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Two schools, separated by a mere eight miles and a shade of blue. Two schools, together again in the top five of the country. Two schools, their histories intertwined with a /montage of magical moments, intense battles and legendary

performances.

Saturday night, at 9 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium, their fates will once again be inexorably linked, when No. 5 Duke (263, 13-2 in the ACC) hosts No. 1 North Carolina (28-2, 13-2) for

the outright conference regularseason title.

As important as the game is, the schools will keep the proper perspective and honor late North Carolina student body president Eve Carson with a moment of silence before the tip.

It is the first time the season finale between the two will decide the outright ACC crown since 1991, when the Blue Devils upset the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill en route to. the program’s first-ever national title.

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At a vigilThursday night UNC studentsand othermembersof the community watch a slide show celebrating the lifeof seniorEve Carson, who was murderedaround 5 a.m. Wednesday.

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Thousands gathered Thursday night to remember Eve Carson, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior and student body president, who found was dead Wednes-

day morning.

Authorities did not idenCarson’s tify body until Thursday, when the student’s death was announced Eve Carson

Senior Demarcus Nelson will play hisfinal game in CameronIndoorStadium Saturday night

in a press conference to the UNC and Chapel Hill communities.

The 22 year old was the victim of multiple gun shots, at least one of which was to the head. Police believe the shooting took place around 5 a.m. Wednesday in a random act of violence. Carson was found dead at the intersection of Hillcrest Road and Hillcrest Circle later that morning.

Chapel Hill police currently have not named any suspects or made any arrests.

“It’s times like this that test us,” UNC Chancellor James Moeser said at a gathering at Polk Place on UNC’s campus Thursday af-

“Let us be the university that Eve Carson envisioned. Let us show the Carolina Way that she lived, that she talked about.”

At a press conference Thursday at police headquarters, Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran confirmed that a man found Carson’s blue 2005 Toyota Highlander abandoned in downtown Chapel Hill on North Street at 2 p.m. He added that the car is currently being examined for any additional evidence or leads.

Curran said police are also soliciting information regarding

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Thomas Katsouleas, vice provost for information services and professor of electrical engineering and electrophysics at the University of Southern California, will take over as the dean of the Pratt School of Engineering July 1, Provost Peter Lange announced Thursday.

Thomas “President [Richard] Brodhead and Katsouleas I are confident that Tom Katsouleas’ considerable leadership experience at an engineering school that has risen into the top 10 in SEE PRATT

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CNN, Newsday and The Asso* Press in attendance—was a start to the latest episode in the lacrosse saga, which has attracted national press coverage ever since false rape allegations were leveled against three

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AUBURN, Ala. The death of an Auburn University freshman who was found suffering from a gunshot wound several miles from campus is being investigated as a homicide, but school officials advised students Wednesday there was no indication others might be harmed.

Lauren Burk, 18, of Marietta, Ga., was found wounded on Alabama Highway 147 around 9 p.m. Tuesday, and Auburn police said her Honda Civic was found

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engulfed in (lames at the campus about 20 minutes later. She was taken to East Alabama Medical Center, where

she died Tuesday night.

University officials advised students in an e-mail around noon Wednesday that there was “no indication of additional danger to campus or student safety.” But the school said the police presence on campus had been increased.

Auburn Police Capt. Tom Stofer said the death was being investigated as a homicide. There were no immediate arrests.

“We have not named a suspect and are still investigating leads,” Stofer said, adding that officials are remaining tightlipped because of the circumstances of Burk’s death.

“As soon as we know more we might release it, but what information we have now we’re holding it close to our chest,” he said.

He said Gov. Bob Riley’s office is offering a $lO,OOO reward in the case.

Auburn President Jay Gouge, who was out of town Wednesday, released a statement; “We are so saddened by this situation, words simply aren’t adequate. This is a close-knit community that rarely ex-

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OK Go learned a new phrase last night: “Go to hell, Carolina, go to hell.”

Throngs of Krzyzewskiville residents and non-residents alike gathered in the Card Gymnasium parking lot to celebrate the famous blue-on-blue rivalry while rocking out to band OK Go in the first-ever K-ville concert. Throughout the show, students sporadically shouted the rivalry chant in their enthusiasm for the upcoming game.

Dressed up in formal suits while facing a crowd mostly clad in sweat suits, band members praised tenters’ spirits and their ability to brave the K-ville experience.

“Tim [Nordwind] lived in a tent for a month once. It wasn’t pretty,” lead singer Damian Kulash said. “What I’m saying is, we sympathize. You’re f—ing out of your minds.”

The pop-rock band performed for an hour, returning to the stage to play two extra songs in an encore.

Several students said they were eagerly waiting for OK Go to bring out the treadmills to perform the choreography made famous in their “Here It Goes Again” music video.

“They could have imported them from Wilson [Recreation Center],” suggested sophomore Anne Jiao.

Junior Vincent Ling, head of production for Duke University Union’s Major Attractions committee, said the group could not perform on treadmills due to liability issues.

Despite the lack of their endearing dance moves, OK Go rocked out K-ville in a concert rounding out a week of pre-Duke-

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The rock band Ok Go performs in the parking lot adjacent to Cameron Indoor Stadium as students look on during personal checks Thursday night.

Carolina-game festivities. They played hit singles “Here It Goes Again” and “A Million Ways”—the latter performed on a raised platform in the middle of the student crowd.

Student rock band Stella by Starlight opened the concert with a variety of music, throwing in a couple club songs—includ-

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ing “Crank That” by rapper Soulja Boy Tell’em—at the end of their performance.

Returning for an encore, the four members of the headliner band donned suit jackets that lighted up graphic letters on their backs to spell “OK Go.” “It added a pretty quirky touch to the show,” Ling said.

Kulash kept with the lively tone by climbing onto mega-speakers, and at one point he leaned out into the audience from the stage and supported himself with sophomore Adam Barron’s hand, threatening to crowd surf.

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1993 -We Work Hard, We Play Hard "My point is that, rather than abolish the greek system, we need to continue to encourage a plethora of groupings whereby our students might experience more ownership and control of their lives on campus...." —William Willimon 2000 Old Duke, New Duke "I believe that we need more -

selective housing, rather than less.

Fraternities can be complimented by more competition.... We have a major need for social and meeting space that is affordable and accessible to students." —Willimon 2003 Women's Initiative "Students rarely go on formal dates but instead attend parties in large groups, followed by 'hook-ups'—un-

planned sexual encounters typically fueled by alcohol." —Nan Keohane 2007 Report of the Campus Cul-

ture Initiative Steering Committee "... much weekend social life at Duke is organized around getting drunk, an activity that is alluring for many

students, but ultimately unsatisfying."

—Bob Thompson and Larry Moneta

Interim Report on the Undergraduate Experience at Duke University "It needs to be acknowledged that a potential downside of increasing the number of such living units is the possible interpretation of an institutional message that students need to develop a group identity, whether or not they are inclined or ready to do so." —Peter Lange 2007

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About a year ago, the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee released a report with findings and suggestions for improving student life.

The 36-page document targeted six key areas for change, with specific recommendations ranging from disbanding selective living sections to raising admissions standards.

A year later and after numerous meetings with students and another two administrative reports, however, few policy changes have resulted from the controversial document. And a look back into the University’s archives shows a history of similar reports over the decades, raising questions about whether any progress has been made on several recurring issues of campus life.

“Many if not all of the recommendations made in the CCI have probably been made before,” said Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek, Trinity ’76 and Grad ’7B, who has held her position for 27 years. “Some of them were made to a greater extreme with the CCI [report], but there’s a fairly significant relationship or commonality to past reports.”

What sets the CCI report apart?

In the 1992' Founder’s Day Speech, Reynolds Price, Trinity ’55 and a James B. Duke professor of English, described the lack of intellectualism he perceived among students and encouraged an overhaul of policies and practices, including the elimination of greek life.

Price’s speech incited an intent search into Duke’s campus culture that culminated in “Work Hard, Play Hard,” a comprehensive report written by former dean of the Chapel William Willimon in 1993.

Seven years later, Willimon penned “Old Duke, New Duke,” which echoes a number of the same themes from his earlier report, especially alcohol prevalence and studentfaculty interaction.

The first Willimon report describes the student apathy Price cited in his speech,

Provost Peter Lange, who wrote the September 2007 Interim Report on Undergraduate Education, said similar reports in the past focused more on negative aspects of the campus. and suggests improvement in residential life, greek life and alcohol policy.

Last year’s CGI report addresses similar themes and also characterizes Duke’s social scene as more destructive than constructive to its community.

“The [Steering] Committee came to better understand problems that exist ranging from simple acts of uncivil speech and intolerance to what some have called a ‘culture ofexcess’—and it worked to identify points of progress thatcould help Duke achieve its institutional aspirations,” the report reads.

But Wasiolek said the CCI report’s much —

more comprehensive nature sets it apart from past documents on campus culture.

“The other [reports] were more singularly focused. I can’t recall one that tried to bring all of those [campus issues] together and spoke specifically to race and to gender,” she said.

Provost Peter Lange, who wrote the September 2007 Interim Report on Undergraduate Education as a follow-up to the CGI, said past reports focused more on the negative elements of campus life, whereas current discussions highlight SEE CCI ON PAGE 10

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see few changes Alcohol to policy likely New major, Alcoholoffice director to offerconsultation in Fall certificate approved A&S COUNCIL

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In freshman Catherine Castillo’s opinion, Duke’s alcohol policy isn’t so strict.

“I’ve never felt I was going to get caught unless I was outside and the cops were right there,” she said. “Once at a party, there were undergrads drinking and the cops just came and told us to turn the music off.

[They] didn’t check IDs or anything.”

Although the Sunday-morning Solo cups littering campus may indicate a relaxed attitude toward alcohol regulations, University policy seems to be on par with peer institutions, and administrators said they did not expect the recent appointment of an alcohol coordinator to bring much change.

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said Tom Szigethy, current director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drugs Education and Services at the University of Connecticut, was appointed earlier this semester to the newly created position of director of alcohol and substance abuse prevention.

Szigethy, who will start in Fall 2008, will serve as a drug and alcohol consultant to anyone on campus and also maintain the

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The pool of available academic opportunities at Duke just got a little

bigger.

The Arts and Sciences Council approved a Slavic and Eurasian Studies major and an Energy and the Environment certificate at its meeting

Thursday.

The new major includes both a language and a history component, and study abroad will be emphasized.

Students will be expected to develop a strong understanding of the complex geopolitical situation in Eurasia and working proficiency in a Slavic or Eurasian language, said Jody McAuliffe, chair of the Curriculum Committee.

“This proposal fits deeply into the University’s focus on internationalism,” said McAuliffe, who is also an associate professor of the practice of drama and Slavic languages and literatures.

She added that the Department of SEE A&S COUNCIL ON PAGE 20

University’s alcohol-and-drug-related data, Wasiolek added.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said Duke has taken recommendations from Philip Cook, author of “Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits ofAlcohol PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KEVIN HWANG/THE CHRONICLE

Many students say they agree with the current alcohol policy's standardsand do not see any reason for change.

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The tradition has continued throughout the school year, with attendance typically comprising between 80 and 300 people, Maurides said.

Students who attend the midweek event said the environment at Shooters is more conducive to conversation and “just hanging out” than it is on the weekends.

“It’s in the middle of the week so we don’t expect everyone to get sloshed on Wednesday,” Maurides added. “But that’s what’s great about Wednesday. You have four people and you have a game ofbeer pong.”

Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki met with Campus Council members Thursday night to present the Board of Trustees’ master plan for Central Campus for discussion.

The set of tentative plans aims to integrate Central with East and West campuses into a unified campus through south to west construction, Nowicki said.

“I am using the Campus Council as a venue for conversation with students,” he said. “My main interest is to think about how to start getting students involved and engaged in this for the rest of the year.”

Although current undergraduates will not be around to see the opening of the new Central’s first building in 2011, Nowicki said the Board will strongly encourage student input in design and ideas for facilities. By the end of this semester, the administration wants to have ideas and some structure in place, he added.

“Duke students tend to be people who want to make a difference, especially for future students,” he said. “We also want this vision to propel [student] momentum to make changes now.”

Current plans for construction include

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Party-planning businesses, such as Spartan Entertainment, have enhanced Wendnesday nightlife at Shooters by bringing beer pong to theclub.

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Zachary Maurides, Trinity ’O7 and sophomore Steven Galanis fulfilled a vision: to redefine Wednesday nights and provide a non-greek, non-exclusive social outlet unaffiliated with the University.

“Both of us are involved in frats,” Galanis said. “And there would always he frats [that didn’t like each other] and guys that weren’t in frats that didn’tfeel comfortable going [to greek parties].”

Spartan Entertainment, like Kampus Entertainment Group, Inc., is indepen-

dent of the University but caters to many student groups.

Both organizations have connections with local venues and are working to enhance the social atmosphere for students—while making profits from the events they coordinate.

Last summer, Spartan Entertainment sought to improve the Wednesday nightlife experience by bringing beer pong, the classic college pastime, to Shooters.

“We wanted to reinvent what Shooters is on Wednesday nights,” Maurides said. “Lights on, sports on TV. We wanted to deliver value to beer. We’re taking what’s going on off campus and centralizing it at Shooters.”

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Students who study abroad the Fall 2008 semester will live on campus the Spring 2009 semester. Where? In newly renovated Few. This will allow for blocking and preferred roommate pairs to live together on-campus. More information will be available at rlhs.studentaffairs.duke.edu as the renovation progresses.

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Adding another branch to the tree of life, researchers at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy and the Duke Lemur Center have mapped the evolutionary family tree of lemurs, researchers announced recently.

Among other uses, the new research

will give scientists a better evolutionary understanding about how lemurs relate to humans.

In the study, the researchers focused on lemurs from Madagascar, a group of primates whose evolutionary relationship with

other primates has been a matter of controversy until recently, Dr. Julie Horvath, a postdoctoral researcher at the IGSP, wrote in an e-mail.

Collaborating with scientists at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Duke researchers performed phylogenetic analysis on the lemurs to map the evolutionary development and origins of a species, DLC Director Anne Yoder said.

“We developed ways to gather large amounts of DNA-sequence data from many different regions of the lemur genome,”

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For some, spring means bikinis and body-image anxiety. But this Spring Break, some professionals will be working at Duke to alleviate such pressures.

The University will host a conference entitled “Shifting Campus Cultures: Addressing Disordered Eating in Changing Academic Climates,” Friday and Saturday in order to shed light on the difficulties some college students face with eating disorders.

The conference, sponsored by the Duke Student Health Center, will “explore the culturalshifts in today’s society and how they have impacted the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders,” according to the registration form. Experts from Duke as well as Wellesley College and the University of Kentucky are slated to speak during the weekend’s events.

“I am looking forward to seeing collaboration to fight back against this illness,” said senior Kathryn Newman, president of ESTEEM, a subgroup of Student Health’s Healthy Devils that focuses on peer education about body-image concerns.

“Halfof the products you see these days are geared toward trying to reduce your size,” she said, adding that students do not always realize that those messages do not necessarily apply to them. “In America we are facing an obesity epidemic, but at Duke we are just not” Newman added thatshe was glad the conference was taking a clinical approach to the problem by gathering experts in the field.

“This is how it is with all other diseases,”

she said The keynote address will be given by Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Donna Lisker, the former head of the Women’s Center who spearheaded the 2003 Women’s Initiative research.

Lisker said her research revealed connections between the college hook-up culture and disordered eating.

“It is easy to get caught in a cycle of thinking ‘if only I was thinner, if only I was more attractive, I would have a boyfriend, not just hook-ups,”’ she said.

She said though Duke is not the only school with incidence of disordered eating, it is a high-risk environment for the problem.

“Duke is a bit of a fishbowl,” she said.

“It is not a campus where you can easily be invisible. People see you and notice what you are wearing, whether or not you have lost weight. Students are on

display.”

She added that in her mind, fighting disordered eating is “part of a larger project” of keeping students from wasting energy focusing on appearance when they could be pursuing other ambitions.

Student health dietician Anna Lutz, Trinity ’99 and a speaker at the event who works with individual cases of disordered eating, said college is a breeding ground for eating issues because of heightened academic and social pressures.

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the whereabouts of Carson’s car between the hours of 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, when roommates said they last saw Carson, and 5 a.m. Wednesday, when police found her body within walking distance of her apartment.

He added that the car did not appear to be stripped, though it is not yet clear if anything is missing. Police are not aware of anything missing from Carson’s apartment, and Curran said the residential area where Carson’s body was found is generally low in crime.

Police received two consecutive calls reporting gunshots from a neighboring street early Wednesday morning, but Curran noted that no calls came from the street where Carson was found. It is not clear how many shots were fired and police declined to comment on how many wounds Carson’s body sustained. A medical examiner has ruled out foul play.

When found, Carson was dressed in a T-shirt, sweatpants and Converse sneakers and did not have a wallet or

keys on her person. Curran said it was not uncommon for the student body president to make late-night trips to her office on campus, adding that it is unlikely that she was leaving to go out or go running at the time.

At this point, investigators said they do not believe there is any connection between Carson’s murder and Tuesday’s homicide ofAuburn University freshman Lauren Burke.

In addition to Moeser’s afternoon speech at Polk Place, the university held an emotional night-time vigil in the Pit Thursday. “[She was] one of the most incredible human beings I’ve ever met,” one student at the vigil said. “She has an incredible energy about her.”

Other students recorded their condolences on large message boards posted on campus.

“Today the sky is Carolina blue,” one person wrote.

Other messages alluded to Carson’s “inspirational” personality and the impact her death has had on the community.

“I never knew her, but I love her,” anothermessage read.

Students on UNC’s campus comforted each other throughout the events and said they hoped to learn from the example Carson set.

“Everyone should know what a great person she was,” said UNC senior Sarah Schuyler, a friend of Carson’s.

The Duke community also extended its condolences Thursday in a written statement issued by President Richard Brodhead.

“The death of a student is always a grievous loss on a campus,” he wrote. “In this case, the loss is particularly senseless and appalling. The hearts of everyone at Duke are with our colleagues at Chapel Hill at this hard time.”

Currently Duke counselors and Student Affairs officials are in touch with UNC administrators to coordinate any assistance Duke can provide, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said.

“Really, sometimes in the face of tragedy, folks do remarkable things,” Moneta said. “This is the best time for the students to work together, acknowledging this at the [Duke-UNC men’s basketball] game.”

Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery, a senior, said students will have an opportunity to honor Carson in a moment of silence at Saturday’s game against the Tar Heels.

In addition, Slattery said he would like to have Duke students sign a banner to send to UNC in memoriam of Carson, though plans for the effort are still tentative.

“The world has lost a young woman unwaveringly committed to making her university and the world around her a better place, and UNC’s students have lost a friend and leader,” Slattery wrote in a letter sent to The Daily Tar Heel Thursday. “We hope that you will find strength in leaning on your community and invite you to find solace in leaning on ours.”

Carson’s parents and brother have been notified and UNC officials have sent a plane to transport them from their home in Athens, Ga., to campus. The pre-medical double major in political science and biology was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and attended UNC on a Morehead scholarship.

The student body president also served on UNC’s board of trustees and participated in a number of civic engagement efforts both in the Triangle and beyond, travelling to Ecuador, Egypt and Ghana for summer volunteer opportunities.

Catherine Butsch, Zachary Tracer and Wenjia Zhang contributed to this story.

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OK GO from page 3 “His hand was firm and warm and manly,” Barron said He added that the band interacted with the audience well and brought high energy to the concert and crowd “They were perfect for K-ville,” be said.

But sophomore Lucius Walker said the band did not appeal to his taste.

“I thought [they] sucked. OK Go is a mediocre band, and they give me too much of an indie-emo vibe,” he said.

Despite his different musical preference, Walker said he thought the concert idea was a great improvement to the usual personal-checks festivities DUU hosts.

“For something that hasn’t been done before, it went really well,” said junior Chamindra Goonewardene, chair of the Major Attractions committee and DUU presidentelect. “It’s something that we’re definitely looking into doing next year.”

The show was the last DUU concert of the year.

“It was a free concert everyone got to enjoy, so it was a really good way to end the year,” Goonewardene said.

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ATTENTION: BONFIRE GUIDELINES March 6, 2008

We want to remind you about safety guidelines for basketball bonfires at Duke. Three years ago, the Durham Fire Marshal revoked permits following a bonfire that, in his view, had gotten out of control. Students and administrators subsequently agreed on the guidelines outlined below which will help ensure everyone’s safety.

The University has requested a City bonfire permit for March 8 (UNC Men at Duke).

The bonfire site is in front of House P. The bonfire must be contained within a 40-foot marked boundary and everyone should remain outside the boundary.

Do not put dorm furniture in the bonfire

Periodically, the bonfire must bum down to a safe height. During “burn downs,” no additional fuel may be added to the bonfire.

Bring beverages in plastic bottles or cans.

Do not sit or stand on building roofs.

Do not add fuel to the fire more than two hours following the game.

The use of any accelerant is prohibited.

Bonfires on any other day or at any other location are not permitted. Students who participate in a bonfire on any other day or at any other location may be subject to prosecution.

Celebrating basketball victories with a bonfire is a Duke tradition. Follow these basic safety rules so we can maintain this tradition for years to come.

Hi. Paul Slattery President Duke Student Government

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CCI from page 4 strengths and outline ways for improvement.

“Rather than just talking about getting rid of something, we talk about enhancing options and alternatives,” he said.

Although the themes of these reports remain similar throughout the years, Wasiolek said the environment they originate from changes over time.

“The process may be very repetitive and similar, but the people involved in it and the culture that’s being examined are very different,” she said.

‘Creative dissatisfaction’ Wasiolek said issues that are pervasive in higher level education are generally reevaluated as part of the natural process of a university’s self-analysis.

University Archivist Tim Pyatt, Trinity this week outlining plans for a revamped ’Bl, said Duke’s relative youth and sense campus, noted that Duke students seem of “creative dissatisfaction” encourage it to to be more critical of their university than other students at other colleges. push for continual improvement.

He noted that students are probstudiesofcampus “I think Duke students are culture and life ably a little too cynical because have been proa little too cynical duced almost evthey haven’t been because they haven’t been listened to in ery decade, and recent history,” sometimes more listened to in recent history.” he said. “I’d like frequently, since Steve Nowicki us to be more the University’s selfinception. dean undergraduate education positively critical—not to “The Universicomplain about ty’s culture is one that doesn’t rest on our laurels,” said Tom things, but talk about how can we change Harkins, associate university archivist for together.” research services.

Making future change Dean of Undergraduate Education The two new reports issued in the past Steve Nowicki, who himself authored “Uniting Old and New,” a report released year were influenced by several findings

of the CCI report and the discussions that followed.

Nowicki’s report provides concrete recommendations for addressing space issues while envisioning the changes to Central Campus. He said, however, that future proposals will aim to address the other issues highlighted in the CCI report.

But some students have noted that the top-down efforts to examine student life and the slow pace of institutional change are reasons to question the efficacy of campus culture reports.

Lange and Nowicki said students must engage in the discussions that follow such reports in order for the policies to be wellinformed and successful.

“IJust thinkthat you can’t change things from orders on high if the students don’t embrace it [or] don’t come up with it,” Nowicki said.

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Then-sophomore DeMarcus Nelson stood near his graduating teammates. But as he sat in the visitor’s locker room after Duke’s 86-70 win over Virginia Wednesday, Duke’s lone senior didn’t quite remember the senior day tradition. “l don’t have a speech yet,” Nelson said, slightly worried.

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29 minutes, and followed his first Duke-UNC home experience with 17 points on 6-of-ll shooting the next year.

But in that game—and in last year’s contest, in which Nelson scored 12 points—North Carolina came out on top, sending the sulking Cameron Crazies back to their dorms rather than Main West quadrangle to burn benches, This time around, Nelson said he has prioritized the Duke win, and the bragging rights and ACC title that can come with it, over personal performances.

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“We have a championship game Saturday, then we have the ACC Tournament playing for a championship, then we have a regional championship and a national championship,” senior captain DeMarcus Nelson said. “This is the time of the year when we can come together and be excited about playing.”

The lone senior on the roster, Nelson is the only Duke player to have beaten North Carolina on the Blue Devils’ home floor. As a freshman in 2005, the wing had a breakout performance against the Tar Heels, scoring 16points in Duke’s 71-70 win.

Since then, however, North Carolinais 2-0 in Cameron, scoring a stunning 83-76 win over the top-ranked Blue Devils in 2006 before coming back last season for a 79-73 victory.

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“The difficulty just comes in that we’re going to play at a little faster pace because of [Lawson’s] speed and quickness,” North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said. “The kids have to get used to that, people have to make adjustments, including him. He’s never come off the bench before.”

The Tar Heels’ winning streak has led them back to the top of the rankings after a six-week hiatus.

“I like it better later in the year because it means you have accomplished something,” Williams said.

“What it says abut our team is we have gotten better defensively, and we have been able to withstand adversity.... I’m proud of the toughness of our team.”

Toughness should be on display on both ends of the court Saturday night. After all, an ACC tide and a potential No. 1 seed hang in the balance. Even simpler, it is Duke and Carolina.

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Sometimes it takes a slap in the face or a punch in the gut to serve as a wakeup calf.

As third-seeded Duke (21-8, 104 in the ACC) begins the ACC Tournament Friday night against Florida State at the Greensboro Coliseum, the BlueDevils can only hope that the sting of their most lopsided defeat in 15 years can provide the spark that the team has been missing—arid perhaps propel Duke to a conference tournament title.

“The players would do good to get ticked off at each other,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I don’t think it’s a ‘Kumbaya—let’s all hold hands’ thing. I think you have to get ticked off.”

And after Sunday’s 31-point loss to the Tar Heels, a game in which McCallie said her team played without pride for stretches, theBlue Devils have plenty to be “ticked off” about. But Duke can use that to its advantage now that it’s the postseason.

The Blue Devils said that one of their most glaring weaknesses has been inconsistent leadership. But Sunday’s game forced Duke’s most experienced players to re-evaluate their contributions on and off the court. “[Leaders] need to step up, take this team up,” said Chante Black, who was named to the All-ACC second team Monday. “[Me], Abby [Waner] and [Wanisha Smith] —we need to make sure we’re doing what we should be doing.... We haven’t been vocal. When we get down in situations, if one of us doesn’t step up, then it goes downhill. All three of us need to step up for us to win this whole thing.

All three.”

The collective play of Black, Waner and Smith will be, integral to the. team’s ad-

vancement through the ACC Tournament.

The Blue Devils have demonstrated a lack of teamwork on offense, resulting in just 15.2 assists per game in contrast to 18.7 turnovers. McCallie said that Duke needs to come together on the offensive end and make the right team plays instead of shooting individual shots.

When the Blue Devils have shown the capacity to move the ball on offense and put up points, it has not always coincided with strong play on the defensive end, making consistency another pressing issue for this young squad. “[lt comes down to] putting it all together/’ said Waner, who earned third-team All-ACC accolades. “I think it’s being able to play a full 40 minutes in every category, every stat, all the intangibles—which we’ve shown, just at various times.”

With the Blue Devils’ postseason slate beginning tonight, however, now is the dme to bring everything together. Duke will face No. 6 seed Florida State (17-12, 7-7), a team they defeated handily during the regular season 70-38. But the Seminoles, just like the Blue Devils, hope to turn the tables in a new season.

Nevertheless, Duke expects to continue playing through Sunday, even if it means putting away No.. 2 seed Maryland and No. 1 seed North Carolina after losing to each team twice this year. The regular season is over, and the Blue Devils are looking to prove that they still belong among the nation’s elite by bringing home some hardware.

“I know we’ve lost more games this season than we have in the past, but that doesn’t mean anything,” Waner said. “We still have championship expectations. The day that we start to lower those, it’s no longer Duke Basketball.”

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When the second-ranked Blue Devils travel to Baltimore, they won’t just be facing one of three teams to beat them last year, Loyola.

And they won’t just be going to the city where they lost the national championship game last May either.

As Duke squares off against the Greyhounds (2-1) Saturday at 2 p.m., it will also mark the first time the Blue Devils (40) face former teammate Collin Finnerty since he transferred to the Maryland college last year.

“It’s weird anytime you play against a transfer,” head coach John Danowski said.

“You see that guy that you were buddies with and hung out at the Bryan Center or hung out at Cameron [with], and all of a sudden he’s wearing another jersey.

It’s going to seem strange, but once that first whistle blows and once the guys get a glimpse of him pre-game, I think that the guys will settle down and just play.”

Finnerty, however, isn’t a typical transfer.

The formerly-indicted redshirt sophomore enrolled at Loyola in the fall after a tumultuous year under the national microscope.

Despite the difficult circumstances, he has fit in well with the No. 13 Greyhounds, starting in all three games and scoring two goals this season.

“I couldn’t imagine what that would be like, to start over fresh like that after building bonds with guys,” attackman Matt Danowski said. “Fie was here for two years and then having to start over fresh, especially

after what he went through—that would be really tough. But he’s a great kid and he’s a special person, so he can handle a situation like that.”

Several of the Duke players talk to Finnerty on a regular basis, and they are happy he found a place to play where he isn’t held to any kind of a double standard.

They know, however, that Finnerty will not be a friend once the game starts.

They also know that he is a dangerous player and that he may have some extra motivation against his old team.

“Until the game’s over, Collin’s just No. 20 on the other team,” senior Brad Ross said. “We’re going to handle him the same way we would cover any good attackman....

I’m sure he’s going to want to put one past us, so we’ll have to tighten up.”

C Aside from containing their former teammate, the Blue Devils will have to stop a team that is not intimidated by Duke, according to John Danowski. The Greyhounds have had previous success against Duke—including their 8-7 victory last year—and have had all week to prepare for this game.

The mentality of concentrating on their opponent as a whole, and not just Finnerty, should also help keep the Blue Devils from getting caught up in the emotions associated with playing against their former teammate.

“Its Duke vs. Loyola. It’s not Duke vs.

Collin Finnerty,” John Danowski said. “Everybody loves him and everybody wants to see him be successful certainly in everything that he does—except hopefully he doesn’t score too many goals against us.”

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Duke (5-0) looks to continue its undefeated season against No. 7 Princeton Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in Princeton, NJ. The Tigers (2-0) have faced only two opponents this season, neither in the top 10, and the Blue Devils are running with the momentum they garnered in their 1413 victory over No. 5 Maryland.

But No. 3 Duke still has some things to work on—namely, ground balls.

“Coming off Maryland, we got killed off the draw,” senior defender Sarah Kirchhofer said. “We need to help each other coming up with them and with ground balls.”

The Terrapins topped Duke 22-7 in draw controls, but the Blue Devils still managed to prevail. Against Princeton, Duke will look to junior Carolyn Davis and freshman defender Emma Hamm, both named national players of the week after Saturday’s win, to step up and take charge.

Davis, also the ACC Player of the Week, scored two goals in the Blue Devils’ 16-14 victory over the Tigers last year, and currently leads the team with 19 goals and 27 points.

“One of Carolyn’s strengths is thatshe’s mentally tough,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Having her in a position of leadership on our offense sets a really nice tone for us.”

Hamm, womenslax.com’s National Rookie of the Week, had three of Duke’s seven draw controls against the Terrapins. With 14 on the season, the freshman’s number is second only to senior Allie Johnson’s 18.

Duke hopes to use its experience against relatively untested Princeton, a team that has only topped No. HJohris Hopkins and Rutgers this season. The Blue Devils’ schedule, on the other hand, has been significantly more challenging.

“Every game this season we’ve gotten better in one area or a couple areas,” Kimel said. “We’re taking one game at a time trying to get better each game.... So far, so good.”

Youth and depth are the other two factors that Duke is depending on to top the Tigers. Three freshmen—Sarah Bullard, ChristieKaestner and Hamm—are among the top Blue Devil scorers, and 13 have recorded points this season. Although Princeton will likely target Davis as the main threat on offense, Duke has planned its counterattack.

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While their men’s basketball teams prepare for a Saturday night showdown in Cameron, Duke and North Carolina will also face off on the diamond this weekend.

The Blue Devils (12-0) and second-ranked Tar Heels (8-1) will open the ACC season with a three-game series, starting today at 3 p.m. at Jack ® Coombs Field.

This rivalry hasn’t been quite VS. competitive as the one on the hardwood, with the Tar Heels winning 14 of the last 15 in Durham and 28 of 32 overall against their FRI-SUN Jack Coombs Field Tobacco Road rivals.

Duke was able to steal one in Chapel Hill a season ago, however, and is trying to build On the momentum of a perfect start to the season. It’s been 12 up, 12 down for the Blue Devils in the non-conference slate, and the squad will look to continue that streak into conference play.

“We’re justreally excited,” head coach Sean McNally said. “We’re excited to come through the non-conference part of this the way we have and just excited to play North Carolina. It’s a great program, and Friday can’t get here soon enough.”

Duke is coming off its most exciting win of the season, as Gabriel Saade’s two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the ninth lifted the Blue Devils past Valparaiso, 5-4.

“We’ve been working very hard, and everything has been preparation to starting the ACCs and being one of the top contenders in the conference this year.

And of course, [Wednesday] was a must win for us because of momentum,” Saade said. “We’re going to battle, we’re going to take two-out-of-three from UNC. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t.”

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Junior midfielder Carolyn Davis is the reigning ACC Player of theWeek. on just one or two people,” Kimel said. “They will probably try to on Carolyn, but we’re making some changes in our offense so it isn’t as predictable.”

Mostly, however, the Blue Devils have focused on internal improvements rather than what the Tigers will bring to the game—especially since they have been on limited display.

“We just have been focusing on ourselves,” junior midfielder Jess Adam said. “We’ll be able to benefit from our experience against higher-caliber teams in terms of our strategy.”

The Tigers enter the game coming off of a 16-8 rout of Rutgers and seeking revenge for their two-goal loss last year.

“They’re always a very well coached team, always disciplined,” Kimel said. “Our game is always a good game, that’s the bottom line—always a close game.”

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MEDIA from page 1 members of the team in the spring of 2006.

A motion filed by the University Friday, however, is now attempting to limit the media’s involvement in the case, taking a cue from the lessons learned two years ago about the potency of public opinion in the justice system.

“There’s a recognition that whatgoes on in the court of public opinion is just as important as what happens in the court of law,” said attorney James Haggerty, an expert in public relations relating to litigation.

Grappling with ethics One of the issues raised in the University’s motion was the plaintiffs’ employment ofBork Communications, a public relations firm specializing in “litigation communication.”

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lic relations and media strategy for high-profile clients such as companies fighting an alleged Microsoft monopoly, former manufacturers of lead paint and lobbyists for federal legal reform in Congress. The firm’s chief, Bob Bork, is

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Society: Ethical tm*t Policy Robert H. Binstock, Ph-D., the 2008

George L. Maddox Lecturer, will address “Our Aging Society: Ethical and Policy Challenges.” As the baby boom cohort begins to join the ranks of old age, our society faces a number of challenges. In about 20 years from now the number of persons eligible for Social Security retirement benefits and Medicare will be double what it is today. What are the economic and political obstacles to assuring continued protection for older persons from the risks of inadequate income and sharply reduced access to health care? Will there be intergenerational political conflict, as some predict? The costs of long-term care, already enormous both for individuals and society, will be far greater in the decades ahead. What should be the division of public and private responsibility for these casts? New high-cost health care technologies and procedures will be developed continuously. Can society afford to pay the bills for older persons to benefit from all of these? Will health care of older persons be rationed? How aggressively should medical treatment be for demented elders?

You are cordially invited to attend a reception immediatelyfollowing the lecture.

This lecture is supported by the George L. Maddox Lectureship Endowment of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development in honor of the distinguished career of George L. Maddox, Jr., Ph.D. For additional information, please contact the Duke Aging Center at 919-660-7500 or email charlene.inatle@duke.edu.

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serving as the publicist in the suit from the 38 players.

“Duke’s motion to keep information about this case out of the media is utterly meritless,” Bork wrote Saturday on www.dukelawsuit.com, a Web site his firm established to update the public regarding the litigation. “We will file our response promptly.”

Bork, however, declined to comment for this story and as of Wednesday afternoon no response or further statement had been posted on the site. A Google News search suggested that Bork has made no public comments since Saturday.

University officials also declined to comment for this story.

Although Bork has said he is simply providing the public with information, legal experts familiar with the case said the involvement of a public relations firm in litigation brings with it its own set of prickly ethical questions. Professor of Law James Coleman said the lacrosse players’ legal team must walk a fine line between informing and prejudicing the public.

The University’s complaint stems from the concern that the use of publicity tactics by Bork Communications, namely the press conference, mediareleases and Web site, will unfairly bias potential jury members deciding the case, law professor Thomas Metzloff said.

“The creation and aggressive promotion of a Web site purporting to be the ‘official source’ ofinformation about the lawsuit, the press conference at the National Press Club, and the above-referenced press release, make clear the Plaintiffs’ intention to ‘use the techniques of modern communication... to win litigation,”’ the motion states.

But Haggerty, chief executive officer of the New York Citybased Public Relations Consulting Group, said public relations firms have the right to disseminate thefacts regarding a case.

“The information only prejudices a jury if it’s untrue,” he said. “Getting the truth out in a responsible manner publicly is almost the opposite of prejudicing the jury.”

In addition, because a very high proportion of lawsuits are settled out of court, public opinion plays a large role in the outcome, Haggerty said.

A trial by media?

Although there are ethical rules ofconduct that govern what lawyers can and cannot say to the media, such laws do not apply for a private public relations firm like Bork Communications, Metzloff said.

The University’s lawyers, however, contend that the PR firm, in working in tandemwith the lacrosse players’ attorneys, should also be regulated in its statements made to the media.

“To the extent that [the lacrosse players’ legal team and the PR firm] are one and the same, I think the court will have the power to control them,” Metzloffsaid. “If not, the First Amendment protects everyone’s right to speak.”

This is not the first time that the appropriateness of statements made to the media by attorneys has been called into question in the lacrosse case.

The North Carolina State Bar found former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong in violation of several rules of professional conduct in making inflammatory pretrial statements to the media in the aftermath of the rape allegations. These violations were among the charges for which he was disbarred this summer.

Law experts, however, said there is a significant difference in standards governing statements made to the press between civil litigation and criminal prosecution.

“We’ve always been more concerned in the criminal cases about... the poisoning of the well of public opinion one way or the other,” Metzloff said.

But in recent years, with the proliferation of alternate news sources like the Internet, it has become increasingly common for certain cases to receive a great deal ofmedia attention, Haggerty said.

“A lawsuit that has some national significance is often announced to the press,” Coleman said. “It’s not completely unusual. I think the concern raised by the University in its motion that they not go beyond... with the goal ofinfluencing and prejudicing a fair trial.”

Coleman and Metzloffcited indictments announced by the Department of Justice as well as Supreme Court cases as examples of cases that generally invite heavy media coverage.

“The reality is that the media will cover these cases, anyway.”

Haggerty said. “It tips the scales ofjustice by saying nothing as it does by saying something.... It becomes trial by media.”

CONFERENCE from page 7 food,” she said. “It’s a coping mechanism.”

Lutz added that her years as a Duke undergraduate as well as her professional work here have led her to believe that the culture ofDuke poses unique stresses.

“As an elite institution, the students who choose to come here often have personalities that put them at risk for eating disorders,” she said. “Inside the Duke walls many ideals and pressures can be heightened.”

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PRATT DEAN from page 1 recent years and his vision for Pratt will serve him and the school well as Pratt continues its momentum and trajectory of excellence,” Lange wrote in an email to the Pratt community Thursday.

Katsouleas said he was surprised by a personal phone call from Brodhead earlier this week notifying him of the University’s decision.

“What excited me about coming to Pratt was just how fertile the engineering school and the University are for moving the engineering school to the very top tier of elite engineering schools at private research universities,” Katsouleas said.

“There’s an excellent faculty already, the students are top notch—as good as any engineering school in the country —and there are outstanding resources outside of Pratt to tap into.”

Upon coming to Duke, Katsouleas said he hopes to implement some ofthe successful programs he began at USC, including a four-plus-one program where engineering students can obtain a master’s degree in one year immediately following four years of undergraduate education.

Lange said Katsouleas’ vision for the school is both “ambitious and far-reaching,” and the USC professor is deeply committed to promoting diversity within the Pratt community.

Katsouleas succeeds former dean Kristina Johnson, who served eight years at Duke before becoming provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University in September.

Robert Clark, Thomas Lord professor of mechanical engineering, has served as Pratt’s interim dean since Johnson’s departure and was a candidate for the post.

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volved 75 candidates, from which five finalists were announced last month. April Brown, chair of the search committee and chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering, said the University was looking for someone who would be a good match for Pratt.

“He brings a tremendous wealth of experience if you look at his background,” she said. “From the provost’s office to the dean’s office, he’s sort of the prototype of the ideal faculty member.”

Lange told The Chronicle that Katsouleas’ vision for the school is innovative and fitting for Duke, adding that the new dean possesses both great personal and leadership qualities.

Senior Leslie Voorhees, executive vice president of the Engineering Student Government, said she was particularly impressed by Katsouleas’ familiarity with the University and his emphasis on students.

“I think he will be a perfect fitfor Pratt,” she said. “I think everything that Pratt wanted he has—clear visions at every level—undergrad, grad, research, faculty. He has enthusiasm, he’s sociable—he’s a great all-around package.”

Voorhees noted that Katsouleas has the highest professor rating by students in USC history, adding that the characteristics of a good teacher will then transfer to characteristics of a good dean.

Since the announcement, Katsouleas said he and his wife have been “basking in the glow of [Duke’s] hospitality.”

“I just couldn’t be more excited to be joining a university and faculty colleagues with the stature of Duke and Pratt,” he said. “I’m really looking forward to serving the entire Pratt community as dean and really looking forward to drawing on all their support to help them achieve their goals as a school and as a university.”

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Dean of Undergraduate EducationSteve Nowicki detailsthe new CentralCampus plans to Campus Council.

NOWICKI from page 6 a visitor’s center, an area for consolidated financial services and more space for the visual and performing arts. Nowicki said the most important goal behind the construction, however, is to promote crossgenerational connections.

“The original plan was to make Central Campus an island you go to when you’re a senior,” he said. “We now want to hold on to all student housing stock without displacing [students].”

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, said the plan must fit the needs of students in the future by being responsive to potential

needs a decade or two down the road.

“We have made a commitment to renovate our campus,” Hull said. “We now need to have flexibility [in construction] for 50 years from now.”

Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a senior, suggested this flexibility should factor into the potentially high cost of living on the new campus.

“Cost should not be a factor in students’ decisions ofwhere to live,” Nowicki said. ‘We do not want to create a high-priced neighborhood and a low-priced neighborhood.”

Campus Council and the Board hope to generate student momentum this semester in town hall-style meetings, he added.

“When fall semester comes, I want to hit the ground running,” Nowicki said.

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PARTY PLANNERS from page 6 Since the summer, Spartan Entertainment has proto throwing large parties that are open to the public. So far, the group has thrown the Break Your Resolutions Party 2008, First Tailgate Party 2008, Super Bowl Tailgate Party, Beerfest and Spring Fling.

Maurides said the Super Bowl Tailgate party broke Shooters’ attendance record, with 1,400 attendees.

Recently, Spartan Entertainment has teamed up with Hoof ‘n’ Horn and has devised the idea of “Grease Week” to help increase attendance at Hoof‘n’ Horn’s upcoming performance of the musical. Throughout “Grease Week,” Hoof ‘n’ Horn Vice President Jared Blau, a sophomore, said the group plans to publicize its shows with free giveaways and a screening of the movie version of “Grease,” as well as with a tailgate before the final show. The group is working with Spartan Entertainment to throw a party at Shooters after the last performance.

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Entertainment’s profits from theirFeb. 20 beer pong event was donated to the Duke Annual Fund.

KEG, on the other hand, typically helps student groups plan their events, instead of hosting their own,- a task that entails finding cost-effective, deals and providing security. “[KEG] confirms sponsors for the party and provides the down payment,” said junior Christen Tingley, co-director of Students to Unite Duke, the social organization of the Center for Race Relations. STUD held a party last weekend at George’s Garage organized by KEG. “We didn’t have to pay anything for the party,” she said. . Tingley added that KEG assumed all liability and helped advertise for the event.

CJ Broderick, a Duke alumnus who started KEG, declined to be quoted for this story.

Senior Nick Pardo, a DJ for KEG who typically works once a week for the group, said his experience at KEG has been beneficial to his career.

“Ever since I started working with [KEG), I’ve gotten great business and it’s helped me in my DJ business,” he said. “To get the exposure from KEG has been very good.”

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Cook, ITT/Terry Sanford professor of public policy studies, said he thinks more clarifications can be made and systematic approaches taken toward Duke’s alcohol policy.

“We need to pay more attention to extreme cases where students [binge drink] on alcohol and end up being transported to the emergency room,” Cook said. “In a sense those are the cases with the greatest potential for harm to the students and the University.”

He added that regular reports on all aspects of drinking will help the school develop more effective policies.

But Moneta said he did not think changes to University policy would alter student behavior, adding that he did not anticipate revisions in the near future.

“I’ve been doing this for 35 years,” he said. “I’ve never seen a policy be positive or negative. As far as I’m concerned the policy itself is not a substantial inhibitor to social life or substantial contributor to it.”

Some students, like sophomore Stephanie Tepperberg, said they agreed with Moneta and added that experience is the best educator.

“I think that [students’ drinking] can get out of hand sometimes,” Tepperberg said. “I think that it [gets better] with just a sense of maturity. I’ve known people who’ve gone, to the hospital, I’ve known people who’ve gotten hurt from drinking, but I also know that many of them have not done it again.”

Freshman Alberto Lopez noted that the student body should not be subjected to stricter policy because of individual’s actions.

“Since the entire student population isn’t visiting Duke [University Medical Center] every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, it is clearly a sign that a very small minority [of students] don’t know how to control themselves and drink till they can’t feel feelings- anymore,” he said.

Currently, Duke’s, alcohol policy does not charge students with disciplinary action if a student who has been drinking requires medical assistance, placing emphasis on safety and health first. The policy states, however, that the student must meet with a substance abuse specialist in Counseling and Psychological Services.

Guidelines at other schools, such as Emory University’s medical amnesty program, have similar intentions.

In addition, Duke’s other policies on alcohol control and regulation appear to be similar to its peer institutions.

Similar to the University’s party monitor system, Wake Forest University uses compliance regulators to evaluate and control social events, said Kenneth Zick, Wake’s vice president for student life and instructional resources.

Instead of an alcohol coordinator, Zick said Wake has an Alcohol Task Force —which is comprised of students, faculty, administrators and health educators—to look into alcohol-related problems around campus and make recommendations for change.

Although Moneta characterized Duke’s allowance of kegs at school events as a liberal policy, Wake also grants permission for kegs on its campus.

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LEMURS from page 7 David Weisrock, a postdoctoral researcher working with Yoder, wrote in an e-mail. “The differences in DNA sequence between species were then analyzed to generate a phylogenetic tree that resolves the relationships among lemur species.”

Species with more identical sequences are likely to share a common ancestor more recently in the evolutionary line, Horvath said.

“Our study verified that all lemurs descended from a single common ancestor and that the Aye-Aye was the first lemur to diverge from the remaining lemurs,” Horvath added.

This process of phylogenetic analysis has shed light on where a certain primate characteristic falls on the family tree, allowing researchers to determine when a species diverged from other groups.

“Researchers can now confidently say that lemurs are the closest relatives to monkeys, apes and humans,” Yoder said. “Whenever you find a characteristic in lemurs that is shared with monkeys, apes or humans, then you can say that that was characteristic of the ancestral primate.”

Yoder added that if humans have some characteristics that lemurs do not, researchers will know that the characteristic evolved more recently and can go further down the tree to see at what point that characteristic evolved.

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A new Duke study confirms that lemurs are the closest relatives to monkeys. of gathering data from a large genetic sample.

“This is the most comprehensive analysis oflemur phylogeny to date,” Weisrock said. “All previous attempts at using molecular data to resolve lemur relationships was based on just one or a few genes and provided poor resolution or support for relationships.”

These findings will not only prove useful for primatologists involved in evolutionary and genetic analysis, but they also have conservation implications as well.

“We want to identify existing species, which are distinct evolutionary units, because if the forest

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cies, that gives you a lot of political ammunition,” Yoder said.

If there is diminishing genetic variation within a species, it indicates that the species’ numbers are also dwindling, she said.

“Within a few years, and partly because of this research, we will know with as much certainty as we can have, what are the relationships between all living primates,” Yoder said. “We can start tenting down where evolutionary novelties occurred within the primates, and from there you can distinguish what characteristics are absolutely unique to humans.”

After the council endorsed the major, discussion shifted to a joint proposal from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering to create an Energy and Environment certificate.

The program will help students understand energy systems and how they interact with policy, markets, technology and the environment, McAuliffe said.

“This certificate will provide a unique opportunity for a broader set of students... to work together and expand their career options,” she added.

The certificate will place an emphasis on collaboration between non-engineers and engineers to tackle real-world energy problems.

A council member asked if certificatestudents would be given preference to live in the Smart Home.

“No, not directly, but indirectly there is certainly going to be a link,” said Tod Laursen, Pratt’s senior associate

dean for education. “We think there’s an implementation opportunity for the design the students are doing within the Smart Home.... It’s natural to expect an overlap.”

Dean ofTrinity College ofArts and Sciences Robert Thompson expressed his support for the increased collaboration between Trinity and Pratt.

“I couldn’t be any more delighted and hats off to everybody who worked to -take the idea and be able to apply it,” Thompson said.

In other business: John Campbell, associate director of special projects and student financials in the Student InformationServices and Systems Office, demonstrated an updated version of People Soft software, which is the platform for the ACES and STORM academic administration systems for students and faculty, respectively.

Version 9.0 of the software has added features and improves user accessibility and network browsing capabilities. Council members responded enthusiastically to the demonstration and welcomed the potential for the program to ease administrative duties.

The platform is expected to roll out in July.

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And after 8,580 miles, I’ve still managed to live five minutes from a pub called Shooters.

Talk about an ever shrinking modern world.

When the big things ring familiar, you discover that the slighter details—the comical and the irksome almost-imperceptibles—carry the weight of Coliseums. To guide you through this heap of semi-foreign peculiarities, enter my List of Random New Zealand Observations: Entertaining geographically specific news articles: The Dominion Post, Wellington’s gratuitously large daily newspaper, is perfectly legitimate and world savvy. But then a “Children watch as python swallows family dog” feature pops up on the front page and you’re reminded how far from Kansas you are by a slowly digested Toto. The Chronicle might consider taking its news wire from down under, if only to bushwhack the daily stupor of Middle East headlines and sinking Dow graphs (the five-meter python also swallowed the family cat and hamster!).

A land without ALE: In the twilight zone of 18plus drinking age, orientation ’OB is a cheery world of university-sponsored pub crawls; one doubledecker buSj eight pubs and a whole lot of happy hour from 3 to 10 p.m. Crazies on the Quad seems a bit grim in comparison.

John McCain does not exist: I first saw an Obama 'OB poster in a cosy cafe by the NZ coast.

Yes you can, yes you can, says New Zealand. I soon met a Kiwi who asked, “Who are you for, Hillary or Obama?” How exciting, he added, that either way

the soon to be elected president will have to be a black man or a woman.

“But what about John McCain?” I asked “Who’s John McCain?”

The Freshman 15 does not exist: Here’s a tip, obese America: If you want your youth population to be fit and trim, construct your school on a mountain! Then make it exclusively accessible by 15 flights of stairs followed by an interminable hill at a 75 degree angle. Cheers, Victoria University.

No one knows where North Carolina is: I am now Janet from Honolulu.

Rampant illiteracy; I like to read. But I also like to own my novels, magazines and manga so they can age in well-loved dustiness on old-man oak shelves. So you might imagine my brain aneurism after strolling into a local book store and spotting the following: “Into Thin Air,” $27.95; “Let’s Go New Zealand” travel guide, $49.95; “Coffee with Hemingway,” $19.99; “Lord of the Rings” book set, $69.95. I’m surprised New Zealand doesn’t suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous illiteracy rates with such prices, minimal exchange rate included. We Americans take for granted our Barnes and Noble bargain books section, Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” on sale for $4.99. I nearly wept with relief when I unearthed a $9.95 used John Buchan, “The Island of (N0.6 Squeezable) Sheep,” in a dank corner.

The curious rotation of the Earth: Technically, New Zealand is 18 hours in the future. But somewhere in that intricate calculation of coordinates something went terribly, terribly wrong. Because hidden in each and every of the myriad tempting pubs and clubs in town is the spandex-and-jeanjacket boom of ’Bos American pop.

The curious rotation of the Earth, Part 2: I first spotted it in the bustling city throng like a sandy colored parasite clinging to its unsuspecting host: rat tail. Soon I discovered they were a rampant phenomenon—heads of hair trimmed in conscious effort. Worse yet was inflammation of the rat tail, an aberration of nature I call the mullet.

Yes. In New Zealand, the mullet is fashion.

The horror, the horror (Heart of Darkness, $29.95).

Janet Wu is a Trinity juniorandformerfilm editorfor The Chronicle. Her column runs every other Friday.

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lettersto. theeditor Celebrate UNC, Duke connections Many of you have heard news of the tragic death of Eve Carson, the student body president of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We hear the shock and sadness felt by the members of our student body, and as a board, we have extended our condolences to the UNC community through their student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel. We would like to ask all of you to join us in supporting those connected to the UNC community, some of whom are members of our own student body.

On Saturday evening, our basketball team will participate in one of the most storied rivalries in college basketball. We hope you will attend, we hope you will cheer and'we hope you will do so with the energy and passion appropriate for the best event in college sports. We also hope that we as a student body will take the opportunity to celebrate the connections between Duke and UNC in a positive way, particularly in light of the hardship the UNC community is experiencing.

To that end, please join us for a moment of silence at the beginning of the game to honor Carson’s memory, and please keep the members of the UNC community in your thoughts and hearts.

Paul Slattery Trinity ’OB President, DSG

Jordan Giordano

Trinity ’O9 Executive Vice President, DSG Gina Ireland Trinity ’OB VicePresident ofAcademic Affairs, DSG

Lucy McKinstry Trinity ’lO Vice President ofStudent Affairs, DSG

Sunny Kantha Trinity ’O9 Vice President ofAthletics and Campus Services, DSC

Genevieve Cody Trinity ’OB Vice President of Community, DSG Solidarity at the UNC game We are heartbroken at the murder ofUniversity ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson. A “transplant” to North Carolina, I am immensely proud to hold degrees from both Duke University and UNC. I feel privileged to-be associated with institutions that routinely nurture people of Eve’s talent, goodness and potential. Although much of the psychic energy of our communities this week has been focused on the rivalry of our two basketball teams, I propose that the Duke student body make a gesture of solidarity and compassion with UNC on Saturday night by offering polite and respectful applause when each member of the Carolina team is introduced.

Paul PL Chelminski Trinity ’B5 Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC

The gift of reverie

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first read Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s timeless poem “Kubla Khan” in the 11th grade. Well, my teacher read it anyway, and I listened to most ofit. I remember sitting back dumbfounded at the intoxicating stream of words, as one line elegantly flowed into the next with an effortless rhyme just noticeable enough to amaze and just subtle enough to lull you into a trance The young poet in me couldn’t help but think, tom segal “Hot damn, homeboy’s morning wood, part deux got surrious rhythm. I’d give my third testicle to be able to write like that.”

Upon completing the poem, my teacher proceeded to give a 20-minute lecture on Coleridge’s opium addiction and how he had written the entire poem during an opium-induced haze. Naive young Tom sat there astonished. Was this really being taught in my A.P. English class? One thought ran through my head over and over again throughout this lecture: “Must...

Get... Opium...

When the bell rang and we all stood up to leave, our teacher called out to us, “Oh by the way, don’t do opium,” as he giggled his way out of the room.

Coleridge is not the only renowned writer to have been influenced by the drug. Far from it. The canon of English romance prose might as well have been written in an opium den.

Wilkie Collins was so loaded on poppy while creating “The Moonstone” that he claimed to have no memory of writing large portions of the novel. Where did I learn this fun fact?

Why, nowhere else than my English 90 class at Duke University while studying the same book (The Detective in Literature, sweet class).

These writers aren’t the only ones benefiting from the use of drugs in their field. Music is another obvious genre with the same effects. Keith Richards and Ozzy Osbourne have gone platinum more times in their careers than they’ve formulated coherent sentences in the last decade. Jimi Hendrix was known as the greatest electric guitar player of all time, and he used to put LSD in his headband while he performed. I believe it was the great John Lennon who dictated, “Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies.” Lord knows what kind of substance lead to that vision. Even Bach had his fair share of caffeine passing through his system while jamming away on the organ. ”

What would the art of comedy be without drugs? Richard Pryor, Mitch Hedberg and countless others were yacked out of their minds during any given night of stand-up. In fact, when I’m bored, I often YouTube old Bobcat Goldthwait skits and try to guess how many lines he snorted before going out on stage. The median seems to be around 7.

You think Ron Jeremy performs his magic without a little help? Hell no, and he’s the king. I’ll admit that this is more speculation than anything, but come on. I wouldn’t last 30 seconds with Jenna Jameson, and he’s supposed to last more than an hour au natural? If he’s not taking .pills, he must be drinking serious amounts of whiskey.

Charlie Steiner, one of the most beloved sports anchors in television history, was affectionately known as “Charlie Stoner” due to his love for sticky herb. Jean-Michel Basquiat did enough heroin during his artistic peak to kill a small elephant (and, evidently, a neo-expressionist painter). For Christ’s sake, half my high school couldn’t write 500 words without an adderall.

Quite curious it is that these artistes are praised, admired and even studied at centers for higher learning. Quite curious indeed. Call me crazy, hut it sounds juuust a bit like these dudes were on some serious performance enhancers. And yet while they are revered, athletes in the same situation are reviled. How is that fair? You don’t hear Jose Canseco saying, “Man, I was so jacked on steroids in ’BB that I barely remember the last 40 games of the season.”

We criticize the greatest athletes of our time for “tarnishing” their image with performance-enhancing drugs. Floyd Landis, Ben Johnson, Marion Jones, Barry Bonds: time and time again, athletes’ lives have been ruined because of public disgust over their misdeeds. We condemn these people who have dedicated their lives and sacrificed their bodies, endured pain and (let’s not forget) had immense talent to begin with.

I mean, of all the fields for us to criticize performanceenhancing drugs in, why have we chosen athletics? If you take some HGH, you still need to work your ass off to make it worth it. Any shmuck can lock themselves in a room with a handful of mushrooms and come out with art.

We watch hours ofcoverage of steroid accusations, and then flip the channel over to “Family Guy” and laugh hysterically at Seth McFarlane’s random thoughts that were undoubtedly THC-enhanced, and we have no problem doing so. Crazy.

Thank God I had enough PCP to finish this column before my deadline.

Tom Segal is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Friday.

Muffins, Cupcakes and the Easy Way Out

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I gave up dessert for Lent, can I eat a muffin?”

“Muffins aren’t dessert. Cupcakes are, though. They are the dessert analogue of muffins, so I think you’re safe. Then again, if you are eating the muffin as you would a cupcake, one could argue that you are eating dessert. What kind of muffin?”

“Well, I could get a chocolate muffin or a blueberry muffin.”

“I’d stay away from chocolate.

Do they have bran?”

“No, bran is gross anyway.”

“True. I guess a blueberry muffin would be OK. This definitely jordan rice seems like a backdoor around your refrainment from dessert sexual chocolate though. I bet there is religious dogma about this. Maybe a sugarcontent limit?”

Two times in the last 48 hours I have played the role of the neutral judge (read: Jew) in this conversation about Lent. The answer to the muffin question proves to be elusive; I invite anyone in the Divinity School to settle the debate. The doctrine regarding baked goods during Lent, however, is not what is noteworthy about this conversation. Rather, the muffin during Lent debate exemplifies our tendency to avoid sacrifice at all costs.

Similar to Ramadan in Islam and Yom Kippur in Judaism, Lent is about self-discipline through abstention—turning away from sin and toward God. It commemorates Christ’s 40-day fast in the dessert and his denial ofSatan’s temptations. Surely, Christian scripture teaches that Christ ate neither cupcakes nor muffins—not even bran.

The very premise of the muffin question defies logic. The search for a loophole to bypass your sacrifice defeats the purpose of abstaining in the first place. Essentially, those who want that muffin are willing to give something up as long as they do not actually lose anything.

Like the legendary rapper Warren G, we want it all—“money, fast cars, diamond rings, gold chains and champagne; shit, every damn thang.” Unfortunately for us and for Warren G, we can’t have every damn thang that we want. At some point, in order to gain, we have to give.

We can’t slash taxes, increase government spending and miraculously decrease the deficit; we can’t save fossil fuels if we roll H2s. In essence, there will be no fulfillment of our desires without some sort ofreal sacrifice on our end.

Yet we staunchly refuse to break our routine or relinquish any part of what we now have. We dodge taking on real responsibility, and to compensate, we play make-believe. We meekly support, without furthering, the causes that we “champion.” We put forth minimal effort for the delusion of a clean conscience.

Those who want to save the environment merely wear a green shirt in Cameron, and those who want to be “patriots” simply pin an American flag on their lapel.

The path of least resistance leads to nowhere. Today, and throughout history, we have been urged to arise from our lethargy. Currently, Barack Obama has revived John F. Kennedy’s imploration to “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

To some, this talk of action and sacrifice for the betterment of society is simply rampant optimism and meaningless rhetoric. As for the accusation of optimism: my previous columns have dealt with subjects like a nation-wide state of depression and the ever more rapid approach of death. I am no optimist.

The notion that sacrifice begets gain is far from meaningless talk; it is straightforward logic. Simply put, change comes not with passive gestures but substantive acts—no loopholes, no shortcuts, and definitely no desserts thinly disguised as muffins.

Jordan Rice

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