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State could cut county funding By DEVIN FINN The Chronicle

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DURHAM RESTAURANT, Rick’s Diner, will be affected if the county implements a meals tax. In comparison to a property tax, advocates say a meals tax will raise funding from non-Durham residents.

Mayor: meals tax leaves table By REBECCA SUN The Chronicle

the majority of the estimated $3.6 million annual revenue

would go toward funding local cultural and sports facilities, with the most notable recipient being either a 5,000-seat theater or the redevelopment of the American Tobacco site. However, with plans for both projects on hold, most say that the General Assembly will not approve See MEALS TAX on page 10 P

The possibility that Durham restaurant patrons will have to pay a 1 percent meals tax on their tabs is far in the future, said mayor Nick Tennyson. The muchdebated tax has floated on Durham’s agenda for years, as a means of funding the city’s downtown revitalization. But without confirmed projects that need the

money, the tax may never reach consumers’ restaurant tab. “[The proposed meals tax is] not something on which I’m spending a tremendous amount of energy,” Tennyson said. “It’s not something I see as a possibility without a specific project to back it up.” In the recent proposal, submitted to the state legislature by the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau in early January

Last month’s announcement of state funding cuts has forced Durham County to reevaluate its spending habits, as it prepares for a potential $3.2-million reduction of its current $3BO-million budget. Despite questions as to whether funding for counties will be cut, city and county officials across the state have been planning how they would handle a $95-million loss. “It took us very much by surprise,” said interim County Manager Mike Ruffin, in regards to the Feb. 12 announcement. With only four months in the fiscal year and $5O million in county funds remaining, the process of offsetting the heavy cut by June would be a difficult one. County administrators are not certain of the cut, which would rescind the expected inventory tax reimbursement payment. Ron Aycock, director of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, said the State Budget Office and Gov. Mike Easley are “very reluctant” to pursue that route. State officials said they hope to find away to avoid the cut. According to Aycock, the state’s budget problems stem from large increases in Medicaid costs, decreased sales tax revenues and a generally slowing economy. He recommended that counties maintain a balanced budget and said several county administrators are writing Easley and the General Assembly to inform them about plans to alleviate the blow. Durham has already begun to react by implementing an immediate hiring freeze and laying off all temporary employees. The county is also reviewing discretionary purchases of equipment and has suspended all out-of-town travel. In addition, the county has temporarily halted the expansion of any government programs. For examSee COUNTY CUTS on page 5

GPSC social events lacking in attendance, interaction Hoping to create intra-departmental relations, GSPC sponsors 3 large-scale social events belle McFadden. “While inter-social events might not have as many tangible benefits as health insurance, on a dayWhile throwing their political supto-day basis, they make students feel port behind issues ranging from inmore part of a whole.” coverage insurance to creasing health However, GPSC has only sponsored drafting a student’s bill ofrights, gradutheir three inter-social events in the past five fiate student leaders have placed months. Both the events held first setowards social events. support nancial “We thought it was important to have mester, a welcome-back party and a celsocial events for graduate students,” ebration for the Duke-Temple men’s said Carrie Lumb-Dewey treasurer of basketball game, were poorly attended. the Graduate and Professional Student The Quasi-Valentines party, held second semester, was better received by the Council. “This year, we budgeted a subgraduate community. these events. fund amount to stantial “The welcome-back party suffered and Our allocation was more than double likewise the Temple game due to lack of year.” what it was last said McFadden, a third-year publicity” of its that $lO,OOO mandated GPSC student in French. “I expected a graduate budget be spent on inter-social events that. But the Valentine’s better on job intra-departmenaimed at increasing a better job, and the word was did party interaction. tal “The bottom line is that GPSC is here spread primarily by word of mouth.” With the low attendance, some wonder for the graduate students, and I hear a GRADUATE STUDENTS share an evening out together at George’s Club Annex. This Valentine’s gaps were bridged. intra-departmental lot of complaints that they feel isolated if 10 weekend event was sponsored by the Graduateand Professional Student Council. See GRADUATE STUDENTS on page and lonely” said GPSC president CyBy MOLLY JACOBS The Chronicle

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Less than 48 hours after being hospitalized for heart problems, Vice President Dick Cheney was back at work, keeping a rigorous schedule and meeting with the press on Capitol Hill.

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lation has grown by over 60 percent in 10 years, pulling them into parity with blacks as the largest minority group, data from the 2000 Census shows.

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Sharon inaugurated in Jerusalem Israel’s new prime minister promised to work for peace with the Palestinians By

GREG MYRE

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JERUSALEM Ariel Sharon was sworn in as Israel’s prime minister Wednesday and said his broad-based coalition was ready to make peace with the Palestinians if they “abandon the way of violence, terrorism and incitement.” Sharon, the nation’s fifth prime minister in six years, heads a large and unwieldy government that inherits the Palestinian uprising, a broken-down peace process and an anxiety-ridden Israel. In a speech to the Knesset, Sharon said his coalition would be

ready for “painful compromises” toward peace with the Palestinians,

but not “under the pressure of violence and terror.” Later, parliament approved Sharon’s “national unity government” by a vote of 72 to 21. Immediately afterward, Sharon rose to the podium and declared his allegiance, officially taking office to an unusual round of applause from the floor. In his speech before the vote, Sharon promised his government would work with the Palestinians. “If the Palestinians choose the path of peace... they will find me and my government a sincere and true partner,” he said. Sharon noted that he has promised to build no more settle-

ments on disputed lands— a departure from his past as a hard-line patron of the settler movement. But he did not outline how he would fulfill campaign promises to restore stability to a land rattled by five months of violence. “The lip service for peace and the generalities don’t make peace. Peacemaking requires details,” said Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian negotiator. “To make peace means a decision to end the [lsraeli military] occupation” in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Sharon also said Israel must seek peace deals with Syria and Lebanon, but offered no details on how he would pursue them.

Bush meets with South Korean leader By DAVID

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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush told President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea Wednesday that he would not resume missile talks with North Korea anytime soon, putting aside indefinitely the Clinton administration’s two-year campaign for a deal and the eventual normalization of relations with the reclusive Communist state. Bush’s comments, while couched in reassuring statements about the U.S. alliance with South Korea, came as a clear rebuff to Kim. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his efforts to open dialogue across one of the most heavily armed borders on earth, the South Korean leader has told U.S. officials that he

believes there is only a narrow window of opportunity to seize on North Korea’s recent willingness to emerge from its diplomatic seclusion. Bush made it clear Wednesday that he had little intention of following Clinton’s path, at least not now. In a brief exchange with reporters, Bush said; “We’re not certain as to whether or not they’re keeping all terms of all agreements.” The White House insisted that the meeting was cordial, and said that Bush embraced Kim’s “vision of peace on the Korean peninsula.” But it also distanced Bush from the details of that vision, including Kim’s statements, outside the meeting, that he planned to sign a peace “declaration” with North Korea if its leader, Kim Jong 11, visited South Korea this spring.

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Students, professors explore ethnic studies options By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

In their efforts to enrich campus social life, cultural groups continually face challenges like securing space and raising student awareness. The possibility of establishing a multicultural center has been raised to help solve such issues, but missing from the discussion is the study of ethnicity as an academic discipline—a situation some students and professors are looking to change. Currently, the University’s cultural studies are spread across several programs—such as the African and AfricanAmerican Studies Program and the Council on Latin American Studies—and more traditional departments like history and cultural anthropology. The University of California at Berkeley and other schools have taken the initiative to integrate such disciplines into an umbrella program that compares different cultures, and some are wondering if Duke should follow their lead. “A program in ethnic studies would allow us to bring together scholars from the different fields and have them reflect on the significance and intellectual consequences of ethnic interaction,” said Christina Chia, a graduate student in English, who last month organized a forum to discuss the state of cultural studies at the University. This interaction could not only produce original scholarship, she said, but also more courses and more institutional representation. Jose Saldivar, chair of the ethnic studies department at Berkeley, said increased integration allows professors to compare the situations of different ethnicities and place them in the context of home countries. “One cannot understand the Caribbean situation in the US. without understanding the history of the Caribbean. You have to have a transnational view of history,” he said. With such a view, scholars can expand American history to include ethnic minorities that have been previously neglected, said William Simmons, director of Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. “In the 1960s professors and students

began to recognize whole areas ofAmerican ethnicity and history that hadn’t really been studied,” Simmons said. “That experience turned into intellectual discoveries and then into departments and whole new programs.” Beyond the comparison of cultures, ethnic studies is worthy of study simply as “a human phenomenon,” said Barry Caspar, director ofAAAS and a professor of history. As a stand-alone phenomenon, ethnicity can serve “as a general framework for analysis” of everything from identity to politics, he said. Starting such programs, however, is not always an easy task. Many of the prominent cultural departments in the country were founded because of student and professor protests. “If you look at the growth ofAfrican-American studies, it really came about when black students called on lots of faculty,” said Associate Professor of Literature Wahneema Lubiano, at the forum last month. Aside from institutional pressures pushing for new programs, there are also broader social trends in ethnicity, including increased globalization and mobility. North Carolina especially has become more diverse, adding large Latino and Asian populations in recent decades. Paul Ortiz, research coordinator of the Center for Documentary Studies, suggested that a school in the South might benefit by investigating their new surroundings at a more scholarly level. “When you put Latino studies into the national narrative, it’s not just an addition, it changes the story entirely. It changes the binary way we usually look at race —black and white—and makes it richer, more complex,” Ortiz said. Whether there is support at the University for a major investment in ethnic studies is unclear. But Diya President Shruti Haldea said the faculty has been non-responsive—possibly because of funding constraints —to requests by her and others for more courses and professors in South Asian studies. “I have found most of the faculty and chairs of departments to be extremely unwilling to talk to students about bringing in new professors,” said Haldea, a senior.

cluding the creation of an Americas Studies program. But Thompson said there needs to be a large group effort to start such programs, a mandate that does not currently exist at Duke. Several attendees at the panel described Duke students as more careeroriented or even anti-ethnic. “There’s not this large group of people that says, Tou need to do this or we’re going to occupy the Allen Building,”’ said Orin Starn, associate professor ofcultural anthropology.

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As an interdisciplinary field, ethnic studies faces challenges beyond those of the usual new discipline. “It’s not like traditional areas of study like math that have hundreds of years of work,” Simmons said. “When you’re putting togeth-

er interdisciplinary programs you’re dealing with intellectual issues that might go anywhere. You have to be flexible and experimental.” Haldea said interdisciplinarity could actually aid in developing the study of ethnicity. She noted that even without a specific program, the discipline can be integrated successfully into more traditional departments. “I know this will be portrayed as a minority issue, but [ethnic studies] is really a wider educational resource and it’s in the interest of the whole community,” Haldea said.

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Thompson schedules dorm visits to explain curriculum By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

Freshman preparing for their second year under Curriculum 2000 will receive some additional help with the introduction of information sessions, online course distributions and better-informed premajor advisors. Following complaints that the new system is confusing and requires students to take too many courses unrelated to theninterests, administrators have implemented a series of reforms to remedy problems with the much-touted curriculum.

To first address the problem, Thompson sent letters to all freshmen last week informing them that he and other advisors will soon visit individual dormitories

to discuss the curriculum and personal academic planning.

“Some students are very frustrated with the curriculum, but that’s to be expected,” said Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College. “This class is truly a group oftrailblazers.... I want to personally find effective ways to engage students in conversation about the curriculum.” The Pre-Major Advising Center offered

similar sessions last semester emphasizing basic elements such as declaring a major and integrating study abroad plans, but the program, set up in cooperation with Duke Student Government, had little success due to inconsistent attendance. To solicit turnout, members of the faculty-in-residence and faculty associate programs have been asked to attend the latest group of sessions. In addition to reviewing the curriculum’s requirements, Thompson hopes to explain to students the logic behind the new system and why certain emphases

exist. The revised sessions will also attempt to make students more philosophically comfortable with the curriculum. “I hope they not only understand the specifics, but why the curriculum is ambitious and exciting,” Thompson said. “We truly have a remarkable curriculum, and I want students to understand why other schools are asking us about the changes we’ve made.” Earlier this semester, administrators had hoped to have students’ individual matrices —which lay out a students’ comSce C2K on page 5 �

New lottery bill would send all net proceeds to education Education programs, scholarships and school capital projects would receive all of the net revenues raised by a state-run lottery proposed by Rep. Toby Fitch, D-Wilson. The measure would allocate up to 50 percent of the proceeds from the game to “Education Improvement Scholarships” for college-bound students. The Tyr \TI?WC iirLWo scholarships would provide stu- 1 dents with at least a B average T’Tjrri n full tuition to any University of North Carolina system school or community college. Grants of up to $l,OOO per year would go to similar honor students who want to attend private college.

Each local school district would also receive $1 million annually for capital projects and technology equipment. The remaining net proceeds would go toward what Fitch calls the “Early Childhood Education and Development Initiatives Program.” Hopes for the passage of a lottery referendum bill have risen since Gov. Mike Easley made a lottery to raise funds for a pillar of his campaign. Another lottery bill was filed in late January by Rep. Bill Owens, D-Pasquotank, although some of that money would go for local water and sewer improvements.

Utah census suit will not get expedited appeal: North Carolina benefits from a Utah judicial ruling that denies the state a quick decision on its challenge to the 2000 Census, setting back its effort to

claim an extra congressional seat. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson ruled Tuesday that Utah was not entitled to an expedited court review by a three-judge panel because the state is raising a techni-

cal, not constitutional, objection to the federal census. Benson will hear Utah’s suit March 20 and any appeal will go to a federal appeals court in Denver, not straight to the U.S. Supreme Court. North Carolina would lose a newly apportioned congressional seat if Utah prevails. Utah’s political leaders and congressional delegation filed suit against the Census Bureau Jan. 10, saying its failure to count 11,000 Mormon missionaries serving abroad cost the state a fourth House seat. Military and U.S. government workers who gave North Carolina an advantage over Utah —were counted in 1900,1970,1990 and 2000. The Census Bureau is withholding final population figures for Utah and North Carolina because of the dispute, though other states will get their numbers as early as next Wednesday.

Easley transportation appointees raised thousands for campaign: Governor Mike Easley’s proposed appointees to the state Board of Transportation and their families contributed $197,490 to his campaign last year, reports filed by the appointees show. New Secretary of Transportation Lindo Tippett and his family contributed another $15,377, the disclosure statements filed with the governor’s office show. Board appointees also helped solicit at least $200,000 for Easley’s campaign, with three raising $188,752 of that amount. Three appointees failed to file reports but apparently made no contributions to the Easley campaign. Easley spokeswoman Cari Hepp said Tuesday that the contributions played no role in the appointments. The 19 appointees are expected to be sworn into office this month.

Lawyers urge mercy for death row inmate: Their request for a stay ofexecution denied, lawyers for condemned killer Willie Fisher said Monday that his life should be spared because he was ineffectively represented at his trial. Fisher’s attorneys asked Tuesday that Gov. Mike Easley commute his death sentence to life in prison. Monday, the Supreme Court refused to issue a stay based on the claim that an indictment form was improper. Fisher, 39, is to be executed Friday for killing his girlfriend, Angela Johnson, in 1992. He stabbed her 32 times in front of her mother and 12-year-old daughter. His appellate lawyers say Fisher would have likely received a life sentence had his trial lawyer, David Tamer, properly done his job. Tamer was subsequently suspended by the State Bar for failing to properly represent clients, and later disbarred and charged with 23 counts of embezzlement for taking clients’ money. Moore contends Tamer failed to properly show the jury how alcohol and cocaine changed the behavior of a man who had no criminal record and was described by friends as nonviolent. Motorcyclists could go without helmets: The House Judiciary HI Committee recommended approval of a bill that would allow motorcycle riders over 21 to go without a helmet. The bill would also raise motorcycle registration fees from $9 to $l4. Supporters say the legislation will help motorcyclists avoid accidents by improving their vision. But Joe Parker of the Governor’s Highway Safety Program said it will “kill more North Carolinians.” The bill now goes to the House Finance Committee for consideration.

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� COUNTY CUTS from page 1 Watauga Counties, has introduced a bill in the pie, the Department of Elections’ proposal for two House of Representatives that would take money from the state’s emergency Rainy Day Fund inmore employees has been postponed. “It’s going to make us take a different look at stead of counties and cities. How the House will retaxes,” said County Commissioner Philip Cousin. spond is uncertain, but at least, Aycock says, the He explained that the cut might spur city officials bill sends an important message. Durham County Commissioner Marianne Black to raise income taxes. recently made a presentation to the State Finance But Durham County Commissioner Ellen Reekhow said implementing the cut would be unfair on Committee about the grave effects of the cut, particularly on the 1,700 mental-health patients who a basic level. “Local governments feel vulnerable at this now have no access to funding or resources. However, Commissioner Joe Bowser said he is point,” Reckhow said, adding that counties were confident county administrators will be able to promised the reimbursements and are not responsible for the state’s budget problems. compensate for the funding loss in the next budIn response to the potential cuts, Rep. Rex geting period. “Next year’s budget will be a new Baker, R-Aleghany, Ashe, Stokes, Surry and situation totally,” he said.

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pleted and incomplete requirements—available online. Programming requirements prevented such a deadline from being met. With further development, administrators hope the online site can be adapted to notify students of classes that fit specific intersections of their personal matrix. Workshops and online matrices are only two components of a plan to make students comfortable with the curriculum. Pre-major advisors have begun to enroll in refresher courses offered by PMAC to help them better understand the purpose and protocols of Curriculum 2000. The training for advisors will also emphasize the philosophical reasons behind the curriculum. So far, 70 percent of advisors have registered for the class. Over the coming weeks, PMAC Director Norman Keul said he will work aggressively to get the remaining advisors to participate. “At this point, we’ve got a year of the new curriculum under our belt. It will no longer be acceptable for advisors to say that they don’t understand because there is a new curriculum,” Keul said. ‘We want advisors to know the new curriculum isn’t just a fist of courses and requirements or hoops for students to jump through. The curriculum is a reflection of our priorities and values as an institution.”

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great team has a strong foundation. Duke would not be known as one of the nation’s basketball powerhouses if it were not for the likes of Dick Groat, Johnny Dawkins, Bobby Hurley, Christian Laettner, Grant Hill, Shane Battier and... Georgia Schweitzer? Indeed, Schweitzer is an example of a Duke basketball great. She is the first woman in Duke’s history (and the fifth in the entire Atlantic Coast Conference) to run up more than 1,500 points, 500 rebounds, 400 assists and 150 steals. For two years straight, she has been named ACC player ofthe year. She is currently a contender for a spot on the Kodak All-American team and she is a frontrunner in the contest for Naismith player of the year—the NCAA’s highest honor. But her jersey is not hanging from the rafters —and the attitude of Athletic Director Joe Alieva indicates that it might never take its rightful place next to the rest of Duke basketball’s MVPs. It is condescending for Alieva to argue that Schweitzer’s accomplishments do not stack up to those of many other male players. He is mistaken: Few of the players who Alieva finds more qualified than Schweitzer could have caused Duke’s basketball program to shoot to the top ofthe rankings in an amazingly short time. Alieva also maintains that national prominence is a key to receiving the program’s highest honor. Undoubtedly, Schweitzer’s accomplishments have received the kind of attention that Alieva highlights as tremendously important: Not only has she won the ACC’s highest award two years in a row, but as a sophomore, she was named East Regional Most Valuable Player after leading her team to the Final Four. Alieva’s quickness to discount the accomplishments of a record-breaking player is outrageous. But a retired jersey should signify a combination of achievements. Although national recognition is valuable to the entire basketball program, it cannot significantly assess the intangibles that a player brings to his or her team—especially considering that these types of awards are, to some extent, dependent on how much hype a school is willing to provide for a program. Indeed, Shane Battier’s acquisition ofthe National Defensive Player ofthe Year title reflects well on his abilities on the court. But remember: Three years ago, Steve Wojciechowski won the award with a combination of great defense and equally outstanding hype from Duke’s public relations machine. In the meantime, Duke’s women’s basketball program, under the leadership of women’s coach Gail Goestenkors and with players like Schweitzer, Kira Orr and Michele VanGorp, has been tremendously successful without the institutional support that men’s basketball can take for granted. Two years ago, justlike their male counterparts, the women’s basketball team had a stint in the Final Four. Still, the women’s impressive performance brought only a handful of new fans into Cameron; were it not for this year’s head line monitor holding a tent check at the women’s Duke-UNC game, few students would have attended the most important game of the season. The women’s basketball team has both prestige and talent—all it needs is institutional support. A retired jersey represents a school’s respect for the roots of a team’s success—for the players who make it possible for future players to excel. Now that our women’s basketball team has climbed to the highest echelons ofthe sport, Duke must honor the women who pushed their teammates and their program to the top. Georgia Schweitzer is one ofthose women.

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Reckonings Paul Krugman Call it a “Bush trillion.” It’s a sum that is either much more or much less than $1 trillion—whichever is convenient —but one that George W. Bush thinks he can get away with calling “a trillion dollars” in speeches. During the campaign, Bush, to emphasize his moderation, claimed that he was matching a trillion dollars in tax cuts with a trillion dollars of new spending. In fact, he proposed less than half a trillion in new programs, and now he proposes no real increase in spending at all. The tax cut, on the other hand, turns out to be $1.6 trillion, except that it’s really $2 trillion once you count the interest costs. And it will be $2.5 trillion if it is accelerated, something Bush has urged but not factored into his numbers, and if a major wrinkle involving the alternative minimum tax is ironed out. Meanwhile, Bush has come up with another trillion, this time his “trillion-dollar contingency fund.” It comes as no surprise that the actual number in his budget is only a bit more than $BOO billion. And more than half of that consists offunds that Medicare was supposed to be setting aside for the needs of an aging population. So maybe we also need to define a “Bush contingency,” as in: “Gee, people might get older, and they might have medical expenses. We can’t be sure —but it could happen.” Which brings us to the question of identifying the victims. For there will be victims. The latest line from tax-cut supporters is that this isn’t really a big cut, that we can easily afford it. But if that were true, Bush would be able to justify his plans with honest accounting and would be able to honor his own party’s

promises to protect the retirement trust funds. Yes, his cut is somewhat smaller as a share of GDP than Ronald Reagan’s. But Reagan’s tax cut was a fiscal disaster and would have been even worse had his irresponsibility not been partly offset by increases in the payroll tax that finances Social Security and Medicare. So who will be hurt? First, of course, the

usual suspects: the poor and near-poor, who, because they pay no income tax (though they pay quite a lot in other taxes), will get nothing from the tax cut but will bear the brunt of the spending austerity that the tax cut will force. And these victims include a

third of the nation’s children. But there will be other victims: middleincome baby boomers. We keep hearing about the “typical” family that will receive a $1,600 tax cut. Now it’s true that under Bush’s plan a medianincome family of two adults and two children under the age of 17 would get a $1,600 cut starting in 2006. Most of that, however, comes not from lower tax rates but from an increased child credit. A couple whose children are grown (or even college-age) get only $6OO, a widow or widower gets only $3OO. So for middle-income baby boomers, there just isn’t much of a tax break. (You can also start to see why 88 percent of families will get less than that “typical” $1,600 break, in most cases much less.) There is no comparable fine print when it comes to tax cuts for the rich. Meanwhile, Bush has made it clear that he intends to raid the funds that were supposed to support the baby boomers in their retirement. Social Security and Medicare were expected to accumulate almost $3 trillion in reserves over the next decade, reserves that were supposed to be there for the baby boomers. But Bush proposes to divert about $1 trillion—a real trillion, not a Bush trillion—into other uses. There will be elaborate sophistry about how money diverted into individual Social Security accounts is still “in the system,” about how Medicare surpluses used to finance prescription drug benefits are still part of Medicare, but the fact is that in each case the money isn’t available for its intended use. Without those reserves, Medicare will be in trouble early in the next decade, Social Security a bit later. But the pressure to cut benefits will begin years before. In an unguarded moment during the campaign, Bush remarked about the future Texas fiscal situation, “I hope I’m not here to deal with it.” Maybe his attitude toward the consequences ofhis tax cut is the same: by the time the bill comes due, he’ll be gone. Paul Krugman’s column is syndicated by The New York Times News Service.

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Sinking the SAT While it may be too soon to scrap the SAT entirely, the test has some serious flaws Bias exists in the SAT, and for those who question this, simply look at the College Board’s own website. The yearly national reports on scores by family income Laura Sellers alone should explain why college counselors and others have complained Look at the cover of this week’s Time about the biases in the SAT for years. magazine. It is about the SAT. It is about Here’s a point to consider; For as long as the controversy sparked by University of the College Board has tracked family California President Richard Atkinson. income of test-takers, scores increase Atkinson recently proposed that the with every additional $lO,OOO earned by California system eliminate the SAT as a the test-takers’ family. requirement for admission to its eight For example, in 1999 the mean SAT of students from families who made undergraduate campuses, and not surprisingly, his proposal has drawn heated $30,000 to $40,000 per year was a verdebate, both in the pages of this paper bal score of 493 and a mathematics and in the national press. score of 493. For test-takers with family Several small liberal arts colleges have incomes of $70,000 to $BO,OOO, the mean already dropped SAT verbal was the SAT require527 and mathematics was 531. ment. But they did on These trends are not make the cover ofTime. What’s difunfailingly consisstatus our tent. ferent is that this is the president of a The College Board’s reports of major university students’ scores system. This is California, sorted by highest the state with the largest number of SAT level of parental education show similar test-takers in the country—l 2 percent trends. In 2000, the mean scores of stulast year. This is big time, big money. dents from families where parents have The SAT has become a right ofpassage obtained a high school diploma were a for college-bound students, something we verbal of 474 and a mathematics score of accept as a matter of course. Rarely does 477. For students from families with parone blink before signing up for PSATs, for ents who hold graduate degrees, the multiple SATs, for expensive test prep mean scores were 558 for verbal and 566 courses, for high school classes devoted to for mathematics. Again, for each higher test prep, etc. For students seeking admislevel of education achieved by the parsion to the selective colleges and universients, the students’ scores increase. This is ties, the SAT is as high stakes as it gets. true every year, every level. And test Imagine eliminating the SAT. I am not scores sorted by race illustrate the biases sure it can be done. I am not even sure I in the test best ofall. The College Board’s national think it should be done. But I do applaud Atkinson for pointing a finger at emperor reports show yawning race (and gender) gaps that the College Board itself SAT and for having the courage to queshard to explain. No one has ademulfinds tion its validity and to challenge the quately explained why most nonwhite timillion-dollar industry it has spawned. Atkinson points to the unfairness of races score lower than whites even the SAT as one reason for his proposal. when they are from higher socioeco-

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nomic levels than the white test takers. President Atkinson points out that such racial disparities do not exist with the SAT II and other more subject-based exams. Atkinson isn’t shooting from the hip here. He is a cognitive psychologist who has studied learning and memory throughout his career. He was the founding chairman of the National Research Council’s Board on Testing and Assessment and was once a visiting distinguished scholar at ETS, which administers the SAT. Atkinson knows that standardized tests are useful in correcting for the vast differences in high schools across the country. He simply does not believe the SAT, which he calls an “ill-defined measure of aptitude or intelligence,” is the one to use. The acronym, SAT, doesn’t even stand for anything anymore. The A’ was aptitude, then assessment, now it is just, simply, the SAT. The College Board does not call it an intelligence test or an aptitude test. The president of ETS, Kurt Landgraf, says, “It’s a measure of a student’s ability to answer questions at a given place and time.” Well, that clears things up.

Atkinson recommends that in place of the SAT I, the system require the SAT 11, or an equivalent state or nationally normed exam. Atkinson believes that every student does not have an equal chance on the SAT. He does not want to lower standards. But he is concerned that it is not those who study harder and work harder who do better. Rather, it’s those whose parents are white, more educated, and better off financially. At the very least, Atkinson’s proposal has refocused attention on these issues and has spurred debate about the reasons, and the possible solutions, for these disparities. The SAT has taken on emperor-like status in our culture. Whatever the outcome at the University of California, I applaud Atkinson for his courage in using the bully pulpit of the university presidency to prick our allegiance to the test. Laura Sellers, special assistant to the president emeritus, formerly served as senior associate director of undergraduate admissions at Duke.

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men’s idiotic attitudes, I could not work up the nerve to launch them. Instead, I left the room. After reading this week’s letter to the editor, though, I knew I had made a mistake. Perhaps if someone had spoken up—had actually confronted the children masquerading as college students—different versions of the same incidentwould not recur. I wonder whether anyone has told these boys—because anyone who finds rape amusing cannot be considered a man—that their perceptions of the female body are skewed and that their behavior toward it is unacceptable. I commend the theory behind mandating that new members of selective groups must attend events that often prove valuable in improving women’s safety on campus. But I question the effectiveness of a requirement when groups of boys are incapable of mustering the energy needed to simply shut up—forget about what it would take to make them actually listen to the content of one of these sessions. But the majority of Duke students understand that topics like rape and eating disorders are not amusing. We must not allow the puerile few to be the loudest voices whenever we try to hold serious discussions. We must not let them act on notions that any woman raped was asking for it and that any bulimic woman looks better anyway. By leaving the room whenever a huddle in the back row cannot stop giggling, we allow them to win; at the next event they are required to attend, they will behave no differently. So instead of letting our disgust win out over our courage, I encourage the thousands of Duke men and women who do care about eliminating violence against women to turn to the jerks in the back of the auditorium and tell them to shut the hell up. Jaime Levy is a Trinity senior and editor ofTowerView.

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Tax would divide burden between locals, nonresidents MEALS TAX from page 1

the proposed meals tax without a tangible reason for generating extra funds. “This is a concept that can’t be argued in the abstract,” Tennyson said. “If it’s in the abstract, it’s [just] a tax increase, and that’s a no. If you have a

council member Erick Larson. “So what we have asked the legislature is permission, not to actually do this [now].... There is no plan [currently] to imple-

Proponents of the current plan say that the proportion of lower-income people affected by the tax is inaccurately inflated because college students are included in that bracket. Luebke agrees but insists that even if the numbers are inflated, the truly disadvantaged, who may be unable to move into higher income brackets, cannot be overlooked. “Philosophically, I oppose higher taxes on average citizens.... I’m not as concerned about your poverty [if you arel a graduate student,” he said.

ment the tax.” Reyn Bowman, president and chief executive officer of the Durham Conspecific project, then you’re talking vention and Visitors Bureau, added about a revenue source for buying that if plans for the American Tobacco something people might want to buy, site escalate, then Durham will need to have a ready source of funding for the and that’s a possible yes.” Some city council members argue project’s heavy costs. that submitting the proposal at this State Rep. Paul Luebke, D-Durham, has been an outspoken opponent of the time is a valid anticipatory measure. “[The meals tax is] something that I levy, stating that such a tax —even one According to meals tax supporters, think the council would use if there that would only add a few cents to most the tax would also distribute the cost was a project to be funded, but at this orders—would burden the poor. “It’s not of city services, like roads and streetpoint there is no such project,” said city based on your ability to pay,” he said. lights, to all people who use them, not

just residents. Unlike the property tax, nonresidents and various tax-advantaged entities will also bare part of the

tax burden.

Bowman expects nonresidents to provide one-half to one-third of the

meals tax revenue.

Regardless of the strong opinions some Durham community members hold regarding the tax, others believe that the debate is not crucial at this time. “I think it is very distant at this point because we have more pressing issues to think about,” said city council member Jacqueline Wagstaff. “[The discussion is] a little taxing and draining on people’s energy... they can’t be very thorough about their jobs.”

After 3 activities, much of social budget remains unspent GRADUATE STUDENTS from page 1 “People said it was hard to talk to someone they didn’t know in a different discipline, so it’s hard to say how people actually mingled,” McFadden said. Will Tyson, GPSC social committee chair, agreed. “It is difficult to tell who was there and what department they were from,” said Tyson, a third-year graduate student in sociology. “I’m not sure if all graduate and professional departments were actually represented there.” As the end of the academic year nears, the bulk of the $lO,OOO social budget is left unspent. “Ideally we would spend all that money, but this year we didn’t come close—it might have been slightly over-budgeted,” McFadden said. “Ideally we would

have to have something once a month to come close to spending the budgeted amount.” In order to increase the number of events held each year, McFadden suggested increasing the number of GPSC members involved in planning activities. “People can step-up—the president of GPSC can’t do everything,” McFadden said. Students suggest that providing a more centralized location for these events might increase participation. For years, greater social space has been an issue on GPSC’s agenda and, as a result of this priority, the administration provided them with free use of Devil’s Den three times during the year. The two events held at Devil’s Den this year drew the fewest people.

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“Graduate students need a social space on campus, and use of the Devil’s Den location made it clear that the space needs to be in the Bryan Center or on West Campus,” McFadden said. Tyson suggested that attendance will continue to increase as GPSC parties become more well-known in the graduate community. “You need events that draw students there, whether it is watching a game or free drinks,” he said. “The last event went very well; that party at George’s established a GPSC party as something good to go to.” While different events have been proposed, there are currently no definitive plans for any future activities.

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The men’s team heads to Atlanta in search of its third consecutive championship, starting Friday vs. I.C. State. See ACC supplement

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Schweitzer takes conference’s top honor—again By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

It must have felt like deja vu for Georgia Schweitzer yesterday. For the second time in as many years, the Duke senior was named ACC player of the year by the Associated Press. “I never dreamed my career would end up this way,” Schweitzer said. Her career has featured three regular season titles, two conference championships and one trip to the national championship game. She won ACC player of the year last season after Peppi Browne tore her ACL in what was thought to be a rebuilding year that ended in the Sweet 16.By winning the award in backto-back seasons, Schweitzer joins an elite club. Aside from her award last season, Duke’s only other player of the year, Chris Moreland, won in 1987. “It’s a hard career to summarize because so much of what she has given us has been the

intangibles,” Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. “It doesn’t always show up in the stat sheet. She is by far the most physically and mentally tough player that I’ve ever had the privilege to coach.” Schweitzer averaged 20.3 points per game in this year’s ACC tournament and was named the tournament’s most valuable player. Those numbers were significantly higher than her regular season totals of 13.5 points per game. Winning 22 of the 63 votes cast, she led North Carolina’s LaQuanda Barksdale—the conference’s leading scorer —by seven votes.

Schweitzer moved to point guard this season after scoring 15..6 points per game as shooting guard last year. “It’s good to see when kids who don’t care about stats or don’t care about individual awards get rewarded,” Goestenkors said. “Many times that doesn’t happen. I’m really happy people have recognized how valuable she is.” But Schweitzer is not the only valuable one around Duke these days. Her teammate Alana Beard won 62 of 64 votes cast, making her a nearly unanimous ACC freshman of the year. Beard joins Moreland (1985) and Katie Meier (1986) as the only Blue Devils to win the award. Leading the team in scoring with 16.8 points per game, Beard is also a viable candidate for national freshman of the year. By comparison, Connecticut’s Diana Taurasi averages only 9.9 points per game while Tennessee’s Ashley Robinson has 8.4. She is raising eyebrows on defense as well. With 3.6 steals per game, Beard ranks seventh nationally, not among justfreshmen, but among all Division I players. “She is the first one in the gym every day and the last one to leave because she is so demanding of herself,” Goestenkors said. “She is going to just get better and better, which is pretty scary because she is really good right now.” Last week, both Beard and Schweitzer were named to the All-ACC first team. Beard’s selection marked the first time in conference history a freshman was named to the first team.

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Monarchs abdicate to baseball team 3-2 in bottom of 10th By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

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In fact, yesterday afternoon’s baseball game at Jack Coombs Field stretched into extra innings, but it was Patrick’s hit that allowed Duke (7-9) to take a one-run advantage in the bottom of the tenth and record a 3-2 win over Old Dominion (3-12). “It was a nice win,” Duke coach Bill Hillier said. “It was a great job of Brian Patrick coming off the bench, [after] sitting for three hours.” The Blue Devils found themselves tied 2-2 going into the final inning. Senior Wes Goodner led Duke offwith a single after the the Monarchs’ third baseman could not get the ball, quick to first baseman Jared Musolf. Troy Caradonna followed Goodner but could not beat the Monarchs to first base as Goodner advanced to second. Drew Jerdan, who drove in Duke’s first run in the fourth inning, could not repeat his early-game heroics and struck out. Doug Bechtold was intentionally walked by Old Dominion relief pitcher Kevin Evans, who was pitching into his fifth inning. The next Duke batter in the line-up, David Mason, who has hit .265 and scored a team-high 12 runs for Duke this season, did not find himself at home plate. With the count at 1-1, Patrick tipped three consecu-

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tive foul balls before driving the ball right in between the second baseman and right fielder as Goodner rounded third and slid into home. “It was a curve ball inside and it kind of jammed me, but it worked out pretty well,” Patrick said of the gamewinning hit. “It was a good win. All wins are good wins, but this gives us some momentum going into the ACCs next week.” It did not give the struggling Monarchs any momentum, however, a team that opened its season with eight consecutive losses. “I thought Kevin Evans made a good pitch,” Old Dominion coach Tony Guzzo said. “But Patrick did a good job and he got it right between both of them.... It was a nice piece of hitting with two strikes.” Old Dominion took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second, but Duke evened the score in the fourth. A single by David Mason in the sixth inning driven to centerfield allowed J.D. Alieva to score from third base. Old Dominion’s Matt Moye evened the score 2-2 after a Ross Robertson single at the top of the seventh. Duke’s Jeff Alieva, the Blue Devils’ seventh option of the night, took the win. He entered in the eighth inning and threw three strikeouts, followed by a strikeout and two caught fly balls in the ninth. “I was pleased with the way our pitching staff played tonight,” Hillier said. “But JeffAlieva did a great job. Jeff came into the season as a weekend starter for us. He’s done an incredible job. He’s a gamer.” Garth Miller contributed to this story.

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Big East Tournament Villanova 82, West Virginia 71 Seton Hall 78, St. John’s 66 Pittsburgh 78, Miami 69

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