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All 287 juniors who requested to live off campus were released from their three-year housing contract, said Marijean Williams, director of housing assignments and communications.

Both juniors currendy living on campus and studying abroad were allowed to participate in the off-campus housing lottery.

Juniors who were released from the housing contract—which requires all students to live on campus for at least six semesters—said the major issue they face is finding an off-campus residence for next semester.

“I’m excited that I get to live off campus, but I wish that finding an apartment in Durham was easier than it is,” junior Casey Huser wrote in an e-mail from Paris, France.

Both property managers at The Belmont Apartments and West Village Urban Loft Apartments, popular off-campus residences, said there are no available apartments for students returning in January.

“I have heard our class was over admitted, and there are so many juniors abroad right now, so there is very limited housing available off campus,” junior Sarah Doyle wrote in an e-mail from Florence, Italy.

She said both The Belmont Apartments and Partners Place were full when she requested an apartment and added that she and her roommate are on the waidist at Campus Walk Apartments.

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Duke travels to South Bend to take on Notre Dame Saturday at 2:30 p.m.Both teams enter thegame with a1 -9record. The last time theBlue Devils and the Fighting Irish played was November 12,1966.

Notre Dame was theNo. 1 team in the nation and trounced Duke 64-0.

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Duke reacts to drought conditions by

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Despite rain showers Thursday morning, Durham still has a year-to-date rainfall deficitof approximately seven and a halfinches and a supply offresh water that will only last 68 more days.

In an effort to do their part, Duke and Durham representatives are enacting initiatives to keep the threat of a serious drought low.

President Richard Brodhead released an e-mail Nov. 13 to the student body encouraging the conservation of water on campus and announcing a new link on Duke’s Web site that boasts conservation tips and recent drought news.

“Duke is the largest water consumer in the county and we need to make changes in our operations and daily routines to conserve water now and in the foreseeable future,” Brodhead said.

Duke is evaluating the measures that can be taken to reduce flow capacities in showers, toilets and sinks in order to become more A drought has left Durham reservoirs with only 68 days of water.

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New York-based LeChase Construction Inc., has been selected to manage the Few Quadrangle renovation, Residence Life and Housing Services announced in an email to Few Quad residents yesterday.

The statement also detailed a preliminary plan for students needing to stay past the May 5 move-out date.

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, wrote that the LeChase firm also worked on the three-year renovation of Kilgo Quadrangle, which was completed over summers from 2002 to 2004.

Students remaining on campus after move-out will be given temporary housing within a section of Few Quad. These students will be required to move out by noon on May 12, 2008.

Initially, RLHS had planned for the graduating seniors, athletes participating in post-season tournaments and students involved in commencement to be relocated to Bell Tower Dormitory on East Campus, but determined that they could accommodate them in Few Quad during the start ofconstruction.

“RLHS has this predicament, where they have to plan for the worst but hope for the best,” said senior Ryan Todd, president of Campus Council. “Given the alternative, I think people will be extremely satisfied.”

Todd added that it may be possible to avoid relocating any students during the week-long interim, depending on what date physical construction begins.

Last month, the Board of Trustees allocated $2O million for the Few Quad infrastructure overhaul.

The push to renovate Few Quad instead of older dorms was prompted in part by safety concerns regarding the existing air conditioning system, which does not meet fire codes and has led to the dissemination ofmold in the building.

Further plans are expected byJanuary.

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LeChase Construction,a contractor forKHgo Quadrangle renovations, will now renovate Few Quadrangle.

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SAN FRANCISCO Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run king, was indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday and could go to prison instead of the Hall of Fame for telling a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance enhancing drugs.

The indictment, culminating a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes, charged Bonds with four counts qf perjury and one of obstruction of justice.

If convicted, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in prison.

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up, Bonds’ personal trainer, Greg Anderson, was ordered released after spending most of the past year in prison for refusing to testify against his longtime friend.

“During the criminal investigation, evidence was obtained including positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances for Bonds and other athletes,” the indictment said.

In August, when the 43-year-old Bonds passed Hank Aaron to become the career home run leader, he flatly rejected any suggestion that the milestone was stained by steroids.

“This record is not tainted at all. At all

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But while San Franciscans cheered his every swing and fans elsewhere scorned every homer, a grand jury quietly worked behind closed doors to put the finishing touches on the long-rumored indictment.

Bonds is by far the highest-profile figure caught up in the steroids probe, which also ensnared track star Marion Jones. She pleaded guilty in October to lying to federal investigators about using steroids and faces up to six months in prison.

Bonds finished the year with 762 homers, seven more than Aaron, and is currently a SEE BONDS ON PAGE 7

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LAHORE, Pakistan Police said they lifted the house arrest of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto Friday, hours before the arrival of a senior U.S. envoy who was expected to urge the country’s military leader to end emergency rule.

The move came after Bhutto—while still confined to a house in Lahore —urged fellow opposition leaders to join her in an alliance that could govern until elections.

Despite Bhutto’s call, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has given no sign he will

hand over power. He has named his own interim prime minister and was expected to announce Friday a caretaker Cabinet to oversee parliamentary elections promised by Jan. 9.

“The government has withdrawn the detention order,” Zahid Abbas, a senior police official, told an Associated Press reporter near the barricaded house where Bhutto has been confined for three days.

“The house is no longer a sub-jail but security will remain for her own protection.

She’s free to move and anyone will be able to go to the house,” Abbas said.

Political unrest deepened Thursday as

one of the country’s main Islamist parties called its first protests for Friday against the state of emergency, adding the voice of factions opposed to Musharraf s alliance with the U.S. to the recent protests by lawyers, students and secular parties against military rule.

Also Thursday, two children and an adult were killed during a gunbatdebetween police and protesters in the southern city of Karachi—the first deaths during demonstrations since Musharraf suspended the constitution Nov. 3. Protests were reported in other cities and more party activists were arrested.

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Iran has made important stridestowards clarifying past nuclear activities but it has significantly expanded uranium enrichment, a U.N. watchdog report said Thursday. In theory, Iran could produce enough uranium to make a nuclear weapon within a year to 18 months.

New respiratory bug kills 10 A mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the last 18 months, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Adenoviruses usually cause respiratory infections that aren't considered lethal, but a new variant has caused at least 140 illnesses in four states.

Lohan jailed for 84 minutes Lindsay Lohan turned herself in to theLos Angeles County women's detention centerThursday to serve a one-day sentence for a drunken driving offense. She was released 84 minutes later because of overcrowding at the lockup andthe nonviolent nature of her crime.

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Relations key to anorexia treatment, study shows by

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Anorexia nervosa isn’t really about the food—not at its very core, anyway.

To effectively battle the most deadly psychological illness and the leading cause of psychiatric mortality in adolescent females, doctors and counselors must tackle anorexia from a more personal approach, said Dr. Nancy Zucker, director of the Duke Eating Disorders Program and a clinical professor at the Duke University Medical Center.

“Before folks develop eating disorders, they often have trouble with interpersonal situations because they feel very selfconscious and anxious,” she said. “That’s before they even develop anorexia, and they continue to struggle with social situations when they’re ill. Even if they recover, these problems tend to persist.”

Zucker’s ongoing study examines the interpersonal relationships of individuals with anorexia, and she said she hopes her findings will revolutionize current treatment. Treatment for anorexia is now

Dr. Nancy Zucker's research indicates that social relationships are key to treating anorexia nervosa.

focused on eating patterns alone and does not address the mentality of the patients, she added.

Understanding how patients interpret social interactions is key to helping them recover, said Zucker, who collaboratedwith colleagues at both Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She said she focused her research on interpersonal skills, as opposed to the conventional emphasis on specific symptoms of anorexia like an individual’s diet or eating habits.

She said she hopes to discover more detailed information about how individuals with anorexia process social interactions and whether they perceive relationships the same way as unaffected individuals. To better understandthe phenomena of social interactions, Zucker referred to research on autism, a mental condition that results in an inability to gauge others’ emotions.

“There are certain key features thatpeople look to in other people that give information about how they’re feeling,” Zucker said. “We look at your eyes and nose and mouth, and that tells us a lot about what we need to know. When [researchers] did eye tracking studies on folks with autism, they found out that they didn’t direct their attention to these features at all.”

Autistic individuals focused on these emotion-conveying regions less frequently and for shorter durations of time, she said. These studies on autism may shed light on how people suffering from anorexia interact with others in different environments, she added.

“One of our questions is if folks with anorexia feel threatened or anxious in social situations, and if they’re looking at things so closely that they’re not picking up on nuances,” Zucker said. “They might not be picking up on these subtle emotional information that other people give off, and that might make it more challenging for them to interact.”

She stressed the importance of people too

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Burch Avenue, near CentralCampus, is part of a new cityplan for development oflow-income housing units.

City slates low-income units for areas near campus by

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Within walking distance from Duke’s Gothic Wonderland lie the neighborhoods of Southwest Central Durham—one of the city’s poorest areas.

Three of these neighborhoods have a reported poverty rate of 38 percent and a home ownership rate of only 14 percent.

Durham’s 2007-2008 Annual Action Plan intends to change that, however, working with Duke and local non-profits to target Burch Avenue, Lyon Park and WestEnd for development including new units oflow-income housing.

Michael Barros, director of Durham’s Department of Housing and Community Development, said although the neighborhoods have received developmental attention in the past, it has not been enough to make significant changes.

“We’ve been working in that area for a number ofyears,” he said. “Currendy we’ve been trying to accelerate that and work

with local non-profits and revitalize the neighborhood for people there.”

He added that the collaborative effort between Duke, Durham and local nonprofits has significantly benefitted the selected neighborhoods.

“The relationship has been exceedingly good between Duke and Durham for a number of years,” Barros said. “The work Duke has done really compliments the work of the city and local non-profits.

Duke is an extremely valuable player in improvement and revitalization of these

neighborhoods.”

After construction on 98 new, energy efficient homes is finished in 2008, home ownership in the area will increase by approximately 12 percent, Shep Smith, a community development project manager, said. He added that the city has invested $1.19 million in the revitalization project

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4 passed bonds will aid city's schools, roads by

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There’s a lot of work to be donefor Durham Public Schools, and taxpayers don’t mind footing the bill.

Voters approved four separate bond issues Nov. 6, totaling more than $227 million to improve roads and sidewalks, the Museum of Life and Science, Durham Technical Community College and DPS. Seventy-seven percent of voters cast their ballots in favor of the biggest item and the most expensive bond in Durham’s history—a school bond referendum worth $194.2 million. The approval came only two years after citizens passed a $lO5-million school bond.

Steve Schewel, vice chair of the DPS Board of Education and a visiting assistant professor with the Hart Leadership Program, said more than half of the money will go toward acquiring land for one school and building several others.

Schools to be built include two new elementary schools, a middle school, a traditional high school and the City of Medicine Academy —a smaller high school for 400 students interested in the medical

professions.

A bond passed by voters in the municipal election last week will go to solve Durham Public Schools problems, such as overcrowding at C.E. Jordan High School.

All projects are slated for completion by 2013.

The new schools are necessary to accommodate the DPS system’s growing enrollment, which increased this year by 700 students—approximately 2.5 percent—Schewel said.

“We have severe overcrowding at two of our high schools, Riverside [High School] and Jordan [High School],” he added.

The new comprehensive high school will eventually serve 1,400 students who live in what are now the Riverside and Jordan

districts and may be located near Duke’s West Campus, Schewel said.

Significant sums will also go to numerous smaller projects, such as the enlargement of the Hillside High School cafeteria and improvement of traffic patterns at Jordan High School.

Community members expressed concern about the traffic situation at Jordan High School last year after parent Steven Lingafelt said he nearly hit two students attempting to cross Hope Valley Road.

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drinking water will always meet certain standards. The Durham [Department of] Water Resources must be very diligent in adjusting its treatment levels [in dmes of

prudent about conserving water, said Gary Thompson, directorof facilities and operations for Residence Life and Housing Services.

There are also plans to install waterless hand sanitizing stations on campus that students can use instead of sinks with running water, Thompson added.

Kenneth Reckhow, professor of water resources at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, said if Durham’s water supplies continue to decrease, the risk for lower-quality drinking water will increase.

“As water levels drop, there is an opportunity for sediments and contaminates to mix in,” he said. “We are assured by the [Durham water treatment facilities] that

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counters with oncoming traffic—entided “Student Endangerment”—have received 1,000 hits on YouTube.

Sophomore David Clain, who tutors at Jordan High School as part of a service-learning class, said even though he is not sure the project merits $950,000, the traffic situation at the high school is a problem.

“The traffic around Jordan [High School] is a little ridiculous,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I’ve been going at 7:30 for the start of school, and it takes me 10 to 15

minutes to drive the last two blocks.”

DPS Superintendent Carl Harris said the successful bond referendum will have long-lasting positive effects on the schools.

“With the approval of this bond issue, we are now poised to have some of the best school facilities in the state and across the nation,” Harris said in a statement.

Schewel said the wide margin of support for this year’s bond issue shows citizens are confident in DPS’s management of funds.

are not particularly fire prone,” he wrote in an e-mail. “This is especially true in the winter months. So, in localized areas, fire risk does go up, but we are not in danger of the sorts of fires that have visited the West in recent months.”

Duke administrators and Dur“Duke is the largest water conham officials are sumer in the county, and we also exploring alternative conserneed to make in our vation methods, operations and daily routines....” such as reusing old water.

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reconsidered because health risks from reusing grey water are actually very low.

Durham officials have passed a new plan for using treated waste water for non-domestic purposes such as watering golf courses, but it will take a few years for the policy to become completely effective, he added.

“Conservation practices and water reuse will be more commonplace in the U.S. going forward,” Reckhow said.

Christensen added that as development increases and demand for natural resources rises, the continuation of conservation efforts becomes even more important, “The biggest thing that has happened over the past several decades hasbeen the explosive growth in human populations in the Southeast,” he said. “The demand for water has also grown explosively... That greatly increases the impacts of droughts when we have them.”

cern that a similar situation may arise in North Carolina, but Norman Christensen, professor of ecology and founding dean of the Nicholas School, said such a scenario is improbable “Although extended drought does increase fire risk, the forests of this region

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general body meeting Thursday night.

Currently, students have restricted access to West Campus dorms from midnight to 9 a.m. on weekdays and 2 a.m. to 9 a.m. on weekends, during which time their DukeCards can only swipe

into their own dorms.

In addition, upperclassmen do not have access to East Campus dorms.

President Ryan Todd, a senior, introduced a resolution to push universal card access back to 8 a.m. on West.

The proposal also sparked discussion about whether weekend access hours should be extended and prompted suggestions that East be open to upperclassmen.

The main argument for extending card access hours is to increase accessibility to ePrint stations, Todd said, noting that students who have classes starting at 8:30 a.m. should be able to print papers on their way to class.

Vice President Kevin Thompson, a junior, said he believes a change would be well-received by students.

“We got a lot of concerns from [Duke Student Government vice presidents] and senators about this,” he said. “It’s something of great desire among a lot of students.”

also take into consideration that some groups such as athletic teams and members of the Recruitment Officer Training Corps program have to be up early, and restricted access presents a problem for students from those groups who want to meet up.

“It’s simply a convenience,” said sophomore Anant Agarwalla, a Kilgo Quadrangle representative, a sophomore. “Say, if you want to surprise your girlfriend with breakfast in bed in the morning. It’s little things like that.”

In a vote, council members agreed to push card access back to 7:30 a.m.

Thompson said the change must first be approved by Eddie Hull, dean ofresidence life and executive director of housing services, but could go into effect as early as next week.

Most members, however, said they opposed the change to East access. “[As a tour guide,] it’s a big selling [point] for parents to say that it’s all freshman,” said Treasurer Molly Bierman, a junior. “That a 22 year old can’t come in and do whatever with your 17 year old.”

Council members did not make a final decision about increased weekend access hours.

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CampusCouncil members discussed at a meeting Thursday whether to change card access from 9 a.m. to 8 a.m. to allow students to use ePrint stations. that the council sponsor a holiday-themed event, said Communications Coordinator Hope Lu, a junior.

She added that the idea had been considered somewhat controversial in the

programming committee because Lu said she was concerned that having ties to religious holidays would make some students feel excluded.

Council members also presented recent developments that included proposed regulations for lofting beds and a possible week-long event promoting dating culture on campus.

In other business: A visitor to the programming committee’s meeting earlier this week proposed

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Atlantic Coast Conference, and the University would lose moneywithout the program.

Provost Peter Lange said a new policy now requires an interview with prospective football players based on their SAT scores.

He said he hopes this will help to identify students who are willing to achieve high academic standards.

The Athletic Council will not lower admissions standards to recruit more talented players, Gillespie said.

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Academic Council members discussed the role of student athletes in an academic environment and the strains placed on them by their 20-hour per week rigorous practice schedules at their meeting Thursday.

Varsity athletes account for about one tenth of the student population and approximately half of them receive scholarships, said Michael Gillespie, Athletic Council chair and Jared Bleak, executive professor of politi“Our standards are higher than tor of DukedirecCorcal science. other schools we’ve looked Education, “Duke athletes porate any said Duke athmust be students at. Duke’s goal should be to first and that goes letes as a whole to recruitment and steal some of those athletes who already adhere to a high admissions recruitment stanget 1500 on the their SATs... standard. dards,” he said. “It’s “Our standards viewed that widely from Notre Dame.” at Dukeathletes are are higher than Bleak, education director any other schools being whipsawed we’ve looked at,” between academics and athletics.” he said. “Duke’s Members of the council also raised congoal should be to steal some of those athletes who get 1,500 on their SATs... from cerns regarding the lack of non-conventional sports, the time constraints of stu[the University of] Notre Dame.”

He added that this year Duke has the dent athletes and financial matters of the fourth hardest schedule in the country, but athletic programs The discussion quickly turned to the he remains confident for the future of the football program.

University’s athletes.

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delays, President George W. Bush stepped forward Thursday to try to speed American air travelers to their Thanksgiving gatherings and back home on time.

Declaring that “business as usual is not good enough for American travelers,” President George W. Bush announced at the White House a series of detailed technical steps to reduce air traffic congestion and long delays that have left passengers stranded and turned holiday travel into “a season of dread for too many Americans.”

In the most innovative move, the Pentagon will allow commercial airliners to use two air corridors off the eastern seaboard that are normally restricted to military flights. Supplementing the dozen air routes regularly used from Florida to New England, they will create “a Thanksgiving express lane” for commercial airliners from 4 p.m. EST Wednesday through the busiest days of Thanksgiving travel.

For the second time since September when he ordered the Transportation Department and the Federal Aviation Administration to cbme up with solutions, President George W. Bush personally intervened in the intractable problem of air congestion that previous presidents avoided and many aviation experts believe has only long-term solutions.

Crowded airports, stranded passengers and delayed flights “carry some real costs for the country,” President GeorgeW. Bush said, “not just in the inconvenience they cause, but in the business they obstruct and family gatherings they cause people to miss.”

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Late in the season, the San Francisco Giants told the seven-time National League MVP they didn’t want him back next year.

Bonds could not immediately be reached for comment. One of his attorneys, John Burris, didn’t know of the indictment before being alerted by The Associated Press and said he would call Bonds to notify him.

“I’m surprised,” Burris said, “but there’s been an effort to get Barry for a long time.

I’m curious what evidence they have now they didn’t have before.”

Bonds’ defense attorney, Mike Rains,

airlines going to be able to handle it?” asked Dawn East, 52, as she waited for her flight to Miami, which had been delayed for two hours. “It’s not a problem of the lanes up there. It’s an industry problem.

There’s no efficiency.”

Mike Young, 60, who plans to travel to Arkansas over Thanksgiving to see his daughter, doesn’t expect Bush’s plan to help. “In theory, it sounds nice, but given his record, I don’t trust it to work,” said Young, a consultant, headed home to Seatde.

Garth Ehrlich, 51 a molecular biologist waiting for a delayed flight to Pittsburgh, also expects to travel over Thanksgiving to Los Angeles, and hopes the “Thanksgiving express lane” will ease delays and that “it doesn’t in any way jeopardize national security.”

On Capitol Hill, airline executives told the House aviation subcommittee they will reduce overbooking during the holidays and add ticketing staff. Airport association executives said they are finding places to sleep, including cots, and food and water for people who are stranded.

The chief benefit of using the military air routes would be to “get people out of GERALD HERBERT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the New York area quicker, especially if Speaking prior to the Thanksgiving travel rush, President George W. Bush talks in the White House's we have (bad) weather up and down the Roosevelt Room about the problem of aviation congestion, in light of record delays this year.

East Coast,” said Nancy Kalinowski, systems operations vice president at the FAA. This effective by air traffic controllers who said ry Costello, D-Hl., House aviation subcomcould have a wider impact because 75 pertheirranks have been thinned too much to mittee chairman, and not nearly enough in cent of the nation’s air traffic delays are traced to congestion problems in the New handle the holiday crush efficiently. The the view of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. Even Transportation Secretary Mary PeYork area. pilots union called some long-term steps ters acknowledged, “If we get an ice storm too drastic.

Through September, more than 24 perDemocrats in Congress characterized on the eastern seaboard, it probably won’t cent of U.S. flights arrived late, the worst President George W. Bush’s actions as “bet- be pretty.” on-time performance since comparable Americans traveling through one of the data began being collected in 1995. ter late than never,” in the words of Rep. Jer;

declined comment because he hadn’t seen a copy of the indictment.

“However, it goes without saying that we look forward to rebutting these unsup-

He has never been identified by Major League Baseball as testing positive for steroids.

The Giants, the players’ union and even the White House called it a sad day ported charges in for baseball.

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Union head Donald Fehr said he was “saddened” to learn of the indictment, but cautioned that “every defendant, including Barry Bonds, is entitled to the presumption of innocence unless and until such time as he is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

In Washington, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: “The president is very disappointed to hear this. As this case is now in the criminal justice system, we will refrain from any further specific comments about it. But clearly this is a sad day for baseball.”

Commissioner Bud Selig withheld judgment, saying, “I take this indictment very seriously and will follow its progress closely.”

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Walk for the waitiist, so we were very lucky,” Doyle said.

All juniors returning from abroad will be guaranteed on-campus housing if they so choose, Williams said, noting that a total of 208 juniors have requested on-campus housing as of Wednesday.

Residence Life and Housing Services, thought, cannot guarantee returning juniors will get their preferred roommates, Williams said.

She added that the number of juniors who will receive their preferred roommates

cannot yet be determined because housing requests are still being sent to RLHS. “For example, last week we had 488 confirm that they were returning, and this week it jumped to 495,” Williams said. “It changes so much from week to week, let alone day to day.”

All juniors will be notified of their housing statuses by the first week of December, said Jen Frank, RLHS program coordinator.

Students who are not given their preferred on-campus housing arrangement will have to decide whether to live on-campus but not with their preferred roommate—or to find place off campus, Williams said.

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profit organizations selected to assist with the revitalization, uses federal funds to

purchase and renovate vacant housing.

over the past four to five years, which should generate new housing valued at over $8 million.

The Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project, an organization that unites community leaders of six neighborhoods of Southwest Central Durham, played a central role in the push for revitalization, said Mayme Webb, neighborhood coordinator for the Duke Durham Neighborhood Partnership and member of thejQuality of Life steering committee.

Webb said the organization was established to strengthen relationships within the community and establish local programs for neighborhood development.

The committee initially contacted nonprofit organizations in an attempt to revitalize the neighborhoods.

Rebuild Durham, Inc., one of the non-

The group then rents the houses out to families earning at or below 60 percent of the area median income, said Gene Cook, executive director of Rebuild Durham.

Southwest Central Durham was selected for development because of the low home ownership rates in the area, Cook said. He added that Rebuild Durham, which seeks to add three homes from the area to its current 13 home inventory, will be able to benefit families who are unable to afford housing.

“All the non-profits involved are committed to providing and maintaining quality, affordable housing,” Cook said.

“Rebuild Durham offers a rental program, but the benefit to the community at large is that the families that move into our homes typically end up with more disposable income because we take less of their income for housing costs.”

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mg test for eating disorders,” he said.

Students who scored in the abnormal range have disordered eating patterns, but cannot be clinically diagnosed with anorexia from the survey alone, he added.

Freshman Anna Brown, a member of the Healthy Devil Peer Educators group Educating Students to Eliminate Eating Misconceptions, said these trends need to be addressed directly, adding that she personally knows people at Duke with eating disorders.

“People with these disorders are very focused on comparing themselves with impossible standards and are always measuring themselves against other people,” Brown said. “That’s not interacting in a healthy manner. We need to address social norms and challenge them with our perceptions of what a nutritious lifestyle is.”

participating in this study and said in today’s world, eating disorders are a pressing problem.

“The bottom line is that everyone seems to know someone who has an eating disorder, so I think it touches people’s lives very personally,” she said.

A 2000-2001 study conducted by Dr. Terrill Bravender, director of adolescent medicine and medicaldirector of the Duke Eating Disorders Program, collected information about eating attitudes and behaviors at Duke. Approximately 40 percent of undergraduates responded to the survey.

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Head coach Ted Roof and the Blue Devils will play on national television for the first time in 11 seasons.

The “Countdown to Kickoff” saysjust one more day until the big game against Notre Dame (1-9), but in some respects, Duke has been waiting for this showdown for 11 years.

That was the last time the Blue Devils (19) suited up for a nationally televised game, which resulted in a 48-22 loss to Georgia Tech on ESPN. But a win this Saturday would result in the kind of head-turning publicity—and legitimacy—that the football program has sought since Duke’s last winning season in 1989.

“I think it would certainly bring an awful lot of national attention to Duke University and to Duke football,” offensive coordinator Peter Vaas said. “But more important than that, I thinkwe’re in a much more selfish situation now where we would like to get awin for our seniors and our football team as much as we’d like to get one for the program.”

What once appeared to be a sure blowout loss now looks like a perfect opportunity for the Blue Devils to record one of their biggest victories in recent years, even if it is against the uncharacteristically woeful Fighting Irish.

The buzz around campus has been apparent, as many students have flight plans and rental cars ready for a weekend excursion to South Bend for the 2:30 p.m. kickoff in Notre Dame Stadium.

The players have done their best to treat

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this like any other game. Nevertheless, Vaas, drawing on his two previous coaching experiences at Notre Dame, spoke to the entire team before practice Tuesday about what to expect at one of the country’s most storied college football scenes. “[He said] we’re going to pull up to the stadium, and it’s not going to look too big from outside. And then you actually walk down into the stadium, and it gets really big once you get inside,” senior Chris Davis said. “The Touchdown Jesus, the College Hall of Fame, the big crowd, and things like that.”

Since the game was slated nearly four years ago, the team has been asked many times about its take on Notre Dame’s history, tradition and even the famous movie “Rudy.” Although the excitement and anticipation outside the football program has only grown since that time, he&d coach Ted Roof stressed that his team is concentrating only on the game itself.

“I want our guys to...focus on playing with great effort, doing their assignment and getting after the guy they’re lined up in front of, not on what’s happened at Notre Dame in the past,” he said. “I don’t want their past history or tradition to make any tackles or score any touchdowns. I want us to stay in the now, stay in the moment.”

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No Abby Waner, no problem for the Blue TAMPA Devils.

Even without last season’s leading scorer, No. 10 Duke (2-0) took care ofSouth Florida (1-1) in the ESPNU Women’s Basketball Invitational at The St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, 89-52. Waner missed the game with a sprained ankle suffered in practice earlier in die week.

Several Blue Devils stepped up in Waner’s absence, including center Chante Black. The gg redshirt junior had 16 points to DUKE lead all scorers and pulled down USF 11 rebounds to record her seventh career double-double.Forward Joy Cheek added a career-high 15 points.

“Whenever you have someone fall or get hurt, you always look for someone else, or the team to rise,” Cheek said.

“We all had to step up... and take it out on the court.”

Freshman center Krystal Thomas was the team’s third double-digit scorer. Her 10 points in 14 minutes of play contributed to the frontcourt’s 50-24 advantage in the paint. Duke’s determination to pound the ball inside allowed it to take 38 free throws and get South Florida in early foul trouble, limiting the opposition’s aggressiveness on defense.

It was not just the team’s post players who had success against the Bulls, as 11 active Blue Devils played and scored. Sophomores Keturah Jackson and Brittany Mitch started their first games for Duke and provided a spark from the opening tip.

L’ville lawsuit Duke will fight the $450,000 scheduling lawsuit brought against it by the University ofLouisville.

“We do not believe the lawsuit has merit,” John Burness, Duke senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, told The Raleigh News & Observ-

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CenterChante Black recorded her first double-double of the season, scoring 16 points and grabbing 11 rebounds against South Florida.

er. “And we expect this will emerge in the courtroom.”

Louisville is suing Duke for reneging on the fourgame football series scheduled by the schools in 1999.

The Blue Devils canceled the series in March 2003 after the Cardinals defeated the Blue Devils at Wallace Wade Stadium 40-3 Sept. 7, 2002.

According to the lawsuit filed Nov. 1 in Franklin, Ky., Louisville wants Duke to pay $150,000 for each of the three games Duke canceled. Louisville charges that Duke and the Atlantic Coast Conference did not attempt to find a replacement of similar stature for the three games, as required by the agreement. The ACC, however, is not mentioned in the lawsuit.

According to court records, Duke Athletic Director Joe Alieva promised to pay the fee if Louisville could not find a replacement after making a “good faith” attempt.

The Cardinals claim they called every Division I-A school in search of a replacement with little help from the Blue Devils. Louisville added Murray State and Utah to its 2007 schedule, and it still has open spots in 2008 and 2009.

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As the Blue Devils embarked on their journey south to Georgia for the subregional rountf of the NCAA tournament, head coach Robbie Church was feeling peachy about his team’s preparation for South Carolina (14-6-2).

“We are happy with VS. what we have been able come up with the last couple of days,” Church said.

A PI Duke (8-5-6) clashes Athens, 6a with the Gamecocks at 4:30 p.m. in Athens in the second-ever meeting between the two squads.

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“I’m interested to see, I think a key will be the midfield match-up,” Church said.

“It’s going to be a lot of three vs. three, and it is probably going to end up being a lot of one-vs.-one marking.”

Duke, though, is not lacking in strength or numbers in a talented and deep midfield, led by first team All-ACC selection Lorraine Quinn. Sophomores CJ. Ludemann and Jane Alukonis will also lead the midfield attack, and freshmen Kendall Bradley and Marybeth Kreger provide fresh legs off the bench. Church is optimistic about the matchups, saying that Ludemann and Alukonis are playing the best they have played all year.

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This weekend in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the No. 24 Blue Devils will be honoring one of the most decorated senior classes in school history while clashing with two ofits biggest rivals.

Duke (206,15-3 in the ACC) looks to get back on track in conference play Friday and Saturday against North Carolina (15-13, 11-8) and N.C. State (3-25,0-18), respecFRIDAY, 7 p.m.

Cameron Indoor tively. Both matches will begin at 7 p.m.

The matches this weekend will be the final home appearances VS. for seniors Ali Hausfeld, Jenny Shull, Carrie DeMange and Shelley Capito. The quartet SATURDAY, 7 p.m. has helped turn the Cameron Indoor Blue Devils from a conference also-ran into an ACC powerhouse and a fixture in the national rankings.

“These seniors have made huge contributions to the program, have gotten their names in the ACC record books and have helped our team to its highest national ranking in volleyball history here at Duke,” head coach Jolene Nagel said.

“They have been an integral part of this program since they stepped foot on this campus, and we want to make this a very special weekend for them.”

In a departure from the norm for this crop of seniors, the team will not enter this weekend’s contests atop the conference standings. After dropping two straight matches on the road to Georgia Tech and ACC leader Clemson, Duke now sits in second place in the conference, two games behind the Tigers.

The Blue Devils will need to forget those matches before Friday, as the Tar Heels travel to Durham playing their best

volleyball of the season. UNC has won six straight ACC contests, and the Tar Heels dropped a close 3-2 match Oct. 7 to the Blue Devils in Chapel Hill. Duke will need to improve its defense and blocking, areas both Nagel and Capito pointed to as weaknesses last weekend, to earn the win.

“UNC is obviously always a very emotionally charged match,” Capito said. “We know them very well and they have been playing very strongly in the last few games, so we can’t be surprised when they come out playing really

strong,”

N.C. State meanwhile, has been moving in the opposite direction. The Wolfpack has yet to force an ACC opponent to a fifth ‘ game all year and sits winless at the bottom of the conference standings.

These two rivalry matches are certainly important going into the postseason, but the weekend will be all about the senior class.

Hausfeld, DeMange, Shull and Capito have set several ACC and school records in ensuring their place in Duke volleyball history.

“I’m not trying to lose sight of the games that are actually going on, but it is hard to not think about our last few games in Cameron,” Capito said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to block that out and get two more wins.”

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Heading into one of the most highlyanticipated football games in recent school history, Duke is looking for its second win

on the season against Notre Dame Saturday. For offensive coordinator Peter Vaas, the game will serve as a bit of a homecoming, as he had two previous coaching stints with the Fighting Irish. Aside from concentrating on his professional duties, he looks forward to spending some time with his two daughters who attend college in South Bend. Head football beat writer Matthew lies caught up with Vaas to ask him about this weekend’s big game.

Matthew lies: Are you excited to get the family together this weekend?

Peter Vaas: That’s going to be an exciting part. There’s no doubt about that.

When you spend so many years of your life with your kids, and then you don’t see them for an extended period of time, any time you get to see them it’s exciting, even if it’s only for a brief few moments.

MI: Some offensive coordinators prefer to coach up in the booth, but you coach on the sidelines. Why do you prefer that?

PV: There are a couple things that make it easier. This is going to sound weird, but, generally, if you do your preparation, you see the game in your mind more than you see it upstairs. All I need to know from upstairs is ‘Are we getting what we expect?’

Then the other part of it is when you’re down on the field, you get a feel for the emotions that are involved in the game, from the highs to the lows. You’re in a much better position to attempt to control those emotions, and not necessarily bring people down from high but to recover people from a low. I like the idea of being on the sidelines so you can look the young

man in the eye and talk to him rather than

picking up a sideline phone and talking to him, especially when you’re involved with young quarterbacks.

MI: You’ve said that one of the greatest

pleasures you get from coaching is teaching the players. What is it that you love

about that mentor role?

PV: I think that’s one of the greatest things about being a coach. You coach all phases of people. You educate them in some mental things; in other words, they lal have to understand some con things about the game of ft> You educate them how to emotions, how to control the in a physical endeavor. So v an awful lot of different kind: teaching that takes place. Th: what I’ve always wanted to do ; to teach. When you’re involved in athletics, instead of calling it teaching they call it coaching, but those two words are virtually synonymous.

MI: How would you qu: these seniors, not necessarily theirrecord but by their overall complishments for the program PV: One thing that’s ai lutelyamazing is when you 100 the senior class and the team i rale we have, and the determ tion that still exists on this fooi team. Our leaders and our se: have never allowed frustration in and take place.... That’s th thing I’ll say ‘Thank you’ to niors for.

MI: What is the scouting re Notre Dame’s defense?

PV: Notre Dame’s defense solid group of people. They’re a

good defense, a defense that’s been held together during a season where their offense has struggled a little bit. We’re going to have to play well to move the football against them, and we’re going to have to play a diversified offense.

MI: Is it fair to say you know more about the Fighting Irish because of your recent coaching stint there?

PV: In a certain context, yes. Obviously, I have an intimate knowledge of the abilities or lack of abilities of some of the players b' \use of my involvement over the couple years. But at the same I don’t have any intimate ilvement with the schemes and concepts they’re trying to accomplish because that all changed after I left.

MI: I know it’s a little taboo among football coaches and players, but it seemed like a lot of Duke’s close games this year came down to one crucial play. Do you feel that sometimes you reach this breaking point, and sometimes you get past it like against Northwest;m and sometimes you don’t?

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It was the defensive effort that particularly drew praise from McCallie. Although Duke won by a convincing 37 points, the coach was less focused on the final score.

“I don’t really think about the scoreboard,” McCallie said. “As long as we play defense and rebound, I’m not too concerned.”

One aspect of the game that did draw McCallie’s attention was its venue. The St. Pete Times Forum will be the site of the 2008 NCAA Tournament Final Four—a detail that was not lost on the

he would have said if he had been told at the beginning of the season that Duke’s first matchup against a losing team would come in Week 11 versus Notre Dame.

“I would have lost my house,” he said Instead, the Blue Devils seem to have a legitimate chance of duplicating their Midwest magic from earlier this year when they beat bowl-eligible Northwestern 20-14 Sept. 15. Even though the highly-anticipated contest might serve as nothing more than a moral victory at this point, Duke is still focused on trying to finish the season on a high note.

“Our players deserve to experience the thrill of victory again,” Vaas said. “I can still remember how happy they were when we were in the Midwest the last time when we finished the Northwestern game. There was an awful lot of excitement in that locker room, and I’d like for them to experience that again.”

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“I told our team to breathe really heavyto suck up the air in the place so that it has something familiar to take home and want to come back to,” McCallie said.

After losing in the Sweet Sixteen of last year’s tournament, the Blue Devils would like to extend their season further thisyear.

With a successful game in the arena already under its belt, Duke is looking to improve its play over the course of the season so that it can make a return trip in March.

“It’s great to come out here and start in Tampa,” Black said. “The weather’s great, and we played pretty well. Hopefully we’ll be finishing here as well.”

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W. SOCCER from page 10 The Gamecocks, however, have plenty of talent and experience as well. One intangible advantage that goes to South Carolina is the sense of urgency among the team’s veterans. The Gamecocks start six seniors and are making only their second appearance in the tournament in school history and first since 1998. South Carolina started the season strong, winning its first seven games, including a season-opening upset of thenNo. 1 North Carolina.

The Blue Devils, on the other hand, are a relatively young team that only has one senior that sees significant playing time. Church noted this disadvantage was a concern, but he hopes it will not be too much to overcome.

Fortunately, Duke has on-field advantages to combat its inexperience. A recent bright spot has been the sharp play coming from goalkeeper Allison Lipsher.

Church said that the senior has taken her game to another level since finding out Duke received another life with its bid to the NCAA tournament. Lipsher has not allowed more than two goals in any match this season, a streak the Blue Devils hope to extend.

One streak that Duke would like to end, however, is its scoring drought in postseason play. The Blue Devils have played more than 405 minutessince their last goal in an NCAA tournament contest. Church said that what he has seen recendy in practice has the potential to end the dry spell.

“We are very, very close of busting out with a number of goals here.” He said.

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unveiling of Duke’s new age a Web site and wiki and perSmart Home is a signifiform experiments in the Smart cant milestone, one that Home’s labs.

The student involvement will testifies to both the University’s continue to benefit both Pratt and aggressive development of a premier engineering the Duke commuprogram and its nity as a whole. editorial to The hands-on commitment sustainability. experience adds a practical complement to Pratt courses, exemplifying The house is part of an imthe Duke vision of “knowledge in portant trend towards environmental awareness on campus, the service of society.” of which new, “green” buildings At the same time, the stulike the French Family Science dents who live and work in the Center are only larger examples. Smart Home will ensure that it The new Smart Home, however, remains vibrant, dynamic and carries a significance that exceeds productive, maintaining it as a its small scale. visible and proud addition to Although only 10 students live the campus. in the home, it is extensive student Ultimately, a green building can involvement that makes the project only bear a plaque testifying to the special: the idea was first conceived environmental conscientiousness of its designers; a green home can by a Pratt student, and the development and design were driven by impress these values upon every Pratt engineers. person who lives, works or visits Today, students give tours, man- there.

Students and faculty should feel The numbers are only meaningful to hear Duke has retained up to a point—consider, for examits No. 13 spot on the annual Times ple, Duke’s startling rise from 52 to 11 on the often-fickle list between Higher Education Supplement rank2004 and 2005. ing ofuniversities worldwide The ranking is a Duke can improve its standing sign of Duke’s rising editorial stature and rapid by developing its development as both a school and a science and technology programs, where it failed to place in the top cutting-edge research institution.

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What I really mean is that I’m finding sophomore year much more stressful than freshman year. Maybe the so-called “Sophomore Slump” really does exist.

I discover myself counting down the days till I’m home for ThanksBreak giving much too often and sometimes wondering if I allie vergotz even should have come here at all. with a grain of salt As I go th.rougi-h the repetitive cycle of intense workload followed by exam cram session succeeded by mediocre midterm grade in each class, I find it terribly difficult to just relax. Last Friday I literally scheduled a day on which I would do no homework because I needed to sleep. Monday, the most cursed day of the week in my opinion, only reminded me of how much work I really didn’t accomplish over the weekend. In an attempt to finish up a problem set before my next class, I grabbed lunch to go. Barely even thinking, I rushed into Chick-fil-A and picked up an eight-pack of nuggets.

And my day became infinitely better.

Now, I’m not just saying I enjoyed eating my feelings in the form of fried chicken (although their nuggets really are sinfully delightful).

What I mean is that the blessed Chick-fil-A Ladies got me back on track. “How are you?” the woman ringing me up asked sincerely. With a wide smile, she swiped my DukeCard and with a flourish of her wrist, she opened a paper bag for my lunch. “Have a great day!”

It was that simple. A brief, one-minute encounter with a particularly kind and genuinely sweet individual made my day so much better.

This is something I discovered early in my freshmen year, this secret of the Chick-fil-A Ladies. Rarely, if ever, do they disappoint. In a quick stop, a brush with their kindness reminds me of two of the most important things in life: _

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have to ring them up. But they don’t have to ask how you’re doing, they don’t have to wish you well and they really don’t have to bag your food. They could easily swipe your card and move on. But they don’t, and that makes all the difference.

Two, laugh. Oftentimes I open the door to Chick-fil-A and hear some of the warmest, most joyous laughter I’ve ever heard. On more than one occasion when I’ve tried to rush through, I’ve failed in my attempt to balance textbooks, nuggets, chips, a Coke and the cell phone I’m usually on at the time. I usually get a little chuckle and smile from the lady ringing me up, as she watches me fail so miserably at being graceful. It’s the laughing-with-you-not-at-you kind of chuckle, the kind that says “I’ve been there” and “Relax. Slow down” all at once. And I couldn’t appreciate it more.

It’s not difficult to get caught up in all the work here—whether it’s for classes, jobs, research, internship opportunities... the list goes on. It’s easy to forget the important stuff. Not that all of those things aren’t important, but what are they if you’re not a kind, genuine, happy person in the process of experiencing them? I’m practically evil when I feel bogged down by work, but it’s those times that I put things in perspective and realize that ultimately my GPA is not the most important thing in life when I feel most successful.

When I’m in a rush, I almost always end up grabbing a quick bite to eat at Chick-fil-A. That is, when I feel most out of control, I, out of convenience (and perhaps coincidence) end up in the one restaurant on campus that helps put things back in perspective.

They say, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Well, Chick-fil-A takes my lemons and makes it into some of the best lemonade you’ve ever tasted. customers—they

Allie Vergotz is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.

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In an ironic turn of events, the Devils could defeat God’s representatives on earth: the Notre Dame football team

The fantastically terrible 2007 Fighting Irish scheduled Duke almost certainly with the intention NCG 3 of getting an easy SOXU3I chocolate win in their second last of the game to season. They thought that because they are the legendary Fighting Irish and we were the lowly Blue Devils, it would be a guaranteed win. False.

It is not that Duke has had a good season (or decade) in any way shape or form, but there is a real chance that the Blue Devils will embarrass Notre Dame tomorrow.

If Thaddeus Lewis puts up enough points to make famed Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne roll over in his grave, the 2007 Fighting Irish will solidify their place as the worst team in Notre Dame history. This is the program with the second-highest winning percentage in Division I-A history and 11 consensus national championships. If, or when, they lose to a one-win team that ended a 22-game losing streak earlier this year,. I, a lifelong Michigan fan/Notre Dame hater will pass out because of a dangerous overdose on schadenfreude. What a spectacular fall from grace it will be if the Fighting Irish get knocked out.

In my giddy anticipation, I have noticed troubling similarities between the hubris of the Fighting Irish and that of the Duke student body, myself included. Recently a friend of mine, upon returning from a Network for Future Executives meeting, began discussing his plans after college. He outlined all of his champagne wishes and caviar dreams that will, of course, come true because he is, after all, a Future Executive.

After speaking with him, I was struck by the familiarity of the “when I am rich/successful” assumption that my Future Executive friend and the rest of the student body holds. After all, we are at Duke. It should be smooth sailing from here, right?

Well, there is good news and bad news. Good news: we definitely did something right by getting into Duke, whether it was working hard in high school or being born into a family that could afford to donate a building. Generally speaking, we have something of value to offer the world and we are not over-confident in expecting success in whatever way we choose to define it.

Bad news: as the Fighting Irish may be reminded of tomorrow, there are no guarantees in life. Odds are that we will not end up as impoverished failures, but the truth is that we cannot all be future executives. Some of us are undoubtedly Future Middle Management. I like to envision myself as a successful lawyer, but I have to accept the possibility that I could end up as a chain-smoking, 50year-old unpublished novelist with a penchant for boxed wine.

I hate to be the eternal pessimist with all this discussion of high hopes and shattered dreams, but if I were not, this column would have been as mundane as a discussion of the merits of the C-4 bus route. If nothing more, we can realize that, as cliche as it sounds, nothing is promised. But don’t take my word for it. If Notre Dame loses, stop by Mass on Sunday and breathe in the scent of dejection that fills the air.

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whole situation is that we found ours in JC, JuicyCampus does more than just ‘bruise feelings’ Sam Barton I was just wondering whether Oliver Sherouse actuTrinity 'lO ally thinks thatJuicyCampus.com falls under any reasonable definition of “free speech” (“Can’t stand the mild Duke, remove campus from smoking haze warmth,” Nov. 14).

In response to the Nov. 14 editorial “Don’t head down I agreed with him when he said that the only thing stupider than the Web site are the people who get of- the tobacco-ban road,” I would like to thank Vice Presifended by it. If you take more than five minutes to JC dent for Student Affairs Larry Moneta.

How can there be any other response to someone who so it up, you’ll find first and last names of alleged drug users, drug dealers and—with slightly less serious repercuskindly supports the practice of smoking and has added ash sions at stake—cheaters. JuicyCampus is facilitating libel urns scattered throughout campus? Now students do not only and then knowingly protecting the rights of its abusers benefitfrom random inhalations of cigarette smoke while walking across campus, we can also be met by the continual stench more than its victims. whenever entering a building by any non-main entrance.

While posts may have started out as “utterly dismisOther universities are not becoming too parental by sible spitballs,” as Sherouse put so metaphorically, some are now spitballs of such girth and saliva that they could placing further restrictions on smoking, they are standbring both the spitter and the victim the very literal pros- ing up for the rights of the majority of students who pects of being thrown out of school or into the court would prefer the clean air displayed in the brochure picsystem. The site’s doing more than “bruising feelings” in tures. Smoking restrictions are not designed to convert its current form and if it isn’t changed it will soon lead smokers; they are intended to protect the rights of nonto resumes, checkbooks, criminal records and all sorts of smokers. Duke should not be taking a stand against the rest of the world, which is slowly becoming smoke free, other personifiable things being bruised as well. but instead recognize a problem and find a solution. The I’m hoping Sherouse just did shockingly poor research for this column. In that case he’s just a slacker joy of standing in line outside ofCameron should not be and not my nominee for JC’s thread about who is the “retardedest kid who got into duke.”

For my two cents, the JC should be wiped clean of all anonymous posts that clearly constitute libel and are complained about. They should abandon their anonymity policy. Offering such a policy does very little to meaningfully further the cause offree speech and instead provides a medium for serious defamation of character to occur. I think Jean-Paul Sartre was right when he said, “Hell is other people.” And the only thing remotely funny about this

diminished by the smoke from those few enjoying their

privilege to puff anywhere outdoors on campus.

The administration has refused to take care of us, so we should stand up and support our rights to clean up the cigarette butts and smoky air encompassing our wonderful school. So once again, I thank you Larry Moneta for refusing the obvious need for change and continuing to keep Duke in a haze.

Kristen Fricke Pratt ’ll

I will not eat corn on the cob (I will not eat it. Bob you slob) ,

espite the anemic efforts of the mildest autumn in the the leaves on the trees around the JL>/Levine Science Research Center have finally turned a glowing shade of orange. The semester is drawing to a close and glittery Christmas trees, garish plastic Santas and dreidels glut dieback end ofTarget Taken together, these signs can only mean one thing—TurkeyDay, in all its rotisserie-bronzed glory, is about to inundate us with superfluous gratitude (and Charlie Brown specials, but that’s another story). We are mere days away from the offering of generic mashed jacqui detwiler potato thanks to universally good things, like life, liberty Please hire. Desperate and parents that didn’t beat us with furniture Initially I vowed not to get caught up in the crush—l already thankedmy parents for notbeating mewith a chair leg —but then I realized that without my public expression of thanks, there was one particular facet ofmy life that was at serious risk of spending a cold and lonely Thanksgiving with nary a nodof gratitude. And because I’m (generally speaking) a conscientious person, I’ve decided I simply can’tlet that happen.

So I’d like to dedicate the rest of this diabolically rhyming column to being a teaching assistant TAing, in this poem of thanks may you find solace from the many graduate students who have criticized you, and may you spend the rest ofthe day with this silly rhyme stuck in your head (because honestly, you kind of owe me).

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TAing, I know I have belittled you.

As entirely too many new TAs do, When really you’ve been like a blessing to me, Well, as much of a blessing as teaching can be.

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I can barely get people to answer a question With candy or bribes or the power of suggestion Patience I learned from projector displays Which are harder to fix than my Madab arrays.

So thank you TAing, for teaching compassion When most ofmy patience is over its ration.

Furthermore, after my Tuesday night section You have taught me the benefits of self-protection I walk to my car with my keys between fingers Lest under a bush some delinquent rogue lingers.

Without you I might have been mugged and run through, Although what they’d have taken I haven’t a clue.

TAing, you taught me to respect my friend, Who’s been doing this longer than I comprehend.

I really have no idea how she’s still sane, Has remained in herbrain through the pain and mundane.

She’s kept me from losing my mind from the e-mails Which hound me for tips and ridiculous details.

So thank you for doling out camaraderie Over chocolate and wine, frozen dinners and brie.

I wouldn’t have learned to write random test questions, And take from my students discussion suggestions.

There’s no way I’d own a display drive connector And I couldn’t explain the caudate motion vector TAing, without you, what on earth would I do?

(Other than cheering and yelling “woohoo!”)

Even when frantic to come up with lectures Brimming with useless and silly conjectures.

I realize you’re really enhancing my vita More than the pineapple peach margarita Which I would be drinking if you were not here To keep me on track and kick me in the rear.

Finally, TAing, you’re truly top brass, I’m a true teacher’s ass When teaching my class.

I could make ofyour merits a fancy parade.

On second hand, screw it, I’m not even paid.

JacquiDetmler is a graduate student in psychology and nea.roscience.

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The afternoon session opens with a keynote address at 1 pm, delivered by Dule alumna Marguerite W. president and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance. Following the address, DukeEngage students will host back-to-back panel discussions on various topics before welcoming all in attendance to view and visit with them at the “DukeEngage Stories: A Public Display” reception.

A full schedule can be found at http://dukeengage.blogspot.com.

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