June 1, 2000

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Sports There she blows The defending national champion women's golf team was blown away by the wind and the Wildcats at the NCAA tournament. See page 19

Scarlet Knight Charges force postponed vote decides on Duke � Rutgers star guard Dahntay Jones, the

team’s leading scorer last season, will be eligible to play for the Blue Devils beginning in the 2001-2002 season.

By RAY HOLLOMAN The Chronicle It took Mike Krzyzewski 15 years and a plea from Bob Hurley, Sr. before he accepted his first transfer.

Five years later, it only took an explosive first step

and an ever-improving jumpshot to convince him to take his second With a simple phone call to Rutgers Athletics Director Bob Mulcahy and a brief press release issued by Scarlet Knights coach Kevin Bannon, Dahntay Jones ended weeks of speculation and became the second transfer accepted by Krzyzewski, following only AllAmerican Roshown McLeod’s 1995 arrival.

Dahntay Jones “I am saddened by Dahntay’s decision to leave Rutgers but I wish him and his family nothing but the best,” Bannon said. “Dahntay is a fine young man who did everything that we asked of a student-athlete, and he has a bright future. It’s unfortunate, but sometimes things just don’t work out.”

The decision followed a month-long whirlwind of rumors about the future of the 6-foot-5 swingman, who had reportedly told Bannon that he was not happy with the team’s direction shortly after the See DAHNTAY on page 23 �

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WORKING CONDITIONS continue to be at the center of the debate over the unionization of the Hospital’s nurses. Here, nurses Shree Dunn, left, and Mary Tharrington finish up some paperwork on the ninth floor.

By MARJKO DJUKANOVIC e onromcie

After pelting Duke with a series of charges of unfair labor practices, the International Union of Operating Engineers announced

last Thursday that the vote to unionize Duke’s nurses will be indefinitely postponed. “ The charges are not minuscule

in respect to the election,” said lUOE representative David Miller, “We felt that we could not have a fair election.”

While the union prepares to present its case to the National Labor Relations Board, hospital administrators are growing increasingly frustrated with the drawn-out unionization attempt,

which they say has brought many of the hospital’s internal affairs to a standstill. Michael Israel, CEO of Duke Hospital, said there is no merit to the union’s allegations and that postponing the voteoriginally scheduled for June 2 and 3—is merely a strategy, “We want the election to hapSee VOTE DELAY on page 9 >

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By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

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“This grant, in our mind, provides that a prominent AIDS vaccine will have a smooth transition into the clinical phase,” said Weinhold.

The new research funding will also be used specifically to test vaccines in the early stages of their development on a small number of non-HIV-infected patients, including students.

“This funding will be sufficient in the phase one and two trials,” said Weinhold. “If we advance to phase three, we’ll apply for a supplemental grant.”

In addition, the HTVN will issue smaller grants to other vaccination researchers whose current studies are not HIV-related, in order to encourage those scientists to focus on finding an

A $27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health made Duke the central site for conducting arid coordinating attempts to find a vaccine for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The grant, announced last Thursday, merged two existing AIDS vaccine trial groups, creating the Duke-based HIV Vaccine Trials Network.

“We have the people and ideas to make a real contribution here, and we are honored and delighted by the significant NIH grant,” President Nan Keohane wrote in an e-mail. “The collaborative work that this will make possible will undoubtedly lead to major breakthroughs in this crucial area.”

HIV vaccine.

The HVTN hopes to eliminate discrepVice Chancellor for Health Affairs ancies that have traditionally occurred and Dean of the School of Medicine Edamong research data because there are ward Holmes said the grant approprimultiple test sites, said Professor of Exately recognizes the Medical Center’s perimental Surgery Kent Weinhold, chief excellence. investigator for the project.

“The size of this grant, $27 million, If a potential vaccine is found, Duke is a clear indication that on the naresearchers hope their HTVN work will tional level, Duke's unique abilities to allow for quicker treatment development.

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Clinton may share ABM technology The President stated he would give the technology to “civilized nations”

By TOM RAUM Associated Press

President LISBON, Portugal Bill Clinton assured Europeans yesterday that he is willing to share missile defense technology with “civilized nations” and said he will carry that message to Moscow this weekend.

If the technology is available for such a system, Clinton said in advance of his first direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, “it would be unethical” for the United States not to share it.

Putin recently reiterated longstanding Russian opposition to such a system, which would re-

quire amending the landmark 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.

Skepticism over a national missile defense—a scaled down version of the shield against incommissiles once ing ballistic

championed by President Ronald

Reagan in the 1980s—is widespread among European allies.

But Clinton, after a meeting with European Union leaders in

Lisbon that focused on trade and security issues, declined to back away from a process that will result in a decision on such a system this summer or fall.

“I have always said that I thought that if the United States

had such technology and if the purpose of the technology is to provide protection against irresponsible new nuclear powers and their possible alliances with terrorists and other groups, then every country that is part of a responsible international arms control and nonproliferation regime should have the benefit of this protection,” Clinton said.

Turning to another trouble spot during a news conference with EU leaders, Clinton said there was “a much greater sense of urgency” to achieve a Middle East peace agreement with the recent withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon.

Microsoft files last brief in anti-trust trial

By MICHAEL MARTINEZ

said Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks and Michael Capellas of Compaq, among others, would testify to the negative effects that a Microsoft breakup would have on their companies and industries.

Microsoft filed the brief with the court of U.S. District Judge Thomas Jackson, who ruled April 3 that Microsoft had engaged in anti-competitive marketing practices in violation of antitrust laws.

As a penalty, the Justice Department and 17 states said they wanted to split Microsoft into two parts—one which would develop and market the various Windows operating systems and another which would take possession of Microsoft Office and the company’s various Internet properties.

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SEATTLE Microsoft Corp., filing a last brief before the judge weighing its fate, offered top executives from Compaq, DreamWorks and other companies Wednesday as potential witnesses against the government’s proposal to break it into two companies.

Microsoft also submitted its suggested changes to the breakup plan.

They would allow Microsoft more time before a possible breakup and would keep one of the two new companies away from the watchful eye of the Justice

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s the United States pauses each year to honor its war JTmL dead, it grows increasingly difficult to remember a time when the nation’s mind and soul were steeled for the task of war. And on a bright summer day on a quiet West Campus, it is even harder to visualize the days when Duke was a player ,®

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in history’s deadliest conflict.

In December 1941, even as war raged in Europe, students must have had little idea what the next four years would hold. That November, the Blue Devils had been invited to the Rose Bowl for the first time and spirits on campus were high. But memories of World War I were still fresh, and many believed that sooner or later America would join the growing conflict.

“Most of us felt [war] was inevitable,” said Roger Marshall, Trinity ’42, who was a Marine officer in the Pacific theater. “I wouldn’t call it resignation in the sense that we felt that we would be pulled into it—we felt that we should go, we were resigned to going, and we weren’t terribly disturbed.”

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Duke’s plan to squeeze more gold from its Iron Dukes is testing their mettle.

Beginning next year, ticket prices for seating at the stadium level in Cameron Indoor Stadium will be scaled, with center court tickets—the

best seats offered to ticket holders—priced at $5O per game.

“Anywhere you g0... tickets are scaled,” said Athletics Director Joe Alieva. “It only makes sense that you would pay more for the best seats in Cameron.”

In a May 25 letter to ticket-holders, Alieva also wrote that he hopes there will be “a voluntary choice of some ticket holders to-relocate some or all of their seats, thereby making prime tickets available to potential new donors.”

And Bob Garda, the member of the Athletic Advisory Board who led the price study, said, “We had two donors who came to us last year and said *We will give you $1 million if you can find us four good seats,’ and we could not find them.”

Alieva said this scenario plays itself out ten to 20 times each men’s basket-

before Pearl Harbor warned of the gathering storm: “America is on the brink of war. January 1 will see Duke men in blue football uniforms playing in the Rose Bowl. It may also find other Duke men in blue naval uniforms fighting a war.”

News of the attack came at around 5:30 or 6:00 that Sunday evening, recalled Marshall, who was spending the weekend with his future wife. Other Duke veterans reported hearing the news on the Chapel steps as they left the annual performance of Handel’s Messiah.

Randolph Few, Trinity ’43, was

ball season.

But some members of the Iron Dukes—an organization dedicated to raising funds for the Athletics Depart-

ment and whose members have ticket priority—said that although they are willing to pay the extra money, they feel cheated.

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THE ARMY FINANCE SCHOOL and these soldiers assigned to it found a home at Duke during the war. In fact, the facility requisitioned the President’s residence to house its classrooms, studying in Europe in 1939 and left can Defense distributed a survey to facFrance days after Germany invaded ulty and staff inquiring about special Poland that September. Like Marshall, skills that could help the war effort, Many ofthe 679 replies volunteered he believed America would enter the war sooner or later, but was taken by medical skills, but the faculty also in-

surprise when Japan, not Germany, threw the first punch.

“Everybody was in a state of shock or depressed by the feeling that they

would be drafted or called into active duty,” he recalled.

Pearl Harbor stunned the nation as much as it did the University, but both

mobilized quickly. Shortly after hostilities began, the Duke Council for Ameri-

eluded animal breeders, embalmers, a World War I chaplain and the 1919 national rifle-shooting champion. The University boasted 63 would-be translators fluent in German, but just one

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Race, gender biases exist among entering medical students A study found patient characteristics influence first- and second-year medical students’ perceptions of health states

dents were male and only 14 percent were minorities.

‘There were two effects of such a small .enrollment of minorities,” said Kevin Weinfurt, one of the study’s authors and a Medical Center instructor of psychiatry and behavioral science.

By MARKO DJUKANOVIC The Chronicle

According to a new study published in the American Journal of Medicine, many students may enter medical school with existing patient biases based on race and gender.

After conducting a study involving 164 first- and second-year med stu-

dents, a team of researchers from Duke, the University of California at San Diego and Georgetown University found that such biases may not be conscious, but can have an effect on clinical decisions.

“We found that medical students’ perceptions of health states differ for a white male patient actor compared with a black female patient actor,” the team wrote in the May issue ofAJM. “These differences suggest that patient characteristics influence perceptions among medical students even before the start of their clinical rotations and suggest the need for cross-cultural educational programs at the earliest stages of medical training.”

Specifically, the study suggests that white students are more likely to perceive a white male patient as healthier than a black female patient with similar symptoms.

In addition, a black female patient would be perceived as less likely to obtain follow-up care.

After completing a questionnaire, students were randomly assigned one of two videos which featured an actor

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portraying a patient experiencing chest pains.

On the first tape, a 55-year old black female actress was used; in the other tape, a 55-year old white male actor

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Students were asked to classify the patient’s chest pain and rate the patient’s health-state, the likelihood of the patient complying with treatment and the probability of the patient having coronary disease.

Researchers noted that the lack of student diversity in the study’s sample makes it hard to draw any definite conclusions: Fifty-seven percent of stu-

“Any existing bias would have to be large to be detected and it was not possible to examine results by both race and gender.”

Weinfurt explained the study could not determine if a certain bias exists in white male students—it could only detect the bias in male students or white students, but not in the cross-section pf the two.

Associate Professor of General Medicine Dr. Kevin Schulman, one of the study’s authors, stressed that the point of the study was not to find out which bias predominates in medical students, but only to discover if there is one to begin with.

“If we believe that labeling mechanisms carry through to the patient treatment, we have to begin to learn to deal with that,” he said.

Edward Holmes, Dean ofthe School of Medicine, wrote in an e-mail that Duke has already successfully instituted a program for medical students designed to deal with issues relating to race and bias.

“We are also developing a similar program in our new medical school curriculum that will include all clinical departments,” Holmes added.

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Duke center to research chemicals starts up today Scientists will study the effects of Superfund chemicals

By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

Today marks the beginning of the Duke University Superfund Basic Research Center, a center designed to study the effects of Superfund chemicals—contaminants found at certain sites designated by the Environmental Protection Agency—on biological development.

“The thrust is to study these chemicals because [they! are representative

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of important classes of chemical contaminants in the environment,” said center director Richard Di Giulio, an associate professor of the environment.

The center, which will receive $6 million over the next five years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is composed of four primary components—administrative, outreach, training and research.

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SOME OF HAN’S FINE CHINESE CUISINE’S last customers were served this week.The three-year-old eatery will close at the end of the summer to make way for a new establishment.

Dining Services eliminates Oak Room, Han’s Chinese

By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle Goodbye to General Tso. Hello to

Chicago Dog? Both Han’s Fine Chinese cuisine and the Oak Room will close their doors to make way for new campus restaurants this fall.

Dining Services officials are currently in negotiations to bring Papas Grill and The Loop Pizza Grill—a Chapel Hill-based pizza and burger establishment—to replace the Oak Room and Han’s, respectively.

The decision to privatize the 54-yearold Oak Room brings to a close a lengthy debate over the restaurant’s future.

Dining Services officials have tried over the past few years to revitalize the campus’ only formal eatery by instituting initiatives ranging from Saturday brunch to buffets, but the Oak Room continued to lose money.

These failures, the loss of money and a recent Duke Student Government-

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“Customers were saying [the Oak Room] was OK, but not great,” he said.

“The referendum told us that students wanted us to continue our privatization efforts, which included bringing in restaurants like Papas Grill.”

With the Oak Room no longer under University administration, Wulforst will dedicate more of his time to improving the University’s two primary eateries—the Great Hall and the Marketplace.

Critics have often said that privatization will cause serious job losses, a particularly sensitive issue at the Oak Room, where the majority of the restaurant’s employees are students. “There is an underlying concern that privatization is going to put students out of a job,” Wulforst said. “That’s not going to happen.”

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Nationwide decline in homicide rate bypasses Durham

mated $3.5 million to conduct. Nominations for two legislative seats also were decided in Wednesday’s election.

From staff and wire reports Police are at a loss to explain this year’s rise in Durham homicides, which at this point is more than three times higher than the number at the same time last year.

Last year, three people had been killed within the city limits by May Vlautc iiCWiS 30. So far this TUlc Wppk year 10 people JL TTvCIV have been slain an and 11th shooting death has been ruled a justifi-

Committee establishes new state natural area A Senate committee has approved a bill to make one of the last undeveloped islands on North Carolina’s coast a state natural area.

“It’s an ideal breeding ground and migration habitat area and nesting area for birds,” Sen. Luther Jordan, DNew Hanover, told the committee Tuesday as he explained his bill.

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The latest slaying occurred Sunday when 95-year-old Alton “Bob” Carson was killed during an apparent robbery.

His body was found early Monday behind a furniture store on Miami Boulevard, a few blocks from his home. He last was seen after church, eating at a restaurant he frequented.

A week earlier, a 15-year-old Orange High School student was shot to death on South Roxboro Street. On Mother’s Day, a woman was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, police say, and on May 5, a 17-year-old was shot to death during an argument in an apartment parking lot.

Fourteen people were killed in all of 1999 within the city limits, the lowest number in recent years. The numbers this year are identical to the ones on May 30, 1998—a year in which 30 people were murdered in the city.

Powerful storms cause damage, power outages The series of powerful thunderstorms that pounded central North Carolina last Thursday uprooted trees, destroyed homes and left thousands of residents without power for days. The storm hit hardest in Alamance, Guilford, Vance and Orange counties, all of which were declared disaster areas on Friday by Governor Jim Hunt.

Assessment teams have identified more than 300 damaged homes, with 19

stead between Topsail Beach and Figure Eight Island.

The state is working with the North, Carolina office of the National Audobon Society and the Coastal Land Trust to ONE WEEK AFTER THE WALKWAY COLLAPSE at Lowe’s Motor Speedway injured 100, the track hosted purchase land from about 40 landownthe Coca-Cola 600. Dale Barnhart Jr. and Sr. battled for the lead, but Matt Kenseth took home the trophy. ers, said Carol Tingley, chief of planning houses or mobile homes destroyed. Two In the other statewide runoff, Guil- and natural resources for the Division of Parks and Recreation. people died in the aftermath of the ford County farmer Steve Troxler capstorm in Alamance County. tured the GOP race for agriculture handily beating The storm also caused massive commissioner, Durham agribusiness consultant Tom sewage spills in many cities and municipalities, as the power to treatment Davidson. plants was cut. The loss of electricity Berry won 57 percent of the vote, paralyzed Greensboro’s main wastecompared to 43 percent for Miller, with A team of scientists reports that a water treatment plant and at least 97 percent of precincts reporting, acsystem of large depressions in the ocean eight pumping stations in Guilford and cording to unofficial returns. floor off the Outer Banks appear to have Berry, a retired business owner from been caused by gas eruptions, strengthAlamance counties. The largest spill occurred in northeast Guilford County, Catawba County, will face Democrat ening the theory that an Atlantic tsunawhere an estimated 5 million gallons Doug Berger, a deputy commissioner on mi someday is possible.

Team leader Neal Driscoll of the of sewage poured from Greensboro’s the state Industrial Commission, in Nomain treatment plant into South Bufvember.

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Troxler collected 60 percent of the said, “We do not know the source of the vote to Davidson’s 40 percent, with 97 gas, but it is clear that gas has played an important role in the formation of percent of the precincts reporting.

He will go against Democratic these features.”

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Durham questions Campus Police opens new substation Duke’s tax record The new office off East Campus will be shared with Durham police From staff reports At a Durham city budget meeting Monday, City Manager Lamont Ewell said the University may be partially responsible for Durham’s stagnating sales

tax collection.

The problems have arisen despite a 6.8 percent rise in retail sales, according to the Herald-Sun of Durham. As a non-profit organization, the University was able to recollect all taxes it pays to the state.

North Carolina, in turn, deducted the refund amount from the local government’s budget. Last year, Duke recollected $l3 million from the state, costing the city an estimated $5.5 million.

That means Duke must have spent $650 million in Durham County last year alone. Duke officials say this figure is on target, but Durham officials aren’t so sure. This refund made Durham county the only county in the state with negative monthly collections, City \T«„ 7CI Budget Director Laura Gill told iNcWS the Herald-Sun. "Rripfc Interim Durham County Man- Ui ICiij ager Carol Titus recommended that the University undergo an audit for this spending.

City council members Floyd McKissick and Thomas Stith renewed their recommendation that Duke begin making payments to the city in lieu of taxes.

Duke announces B.N. Duke winners:

Thirteen North and South Carolina high school seniors were selected from amongst thirty finalists to join the incoming class of 2004 as Benjamin N. Duke scholars. These students will receive fiill tuition and participate in a university leadership program. They were selected for their academic performance, leadership ability and community involvement.

The winners are: Mary Adkins of Greenville, S.C.; William Feldman of Charleston, S.C.; Elizabeth Hinshaw of Charlotte; Adam Hollowell of Charlotte; Jinendra Jain of Durham; Ashley Joyce of Lewisville; Jennifer Marron of Hickory; Kalita Marsh of Wilson; Kyle Mayes ofWaxhaw; Louise Oliver ofHead Island, S.C.; Ana Panduro of Spartanburg, S.C.; Taineisha Sledge of Mauldin, S.C.; and Jonas Swartz of Durham.

share the space in order to offer a stronger local police presence.

Lately, when the University has announced an Although DUPD moved in last month, DPD has expansion into the city of Durham, it has related to not set a move-in date. the Health System.

DPD Lt. Norman Blake said, “We are still in the planning stages right now.”

However, the University’s most recent steppingout comes courtesy of the Duke University Police This location, at the corner of Main and Ninth Department. streets, places a daytime police presence within just Last month, the University announced that it a block of the East Campus wall. would be expanding to a new substation at 2024 “We are trying to be as close as we possibly can to West Main Street. The new office, located in the Red some of the areas that we police,” Dean said.

Mill Building, features a training room, conference The building also houses other Duke offices, so room and two small substations—one for Duke and the daytime police presence might give an added one for the Durham Police Department. sense of security to other Duke employees.

Unlike DUPD’s headquarters, located on Oregon This is DUPD’s first substation off campus and represents the first time that it will share space Street, the substation will not be manned 24 hours with the DPD. each day.

However, the sharing will not go past the subOfficers will use the substation primarily for station, as the police will not infringe on each making phone calls, training and holding meetings.

Likewise, DPD will not commit around-the-clock other’s beats.

“The policing will not change,” said Maj. Robert officers to the substation.

“We will tell officers who are patrolling that area Dean of DUPD. “Duke still takes care of Duke’s property and Durham will take care of Durham’s to use it as a satellite station—it will be sort of an property—as they always do.” outpost,” Blake said.

DUPD was not planning on an expansion until Blake currently works out of the Northgate Mall the space opened up. “This was an opportunity that substation, which will assume command of the new was offered to us as far as the space is concerned substation. and we took advantage of it,” Dean said.

Blake also said the new substation would be beneInitially, the substation was going to be only for ficial to the relationship between the two police deuse by DUPD, however, Duke invited DPD to partments. “If anything, it will enhance it,” he said.

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Some Iron Dukes say scaled prices favor less loyal fans TICKET PRICES from page 3 for $3O; depending on location, each ticket could now cost anywhere from $23 to $5O. “It’s a fine line to walk,” said Garda, an executive in residence at the Fuqua School of Business. “You want to be fair to those who have been around a long time, and you want to be fair t0... big potential donors to the University.”

It is this attitude that has Iron Dukes riled up. “They want the fairweather fans, who have no real loyalty to Duke,” said Ed Bryson, Trinity ’5B. “Is a non-Duke person going to be there with a 10-20 record?”

Still, the policy does not significantly affect the two groups who are guaranteed tickets in Cameron every year: the ’B3s, a group who in 1983 gained the right to hold tickets as long as they maintained or increased their level of annual giving, and the lifetime Iron Dukes.

These groups will have to pay full ticket prices, but will not be required to pay the annual stadium-level fee—the &

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LIGHTNING STRUCK this East Campus tree near Southgate Dormitory during a May 25 storm. The storm was even more fierce in other areas of North Carolina (see N.C. News This Week, page 6).

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An unexpected severe storm on May 25 felled two trees on East Campus.

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the price has been $3,000.

‘There’s certainly a legitimate reason for doing this,” said Iron Duke Larry Osborne, Engineering ’76. “I’m very glad that the committee has seen fit to respect the loyalty of the long-time Iron Dukes who are not at the elevated levels of giving.”

But officials expect and hope the price increase will cause some of these long-time fans—most of whom no longer contribute at stadium level—to give up their prime seats for cheaper ones.

Various ticket-holders may want to move to cheaper seats, but some worry there will be no place to move.

“Where are they going to get these seats from? More people are going to want to go down than want to go up,” said Herb Neubauer, otherwise known as the “Crazy Towel Guy” who is famous for waving a towel during games in Cameron.

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pen—dragging it out helps no one,” Israel said. “[The postponement] is divisive, distracting and something we want to get through.... This is not a process which brings harmony to an organization.”

The list of allegations—filed with the NLRB against Duke—includes a series of violations that union officials say would have dissuaded nurses from voting for a union. lUOE representatives charged Duke with soliciting grievances and implementing new benefits to discourage union activity, unlawfully ordering employees not to talk to each other about the union and telling employees that with union representation, they would lose their current benefits and have to negotiate from scratch.

In addition, questions about the size and composition of the group eligible to vote have re-surfaced.

Union officials said that although they thought there would be about

2,000 nurses eligible, Duke’s final list named 2,450. Also, the union maintains that 295 members of Duke’s list were not actually Duke employees, while 132 worked outside the geographic area designated in an agreement reached last month.

The two sides’ lawyers agreed last month to include all registered nurses on Duke’s main campus, which encompasses the hospital and the clinics.

Both sides approved 37 separate classifications of registered nurses and agreed that Duke would submit a complete list later.

Within the next month, the NLRB will investigate the charges. If the NLRB affirms the allegations, Duke would be publicly reprimanded; if the charges are considered especially serious, Duke would have to recognize the union.

If the charges are dismissed, the lUOE could appeal the decision to the NLRB’s General Counsel in Washington, D.C. The lUOE has the power to rein-

state the election at any point by filing a notice with the NLRB to proceed. A vote would be held at least 42 days after the notice was filed.

Some nurses at the May 25 union meeting, as well as a representative

from the Duke Progressive Alliance, suggested that holding the vote in September may help the union by allowing student groups to become involved in the discussions.

Although some nurses were pleased

with the prospect of student support, the delay raised new questions for many others.

One nurse pointed out that the pool of voters could be further diluted when a new class of nurses becomes employed at Duke this summer.

Israel pointed out that the NLRB investigation faces another delay; The board cannot proceed until the union submits the affidavits and evidence of its charges.

Miller acknowledged that the next se-

ries of proceedings will take more time, but added that he is confident the NLRB will decide in the union’s favor.

“We have evidence [that Duke isl going out of bounds,” Miller said.

In the meantime, Israel said hospital administrators will continue to walk on eggshells to avoid the possibility of more allegations of unfair labor practices.

“There are questions at meetings that I can’t comment on because that could be an unfair labor practice,” Is-

rael said.

Although it seems that no one was thrilled by the prospect of indefinitely postponing a process that gets more complicated each week, several nurses said they believe the move is necessary and that it will allow eligible voters more time to make up their minds.

Nurses Dorcas Butler and Elena Martin said at last week’s meeting that nurses have a great deal of conflicting information about the union and that many are misinformed.

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Peter Pan*What could there be in the classic tale of the boy that never grew up to make it unsuitable for children under 10? Local director Derrick Ivey provides a new take; see it at the ArtsCenter June 1-4 or 8-10 at Bpm. Tickets are $lO for the general public, $8 for ArtsCenter friends. Call 929-2787 ext 101

Boss Hog*Jon Spencer and wife Cristina Martinez come to the Cat's Cradle this Saturday promoting their new album whiteout. For more information, call 967-9053.

Unclaimed property auction* Looking for a bargain and don't have

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Summer Festival of Music 2000* There are two events left in the annual series: Tomorrow at Bpm, Mallarmd Chamber Players play at Reynolds Industries Theater. Then, on Sunday, the Ciompi Quartet and Friends close this off with a 3pm show, also in Reynolds. Both shows are $5, free for students. For more information, I call 684-4444.

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a century later, v** e but he wouldn't vt’last 60 seconds in the ring against Rodan. In fact, the 15,000-ton Pteranodon would devour the bearded French impressionist faster than you could say "atomic heat ray." Perhaps that's why—in a summer dominated by the North Carolina Museum of Art's Rodin exhibit—the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is enlisting the flying lizard's help.

Between 1956 and 1993, Rodan appeared in six movies alongside his sometime-nemesis, sometime-ally Godzilla. This Friday, he is the star of Festival Rodan, the June installment of Raleigh's First Friday series. That evening, the museum will screen clips of the monster's most memorable movie moments and a rare documentary about the rubber-suited actors that gave life to Godzilla, Rodan and others.

First Friday is "something a little different," says Jeff Williford, the

museum's marketing director. The monthly event—which began in May—aims to "create some life on First Friday," he explains, by encouraging people to spend a few hours experiencing what down-

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nearby history museum and the State Capitol are open late, and the Raleigh trolley service runs more frequently.

Some local bars and restaurants also have tie-ins.

So far, NCMNS's First Friday events have been largely audiovisual; in July, the museum will host a screening of Fat of the Land, a documentary about two women who travel across America in a van powered by grease from fast food.

This Friday's event isn't intended to compete with NCMA. In fact and this is a little confusing—Festival Rodan is part of Festival Rodin, the art museum's summer series of —

cultural events connected to the ongoing Rodin exhibit. The staff at NCMNS came up with Festival D J '

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lizards.

As Shakespeare would say, nothing in Rodan's life became him like the leaving it. According to Sony's excellent website for all things Godzilla (www.godzilla.com), Rodan is mortally injured by the evil Mechagodzilla, who has already "killed" the King of Monsters himself. But as the stricken lizard expires, his body "dissolves into a radioactive mist" which brings Godzilla back to life in time to save Earth once again. If that Messiah-like exit isn't worth the price of admission, I don't know what is.

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favorite flying reptile" runs from 6:30 to 9:00 tomorrow night. NCMNS is located at 77 West Jones Street in

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Bye bye, Billy

ttention performers: Recess can make or break you. It took us just one story to end Kathie Lee Gifford's talk-show career, and one cover photo to propel Genghis Blues to Oscar contention. Despite our relentless disdain, though, Billy Corgan has 'oven more resilient—he resisted our barbs for three months before running up the white flag. According to a recent Corgan interview, The Smashing Pumpkins will cease to be at the end of this year. Here's what the chrome-domed crooner had to say in a letter obtained in dubious circumstances by Jonas Blank.

Dear Recess 1 don’t know what the f !@# the deal is with your magazine, but you've outraged me to the point that I'm calling it quits. A few months ago, you ran a piece entitled "Back in the '9os," which reviewed the new record by my band, The Smashing Pumpkins. In your article, you described my brilliant masterpiece Machina/The Machines of God as "the worst Smashing Pumpkins album" and referred to the band as "Bald Billy and the pugnacious Pumpkins." Of my vocals, you said, "Billy Corgan’s voice has never been good—he sounds like a transvestite prostitute trapped in a forest fire," and called the :

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songs "hookless screeds." You called our music "postgrunge, pre-Backstreet alternarock" that reminds you of "the hair metal of the late 'Bos." If that wasn't bad enough, an earlier article about the long wait for tickets to our club tour noted that "for the chance to see a whiny, screaming man that looks that much like Sinead O'Connor, it’s worth it." The abuse I've taken in this magazine is more than I can bear.

The Smashing Pumpkins are The Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band in America. Being compared to a cross-dressing hooker was the single greatest insult to my talent that I have ever read. Our music is innovative and edgy—apparently you just don't understand it. How could anyone but an idiot not appreciate the contextual metaphysical meaning of a song like "The Crying Tree of Mercury" or "I of the Mourning?"

But apparently it's not just Recess that's too shallow to understand my music—it's all.hearing people in the general public. I announced on SonicNet.com last week that we are calling it quits.

As I said in our announcement, the way the culture is and stuff, it's hard to keep trying to fight the good fight against the Britneys. Between Spears and Recess, I've had enough So this is sayonara, kids—you won't have Corgan to kick around anymore

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Produced by veteran rap impresario Dr. Dre, the album delivers more than just music: Slim Shady mocks vaunted celebrities, offers life advice and reveals glimpses into his tortured childhood, always to a bass-heavy beat. The combination of Dre's haunting, almost hypnotic rhythms, and Em's liberal profanity creates an unnerv effect. In "Kim," Eminem fantasizes gruesomely about kidnapping and killing his wife to punish her for cheating. But

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This album's übiquitous hit single, "The Real Slim Shady," has enjoyed heavy rotation on the airwaves: The song offers a scathing satire of today's Tiger Beat pop culture. Not only does the song take gleeful potshots at America's sweethearts Britney Spears, N'Sync, and Will Smith, the tune is also addictive. This song, however, is an exception: Don't expect hits on this ;m's songs, decidedly dark er. ite his TRL Eminem's ire album an authentic , the real Slim iod up—and ilia Ice.Q

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In other media, the site featured NFL Madden 2000 for $2O, a DVD of the Matrix for $l2 and a hardcover copy of A Man In Full for $1.75. If Half.com doesn't have what you're looking for, you can add the product to a "wish list" that will send you an email as soon as the item comes in. And if you’re really willing to wait, you can even specify a maximum price you're willing to pay.

Though the system still involves third-party transactions, Half.com handles all the movement of money, preventing the check-or-money order nightmare that can make mail-order a drag. When a buyer purchases an item from the site, Half.com authorizes the purchase on their credit card, then contacts the seller. Once the seller "confirms" the sale (which means they must ship within two days), Half.com charges your card. You get your CD, and the seller eventually gets a check from the site Theoretically, at least, everyone gets paid (Half.com takes 15%).

Despite their good idea, there's still no telling whether Half.com will distinguish itself or fall by the wayside with the rest of the dot-com detritus. Whatever the outcome of the business, though, the site has made a bid for longevity in another way—by renaming an entire town. This January, after several months of negotiations, donated computers and vague promises, Halfway, Oregon (pop 345) became Half.com, Oregon—the first dot-com town in America. And in today's world, where everybody loves a pun or a gimmick, the ploy ain't half bad.

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Resolution: dissolution

Some

selective groups have an enduring place in Duke lore for their legendary transgressions and long-overdue expulsion— Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity or the Bunch of Guys living group are two of the most famous. Last month, Old House CC earned its own place in Duke history, becoming the first selective house dissolved not for wrongdoing, but for failing to meet the demands of the annual review.

By most accounts, Old House CC was one of the University’s more benign living groups, and an unlikely target for administrators hoping to make an example of a misbehaving house. In reality, the organization was betrayed by incompetent leaders.

Providing excellent leadership for a living group is not easy, especially when balanced against an academic courseload. But adequate leaders can be little more than stewards whose only accomplishment is ensuring that the group survives the annual review process, allowing able, enthusiastic students to take over the next year.

Unfortunately, this year, House CC lacked even adequate leadership, and this is the principal reason there is now a vacant dormitory on West Campus.

House CC’s leadership should have spent the academic year planning activities to ensure a favorable annual review. After failing five of seven categories, the group should have been thankful for a second chance and turned in a thorough plan for improvement. And after being granted another reprieve, the group’s leaders should have been frantically working to avoid another failure. Instead, warnings were ignored and deadlines stretched.

Finally, the annual review committee—which includes both students and faculty—voted unanimously to dissolve House CC, leaving the appeals panel with a simple choice.

The panel could follow the ARC recommendation and expel the group or reject the most compelling mandate it is ever likely to receive and establish the precedent that even a unanimous vote for expulsion is not cause enough to remove a selective house. Rightly, it chose the former.

However, with the final decision made, some student ARC members claim that they voted to dissolve House CC believing that their decision would be ignored by the administration. Their argument is ridiculous: The review committee has never before yielded even a majority vote to expel a living group, so no precedent exists to predict the likely behavior of the appeals panel, which had never previously been asked to rule on such a decision.

The failure ofHouse CC’s leadership to heed ARC deadlines has greatly inconvenienced a group of largely innocent students. And if members of the ARC voted for a solution they did not believe in, they short-circuited their role as the student body’s mouthpiece in decisions about space for selective living groups.

Student leaders should remember the famous sign on President Harry Truman’s desk, “The buck stops here.” Those who assume titular positions of authority must be willing to bear the responsibility that accompanies those positions.

The Chronicle GREG PESSIN, Editor TESSA LYONS, Managing Editor TIM MILLINGTON, Interim Managing Editor AMBIKA KUMAR, University Editor STEVEN WRIGHT, University Editor MARTIN BARNA, Editorial Page Editor BRODY GREENWALD, Sports Editor JONATHAN ANGIER, General Manager

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House CC decision showed an error in judgement I’d like to thank the Appeals Panel for the letter I was forwarded this Wednesday. To say that some at House CC are shocked at our dissolution would be selfdelusion. It has been made clear to us that the Duke administration has little intention of dealing with House CC in a forthright manner, Last semester, we were brought up on charges of serious damages to our section, such as “toilet paper left in sink.” This semester, we have been tardy with the Annual Review Committee, and so have been dissolved. I call for a repeal of our dissolution.

House CC worked hard

with the ARC this semester, but our effort has not been recognized or returned. The letter states that “the committee was clear and unambiguous” in its dealings with us.

In fact, the committee’s criteria are so vague that there was no way to determine if they were being met until we were told by the committee. Since there are no quantifiable guidelines, there is no way to dispute

the committee’s rulings.

After enduring meetings for

with Dean Benjamin Ward and his committee and making revisions, never was it clear what specific objectives we weren’t meeting, nor how we could meet them. The Board states that the cornmittee “demonstrated flexibility in its willingness to work with the house in making deadlines.” In fact, dissolution was considered only because our former president could not meet these deadlines and keep up with a pre-med courseload,

The Appeals Panel claims that we exhibited a “broad record of unreliability and unresponsiveness.”

In fact, House CC had never before come close to failing its annual review, The committee wore us down until we could not keep up and then voted to dissolve us when given the opportunity. Afterwards, our members scrambled to meet with a panel while other students were studying for finals. We successfully rebutted each strike against us and yet we were labeled “a house in disarray.”

The timing ofthe committee is reprehensible. The ARC waited until finals

week to vote on its recommendation for House CC’s dismemberment. The administration waited until late May to announce our dissolution—a time in which students are farthest away from school and least able to protest. In light of the transparency of its case, we conclude that the administration’s timing was deliberate.

Now that House CC is gone, we can hammer one more nail in the coffin that is Duke’s current campus life..

I should thank the panel for the possibility that House CC may be reinstated in a couple ofyears, if we are good.

Of course to attain this, I can never reconvene with House

CC members, since “all social activities, registered or unregistered... are prohibited.” I’m sure I’ll find away to avoid the closest friends I have in the world. I am comforted to hear that “all aspects,” of any new contract “will be overseen by the Annual Review Committee.” I’m sure they’d give us a fair shake.

Rob Dart Trinity ’Ol

The writer was a member 0f Old House CC.

a related article, see http: // www.chronicle.duke.eduI chronicle /2000105125101Threememher.html

Obedience-based ethical systems can lead to tyranny I fear that Jonathan to name just a few. Yet wife-beating is necessary.” It’s Williams’ ethical system, in Williams seems to suggest hard to see how this conversahis May 18 letter will backfire that these concrete reasons tion can move forward withon him in the end. He suggests carry no moral weight: “How out eventually talking about that there is no meaningful about... binge drinking, the real-world suffering basis for morality outside of would this be wrong [without endured by these women. scriptural or divine authority, divine absolutes]? No again.”

Why not, then, start by that without this authority we when Ironically, you talking about this suffering? have nothing but multicultur- encounter a culture with a Why not define moral good al relativism and, thus, no way different view of divine as an action that, on balance, to judge. However, another authority, it’s actually prevents or heals suffering in way to approach the problem Williams’ position that prothe world? Whereas a moralis to recognize that acts we vides no basis for discussion, ity based on obedience can usually think of as “immoral” Some obscure Latin American easily lapse into tyranny, this always leave a trail of suffer- cultures view wife-beating as view is flexible enough to be ing behind them. a moral good in some circum- responsive to real people’s Take his example of binge stances. Williams might needs, and also helps us drinking. It’s easy to think of respond, “But wife-beating is know where to draw the line a number of serious reasons wrong; the Bible says when necessary. not to drink heavily: keeping ‘Husbands, love your wives,*” your liver intact, not killing to which one could reply, “But H. James Harkins people by drunk driving, not to love your wife, you have to Graduate student, damaging your relationships, discipline her, so God says Department of Music for a referenced letter, see http:! www.chronicle.duke.edu chronicle 2000 05 18 16Columnistshould.html /

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On the record The thing that went through our minds was, ‘Let’s try to get through school [before being drafted]. We didn’t know then about the GI Bill. If we had, we’d probably have volunteered early and come back and made the government pay for it.

Roger Marshall, Trinity ’42, commenting on student sentiment during World War II (see story, page 1)

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The threat of stereotypes Recent studies suggest African-American students in higher education fear being stereotyped test was to see how smart they were, the Said Steele, “They eschewed these' they could improve black students’ perCommentary second that it was simply a measure of things only when preferring them formance by focusing on their transition

their experience with problem solving.

The whites in both groups scored pretty much the same. The blacks who thought their intelligence was being William Raspberry tested scored significantly worse than the others. Why? Steele theorizes that WASHINGTON, D.C.—At one the first group may have feared to conextreme, some black kids in the inner firm a negative racial stereotype. cities refuse to study—or to let their Another experiment involving similar peers study—because academic exertion groupings was differentiated only by the is “acting white.” fact that in one case the test-takers were At the other, hard-working African- asked to check a box indicating their American college students—many of race. Again, no statistical difference for them from solidly middle-class famiwhites but a huge tail-off for blacks who lies—have trouble performing up to the identified themselves by race. level of their academic ability.

Both blacks and whites—they were Both groups, says Stanford’s Claude all college sophomores—found the test M. Steele, may be victims of “stereodaunting, says Steele. But only the type threat.” blacks experienced the extra intimidaNo, this brilliant black psychologist tion of race. isn’t casting about for an academicIn a repeat of the first experiment, sounding way of blaming whitey for the students were given a list of 80 inblack failure. His theory comes out of his complete words and told to complete work—a fascinating series of experithem as rapidly as they could. The word ments to which I can’t do justice in a fragments included a dozen that could newspaper column but which have be completed in a racially significant changed the way I look at these matters. way—for example, -c e” could be renAt its simplest level, Steele’s theory dered as “race.” As Steele wrote in an Atis that black students are inhibited by lantic Monthly article last August, black “the threat ofbeing viewed through the students responded with significantly lens of a negative stereotype, or the fear fewer stereotype-related words when of doing something that would inadverthey were told the test was not a meatently confirm that stereotype.” sure oftheir ability.

And what makes him so sure that And there’s this one: Black students these students simply aren’t as smart as preparing to take a difficult test were everyone thought they were? asked to name their preferences in sports In the first experiment, Steele and and music. When told the test was unreUniversity ofTexas psychologist Joshua lated to their ability, they indicated a Aronson administered difficult tests (the strong preference for basketball, jazz and items were taken from defunct Graduate hip-hop. When told their ability was Record Exams) to two mixed groups of being measured, they reported even less black and white students. The first interest that whites in basketball, jazz group was told that the purpose of the and hip-hop.

would encourage a stereotypic view of

themselves.”

Steele, the twin brother of the controversial Shelby Steele (‘The Content of Our Character”), doesn’t discount the

impact of preparation or identification with school achievement on the academic success of African-American students.

Indeed he believes the “acting white” notion may be an ego-sparing way of disconnecting self-regard from academic performance.

But he thinks there’s a lot more to it than that, particularly given his finding (in yet another experiment) that the most

highly skilled, motivated and confident black students were precisely those most affected by stereotype threat.

Can anything be done? Maybe. At the University of Michigan, where he taught before going to Stanford, Steele and some colleagues undertook to see if

into college life.

They established a racially integrated “living and learning” community in a 250-student dorm wing and initiated a series of “challenge” workshops that provided both an affirmation of their abilities and the opportunity to discuss the personal side of college life.

The scores of the black students improved, when measured against those not in the “community.” Steele believes their sense of “stereotype threat” was reduced by the routine and informal interracial mingling.

What is interesting is that it is precisely the opposite of the remedy black students themselves frequently apply.

William Raspberry is a Knight professor of the practice ofjournalism.

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If only the student body cared Throwing rocks at Elvis Thomas Bowman Whoever submitted an application for a columnist’s position in my name, I think you are a jerk and I will get my revenge. With that being said I have never been one to shy away from an obligation so I will give this journalism thing a shot for the next few months or until I am expelled from the University, whichever comes first.

I also am not concerned with being politically correct, or whether you agree with me, or whether you think I am smart, or whether you use my articles to house train your pets. Political correctness is for pansies and bedwetters who need to let go of mommy’s hand long enough to find themselves a sense of humor and a set of marbles. They may even want to look into getting a bag to put those marbles in.

I’ve gone to this school for three years and I have come to the realization that the pages from the front to the back of the paper are filler that sandwich in the most important part of any Duke student’s day: The crossword.

The professors and administration think we all do our best to be well informed on current affairs on a daily basis when in reality all we really want to know is what is the capitol of Cambodia, nine letters beginning with “p.” The only columns that students even notice are the ones that say something so moronic we all wonder how the author got into Duke in the first

place. With that in mind, I suppose students will read my column after all.

But before you can attack my intellectual credentials or credibility I freely admit that I have none and the only reason I am here is because I am a minority and a double legacy. I may not agree with affirmative action, but I wasn’t about to argue against the un-American merits of a policy of reverse discrimination when I was the one who stood to benefit most from it.

In this column I do not intend to follow the example set by every columnist who has written before me. I refuse to waste this opportunity by using my

...I wasn’t about to argue against the un-American merits of a policy of reverse discrimination when 1 was the one who stood to benefit most from it. third of a page every few weeks to complain, or criticize about little issues like so many annoying political activist-wannabes do all too often.

I think all of these liberal-fascists should have been left behind with the ’6os and they should think about getting a life sometime soon. I want to write about big issues and big problems and major concerns that affect us all and I plan to do so with a positive tone and a sense of optimism. I have my pet

issues as well, but my causes are those that we all can identify with, though we all may not agree with the same approaches or solutions. I could care less about things like what happens to research monkeys once they are too old for scientific testing, and Fm really not interested in skipping class to riot outside the World Bank, and I am certainly not losing any sleep over the fact that my mom was at home taking care of her family while a bunch of sperm bankusing, man-hating females marched on Washington.

From what I know of the student body, I have a feeling most ofyou are concerned with more pressing matters as well. I am worried about the kids who will take our place in a few years and I wonder what can be done to put an end to the sickening trend of school shootings in this country. I am alarmed at the underwhelming performance of our public education system and the skyrocketing costs of college tuition. Fm uneasy with the fact that my summer paychecks are taxed for social security when Fm not so sure the system will be around when it’s my time to retire.

I am afraid of China and their acquisition of our nuclear secrets, and if things stay the same I doubt whether we will be prepared to defend against an attack within the next 30 years.

Yes, our time here is brief, but the wealth of knowledge we must acquire is endless and being disengaged twentysomethings will only set us back when we are left to fend for ourselves a few years down the line. I still think it’s fine to do the crossword, but as the ruling class of the future I think we should also start to skim the articles on either side of

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Thomas Bowman is a Trinity senior.

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Han’s owner says competition caused decline in sales he said. “We’re hoping to have a place for students to

DINING CHANGES from page 5

Although Wulforst did admit that there is a possibility of a slight wage decrease in student servers at the Oak Room’s successor, he said he has been looking into the possibility of allowing students to tip on Flex and requiring that tips be included in the bills of larger groups.

“We will maintain an opportunity for Duke students to earn money,” Wulforst said,-adding that Uni-

do that.”

Papas Grill Owner Angelica Papanikas said she is excited about the possibility of coming on campus and hopes that her Greek menu will satisfy everyone.

“We will continue to provide the cuisine that we provide [in Durham], but we will also always work

.with students to make them happy,” she said.

Papanikas will not be the only new restaurateur on versity employees currently working at the Oak West Campus this fall.

After a mutual agreement that Han’s should not reRoom will be transferred to other on campus dining turn in the fall, Dining Services officials will replace establishments.

In addition to changes in the management and the three-year-old eatery.

The Loop, which currently has one location on menu, the Oak Room’s physical facility will undergo a series of renovations. Wulforst said construction Franklin Street, is a leading contender for the space should begin soon to create two private rooms out of along the Bryan Center walkway.

Student perception about the quality of food at the faculty lounge.

In the faculty dining area, Wulforst plans to create Han’s and a 20 percent decline from last year’s revan “elegant space” where members of the faculty can enue led both Han’s owner Jack Chao and Wulforst to eat during the day. In the evening, the area would be eliminate Han’s.

“The business offood is always changing. Whether used as programming space for students.

“One of the things we kept hearing from students [a decline] is real or perceived, you’d better do somewas that there is no place to have a dinner or a dance,” thing to fix it,” Wulforst said. “If you ask the average

student, they’ll say [Han’sl is not as great as it used to be.”

Chao, however, said that such accusations are nonsense, noting that dishes such as General Tso’s and sesame chicken have remained on his menu for all three years because of their popularity.

“I feel confident in what I serve,” he said. “I don’t think our quality has declined.”

Instead, Chao cites the emergence of several new eateries as the primary reason for his decline.

“Three years ago, we made a fresh impact,” said Chao. “Now there’s a lot of privatization, Chinese food for a third year is too familiar for many.”

Chao will retain control of Grace’s Cafe in Trent Dormitory, as well as the juice bar in the Wilson Recreation Center.

Chao also hopes to return in 2001 with a revitalized dining project for the University to consider.

Until then, however, Wulforst said he is looking into providing students with Chinese options by adding a new restaurant to the merchant-on-points delivery program. Restaurants being considered include New’ China Inn and Neo-China.

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Art and art history professor wins Guggenheim fellowship � NEWS BRIEFS from page 7 ly tutored by Leonard Slatkin, conduc-

tor of the National Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, associate professor of the practice in music, and four others, were selected among 120 applicants to participate in the special program, which will culminate with each winner conducting the orchestra.

The program seeks to provide American orchestra conductors across the nation a chance gain experience by leading a major, full-time professional orchestra.

Professor receives Guggenheim U.S. Department of Education fellowship: issues grants

Kristine Stiles, associate professor of art and art history, was one of 182 winners of this year’s John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships.

Stiles won for her work on documentary photography of the nuclear age.

The fellows were selected from over 2,900 applicants. Winners collected over $6 million in awards.

The grant can cover six to 12 months of research and averages around $33,568.

The U.S. Department of Education, has awarded Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill five three-year grants each for international centers and programming. The money will fund international programs, conferences, speakers, film series and new courses. The grant will also support graduate students interested in studying languages.

Three grants were given to programs

run jointly by Duke and UNC—the Center for West European Studies, the Center for Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies and the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies. Another was given to the Center for South Asian Studies, a consortium composed of North Carolina State University, North Carolina Central University, UNC and Duke. Grants were also given to the University Center for International Studies at UNC and the Center for International Studies at Duke.

Alumni-veterans remember their time at Duke, at war I* DUKE AT WAR from page 3

While professors were lending their minds to the war effort, students faced the prospect of giving their bodies to the cause. When the age of conscription was lowered to 18, most students and recent alumni were eligible and about 250 would ultimately die in the war.

“The thing that went through our minds was, ‘Let’s try to get through school [before being drafted],’” Marshall said. “We didn’t know then about the GI Bill. If we had, we’d probably have volunteered early and come back and made the government pay for it.”

But rather than plucking young men away from the nation’s colleges, Washington encouraged students to finish college. “In the present emergency, the government needs as never before young men and women with a college background who can think clearly and absorb quickly and accurately the technical knowledge essential to modern military and naval service,” read the University’s war training bulletin.

To meet that need, Duke accelerated its curriculum and assured students that they would be allowed to complete their education later if they left to join the service. In addition to expanding the physical education requirement, the University also offered special

courses tailored to the war effort. Some, like ‘The Mathematics of Artillery Fire,” had clear military purpose. Others, like “The Portuguese Empire and the Rise of Brazil,” are harder to comprehend today. The Army Finance School opened on campus in August 1942, and Duke Hospital served as the 65th Base Hospital of the Army. At a Red Cross workroom on East Campus, Women’s College students learned to knit and

fold bandages.

The rapid turnover of students brought changes to the University. The distinctions between entering classes blurred, and the old system of student government was replaced with a model based on the branches of military service.

Rationing of gasoline and rubber kept many students’ cars off the roads, but another shortage was less expected, Few recalled. “Units of the Army Finance School were required to have their hair cut once a week,” he explained. The line of men waiting

outside the barber’s shop perpetually stretched from the basement of the West Union Building out onto Main West Quadrangle.

On the front line, the effort to prepare students for war paid off. “From the people that I was with, we

didn’t feel particularly estranged or bewildered,” said Marshall.

Few agreed that student sentiment supported the war. “Everybody wanted to serve, it was just a question of when,” he said. “We felt very strongly that Germany couldn’t be allowed to take over the world.”

Although students felt ready for the fight ahead, it was still a welcome surprise to encounter an old friend in the war zone. “One of my classmates in the Navy was on board the ship I was on going out to the Solomon Islands, and then I found another classmate in the paratroops...” said Marshall. “It was a very pleasing experience to run into one another like that.”

Ties to the University were even more important to Julian Golden, who spent one year at Duke in 1938. In a letter addressed to “Dear Old Duke” from the front lines in 1943, he wrote,“I count it a privilege to be able to fight for you. Maybe in your beautiful Chapel somebody will kneel once in a while and ask God to make my aim dead true and to give me the energy to keep going when the battles get toughest.... With God’s help every time I go out to meet the enemy I’ll hear the bells of the Chapel for just a second, I’ll be back at Duke and see the beautiful grounds and warm friends...”

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sible. “We get our warning like everyone else, through the television and radio,” said Dean. ‘We just hope people will use common sense, and get inside when the sky gets dark like that.”

Things remained relatively calm until May 28, when a series of fire alarms alerted police to problems on East Campus. Upon responding to calls, police noticed power outages at Bassett and Gilbert-Addoms dormitories. Officers also discovered that GA’s weight room and back hallway were partially flooded.

Ironically, DUPD also lost power that evening when a power line on Anderson Street fell down. An emergency generator was immediately activated and the outage caused little inconvenience, Dean said.

Meanwhile, in Durham, Thursday’s storm caused a power outage that lasted throughout the day and into the night. “A few power lines were knocked down and three house in Northern Durham suffered damage,” said Durham County’s Director of Emergency Services Jeff Batten, who noted that no serious injuries were reported. Several trees throughout town were knocked down, blocking roads, but teams responded quickly, and many obstacles were removed within hours.

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� Russian escapes former national champ’s Webb Vanessa Webb, a four-time AllAmerican who graduated from Duke in 1999 after winning the NCAA singles national championship, lost to 14th-seeded Anna Kournikova 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the French Open in Paris yesterday. Webb, a native of Canada, is currently the world's 116th-ranked woman in singles.

� Rice not ready to give up cookin’ on court Former Duke center Lauren Rice, who led the Blue Devils to their first ACC tournament title this season, was hired as an assistant coach at South Alabama yesterday. Rice, who is one of three new assistants at South Alabama, will form the final piece of the coaching puzzle for new coach RickPietri.

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� Pacers weather early storm, take 3-2 series lead After dropping back-to-back games in Madison Square Garden, the Indiana Pacers started slowly yesterday and were booed by their own fans when the Knicks put them in an early 18-point hole. Following the miserable start, however, the Pacers overcame Patrick Ewing’s return to defeat New York 88-79 in the Eastern Conference finals.

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Day 4 disaster dashes championship hopes Id TEAM SHI

By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle All season long, the Blue Devil Express sped determinedly along a track seemingly destined to arrive at a second national championship in Sunriver, Ore. Yet, when the leader of that powerful machine veered drastically off course Saturday, Duke women’s golf coach Dan Brooks was the

hapless conductor left to idly watch his runaway train thunder ahead into a spectacular crash.

Throughout Duke’s campaign to defend its only national title in program history, Brooks relied heavily upon the remarkable play of the team’s ever-consistent' sophomore star, Beth Bauer.

Saturday, however, with an individual title and a repeat team championship in peril but not out ofreach prior to the final round of the NCAA Championships at the Crosswater golf course, Beth Bauer carded the worst round of her career and the Blue Devils plummeted from seventh to 14th in the team standings.

Bauer’s hefty 18-hole total of 85 not only doomed any comefrom-behind aspirations of No. 1 Duke, it ended a run of three solid rounds from the team’s normally steady leader and knocked her from third in the overall stand-

ings all the way down to a tie for 34th. With the Blue Devils mired in their most frustrating afternoon of the season, No. 2 Arizona coasted to one of the largest margins of victory in the history of the NCAA Championships as they

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left Sunriver with a four-day total 21 strokes better than their nearest competitor.

But Duke’s problems extended far beyond the uncatchable Wildcats. In a loose round riddled with errors on the greens, three of Duke’s golfers finished the final round in the 80s. Junior Kalen Anderson, who leapfrogged over Bauer following the final round to finish a team-best 21st overall, fired the Blue Devils’ best round with an unimpressive 6-over par.

After Saturday’s disappointBrooks told Sports Information assistant Lindy Brown that much of the team’s struggle was his responsibility.

“I just think that our spring season didn’t prepare us,” the 16th-year coach said. “I think some of those mistakes were made by myself also. We needed to have some intensity in our short game practices, something that would really hold them to task, and I think I failed in some ofthose areas.”

THE ARIZONA WILDCATS celebrated an overwhelming victory as they answered See GOLF on page 22 � lingering doubts about their ability to upend defending champion Duke.

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By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle

� Lakers unable to blaze trail through wild West The Los Angeles Lakers will try to do tomorrow in the Rose Garden what they failed to do two nights ago in the Staples Center—eliminate the Trailblazers. Despite a sprained right foot, Lakers star Kobe Bryant will start tomorrow night in Portland for Game 6 of the Western Conference finals.

� Americans fall in Paris Americans Pete Sampras and Lindsay Davenport, who both won Wimbledon last year but have never won the French Open, were eliminated in the first round this week on the famed red clay of Roland Garros.

QUOTE OF THE PAY “He’s been the heart and soul for New Jersey for the

last 15 years, and it was great for him to score a

goal like that in the Stanley Cup final.”

Martin Brodeur, on the game-winning goal Tuesday by Devils teammate Ken Daneyko, who didn’t score a goal all season.

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By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle

When the NCAA Track and Field Championships last stopped through Durham, pretty much everything was the same—big crowds were expected, exorbitant funds were pumped into the city and the Arkansas Razorbacks were the ones to watch on the men’s side of the competition.

There was, of course, one notable dif1990 NCAA ference from the Championships, the last time the University hosted a championship event.

When the best track and field stars from

around the world flocked to Durham 10 years ago, the Blue Devils track program was needed only for its hospitality.

Not so in 2000, At 6 p.m. tomorrow evening, the Blue Devils will gather around the newly renovated pole vault pit at Wallace Wade Stadium to cheer on one of their own, junior Jillian Schwartz.

“If there is good weather Friday night, I really expect we’ll see a spectacular showing from her,” women’s track coach Jan Samuelson-Ogilvie said. “She cleared See

TRACK on page 20 �

Jay Lapidus finally led a team to that elusive round offour he has been searching for since coming to Duke 10 years ago. As it were, however, nearly all of his players had long since departed the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga., the site of this year’s NCAA men’s tennis Championships.

Six days after the fifth-ranked Blue Devils were eliminated from the team tournament by the Florida Gators, senior Doug Root and junior Ramsey Smith became the first players in the history of their program to experience a national seipifinal.

The doubles tandem, ranked fifth nationally, maneuvered through the field of 32 with steady determination, following up an easy straight-sets victory in the first round with back-toback three-setters. In both of those three-set matches, Root and Smith regained their composure after losing the first set, including their quarterfinal triumph over the 12th-ranked duo from Mississippi State, “I’ve seen them play better during the year,” Lapidus said. “I don’t think they played spectacularly, but they are a really good team and they fought really hard, even when they were getting down early.”

When the season began, a national title for the doubles team didn’t seem too far-fetched as the duo soared to as high as No. 3 nationally in early March.

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TENNIS on page 22

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Officials expect big crowds to swarm Duke this weekend � TRACK from page 19 well over 13 feet in practice last week in the rain. She has gotten on a new pole which really was an obstacle for her in the past.

“Jillian is definitely at the top of her game right now, and she is very, very excited about being in it'.”

Schwartz is currently ranked 18th out of the 21

athletes who will compete in the pole vault competition, while Track & Field News has picked her to finish 10th. Although she is not considered a contender to compete for the pole vault championship, Schwartz does have a chance to position herself for the most prestigious of all honors when she vaults tomorrow night. While her track coaches have said it would be a “lofty” ambition, Schwartz would attain All-America honors with a finish of eighth or better.

Even more significantly, however, the Lake Forest, 111., native has the chance to reach what the Blue Devil coaching staff considers a much more “tangible” goal. With the 2000 Olympic games on the near horizon, a top-10 finish would make Schwartz eligible to compete at the Olympic trials in Sacramento for a ticket to Sydney, Australia as a member of the United States pole vault squad.

Beyond the individual significance of tomorrow night’s vault, Schwartz’s participation in this week’s Championships completes the NCAA trifecta for the Duke track program this season. The Blue Devils qualified at least one athlete for the NCAA Championships in both the indoor and outdoor track and field seasons, as well as the cross country season.

But while the event will highlight a season of accomplishment for the Duke track program, it will be the crown jewel for a University that has devoted the money necessary to make its athletic facilities among the nation’s most conducive to hosting track and field.

“It’s a great meet and for Duke it is a great honor to host the meet,” men’s associate coach Norm Ogilvie said. “Not many schools are capable of hosting this event. Wallace Wade is one of the onlyDivision I venues in the nation that can host all the events inside the stadium. The hammer throw and the long throw events won’t get relegated to also-ran status. Those athletes will get to compete in front of spectators, too.”

And those spectators are expected to be many in number. When Durham last hosted the NCAA Championships 10 years ago, the four-day event set an attendance record.

Wallace Wade has a capacity of nearly 34,000, and unlike when those seats become sun reflectors during

football season, tournament directors expect them to fill up this weekend. Eighty teams and over 1,300 athletes have made the trip to Durham for the Championships, which should generate close to $4 million for the city.

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By JOE LAPOINTE

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The 7 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Stanley Cup finals began Tuesday 3 night in Continental Arena with Pallas a party for the New Jersey Devils and their three-hour giddy fans. Breaking open a 1-1 tie early in the second period, the Devils surged to a stunning 7-3 victory over the Dallas Stars, the defending champions.

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Jason Amott scored twice for the Devils and so did Petr Sykora. The Devils got a goal from Ken Daneyko, a veteran Devils defenseman who had not scored in the post-season since 1995. They got one from Scott Stevens, another veteran defenseman who is better known for his heavy hits. And they got one from Sergei Brylin.

They scored six times on 18 shots against Ed Belfour, the Dallas goalie, who was replaced by Manny Fernandez in the third period. So loose were the Devils with a six-goal lead that they allowed the Stars to score two goals in a 12-second span in the eighth minute of the third period to cut the margin to 7-3.

Game 2 of this four-of-seven series will be played here on Thursday night. In that both teams are known for defense and good goaltending, their next meeting might produce a much different sort of performance.

But the Stars might not be at full strength.

Derian Hatcher, the Dallas captain and rugged defenseman, left the game in the third period with what was called a leg injury. His status is uncertain. Aside from the Dallas goal scorers—Darryl Sydor, Jon Sim and Kirk Muller—Hatcher was one of few Stars who was effective Tuesday night. With tactics that bordered on legality, he made contact with several Devils and left them in pain.

Another DeviHn pain was John Madden, who left the game late in the third period with what appeared to be a leg injury.

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Root, Smith fall just short in doubles Brooks fails to prepare Duke for adverse play

P' TENNIS from page 19

But then came their most difficult stretch of the season, beginning with a hard-fought loss in Los Angeles to the top team from UCLA. For the next three-plus weeks, Root and Smith could do no right together as they lost five out of seven matches, putting a run in the NCAA doubles tournament about as far out of thought as possible.

And just as quickly as things had gone sour, things turned around in a hurry. Smith and Root would lose only one more time before arriving in Athens, stringing together a nine-match winning streak prior to the

,� GOLF from page 19 Needing a flawless final round to overcome Arizona’s

33-shot lead, Duke struggled immediately with horren-

NCAA Championships.

When they eliminated Mississippi State’s pair of Marco Baron and Charles Sevigny to reach Saturday afternoon’s semifinal round, Duke’s top doubles team was actually the favorite to take the title.

“It was a situation where by Saturday they were the highest-ranked team left,” Lapidus said. “The draw had really opened up and it was wide open. I thought that we had a decent chance to do it, but it just didn’t work out for them.”

Root and Smith had their run ended by llth-ranked Ryan Moore and Nick Rainey from Southern California Saturday when the Blue Devil pair was unable to convert on early break chances in the first set. Both players earned All-America distinction for their success, the first such honor for Smith and the second for Root.

Earlier in the week, junior Andres Pedroso also achieved All-America status with his march through NEAL PATEL/THE CHRONICLE the singles brackets. The lowest of the three individual air while backhand smoking a during last seeds Duke placed in the singles tournament, Pedroso RAMSEY SMITH caught surprised the field by advancing through the first two week’s NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. rounds and into the round of 16. worked probably as hard or harder as anyone on the Following a disappointing effort in the team tournament, Pedroso played possibly his best singles of the team so he definitely deserves the success he had.

“He played more relaxed tennis than he did earliyear as he defeated eighth-seeded Baron, part of the Mississippi State doubles team that would later fall to er in the week. He wanted to win so badly for the Root and Smith. team that he let that affect his play, but when it “It was a really good win for Andres, probably the came to individual play he really relaxed and played biggest win of his college,, career,” Lapidus said. “He good tennis.”

dous conditions in the unseasonable Northwest.

Although the Blue Devils fought through chilling winds during the first round, Saturday’s freezing temperatures and tempest-like gusts were numbing in a way they had not seen all season. While every team struggled with the weather factor—no team, in fact, shot under 300 Saturday—Duke’s final-day total of 320 marked its worst as a team this season.

But the biggest difference between last week and a season in which Duke ran away with eight titles, including five consecutively leading up to nationals, was the presence of Arizona. Even as the wins continued to pile up this season, Brooks could only wonder how his program would do when paired against the elite schools from the West Coast.

After watching the Pac-10 dominate the tournament

and claim three of the top four spots last week, he finally found out.

“In thinking about it, I think what happened to us is we didn’t have things this spring that toughened us up for this kind of experience,” he said. “I think the main one is that we were playing in fields where we were dominating the field and I think that tended to not toughen us up the way we needed. What you want is a really tough field where your players are pushed and maybe even some weather that is bad so they are learning to get the job done with a lot of adversity around them. I think our spring lacked some ofthat adversity.”

It’s not all bad news for the Blue Devils following last week’s collapse, though.

All five regulars return next season, while Anderson will provide the first senior leadership since AllAmerican Jenny Chuasiripom departed last spring after leading Duke to the championship. And for a team that has learned perhaps too often to be in front, last week may have been just the learning experience these five women needed for another title run next season.

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Scarlet Knights’ season-ending loss in the first round of the NIT. An announcement had been expected Friday, but Jones’ family told school officials that he would hold off making a decision until after Team USA basketball tiyouts. However, Jones was not among the 16 finalists for the final round of tryouts for the 12-man team announced Sunday and his decision followed the next morning, citing “general unhappiness” as his reason for leaving.

The team MVP, Jones led Rutgers with 16 points per game last season, but the star became restless during a late season slide that saw the Scarlet Knights lose their final six contests and slip from a likely NCAA tournament bid to a second straight NIT bid behind a 15-16 record.

Jones’ frustrations led him to meet with Bannon in April to tell the coach he was unhappy with his current situation and he felt that he might need a change of sceneiy to accomplish his basketball goals, which include the NBA. Although both Bannon and Mulcahy tried to talk Jones into remaining at Rutgers, the second-year swingman finally decided Monday that he wanted to transfer into Krzyzewski’s program.

“Duke is the best situation and the best climate for me at this point,” Jones said. “It’s a great opportunity.

I’m looking forward to it.”

For Bannon, the departure of his signature recruit and the centerpiece of his team further depletes a team that has already seen seven players transfer during his tenure.

As a high school senior, the Hamilton Square, N.J., native picked nearby Rutgers over bigger national programs so that he could help lead his state institution to the elite level ofcollege basketball. But after two losing seasons at Rutgers, Jones decided that despite his commitment to his home state, a transfer was in order.

“Leaving home, leaving friends, leaving a place I was comfortable with..., it was difficult,” Jones told the Newark Star-Ledger. “But it was a decision I had to make.”

Jones will have to sit out the upcoming season per NCAA guidelines, but he will have two seasons of eligibility remaining with the Blue Devils, starting in the fall

SWINGMAN DAHNTAY JONES may get another chance to slam St. John’s, but if he does the Blue Devil transfer won’t be wearing his

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