go those that played out yesterout to all of those in the Vir- day are extremely hard to ginia Tech community and prepare for. Hindsight is all of the students here at 20/20, and we cannot judge Duke who have been the Virginia Tech administouched by this shocking dis- trators with the knowledge we now have. We trust they aster in one way or another.

A tragedy like this makes us had students’ best interests pause to reflect upon our own in mind and do so still as mortality. Days like yesterday— they seek to recover from

[The vigil for Virginia Tech serves] not just to console people but also to know that there is a community that is here to supportpeople and that as a community we need to act together and that we have a root that we act from and that ultimately should he the source of what we do and where were going —Sophomore Ashley Dunfee on the Duke community’s response to the Virginia Tech shootings Monday. See story page 1.

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Monday’s tragedy does, however, provide an opportunity for Duke’s administrators

to examine their own emergency response procedures.

We depend on Duke administrators to keep us informed when urgent situations arise.

Although mass e-mail lists serve great informative purposes, a faster mass communication system must be devised to alert students in times of emergency. Because many students come from differing parts of the country, Duke must also devise a plan to inform families quickly or to make themselves available for inquiries in situations of mass chaos.

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the shock and horror of a day nobody can ever really

find that some media oudets displayed an almost-salacious interest in this story. The Washington Post ran an article tided “Virginia Tech’s Reputation Had Recendy Been Soaring,” which inappropriately dehumanized the catastrophe as something that could have an effect on image and ranking rather than something that did have a profound effect on human lives. Similarly, a reporter at a press conference asked what sort of effect this event will have on the school’s admissions. Such questions were both inappropriate and unanswerable. Subjects like Virginia Tech’s reputation can be addressed during another, more appropriate period.

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reached the end of the school year and finally the beginning of a resolution to the lacrosse scandal. I thought it only fitting to consider the lacrosse scandal from a religious perspective.

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community: Proverbs 16:18: “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”

One would think that a bom-and-raised North Carolina boy would remember the immortal words of great King Solomon—rumored to be the wisest man ever to walk the earth. The number of Sundays Nifong must have spent in an over-heated church basement should be in the thousands. Did he really never hear this timeless adage?

Not surprisingly, Mike Nifong attended UNC, and though his sense of rivalry runs a bit deeper than most who reside on Tobacco Road, the steadfast, irrational sense of loyalty that he developed during his college years obviously followed him into adulthood.

Matthew 7:3: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”

How could someone, even having read the story only once, forget the mental image of a man with a log coming out ofhis eye trying to scoop out a particle of dust from his friend’s eye? Surely little Michael Nifong heard this proverb during a bright Sunday morning in Wilmington. Unfortunately, he seems to have forgotten one of the most visually amusing parables of the New Testament. Tucked deep in the famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus exhorts the thousands oflisteners to make sure they have put all their own affairs in order before they begin to condemn (or “help”) others. Nifong’s professional ethics appeared to be shamefully underdeveloped, so it’s hard to believe he could really “help” our lacrosse players take responsibility for their own personal ethics. His “plank” literally blinded him from the facts of the case, which meant the “speck” of misbehavior was emphasized first instead of Mike’s

sponse of some reporters to the Virginia Tech shooting is yet another example of a feet we as Duke students know all too well—how shallow the media can be. The media must remember there is a human element to every event, particularly this tragic event, and they should not rush superficial sensationalism nor dehumanize questions of status.

Even though the media has immense power in portraying events and situations, we must remember that a period of coverage does not characterize or define a school in its entirety.

No matter how the media portrays a singular event, our schools are not defined by one moment. They are defined by their people, their resolve and their ability to overcome.

Virginia Tech, Duke’s thoughts are with you.

Sunday school crooked politicking and obsessive headhunting.

John 8:7: “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Jesus taunts the Pharisees as they bring before him. a woman who was caught in adultery. Many members of the Durham community, which boasts more than 1,000 religious groups, were quick to jump on the behavior of some Duke University college students one night last March.

Had our neighbors never found themselves in a situation they regretted? Their rush to judgment and loud call for atonement deafened their sense of compassion and understanding for mistakes.

In the end, there wasn’t evidence to pin any legal charge of misconduct or wrongdoing on our classmates, but preemptive stones lobbed at innocent students served only to further strain towngown relations. The community seems to have been confused —Jesus is who Sunday school teaches us to imitate, not the Pharisees.

Of course, theBible isn’t just about damnation; there are plenty of uplifting and inspiring verses that offer comfort and solace. But since Duke students are generally so “rowdy and disrespectful,” I figured they might not have time to read any of the Bible themselves. So I’ve gathered a few verses on behalf of those who never got to go to Sunday school. Considering students’ treatment by the communities of the Bible Belt in the last year hasn’t been especially friendly, they may not find themselves in a church any time soon and may find this quick lesson encouraging.

2 Corinthians 7:2: “Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.”

This is the plea of the lacrosse players and Duke students. After months of abuse from the media, our own Durham community, and especially our District Attorney, we implore to be accepted back into the hearts of the community as partners in a mission to make our corner of reality a better

place.

John 8:32 “Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.”

The truth, while always haunting the edges of Nifong’s investigation, has finally been set free by North Carolina’s Attorney General. Now Duties ask not only to be found “innocent” but also to be disassociated from the implications those allegations brought as well.

Whether you’re a Sunday school graduate or not, remembering a few words from the Good Book never hurt.

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

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Ambition been four years and I still don’tknow quite what to make of Duke. I’ve wondered what kind of a theme could explain this place. Something made us all come to this school, situated in a “challenging” town so farfrom many of our homes.

Contrary to one possible description, I don’t think Duke can be satisfactorily described as a safety school for top-tier Ivy applicants. While some colleges (I’m thinking of a visit to Tufts I made in my senior year of high school) virtually reek of resentment for more prestigious institutions, I don’t think Duke has any such inferiority complex. One of the most redeeming qualities of discussions I’ve witnessed about how to change Duke is that we tend to compare ourselves not to other schools, but to a version ofDuke as it can and ought to be.

No; if anything, we seem to have an overabundance of confidence, a pride that comes with a top-10 rank but the simultaneous conviction that our social atmosphere trumps anything to our north (in terms of ranking or

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geography).

Having only gone here, it would be hard for me to comparatively judge either our academic or social strength, even if at times I’ve had doubts about both. What I do know is that the tension bedave kleban tween the two—the tension that super-achievers at Duke leather-bound books are miraculously supposed to have resolved—is not the non-issue that incoming freshmen often believe.

Rolling Stone’s breathless portrayal of a vapid, hedonistic den of iniquity filled with status-minded “core fours” and “Duke 500 members” went a little overboard. Still, it exemplified two of the revelations about “campus culture” that came in the fallout of the lacrosse case: many of us spend a lot more time worried about drinking and going out than about taking an active approach to academics, and many people here are a lot more superficial than you’d expect a bunch ofchild geniuses to be.

On the one hand, a sense seems to prevail among many that $40,000+ per year (a figure Dukies love to cite until after a while they realize that it is more crass than endearing to do so) buys a lot of things —most importandy, a prestigious degree and its trappings, attained while having fun. This sense ofentidement can be stifling to the academic ambition of people who are smart enough to do just well enough, without having to work at it too hard.

By this account, if there is one thing that provides an unfortunate theme songfor Duke, it may be the corafiness of undergraduates who stand to inherit their upper-middle-class legacy—with no more effort than what it takes to passively move through here.

But on the other hand, the initial, lacrosse-bome cries against “white male privilege” have lost some of their sparkle, considering that it was the players’ money that first made them attractive targets for a politically symbolic railroading, then enabled them to pay a year of fees to the brilliant lawyers who—along with the truth—have set them free.

Before and during the lacrosse case, members of the team were cited as the epitome of the “privileged” mentality. I don’t know whether that was ever really accurate, but I do know that such a charge can never be leveled against the three formerly indicted players again. Take Collin Finnerty’s promise to “do everything I can to help others who face a situation similar to the one I had over the last year,” which rings of a sincerity that makes Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong’s early statements in the case—a means to his political end—now seem utterly grotesque.

It signals a departure from the passivity that can often reign at Duke; it shows a purpose, perhaps even a cause.

But what’s to become of the rest of us, the ones who haven’t been forced to reevaluate things in light of such a trauma? Students of a university that through “outrageous ambition” has catapulted itselfinto the ranks of schools two and three times as old, but in that glorious and garish nouveau-riche sort of way: partly by admitting the children of wealthy donors, regardless of whether they meet any sort of academic starldards.

Endowed with brand new tobacco money, cut from the North Carolina wilderness and built from Gothic-looking stone purchased at a discount rate, Duke exhibits the American Dream in its gaudiness and loveliness and shows what ambition can lead to.

But meanwhile, it is host to an atmosphere that many accuse of lacking true academic ambition. One of my.professors noted that unlike many other top-tier schools, Duke does not endow its undergrads with the sense that they will be the country’s future leaders. Professionals, perhaps; but for the time being, not presidents.

My career as a columnist here will end not with a bang, but with a whimper. A quiet question, perhaps rhetorical: At a school created by outrageous ambition, what are we to make of the fact that so many don’t seem to share it?

DaveKleban is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

This is his final column.

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lettertotheeditor Brodhead’s statement to the community isn’t enough I read with great interest the comments made by Duke’s President Richard Brodhead, which were recently posted on Duke’s website. It seems as though Brodhead has suddenly acquired the “intestinal fortitude,” so to speak, that had previously been absent, given his comments and remarks regarding the Duke lacrosse case. In the past year, your university has been part of a “media circus” with extensive reach and considerable frequency. There are many questions that remain unanswered, that should be addressed by Duke’s senior administrator: Why has the University tolerated the despicable behavior of the 88 professors who signed off on an ad that in essence supported Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong’s outrageous allegations? Was this simply part of “business as usual” for a university that is clearly out of synch with it’s own mission statement, common sense and the principle of “assumed innocent under the law.”

Nowhere in Brodhead’s statement did I see an

apology to former head lacrosse coach Mike Pressler.

This is a man who dedicated his life to Duke and the exceptional athletes that he served. In Brodhead’s rush to judgment, the team’s season was cancelled and Pressler lost his job. This is a man who in 2005 was the Coach of the Year. Duke’s faculty and administration did not want to wait for all the facts to be presented —and many at Duke were clearly indifferent to the truth. It’s no wonder that the two students who were invited by Duke to return to school after the rape case was dropped have not yet accepted the offer. What does that say about the compassion and understanding shown by their former teachers and the Duke administration? Can you blame them? If my son’s image was splattered all over campus on bogus “wanted posters” created by Duke faculty members I would be seriously considering major litigation not only against Nifong, but Duke as well.

Bill Cleary Saratoga, Calif.

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Nifong isn’t the only one whose career is President Tallman Trask assured me April 5 that spiraling out of control these days. Just ask top Duke was not among the more than 400 colleges and executives at America’s largest student loan universities that have received warning letters from corporations, who may find themselves disgraced and the New York attorney general. Of that we can be discarded soon, too. proud.

But we’re not necessarily in the clear, either. As And if the results of blistering investigations by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the Robert Berdahl, president of the Association ofAmerican Universities, noted an e-mail message to members NewYork Times are any this week, “Given the current media environment, even indication, that fate is if you find that your student aid office is doing nothing richly deserved Consider the case of illegal, you should also ask if your student loan business arrangements, policies and practices can stand the test Student Loan Xpress, offull public disclosure.” where managers sysIndeed, Trask admitted that the scandal has prompttraded tematically ed the University to review its dealings with loan comcash, stock options, expanies, and with mixed results. He said officials are otic vacations and even hntlpr Lrictin KIISUII Duller “trying to run down” one or two “little deals” of congraduate school tuition cern—whatever that means —and that “to the extent loan for with all deliberate speed in exchange that there was any flow in our transactions, it all went business. This scandal back into financial aid.” That doesn’t exacdy inspire goes all the way to the confidence, total now does it? like Columbia, officials at elite universities top; Andrew Cuomo is willing to help. though, the of Southern CaliforHappily, University Hopkins, Johns nia and the University of Texas at Austin have all He has turned out a set of guidelines for universities that will safeguard students from today’s abuses. been implicated.

Cuomo’s plan particularly emphasizes the need for Add to that a related investigation that recently universities —including Duke—to fully inform students forced six schools—the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Syracuse University, Fordham how “preferred lender” lists are constructed and to disclose any “financial benefits the school receives for putUniversity, Long Island University and St. John’s Uniting a lender on the list.” Administrators should emversity—to reimburse students for a total of $3.27 million in inflated loan charges. The higher rates were brace these principles without delay.

But undergrads who depend on federal loans to afconcealed within “revenue sharing agreements” beford their college educations remain as vulnerable as tween schools and loan companies, enriching the uniever to lenders who fear no consequences for their acversities at the expense of their students. tions. Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest lender, recently And just this weekend, The New York Times resettled the abuse lawsuit against it for just $2 million vealed that some lenders were actually paying colto leave the federal “direct loan” leges program, which is a slap on the wrist, less than Principal Executive which is run by the government in order to keep loan Officer Thomas J. Fitzpatrick’s bonus in 2006, not to costs down. Executives are publicly claiming that the mention his $16.6-million base salary.

Compare that to another case where the National multimillion-dollar “opportunity loans” they offered Education Loan Network (another lender) was alinstitutions like Indiana University do not violate federal laws banning incentives; in private, however, they lowed to keep $278 million it improperly received from the department of education from 2003 to 2005. warned officials at schools like the University of Virginia that a similar deal “had the potential to violate” Or how about the Washington Post’s recent discovery that lenders have been illegally “mining” (read: stealfederal law. words, other this has rotten to the ing) private student records in the National Student In grown industry core. Cuomo, who spearheaded the investigation that Loan Data System?

Clearly this is a system without accountability. Comuncovered these abuses, likened his findings to “peelare guaranteed a high rate of return on their onion,” an “We have demonstrated that this panies ing saying, loans from the government, and they are protected by is not just the exception. This is the rule.” Cuomo particularly lamented the fact that “more schools and law from default. Yet the consumers of those loans—more lenders at the top” were turning up in his inquiry. students like you and me, who depend on the assistance to afford college —enjoy no such safeguards This was especially common among companies comwhen unscrupulous lenders take advantage. peting for spots on colleges’ “preferred lender lists” from which 85 percent or more of the students ultiKristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every mately select their lender.

So where is Duke in all this? Well, Executive Vice Tuesday.

Mike

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THE CHRONICLE

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EXHIBITIONS, DISCUSSIONS, £ SCREENINGS

21 SATURDAY Blood and At Theater 2007: New Works Festival. Presented by the Dept, of Theater Studies. Plays written, directed,

produced by students. Bpm. Brody Theater, East Campus. $5 Gen. Public; $3 Students/Sr. Citizens. Note: Tickets at door. &

Paper Hand Puppet Intervention.

Triangle favorites, this company entertains educates with larger-than-life puppets zany characters that help us see how we can protect the environment the world we all share. 1lam. Angle Amphitheatre, Duke Gardens. $5 All Ages. &

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African American Theater Workshop: This Is Madness. Culminating performance by African American Theater class.

Bpm. Brody Theater, East Campus. Free.

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2i SATURDAY The Ciompi Quartet with Jane Hawkins, piano. Pianist Jane Hawkins joins the Ciompi Quartet to dose their 41st season w/ a program that indudes Schubert’s String Quartet inA Minor, Gyorgy Kurtag’s Six Moments Musicaux, C£sar Frank’s Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor. Bpm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. $l5 Adults; $8 Youth; $5 Duke Students.

Chamber Music Recital. Featuring student groups. 7pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

24 TUESDAY Musical Theater Workshop.

Culminating performance by Musical Theater class. Bpm. Brody Theater, East Campus. Free.

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If THURSDAY Quartet. “First Course” concert discussion. 5:30 social half-hour, 6pm performance. Goodson Chapel, Divinity School. $5 at the door.

Ciompi &

If THURSDAY Duke Wind Symphony. David Rockefeller, conductor. Bpm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

20 FRIDAY Sacred Voice Recital: Roman Testroet. Ipm. Memorial Chapel, Duke

21 SATURDAY 22 SUNDAY

25 WEDNESDAY Solo Performance Class Workshop.

Culminating performance by Solo Performance class. Bpm. Brody Theater, East Campus. Free.

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ChoreoLab 2007: Celebrating Clay. After 20 years of dancing, choreographing, & teaching for the Duke Dance Program, Clay Taliaferro will

mark the spring of 2007 as the final semester of his distinguished career as a Professor of the Practice of Dance. Bpm Saturday; 3pm Sunday. Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center. $l5 General; $5 Students.

27 FRIDAY Duke Chorale. Rodney

Wynkoop, dir.

Chorale Celebration: choral music, food, drink around the fountain. Bpm. Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

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28 SATURDAY Duke String School. Dorothy Kitchen, dir. Spring Festival. 3, 4, 7pm. Baldwin &

Auditorium. Free.

Chapel.

20 FRIDAY Rare Music. The Oboe Revealed. A demonstration w/ Joseph Robinson, former principal oboist, NY Philharmonic.

The Rare Music Series is sponsored by DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections) Duke University Libraries. 4pm. Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Free.

Duke Opera Workshop. Susan Dunn, dir. “Incognito: Opera in Disguise,” featuring scenes of deception mistaken identity from Cost fan Tutte, The Marriage ofFigaro, Fidelia, performed in English w/ piano accompani&

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ment, costumes, 8c staging. 2

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6pm.

Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

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0 FRIDAY

28 SATURDAY

Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra.

Featuring Gil Evans protege Schneider & her orchestra. Part of the Duke Jazz

Festival. Bpm. Page Auditorium.

$25/$2O/$l5 Reserved; $5 Duke Students.

12SUNDAY Chapel Choir and Duke Chorale Spring Oratorio. Serge

Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, Joseph Achron’s Servicefor Sabbath Evening.

Rodney Wynkoop Allan Friedman, conductors. 4pm. Duke Chapel. $l5 General, First 300 Duke Students Free. &

TICKETS:

0 FRIDAY Collegium Musicum. Kerry McCarthy, dir. J. S. Bach & the German Motet. Bpm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

Call 919-484-4444 or order online: www. tickets.duke, ed u

Emerson String Quartet. The preeminent string quartet of today concludes the Chamber Arts Society season w/ a program of Beethoven, Bartok, Brahms, & Nielsen.

Bpm. Reynolds Theater. $25 Adult; $l5 Youth; $5 Duke Students.

II FRIDAY 12 SATURDAY -

Hoof *n* Horn Presents: Guys Dolls.

Bpm Friday; 2pm 9pm Saturday. Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center. $lO All Ages, Reserved Seating. &

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Screes Society info:

929-660-3356