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rode into the city for a campaign stop aboard the “Straight Talk Express” Tuesday. The stop was one of several made by McCain and his running mate, vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin, over the last few weeks. The state of North Carolina, which President George W. Bush won in both 2000 and 2004 by double-digit margins, has not voted for a Democrat in the general election since 1976. Although Monday’s Rasmussen poll shows McCain and Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama in a statistical dead heat—with McCain just leading Obama 49 percent to 48 percent—the McCain campaign was confident of victory. “I’m going to keep my speech short, just like I am. John McCain’s going to win N.C.,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “I’ll beat Michael Phelps in swimming before Barack Obama wins North Carolina.” Graham, McCain’s wife Cindy McCain, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., Republican state Rep. David Lewis and former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge accompanied McCain at the rally. McCain’s surrogates also pushed social issues as reason to support his candidacy. Ridge spoke not only about the possibility of the next president appointing as many as threejustices to the U.S. Supreme Court, but also about the connection between SEE MCCAIN ON PAGE 7

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Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr speaks to a crowd in the Social Sciences Building Tuesday. Barr assailed both major parties for their approaches to government spending and civil liberties.

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Election Day is less than a week away and voters have been casting their ballots on campus for nearly two weeks, but many students were probably unaware that a presidential candidate was stumping on Main West Tuesday night. Bob Barr, Libertarian presidential candidate and former Republican congressman from Georgia, spoke to a crowd of about 100 students and Dur-

ham residents, in the Social Sciences Building Tuesday about limiting government expenditures and preserving civil liberties. Afterward, Barr fielded questions from the audience. The event was hosted by the Department of Political Science, which is chaired by professor Michael Munger, the Libertarian nominee for N.C. governor. “A wasted vote is a vote for the Democrats or the Republicans because, regardless SEE BARR ON PAGE 8

The agent for Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Mangum said that although Mangum maintains in her book that she was sexually assaulted at a March 2006 party, she is dot specifically accusing any lacrosse players or any individuals related to the University for the alleged crime. “We are asserting that any allegations of slander are untrue,” Vincent Clark, who also co-authored Mangum’s memoir “The Last Dance for Grace,” wrote in an e-mail. “The book is simply Ms. Mangum’s one and only opportunity to discuss her recollections of that night and to discuss what went on in her private life before and after the party. Nobody should construe that this book is about them.” But Philip Seligmann, father of wrongly indicted lacrosse player Reade,Seligmann, threatened in a statement Thursday to pursue legal action if Mangum and her publishers “continue to slander Reade.” The Chronicle incorrectlyreported Monday that Mangum maintains she was sexually assaulted by three lacrosse players. SEE MANGUM ON PAGE

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain addresses a crowd Tuesday in Fayetteville.

CORRECTIONS An Oct. 28 article,"Lange visit charts MBA possibilities," should have said Lange's visit to China was only five days long, including two days of travel.

Another story,"DUU sets plans for Devil's Eve,"misidentified Alex Reese, a member of Campus Council's programming committee. The Chronicle regrets the errors.

tatives from three local political parties in an intimate discussion Tuesday evening about issues relevant to college students. The Community Student Center hosted the town hall meeting in White Lecture Hall to a turnout of about a dozen people, including students and local residents. The hour-long conversation began with questions from Bell on crime, financial support and economic policies concerning college costs. “I think a lot of times we don’t get the perspectives or the views of each political party like this, where they are all together,” said Lindsay Mamula, CSC student outreach specialist. “This was geared more toward students because it had topics that were more enriching for the student population.” Bell moderated the conversation between Ted Benson, former chair of the Durham Democratic Party, Sean Haugh, chairman of the Durham County Libertarian Party and Theresa El-Amin, co-chair of the Triangle Area Green Party. A Republican representative was SEE PANEL ON PAGE

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yn. American indicted in Italian murder PERUGIA, Italy An American college student and her former boyfriend were ordered Tuesday to stand trial in last year's slaying of her roommate, lawyers said. The judge indicted Amanda Knox, 21,of Seattle and Raffaele Sollecito of Italy on charges of murder and sexual violence in the stabbing death of Meredith Kercher of England, said Francesco Maresca,a lawyer for the victim's family.Trial for the two, who deny wrongdoing, will start Dec. 4. A third suspect, Rudy Hermann Guede of theWest African nation of Ivory Coast, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted on the same charges in a fast-track trial requested by his defense, Maresca said. Prosecutors asked for life in jail.

Stock markets surge around world LONDON—WorId stock markets rallied strongly Tuesday as investors anticipating a cut in U.S. interest rates swooped in to buy shares that had been pummeled just a day earlier. The day's trading mirrored Monday. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose a whopping 14.4 percent—its biggest gain in 11 years—a day after plunging more than 12 percent. While there was no single, overriding factor to fuel the stock surge, some market watchers speculated that the recent selling spree was overdone. ~

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BAGHDAD An Iraqi militant accused of killthree American soldiers in a grisly checkpoint ing ambush was convicted Tuesday and sentenced to death by hanging.Two other men accused in the 2006 deaths were acquitted. The killing of the three 101 st Airborne Division soldiers was one of the most brazen attacks against U.S. forces since the Iraq war began in 2003. The case marked the first time an Iraqi investigative judge sent a case involving an Iraqi killing specific Americans to trial. An al-Qaida linked group later posted a Web video showing the bodies of the two soldiers being dragged behind a truck, then set on fire. The evidence against the three included fingerprints collected from the truck, which was later found abandoned, along with written testimony from villagers who saw the bodies being dragged, according to U.S. military investigators.

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SPRINGFIELD, 111. The convicted felon suspected in the Chicago slayings of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew was arrested on a drug charge in June, but authorities declined to return him to prison on a parole violation, internal parole records show. Corrections Department spokesman Derek Schnapp said officials who reviewed the cocaine-possession case against William Balfour determined "the evidence that was presented during that time wouldn't have necessarily warranted a violation." A judge dismissed the charge for lack of probable cause in July, but under the strict rules of the state's parole program, Balfour could have gone back to prison just for the arrest. No one has been charged in the shooting deaths of Hudson's mother, 57-year-old Darnell Donerson, her brother, 29year-old Jason Hudson, and 7-year-old nephew Julian King. The older victims were found in the family's home Friday afternoon. Julian's body was found in the back of an SUV Monday.

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WASHINGTON A growing chorus of Republicans on Tuesday called for Alaska Sen.Ted Stevens to resign from a seat he's held for four decades after his conviction on seven felony charges. But with the party bracing for losses in the upcoming election, many hope Stevens will first win re-election next Tuesday, and then resign to give Republicans a chance to fill the seat with a fresh GOP face. Stevens, 84, was convicted Monday of lying about hundreds of thousands of dollars in homerenovations and gifts he received from a corrupt oil contractor. �

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Nasher curator to be knighted Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks Senior Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art, will be knighted by Spain for her work on “El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III,” an exhibition of Spanish art at the museum. Spanish Ambassador to the United Statesjorge Dezcallar de Mazarredo will knight Schroth with the Order ofIsabella the Catholic as Knight—or “Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel la Catolica,” one ofSpain’s highest civil honors—at a fundraising gala when he visits the Nasher Nov. 7. “Don Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, is pleased to honor Sarah Schroth for her outstanding contributions to the dissemination of Spanish culture in the United States,” Dezcallar said in a statement Tuesday. “She has helped to introduce to the world great Spanish masters of painting and sculpture who lived and worked with the famous El Greco and Velazquez, but who have until now been relatively unknown.”

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art from Spain between 1598 and 1621, made possible by a partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mass,

and other sponsors. Ronni Baer, the William and Ann Elfers Senior Curator of Paintings at the Museum ofFine Arts, co-organized “El Greco to Velazquez” and will also receive the honor. Schroth said the idea for such an exhibit was sparked in part by her doctoral dissertation research more than 20 years ago. Kimberly Rorschach, the Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director of the Nasher Museum, said members of the museum are pleased with the public response to the exhibition and are proud of Schroth’s achievements. “I was very exited and very honored—l was touched that they would recognize my work in this way,” Schroth said. —with reporting by Emmeline Zhao

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The financial crisis has been puzzling to many attempting to understand it—and students in Duke’s economics classes are no exception. Professor ofEconomics Lori Leachman, who teaches Principles of Economics, has been integrating the current financial crisis into class discussion to give students better insight into recent events. “I took one whole day of lecture on this crisis. We did a discussion and put it in historical context with the elimination of the Glass-Steagall Act and all the deregulation that’s essentially led up to this,” she said. “I’m not testing them on it—I just took a day and gave a lecture on it because I felt like this is something they need to know because it’s real.” Part of professors’ motives for taking time during class to discuss the crisis is student interest. Gale Boyd, a research scholar in the department of economics who will be teaching an economic research class in the Spring, plans to integrate the financial crisis because he feels students will want to learn about it. “I’m planning to talk mostly about work I’ve done in the energy and environmental areas, but I expect that discussion will center around this crisis, particularly since the interests of the students are centered around the finance sector,” he said. Freshman Jenna Gates, a student in Leachman’s class, said she appreciates that professors have adapted their classes because it helps her understand current events. “I was talking to an adult the other day... [who] was really interested in the economic crisis, and honestly, if I SEE CRISIS ON PAGE 6

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DUU started UCG—a groupmeant to help student organizations plan events—at its Tuesday meeting, of Public Policy celebrating the election Nov. 4. The event, which will be held in association with the Public Policy Majors Union, Duke Democrats, Duke College Republicans, the Political Science Majors Union and the Economics Student Union, will feature both “Republican”- and “Democrat”-themed rooms, a free open beer and wine bar and large screens displaying election coverage on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and Comedy Central, said Vice President of Programming Gabriela Borges, ajunior. Undergraduates, graduates and faculty are all invited, and the party will last until 1 a.m. or until the results are announced, she added.

In other business: Yule Ball, DUU’s winter holiday cocktail party, will be held Saturday, Nov. 15, in the French Family Science Center.

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Members of the Graduateand ProfessionalStudent Council voted to increase the group's budget by $4,625 at its meeting Tuesday.The body's executive secretary said the surplus comes from studentfees.

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council approved a |4,625 increase to its annual budget at its general assembly meeting Tuesday night. The vote on the budget increase, which will be devoted to student programming, was passed by all but one member of the council. “Our surplus is due to student fees,” said Executive Secretary Kat Mitchel, a third-year graduate student in molecu-

lar genetics and microbiology. “We have an obligation to the students who paid to pay them back through student pro-

gramming.” Treasurer Bart Michalczuk, a sec-

ond-year graduate student in economics, explained that GPSC has a large

surplus of around $40,000, which will be spent at a rate of $lO,OOO per year over the next three years. The budget also accounts for a buffer of $lO,OOO SEE GPSC ON PAGE 6

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With registration windows opening today, students can now sign up for classes that will fulfill the writing-in-the-disciplines requirement in a more innovative way. Writing Beyond the Disciplines, a project proposed by Kristen Neuschel, associate professor of history, will introduce students to a new way of writing with three classes offered in three different departments this Spring. Neuschel will offer the freshman seminar “Living Through The Great Wars,” Public Policy Professor Kenneth Rogerson will teach Kristen Neuschel “News Writing and Reporting” and English Professor Thomas Ferraro will instruct “Bravura American

Writing.” Neuschel said she designed the project the needs of a generation of college students that has become detached from its own writing. “I believe that for the current generation, writing has been a testing instrument,” she said. “I think that has produced a greater alienation from writing than what had been true for the generation before. I think measures must be taken to overcome that alienation. That is what I proposed in these classes. You get a direct experience in thinking to meet

about how writing should connect who is inside you with what you are attempting to learn. We’re trying to get people to learn how to bring their full and authentic selves into dialogue with academic

settings.”

Writing Beyond the Disciplines has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and the Teagle Foundation, which will support three courses each year for the next three years. The three courses offered next semester are being adapted to emphasize the goals of the new program. Rogerson has previously taught “News Writing and Reporting,” one of the core classes for the Policy Journalism and Media Studies Certificate, which will be revamped starting next semester to include online writing. Rogerson said he was excited when he was approached by Neuschel about the project. “[This] is the way writing is going,” he said, “There will always be a need for people who can gather, synthesize and present the news. The method of how that happens—the form and the channel that that goes through—may change, but there will always be a need for people to gather the news.” Neuschel said the course she will be teaching next semester will help connect students with their writing. “My course, the freshman seminar on [World War I], gets students to read SEE WRITING ON PAGE 9

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“I’ve thought about changing my syllabus in IntermediMacro to talk about models ofcrises and bank runs... but the models are challenging and it would take several ate

wasn’t taking this class, I would have no idea what was going on,” she said. “So it’s really educational and I’m really glad I’m able to understand what’s going on in the markets." Major news and current events are often incorporated into academic discussion. In October, President Richard Brodhead hosted the first-ever President’s Forum on Critical Issues, gathering five professors for a conversation on the financial downturn. For Leachman, the change has been rewarding, because including the context of the crisis has generated lively discussion. “It’s just made it a lot more fun to teach. Usually for this class, I don’t get any questions in the first few weeks.... [But] from the very beginning, these students were very engaged and they were asking questions,” she said. But because economics is a field rich with developing examples, professors said they do not expect to feature tools for analysis of the financial crisis in their future classes.

[The crisis has] just made it a lot more fun to teach.... Usually for [Principles of Economics], I don’t get any questions in the first few

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weeks.” Lori Leachman, professor of economics classes to talk about them,” Professor of Economics Craig Burnside said. “The question then becomes whether that material would have more value than the normal material we do in macro. I am still not sure about that.”

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for fiscal year 2012-2013 in case the council,needs the extra funds. The general assembly elected Law Student Representative Katherine de Vos as the final member of the Young Trustee Screening Committee. Mitchel suggested that those in the assembly apply for the position of Young Trustee and motivate those who they think are qualified to apply as well. “The Young Trustee is one of the greatest privileges and honors that the graduate and professional schools are given by the University,” she said. “This year we are trying to have our application process be more interactive. We are trying to become more of a ground campaign. If you know someone who you really think is qualified, I will solicit an application from them.” As part of his pledge to speak at GPSC meetings once per semester, graduate Young Trustee Xing Zong, a sixthyear Ph. D. candidate in physics who is serving a three-year term, encouraged others to pursue the position. Zong told the assembly he felt that the Board of Trust-

“This year we are trying to have our [Young Trustee] application process be more interactive. We are trying to become more of a ground

campaign.” Kat Mitchel, GPSC executive secretary ees valued his opinion. “The position ofYoung Trustee is where you can make a difference,” he said. “You can raise various concerns to the Board of Trustees, who make the decisions.” He noted that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has an 80-person board, has never offered such a position to students, not even undergraduates. “We are lucky,” Zong said. “Not many universities offer a Young Trustee opportunity to students.”

In other business: Academic Officer Sara Salahi, a second-year Ph. D. candidate in biomedical engineering, told the assembly about the various graduate and professional certificate programs that exist at the University. She said students are eligible to receive one masters degree before they graduate. Council members were unclear on whether or not the University would pay for one masters degree if it was outside of a student’s department.

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MCCAIN from page 1 safety and economic growth. “You cannot be secure unless you are prosperous and you cannot be prosperous unless you have security,” Ridge said. McCain argued that he, and not Obama, had the right plan to return America to a state of prosperity. He repeatedly attacked Obama for his tax policy, which he said would be detrimental to the economy. “Sen. Obama wants to punish the successful, while I want to make sure that everyone is successful,” McCain said, continuing, his assertion that Obama would support redistributive tax policies. The McCain campaign has been using this line of attack since Obama told Joe Wurzelbacher that it would be ideal for the economy to “spread the wealth.” Wurzelbacher is known to millions of Americans as Joe the Plumber—the

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Sen. John McCaincalled the tax policy ofrival presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama"detrimentalto the economy"Tuesday at a rally in Fayetteville.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain supporter man who told Obama that he feared the Senator’s tax policy would destroy his American Dream. The Obama campaign said the statement referred to those who would get the tax breaks under Obama’s plan applicable to those who earn less than $250,000 annually. McCain said, however, that higher taxes on anyone would be bad for the economy. “The last thing you want to do in bad economic times is raise anyone’s taxes,” he said. Throughout the event, many said success should not be —

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“I should not be punished for my hard work,” said McCainsupporter Jamie Radding, a registered Democrat and smallbusiness owner. “Everyone in this country has the opportunity to achieve in this country and it is their choice not to.” Although Obama’s tax plan does call for a $l,OOO refundable tax credit, many at the rally denounced this plan, saying it would take money from those who work and give it to those who do not. “It’s really Just common sense—if you work you should be better off than if you don’t,” Lewis said, adding that Obama’s plan would “give to those who are too lazy to improve themselves.” Country music icon Hank Williams Jr. provided entertainment for the crowd prior to McCain’s arrival. “All my McCain friends coming over tonight,” Williams said

in reference to one ofhis hit songs, “All My Rowdy Friends.” Williams also performed the song “McCain-Palin Tradition,” which was written especially for the GOP candidates. The lyrics not only take aim at Obama, but also the Democratic-controlled Congress and the media. “The left-wing liberal media have always been a real close-knit family, but most of the American people don’t believe ’em anyway, ya see,” Williams said. McCain, acknowledging that national polls show him trailing Obama with just seven days before the election, encouraged his supporters to keep up their efforts and fight with him in the final week of this campaign. “There are many ways to love this country but I’ve never been one to back down from a fight,” McCain said. “Stand with me now and fight, and let’s win this election.”

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for permitting the warrantless domestic wiretapping program ofPresident George W. Bush’s administration. “Both of the two major parties have an institutional in-

of the Republican or Democratic candidate being elected, nothing will change,” Barr said at the outset of his speech. Although Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain have received most of the attention this political season, Barr said the two major party candidates have failed to address the proper roles of government.

“lt is the job of the president to protect our liberty,” Barr said, criticizing both the Republican and Democratic parties for abusing the executive power. He faulted the two parties and their respective presidential candidates for supporting new amendments to the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act, noting that it unjustly stripped American citizens of their privacy. Philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand correctly identified the right of privacy as foundational to civilization, he added. The recent FISA amendments have been criticized

“Both of the two major parties have an institutional interest in not diminishing the power of the president.” Bob Barr, Libertarian candidate for president diminishing the power of the president,” Barr said. He also condemned the federal bailouts as an improper governmental intervention, and added that the politicians who constructed the recent congressional bailout offinancial institutions had been “very clever” in construing the language of the legislation. terest in not

DEFENDER OF FREE SPEECH OR OFFENDER OF RELIGION? In September, 2005, a small newspaper in Denmark published cartoons of Muhammad decked out in symbols of terrorism. Protests and violence followed. What should we make of this? On October 30,2008, the publisher himself, Mr. Flemming Rose, will come to Duke University and explain his decision to publish these controversial cartoons.

“The $7OO billion was a floor, not a ceiling,” Barr said. “They have already put at risk some $2 trillion of our money.” Some attendees shared Barr’s frustrations with representation from the Democratic and Republican parties. “In this election, I’m supporting Barr because I’m dissatisfied with McCain and Obama,” said sophomore Chris Edelman. “I don’t think Obama’s competent enough to be president, and I don’t trust McCain’s decision-making ability.... I have supported Ron Paul, and Barr’s the closest thing to Ron Paul.” Barr concluded the first portion of the event by outlining the problems third parties face in gaining representation on ballots and in debates. He explained that the Commission on Presidential Debates unfairly excludes third parties because it is entirely run by Republicans and Democrats. Barr said the debates were useless because the candidates fail to answer the questions. He elicited laughter from the audience when he said that he respected Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin for admitting that she would not answer some debate questions. Barr is on the ballot in North Carolina as well as more than 40 other states. For the question-and-answer portion of the event, audience members submitted questions on index cards, which Munger then read aloud to Barr. Topics ranged from the environment and immigration to abortion and the appointment of federal judgeships, and Barr noted Libertarian stances on the issues. Some students, however, also questioned the sparse advertising for the event. “The only flyers I’ve seen for the event were in the political science department,” sophomore Mike McDonald said. “It was really lacking in this respect.” Munger, who was responsible for promoting the speech, acknowledged that more advertising likely would have drawn a larger crowd. He noted, however, that he only spent his own money—not the department’s—on publicity for die event because he felt it would be a conflict of interest for him to use department funds toward a candidate he personally endorsed. Gwillim Law, a Chapel Hill resident, said he read about the event in The (Raleigh) News & Observer. “I’m conservative, and I don’t feel like there is a good choice in this election,” he said. “But I liked a lot of what I heard tonight.”

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Bob Barr, Libertarian candidate for president, said Republicans and Democrats have abused executive power in a speech Tuesday.

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to participate but left before the meeting began due to a miscommunication. Phail Wynn, Duke’s vice president for Durham and regional affairs, introduced the mayor. Mamula said that although the turnout was less than expected, those who came benefitted from hearing several different political parties discuss relevant policy issues. She added that the lack of a Republican voice may have had a negative impact on the conversation. “Obviously, from a holistic approach, it would have been a much more enriching conversation [if the Republican representative had stayed],” she said. The Duke-Durham relationship was also a prominent topic discussed by the panelists. “Duke is such a powerful entity,” El-Amin said. “Any-

things that were written by people their own age as they went into war 100 years ago,” she said. “That presents certain wonderful opportunities in engaging writing and thinking about its power. It gets students thinking about how 18-year-olds used writing to express their dread, love and grief long ago. There are particular opportunities in each course to do this differently.” These courses will not replace the freshman Writing 20 requirement, and Neuschel said her project has benefited from the support of the Robert Thompson, Jr. Writing Program. “We are working within established curricular guidelines,” she said. “Duke has a national visibility in its writ-

“I am very concerned with [students']

relationship with the neighborhood when they live off-campus.... It's a two-way street between the Durham community and Duke students.” Theresa El-Amin, co-chair of the Triangle area Green Party where you get your health care in Durham, you are getting it from Duke. And because of that, we are in the position where we can have a town-gown, or university-community, relationship that is just not possible in other communities.” El-Amin added, however, that this relationship can be strained when the Duke and Durham communities clash. “I am very concerned with [students’] relationship with the neighborhood when they live off campus,” she said, referencing off-campus parties hosted by students that sometimes disrupt neighborhoods surrounding the campus. “It’s a two-way street between the Durham community and Duke students.” Benson —responding to a question about students’ re-

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lationship with the Durham Police Department posed by sophomore Andrew Brown, Duke Student Government’s vice president for Durham and regional affairs—said students can improve upon the relationship by establishing ties with the department. “The only time you meet [DPD] is when you’re doing something you shouldn’t be doing, or when they show up and you’re at a loss and you’re angry,” Benson said. “I encourage Duke students to come up with an excuse to positively interact with the police. In all my interactions with the city and county police, I have been impressed by their professionalism, by their sensitivity and by their tremendous interest to try and help. And I’ll tell you something— I see that with Duke students, too.” For the past 12 years, the CSC has hosted town hall meetings on campus during election season so that students can become involved in local politics, Mamula noted.

“Our Writing 20 program is so strong and interdisciplinary. I’m in no way taking away a piece of the writing program, Fm trying to build on it.” Kristen Neuschel, associate professor of history ing program. Our Writing 20 program is so strong and interdisciplinary. I’m in no way taking away a piece of the writing program. I’m trying to build on it. The fact that we have two writing course requirements on top of Writing 20 means there is a structure in which I can experiment.” Joseph Harris, director of the Robert Thompson, Jr. Writing Program and associate professor of English,

said he is enthusiastic about the project. “Neuschel has been in close contact with me over the past year as she has been thinking about this project,” he said. “I think it is a great idea, and I hope the writing program can collaborate with her as she moves ahead.”

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accused Mangum of changing her story multiple times during the investigation, though Mangum writes in the book that her account of events never changed. Attorneys said Mangum told investigators in April 2006 that she was “100-percent sure” Seligmann had sexually assaulted her orally, but she said in December 2006 that Seligmann did not assault her at all. Tests showed no matches between DNA from members of the lacrosse team and samples taken from Mangum, defense lawyers said in April 2006. But in the memoir, Mangum says she believes there may be DNA tests that tell a “different story,” and calls for sealed files in the case to be released in order to restore her reputation. “Since there is no chance that a criminal case will go to trial in this matter, I am calling for Attorney General Roy Cooper to release all of the records to the public,” she writes. Several lawsuits have followed from the case, filed by the three wrongly indicted players, three unindicted players and 38 unindicted players. None of the suits target Mangum; Evans’ attorney Joe Cheshire told WRAL in August that the three wrongly indicted players felt Mangum had been somewhat victimized by the proceedings and decided not to pursue criminal charges against her. Clark said Mangum’s story is relevant to the proceedings of these ongoing suits. “The civil cases working through the courts will be heard at some point. People can’t have it both ways. We can’t be asked to consider the merits of the case based only on one point of view,” he said.

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BAGHDAD Iraq’s government decided Tuesday to formally ask the United States to reopen negotiations on a proposed deal to keep American troops here past the end of the year. The U.S. suggested it may not be ready to offer more concessions. That cast doubt oh whether the agreement can win parliamentary approval by the end of 2008, when the U.N. mandate expires—and with it the legal basis for the U.S. military to operate in Iraq. The U.S. has warned that without an agreement oran extension of the mandate, military operations would cease, including not only combat operations but also infrastructure projects and aid to Iraq’s government.

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the decision to ask for more talks was taken after Cabinet members submitted amendments to the draft. They asked Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to present them to the Iraqi negotiating team. Al-Dabbagh described the amendments as “essential” before the prime minister can submit the draft to parliament. Al-Maliki has said he won’t submit the document to the 275-member legislature unless he is confident it can win overwhelming ap-

proval.

In Washington, White House press secretary Dana Perino said the Bush administration may talk to the Iraqis about their proposed amendments, but that “it will just be a very high bar for them to clear for us to change anything” in the agreement. She said U.S. officials have not seen the amendments list. “It might be something we can work

with, it might not,” Perino said. “We have provided them with our best thinking on it, our best offer. We think that the door is pretty much shut on these negotiations.” For nearly two weeks, Iraqi politicians have been considering the draft agreement, which would keep U.S. troops in Iraq through 2011 unless both sides agree that they could stay longer. The draft would also give the Iraqis a greater role in supervising U.S. military operations and allow Irjaqi courts to try U.S. soldiers and contractors accused of major

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U.S. soldiers inspect a damaged car after a car bomb explosion at an outdoor market in Baghdad Tuesday. U.S. diplomats in Baghdad. The official said the changes were mosdy attempts to clarify parts of the text that the Cabinet found open to interpretation. He said the changes were introduced in both the English and Arabic texts of the agreement. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to talk about the discussions. Neither the official or al-Dabbagh elaborated on the changes. Some Iraqi politicians have complained that the parts dealing with Iraqi jurisdiction were unclear. They also wanted clarification of the

conditions under which U.S. troops might be asked to stay after Dec. 31, 2011. The agreement, reached after months of tough negotiations, has stirred a political storm in Iraq, with most of the major political groups reluctant to take a clear position for or against the deal. Only the radical group led by antiAmerican Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has taken a public stand on the agreement. The group, which holds 30 seats in parliament, has rejected it outright. Al-Maliki has not publicly committed himself to the current draft.

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Duke has kept everyone guessing all year. The new-look Blue Devils sprinted out to a 3-1 start that turned heads nationwide. Then, they regressed, losing two games that were reminiscent of the Ted Roof era. With the back-loaded half of the season on the horizon, bowl talk ceased. Campus attention turned to basketball. And then Saturday’s win over Vanderbilt changed everything once again. Sporting a winning record this late in the season for the first time since 1994—the last lime Duke went to a bowl—the Blue Devils are still contenders, something altogether new for every player on the team. Matthew “College football Novembers are really fun,” head coach David CutOn Football cliffe said. ‘You get to decide who the conference champions are or who you may play in a conference championship game. You got the battle going on for the national championship game. You got the battle for echelon of bowl games, you got the battles to get in bowl games. “I looked at them right now, and I said, ‘Welcome to November.’” Duke has five conference games in November, meaning the importance of the Vanderbilt win cannot be overstated. After a shutout loss and another in which Cutcliffe said he was discouraged to see that some players seemed to quit, no one would have been surprised if Duke failed to put on the brakes against the Commodores. The Blue Devils could have been 3-4, caught in a relentlessly turbulent tailspin. “When you get beat, there’s a couple of responses,” Cutcliffe said. “You can hang your head when you lose a game—you can lose your confidence when you lose a game, coach or player. Or you can go rebuild your confidence through hard work.”

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Uniforms don’t necessarily imply uniformity. Just look at the Blue Devils on game day. From wide receiver Eron Riley to Duke’s stable of running backs, wearing a sweatband above the elbow has emerged as a popular fashion statement. The trend, rampant in the NCAA and NFL, has been flourishing for years. “You want to look pretty and everything,” Riley said. “It’s something I did when I first got here. I saw the other guys doing it, and I just copied and just continued doing it from then on.” Riley is one of many Duke players who can be seen sporting the sweatbands. The rookie was influenced by some of Duke’s best players at the time, including standout comerback John Talley and wide receiver Jomar Wright, who graduated in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Now, most of the Blue Devils’ skill players have emulated Riley, even though functionality is not on the senior’s mind. “We do it just ‘cause,” he said. The sweatbands, which can be seen anywhere from the crook of the elbow to the bicep, do little to clean up sweat. Riley said he wears the sweatbands on his legs and will even put them on over longsleeve shirts, proving that, sometimes, football takes a backseat to fashion. “It depends on what color I wear,” Riley said. “If I wear blue sleeves, I wear the white [sweatbands]. If I wear white sleeves, I probably won’t.” Riley said the sweatbands only serve a sartorial purpose. But his teammate said that the trend is characteristic of a larger fashion ethic in football: excess. “When guys get the chance to put on as much gear as possible, they do,“ sophomore punter Kevin Jones said.

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Duke entered its game Tuesday against not allowed a goal in its previous three contests. And despite playing without ACC Player of the Week Brendan Fitzgerald, the Mcolg team managed to keep the streak alive and extend it to 386 straight minutes. On a wintry night at Koskinen Stadium, the Blue Devils once again froze out their competition, blanking Colgate 1-0. Freshman Jan Tranka-Amrhein filled in for Fitzgerald and came up strong for Duke (9-5-2), tallying three saves, including a

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spectacular one in the 18th minute. Colgate midfielder Jeff Leach unleashed a massive kick from about 20 yards out, and TrankaAmrhein dove in the air, smacking the ball down with a resounding thud. The Blue Devils came into the game severely undermanned on the defensive side of the ball. Fitzgerald was out with a shoulder injury sustained in a 1-0 win over Virginia Saturday, and senior captain Darrius Barnes sat on the bench after receiving a red card against the Cavaliers. The lack of experience had head coach John Kerr scrambling to keep his defense together. “We keep changing the numbers of our defense,” Kerr said. “But they’ve been resilient. They play tough. This team gave us a SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 15

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FOOTBALL f,cm page 12 “My arms aren’t big enough.” Of course, not everyone is as chic as Riley. His quarterback, Thaddeus Lewis, said he doesn’t subscribe to a theory of excess, even though he has worn thin sweatbands around his elbow at times this season. “Some people have rituals. Some people feel like it might stop the sweat,” Lewis said. “Ijust wear sleeves if it’s cold. I’d just rather go out there and play. [At] this level, it’s about being as light as possible.” But that doesn’t mean he’s never been caught playing the football fashionista. Lewis admitted to wearing some sweatbands during his days at Hialeah-Miami

Lakes High School in Florida. “If you caught me playing little league or high school football, there’d be some fashion,” he said. “I had, like, four wristbands at Homecoming [in high school].” But the trend can only be seen on the field. Riley occasionally wears the sweatbands during practices, but it is a tradition he normally saves for games. And there are no lucky sweatbands—Riley simply dons whatever he can find. And even though the gridiron might double as Bryant Park yet, the trend is becoming more and more prevalent. Even the nay-sayers are considering jumping on the bandwagon. “It makes me want to do it now,” Jones said.

Of course, by now, the Blue Devils have shown just how hard they worked to rebound. With renewed focus, the win gives Duke a huge boost heading into the final stretch of the season, wideout Eron Riley said. And even though Cutcliffe’s predictions had not fallen short much at all during his first year at the helm, nobody could have imagined the power ofhis clairvoyance at the beginning of the season. “I was asked by all of you before the season started, and every time I said the same thing,” Cutcliffe said. “This team will be defined in November.” Duke’s game Saturday at Wake Forest falls on Nov. 1. So now what? Before the year began, most people would have considered a four-win season a remarkable success, especially considering Duke had managed just three combined over the last three campaigns. Get this, though: The Blue Devils only need to finish 2-3 and they will be bowleligible. Just writing that sentence makes me feel like the bullpen catcher telling his pitcher he’s got a perfect game going into the fifth inning. Under Cutcliffe’s tutelage, though, Duke differentiatesitselffrom the pitcher in two ways. One, no player would listen to what I have to say. Two, despite being able to taste something Duke has never even glimpsed before, the team’s message has remained sternly disciplined. “We’re in one-game seasons,” Cutcliffe said. “We’re playing one game at a time. You have to dothat... Ifwe get beyond that, I think we’re making a major mistake.” And the players have bought in, too,

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remaining cool, calm and repetitive. “You can’t look past the task at hand,” quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said. “Coach Cut has done a great job of just making sure we focus on one team at a time.” “Our focus is on one-week seasons,” Riley said. “We’re 0-0 against Wake Forest.” The first game in what at one point appeared to be a gear-grinding second-half stretch. The Demon Deacons have underachieved this year, though, losing three of their last four games. Over the last two seasons, as Wake Forest established itself as one of America’s favorite Cinderellas and Duke retained its long-term lease on the ACC cellar, the Blue Devils still played close, losing by a combined six points. And with November here, Duke could begin to define itself in the way Cutcliffe imagined back in December. A win this weekend and then another a week later against a 2-6 N.C. State team, and Duke is bowl-... Oh, wait, I forgot. One game at a time

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Duke entered the final round of the UNC-Greensboro Golf Collegiate Tuesday in third place. Eighteen holes later, the Blue Devils had picked up their first tournament win of the season. Led by Adam Long, who finished the tournament tied for fourth with an even-par 216, Duke made up four strokes in the first three holes and ended up carding a four-stroke team win at Forest Oaks Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. Freshman Spencer Anderson winded up tied for seventh with a l-over 217, and senior Michael Quagliano finished tied for 13th. Quagliano’s eagle and two birdies on the back nine paced his 2-under-par 70 Tuesday and boosted the Blue Devils to the win. Clark Klaasen and Wes Roach both tied for 30th place with final scores of 8-over. “I am very proud of our team,” Duke head coach O.D. Vincent said. “The guys showed a ton of resilience and heart.” With the win, the Blue Devils head into the offseason on a high note. They don’t play again until they begin spring competition in February. “We have a lot to work on during the offseason, but this win will be tremendous motivation for the spring,” Vincent said.

M. SOCCER from page 12 run for our money tonight and created a lot pf problems, but we defended well.” The offense had a tough time finding momentum during the game. Several fast breaks were stopped by the unyielding defense of the Raiders (8-5-3). The breakthrough goal came in the 79th minute when defender Nick Sih scored in the top left comer of the goal. “It was a great serve by Mike Grella on the free kick,” Kerr said. “Christian [lbeagha] got himself in a great position and instead of trying to score, he decided to put it right across the box. Nick came in from a deep position and finished it off nicely with his leftfoot” Colgate almost had a chance to score and send the game into overtime with seven seconds left. Colgate’s Steven Miller kicked a skipping shot that was lost in a group of players before TrankaAmrhein triumphandy dove on the ball, ending the game. While the defense is hurting and imperfect, it remains confident in their ability to bounce back from anything. ‘We bend but we don’t break,” said lan Kalis, who assisted Sih’s tally. ‘We make some mistakes, but we’re able to recover.”

Despite playing without two cornerstones of their defense, the Blue Devils managed to shut out Colgate Tuesday in a 1-0 win.

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lords of various Colombian drug cartels who refine the raw product on the Pacific or Caribbean coast. These cartels then sell to powerful Mexican gTCgOFy ItlOrriSOll cartels that make the talleyrand report their profit by shipping the finished product into the United States across the porous southern border. To tell the truth, the life of a drug lord is quite appealing. I once told an elementary school teacher that I wanted to be a Colombian drug lord when I grew up. It was the big hacienda with the beautiful woman and the semi-official motorcade that got ,

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don’t use cocaine. But if I did, I would read this column especially closely. In the international cocaine trade, things are changing. Quickly. U.S. cocaine has long followed the same route. It goes from farms generally operated by Marxist revolutionaries in lorn

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a grave social problem that should neither be frivolously levelled nor dismissed. Crystal Mangum is a vulnerable person whom we should pity. But we cannot forget that her claims were false, loud and damaging. The final tragedy, in this story where no one wins, is that Mangum’s book attempts to refocus the discussion on an allegation that should stay at rest. Rather than dwell on a particular event that did not happen, the discussion should be focused on the real issues that have arisen from that case—Duke-Durham relations, the Durham Police and Duke campus culture. That’s constructive conversation. That’s how we need to move on.

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community—not all, but a few—have used the narrative as fodder to fuel hateful and racially charged statements and demonstrations. And even in this case, it seems as if her agent, Vincent Clark, is using the book as a media marketing opportunity for his company, fire! Films and Books. The company’s Web site has a statement that reads: “The people in society needing the most protection are the ones most vulnerable to abuse. Left on the outside looking in and their voices silenced for fear that the truth will be revealed.” This is an important and valuable statement. It should not be cheapened. It should not be used for personal gain. Sexual assault is

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A drug lord is like a feudal lord. People owe him loyalty (and service). He has his fiefs. His organization is a transnational corporation—Exxon with AK-475. Sadly, for all children who aspire to run their own cartels, this way of life is becoming extinct. Colombia is the third-largest recipient of American foreign aid. ColombianPresident Alvaro Uribe has reorganized the military (with the help of the U.S. Special Forces) and has taken the fight to the Revolutionary ArmedForces ofColombia, known by the Spanish acronym FARC, Marxist rebels who for so long have kept Colombia unstable and wracked by violence. One by one, the military is hunting down and killing the FARC’s top commanders. In a recent daring raid, Colombian forces seized FARC’s most valuable batch of hostages, including international cause celebre Ingrid Betancourt. As the Marxist rebels lose battles, they lose territory. As they lose territory, they lose their cocoa fields. On the other hand, Uribe has also disarmed right wing paramilitary groups. These organizations were often no more than gangs of extortionists, terrorists who bought and then refined Marxist cocoa. Journalists and trade unionists are now much closer to being able to work without fear. The judiciary is flexing its muscles, issuing rulings against military figures, government officials and even members of the president’s family. Uribe has accepted this as natural and proper.

As the military wins land, production of cocoa decreases. As production decreases, so does the revenue for the terrorists. As their revenue decreases, so does their violence. As violence decreases, the military wins more control ofrebel-held areas. With our help (at least, the help ofall of us who pay taxes), Uribe has broken a cycle of terror, violence and misery. To the surprise of many, Colombia is becoming a better place. “So what?” ask the non-addicts among you, The problem is that the work of stabilization and democratization undertaken by Uribe with the strong support of the Bush administration is in danger. To sustain the positive trends of peace, Colombians need to see economic improvement. They need to feel its effects in their wallets. They need to have the Colombia Free Trade Agreement passed by the U.S. Congress. Most of us agree that free trade—excepting, of course, that in cocaine—is a good thing. Increased competition increases specialization which, in the end, lowers the price of goods for the consumer (aka you, me and the average Colombian). The political progress of Colombia must be followed with economic progress, and that progress can be our gift, as American voters. Ratification of the agreement is simply the right thing to do. The Colombians clearly deserve the passage of this agreement—l even called a staffer in one of the congressional leadership offices and asked what the big holdup was. I’ll tell it to you straight: The Bush-backed free trade agreement can’t be supported by Democrats in an election year, so House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is keeping it off the agenda. She actually has the votes for passage: Combined with the Republicans, there are enough free-trade Democrats to pass the agreement. After the 2008 elections, the Colombia Free Trade Agreement should be brought to a vote. Ifwe are serious about helping democracy in the world, and I believe we are, then we should put our money where our mouth is. Write to your congressperson (especially if yon are from Pelosi’s district) and ask him or her to support the free trade deal with Colombia. Colombia is our ally and a democracy. Because Congress hasn t acted yet, only you and I, it seems, can create the momentum we need in order to do the right thing by our southern friends. At the very least, Sunday’s seizure of $2OO million worth ofcocaine by the Colombian police deserves some concrete recognition and attention.

Gregory Morrison is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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above all else is help. The cliche of letting sleeping dogs lie fits the situation well, as the recent statement by the father of wrongly indicted lacrosse player Reade Seligmann regarding a potential lawsuit shows. Successful book sales will give more of an incentive for the people she has accused to potentially file suit against her for libel. Though there is no condoning the false accusations that Mangum has brought against Duke students, she is not the only one at faulthere. All along, she has been used by others to her great disadvantage. Her story was used by disgraced former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong as a political ploy to win an election. Additionally, other elements of the Durham

Crystal to be a memoir of Mangum’s life. In it, she alleges that the accuser Mangum, in the Duke lacrosse she was raped on two sepacase, re-opened a wound rate occasions before 2006. that was in bad need of Although neither charge has been healing. definitively Alongeditorial disproved, side her neither has been proved, agent, Vincent Clark, Mangum held a press conference either, and both were later to announce the release dropped. Mangum’s father of her new book, in which has also said one incident she again claims that she had not happened. But the most disturbing was sexually assaulted at a March 13, 2006 party at 610 allegation of all is Mangum’s N. Buchanan Blvd., a charge insistence that an assault did famously refuted by North occur in 2006. All the eviCarolina Attorney General dence points to the contrary, and the state has exonerated Roy Cooper. In releasing this book, the wrongly indicted players Mangum is not doing herself, of all charges. the lacrosse team, Durham or Mangum has no credibility in these matters, and her the University any good. The book, “The Last renewed claims threaten no Dance for Grace,” purports one. What she clearly needs

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Conservative hypocrisy

1964, Barry Goldwater ran for president as the Republican candidate. Before he died in 1998, he gained a reputation for having founded the conservative ideology that the party once stood for. Given the current state of his party, “Mr. Conservative” must be turning in his grave. The once-proud GOP has completely lost its ideological bearings. Goldwater’s candidacy was something of a turning point in American politics. Although he was defeated by one of the largest electoral margins in history, a look at the map illustrates the matt graham Bible Belt’s migration into the Republican column. Goldwater honestly speaking won six states: his home state of Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Goldwater opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act because of states’ rights, which white southerners misinterpreted as racism. This laid the groundwork for the Republican “southern strategy” that transformed the South into a safe haven for socially “conservative” candidates. The ideology espoused by Goldwater attracted many true conservatives who support limited government in practice and in principle. Goldwater’s wife, Hattie, was a Republican who helped establish Arizona’s wing of an organization dedicated to the core conservative value of limited government It’s an organization that values personal choice over government intrusion into citizens’ personal lives. Known as Planned Parenthood, one would be hard-pressed to find a present-day “conservative” who supports this group as strongly as Mr. Conservative did. This disconnectbetween conservativeidealsand whatthe Republican party has come to stand for stems from the misunderstanding of conservatism that first brought Evangelicals into the Republican fold. These people, now known as the Republican base, are social tyrants who believe that the government should tell people who to marry and whether or not they can have an abortion. They came to the party because they bought a distorted version of its ideology, and they managed to ruin it for everyone else in the party too. The hypocrisy of a party that speaks conservatism out of one side of its mouth and tyranny out of the other is inherentand inescapable. Today, the GOP’s paradoxical support of and opposition to limited government is tearing the party apart In an ideal world, true conservatives could demand that the Republican Party put its money where its mouth is, but it is not that easy to break out of a political paradox. Even the most principled and independentminded conservatives have found themselves tom by the coalition they rely on for electoral support. Sen. John McCain, for example, used to support abortion rights, but changed his position to satisfy the base. The modem Republican party has strayed so far from its conservative roots that Goldwater’s family recently endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. As Goldwater’s granddaughter put it, “the Republican brand has been tarnished in a shameless effort to gain votes.” This corruption has culminated in the choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as the vice presidential nominee for no other reason than her gender. Today, being conservative has become little more than a misnomer. Political pandering has compromised all aspects of the message. Over the past eight years, Republicans have allowed limited government to become one of those ideas that sounds good in principle, but can’t be practiced properly. Tax cuts are supposed to come with spending cuts, but instead, political realities have made Republicans afraid to actually make the spending cuts that are necessary to counterbalance decreases in revenue. Big government can’t operate on the budget ofa small one, but that is what Republicans have come to stand for. Even McCain, who once had the fortitude to stand against the Bush tax cuts, has fallen into that trap (notice a pattern? What a maverick!). The fact thatRepublicans doubled the national debt before a crisis that might actually merit deficit spending proves that conservatism, as presently practiced, is anything but conservative. Goldwater understood that his party’s pandering to social conservatives would be its undoing. In 1992, he fiercely opposed the inclusion of abortion in the party platform, predicting that ifit were added, “the convention will go down in shambles as will the election.” His party did not listen, and today, it is paying the price for choosing politics over principle. As a Democratic landslide this Tuesday becomes increasingly likely, true conservatives should hope that the party that once represented them is soundly defeated. A loss would send an important message to party leaders: If you want to be a conservative, be a conservative; if you want to pretend to be one, pack your bags. Matt Graham is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other

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letterstotheeditor Understanding the message of Duke Performances Thanks, first, for your Oct. 23 article about

and interview with Savion Glover before his performance last Sunday of “Bare Soundz.” The Chronicle’s support of Duke Performances programming is, as always, deeply appreciated. Because our programming is often intentionally provocative, we run the risk of communicating the wrong message. I’m afraid this may be the case in regard to Mr. Glover’s feelings about his inclusion in the series. “Shuffle & Pick” is a four-part series which, as described in the article, intends “to explore the African origins of banjo and tap, digging for roots that reach beyond minstrelsy and cakewalks into the very core of what makes art American and black.” The focus of the series is to celebrate artists who have reclaimed and made something new of these two traditionally black American art forms, tap-dancing and banjo playing. Both tap and banjo thrived in and provided sustenance for the black community prior to minstrelsy. “Shuffle & Pick” is not, in fact, intended to focus on minstrelsy, “a dark area,” as Glover points out, in American history. The minstrel tradition, clearly, relied on the denigration of both the arts forms and the black community, the community who created these forms. The “Shuffle & Pick” series takes its cue, instead, from groundbreaking artists like Glover, Corey Harris, and Tamango who are casting off the ugly ghosts of the past to create something innovative, immediate and powerful.

Finall, we believe that as a Southern institution, it is important for us to thoroughly explore a cultural history of the region without glossing over painful moments in our history—a provocative, challenging and, we believe, necessary mission.

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Director, Duke Performances Lawson transcends party As a Duke alum, I’m incredibly disappointed in The Chronicle Editorial Board’s endorsement of David Price. The only justification can be that the Editorial Board suffers from the same kind of ideological tribalism that is killing democracy in this country. BJ. Lawson is the kind of person who transcends party, and for that reason alone he is refreshing. A (true) fiscal conservative who actually respects the limits of the Constitution, he also opposes the endless war(s) we’re conducting, the Patriot Act and many other usurpations of power and civil liberty that threaten this republic. I encourage the students of Duke University to think critically about this endorsement, and then to decide, using independent thought and analysis, which candidate best supports and defends the Constitution of the United States.

Tiffany Becker Trinity ’99

Judgment day

hate generalizations,” this kid I went to high school with was always particularly fond of saying. “They’re stupid.” You probably knew him, actually. He was the guy who organized lunchtime Magic tournaments, pestered teachers mercilessly with rhetorical questions and breathed really loudly through his nose during tests According to my unauthorized Guide to Pigeonholing Your Peers, which I had been religiously reading since the sixth grade, nina hu any permutation of the three was sure to one catapult one into iconoclastic dweebdom Come to think of it, though, my high school’s version of the Nerd Club president (and I’m not being facetious here, we actually had such an organization) was the only National MeritScholar in our graduating class, so I should probably rein in the mocking before it backfires and I end up caricaturizing my own judgmental follies instead. In fact, I’ve begun to retrospectively appreciate the semantic irony behind the kid’s statement. If generalizations are indeed stupid, then what do we make of the fact that the idea itself is just that—a generalization? Should I conclude that it is equally stupid, and that I just wasted precious minutes ofmy day debating the validity ofnotions espoused by a guy who found it great fun to emulate the mannerisms of various Pokemon creatures? Back in high school, he had primarily enjoyed spouting oxymoronic riddles for the sheer thrill of being contrary, but I’m sure he would be ecstatic to see me in my currently flummoxed state of mental vexation. All philosophical conundrums aside, I have to admit, albeit rather begrudgingly, that he did have a point. We sport mental filters that label and classify our social surroundings into oversimplified groups, thus forming a deep self-prophesizing well, inundated with passingjudgments and unwarranted stereotypes. Here’s a relevant but harmless example: If I see a girl who considers leggings to be an adequate substitute for pants, I’m going to snigger. And if I see her wearing an elaborate belt over said leggings (because,

you know, one is not completely practical without the other), I will promptly text my roommate so that she may share in my delight at the fashion misfortunes of others. Yeah, it’s mean, and I would be mortified if Miss Sans Pants were to overhear my thoughts on the matter, but how is she ever going to know? (Which begs the question of why I am writing about this in the first place, but I guess sometimes even I lack judgment.) It’s one thing to peripherally critique a stranger, you see, but it’s another thing altogether for the person to actually know about it. We’re not offering them constructive criticism here; for whatever reason—whether we are gleefully inserting our immaterial opinions where they don’t belong, deriving pleasure from derision or simply compensating for our own inadequacies—we revel in our ability to mock from a distance without inflicting any real damage upon the object of our scrutiny. Indeed, you are probably doingjust that right now. “That Asian chick needs to get offher high horse,” you may be telling your friend as you read this, “She’s accusing me of being judgmental?”Pause. “And there’s nothing wrong with what I’m wearing.” Unfortunately, we all, myself included, end up doing each other a great disservice by lazily exploiting the convenience of mental compartmentalization. If, for instance, you think you have me pegged after reading a mere handful of my moderately droll anecdotes in the back pages ofThe Chronicle, then quite frankly, that’s your loss. And I’m not so shallow as to judge a person entirely based on their questionable choice of legwear, especially when I may have hitched a ride on the bandwagon myself. Plus, when we overdispense with the judgments, we render ourselves vulnerable to the debilitating paranoia that other people are secretly—or not so secretly—returning the favor. And it’s no fun to be on the receiving end of our own hypercritical tendencies. Still, although we may be quick tojudge, we should also be quick to reconsider. First impressions are not always the sole foundation upon which our social networks are established; sometimes we need that second chance to prove ourselves wrong. Generalizations may be stupid, but no more than we allow them to be. Either way, that kid deserved a lot more credit than this little columnist was ever willing to give him. Nina Hu is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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We are not callingfor anything other than an acknowledgment that Crystal was mistreated and misrepresented in the portrayals by many people. There is not one culprit. Vincent Clark, Man gum’s agent and co-author for her memoir, “The Last Dance for Grace.” See story page 1.

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racially charged statements and demonstrations. And even in this case, it seems as if her agent, Vincent Clark, is using the book as a media marketing opportunity for his company, fire! Films and Books. The company’s Web site has a statement that reads: “The people in society needing the most protection are the ones most vulnerable to abuse. Left on the outside looking in and their voices silenced for fear that the truth will be revealed.” This is an important and valuable statement. It should not be cheapened. It should not be used for personal gain. Sexual assault is

don’t use cocaine. But if I did, I wouldread this column especially closely. In the international cocaine trade, things are changing. Quickly. U.S. cocaine has long followed the same route. It goes from farms generally operated by Marxist revolutionaries in lom ua

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community —not all, but a few—have used the narrative as fodder to fuel hateful and

a grave social problem that should neither be frivolously levelled nor dismissed. Crystal Mangum is a vulnerable person whom we should pity, But we cannot forget that her claims were false, loud and damaging. The final tragedy, in this story where no one wins, is that Mangum’s book attempts to refocus the discussion on an allegation that should stay at rest. Rather than dwell on a particular event that did not happen, the discussion should be focused on the real issues that have arisen from that case—Duke-Durham relations, the Durham Police and Duke campus culture. That’s constructive conversation. That’s how we need to move on.

A sad tale of cocaine and Congress

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above all else is help. The cliche of letting sleeping dogs lie fits the situation well, as the recent statement by the father of wrongly indicted lacrosse player Reade Seligmann regarding a potential lawsuit shows. Successful book sales will give more ofan incentive for the people she has accused to potentially file suit against her for libel. Though there is no condoning the false accusations that Mangum has brought against Duke students, she is not the only one at fault here. All along, she has been used by others to her great disadvantage. Her story was used by disgraced former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong as a political ploy to win an election. Additionally, other elements of the Durham

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lords of various Colombian drug cartels who refine the raw product on the Pacific or Caribbean coast. These cartels then sell to powerful Mexican gregory mornson cartels that make the talleyrand report their profit by shipping the finished product into the United States across the porous southern border. To tell the truth, the life of a drug lord is quite appealing. I once told an elementary school teacher that I wanted to be a Colombian drug lord when I grew up. It was the big hacienda with the beautiful woman and the semi-official motorcade that got me.

A drug lord is like a feudal lord. People owe him

loyalty (and service). He has his fiefs. His organization is a transnational corporation—Exxon with AK-475. Sadly, for all children who aspire to run their own cartels, this way of life is becoming extinct. Colombia is the third-largest recipient ofAmerican foreign aid. ColombianPresident Alvaro Uribe has reorganized the military (with the help of the U.S. Special Forces) and has taken the fight to the Revolutionary Armed Forces ofColombia, known by the Spanish acronym FARC, Marxist rebels who for so long have kept Colombia unstable and wracked by violence. One by one, the military is hunting down and killing the FARC’s top commanders. In a recent daring raid, Colombian forces seized FARC’s most valuable batch of hostages, including international cause celebre Ingrid Betancourt. As the Marxist rebels lose battles, they lose territory. As they lose territory, they lose their cocoa fields. On the other hand, Uribe has also disarmed right wing paramilitary groups. These organizations were often no more than gangs of extortionists, terrorists who bought and then refined Marxist cocoa. Journalists and trade unionists are now much closer to being able to work withoutfear. The judiciary is flexing its muscles, issuing rulings against military figures, government officials and even members of the president’s family. Uribe has accepted this as natural and proper.

As the military wins land, production of cocoa decreases. As production decreases, so does the revenue for the terrorists. As their revenue decreases, so does their violence. As violence decreases, the military wins more control of rebel-held areas. With our help (at least, the help of all of us who pay taxes), Uribe has broken a cycle of terror, violence and misery. To the surprise of many, Colombia is becoming a better place. “So what?” ask the non-addicts among you, The problem is that the work of stabilization and democratization undertaken by Uribe with the strong support of the Bush administration is in danger. To sustain the positive trends ofpeace, Colombians need to see economic improvement. They need to feel its effects in their wallets. They need to have the Colombia Free Trade Agreement passed by the U.S. Congress. Most of us agree that free trade—excepting, of course, that in cocaine—is a good thing. Increased competition increases specialization which, in the end, lowers the price of goods for the consumer (aka you, me and the average Colombian). The political progress of Colombia must be followed with economic progress, and that progress can be our gift, as American voters. Ratification of the agreement is simply the right thing to do. The Colombians clearly deserve the passage of this agreement—l even called a staffer in one of the congressional leadership offices and asked what the big holdup was. I’ll tell it to you straight: The Bush-backed free trade agreement can’t be supported by Democrats in an election year, so House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is keeping it off the agenda. She actually has the votes for passage; Combined with the Republicans, there are enough free-trade Democrats to pass the agreement. After the 2008 elections, the Colombia Free Trade Agreement should be brought to a vote. If we are serious about helping democracy in the world, and I believe we are, then we should put our money where our mouth is. Write to your congressperson (especially if you are from Pelosi’s district) and ask him or her to support the free trade deal with, Colombia. Colombia is our ally and a democracy. Because Congress hasn t acted yet, only you and I, it seems, can create the momentum we need in order to do the right thing by our southern friends. At the very least, Sunday’s seizure of $2OO million worth of cocaine by the Colombian police deserves some concrete recognition and attention. Gregory Morrison is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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1964, Barry Goldwater ran for president as the Republican candidate. Before he died in 1998, he gained a reputation for having founded the conservative ideology that the party once stood for. Given the current state of his party, “Mr. Conservative” must be turning in his grave. The once-proud GOP has completely lost its ideological bearings. Goldwater’s candidacy was something of a turning point in American politics. Although he was defeated by one of the largest electoral margins in history, a look at the map illustrates the matt graham Bible Belt’s migration into the Republican column. Goldwater honestly speaking won six states: his home state of Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Goldwater opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act because of states’ rights, which white southerners misinterpreted as racism. This laid the groundwork for the Republican “southern strategy” that transformed the South into a safe haven for socially “conservative” candidates. The ideology espoused by Goldwater attracted many true conservatives who support limited government in practice and in principle. Goldwater’s wife, Hattie, was a Republican who helped establish Arizona’s wing of an organization dedicated to the core conservative value of limited government It’s an organization that values personal choice over government intrusion into citizens’ personal lives. Known as Planned Parenthood, one would be hard-pressed to find a present-day “conservative” who supports this group as strongly as Mr. Conservative did. This disconnectbetween conservative idealsand whatthe Republican party has come to stand for stems from the misunderstanding of conservatism that first brought Evangelicals into the Republican fold. These people, now known as the Republican base, are social tyrants who believe that the government should tell people who to marry and whether or not they can have an abortion. They came to the party because they bought a distorted version ofits ideology, and they managed to ruin it for everyone else in the party too. The hypocrisy of a party that speaks conservatism out of one side of its mouth and tyranny out of the other is inherent and inescapable. Today, the GOP’s paradoxical support of and opposition to limited government is tearing the party apart. In an ideal world, true conservatives could demand that the Republican Party put its money where its mouth is, but it is not that easy to break out of a political paradox. Even the most principled and independentminded conservatives have found themselves tom by the coalition they rely on for electoral support. Sen. John McCain, for example, used to support abortion rights, but changed his position to satisfy the base. The modem Republican party has strayed so far from its conservative roots that Goldwater’s family recendy endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. As Goldwater’s granddaughter put it, “the Republican brand has been tarnished in a shameless effort to gain votes.” This corruption has culminated in the choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as the vice presidential nominee for no other reason than her gender. Today, being conservative has become little more than a misnomer. Political pandering has compromised all aspects of the message. Over the past eight years, Republicans have allowed limited government to become one of those ideas that sounds good in principle, but can’t be practiced properly. Tax cuts are supposed to come with spending cuts, but instead, political realities have made Republicans afraid to actually make the spending cuts that are necessary to counterbalance decreases in revenue. Big government can’t operate on the budget of a small one, but that is what Republicans have come to stand for. Even McCain, who once had the fortitude to stand against the Bush tax cuts, has fallen into that trap (notice a pattern? What a maverick!). The fact that Republicans doubled the national debt before a crisis that might actually merit deficit spending proves that conservatism, as presently practiced, is anything but conservative. Goldwater understood that his party’s pandering to social conservatives would be its undoing: In 1992, he fiercely opposed the inclusion ofabortion in theparty platform, predicting that ifit were added, “the convention will go down in shambles as will the election.” His party did not listen, and today, it is paying the price for choosing politics over principle. As a Democratic landslide this Tuesday becomes increasingly likely, true conservatives should hope that the party that once represented them is soundly defeated. A loss would send an important message to party leaders; If you want to be a conservative, be a conservative; if you want to pretend to be one, pack your bags. Matt Graham is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other

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letterstotheeditor Understanding the message of Duke Performances Thanks, first, for your Oct. 23 article about and interview with Savion Glover before his performance last Sunday of “Bare Soundz.” The Chronicle’s support of Duke Performances pro-

gramming is, as always, deeply appreciated.

Because our programming is often intention-

ally provocative, we run the risk of communicating the wrong message. I’m afraid this may be the case in regard to Mr. Glover’s feelings about

his inclusion in the series. “Shuffle & Pick” is a four-part series which, as described in the article, intends “to explore the African origins of banjo and tap, digging for roots that reach beyond minstrelsy and cakewalks into the very core of what makes art American and black.” The focus of the series is to celebrate artists who have reclaimed and made something new of these two traditionally black American art forms, tap-dancing and banjo playing. Both tap and banjo thrived in and provided sustenance for the black community prior to minstrelsy. “Shuffle & Pick” is not, in fact, intended to focus on minstrelsy, “a dark area,” as Glover points out, in American history. The minstrel tradition, clearly, relied on the denigration of both the arts forms and the black community, the community who created these forms. The “Shuffle & Pick” series takes its cue, instead, from groundbreaking artists like Glover, Corey Harris, and Tamango who are casting off the ugly ghosts of the past to create something innovative, immediate and powerful.

Aaron Greenwald Director, Duke Performances Lawson transcends party As a Duke alum, I’m incredibly disappointed in The Chronicle Editorial Board’s endorsement of David Price. The only justification can be that the Editorial Board suffers from the same kind of ideological tribalism that is killing democracy in this country. BJ. Lawson is the kind of person who transcends party, and for that reason alone he is refreshing. A (true) fiscal conservative who actually respects the limits of the Constitution, he also opposes the endless war(s) we’re conducting, the Patriot Act and many other usurpations of power and civil liberty that threaten this republic. I encourage the students of Duke University to think critically about this endorsement, and then to decide, using independent thought and analysis, which candidate best supports and defends the Constitution of the United States.

Tiffany Becker Trinity ’99

Judgment day

hate generalizations,” this kid I went to high school with was always particularly fond of saying.

“They’re stupid.”

You probably knew him, actually. He was the guy who organized lunchtime Magic tournaments, pestered teachers mercilessly with rhetorical questions and breathed really loudly through his nose during tests According to my unauthorized Guide to Pigeonholing Your Peers, which I had been reading religiously since the sixth grade, nina hu any permutation of the three was sure to one flgh catapult one into icon oclastic dweebdom Come to think of it, though, my high school’s version of the Nerd Club president (and I’m not being facetious here, we actually had such an organization) was the only National Merit Scholar in our graduating class, so I should probably rein in the mocking before it backfires and I end up caricaturizing my own judgmental follies instead. In fact, I’ve begun to retrospectively appreciate the semantic irony behind the kid’s statement. If generalizations are indeed stupid, then what do we make of the fact that the idea itself is just that—a generalization? Should I conclude that it is equally stupid, and that I just wasted precious minutes of my day debating the validity of notions espoused by a guy who found it great fun to emulate the mannerisms of various Pokemon creatures? Back in high school, he had primarily enjoyed spouting oxymoronic riddles for the sheer thrill of being contrary, but I’m sure he would be ecstatic to see me in my currently flummoxed state of mental vexation. All philosophical conundrums aside, I have to admit, albeit rather begrudgingly, that he did have a point. We sport mental filters that label and classify our social surroundings into oversimplified groups, thus forming a deep self-prophesizing well, inundatedwith passingjudgments and unwarranted stereotypes. Here’s a relevant but harmless example; If I see a girl who considers leggings to be an adequate substitute for pants, I’m going to snigger. Amd if I see her wearing an elaborate belt over said leggings (because,

you know, one is not completely practical without the other), I will promptly text my roommate so that she may share in my delight at the fashion misfortunes of others. Yeah, it’s mean, and I would be mortified if Miss Sans Pants were to overhear my thoughts on the matter, but how is she ever going to know? (Which begs the question of why I am writing about this in the first place, but I guess sometimes even I lack judgment.) It’s one thing to peripherally critique a stranger, you see, but it’s another thing altogether for the person to actually know about it. We’re not offering them constructive criticism here; for whatever reason—whether we are gleefully inserting our immaterial opinions where they don’t belong, deriving pleasure from derision or simply compensating for our own inadequacies —we revel in our ability to mock from a distance without inflicting any real damage upon the object of our scrutiny. Indeed, you are probably doingjust that right now. “That Asian chick needs to get off her high horse,” you may be telling your friend as you read this, “She’s accusing me of being judgmental?” Pause. “And there’s nothing wrong with what I’m wearing.” Unfortunately, we all, myself included, end up doing each other a great disservice by lazily exploiting the convenience of mental compartmentalization. If, for instance, you think you have me pegged after reading a mere handful of my moderately droll anecdotes in the back pages of The Chronicle, then quite frankly, that’s your loss. And I’m not so shallow as to judge a person entirely based on their questionable choice of legwear, especially when I may have hitched a ride on the bandwagon myself. Plus, when we overdispense with the judgments, we render ourselves vulnerable to the debilitating paranoia that other people are secretly—or not so secretly—returning the favor. And it’s no fun to be on the receiving end of our own hypercritical tendencies. Still, although we may be quick tojudge, we should also be quick to reconsider. First impressions are not always the sole foundation upon which our social networks are established; sometimes we need that second chance to prove ourselves wrong. Generalizations may be stupid, but no more than we allow them to be. Either way, that kid deserved a lot more credit than this little columnist was ever willing to give him. Nina Hu is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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