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Investor donates Family law expert named dean to Pratt facilities A 20-year Duke veteran, Katharine Bartlett will take the helm of the law school

By JAIME LEVY

The University recently announced a $5 million gift from hedge fimd manager Jeffrey Vinik. The engineering school will use the money to accommodate new faculty.

By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

Jeffrey Vinik, engineering ’Bl, and his wife Penny gave the Pratt School of Engineering its second multi-million dollar gift in three months, President Nan Keohane announced Dec. 16.

The $5 million donation will help renovate current space and create new facilities for the 20 new faculty hires planned by Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson and facilitated by Edmund Pratt’s $35 million naming gift in October 1999.

“As an alumnus who knows about investments and cares about Duke, Jeff saw the needs here clearly and wanted to make a difference—and his gift surely will do that,”Keohane said yesterday. “It will also continue the momentum established by Ed Pratt’s generous gift, and help the Pratt School ofEngineering reach new levels ofexcellence.”

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Duke, Vinik went to Harvard Business School and then began working at Fidelity Investments. He managed the nation’s largest mutual fund—Fidelity Magellan—for four years and helped it grow from $2O billion to more than $5O billion. He now runs Vinik Asset Management, a hedge fund he foundSee GIFT on page 27

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As each of the University’s branches begins its strategic planning initiative, the School of Law has just been given a chief strategist.

After a 10-month national search, insider Katharine Bartlett was appointed in December to be the law school’s 12th dean.

Bartlett, the A. Kenneth Pye professor of law and an expert in family and gender law, has taught at Duke since 1979.

“Kate brings wonderful academic and leadership credentials and a lot of experience with the law school to the position,” said Provost Peter Lange, who announced the search committee’s choice. “In the end, when making the comparative judgment with the available outside candidates we concluded we would get the best leadership for the law school in this critical period of strategic planning and progress.”

Upon formal approval by the Board of Trustees in February, Bartlett will succeed Pamela Gann, who left this summer to become president of Claremont McKenna College in California.

Gann said Bartlett’s well-round-

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KATHARINE BARTLETT plans to continue the fund-raising tradition established by her predecessor and to concentrate on crafting the school’s strategic plan, edness would be an asset in her employees,” Gann said. “In other new position. “[Bartlett] cares words, she will be a very strong

about lawyers and the profession; she will represent the law school

academic leader, but she also has the personal touch to work well

well with outside constituents, [She is] a superb scholar..., a fine teacher, a very good colleague who gets along well with faculty, a very

Although Bartlett stressed that strategic planning in the law school

good leader who directs and gets things done and she will be very good on the inside with staff and

with everyone.”

would have to be collectively done, she did pinpoint a few priorities, “There is fairly widespread acSee BARTLETT on page 26

Duke enters new millennium without dreaded Y2K snags

By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

Grand McOpening McDonald’s owner-operator Ric Richards speaks at the restaurant’s debut Tuesday. With standard fast food fare, but the restaurant is decidedly Duke themed. See story, page 8.

Sipping coffee and Coke, eating brownies and watching CNN, 10 administrators spent a woefully sober turn-of-the-millennium in the Tel-Com building, monitoring campus computers for Y2K-related glitches.

After none appeared, most ofthe officials left around 1 a.m., and the Y2K command center closed without incident around 2:30 a.m. Jan. 1, 2000.

The University and Health System spent a combined $75 million replacing outdated computer systems and another $l9 million fixing other machines.

So far, only a few minor bugs have cropped up in individual departments’ systems, and these problems were fixed shortly thereafter.

“It was kind of anticlimactic,” information technology consultant Neal Paris said of the command center mood. “If there had been problems in other parts of the world, there would have been a sense that it was coming closer and closer and then arrived.”

Office of Information Technology administrators were most concerned about the campus losing power, which could have resulted in lost data on

campus UNIX systems and forced the University to fire up its emergency

generators.

After command center officials checked all power supplies and other vital systems, including the acpub system, they decided the campus had temporarily averted the problem and they turned their attention toward bugs that could appear in the next few months.

About 10 minor computer glitches

appeared throughout the Duke University Health System, David Kirby, manager of Medical Center Systems Programming, said in a statement. He could not be reached for additional comment.

Since the new millennium rang in with little more than a few sparks and surprises, computer commentators and political pundits have debated whether the Y2K bug was all hype and hubbub or a true threat averted by concentrated effort.

And ever since the bug came to

light, the University has maintained the middle ground, spending conservatively and hiring few consultants.

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Space station faces more delays INS officials will not The long-delayed In- send Cuban boy back ternational Space StaWith the Friday deadtion has been postponed line nearing for a deal once again due to flaws returning six-year-old in a booster rocket, Elian Gonzalez to his fawhile Russia’s Mir space ther in Cuba, U.S. immistation may get a new gration officials said lease on life, space offi- Tuesday they do not plan cials said Tuesday. to return him by force.

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Britain finds Pinochet unfit for trial Following Tuesday’s ruling, the former dictator may be returned to Chile

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by continuing the present extradition proceedings.”

Pinochet has been under house LONDON Britain said Tuesday night that new medical tests arrest in England for nearly 15 gium and Switzerland that have showed that Gen. Augusto Pinochet months awaiting the outcome of made extradition requests of their was unfit to stand trial in Spain complicated legal and judicial own and was asking for replies and that it was now inclined to moves surrounding the request to within a week. abandon the case against him, al- send him to Madrid to face 35 The next formal hearing in the lowing him to return home to Chile. charges of torture and conspiracy drawn out case had been scheduled Home Secretary Jack Straw reto torture stemming from the days for the end of March, but it is based of his strongman rule in Chile. leased the results of a Jan. 5 exon an appeal of the extradition amination of the 84-year-old forStraw, who has the right to end order that would become irrelevant mer Chilean dictator by four the extradition proceedings on if Straw takes the likely step of inBritish specialists and said he compassionate grounds of age and tervening before then. was “minded... to take the view health, did not make it clear how The medical report and Straw’s that no purpose would be served soon he might act. But he said he See PINOCHET on page 21 >

Merger sparks race for a faster Internet

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tensive cable television systems to deliver torrents of digital data.

Time Warner’s systems reach only about a fifth of the nation’s homes—roughly 22 million households—but Monday’s deal may well set off a chain reaction among local phone companies, long-distance giants, other cable providers and wireless carriers to step up their high-speed Internet strategies.

That scramble will include companies ranging from AT&T to Bell Atlantic, though all of them face serious technical, finanical and regulatory challenges before they can make high-speed, or broadband, access as pervasive as the telephone.

Still, even as the America Online-Time Warner deal reshapes the competitive landscape within the communications business, many analysts believe

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For most Americans, linking to cyberspace from home is akin to trying to eat a vat of thick, rich soup with a straw. With their $165 billion merger deal, America Online and Time Warner intend to start handing out ladles.

Monday’s merger agreement between America Online, the No. 1 Internet provider, and Time Warner, the media and cable television titan, is reverberating throughout the communications and media industries. But the most important impact for consumers may be how the deal advances the deployment of high-speed Internet access, enabling people to zip about the Internet at speeds previously enjoyed mostly by well-heeled businesses.

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Bike accident leaves professor in hospital

By KATHERINE STROUP The Chronicle

After sustaining massive injuries in a late December bicycling accident, a University art professor remains unconscious at Duke Hospital.

Renowned artist Vernon Pratt, 59, suffered severe head and chest injuries Dec. 21 as he was riding his bicycle along a narrow stretch of road near Lynchburg, Va. Pratt, who was on sabbatical last semester, had gone to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts to paint.

He was airlifted to the Medical Center on Dec. 28.

Although Pratt has been weaned off of a ventilator, he has yet to regain consciousness and remains listed in serious condition.

“We’re left with a body and a soul. But his mind is gone,” said his wife, Deborah Pratt. “The longer he stays unconscious, the less of a chance he has of ever coming back.”

In the weeks since the accident, police and family members have clashed over the cause of the incident.

Police officers say they have found no evidence to suggest anything other than a simple fall, but the family insists that Pratt was the victim of a hit and run.

“There was really nothing to substantiate another vehicle,” Virginia State Police Sgt. Mark Cannaday told The Herald-Sun of Durham. Specifically, police reportedly found no evidence of another vehicle’s paint on Pratt’s bike.

Deborah Pratt, however, maintains that her husband’s injuries were too severe to have been caused by a fall.

Vernon Pratt, who was wearing a helmet at the

time of the accident, suffered damage to both the right and left hemispheres ofhis brain and sustained a ruptured aorta, a broken clavicle, a punctured lung, several fractured ribs and other internal injuries.

“I am 100 percent convinced [that this was a hit and runl,” Deborah Pratt said. “Not 50, not 99.9—100 percent convinced.” She added that she has doctors who support her theory.

She also claims that police inadequately investigatSee PRATT on page 23

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Bar on points Armadillo Grill opened its downstairs bar Monday as students trickled back onto campus. General Manager Gary Harrison tends the bar, which has been under construction since the restaurant opened last semester.

Under recently enacted rules, Duke faces penalties for tossed recyclables

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ciding whether to impose a fine. “We could issue a civil penalty for one [item], but it wouldn’t be practical to do so. What we’ll be looking for is gross violations, initially.”

Offenders will receive three warnings and a visit from a supervisor before any fines are assessed. Furthermore, officials said, the city will be enforcing the law gradually to give local residents and businesses an opportunity to become accustomed to it.

“I don’t anticipate any fines for the first six months, only because I fully expect to explore the learning curve, the educational side of it,” said David McCary, the city’s director of solid waste collections.

If the University receives any fines, its sanitation officials will attempt to pass the cost along to specific offenders. “We know where the compactors come from, and so you just charge the building,” said Graham Butler, coordinator of Duke Recycles. “How the building distrib-

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A city ordinance that took effect Jan. 1 establishes fines for improperly disposing of certain recyclable materials. The law was passed several years ago, but its implementation was delayed several times; it bans newspapers, glass, cardboard and aluminum and steel cans from the city’s garbage.

If enforced strictly, the ordinance could cost the University hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, a cost Duke would distribute by examining campus dumpsters

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Nicotine researcher makes big impact in tobacco country Jed Rose, head of Duke’s Nicotine Research Center, has patented several novel treatments like the nicotine skin patch

By MEREDITH YOUNG The Chronicle Although Jed Rose may live in tobacco country, that is where his affiliation with the industry ends.

While the University’s roots are grounded in tobacco, Rose works to patent inventions that challenge the big businesses that get people hooked.

‘The leading innovations in smoking cessation are coming from tobacco country,” he said. “It is kind of ironic.”

Having stumbled into the field of nicotine research in 1979 while at the University of California at Los Angeles, Rose eventually co-invented one of the most popular and standard forms of smoking cessation tactics—the nicotine skin patch. When he moved across the country years later, he brought his expertise and his patent savvy with

him to Durham.

At Duke, Rose is a medical research professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Nicotine Research Program. Nestled behind Mad Hatter’s Bake Shop in Erwin Square, the Medical Center and Veterans’ Affairs Hospital initiative has housed many innovations that help smokers kick the habit.

Rose became hooked on nicotine research at UCLA, where he tried to figure out how nicotine is so addictive while its immediate physical effects are so subtle.

Although Rose has never taken a drag, his research still has a personal

side. “My father was a smoker and he was a physician,” he said. “He died at a fairly young age, almost certainly due to smoking.”

The reasons that smokers are stimulated by cigarettes is that nicotine stimulates the central nervous system, eventually activating the pathway that reinforces the behavior of smoking.

Nicotine also binds to receptors that cause a discharge of adrenaline from the adrenal gland.

The idea of the nicotine skin patch was bom in a car ride to a family reunion.

After discussions with his brother, a physician familiar with the use of skin patches for motion sickness, Rose began to wonder if the approach could be applicable to nicotine.

Although many experts snubbed the idea, pointing out that a skin patch would introduce nicotine at a much slower rate than smoking, Rose believed that the “seven-second hit from the lungs to the brain” was not as important as the effects of the nicotine itself.

He then began working with his mentor, Dr. Murray Jarvik, chief of the psychopharmacology unit at the West Los Angeles VA Hospital and then a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. Rose’s initial hunch proved correct, and they then turned themselves to the even more difficult proposition of patenting the treatment. “A person in New Mexico filed a patent at the same time,” Rose said. “It turns out that we were first.”

After the patent process, Rose and

DUKE RESEARCHER Jed Rose works in his laboratory at Erwin Square. At right are packs of cigarettes that he uses in his experiments. his associates at UCLA had to find a Although the nicotine patch has only company willing to market the new a 10 to 20 percent long-term success, product. It wasn’t easy.

Rose said, but other inventions have “We thought, ‘Wow, the whole world made the patch concept more effective. will beat a path to our door.’ But no Working with Edward Levin, an assocompanies were interested in working ciate professor of psychology and behavon it with us,” he said. ioral science at Duke, Rose discovered Finally, in the late 1980s, Ciba- the combination ofnicotine and mecamyGeigy—now Novartis—became one of lamine in a single skin patch would lead the sponsors ofthe nicotine skin patch, to a more effective treatment. and the first patch was launched on If combined in low doses, mecamythe market in 1991.

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N.C. letter writer threatens Many welcome the century with

historically black colleges

taking similar precautions by posting fliers and sending e-mails to students and faculty. “We are taking the letter very seriously,” Spicer said.

Boone and Spicer both said they could not remember any such threats ever occurring at theirrespective universities.

Others schools that found themselves at the brunt of the threats included Mary Homes College, Fisk University, Meharry Medical College, Tennessee State University, Oakwood College, Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University and Stillman College.

The South Carolina offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also received a similar letter.

According to the AP, some of the terminology in the letters indicate that the World Church of the Creator, a white extremist group, could be involved. President of Mary Homes College Elvalee Banks told the AP that the letter sent to her school praised the late Ben Klassen—a former resident of North Carolina—the group’s founder.

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During the holidays a number of historically black universities received a threatening letter from an unknown person or organization. Each letter was postmarked from Fayetteville, N.C., and asserted that the new millennium would bring the destruction of the black race.

Both Shaw University in Raleigh and North Carolina Central University in Durham received such letters.

Although officials at Shaw and NCCU said they could not discuss the contents of the letter, the Associated Press reported that the letter begins, “Eventually, we’ll get rid of y0u.... The year 2000, the war escalates on all niggers.”

Regina Boone, director of development and public relations at Shaw, said that the university immediately contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the letter and that the school was taking precautions.

“Our security has been tightened,” Boone said. “Our students will be given information [about the letter!.”

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The arrival of the year 2000 may have prompted gala celebrations and monumental fireworks displays around the world, but many members of the community welcomed the new millennium in quiet fashion.

Small parties, time with family and calm viewing of the festivities on television seem to have been the most popular activities for Dec. 31.

T just stayed home with my family” said Sylvia King, a staffassistant in the

Office of Institutional Equity. “We watched it all over the world.”

Many who chose to stay home said it was not a fear of terrorism or computer meltdowns that kept them inside. ‘lt was nice to be with my family—this was a special New Year’s [celebration!” said Trinity freshman Katerina Yiannibas, who spent the evening near New York City.

The Garcia family ofDurham spent midnight together—and then added a new member. A mere 11 seconds into Jan. 1, Juan David Serrano Garcia claimed the honor of being the first baby bom in the Triangle in the new millennium. His arrival at Duke Hospital, two days later than expected, was followed by proud phone calls to relatives in Texas and Mexico.

His mother, Veronica Garcia, and his father, Alejandro Serrano Villeda, shied from answering'many questions after leaving the hospital. Contacted at their

home, they would say only that Juan was “well and sleeping a lot,” Sleep was a popular activity for some older celebrants as well. T heard people shooting fireworks and I turned over and [went] back to sleep,” said Dewana Tate, who works in the office of Chancellor for Health Affairs Dr. Ralph

Snyderman.

Many Duke students said the turning of the millennium lacked any true significance, but was just an excuse to throw lavish parties.

“It’s cool to say you lived through the turn of the century, but it is just anoth-

er day,” said Brian Albarran, a graduate student who spent the night in a club in New York City. “It was too rowdy. I wanted a low-key experience.”

However, some chose to attend larger

parties, and they did not leave disappointed. “I went to Times Square and almost got arrested,” said Trinity sophomore Vik Devisetty, explaining that he

crossed police barricades to get a better view of the scene. “It was awesome.”

George Spanos spent Dec. 31 working at his uncle’s liquor store in Austin, Texas. The Trinity junior said the store had record business that evening. “It was cool watching the customers come in and prepare to party,” he said.

After weeks of build-up to Dec. 31, some students were left cynical. “It’s the whole odometer effect—the millennium is just a lot of hype.” said Pratt senior Michael Wong.

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Customers at the brand-new McDonald’s on campus probably think they’ve mistakenly wandered into a concession stand in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Employees wear Duke hats, and

small basketball nets adorn both sides

The unveiling celebration was attended by the president of McDonald’s Southeastern division Deborah Koenig and Athletic Director Joe Alieva. Several Duke and McDonald’s administrators spoke at the hour-long event, which featured champagne, french fries and McNuggets.

Trinity senior Mike Barone, chair of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, said he was very pleased with the addition of McDonald’s to the University’s dining options.

“The Dining Services Committee is really satisfied with the way things have been going and we couldn’t be happier,” he said. “Welcome to Duke.”

Richards said the McDonald’s employees have done their best to brace for the upcoming onslaught as the campus gets up to full capacity.

“We’ve worked very diligently to try to be prepared,” he said. “But we’re on a big learning curve. We’ve brought in support help—other managers from

of the restaurant. Even the floor, unveiled last night, features the Cameron seal and the signatures of both the men’s and women’s teams.

Despite its distinctively Duke ambiance, McDonald’s is serving its full menu of everything from Big Macs to the Mcßacon sandwich, according to owner-operator Ric Richards. Nearly 45 employees bustle behind the counter, staffing six registers.

As students have returned from winter break, however, the number of customers has exploded overnight.

“Usually before it was just people coming and going,” said employee Myesha Powell, guessing that Tuesday brought other restaurants.”

10 times as many customers as a typiThe result seems to be largely successful. “I think the hamburger is very cal day over break.

very good,” said Jung Suk Yu, a graduate student in economics, who added that the service and price were great.

“McDonald’s is the best,” said Kel Yin Woo, a Pratt freshman, “It’s generally good at everything, whereas Burger King is good at burgers but not good at fries.” He added that the restaurant was more expensive than other McDonald’s franchises, but was still relatively cheap compared to other University eateries.

Other students had hoped the University would land contracts with other fast-food restaurants, but were satisfied once sampling the food. “[McDonald’s is] not one of my favorite places to eat,” said Angie McCord, a Trinity freshman. “I like Wendy’s because they have different things like baked potatoes or chili, and they also have pitas.”

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said he was unsure what to expect of the first day, but had great confidence in both McDonald’s and

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Alieva was also upbeat about the possibilities of McDonald’s at the University. “I look forward to a long partnership between McDonald’s and Duke,” he said.

Although the response has been positive, Richards said he intends to offer numerous promotions and giveaways to make up for the numerous delays his franchise experienced.

“Beginning next Monday we’re going to have our grand opening week with lots of giveaways,” he said, mentioning that several mountain bikes would be among the prizes. He added that the restaurant would offer free soda today with certain purchases.

The restaurant formally opened Jan. 4 and today the restaurant goes to fulltime hours—7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Breakfast will be served until 11 a.m., a half hour later than most franchises, to accommodate students who sleep later or have early classes, Richards said.

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Electronics stolen from Central Campus apartment From staff reports

Someone stole more than $6OO in students’ property from an apartment at 221 Anderson St. between 7:40 a.m. Jan. 2 and 1 p.m. Jan. 8, said Maj. Robert Dean ofthe Duke University Police Department.

After forcing the living room window screen open and breaking the window glass, someone stole a $l5O stereo receiver, a $2OO CD player, a $9O phone, $3O cash, two Sony Playstations worth $2OO, 15 Playstation games worth $lOO and two cordless phones worth $l5O.

Items stolen: Between 8:30 and 10:35 p.m. Jan. 4, someone pried open the passenger’s vent window of an employee’s vehicle while it was parked in the area for overn ]• X UIILC sized vehicles near Parking

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The employee’s $lO black nylon fanny pack containing $5OO cash and a $lOO Motorola cellular phone was stolen, Dean said.

Jacket stolen; Someone broke into a student’s vehicle parked in the lot near N.C. 751 and stole his $4OO dark brown bomber jacket with red silk lining.

The vehicle was entered between 8:30 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. Jan. 8. The broken window was valued at $2OO. Car broken into: A student’s car was broken into while it was parked at 221 Anderson St. A Campus Police officer noticed the vehicle on Dec. 29 at 6:41 a.m. and discovered that the glove box was opened and the radio’s face plate was missing, Dean said.

Items stolen; Between 8:30 and 10:45 p.m. Jan. 6, someone stole an employee’s $25 black purse containing $240 cash, keys, credit cards and other items. The property was stolen from the employee’s unsecured office on the ninth floor ofDuke Hospital.

Wallet stolen: An employee reported that her wallet was stolen from her unsecured office on the third floor ofthe Clinical and Research Labs Building. The wallet was taken between 3 and 3:10 p.m. Jan. 7 and contained credit cards and $2OO in cash.

Equipment taken: Someone stole a $lOO black Mitsubishi VCR and a $lOO black Striker VCR from Duke Hospital’s operating rooms between 5 p.m.

Dec. 31 and 8 a.m. Jan. 3. Both VCRs are engraved “Duke 0.R.” Items stolen: An employee’s unsecured $22 change purse containing $4B cash and credit cards was stolen from her desk drawer in 1510 Duke Clinic between 2:30 and 4:45 p.m. Jan. 4, Dean said.

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Money stolen: The contents of an employee’s purse—including credit cards and $23 in cash—were stolen from an unsecured workroom on the seventh floor of Duke Hospital between 10:50 and 11 p.m.

Jan. 5.

Wallet Stolen: An employee reported that someone stole her wallet from an unsecured locker in the CARL Building locker room between 5:30 and 8:55 p.m. Dec. 26.

The $l5 wallet contained $lO cash, credit cards and personal checks. At 8:55 p.m., a visitor found the wallet without its cash, credit cards and checks in a smoking area between the CARL building and the Duke Hospital walkway.

DUPD investigates thefts: Police believe three

thefts in Duke Clinic’s Orange Zone during the first week of the new year could be related, Dean said.

An employee reported that someone stole his $2 change purse containing $2.10 cash from his office in 0365 Orange Zone in the Duke Clinic between 12 p.m. Dec. 31 and 8 a.m. Jan. 5.

There were no signs of forced entry, and the employee did not know if his office was secured.

Someone stole $1.50 in quarters from an employee’s desk drawer between 5:15 p.m. Jan. 4 and 11:30 a.m. Jan. 5.

There were no signs of forced entry to the office, located in 0364 Orange Zone.

Between 2 p.m. Jan. 4 and 11:30 a.m. Jan. 5 someone stole $5 in quarters from an employee’s desk drawer in room 0356 Orange Zone.

There were no signs offorced entry.

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Age bias law does Clinton faults China on human rights not apply to states The criticism follows China’s efforts to suppress the Falun Gong movement

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WASHINGTON Continuing its march in the direction of states’ rights, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Congress did not have the authority to bind state governments to the federal law that bars discrimination against older workers.

The national policy against age discrimination in employment could not overcome the states’ sovereign immunity from being sued in federal court, the justices, in a 5-4 majority, said in the first of five federalism rulings that the court is expected to hand down in this term. The vote was the same as in other rebuffs that justices have dealt Congress in the last five years on issues ranging from the regulation of gun possession near schools to the right of state employees to sue for overtime and of patent holders to sue states for patent infringement.

The difference this time was a notable hardening of tone, with both the majority and dissenting opinions conveying the impression that the two sides, wedded to dramatically opposing views of the authentic nature ofthe federal system, had little left to say to one another across one of the great divides in the court’s recent history.

The dissenters, led by Justice John Paul Stevens, accused the majority ofsubstituting its will for that of Congress and of displaying “the kind of judicial activism” that “represents such a radical departure from the proper role of this court that it should be opposed whenever the opportunity arises Justice Sandra Day O’Connor responded for the majority, writing that the dissenters’ refusal to accept the court’s recent rulings “makes it difficult to engage in additional meaningful debate on the place of state sovereign immunity in the Constitution.”

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WASHINGTON The Clinton administration said Tuesday that China’s human rights record has continued to deteriorate and that the United States would again sponsor a United Nations resolution criticizing the Beijing government for its crackdown on political dissent and religious freedom.

The announcement by the State Department is sure to offend China at a time when the United States is seeking to improve diplomatic and economic ties with Beijing. Just Monday, President Bill Clinton urged Congress to vote “at the earliest possible time” for a trade deal with China that was negotiated in the fall.

“China’s human rights record has continued to deteriorate,” said State Department spokesperson James Rubin. “The goal here, through this international action, is to shine an international spotlight directly on China’s human rights practices. “Over the last year, the government of China intensified its crackdown on political dissent, initiated a campaign to suppress the Falun Gong and intensified controls on unregistered churches and on the political and religious expression of ethnic minority groups, especially Tibetans.”

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Although the State Department announcement Tuesday may annoy Chinese leaders, it may make it easier for the administration to win congressional endorsement for the trade deal, which would allow China to join the World Trade Organization in exchange for dramatic reforms in Chinese trade policy.

Several lawmakers have suggested that they will oppose the trade deal as coddling a nation with an abysmal human rights record. Tuesday’s announcement appears to have been timed to show Congress that the administration is prepared to get tough on China’s record at the same time that it is pushing for closer trade ties.

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Off his rocker Although his remarks were abhorrent and inexcusable, the Atlanta Braves should not release boorish pitcher John Rocker

Atlanta

Braves pitcher John Rocker is an arrogant, immature, stupid schmuck who deserves censure and criticism for his disparaging remarks in Sports Illustrated last month,

but the subsequent course of action that the Braves and Major League Baseball have taken is not much smarter.

In an interview with the magazine, Rocker slammed New York City residents, homosexuals, single mothers, foreigners and blacks, among others. He wanted to have the last word in his battle with New York Mets fans, with whom he’s had a hate-hate relationship since last fall’s Mets-Braves series. Rocker has cultivated an inyour-face persona that led to great success and popularity, but this latest diatribe is obnoxious, obscene and offensive. Although he had every right to speak his mind, his remarks were disgusting and loathsome and he should be condemned for them However, the situation has been mishandled on all levels. The Braves were quick to distance themselves from Rocker’s comments, but they also passed the hot potato of action onto Major League Baseball. However, since this incident, although egregious, does not threaten to undermine or disrupt the sport as a whole, it should fall under the Braves’ responsibility.

Instead, Commissioner Bud Selig has stepped in, ordering Rocker to undergo psychological testing before deciding whether to impose a punishment on the pitcher. But bigotry is not a clinical psychological condition. People have a right to say what they think —it’s called free speech. Whether the general public agrees with what they say and think is an entirely different matter. Being a racist might make you ignorant, but it doesn’t mean you’re crazy.

Undoubtedly, Rocker’s slurs were devastatingly offensive—but the solution is not to release or trade him. If the Braves were to do so, it would single Rocker out for sentiments harbored by many in baseball and throughout society. Releasing him would send the message that Rocker’s decision to speak about his beliefs merited punishment, a scary thought in a free society.

Instead, the Braves should keep Rocker and censure him from within the organization. They can use his remarks to encourage a dialogue about diversity. They can use this incident to vehemently discourage discrimination, hate speech, bigotry and racism in the community.

Moreover, keeping Rocker in Atlanta won’t wipe the slate clean for him. He will have to deal with the consequences of his words by facing his teammates, bosses and fans. If Rocker continues to shoot his mouth off—or if the damage done by his previous comments leaves him unable to work with his coaches, teammates and employers—then the Braves should immediately sever ties with the troubled pitcher.

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Letters to the Editor

Chronicle contributes I am writing to respond to your recent article regarding the placement of juniors in Trent Dormitory.

Once again, I think that The Chronicle has only contributed to the “image problem” of Trent with its hyper-

bolic rhetoric.

Yes, Trent is a grueling six-minute walk from West Campus, yes, the rooms do not have enough power to support all of the electronic appliances of a $lOO,OOO home and yes, it’s not the for referenced article,

to Trent’s image

most graceful building at the University. But is it really a hellhole? It has a cafe staffed by friendly and hard-working people, a wonderful house-

keeping staff, a computer cluster and an exercise room.

I was a transfer student who was initially “exiled” there.

But it can be worse—at my old university, I spent the night before exams battling with cockroaches and showering in bathrooms cleaned once a week.

So I do not feel pain for

problem

those juniors that feel compelled to flee living at Duke

rather than discover an outof-the-way corner of this University. Their complaints, as well as The Chronicle’s endorsement of them, only reinforce the undeserved image of the average Duke student: a spoiled, rich brat who runs to mommy every time the world breaks against him.

Gary

Williams Trinity ’OO

see http:! Iwwwlchronicle! 1999/12/13/01Manyjuniors.html

Simpson trial was not the ‘Trial of the Century’ I am probably one of many that will respond to this, but on page 17 of the Dec. 9 edition of The Chronicle, the O.J. Simpson trial is called “The Trial of the Century.”

This is offensive.

In this century, we have seen the Nazis on trial in the

for referenced

history-making Nuremberg trials, Roe vs. Wade changing the history of women’s rights in this country and more, landmark civil rights cases than I can write about. Let’s leave the national embarrassment that was the Simpson trial out of such honored com-

pany as the true trials of the century. The Chronicle is a newspaper, not a high school English assignment.

Richard Kisley Graduate student, Department of Computer Science

article, see http:! /www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/1999/12/09/01Lookinginside.html

Underage drinkers should face legal repercussions Congratulations to law enforcement for confiscating

fake

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arresting the students who

made them. Why should the students in question be angry?

Duke University provides drunkards free transportation to keg parties. Why would students need to possess and make fake identifications? Is it to go to clubs and show how responsible they can be in front oflegal-age drinkers?

Freedom does come with responsibility. You can go to the West Campus Quadrangles every Thursday through Saturday and see a demonstration of the “responsibility” students possess. There is a massive clutter of beer cans and trash thrown all over campus. It doesn’t end there—there are for referenced

loud noise complaints, trips to the emergency room, fights, thefts and even scarier—rapes.

I don’t feel sorry that stu-

dents experienced police skidding up to an off-campus party and that they received citations. I don’t feel any sympathy when impaired students are hauled off to jail for causing a disturbance in a local bar or when one drinks his or herself to the emergency room. Enforcement of the laws will help deter the stupidity that is done by irresponsible underage drinkers who bother honest citizens, medical staff and other Duke employees.

When the underage drinker exhibits responsibility, maybe the drinking age will be lowered. Or maybe,

just maybe, they will have to deal with the fact that it is against the law to possess alcohol under the age of 21.

Lesson of the day: Underage drinking is like sex. If you are going to do it, do it responsibly. Protect

yourselves and others. Avoid drinking excessively and don’t drink and drive. Like sex, abstinence is the best policy. Try it sometime.

When you do, I will guarantee that law enforcement will not cite you for underage possession. If you are cited and convicted, you’ll have to deal with a criminal record wherever you go.

Jimmy

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On the record “And if you end up scoring more points than them, you win” Peppi Browne on the rules of basketball (see SPORTSWRAP, page 4)

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Men’s hoops extends winning streak, wins ACC openers

By HAROLD GUTMANN The Chronicle

Back-to-back losses to start the season would be a cause for worry for most teams. Duke, however, isn’t like most teams.

By turning the losses into valuable lessons, the Blue Devils haven’t lost a game since, and now have won 11 straight games. They have opened the ACC season with a pair of road wins: a 109-100 in overtime over Virginia and an 80-70 over No. 12 Maryland Sunday in Cole Field House.

“You keep getting better by being in

tough situations,” said coach Mike Krzyzewski. “If we hadn’t played such a tough schedule on the road early on in the season, I don’t think we would have won the last two games.”

Of course, it seems that Duke (11-2, 2-0 in the ACC) would beat the Terrapins (11-4, 0-2) no matter what the circumstances were. The Blue Devils have won 29 of the past 34 contests against Maryland, including 13 of the last 15 games at Cole, where Maryland had won 14 games in a row before Sunday.

“When you come into Cole, we’re so

despised it’s ridiculous,” Shane Battier said. “But we’ve learned to enjoy it, and turn that into energy for us and really come out and turn the tables on them.”

In direct contrast with the Virginia game, in which both teams seemed incapable of stopping the other from scoring, the Duke defense clamped down against the Terrapins. Maryland shot only 34 percent from the field, with center Lonny Baxter going only 7of-23 and star Terence Morris shooting

only 6-of-15.

Battier led the defensive effort with a career-high seven blocks, while senior Chris Carrawell showed off his leadership and versatility to the national television audience.

“Carrawell was fabulous,” Rrzyzewski said. “I don’t know how many things I asked him to do, but he did all of them.

Handle the ball, shoot, lead, play defense, inbound the ball, he just did everything for us.”

According to Carrawell, it was just the kind of role he wants.

“I guarded all five positions today,” said the 6-foot-6 Carrawell, who defended 7-0 center Mike Mardesich, Morris, point guard' Steve Blake, shooting guard Juan Dixon and small forward Danny Miller.

“But that’s me, that’s my game. I want to be known as a great all-around player.”

After falling behind 4-0, Duke took a 16-2 run behind seven points from Carlos Boozer. After gathering 10 rebounds against Virginia, Boozer finished with 15 boards to go along with his 17 points against Maryland.

“We just follow our upperclassmen,” Boozer said. “Shane, Nate [James], they just lead us and tell us what to expect. [The ACC] is a lot more intense, and each play is huge in a game like this.”

After taking the lead three minutes into the game, the Blue Devils never trailed again, and even pushed the lead up to 16 in the second half after a 13-1 CHRIS CARRAWELL guarded all five positions Sunday against Maryland and scored 20 points while run made the score 64-48 with seven adding four assists and three blocks. minutes left.

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One of the few negatives to come out of the game was the sloppy play of Jason Williams, who scored only six points and had eight turnovers to five assists, and seemed to be outplayed by Maryland’s talented freshman Blake (eight assists, six steals). This came after a 5-for-18 shooting performance against the Cavaliers.

Instead of alarm, this brought back fond memories for Krzyzewski.

“I remember Bobby Hurley,” the coach said. “One time he went to Chapel Hill and had 10 turnovers, and looked like he’d never dribbled a ball before.”

Krzyzewski said Williams was still a “work in progress,” like the team itself. What excites both the players and the coaching staff the most is the team’s potential.

“Our team has heart, and they do make big plays,” said Krzyzewski. “We invented new ways to break the press in the last two minutes, we wanted to change basketball rules as far as halfcourt, but when we did have a opening we took it to the hole strong.

“All of a sudden, we did something really bad, and then all of a sudden we did something really great.”

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Women’s basketball soars to best start in program history field-goal percentage defense and points allowed per game... and we take great So this is how a team responds to pride in that.”

The trend of strong defensive efforts losing the most talented class in prowith the end of the first semester. history. began gram After losing six seniors and an early Soon after the players polished off their home game to Boston College, some had finals, they polished off Cal-State written off this season as a rebuilding Sacramento and Liberty at the one for Duke. But the No. 11 Blue Bahamas Sun Splash Shootout, holding Devils (14-1, 3-0) are alive and kicking, both opponents to under 50 points.

“It was probably the best trip we’ve having reeled off the best start in the ever been on as a team,” Goestenkors program’s 25 years.

And along the path to 13 consecutive said. “A lot of players went snorkeling, victories, this year’s edition of the Blue scuba diving and jet-skiing. It was a Devils is quietly carving out its own iden- really good time for us to bond as a team tity as perhaps the best defensive squad outside the gym.”

After a pair of home wins against ever under coach Gail Goestenkors.

Duke currently leads the ACC in George Mason and Georgetown, the scoring defense (53.5) and rebounding Blue Devils opened the new year with a margin (9.1), and is second in field-goal 79-61 win in College Park against percentage defense (36.5).

Maryland. Georgia Schweitzer contin‘The team is very proud of their ued to sizzle from the field with a 25defense,” Goestenkors said. “We put up point, 8-of-12 performance from the the ACC stats every week in the locker floor, including four three-pointers. room. We want to lead the league in Last Sunday, Duke followed up the Maryland win with a 64-45 blowout of W. Hoop’s over break the Georgia Tech team that came within a cat’s whisker of beating the Blue Duke 81, Cal-State Sacramento 45 Devils in Atlanta last season.

Krista Gingrich: Ist career start, 14pts Paced by a 15-point, nine-rebound performance from Peppi Browne, the Duke 66, Liberty 45 Blue Devils raced out to an early lead Georgia Schweitzer 20 pts, 4 rebs and put the Yellow Jackets away with a Duke 95, George Mason 56 stifling defense that held Georgia Tech Schweitzer: 22 pts, 6 asts to 27 percent shooting from the field.

Duke 68, Georgetown 53 “Peppi Browne has been playing so Schweitzer: 16 pts, 5 rebs well,” Goestenkors said. “She’s playing Duke 79, Maryland 61 the best basketball right now. She kept us Schweitzer: 25, 8-of-12 FGs in the game offensively in the first half.”

Duke 64, Georgia Tech 45 During the winter break, Browne Peppi Browne: 15 pts, 9 rebs cracked the 1,000-point barrier for her

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career, became the third Duke player to record 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 200 assists and 200 steals and learned to scuba

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“Over break, I get a lot more rest,” Browne said. “I’m able to focus more of my energy.

I’m actually sleeping now. Hopefully, I can take some of that momentum and carry it through the rest of the season.”

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Kester scores twice in Ist game with U.S. National Team women’s track teams began their seasons Saturday at the George Mason Invitational.

Junior Ellie Culp was the only Blue Devil to win an event, taking the 3,000-meter race in 10:28.14. The Duke women had two other top-three finishers in sophomore Katie Atlas, who finished the 1,000-meters in 2:57.27 and annual Australia Cup, which also features freshman Sheela Agrawal, who clocked a 5:00.04 in the mile. Sophomores Heather the national teams from Sweden and Ryan and Kim Hanauer each recorded Australia in addition to the United States and Czech Republic. fourth-place finishes in the 800-meters and shot put, respectively.

Kester wrapped up her Duke career this The men’s team had four top-five perforfall, finishing second among all-time Duke mances, including second-place efforts by Bill leaders with 78 career points and 35 goals Spierdowis and Michael McKeever.

Sherrill Kester Spierdowis took runner-up honors in the Men’s hoops seeks new recruit: According to The News & Observer of 1,000-meters with a time of 2:27.23.

McKeever, meanwhile, finished the 3,000-meters in the Blue who have Raleigh, already signed point Devils, guard Chris Duhon, are now pursuing Robert Swain of 8:38.84. Freshman Neal D’Amato finished fourth in Atlanta. The 6-foot-4 shooting guard narrowed his list the mile and senior James Vasek placed fifth in the 500-meter dash. of colleges to Duke, Auburn, SMU and Rutgers.

Swain is averaging 30 points a game for Tri-Cities From staff and wire reports Women’s soccer star Sherrill Kester became just the second player in U.S. Women’s National Team history to score twice in her first international match, as she recorded two goals and an assist in an 8-1 U.S. victory over the Czech Republic Friday.

The U.S. team is competing in the

High School, and according to Swain’s coach, the Blue Devils have offered the senior a scholarship.

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Carrawell earns award: Senior Chris Carrawell was

named the ACC player of the week after helping Duke pick up its first two conference wins of the season. In a 109-100 overtime win over Virginia, Carrawell scored 25 and followed that performance with a 20-point effort Sunday against Maryland.

The St. Louis native shot 12-of-13 from the treethrow line over the two games and contributed six blocks, twp steals and seven assists.

Cass named ACC wrestler of the week: Sophomore Thomas Cass was named the first ACC wrestler of the week of the season after going 3-0 last week against his opponents at the Old Dominion Quadrangle meet Sunday.

Cass, who wrestles in the 184-lb. class, defeated Brad Krepps of Old Dominion 9-3, then topped Dale Griffin of VMI 6-5. Cass also won a 3-2 match over Seton Hall’s Fikret Darzanoff, who is currently ranked 17th nationally in the Intermat rankings. Along with

Cass, senior Alex Hunt also went undefeated, recording a 3-0 record in the heavyweight division.

But beyond their top two, the Blue Devils did not fare well as a team, dropping three matches at the meet. Duke was soundly beaten by the Pirates, 28-6, and suffered a two-point defeat to VMI and a six-point loss to ODU. Last night, the Blue Devils lost another close match, this time falling to Appalachian State 16-15 in Boone, N.C. The match came down to the final bout, but Cass’ 8-2 win over Lucas Smith was not enough to qualify for a major decision, giving the Mountaineers the win.

Appalachian State built a 16-9 lead through the first eight matches when Matt Hoover won at the 174-lb. level to put the fate of the match in the hands of Cass.

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The Blue Devils signed four attackmen, two midfielders, three defensemen, one attackman/midfielder and one goalkeeper to the squad.

“We feel we addressed our needs at both ends of the field. It is one of the deepest and most athletic groups we have assembled in a while,” Pressler said.

Baseball begins preseason: New head coach Bill

Hillier ran his first practice Saturday afternoon at historic Jack Coombs Field. The former UNC-Asheville coach reported that all 21 players on his roster reported to the practice.

“We scrimmaged Saturday and Sunday,” Hillier said in a statement. “The pitchers are a little ahead of the batters right now but that’s to be expected. We had two good days of practice. We’ve had a few nagging injuries but overall we’re pretty healthy.”

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Krzyzewski uses bench less frequently in 2 ACC contests MEN’S HOOPS from page 3 Virginia, where Duke fell behind by as many as 10 points in the second half before coming back. The game went back-and-forth in the final three minutes and when a fade-away three-pointer by Williams hit the rim, the game went into overtime.

Williams opened the extra session with a three-pointer and assisted on a Battier dunk on the next possession.

Duke scored every time it had the ball in overtime en route to a nine-point win.

Carrawell led the team with 25 points, while Mike Dunleavy added 21 coming off the bench.

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Note: Before starting the conference schedule, Duke played three tune-up

Series record: 43-20, Duke leads Last meeting: Duke won 87-79 last season in Atlanta.

No. 6 DUKE 11-2 (2-0) Coach Mike Krzyzewski Guard Jason Williams, Fr. (15.2 ppg) Guard Chris Carrawell, Sr. (17.6 ppg) Forward Nate James, Jr. (10.8 ppg) Forward Shane Battier, Jr. (15.9 ppg) Center Carlos Boozer, Fr. (12.2 ppg)

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Duke-Maryland ‘rivalry’ means much more to Terps fans COLLEGE PARK, Md. Welcome to Cole Field House, home of the biggest unreciprocated rivalry in college sports.

To Maryland, Duke is public enemy No. 1. And the Terrapins fans aren’t exactly subtle about it.

Shane Battier needed only to look up and see the “I Hate Shane Battier” sign to get the message. Other players could interpret what they wished from the “Breathe If You Hate Duke” sign or the numerous projectiles heaved toward the Duke bench. ,

Anya Sostek Game Commentary Maryland fans hate the cheering rich kids. They hate the privileges that come with the Duke name.

They hate Wojo. But most ofall, they hate the fact that Duke just keeps on winning in Cole.

“This is just one of those places where you hate the fans and they hate you,” said Nate James. ‘You just have to let the ball talk.”

The only problem with this huge rivalry is that someone forgot to tell the Duke fans, who are generally too preoccupied with UNC to notice those pesky Terrapins.

You just don’t see Duke fans putting in the same

intensity that Terps fans do, which includes printing “F-k Duke” T-shirts and devising a “Duke is Puke” slogan.

“I don’t think the Crazies fully understand how much we’re hated,” Battier said. “I don’t think you can understand until you’ve played in Cole and been pelted with batteries, ice and been called every name in the book. There’s nothing like 15,000 people screaming about your mom, your dad, your dog, nothing like it.”

The Maryland fans aim to rattle the players, to throw them off their game by any possible distraction.

“I know if I was a Duke player, I’d be peeing in my pants,” said Maryland sophomore Chris Dugan.

But the screaming and the insults have had the opposite effects on the Blue Devils. Two years ago, the Blue Devils opened their game at Cole with four straight three pointers. Last season Duke blew Maryland out 82-64 after a tie score at halftime.

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An ACC commission then looked into Maryland fan behavior. Many Maryland fans saw this as another sign of unfair treatment, citing Cameron Indoor Stadium’s often hostile environment.

For Maryland fans, the “rivalry” will go on with or without Duke’s participation. In fact, the Duke fans’ nonchalant attitude might fuel the Maryland fans even further.

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Fisk, Perez elected to Hall by BBWAA From wire reports Carlton Fisk was elected to the Hall of Fame on Tuesday on his second try, and Tony Perez was voted in on his ninth appearance on the ballot.

Fisk, who caught the most games in major league history (2,226) and hit a record 351 of 376 career home runs while catching, received 397 votes among the record 499 ballots cast by 10-year members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

Perez, a former World Series rival of Fisk and also a teammate, received 385 votes.

Til be happy and proud to be standing up there in July at the same podium as he is,” Fisk said.

To be elected, a player had to be listed on 375 ballots (75 percent). Fisk, who fell 43 votes short last year, received 79.6 percent and made it with 22 votes to spare.

Perez, 71 votes shy last year when Nolan Ryan, George Brett and Robin Yount were chosen, got 77.2 percent and was elected with 10 votes to spare.

“It’s sweet now, when I’m in. It doesn’t matter how long I had to wait,” Perez said from his home in Puerto Rico. “The first thing I thought of was calling my mother in Cuba. The family was there, too. They started jumping around. My mother was crying.”

Jim Rice, Fisk’s former Boston Red Sox teammate, was third with 257 votes (51.5 percent), followed by Gary Carter (248), Bruce Sutter (192), Rich Gossage (166) and Steve Garvey (160).

Tommy John was next at 135, followed by Jim Kaat (125), Dale Murphy (116), Jack Morris (111), Dave Parker (104), Bert Blyleven (87), Luis Tiant (86), Dave Concepcion (67), Keith Hernandez (52) and Ron Guidry (44).

Thirteen players who failed to receive 5 percent (25 votes) will be dropped from the ballot, a group that includes Jeff Reardon (24), Bob Boone (21), Willie Wilson (10), Rick Sutcliffe (9), Kent Hrbek (5) and Charlie Hough (4).

Dave Henderson and Steve Sax received two votes each, while Bill Gullickson, Bruce Hurst, Lonnie Smith and Bob Welch got one vote apiece. Hubie Brooks was the only player among the 30 on the ballot not to receive any votes.

Six writers, deciding no one was worthy, submitted blank ballots. Fisk and Perez will be inducted into the Hall during ceremonies at Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 23 along with anyone elected when the veterans’ committee meets Feb. 29 at Tampa, Fla. Former manager Sparky Anderson and longtime Minnesota star Tony Oliva will be considered by the panel for the first time. Of the 246 members of the Hall, 93 have been elected by the BBWAA.

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Now, Cuban Americans aren’t normally on the national stage during an election year, but now they’ve got the candidates scrambling to keep their favor, and all because of a little boy.

Allow me to refresh your memory.

Toward the end oflast year, five-year-old Elian Gonzalez got on a boat with his mother, stepfather and 11 other people in an attempt to escape Cuba for Florida; all ofthe passengers died, with the exception of Elian, who is currently living with relatives in Florida. Back in Cuba, Elian’s father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, wants his son back; his former wife failed to mention that she was taking Elian to the United States, which was fairly rude, considering Gonzalez was quite involved in Elian’s life. Based on that, I’m advocating sending the boy back and wondering why someone would take a five-year-old on such a treacherous journey. Elian’s relatives—and the entire Cuban-American community—want Elian to stay in the States, because this isn’t Cuba, and therefore must be the best place for anyone.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service ruled that Elian, now six, should be returned to his father by Friday, after

has—get this—subpoenaed Elian to keep him from being deported until Feb. 10.

Burton has given no indication of the reason for the subpoena, beyond using it to stall and “give the relatives’ lawyers time to prepare a case.”

All of the United States’ players seem to ignore Elian’s best interest; the last thing he needs after seeing his mom and stepfather die, then spending a couple of days in the Atlantic Ocean, is to go before Congress—he’s only six years old, remember? This is a little kid, not some of your usual political pork. Will puppies and trips to Disneyworld make up for

losing the only family he’s ever known?

(He’d never met his US. relatives before his arrival in the States.)

Look, I’m no big fan of Fidel Castro, and I’m aware that he persecuted many people (including writers; Gabriel Garcia Marquez was close to Castro and never stood up for his fellow authors, by the way) but I don’t buy that Cold War equation that communism is necessarily evil.

Yes, life is different in the United States, where we have Pokemon and amusement parks, but is that such a good thing? How very first world of us, to judge Cuba so harshly, and largely because of the United States’ perpetual desire to castrate Castro. Canada has billboards along the highways for vacationing in Cuba, indicating the country isn’t the absolute pit that the anti-Castro faction—and our government—makes it out to be.

The U.S. welcomes all Cubans with open arms, but for anyone else, winning the lottery is more likely than attaining U.S. citizenship. On New Year’s Day, the Coast Guard came upon a failing ship packed with 411 Haitians, Dominicans and Chinese; they were moved to anoth-

because for them, here is better than there. If all of this were taking place in the U.S., Elian would be returned to his father almost by default, because the U.S. puts family first—sometimes, admittedly, at the expense of the children. The family-values Republicans Haitians come over—plus, Haiti’s a have turned their back to insist that nascent democracy.

Elian stay here, while the Democratic Americans aren’t so hip on immipresidential candidates refuse to commit grants, legal or otherwise, but accepting a themselves one way or another—above poor little boy from a big, bad communist all else, this is an election year.

What is Elian learning about the country makes people feel all fuzzy—let’s strike a blow for democracy! One little U.S.? His relatives are trying to seduce him with toys and magical kingdoms, boy with a tragic story is far more palatable than a boatload of people of non-pre- the siren-call of capitalism. Come, Elian, ferred ethnicity, who are likely to have and be a consumer—it’s better for you. If their own tragic stories. After all, Elian Elian stays in the U.S., it won’t be a blow can be molded into a real American; he to Castro, and if he returns to Cuba, it won’t be a point in Castro’s favor: the can be one of us, and serve as a poster boy in two countries—anti-American in only potential winners and losers in this Cuba, anti-Cuban in America —now political chess game are Elian and Juan there’s a value-added immigrant.

Miguel Gonzalez. er boat and are now being held in

Florida, but they’ve been told they will not be staying in the states. I’m under the impression that Haiti isn’t that much of a paradise, but because our government is elbow-deep in their political affairs, it looks the other way when the

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McCain does not live up The Right Side of Campus John Zimmerman Who is John McCain? An outsider, a reformer and an insurgent. A man on a crusade against corruption.

A war hero who will restore honor to the White House —or so the media wants us to believe.

Unfortunately, the truth is much less romantic.

The national press, desperate for a close primary race, has collectively jumped on the McCain bandwagon and painted the Republican presidential candidate as a knight in shining armor. Hardly a day goes by without a glowing article in The Washington Post or The Los Angeles Times praising his integrity or his vision. The hope is to create a close race where there isn’t one.

As this effort begins to pay off, the media have been more than happy to report the Arizona senator’s gains in the polls. McCain is almost tied with Texas Gov. George W. Bush—which is good news for newspaper sales. But what is often left out ofthese cheery reports is that McCain is tied with Bush only in independent-

minded New Hampshire. He is getting routed in the rest ofthe country, even losing his home state. The race is hardly close.

McCain has managed to court the press by giving as many interviews as they ask for. He is pleasant and charming, and always worth an article —his years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam make a great human-interest story when all else fails. He is a dream for a reporter.

In addition, since he takes few firm positions on the issues, McCain avoids the negative press that most

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candidates inevitably receive. He never discusses abortion or national defense, and he has an extremely vague tax plan that is somewhere to the left ofA1 Gore on the political spectrum. Neither liberal nor conservative papers can attack him, for he stands for very little but campaign finance reform.

Any views he does have are sure to change as soon as the next public opinion poll comes out—his tax plan has been delayed many times because he continues to change it to match popular sentiment. His campaign is populism in practice.

Even when he rails against corruption in politics, it is fuzzy and poorly defined. He claims that he wants to free Washington from special interests and

Senator McCain, like his connterpart Bill Bradley, appears to be a genuinely good man. But both would be genuinely bad presidents. the always-anonymous big money—another liberal catch phrase.

And in general terms, who wouldn’t want to clean up government? It is hard to disagree that special interest groups have come to dominate the political landscape and that their presence should be reduced.

As McCain defines the issue, he seems right on the money: Politics needs a makeover. It sounds like the popular Jimmy Carter campaign all over again.

But the problem is how to eliminate this influence; an intricacy the senator rarely addresses. McCain’s only step would be to ban soft money—unregulated funds given directly to a party. But this meager measure does not even account for union soft money, a flaw that angers most Republicans.

Now even his integrity has come under fire after an article in The Boston Globe accused him of writing numerous letters to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of a major donor.

He claims that every senator writes supportive letters for donors, and indeed most do. Unfortunately, his entire campaign is based on him being above this typical political patronage. The standard is very high, but it is his own doing.

Proving he truly is an insider, he tries his best to spin this story: Because the system has corrupted even the honorable John McCain, it obviously needs to be reformed, he says. His shortcomings are supposed to now support his calls for change. It is curious logic.

Although he doesn’t want you to know it, McCain has also been a senator for 18 years, and his record is less than stellar. He was a member ofthe infamous Keating Five who were involved with Charles Keating’s savings and loan scandal. And his voting record changes more often than most sorority girls change clothes.

Senator McCain, like his counterpart Bill Bradley, appears to be a genuinely good man. But both would be genuinely bad presidents.

Don’t be fooled—come November, we’ll be choosing between Bush and Gore, not the insurgents. That, not McCain, may be the best proof yet that we need change.

John Zimmerman is a Trinity sophomore.

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Pinochet case set precedent for sovereign immunity cases �PINOCHET from page 2 reaction to it appeared to mark the closing stages of a case that has shaken international law, galvanized human rights and exile groups and stirred bitter and passionate old antagonisms in Chile and other countries with recent experiences of dictatorial regimes.

In obtaining a decision from Britain’s highest court, the Law Lords of the House of Lords, formally throwing out Pinochet’s claim that he could not be tried for acts during the time that he was a head of state, the case has fundamentally altered the law of sovereign immunity and established new international powers for people seeking redress of human rights abuses, even in courts outside the country where the crimes were allegedly committed.

Last week’s medical tests were scheduled after the Chilean embassy in October submitted evidence from Pinochet’s doctors that his health had undergone a marked decline during the fall. He was said to have suffered a series of small strokes in September.

Straw then asked Pinochet to consent to an independent examination, and his office selected the four doctors, specialists respectively in gerontology, geriatric medicine, neurology and neuropsychology. The seven-hour examination was conducted in Spanish— Pinochet does not speak English—and two of the physicians, Straw said, were fluent in Spanish.

Straw said it was the “unequivocal and unanimous conclusion... that following recent deterioration in the state of Senator Pinochet’s health, which seems to have occurred principally during September and* October 1999, he is at present unfit to stand trial, and that no change to that position can be expected.”

The general was originally arrested on Oct. 16, 1998, as he lay in a London clinic recuperating from back surgery. British police made their surprise move in response to an application from a Spanish judge,

Baltasar Garzon, seeking his extradition to Madrid to stand trial on charges of genocide, torture, kidnapping and murder in connection with the disappearance of more than 3,000 people in the years after he seized power in a coup in 1973.

Garzon, considered something of a maverick in the Spanish judiciary, had gathered his evidence during an investigation into the so-called dirty wars in Latin America in the 19705.

The Spanish government, though forced by circumstance to pursue the case, has shown little enthusiasm for it from the outset, and tonight Spain’s foreign ministry said it would “respect the decisions of the British government.”

Pinochet won his first legal battle to overcome the charges in a ruling by the High Court that upheld his claim to sovereign immunity. But in a ruling that was

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excuse crimes against humanity.

The case returned was to the House ofLords after one of the original judges was found to have had an association with Amnesty International, a party to the case.

But the second Lords’ decision was even more emphatic on the principle than the first one, though it drastically reduced the number of charges and narrowed the scope to torture and conspiracy to torture.

The case then moved on to the validity of the actual extradition order itself, which was upheld by a Lon-

don magistrate last October and then appealed, leading to the current planning of the next hearing for March 20.

In the one appearance in court that Pinochet has been obliged to make, he maintained the defiant attitude he adopted at the beginning, saying he did not

recognize the jurisdiction of any court outside of Chile to try him, and saying he was innocent of “all the lies of Spain.”

Every hearing and court date over the 14 months has seen crowds of supporters and opponents behind barricades angrily facing down one another, hurling taunts and jeers and holding aloft flags and placards with accusatory slogans and pictures of missing friends and relatives.

For the past 13 months, the general has been living under house arrest with his wife, Lucia, in a rented mansion in one of London’s exclusive southern suburbs. He has had periodic visits from Chilean supporters and backers in Britain, the most visible and voluble of whom has been former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She has argued that, far from holding him in custody, Britain instead owes him its gratitude for the support he gave the British during the 1982 Falkland Islands war with Argentina.

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Merger begins race for high speed internet connections AOL from page 2

that consumers stand to benefit from the turmoil.

“The race to provide broadband ac•cess will only accelerate from here,” said Daniel P. Reingold, chief telecommunications analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston, the investment bank. “It’s always been in AOL’s interest to have multiple suppliers of high-speed access, and that interest dovetails with the consumers’ interest.”

Time Warner’s cable systems range across the nation, but New York City appears set to become a prime battleground. Time Warner provides cable television service in parts of Brooklyn and Queens and is the dominant cable provider in Staten Island and Manhattan, considered a prime market because of its heavy population of wealthy, technology-sawy consumers.

Even before its deal with America Online, Time Warner was planning to offer high-speed Internet service throughout Manhattan by this fall—a plan the company says has not changed as a result of the deal. But Time Warner’s linking with America Online may prompt Bell Atlantic and other smaller companies to accelerate their own highspeed Internet agendas.

“This deal creates new energy about access to the Internet, and if you peel back the onion a little bit it’s really about high-speed access to the Internet,” said David Gallemore, executive vice president for strategic planning

and marketing for SBC Communications Inc., the Bell local phone giant that does business as Ameritech, Pacific Bell, Southern New England Telecommunications and Southwestern Bell.

Naturally, America Online’s interests appeared to reflect Time Warner’s. The owner of high-profile media products ranging from People magazine to the Cable News Network, Time Warner wants to extend the reach of those brands into the Internet.

Coupled with expanded availability of lightning-quick data connections, the migration of Time Warner’s media properties into cyberspace could help remake the Internet over the next few years from a largely static environment of pictures and text to a dynamic arena of television-quality video and CD-quality sound.

But in forging a merger with Time Warner, the No. 2 cable provider, America Online’s interests did not necessarily dovetail with those of the other communications behemoths jockeying to lead

the digital revolution.

How these other companies cope with the new giant in their midst will have important implications for how, when and from whom consumers are finally able to buy a ticket to the digital future.

The most intriguing questions, and the murkiest answers, are about AT&T. Since C. Michael Armstrong, former chair of General Motors’ Hughes Electronics unit, took over as AT&T’s chair

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in 1997, the company has agreed to spend more than $lOO billion of its shareholders’ money in deals to acquire the cable giants Tele-Communications Inc. and Mediaone Group Inc.

With those deals, AT&T, already the biggest phone company, has become the biggest cable television provider in the nation. But AT&T wants to use the systems it has acquired to deliver far more than television. It also wants to offer local telephone service and high-speed Internet links using the same systems.

Publicly, AT&T and America Online have been at odds through the last year over whether AT&T should have to open

its cable systems to allow other Internet companies, like America Online, easy access to AT&T’s cable subscribers. Late last year, AT&T tried to forestall any potential new regulation by announcing a set of principles for open access supported by Mindspring, the big independent Internet service provider.

Privately, however, AT&T has been working hard, at least since last summer, to cut a side deal with America Online, according to executives close to the talks. Such a deal would help AT&T drive penetration of its high-speed Internet service by marketing it to America Online’s 22 million customers.

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Officials spent only Colleagues stay hopeful for Pratt’s recovery moderately on Y2K

PRATT from page 3 for early February in Raleigh’s Lee Hansley Gallery. ed the crime scene, mishandled key pieces of evidence “That’s what Vernon, I think, would have wanted,” she said. including Pratt’s bloody clothing, and misVernon Pratt, an associate professor placed important documents. “The whole scene was bungled,” she said, adding that best known for creating the massive, pubshe has consulted a lawyer and plans to licly funded Education Wall across from the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh, pursue a lawsuit for what she considers “gross, gross negligence on a terrible, just has been teaching at the University since 1964. He was scheduled to teach this sehideous, crime.”

Police representatives could not be reached mester; now, his classes will be covered by Tuesday for comment on the allegations. another professor.

Richard Powell, chair of the art and art Deborah Pratt said her husband, who is history department and John Spencer Bason temporary disability leave from the University/ will be transferred to a local Vernon Pratt sett professor of art history, said his colhospice for continued care as soon as a bed leagues were shocked and saddened to hear of the accident. opens up.

In the meantime, she has decided to go ahead with Still, he stressed, “We’re still hoping and praying for an exhibition of her husband’s work he had planned his recovery. We’re not operating in the past tense.” >

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hyped, which is why we, while taking it seriously, didn’t spend all that much on it,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask wrote in an e-mail, “It’s the consultants who made all the money; fortunately, we didn’t pay much of it.

And so far, no serious problems, nor do we anticipate any.”

Bugs in the financial aid and sponsored programs computing systems were among the few glitches reported to OIT. Both were fixed the day

they were discovered.

“I know the work done at Duke was good work. It was time and money well spent,” said Paris, who was in charge of solving the Y2K problem on the University side.

“Y2K resulted in the University focusing on [information technology],”he said. “Departments were running a lot of old PCs, and it involved replacing them, plus getting old operating systems up to date. For our critical systems, it was absolutely critical. We found specific things that had to be changed or things wouldn’t have worked correctly,” The biweekly payroll system, a function that could have experienced glitches after the changeover, went smoothly when employees’ checks were printed last week.

Paris said that the biweekly and the monthly system, which will run soon, were tested repeatedly over the last few months.

OIT will collect the final Y2K report from each of the University’s departments next week, but will still be on guard in case other programs, like accounting functions that run at the end of the fiscal year, turn up any glitches.

“I have not heard of any Y2K problems at Duke—if there were any, they were pretty minor; I’m sure this is because a great many people worked hard to identify potential problems and addressed them early,” President Nan Keohane wrote in an e-mail.

“By the time the new millennium rolled around, every part of the University had done what it needed to do to be in compliance. But that didn’t happen by accident,” she added.

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utes the cost among its tenants is its own issue. The sanitation department can’t just eat the cost.”

The cost may be distributed based on the rent each department- pays in a given building. For residence halls, Housing Management will probably pay any fines.

The University annually brings 11,000 tons of trash to the city’s solid waste transfer station on Club Boulevard, where it is loaded on trailers and then driven to a landfill in Virginia. Durham charges a $39.50 tipping fee for each ton, which would be doubled for each load deemed in violation of the ordinance.

Although Duke has not yet received any of its three official warnings about recyclables in the trash, University officials are busily trying to educate the community about the new law. “Officially, the city says no tolerance, and that’s the way we have to approach it,” Butler said.

“It could be really bad, or it could be nothing, but we’re

planning for the worst and we can be pleasantly surprised if the other happens.”

The University’s improving relationship with the city has generated a productive dialogue about solid waste, one that will hopefully help mitigate the number of fines Duke could face, said Joe Jackson, assistant director of Facilities Management. “They do know that we’re making a concerted effort to comply with the ordinance,” he said. However, he added, “It’s not going to be enough to have a good-faith effort; they expect us to comply.” goal is complete compliAlthough the ance, Duke won’t be asking its sanitation workers and housekeepers to remove all banned materials from the trash. ‘That would be very, very difficult, if not impossible, on a campus the size of Duke,” Jackson said.

Instead, as University sanitation workers find the banned materials in dumpsters, they will issue warnings to the contact person for the responsible building.

“The idea is for that process—the warning to drive home the point that there are things going in the dumpster that aren’t supposed to be there,” Jackson said.

In the upcoming months, the University will inform as many people as possible about the new law, and keep adding to the campus’ stock of 6,200 recycling bins. And although the number of tons recycled increases each year as the culture of sorting becomes ingrained across campus, campus visitors don’tknow the rule and intoxicated party-goers often ignore it, virtually ensuring that some banned materials will end up in the trash.

The new law poses a significant challenge for administrators, said Shawhan Lynch-Sparks, facilities manager for West Campus I. “How do we educate the students to be responsible recyclers?” asked Lynch-Sparks, who is a member of the board of directors of Duke Student Publishing Company, which publishes The Chronicle. ‘Then, once they’re educated, how do we get them to do it?”

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lamine blocks some of the receptors in the brain, while the nicotine from the patch occupies other receptors.

Elan, a pharmaceutical company, has developed a nicotine-mecamylamine skin patch, and the combination leads to two to three times higher success rates than the nicotine patch alone.

In addition, Rose has invented several other innovative cessation strategies. “[Rose isl really a gadgeteer,” Jarvik said. “He’s really fantastic at inventing equipment, putting it together, making it work.”

Instead of the vapor form of nicotine that was originally used in a nicotine inhaler, Rose developed a powder, nicotine-salt form that makes the amount of nicotine inhaled more potent, and therefore more effective.

Duke owns the patent on the new nicotine inhaler that Rose developed, which ultimately delivers not only nicotine but the sensory feeling, Rose said, of the “grab in the throat” effect one receives from smoking.

The phrase “red hot chili pepper” takes on an entirely different meaning when applied to Rose’s latest, and perhaps most creative, invention.

Inhaling the ingredient capsaicin, an ingredient that makes a chili pepper hot, stimulates nerve endings in the respiratory tract, makes a smoker strongly feel the effects of smoking a less harmful, low-tar cigarette, “If you put capsaicin into a low-tar cigarette,” Rose said, “it feels like a real Cigarette.”

Low-tar cigarettes, if smoked no more intensively, have one-tenth of the dangerous tars and carcinogenic effects as regular ones.

Although this and other creative answers might help smokers kick the habit, Rose knows how the game is played.

“Each and every invention seems to be an inordinate amount of time to attract a sponsor,” he explained.

But Rose knows that his work is worth, the wait.

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ceptance of the view that the law school needs to target the key strategic areas where it can be g00d...,” Bartlett said. “Hopefully we can do that without compromising our reputation as a school that is evenly good—evenly excellent, in fact.”

Bartlett highlighted intellectual property as one field with the potential to be top-of-the-line at Duke.

“The law school has already committed to significant initiative in the area of intellectual property,” she said. ‘That interfaces with our geographic location in Research Triangle Park, the school’s emphasis on technological issues and the inevitably increasing importance of intellectual property issues.”

She added that along with technology, the law school should also focus on fostering some form of

internationalization.

“We cannot afford to have a huge international law department, per se... but in every hire we do, we’re giving an added bonus to candidates who have international perspectives,” she said. “We’re trying to mainstream international studies so that [students arel getting it all the time, not just when they take an international law course.”

Lange agreed with Bartlett’s commitment to boosting the status of some departments, and noted that not an intentional move.

Bartlett’s experience as chair of the law school’s ap“Duke always tries to give priority to identifying pointments committee would help her carry out these the best person for each job, including deanships; when the best person is a woman, as it was in the hiring goals.

Thus far, the need to work within certain resource case of the law and engineering schools, this has the constraints has been a cornerstone of the University’s added advantage of increasing the number of women strategic planning process. Like many parts of the in leadership here, and more generally,” said PresiUniversity, the law school’s alumni base—and theredent Nan Keohane. fore endowment—is relatively young and small.

Bartlett said she was initially hesitant to accept the “I think the law school is in a good position which it position because it would limit her time for scholarconstantly has to fight to keep. It’s not a Harvard or ship and could require extensive traveling.

Yale which can sit on its laurels...,” Bartlett said.

“From the beginning of the search, colleagues both But unlike Duke’s other schools, including the reat Duke and elsewhere said to us that Kate would be cently renamed Pratt School of Engineering, the law the best person for the job, if we could persuade her to school “still has not had the mega-gift,” she said. serve,” Keohane said. “She had initially been relucBartlett plans to continue Gann’s emphasis on fund tant, and the committee looked elsewhere in light of

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Havighurst noted that by choosing an inside candidate, the search committee provided the school with some continuity. “She has great respect among her colleagues and she has long been viewed as one ofthe members of the faculty who had a vision for the 5ch001,..,” Havighurst said. “People will regard this as a demonstration that Duke has strong people here and has a great deal of self-confidence about where it stands and where it is heading.”

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Gann launched the law school’s first capital campaign, and raised more than $l7 million. She also helped the school achieve more than half of its $5O million portion of The Campaign for Duke. “[Bartlett] will have the challenge of getting acquainted with alumni in her new role and carrying on the fund-raising campaign which is well along but not yet complete...,” said Clark Havighurst, interim law dean. “[Gann] laid a great deal of groundwork in building relationships with alumni... and I think those relationships can be nurtured without as much time on the road.”

The type ofpotential donors could be changing with advances in technology and relevant fields, Bartlett added. “If the faculty decides to move in the direction of legal issues in the context of science and technology, maybe there are corporate and foundation sponsors who might be interested in supporting some of those initiatives,” she said.

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Donor’s gift will create additional facilities for engineers from page 1 The donation pushed the school past its $5O million Campaign for Duke goal, and makes it the first school Ed with $BOO million shortly after he left the investto reach its target. Johnson, who plans to submit a ment giant. It is now worth $3 billion. building proposal soon and hopes break ground within Johnson said she expects to hire 35 faculty members over the next five to seven years, including many a year, said additional funds will be raised for creating the engineering village. experimentalists in new disciplines.

“We’re going to use the gift to expand the physical Administrators hope the gift will help relieve the plant of the engineering school. It will be a part of a longtime space crunch in the engineering school, a new building or part of a couple buildings—a village, if problem that could be exacerbated with the addition of you will,” Johnson said. “We’re looking at significantly a new crop of professors.

“The school has been extremely efficient—many increasing the size of engineering and the sciences, but would say pinched—in its use of space for research,” I don’t know by how much yet.”

Provost Peter Lange said. “It now faces the situation Although the village is still in its preliminary planning phase, Johnson envisions a several-building plaza where its faculty development is severely constrained devoted to the school. One of the structures will be by space availability. The recent gifts—and above all that of JeffVinik—give us the opportunity to begin to named for the Viniks, who live with their three chilredress this situation and to do so in conjunction with dren in Weston, Mass.

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faculty development priorities in the school and broader University priorities in sciences and engineering in which the [Pratt School] will play a critical role.”

On average, the Pratt school provides 1,200 square feet of research space to each faculty member; competitor schools offer more than twice that.

At the same time, its research expenditures have grown to more than $300,000 per faculty member this year, which places it very competitively among its peer schools.

“Duke’s engineering programs are strong, and in some cases among the best in the world,” Jeffrey Vinik said in a statement. “But it’s clear that the changing pace of technology requires that Duke’s students and faculty be able to work in laboratories that can provide state-of-the-art environments for cutting-edge engineering instruction and research.”

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