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The celebrationfor NationalComing Out Day on the West CampusPlaza

After nearly two years of withholding its official approval, Duke has once again decided to allow and sponsor the prefootball ritual. The University will provide maintenance, security, portable toilets, food and water for Saturday’s game.

Students will be allowed to drive into the Blue Zone parking lots between 7:30 and 8 a.m. to drop off grills, food, speakers and anything else they need for the day, with the exception of alcohol.

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LGBT community comes out to Plaza by

Marlsa Siegel THE CHRONICLE

From the rainbow balloon arch greeting students on one end to the several rainbow flags flanking the walkway, the West Campus Plaza was transformed Thursday in support of Duke’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and

transgender community.

The LGBT Center took over the plaza with rainbow-themed decorations and free food, shirts, stickers and fliers in celebration of National Coming Out Day—a day of recognition of theLGBT community.

Crowds of people mingled among rainbow balloons and flags while workers of the event wore free “Love Love” T-shirts and handed out free goods. As a live band =

played songs such as Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” and Ace of Base’s “I Saw the Sign,” students ate lunch, munched on rainbow cookies and sucked on Loco Pops.

The celebration for National Coming Out Day commemorates the 500,000-person march on the Capitol Oct. 11, 1987 in support of the LGBT community and the fight against AIDS. The LGBT Center holds an even t annually to encourage Duke student participation in the LGBT community.

“We are a part of the diversity ofDuke and yet we often remain invisible,” Janie Long, director of the LGBT Center, wrote inanemail. “Thus, we think that National Coming Out Day is the perfect day to be very visible, and what better place than the plaza?”

All ages and types of students came out

help with and enjoy the festivities Thursday afternoon.

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Freshman Jessica MacFarlane, who said she learned about National Coming Out Day through the LGBT Center listserv, volunteered to hand out free T-shirts in support of the event.

“I think because the shirt design is really appealing to a lot of people it doesn’t mean that you have to be lesbian, gay [or] transsexual—you can just be an ally and wear the shirt,” MacFarlane said.

The celebration of National Coming Out Day at Duke this year was much larger SEE COMING OUT ON PAGE 6

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The University will provide maintenance, security, portable toilets,food and water for Saturday.

DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Plan aims for accountability by

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Duke Student Government recently initiated the Legislative Intent program to encourage senators to get more involved on campus by developing individual projects and meeting self-made goals.

DSG Executive Vice President Jordan Giordano, a junior, said the program was developed to increase productivity and improve communication within the organization. In a memorandum to senators he wrote that DSG representatives have been criticized in the past for a lack of sufficient involvement.

“In previous years, the Senate has not been the most active and it was hard to keep track of every project SEE DSG ON PAGE

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Possible school attack thwarted

Genocide issuecauses U.S.-Turkish row by

Christopher Torchia THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Turkey, which is a key supply route to U.S. troops in Iraq, recalled its ambassador to Washington, D.C., Thursday and warned of serious repercussions if Congress labels the killing of Armenians by Turks a hundred years ago ANKARA, Turkey

as genocide.

Ordered after a House committee endorsed the genocide measure, the summons of the ambassador for consultations was a further sign of the deteriorating relations between two longtime allies and the potential for new turmoil in an already troubled region.

Egeman Bagis, an aide to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Turkish media that Turkey—a conduit for many of the supplies shipped to American bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan—might have to “cut logistical support to the U.S.” Analysts also have speculated the resolution could make Turkey more inclined to send troops into northern Iraq to hunt Turkish Kurd rebels, a move opposed by the United States because it would disrupt one of the few relatively stable and peaceful Iraqi areas.

“There are steps that we will take,” Turkey’s prime minister told reporters, but without elaboration. It also was not clear if

he meant his government would act immediately or wait to see what happens to the resolution in Congress.

He declined to answer questions about whether Turkey might shut down Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, a major cargo hub for America and allied military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Iskenderun is also used to ferry goods to American troops.

“You don’t talk about such things, you just do them,” Erdogan said.

The measure before Congress is just a nonbinding resolution without the force of SEE GENOCIDE ON PAGE 10

U.S. budget deficit falls, hits 5-year low by

Martin Crutsinger THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The George W. Bush administration reported Thursday that the federal budget deficit fell to $162.8 billion in the just-completed budget year, the lowest amount of red ink in five years.

The administration credited the president’s tax cuts for helping generate record-breaking revenues but warned of an approaching “fiscal train wreck” unless Congress deals with unsusr tainable growth in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

President Bush, appearing with his eco-

nomic team to trumpet the news, noted that the deficit turned out to be $Bl billion lower than it was projected to be in February. He said the deficit represents 1.2 percent of gross domestic product—less than the average of the last 40 years.

“By keeping taxes low we can grow the economy, and by working with Congress to set priorities we can be fiscally responsible and we can head toward balance,” Bush said after the meeting across the street from the White House. “And that’s exactly where we’re headed.”

The deficit for the 2007 budget year that

ended on Sept. 30 was 34.4 percent lower than the $248.2 billion deficitrecorded in 2006, reflecting faster growth in revenues than in government spending.

Administration officials said the govern-

ment was on track to accomplish Bush’s

goal

of eliminating the deficit by 2012. But Democrats said the improvement in the deficit this year did not mask the fact that Bush’s economic policies transformed the budget surpluses of the Clintonyears intorecord deficits and an unprecedented increase in the national debt SEE BUDGET ON PAGE 11

A home-schooled teenager amassed a cache of guns, knives and explosives for a possible Columbine-typeattack on a Pennsylvania high school, authorities said Thursday. The weapons included an assault rifle that the teenager's mother had recently bought for him.

Rice says Iran'lying'about nukes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran of "lying" about the aim of its nuclear program Thursday, saying there is no doubt Tehran wants the capability to produce nuclear weapons and has deceived the U.N.'s atomic watchdog about its intentions.

Cold meds for infants pulled Drug makers pulled cold medicines targeted for babies and toddlers off the market Thursday. The move comes after the FDA and other health groups reported deaths linked to the remedies in recent years, primarily from unintentional overdoses.

Snoop Dogg to clean park Rapper Snoop Dogg will pick up trash and perform other park maintenance as part of his sentence for carrying an illegal weapon in an airport last year, authorities said Thursday. He was arrested 5ept.27,2006,after the discovery of a collapsible baton in his computer bag.

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A&S COUNCIL

Provost speaks on new report by

Andrew Beach THE CHRONICLE

The Arts and Sciences Council met Thursday to discuss suggestions set forth by the Interim Report on the Undergraduate Experience and to hear a presentation by representatives of the Undergraduate Judicial Board.

Provost Peter Lange kicked off the meeting with a general overview of the interim report, which expanded ideas from last Spring’s Report of the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee into viable policy suggestions. “[One goal is] getting our students to behave in a more sociallyresponsible manner all the time, not just most of the time,” he said.

Lange added that though Duke has a statistically diverse campus, the way in which diversity is handled needs improvement.

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Provost Peter Lange talkedabout the InterimReport on the UndergraduateExperience atThursday's meeting.

‘Best of Enemies’ author gives talk by

Through genuine communication, people can overcome racial divisions and achieve common goals.

That was the message Thursday night as approximately 350 students, professors and Durham residents had the opportunity to listen to a candid conversation in Griffith Film Theater between Osha Gray Davidson, author of this year’s summer reading book, “The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South,” and Ann Atwater, one of the main characters in the book, on racial issues in the past and present.

Davidson began by providing the audience with background information on the book and an account of his meetings with Atwater and C.R Ellis, the other main character in the book, who bridged their racial differences and worked together to change the Durham school system in the 19605.

“What I learned from interviewing Ann and C.R, other than making some new friends, is that anything is possible,” Davidson said. “They proved that if it happened once, it means it is not impossible by definition.”

He added that the communication between Atwater and Ellis was integral to the success of their endeavor.

“There was a lotof talk going on but not a whole lot of listening. That was the key to this story,” Davidson said. “Ann and C.P. not only talked, but they both listened, and when they listened, amazing things happened.”

During the question-and-answer segment with Davidson and Atwater, many questions raised revolved around issues of racism on Duke’s campus.

Atwater said she believes the University has come a long way since the 19605, but it still has much to accomplish.

“White people need to quit asking black folks what it is we need to do,” she said. “They need to get up and say T’m going to do something.’ And there’s a lot of mess going on in this campus that shouldn’tbe going on.”

Another audience member asked if Duke’s self-segregation was a new, more covert form of racism. Atwater answered that she hopes students do not fear racism on campus and advised them to actively work together to make a genuine differ-

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Ann Atwater was a character in the Class of 2011's summer reading book,"The Best of Enemies." ence in the community.

She said Duke students were capable of changing others, but had to become more involved.

“Duke has good people working out here, some of the very best,” Atwater said. ‘They need to go offcampus just to make sure the community is safe and other children in other communities have what they need.”

Davidson sighed when asked about his opinion on the currentracial tension in Jena, La., before expressing his lack of surprise.

“Assuming that what I heard is true, it doesn’t surprise me. It saddens me, but I don’t know why it would be a surprise,” he said. “It is just a reminder that the struggle continues to do what Ann and C.P. did, and that will not go away quickly or easily. We need to just fight it each time it comes up.”

Members of the audience said they

were generally pleased with the event.

“I almost wish they had more time to get to more questions,” said Sean Aery, a Web designer at Perkins Library. “I think it’s very valuable that this becomes a conversation and not just a one-way communication. I think that there are a lot more conversations to be had after the event and I think that is the key.”

Ryan Lombardi, associate dean of students and director of orientation, said he believes the event was a “phenomenal success.”

“I was so happy to see so many members of the community here,” he said. “I love seeing when students and people come up and want to talk more. That usually means it was a great night.”

At the end of the event, Davidson presented freshman Alex Teng with the $5OO summer reading essay contest award.

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CAMPUS COUNCIL

devilDVDs program not coming to an end Catherine Butsch THE CHRONICLE

munication and that student complaints indicated the popularity of the service.

Campus Council decided to provide the requested allocation of $2,500 with

Student movie nights will continue to feature new titles like “300,” “Blades of Glory” and “Dreamgirls” thanks to a vote stipulations.

In order to receive the funds, devilDby Campus Council at a general body meetmust garner student input to deterVDs ing Thursday night.

The Council decided to increase its mine future purchases of movies, make a funding for devilDVDs, a program that stronger effort to advertise the re-sale of the DVDs to the student body and charge provides eight to 10 recently released movfines to recover the lost revenue from ie titles for students to check out from Lilly damaged discs.

Library and PerRepresentakins Library, “We think that at the heart tives also opted Both libraries of it, it’s a residential issue. It to delay voting carry four copies on future fundof each movie, increases community in that ing until next students and year and to find can check them people get together to watch another sponsor out for up to 36 a movie.” in the event that hours, which is Council longer than the Molly Bierman, treasurer Campus decides not to normal check-out continue financtime for movies from Lilly, said Campus Council President ing devilDVDs. Council members were optimistic about Ryan Todd, a senior. the plan.

The program, which has been in exisGetting student input on future DVD tence for five years, is financed by Campus Council, Duke Student Government, and purchases will be easily implemented on the Campus Council Web site, Bierman said.

Lisa Beth Bergene, assistant dean for ResiIn addition, to better advertise the dence Life and Housing Services. Campus re-sale of the DVDs, quadrangle repreCouncil voted to assume a greater proporsentatives recommended putting ads in tion of the funding this year due to the nature of the service.

The Chronicle and on buses and plac“We think that at the heart of it, it’s ing placards in libraries and on tables in a residential issue,” said Treasurer Molly dining halls.

The council also discussed systems for Bierman, a junior. “It increases commuthat to watch charging responsible students for damagpeople get together nity in a movie.” ing DVDs. “I don’t thinkit’s that unreasonable to say...

She added that the program was not funded this due to a miscomyear your goal is to not break this,” Todd said. initially

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The original stipulations provided for possible other sources of funding, but the council amended the proposal.

“Every time you split the cost with another organization, you split the recognition,” Bierman said. “There’s only so much room in someone’s head for student government recognition. [lf you] open [the option of co-funding] up to another group, you’re giving them credit for something you did.”

In other business: Todd and Vice President Kevin Thompson, a junior, said Campus Council is entertaining ideas about extending current East Campus elective housing programs to corresponding communities on West Campus in response to Provost Peter Lange’s interim report on the Report of the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee.

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proach we tried a couple of years ago as the administration serving as monitors didn’t work, and I think the students’ monitoring is the best way to go.”

Over the past four years, Tailgate has undergone a series of changes,

cause it’s just a random and spontaneous gathering of people,” she said. “We just don’t want to Staff representatives will check infringe on that.” the IDs of students carrying alcohol Donnelly added that Executive Vice President Tallman Trask will into Tailgate at both entrances to the first Blue Zone lot Students can provide the food and water for the event. only cany one case of beer or one liter of hard alcohol Among the changes is a “The of is new policy that prevents stuin a non-glass container into because it’s just a random the lot at a time, said senior dents from keeping theircars in the Blue Zone lot after the Katelyn Donnelly, president and spontaneous of Duke University Union.

8 a.m. start time, said Dean of She added that the Union of people.”

Students Sue Wasiolek. decided against providing a the first Tailgate this Katelyn Donnelly, year,“Inthere band were no cars in Administrators said that DUUPresident the lot and the students after repeated efforts to alseemed to think thatthat was ter Tailgate, they instated actually a good thing,” she the new plan to hold students resaid. “It gave them more space.” shifting from a University-sanctioned event to a parking lot buzzDSG President Paul Slattery, a sponsible for their own actions.

[Past experiences] certainly ing with free-for-all debauchery. senior, said he does not anticipate showed me that trying to draw a that tomorrow’s Tailgate will difDonnelly said neither Duke Stuline in the sand is not effective,” dent Governmentnor the Union defer greatly from the Tailgate held said Larry Moneta, vice president cided to take control ofthe event. earlier this year. for student affairs. “I think the ap“The beauty of Tailgate is beSome students said though the restrictions may be stifling, the new additions may also help to ensure the well-being of students.

“Providing food and drink and people [in case] something does go wrong—that’s a great addition to Tailgate,” senior Katrina Kumit said. “It’ll make [Tailgate] safer.”

Wasiolek said she hopes the administrative support will discourage students from unsafe conduct.

“There were some behaviors in the past that were just unacceptable, including throwing beer cans and consuming dangerous amounts of alcohol,” she said.

Senior Dan Sachs, however, SARA GUERRERO/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO said that the sanctions imposed Students can only carry one case ofbeer at a time into theBlue Zone lots Saturday. could be causing some of the li-

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Administrators said the new Tailgateplan will hold students responsible fortheir own actions. abilities. “I think it’s silly that the University doesn’t let us have kegs,” he said. “People wouldn’t be throwing cans—it would be safer and cheaper for everyone.”

Sophomore Nico Bollerslev said that the checking of IDs that occurred earlier this semester was minimal, if existent at all. “l feel like they’re using these precautions to scare the students, but I guess it kind of

works,” she said.

Several students said regardless of the new regulations and programming support, Tailgate will continue as a Duke tradition, and the University should begin to accept that, “I don’t really see the point of carding anyone,” Sachs said. “Students are going to do what they’re going to do, and the University should find away to support it.”

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COMING OUT from page 1 than in any past years, Long said. She added that this was the first year that the LGBT Center rented the entire plaza.

“They have celebrated National Coming Out Day really only minimally until this year, and we decided that it was something that we really wanted to do,” Long said.

Many other Duke groups came out to show support.

Led by the LGBT Center, groups such as AQUADuke, Duke Allies, the Duke University Union and the Duke chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union tabled and distributed information along the plaza in support of the day’s events. DukeOUT, a group for LGBT graduate and professional students, and OUTlaw, the law schoolLGBT group, also participated.

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“I would like to say that I think that society is a little bit more accepting than Duke is,” Singleton said. “I’ve been to other campuses and [it has] been a little different, but there’s always hope for change.”

With the supply of“Love Love” T-shirts depleted only two hours into the day, Long said the celebration was a success.

“We’ve had a lot of people stopping, getting information, getting T-shirts [and] now they are going to get food,” she said. “I am very, very pleased.” =

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DSG from page 1 the senators were doing,” Giordano said, adding that Legislative Intent will put the ideas that senators discuss verbally into print and post their progress online.

Under the new program, senators will submit brief monthly progress reports stating their long-term goals and listing the steps they have taken to achieve them.

DSG President Paul Slattery, a senior, said standardizing the legislative process will also reduce project overlap among senators and help the group’s leaders stay on track with their respective committees’ initiatives.

“We want senators to be able to work on projects they’re interested in, but we also want to be kept abreast of the progress because we don’t want there to be replication or conflicting advocacy,” Slattery said.

Senators’ projects —which range from improving attendance at sporting events to streamlining E-Reserve turnaround time will be publicized on the DSG Web site to raise awareness among students and foster a greater sense of responsibility, said senior Genevieve Cody, vice president for community interaction.

[Legislative Intent] is away for senators to be accountable for the work that they’re supposed to be doing and that they’re elected to do,” she said. “It’s necessary for the student body to have access to what we’re doing without coming —

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meetings.”

The program helps DSG leaders gather feedback from their committees and determine where senators can collaborate on broader initiatives, said senior Gina Ireland, vice president for academic affairs.

She added that the project’s value goes beyond the monthly progress reports.

“It wasn’t that you had to fill out a form and check off all your boxes and that was it,” Ireland said. “This is really a work in progress and a collaboration.”

Many senators and vice presidents said internal response to the program has been mosdy positive and representatives are excited to take ownership of the unique projects

they develop.

“A lot of the DSG representatives who are underclassmen are excited about the opportunity to make a difference, and this is a good way to facilitate that,” senator Matthew Keshian, a freshman, said.

Some senators, however, said the pro-

gram’s implementation was

not necessary to them encourage develop the projects they had in mind.

“Legislative Intent was just writing down what my plans were already,” senator Kristen Manderscheid, a sophomore, said.

Campus Council enacted a similar program last year encouraging representatives to develop projects, but it failed to produce many results, Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a senior, said.

“People did come up with some clever ideas, but some of them were just a little more ambitious than you can enact in a single year,” he said.

Todd added that the program will be improved for this year. to

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Duke Student Government instituted the Legislative Intent program to hold senators more accountable.

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BELL from page 1

maintaining calm and reason in the community and asking people to try and election campaign but also attempting to let the judicial process take place,” Bell deal with the media backlash of a lawsuit said. “[Stith] raised issues recently that against the city. implied I had much more oversight than Taking on a leadership role in the I actually did.”

Law Professor James Coleman said he months after the lacrosse case officially ended last spring, Bell was part of a push does not believe that the lacrosse case will within City Council to investigate the affect the outcome of the mayoral elecrole of the Durham Police Department tion and that Bell acted appropriately in in the case. Now, months later, the city the situation.

“The way I understand the mayor’s acled by Bell is prepped to fight a lawsuit filed by the three falsely accused former tions, he asked for the police department to Duke students demanding infrastructurexpedite the process but he also told them to be thorough,” al changes and Coleman saiu. estimated monu 1 beIICVC that Strong neigh“Given the ciretary reparations cumstances, I of $3O million. borhoods make for Strong think it was reCouncil City cities, which make for strong sponsible to ask member Mike the police to exWoodard said economies.” pedite the proBell has shown leadergreater Bill Bell, mayor cess. He didn’t tell the police... ship than opand City ponent Council member Thomas Stith over the innocent students.”

A politician in Durham since 1972, Bell past two years in dealing with the lacrosse case. said he brings experience and understand“I guess voters will have to ask theming of the Bull City to the position.

“I think I bring the knowledge of selves, of these two men who have been involved in this, who has shown more how local governments work—both at leadership on issues related to allegations the city and county level,” he said. “The related to the lacrosse team?” Woodard years of service in which I was in a leadsaid. “Clearly, the mayor has stepped up ership position... give me additional when there were a lot of issues and imleadership experience at the local govmediately after allegations were made ernment level.”

Since he entered political office in through meetings with President [Richard] Brodhead and other community Durham, Bell said the relationship beleaders. I have not seen the same level of tween Duke and Durham has improved and widened, and he added that Duke leadership from Councilman Stith.”

Throughout the lacrosse case, Bell said he is an active and key part of the Durham did not overstep his role as mayor, but instead community.

“I believe there is a very positive relawas the liaison between the police department, die Durham community and Duke. tionship between Duke and Durham,” Bell said. “[ln my time in Durham] I have seen “We did the best we could have [in] °

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Mayor Bill Bell is seeking his fourth consecutive term in the upcoming Durham mayoral elections. the Duke-Durham relationship improve, grow and progress. Is there room for improvement? There’s always room for improvement, and we’re working on that.”

Bell said if he is re-elected, he would continue to develop inner-city neighborhoods—one of his top priorities since his first term as mayor.

With the 2007 year-long theme of “Rebuilding Inner City Neighborhoods: a WinWin for Durham,” Bell has continued his work to develop Eastway Avenue in northeast central Durham.

The revitalization project began in July 2004 and is scheduled to finish in June 2008, with a price tag of more than $7.5 million, according to a report compiled by the Durham Community Development Department.

“I believe that strong neighborhoods make for strong cities, which make for strong economies,” Bell said. “When you have those kinds of environments, people and businesses move in and neighborhoods survive and thrive. If neighborhoods thrive, then cities thrive.”

The issues that Bell has focused on

during his campaign have been issues that he has addressed over the past six years, Woodard said.

“Revitalizing some of our urban neighborhoods does not offer any quick fixes,” he said. “The issues those communities face are chronic, and we can spend a lot of time and a lot of resources on those. It will take a strong leader to realize what efforts and resources best help us bring economic prosperity to these areas.”

In addition to revitalizing inner-city neighborhoods in Durham, Bell said he plans to focus on bringing jobs into the community, developing downtown Durham, focusing more on climate protection and environmental issues and reducing crime.

As far as his chances of winning, Bell said he is confident that he will defeat Stith in the mayoral election.

“I expect to win come November,” he said. “If people look at my record, they see I have experience, integrity, leadership ability and I get things done in this community.”

NaureenKhan contributed to this story.

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in the election “I’d be very surprised if he were elected,” Coleman said. “I’m not sure what his appeal address issues impacting our community,” is to the majority of Durham voters.”

Stith said. “Durham has the potential not Reducing the level of violent crime in Duronly to become a leading city in North ham and making the city more accountable Carolina, but in the country.” are also at the top of his agenda, Stith added.

The initial handling of the lacrosse alHe said he feels his campaign is going legations has already become an election very well and that Durham voters are reissue in light of the estimated $3O-million sponding to his call for positive change in civil lawsuit filed by attorneys representing the community.

Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and DaAccording to the latest campaign finance vid Evans, Trinity ’O6, against the city last reports available on his Web site, Stith’s campaien has raised Friday. The three were falsely acquadruple the “The mayor needs to be clearer cused of rape in amount of Bell’s March 2006. on his involvement in the invescampaign.

Stith said he “Financial tigation. It is clear he tried to believes Bell pressupport is one expedite the process.” sured the Durham way to measure Police Department Thomas Stith, mayoral candidate support. Votes into rushing the are another,” of investigation Stith said. “It the lacrosse case and therefore set the stage speaks to the momentum the campaign for litigation against the city. has that people are willing to financially “The mayor needs to be clearer on his insupport for an effort for change. It also volvement in the investigation,” Stith said. “It confirms that the city is ready to change is clear he tried to expedite the process. The and move forward.”

Some, however, have criticized Stith’s question is in pressuring the department [to do so]... did he sacrifice thoroughness?” campaign tactics But James Coleman, a professor at the Among such strategies were the hiring of School ofLaw and frequent commentator the consulting firm TelOpinion to conduct on the case, said that the mayor elected in whatBell has called “leading” telephone polls November will have only a limited role in and bold campaign fliers attacking the mayor. the handling of the suit and its outcome.

“I’m a little disappointed that [Stith] is “The lawsuit is primarily against the porelying on his high-paid consultants to conlice department,” he said. “The mayor is duct a campaign with inaccuracies and tacthe chief executive of the city so if there is tics we’re not used to seeing in Durham,” a judgementagainst the city, the mayor has said City Council member Mike Woodard.

Others, however, said they believe Stith to discharge whatever the city’s obligations are in the judgement.... But he’s not going is a dedicated public servant and such tacto call the legal shots in the election. He’s tics are part ofany election.

“Stith has rendered outstanding service not going to direct strategy.”

Coleman added that he did not believe on the council,” said council member HowBell had a “culpable role” in the case, nor ard Clement. “He’s doing what he thinks that the issue would affect Stith’s chances he has to do in order to win.”

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The Arts and SciencesCouncil heard a presentation from the Undergraduate JudicialBoard at its meeting Thursday.

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an, director ofjudicial affairs and associate dean of students, and Valerie Kolko, senior

“What was suggested [in the report] was less [about] having better numbers, it was making more of that diversity in the lives of individual students so they would get the benefit of that diversity,” Lange said.

He also said the improvement of currentstudent-faculty interacunderdeveloped ly dons is another concern for the University.

“This is an error where the faculty is going to have to take the lead if we’re going to make real change,” Lange added.

Later, in response to questions from council 'members concerning future changes to academic spaces, Lange said the administration is considering introducing more social spaces to academic buildings.

Following Lange’s report, Stephen Bry-

suspect academic dishonesty.

In response to a column run in The Chronicle questioning student rights at Duke, Bryan said he hopes faculty members view the board as a fair, objective group.

“What you read is not always accurate, and hopefully those of you who have been involved in the process have seen it as a fair process,” he said.

Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki said he is assembling a review of judicial processes that will include Noah Pickus, associate director of the Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke.

program coordinator for the Office of Judicial Affairs, gave an overview of judicial policies at Duke and, in particular, the role the Judicial Board gives to professors who

in Congress, Foreign Minister spokesperson Levent Bilman said. He said Sensoy would go back after seven to 10 days.

“We are not withdrawing our ambassador. We have asked him to come to Turkey for some consultations,” Bilman said.

“The ambassador was given instructions to return and will come at his earliest

law. But the debate has incensed Turkey’s government.

The relationship between the two NATO allies, whose troops fought together in the Korean War in 1950-53, have stumbled in the past. They hit a low in 2003, when Turkey’s parliament refused convenience The George W. Bush administration, to allow U.S. forces use their country as a staging ground for the invasion that which is lobbying strongly in hopes of persuading Congress to reject the resotoppled Saddam Hussein. lution, stressed the need for good relaBut while the threat of repercustions with Turkey. sions against the United States is aplook “We fOr pealing forward to his Turks, many “We are not withdrawing our quick return the counand will conambassador. We have asked try’s leaders tinue to work to know such a him to come to Turkey for maintain strong move could U.S.-Turkhurt Turkey’s some consultations.” ish relations,” as a standing Levent Billman, said Gordon reliable ally of Johndroe, the West and foreign minister spokesperson spokespersona ambitions its for the Nato be a mediational Security Council. “We remain tor on the international stage.

The Turks did suspend military ties opposed to House Resolution 106 with France last year after parliament’s because of the grave harm it could lower house approved a bill that would bring to the national security of the have made it a crime to deny the mass United States.”

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said killings of Armenians in Turkey amounted to genocide. But Turkey has much the measure is damaging relations at a more to lose from cutting ties to the time when U.S. forces in Iraq rely heavily on Turkish permission to use their airUnited States.

The United States is one of its major space for cargo flights.

About 70 percent of U.S. air cargo business partners, with $ll billion in headed for Iraq goes through Turkey trade last year, and the U.S. defense industry provides much of the Turkish mili- as does about one-third of the fuel used by the U.S. military there. Ameritary’s equipment. can bases also get water and other supambassador in WashingTurkey’s ton, D.C., Nabi Sensoy, was ordered plies carried in overland by Turkish home for discussions with the Turkish truckers who cross into Iraq’s northern leadership about what is happening Kurdish region.

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Both revenues and spending climbed to record levels in 2007. Spending rose by 2.8 percent to $2.73 trillion while revenues rose by a faster 6.7 percent to a record $2.57 trillion, a gain the administration attributed to the economic stimulus from the

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Senate Budget Committee Chairperson helped promote a sustained economic expansion, which led to revenue growth and Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said that Bush would resulted in a declining deficit,” said White “go down in history as the most fiscally irreHouse budget director Jim Nussle. sponsible president ever. The fact is that the But administration officials said while the nation’s debt has exploded on his watch—risshort-term budget ing by $3 trillion deficit was improv2001, to $9 “For the sake of our children since trillion today.” ing, greater efforts were needed to and grandchildren, Congress Bush recendy deal with the budinto law a signed should begin to take action to

measure increasing getary pressures that will arise in fuprevent this fiscal train wreck.” the government’s ture years with the borrowing ceiling Nussle, to $9,815 trillion. approaching retirement of 78 million White House budget director It was the fifth debt increase of Bush’s baby boomers.

“For the sake of our children and grandchildren, Congress national debt is the accumulation of the anshould begin to take action to prevent this fis- nual deficits. cal train wreck,” Nussle said in a statement acDuring the Clinton administration, the federal budget ran a surplus for four consecucompanying the budget figures.

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Although there were projections that the budget would run up surpluses of $5.6 trillion over the next decade, the bursting of the stock market bubble in 2000, the recession that followed in 2001 and the terrorist attacks, which led to increased military spending to fight wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, pushed the country back into deficit spending.

For 2007, defense spending, including war costs, totaled $529.9 billion, up 6.1 percent from 2006, an increase that outpaced the 2.8 percent rise in overall spending. Paying interest on the national debt also outpaced overall spending growth,rising by 5.9 percent to total $430 billion, making it the fourth-largest spending category.

While the administration contends that Bush’s first-term tax cuts helped jumpstart economic growth and are contributing to record revenues currently, Democrats dispute that view.

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Case carries on after settlements, disbarment by

Gabby McGlynn

helped prolong the rape case Oct. 5. Other

defendants include former Durham district Just when it seemed the book on the attorney Mike Nifong and members of the 2006 lacrosse case might be closed, the sto- Durham Police Department, The attorneys for the former lacrosse playry is once again the subject of news headlines and campus conversations. ers filed suit after the city refused to accept a President Richard Brodhead, in his first $3O-million setdement offered Sept. 7.

Over the sumpublic statement Nl ong wa -0,1 a ross ,e j “It was never my intention T r and disbarred, case since Nifong s Duke announced disbarment and tO mislead this OF any Other that setdements . resignation, issued COuri. had been reached an apology Sept. 30 to members of the former men’s Mike Nifong, with 1/irrnwp rnurn 2005-2006 men’s Durham DA. M ike Prefer and lacrosse team and former ers Evtheir families at ans, Seligmann—the School ofLaw. Brodhead said the administration will who chose to transfer to Brown Universireview the decisions made during the hanty—and Finnerty, who is headed to Loyola dling of the lacrosse case and added that (Md.) College. the University will host a national conferFive seniors from the 2006-2007 men’s ence of educators, lawyers and student aflacrosse team—Matt Danowski, Dan Loftus, fairs leaders to discuss how such situations Nick O’Hara, Mike Ward and Tony McDeshould be handled in the future. vitt—gained acceptance into graduate pro“First and foremost, I regret our failure grams at Duke and began exploring their opto reach out to the lacrosse players and their tions for returning for the 2007-2008 season. families in this time of extraordinary peril,” Shortly after classes resumed, Nifong Brodhead said. “Given the complexities of was sentenced Sept. 2 to serve one day in the case, getting this communication right jail after being held in contempt of court by would never have been easy. But the fact Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith. is that we did not get it right, causing the Smith found that Nifong had lied to the families to feel abandoned when they most court during testimony in September 2006 needed support. This was a mistake. I take when he said he gave defense attorneys all the results from a crucial DNA test. responsibility for it, and I apologize.”

“It was never my intention to mislead this Attorneys representing former lacrosse players Reade Seligmann, Colin Finnerty or any other court,” Nifong said then. “All and Dave Evans, Trinity ’O6, filed a 155-page the statements that I made to the court... I federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of believed to be true.”

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Although Central Campus has been overshadowed by its neighboring campuses in the past, administrators hope it will soon become central to the University.

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects which was selected as master designer for the comprehensive Central project by the Board of Trustees in July—is expected to present 10 to 15 preliminary designs in the coming mondis, said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask.

PCP, which also designed Schwartz-Butters Athletic Center, Wilson Recreation Center, the Sheffield Tennis Center and Krzyzewskiville, should have concept plans ready to be made public by early 2008, University Architect John Pearce said.

He added that buildings could open by 2010 or 2011, although the full project —which may include academic buildings and restaurants in addition to residence facilities—is expected to take 20 to 50 years to complete.

Initial discussions on integrating Central with East and West campuses were focused on updating housing and aimed to break ground Summer 2007, but the scope of the project has expanded significantly since Trask first unveiled renovation ideas, Pearce said.

“When the initial designs were proposed in 2002, Central Campus was identified as a ‘University Village,’” he said. “Its primary focus was housing with ‘retail’ —

Pelli Clarke Pelli, which was selected as the master designer of the new Central Campus, previously designed other buildings at Duke, such as the Schwartz-Butters Athletic Center. services necessary to support the undergraduate residents. More recently, programs have surfaced that include academic initiatives and institutes.”

The Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee Report, which was released in February, urged administrators to rethink spaces on campus as ways to im-

prove culture and contributed to

reconsidering the Central design.

A month before the report was released, City Council members unanimously approved Duke’s rezoning request, permitting the University to use the area to build the mix of academic, residential, restaurant and retail facilities administrators began to envision.

“What happened last year is our plans became slightly more

ambitious,” President Richard Brodhead said. “We realized we needed an architectural plan that matched the scale of our educational ambitions. We’re doing so much building here, and there’s away of doing buildings where it’s all about the building. But in a better scheme, facilities are all about the experience they enable.”

Although the timeline for

groundbreaking has been pushed back as the project has been revamped, administrators said taking this time to get the design right was paramount and would contribute to the sustainability of the campus.

“It’s going to be fabulous... we are dramatically extending our University,” Provost Peter Lange said. “There are great opportunities for synergy.”

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Provost follows up on CCI report their findings this winter.

“Inevitably, since it spoke to so many topics, the February report’s recommendations Following up on the Report of the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee were fairly general,” Brodhead told The released in February 2006, Provost Peter Chronicle in July. “In the months that folLange debuted die Interim Report on the lowed, we’ve tried to understand the world Undergraduate Experience Sept. 13 to ofstudent experience in greater detail, so we cap off months of discussions with student can know what steps would make what sorts of difference.” groups and adThe interim reministrators and it to since “Inevitably, spoke analyzed the port round begin a new models for current ofcampus-wide inso many topics, the February housing, dining trospection and social spaces report’s recommendations “This spring, available on camwith we met were fairly general.” pus and looked hundreds of stuat ways in which president dents and many Richard Brodhead, some issues raised look at faculty to ial socl regarding the CCI report, could be addressed constructhrough gather reactions and hear on a broader, life tion and infrastructural changes. more open scale... their view of the isSelective living, addressed in both the sues,” Lange told The Chronicle in July.

“We’ve absorbed that information, and 2006 report and in Lange’s interim report, we’re now going to have another round made a splash on campus as the provost rejected the original recommendation of the of conversations in the fall.”

CCI Steering Committee to eliminate all The 16-page report reevaluated recomafter mendations made in the CCI report campus selective living groups.

“The elimination of selective living likeconversations with student groups and campus leaders and served as a stepping ly was not to be responsive to the largely stone to further dialogue within the stuexpressed view of the students,” Lange told dent body regarding die issues raised in the The Chronicle in September.

He added that administrators are even inidal report. Lange said he and Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki, considering adding to the selective-living who signed on to the project this Fall, plan network in order to create a more “pluralist” living system. to present specific recommendations to “The whole idea is to make a campus that President Richard Brodhead regarding

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reflects the diversity of the preferences and needs and desires that our students have,” Lange said. “We’re going to create more ways students can define their living.”

The report was not limited to discussion of residence life. Lange’s team also examined issues pertaining to the engagement of racial and gender diversity inside and outside the classroom and the role administrators and policy-makers play in Duke’s social atmosphere.

“We aspire to create the best structure for giving students the opportunity to grow to their fullest potential and individuality, while learning how to operate in the complex and diverse social settings in which they will live and work,” the report’s mission statement reads. “[This] ambition requires that Duke provides an environment that encourages the development of curiosity, initiative, responsibility, self-confidence, self-awareness, empathy, and an ethical code by which to conduct one’s life.”

The report outlined threetopics—how the housing model can be “optimized” for all students, how groups given living space should be expected to participate in the community and how dining options can be amended to promote increased social interactions among students and faculty members —to be investigated further this semester.

Since the report’s release, Lange and Nowicki have led the investigation by hosting seven meetings by residences in an effort to hear feedback from all students.

Provost Peter Lange was the chief architect of the follow-up to the Campus Culture Initiative report.

Similar meetings will continue until Oct. 24 and will include West Campus, East Campus, Central Campus and off-campus residents.

Though attendance at initial meetings was low, students who attended said the meetings offered a unique opportunity for conversation about issues pertaining to the entire campus. “[The meeting] was more productive than I imagined it could be,” said junior Jordan Giordano, executive vice president of Duke Student Government and a Craven Quadrangle resident, after one meeting. “The provost was very open to what we had to say, and people were willing to explain themselves and be more blunt.”

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athletics was the creation of a new mission statement at the end of August.

The statement declared the University’s “commitment to excellence in athletics as part of a larger commitment to excellence to

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with the understanding that the director—who has been at the a dramatic end with a goal-line helm Northfor eight top-25 Directors’ stand and a 20-14 win over Cup finishes, six NCAA and 44 western in Evanston, 111.

ACC tides—would devise As the Blue Devils cela comprehensive strategic ebrated on Ryan Field and “It’s huge because facilities plan for athletics. fans in Durham ripped Alieva has said that one commitment.” down the goal posts in Walofhis department’s biggest lace Wade Stadium, it was Ted Roof, priorities is the renovation hard to shake the feeling that the football team finalhead coach of facilities, particularly Wallace Wade Stadium. ly was moving forward The athletics departThat moment—charao and education” and the belief in ment has proposed a phased, $75terized at once by built-up frusthe educational and cultural value million upgrade to the stadium, tration, progress and triumph which is Duke’s longest-standing to the to ofathletics on a college campus. year seems exemplify The mission statement folfacility and the third-oldest footdate in Duke Athletics and also its ball stadium in the ACC. lowed last spring’s Athletic Counplace at the heart of campus life. which called “It’s huge because facilities President cil were revisions, In recent months, Richard Brodhead has made a for by Brodhead and made to equal commitment,” football head coach Ted Roof said of the concerted effort not only to acimprove the communication bemembers athlettween proposal. “It’s no different than University faculty knowledge the centrality of ics to Duke, but also to continue to and the council about the issues the chemistry school or the engineering department. You want to surrounding athletics. bridge the divide between academhave have the best facilities so you can measures Although many ics and athletics on campus that was attract the best talent.” been taken to corand exacerbated post-lacrosse exposed perhaps For a team and a department rect preexisting issues, Brodhead by the 2006 lacrosse case. has also the need to looking for continued success, One of the most significant emphasized be forward-thinking, particularly new buildings could be merely and symbolic steps taken to reaffirm the University’s dedication in statements he made following the foundation for progress.

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Research, teaching go beyond Duke's borders by

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Uganda to improve the conditions in several hospitals there.

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In the past year, Duke scientists have mimicked Harry Potter with an invisibility cloak, developed new tests for AIDS and discovered why some men smell like vanilla when others just smell bad.

But some of the University’s most important strides in science have been made abroad in the field of global health.

In August, theDuke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School opened its doors to an inaugural class of 26 students representing seven different countries.

“It was an extremely positive beginning,” Dr. Ranga Krishnan, executive vice dean of Duke-NUS GMS told The Chronicle in September, adding that he hopes to double the class size to 50 within the next year.

The Duke-NUS GMS employs the same curriculum as the Duke School of Medicine in Durham and has been noted by scientists as one of the more difficult medical programs in Asia.

Just a month later in September, officials of the Duke University Health System announced a partnership with the Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing to improve health care in the country.

“China’s population of 1.3 billion puts an enormous burden on their health institutions and hospitals, and we hope to work together with them on developing efficiencies in managing a health care system,” Christopher O’Connor, director of the Duke Heart Center and executive director of cardiovascular medicine, told The Chronicle in September.

In the next few years, Chinese physicians will come to America to experience

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DUHS has received record donations this past year, including a $35-million gift from David Murdock. how Duke doctors treat cardiovascular patients, and Duke faculty members will travel to Beijing to provide on-site training to Chinese doctors and nurses, he added.

Charitable giving, both in the United

States and abroad, also made a great impact on global health research at Duke, In January, Dr. Michael Haglund, an associate professor in surgery and a neufosurgeon, headed a group that traveled to

“There are only five neurosurgeons for the 30 million people who live in Uganda,” he said. “In comparison, the Triangle Region probably has about 25.”

Haglund and his team donated over $1.3 million, or nine tons worth, of medical equipment to Uganda and plan to return on future trips to train Ugandan doctors to perform more advanced medical treatments with the new equipment.

With so much global health research being performed abroad, however, a recent |35-million donation by billionaire David Murdock looks to fund a local study of how diseases are influenced by an individual’s genetic makeup.

The research could possibly allow doctors to assess an individual’s chance of developing a condition such as heart disease or diabetes early in that person’s lifetime, Dr. Robert Califf, director of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute and lead investigator of the study, told The Chronicle in September.

Officials said the donation—the largest in the history of the Duke University School ofMedicine—will put Duke a step ahead of other institutions in its field.

“This idea of using modern genomics and other state-of-the-art biotechnology to get a new look at diseases at the molecular level has been dreamed about for several years now,” President Richard Brodhcad wrote in an e-mail in September. “But only Duke has been able to pull together the massive databases, the tissue banks and frankly, the funding to do it the way it needs to be done.”

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In the past year, orange cones have dotted a number of construction hotspots on both East and West campuses as new buildings have gone up and older ones have been renovated. Projects have been or are currently underway on Main West Campus, Towerview Drive, Science Drive and East.

The largest addition to Duke’s campus is the new French Family Science Center, which sits on Science Drive between the Biological Sciences and Physics buildings. A $3O-million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded this 280,000-sq-ft. building.

The University hopes French Science will give the sciences a more prominent place on campus.

‘You can see the FSC as being the next big piece of the big puzzle of the science and engineering complex,” said Dean ofUndergraduate Education Steve Nowicki. “It brings everybody in the sciences closer together, running from the medical center to the Biological Sciences Building.”

The intersection of Science Drive and Towerview Road has been another hub of activity. The Gross Chemistry Laboratory—considered by some pre-meds to be the bane of theirfreshman experience—was closed in 2007, and the Board of Trustees recently gave preliminary approval to a $lOO-million renovation of the building to create a unified home for the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

Direcdy across the street, the School ofLaw is receiving a facelift, too. A year-long project will add classroom space, a 4200-sq.-ft. commons area and a renovated library.

The new law school commons space will be modeled after von der Heyden Pavilion and will serve as a place for students to interact, collaborate and socialize, Thomas Metzloff, chair of the building committee and a professor of law, told The Chronicle last month.

Main West Quadrangle has also seen changes. Last year, a partially renovated Perkins Library reopened its doors to students. The first floor was redesigned to resemble Bostock Library’s, with 63 computer workstations and five group study rooms. Work on the Perkins stacks continues.

The University recently renovated East Campus’ Science Building. Located between Aycock and Wilson dormitories, the building features modernized spaces for classes in the humanities and social sciences.

There are also several projects slated to begin in the near future. In only a few years, the profile of the Engineering Quadrangle will change and Few Quadrangle will also see improvements.

The University plans to build a 120,000-sq.-ft. facility in the Engineering Quad called the Experiential and Collaborative Environment for Learning, scheduled to be complete by 2010. The building will be located between the Hudson Hall Engineering Building and the Levine Science Research Center.

[EXCEL] will expose our undergraduates to integrated lecture, laboratory and design experiences,” Kristina Johnson, former dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, said previously.

Construction teams will begin renovating Few Quad in Fall 2008. Crowell and Craven quadrangles were initially first in line for renovation, but Few Quad was given priority after the discovery of high mold readings, said Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive directorof housing services. “

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With both physical and institutional changes, Residence Life and Housing Services has presented upperclassmen with new housing options this year.

Since December, all selective living groups have been subjected to the Residential Group Assessment, which evaluates groups on their effect on both their members and the Duke community. Groups that score well on the assessment will have the opportunity to remain at, move or expand their sections.

In addition, the Board of Trustees approved preliminary plans for the $2O- Few Quadrangle renovations at its meeting Sept. 28, providing future West Campus residents an upgraded housing opportunity.

The project is slated to begin May 12, 2008, and complete in January 2009. The quadrangle will be closed to all students for the fall semester and selective living groups for the 2007-2008 academic year.

“This is not going to be a basic paint job, but it won’t be a Kilgo [Quadrangle] renovation, either,” Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, said at an Oct. 4 Campus Council meeting.

The 2004 Kilgo Quad project cost $lO million more than what has been allocated for Few Quad, he added. Final plans for the renovation will be approved in December or January, Hull said.

The project aroused some opposition on campus, as students argued that the move would be disruptive and ignored pressing concerns in Craven and Crowell quadrangles.

RLHS officials said although the two other quadrangles were slated to be renovated first, and will be at a later date, immediate mold concerns in Few Quad made it priority.

“The current [air conditioning] system does not meet fire code,” Hull said. “We were able to do a temporary fix this summer, but in order to fix it, we have to do serious demolitionwithin the dorm.”

Other renovation changes include putting in new furniture, paint and carpeting. New window placements will be installed to let natural light into the hallway and the building’s electrical capacity will also be doubled.

“The electrical system was last upgraded before personal computers,” Hull said.

As the project is slated to begin two days after the final exam period and six days be-

fore graduation ceremonies, graduating seniors can choose to relocate to Bell Tower Dormitory on East Campus or room with another friend on West until the ceremony.

RLHS will help seniors who need storage spaces, officials said.

The project will also cause housing on campus in die Fall to be tighter than usual, RLHS officials said, adding that sophomores will still be guaranteed housing on West.

“Since we’ll be taking approximately 440 of those spots away, the spots usually reserved for juniors and seniors will have to be allocated to sophomores,” said Campus Council Vice President Kevin

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Factors such as the number of students studying abroad and seniors living off campus will affect bed spaces available on West, said Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a senior.

Hull noted that RLHS is considering adding bed spaces to other West rooms to increase capacity.

The five selective living groups currently located in Few Quad—Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, Kappa Alpha Order, Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Prism and Round Table—must relocate for one year.

The groups have been offered five options for the next academic year: move their sections somewhere else on West; have a sophomore section on West and upperclassman section on Central Campus; have a sophomore section on West and no upperclassman section; have an upperclassman section on Central and no sophomore section; or have no section at all but remain a University-recognized group.

Groups will get priority in choosing a location based on their Residential Group Assessment score, although a good score does not guarantee housing on West, Thompson said.

“We believe this is the fairest way ofhandling the relocation,” Deb Loßiondo, assistant dean for residence life on West, wrote in an e-mail. “It’s quite possible, based on how options are ranked, that all five groups will be satisfied with the outcome.”

Thompson added that there is a limit to how many more bed spaces will be designated for selective living groups to maintain the ratio of independents to selective living group members on West.

The first yearly assessment for all selective living groups on campus will come out in December, but relocation decisions regarding groups not in Few Quad will not be made until December 2009, at the end of the first three-year cycle.

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Duke falls 2-1 to KNOCKED OFF THEIR HEELS Blue Devils drop national champs 2-OT stunner to by

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CHAPEL HELL

In front of a

packed crowd at Fetzer Field, the Blue Devils looked as they did earlierthis season—finding scoring opportunities but nottheback of the net DUKE Several 2 UNC bizarre missed chances in the second half, ranging from Kendall Bradley’s consecutive caroms off the crossbar to Gretchen Miller’s late shot that sailedwide ofan empty Tar Heel net, doomed Duke to a 2-1 loss to No. 11 North Carolina on a clear, chilly

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nal 45 minutes for the Blue Devils (7-3-3, 2-2-1 in the ACC), who have now dropped three in a row to their archrival dating back to the 2005 ACC tournament.

The night’s scoring took place entirely within the first half, which the Tar Heels (10-3-0, 4-10) dominated with physical defense and efficient ball control.

After halftime, however, Duke regained its swagger, giving the defending national champions all they could handle by creating opportunities on offense and stiffening on defense.

“I thought we were okay in the first half, and against Carolina, you’ve got to be better than okay,” head coach Robbie Church said. “In the second half, the way we just took them on heads-up, I thought we were the better team out there.”

Duke goalkeeper Alison Lipsher made numerous saves to keep her team in the game, most notably a diving parry of Yael Averbuch’s 69th-minute free kick, but in the end, her efforts could not produce a victory, as Bradley, Miller, and Kelly Hathom missed opportunities in the last 30 minutes.

Bradley perhaps had the best chance to tie the game in the 55th minute, but after her three-yard shot ricocheted offNorth Carolina goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris and then off the crossbar, the freshman’s subsequent header hit the bar again. Bradley’s third attempt on goal came to rest on the goal line before being snatched by Harris.

CJ. Ludemann and theBlue Devils came up short inThursday's contest in Chapel Hill.

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Tar Heel Ryan Adeleye (above) scored the game-winner for UNC. Duke's Michael Videira tries to beat out Zach Loyd (left). Mike Grella goes up for a header (right).

CHAPEL HILL This was not the first Tar Heel strike Duke wanted to see in 424 minutes ofaction against its rivals.

Playing in front of the largest crowd in UNC men’s soccer history at Fetzer Field, the No. 9 Blue Devils (7-4-0, DUKE £_ 2-2-0 in the ACC) UNC 1 were controlling overtime, playing the best they had all game. But the Tar Heels (4-34,2-2-0) were the ones to score the first offensive goal in the Tobacco Road rivalry since 2004. A fluke goal two and a half minutes into the second overtime propelled UNC to a 1-0 victory and sent Duke to its second straight loss.

North Carolina’s Ryan Adeleye was credited with the game-winner after the ball bounced around and finally into the Blue Devil net. Jordan Graye headed a Michael Callahan corner kick toward the goal, but Duke knocked it out. Adeleye headed it back toward the net and defender Tim Jepson attempted to clear it. But the ball ricocheted off a Blue Devil player and into the back of the net.

“When you’ve got 20 guys in the 6-yard box, it’s tough to clear a ball from that line,” Jepson said.

“The goal might be a lucky goal.

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How to turn ore into gold might be a question better suited for geologists, but Virginia Tech star running back Branden Ore’s struggle to find end-zone paydirt this season has equally befud-

died the Hokie coaching staff this season.

Ore finished with VS. 1,137 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns last year but has yet to hit the 100-yard plateau in any SATURDAY, noon Wallace Wad« Stadium °f his games this year.

With Duke (1-5, 0-3 in the ACC) expecting to face a heavy dose of the ground game from No. 12 Virginia Tech (5-1, 2-0), the importance of slowing the Hokie rushing attack and preventing a reversal of Ore’s fortunes Saturday do not weigh lightly on linebacker Vincent Rey. __

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“We know they’re going to come out and run the ball and they’re going to try to establish that,” Key said. “We need to stop the run, and we need to match the intensity that they’re going to have. We have to hit, run around and gang tackle.”

Duke’s desire to slow down Virginia Tech offensively was hurt this week with news of defensive end Patrick Bailey’s season-ending knee injury. The 6-foot-4, 235-pound senior led Duke in both sacks (4.5) and tackles for loss (7.0). Coupled with defensive end Ryan RadlofFs back injury, Duke will be missing both of its opening day starting defensive ends against the Hokies.

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Peter s gameday prognosis Following a nearly completed comeback bid against Wake Forest last Saturday, head football beat writer Matthew lies caught up with offensive coordinatorPeter Vaas to talk about the weekend that was as well as this Saturday’s lilt with No. 12 Virginia Tech.

Matthew Des: After scoring on the team’s opening drive, the offense stalled until the end of the third quarter. What contributed to this?

Peter Vaas: It’s funny. During the course of that first half, we just felt like we were in a funk. I think there are a variety of reasons for it. It’s never just one individual, it’s never any one play, but it’s always just an accumulation of things that you’re just not functioning on all cylinders.

MI: What ignited the second-half scoring explosion—2o points in less than seven minutes—that got Duke back in it?

PV: The thing that sparked us was [running back] Re’quan [Boyette] broke that big, big run. We didn’t score on that drive, but it was a big play that kind of woke us up a little bit, and from there on we started to click pretty good.

MI: What do you think of quarterback Thaddeus Lewis’ ability to rebound and lead the comeback effort after throwing two interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown, earlier in the third quarter?

PV: Playing that position, you better have an extremely short memory, and that goes for the positives and the negatives. If something good has just happened, you can’t dwell on that because you’ve got to go get the next play. Same thing goes for a negative play—you can’t dwell on it. You can’t let that one play determine your whole career. So the sooner you can put it behind you the better, that’s basically how we reacted on the sideline and how we talked to him about it, ‘Alright, justforget it.’

MI: Duke’s last three losses have all seemed to come down to one chance for the offense score and win, but so far you have come up short. Is there any underlying reason for that?

PV: To be perfectly honest, we just have to believe we’re going to make the next play. You can never become complacent and you have to have a short memory.... We just have to have a killer instinct on each and every play of the

game and sustain that for 60 minutes MI: What’s your scouting Virginia Tech’s defense?

PV: They’re probably the most formidable defense we’ve played to date. They’ve got a tremendous pass rush with the front four. Their linebackers are probably stronger and faster than Miami’s and their secondary is every bit as good as Miami’s MI: How important is it to get ahead early against Virginia Tech?

PV: It’s always important in any game. One of the things we want to avoid this week is to start slpw. In the last couple of weeks, we have started slow, and it’s been a point of emphasis that we have to be mentally prepared from the opening whistle. The speed of a game is a lot different than the speed of a practice.

MI: Is there one critical thing that you have to improve on from last week’s loss in order to compete for a win Saturday?

PV: One of the things we have to do, and it’s been a part of us all year along, is we have too many negative plays. It could be a run that goes for minus-one yard. So now instead of 2ndand-9, you’re at 2nd-and-11. If we can eliminate some of those negative plays, we’ll put ourselves in better down-anddistance situations throughout the course of the game and be able to manage the game better.

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Virginia Tech running back Branden Ore has struggled recently.

FOOTBALL from page 15 most important person who will be there for the Blue Devils is quarterback Thaddeus Lewis. Duke’s sophomore field general is riding a hot streak in which he has thrown 13 touchdowns against three interceptions while completing 60 percent of his passes over the last four games. Despite the recent success, Roof said that Lewis’ performance against the 25th-best Virginia Tech defense will provide perhaps the best assessment of his quarterback’s development this season.

“This Saturday is a big test, there’s no doubt about it,” Roof said. “The pressure that we think Virginia Tech is going to give us, it’s certainly a test. You can’t have happy feet—you have to stick with your mechanics and your fundamentals and step up and throw the football. After you get hit, you have to get up and do it again. That’s what your job is as a quarterback. At the same time it will challenge our offensive line and our tight ends and running backs to protect him better than they have lately.”

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With seven touchdowns in his past three games, Eron Riley has plenty of reasons to smile.

But for the player who teammates routinely call “E-Smiley” and “Smiley Riley,” the positive energy radiating from one of the ACC’s top wide receivers is just a part of his personality.

“If something goes wrong, he’s not really going to get down,” fellow wide receiver Jomar Wright said. “He’s pretty even-keeled, and that helps out a lot on Saturdays. If something is going wrong, or goes right, then he is still the same person. [He] still has that smile on his face and is just going to go out there and do his job.”

About the only people that haven’tbeen smiling about Riley’s performance this season are opposing defensive coordinators.

After catching only six passes for 85 yards in Duke’s first two contests, Riley went on a tear over his next four games. In that stretch, Riley hauled in 19 receptions for 459 yards with seven touchdowns—numbers that have placed him securely among the best receivers in the ACC and NCAA. Riley ranks first in the conference and 15th nationally in receiving yards and leads the ACC in both receiving touchdowns and receiving yards per game.

But perhaps even more impressive has been how Riley has racked up his leagueleading stat totals. Of his seven touchdowns this season, five have come on plays of 30 yards or more, with his three longest coming on receptions of 76, 69 and 68 yards.

Riley’s recent spurt of impact plays has made him one of the top-two receivers in the conference and top-10 country in terms of yards per reception, a feat that comes as no surprise to head coach Ted Roof.

“He’s a guy that led the league in yards per reception last year, a fact that not a whole lot of people knew,” Roof said. “Eron is a big play guy, and he has the capability to do that... We expect him to do that, and we’re not surprised by it.”

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Duke widereceiver Eron Riley ranks eighth in yards per reception nationally and second in the ACC.

surprises about his breakout season. Although Wright describes Riley upon first

seeing him in his freshman year as a “goofy guy” who was “real tall and lanky and really didn’t have any muscles,” the 200-pound Riley has since grown into his 6-foot-3 frame, His size advantage, coupled with deceptive speed, has been a major factor in Riley’s evolution into a top-flight wideout.

“He’s sneaky fast,” Roof said. “His mechanics of running are all over the place, because he’s so lanky, and then all of a sudden you look up and he is even with you,

or may have a half a step on you. And then when Thad puts the ball on him, he’s got a leverage advantage, a height advantage and a reach advantage to be able to go get it.”

Riley put all of these physical tools on display Sept. 22 in a career performance against Navy, when he had four touchdown receptions for 235 yards—figures that are tops in the ACC this season.

On his first touchdown of that game, Riley was forced out-of-bounds by a Navy comerback as the two jostled for position with the ball still in the air. The Duke re-

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As soon as the ball was thrown, Riley accelerated past the Navy defensive back, catching the ball at least five yards ahead of the defender and easily cruising into the end zone for his second score of the game.

“When I see the ball in the air, another gear kicks in,” Riley said. “I hate to see the ball hit the ground two yards in front of me, so I just start moving.”

Riley’s success has also had a peripheral effect on the rest of Duke’s talented receiving corps. With defenses paying additional attention to the threat of Riley down the field, more space has been opened up for his fellow wideouts.

“After I make a few plays, I do kind of notice the safeties [shift over], but that’s when other receivers step up and make plays, too,” Riley said. “It helps to take away some of the middle coverage. Jomar operates most of the time in the middle, so he makes plays there.”

But despite his important role in Duke’s offensive success in recent games, the humble Riley deflected praise, instead emphasizing the importance of his quarterback’s stellar play.

Lewis—who spent many long hours in the summer running routes with Riley and the other wideouts—has taken major strides this season that have fueled Riley’s impressive year.

“He’s the one that’s getting us the ball,” Riley said. “We can only be as good as he is, so as long as he gets better, we’re going to get better right along with him.”

With size and speed that some NFL wide receivers would be envious of, a look ahead to a potential pro career would certainly be tempting. And although Riley described playing in the NFL as any college football player’s dream, he demurred the impending possibility of such a career with his usual facial expression—a smile.

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On the sidelines of Duke’s practice Thursday, a whiteboard displayed the words “Consequences, Changes, Urgency.”

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The Blue Devils (7-6) take on Longwood (510) Saturday at 1 p.m. in Norfolk, Va. before li£jpBi|j attempting to avenge SUNDAY, 1 p.m. an early-season defeat Norfolk, Va. to No 10 Q ld Dominion (8-6) Sunday at 1 p.m. also in Norfolk.

The Monarchs defeated Duke 1-0 Sept. 16 at Williams Field.

The Blue Devils know that intensity is key if they want to even the season series with Old Dominion.

“Last time, we let up,” freshman Susan Ferger said. “We have to go out and play hard the whole game. We have to keep focus for 70 minutes.”

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To maximize scoring opportunities, Duke honed in on finishing near the net this week in practice, working primarily in 2-on-l drills to take the ball downfield.

The Blue Devil offense already has shown tangible improvement in finishing since the midway point of the season. Duke tallied a total of six goals in its road wins over Boston College and Boston University and was able to score twice in a 4-2 loss undefeated and defending national champion Maryland last Saturday.

The Monarchs have showed similar signs of improvement. The win over Duke sparked Old Dominion to a seven-game winning streak that has yet to end.

Though a rematch with a non-conference opponent this late in the season is fairly unusual, the Blue Devils believe they can learn valuable lessons from another contest with the Monarchs.

“They’re a great barometer for where you are,” Bozman said. “It’s an opportunity to play a really top team twice.”

Duke knows that playing hard will not just pay dividends for this weekend. Two more road wins could be valuable later.

“If we can win both games this weekend, we’ll carry a lot of momentum into the last three games of the season,” Ferger said.

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SATURDAY, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s match-up Cameron Indoor Stadium will feature the only two undefeated teams in the ACC, as Duke faces Clemson (13-2, 6-0) at 6 p.m.

The Tigers lead the conference with a .276 hitting percentage, thanks to the hitting prowess of juniors Meghan Steiner and Danielle Hepburn.

For the Blue Devils to continue their streak, the team must rely heavily on their defense. Junior Jourdan Norman’s blocking ability will be key for Duke, as she became the first Blue Devil to record double-digit blocks to

Senior Carrie DeMange and theBlue Devils look to protect their home winning streak this weekend.

in last Tuesday’s win over Wake Forest.

On the offensive side, seniors Carrie DeMange and Ali Hausfeld’s consistent play has catapulted Duke to the top of the NCAA leaderboard, The Blue Devils are now ranked second in assists with 16.51 per game and third in kills with 17.75 per game.

Duke will continue its four-game homestand with matches against Virginia Tech and Virginia next weekend.

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“I don’t know how the heck it stayed out,” Church said of the sequence.

With just 7:18 remaining, Harris charged well out of the box after a loose ball, leaving her net unprotected. Miller corralled the ball and took dead aim from 25 yards out, but her shot tailed off to the right of the goal.

The Tar Heels seized an early 1-0 lead just 3:26 into the game, when Whitney Engen took a feed from teammate Nikki Washington and deflected it past Lipsher into an empty net, sending the energetic crowd of over 4,000 into a frenzy.

WILL PARK/THE CHRONICLE Duke equalized in the 16th minute when midfielder Lorraine Quinn found forward Elisabeth Redmond, who shim- The Blue Devils surged in second half but still came up short Thursday at UNC. mied between two NorthCarolina defenders and fired a curv“It is not a moral victory,” Church said. “We are knocking 18-yard strike that found the top right corner of the goal.

The Tar Heels would reclaim the lead for good, however, on ing on the door with elite teams, but we have to be able to knock the door down.” a strike by forward Casey Nogueira nine minutes later.

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just got to roll with them.”

Duke’s best chance to win came during the first overtime. After a back-and-forth regulation, the Blue Devils dominated the extra session, firing three shots on goal—one more than they had during the first and second halves combined.

Forward Mike Grella launched a shot high of the goal just over a minute into the period. Four minutes later, Joe Germanese ripped a dangerous shot at North Carolina goalkeeper Tyler Deric, who hobbled the ball before smothering it. Duke, however, was unable to convert, opening the door for the Tar Heels to win their first overtime game in six attempts this season.

“You have to take those chances and win the game,” head coach John Rennie said. “You have to do that if you’re going to beat an outstanding opponent on their field in front of the biggest crowd in their history. You have to take your chances, and we didn’t do that.”

Those opportunities were scarce early in the game.

The teams combined for just one shot in the first half—a Zack Pope attempt from the right side in the 16th minute. North Carolina had an apparent goal called back in the sixth minute because it was offsides, and midfielder Zach Loyd missed a chance in the 32nd after being given a yellow card for a dive near the Blue Devil goal.

The Tar Heels came out aggressively in the second half, but Duke withstood the charge.

“There were stretches of the gamewhere I thought they had us back on our heels, but we held together defensively,” Germanese said. “In the two overtimes, we had them on their heels. It’s just unfortunate that the ball bounced their way at the end, and they got the goal and we didn’t.”

The Blue Devils were pleased with their effort in the game —and specifically with the performance of Jepson.

The senior co-captain played all 103 minutes in his return from a hamstring injury.

Thursday’s contest was the first time Jepson and the other seniors have lost to North Carolina. The Tar Heels had not beaten Duke since 2003, but every game since had been decided by a goal or less—and North Carolina’s latest win was no different.

“It was a typical UNC-Duke game,’’Jepson said. ‘Youreally don’t have a win until the last few minutes of the game.”

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In the months following the incident, schools across the nation have taken various measures to improve emergency responsiveness and communi-

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emergency response policy found pre-shooting plans to be ineffective.

Although Duke has not had problems recendy, those with an eye for the past will remember that not too long ago the University has had its own campus gunman. In the fall of 2000, a man walked in to then-president Nan Keohane’s office with a loaded revolver. Fortunately, no one was hurt and the gunman was successfully disarmed.

This incident also speaks to the fact that Duke’s campus is quite accessible for outsiders, especially East Campus, with its close proximity to residential neighborhoods and the city of Durham in general.

Such a lack of change has forced other campus groups, such as the Academic Council, to take up the cause. Although

we admire such initiative, it should be University administrators in charge of student and faculty safety taking up such issues.

Duke needs to establish clear communication policies should an emergency occur.

An all-encompassing system like Virginia Tech’s, in which e-mail is one of many forms of communication, is ideal. Also, the University should consider adding the ability to lock classroom doors from the inside (another policy change made

by "Virginia Tech).

On-the-fly communication and responses do not work.

Successful solutions require preparedness and effective communication and Duke needs to be pro-active about such issues so that students are well-protected and informed should the need ever arise.

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ulie and Mark are sister and brother. They are traveling together in France on summer vacation from college. One night they are ying alone in a cabin near the beach. They decide that it would be interesting and fun if they tried making love. At the very least, it would be a new for experience each of them. Julie is already taking birth control pills, but Mark uses a condom too, just to be safe. They both enjoy makjordan axt ing love, but depalindromes cide not to do it again. They keep that night as a special secret, which makes them feel even closer to each other.

While this story may seem irrelevant and inappropriate, it actually illustrates an interesting point, especially when answering the question, “Do you think that it is acceptable for two consenting adults, who happen to be siblings, to make love?”

If you are like most people in studies like the one above done by UVa. Associate Professor Jonathan Haidt, your answer is “no.” What’s intriguing is that you should have every reason to say “yes.”

The two most prominent condemnations of incest are its social and biological consequences. Yet, we are explicitly informed that Julie and Mark are better friends for their experience and that no children could result from their actions. In spite of these circumstances, I bet that no matter how hardyou try, you will never be comfortable with this story.

Don’t worry; I feel the exact same way.

I’ve thought a lot about Mark and Julie, and the best explanation for why I disapprove is simply because it seems “icky.” Properly explaining this feeling is hopeless, a phenomenon known in psychology as “moral dumbfounding.”

The point of this column is not to explain why incest is a good thing (which —by the way—I don’t think it is). The point is to show that despite what we may think or are taught here at Duke, what we view as right or wrong is a largely emotional decision. Through his research on various primates, Emory Professor Frans de Waal concludes that our behavior “derives above all from fast, automated emotional judgments and only secondarily from slower conscious processes.”

In other words, we feel that something is wrong first and then make up reasons for why later. And even when these arguments are dis-

proven, we still cling to our original judgments.

More and more research is revealing that reason plays only a small role in what we deem is moral. In fact, psychologist Joshua Greene goes so far as to claim that moral intuitions are nothing more than “emotional responses.”

What Fm trying to say here is that the results from Haidt’s narrative about Julie and Mark are not only applicable to contrived, awkward stories about consensual incest. They can help us understand our everyday decisions as well.

I have a confession to make. I simply do not care about politics. Believe me; I’ve tried. I’ve tried really, really hard to feel a sense of concern about the people who represent me in Washington. But no matter what I do, I still feel utterly indifferent about the topic. I routinely watch my roommate —a political science and public policy double major—ardently dispute political issues with his friends in our apartment as I stare at the wall or flip through a magazine.

What I find most interesting is that I have never seen anyone persuaded to change opinions in these discussions. Everyone leaves feeling exactly the same way as they entered—only angrier. To me, these circular political debates are just more familiar examples of the incest story. For most people, no amount of reasonable argument will alter who they will vote for.

Our political beliefs are also emotionally driven moral impulses. Democrats and Republicans don’t change sides because they can’t change sides. Both are doing exactly what they view is right; it’s simply the fact that, as Greene notes, “liberals and conservatives see the world in different moral colors.” There is an instant, gut reaction to a candidate or party, and you support them to the bitter end, no matter how many lecture taserings or bathroom scandals transpire.

By now, all of this talk about the frivolous role of reason in morality might make our judgments seem pretty unpredictable or even pointless. Great. I hoped it would. Realizing that your moral opinions have some degree of randomness would do a lot of good. I agree with Greene when he argues that “bur world suffers from moral overconfidence. We are likely to get along better if each of us recognizes that many of our moral practices and commitments are rather arbitrary.”

Accepting this fact will only help us understand the choices we make. It will also keep my apartment a lot quieter.

Jordan Axt is a Trinity junior. His column runs every otherFriday.

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Screw Fall Break, I need a Xanax

Rumor

has it that prestigious Northeastern universities created the first fall break to ameliorate high suicide rates during the fall semester. Apparendy, the combined stress ofresuming school after summer and studying in dreary New England winters was driving students to desperate measures.

I can see the board meeting now: the school IPIPMWF paper open on the desk, rain pattering on the windows as professors in elbow patches and herringbone skirts shake their heads in dismay. Finally, one pipes jacqui detwiler up, “Aha! Let’s give them two days off!” desperate, please hire Two days off indeed.

Although Fall Break probably makes a dent in student stress, a four-day weekend seems unlikely to tackle all the problems that a school like Duke has to offer. Depression, Adderall and cocaine abuse, lack of sleep and poor eating habits are only the tip of the iceberg. A friend of mine who is writing her dissertation has experienced a 15-point rise in her resting blood pressure in the past several months. I get strawberry seeds stuck in my molars because I grind my teeth in my sleep.

Fall Break is an especially inefficient stress reliever for graduate students. Most labs scoff at University holidays (No Martin Luther King Day picnics for us, le sigh) and we are usually assigned take-home midterms to finish over the break. Granted, I’m not complaining, I’d much rather write a midterm during Fall Break than during a period of intense classwork and TAing. I am, however, saying that relaxation will not happen unless it is as regularly scheduled as classes. (If you’re half as neurotic as I am, you can pencil it in on one of your 50,000 to-do lists). So that’s it, we have to stop talking about relaxing and actually do it. But how? Good thing I’m a total basketcase and have already done the background research for you.

First of all, what you do to relax should be tailored to your particular stressor. Some relaxation techniques, like full-body massages, acupuncture and burning scented candles will ease a variety of anxieties, but they cost money and you might burn the house down. So, if you’re out of dough and matches, try some of these alternatives.

Suppose you’re feeling self-conscious and think you always look stupid. One option is to sit next to a loose flagstone on West Campus and pretend to talk on your phone.

At least one in 10 people who walk by will trip on it, drop books, fall down or some combination thereof. Ifyou’re really lucky, some poor distracted sap might walk into a wall.

There you go. Everyone eventually looks like a fool. While you’re doing this, you can also train yourself to hide your emotions by plastering a sympathetic grimace on your face while laughing like hell inside. (Hey, I said it was effective, not nice.)

Feeling the pressure of school? Take an afternoon off and read a book in Duke Gardens. The one caveat is that the book has to be an absolute piece of crap. I recommend “Size Fourteen is Not Fat Either” by Meg Cabot. You can read it in about an hour, then, when you’re finished, gaze up at the sky and be thankful thatyou are neither as much of a boring cliche as the main character, nor as much of a chump as the stereotype-slinger that created her.

Significant other being an ass? Write down all the ways you could get back at him/her and how you’d get away with it. (My personal favorite is plastering the offender’s house in ham). Then DON’T do it. Instead, go have a beer and giggle/guffaw at your ingenuity with your friends.

Smile fondly at your restraint upon your next romantic interaction.

Finally, if you are a steadfast stress case and none of those work, you can always fake a lower back injury and score some muscle relaxers from Student Health. I mean, hey, it’s better than blowing coke. ?

Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and neuroscience. Her column runs every Friday.

The homecoming game

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pulled into the Wilson parking lot behind the

knew exactly what to do. tennis courts and into the spot closest to CamerI remember it like it was yesterday. The crowd on, right next to Coach K’s car. Already excited was on their feet cheering me on. The band even to be going to my first-ever Duke homecoming footstopped playing momentarily to give me a drum ball game, I was even more thrilled after scoring the roll. All eyes were on me. Then it happened. As my best parking spot on campus. As soon as I got out opponents and I met around mid field, I couldn’t be touched. I was shaking and baking every which o>f th e car, h' *owever, I heard a low voice shout way, throwing in spin moves and cutbacks all over the place and weaving in and out of the woodwind in my direction. section of the band for blocking when needed. I was “Hey, buddy! You want a ticket?” Although surprising even myself. the man’s tone was apSuddenly I heard the crowd’s volume reach a whole A- a new level. I looked up and realized that there was only palling enough, what one man left separating me from the end zone. I was gowas even more outranick alexander geous was that the man ing for a touchdown.

I looked up at the jumbotron and saw a zoomed-in trying to scalp me tick- stay hungry, stay foolish shot of my opponent’s face. I froze. It was the same ets just outside the stadium gates was an on-duty police officer. I didn’t even police officer that had tried to scalp me tickets eargive him the courtesy of an answer as I turned and lier—Sergeant Flemmingsdale. Immediately things bewalked away. came personal.

It wasn’t until I came back to my car at halftime I slowed down and got close enough to him so that I that I realized that the officer, clearly out of spite, could see the whites ofhis eyes. It was clear that we both had given me a parking citation for $3OO. Furious, I knew what was at stake. Feeding purely offof the energy decided right there and then that I would fight it. of the crowd, I made a quick fake left and then spun around on one foot and started heading for the right Should I go online and arrange a hearing to appeal the ticket? Too conventional. Should I seek out corner of the end zone. Flemmingsdale didn’t know the officer and report him for ticket scalping? Too what had hit him. Touchdown. confrontational. Should I take my complaint straight As the band queued up the fight song and I started into my celebration dance, a sudden roar of boos to President Richard Brodhead’s desk and demand a came over the crowd. I looked back and saw a yellow policy change? Too bureaucratic.

No, I needed a soludon with immediate results. I flag resting in the middle of the field. Apparently needed something one of the clarinet players had been called for holdthat would clearly heard the crowd’s volume reach ing back at the 35-yard get my point across line. The touchdown was then heard the I Just a whole new level. looked band begin to march being called back. and realized that there was I never got the $3OO onto the field for the halftime show. I parking ticket revoked—one man left me from in fact, that $3OO was immediately started the end zone. was for a small potatoes compared running back to Walto the fines and court fees lace Wade with a plan touchdown. that I racked up for ohin mind struction of Justice, pubJust as there was a brief lull in between lic indecency and seven songs, I came sprinting out of the stands and onto other misdemeanor offenses. Nevertheless, I was the field wearing nothing but my shoes and socks. carried off the field that day in front of 30,000Almost immediately, a team of 11 security guards plus with a sense of accomplishment. It was a lesand police officers rushed onto the field from the son that taught me all too starkly that sometimes far end zone. I stood there for a short moment taking a stand means stripping down and running on the 5-yard line, studying their formation. Even the ball up the field on your own. though I had never played organized football before, I remember seeing the X’s and O’s formulate Nick Alexander is a Pratt junior. His column runs every in my head. All of a sudden something clicked—l otherFriday.

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lettertotheeditor Brodhead needs to apologize for more President Richard Brodhead’s Sept. 29 apology has been widely mischaracterized, so let’s set the record straight. For example, a Chronicle staff editorial recently commended “his apology for a rush to judgment by the administration.” Not only did Brodhead not apologize for this, he didn’t admit a rush to judgment either.

Read the speech. Brodhead apologized for one thing only, and that was not “getting the communication right” with the lacrosse families, which is euphemistic for “I never allowed them or their lawyers to talk to me or demonstrate their innocence, ever.” If you want to be generous, you could count his “regret” that “we may have helped create the impression that we did not care about our students” as an apology.

Eighteen months go by, and that’s the only apology that he, Orin Starn and Ole Holsti think is necessary? THAT’S the extent of his administration’s wrongdoing that recently cost the University a $lO million-plus settlement? President Brodhead not only sidestepped every major issue for which his administration is under criticism (and soon to be involved in more lawsuits), but he once again closed doors on other issues

that require explanation or apology.

First of all, if Brodhead is going to have any chance to remain president, we need answers and explanations, not simply apologies, and this man is one of many who have a great deal to answer for. When one considers the body of performance from this administration, it is one ugly

picture.

If we are going to move forward in all of this, we must speak with accuracy and precision. We must be courageous in challenging untruths, but we must be prepared to substantiate our claims and accusations. Similarly, when we are shown to be wrong, we must readily admit that we are wrong. Such is the ethic of a lover of truth.

As much as I respect professors James Coleman and Prasad Kasibhatla, I’m still going to call them exactly like I see them. When one considers the timing and wording of their recent letter as well as their utter refusal to substantiate their accusations, it is tough to view the letter as anything other than an academic

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