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A six-page internal report on the Durham Police Department’s conduct during the lacrosse case has left some calling for an external investigation.

Some critics said the report failed to claim DPD’s responsibility for perpetuating false charges against David Evans, Trinity ’O6, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, and ignored the inquiry’s central questions.

“I would not be surprised if [an independent investigation] would uncover conduct that was criminal in nature as it relates to obstruction of justice and creation of evidence,” Joe Cheshire, an attorney for Evans, wrote in an e-mail.

The internal inquiry, commissioned by Durham City Manager Patrick Baker, was delivered May 11 by Durham Police Chief

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President Richard Brodhead announced May 1 the appointment of Phail Wynn, outgoing Durham Technicial Community College president, to a newly created position that will oversee DukeDurham relations.

As vice president for Durham and regional affairs, Wynn’s planned role in the administration will include overseeing all communityrelated aspects of public relations—a responsibility currently Phail Wynn handled by John Burness, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Wynn will step into the position following his Dec. 31 retirement from Durham Tech—where he has served as president since 1980.

The decision to separate public relations efforts into two distinctive spheres will allow the University to better reach out to both the local and national communities, Brodhead wrote in an e-mail.

“Through time, [Bumess’] job has become simply bigger than one person can do,” he said. “The Phail Wynn appointment gives us the means to concentrate more

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The majority of the report describes the leading to the indictments, focusing on the witness identification process. A portion also describes efforts by the DPD to obtain exculpatory evidence to exonerate the three indicted former lacrosse players.

The memorandum from Baker that contained Chalmers’ report stated that the “ultimate question that will be the legacy of this matter is why it took the criminal justice system nearly 13 months to reach the conclusion that the allegations of rape, sexual assault and kidnapping were unfounded.”

Jim Cooney, who represented Seligmann, and Cheshire said they had serious events

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The Board ofTrustees approved a $l.B-billion budget during their May meeting this weekend that will bring some major goals of the University’s new strategic plan fruition.

The fiscal year 2007-2008 budget, which sees revenues jump 9.9 percent and expenditures increase 8.5 percent, will fund the initiative and ni Tj/r new DukeEngage Duke’s Global Health Institute, GLOBAL among other projects, “This is the first budget since the release of Duke’s strategic plan and it does a great job of supporting the University’s values and to

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The 34 students from Fuqua School of Business, who were charged by the University Judicial Board with cheating by collaborating on a take-home exam last month have until Thursday to file an appeal, officials said.

The Judicial Board handed down punishments to the first-year masters of business administration program candidates in a required first-year course, ranging from expulsion to a failing grade in the class. Four of the students that were investigated were found not guilty of any Honor Code violations.

“Each case is unique and complex, and the charge to the Judicial Board is to take great care in considering the individual circumstances surrounding each,” Fuqua Dean Douglas Breeden said in a statement.

Michael Hemmerich, associate dean for strategy and institutionalresearch at Fuqua, confirmed that some of the candidates charged were international students.

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Anti-war Democrats WASHINGTON in the Senate failed in an attempt to cut off funds for the Iraq war on Wednesday, a lopsided bipartisan vote that masked growing impatience within both political parties over President George W. Bush’s handling of the four-year conflict.

The 67-29 vote against the measure left it far short of the 60 needed to advance.

More than half the Senate’s Democrats supported the move, exposing divisions within the party but also marking a growth in antiwar sentimentfrom last summer, when only a dozen members of the rank and file backed a troop withdrawal deadline.

“It was considered absolute heresy four months ago” to stop the war, said Sen. Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, author of the measure to cut off funds for most military operations after March 31, 2008.

Ironically, the vote also cleared the way for the Democratic-controlled Congress to bow to Bush’s wishes and approve a war funding bill next week stripped of the type of restrictions that drew his veto earlier this spring.

Democrats vowed in January to force an end to the war, and nowhere is the shift in sentiment more evident than among the party’s presidential contenders in the Senate.

For the first time, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Barack Obama of Illinois and Joe Biden of Delaware joined Sen.

Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz sought a face-saving resignation Wednesday. The negotiations took place as the bank's board deliberated Wolfowitz'sfate.

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Chris Dodd in lending support to the notion of setting a date to end U.S. participation in the war.

Clinton, the Democrats’ presidential front-runner in most early polls, has adamandy opposed setting a date for a troop withdrawal, and she gave conflicting answers during the day when asked whether her vote signified support for a cutoff in funds.

“I’m not going to speculate on what I’ll be voting on in the future,” shesaid at noon.

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Republicans voted unanimously against the measure, and several judged it harshly.

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the GOP leader, said it fixed a “surrender date” for the United States.

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The University reached a settlement last week with Kyle Dowd, Trinity ’O6, regarding a civil suit the former student filed against Duke and Kim Curtis, a visiting associate professor of political science.

In the suit, Dowd, a member of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team, alleged that Curtis gave him an unfair grade after the March 13, 2006 party that led to allegations of rape, sexual assault and kidnapping against three members of the lacrosse team.

Court documents from the suit stated that Dowd had received ‘C’s on assignments submitted before March 13, but received ‘F’s on his final assignment and for class participation and was ultimately given an ‘F’ in the course. After an appeals process last summer, however, Duke changed the grade from an ‘F’ to a ‘D’ and accounted for the original grade as a “calculation error.”

When Dowd filed suit in December, he requested a change on his transcript from ‘D’ to ‘P’ to indicate a passing grade in the class and sought $60,000 in damages.

A joint statement released by University officials, Dowd and his family stated that Dowd received a ‘P’ on his transcript as a part of the agreement. It, however, did not address any monetary retribution. The statement also did not address the future of Curtis, an original signatory of the “Group of 88” ad placed in The Chronicle last spring.

University officials were not immediately available for comment for this story.

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Other than being two of the most-read playwrights in history, Sophocles and Shakespeare share another common

thread—a knack for wridng gruesome but also unforgettable scenes.

Likewise, Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter who was a senior majoring in English, graphically described murder and violence in two plays he wrote for a class in the fall of his senior year.

One difference between the wellknown playwrights and Cho, however, was that their words stayed on the stage and Cho’s played out in real life.

Since the Virginia Tech massacre April 16, critics have questioned whether university administrators and professors could have taken further steps to prevent the shooting. Specifically, they have focused on Cho’s two plays—“Mr. Brownstone” and “Richard Mcßeef,” in which a 13-year-old threatens to kill his stepfather.

“There is that understood latitude in creative writing,” Duke English Professor Deborah Pope wrote in an e-mail. “There has to be that room to reach deeply. Not least of all because some of the greatest writers we know have written about quite disturbing events and characters. Many of the Greek plays and Shakespeare, as just two examples, are full of gore.”

In the English department at Duke, students can take a number of courses that either integrate creative writing into the curriculum or focus solely on it. Pope, who teaches creative writing, said she is not aware of an official policy on regulating a student’s creative writing.

“I don’t know how there could be,” Pope said. “It must rest with a teacher’s individual judgment.”

Creative writing in college is a delicate issue because professors oftentimes encourage students to express themselves freely in their writing but at the same time must recognize when highly imaginative writing signals problems in the personal lives of the student.

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Dark plays penned by Virginia Tech shooterChoSeung-Hui have raised questions about disturbing studentworks.

“I read both of [Cho’s] short plays. I was pretty horrified and disgusted because I hate violence,” said senior and English major Stephen Lee. “I haven’t written anything equally violent or disturbing.”

Lee said he sometimes feels self-conscious about sharing his writing that is particularly grotesque due to fear of how other students might react. He added, however, that his creative writing professors have never censored a student’s work just because it was violent or disturbing.

“At Duke, I have read some disturbing stories written by fellow students, but I’ve never felt remotely endangered because the author has always been able to explain and defend his or her creative choices,” Lee wrote in an e-mail.

A senior in Cho’s playwrighting class, Steven Davis, told The New York Times that after reading Cho’s play “Richard Mcßeef” one night, he turned to his roommate and said, “This is the kind of guy who is going to walk into a classroom and start shooting people.”

After noticing a pattern of odd behavior from Cho—which included taking pictures of women with his cell phone camera in a poetry class in his junior year

and a taciturn personality, Lucinda Roy, chair of the English department and co-director of the creative writing program at Virginia Tech, began to tutor Cho privately.

Roy and other professors took further steps to ensure that counseling was sought for Cho, who was ordered to attend a psychiatric facility in late 2005.

But their actions were not enough to prevent the shooting.

“Fortunately, I have never had to deal with writing that struck me as truly psychotic or sadistic,” Pope said.

“When 1 heard that the Virginia Tech’s writing teacher, of all people, had raised red flags, my first reaction was, ‘My god, it must have been something really, really, unsettling—it must have just been completely over the edge.’”

English major Melanie Garcia, Trinity ’O7, said the way she approaches writing is to write about things that mean a lot to her.

“By writing things down that are personal, I make them permanent—they become something outside of me,” she said. “If it were a painful memory, it would not be as painful.”

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“With a DMCA notice, we ask the university to connow find their music collections costing them much tact the user and request that they stop distributing the material, but we never know the user’s identity,” she more than if they had paid for them outright.

The Recording Industry Association of America said. “These prelitigation letters are notices of an immailed prelitigation letters to 35 Duke students May 2, pending lawsuit.”

In May, five congressmen sent a survey to Duke —as telling them they either had to settle claims of copyright infringement out of court for a reduced sum or well as 19 other universities receiving the highest number of illegal downloading notices —asking the Univerface a lawsuit.

Students who do not choose to settle within 20 days of sity to outline internal policies regarding campus receiving the notice will be sued for minimum damages downloading.

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is the ranking Republican of $750 per song. member of the House JudiThe letters, which identified network users solely by IP adciary Committee and co-author of the questionnaire dress, were sent by the RIAA to “Our student use does sent to Duke. According to Duke’s Office of Information politicalmoneyline.com, Technology. OIT then deternot allow illegal downloading, which provides records of mined the students’ identities and we encourage students to contributions, campaign and forwarded the notices via eSmith received more than mail and land mail. a But not I’m avoid that activity. $lO,OOO from the recording Executive Vice President Tailpolice oficer.” industry, including $7,500 man Trask said the University from the RIAA’s political acconsidered refusing to identify Tallman Trask tion committee. the network users, but ultimately decided to forward the notices. executive vice president, Duke University “Our student use policy does not allow illegal down“We felt we had an obligation m to inform students about these loading, and we encourage students to avoid that activiletters,” said Trask. “Withholding the letters would do them a disservice.” ty, but I’m not a police officer,” Trask said. “[The UniverThe nodces are part of a new RIAA enforcement prosity] does not monitor network content, and we won’t go music downin in and look at network content except in extraordinary to implemented February gram target circumstances or when legally required.” loading on college campuses.

University officials are currendy planning their re“The escalation in the volume of legal action initiated against university network users is in response to response to the survey in addition to the recent prelitigasearch indicating that the problem of music theft is tion notices, he said.

“Although the letter came from a congressional comparticularly acute on college campuses,” RIAA Director of Communications Jenni Engebretsen told The mittee, it looked like the RIAA wrote it,” Trask said.

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Until May 2, Jordan Greene, Trinity ’O7, held the disAccording to the RIAA, more than half of college tinction of being the only Duke student who had restudents download music and movies illegally. The ceived a prelitigation notice from the RIAA. Greene, who was informed about the suit by Moneta RIAA’s website cites a study conducted by market research firm NPD, which found that college students in 2003, said the RIAA created a dummy account on alone accounted for more than 1.3 billion illegal music Kazaa, one popular peer-to-peer program, to take screenshots ofit downloading songs from his account. downloads in 2006. said that more than 500 students have Greene did not respond to the settlement offer and Engebretsen settled since the enforcement program began. is currently facing a suit with damages of $750 for Although the RIAA declined to provide average set- each of the six to 10 songs identified by the RIAA plus tlement amounts, offers typically range from $3,000 to legal expenses.

“I’d rather go to jail than pay them,” Greene said, $5,000, according to a mass e-mail sent in March by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. adding that his outlook could change if the RIAA is able Engebretsen explained that the prelitigation letters to garnish wages from future employment.

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President Brodhead has appointed current Durham Tech President Phail Wynn to a new vice presidency for Durham issues effective Jan. 1.

V.P. from page 1 energy on Durham and regional affairs while leaving John Bumess free to concentrate on communications issues.”

Wynn said in a statement that the new position will allow him to bring to Duke the passion for education and community interaction that he developed at Durham Tech.

“My 30 years at Durham Tech have allowed me to focus on areas that I care passionately about; education and training and economic development and community development,” Wynn said. “This new opportunity will allow me to continue this professional focus through assisting Duke University in its ongoing efforts to be an advocate and partner for economic and community development in Durham and the region.”

Burness wrote in an e-mail that he looks forward to working with Wynn as they jointly strive to improve the University’s public communications.

“I am a big fan of Dr. Wynn and think he is the ideal choice to take on the new job,” he said. “I am looking forward to working with him during his transition from Durham Tech to Duke this fall and thereafter as he assumes that portion of my portfolio associated with Durham, [and] as I focus more of my time on institutional communications.”

Brodhead said Wynn’s experience as an administrator at Durham Tech and his role within the community make him qualified to helm the regional arm of public affairs.

“Phail Wynn is one of the most highly regarded community college leaders in the country and has worked with many, many employers to devise the education needed to create the workforce they require,” Brodhead said.

“As a result, he has an almost unique understanding ofeducation and the economy in this region and of the interdependence of the two.”

Once Wynn assumes the position, he will develop projects involving Duke and local academic organizations such as Durham Public Schools, North Carolina Central University and Durham Tech, the statement said. He will also work toward economic renewal in areas near campus, including Ninth Street and downtown Durham.

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“Those convicted come from four different continents and several countries,” Hemmerich said. “There are both domestic and international students involved.”

Recently, expelled students from abroad at other colleges such as Illinois State University have lost their student visas and have been deported to their home countries.

Hemmerich said although he was unsure if any students had filed an appeal, most students do appeal Judicial Board decisions. He added that he expects students to wait until the last minute to enter the appeals process.

“The [appeals] committee will have 10 business days to render a decision once students file for an appeal,” Hemmerich said. “I expect that this situation will probably be wrapped up by the end of the month.”

Breeden will choose a tenured faculmember and a student to join him on ty any appeals committee.

Once the members of the appeals committee receive a case, they consider two main factors—whether new information has surfaced since the initial decision was made and whether the Judicial Board followed the procedure outlined in the Honor Code, Hemmerich said.

“To my knowledge, the Judicial Board was very meticulous in following the proper procedure in its investigation of these students,” he added.

After the committee has made a decision on the appeals, it will publish its findings publicly. trators from

qualms about the DPD’s deference to Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong during the investigation, an issue they said was central in prolonging the case. Cheshire also emphasized, however, that the entire police department was not at fault.

“It is fairly clear that the chain of command in this case got usurped,” Cooney said.

The probe was meant to define the role DPD played in the case alongside Nifong and address concerns that the witness identification process used was abused and the need for exculpatory evidence ignored.

The report states that DPD conducted six separate photo lineups for Crystal Mangum, the accuser in the case, to identify her alleged attackers.

It also notes that the procedures were consistent with General Order 4077 and that Mangum did not identify her alleged attackers from every lineup.

Mangum identified her alleged attackers April 4, 2006. The report states that this lineup was administered by Sgt. Mark Gottlieb and that Nifong proposed to show her photographs of the entire lacrosse team.

Filler photographs were not used.

Chalmers wrote that the investigator noted Mangum’s comments and continued with the array, although she was identifying alleged attackers because stopping might have been misconstrued as confirmation that she had selected the “right” persons.

His report also emphasized that General Order 4077 is only a guideline for officers and is not legally binding. Whether the identifications would have held up in court is unknown, but the report states that deviations from General Order 4077 alone may not have excluded the lineup as evidence or violated the suspects’ rights.

Cooney noted, however, that this session was videotaped, and the others were not.

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John Burness, senior vice president for government affairs and public relations, said the report did not resolve the issues it set out to address.

“The report seems to raise as many questions as it answered,” he wrote in an e-mail.

The Durham Herald-Sun reported that Mayor Bill Bell would seek an external investigation from the State Bureau of Investigation—which only the attorney general, governor or police can call to action. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper denied Bell’s request last week.

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“If the identification process was to ID witnesses only, why was that videotaped?”

Cooney said. “The fact of the matter is that was the only piece of so-called evidence that allowed this case to condnue, and it’s just flat-out wrong.”

Critics have said despite the officers’ intent, using this information to indict the players, as well as other practices, violated standard ethical procedure.

“The report by the city manager and police begs for a lawsuit to be filed against the City of Durham and the police department for their complicity in the corrupt prosecution of innocent men and to protect the citizens of Durham in the future,” Cheshire said.

The document states, however, that DPD made numerous efforts to obtain exonerating information that the defense attorneys declined to provide.

“What [DPD] also failed to address is when they received evidence of Reade Seligmann’s innocence—they arrested one of his alibi witnesses,” Cooney said. “How is that an attempt to find innocence? Blaming the defense attorneys isn’t doing that either.”

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Even a cloudy day with a slight drizzle could not dampen the spirits of the graduating Class of 2007 Sunday.

The sun broke through the clouds as President Richard Brodhead conferred more than 4,000 degrees during the 155th annual commencement ceremony, held at Wallace Wade Stadium.

Commencement speaker Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75 and chairman and chief executive officer of General Motors Corporation, urged graduates to embrace all future opportunities.

“The most important piece of advice that I can give you from my own experience is simply this: Don’t overplan your life,” Wagoner said. “While planning for your future is great, the fact is, things change and opportunities will arise for you that I suspect you, today, can’t even imagine. Do your best at whatever you’re doing, but be open to opportunities as they come up.”

He also congratulated all the mothers and grandmothers present on receiving the “gift” of having a daughter or son graduating from Duke on Mother’s Day. Wagoner said that after graduating, he only knew that he was going to attend business school in the fall and that he wanted to be close to home. After receiving his master’s degree in business administration in 1977 from Harvard University, Wagoner went on to work for GM in its New York office.

“That was exotic enough for me,” Wagoner said of his decision to go to New York City.

In the following years, however, Wagoner’s career took him to Brazil, Canada and Switzerland.

“It turned out to be a great chance to grow as a business executive and—more importantly —as a person and as a family.

It was undoubtedly the best business and personal ‘learning experience’ that I could have asked for,” Wagoner said. “So my advice is to be flexible, be open to everything the world has to offer, be global. You’ll be amazed at what you can learn, and how you can contribute.”

Wagoner also encouraged students to use their capabilities to the fullest extent and to not give up in the face of adversity.

“In my experience there are actually lots of really smart people out there. What distinguishes those who are truly leaders is passion and enthusiasm,” he said. “So my advice is simple—go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.”

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graduates that they cannot have it all, urged them to create priority lists as they proceed in life and encouraged them to keep “giving back” to the community high on the list.

“You have a tremendous opportunity to use your intellect and passion and creativity, not only to build great careers and personal lives for yourselves, but also to make a real difference in our society,” said Wagoner, co-chair of the Financial Aid Initiative and a member of the Board of Trustees and the Fuqua School of Business Board ofVisitors.

Graduate Rebecca Fairchild said the speech was both helpful and funny.

“I really liked all the speeches,” she said. “It was funny, easy to understand and relate.”

Speaking before Wagoner took the podium, student speaker David Schmidt shared the lessons he learned from being a Blue Devil mascot his senior year with his fellow classmates.

The first lesson he said he learned was, “Not every game is played at home.”

Schmidt recollected having “vile and demeaning comments” directed at him during away games.

“I could have returned their jeers in kind, but that wouldn’t have left time to

for Duke. So I didn’t worry about them because who cares—adversity is the spice of life,” he said.

No matter what the score is and what comments have been directed his way, the Blue Devil always smiles, he explained.

“This isn’t because everything goes his way; if any group of students can appreciate how much hasn’t gone Duke’s way recently—it’s us,” Schmidt said. “He smiles because the costume makers know that if the mouth closes, I suffocate.”

The always-smiling mascot taught Schmidt to celebrate, but always keep it in perspective. Relating to “the truly sad things” occurring at Duke and around the world, Schmidt reminded graduates that life is serious.

“What does matter is that we are mindful of those less fortunate than us, those for whom life is an uphill climb and fellow students who have had to deal with more than just losing a game,” he said. Tm not saying that I no longer take sides when we play [the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill], but that I try to think twice before considering a bad game cause for ‘a bad day.’”

As the mascot, Schmidt had to converse with the crowd through his actions, as the Blue Devil never talks. This taught him the root

third lesson: “Be bold. Take action.”

“Even with everything that I couldn’t say, there was still a lot that I could do,” Schmidt said. “What will be important for us is what we do with our lives.”

The fourth and final lesson he said he learned as a mascot was that, “It’s time to make something of myself.”

“Duke has helped us all immeasurably along the way. In a couple of hours, I’ll have a Duke degree. That degree will open doors and unlock first-floor windows for the rest of my life,” Schmidt said. “Duke is the sum ofits parts, and we have all played different roles as ambassadors of our university.... As a prominent symbol of all that Duke is and does, I was able to benefit enormously from your noble efforts.”

The Derwood, Md., native, who transferred to Duke his sophomore year from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, also urged his fellow graduates to remember each other and thank those who have helped them along the way.

Some graduates said Schmidt’s speech was both hilarious and relevant to their lives.

“Dave did a great job, it was hysterical,” graduate Laura Peterson said. “It was entertaining and connected really well with our class and our Duke experiences.”

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TRUSTEES from page 1 priorities,” Provost Peter Lange said in a statement Saturday.

Lange said Wednesday that strategic hiring as oudined in the plan, called “Making a Difference” and passed by the Board in October, will be a major area of impact for the fiscal plan.

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citing tilings and interdisciplinary things by making cluster hires or reinforcing hires across different schools or promoting underrepresented minority hires,” he said. “The great thing is that these are hires that departments have wanted to make anyway.”

A 4.6-percent hike in tuition, room and board—bringing the standard cost at Duke to $45,121 a year—accounts for more than a quarter of the new revenue. The increase was announced prior to the Board’s meeting.

The budget covers most of the University—including the medical and nursing schools—but not Duke Hospital and Duke University Health System.

In other business, Trustees approved resolutions former recognizing women’s basketball players Lindsey Harding and Alison Bales, both Trinity ’O7, and former coach Gail Goestenkors for their accomplishments at a regular session Friday.

An update on the Campus Culture Initiative from Lange, originally scheduled for Friday’s open meeting, was pushed back to a closed session

Top left: President Brod head shares with graduates a few final words of wisdom before they depart.

Top right: Amidst the glow and glamor of graduation, students recall their past four years at Duke University and contemplate their impending future of life after college,

Saturday.

Bottom left: General Motors CEO Richard Wagoner tells graduates that the future is unpredictable and they should embrace every opportunity that comes their way—even if it is something that is unexpected.

Bottom right: The always-smiling David Schmidt speaks to his fellow graduates about some of his favorite stories and lessons he learned from being the Blue Devil mascot.

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“I think they were very pleased with what I told them,” Lange said. “They found the report provocative..,. I think they are very pleased that we’ve been guiding a set of very focused but expansive discussions with lots of students and increasingly lots of other groups also.”

Trustees also heard a closed-door report from Director of Athleticsjoe Alieva.

“He gave a kind of update about accomplishments and developments in athletics this year and identified a set of questions we’re interested in just as part of having a strategic vision of athletics in the future,” Brodhead said after the presentation. “We did not do a plan at this time; it was just sort of a preview of things to come.”

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The Blue Devils continued to exhibit the offensive dominance they have exacted on opponents all season Sunday afternoon, beating LeMoyne (16-5) handily, 23-8, in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

The 23-goal performance was the highest total that No. 6 LeMOYNE Duke (15-3) has DUKE 23 posted this season.

The second-seeded Blue Devils clearly demonstrated that their offensive machinery was perfecdy finetuned in time for NCAA play.

Duke jumped out to an early lead against the Dolphins, netting four unanswered goals in the first five minutes ofregulation.

Three of those goals came from senior forward Kristen Waagbo, whose 41 goals this season ranks as the second highest total on the team. Waagbo trails only junior attacker and Tewaarton Award finalist Caroline Cryer, who has 64 goals.

“Offensively, we did a great job controlling the tempo of the game,” Waagbo said.

“We wanted to limit the time our team spent on defense, and I think we just did a great job by working really well together and pushing the tempo.”

Cryer and Waagbo both scored four goals on the day, and Cryer moved to within six goals of tying Duke’s record for goals in a season—a record currently held by former Blue Devil Katie Chrest, who notched 70 in 2005.

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Amanda Biumenherst fired 10 birdies to match a Blue Devil-record low round of 9-underSaturday.

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After ending the first day of the NCAA East Regional in 10th place—in a tournament in which only the eight highest finishers advance—top-seeded Duke could have folded it in. Instead, the two-time reigning national champions mounted a furious, record-breaking comeback.

Buoyed by a final day team score of 16under 272 and a career-best round of 63 by sophomore Amanda Blumenherst, the No. 2 Blue Devils won the NCAA East Regional May 12 at the University Club in Baton Rouge, La. Duke’s 20-under par performance left them two strokes ahead of runner-up UCLA and marked the school’s seventh NCAA regional title.

“We just felt like there was plastic wrap over the cup the-first two days,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “After about 30 holes into the 54-hole tournament, we were still in eighth place. The team had to be patient, not pay attention to the leaderboard and believe in themselves, and that’s what they did.”

In the process of their comeback, the Blue Devils set or tied several school records. Blumenherst’s 9-under-par performance Saturday matched Liz Janangelo for the lowest individual round ever carded by a Blue Devil, and her 10 birdies were the most ever fired in one round in program history. As a team, Duke recorded the lowest team score for an 54-hole tournament by two strokes and the lowest team score over 18 holes.

Although Blumenherst’s last-day effort still left her three strokes shy of the touma-

merit’s individual title, she still said that she was relieved to set new personal records Saturday. Blumenherst had recorded scores of 65 twice in her collegiate career and five times in her junior golf career, but had yet to go below that mark until this tourna-

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No. 1 Duke had to wait nearly two years for a shot at a NCAA tournament win after losing to Johns Hopkins in the 2005 National Championship, 9-8.

And by gametime Saturday, the Blue Devils were more PROVIDENCE 2_ than ready to play DUKE 18 and win—despite a two-hour and one minute rain delay in the third period that stood in their way.

Behind Zack Greer’s five goals and Matt Danowski’s career-high seven assists, Duke (14-2) romped to an 18-3 victory over Providence (7-10) in Koskinen Stadium for its 10th straight win. Danowski also set the school record for career assists at 118, surpassing the previous mark of 114 by Tony Cullen, who played from 1978 to 1980.

“This is the most confident I’ve been out there this year,” Danowski said.

Bolstered by one of the best players in the country playing at his best, the outcome for the Blue Devils was never in doubt. Even when Providence managed a goal late in the first period to pull within one, Duke did not waver and instead rattled off 15 unanswered goals.

With 11:34 left in the third quarter, Duke had already built up a 10-1 lead.

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ment.

“I’ve had a hard time breaking that barrier—so it’s an incredible accomplishment to actually do it,” Blumenherst said.

Of course, Blumenherst was not the only Blue Devil that played a crucial role in the team’s comeback, as each player on the roster carded under-par rounds Saturday. Junior Jennifer Pandolfi led that group with a 3-under 69. That round was her second consecutive round of 69, and she finished the tournament in a tie for 18th place.

“It gives me a lot of confidence going into next week,” Pandolfi said. “I played hard, and my attitude was determined. I’m definitely determined, confident and looking forward to nationals in two weeks.”

The Blue Devils head to their 10th consecutive NCAA championship May 22-25 in Daytona Beach, Fla., looking to win their third straight national title. But before then, the team will have the opportunity to travel home and get some much-needed rest and relaxation.

“It’s important to be able to get some elbow room and some home cooking,” Brooks said. “When you have a team that doesn’t need to be watched like this, there are benefits to going home. If they weren’t motivated from within, you’d probably want them around practicing, but that’s not a problem with this team.”

After recording a career-high seven assists Saturday, senior MattOanowski became Duke's all-time leader.

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Gillespie gets his gem in Patterson by

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McDonald All-American Patrick Patterson announced his intention to play for the University of Kentucky in a press conference held Wednesday afternoon at his high school in Huntington, WVa. Patterson, who is ranked as the No. 4 power forward in the 2007 recruiting class by scout.com, had limited his choices down to Kentucky, Duke and Florida before ultimately deciding to take his game to Lexington.

“I think at the end of the day Patterson’s choice was location-based more than anything else,” said Dave Telep, National Recruiting Editor for scout.com. “With West Virginia out of the running, Kentucky became the hometown choice.... Whether his parents move to Lexington or not, they’re two hours away.”

One of the other factors that played out in the media recently was the relationship between Patterson and fellow AllAmerican Jai Lucas, who signed with Florida Monday. Lucas reportedly sent a text to Patterson Monday afternoon informing the forward of his decision and expressing his desire to have him as a teammate in Gainsville.

Telep, however, said that most of the talk about the relationship between the two players came from Lucas trying to convince Patterson to join him, not the other way around.

Patterson is the first marquee recruit for newly-installed Wildcat head coach Billy Gillespie, who took the reigns from Tubby Smith at Kentucky in April.

“The energy swell was like a huge shot

sportsbriefs Baseball team takes on Hurricanes

After an 11-inning, 13-9 loss to North Carolina A&T in non-conference play Tuesday, the Blue Devils head to Coral Gables, Fla. today to close out their regular ACC season against Miami.

Last season, the Hurricanes (32-20,1413 in the ACC) swept Duke in a three game series at Jack Coombs Field.

This year, however, Duke (29-22, 8-19) enters the contest having won 14 more games than it did last season and with the ninth-highest win total in program history.

In tonight’s 7 p.m. game at Mark Light Field, senior John Anderson is scheduled to take the mound. Blue Devil ace Tony Bajoczky is slated to pitch Saturday, followed by a start from freshman Alexander Hassan Sunday at 1 p.m.

Women’s tennis knocked out of NCAAs by Tar Heels at Chapel Hill

Patrick Patterson, who played in Cameron Indoor Stadium in the Hoophail Classic this fell, willplay at Kentucky.

in the arm,” Telep said. “Gillespie carried that through until he signed Patterson.”

Duke had offered a scholarship to Patterson, who visited Durham in September. The Blue Devils’ need for a big man later grew significantly, though, when 6foot-10 Josh Mcßoberts declared for the NBA Draft in April.

Despite losing Patterson to Kentucky,

Duke’s 2007 recruiting class is still “outstanding,” Telep said.

Scout.com ranks the class among the top three in the country, with one five-star recruit —Kyle Singler—and two four-star recruits —Nolan Smith and Taylor King.

“Let's not forget that Duke got [Singler], who was the higher ranked guy,” he said.

“Duke received it's No. 1 target this year.”

The No. 22 Blue Devils (12-11) fell to llth-ranked North Carolina, 4-1, Sunday at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.

The Tar Heels (23-8) clinched the doubles point after the top-seeded Blue Devil duo of Daniela Bercek and Melissa Mang fell in a tie-break after leading their match, 6-1, over the No. 2-ranked tandem of Sara Anundsen and Jenna Long.

Sophomore Jessi Robinson and freshman Amanda Granson were the only Duke pair to come away with a doubles win when they defeatedAustin Smith and Meg Fanjoy, 8-5.

Singles play did not bode much better for the Blue Devils, as they dropped five of their six matches.

In Duke’s only singles win of the afternoon, freshman Elizabeth Plotkin defeated UNC’s Caitlin Collins in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2.

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Before No. 14 Duke took the court in its NCAA tournament second-round match with No. 17 Alabama Saturday, the Blue Devils appeared very relaxed, focusing during warm-ups but also joking around and encouraging one another.

That experienced attitude translated to an emotional ALABAMA doubles win for DUKE 3 the team (16-10), but emotion came up short in singles play as Duke’s NCAA run ended with a 4-3 loss to the Crimson Tide (22-7).

“It was as exciting of a college tennis match as you can have,” assistant coach Ramsey Smith said. “But obviously, it was really disappointing and not the way you want to end the season.”

Doubles play was problematic at times for the Blue Devils this season, but all three combinations worked to perfection against Alabama.

The second-seeded pairing of Dylan Arnould and Ned Samuelson jumped out to a 5-0 lead against their opponents en route to securing an 8-4 win. Duke’s No. 3 seed of Kiril Dimitrov and Peter Rodrigues led 4-1 and looked to be cruising to victory.

Alabama, however, fought back to tie the two remaining matches and looked to have enough momentum to push them over the top.

Rodrigues and Dimitrov were able to break the Crimson Tide’s serve while up

7-6, though, earning the doubles point for the Blue Devils. And Joey Atas and David Goulet, who were on serve with their opponents throughout their match, finally broke the serve of Alabama’s top pair with the match tied at 7-7.

“That was one of the better doubles points we’ve played this year,” Arnould said. “Everyone was really fired up and ready to go, and we’ve been getting it going pretty well lately.”

In contrast, the Blue Devils came out flat in singles play. The Crimson Tide won the first set played in every match except one, against second-seeded Atas. In the second set, play was stopped due to rain and later resumed in the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

Unfortunately, the end of rain delay did not mark the end of Duke’s woes. Goulet was forced to retire from his match with a severely sprained ankle. The junior’s match was tied at one set apiece when it was called, giving the Tide a 2-1 lead.

“Anytime a teammate goes down, you worry about him,” Smith said. “The air went out of our sails a little bit, and it’s just an unfortunate thing you can’t really control.”

Later on, with the score tied at 3-3, all attention turned to the third set between Atas and Alabama’s Joseph Jung. In the end, Jung did just enough to win 7-5 and send the Blue Devils home for good.

“It was pretty somber afterwards,” Arnould said. “It’s not that I can’t believe we lost, but its just a little surprising. We felt bad for the seniors.”

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But the Dolphins did their best not to buckle under Duke’s high-pressure offense, particularly early in the contest.

After three unassisted goals by midfielder Amanda Keegan, LeMoyne managed to work itself out of its early hole and pull within one to 5-4 seven minutes in.

But Duke basically sealed the game at the end of the first half when it barraged the Dolphin defense with seven goals to give the team a 13-6 lead.

After halftime, things stayed the same for the Blue Devils, who opened up the second period with a 5-1 run that put the game way out of reach for the overmatched Dolphins.

Duke hosts seventh-seeded Johns Hopkins (11-7) Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. at

Koskinen Stadium. The No. 8 Blue Jays got past Hofstra 12-8 May 13 in their first round matchup.

Although the Blue Devils did not face Johns Hopkins this season, the teams match up very well against each other.

To counter Cryer, Johns Hopkins fields a Tewaarton finalist of its own in senior attacker Mary Key. Key is a major offensive threat who ranks first nationally in points per game, third in assists per game and sixth in goals per game. Cryer is fifth nationally in scoring, but is unranked in assists and is 19th in points per game.

However, head coach Kirsten Kimel points to defense and consistent team play as the keys to advancing in the tournament. “[Against LeMoyne] we did a good job of winning the draw and controlling the ball.

We’ve also worked on our offensive transition a little, and I tiiink that really came into play,” Kimel said. “We’re going to try to get better in these areas and shore up our defense in trying to get ready for Johns Hopkins.”

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numerous turnovers and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties.

“Top to bottom they’ve got guys who can shoot,” Providence goalie Peter Littell said. “It did get to the point... where every time I turn around there’s a guy right on top of me.”

Although Providence could not stop Duke, the rain did.

The referees suddenly called the game due to inclement weather at that 11:34 mark.

While all but the most dedicated fans scattered, the players settled in the locker rooms, trying to stay mentally sharp and alert.

“There was some joke telling for a while—probably 20 minutes of joke telling, which is a skill that needs to be developed also,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “As a coaching staff, we just wanted to make sure there was some energy in there. We don’t want guys taking naps or relaxing too much.”

When Duke and Providence did manage to get back on the field, the Blue Devils continued their domination of the Friars. Duke aggressively attacked the net, with several goals coming off of players slashing to the net or sprinting toward the goal off a turnover.

The Friars could never maintain possession of the ball for longer than a few moments for most of the game. Providence’s stall offense set up behind the net and waited for an opening to develop as the attackman lurked behind the net.

Unfortunately for the Friars, lanes never developed and the Blue Devils poking sticks knocked the ball away from them on nearly every possession.

“We wanted to invert and basically stall-hold the ball,” Providence head coach Chris Burdick said. “But turnovers lead to transition, and we didn’t want transition to be part of the game.”

Those turnovers led to Duke getting off 47 more shots than Providence, and Blue Devils goalie Dan Loftus only had to make one save before leaving late in the third period.

“It’s not what the score was [but that] we played right [and] we played with confidence and a certain sense of swagger,” Matt Danowski said.

Duke will next face off against North Carolina Sunday at 1 p.m. in Annapolis, Md. Earlier in the year, the Blue Devils defeated the Tar Heels 9-7 March 17 and 139 in the ACC tournament semifinals.

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Duke has been, for the most part, lacrosse team.

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We’re

lucky to have Bill Bell as mayor. A former IBM engineer, Bell is smart, calm and disdainful of the loony identity politics that often sidetrack Durham’s government. (Impressively, he has also learned to stay awake when Howard Clement speaks at City Council meetings. Ifyou have ever heard Clement—a 1,700-year-old relic of the civil rights movement—wend his way through a rambling, impromptu soliloquy, our ow jared mayor possesses a rare gift.) boumtje-boumtje So I can’t understand why someone as gifted as Bell retains fourth-rate talents like Patrick Baker and Steven Chalmers as city manager and police chief, respectively. The lacrosse case has drawn national attention to the ineptitude ofBaker and Chalmers, but Durhamites have suffered under them for years. Bell seems to have the same weakness as President Bush—OK, Bill Bell is not as much of a disaster as George W. Bush, but stick with me—in that he is unwilling to pay the political price associated with firing incompetent staff. As a result, he keeps them around longer than they deserve, and they continue to embarrass their boss and fellow citizens.

Let’s start with Baker. Our city manager holds undergraduate and law degrees from Wake Forest, and is the embodiment of every negative stereotype you may have heard about lawyers. He dissembles; he shirks responsibility for his numerous failures; and on occasion has been caught in a bald-faced lie.

After a yard waste dump caught fire last fall, The Raleigh News & Observer revealed Baker had lied to the City Council by denying that he had been informed about the expiration of the dump’s permit.

The fire burned for two weeks, and as The N&O reported, “produced clouds of dense smoke that forced some residents to flee.” The dude cannot manage and has to lie about a smolderingpile ofleaves.

There’s no way he is capable or honest enough to helm a city government.

As for Chalmers, he plainly has no interest in doing his job. The chief is expected to retire this year, and he has spent the twilight of his career taking it easy, disappearing from the office for stretches at a time and delegating his duties to Deputy Chief Ron Hodges. Chalmers has also achieved the rare distinction of heading a police department that is distrusted by a wide swath of Durham’s citizens. Ever)' Durhamite, w'hite or black, affluent or not, can unite around a mutual fear of Chalmers’ wayward Durham Police Department.

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there are still a number of loose ends to a story that raises crucial questions of academic freedom and campus culture. Students want to know how the University will step in if a teacher crosses certain lines, and they also want to know whether they should still take a class with Kim Curtis—the major actor in this story, who the administration did not respond to in its settlement.

It’s unnerving that Duke hasn’t been transparent in this case. The administration’s handling of the Dowd suit sets a bad precedent for how Duke may handle other similar cases in the future and how it is moving on in the aftermath of the lacrosse case.

Closure is now in sight for a campus that has been rocked in a major way this past year, but closure will also be hard to come by if Duke opts to start cleaning up by sweeping crucial matters like the Dowd case under the rug.

Chalmers is black. His department, however, still employs a few yokel cops who seem like holdovers from the Jim Crow era. Five police officers—including Sgt. Mark Gottlieb and Investigator Richard Clayton, two chief investigators of the lacrosse case —were involved in a racially tinged brawl outside Blinco’s Sports Bar in Raleigh last summer. One of the cops allegedly yelled a racial slur at a black cook, leading to a fight that ended in the firing of two officers. The other three cops, including Gottlieb and Clayton, remain on the force. Anecdotes like this must provide little reassurance to members of Durham’s black community who hope for fair treatment under the law.

Books could be written about Gottlieb’s misbehavior alone. He’s the sort of guy who I imagine goes home at night, pops in “Cool Hand Luke” and roots for the guards. In the fall of 2005 and winter of 2006, Gottlieb threatened to deport several Duke students for minor alcohol offenses, including one who was an American citizen. In that same period, he let a guy with a concealed weapon off with a ticket.

Not that I can blame him. Who would want to tangle with Durham’s drug cartels whenyou can make a career of throwing 115-pound college girls in jail for giving a 20-year-old a beer? Thanks for keeping us safe from the real criminals, Mark! The worst part: Chalmers confirmed to The N&O that it was DPD policy to arrest Duke students—and tie up Durham’s overburdened justice system—for violations that they would only cite non-students for.

How did the results pay off? The number of violent crimes rose 35 percent (from 678 to 916) from the first half of 2005 to the first six months of 2006, immediately after the DPD’s in loco parentis policy took force. What do you say to a police chief who sacrifices the safety of his constituents in order to arrest college students at parties? Chalmers chose pacifying the affluent residents of Trinity Park over protecting Durham’s most vulnerable citizens. He deserves unemployment and harsh condemnation.

I’m not even going to address the self-serving Baker/Chalmers police report. I’ll let Bell, Councilman Eugene Brown, The Durham Herald-Sun and The N&O critique it. But please, Mayor Bell, do the right thing and fire these deadweight officials who are holding your administration and our city back.

Jared Mueller is a Trinity junior and a former city and state editor and editorial page managing editor of The Chronicle. His column runs every other Thursday during the summer.

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Wagoner on Duke, life and not overplanning The following are selected excerptsfrom General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner’s words to Duke’s 2007 graduates at commencement last Sunday. me start by saying, simply, thank you.

As a son of Duke for my entire life, I Ican’t imagine a greater honor than giving the commencement address today.

Actually, whenever I speak publicly, I recall a conversation I had some years ago with one of our more famous fellow Duke grads, Grant Hill. Grant and I were preparing to speak at an event... me with several pages of notes, him with nothing. He said, “Hey, Rick you know the five B’s of a good speech? Be brief brother, be brief.”

And, so, I will be today.... thought it might be interesting for this year’s graduates for me to reflect back on what I was thinking about when I was sitting where you are S years ago, and especially on what I may have been missing in my thinking back then, and what that might mean for you today.

I think the most important piece of advice that I can give you from my own experience is simply this... don’t overplan your life.

While planning for your future is great, the fact is, things change... and opportunities will arise for you that I suspect you, today, can’t even imagine. Do your best at whatever you’re doing, but be open to opportunities as they come up....

In my current job, I spend a lot of time traveling to places like India and China and Russia... and I’m confident that many of the major developments that will affect us all in the future, are going to occur in these and other emerging markets around the world.

So, my advice is to be flexible... be open to everything the world has to offer... be global. You’ll be amazed at what you can learn, and how you can contribute....

Another thought I want to offer is a simple one —which is that each of you... by virtue of graduating from one of the elite universities in the U.S., indeed in the world... has great capabilities. I urge you to use those capabilities fully.

In my experience... in life and in business, in dealing with education and working with government leaders... there are actually

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smart people out there. What distinguishes those who are truly leaders...

those who really contribute in government, in medicine, in education, in business, in the arts... is passion and enthusiasm.

You see, being successful in any field, is hardwork. Being successful requires not only thatyou learn everything you can about your chosen field... but that you apply yourknowledge with a passion and enthusiasm that affects others and engages them as well.

In today’s highly collaborative workplaces, few great things are accomplished by individuals alone. Just like in college basketball, you need great teams... and you need people who can inspire those teams, and lead those teams, to greater heights.

Enthusiasm is contagious. Your goal should be to start the epidemic.

But, I should tell you, that even with knowledge, passion, and contagious enthusiasm... you are going to face some tough challenges... some tough days.

A year and a half ago, some of the so-

called “experts” were claiming that General Motors was headed for bankruptcy, and I ought to be fired. Those were some tough days for me. Even great institutions like my... and now your alma mater... Duke University, encounter challenging times, like over the last year.

But the real successful people, the real contributors, the really great institutions, like Duke University and General Motors, have another important characteristic... which is persistence and resilience. No matter how great the challenge, no matter how dark the future seems... the best people, the really successful people, simply do not give up.

I suspect most, if not all, ofyou, will encounter challenging moments in your careers and your lives... because, I have to tell you, life is not a series of grand slam home runs... there will be moments of great challenge for you.

So my advice is simple—go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

Ultimately, your success in your career, and in your life, will be significantly determined by how you handle the challenges, and what you accomplish despite the hurdles you will inevitably encounter....

And, as you create your own priority lists as you go through life, I’d encourage you, among other things, to make sure that you keep “giving back” to your community high on your list.

You see, as tomorrow’s leaders, you have a tremendous opportunity to use your intellect, and passion, and creativity... not only to build great careers and personal lives for yourselves... but also to make a real difference in our society.

I encourage you never to underestimate the impact that you can have on others... to literally make the world a better place. We do that by all getting involved, taking what may seem like small steps, small actions.

They all add up.

In my experience, being involved in youth math and science education, especially in Detroit schools, has been tremendously rewarding... and shows me that we can make a difference..,.

Many people can claim they went to college... but few can say they graduated from Duke University. Be proud of your accomplishment here.... Individually and collectively, you are Duke... we are Duke... and as Blue Devils, we share a unique opportunity, a unique responsibility to make our families and friends proud... to make the worid a better place.

Rick Wagoner, Trinity 75, is CEO of General Motors and a member of Duke’s Board of Trustees.

General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner's and President Richard Brodhead's addresses to the 2007 graduates can be found online at q

www.dukenews.duke.edu.

Oh my Ozarks

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was sometime when I was 12, sprawled on the black bed in the middle of a bedroom decorated like a subway station (spray paint and all) that I established my membership in that exclusive group of adolescents (READ; everybody) determined to live in a big city.

We come from far and near, with motives from “I want to live somewhere where I can’t throw a rock and hit both of my exes and my sister,” to “I’d like to get lost in something other than a jacqui detwiler suburb/cornfield/strip piease hire, desperate. mall.” In my case it was neither of these. Instead, it was the predicament of growing up in a city built on the hedonism of vacationers, with no legal way to participate in the festivities at the likes of Pleasure Island and

Downtown Disney.

Even now I can hear 95.3 Party extolling the virtues of

miscellaneous swanky Orlando clubs, in which I vowed to commence lounging and swilling martinis upon my 21st birthday. Imagine my surprise when I graduated college

and my parents moved... to Arkansas. Yes, I said “Arkansas,” the heartland marvel with nothing standing

between it and Kansas but an “Arrr” and potentially a tornado. And did my parents have the social decency to move to spa-spackled Hot Springs or historically important Litde Rock? Why, of course not. Instead they packed up and hauled off to Ft. Smith, a town nationally revered for... its airport bathroom, which was rated the No. 1 cleanest restroom in the country in 2005.

For my first visit, over Christmas, I prepared myself for the worst. Jesus billboards, acid-washed jeans, liberal graduate student hunting season—nothing was going to phase me. Then I got to the gate in Memphis International and boarded a plane full of overzealous jean outlet patrons, not a single au courant hairstyle among them. And then I was afraid.

Since my parents had only recently moved to town and were familiar with few of the attractions, I spent most of Christmas break at the house, safe from tornados and the firearm-equipped. Then I immediately went home, threw myself into 4 months of work and emerged with a master’s degree and a semipermanent headache.

Perhaps I forgot to mention that another quality shared by the future city folk of America is a tendency to live too fast. We eat too much fast food, spend too much on fast cars and stress out over our entirely too fast lives. My own drive to make it to the big city has driven me straight into some (mental, financial, personal) roadblocks. So this time, when I went home to

Arkansas, I resolved to do nothing if not relax. And relax I did. Once I got past the idea that Arkansas needed to be something it was never intended to be, I finally got to see its charm. I spelunked through caves that the outlaws of the Old West used as hideouts, I gambled at the Choctaw Casino across the border and I ate my share of biscuits with chocolate gravy (delicious, I assure you).

And when it came time to celebrate my scholastic achievement, we headed out to the best restaurant in town, chosen not for its posh decor, but for its unrivaled view of the Arkansas River. There my family and I could leave fast to the emptying of (several) wine bottles and concentrate on being together. Come terrorists, come the melting of the glaciers, come the end of civilization as we know it, around here somebody’s neighbor somebody will have a hunting dog and a freezer full of venison, and we’ll just wait it out in the ole outlaws’ caves. Although I don’t think you’ll see me in a mullet anytime soon, I think I finally understand the appeal.

So, if you ever do stop in Ft. Smith, tell the Purnells I sent ya. And seriously, you need to take a look at that bathroom, it is out of control.

Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and neuroscience. Her column runs every other Thursday during the summer.

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Cast Iron Cooking Grid with PorcelainFinish. Boctric Ignition wd Porcelain Plated Heat Plate.

460 Square Inches Cooking Area and 200 Square Inches Warming Area/Side Burner

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