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Duke goes slowly on gene therapy � Nearly all of the Medical Center’s work in the controversial field remains in studies on animals, not humans. By MEREDITH YOUNG The Chronicle

After the death of a clinical research patient at the University of Pennsylvania, gene therapy has gained nationwide attention. At Duke, officials and researchers believe the Medical Center will continue to proceed with caution as the field develops slowly. Researchers said Duke’s medium-sized gene therapy program is concentrated in animal studies, and the Medical Center is moving with trepidation when it comes to human research. There is one active protocol for a gene therapy study, but no patients have been enrolled in that study, said Dr. Russel Kaufman, vice dean for education at the School of Medicine. “I think Duke has been pretty cautious compared to most places, as far as pushing the field of gene therapy into the clinic,” said Bruce Sullenger, associate professor of experimental surgery. Sullenger, whose research group is currently working to develop safer methods of gene therapy, said there is pressure for researchers to move on to testing human subjects. However, Duke researchers and national experts said gene therapy must be treated responsibly, both at Duke and beyond. Dr. Adil Shamoo, a bioethicist at the University of Maryland’s medical school, said gene therapy “is no more or less dangerous than other research. The scare about gene therapy is due to lack of knowledge.” Shamoo, who is editor-in-chief of the journal Accountability in Research and has chaired international conferences on ethics and research on human subjects, said that with gene therapy trials—like all See

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Riley looks at state of education By ROBERT KELLEY The Chronicle

U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley chose to deliver a message of hope and equality yesterday at a public school in Durham, a city whose school system has long struggled to provide an adequate and equitable education for all its students. Southern High School hosted the seventh annual State of American Education Address, which attracted Gov. Jim Hunt, Duke President

Nan Keohane and scores of other politicians, education administrators and experts. Riley began his speech with exclamations of optimism. “The state of American education is changing

for the better,” he said. “Public education is beginning to become something new.” Pointing to rising test scores, increasing numbers of students going to college and a shrinking gender gap in math and science classes, Riley See

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Months later, after surviving this and several other adventures during Sitting in a taxicab in Mozambique his semester in Africa, Bazinsky is now ready to face a new early last semester, Trinity junior Jordan Bazinsky challenge, found himself facing ma“Stepping away from chine-gun toting policemen Duke and then coming back screaming at him in a forhighlights a lot of issues,” eign language and confiscathe said. “Duke’s a great ing his passport. place. But, just like any other, it has its share of The Duke Student Govproblems. I think I could do ernment presidential race was, needless to say, the fura good job helping to adthest thing from his mind. dress those issues.” _ Thinking quickly, BazinBazinsky is confident sky reached over and high- Jordan Bazinsky that being abroad first sefived one of the policemen, mester would not hurt his opening up lines of communication performance as DSG president. which allowed the group of American “I gained a lot more than I could students to pay the expected bribe and have lost while I was in Africa,” he See BAZINSKY on page 8 retrieve their passports.

DETROIT John McCain thumped George W. Bush in a two-state sweep Tuesday night, rallying a “new McCain majority” of independents and Democrats in Michigan and winning his home state ofArizona to seize momentum for a two-week blitz of Republican presidential primaries. Reaching out to GOP voters, the senator told supporters, “Don’t fear this campaign, my fellow Republicans. Join it.” He now leads Bush in the hunt for 1,034 delegates at the GOP nomination. Bush, humbled by defeat, said, ‘This is a marathon and I’m going to be in it all the way to the end—and some primaries you win and sometimes you don’t.” McCain’s is the latest victory in a see-sawing Republican nomination race. The Arizonan won New Hampshire’s leadoff primary in a landslide,

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lost the follow-up showdown in South Carolina and won Michigan with room to spare. It further damaged Bush’s aura as the inevitable GOP nominee, and propelled both men toward a March 7 showdown in 13 states. “This means we’re going to go charging into Super Tuesday,” said state Sen.

John Schwarz, McCain’s Michigan chair. Even before winning his doubleheader, McCain narrowed Bush’s financial advantage and closed the gap in national polls. In Michigan, Bush and McCain forged mirror-image coalitions: Bush was supported by two-thirds of the Republicans, arid McCain ventured outside the party for a similar-sized force of Democrats and independents. Bush drew a smaller percentage bedrock Republicans than in South Carolina. McCain’s mixed breed of votSee MCCAIN on page 9

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FDA examines deaths linked to diabetes drug The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a rise in deaths linked to the diabetes drug Rezulin, reported to have caused 58 deaths among 85 patients who suffered from liver failure since its approval in 1997.

Supreme Court rejects electric chair appeal The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear an appeal calling death in Alabama’s electric chair “cruel and unusual punishment” forbidden by the Constitution. The court may still use some other case to review the legiti-

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Microsoft WASHINGTON Corp. got its last chance in federal court Tuesday to persuade the trial judge not to issue a stinging antitrust verdict against the company. But the judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, gave Microsoft little comfort. At one point in Tuesday’s final arguments, he dismissed a key Microsoft defense by comparing the company to John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly, the subject of the first major antitrust case, in

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1906, that resulted in a breakup of the company. “I don’t really see a distinction,” Jackson said. The government, in its final argument, said it was “simply impossible to imagine” that the company will not be found to have violated the nation’s antitrust laws. Microsoft, for its part, argued that it was impossible to see how the company could be found guilty. “A lot of nothing doesn’t add up to something,” said John Warden, the company’s lead lawyer. And so the trial drew to close on

By ERICA GOODE

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In a finding that medical experts called “troubling” and “very surprising,” researchers are reporting that the number of preschoolers taking stimulants, antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs rose sharply from 1991 to 1995. The use of stimulants —most commonly methylphenidate, the generic form of Ritalin —increased two-fold to three-fold for children ages two through four enrolled in two state Medicaid programs and one health maintenance organization in the Northwest, the researchers found. The number ofchildren receiving prescriptions for antidepressants doubled in the Medicaid programs. The use of clonidine, a blood pressure drug gaining popularity as a treatment for attention disorders,

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and argument. The government pressed hard on its broad points, while Microsoft refused to concede even a nit. Tuesday’s arguments on the relevant points of law bearing on the case were the last act before a verdict, which will probably be issued in the next few weeks. The court is likely to hold separate hearings on remedies if, as expected, Jackson rules strongly that Microsoft acted in violation of antitrust laws.

also jumped among the group of more than 200,000 children studied. Although researchers have known for some time that such drugs are increasingly being prescribed for older children, the study, which appears in Wednesday’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is the first to document an increase among children under five. “This seems to support the anecdotes that more U.S. children are receiving a diagnosis and treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the late 1990s than ever before,” said Dr. Julie Magno Zito, an associate professor of pharmacy and medicine at the University of Maryland and lead author ofthe study. Previous studies have shown significant increases in the use of stimulants and antidepressants to treat children ages five to 19.

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Plans for regional rail system stalls at crossroads By LUCY STRINGER The Chronicle

The Triangle Transit Authority’s plan for a regional rail system has hit another bump in the road. The regional rail project has been slowed by everything from questions about funding—the TTA would need to raise an estimated $l5O million—to difficult negotiations with two freight railroads. The project’s most recent stumbling block occurred when CSX Corp., which has a long-term lease on a seven-mile stretch of track in Raleigh, realized it could not safely share the corridor with a commuter train. “There is no doubt that we have hit a major stumbling block,” said Sandy Ogbum, assistant to the general manager at the TTA. “But we’re going to push through these negotiations.” Shortly after its inception a decade ago, the TTA began drafting plans for a transportation system that would connect Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. The project is currently stalled while the North Carolina Department of Transportation struggles to negotiate with existing railroad companies and tries to decide on the most appropriate station sites in Raleigh. Completion of the TTA’s environmental study, which will measure environmental impacts of the plan, has been delayed due to this indecision and trouble finding a location for a University station. The study will not be released until fall 2000 at the earliest, said Amanda Arnold, a TTA transportation planner, adding that the project cannot proceed without it. The TTA recently held public information sessions to present possible station sites to the Raleigh community. “People asked questions, and we weighed the pros and cons of the different station locations for them,” said Arnold. “It gave the public an opportunity to see what it is we are considering.”. The TTA has promoted the project not as a cure for the rapidly worsening traffic situation in the economically expansive Triangle area, but as a means of preventing increased congestion before it gets worse. “Putting in a rail or fixed guideway won’t relieve congestion to the point where the area is uncongested,” said John Tallmadge, a planner with the TTA. “What it does is add more transport capacity in congested corridors and facilitate travel so that more people can get to their destinations within the Triangle area.” The University has played its own part in delaying the plan’s progress—it rejected an earlier TTA proposal to erect a station in the vicinity of the Duke Medical Center at the corner of Erwin Road and Fulton Street. Administrators dismissed the proposal on grounds that the area was too congested. Officials also cited concerns that the TTA did not

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have satisfactory plans for continuing the route on from Durham to Chapel Hill. “They had no real plan to take the system to Chapel Hill from [the Fulton Street station] without going along Duke property—along the golf course and on out,” said University Architect John Pearce. Despite the lack of a concrete agreement with the TTA, Pearce said the University’s master plan assumes that a station will be located somewhere

near campus.

“We accept without question that such a transit system would be beneficial to the University,” said Pearce. “It would exert many positive influences [on the campus] by making access easier.” It has been a number ofmonths since the University and TTA have met to discuss the project because more pressing concerns have come to the forefront. “The biggest dilemma facing TTA may be the ability to successfully compete for federal funds to support the project,” said David King, TTA’s general manager. However, even the system’s mode of transportation is still undetermined. “Four technologies are being looked at,” said Tallmadge. “We are still trying

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dent that their work will eventually help shape the Triangle’s future. “Any complicated infrastructure project goes through a series of stages,” said Juanita ShearerSwink, senior transportation planner at the TTA. “We will resolve the details. Some take longer than others, but we will move forward with this project. It is a critical part of this region’s future.”

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Health care industry moves toward more computerization Both Duke and the Durham VA medical centers have begun adopting systems that will help reduce human error of-care experts and administrators working on the health care payer side of

By TOBY COLEMAN The Chronicle

In the computer room of Durham Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, computer specialists are attaching laptop computers and bar code scanners to medicine carts. In the near future, VA administrators say nurses will no longer dispense medicine to patients using a paper list. Instead they will scan bar codes on patients’ identification bracelets, look at the lists that pop up on their laptops and hand patients their medicine out of plastic packets bearing a code similar to a UPC symbol. The VA has embraced the bar code, an identification technology long used in supermarket check-out aisles and car-rental agencies. Bar Code Medicine Administration, as the VA calls it, is designed to reduce errors and to increase the accuracy of documentation—the same reasons other industries did so nearly a decade ago. The VA is implementing the BCMA, and other medical institutions are considering the system. But while the Durham VA pushes automation even further by handing bar-code scanners to nurses, Duke computer experts are still working to get all ofthe Medical Center’s divisions on the same program. Michael Russell, direc-

tor of Health Care Informatics at the Medical Center, said Duke continues to grapple with the difficulties of computerizing a massive medical center.

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JENNIFER PETERS, a registered nurse at the Durham VA Medical Center, views electronic patient records, which are used to check lab results and prescribe medicine to patients. Medical errors became big news following the recent release of an Institute of Medicine report that claimed such mistakes are far more common than previously believed. New technology is now being embraced across the industry as away to prevent medical mishaps. “This is a big problem,” said Arnold Milstein, medical director of the Pacific Business Group on Health. “The only

reason that the population is not up in arms is that the problem is largely invisible.... People are dying and being harmed in the context of illness.” Doctors and administrators ex-

plained that the slow computerization of health care stems from a dearth of information technology and the difficulties involved in getting doctors to change the way they work. But quality-

the industry said providers have dragged their feet for economic reasons. In an era where profit margins have been shrinking for many providers, large investments in new technology seem out of reach, said Kenneth Kizer, chief executive of the Quality Forum, a public-private health care coalition. “[lnvestment in technology] is going to cost the hospital money...,” Kizer said, “and the hospital’s not likely to see that money returned.” Kizer explained that while health care providers may not have a financial incentive to computerize, massive health care systems like the VA—organizations that act as both the payer and the provider—do see the economic benefits of automation. The reason? Health care payers recoup the savings brought on by reducing medical errors, such as shorter hospital stays. But Russell said financial concerns were never a factor in the University’s information technology decisions. Instead, logistical concerns have prevented more advances. For example, both Duke and the Durham VA have already implemented the Physician Order Entry system to help reduce errors caused by things like illegible handwriting; a 1998 article in the Journal of the American Medical See COMPUTERS on page 7 �

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Proposal gives guidelines for graduate experiences By DREW KLEIN The Chronicle

After a year of discussion, the Graduate and Professional Student Council is ready to move forward in developing guidelines for the graduate student experience. Early last year, a task force was formed to draft the preliminary version of “Guidelines for Good Practice in Graduate Education,” a document that claims to “define the roles, responsibilities, expectations, policies, rules and regulations” between graduate students and the faculty. However, when the completed draft found its way to a four-member GPSC committee in March of last year, progress slowed to a near standstill. “We met weekly for a while,” said Tomalei Vess, GPSC President and a member of the committee, adding that producing a document general enough to apply to students across all departments was very difficult. The committee completed its revisions of the document at its last meeting ofthe fall semester, and asked all GPSC members to offer their comments. “I’m sad to say we got no comments..., so we decided to move forward,” said Vess. “If there are any major changes, we’ll consult [GPSCI again.” Now that GPSC has completed its work, the document will be passed back to the Graduate School’s task force for another round of revisions. Final approval will come from the graduate faculty’s executive committee, the group that originally created the task force. Associate Dean of the Graduate School Leigh DeNeef, who has not seen the current form of the document, could not speculate on how controversial the process would be. “The model that we presented was basically an apprenticeship model of graduate studies,” he said, “and that model is not uniformly accepted across the country.”

Nonetheless, both Vess and DeNeef said they hope the project will be completed soon. “I would hope by the end of the semester,” said Vess, adding that additional time would be needed if the ECGF found the proposal controversial. Vess said she hopes the document, now renamed the “Duke University Charter for Graduate Education,” will help graduate students realize when they are not being treated fairly. “Right now there are no guidelines at all,” she said. “This way, a graduate student will know that it really shouldn’t be this way—they can go to the Dean and ask.” Many of the ideas in the proposal were taken from similar documents at other schools. Specifically, Vess described the original draft as very similar to the University of California at Berkeley’s version. The current draft of the document includes a graduate student bill of rights, which lists 18 specific demands. After much deliberation, GPSC decided not to include the right to unionize in the bill, a controversial issue at many college campuses across the country. Vess said she did not believe the privilege was needed at Duke.

Once the Graduate School task force receives a copy of the new draft, it will be responsible for revising it yet again. “We’ll certainly work together with representatives from GPSC on the next iteration,” said DeNeef, one ofthe members of the committee. The document is far from complete, and DeNeef said the group may need to be reconstituted before any further work can proceed. “The task force was drawn from the Executive Committee of the Graduate

Faculty. Not all the members of the task force are still members of the committee,” he said.

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Smile, this won’t hurt a bit... As a part of a two-month health initiative, Duke officials are uniting with the YMCA of Durham to offer free blood pressure screenings to YMCA members. Dr. Ralph Snyderman, president of Duke University Health System, and Dr. Jean Spaulding, vice chancellor for health affairs, were present at the screenings Tuesday afternoon, as was clinic manager Nancy Jenkins, above, who operated the blood pressure meter. The screenings for hypertension will continue daily through the month of February at both the downtown and Lakewood YMCAs. Players from the Duke women’s basketball team have also volunteered their help.

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Duke adds another smoke-free dorm on West Campus By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle

Next year, upperclass students who would rather not deal with the smell of cigarette smoke will be able to live comfortably in either of two West Campus dorms; those who would rather not deal with any cigarettes, alcohol or drugs will have to wait at least one more year. The Office of Housing and Student Development has decided to increase the number of smoke-free residence halls from one to two, adding the 55 beds in Nottingham to the 86 already smoke-free in Camelot, said Bill Burig, assistant dean of student development. He said students expressed considerable interest in smoke-free housing in last year’s housing survey. However, the office has decided that not enough students wanted to live in substance-free housing to warrant the creation of a substance-free living area on West Campus. There will continue to be substance-free housing available for first-year students on East.

In most dorms, students can only smoke in their rooms, and then only if their roommates consent. The smokefree dorms would go further by prohibiting smoking throughout the building. Most students are pleased with the decision to increase the amount of smoke-free living space. “Fm practically allergic to smoke,” Pratt sophomore and Camelot resident Laney Simmons said. “In my opinion, any dorm with central air conditioning should be smoke free.” Even some smokers said smoke-free dorms are a good idea. “Well, I have to come outside to smoke,” said a current Camelot resident and smoker who wished to remain anonymous. “But that’s cool. I wouldn’t want to smoke in my room anyway.... I think people should be able to choose to live in a smoke-free environment if they wish.” But Hilary Thum, a Trinity sophomore who also lives in Camelot, said

even though she does not smoke, living in a smoke-free environment can be a disadvantage. “I would rather it not be

[smoke-freel,” she said. “Sometimes when my friends come over and want

to smoke, they can’t.” The idea of substance-free housing drew a wide range of student opinions. Trinity sophomore John Zeok expressed the most popular sentiment: “I wouldn’t personally [be interested! in substance-free living. But, it’s probably a good idea to cater to those who think it’s a good idea.” Some students, however, doubted that there would be sufficient interest. “For a lot of Duke students..., the way they have fun on weekends is to drink,” said Trinity sophomore Kim Holmes. “I don’t know if [creating substance-free housing] would work.” Burig said that even freshmen living in Epworth, which is currently substance free, have expressed an interest in living all around campus, not just in a single substance-free dorm.

Not everyone agreed with that assessment. “I think there’s really a big demand for substance-free housing,” said Jonathan Nikfarjam, a current Epworth resident who said he would live in such a dorm if it existed. The Pratt freshman pointed to the exceptionally high number of students who requested to live in Epworth. Although Burig said the housing office had also intended to survey the 390 first-year students who requested substance-free housing last year but could not be fit in Epworth, the individuals responsible for that survey did not perform it. He left open the possibility of a substance-free dorm in the future if students expressed interest. “It’s not going to be a subject that we’re going to let die,” he said. Burig added that there would be a possibility of increasing the amount of smoke-free housing on campus in future years. “We’re going to inch things up as students tell us,” he said.

GPSC officers lobby for additional basketball tickets By DREW KLEIN The Chronicle

The men’s basketball game against Wake Forest University approached rapidly, making attendance abysmal at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Graduate and Professional Student Council. Fittingly, the students who did make it to the meeting discussed the need for more men’s basketball tickets for their constituents. Jeremy Hilsman, a law student, offered to negotiate on GPSC’s behalf to increase ticket availability for graduate students. “The last two games, the un-

dergraduates have totally not filled their seats,” said Hilsman. “I think we could negotiate for more.” Graduate and professional students currently receive 600 season tickets, while around 1,100 undergraduates are usually admitted to each game. GPSC President Tomalei Vess, a fifth-year graduate student in zoology, said she felt the graduate population was not proportionally represented. “We’re almost half [the student body] and we don’t get al-

most halfthe tickets,” she said, adding that the graduate section is always packed. Basketball games were not the only graduate need discussed, however. The meeting was preceded by a 30-minute question-and-answer session with University Librarian David Ferriero, vice provost for library affairs. “We haven’t done a good job with paying attention to the needs of graduate students,” he said. “I would really value listening to you in terms of your comments or concerns.” Audience members questioned Ferriero on the University’s reluctance to follow a national trend by abandoning the Dewey Decimal system in favor of the Library of Congress system. Ferriero responded that with almost five million volumes, the change would be too expensive to be worthwhile. “The estimates range from $4 million to $5 million, which seems like a lot to spend for changing a [book’s] address.” Ferriero also talked at length about his plans for

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Dance marathoners raised more than $ll,OOO for charity From staff reports “It was a really great way for us as a At last weekend’s Duke University whole to try something new, something Union-sponsored Dance Marathon, dancers that would benefit people outside Duke raised more than $11,300 for the Ronald undergraduates,” Loughlin said. McDonald House. From 7 p.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Saturday, participants danced the International monitor to discuss night—and day—away. East Timor; Pam Sexton, a “Twenty-four hours, and you former international monitor in can pretty much cover it all,” iIvWIS East Timor, will speak today in said Union Executive Vice Pres- T> Perkins Library’s Breedlove ident Sean Loughlin, a Trinity -Pi IClj l_ Room at 7 p.m. In her talk,

senior. Students danced to salsa, ballroom, techno and ’Bos music. Loughlin said that although only 25 dancers stayed for the whole event in the Wilson Recreation Center, more than 100 stopped by to participate in some way—whether to dance, make donations or buy their friends a break.

“East Timor: Victorious—and Devastated?” and a subsequent questionand-answer session, Sexton will discuss her experiences during the territory’s violent 1999 vote for self-determination. In mid-August, Sexton had to be evacuated from East Timor when deadly violence and street fighting followed a vote

for autonomy from Indonesia A member of the East Timor Action Network, Sexton has acted as both the United States coordinator for the International Federation for East Timor and a representative for Grassroots International and Timor Aid.

Ex-museum director dies: Art historianWilliam Heckscher, former director of the Duke University Museum of Art, died Nov. 27 at age 94. Heckscher dedicated eight years of his extensive art career to the University, arriving in 1966 as Benjamin N. Duke professor of art and art history and chair of the Department of Art and Art History. Known for his studies in early Christian, Renaissance, Byzantine and medieval

art, Heckscher brought years ofresearch experience to DUMA. He served as the museum’s director from 1970 to 1974, when he retired from teaching. His passion for medieval art helped him acquire for DUMA such important gifts as Ella Brummer’s medieval art collection. Bom in Hamburg, Germany, Heckscher earned his doctorate in art history at the University of Hamburg before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936. His art research led him far from home—from a position as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. to detention camps in Canada, where he helped tutor people as they studied for en-

trance exams to Canadian universities. Heckscher is survived by his wife, three daughters and five grandchildren.

Officials bemoan challenges of records computerization � COMPUTERS from page 4 Association reported that electronic reduce preventable medical errors by 55 percent, prescription systems reduce preventable medical errors by 55 percent. But, said Russell, ‘Trying to get physicians to use it is one of the big problems with the POE.”

Durham VA Chief of Medicine Bill Yarger explained doctors’ hesitance to use these types of systems. “A lot of doctors don’t like typing in their orders and progress notes because they feel they went to medical school to be doctors, not clerks,” he said. Although Russell noted the lack of specialized software currently on the market, others said computerization is possible for those providers willing to invest. For example, in response to last November’s headline-grabbing Institute of Medicine report on medical errors, some major employers—including General Electric and General Motors—are requiring their health care providers to implement computer systems that reduce medical errors. ‘The technology is

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readily available to do this stuff,” said Kevin Schulman, PC, the Medical Center set up systems to provide its docdirector of the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economtors with patient information via the clunky, greenics at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. screened terminals of yesteryear. Although Russell said the financial distress felt by Russell said Duke has continued to advance. Almuch of the industry has been lessened by the Duke though doctors can now look at their patients’ histories Health System’s expansion over the last decade, he on their laptops, he said, completing the move from added that its investments must still be deliberate. paper to electronic records is still in the works. ‘The fiscal pressures that exist within health care Russell is currently evaluating programs, but says have been quite concerning and have affected things at finding a computer application that will work effectively Duke,” he said. “So we must look at every investment we in the “battlefield” that is the medical center is hard make very carefully.” work. “What we don’t want to do is give nurses one device in order to draw blood, another device in order to adAcross the medical center, physicians and adminisminister medicine and another device to administer a trators are searching for other feasible ways to incorporate automation and mobile gadgets into patient care. blood product,” he said. “We want to give them one sysThis is nothing new—many said attempts to eliminate tem that does everything. “It is one thing to have an application and say it does human error through new technologies have been going on at Duke since the early ’Bos. something. It’s another thing to have it work on the scale of Duke. Something really has to be bulletproof to In fact, Duke was at the forefront ofthe electronic revolution in health care 20 years ago. At the dawn of the work at Duke.”

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said. “I was very aware of the issues when I left this summer. The details might have changed, but the issues are still the same.” To review the events and issues of last semester, Bazinsky said he read back issues of The Chronicle and met with student leaders. Other students who have worked with Bazinsky doubt that his absence will pose a problem. “Just because you’re not active in DSG does not mean that you are not upholding the ideals of DSG,” said Trinity junior Ricardo PittsWiley, who has worked closely with Bazinsky on volunteer initiatives. If anything, Pitts-Wiley said Bazinsky suffers from a desire to please too many people at once, and that Bazinsky’s multiple commitments created significant time pressures last year. Bazinsky thinks that his trip to Africa has helped him to focus on what’s really important. “It gave me a good global perspective and helped focus my energy,” he said. “It greatly altered my personal motivations for what

I get involved in.”

Specifically, Bazinsky sees financial aid as his top priority. His ideas include continuing current DSG President and Trinity senior Lisa Zeidner’s progress and adding some concrete plans of his own, “I would definitely continue [the] financial aid task force that [Zeidner] set up,” he said. “The only problem is that it will [take] years of controlled effort to see progress from the task

force. I would also like to see more immediate goals, like a fund-raising effort that will culminate in a student scholarship.” Although hardly a long-term or farreaching initiative, he envisions DSG working to raise $120,000 to put a student through four years at Duke. Bazinsky sees other priorities for next year as the parking situation and race relations—an issue that gained more importance for him during his time in Africa. “You go to South Africa and they have a lot of social segregation-type issues that are in some ways quite similar to Duke,” he said. “Except in South Africa, they talk about it and it’s very upfront. Here, I realized how little we deal with it in our everyday lives.” Bazinsky said he has been thinking about Duke issues since his freshman year, when he jumped headfirst into East Campus Council. He served as council president, managing a large budget and serving as unofficial president of the class. Assistant Dean of Student Development Kimberly Dailey, Bazinsky’s adviser on ECC, describes him as teamoriented, down-to-earth and refreshing. “He doesn’t remind me of all student leaders,” she said. “He’s unique in a good way.” At the end of his freshman year, Bazinsky took a large step. Although he had no DSG involvement, he decided to run for vice president for student affairs. Ultimately, he was soundly defeated.

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BAZINSKY Year: Junior Major: Public Policy Studies Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. What is the most important problem facing the University? "The most important problem for the University is financial aid. It affects people's ability to be here at Duke and can cause hardships to them and their families. It can affect their opportunities, activities, social scene and social outlets." What is your top priority? "My strategy in dealing with financial aid is two-fold. First, I would continue the financial aid task force. I would also set fund-raising efforts that culminate in a student scholarship to bring a needy student to Duke. It would almost be like the capital campaign in that it is us taking involvement in our own scholarship." What is the role of DSG? "DSG's function is to serve as a link between the students and administration and to provide a voice for students. For students that don't have a voice of their own—individuals and small organizations—DSG can be a forum and a conduit through which they can express their ideas."

“I remember thinking there were specific issues I wanted to get involved with, like the keg policy, financial aid car policy and residential life,” he said, of his decision to run. “I ended up getting whupped, but what are you going to do? I sucked up my pride and still joined DSG. I still wanted to get involved,” he added. He was also defeated for sophomore class president, but that margin was much narrower. During his sophomore year on DSG, Bazinsky served on the academic affairs committee, spearheading the re-

institution of preceptorials. Bazinsky also helped to found Durham Directions, a volunteer organization which funds field trips for Durham elementary schools. “I hold just the highest respect for him,” said Trinity junior Sarah Kaffenberger, another organizer of Durham Directions.

“He’s always thinking way ahead of things. He’s always been kind of an innovator. He gets people motivated to do things on their own,” she said. Dave Ingram contributed to this story.

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Education secretary suggests increasing teacher pay EDUCATION from page 1

said that the time is ripe to make some substantial changes in the public school system. “A quality education for every child is a new civil right for the 21st century,” he said. Riley’s speech touched on many proposals designed to provide more opportunities for underprivileged children. His list of goals included improving special education, reducing the “digital divide” between rich schools and poor schools, providing after-school opportunities, Head Start and national standards. “Our poorest children race the greatest of odds,” he said. “We do these children the greatest injustice if we allow the old tyranny of low expectations to prevail, and we cannot let that happen.” Riley said that teachers are the key element of improving schools, and he cited North Carolina as an example of a state that has made concerted efforts to improve the quality of its teachers. Insisting that he does not blame teachers for the

McCain coalition mirrors Reagan’s �MCCAIN from page 1 ers —blue-collar economic conservatives, union members and Baby Boomers—voted in far larger numbers than in the previous contest. McCain’s coalition was reminiscent of the voters who put Ronald Reagan into the White House then became a battleground for Democrats and Republicans in subsequent presidential elections. Open to all comers, Michigan’s primary actually drew more non-Republicans than Republicans. Bush supporters bitterly dismissed McCain’s victory. “John McCain isn’t party building, he’s party-borrowing,” said three-term Michigan Gov. John Engler, who accused the senator of “renting Democrats” for the night. Engler had promised to carry Michigan for

Bush, and took blame for the defeat. McCain’s response: “Be a man.” In Michigan, with 80 percent of the precincts reporting, McCain had 560,684 votes, or 50 percent, and Bush had 494,731, or 44 percent. Former ambassador Alan Keyes had 5 percent. In Arizona, with 69 percent of the precincts reporting, McCain had 161,770 votes, or 60 percent, and Bush had 96,473 votes, or 36 percent. Keyes had 4 percent. McCain’s victories earned him all 30 delegates from Arizona and at least 46 ofthe 58 at stake in Michiganenough to assume the lead in the race for national delegates. Although Bush gained at least six delegates Tuesday, he only had 67 delegates to date; McCain had 90. McCain told The Associated Press that GOP leaders backing Bush will peel away when they start realize his cross-party coalition would beat Vice President A1 Gore. “As I look more electable, we’ll start drawing more Republicans,” said McCain, who received just one-fourth of the GOP vote in Michigan. “What I believe we are assembling is the new McCain majority.” With an American flag serving as a backdrop, McCain suggested to supporters that he, not Bush, would be the best general election candidate. “We are A1 Gore’s worst nightmare,” he said. In a whirlwind 48 hours after the South Carolina primary, Bush and McCain traded accusations of negative campaigning in Michigan. Each complained that the other was using automated phone calls to voters to make inflammatory religious attacks. Emboldened by victory, McCain decided Tuesday night to air TV ads in northern Virginia in an attempt to win the state’s 56 delegates Feb. 29. After losing South Carolina, he told his staff to ease up their efforts in the state. McCain’s main focus, however, will be California. He plans to spend seven of the next 12 days in the state that awards 162 delegates to the March 7 primary winner, sources said. He is counting on his strong showing in New Hampshire to give him a boost in New England states that day. With McCain now setting the agenda, Bush has decided to cancel a Virginia trip early next week to head to Washington state instead, keeping pace with McCain, who will be there Wednesday. •

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dismal performance of many schools, Riley drew loud applause by saying, “Unlike some in politics, I do not get a kick out of bashing teachers.” The most far-reaching proposal he announced would extend a teacher’s working year from nine to 11 months without prolonging the school year. “This extra time can and should be used to intensive professional development, and it certainly should be used to give more students the extra help they need in the summer months,” went on to explain, although he gave no specifics of the program. Riley would accompany the longer work year with a significant increase in pay. “I have come to the conclusion that we will never really improve American education until we elevate the teaching profession and come to grips with the issue of teacher compensation,” he said. Riley challenged colleges and universities to play a role in the reforms he suggested. “I continue to encourage America’s higher education community to enter into a sustained dialogue

with education reformers at the middle and secondary level,” he said. Responding to the rash of school shootings since his last State of American Education address, Riley stated that morals and religion have a place in pub-

lic schools. “Our schools have a role to play in helping young people develop a moral compass,” he said. But not everyone at Southern supported secretary Riley. About 25 protesters, including representatives from the Durham chapter of the NAACP, gathered outside of the building to advocate school vouchers. Riley specifically criticized vouchers in his speech. One of the protesters, state superintendent candidate Vernon Robinson, questioned Riley’s decision to speak at Southern. “Certainly there’s a better county than Durham and a better state than North Carolina to talk about how education is working,” he said, “because it’s not working here.”

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Chronicle should have covered Lunar New Year On Feb. 19, the Asian Students Association celebrated tradition, culture and pride during its eighthannual Lunar New Year Festival. Without a doubt, it is the largest event sponsored by this organization Asian Pacific besides American Heritage Month

Chronicle’s Internet archives and found no pictures or articles addressing any Lunar New Year Festival, although it has been celebrated on campus for the past seven years.

Filipino folk dances, various singing performances, a martial arts demonstration, a fashion show with clothing dating from 500 B.C. to the present, four modem dances and a lion dance finale. Because of The Chronicle’s neglect, they missed an opportunity to share Asian culture with their readers. Luckily, administration, faculty, undergraduates, graduates, adjacent university students, employees and Durham community members were present to help ASA celebrate the Lunar New Year. More than 800 people helped us celebrate this important event. Hopefully, next year The Chronicle will be amongst the celebrators helping spread the joy of Lunar New Year with those who are unable to attend.

That’s what they want in GPSC. And that’s what the Graduate and Professional Student Council’s document entitled “Guidelines for Good Practice in Graduate Education” should get. The Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty must approve this proposal when it reviews and votes on it in the coming months. These guidelines affirm graduate students’ basic rights—to a fair living wage, to be recognized for their contributions to research, to coauthorship and to parental leave, among others. So many relationships in the University community are strictly defined by community standards or by traditional names—undergraduate and teacher, employee and employer and professor and department chair, for example. But the relationship between professor and graduate students has been undefined for so long that almost anything—including subtle forms of exploitation—is considered fair game. Graduate students’ complaints about being wronged by their advisers often fall on deaf ears from every segment ofthe community. People tend to write off these concerns as simply rites of passage. More destructively, people say graduate students should accept violations of their rights in the academic community because a nasty adviser’s clout will help the students when they enter the Job market. Almost any behavior from either the graduate student or the adviser has become acceptable because there is no understood standard for behavior in the classroom, the lab or the workroom whatsoever. The Duke University Charter for Graduate Education sets these basic standards. When graduate students feel wronged, this new charter will provide a tangible baseline ofacceptable conduct to point to. Fundamentally, it establishes the graduate student as a legitimate member of the University community. That being said, graduate students outside of GPSC have not rallied behind the bill of rights, possibly because they do not feel their rights have been violated. Indeed, the proposal has been tossed around and stalled by committees and task forces for over a year—perhaps indicative of an overall sense of satisfaction with relationships as they stand now. Still, this proposal is important. It recognizes graduate students in each of their separate roles as teachers, students and researchers; it defines and clarifies acceptable standards of conduct for each of those positions. Such a document would not be produced if exploitation of graduate students was not happening at this University. After this document passes, at least the students affected will have something in writing to turn to.

I find it amusing that certain sports reporters for The Chronicle have the nerve to publish some of the garbage that they write. After observing a lackluster five months’ worth of coverage of the women’s swim team’s daunting losing season in an always delayed, always demeaning and condescending fashion, I am pleased to announce that The Chronicle’s sports staff has just finished another stellar season, finishing second-to-last in the ACC journalism contest, beating only North Carolina State

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“Unlike some in politics, I do not get a kick out

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US. Secretary of Education Richard Riley reiterates that he does not blame teachers for the dismal performance of many schools (see story, page 1)

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in April. I am writing to express my disappointment, as well as the

general body’s

disappoint-

ment, of The Chronicle’s lack of interest in the Lunar New Year Festival. All that was included was a picture of the festival (which did not recognize ASA’s role) in yesterday’s edition of The Chronicle. It is disturbing that The

Chronicle failed to cover the event despite several urges and reminders from ASA members. It concerns me that such a popular source of information refuses to take an interest in a large-scale minority celebration. People have checked The

This is disconcerting, since the Asian population (Korean, Chinese, Japanese,

Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Filipino, and Indian) is the largest minority group at Duke. It is insulting that ASA has been overlooked for so long. Because The Chronicle neglected to cover this popular festival, they could not witness ethnic Asian cuisine being served to more than 650 people at the Marketplace. Nor could they see more than 900 people being entertained by a performance extravaganza at Baldwin Auditorium. They failed to recognize the time and energy spent by more than 100 students in preparing and organizing traditional Korean, Chinese and

Brian Lee Trinity ’OO

The writer is president of the Asian Students Association.

Sportswriters treat women’s swim team unfairly University—whose writers were disqualified because they can’t spell. Unfortunately, the staff of The Chronicle doesn’t have much potential to rise up from the bottom of the ACC, since it is comprised of a young group, full of ignorant freshman reporters. Just because the sports section c nnot consist only of a hot ketball story that s bend over backyoui . wards trying to turn into a six-page epic does not mean that the coverage of the women’s swim team can be r

approached as if it were a STONE COLD column. The next time one of your writers attempts to make a mockery of a non-scholarship program that trains over 20 hours a week with virtually no off-season, maybe he should remember that these swimmers are competing because they love it, and not because they are concerned about their status as the team who is still “bringing up the bottom ofthe ACC.” Jennifer Gauger Trinity ’O2

In the Feb. 21 column pubprobable than a crude A sea-based joint-effort lished in The Chronicle enti- nuclear missile with just boost-phase intercept Antitled “No Need for Numerous enough power to reach the Ballistic Missile System Nukes,” the columnist claims United States—much like would be the ultimate in prothat a rogue state can be those North Korea has been tection, provided that the deterred with 1,500 weapons. constructing. United States and Russia I concur with the author’s could agree to a mutually Unfortunately, this statement assumes that the rogue claim that a reduction to satisfactory system. state will act rationally and 1,500 arms would make the This would protect both allow itself to be deterred in world a much safer place. states from a nuclear intruthe same manner as Russia However, I feel that this sion or intercept over their did during the Cold War. reduction, coupled with a own soil. And, in fact, suitcase minimal national missile bombs smuggled into the defense system, would be NICOLE RAYMOND United States are much less optimal. Trinity ’9B for referenced column, see http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/2000/02/21/07Noneed.html

Dunleavy headline fails its attempt at sophisticated wit The Feb. 22 edition of The as well as the team, the Dictionary describes wiseacre Chronicle reports the unfor- coach and the Duke as: “one who pretends to tunate infirmity of Mike University fans! knowledge or cleverness: Dunleavy under the headAn expression that was smart aleck.” line, “Is Dunleavy Done?” Is current during my student this a crude attempt at days describes a wiseacre as Leon Lack sophisticated wit? someone who “would do anyProfessor Emeritus, How inconsiderate must thing for a gag.” Webster’s Department of Pharmacology this seem to Mike Dunleavy, Seventh New Collegiate and Cancer Biology for referenced article, see http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/2000/02/22/01Isdunleavy.html

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The Syrian Link Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon depends on including Syria in negotiations toward peace Whispers from the East Laila EHiaddad “HeyLaila, Sorry I haven’t written, it’s just that I have loads of work to do. There are so many exams and deadlines to meet. I have 25 chapters of physics to review in three days. By the way, there’s no electricity, so we have to use electric generators for everything in Lebanon. Nothing changed at the university, but at home it takes time to switch on the electricity, and driving without street lights is hectic. The day of the bombing was frightening to say the least... I didn’t sleep all night because of the continuous sonic booms.”

“Sonic booms? Bombing? Electricity

outages? Is this modern-day Beirut or a war-tom early ’Bos version of it?” These questions raced through my head as I read my friend’s e-mail. Unfortunately, this was the stark reality no less than a week ago in Lebanon, and it was ignored by much of the Western press.

The Israeli government has continued

its bombing of Lebanon in an effort to

eliminate Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas fighting to free the Israeli-occupied South of Lebanon. However, what distinguished this bombing from previous ones was that it was not limited to the socalled South Lebanese “security zone.” Israeli warplanes repeatedly violated Lebanese airspace, bombed three major power stations in Beirut, Baalbek and Tripoli, injured many civilians in the attack and caused power outages throughout the country. It’s almost like the boy who cried wolf,

except in this case, it’s the Jewish state that cried “withdrawal.” In the past few years, the media has been riddled with rumors that Israel is finally pulling out of South Lebanon, yet little has changed regarding its operations there, and people both in and out of Israel have grown weary of politicians’ empty promises. If anything, the spate of ambushed, katyusha rocket attacks and the mortaring of opposition targets by Hezbollah has been stepped up. This is the same Lebanese war of which Amos Oz said “nobody commemorated.... The fallen soldiers ofthe Six Day War belonged to all of us, but those who died in Lebanon belong only to their mothers now.” Israeli casualties in South Lebanon are the highest they have been years, yet Israel has not budged, and its involvement there is a lasting symbol of the country’s long outdated security rhetoric. Domestic disapproval coupled with continuing Israeli aggression and bloodshed in South Lebanon immediately begs the question of why it has persisted on remaining there despite the vocal calls of both humanitarian organizations and soldiers to pull out, and promises by government after government to honor such pleas. The South Lebanon issue is multifaceted in nature with outstanding regional implications. Israel is less interested in South Lebanon itself than it is with the indirect effects that withdrawal may have. Its interests are at once strategic and economic, yet the overshadowing domestic and international concerns have caused it to lose sight of these interests. Yet one can only understand the relevance of the ongoing Israeli occupation of South Lebanon and bombing of Beirut in

the broader regional Middle Eastern Syria has demanded an Israeli comframework. mitment to a full withdrawal from the Because Lebanon’s main power broker Golan Heights as the precondition for the is Syria, and because Syria considers the restart of the talks. Israel’s most recent return of the Golan Heights a precondiescapades into Lebanon, however, have tion to any peace with Israel, it will not further damaged its already poor humannegotiate nor stop backing Hezbollah itarian record and also compromised its rebels until this commitment is made. credibility as a viable peace partner. The Gulf States, in turn, are less likely In this war of attrition, Israel may to negotiate with Israel until Syria does. possess vastly superior firepower and This web of interconnectedness necessiresources. However, it lacks the tates the resolution of the Palestinian disHezbollah’s knowledge of terrain, raison pute in all its facets as a precondition for d’ etre and willingness to take casualties. a wider agreement embracing the rest of Due to the issue’s dramatic regional the Arab world. This is much the regional implications, only by renewing negotiaframework within which the South tions with Syria can Israel liberate itself Lebanese issue falls. from the Lebanon trap and help the The dilemma facing Israel is how to transition to a regional peace that will broker a peace with Syria, withdraw from provide for long-term security based on South Lebanon and simultaneously credible communication rather than maintain a peace with the Palestinians. It short-term Band-Aid solutions. seems very clear that an Israeli withdrawal must be linked to a Syrian deal. Laila El-Haddad is a Trinity senior.

Students Against Sweatshops has lost that ’6os feeling The Right Side of Campus John Zimmerman Here is a news flash for Students Against Sweatshops: The 1960s are over and your voice is not really important. Apparently this comes as a surprise to these bleeding-heart idealists, but the hippies have long since moved off ofthe soapbox and into the administration. Hence the folly of SAS’s “struggle.” As it desperately tries to frame the sweatshop issue as a ’6osstyle students vs. administration battle, the reality is that sympathetic administrators have helped and encouraged them at every step. The much-celebrated “takeover” of the Allen Building last year was little more than a faculty-chaperoned camping trip for third-rate protesters; the sacrifice of a handful of students sitting in an office and playing Risk for 31 hours. What dedication! Last week, during their sorry attempt at a revival demonstration, SAS hardly stirred up any enthusiasm. News cameras waited for a protest that never quite materialized. Furthermore, the supposedly coldhearted administration trumped SAS at its own game—they had already sent out an ultimatum to the University’s suppliers. This proves that even a warmed-over hippie is much more effective than a wannabe hippie. Dashed was the chance for another “heroic” takeover and for the resulting national news coverage.

The disappointment was not limited, however, to the members of SAS; there was true distress on the part of many inside the Allen Building. What had happened to their once-proud group of progressive apprentices? Organizers blamed a lack of publicity, but the more likely problem is that nobody really cares anymore. Few Duke students have the unique combination of the extreme arrogance and shocking ignorance necessary to try to impose their will on workers halfway around the world, so naturally, support was limited. Most of us realize that it takes an astonishingly self-righteous attitude to sit in our cozy dorm rooms

in North Carolina'and pretend to understand life in

a poor country in Southeast Asia. We realize that it is the height of vanity to dictate to multinational corporations how to run their businesses when we have virtually no idea what they face. But this is. exactly what SAS believes —this bunch of economic illiterates knows best, so everyone should do what they say. Never mind that most of these students are merely naive, pro-union idealists with a few years ofcollege. Never mind that the free market system—the only successful economic system —is more qualified to handle this problem. They are walking reminders of the axiom that a little education can be a very dangerous thing. Amazingly, the arrogance of SAS does not stop there, for it actually believes that it has the power to have an effect. As one Chronicle columnist warned last week, “some corporations doubt the strength ofthe student movement against sweatshop exploitation.” They

truly believe that two dozen disorganized undergraduates can cripple a company like Nike, mostly because

they assume they represent the student body. The blind arrogance of the 1960s lives on. The most frustrating aspect of SAS is that these students hurt the very people they claim to help. It may seem incomprehensible to us, but the employees in Asia and Africa choose to work in the factories. Is it perhaps because a low wage is better than earning no wage at all? In addition to some literature which suggests that members advocate a living wage for sweatshop

employees, SAS now advocates full disclosure. In a move of political spin that would make poster boy Ralph Nader envious, these anti-capitalists claim that disclosure is, in fact, a free-market ideal. With all of these factory addresses, “human rights groups” could monitor the working conditions. Of course, for SAS, “human rights groups” means unions. If you can’t run a company out of business, then just unionize the employees. After all, they believe unionization is a basic human right—somewhere after life, but assuredly before liberty.

Beyond their philosophical love affair with unions,

many student leaders are working directly with the AFL-CIO and other organized labor groups. Organized labor sponsors a “Union Summer” every year, which trains thousands of college activists how to run an anti-sweatshop (read unionization) campaign. It’s really just another way to get collective control over the big, bad corporations that they hate so much. So here’s a recommendation for SAS: Come down off your high horse, give up the pathetic protesting and most of all, don’t claim to represent the rest of us. You certainly don’t speak for me.

John Zimmerman is a Trinity sophomore.

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Gene therapy death at Penn heightens national focus GENE THERAPY from page I other kinds ofresearch—there is a “cavalier attitude and a nonchalance” among scientists. Although Duke researchers may not be at the point of clinical trials, some of them foresee testing on human subjects in the next few years. As the Medical Center becomes more involved with gene therapy, researchers said the field must be investigated carefully. Andrea Amalfitano, an assistant professor of medical genetics in the pediatrics department, is currently studying the adeno virus and the way it can be manipulated to deliver genes to a variety of organs, including the liver and cardiac tissues. One of the main focuses of Amalfitano’s study is Pompe disease, a muscular disorder. His team tests the use of the virus to deliver genetic information that is missing and makes the virus safer to apply to any disease that affects an organ. Although he has tested the adeno virus on animals, he said it might be a few years before he begins clinical research. “If you are going to pursue tgene therapy], you must cross the t’s and dot the i’s along the way,” he said. Amalfitano also said the protocols would be as stringent for gene therapy as for other types of research. “I don’t know how extensive an effort gene

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therapy is [being given] at Duke, but the Institutional Review Board will apply the same principles to gene therapy as they do to all trials.... Those protocols are under the same scrutiny.” The level of scrutiny has increased at Duke since last May, when the Office of Protection from Research Risks suspended Duke’s human subject research for four days because of procedural lapses. Kaufman stressed that Duke is enforcing the highest standards for research. “The Office of Protection from Research Risks has been pleased with our quarterly progress reports and has decided that we no longer are required to submit additional reports,” he said. “We will have a site visit by OPRR in May and hope to be on regular status after that visit. We believe OPRR has confidence in our programs.” The death at Penn jumpstarted the debate over gene therapy and clinical trials, both at Penn and at other academic research institutions. The source of the controversy originated with the death of Arizona teenager Jesse Gelsinger. He fell into a coma and died in September at Penn’s medical center after being injected with genes designed to correct an inherited liver disease. On Jan. 21, the Food and Drug Administration shut down all gene therapy experiments at Penn and said there were, according to a press release, “serious deficiencies in the procedures in place for oversight and monitoring of clinical trials.” In response, Penn President Judith Rodin appointed a committee to conduct a comprehensive review of the oversight and monitoring procedures at Penn’s Institute for Human Gene Therapy. Penn recently released a statement denying causing the death of the teenager. In early February, Congress began examining gene therapy oversight procedures and guidelines

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� Women’s golf fails to fourth in Arizona The second-ranked women’s golf team shot a 288 and now trails host Arizona by 10 strokes at the Arizona Wildcat Invitational. Sophomore Beth Bauer shot a one-under par 71 to remain the leading individual. She stands at six-under over two rounds and is one stroke ahead of the Wildcats’ Christina Monteiro with one round left to play. :T3

� ’Bama stuns Auburn Alabama freshman Rod Grizzard scored 25 points and matched Auburn’s Chris Porter basket for basket in Alabama's 68-64 upset over the 11th-ranked Tigers. It snapped the Crimson Tide's four-game losing streak to Auburn.

� The last Straw? New York Yankees outfielder Darryl Strawberry tested positive for cocaine Jan. 19. A high-ranking baseball official, speaking on the condition he not be identified, told The Associated Press yesterday the commissioner's office is investigating the situation. The official did not say what disciplinary action the sport was likely to take against Strawberry, but given his past penalties, a suspension that would last most, if not all, of this season appears likely.

� J-AAAGH-ER Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Jaromir Jagr, the NHL's leading scorer, was placed on the injured reserve yesterday after injuring his right hamstring against the Lightning Monday night. No word was released on his status. “How severe, I don't know,” Pittsburgh coach Herb Brooks said. “But it doesn’t look too good.” The Penguins are currently in seventh place in the Eastern Conference.

� Jamison out for remainder of season Golden State Warriors leading scorer Antawn Jamison will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing exploratory arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Tuesday in Los Angeles. A team spokesman said doctors did not find any major damage in Jamison's knee but that he would miss the remainder of the season.

“Last year I talked about Shaolin monks. I kid you not, today in my religions of Asia class, the first day of Buddhism.... I don’t know if there’s any correlation, but we’re studying Buddhism tor the next three or so weeks, so hopefully....” Shane Battier

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Battier blasts Deacs, Duke wins ACC outright By ANDREW GREENFIELD

� Shane Battier scored a

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96 No Dunleavy, no

Duke

problem. WFU 78 Last night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Shane Battier put on a shooting display that proved that Duke’s perimeter game would not miss a beat with the loss of freshman sharpshooter Mike Dunleavy to mononucleosis. The junior scored a careerhigh 34 points on 11-of-16 shooting from the floor as the secondranked Blue Devils (22-3, 13-1 in the ACC) defeated the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (14-13, 5-9) 96-78. The win clinched Duke’s fourth consecutive ACC title, making it only the second team in ACC history to win four straight titles outright. ‘To win the ACC regular season outright and doing it on our own and with quite a bit of adversity is great,” coach Mike Krzyzewski said. SHANE BATTIER exits the game to a handshake from coach Mike Krzyzewski The loss ofits sixth man put Battier scored a career-high 34 points in the win. the Duke bench to the test and Nick Horvath had the answer. And while Horvath certainly points, including 3-of-3 from The freshman from Arden Hills, held his own, Duke once again behind the arc, while the senior Minn., added 13 points on 5-of-7 turned to Battier and Chris added the other seven points. Carrawell to lead the way. shooting from the floor. By halftime, the Battier“I didn’t know how Nick Neither team was able to Carrawell combo had scored 38 would do, but he was terrific,” take control during the first five of Duke’s 51 points on 11-of-16 Krzyzewski said. “He just minutes of the game until shooting from the floor and 12played really well. It’s so good to Battier and Carrawell came of-14 from the charity stripe. see a kid rise to the occasion alive to lead Duke on a 20-7 run. While the veterans were Battier scored 13 of the 20

like that.”

See WAKE on page 19 P-

career high while fellow superstar Robert O’Kelley struggled all night. Move over Leroy Brown Shane Battier is the baddest man in the whole damn town. The junior has turned heads all season long and had another impressive outing last night as

the Blue Devils routed visiting Wake Forest 96-78 to claim their fourth consecutive outright ACC crown.

Bob Wells Game Commentary Midway through the second half, Duke held an eight-point lead and with the shot clock winding down, Battier heaved up a three that bounced off the backboard and fell through. Battier was fouled on the play and he converted his free throw attempt to boost the Blue Devils’ lead to 12, effectively putting an end to Wake’s comeback bid. “Shane’s three was a heartbreaker,” Wake Forest guard Robert O’Kelley said. I guess it was just meant to be.” See BATTIER on page 16 � “

Running on pure e-Mosch-ion Freshman Sheana Mosch has moved from small-town Pennsylvania to the big time ACC defender who is third on the point line and hits 79 percent of Mosch is doing better than team in steals with 42 despite her free throws. A controlled floor all right. She was expected to The look of Sheana Mosch coming off the bench for much of leader who has committed only begin this year behind sophomore point guard Krista on a basketball court is one of the season. A focused shooter 39 fouls in 629 minutes. The first Gingrich. However, a preseawho scores 8.3 points per game, white female rapper. pure intensity. son injury to Gingrich caused OK, maybe not the last one. The look of a relentless shoots 42 percent from the three“[Freshman forward Michele a change of plans. Mosch took Matyasovsky] and I, we made a the development in stride, couple of raps on away trips,” scoring 22 points in her first Mosch said. “We always make exhibition game, a 77-69 loss fun of the games, people on our against the Russian Junior team. When we came back from National Team. Mosch also Florida State, Michele and I got started in Duke’s ACC opener up in the front of the bus and we against Virginia, getting 13 grabbed the mic and did our rap points, seven rebounds and in front of everybody. We got a two steals. Yet Mosch, the ACC preseacouple of laughs out of it.” Don’t think she can make a son rookie of the year, learned career out of it? Plenty of men quickly that not every game would be so easy. have already pulled double“Adjusting to the intensity duty as basketball players and rappers (see Kobe Bryant and level of college basketball, it’s just so much higher than it Shaquille O’Neal). Still not convinced? You’re was in high school trying to not the only one who has play really hard for the entire doubted Mosch. During the game or all two hours of pracrecruiting process, “I had peotice,” she said. “If you slack off, people will get on your case ple come up to me and say stupid junk about how I should go about it. “I was the leader of my high to a smaller school so I’d actuschool team. I come here and ally get to play,” she said. “Well, I’m doing ail right everyone else is trying to pick me up.” now, and it makes me feel Gone are the days when good because of those people SHEANA MOSCH looks to find a tittle operating room in an exhibition matchup who thought I wasn’t going to Mosch could pile up numbers By HAROLD GUTMANN The Chronicle

during the preseason.

make it.”

See

MOSCH on page 20

College Hoops Roundup Illini blow away Indiana to claim 7th straight win Illinois

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Battler’s miracle 3 sets tone for career evening BATTIER from page 15 The shot was symbolic of Battler’s night, where almost everything went his way. The Naismith Award candidate and returning national defensive player of the year dominated play on the offensive end in the first stanza. Battier played the entire first half, scoring 21 points. He was an impressive 7-of-10 from the floor, including 3-of-5 from beyond the arc.

Associated Press

87 CHAMPAIGN, 111. Illinois knew that beatIndiana 63 ing No. 16 Indiana might be the last chance to recapture some of the national respect lost after a 1-2 start in the Big Ten. Respect restored. The Illini embraced the opportunity, using a pressing defense and longrange shooting to rout. Indiana 87-63. “We can play with anybody..,. anybody” said Cory Bradford, who hit five of Illinois’ 13 3-pointers and scored 26 points. The Illini (18-7 overall, 10-4 in the Big Ten) have won seven straight and nine of 10, but were yet to beat a ranked team during that stretch. Indiana, coming off a loss to No. 6 Ohio State last weekend, dropped consecutive games for the first time this season in large measure because leading scorer A. J. Guyton continued to struggle. Guyton, held without a basket the last 13:30 minutes against the Buckeyes, made just one Tuesday and scored three points. He averages almost 21 a game. Indiana coach Bob Knight kept Guyton on the bench all but two minutes of the second half. “Players have rough nights Illinois’ Lucas Johnson said. “But we really keyed our defense on him tonight.” Kirk Haston and Jeffrey Newton scored 17 each for Indiana (18-6, 8-5). The Hoosiers did themselves in early. Indiana spotted Illinois a huge first-half lead by giving the ball away 13 times. Seven of those turnovers were steals. Knight and several Illinois players used the same word—“manhandled”— to describe what happened to the

23. 2000

By JOHN KELLY

Hoosiers.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

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LONNY BAXTER carried the Terrapin offensive load with a game-high 25 points

Baxter scores 25 in Terrapin romp over last-place Clemson By DAN LEWERENZ Associated Press

UMd.

CLEMSON. S.C

It was supposed to be a

63 showdown between two standout sophomore guards. Instead, it Clemson

was another sophomore, Maryland’s

Lonny Baxter, who stood out. Baxter scored 25 points Tuesday night, leading No. 19 Maryland to a 7663 victory over Clemson.

The strategy was simple, Baxter said. “We just pounded the ball inside. That’s what starts our offense,” he said. Baxter scored 16points before halftime, single-handedly staving off a Clemson rally midway through the first half. Baxter’s performance overshadowed the matchup between the ACC’s two

leading scorers, sophomore guards Will Solomon and Juan Dixon. Solomon finished with 12 points, and Dixon scored 11. Both came in averaging 21.6 points in league play. The Tigers (9-17,3-10 in the ACC) used an 8-0 run to pull within 22-16 with 10:01 left. But Maryland (20-7, 9-4) answered with a 10-0 run of its own, the first five points coming from Baxter, to go up 32-16.

The Terrapins led 37-25 at halftime. “Baxter took the game over inside unlike any other player we have faced this season,” said Clemson coach Larry Shyatt. The Tigers slowed Baxter by starting the second half in a zone, but he came on again late in the game. Baxter’s fast break dunk with 3:43 left gave Maryland its biggest lead at 74-52.

To paraphrase the hyperventilating Dick Vitale, Battier was simply a three S man last night; super, scintillating and sensational. His 34 points marked a new career high, and he has now gone over 30 points twice this year. “With Nate [James] not feeling well and Mike [Dunleavyl out, I knew someone else was going to have to step up on offense,” Battier said. “I got some good looks and fortunately I was able to knock some shots down.” Conversely,Wake’s top gun, O’Kelley, did his best to impersonate Harry Houdini in the first half. O’Kelley averaged 17.5 points per game last season, more than any other returning ACC player, but last night posted a zero in the scoring column in the first half. The second half wasn’t much kinder, and O’Kelley finished the game with just four points on 2-of-lO shooting, including 0-of-4 from behind the arc. O’Kelley, who was mostly guarded by Chris Cairawell, appeared rushed on most of his shot attempts. “They’re a really good defensive team,” O’Kelley said. “I didn’t feel like I was rushing my shot at all. I got some good looks and I just missed on them. [My shooting] has affected my team in a big way and I got to get it turned around. I’m going through a funk right now and I haven’t been playing well lately. I just have to keep fighting.” If O’Kelley doesn’t come out of his slump soon, then Wake Forest fans can look forward to holding up placards with the mantra “NIT or Bust.”

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Senior Day not the same without Browne in Duke lineup I don’tknow that there’s any place in the world as lonely as a deserted gym. I suppose I’m confronted with it more than most people—it’s an occupational hazard for a sportswriter—but there’s something so incredibly lonesome about thousands of seats, silently upright around a deserted court. Emptiness hangs thick in the air like a spilled Coke and all the life ofthe building scampers into the darkened shadows above, scurrying like an animal up a tree to avoid being forgotten on the court. But Cameron is funny that way. Maybe it’s the amount of time I spend there, but the old barn never seems empty. It has a distinct hum all its own, a soft murmur of a million people past. The old timers might tell you it’s Vic Bubas, still giving hell to a referee or maybe it’s the whizz of a 45-foot heave finding the bottom of the net from Jeff Capel’s hand time and time again. And only once do I ever remember that building being quiet. That was the night that Peppi Browne went from the present to the past. Every athlete lives on a schedule —a day of work is a day closer to the end. They mark their lives and ours not like stars, reliably sitting in the sky when we need them for guidance, but like comets shooting through the night sky, leaving us with a handful of memories about days when it all went right. But the problem of comets is that once they fly past, you might never see them again. On Jan. 27, Peppi Browne was due to make her final pass. She came barreling down the court, a blue and white dervish with her eyes locked on the pass coming in over her

shoulder.

And whatever got her, she never saw. For a moment she cradled the ball in her hand, planting her left foot first, then her right. Then came the look of horror on her face, as every muscle in her face looked like it was pulled taught like a violin string. She looked directly at the bench, her mouth frozen in a jagged “0” and her body paralyzed by surprise. In one drawn-out moment, as all of the sound left Cameron as though God himself had sucked it out with a vacuum cleaner, Peppi was trapped in an awkward squatting position, suspended maybe entirely by the disbelief that a career had just ended. Then she crumbled. And even old Bubas himself quieted down.

She lay on the ground rolling in labored motions, like a sluggish river sizing up its banks. A swarm of trainers and coaches dashed to her, but there was nothing they could do, nothing they would be able to do. It was a torn ACL, they’d find out, and in three-letter simplicity, it meant that the books had been closed on No. 10. Athletes are prepared for these kind of things, but even the best prepared would hardly have expected Peppi Browne, who had been through the wars of college basketball and always departed the field head-high, to be lying on the ground like an upturned beetle. She tried to come back. Four days later I spoke to her after practice, a sizable brace her badge of dedication on her knee, and with hair

out of place and still out of breath, she said she’d be back. If her body would let

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though. Sometimes Mary Decker Slaney tumbles, sometimes Dan Jansen crashes into the opening turn. Sometimes even Muhammad Ali himself can’t deliver the

knockout punch. It’s been tough to watch her sitting on the bench in street clothes, mindlessly mashing her fingers together like they were clay.

And it’s going to be hard to watch her her, she’d push it as hard as she could. But pushing against the weight of at senior night tomorrow night, as one of the inevitable never gets you much of the program’s most important players anywhere, and Peppi Browne’s body says good-bye to a half-empty arena simply gave in. With no fanfare and just with a half-sincere smile. I learned a while ago that a guy with a resigned shake of her head, her Duke a day-old shave and a two-day old career has come to an end. The tragedy isn’t so much the injury headache isn’t going to make much difitself—there are a lot more important ference, but while Peppi can’t say goodthings than knees, Peppi will tell you—- bye to the game the way she should be it was that Peppi never got to say goodable, Duke University should say goodbye in the way she deserves. bye to the game on her terms. Maybe people will show up to give When I played my last tennis match as a high school senior—a 5-4 loss in the her the credit she deserves, maybe they state semifinals—l sat and watched a won’t, but if there’s any consolation to it, bright late spring sun fade to a dull she simply couldn’t have done it any betorange, clutching my sweat-soaked high ter in the time she had. I’ll be in Cameron Thursday night, school tennis shirt for my life. I didn’t want to give it up. You forget, sitting in the same place I’ve always almost, that life outside the lines is sat, with the same group of friends I’ve where the game’s won and lost. I don’t been sitting with since my Gilbertknow that I’ve realized that yet, but I at Addoms days. I’ll probably stand and clap when Peppi walks out, the slight least got to say good-bye on my terms. Somewhere, in the fading sun of a limp like an invisible chain tugging on North Carolina spring day I drew new her leg. Hell, I’ll probably even break out a smile, but when she stands out lines to play in. And last year, when Trajan Langdon there accepting flowers graciously, literally floated out of the arena like a smiling and waving to the crowd, I’ll golden leaf on an autumn wind’s worth have a hard time believing that of “Go to hell, Carolina,” chants, he got Cameron—even if 9,314 show up—is to say good-bye as a senior the way it anything but empty. should be done. UPON FURTHER REVIEW is a weekly column written by a sports That’s a chance Peppi won’t get. I guess that’s the way it works, columnist. It appears every Wednesday.

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C. Carrawell, Duke 24 S. Battier, Duke 24 22 R. Hale, FSU REBOUNDING G No. 25 J. Collier, GT 240

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Yesterday: Maryland 76, Clemson 63 Duke 96, Wake Forest 78

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� Youth Served

“I didn’t teach him that dribble though. If it were a wrestling move, it’d be called The Mesmerizer.’” Mike Krzyzewski, on Chris Carrawell’s game

Duke’s freshman class has moved into the topfive all-time ACC freshman scoring seasons, with 1,051 points, an average of 42 points per game, The all-time leader was the 1982-83 Blue Devils, whose freshman class scored 1,481 points, averaging 52.9 per game. Duke’s freshmen production is the highest ever for an ACC regular season champion, ahead of the 1996 Yellow Jackets and 1998 Blue Devils.

� Cota passes way into sth place UNC’s Ed Cota moved into fifth place among NCAA career assist leaders with 958 assists. He needs two more to pass Syracuse's Sherman Douglas, who currently stands in fourth. Cota is currently 118 assists behind all-time leader Bobby Hurley. Cota is also bidding to become the first player in ACC history to lead the conference in assists four straight years.

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