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West, Central Bell gives annual speech DPD:Mahato murder not to make up tied to gangs 271 Few beds Memorial service set for Friday afternoon

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More than half of the bed spaces lost because of the Few Quadrangle renovations planned for the fall semester have been recovered, Residence Life and Housing Services officials said Tuesday.

Of the 438 bed spaces lost, 271 will be made up by moving graduate students off news Central Campus to the Swift Avenue Townanalysis houses and increasing the capacity in large rooms on West and Central campuses, said Marijean Williams, director of housing assignments and communications.

RLHS anticipates an additional vacancy of roughly 70 beds, leaving 97 bed spaces unaccounted for because of the renovations, Williams added.

The vacancy rate is an average obtained from previous years’ data that accounts for students who change their minds about studying abroad, who decide to take a leave of absence or who were not invited back to the University, Williams said.

“We are currendy planning for maximum capacity but anticipate vacancies at the start of the Fall 2008 semester,” she wrote in an e-mail.

Williams added that the 97 remaining

Mayor Bill Bell emphasized Durham's problems with crime and drought in his annual State of the City address given at the City HallTuesday night. by

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Great things are happening in Durham, it’s just hard to tell.

Mayor Bill Bell opened his annual State of the City address Tuesday night at the City Hall with this positive declaration, but quickly proceeded to focus on the major problems the city is facing, such as crime rates and drought conditions.

“It would have been nice for me to come up here and talk about all the good things

that are happening in Durham and ignore the challenges that we are having,” he said.

“That’s not Durham and that’s not me.”

After a weekend during which Duke students were the victims of two armed robberies and an off-campus homicide, Bell proposed cracking down on gun use as a solution to the increasing crime rate, He acknowledged that two homicides and a spike of robberies have occurred in the city over the past two weeks, SEE BELL ON PAGE 4

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The Durham Police Department said Tuesday that they still have no suspects or leads in the murder ofDuke graduate student Abhijit Mahato.

Mahato, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Pratt School of Engineering, was found shot to death inside his home in The Anderson Apartments Friday night.

“This is an ongoing investigation,” said Kammie Michael, a DPD public information officer. “We’re putting quite a bit of Oiirresources into it.”

Police are in the process of talking to Mahato’s friends and the other residents of his apartment complex, she added.

DPD also said the crime does not appear to be related to gang violence, The Hindustan Times reported Monday.

A memorial service will be held for Mahato, 29, in the Schiciano Auditorium in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences Friday at 1 p.m. In addition, a Hindu temple in Monisville, N.C., will host a prayer service from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

“This is a difficult time for our community, and we all have different ways to deal with grief,” Robert Clark, interim dean of Pratt, wrote in an e-mail to the engineering community. “I encourage you to reach out to your friends and family to get the comfort and support you need and to be patient and compassionate with those around you.”

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Two DukeEngage summer, programs have been cancelled because of political instability and the threat of increasing violence in Kenya, officials announced Tuesday.

CampWISER in Muhuru Bay and a program in Kakamega with the Foundation for Sustainable Development have been removed from the list of group projects for DukeEngage’s first summer.

Kenya, a country experiencing ethnic violence following national elections in December, was placed on Duke’s Restricted Regions List by the Office of the Vice Provost for InternationalAffairs and Development yesterday. Duke students are prohibited from traveling to any countries on the list using University funding, said Sherryl Broverman, program leader of campWISER and an associate professor of the practice of biology.

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“I was in favor of putting [Kenya] on the restricted list in December right after the elections with the understanding that anyone could petition to have it re-examined,” said Broverman, who is a member of the International Travel Oversight Committee, which recommends countries to be placed on the restricted list. “I had hoped that there would have been a quicker resolution to the political violence, but it has continued. That does not mean in two weeks there might not be a return to normalcy.”

The Feb. 15 deadline for Duke Engage group projects will not be extended to accommodate any trips to Kenya if the country is removed from the restricted regions list later in the semester, said Eric Mlyn, director of DukeEngage and director of the Duke Center for Civic Engagement.

“At that point, it’d be too late to fund,” he said, noting SEE WISER ON PAGE 5

A Kenyan police officer tries to detain a man in Nairobi Jan. Ifi.The violence inKenya, caused by rioters protesting therecent presidential election, has prompted Duke to cancel Duke Engage programs there.

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NEWS

Thompson quits presidential race NAPLES,Fla.—Republican Fred Thompson, the actor-politician who attracted more attention as a potential presidential candidate than as a real one, quit the race for the White House Tuesday after a string of poor finishes in early primary and caucus states.

In the statement, Thompson did not say whether he would endorse any of his former rivals.

Thompson, best known as the gruff district attorney on NBC's "Law & Order," placed third in lowa and South Carolina, two states seemingly in line with his right-leaning pitch and laid-back style, and fared even worse in the four other states that have held contests thus far. Money already tight, he ran out of it altogether as the losses piled up.

BUSINESS Emergency Fed cut stabilizes stocks Jolted by global recesWASHINGTON Federal sion fears,the Reserve slashed interest rates Tuesday, and President George W. Bush had d shr 'if G

promising urgent action to pump up the economy with upwards of $l5O billion in tax cuts and government spending.

Market meltdowns overnight around the globe and growing anxiety at home stirred

lawmakers and the administration toward swift action, possibly within a few weeks.Wall Street plummeted as the day began, following Asian stocks, then warily eased its selloff after the Fed ordered the biggest cut on record in a key interest rate. The Dow Jones industrials, down 465 points at one point, closed the day off 128.

The Fed, announcing its action after an emergency video conference Monday night, indicated further rate reductions were likely, aimed at encouraging people and companies to start spending again.

SCIENCE Obesity surgerymay cure diabetes CHICAGO A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes.

Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more diabetes disappear over the lan were patients who had s care, according to Austra-

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ERTAINMENT ath Ledger found 'ad in apartment NEW YORK- Heath Ledger as found dead Tuesday at a lowntown Manhattan apartment, and police said drugs lay have been a factor.

The Australian-born acÂťr was 28. Ledger had an ppointment for a massage

at the residence in the tony SoHo neighbor-

hood, NYPD spokesperson Paul Browne said.

A housekeeper who went to let him know the massage therapist had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.

A large crowd of paparazzi and gawkers began gathering Tuesday evening outside the building on an upscale block, where several police officers guarded the door.

Ledger was nominated for an Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain," where he met Michelle Williams in 2005.The two lived together in Brooklyn and had a daughter, Matilda, until they split up last year.

WEIRD NEWS Man steals 93 lbs of undergarments COLFAX, Wash.

A man is facing a sen-

tence of one-and-a-halfmonths after admitting

he stole 93 pounds of women's undergarments.

Garth Flaherty, 24, was charged with firstdegree theft and burglary in the stealing of 1,613 pairs of panties, bras and other women's underwearfrom laundry rooms.

Under an agreement with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday in Whitman County Superior Court to 45 days in jail. He may serve 30 days of his term in community service, court officials said.

Cake to be new state symbol?

ANNAPOLIS, Md. Legislators had no trouble swallowing thelatestcandidatefor a Maryland state symbohthe 10-layer Smith Island cake.

Delegate Page Elmore, R-Somerset, wants to make the decadent offering the state's official dessert, and he cooked up a sweet bribe: 450 slices were delivered Tuesday to state lawmakers and their aides.

"It's economic development for Smith Island and lower Eastern Shore bakeries," Elmore said, watching volunteers unload more than a dozen boxes of cake slices.Tlorida has the key lime pie. Massachusetts has the Boston cream pie. This is ours."

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23,2008

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The second semester just got a little less dressy.

Planning for a formal event at the Washington Duke Inn has been put to a halt by the Duke University Union, members said at their meeting Tuesday night.

Other topics covered were the upcoming concert in Krzyzewskiville and an independent review of the Union’s performance.

DUU President Katelyn Donnelly, a senior, announced the suspension of planning for the event at the hotel. The formal had been in the works since last semester as away to promote more faculty-student interaction in a non-classroom setting, with students encouraged to invite any faculty members they wished.

She said the formal is a “nogo,” citing as a significant reason the hotel’s refusal to allow more than 500 people to attend.

An additional problem was the WaDuke’s minimum asking price to host the event, $25,000, which Donnelly said was too high for an event limited to 500 participants.

Also on the agenda was the concert slated to happen in Kville March 6.

The topic was introduced by Major Attractions Director Ghamindra Goonewardene, a junior, who said that a number of student organizations are on board to help out

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In remembrance ofMartinLuther Kingjn, Dr. Michael Merson, director of Duke’s Global Health Institute, began his presentation Tuesday morning with one of King’s quotes.

“Of all forms of insecurity, injustice in health care is the most shocking and

inhumane,”

Michael Merson King once said.

Merson said the world can no longer exist half healthy and half sick at his presentation, “Global Health and Duke,”

DUU President Katelyn Donnelly said a party hosted at the Washington Duke Inn will not be feasible because of an attendance limit and a $25,000 asking price.

“We’re pretty close to confirming the concert,” he said, adding that the artist should be announced within the next week.

Members also discussed creating an independent review board that would give an unbiased opinion ofDUU’s performance.

Donnelly proposed the idea, describing it as a successor to a similar review conducted by a group of

involved students last year.

“It might be a good idea to do it again, but put out the application to the general student body,” she said.

yesterday.

“In 2004, 41.1 percent of the people living in Sub-Saharan Africa were living on less than $1 a day and 29.5 percent of people living in Southern Asia were living on less than $1 a day,” he noted.

He also called for health professionals to take action, adding that in the last 40 years, there has been an average of one new disease per year. Most of the new diseases are infectious and viral, he added.

Merson said the global health community needs to think of the health burden in terms of chronic diseases, such as obesity, in the next two decades.

“In 2005, about 1.6 billion adults were overweight and at least 400 million were obese,” he said.

“By 2015, approximately 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese.”

Duke has set forth a number of global-health initiatives, and one of the driving forces behind the University’s decisions has been student passion for social justice and wanting to make a difference, he said.

Sophomore Georgia Hoyler,

who participated in the Global Health Focus last Fall, said she SEE MERSON ON PAGE 5

CORRECTION A story in Tuesday's newspaper incorrectly stated that two armed robberies Sunday night occurred near Poplar Manor Apartments.

The second robbery, involving a Duke employee, actually occurred near Poplar West Apartments. Both complexes are off LaSalle Street.

An Office of News and Communications release misidentified the second location.

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MayorBill Bell said recent robberies in Durham have targeted members of the Hispanic community.

BELL from page 1 “So much violence with the use of guns in our community has got to be stopped,” the mayor said. “We need to find away to get them off the streets.”

Recent robberies have targeted members of the Hispanic community, Bell said, noting that the city faced a similar problem during his early years as mayor.

“For some reason or another it has risen its ugly head again and we have got to cut it off,” he added.

The four-term mayor encouraged community involvement in the fight against crime and asked the Durham Police Department to submit a plan to City Council

for reducing violent crimes by the council’s third work session in March.

Bell noted that Durham’s total crime index has decreased since last year, but murders have increased from 14killings in 2006 to 26 in 2007. He said the city would continue its commitment to stopping crime.

“We could spend all night talking about that subject, but I think we all know what it involves,” he said. “It involves schooling..., our lack ofjobs... and it involves poverty.”

The city’s water shortage was another major focus of the speech. Bell noted that the 2007 drought wouldforever change the way Durham views water as a resource.

“One of the phrases that has become part of everyday conversation in Durham and throughout the state of North Carolina is ‘days ofsupply’,” he said.

Bell added that at its worst point, the city had only 36 days of water supply remaining, and there are currently 133 days ofwater left.

“It is almost impossible to speak about the drought without speaking about climate change, which has contributed to our changing rain patterns,” he said.

The mayor said city and county facilities would do their part to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions, adding that higher prices are needed to encourage water conservation.

“It is imperative that during this time of drought the heaviest users not only be convinced to use less, but to also pay for their higher usage,” he said.

Bell’s address also focused on the revitalization of Durham’s inner-city neighborhoods. He credited thework ofDuke students and other groups with helping to restore the southwest central Durham neighborhoods.

After the speech, council members praised Bell for clearly oudining the challenges facing Durham.

“The mayor has given us something to sink our teeth into,” said council member Howard Clement.

FEW BEDS from page 1 bed spaces will likely be made up for by the early-release lottery, which allows students in the Class of 2010 to live off-campus, thereby releasing them from their three-year on-campus living contract.

In the worst-case scenario, a waitlist for on-campus housing will be created, and priority will be given to rising seniors, Williams said.

“That does not mean we will release 97 students through the early-release lottery,” she added. “We will determine that number later this week.”

Applications for the early-release lottery were due last Friday, and Williams noted that RLHS received more than 97

applications.

“At this point we will keep room capacities the same from Fall to Spring,”

she said. “We anticipate using all the Few [Quad] spaces for students returning from study abroad.”

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During the renovations, on-campus housing for graduate students will only be provided to 54 first-year, international students, who will be living in the Swift Townhouses offEast Campus, Williams said.

There are currently 187 graduate students living on Central Campus, 80 percent of whom are international students, said Stefan Gary, a graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and a representative on the Board of Trustees Committee for Buildings and Grounds.

Crystal Brown, president of the Graduate and ProfessionalStudentCouncil and a third-year law student, said it was good that RLHS recognized the difficulties faced by first-year international students, but added that the transition is equally difficultfor all first-year graduate students.

“Most graduate students aren’t from the Durham area, and they will have a hard time getting acclimated to the University,” Brown said.

ecause of the Few Quadrangle renovations set to begin at the start of the summer, 438 bed spaces will be lost for the Fall. Residence Life and Housing Services is taking steps to ensure that all students will have a reasonable

housing option next semester:

151 graduate students will be moved from Central Campus to Swift Townhouse 120 beds will be added to West Campus by converting some single and double rooms to double and triple rooms, respective!

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that the early deadline is in place to allow for sufficient time for students to complete Duke Engage workshops, get vaccinated and secure travel passports and visas.

The Women’s Institute of Secondary Education and Research —a non-govemmental organization planning the construction of an all girls school in Muhuru Bay sent 12 Duke students to the region last summer as a DukeEngage pilot program.

Broverman, co-founder of WISER, said she thought it would be best to tell students now that campWISER is unlikely to run this summer so that they could look into other options as soon as possible.

“We did not want to string students along hoping Kenya would improve and leave them with nothing to do over the summer,” she said.

In an e-mail sent Tuesday to the Duke WISER listserv, Broverman wrote that individual projects with WISER could be considered in March after determining the safety of the region, but grants for the trips would need to be secured from sources other than DukeEngage.

She added that the Muhuru Bay region is not a target of the violence in Kenya.

The more than 100 students working for WISER on campus will not be affected gready by campWlSEß’s cancellation, as fundraising and awareness efforts at Duke for the women’sschool are not connected to the summer program, said WISER Co-founder Andy Cunningham, a senior.

“This is barely even a rip,” said sophomore Patrick Messac, head ofcurriculum development for campWISER. “This is a temporary setback. We’re still moving forward withWISER.” —

States that people don’t have in other places in the world.”

Merson said DGHI is continuously looking for ways for students to pursue their interests in global health. became interested in global health after volunteering in The institute helped begin a global health certificate for Calcutta, India in high school. undergraduate and graduate students, and its first class will be graduating thisyear, Merson said. He added that the insti“I saw old women with terrible osteoporosis, who probably had not received any health tute is in the process of developing care for the majority of their lives,” a major in global health as well. she said. “I was struck by the huge “I was struck by the huge health Internationally, DGHI initihealth inequalities and lack of inequalities and lack of [global ated the Global Health PLUS to make surplus medi[global health] programs worldhealth] programs worldwide.” program wide. It really opened my eyes.” cal equipment and supplies availto health care professionals JuniorAneeshKapur,whoworked Georgia Hoyler, able on global-health issues through Duin developing countries, he said. sophomore Merson added that Duke will ke Engage, traveled to New Delhi, India last summer to help improve soon be building an office at the Duke-National University of Singaliving conditions of the poor.

“Most ofmy interest in global health is coming from the pore GraduateMedical School to do clinical research and will fact that I visited a lot of other countries and developing further collaborate with Peking University to begin an edunations,” he said. “Through [those experiences], I gained cational program in global health, establishing it as the first perspective on how we have a lot of things in the United Asian university to do so.

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If you’re anything like me, you love sports and you love movies. And the best part is that they aren’t even that different.

Whether it’s tearjerkers (VCU’s upset win in last year’s NCAA Tournament), thrillers (Dockery’s 45-foot buzzer-beater two years ago), or science-fiction (UNC beating Duke this year), they both have the power to evoke strong emotions.

Well, the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and I figured there’s no better way to kick off the Oscar V season than to bring it a little closer to matthew home. Maybe give some of these movies a Duke personality, if you will.

So now presenting, for the first time ever, the Duke Men’s Basketball and Hollywood Analogies Nominees! Give me a break on the tide, guys. The writer’s strike is still on.

Best Picture: Atonement (Tennessee): This movie has been dubbed one of the best love stories ofall time. The Volunteers might beg to differ.

Just ask head coach Bruce Pearl, who used body paint and hopped up and down bare-chested with the rest of the student body to support a women’s basketball game last year. How many had to use the ol’ something’s-in-my-eye excuse after seeing that one?

There Will Be Blood (North Carolina): In the days leading up February 6th’s potential top-five matchup between Duke and UNC, ESPN is bound to show the clip of Gerald Henderson accidentally bump-

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A trio of Duke seniors—Michael Vi-

deira, Joe Germaneseand Spencer Wadsowrth—were scooped up by the New England Revolution Friday in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft in Baltimore,

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New head coach David Cutcliffe has hired his staffand is looking forward to the start of the 2008 season.

Cutcliffe tackles 2nd head coaching chance With individual workouts and preparation for spring practice underway, David Cutcliffe just recently finished his first month as Duke’s new head football coach. Head football beat ■uniter Matthew lies sat down with Cutcliffe to talk about why he chose Duke, how Duke compares to his previous coaching jobs and his take on academics versus athletics.

Matthew lies: What was your first impression of Duke?

David Cutcliffe; I got here really early in the morning, prior to anybody waking up on campus. There were a few custodial people around, but I basically took my own tour. I was Just impressed with the cleanliness of the stadium, and then I started walking the campus. I would encourage the students to maintain this pride.... There was no trash. That’s a responsibility that we have. That’s one of my pet peeves. [We need] to keep things as they should be.... I just felt like I was in a storied place.

MI: How does it compare so far to your first head coaching job at Ole Miss?

DC; The first time around I was prepared, and I had a plan. We executed that plan well, but I really had to grab the staff much quicker and probably didn’t have as extensive a plan as to who I wanted on the staff. This time around I hand-picked these guys, and I could not be more thrilled with this staff. Plus, we’re actually further along—a lot of people will find this surprising—this is a much finer facility, and we’re much further along than at Ole Miss when we started.

MI: After leaving Ole Miss, you went back for your second stint as the offensive coordinator job at Tennessee. But were you chomping at the bit to get back into the head coaching seat?

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that I would have agreed They knew that I was looking for another opportunity. The thing people need to realize is that I had other opportunities to go places as a head coach that I just wasn’t interested in. I knew it was going to be the one where it was the right atmosphere and the right people. Everything about Duke was right for me.

MI: What was it about Scottie Montgomery, who was already Duke’s wide receiver coach, that made you decide to hire him onto your staff as well?

DC: I tell you this about hiring people, I love all these guys that I brought with me.

But I didn’t hire them because I love them, I hired them because they’re the best. I fell in love with Scottie Montgomery—his positive attitude, his energy.... I didn’thire him because he went to Duke or because I liked him, I hired him because I thought, ‘Man, I can’t find a better receiver coach anywhere in America.’ He’s the best. Wow, is this guy sharp or is this guy positive. Every little thing I asked him to do got done prompdy and got done right.

MI: Many people think Duke has struggled in recent history because of the recruiting limitations caused by the university’s high academic standards. What’s your take on that?

DC: I embrace who we are academically. That’s just an excuse people use. Not every student at Duke has got a perfect SAT score, nor will they ever. What we’re going to try to attract is the brightest and best, with character and attitude and effort. One of my goals is to have 100-percent graduation. We can get people in this program who can compete academically and who can compete in the ACC athletically. I know we can do that, and that’s what we intend to do.

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Md. Vidiera and Germanese were taken in the second round as the 18th and 27th picks, respectively, while Wadsworth was selected in the fourth round with the 55th pick. The three are the 15th, 16th and 17th Blue Devils drafted to the MLS, and Duke tied Wake Forest with three picks to lead the ACC in MLS draftees.

Videira, a team captain and three-time Hermann Trophy semifinalist for national player of the year, will be returning home. The Milford, Mass, native started 78 of his 80 matches at Duke and ranks sixth in school history with 34 career assists to go along with 17 goals.

Germanese, who transferred from Vanderbilt after his sophomore season, recorded 18 goals, 22 assists and 58 points in his collegiate career. As a senior, Germanese was a named to the Academic All-America second team and to the AllSouth Region third team.

Wadsworth has tallied 25 goals and 34 assists for 84 points in his four years at Duke. In his junior season, the forward was tied for the lead in NCAA assists with 14, and was also an All-South Region first team and All-ACC second team member.

The Revolution already has two Dukies waiting to greet the newest members of the team, with former Blue Devils Kyle Helton and Jay Heaps currently playing for New England. Helton, a defender, graduated in 2007 while Heaps joined the Revolution in 2001.

New England finished the 2007 MLS season with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference (14-8-8), eventually falling to the Houston Dynamo in the MLS Cup Nov. 18.

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Midfielder MichaelVideira was one of three Blue Devils selected by the New England Revolution.

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ILES from page 6 on all cylinders and UNC recently faltering, the Blue Devils might just be able to deliver a mortal blow on the road without swinging any fists (or elbows).

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On the night of December 22, Maryland head coach Gary Williams got some angry phone calls.

The Terrapins had just dropped a 67-59 decision at home to American University of the Patriot League. It was Maryland’s second straight home loss to a non-BCS school, its third consecutiv defeat at the Comer Center overall and sixth loss in the season first 12 games.

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The Terrapins now have a week off before hosting Duke Sunday. Maryland is looking for its third straight victory in the rivalry after sweeping the Blue Devils a season ago.

Daniel Day-Lewis (Taylor King): DayMaybe. But I doubt Coach K has any problem being compared to George Clooney.

Lewis plays a man who scours the CaliforJuno (Kansas): Right off the bat, you’re nia coast hell-bent on claiming as much asking yourself, “How the hell is he gonna oil for himself as possible and taking pull this off?” Easy. Juno is about a 16-year- anything he wants. And who else doesn’t old girl who has have a problem to deal with the taking anything “Clooney always plays a he wants? King adversity of an smooth cat on the screen, unplanned preglaughs at the meek who shoot threes from just behind the arc instead of from a few more yards away. In fact, one ESPN commentator even described King’s freakish three-point range by saying, “He’s open as soon as he enters the building.”

Tommy Lee Jones (DeMarcus Nelson): Jones has distinguished himself as a versatile actor, but one role he’s mastered repeatedly is that of a sheriff. Think about it: The Fugitive, Men in Black, Volcano, No Country For Old Men and, yes, even Man of the House. Well, nobody lays down the law like Nelson. Both players and coaches alike have described him as the team’s rock,

while Henderson has made a name for himself with his graceful athleticism on the court.”

first-round NCAA Tournament exits.

In the end, though, Juno sticks with her boyfriend, and Kansas has stuck with Self.

Now look at them: happily ever after, Best Actor in a Leading Role: George Clooney (Gerald Henderson): Not only do the ladies love both of these men’s handsome looks, but the E! channel even reported that Clooney’s closest friends call him “G” as well. Clooney always plays a smooth cat on the screen, while Henderson has made a name for himself with his graceful athleticism on the court.

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Williams was getting more phone calls that night, but this tim they were a bit easier handle.

“I told [the team about the phone call; I’ve gotten since the Carolina game, and I dl get quite the same calls after the American or the calls I did get different tone after th< game,” Williams said in teleconference.

The polar emotion; ready experienced in the last month resemble the ups and downs the Terrapins went through around this time last season After a 3-6 conference start, Maryland won its final seven ACC games and entered the NCAA Tournament as a No. 4 seed.

Williams and the Terrapins hope Saturday’s road upset will catalyze a similar comeback this year.

ing a small-town hick all over the expanses nancy. Kansas is of Texas, and even though you’re pulling a team that has for him the whole time, you know there’s had to deal with no way the hick stands a chance. Kind of the adversity of like everyone in Conference USA trying to head coach Bill stand up to Memphis. The Tigers have won Selfs unexpected

all four of their conference games this season by an average of 31.8 points per game.

In the country of C-USA, Memphis simply has no equal.

Michael Clayton (Duke): Michael Clayton or Michael Kryzezwski, same difference.

Clayton will stop at nothing to find the truth behind a cover-up, while Kryzezwski will stop at nothing to distinguish himself as one of basketball’s greatest coaches. I mean, he could possibly retire from coachmg with more than three NCAA championships, an Olympic gold medal and the most wins ever by a head coach. A stretch?

“I wanted [the players] to be excited, because they worked very hard to get to the point where we could play and be competitive with a team like North Carolina. We weren’t that team about three and a half weeks ago,” Williams said. “Hopefully now we can build on that. That’s the key thing; let’s not let that be one game this year, but maybe we can continue from there and th goes on.”

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Johnny Depp (Lance Thomas); In Sweeney Todd, by far one of the year’s weirdest movies, Depp plays a singing barber who murders virtually everyone who enters his shop. Who knows how good Thomas’ singing voice is, but he can sure cut down his opponents any time he wants. His superb play Saturday helped the Blue Devils limit Clemson’s talentedfrontcourt. Sometimes overlooked for his lack of offensive production, Thomas has been one of Duke’s best defenders all year.

Viggo Mortensen (Jon Scheyer): After Mortensen exploded onto the Hollywood scene as the heroic Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it took him four years to land another big role in Eastern Promises (aside from the cinematic masterpiece Hidalgo). Last year, Scheyer was one of Duke’s best players, finishing second in minutes and third in scoring on the team.

This season, though, he was relegated to the bench, and people wondered how he would respond. Despite the doubters, he has embraced his slightly-diminished role by scoring just 0.8 points per game fewer than last year in 5.5 fewer minutes.

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The bigger problem with Saturday’s game was the approximately 180 seats taken by football recruits and editorial their families, and the 200 students who were unable to get into the game.

The athletics department should make sure the line monitors know the number of seats that will be taken from the student section a reasonable amount of time in advance, at least the morning of a game.

Line monitors should be able to give students waiting outside a realistic idea of their chances to get into the game. Those who were eventually turned away received wristbands, giving them the false impression that they were guaranteed a seat.

Any information about seat availability should not, however, be broadcast to students far in advance of the game, which could depress turnout.

The past two weekends, Cameron rocked, and Duke rolled. Keep it up, Crazies.

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Line monitors were using the megaphone to ask students to turn and shuffle, paint was dripping from sweaty bodies and on a snowy night, 200 students were even turned away from the stadium Ladies and gentlemen, Cameron is back And with two straight capacity student crowds, it is time for validation to retire—at least for this year.

This board praised the validation system in the past, but it is clear that with the up-tempo, winning play of this year’s Duke team the policy is no longer necessary to fill the wooden benches.

Validation was a valiant effort by student leaders in response to requests from the Department ofAthletics to fill the bleachers. The implementation was smooth, too; there were no software malfunctions, and Cameron was filled for every game.

Validation should be considered in the future,

For some reason or another [crime in the Hispanic community] has risen its ugly head again and we have got to cut it off.

Mayor Bill Bell on recent trouble’s with violence and crime in the Durham area. See story page 1.

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refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton. If she is my party’s nominee in November, I will follow my red, white and blue heart, and—like my apathetic fellow Americans—I simply won’t vote.

But don’t tell P. Diddy. I heard he kills people who don’t vote.

Hillary Clinton bores me. She’s an hack, unexciting someone who craved power as president of the Young Republicans at Wellesley and only a few years later mike devllll as a leftist, antiwar f . it S 311 CtllOS 3*l69St activist on the same campus. As a Yale Law student, she worked at Treuhaft, Walker and Bumstein, a left-wing law firm associated with Communist Party members. She then graduated and soon found herself at Rose Law Firm, an ancient Arkansas firm dripping with prestige, corporate money and relatively few Communists. And, of course, Clinton went from first lady of Arkansas to senatorfrom NewYork—and somewhere in the process became aYankees fan.

Clinton’s career seems like a long, desperate grope at power and prestige, one more concerned with positioning than conviction. I compare her to Barack Obama, who had the legal world by the throat after serving as thefirst black president of the Harvard Law Review, and I see two drastically different people.

According to a recent Legal Times article, Obama had federal judges clawing at his back, desperate to hire him as a clerk. A clerkship can be something like a genie’s lamp in the legal profession, granting fresh new lawyers respect, prestige and fast money.

But Obama said no. He justwanted to help people in Chicago, legal superstardom be damned.

At Dartmouth College on the night before the New Hampshire primaries, former President Bill Clinton attacked Obama’s claims of consistent opposition to the Iraq war, saying, “This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

I agree; this campaign is a fairy tale.

America has found a leader, someone who has rejected temptations ofpower throughout his communityminded life. Despite his liberality, independents and even Republicans cherish Obama as a level-headed politician devoted to uniting his fellow Americans. But in his way stands Sen. Clinton, who for decades has leapfrogged between positions of power, marinating in her own ambition and preparing for her inevitable presidency.

This is a fairy tale because of Obama’s heroic potential. hi the eyes of the worid, our president is a metaphor, a manifestation of the American character. Currently that metaphor consists of a ruddyfaced fiat-boy sitting .

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early Friday classes drink more on Thursday night than those who don’t.

Well, duh.

Clearly the researchers conducting this study do not know the difference between COltONcll causation and correlation.

Perhaps those who choose to take classes early on Friday morning are those who don’t binge drink on Thursday; and perhaps those who make sure they don’t have class early on Friday are planning ahead for their Thursday social activities.

We’re not experts, but we’re just guessing.

Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki and Provost Peter Lange should not use this study as justification for more early Friday classes. Such a move would only produce worse attendance, rather than sober students.

Many students pursue schedules free of Friday classes for the pleasure and relaxation of a three-day weekend, and Duke should not try to take that possibility away from them.

The Obama fairy tale

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backwards on a slow-moving pony, alternately firing a six-shooter at Arab children and chugging a can ofBud Light while his bom-again Christian wife chases behind, swatting at his booze with the family Bible. But we can replace President Bush with a brilliant, biracial scholar; a human being who wrote poetry and heartfelt memoirs, whochose a life ofconviction over one of triangulation.

It’s a fairy tale because ofAmerica’s centuries-long quest to show the worldwhat freedom looks like.

Last spring at a New York City bar, I met a German woman working in the U.S. but desperate to return to the safety of Europe. When I mentioned Barack Obama, she looked at me skeptically andasked ifI really thought America would elect a black president.

At the time, I was offended. “Well, is Germany ready to elect a Turkish president?” I snapped back.

But since then I’ve realized how common that question isaskedaround theworld.Our generation can answer. Hillary Clinton wants to take that opportunity away from us.

And it’s a fairy tale because of the dreary alternative; Clinton and the stale status quo of American politics (unless, of course, the G.O.P. candidate poses a tough challenge in November, making even Clinton look like an epic, Luke Skywalker-esque fairy tale hero). Clinton is a lame policy wonk, at least when compared with Obama, one who thinks policy-making acumen is more important than the ability to inspire human beings.

In early January Hillary Clinton said, “Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done.”

Perhaps most disturbing about these comments is Clinton’s underlying leadership ideal; LBJ fueled the civil rights movement with his brilliant, bathroom-dooropen politicking. Forget the MLK “fairy tale;” forget his speeches and his marches; forget the emotional punch Americans felt when they saw demonstrators led by Dr. King careen across asphalt underthe immense pressure of fire hoses. Washingtonian technocracy molds the life and values of America, not its individual heroes.

America needs leaders who can translate the world into digestible emotion, human terms that transcend policy wonkishness. Good leaders guide public opinion in the right direction, creating the political opportunity for policy. They do this by providing hope, sometimes through fairy tales.

And while I believe Barack Obamais uniquely qualified to lead this country, it’s that nonfictional fairy tale he can give us thatleaves me pining for an Obama presidency.

In fact, I will vote in November—but if Clinton is the Democratic nominee, I’ll be writing in Obama. Just don’t tell P. Diddy. I really hated that “Vote or Die” junk.

Mike Devlin is a first-year student in the School Law. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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represents 60,000 people mostly on the strip and Mien I told my friends I would be MIA for a endorsed Barack, encouraged these caucuses since week, they responded with disbelief. No fair. You they benefited their members. So for example, can’t skip school to gamble. workers at Caesar’s Palace had an advantage over Then I had to come clean. My Vegas vacation other Saturday workers. They left work for an hour, was a political dork’s dream; the opportunity to went downstairs, and participated. Thus, the atwork on Hillary Clinlarge precincts benefited some Saturday workers, ton’s campaign the but not all. week before the NeThe third affront is inconsistency across precincts. vada caucus.

The state Democratic Party “oversees” the process, You might ask, what but local Nevadans run the caucus as temporary is a caucus? chairs and precinct captains. These caucus leaders can openly support a candidate, and this support ocI thinkJay Leno put it eloquently when on casionally spurs undemocratic, aggressive behavior. the eve of the lowa cau rachel mclauqhlill Working the phone lines I heard stories from Hillcus he said: ary supporters that Barack’s people blocked their “Tomorrow of 6»fortl6SS ilTipGnGCtlOn participation, just as the Barack camp claims Hillary course, is the lowa supporters did the same. caucus. As you may know, caucus is a Greek word Finally, delegate apportioning for the Demowhich means, ‘the only day anyone pays any attencratic National Convention is based on a “round tion to lowa.’” up, round down” system. Each precinct has a set In all seriousness, the caucus is a complex process number of delegates to apportion based on poputhat involves terms like viability, first realignment, dellation. To calculate the number of delegates a canegate apportionment and precinct captain, a fancy didate gets, a formula measuring support of cauterm for “group leader.” I encountered this complexcus-goers in the precinct yields a fraction that has ity when I worked the Hillary hodine from 7 a.m, until to be rounded (after all, you can’t have a fraction 1 p.m. on the day of the caucus. of a person).

The phone rang off the hook with precinct locaInevitably this number does not match the numtion confusion, delegate mathematical calculation ber of delegates up for grabs in the precinct, and questions and coundess reports that Barack Obama so a delegate has to be added or scrapped. For supporters were bullying Hillary supporters at the regscrapping, the rule is that you take it from the canistration table—some even turned away. didate with a delegate fraction above, but still closIn one phone call a precinct captain announced a est to, .5. tie in her precinct. She said, “I guess I should use the Let’s say John Edwards has .6 calculated deledeck ofcards.” gates (rounded up to one delegate), Barack has 1.64 Cards? No clue what you are talking about. I busted (rounded up to two delegates), and Hillary has 0.92 out my caucus guide, turned to page 24 on tie-break(rounded up to one delegate) in a three-delegate ing and sure enough: “If there is a tie at any point dur- precinct. One delegate needs to go bye-bye. Intuiing the caucus the tie will be broken by a draw ofcards tively we think bye-bye John, but here’s the kicker: using the deck of cards provided.”

A candidate cannot lose his or her only delegate in a precinct.

Only in Nevada is the tie-breaker a card draw.

I hung onto the phone. The crowd erupted into So Barack is the one who loses his delegate. All are cheering. She reported the results. “I drew a 2, but apportioned one delegate apiece, despite large differBarack’s precinct captain drew a King. Better luck ences in support. Confusing, eh? And unfair. next time,” she said. Despite a dead-even tie, the delStill, my intention in pointing out these four offensegate was awarded to Barack. Why? Because his supes is not to discredit caucus victories thus far. Hillary porter drew a King from a deck of cards. In lowa, it’s was expected to win lowa, but Barack took it. Barack a coin toss. was expected to benefit from Culinary Union support This is merely one absurd rule in a wholly undemoin Nevada, but Hillary won. Both these victories signify cratic process, a process Hillary herself says is not in something. line with principles of democratic participation.

Nonetheless, selecting a presidential nominee durThe first transgression is time. The caucus was ing a set time, with a deck of cards (or a coin toss held from 11 a.m. until noon on a Saturday. Parwhatever tickles your fancy) and complicated delticipants who must work on Saturday mornings are egate-apportionment rules results in lost voices, the excluded—usually individuals from lower socioeco- antithesis of democratic participation. It is time that nomic classes.

America abandon the undemocratic caucus.

The second offense, unique to Nevada, was the introduction of at-large caucuses on the Vegas Rachel McLaughlin is a Trinity senior. Her column runs strip. Nevada’s Culinary Union Local 226, which ever other Wednesday.

skipped school last week and flew to Vegas.

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am a second-semester senior. At times, I’ve both loved and hated Duke (and mostly tolerated Durham). I’ve been through three and a halfyears at Duke. I’ve seen things we’ve done well, and I know where we need to improve. President Richard Brodhead has just been reinstated for another four years. My columns this semester will be an attempt to help set the agenda.

Duke must invest its resources in emerging technology fields. Itis nearly impossible for Duke to overtake established schools in established fields. Older schools like Harvard and MIT enjoy an insurmountable brand advantage in “traditional” fields like political science and elecadam zell trical engineering. However, if Duke reflective solutions acts soon, we can be a leader in the fields that will define our future.

Idle curiosity over Winter Break led me to a book that transformed my perspective on the future. “The Singularity Is Near” by Ray Kurzweil predicts how three technological revolutions will fundamentally change humanity at an accelerating rate over the next 40 years. These technologies are genetics, nanotechnology and robotics. They offer unprecedented benefits and pose an unprecedented existential threat To explain simply; genetics, the manipulation of genetic code, offers personalized drugs and organs as well as custom-designed biological weapons. Nanotechnology, controlling matter at the atomic scale, makes both superconductors and malevolent nanoscale robots probable. Robotics, working towards greater artificial intelligence and mind-machine interfacing, could offer a work-free paradise or a Terminator-like dystopia.

Part of these technologies’ immense power comes from their ability to harness self-replication. A small colony of genetically engineered bacteria dropped on an oil spill can grow to clean it all up. Like a superior immune system, a few nanobots circling in the bloodstream can multiply upon spotting a cancerous growth and destroy it Extraterrestrial resources could be harvested cheaply bylaunching a robot that could copy itself. But thisvery strength poses an existential threat to humanity, because of the potential for exponential growth to get out of control.

Because of this danger, the science of these fields cannot be studied separately from the public policy.

In “Engines of Creation,” the fatherof nanotechnology, Eric Drexler, describes one doomsday scenario involving “enhanced” bacteria.

These “super-bacteria” could out-compete natural bacteria, carving a path of devastation across the planet And thisdisaster would not work indirectly through some planet-wide food web; depending on the extent of genetic engineering, the bacteria, replicating at exponential rates, could actually devour most life on Earth within a month.

So how doesDuke fit into this equation? Right now, Duke has the opportunity to own the intellectual marketplace in two ofthese three critical fields. There is a closing window of opportunity for Duke to become the number one “brand” in genetics and nanotechnology.

In genetics, we already have a significant lead with a great graduate program and the Institute for GenomeSciences and Policy. We are also doing excellent research in nanotechnology, with Associate Professor of Chemistry Jie Liu pioneering commercially important manufacturing processes for nanotubes.

Unfortunately, while we do have some outstanding research in robotics as well, Duke will simply never have a better robotics “brand” than Carnegie Mellon, Stanford or MIT. Therefore, Duke should focus its energy and investment into genetics and nanotechnology.

Duke’s established departments are already busy bickering over the $3O million dollars designated for hiring 40 new faculty members. I recommend that Duke use this money to start two schools of genetics and nanotechnology based on the model of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. There is a vacuum here at the nexus between science and policy, especially in these fields. Like the Nicholas School, the schools of genetics and nanotechnology should many groundbreaking research with credible policy recommendations.

Being first to create fulkpectrum schools, with everything from undergraduate majors to a dean, would give Duke a tremendousfirst-mover advantage in these fields. Many universities, like Cornell and North Carolina State University, currently have programs in genetics and nanotechnology, but they lack undergraduate opportunities, funding and support They are litde more than specialized biology certificates.

By dedicating entire schools to these technologies, Duke would be known as the “go-to” institution for these important fields. When Congress has a question about genetics or nanotechnology, a Duke professor would be the first one asked to testify. Similarly, byallocating funding for these schools, Duke would be able to attract and retain the top talent in these fields.

It is an exciting time in genetics and nanotechnology. Duke has a good chance to own the intellectualmarketplace in both fields. I hope we have the foresight to seize this opportunity. The future is ours to lose.

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