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President Richard Brodhead named Chris Kennedy as interim athletic director in a statement Monday. Kennedy, senior associate director of athletics, will assume the responsibilities of former Director of Athletics Joe Alieva until a permanent replacement is found.

Brodhead also announced that Roy Bostock, Trinity ’62, will chair the search committee to find the next athletic director. said Kennedy he would not apply for the position but plans on maintaining department standards as the search is conducted.

“In an interim situation, it has to be somebody to keep the ship on course,” Kennedy said. “You don’t want to saddle the person who gets the job permanently with hair-brain schemes that you had or initiatives that might not be what he would choose to do.

“The role is to keep things together, keep things moving forward and beat the snot out of Carolina every time we play them.”

Kennedy has served various roles at Duke for 32 years, including the last eight in his current position. He worked closely with Alieva, handling many dayto-day responsibilities. Kennedy, also an adjunct assistant English professor, was one of the primary authors of the new athletic strategic plan, which will be presented to the Board of Trustees in May. He guided Duke through its NCAA certification twice in the last 10 years.

Kennedy applied for the athletic director position in 1998, when Alieva was appointed. Although he will not apply for the new opening, Kennedy said he will help to further the process in any way he is asked.

“It’s not very different from what I’ve been doing,” Kennedy said of the interim promotion. “I’m in the same suite as [Alieva] and worked with him on pretty much everything going on. There isn’t going to be much of an expansion of re-

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Alieva resigned from his position Friday as he was hired by LSU. He served as Director of Athletics for 10 years.

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Chair of the Duke Endowment Russell Robinson, right, announces a $5O-million gift to the Duke University Medical Center at a ceremony attended by faculty and staff. by

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The Charlotte-based Duke Endowment is giving |5O million—the largest single gift ever received by the Duke University Medical Center—to help construct a medical education facility and a cutting-edge pediatric inpatient facility, President Richard Brodhead and Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and CEO of the Duke University Health System, announced Monday.

“This endowment has financially supported the Medical Center since its very be-

ginning 80 years ago,” said Russell Robinson, chair of the Duke Endowment said at a ceremony Monday morning. “This grant is special also because it represents [James B.] Duke’s wish to serve three particular areas: education, the care ofchildren with special needs and health care.”

Robinson presented the gift to Brodhead and Dzau at a ceremony in the McGovern-Davison Children’s Health Center lobby, in front of Duke Medicine faculty and staff and members of the Duke Endowment’s board of trustees.

“Over eight decades, Duke has been blessed to be partnered with the Duke Endowment,” Dzau said. “The trustees have supported many of our initiatives in research and patient care.”

Of the total gift, $35 million will be used to develop a Duke University School of Medicine Education Center, which will allow medical students and clinical and basic research faculty to interact in a single area.

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Lax plaintiffs respond to media motion by

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The attorneys for 38 unindicted members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team filed a response late Monday afternoon to a motion entered by the city of Durham seeking to limit media involvement in the Feb. 21 lawsuit.

Durham issued its complaint in mid-March on the heels of a similar motionFeb. 29 from Duke. Both complaints contend that representatives for the lacrosse players violated rules of professional and ethical conduct governing what statements attorneys can make to the press.

Specifically, the motions disputed the press conference, which announced the launch of the lawsuit the day it was filed, the press release issued before the filing and the Web site www. dukelawsuit.com, which was billed as the “official source of information” regarding litigation.

The lacrosse players are in the process of suing the University, the city of Durham and others for their alleged misconduct in handling the false rape, allegations leveled against members of the lacrosse team in March 2006.

In their response, the attorneys for the lacrosse players state that the rule in question, 3.6a, which forbids extrajudicial SEE LAWSUIT ON PAGE 6

Steve Henkelman (middle), father of former lacrosse playerErik Henkelman, gets a hug following a news conference at the National Press Club inWashington, D.C., Feb. 21.

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Three people protestSAN FRANCISCO ing China's human rights record and the impending arrival of the Olympic torch climbed up the Golden Gate Bridge Monday and tied theTibetan flag and two banners to its cables.

The banners read "One World One Dream Free Tibet"and "Free Tibet 08."

The protesters wore helmets and harnesses as they made their way up the cables running next to the south tower of the famed span. The climb had the group suspended about 150 feet above traffic.

The deadliest form of WASHINGTON skin cancer is a little-studied type you've probably never heard of. After he died, Martin Whatley's classic rock'n' roll guitar became his last weapon against it.

Whatley's frustrated widow carefully pulled the pristine 1964 Fender Stratocaster from under their bed and put it up for auction on eßay, pledging half the proceeds for Merkel cell carcinoma research and the rest to pay his medical bills. She knew scientists were having little luck finding money to study a killer so rare that few doctors recognize it, much less know how to treat it.

Pulitizer Prizes announced Monday NEW YORK—TheWashington Post won sixPulitzer Prizes Monday—the most in its history—including awards for its coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre and a series exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded atWalter Reed hospital.

The New York Times received two Pulitzers: one for investigative reporting for stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other products from China, and one for explanatory reporting, for examining the ethical issues sur-

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ruling that Princess Diana and her boyfriend were unlawfully killed because their driver and pursuing paparazzi were reckless-behavior tantamount to manslaughter.

Criminal charges were unlikely, however, because the incident happened in France outside the jurisdiction of British authorities.

BUSINESS Consumer borrowing rates slow Consumers, battered by WASHINGTON a creditcrunch and prolonged housing slump, significantly slowed their pace of borrowing in

February.

The Federal Reserve reported Monday that consumer borrowing rose at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in February, just half of the 4.9 percent increase in January.The slowdown reflected much weakerdemandfor auto loans and other types of non-revolving credit, which rose at a rate of 0.4 percent in February, much lower than the 3.6 percent growth rate in January.

TECH Is found in Australia tralia Tools dating back at years have been unearthed shelter in Australia's remote .‘St, making it one of the oldest teological finds in that part of the itry, archaeologists said.

The tools include a piece offlint le size of a small cell phone and lundreds of tiny sharp stones hat were used as knives. One local Aboriginal elder saw it as 'indication of what his people lave said all along—that they lave inhabited this land for ens of thousands of years.

MISCELLANEOUS Fast-acting boy saves classmates CLEVELAND Rolling downhill in a bus with his screaming classmates and no driver, a fast-acting 11-year-old jumped behind the-wheel Monday and steered the bus into a pillar, stopping it from careening out of control.

Some children jumped out the side door and rolled into the street. The driver, Michael Weir, had stopped for fuel and was in the station's restroom when the bus started to roll with 27 children aboard.

Soldier's sperm sent home to wife ATLANTA A soldier's widow has succeeded in having sperm taken from his body and frozen four days after he was slain in Iraq, though medical experts said it's highly unlikely she would be able to bear his child.

Sgt. Dayne Darren Dhanoolal, 26, died March 31 when an explosive detonated near his vehicle in Baghdad. He had talked often with his wife Kynesha about having children, according to court papers filed by her lawyer.

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As gossip site grows,some Dukies say it loses popularity by

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As universities across the nation become increasingly Juicy, Duke students are finding other ways to quench their thirst for gossip.

Some observers said student interest in the once-popular Juicy Campus Web site has dropped in recent months, though the site has continued to stir controversy at universities nationwide.

Launched last August on Duke’s campus, the site has since expanded to include 59 universities.

“There are about 2,500 four-year institutions in the United States... eventually .we’d like to be on all of them,” said Matt Ivester, Trinity ’O5 and the creator of Juicy Campus.

Still, some Duke students said there has been a noticeable drop in discussion and viewership of the Web site on the campus where it made its debut.

“I think it took people a while to recognize that the site really served no purpose,” Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said.

Negative posts about Duke’s greek life was once a major problem on campus, but it has gradually become less of an issue, junior Rachel Nordlinger, president of Panhellenic Association, wrote in an e-mail.

Although Juicy Campus was a hot topic last semester, it has not been discussed in any of the spring Panhel meetings, she added.

“Panhel has shifted our focus back to other issues that are more pressing,” Nordlinger said.

Wasiolek said she has heard little posi-

live feedback from Duke students about the site and added that she thinks students may have now realized the damaging effects of its posts.

Since the decline of Juicy Campus, other sites, including Me Too, have been launched to counter the negative use of anonymity on Juicy Campus with a monitored forum for students to express sensitive concerns. Junior Deepika Ravi, who created the Me Too Campaign, said Juicy Campus’ decline in popularity on campus was inevitable.

“Students do seem to be talking about Juicy Campus less than they used to,” Ravi wrote in an e-mail. “The outrage has died down and seems to have been replaced largely with disgust.”

Although the purpose of the Me Too forum is to discuss personal feelings and the Juicy Campus agenda is more focused on targeting others, Web sites like Me Too may have contributed to the decline of Juicy Campus at Duke, she added.

Officially banning the Web site from campus would go against Duke’s free speech policies, but encouraging other students not to utilize the site effectively decreases its influence on campus, Wasiolek said.

“If the students don’t use it, suddenly it becomes irrelevant,” she said.

Administrators at several schools, including Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Yale and Columbia universities, discussed banning the Web site from their campus-

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Duke chooses insurance provider Study: low-cal foods may induce hunger

The University announced Monday that it will switch student health insurance providers, moving to UnitedHealthcare Studentßesources after 30 years with Blue Cross Blue Shield.

The Student Health Insurance Advisory Council made its selection after two years of research and deliberation.

The deciding factors that influenced SHIAC in favor of UHSR included a reputation of superior customer service, an included discount plan and a dental insurance option. “[UHSR’s] proposal rose above the rest in regard to their understanding of the unique needs of students and their ability to address those needs,” Dr. William Purdy, executive director of Student Health, said in a statement.

A major benefit ofUHSR will be the creation of a Dukespecific coverage network, which can include more mental health professionals than any of the other potential plans, said SHIAC representative David Kahler, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering.

Additionally, UHSR offered retrospective funding to the University for overestimated claims. If students’ claims are lower than expected, the extra money will go back to Duke, lowering the premiums offuture years, said SHIAC representative Eric Vance, a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in statistics, He added that during the past three years, students have been charged a total of $4.5 million extra as a result of BCBS’ overestimation of students’ claims.

But the overall cost of the UHSR plan is not lower than the BCBS plan. “United doesn’t have as good of a contract with Duke Hospital as Blue Cross, so Duke Hospital will charge students more for the same services because we’re with a different company,” Vance said. “Duke Hospital will get about $900,000 more in total.”

The overhead costs of UHSR, however, are much lower than BCBS’, and the total cost for students evens out, he said.

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Dieters beware—your brain can sense the amount of calories you consume and may be craving more.

A recent study released by Duke University Medical Center and published in the March 27 issue ofNeuron magazine revealed that the brain showed a preference for higher-calorie foods regardless of taste, based on experiments conducted with mice.

“It is commonly observed that the pleasant taste of caloric foods is the main driver of feeling,” said Ivan de Araujo, an assistant fellow at the John B. Pierce Laboratory affiliated with Yale University. “We [asked] whether in the absence of taste, we can have the physiological ability for an animal to develop a preference for something based on calories alone.”

De Araujo, who co-authored the study during his time at DUMC, said the experiment was conducted using both normal mice and genetically engineered mice that lacked the gene that codes for taste reception, known as “sweet-blind” mice.

The researchers then gave water sweetened with sucrose and normal water to the sweet-blind mice and observed how they chose what to drink.

“More than 80 percent of the time, [the sweet-blind mice] drank from the botde associated with the sucrose,” de Araujo said.

He noted that when a control experiment was performed with a non-caloric artificial sweetener substituted for sugar, the sweet-blind mice did not display a preference for the artificially sweetened water over the regular water. After several more control tests, the scientists concluded that the mice preferred the sucrose water for its caloric content.

These results mean that when people try to cut down on calories by eating less or drinking diet soda, the tactic might not work because the body’s need for calories will make the person liable to eat more than they normally would, de Araujo said.

“One conclusion that can be drawn from this study [is that] substituting caloric foods with versions that are much less caloric but otherwise taste equally good might not be sufficient enough to sustain consumption in the long run,” he added.

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Senior Michelle Diamond, president of the Columbia College Student Council, said opinions about the Web site varied among Columbia’s student body. She noted that some students pushed to ban the Web site from campus, but others said a ban would violate their right to free speech.

After lengthy discussion, the CCSC decided not to purchase the expensive software necessary to ban the Web site. Even so, Diamond said Juicy Campus-has recently lost some popularity as students started to realize its negative effects.

“Across the board everyone agrees that the content on this Web site is terrible,” she said.

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The remaining $l5 million will go towards the Children’s Health Center and will be used to connect all pediatric inpatientand outpatient services. Currently, the Davison Building spread among different places for educational purposes,” said only houses outpatients, but it will expand to accommodate Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean of the School of Medicine. “The inpatients with the new facility, said Dr. Joseph St. Geme, chair of the Department of Pediatrics.

[Education] Center wall bring students together across classes and “As we celebrate this gift to the this to gift “As we celebrate Children’s Health Center we will give diem "away to share experiences and know one another.” the Children’s Health Center celebrate a renewed commitment to children,” Dzau said. “This alIn addition, Dzau said the evoluwe will celebrate a renewed lows us to do more for children tion away from lecture-based learnand their families.” ing to team-based learning has commitment to children.” stimulated the need for this facility, Dr. Sanders Williams, senior vice Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for academicaffairs at the which will house simulation labsand Medical Center, said the new facilities team-based learning programs. health chancellor will allow die University to maintain Although the exact location of the Education Center has yet to be its role as a leader in medicine while determined, plans for the building include rooms with movekeeping up with the demands ofmodem lifestyles. able walls and seating that can hold as many as 500 people, “The Davison Building is a symbol of what Duke stands as well as lecture halls and classrooms. The Education Center for,” he said. “The new facilities are preserving the symbol and providing contemporary spaces to create the social dymay also include admissions and educational staff offices, student lounge areas, a cafe, a bookstore and a fitness center. namics necessary for this task.”

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ally prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding,” does not apply to civil litigation.

The response also argues the information that the attorneys provided to the public regarding litigation was already available in the public record.

“Few matters are of greater public concern than the conduct of government and its agents in the investigation and prosecution of alleged crimes—particularly where, as here, the state’s attorney general has been compelled to take over a local government’s criminal prosecution and has then castigated local law enforcement officials for appalling abuses of power,” the motion states.

The response also points out that its use of the media pales in comparison to the publicity the lacrosse players received in the wake of the rape allegations.

“We are constrained to say that the city defendants’ effort to silence the plaintiff lacrosse players gives new meaning to the concept of gall,” the motionreads. “The tsunami of negative national media publicity and commentary that engulfed the lacrosse players for months in 2006 was fueled in large measure by negative public comments and information from the city of Durham and its agents.”

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Duke scientists continued their study by using probes measure chemical levels in the brains of the normal and sweet-blind mice as they consumed the sugar, water of psychological sciences at Purdue University, resulted and artificially sweetened water.'

De Araujo said that although dopamine levels in the in parallel findings that support his idea. The study at Purdue reported that when rats normal mice’s brains increased were fed artificially sweetened with the consumption of both foods caloric with “...Substituting food, with they sugar water and artificially regular yogurt sweetened water, the dopamine gained more weight versions that are much less caloric levels in the sweet-blind mice’s Swithers said this can be atbut otherwise taste equally good tributed to the body’s response brains rose only when they conof burning fewer calories when the sugar water, meanmight not be sufficient enough to sus- sumed ing there is a taste-independent consuming caloric sweet things based on experiences eating pathway to the brain’s dopatain consumption in the long run.” sweets without calories. mine system.

Ivan de Araujo, researcher Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, a senior She added that body temperature normally goes up when author of the study and co-direccalories are consumed, but the tor of Duke’s Center for Neurorats who were fed* artificially sweetened yogurt had a engineering, said he hopes to spend more time studying smaller body temperature increase when they were fed, the pathways the body uses to notify the brain of the cawhich meant they were burning fewer calories. loric content of a meal.

Harvard Law tuition cut puts pressure on Duke Officials say debt, costs drive students from public service by

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Adam Laughton considered going into public service law when he first started at the School of Law. But now as a married third-year student, Laughton said he has to worry about supporting his wife and children in the future.

He is one of a number of law students whose worries over student loan debt prevent them from taking lowerpayingjobs in public assistance sectors such as the government, non-profits and the military.

“Its scary. Many of our students who come to law school already have undergraduate debt, and they are very concerned about it,” said Bill Hoye, associate dean for admissions and financial aid at the law school.

An recently announced Harvard Law School Public Service Initiative may help students who want to take jobs in public service law face less debt worries.

The program forgives the third year of law school tuition for qualified students who commit to five years of public service law after graduation.

“This would provide a generous benefit while you are still in school,” said Mike Armini, director of communications at HLS. “For some students, that would be a serious incentive to consider public interest law.”

HLS already has a loan repayment program to assist students with debt, and the new initiative will operate in addition to that program.

Students entering HLS this fall—the Class of 2011—will be the first class to take full advantage of the program. Current first-year and second-year law students will be able to receive $5,000 and $lO,OOO tuition grants, respectively, if they meet requirements.

Hoye said he thinks assistance programs are necessary for law students, but he noted that the future success of this particular program is unclear.

Duke has a generous loan assistance repayment program, which has been in effect since 1997 and provides a quarter of a million dollars in loan payments to students each year, Hoye added.

Additionally, students with debt who take lower-paying jobs in public service can qualify for significant reductions in loan payments, and the federal government will forgive a graduate’s entire debt after 10 years of service, whether consecutive or not.

Usually about 10 percent of School ofLaw graduates go into public service, said Tia Barnes, director of public interest and J.D. advising at the Career and Professional Development Center.

“A lot of people come into law school with the sense that they want to help other people,” she said.

But Gerald Wilson, senior associate dean of Trinity College ofArts and Sciences and a pre-law adviser, said few of the Duke students he has known have ended up in public service law.

“I say, look, when you are out of law school, send me your signature on a letterhead,” he said. “In all of these years I have had two students who sent me their signature and it was a public service situation.”

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BAGHDAD Hundreds of people fled fighting in Baghdad’s Shiite militia strong-

hold Monday as U.S. and Iraqi forces increased pressure on anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who faces an ultimatum to either disband his Mahdi Army or give up politics.

Al-Sadr’s aides said he would only dismantle the powerful militia if ordered by top Shiite clerics—who have remained silent throughout the increasingly dangerous showdown.

Although al-Sadr holds considerable influence through the Mahdi fighters—estimated at up to 60,000—political exile for his movement would shatter his dream of becoming the major power broker among the country’s Shiite majority.

Gunbattles raged around the sprawling Sadr City district that serves as the Baghdad nerve center of the Mahdi militia, which has been under siege since last week by about 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops.

Police said at least 14 civilians were killed in clashes Monday in the Baghdad area, nine of them in Sadr City. Frightened families poured out ofSadr City —some carrying their belongings in sacks or piled in pushcarts.

Three American soldiers were killed Monday in separate attacks in the capital —one by small arms fire and two others by a rocket-propelled grenade, the U.S. said without specifying the neighborhood or whether Shiite extremists were responsible.-At least 10 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since Sunday.

The rapid tumble back to street battles in Baghdad—at an intensity not seen since last year’s flood of U.S. troops into the

A United States Army soldier secures a checkpoint Monday in the Shiite enclaveofSadr City, Baghdad, where 25 people were killed and 98 were wounded Sunday. city —is a worrisome backdrop to Wednesday’s planned appearance before Congress by top commander Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker to report on progress in Iraq and prospects for further troop reductions.

With the crisis showing no sign of abating, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki raised the stakes.

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Al-Maliki’s statement followed a weekend declaration by top Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders to support legislation banning any party that maintained a militia. not

Facing broad political opposition, key alSadr aides went on the defensive Monday, insisting that banning them from politics would be unconstitutional. They proposed talks to resolve the standoff.

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clerics would take a public position on the showdown or leave it to the politicians to resolve. The aged, Iranianborn al-Sistani has remained silent since the latest crisis

al-Sadr aide Salah al-Obeidi told AP Television News in the holy city of Najaf. “Al-Sadr’s office affirms that the door is open to reach an understanding regarding these

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But it was unclear whether ment from politics, the statement signaled any significant change in strategy Al-Sadr could score significant gains in the Shiite south

by Sadrist movement. Al-Sadr has maintained for years if his movement competes in the fall elections. That would that only the sect’s top clergy could disband the Mahdi shore up his position even without the Mahdi Army, which militia. has tarnished his image among many Shiites because ofits Equally unclear was whether al-Sistani and other top role in sectarian violence and crime

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BRUSSELS, Belgium —You can use your cell phone in the skies over Europe later this year under new rules that will allow air travelers to stay in touch—and raise the cringe-inducing prospect of sitting next to a chatterbox at 30,000 feet.

But don’t expect to use your phone on a U.S. flight anytime soon.

The decision Monday by the European Union makes the 27-nation bloc the first region in the world to scrap bans on the use of cell phones in the sky. The EU insists the change will not compromise safety.

Cell phone calls will be connected through an onboard base station—think of a miniature cell phone tower—linked to a satellite and then to ground networks. A flight’s captain will have the power to turn off service anytime.

Phone service will be blocked during takeoff and landing, EU spokesman Martin Selmayr said. That means using your cell phone will fall under roughly the same restrictions as using your laptop or iPod. EU officials also say the system has been thoroughly tested. They say the calls will not interfere with flight navigation and will have additional safeguard to protect against terrorism.

Meanwhile, travelers are already expressing concern about another kind of disruption—noisy passengers.

The friendly skies are one of the Jast refuges against shrill ringtones and yapping callers.

“If they use a mobile phone on long distance flights, it would be an inconvenience, especially at night,” said Stein Smulders of Halle, Belgium, who commutes by train.

In the United States, cell phone use on flights is banned by two regulatory agencies. Both said Monday they had no plans to change their rules, Alison Duquette, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the agency had a concern that the phbnes could interfere with planes’ electronic equipment.

“The bottom line for us is that the FAA has no plans to allow passengers to use cell phones on commercial flights,” Duquette said.

The Federal Communications Commission also bans cell phone use on flights, out of concern for interfering with cell phone networks on the ground. That agency opened a review of the issue in 2004 but ended it last year without taking action.

On European flights, installing a base station on the plane will allow calls to go directly to a satellite system, preventing phones from wreaking havoc with flight instruments by sending out signals indiscriminately, EU officials said.

The system will rely on European GSM technology.

Although the technical standards for American and European GSM phones are different, American GSM phones would work on European flights.

Installing small base stations on planes helps ensure phones won’t give off strong signals trying to connect with a tower on the ground. But Dave Carson, co-chairman of an RTCA Inc. committee studying wireless safety on planes for the FAA, said there was still a risk that a phone might try to connect with a ground tower.

In Europe, travelers will be allowed to turn on their phones after planes climb past 10,000feet. That’s when other electronic devices are typically permitted. Captains will also be able to block cell phone service during turbulence.

The ban remains in place for all U.S. carriers, including domestic and international flights. Duquette said the FAA had not decided whether to block foreign carriers from allowing cell phone use when they enter U.S. airspace.

The new EU rules were welcomed by airlines, some of which, such as Air France-KLM, had already launched a trial of in-flight phone service on some European routes. British Midland Airways Ltd., Portugal’s TAP and low-cost airline Ryanair are also planning to offer services later this year.

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Vince Oghobaase is the only Duke player in the last decade to enroll early for springpractice (above); He has thrivedsince (below).

When Vince Oghobaase attended his senior prom at Alief Hastings High School in Houston, the star defensive tackle’s 6-foot-6,300-pound frame was not what struck his classmates most.

Instead, it was that Oghobaase appeared at all.

One of the top recruits the Blue Devils have landed in the past decade, Oghobaase opted to graduate early from high school and enroll at Duke in January 2005 to get a jump start on his college football career.

‘You go back, and you’ve graduated from high school just a semester ago, and now you’re in college,” Oghobaase said. “Guys are just looking up to you, [asking] ‘How’s college life? How are the girls? How is the football team?”’

Although Oghobaase’s story might seem unique on the surface—he is the only football player in the past decade to enroll early at Duke—his is only one example of a trend that has recently swept through major college football programs across the country.

But with Blue Devil football at a crossroads under newly-hired head coach David Cutcliffe, the question of how Duke will fit into this national movement could prove key in establishing the team as a contender.

A growing trend Although it is rare at Duke, top

programs have long relied on the practice of accepting incoming freshmen mid-year, enabling top prospects to participate in spring drills. Highprofile recruits such as 2007 Heisman Trophy winnerTim Tebowand former N.C. State stars Phillip Rivers and Mario Williams are just three examples of early enrollees who enjoyed high levels ofachievement in their football careers. Because of these successes, high school recruits’ interest levels in enrolling early has only grown, with major college football programs stepping up to satisfy the demand.

For example, eight of Miami’s 32 signees in its incoming recruiting class have already enrolled and are on campus participating in spring practice.

And according to an April 2007 USA Today report, 69 high-school students enrolled at 35 different BCS schools in January 2007. That figure was up from 2005 and 2006, when the same publication reported that 34 and 53 players, respectively, enrolled early.

“It has become more common around the country, especially in football over the last five to eight years,” said Duke Associate Athletic Director Brad Berndt, who oversees the department’s academic affairs. “Prior to that point, it was very unusual for somebody to leave high school early.”

With the ACC home to some of the nation’s top football programs, many of Duke’s league foes have actively

added recruits as early enrollees in recent years. More than half of the conference’s 12 teams boasted at least one early admit on its roster in the 2007 season, with North Caro-

lina leading the pack with six.

Cutcliffe changes approach Duke’s status as both a BCS school and as one of the nation’s premier academic institutions has traditionally meant that standards surrounding SEE EARLY ADMITS ON PAGE 13

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Alieva made strides, but its time for change For the past year, I’ve tried to find the answer to the question many followers ofDuke Athletics have been asking: Why is Joe Alieva still the school’s athletic director?

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coaches and administrators—told me that they, too, were surprised that Duke hadn’t gone in a different direction—either immediately after the lacrosse case in 2006 or last summer when Alieva’s contract was up. Even the people you might expect to defend Alieva, like the coaches and other employees who report directly to him, were lukewarm at best about their boss.

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Given his loyal service and Duke’s rise in athletics prominence during his tenure, that type of criticism isn’t fair. Alieva made incredible strides for Duke’s athletics department in terms of fundraising, facilities and the success of the school’s non-revenue sports. The statistics—like the Blue Devils’ success in the annual Director’s Cup and the fundraising records that the SEE BEATON ON PAGE 12

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BEATON from page 11 Iron Dukes set —don’t lie. On top of that, anyone who’s ever dealt with Alieva would tell you that even if they disagree with the way he’s done his job, they like him personally and respect his sincerity.

But it’s been painfully obvious to everyone who follows Duke Athletics for nearly two years now, if not more, that it was time to move on—both for the school and Alieva.

Despite the progress in certain aspects of the department, it’s hard to forget that Alieva had a decade to turn around two of the NCAA’s premiere sports, football and baseball, and couldn’t do so. There are signs that both programs might finally be ori the right track, but Alieva spent way too long hiring Duke insiders like Bill Hillier, Carl Franks and Ted Roof and sticking by them even though everyone else thought it was time for a change.

On top of that, there were the public relations issues. Alieva was able to deflect the criticisms raised when members of the baseball program under Hillier came forth and accused the team and its supervisors of overlooking a culture of steroid abuse.

But a year later, when the lacrosse case first broke, Alieva couldn’t stay above the fray.

Although some of the statements he made early on would later turn out to be surprisingly prescient (the “boys being boys” at the first Duke press conference comes to mind), his inability to make decisions in a pressure situation managed to alienate just about everyone he dealt with, from the athletes, who felt they were not supported enough, to the faculty that believed athletics had gained too much prominence at the University.

Alieva’s legacy in the PR department was cemented with his bungling of the women’s basketball coaching situation last spring,

when he insinuated that Gail Goestenkors didn’t deserve to be paid like the top coaches in women’s basketball because she hadn’t won a national championship and her program lost money. Goestenkors subsequently bolted for Texas, and one of her top proteges, Cal’s Joanne Boyle, rejected Alieva’s overtures to fill Coach G’s place.

One of the primary criticisms levied against Alieva was that he wasn’t enough of an academic to run the athletics department at a school like Duke. But in all fairness, with his three children having graduated from Duke and an attractive new job on the horizon, Alieva was smart enough to know that it was timefor a change of scenery.

Where Duke goes from here is now the most important question —one which I’d imagine President Richard Brodhead and his administration have been considering for quite some time. There are two strong internal candidates: Senior Associate Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy, Associate Director ofAthletics Jacki Silar and Associate Director of Athletics Mike Gragg, although Kennedy told The Chronicle Monday that he would not seek the position. Gragg has compiled an impressive resume during his 21 years at Duke and will likely receive internal support, particularly considering his closeness to the men’s basketball program.

If Brodhead wants to cement his legacy in terms of athletics, however, he’ll look outside the walls of the Gothic Wonderland to find an innovative leader with a strong academic profile. Given its combination of athletic and academic prowess, Duke should be the type of place that would attract a long list of impressive candidates that fit this billing.

And maybe, with a new athletic director, the type of place where a fan can see a few football wins, too.

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EARLY ADMITS from page 11 early admission for football players are more stringent than athletic programs. At Duke, an early entrant’s high school preparation and test score results must exceed even those of regular athletic admits, Berndt said. Consequently,

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Duke Football has been reluctant to offer early enrollment as an option for incoming freshmen.

These obstacles don’t seem to faze Cutcliffe, who, through his experience coaching in the SEC, understands the benefits of bringing recruits in early. During his days in Knoxville, the Volunteers even used a now-closed loophole that allowed them to offer early enrollees the opportunity to be on the sidelines of Tennessee’s bowl games.

“It’s kind of like what Major League Baseball looks to do with being able to sign a player out ofhigh school,” Cutcliffe said. ‘You develop them in your way of thinking, work ethics. You academically get them ahead when there is a little bit less pressure on that youngster, because he’s getting a running start.... Things like that become a real advantage.”

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“I think these early-exit guys who are exceptional students—shoot, we’re going to jump right in the middle of them, because we’ve got something special to offer,” Cutcliffe said. “I mean, why would you not?”

Oghobaase’s enrollment As a top recruit in talent-laden Texas, Oghobaase was already receiving scholarship offers from major programs by his junior year. An excellent student in high schoolwho boasted a 3.96 GPA, Oghobaase was a finalist for the 2005 Watkins Award honoring the nation’s top high school African-American student-athlete. He met Duke’s elevated academic standards for early enrollees, and near the beginning of his senior year, became interested in graduating early in time to enroll for practice.

“I’ve watched college football gameswhere they talk about guys graduadng early,” Oghobaase said. “I put some thought into it, and decided, hey, I have got enough credits to do it. I talked to my counselor and she said, ‘Yeah, all you have to do is take such and such class, and it can be done,’ so I put everything into motion, and I graduated in December 2004.”

Rooming in Randolph dormitory on East Campus with a fellow football teammate, Oghobaase stepped right into a full-blown academic semester in January 2005, well before the summer school sessions that normally serve as academic transitional periods for the majority of incoming Duke athletes. Despite his academic accomplishments in high school, the tough curriculum at Duke caught Oghobaase by surprise in his first months on campus.

“I’m not going to lie, it was quite different,” Oghobaase said. “I don’t think that anybody from my high school expects to come to Duke and just do great right off the bat, but they did provide me with a great academic support system, tutors, all the help I needed—and I got through it.

I had a rough first semester, but I’ve improved now, and my GPA is getting better as the semesters go on.”

And although he has now emerged as a consistent force on Duke’s defense, Oghobaase’s football career also had a rocky start that spring. Only five days into practice, the lineman tore ligaments in his right knee, forcing him to miss the remainder of that spring’s practice and all of the following season. Oghobaase’s tale at Duke also tells of the calculus of risk involved in taking players early.

“You’re taking potentially a 17-year-old high school senior and putting him out there with a 22-year-old or 23-year-old fifth-year redshirt—that’s a pretty good mismatch,” Cutcliffe said. “That would be like me fighting Muhammad Ali in his heyday. I wouldn’t fare too well.”

Even though he was unable to play, Oghobaase still cited numerous examples oflessons he learned in hisfirst semester at Duke, most notably in regards to building a rapport with his new teammates and learning Duke’s defensive schemes.

And when asked if he would make the decision to leave high school early all over again, Oghobaase didn’tflinch.

“Most definitely,” Oghobaase said. “I can’t nag on the fact that I got hurt, but I’d still do it again. Plus, I still got to go back for my senior prom, and like when we had our spring break or any breaks during that semester I always went back home to talk to some of the guys from my high school and my [high school] teammates.

“It was real cool,” Oghobaase said. “People were looking up to you and saying, ‘You got out, you did it.’”

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Because athletes typically decide to matriculate early in the beginning stages of the recruiting process, Cutcliffe said he and his staff plan to identify five to 10 early enrollment targets during the offseason and pursue them heavily. And although Duke’s tough admission standards might seem like a burden to some, Cutcliffe does not see it that way.

“I can understand where Admissions would look at it and say, now what kind of student, what kind of maturity level [is required of an early admit]?” Cutcliffe said. “Listen, I’m with them 100 percent. I am not going to go recruit a young man that I think has no business [enrolling early].”

Former Duke head coach Ted Roof said in early November 2007 that he generally discouraged early enrollment to his targeted recruits. His main concern was that these early enrollees were basically being robbed of their final months at home with friends and family, and Cutcliffe agrees.

“I don’tknow ifI would want to give up spring ofmy senior year in high school,” Cutcliffe said. “That’s pretty vicious.”

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Certifying the study of susta inable solutions ihe new energy and same team, letting people who environment otherwise might not meet colII the JL certificate program laborate in the classroom.

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Like the Science and Policy ofNatural Disasters course offered currendy, the certificate program will have engineers and Trinity students join forces and generate creative solutions to real-life problems. Non-engineers will learn that Pratt is about more than Matlab and circuits, and Trinity students will have help making their ideas into something tangible. Though the Trinity-Pratt divide is often exaggerated with regard to the social scene, engineers and liberal arts students rarely have opportunities to interact

in an academic setting.

Like the Smart Home, another laudable program that brings undergrads from both schools together in a sustainable living and learning environment, the energy and environment certificate will embody one of the cornerstones of the new strategic plan—“knowledge in the service of society.”

Sustainability has been championed by Duke for a long time, as high marks on the sustainability report card, the infamous green shirts in Cameron Indoor Stadium for Focus the Nation, the Greening Initiative and the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design certification for Kilgo Quadrangle and several other new buildings all illustrate. This certificate is the next step in bringing sustain-

ability to the classroom.

The final project for the capstone course of the energy and environment certificate program will allow students to further this goal by searching for solutions to sustainability issues, like this year’s

solar-powered generator.

Maintaining equal numbers of Trinity and Pratt students will be important to the future of the program, as the final project requires teams with the same number of students from each school. The certificate will certainly draw some engineers, but it must also be marketed and publicized to Trinity students.

This new certificate should be held up as a model for carrying out many of the goals of the University and furthering Duke’s commitment to our shared future.

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a planner. I plan out my days and I prefer have an established plan for my life. However, I’ve learned—and am still learning —that the most valuable lessons are often the most unexpected and even the most heart-rendingrCranted, we’ve heard this trite saying or something vaguely similar to it many times before, but how many times have we truly experienced it?

My most profound experience to date is my recent trip last summer to Cape Town, South Africa through Duke Engage. I had civic engagement plans. Big plans.

Noble plans, even. part vi in a series I had set out to survey children in the township of Khayelitsha to assess their nutritional behaviors. This project was significant because it would contribute to the body of knowledge on childhood obesity in less wealthy countries. But things didn’t go as planned.

A national strike began the day I arrived in Cape Town. For those of us raised in the United States, we may not have an adequate measure of the scope of this strike. A national strike meant exacdy that: a national strike. Many civil servants, health care workers and teachers all across the country of South Africa were protesting higher wages from the government.

Because teachers were on strike, schools were not in session and as a result, I could not administer my survey. And so my carefully planned project came crashing to pieces the moment I stepped out on the tarmac emblazoned with the mocking words, “Welcome to South Africa.”

This parallels the experience of so many of us at Duke. How many of us came in with plans, big or noble, upon our arrival to Duke? Who would know that some would switch from Trinity to Pratt and then back to Trinity again? Who could have predicted that others would move from pre-med to pre-law over to finance? Who would imagine that our meticulously crafted plans would unravel once we crossed the threshold under the “Welcome to Duke” banner?

Because of my experience in South Africa, my vocational calling, a once incomprehensible and seemingly unattainableideal, became clearer. Bearto

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ing witness to injustice against the poor opened my eyes to the direct role government plays in institutionalizing inequity. I became impassioned when I understood the reality that many political leaders are willing to watch their people die just to save a couple cents. I was livid that political strategy was deliberately employed to prevent students from taking their college entrance exams.

It was at this point that I began to question my place in this global community. I wondered, what would I do differently? Is there really away to make this work? We have a whole generation of students who may never get the chance at higher education on one end and adults who can’t afford to feed their children on the other.

Unfortunately, I never got directly involved with government affairs on my trip. I resumed my community health assessment among the older demographic within a specific section of the township Khayelitsha. However, the questions continued to plague me. What is my role in all of this? Do I even have a role in all of this?

This internal inquiry has led to an “educational detour,” if you will, that will take me to law school instead of medical school, as originally planned. It may lead me to the arena of politics—a field I once believed to be godforsaken. As I head down this new and previously unplanned path, I acknowledge and accept that many changes will come. Perhaps medical school will someday complement my law school experience. Maybe, like you, I’ll just have to lay my plans aside, wait and assume what life gives me.

I know my overzealous planning tendencies are not exclusive to me. I would venture to say that more than half of my fellow Dukies share the same passion for their planner. As beneficial as this character trait (some say obsession) was in securing our place at Duke, I question its benefit in the “real world.” How many opportunities will be forgone because they weren’t on our schedule or in our original plans? How many friendships will be lost because we simply did not have enough time in our plans?

As we close this chapter of our lives, I entreat you to build an expectation for the unexpected.

Take on a renewed mind and tear down former patterns of thinking that give your plans precedence over what life may have in store for you.

Nancy Iheanacho is a Trinity senior.

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letterstotheeditor Students should walk While it’s great that there is an initiative to carpool (“DSG carpool plan aims to cut congestion,” March 25), I find it disturbing that students who live off-campus but close to campus are driving at all. Duke is a pretty good green school (thanks a lot to the Nicholas School, but it makes me sick that students don’t care I’m about the environment when they drive to school rather than take a 20-minute walk. I say this because I live in the Belmont and walk to school every day, but so many of my Duke student neighbors drive to school in their giant parent-sponsored SUVs. Perhaps some of these students have a legitimate need to drive rather than walk a mile (physical illness, jobs off-campus, etc.,) but I doubt that the majority do. While carpooling helps a little bit, encouraging students to walk Would help even more in reducing gasoline consumption and pollution from cars.

Perhaps the school could even go so far as to not give parking permits to undergraduates who live so close to school! I know there has been a lot of crime lately, but if you’re walking home after dark, SAFERides is there (and has improved its service a lot in recent months).

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I proposed a change to the ACES registration system back in November 2006 to Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. His response was optimistic and he forwarded my message on to a series of people who implement the system and are currently working on the new version of ACES to be tested this summer (see the March 20 article “New ACES platform to launch in summer 2008”). The idea was relatively simple—you take data that already exists and use it in a beneficial way for both administrators and students alike.

The concept is thatthere would be registration report that a student could generate on the enrollment page at any time.

Similar to the academic advising report, this would perform a search in the database for the classes that you have in your primarybookbag. What it would do is the following: find the total amount of students who have a registration window before your date and have the class in their primary bookbag.

That number would automatically be taken away from the slots of spaces for the course and if that number was negative, the result would be a wait list. Then, it would search for how many students on your registration window have the class in their primary bookbag. From this information and using some probability statistics, it would advise a student whether or not the likelihood of enrolling into the class was high.

By presenting this information, students would get a reasonable idea of how many people ahead of them plan on taking a certain class so they can focus more time in the future to research and find alternative classes. In turn, administrators would be able to judge how popular a class may be or—in the case of necessary classes like my Mechanical Engineering 150 course this semester—expand the sections before 22 people are wait listed for a required class that only has 36 spots. I ponder how the administration underestimate the demand for such required classes.

In any case, this proposal that I have had for the past twoand-a-half years has gone absolutely nowhere in the hands of the administration. I have followed up on coundess dmes asking for updates on the status ofmy changes and hoped at the time to see them come into effect before graduating. It is for this reason that I have decided to write about my idea in hope that others will think of other better changes that will make Duke an even better place to be. I’m so glad registration is over for next semester, but I’m not looking forward to my lasteemester where I have three required classes to graduate and cannot accept any course conflicts.

Scott Steinberg Pratt ’O9

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early-torise types who writes 5,000 words before breakfast year ago this week, I offered my first annual “Notorious Alums” column. Timed in honor ofAlumni and continued pumping iron until age 87.

Weekend, it featured some of the oddest, craziest But in reality, Angier was little more than an acand naughtiest ex-students to have ever donned Duke cident-prone playboy who died young and drunk. He blue: A rogues’ gallery of staircase murderers, attempted shot a hand off in a hunting accident, and he later firebombers, conniving Mexicans, gonorrhea-infected crushed a woman against a wall with his car in the Bronx (Angier’s first cousin, Doris, had a similar acplayboys and even the 20i arm. 'ual Internacident that killed her landscape architect). And most tional Mr. Leather. pathetic of all, Angier died at age 39 after falling off With those telltale his yacht, which at 86 feet long had to be docked far white tents cropping offshore. His oblivious (read; drunk) guests continued to party as his body floated on by. up on West again, I Fourth, we have a sobering example of where my decided it would be gy fun t(> have .1 se< ond ass will be if I don’t figure out what I’m doing next go-round. So here ■ ■ year pretty soon; Austen Heinz is a former Duke stubutler follow the stories of dent who according to police records has been living seven Dukies (three as a homeless person in CIEMAS. With all of whom are... wait for Despite being banned from Duke’s campus, Heinz deliberate speed it... TRUSTEES) who reportedly hangs out in Bostock, Twinnie’s and McDonald’s, and his file includes a note that he may need have done remarkable to be decontaminated from exposure to ethidium bro(and not in a good way) things with their lives.

First up we have former Deputy Secretary of State mide (thought to be a highly toxic carcinogen) before Randall Tobias, who served as a Trustee from 1986 to he can be transported to the psych ward.

2000 and chaired the Board from 1997 to 2000. As the Surprisingly enough, Heinz is far from the only wayGeorge W. Bush administration’s AIDS czar, Tobias was ward alum still living on campus. Former studentJayanth Magar went a similarroute after being dismissed from the known for his wildly unrealistic support of abstinenceonly HIV-prevention programs, saying “statistics show University for academic problems. Today, he is occasionthat condoms really have not been very effective.” A ally seen wandering the halls of the Divinity School (and vigorous opponent of prostitution, Tobias also insti- sometimes stealing stuff, police think) wearing a long tuted rules requiring all recipients of U.S. foreign aid beige trench coat and a beige ball cap. Yet anotherformer student, Ross Prinzo, has been living in Duke buildings to to denounce the world’s oldest profession —or else.

That’s why it was such a surprise when Tobias’ avoid being served with a warrant by Durham police.

Last but not least we have William Lane, a 1944 name turned up on the infamous D.C. madam’s client list last year. Randy (as he’s known among friends) graduate who—at least as far as I can tell—remains initially stood firm, insisting that he’d only had “gals the only Trustee ever convicted of a felony during his come over to the condo to give me a massage.” But as term. Indicted in December 1992 for his part in an evidence mounted that those “gals” specialized in a alleged bank fraud that swindled U.S. taxpayers out of very different sort of good vibrations, Tobias resigned $404 million, Lane was convicted in early 1994.

Faced with widespread calls for Lane’s resignation—last April in disgrace.

Although he’s the only non-alumnus on this list, indeed, The Chronicle editorialized, “At an institution Tobias’ sheer hypocrisy (not to mention his 13-year of higher learning, it is appalling to have a convicted association with Duke’s Board) was enough to propel felon serving on the Board of Trustees”—Board member and later chair Harold Yoh nonetheless refused to him to this year’s top spot.

Next up we have 1941 graduate G. Harrold Carswell, suspend Lane, reasoning that he was “a super guy.” the “Larry Craig of the 19705.” Derisively remembered Now to be fair to Lane, that conviction was later for his failed nomination to the Supreme Court in overturned when an appellate court threw out most of 1970—thebest argument supporter Sen. Roman Hrusthe government’s evidence on a technicality. But what ka could offer was, “Even if he is mediocre, there are a a disgrace that students—who are routinely suspended lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They, following similar allegations —are held to a blatant are entided to a little representation, aren’t they, and a double standard. It’s clear that Duke becomes sensitive little chance?”—Carswell gained notoriety of an entirely to due-process issues only when Trustees are involved. different sort in 1976, when he became the first (though Given the hundreds of thousands of alumni in hardly the last) right-wing bigot to be convicted of at- Duke’s ranks, I suppose it’s only natural that there tempting to do “unnatural and lascivious” things to a should be an oddball here or there. But now that my male police officer in a Florida men’s room. class is preparing to graduate, I really hope none of us Third on our list we have a veritable campus celebrity: will go quite this far “on life’s broad sea.”

Angier Buchanan Duke, a 1905 graduate, Trustee (1914Kristin Butler is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every 1923) and namesake of the A.B. Duke Scholarship. I always imagined Angier as a severe old man, one of those Tuesday. ...

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