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Renovations Horowitz sounds off to small crowd delayed for Wally Wade Duke waiting on permit
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Caroline McGeough THE CHRONICLE
The renovations for WallaceWade Stadium have been delayed because of difficulty in obtaining a permit from the city of Durham for the University’s $5 million project, administrators confirmed this week. The project’s first phase —approved in January by the Board ofTrustees and scheduled to be already underway—will overhaul the restrooms and concession stands at the stadium, said Interim Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy. “We had hoped to get it done before the football season, but that isn’t going to happen,” said Executive Vice President Tailman Trask. “It’s a temporary glitch—we’ll get it fixed.” Trask said the project has not yet been approved by the city because it fails to meet the sidewalk conditions required for a permit from the Durham City-County Inspections Department. “When we sent the plans in, the city required us—as part of the project—to put a sidewalk down Frank Bassett Drive, which meant that we would have to cut down all the trees on one side or the other,” he said. SEE STADIUM ON PAGE 8
David Horowitz, a conservative writer and activist, discussed Islamofascism and the Duke lacrosse case in a speech to approximately 50 people Thursday night. by
Audrey McGowan THE CHRONICLE
sponsored by the Duke Conservative Union. “The issue is, there is a global movement within Islam—not representing all or even a majority of Muslims—but there is a fundamentalist movement that wants to take the entire world back to the seventh century,” he said. Much of his discussion of IslamoFascism focused on the oppression of women, which he later used to criticize liberals. “People on the left think that they’re event
Two years since his last visit to Duke, conservative activist David Horowitz was met with little fanfare Thursday night. With approximately 50 people attending his speech, Horowitz’s appearance contrasted his March 2006 visit during which protesting audience members in the front row heckled at several of his statements.
Horowitz came to speak as part of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, an
changing the world and bringing about
a new millennium where there will be no racism or sexism,” he said. “People who are described as liberals are generally leftists. Inside every leftist is a totalitarian.” Horowitz said prominent liberals and leaders of Muslim extremists share the same views about America. “They both believe America is evil,” he said. SEE HOROWITZ ON PAGE 12
Perception divide not so wide Lange marches on to likely 3rd term as provost by
Kristen Davis
THE CHRONICLE
A studyby Indiana University and Yale University shows that men pick on women's social cues almostas well as women detect men's cues.
On the playing field of gender relations, do men have a strategic disadvantage in reading women’s emotions? New psychological research counters the notion that heterosexual men misinterpret women’s friendliness as sexual interest because of a tendency to oversexualize the opposite sex. The study conducted by researchers at Indiana University and Yale University and published in the April issue of Psychological Science instead suggests that college-age men are generally less perceptive in deciphering women’s non-verbal cues. In viewing images of friendly women, men mistakenly identified 12 percent of the women as “sexually interested,” compared to women’s 8.7 percent error. According to the study, if the results were caused by men’s tendency to oversexualize women, men should have been more accurate than women in correctly decoding the cues of sexually-interested images. But the results directly contradict this assertion. Rather, 37.8 percent of men versus 31.9 percent of women mistook
Eugene Wang THE CHRONICLE
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For a man who has guided Duke’s academic reputation
through its meteoric rise in the past 10 years, Peter Lange shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, the provost —the University’s chief academic officer—is likely to con-
Peter Lange
tinue his tenure for another five years to become the longest-serving provost in Duke’s history. Although only the Board of Trustees may reappoint a top administrator, President Richard Brodhead’s recommendation to reappoint Lange —announced Tuesday—practically guarantees the provost’s contract extension, said Geoffrey
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