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Michael Schoenfeld, Trinity ’B4 and vice chancellor for public affairs at Vanderbilt University, will sign on as Duke’s vice president for public affairs and government relations July 1, President Richard Brodhead announced Monday.

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Rapper Lupe Fiasco (left) pulled out ofhisLDOC commitment, but the agent for the Roots said the hip-hop band willreplace Fiasco.

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Rapper Lupe Fiasco will not be a part of this year’s Last Day of Classes celebration, LDOC Committee officials confirmed

Monday.

The committee has received verbal confirmations from the Grammy Award-wining hip-hop band the Roots that they will perform at LDOC and from Fiasco that he will perform at Duke in the Fall, said LDOC Committee co-chairs Chamin-

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Ling, both juniors.

Fiasco’s agent rescheduled his visit to Duke last week to allow Fiasco to tour with rapper Kanye West during the same time frame as LDOC. Ling noted that they requested that Fiasco fly to Durham just for the show and then return to the tour, but his agent said it was not possible.

Fiasco’s agent, however, presented the LDOC Committee with

A representative from the William Morris Agency also told The Chronicle Monday that the Roots “appear” to be scheduled to come to Duke April 23.

“This is a blessing in disguise,” Ling said. “We wouldn’t have been able to afford [alternative rock band Third Eye Blind and the Roots] before.... Now, for a really great price, we can get the Roots [for LDOC] and a verbal confirmation that Lupe will come

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Three finalists chosen for gradYoung Trustee Shuchi Parikh THE CHRONICLE

Three finalists have been selected for the graduate and professional student Young Trustee position, screening committee members announced Monday.

Sara Becker, a fifth-year clinical psychology student, Audrey Ellerbee, a Fall 2007 graduate in biomedical engineering and Xing Zong, a fifth-year physics student, were chosen from a pool offive semifmalists after an application and interview process.

Graduate and Professional Student Council representatives will convene Feb. 26 to choose a Young Trustee.

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breadth of experience to this critical position,” Brodhead Schoenfeld said in a statement.

“His colleagues at Vanderbilt and elsewhere praise his good humor and ability to bring people together, and his intelligence and strategic sense are immediately obvious.”

He will succeed John Burness, who has served as senior vice president for government affairs and public relations since 1991.

“He’s very, very talented, very savvy, [great] with new technology and he also understands the values of the University,” Burness said of Schoenfeld. “It’s a wonderful appointment.”

Schoenfeld was chosen by a 12-member committee of fac-

ulty members, trustees, administrators and alumni chaired

by Gregory Jones, dean of the Divinity School. Jones said the committee worked with consultants and conducted a nationwide search for candidates from a diverse set of backgrounds for the position.

“As [they] moved through the process, it became apparent that Mike Schoenfeld had a remarkable set of skills, experience, judgment and strategic vision that suited him extremely well for the job,” he wrote in an e-mail. “The search committee enthusiastically recommended his appointment to President Brodhead.”

Brodhead also lauded Schoenfeld’s experience in new media, noting that Schoenfeld helped shape one of the most effective communications programs in the country and that his technological advances opened possibilities to reach people worldwide.

“I have been a fan, an early adopter of and very interested in both the strategy and the tactics of new media,” Schoenfeld said. “I get very antsy if we’re not on the leading edge, if not the bleeding edge—the power [of technology] is just tremendous.

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A feud between two high school students that began off campus culminated at a gym class Monday when one student shot the other twice, then handed the gun to a coach, saying,"lt's over now,"authorities said.

The victim, a 19-year-old senior, was in critical condition at a hospital, authorities said. The suspected shooter, 17-year-old sophomore Corneilous Cheers, was charged with attempted first-degree murder, reckless endangerment and carrying a gun on school property, said police spokesperson Monique Martin.

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N.Ccoal plants may not be built RALEIGH, N.C. Duke Energy Corp. chief executive Jim Rogers said Monday that his company won't build any more coal-fired power generators unless they have the potential to capture and sequester carbon emissions.

That means no additional coal-fired plants for the foreseeable future in North Carolina

ZURICH, Switzerland Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into the E.G.Buehrle private museum of Impressionist works, just before closing time.

After a quick run through the building, they hustled out the door and sped off with paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet valued at $163.2 million.

BUSINESS Starbucks offers new AT&T wi-fi SEATTLE Starbucks Corp. and AT&T Inc. will start offering a mix offree and paid wireless Internet service in most of the international coffee retailer's U.S. shops, beginning this spring. The move announced Monday ends a six-yearpartnership with T-Mobile.

Starbucks said it will give customers who use a Starbucks card two hours offree wireless access per day. More time than that will cost $3.99 for a two-hour session. Monthly memberships will cost $ 19.99 and include access to any of AT&T's 70,000 hot spots worldwide.

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ENTERTAINMENT Jackson re-releases'Thriller' NEW YORK Michael Jackson appeared in a video to thank fans for the success of "Thriller,"the landmark record the reclusive singer is marking with a 25th anniversary edition.

Jackson will release the new version of the blockbuster album Tuesday, featuring new collaborations with Kanye West, Akon, Fergie and william.

"It's hard to believe that 25 years ago Quincy Jones and I embarked on an album named 'Thriller,'"Jackson said in a video message to fans released Monday by his record company, Sony-BMG. It was not immediately clear exactly when Jackson had made the video, or where it was recorded. He also hinted that he's not through recording music.

"There is still much to come for Michael Jackson," he said. "My passion for music has never stopped.... It's my hope that Thriller' continues to live on for each new generation to discover."

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WASHINGTON Mailing a letter will soon cost a penny more.

The cost of a first-class stamp will rise to 42 cents starting May 12, the U.S. Postal Service said Monday.

The price of the Forever stamp will go up at the same time, meaning those stamps can still be purchased for 41 cents but will remain good for first-class postage after the rate increase takes effect.

The post office has sold five billion Forever stamps since they were introduced last April and plans to have an additional five billion in stock to meet the expected demand before the May price change, the agency said.

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Now students have the opportunity to find common ground—not once but twice a year.

Due to increased student demand, the Center for Race Relations executive members decided to replicate the Common Ground retreat in the spring semester, said copresident Kathy Choi, a junior.

The CRR’s most popular retreat, Common Ground celebrated its fifth anniversary during fall break of last semester, according to the CRR’s website.

Co-director Kim Cocce, a junior, estimated that 80 to 90 students applied for approximately 50 spots for the

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Choi said getting a spot for the fall retreat was even more competitive. She added that students were riotified of their admission status for the spring retreat yesterday. “[We] thought [having a second retreat] would be a great opportunity to double the impact Common Ground has on campus eyery year,” Choi said.

Cocce said a Common Ground in the spring has been in the works since this years’ fall retreat.

“It’s something that’s been played around with for a while,” she said. “We got the final push to do it last semester.”

Cocce added that the administration was receptive of the idea because it is in line with the goals of the Campus Culture Initiative.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said he did not hesitate when the programs’ directors approached him for funding for a second retreat.

“Time after time I’ve heard from Common Ground participants that it has been one of the most inspirational and uplifting experiences of their time at Duke. I’m happy to be able to fund the [spring] event,” Moneta said.

He added that funding for the spring retreat will come from the student affairs budget but will eventually become a part of the Multicultural Center’s annual allocation. “[That’s] fifty more people who are inspired,” Moneta said. “It’s amazing what a hundred students who have been through Common Ground can do to help

Associate dean to leave for post at Ohio University Associate Dean of Students Ryan Lombardi was named Monday as Ohio University’s new associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students.Lombardi said the professional opportunity was what drew him to the position, as one of his career goals has been to be a dean of students.

Kara Lombardi, senior associate director of Duke’s Career Development Center and Lombardi’s wife, will also be leaving the school.

“It was a very difficult decision for us to leave Duke we met here, we were married here—but this is a great professional opportunity for me,” Ryan Lombardi said.

Headded that his plan ofaction as OU’s dean ofstudents is not yet set, but he will draw on his experience at Duke.

“I will try to emulate some of the positives I have seen here at Duke and implement some of the things our dean of students does in working closely with students,” he said.

Lombardi will begin work at OU in May.

Center for Race Relations leaders decided to replicate the the Common Ground retreat for the spring semester. transform the campus.”

The second Common Ground replaces the.Cßß’s Beneath the Blue Retreat, which did not receive as positive feedback as Common Ground, Cocce said.

[We] decided that if we were going to do a retreat, the model ofCommon Ground is so powerful.... [We] thought it was a better idea in terms of providing the best kinds of programming,” Choi said.

Sophomore Sophia Davis has already been on Common Ground twice—in 2006 as a participant and in 2007 as a “

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Third Democrat enters Durham district attorney race The Durham County district attorney race may see an influx of candidates in the near future. Assistant District Attorney Tracey Cline will declare her candidacy in a press conference at the Durham County Courthouse today.

In a statement Sunday, Cline said she planned to “serve as both a fair prosecutor and undying force in Durham.”

Tab Hunter, a Durham resident and former assistant prosecutor who is currently working for the N.C. Utilities Commission in Raleigh, told The Herald-Sun Friday that there was a strong possibility he would also announce his candidacy as early as Monday.

Cline is the third Democrat to enter the race. Other Democrats who are running include current Assistant District Attorney Mitchell Garrelland former assistant district attorney Freda Black.

Primary rules require the winner of the party’s nomination to gain at least 40 percent of the vote. The large number of candidates this year may make it difficult for any one candidate to obtain the votes needed. If no candidate gamers the required amount, a runoff will be held. No Republicans have yet entered the race.

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Focus group gears up for trip to Saudi Arabia

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Students in the Muslim Cultures Focus group prepared Monday night for a trip to Saudi Arabia.Six freshmenand three sophomores will leave Thursday to travel around the country and attend the JeddahEconomic Forum.

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Students in the Muslim Cultures Focus group will make history this Valentine’s Day. In the first exchange program of its kind, nine Focus students—six freshmen and three sophomores—plan to depart for Saudi Arabia Thursday. The students will travel around the country for a week prior to attending the Jeddah Economic Forum for an additional week as part of their Focus learning experience. The trip will be paid for by corporate sponsors and previous fundraising.

The conference, created in 1999, serves as a think tank for economic policy in the Middle East. Its featured speakers will include Prince Charles of Great Britain, former chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Eleven students from several Saudi

Arabian colleges arrived on Duke’s camvisit cities on a list preapproved by the pus Thursday as part of the exchange University and will partake in activiprogram. The students have spent ties planned by Effat College, a Saudi the last week visiting local businesses women’s college. The Focus students and research institutions and enjoywill be accompanied by a senior, two students from ing elements of Duke’s culture. the Nicholas The Saudi stuSchool of the “In certain cities, we should dents will then Environment have the veil around our neck and Earth Scireturn to their ences, with the Bruce country or just have it handy.”

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Students said they were anxious and exprogram between a U.S. university and Saudi Arabian colleges,” said Kelly Jarcited about the experience. rett, program director of the Duke Is“I’m not sure what to expect about lamic Studies Center. what the culture is going to be like and She added that students will only how they’re going to respond to us as for-

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eigners,” freshman Yasmina Chergui said She added thatshe is aware of the strict discrimination by gender and will plan accordingly.

“In certain cities, we should have the veil around our neck or just have it handy,” Chergui said.

Female students must wear an abaya, a loose dark-colored robe, while in Saudi Arabia, in accordance with the laws, Chergui added.

Freshman Catherine Meyer said the Saudi Arabian students who are currently here are not veiled, and she is looking forward to seeing them when they are in their own country.

“The students from Saudi Arabia who are here now and who are going to be with us over there—we’re going to be able to talk to them and share experiences,” she said. “It’ll be interesting to see how they are in their natural environment and how people change.”

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LDOC from page 1 the Roots, which the committee accepted as a suitable replacement. “[The agent] was basically like, ‘We’ll look for an artist for you of similar caliber and similarprice,”’ Ling said. “At the time we were like, ‘Oh no,’ because we weren’t sure if we can get an artist of the similar caliber for the price we got Lupe. Then she offered the Roots to us, for a very very very good price.”

He noted that Fiasco’s agent was able to help negotiate for the Roots to come instead because the two artists are both under WMA The LDOC Committee spent $lOO,OOO in booking all four artists that will appear April 23, Ling said.

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The same agency that represents Lupe Fiasco confirmed Monday that the Roots will replace Fiasco for the Last Day of Classes concert.

Goonewardene said the committee looked into booking the Roots for LDOC last semester but the band’s asking price was out of their budget.

“The Roots are still a ridiculously good band,” he said. “They are an amazing live band and cover the demographic Lupe would have catered to. It’s a valid

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replacement.”

He explained that in the contract they signed with Fiasco, there is a clause that allows the artist to cancel or reschedule the show 60 days before the performance, therefore the change is not a breach of contract.

“I know some students will be disappointed to hear Lupe isn’t coming for LDOC, which is the biggest celebration at Duke,” Ling said. “But we should feel lucky that at least he’ll be coming in the Fall. It’s not required for them to reschedule the show. At least they were courteous enough to offer to reschedule.... The Roots is really better than what we could have expected.

It’s a really great opportunity.”

Ling said the LDOC Committee looked at pursuing other replacement artists from WMA for the celebration and concluded that the Roots were the best option. He added that because of budgetary and time constraints it would have been difficult to start searching for a new artist from scratch.

“We get both Lupe and the Roots,” said Duke University Union President Katelynn Donnelly, a senior. “We get the best of both worlds, except for the graduating seniors—maybe [Fiasco] can come for homecoming.”

She noted that the funding for Fiasco’s Fall show will most likely come from the Union’s Major Attractions committee.

Goonewardene added that they are in discussions with Campus Council for further

funding.

Joe College Day and Endless Summer are two possible times for the show, Ling said.

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Director of Financial Aid Jim Belvin commented on Duke's new financial aid policy for lowincome students as part of a panel discussion entitled "Class Matters: Socioeconomic-Based Recruitment in Higher Education" held in the Bryan Center Monday night.

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A decade ago, Schoenfeld was named Vanderbilt’s first vice chancellor for public affairs, a post for which Burness had recommended him. During Schoenfeld’s tenure, Vanderbilt developed a broader public affairs division with a satellite television broadcast facility and a radio production center and widened its scope ofInternet services. The university also received a number of public affairs honors.

Schoenfeld was formerly senior vice president for policy and public affairs at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C. Schoenfeld said he had not been planning to leave Vanderbilt, but he was eager to return to and work for his alma mater.

“I wasn’t looking for the position, but obviously I knew about it and I have known John Burness for many years—he has been a good friend and a mentor of mine,” Schoenfeld said. “The more time I spent with President Brodhead and the more time I spent with his senior team, the more excited I became.... The opportunity at Duke simply became irresistible.”

He added that he plans to spend a considerable amount of time learning about the University as he makes his transition.

“I have been following Duke as an alum—and as a competitor because I have been at Vanderbilt—but the place has changed a lot since I’ve been there,” he said. “It’s become a better, stronger and more diverse university. The essential part of the Duke experience is still there... [but] I have a lot to learn.”

Schoenfeld said he hopes to build upon

The Student Health Centergave away a wide variety of condoms, lube, and other sex supplies on the West Campus Plaza Monday as part ofSafer Sex Week, sponsored by theStudent Health Center.

Duke’s strengths and work on local, national, on-campus and community issues.

He also plans to work on major public policy issues, including challenges with the federal budget and whatever changes the upcoming presidential election will bring to higher education.

Jones called Schoenfeld’s ties to Duke another “compelling” element of the committee’s search.

Schoenfeld and his wife, Elizabeth Temple Schoenfeld, also Trinity ’B4, married in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens in 1987.

“The University has a very special personal place for us—the whole family looks forward to coming to Durham and to being part of the community and the University community,” he said.

John Bumess, who has served as seniorvice presidentfor government affairs and public relations since 1991,will step downfrom his post at theend of theacademic year.

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discussion facilitator—and will be facilitating again in the spring.

“I really like meeting the people who go on the retreats,” she said. “I end up becoming good friends with 60 new students that I wouldn’t have otherwise.”

Davis added that the impact of having two Common Ground retreats each

year could potentially be valuable to the campus “It is extremely important for diversity immersion training for students on earnpus,” she said. “I think that it gets people to think more about campus culture at Duke and it helps them re-evaulate their thoughts about charged issues [like] race, gender, and sexuality. It helps students have the kinds of conversations they might not normally have on campus.”

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Much of the controversy stems from a small numberof dissenters, said Annie Oakley, founder of the Sex Workers’ Art Show.

SeniorKen Larrey, founder of Duke Students for an Ethical Duke, said he takes offense at the show and that his organization has “gone to considerable efforts to publicize” the issue. DSED posted flyers around campus depicting various Duke administrators and faculty with exotic dancers prior to the event.

He added that one ofhis main concerns was that the University failed to recognize its own hypocrisy in light of the recent lacrosse case.

“First of all, Duke has a rule against strippers being hired by student groups, and that rule was clearly broken while administrators did nothing to enforce it,” Larrey said. “[At other universities], it is controversial because it is a sex show masquerading as an ‘art show.”’

The art show “smashes traditional stereotypes” and seeks to convey “the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives,” according to its Web site.

Oakley said that the show cannot be compared to the lacrosse case, calling the attacks on the event “ludicrous.” She said the performance, now on its sixth tour, has visited other college campuses, including Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas and the University of California at Los Angeles, and has never encountered such controversy.

“It’s a gross mischaracterization of the show to call it a ‘sex show,”’ she said. “Sex workers performing art is completely different than sex workers doing their job.

Sex workers hired by student and feminist organizations to tell their stories is vastly different than a drunk lacrosse team hiring strippers to perform as strippers.”

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said the controversy surrounding the Sex Workers’ Art Show has been “exaggerated” and that only a small portion of the population is currendy engaged in the

discussion.

It’s a subject of conversation among

a handful of people who are uninformed about activities on college campuses and about the role that college-campuses play,” he said. “There are people here who are obsessed with comparing everything at Duke to the lacrosse situation, and that’s just not what most of us are spending our time doing.”

Moneta, who penned a letter to The (Raleigh) News & Observer in response to a critical Feb. 6 opinion column by Ruth Sheehan tided “Duke shows it’s clueless,” said the art show was organized and sponsored by students and the University was simply respecting the right of free speech.

“A university is a place in which controversial activities will often occur, and our commitment to the freedom of expression means that we make sure students can host events that are provocative and that create conversation and exploration,” he said.

The Healthy Devil peer educators group Duke Educational Leaders In Sexual Health was the primary sponsor of the free show, DELISH adviser Lindsey Bickers Bock said. She added that performance also received funding from many different campus organizations, including the University Fund, Women’s Center, Baldwin Scholars Program, Campus Council and the Student Health Center.

All the proper procedures for sponsoring the event were followed and the administration checked relevant state laws prior to the performance, Bickers Bock added.

Junior Martha Bmcato, a member of DELISH, said the controversy surrounding the show only proves how important an event like it is. She spent 11 months fundraising for the art show and was the main student coordinator, she said.

“The media fallout has proven that [sex workers] aren’t viewed as human,” Brucato said. “People are boiling them down to just their acts and it’s taking away their identity.

It takes away their stories and shows how everyone dehumanizes sex workers.”

The show has also caused controversy at the College of William and Mary, where it was performed Feb. 4. Although Gene Nichol, president of William and Mary, said he opposed the show’s content, he added that he would allow it to go on, describing the question as a free-speech issue.

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YOUNG TRUSTEE from page 1 all be questioned at the same time, the process this year will revert back to its traditional format involving separate question-answer sessions, said Gautham Pandiyan, chair of the Young Trustee Screening Committee for GPSC. “Last year, we tried having all three of [the finalists] present at the same time during questions, and we weren’t quite sure we accomplished what we wanted,” said Pandiyan, a fourth-year molecular cancer biology student.

Finalists will each present a speech, and each will then separately participate in a 10-minute question-and-answer session.

Members of the Duke community will then participate in an open discussion, and the process will end with closed deliberation among GPSC members and standing committee representatives to the Board ofTrustees.

Pandiyan said some of the questions asked last year were “unfair,” adding that the reinstated individual sessions improved the selection process.

“If we weren’t having them debate each other there wasn’t any reason to have all three of them present at the same time,” he added.

The Young Trustee will serve a three-year term on the Board, assuming full voting privileges for the final two years.

Becker, who has served as treasurer for GPSC and as a student representative to the Board, wrote in an e-mail that she has been able to build valuable relationships with campus leaders and administrators. She added that she gained her most useful experience for the position as a student coordinator of the Duke Psychology Clinic, which she said gave her a “deep appreciation ofcommon concerns, obstacles and challenges that influence the quality of life ofDuke students.”

As president of GPSC during the 2006-2007 academic year and a former student representative to the Board, Ellerbee said she lias a familiarity with the Board thatwould be helpful to her if elected Young Trustee. “I really love Duke in general as a school,” she added. “I spent five years there and got to learn about it, and it really grew on me as an institution.”

Hailing from China, Zong has been involved in a number of campus organizations to promote Duke’s international presence. He was president of the Duke Chinese Studentsand Scholars Association in 2005 and later co-founded DukeChina. org to build the University’s reputation in China. “IfI were very lucky to become a Young Trustee, my goal would be to make Duke more digital, more visible and more global,” he said.

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WASHINGTON The Pentagon charged six Guantanamo Bay detainees Monday with murder and war crimes for the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Officials sought the death penalty in the unprecedented military tribunal case that has been clouded by revelations the key suspect suffered interrogation tactics that critics call torture.

The son of a Sept. 11 victim said he was relieved by the development and hoped it would bring justice. Critics said the trial would be a sham.

Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, the legal adviser to the tribunal system, announced that 169 charges had been sworn against six men “alleged to be responsible for the planning and execution of the attacks” in 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people.

“These charges allege a long-term, highly sophisticated, organized plan by al-Qaida to attack the United States of America,” Hartmann said at a Pentagon press conference.

Officials said they will seek the death penalty and hope to try all six together. That would make it the first capital trial under the terrorism-era military tribunal system.

Hartmann said the six include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attacks in which hijackers flew planes into buildings in New York and Washington. Another hijacked plane crashed in the fields of western Pennsylvania.

The other five men being charged are: Mohammed al-Qahtani, who officials have labeled the 20th hijacker; Ramzi Binalshibh, said to have been the main intermediary between the hijackers and al-Qaida leaders; Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, known as Ammar al-Baluchi, a nephew and lieutenant of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; al-Baluchi’s assistant, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi; and Waleed bin Attash, a detainee known as Khallad, who investigators say selected and trained some of the 19 hijackers.

Dominic Puopolo, whose mother, Sonia Morales Puopolo, was a passenger aboard one of the downed airliners, said he was relieved but had mixed feelings.

“There’s a feeling that we have to rehash this again and it will be in the media and bring back some very

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painful memories,” he said. “On the other hand, the worst of the worst are going to be held accountable for their actions.”

Asked what impact it will have on the case that Mohammed was subjected to waterboarding by CIA interrogators, Hartmann said it will be up to the tribunal judge to determine what evidence is allowed.

Al-Qahtani also has alleged torture and last fall recanted a confession he said he made after he was beaten, abused and humiliated at Guantanamo. Officials have acknowledged that he was subjected to harsh treatment at the prison authorized by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

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SECOND BEST The Blue Devils remain No. 2 in the latest AP rankings behind unbeaten Memphis and ahead of Kansas, Tennessee and North Carolina.

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The Blue Devils have an offensive threat that is consistently putting up double figures while playing lockdown defense on some of the nation’s best scorers.

And her name is not Abby Waner.

Redshirt junior center Chante Black has been carrying Duke’s offense, averaging a team-high 13.3 points per game while also pulling down a team-best 7.0 rebounds per contest. Add in 63 blocks to —you guessed it—lead the team as well, and it starts to become clear why the Blue Devils’ best offensive strategy this season has been working the ball down low.

After finishing the first undefeated regular season in conference history in 2007, Duke lost reigning National Player of the Year Lindsey Harding and dominant post presence Alison Bales. But the Blue Devils regained Black, who missed the entire year with a right knee injury suffered in the preseason.

The way Black sees it, she is just making up for lost time this year and views her success as a byproduct of the hunger developed from a year on the bench.

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Aside from low passes, not much has been able to slow down Black this year outside of injuries and the double and triple teams she has faced oflate.

Against Wake Forest last Sunday, Black was bombarded any lime she got her hands on the ball. This, however, opened up her teammates for easy looks, and Duke was able to roll to an easy 71-36 victory.

The other obstacle, the injury bug that has plagued Black most of her career, has been kept at bay except for one crucial game.

In Duke’s loss to Maryland Jan. 14—a 2-for-ll performance on what Black called a “rough, rough, rough night”—she suffered a hyperextension of the same knee that caused her to miss all of last season.

Luckily, the injury was not as severe this time around, and she was able to get back on track in the next two games against N.C. State and Georgia Tech, returning to her customary position as the team leader in points, rebounds and blocks.

That last category is the one Black is proudest of—even more than putting points on the board.

“I thrive more off of blocking,” Black said. “I mean, it is funny throwing people’s shots.... It’s even better when you can keep it in play and get a transition bucket. Alison [Bales] was very good about that. That is one thing I learned from

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As a college student who writes for the campus newspaper, there’s a fine line between your experience as a fan and as a journalist. One day you could be criticizing a coach or player; the next day you might be braving cold weather and long lines justfor the chance to cheer them to victory. I speak in hypothetical terms, of course.

Without a press pass in hand, I was drifting into fan land for SaturJINk day’s game against Boston College, which promised to be extra thrilling after Wednesday’s huge win over qreg North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Not wanting to fully relinquish my job as a sometimes-journalist, I decided to keep a running diary of my experience in Cameron for Duke’s come-from-behind victory over the Eagles.

10:00 a.m.: My alarm goes off and I roll out of bed, which isn’t too tough on this particular morning because I called it an early night on Friday after returning from the Southern Extreme Bull Riding Association Finals in Raleigh. For anyone who is still wondering where the rodeo scene from “Borat” could have been filmed, I recommend you check out this event when it rolls into town next year.

10:30 a.m.: I arrive in K-Ville to find a surprisingly short line, barely turning the corner next to Wilson to-

ward the tennis courts. Despite the fact that Coach K’s Blue Devils have risen to No. 2 in the polls and excitement has built on campus around this year’s team, attendance in Cameron hasn’t rebounded a great deal from last year’s levels.

11:00 a.m.: I get my wristband from a lovely female line monitor, who does a wonderful, delicate job in avoiding my arm hair.

11:50 a.m.: I find my spot in Cameron after a little more than an hour waiting outside to get into the game.

I usually aim for the “non-TV” side of the stadium—it helps with the feeling like a “journalist” thing, plus you don’t have to jump up and down—but on this day almost all of those seats have been reserved for purposes other than student use. I would complain, but even with all the seats given away, the undergraduate allotment still isn’t full.

12:05 p.m.: An ABC cameraman and production crew approach the group I’m standing with to ask if one of us would like to wear a microphone during the game to help them with an upcoming segment about the Crazies. I respectfully decline, but a friend I’m standing next to hesitandy agrees.

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Over the last two seasons, Maryland has started sluggishly in the ACC only to rebound late in the year.

Last season, the Terrapins bounced back from a 3-6 conscoutinq the ference start b y waning their last seven Opponent games of the regular season After home losses to American and Ohio in Decemberand an 0-2 conference start this year, Maryland has won six of its last seven game’s to surge into third place in the ACC, just one game behind North Carolina.

The Terrapins’ one loss during that stretch, however, was a 93-84 setback to the first-place Blue Devils Jan. 27.

“Each year you have to figure out what’s best for your team,” Terrapins head coach Gary Williams said in Monday’s media teleconference. “We lost a lot of scoring last year off the team and we had to make up for that, and it’s taken a while to do that.”

Williams cited the maturation of his backcourt and better shot selection as the keys to his team’s offensive development.

The result has been clear, as Maryland has shot better than 50 percent from the field in each of its last five games.

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with the return ofcombo guard Eric Hayes, who has helped relieve the pressure on Greivis Vasquez in the backcourt. Hayes has averaged 6.6 assists per game since coming back to the starting lineup after suffering an ankle injury the first week in January.

Vasquez himself has rebounded from a difficult start to the season. The guard still leads the ACC in turnovers with 100 on the year but has cut down on the miscues during the Terrapins’ winning streak. Vasquez has had more assists than turnovers in each of his last six games, and the sophomore owns an assist-to-turnover ratio of more than two-to-one in that period.

“Experience has something to do with that,” Williams said ofVasquez’s recendy improved play. “This year, there’s been more responsibility on him to play well. There were some games where he was in the learning curve and didn’t play particularly well early and had a lot of turnovers. But he’s learned, like all good players do, and he’s become very efficient with the ball.”

With Vasquez and Hayes running the show, senior post players James Gist and Bambale Osby have become more productive. Gist and Osby were especially destructive against Duke, combining for 46 points and 20 rebounds in the first meeting.

The Terrapins hope that a repeat performance on the interior leads to a different result Wednesday night.

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BEATON from page 9 interview. When my friend doesn’t say exactly what they want to hear, the ABC guys start feeding him lines. My friend obliges. Journalism at its finest.

12:55 p.m.: The Duke team returns to the court for the final time before the game is set to begin. A never-ending stream of suits follows the players, and Coach K arrives about three minutes after the rest of his staff. This wellchoreographed entrance seems to be virtually the same every game, indicative of the type of organization the Duke program is known for. But my real question is: who determines the order in which all the assistant coaches, graduate assistants, strength coaches, managers and others walk out from the tunnel? Did Coach K really sit down one day and map this out?

1:25 p.m With 9:21 to go in the first half, Brian Zoubek returns to action for the Blue Devils for the first time since breaking his foot in practice in earlyjanuary to a huge ovation from the Crazies. .:

1:26 p.m.: With 9:08 to go, Zoubek is whistled for a foul.

1:35 p.m.: After Lance Thomas bricks two free throws, the game is tied at 26. Thirteen minutes into the game, the Blue Devils are 2-for-10 from the charity stripe. Somewhere Clemson’s Oliver Purnell feels Coach K’s pain.

1:55 p.m.: It’s halftime, and Duke is down just one.

More importantly, the Dancing Devils are getting ready to hit the floor for a performance. Before this semester, the Devils had been conspicuously absent from men’s games since the 2006 home game against UNC. For my money, they’re the second best halftime attraction Cameron has to offer, behind only Durham’s own Bouncing Bulldogs.

2:15 p.m.: A DeMarcus Nelson steal leads to a Greg Paulus 3-pointer and the Blue Devils take the lead, 47-46.

When was the last game Nelson didn’t key a second-half run with tenacious backcourt defense?

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Duke’s hands 2:50 p.m.: At the under-four-minute media timeout, I overhear a couple of security guards talking about the improved chemistry this year without Josh Mcßoberts. I couldn’t agree more. Indicative of this, Taylor King is jumping up and down—this guy must do 200 jumping jacks a game—and pumping up the Crazies, even though he didn’t play a minute in the second half. Meanwhile, on Friday, Mcßoberts was promoted back to the NBA from the NBDL’s Idaho Stampede, for whom he averaged less than eight points per game while apparently pouting even more than he did during his time at Duke.

3:00 p.m.: After some curious coaching decisions from Boston College’s A1 Skinner, namely allowing Singler to kill the clock without any pressure from the Eagles’ defense, Duke holds on for the win, 90-80. On the way out of the stadium, I’m handed two bags of brown rice chips, which turn out to be surprisingly satisfying—just like today’s game.

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her, but I am still a player that likes to throw a ball out of bounds.”

In addition to watching Bales swat the third-most shots in NCAA history, Black learned to lead this year’s squad from watching Harding.

“I tried to observe Lindsey Harding and her leadership role because I knew I was going to have to be a leader for this team,” Black said. “I saw the way that she communicated with the team and different ways that she just went about carrying the team and getting us organized.”

Black has also had off-the-court growing experiences that are helping shape her as an on-the-court leader. Her mother took a teaching job in Saudi Arabia in the fall and has been limited to e-mail communication with her only child.

“Most people are attached to their only child, but she grew me up pretty tough and strong-minded, so I have been holding my own,” Black said. “And Duke’s family is so great. [I have] great teammates.”

Black is on track to graduate this spring and plans to enroll in graduate school while playing next year. She is considering working in radiology someday but isn’t quite ready to start that career. “[I want] some career in the WNBA, definitely,” Black said. “I would like to pursue basketball.”

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on hoopla in the media and the blogosphere surrounding the Sex Workers’ Art Show, which came to Duke Feb. 3. See story page 1.

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plaints—if they knew where

voice them—would be heard. Administrators must be more aware ofSAFERides’ problems and more responsive to student needs.

That SAFERides has already boosted service in recent weeks is a good first step, but an effective revamp requires several changes. If they are increasing service, at the bare minimum they must ensure that phones are answered and rides are available for the entire duration of their operating hours. SAFERides should consistently enforce their policies so students know when and where they can be picked up—and “students” should include males and females alike.

Students also need an easy and effective mechanism to give feedback, and although this board lauds a review to

that administrators say is

already under way, the program should have an ongoing internal review program to ensure that any necessary changes are implemented.

Finally, SAFERides must expand their service to operate from off-campus to on-campus as well as in the reverse, allowing students to get home safely at nights.

Student security requires a service that is as safe and dependable as a normal cab service, within a limited area.

This problem will only be more pressing in the next few years as more students live off campus and farther from campus.

It should not have taken a crime wave to provoke a SAFERides overhaul, but we are hopeful that something positive will emerge nonetheless.

Stimulate yourself

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liable way to get back to their dorms from off-campus without walking through potentially dangerous neighborhoods. this board Certainly, would not call for SAFERides from Shooters; we only advocate that the current policy be mirrored in reverse.

It’s time for a comprehensive revamping of SAFERides, and that should begin at the top. Assistant Director ofTransit Peter Murphy’s comment that he had not heard any complaints is as baffling as it is disappointing; it indicates he is out of touch with widespread student concerns.

If campus attitude toward SAFERides seems muted, it is not because students are satisfied. It is because they have long since lost faith in the program and have no confidence that their com-

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like money, you like money, so whatcould be better than the government giving us both money? This week Congress passed, and the president agreed to sign, an economic stimulus plan that will literally put a total of about $lOO billion in the mail to you, me and most other tax-paying Americans.

Now I don’t want what I am about to say to stop anybody else who is interested in giving me money, but before we as Americans take this andrew kindman cash, we need to get up, stand up think very hard about it To briefly summarize the situation, we all like things, and more things are generally preferable to fewer things. In British newspaper The Guardian, President George W. Bush is quoted as saying the bill “puts money into the hands of American consumers,” so you and I can buy more things. The unfortunate bit for the American economy is that, if an $Bl3-billion trade deficit is any indication, the things we buy most likely have been manufactured abroad. Thus, while the goal was to stimulate our economy, we’re actually just sending money across borders and overseas to stimulate other economies.

To be blunt, this plan seems incredibly misguided. Borrowing more money on top of a major deficit, in the midst of a costly war, on the tail of a credit crisis and in the face of an impending recession, all just to give away to consumers, seems just a shade of incompetence away from printing money to hand out on street corners.

It is hard to blame Congress, though. Systemic economic stimulation, such as imposing austerity through legislation, can be a real downer, and who wants to talk like that during an election year? Real stimulus requires shifting both consumption and investment to domestic industry, but that is not always easy on consumer’s wallets and thus not a popular policy. Imagine how difficult it must be to run for re-election as a Democratic congressman on the platform of having stopped the Republican devils from putting $6OO in the pocket of each of your voters.

As much as I would love to believe that we can save the American economy by getting

free money and buying things with it, the deal is too good to be true. Unfortunately, since we can’t rely on Congress to step up with a more realistic economic stimulus plan, the time has come for us to do the stimulation ourselves.

Generously, Congress gave us the only tool we need—capital. $lOO billion is a lot ofmoney, and if we use it correctly and intelligently, we can really turn this boat around. The question is, therefore, when we get our checks, what do we do with them?

This is the sticking point in economic stimulus—it isn’t so much the amount of money we have that will dictate our success, but the way we use it. Stimulation is a state of mind.

Congress was unwilling to pass legislation that drastically incentivized one set of personal fiscal behaviors over another, so it falls on us to look at these checks not as consumers, but as responsible citizens.

First of all, we need to understand that there is no longer anything patriotic about consumerism. You are not more of an American for driving a bigger car, and you do not need another jet ski. If we are going to turn the economic situation around, we are going to have to do it with austerity. That means instead of buying a new television with your rebate check, you leave the money in the bank to create liquidity, making it easier for somebody to get a loan for a house or a small business. Instead of taking an extra vacation, invest in an American company. Or even better, use the cash to pay off debt so your money isn’t tied up in future interest payments.

There are any number of productive ways to use this extra cash, and not to suggest that the president would mislead us, but going out and buying things we don’t need, the majority of which would be foreign-made, is not one of them.

For this economic stimulus package to work, it is going to take a lot of discipline on the part of American consumers. It’s not often that our government entrusts its citizens with this degree of responsibility, and it’s not clear that they meant to do so this time. Nevertheless, when the checks come (and you can bet that it will be before November) it will be in our hands to decide whether the American economy recovers or implodes.

Andrew Kindman is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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bus ride to East has been really pissing me off recently. It’s because of the graffiti. Or, at least, what we refer to as graffiti. In reality, our ‘graffiti’ is just the sad and stunted progeny tager f a guest commentary h „e

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pression. If graffiti is a lion of the urban jungle, our East Campus Bridge graffiti is a domesticated house cat.

We had a chance, a tiny spark of a chance, to turn this all around. I remember the thrill of excitement I felt, walking up to Biddle last month, upon realizing that someone had spray-painted in block letters the words “Are You on Repeat?” onto the brick facade. Actual graffiti!

Some faceless individual had actually put something on the line, had put his/her message in a place where it would actually stand out! This was the differencebetween sleeping late on Senior Ditch Day and hitting the principal with a cream pie during Homecoming. The whole idea of graffiti is to stand in counterpoint to the institutional norm, and this was the first piece of graffiti I’d seen at Duke that was doing just that.

The best graffiti doesn’t have anything to do with what colors you use, or what paint you buy. It’s just a statement, or an image, that makes you think about the way you’re living your life. Banksy, perhaps the most famous graffiti artist of today, explains that“the people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit, which makes their opinion worthless.” In a world where art museums charge five bucks at the door, graffiti is the only art form that can afford to be free, in more than one sense of the word. In modem counterculture circles, it’s called guerrilla art. It’s meant to be unexpected, to come as a surprise, to shockyou. I can’t remember the last time I was shocked by anything on the East Campus Bridge.

I had hoped that would change, when I saw that solitary piece of graffiti boldly staking its claim on Biddle’s grand facade.

I was hoping that this single, simple messagewould inspire at least a couple people to write a response, maybe in spray-paint. I was hoping that students would ask that if the Healthy Devil programs DELISH, ESTEEM, SHARP, PATH and STAR can tell us to examine our lives more closely, that a four-word message on a wall should be able to do the same. I was hoping that the graffiti would at least stay up for a couple months.

I didn’t get any of these things. The graffiti merited a short notice in the Crime Brief section before it was quietly put to sleep. And the crazy-eyed radical in me, the one that perks up at the mention of WTO protests or Zapatista speeches, gave a sigh of disappointment and went back into hiding. Maybe I’m putting too much emphasis on a few words sprayed onto a piece of brick. But then again, that’s kind of what graffiti is all about. In the meantime, I’ll still have the East Campus Bridge, in all its glorious faux-rebellion. Maybe I’ll spray-paint the words “Are You on Repeat?” on it. But then again, it wouldn’t be the same.

James Tager is a Trinity junior.

S.A.D. Singles

Valentine’s Day dinner!”

That was the chirpy subject line of one of my latest e-mails, which implored me to eat dinner with a group of sSas a5 girls who will either be: a) con-

then and now, Valentine’s Day changed from a day full of construction-paper hearts and brimming mailboxes to a day that reminds us of our broken hearts and empty love lives.

It has become Singles Awareness Day. It’s a day when girls with boyfriends traipse around carrying that one single red rose and when guys with girlfriends debate over which restaurant to book for the evening. Meanwhile, everyone else feels uncomfortably aware of their templating eliza french single status. The moping and self-pity why they has are not m come to be associated with the holije m sa js quo! day as much as the exaggerated signs a relationof affection are. Valentine’s Day is now ship this Valentine’s Day or as much about bitterness as it is about love. b) boldly declaring, “I don’t want anyCall it the evil capitalist genius of one right now anyway.”

So the season oflove begins. the greeting card industry at work, but Valentine’s Day comes at the perfect there is nothing wrong with Valentine’s time, when the hangovers of New Year’s Day in spirit. A day to express love, spehave cleared. It’s a sufficiently extravacifically in the form of romantic cards gant holiday to tide mainstream culture and delicious chocolates? Sounds good over until Easter and to give a little boost to me. We all know true love transcends to the lagging economy via romantic presexpression in the material, but I’m all for jt tying. ent purchasing.

Granted, it’s slightly less fabulous In elementary school, Valentine’s Day was one of the best days ever. Everyone when you’re single. Attending an orgadecorated a “mailbox” and received a nized “singles” dinner, reading romancartoon-character-themed valentine from tic wine recommendations in Towerevery other kid in the class. And of course, view or watching your friends go off on someone’s mom always brought in pink the perfect date they have planned with their significant other reminds you of frosted cupcakes.

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your current solitary state. Whether it is a painfully single awareness or a “thank God I’m not wasting my money on flowers that will wilt in a few days on some girl I probably won’t be seeing in a few weeks anyway” ultimately doesn’t matter. You’re in the same position either way—alone. On Valentine’s Day. If you don’t find yourself in this situation this year, good for you! Go buy a card or last-minute gift that will express your deep, genuine affection for your valentine.

If you do find yourself finalizing plans for Singles Awareness Day, think of it this way. Couples go on dates, hold hands, say sweet things to each other and generally canoodle on every other day of the year.

Valentine’s Day is only significant because we’ve been told it is. In reality, you know better.

You can pity yourself every time you see that girl with a rose or that couple out for a romantic evening; you’re entitled.

Or you could reclaim Valentine’s Day as what it used to be. Sure, we’re not seven anymore, and most of us are reasonably sure the opposite sex doesn’t have cooties. But we all still have the right to give Disney Princess valentines to our friends, bake cupcakes with the disgustingly sweet pink frosting and stop being sad.

Eliza French is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

Return of the stripper

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I had known last week’s Sex Workers’ Art Show featured an “anal sparkler show” (set to the tune of “America the Beautiful,” no less), I might have seriously reconsidered my decision to watch the Super Bowl instead.

Ditto for the dominatrix who had the audience chant “faster, faster” in Chinese while she stroked a large strap-on (we’re talking at least 12 inches here, people) and whipped a dog collar-clad “slave” kneeling beside her.

Let me also acknowledge that the stripper who pulled a chain of dollar bills out of her ass while Dolly Parton sang “God Bless the with ali deliberate speed U.S.A.” was probably worth the price of admission all by herself. (Who knew sex workers were so patriotic?)

After all, it’s not every day that Duke students get to watch University-subsidized smut in the Bryan Center. So far as I can tell, the last time a pair of strippers shook their moneymakers on Duke-owned property was March 13, 2006... and I probably don’t need to remind you how that turned out for the lacrosse players in attendance.

Since that fateful night, a combination of University regulations, negative media coverage (anyone remember that baby-oil wresding match?) and widespread fear of 30-year prison sentences appear to have all but eliminated the once-thriving sex trade on campus.

As is my custom, I blame President Richard Brodhead for this sorry state of affairs. This, after all, is the same man who could hardly contain his righteous indignation in the weeks and months after rape allegations were lodged against members of the lacrosse team.

Just days after the scandal broke, Brodhead sent all duke, edu e-mail accounts a message insisting that whether or not sexual violence had occurred at the party, the decision to hire strippers was “irresponsible,” “dishonorable” and indicative of “persistent problems involving the lacrosse team” requiring “substantial corrective action.”

Shortly thereafter, Brodhead went before the Durham Chamber of Commerce to proclaim that although the lacrosse players may not have raped Crystal Mangum —the drug-addled, mentally unstable stripper they’d hired for their party —“whatever they did was bad enough.” Commit-

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were formed. Reports were written. “Standards of behavior” were clarified.

And let’s not forget that seven months later, when nearly all fair-minded observers had long since concluded that the charges were bogus, Brodhead could still be seen insisting that booze and strippers constituted “highly unacceptable conduct” on “60 Minutes.”

OK, OK, Dick, we get that you’re no lap-dance enthusiast. But a little consistency would be nice.

You may recall that University rules currently prohibit strippers from being “invited or paid to perform at events sponsored by individual students, residential living groups, or cohesive units.”

Well, that’s why it was such a shock to discover that officials had allocated $3,500 to pay a troupe of current and former prostitutes, transvestites, phone sex workers and strippers to, well, perform at an event sponsored by students last Sunday.

In fact, the only difference between the Sex Workers’ Art Show and other types of paid-for sexual titillation is that it was the Women’s Center (and several other groups) —and not a bunch of beer-fueled jocks—doing the paying.

Personally, I’m inclined to think this is a step in the right direction: There’s nothing wrong with hiring strippers (so long as you don’t break the law, I suppose), and I don’t have a problem with them visiting our campus. And given the thousands of dollars I’m overcharged in student fees each year, it seems only fitting that some small part of that money go toward pseudo-educational pornography for my enjoyment.

But this episode also represents the most damning evidence yet that Duke officials’ newfound determination to act in loco parentis for undergrads is unworkable.

Consider the rationale advanced by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, who wrote The (Raleigh) News & Observer Feb. 8 to insist that Duke’s decision to host the “art” show “should be perceived as evidence that Duke continues to be a community filled with diverse people and opinions, and one committed to academic freedom and free speech.”

By appointing themselves sole arbiters of decency and morality, Duke officials encourage a culture of regulatory doublethink that is wholly incompatible with the educational mission of this University. They also make themselves look like blithering idiots.

Next time, let’s just say no to this new breed of shameless hypocrisy on our campus. tees

Kristin Butler is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every Tuesday.

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