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Nifong was aware of problems Pressler, Duke reached settlement in case, Himan tells State Bar Terms ofagreement not made clear Shreya Rao THE CHRONICLE

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More than one year after his forced resignation, former men’s lacrosse head coach Mike Pressler has reached a financial settlement with the university he once called home.

The terms of the agreement were finalized in mid-March, said John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, but no information regarding the amount settled for was released.

“Coach Pressler is an excellent coach and did a great job building the Duke men’s lacrosse program,” Burness told The Associated Press. “Unfortunately last spring it was es-

sential for the team to have a

change of leadership in order to move forward.”

The confirmation of a settledays before the publication of “It’s Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives it Shattered,” a book co-authored by Don Yaeger and Pressler recounting the former coach’s story of the events of the past year.

Although Pressler could not be reached for comment for this article, Burness said the settlement was away for the University to note Pressler’s 16 seasons at the helm of the ment came just

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Durham DA Mike Nlfong listens to testimonyTuesday during day one ofhis trial before the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh.

Nifong faces a number ofethics charges tied to his handling of the Duke lacrosse case and could be disbarred if convicted. by

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Former head coach Mike Pressler watches theBlue Devils in the 2007 title game.

RALEIGH Embattled Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong told investigators as early as March 2006 that the Duke lacrosse rape case had serious flaws, Investigator Benjamin Himan told a packed courtroom Tuesday.

Himan, a Durham Police Department officer, testified Tuesday and Wednesday in the first two days of Nifong’s trial before

the North Carolina State Bar on charges of making inflammatory pretrial statements to the media and withholding potentially exculpatory DNA evidence.

A three-person panel, which will decide the case and Nifong’s punishment, also heard testimony from Wade Smith, an attorney for the formerly indicted Collin Finnerty; Dr. Brian Meehan, laboratory director of DNA Security, Inc.; Jennifer Leyn, an agent for the State Bureau of Investigation;

Duke Med puts out smokes by

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Duke Medicine will follow through with its plan to become a tobacco-free facility by July 4, eliminating the use of tobacco in the Duke University Health System and the Duke University Medical Center.

The initiative to ban smoking on all DUHS and DUMC facilities, first announced in October 2006, is part of an effort to promote healthy lifestyles and provide employees with a safer working environment.

“Our first priority is the health and well-being of our patients, employees and the communities we serve, and actions speak louder than words,” said Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of DUHS, in a statement Oct. 3, 2006. “I’m so pleased that we’re undertaking this bold and important effort to improve the health of our workplace and community.”

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and Brad Bannon, an attorney who was on the defense team for David Evans, Trinity ’O6, who was indicted in the case.

Testifying Tuesday afternoon, Himan said Nifong acknowledged inconsistencies in accuser Crystal Mangum’s account at a March 27, 2006, meeting.

“He made the comment, ‘You know we’re f—ed,’ or something to that effect,” Himan said.SEE NIFONG ON PAGE 7

Frosh set mark for selectivity by

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Duke University Hospital and other facilities in the Duke Medicine system will ban ail tobacco consumption July 4.

The incoming Class of 2011 will be larger than expected and more diverse than any previous class, officials announced Monday.

The approximately 42 percent of admitted students who have decided to matriculate to Duke increased this year from less than 41 percent in 2006. This year’s yield, however, still does not match the 43 percent rate for the Class 0f2009.

Although the Office of Undergraduate Admissions did predict a slight increase in yield from last year, the actual increase was more than expected, said Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions.

“Our assumptions were fairly conservative,” Guttentag said of predictions for this year’s yield. “Given all of the SEE ADMISSIONS ON PAGE 4

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'Gay Bomb' plans uncovered

Curfew imposed in Iraq after attack by

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The Iraqi governBAGHDAD, Iraq imposed an indefinite curfew across Baghdad Wednesday after insurgents used explosives to demolish two minarets at a revered Shiite shrine whose partial destruction last year sparked a devastating increase in sectarian bloodshed.

The attack raised concerns among U.S. and Iraqi leaders about a resurgence of such violence. President George W. Bush said in a statement Wednesday evening that the bombing “was clearly aimed at inflaming sectarian tensions” and called on “all Iraqis to refrain from acts of vengeance.” ment

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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in a nationally televised address, urged his countrymen to “exercise self-restraint” and sought to portray the attack as evidence that insurgents “have lost hope in dismembering the state.”

The 9 a.m. blasts occurred at the historic Askariya shrine in Samarra, 65 miles north of Baghdad, where explosions in February 2006 destroyed its gilded dome.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis died last year in the ensuing Shiite-Sunni strife.

Wednesday’s attack is certain to give fresh impetus to U.S. demands that the Iraqi government expedite political steps toward reconciliation between Shiites, Sun-

nis and Kurds. U.S. officials have feared that a high-level assassination or an attack similar to 2006 bombing of the Askariya shrine could prompt renewed sectarian bloodletting and undo some recent security improvements credited to the deployment of thousands of additional U.S. troops in Baghdad and other parts of the country.

In his statement, Bush said the U.S.-led coalition had sent additional forces to Samarra to restore calm and security.

U.S. and some Iraqi officials immediately blamed the bombings on al-Qaida in Iraq, an extremist Sunni group that regularly attacks U.S. and Iraqi targets, the latter in an apparent effort to provoke civil war.

House tempers checks on firearms by

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WASHINGTON

After 52 years in

Congress, John Dingell knows it sometimes takes a “rather curious alliance,” such as between the National Rifle Association and the House’s most fervent gun control advocate, to move legislation.

That’s what took place Wednesday when the House, by voice vote, passed a gun control bill that Rep. Dingell, D-Mich., helped broker between the NRA and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y. With the NRA on board, the bill, which

fixes flaws in the national gun background check system that allowed the Virginia Tech shooter to buy guns despite his mental health problems, has a good chance of becoming the first major gun control law in more than a decade.

“As the Virginia Tech shooting reminded us, there is an urgent national need to improve the background check system” to keep guns out of the hands of those barred from buying them, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

The measure would require states to automate their lists of convicted criminals

and the mentally ill who are prohibited under a 1968 law from buying firearms, and report those lists to the FBl’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, orNICS. Seung-Hui Cho, who in April killed 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech before taking his own life, hadbeen ordered to undergo outpatient mental health treatment and should have been barred from buying the two guns he used in the rampage. But the state of Virginia never forwarded this information to the national background check system.

A watchdog organization said it found a 1994 U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting. Pentagon officials confirmed Friday that leaders had considered building a "Gay Bomb."

Sen. immigration deal close Key Republican and Democratic senators are reaching for a deal to resurrect their stalled immigration compromise by requiring that some $4 billion be spent on border security and workplace enforcement as part of a plan to attract more Republican support.

McCain would decrease pork Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday he will try to squash nearly $l5O million in proposed defense spending backed by Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton. McCain called the projects wasteful and unneeded by the military.

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Lawyers' perspective lacks analysis, polish by

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Though

Nader Baydoun, Trinity ’7l, said the theme ofrushing to conviction in the Duke lacrosse case was central to the tide selection for his book, “A Rush to Injustice,” (Thomas Nelson, Inc., $25.95) the most glaring priority seems to have been a rush to publication.

Billed as an attempt to give “a behind-thescenes account of the Duke lacrosse rape and [shed] light on the real victims in a case that gripped the nation,” the book suffers from an book « inconsistent style and a review cursory edit Baydoun, the narrator, and coauthor R. Stephanie Good jump between facts and statements by the accuser, Crystal Mangum, making it difficult for readers unfamiliar with the case to distinguish between what happened and what Mangum alleged.

Much of the research and many interviews were done second-hand, and Baydoun spoke to neither the indicted players—David Evans, Trinity ’O6, Reade Seligmann and CollinFinnerty—nor University administrators to gather information for his book.

“I didn’t even attempt to speak to the players,” Baydoun said in an interview with The Chronicle this week. “As a lawyer, I knew that it wouldn’tbe appropriate because these players were still under indictment.”

Indeed, Baydoun does not take advantage ofhis position as a former Duke athlete (football) and current lawyer to hilly analyze the case or offer a unique perspective.

He takes up the cause of students as if he still were one, and has clear affection for his alma mater. He emphasizes his frustrations with President Richard Brodhead, the Board ofTrustees and the Group of 88 in addition to Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong and the Durham Police Department—as an alum and supporter of the lacrosse players, but these observations seem recycled and inarticulate.

Because the co-authors are both practicing attorneys, a reader would expect their

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book to offer more legal perspective on the case. However, they neglect to completely address the precedent and legal implications beyond the charges being dropped.

The authors also make no real attempt to analyze the documents from which the frets are compiled Although the first few chapters mirror frets included in the internal investigation of DPD done by Chief Steven Chalmers in May, the inquiry done by Chalmers and the impend ing investigation into DPD are not discussed.

Most helpful, perhaps, is the inclusion of the timelku compiled by Durham Lawy< Bob Ekstrand, Law ’9B, March 13-14, 2006, which insight into the players’ alibi The authors also pi background on each of tff pie involved in the case, d DPD’s apparent prejudice, Duke students and disclos formation about Mangum, offers some insight into hei tal health and her unreliability as a witness.

Baydoun’s musings also make some attempt at reconciling a crime that he says did occur—a rape of the “Duke Three’s” lives the night of the party. He points out that Mangum made no rape allegation until being asked by a nurse at Durham Access, arguing that this suggestion may have inspired her accusations. He also frames the case alongside another on-campus rape that occurred in February 2007, expressing some outrage at the reverse racism Baydoun believes was at play.

Baydoun said he has no plans for writing other books, but he should perhaps consider a second printing simply to correct the distracting errors in this quick read.

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the moment television crews arrived on campus last spring, it was inevitable that books would be written about the lacrosse rape scandal.

Here’s the surprise: This one’s worth picking up.

Don Yaeger’s “It’s Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and.the Lives It Shattered” (Simon & Schuster, $25) treats the whole episode as a story, and the result is a book as readable as any novel.

The problem, of course, is that it’s not fiction. These events really did happen. In spite of the inclusion of a “cast ofcharacters” at the end of the book, all of the slick writing only serves to distract from the explosiveness of the facts.

The over-the-top writing style is both the book’s greatest ,ngth and biggest flaw. His storytelling ility and near-biographical accounts of case’s celebrities drawreaders in, but iey also cheapen the overall message.

This is a story that needs no embelihment. Who doesn’t know the basics ->y now? Three lacrosse players were falsely accused by an out-of-control district attorney and dragged through the mud by a national media drunk on the power ofits own shoddy reporting.

If all that is common knowledge, “It’s Not About the Truth” proves there is still much to tell.

Co-authoring with Mike Pressler, Yaeger spills the secrets of the formermen’s lacrosse coach’s diary, and the details will shock anyone

with even a cursory interest in the case.

Without spoiling the book, it’s fair to say that Duke’s administration—President Richard Brodhead and chief spokesperson John Bumess, in particular—is portrayed as clueless or worse.

“It’s Not About the Truth” will not be nominated as summer reading for incoming freshmen anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean it would not make a fine choice, at this university or any other.

In the forward, Yaeger laments thatBurness did not allow the him to speak to Brod- book head. It may have been a different story TGVICW with the president’s perspective.

If Yaeger’s narrative style undermines the gravity of the story, it at least makes the obvious lessons of the scandal accessible to the uninitiated reader.

One hopes, however, such a reader would study the case beyond this book, because it has a number of deep flaws.

As a current Duke undergraduate, this reviewer was amazed at the egregious overquoting of Stephen Miller, Trinity ’O6, who hardly represents the myriad perspectives of the student body. There is also some evidence of padding; did any reader require a full-page excerpt from an Ann Coulter column?

And large sections of the book are already obsolete, casualties of the book’s rush to publication. The Kyle Dowd case has been resolved, for instance, and the ethics hearing for Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong is in full swing.

Barring a major update for a second edition, “It’s NotAbout the Truth” seems destined for the bargain bin by the end of the summer.

But at its core, the book is about Pressler and the injustices he suffered at the hands of the school he loved.

For those of us who continue to love the University, this book is a must read.

Read Rob Copeland’s blog post about reviewing “It’s Not About the Truth” at www. dukechronicle. com.

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Admissions: Year-to-Year, Peer-by-Peer

ADMISSIONS from page 1 news coverage about Duke in the past year we weren’t completely certain how that would ultimately manifest itself in the decision of students to enroll.”

The total class size will be between 1,687 and 1,710 students, instead of the expected 1,665. The University extended offers of admission to 21 percent of the 19,206 applicants, making this year’s admittance rate the lowest—and the incoming class the most selective —in University history. The Class of 2010 also set records for diversity.

Provost Peter Lange said the increased yield was positive news in the context of much of the negative media from the lacrosse case that has surrounded the University in the past year.

“We’d like to keep our yield rising, and this is very good in terms of last year,” he said. “Duke’s fundamental qualities as an institution have been understood by people even in the context of some publicity that might have put our quality in a lesser light.”

Guttentag said more students from more places—both domestically and internationally—are considering Duke, and the incoming class is exceedingly strong.

“By the rating system we use—which takes into account not only academic credentials but also extracurricular activities, letters of recommendation, interviews and the application essay—this class is even stronger than last year’s superb class, and is one of the strongest on record,” he wrote in a memo to Lange.

A record 44 percent of the class represents students of color, a marked increase from the 24 percent minority rate of 10 years ago, Guttentag said.

The class includes 500 Asian students, 105 Hispanic students, 156 black students and a record 138 international students.

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Estimation based on applicants admitted and expected yiei Students in the class represent 45 of the 50 states and 47 foreign countries. Residents of North Carolina are the most represented in the class.

“The administration has certainly supported the admissions office in terms of making resources available so we can recruit actively and aggressively in more places than we used to,” Guttentag said.

The number of applicants to the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences also reached

an all-time high of 16,132.

Trinity Dean Robert Thompson wrote in an e-mail that the greater number of applications to Trinity contributed to the strength of the class and demonstrated the attractiveness of the University.

“We are proud of the increasing diversity of our class, as this gives us an opportunity to learn from each other, but we must all leam to constructively engage difference if we are to realize the benefits of diversity,” he said.

Applications to the Pratt School of Engineering, however, dropped to about 3,000, a drop of 400. Officials speculated in April that the drop may have been a result of the lacrosse case.

Though 180 fewer applications were received this year than last year, Guttentag said the trend over the past few years has been positive. He said one beneficial change in the recruitment process this year was involving more enrolled students in off-campus recruitment

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Feds set new college lending rules Maya Salwen THE CHRONICLE

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Nelms in as NCCU chancellor

to support students.”

proposed rules, colleges and universities would be required to include at least Loans can make or break a student’s futhree companies on the preferred lender ture. With the average loan debt of recent list they provide for students and explain graduates at $23,521, paying back loans why the lenders are recommended. The and their accrued interest can create a serinew rules would also ban lenders from ous financial burden for students. offering gifts and payments to financial A recent lender-bribing scandal—in aid officers. which lending firms bribed several schools’ In an effort to further eradicate the bias financial aid officers to direct students toward preferred lenders and to provide stuinto their loan programs, which often had dents with more accessible alternatives, Sen. much higher interest rates than the federal Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, and New York Atloans also available to students—led Sen. torney GeneralAndrew Cuomo issued a proEdward Kennedy, D-Mass., to facilitate an posal Sunday that would require all lenders investigation to uncover corrupt practices to detail loan amounts, interest and fees in a between schools and lenders. table on the college loan application.

Lori Crooks, Duke’s senior associate diDuke currently has five lenders on its prerector of undergraduate financial ferred lenderslist. aid, was mentioned in an April 17 “It is critically important to un“It is critically important to underWall Street Journal article as havderstand that we make no recoming received a lobster dinner from mendations to students, but we stand that we make no recommendaa loan company. tell them some names and then tions to students but we... give them Jim Belvin, director of financial we give them more information aid, said the article failed to menso they can opt to go elsewhere,” more information so they can opt to tion the circumstance under which Belvin said.

Crooks received this dinner. go elsewhere.”

Shirley Ort, associate provost “[Crooks] dropped her card in a and director of scholarships and Belvin, director offinancial aid student aid at the University of fish bowl, and her name was drawn innocendy,” he said. “She received North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a lobster dinner—two lobsters said she believes some of the meamailed to her house from New England.”

Thompson said “It’s unfortunate to have sures may be overly restrictive.

Belvin said although schools participatstudent participation in a process that’s so “Prohibiting institutional financial aid ing in unethical lending practices should strenuous and to take all of that progress administrators from having their way paid be punished, such offenses are isolated incioff the table and have the Department of to a lender advisory board meeting is coundents that do not reflect the general proceEducation simply draft their own. It simply terproductive,” Ort said. “I don’t think dures followed by financial aid offices. takes the students’ voices out ofit.” stopping the payment of a reasonable busi“It’s really important to understand Thompson said USSA and the Departness expense is in the best interest of helpthat almost every barrel you can imagine ment of Education clashed over proposed ing the lenders or schools or families.” will have a spoiled, or rotten, apple or issues that, if passed, would specifically UNC uses the College Foundation of two,” he said. “But mostly, the aid offices benefit students.

North Carolina as its preferred lender, but around the country are run in an effort Under the Department of Education’s students can choose to use any other lender.

No consensus was reached after four meetings from December 2006 to April 2007 between financial aid directors from various colleges and universities, the Department of Education and a member of the United States Student Association concerning a ban on the marketing practices used by lenders.

The Department of Education, however, submitted its own proposed set ofrules to the Federal Register May 31. These rules will take effect next summer if approved after a 60-day comment period.

“It’s unfortunate that they weren’t able to come to a consensus [in the April meeting],” USSA Legislative Director Rebecca

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors announced June 8 that Charlie Nelms of Indiana University will replace James Ammons as chancellor ofNorth Carolina Central University.

Nelms is currendy vice president for institutional development and student affairs at Indiana University.

“He has earned a reputation for great integrity, sound judgment, and an unwavering commitment to student success,” UNC system President Erskine Bowles told the Triangle Business Journal.

Still, some said Ammons will be missed.

“It was a big setback losing Ammons,” said Bruce dePyssler, advisor to student newspaper the Campus Echo and associate professor ofEnglish and mass communication. “[Nelms has] big boots to fill.”

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men’s lacrosse program.

“We regret the negative consequences this decision had on Coach Pressler,” Bumess said. “He qnd Duke reached an amicable, fair financial setdement in which Duke recognized his contributions to the lacrosse program and the circumstances ofhis departure.”

Pressler appeared on WRAL-TV June 11 to promote his book and discussedwhat the University can still do to provide resolution to the episode.

“We’re all here for the students in the education business and part of the education process is when you’re wrong you admit you’re wrong and you tell people that you’ve wronged that you’re sorry,” Pressler said. “An apology to the players, especially the three indicted boys and all the parents and certainly the former coach and his family would go a long way in healing this episode in our lives and allowing both parties to move on and move forward.”

tivities for Duke Health Raleigh Hospital, said Duke Medicine’s decision to shift to a smoke-free policy is part of a larger movement among North Carolina hospitals to ban smoking on their properties. “[The tobacco-free movement] is very prominent,” Hollis said. “When we made our announcement in October there were 48 North Carolina hospitals that had gone tobacco-free. Since October, a number of hospitals have made the decision to go tobacco free. I believe the number has gone to 60.”

The new policy also established a support system that helps DUMC and DUHS employees who smoke to quit before the ban goes into effect, she said.

“Another reason for making the announcement in October is [because] we wanted to give our employees a chance to have smoking classes,” she said. “We have employees that have gone through the program, and some people won’t make the decision [to quit smoking or not] until after we’ve gone tobacco free, so we’ll continue to have those [classes] available.”

Dr. William Purdy, director of Duke Student Health, said he hopes the new policy will help encourage undergraduates to quit smoking, even if they have no association with DUMC or DUHS. “It’s a good thing—whether students will be involved, I don’t know,” he said. “This is mainly the medical center at this point, but we hope it will lead to a decrease in smoking [on campus].... Some students may just read about it and this may be die straw that breaks the camel’s back. It’s just one step that will hopefully help people quit.”

Kevin Harrell, a health education specialist at Student Health, said he has offered tobacco education services to undergraduate students in the months following the announcement of the tobacco-free policy to help students involved in Duke Medicine to quit smoking.

“We’ve advertised our services more,” he said.

“There are a number of students who work within the Duke medical system and those students will be affected with the program. When students hear that Duke Medicine is going to be tobacco-free, they know that if they want to use that as an opportunity to quit the services are here.”

Purdy said although he has talked to University administrators regarding the possibility of imposing similar tobacco bans on Duke’s main campuses, no decisions have been made.

“We talked to people about stopping the sales [of tobacco products in Duke University Stores],” he said.

“There will always be a group on campus to [support this], but I can’t imagine a whole lot of schools that want to do this. When you talk to the other side, they’re going to say, ‘What’s next, cheeseburgers?’”

Hollis noted the irony that Duke—a school founded with an endowment from the tobacco tycoon Duke family—is banning smoking at its medical center. She added, however, that this tradition cannot supercede the medical evidence that display the harmful effects of smoking.

“Seventy five years ago we were very grateful for that money, but a lot can change in 75 years,” she said. “We want to do anything we can to make our campuses as safe as possible.”

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NIFONG from page 1 The DPD officer also said he had misgivings when he was informed by his supervisor, Sgt. Mark Gottlieb, of plans to indict then-men’s lacrosse players Finnerty and Reade Seligmann.

“I think I made the response, ‘With what?’” Himan said. “We didn’t have them at the party, so it was a big concern for me to go forward with the indictments if we didn’t know they were there.... I didn’t want to indict someone who shouldn’t be indicted.”

Prosecutors also asked Himan about initial investigations. He said players had been cooperative with DPD—contradicting public statements Nifong made in March 2006.

In opening statements, defense attorney DavidFreedman said although his client made “outlandish” statements, he did not willfully commit ethics violations. Prosecutors painted Nifong as motivated by the promise of votes in the May 2006 election.

Nifong, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and Carolina-blue tie, sat passively for most ofTuesday’s session, resting his finger on his face and occasionally grinning or conferring with his lawyers.

If convicted, Nifong could face penalties ranging from reprimand to disbarment.

Smith was questioned about Nifong’s statements and demeanor before the trial.

In cross-examination, Freedman suggested that media scrutiny might have been “overwhelming” for Nifong, who was inexperienced with the press.

The trial continued Wednesday as Himan took the stand again to finish testifying before the panel.

Succeeding Himan on the stand, Meehan testified that he provided Nifong with an incomplete DNA report because he believed more evidence was on its way and that the analysis of Mangum’s DNA samples released

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Durham DA Mike Nifong did not testifyin thefirst two days ofhis disciplinary hearing before the N.C.State Bar.

May 12 was only an “interim” report.

The initial report indicated that there was no match between DNA found on the accuser and that of any of the 46 samples from lacrosse players, but it did not include the information that DNA on Mangum matched that of several unidentified males.

Meehan said he was led to believe that Nifong would commission a second, more conclusive report that would include the background information regarding the DNA matches.

“I had in my mind there was a final report [coming],” Meehan said. “We knew that there would be additional specimens.

If an investigator knows more specimens are coming, we wait until the final report.”

He said the incomplete report was not an attempt to hide evidence, maintaining

that he “did not withhold anything.”

Leyn testified regarding her experience as an SBI agent assigned to the case, both analyzing the accuser’s rape kit at the start of the case and reviewing the procedures followed by Meehan and DNA Security once North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper took over the case in January.

The session ended with Bannon commenting on Nifong’s numerous statements to the media asserting the guilt of the lacrosse players.

Seligmann attended Wednesday’s hearing with his attorney, Jim Cooney, who said he plans to testify “only if the Bar calls me.”

Also Tuesday afternoon, Durham activist Victoria Peterson was ejected from the hearing after apparently threatening Finnerty’s mother.

N.C. campus security task force meets Just months after the now-infamous Virginia Tech shooting, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper organized the first meeting of a task force to investigate campus security in the state.

Members of the task force were announced this week and had their first

meeting Wednesday.

Council names final committee member The last member for a 12-person team charged with investigating the Durham Police Department’s part in the Duke lacrosse case was selected by City Council Wednesday.

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While most people his age were preparing for the weekend, Jimmy Gallagherspent Friday on the edge of his seat, staring at his computer.

Gallagher meticulously monitored the online tracker for the 2007Major League Baseball Draft, waiting anxiously to see his name appear on the screen.

“It was a nerve-wracking time,” the junior outfielder said. “But I had a pretty good idea of where I was going to end up, so it was just a matter of waiting and seeing my name pop up on the draft tracker.”

When that time came in the seventh round, Gallagher felt a variety ofemotions.

“Lots of different things [went through my

mind when I was drafted]: relief, knowing that it was over, excitement,” he said. “I haven’t had a whole lot of feelings that were like seeing myself get drafted and going through that whole process actually happening. That might have been one of the greatest feelings ofmy life.”

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When senior Liz Wort crossed the finish line of the 3,000-meter steeplechase in a Duke record-breaking time of 9:51.76, earning All-American honors, it didn’t just signify the end of her successful Blue Devil career.

It marked the end of an era.

Wort, along with fellow senior Sally Meyerhoff, was the last member of one of the strongest recruiting classes to ever attend Duke. And they both laced up their shoes for the final time last weekend at the NCAA championships in Sacramento, Calif.

In October 2002, Track and Field magazine ran a story that asked how Duke, “a school known more for its men’s hoops, attracted a bumper crop of women that one might have expected to show up at Stanford instead of Durham, N.C.?”

Five years later, what is most impressive about that group—which included Wort, Meyerhoff, Shannon Rowbury, ClaraHorowitz and Laura Stanley—is not the hype that surrounded them before they came to Durham, but the accolades they won after.

“When that class came in five years ago, there was talk about them being one of the best recruiting classes ever,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “And they lived up to those lofty expectations.”

With her second All-American caliber race, Wort joins Horowitz, who was an All-American in 2005 and 2006, and 2006

All-American Meyerhoff, in adding to the unprecedented success of her class.

Meyerhoff, who batded injury throughout the outdoor season, finished 15th in the 10,000-meters Saturday, helping the Blue Devils to finish in a tie for 27th place.

“Sally’s been a great runner for us,” Ogilvie said. “When she showed up to the line Thursday night, she was not in the shape she was in March—but what she did was a credit to her and to this school. The 10,000-meters is not something you can fake. She’s always been a w arrior and a super competitor.”

While Meyerhoff and Wort are now the past for the Blue Devils, sophomore Maddie McKeever is one of the runners who can figure prominently into the future, filling the big shoes left behind by the exiting senior class.

McKeever set a Duke record of her own Saturday, breaking the mark she set Thursday in the preliminaries for the 15,000-meters by 13 seconds. Clocking a 15:52.83, McKeever finished fourth and earned AllAmerican accolades.

“I surpassed my own expectations,” McKeever said. “I performed up to what would have qualified to what were my wildest dreams.”

Ogilvie said McKeever’s performance at the NCAAs was the perfect finish for what “has truly been a breakout year,” in which

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. When Tim Federowicz watches replays of the error that cost North Carolina last year’s College World Series championship, he laughs.

Maybe that’s because he knows the Tar Heels are in posidon to make up for it.

“We get a second chance,” Federowicz said Tuesday.

A year after North Carolina threw away its first national championship in baseball by playing terrible defense in the title game, the Tar Heels are headed back to Rosenblatt Stadium.

Beginning with their opener Friday against Mississippi State, they hope to accomplish what they couldn’t last June.

“I don’t want to leave Omaha with that same feeling I did last year,” second baseman Garrett Gore said.

North Carolina (53-13) has drawn a season’s worth of motivation from the mistake-filled way its last trip to Omaha, Neb., ended.

The Tar Heels committed four errors in the winner-take-all title game against Oregon State, and none were more cosdy than backup second baseman Bryan Steed’s.

With the score tied at two and two outs in the eighth, Steed fielded a routine grounder and threw wide to first.

Federowicz, a catcher-turned-first baseman, couldn’t come up with it, and that allowed Bill Rowe to score the go-ahead run from second.

‘You’ve just got to forget things like that. You can’t let it stay on you too long,” Federowicz said. ‘You’ve got to flush it down the toilet, forget about it after that.

I watch it and kind of laugh at it now. You can say that lost the game for us, but we also had a chance to tie it back up.”

Having one more chance at a title was a big reason why Robert Woodard returned to the Tar Heels.

Woodard was selected in the late rounds by the St. Louis Cardinals, and he seriously contemplated going pro andjoining fellow weekend starters Andrew Miller and Daniel Bard picked in the first round by Detroit and Boston, respectively.

“No question, I was definitely thinking about it,” said Woodard, a lifelong Tar Heels fan. “After a lot of talking with my family and the Cardinals, I just came to the conclusion that I feel like I had something really special to come back to at Carolina.”

North Carolina has successfully advanced through each stage of the season with a sense of purpose, moving within one victory of tying the school record of 54 wins, a mark set last year.

These are heady times for the Tar Heels —who entered the NCAA tournament after winning their first Adantic Coast Conference tournament championship since 1990, who were rewarded with the No. 3 national seed and hosted both a four-team regional and two-team super regional.

“That’s our goal: to sustain it. That’s the hard part,” coach Mike Fox said. “Getting there is difficult, but staying up there, there’s so many good teams and good players out there. I’ll always stay on edge here because I know how quickly it is to go from where we are to 30-30. It’s an injury, losing a couple of recruits, away.

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The secret of North Carolina’s success this postseason has been timely hitting and exceptional efforts from two relievers.

The Tar Heels have come from behind in four of their five postseason victories, and during the three-game super regional series against South Carolina, they outscored the Gamecocks 21-4 in innings five through nine.

Rob Wooten has pitched in each of North Carolina’s six postseason games, winning three and allowing no earned runs in 9 2-3 innings.

And the team has rallied around closer Andrew Carignan, who tied a career high by pitching four scoreless innings in the decisive third game against South Carolina.

Carignan’s childhood home in Norwich, Conn., burned down in an electrical fire last month. Killed were his two cats and his golden retriever—whose name, “Maddie Baby,” is written under the bill ofhis cap.

Among the items lost in the fire was a ball signed by Babe Ruth for Carignan’s great-grandfather Gus Dugas, who played four major league seasons in the 19305, and a scrapbook from the game in which Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive-games streak.

His teammates have dedicated themselves to presenting Carignan with a meaningful memento to replace what he’s lost, and what he wants most is a College World Series championship ring.

“I’ve kind of already started” gathering new memorabilia, Carignan said. “Went down to the ACC tournament, won a little medal there. That starts a new little collection right there.”

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TRACK from page 9 she became the first sophomore to win All-American honors three times in one season. She is the third Duke athlete to ever accomplish that feat.

McKeever placed 14th in the NCAA Cross Country championships in November 2006 and ninth in the 3000-meter indoor race, to garner her other two All-American awards.

Despite losing key seniors, Ogilvie is optimistic for next year’s team, which returns McKeever in addition to field standouts Diana Purcurs (javelin) and Lara Jones (pole vault), both of whom qualified for the NCAAs. “We’ve got a lot of things to look forward to,” Ogilvie said.

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Blue Devil reliever earns another award Freshman Mike Seander was named to his third Freshman All-America team Tuesday. Following suit with the likes of Ping!

Baseball and the Collegiate Baseball newspaper, Rivals.com bestowed the honor on Seander after his stellar rookie season.

Seander’s nine saves were second most a in season by a Blue Devil and earned him the third spot on the career saves list as well. In his 28 appearances on the mound, he racked up 46 strikeouts while sporting a team-best 1.61 ERA in just 50.1 innings.

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“I am extremely excited about the opportunity to lead the UCF program and am looking forward to taking the women’s tennis program to the next level,” said Nickitas. “The hardest part was leaving Duke and an amazing team and all the great people I came in contact with while at Duke. I learned a tremendous amount at Duke and will be forever grateful for the opportunities I was given there.”

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Cryer notched a school record 71 goals and team-high 66 draw controls this season, earning her first-team honors from Inside Lacrosse as well as IWLCA/US Lacrosse andWomenslacrosse.com. She was a finalist for the Tewaaraton Trophy and the Honda Lacrosse Award, which are given annually to the nation’s top collegiate player.

Named to the second team, Waagbo led the ACC in both points per game (4.5) and assists per game (2.2). After breaking her own single-season record with 44 assists, Waagbo finished with a school-record 116 career assists. She was named to IWLCA/US Lacrosse’s and Womenslacrosse.com’s first team All-America teams, while also earning a nomination for the Tewaaraton Trophy.

Jester’s season total of 40 goals and 20 assists were third- and second-most on the team, respectively, earning her third team

honors. She graduates fourth on Duke’s career points list (204) and assists list (63). She was a Womenslacrosse.com second team All-America selection and an IWLCA/US Lacrosse third team All-America honoree.

Incoming freshmen take national stage Six members of Duke’s incoming recruits will compete in the second annual Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic this Saturday.

Sarah Bullard, Virginia Grotty, Emma Hamm, Miller Hughes, Christie Kaestner and Caroline Spearman were selected as some of the top up-and-coming high school lacrosse players in the nation.

Of the 90 women elected to the 2007 Under Armour All-America Team, Duke, with six representatives, is tied for second-most with North Carolina, while Georgetown leads all programs with seven recruits.

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BASEBALL from page 9 Gallagher was not the only Blue Devil experiencing the joy of being drafted. His classmate Brett Bartles and senior pitcher Tony Bajoczky were also selected on the draft’s second day, bringing their childhood dreams one step closer to reality as well.

“I’ve always wanted to play pro ball ever since I can remember,” Bartles said. “I started playing tee-ball when I was four years old. I just love the game, and it just worked out for me that I get a chance to play.”

Gallagher’s selection by the Chicago White Sox with the 239th pick headlined the day, as the junior became the earliest Duke outfielder to be selected in 13 years.

Gallagher had been one of the mainstays of the Duke offense the last two seasons, hitting .360 withsix home runs, 43 runs batted in and 16 stolen bases in 2007.

“Playing since I was about four or five and ever since then, I’ve dreamt of putting on a big league uniform and now I have that opportunity,” Gallagher said. “I always felt like I was capable of playing at that level. It was a matter of putting some things together while I was there at Duke.”

Bartles was one of Gallagher’s partners in crime in the lineup, hitting .293 with seven long balls and 48 RBIs in his junior year. The shortstop turned third baseman was taken in the 30th round by the Cincinnati Reds, a bit lower than he expected.

“From what I heard, I was expecting to go higher,” he said. “But things work out for a reason, and I was just glad that I got the phone call. I was just thankful that I was going somewhere.”

Bajoczky said he did not know what to expect heading into draft day. The senior had not been on anyone’s draft board following a junior season in which everything seemed to go wrong.

But his hard work in the offseason paid immediate dividends this year as he emerged as the Blue Devils’ ace.

At one point during the season, Bajoczky won five conLAURA BUESO/THE CHRONICLE secutive starts against top-notch ACC competition. He Blue Devil ace and senior Tony Bajoczky was selected by theBoston Red Sox in the 34th round oflast week's Major League Baseball Draft. finished the year with a 9-3 mark, a 3.22 ERA and 2ndteam All-ACC honors.

The Boston Red Sox recognized that work—and its renity to do, and it was something that I personally wanted to sults—when the team selected Bajoczky in the 34th round. do and a lot ofother people would love to have the chance.

“What a great story,” head coach Sean McNally said. “A I wanted to take advantage of it while it was there.” guy who, as a junior, his numbers weren’t good but didn’t As juniors, Gallagher and Bartles each had the opporreflect how hard he worked, and the way he handled that tunity to turn down their big-league offers and return to kind of adversity and going out and playing summer ball, Duke for their senior seasons. Both, however, decided the coming back and emerging as the ace of that staff and lure of the big leagues was just too much to pass up. having quality wins against great ACC programs. Things Gallagher signed with the White Sox Tuesday and was don’t always work out that way, but Tony was one I was rescheduled to join theirrookie team in Montana Thursday. ally hoping for. He earned it.

All three players agreed that they are quickly becoming “He’s the best 34th-round pick in the draft—l can tell fans of their new teams. Gallagher said he is happy to be you that.” playing for Chicago, where he spent some of his youth.

Unlike Gallagher and Bardes, getting drafted was not “I was always somewhat of a fan, so now that I’m part of the organization, I’ll probably follow [the White Sox] a always on Bajoczky’s radar screen.

“I was prepared to be drafted, but it was not a sure little more closely,” he said.

Bartles admitted that changing allegiances would be a thing by any means,” he said. [Playing professional baseball] was more of a dream than a goal for me.” little harder for him.

The same even-keel attitude that helped Bajoczky “I was a Braves fan my whole life, but now I’m checking through his difficult junior year also kept him from out the Reds,” Bartles said. getting too excited too soon about his major-league McNally, meanwhile, saw the day as a milestone for all ofDuke Baseball. prospects.

“After going to Duke for four years and graduating, “It’s really exciting for our program and really excitI’ve seen a lot of friends and a lot of people going to work ing first and foremost for the kids,” McNally said. “They out of Duke and starting a career,” the senior said. “It’s worked very hard, and it’s great to see them get drafted sort of tough sometimes to pass that up and play baseball and get recognized for the years that they had and the because the odds are against you that you’ll make it. But hard work they put in. This is certainly a major step for our still, it’s something that very few people get the opportu- program, characteristic of the programs in the ACC.” “

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And they weren’t too to Duke were accepted this shabby after all. Although spring—the lowest “admit the statistics were not as jaw- percentage” and second-highdropping as Duke News may est number of applicants in make them out to be, the Duke’s history. Add to this the numbers do indicate that fact that yield has improved the “Duke lacrosse scandal” and the diversity of the Class of did not deter prospective T1 is better than ever before, students from applying and and all signs seem to point to

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ally grow back stronger from this whole ordeal, to steal the (translated) motto adopted by the 2006-2007 men’s lacrosse team when they returned to the field this year.

Of course, there is still little doubt that admissions and the “Duke reputation” question will continue to loom large in the minds of administrators, students and alums. Admissions stats this year show thatwhereas Duke appeared to be on a meteoric rise two Junes ago, the University has now hit a plateau of sorts. Duke’s Class of 2011 admit percentage trails all the “peer” Ivies, such as Cornell, Penn and Dartmouth.

In light of the challenges this school faced when it was put under a microscope in the media this past year, however,

the newly released stats even have Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag a bit surprised.

Indeed, Guttentag should feel pretty darn good about the job he and his team in the admissions building did last spring and fall.

Few admissions directors have had to dealwith a situation like this, and Duke stepped up to the plate thisyear with its recruitment efforts that emphasized one-on-one interaction, new-and-improved website and

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And they got some big things right, too. Although it’s

hard to say whether or not we can tip our hats to DukeEngage as a major contributing factor in this year’s improved yield, the $3O-million initiative and continued evaluation of the Campus Culture Initiative’s spring report indicate that Duke is truly making the “good of this place” known in a—for the most part —effective way.

To be clear, though, this is no time for Duke to rest on its self-advertised laurels.

The University has suffered a major blow at a time when admissions to elite universities is more keen than ever before.

Moving forward, the admissions department and Duke in general needs to keep its current underdog mentality and competitive edge ifit’s to get off the current plateau and continue on its once-meteoric path.

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Attention

everyone: The dog days of summer are about to begin, and with them all the animosity and vitriol that can only be inspired by 95 degrees and 80-percent humidity.

So in honor ofFahrenheit-fueled fury, here are a few of the things I hate. May you be inspired to create your own list and avoid getting yourself jailed for assault.

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I put you in the hall because you are annoying and you lick my plant. Hear this: It is not a catnip plant. It is a philodendron and will not get you high. Stop throwing yourself against my door.

That you can’t get anywhere cool from Raleigh/Durham for cheap, but if you’re lucky enough to have an apartment in Manhattan, you can take your limo over to LaGuardia and fly to Australia for like 10 bucks. Oh hey, there’s a weekend special from Raleigh/Durham to Tupelo, Mississippi?? Good thing I wanted to go there.

That Duke undergraduates abbreviate everything. Ser? This is not tots awes. All your abbreviating makes me want to vom.

Men that whistle at runners from car windows. Hey, hey, just look at how awful I look.

Does it seem in all my huffing, puffing and sweating like I am out trying to pick up guys?

Did it occur to you that perhaps I am running in naught but a sports bra because it is 4 million degrees outside and not because I am trying to get laid? Furthermore, has any woman in the history of the world ever stopped, walked up to the car of a whistler, told him he seemed like a nice guy and gone home with him? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Plus, you didn’t even slow down to afford me the opportunity. You suck.

Credit card minimums in restaurants on campus. Fie on you and your thinly veiled attempt to get me to spend more money in your establishment. I avoid carrying cash because I want to save money, not because I want to buy 5 bags of chips so I can get a soda that only costs $1.50. It’s not even legal in some states.

I’m talking to you, Blue Express.

Hinder. Yes, I can do much better than you... by changing the station.

The Streets at Southpoint on Friday and Saturday nights. It is that packed every single flipping weekend. Who the hell goes to The Cheesecake Factory once a week when there are delicious restaurants right here in Durham? Whoever you are, your unoriginality scares me.

People who wear sunglasses in bars. This is neither the ’Bos nor Miami. Unless you got tested for glaucoma this morning and have pupils the size of flying saucers, take them off before I punch you in the face.

Reality TV shows. Especially The Inferno. Uggggh. The Real World is not a career. McDonald’s is a career, and I hear they’re hiring. Special bonus: You don’t even have to make a fool out of yourself in front of a hundred million people to get paid anymore.

Morning radio talk shows (except NPR). Nobody wants to listen to you yap about Twinkies, Wiis, your puppy and what have you at 7 a.m. We especially do not want to hear your awful laugh, Kristin from 105.1. Stop it.

Guys who think the sentence “All girls are crazy” is a legitimate pick-up line. It’s not

Whew. I feel better. Too bad it’s still hotter than Dutch love up in this mess. even legitimate logic. If all girls aren’t crazy, you could be offending the single sane one you might actually want to date. Conversely, if all girls are crazy, the girl you let in on the secret is logically also crazy and is liable to lose it and jab you in the face with her cocktail straw upon hearing the truth.

This is how stupid people lose eyes.

Whew. I feel better. Too bad it’s still hotter than Dutch love up in this mess.

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

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A broader conception of service

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No, of course not. The “gunshots” were fireworks and it was silly to even entertain the idea. A friend who had been downtown soon returned with an explanation. The Fenerbahce Yellow Canaries had captured the Turkish league championship. The parade celebrated something no less integral to the Turkish male experience than circumcision or military service; soccer.

The next day, as I walked under a gigantic yellow and blue Fenerbahce banner strung between buildings, I reflected on that moment in which I thought, somewhat absurdly, that I just might get to witness a military coup.

For an instant, a brief instant, I hoped I would.

Let me qualify: I’m no fan of political Islam, but I disagree with the military’s overbearing role in the political situation in Turkey. Simply put, I don’t think the military should have a role at all in the political situation in Turkey.

And coups tend to have nasty consequences —namely, death or exile for the ousted leaders, public curfews, violations of free speech and general political chaos.

Even a bloodless military coup, as occurred in Turkey in 1997, is a tragic flipping of the bird to democratic principles. A military intervention today, even if committed against perceived Islamic extremism, would be a shameful affront to civil liberties and stability in Turkey and a major setback for the country’s status in the international community.

But nevertheless, a tiny, quickly suppressed part of me thought a coup would be interesting. As personally invested as I have become in Turkey over this past semester, that tiny part of me could not forget that regardless, I’d soon be back in the United States, where politics are often frustrating or inane but rarely truly dangerous.

Studying abroad is a wonderful experience, but it is also a somewhat bizarre social institution. I found myself in a nebulous position between long-term tourist and actual resident, uncertain how much to care, or how much I had the right to care, about the future of a country I could only temporarily call home.

Even now, back in America, I care a lot. I want to be involved with Turkey’s development, and I hope that when I return this summer it will not be for the last time. But I wonder ifI can eliminate those moments of parade-watching confusion, at least while I have my American passport to rely on.

They say study abroad increases your understanding ways you will never forget. And it undoubtedly did. but in what they don’t tell you is thatyou leave understanding just enough to know how imperfect that understanding is.

Four months ago, Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics held an afternoon conference addressing “Knowledge In The Service ofSociety.” I covered die event for my work-study job, and it was pretty much everything you’d expect: blue ribbon panels, malfunctioning microphones and several tons of gourmet cheese. (I try to get a dinner’s worth of hors d’oeuvres out of these diings.)

During her opening comments, Professor Ruth jdTCd milCllGr Grant made what I thought boumtje-boumlje was die best point of die day. According to my briestained notes, she explained that our idea of “community service” has been colored by progressive biases against the political establishment. Grant elaborated: “I have asked myselffor a long time why it’s considered ‘service’ when students work for local nonprofits, but when people work for Capitol Hill it’s called an ‘internship.’”

The rest of the conference is lost in a caloric haze, but Grant’s statement has stuck with me. The more I think about it, the more I realize that Duke and Durham have suffered from our under-inclusive conception of service as limited to “selfless” activities such as washing dishes at a soup kitchen or tutoring schoolchildren. For instance, some commentators last fall criticized the political advocacy of Duke Students for an Ethical Durham. They said the group’s work wasn’t “constructive,” and argued that it was inferior to traditional campus causes such as lobbying Duke to pay its employees higher wages.

I couldn’t disagree more. For too long, Duke has walked on eggshells to avoid offending Durham’s establishment. We owe Durham more than the paychecks we offer employees, the money we funnel through the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership and the hours we spend teaching ESL classes. From President Brodhead down to undergraduates, we need to supplement our charitable and volunteer work in Durham by engaging with the city on a more hard-nosed level. We cannot tolerate the Durham Police Department’s mistreatment ofDuke students, not only for our own self-interest, but also for the sake of the rest of Durham. If police brazenly harass people who are privileged and well-connected, can you imagine how they treat those who aren’t?

Few of our fellow Durhamites enjoy the luxuries we have: free time, an extraordinary education and built-in organizational networks. If we can arrange a tent city with hundreds ofresidents and absurdly complicated rules, we’re capable of organizing to demand good governance.

Some people hope we don’t realize this, but Duke students are a legitimate interest group and we should organize accordingly. This week I’m in Washington lobbying North Carolina’s legislators to create a new national scenic area. The trip has proven the primacy of interest group politics. When we tell an aide about the scenic value of the area we want preserved, their eyes glaze over. Their political antennae only perk up again once we mention the businesses and homeowners who will benefit from the NSA designation. John Schelp and the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association have thrown a wrench in the wheels of Central Campus planning—hurting students as much as anyone—because they are a disciplined, well-organized interest group. Come election time, our votes and dollars are worth as much as the OWDNA’s. Let’s be as effective as they have been at coordinating our message and political power.

Duke navigates a minefield when it engages politically with Durham. We loathe being seen as rich, privileged Northerners who buy our way to power. That’s certainly the narrative demagogues like Mike Nifong or Grant Farred will tell to distract from their own meager characters. But this is what makes fighting for good government particularly noble; it’s really hard to do. No one is going to criticize you if you cut onions at a retirement home or pick up trash in Eno River State Park, and if you’re so inclined you should certainly do those things. But frankly, Cub Scouts can do that work. It took a lot more courage to go to a polling station last November and have Nifong supporters harass you for standing up for three innocent people.

Leslie Griffith is a Trinity junior and editorial page managing editor of The Chronicle. Her column runs every other Thursday during the summer.

Jared Mueller is a Trinity junior and 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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In Urfa above, aTurkish flag fliesfrom the medievalcitadel of Sanliurfa, a formerCrusader state thatis now a major focus of the government's push for development inTurkey's poorand less stable southeast. For other pictures taken by columnistLeslie Griffith, go to dukechronicle.com.

Is it a circumcision?

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was Sunday afternoon in Alanya, Turkey, and something was going on.

Cars draped with Turkish flags careened along the narrow streets, ricocheting through hairpin turns like pinballs. Bombastic military music, interspersed with cheeky car horns, had been playing for the past half hour. It had all the makings of an impromptu pa-

rade in Alanya, which despite lacking candy| p -|: p nriffith iesl,e 9r,TTlin lobbing clowns (something i believe adds to dispatch from the orient every occasion), definitely beat American parades.

About once a month, some incident ignites public excitement and provokes a spontaneous march through the streets. The fun part, besides watching hordes of pubescent drivers courting death, is guessing the occasion.

And so the questions began; “Is it a circumcision?”

Circumcision is nearly universal among Turkish males. Some lucky ones, if lucky can at all describe their experience, are paraded through town by their proud parents beforehand.

This was a little more raucous than the typical circumcision ceremony, though. Perhaps on this date decades before the father of the republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, had visited the town. Maybe a young man leaving for his required military service was getting a final send-off from his friends, although those festivities usually involve Turkish pop music and not drums and trumpets.

As the horns persisted into the night, a defiant new sound joined the spectacle.

Gunshots?

It was early May, when Turkey’s political uncertainty was at its peak. The governing Justice and Development Party had withdrawn Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul’s presidential bid after a parliamentary boycott and Constitutional Court decision blocked his election. It was at that point unclear how the mildly Islamist ruling party would respond to this setback, or if the widespread protests against a feared erosion of strict secularism would turn violent The length to which the military would go to “protect the republic” from political Islam was and still is unknown. Was this parade no mere circumcision but related to a coup in the capital?

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