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Back to action The volleyball team made up its previously canceled match versus East

THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Bush urges Americans to prepare for war By TODD PURDUM

Vice President Dick Cheney offered chilling new details Sunday, WASHINGTON President saying that Bush had authorized Bush and his senior advisers told military pilots to intercept and Americans on Sunday to prepare shoot down any commercial airlinfor a new kind of global war that er that tried to penetrate airspace could last for years, require un- over Washington after the attacks conventional means, and test the on the Pentagon and World Trade Center towers. The Pentagon patience ofthe public and its leaders alike. scrambled fighter jets to track a “This is a new kind of evil,” hijacked jetliner headed toward Bush said at the White House Washington, but the plane after returning from a weekend crashed in Pennsylvania, possibly war council with senior aides at after a struggle between passenCamp David, “and we understand, gers and the hijackers. and the American people are beOfficials said that Ronald Reagan National Airport, just across ginning to understand, this crusade, this war on terrorism, is the Potomac River in Virginia, going to take a while, and the would not reopen soon, and some American people must be patient.” suggested that it be permanently “We will rid the world of the closed to commercial air traffic evil-doers,” Bush said, adding a because its flight paths cross moment later, “They have roused within seconds ofvirtually all important government buildings a mighty giant, and make no misand monuments. take about it, we’re determined.” Speaking on “Meet the Press” In his first public remarks See ATTACKS on page 12 Psince Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, New York Times News Service

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH makes a statement upon returning to the White House Sunday from a presidential retreat at Camp David,

Alumnus escapes burning building Crown suffers severe injuries By DREW KLEIN The Chronicle

CANDLES adorn the Chapel Quadrangle at a vigil following the forum Sunday night.

Duke hosts forum on healing Scott McMillan, a Durham resident who was employed by Midway Airlines until last week, was one of the first audience members to speak at last nights forum at Page Auditorium. He talked about his 12-year-old son, and said that often his son is wrong. He talked about how his son might defy him and that often, he feels the need to hit him, in the name ofjustice. “He’s wrong. He needs to be taught a lesson,” McMillan said, before adding his wife always manages to reassure him it’s not the best answer. The metaphor did not go unnoticed by nearly 200 members ofthe Duke community as they gathered for yet another forum on Tuesday’s events and the ensuing ;

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fallout, even as President George W. Bush increasingly talks of war and retaliation. The discussion was organized by William Chafe, dean of faculty of arts and sciences. It followed several others, including those held at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the School ofLaw, the Divinity School and the School of Medicine. Last night’s discussion was followed by a candlelight vigil outside the Chapel steps, sponsored by the Muslim Student Association. “We are a community in mourning,” Chafe said. “We’ve lost our sense of confidence that the world is one we can control.” Mourning was a theme Sunday night as Chafe and a panel of 10 faculty members and students, including

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By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

One thing’s for sure about players on the men’s lacrosse team: They refuse to admit defeat. That description certainly applies to Keat Crown, a captain of the 2000 men’s lacrosse team, who successfully made his way down from high atop the World Trade Center on Tuesday before its tragic collapse. Despite broken bones and deep lacerations sustained on the way down, Crown emerged from the building alive and was moved several times before ending up in a Manhattan hospital. Crown was working on the 106th floor of the South tower, the second building to be struck in Tuesday’s attacks, for AON Keat Crown Risk Management, an insurance company. His office was only four floors from the top of the tower, around 1300 feet above the ground. When he and his colleagues saw and heard the impact ofAmerican Airlines Flight 11 on the North tower, they immediately headed for the stairs. When they arrived on the 78th floor, an area where employees would normally switch from one elevator bank to another, they were told to return to their offices. Crown, however, continued to descend the stairs, but was still above the impact point of the second plane when it hit. When Crown reached a point in the stairwell that had been demolished by an elevator, he jumped down an unknown distance and was able to land with only minor injuries where the stairwell was still useable. At that point, he made his way to the bottom ofthe building and emerged only minutes before the structure on page

State education officials say that even though North Carolina’s SAT scores might seem low, the state continues to make progress in education. See page 7

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Airport remains closed; Marshals to be used

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will be closed indefinitely because of its proximity to the seats of government. Also, the Federal Aviation Administration said air marshals who are armed and trained in the use of firearms on board aircraft will be flying anonymously on select flights from now on •

Bush instructed military to fire on planes

President George W. Bush ordered U.S. fighter jets to shoot down civilian aircraft if necessary to protect the nation’s capital immediately after terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Vice President Dick Cheney said. •

Two killed, dozens injured in India riots

During a march of some 50,000 Hindu nationalists in Hubli, India, Hindu fundamentalists rioted Saturday, shouting slogans against Pakistan and the Taliban in a protest prompted by terrorist attacks in the United States. Two people were killed and dozens were injured, police said. •

Asian markets plunge prior to U.S. opening

Asian stock markets were sharply lower in trading today. The benchmark Nikkei average was down 552 points or 5.52 percent at 9,457—the lowest intraday level since Dec 1983—while the Hong Kong market fell four percent and Australian stocks were down more than three percent. *

Poll shows support for cautious retaliation

An overwhelming majority of Americans—some 81 percent—surveyed in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll say the United States should wait until it is “completely sure who is specifically responsible” before retaliating for the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. News briefs compiled from wire reports. “Fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your reward.” 0 Brother, Where Art Thou -

Wall Street prepares for reopening

Financial experts and political leaders urged investors to help prevent sell-off By RICHARD STEVENSON with

JONATHAN FUERBRINGER New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON Faced with a major test of the U.S. economy’s ability to withstand the blow from the terrorist attack, an informal coalition of

government and business leaders urged investors in public and private to do what they could to keep the stock markets from tumbling when they reopen Monday morning. Returning to the White House from Camp David Sunday afternoon, President George W. Bush said, “No question about it, this incident affected our economy.” But he also expressed “great faith” in the nation’s economic and financial resiliency.

“The markets open tomorrow, people go back to work, and we’ll show the world,” Bush said. The Federal Reserve Board and its counterparts in Europe and Japan chose not to take any action in advance of Wall Street’s attempt to re-

turn to normal after the devastation ofTuesday. But with much riding on the stock market’s opening, both psychologically and financially, officials from the administration, the Federal Reserve, and the Securities and Exchange Commission mounted a campaign to bolster investor and consumer confidence and win cooperation from top executives ofthe nation’s major banking and investment companies.

They made clear that the govern-

ment expects the industry to put the need for a smooth opening in the stock market ahead of short-term trading strategies or other business decisions that might drive share prices down. William McDonough, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said he had spoken in the past few days to financial executives including William Harrison, the president of JP Morgan Chase; Philip Purcell, the chair of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter; John Mack, the chief executive of Credit Suisse First Boston, and David Komansky, the chair of Merrill Lynch. McDonough said in an interview See WALL STREET on page

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Pakistan to request surrender of bin Laden By JOHN BURNS

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan will send a group of high-ranking military officers to Afghanistan today to demand that the Taliban government hand over the accused

terrorist Osama bin Laden and his top associates to the United States or face almost certain American military action, senior Pakistani officials said. The group will be led by Maj. Gen. Faiz Gilani, one of the top officers in Pakistan’s military intelligence wing, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, which is thought to have unique intelligence on bin Laden’s operations in Afghanistan and his whereabouts. Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, had agreed to relay the ultimatum after days of intensive discussions between American and Pakistani officials, in Washington and Islamabad, the Pakistani officials said.

But the officials also cautioned that the chances of the Taliban bowing to the American demand were slim. In the first test of its pledge to make nations choose sides in a war against terrorism, the Bush administration has placed relentless pressure on Pakistan to cooperate in capturing or eliminating bin Laden, who is suspected of masterminding Tuesday’s catastrophic attacks in New York and Washington.

In effect, the Pakistani officials said, American officials had told Musharraf’s government Washington would use every lever “short of war” to punish Pakistan unless it cooperated. At the meeting today in Kandahar, the officials said, the Taliban leaders would be told that they had “only a few days” to hand over bin Laden or face an eventual American military attack that would almost certainly target the See PAKISTAN on page 10 �

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Student files Number of law school applicants rises harassment complaint � Despite the report of a harassing e-mail, many Muslim students say they feel comfortable on campus. By MATT BRADLEY The Chronicle

In the first documented case of harassment of a Duke Muslim student since last week’s tragedy, a student received an e-mail which was “antagonizing in nature” from an anonymous America Online user, Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department reported. Despite this incident, most Muslim students and community leaders describe a feeling of security and safety on campus. “It’s been overwhelming how much support the Duke community has been offering,” said Muslim Student Alliance President Lala Qadir. The MSA planned a candlelight vigil Sunday night in honor of the atSee HARASSMENT on page 9 >

EDITOR’S NOTE Due to canceled events, Sportswrap is not included in this edition of The Chronicle but will return Sept. 24.

CORRECTION On page 6 of the Sept. 15 edition, The Chronicle reported that Owen Astrachan, professor of computer science, and Kent Rigsby, professor of classical studies, were re-elected to the executive committee of the Arts and Sciences Council. They are returning members.

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By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle

As job opportunities wane and people try to increase their viability in the job market, law schools are seeing an upturn in applicant numbers. Nationally, almost 79,000 people applied this fall, up 5.6 percent from last year. This June, almost 24,000 people took the LSAT—the single greatest indicator of next year’s applicant numbers, noted many law school admissions employees. That constitutes an increase of almost 20 percent from last year, and even more are expected to take the law school entrance exam this October. Application increases have been especially pronounced in cities with heavy technology influences. For example at the University of Texas at Austin School ofLaw, which is located in a city that is home to IBM and Dell, about 4,450 people have begun the initial application steps this year, compared to 3,900 last year and 3,300 the year before that. Application numbers to the Duke School of Law reflect the national trend, said Associate Dean of Law School Admissions Dennis Shields. “In the class that just applied, the pool ofcandidates went up about 10 percent,” he said. “I’m a little leery about guessing about the volume of students we are actually going to get. It is likely to go up, but whether it is 3 percent or 15 percent, I can’t know now.” Shields cited three primary reasons for increases in the national law school pool this year. First, he said, more people have been graduating from college nationwide the last six or seven years, and law school admissions are now reflecting those numbers. Second, more people are choosing to continue their education rather than enter the job market directly out of college. Third, people who graduated in the last four years are returning to education in the midst of a less prosperous economy. The recent increase in law school applicants suggests that the condition of the economy is playing a role in students’ decisions. In the economic-boom

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years of the ‘9os, application numbers ous economy and start working right out waned from almost 100,000 in 1991 to of college. Now those people are staying in less than 72,000 in 1998, as students the pool, in addition to those people who sought career rather than educational are coming back to further their educaopportunities. Now, as the economy is tion,” Shields said. Some students worry about the comweakening, admissions numbers are petition, while others said they think that back on the rise. Many students said they agreed with the increased numbers will have less effect at upper-tier schools like Duke. Shield’s analysis. “People at Duke are motivated and “Whether I decide to go to law school all depends on where I am in the spring—- goal-oriented and have the security of a what I want to do, what job options I Duke degree,” Schaefer said. “I think Duke students will be less affected than have,” senior Charlie Schaefer said. increase the in predicted the people coming from other schools and still However, number of applicants will not translate have a good chance of going where they into Duke accepting more law students, want, despite the competition.” Law schools must also discern said Shields. Duke has a target enrollment figure of about 200 students each whether a higher percentage of students year, including this year. The increased will accept admissions offers this year—number of applications and the consisthus affecting the number offers schools tent number of acceptances at most can make. “We will have to be a little more causchools will likely cause a decrease in tious in the number of offers we make,” overall acceptance rates. Shields is optimistic that this will said Shelly Soto, who works in the admissions department at UT-Austin’s law translate into a higher quality for the inschool. “We will be waiting to see how the coming law school class. “In the last few years, we were losing admission pool reacts.... When [the econopeople in the national pool because they my] is less strong, many people look at decided to take advantage of the prosper- furthering their education.”

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Students could lose a semester � Study abroad students who no longer want to travel outside the country after last week’s attacks may be forced to take a semester off after Duke declined to let them return to Durham. By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle

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STUDENTS AND FACULTY working in the Divinity School Library may soon have a chance to get expert advice about their writing skills with the new Center for Theological Writing.

Divinity School opens writing center By ELIZABETH FULK

magazine—made sense, given the organization’s interest in supporting the study of religion and theology, along with a number ofother causes. The center hopes to enhance religious study. “[There is a] focus on the centrality of writing as an important skill to the ministry.” said Utz, adding that the center emphasizes “both theology written

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Students and faculty at the Divinity School have a new resource to improve their writing skills—the

Center for Theological Writing. Made possible by a three-year, $360,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation-, the center will offer a series of lectures and tutorials as well as an instructional website. In addition, it has made writing tutors more accessible by increasing their availability to 40 hours per week. John Utz, director of the new center, said that applying to the Luce Foundation—which was named

artfully and art written theologically.” Gregory Jones, dean of the Divinity School, agreed.

“One of the central tasks in the formation of women and men for ministry is cultivation of the craft ofwriting,” Jones said in a statement. “Writing See WRITING CENTER on page 10 >

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Several undergraduates may lose a semester this fall after forgoing plans to study abroad because of last week’s terrorist attacks. Citing safety concerns and a desire to be near home, at least four students who had been planning on studying abroad will instead stay in the United States. After an administration decision last week not to allow them to register late at the University this fall, the students have few options, including taking a semester off, using more Advanced Placement credits or taking classes at other universities. “I feel like since I’m not already over there and we don’t know what will be happening in the coming days, weeks and months, that I’d rather be in the United States,” said Elizabeth Barney, a junior who was to attend University College London this semester. “Granted I might actually be more unsafe in the United States if there’s a war, but I want the opportunity to be home.” Barney, who is from northern New Jersey, said her proximity to the events in New York City confirmed her decision. “I’ve been in there the past few days, delivering pizzas to the workers, holding up lights and signs,” she said. Last Wednesday the Office of Study Abroad sent emails to 109 students whose programs in Great Britain, Ireland and Spain had not yet started. Ninety responded as of Friday, including 40 who had alSee

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

Please join us for a series of informal talks with Duke faculty and staff on topics in undergraduate teaching. Speakers will draw on their experiences in classrooms at Duke to open up our discussion of key issues in teaching. Each month, we explore a different theme in the two gatherings. Come as often as you can

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assume that freshmen are acculturated to university practices, and they can have a variety of adjustment problems. Drawing on their years of experience both teaching and advising freshmen, Drs. Bookman, Title, and Khanna will discuss particular issues and strategies for working with freshmen.

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04-Breakfast, B:lsam, 201 Flowers 10-Breakfast, B:lsam, 201 Flowers Students as Learners Sex and Gender in the Classroom Cathy Davidson, Vice-Provost for Jean O’Barr, Women's Studies, and Interdisciplinary Affairs j Kathy Rudy, Women’s Studies Along with her career at Duke, Vice j Research into classroom dynamics Provost Davidson has taught in an j shows the role that sexual orientation Ivy League university, a large state I and gender play in teaching and college, a monastery, a prison, a i learning. In this session, we’ll look | at some of that research, share mental hospital, and a community college, among other places. In this i experiences with what is called session we will discuss similarities | “the hidden curriculum,’’ and and differences in students, learning I discuss instructional strategies situations, and teaching requirements 23-Lunch, 12:15pm, Breedlove Room in different settings Race and Class in the Classroom 17-Lunch, 12:15pm, Breedlove Room Karla Holloway, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Sucheta Developing a Teaching Portfolio Mazumdar, History Rosemary Thorne, Master of Arts in Teaching Program Frequently, student conversations Dr. Thome has developed, with the about classroom dynamics move help of a Duke Technology' Grant, a away from race towards issues of class. In this session, we will look at process for creating electronic teaching portfolios that allow teachers to these interrelated but unique issues as they impact upon our classroom and combine a variety of diverse elements into a single useful document. Drawthe opportunities they may present for learning beyond the syllabus. ing on her experiences, she will suggest some strategies for developing a teaching portfolio as both a means of February 'Students’ Lives learning from one's teaching and as 07-Breakfast, B:lsam, 201 Flowers an aspect of a professional CV. Teaching Outside the Classroom Norman Keul, Associate Dean and November -Course Preparation Director, Pre-Major Advising Center, and Steve Nowicki, Biology 01 Breakfast, B:lsam, 201 Flowers Does the teacher’s role end at the Inquiry-Based Learning Norm Budnitz, Center For classroom door? Although colleges Inquiry-Based Learning and universities no longer see themselves as in loco parentis, faculty do The Center for Inquiry-Based Learnstill have a role in the lives of our ing is a group of scientists and science educators who are developing exercises students, and not all teaching concerns our syllabus. In this session, and training teachers in the use of we will explore the role of teacher minds-on, hands-on, multidisciplinary, in the lives of our students. discovery methods for teaching science. work Budnitz discuss their Dr. will 20-Lunch, 12:15pm, Breedlove Room and its relevance to course design. Athletes and the Classroom Chris Kennedy, Associate Director 14-Lunch, 12:15pm, Breedlove Room of Athletics Preparing for Freshmen and Students Student athletes sometimes bring a Beginning Mathematics, Marcy Bookman. number of issues that other students Jack title, University Writing Program and do not —missing classes due to Asian Khanna, Satendra and History, games, weaker academic preparation, athlete cultures that do not support and African Languages and Literature academics, etc. Certainly, the expecInstructing freshmen, in some ways, unitations placed upon student athletes to create the is an opportunity |

October -Reflecting on Teaching

Beyond the Tenure Track Post Docs, Adjuncts, POPs, etc. Paula Lemons, Biology, and Patrick Halpin, Nicholas School of the Environment What differences does one’s status in the university make in relation to one’s teaching? Two non-tenure track faculty will discuss the various kinds of positions available today and reasons why faculty may actually seek positions beyond the traditional tenure track.

Making Learning Meaningful Jennifer Thom, English Using examples from our teaching and from education research, we will discuss how teachers can help students develop meaningful understandings—that is, modify their existing conceptual frameworks to accommodate new material. We will talk about various strategies for implementing these ideas, possible difficulties that may arise, and ways to deal with these difficulties.

—And Lunch! The Teaching Lunches are held on the third Wednesday of each month, from 12:15-l:45pm, in the Breedlove Conference Room, Perkins Library. Bring your lunch and we will provide drinks and dessert.

September- Students as Learners Student Intellectual Life Will Willimon, Dean, Duke University Chapel How does student intellectual life affect our teaching in the classroom?Last fall, Dean Willimon completed his second report on student life to the president. He will discuss his findings and the implications they hold for faculty.

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are different from other students. This session will discuss some of the issues related to athletes and how' teachers can address them without lowering expectations or standards.

March-Course Innovation 07-Breakfast, B:lsam, 201 Flowers Where’s the Research in ServiceLearning? Trudi Abel, Center for Teaching, Learning and Writing For the past two years, Trudi Abel, a Senior Fellow in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Writing, has worked on Digital Durham: Life and Labor in the New South, combining historical research, service-learning, and new technology. In this session, she will discuss how these three disparate pedagogical tools combine to enhance student learning.

20-Lunch, 12:15pm, Breedlove Room Rethinking the Research Paper Van Hillard, University Writing Program, and Laura Cousineau, Lilly Library Faculty often lament the banal, unimaginative research papers that consist ofendless regurgitation of information. In addition, the availability of material on the Internet has made such papers a prime opportunity for plagiarism. In this session, we will discuss ways of assigning and monitoring research papers that encourage real learning, demand creative library use and avoid “data dumping.”

April -Technology

Teaching 04-Breakfast, B:lsam, 201 Flowers Technology and Learning Worth the Effort? Samantha Earp, Center For Instructional Technology, Daniel Gauthier, Physics, and Thomas Witelski, Mathematics New fonns of classroom technology often seem to come faster than the practical ideas for how to use that technology. Is the extra technology really providing enough to justify the time necessary to learn to use it and to implement it? In this session, we will discuss some practical applications of computers, the Internet, and other technology in departments across the University. &

17-Lunch, 12:15pm, Breedlove Room The Web and the Classroom From ABCs to URLs Brad Hammer, University Writing Program, and Patrick Murphy, Center for Instructional Technology/Center for Teaching, Learning, and Writing Getting started using technology in teaching often seems overwhelming to those who are not familiar with it. In thus session, we will look at the practical ways to begin including web pages, computer based assignments, and other technology in your classroom. -

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Tuesday, September 18

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Interview Workshop, 3pm, 106 Page Career Fair Prep for Engineers, 4pm, 203 Teer Fuqua2Duke Resume Review, 12-4pm, Bryan Center ÜBS Warburg, 6-Bpm, Von Canon C Deutsche Bank, 7-9pm, Von Canon A Mercer Case Workshop, 7-9pm, Von Canon B

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Get Your Resume Ready! With On-Campus Interviews starting soon and the Career Fair just around the corner (Wednesday, September 26th), it is very important that you iron out all the wrinkles in your resume. Career Center counselors will be available on the Bryan Center Walkway this Friday and next Monday to assist you, so bring your resume by on your way to class. Additionally, Fuqua students will be in the Bryan Center from noon until 4pm next Monday offering tips on resume formatting, strategy and content for students interested in consulting, banking and marketing. As always, you can have a counselor look .at your resume during our drop-in hours from 2-3pm every Monday-Friday.

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GRADUATE STUDENT MICHAEL CARNAHAN helped lead researcher Mark Grinstaff experiment with polymers that may serve as a glue after eye surgery.

Scientists find potential substitute for eye sutures By DEVIN FINN The Chronicle

In the future, when you undergo eye surgery, you may no longer be forced to deal with cumbersome, painful sutures. Researchers in the University’s chemistry department are experimenting with newly-discovered polymers to take their place. Polymers are made by reacting acids with alcohols to form esters, branching chains that can form sticky links with other substances. Those links make polymers helpful for repair. The specific polymers Duke researchers are using are biodendrimers, tree-like biomolecules that are chemically synthesized. “The biodendrimers possess some really exciting properties,” said lead researcher Mark Grinstaff, an assistant professor of chemistry. Right now, ophthalmologists must manually sew wounds created during cornea surgery. They must further seal those sutures with cyanoacrylate glue, a substance comparable to crazy glue. Once the glue hardens, it becomes brittle and opaque, forcing patients to use a bandage, said Dr. Terry Kim, assistant professor of ophthalmology. Further complicating the procedure, sutures can lead to infections, cataracts, longer surgeries and extended patient recovery time. The research team is specifically evaluating the new biodendrimers’ potential as sealant for holes that pierce through the cornea. The biodendrimers would be

applied either partially or complefely to the site of the hole. An argon laser beam solidifies the biodendrimer glue at a rate that can be controlled by surgeons. “The glue is also soft and easy to apply,” Kim said. Once the polymers

are dried, they form smooth, non-brittle surfaces. Corneal transplants may also benefit from polymer techniques. When surgeons are able to close the wounds with the polymer glue, they reduce the risk of astigmatism. “The procedure may

also speed patients’ eyesight recovery,” Kim said. In addition, the new glue may be used to help seal the flap left after LASIK surgery, added Kim, who has performed the vision correction procedure on coaches

and Duke men’s basketball players. Michael Carnahan, a graduate student working with Grinstaff, added that the polymers may be useful for delivering drugs and genes. He stressed the diversity of its medical uses and functions. “The polymer is always a vehicle,” Carnahan said. Linear polymers, which are simpler and more chain-like, are already used as sutures for orthopedic, pharmaceutical and surgical applications. In their Journal of the American Chemical Society

article, Grinstaff and Carnahan said biodendrimers may have distinct advantages for industrial and medical uses because of their larger surface areas and specific branching projections for bonding.

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State education officials dismiss low SAT scores By MELISSA SOUCY The Chronicle

Although North Carolina’s average SAT score of 992 ranked only 47th in the nation this year, education officials are pointing to other sources of measurement that show the progress of the state’s programs. “Really SAT scores are a horrible means of comparing states,” said Mike Ward, state superintendent of education. Ward said, for example, that North Carolina—where 65 percent of students take the test—has to compete with states like Mississippi, which only tests the top 4 percent. “SAT scores are more useful as an internal gauge,” he added. Besides, Ward said, other SAT comparisons indicate that North Carolina is not that far behind. The state’s average SAT score increased by four.points over the last year and by 40 points over the last 10 years, while the national average increased by only one and 21 points, respectively. In search of the best statewide comparative test, several education officials pointed to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, an exam that predominantly tests math and reading skills. North Carolina’s fourth and eighth graders passed the national average this year, and ranked first in the Southeast. Officials say several statewide initiatives have led to educational progress. “North Carolina and Texas have been singled out as states to look at,” explained Phil Kirk, chair of the state Board of Education. In particular, the Student Accountability Standard forces students in grades three, five, eight, and 12 to pass a statewide test before moving on to the next grade. Johnston County, which has used this

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Officials urge investors to keep money in the market WALL STREET from page 2 that his message to the banking and investment industries was that “the whole financial sector realize that tomorrow is a challenge and that it is important that we do well tomorrow.” He told them, he said, that “they should be taking care of all the needs of their customers” and “should be making wise credit decisions.” At the same time, everyone from Vice President Dick Cheney to commentators and ministers in the pulpit, sought to make helping restart the market into a patriotic crusade, and maybe even good business. In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday night, Warren Buffett, one >

traveled to New York, where he planned to be on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at 9:30 Monday morning, when it intends to open. The economy in the United States appeared to be on the brink ofrecession even before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Many economists said the blow to consumer and investor confidence and the slowdown in economic activity caused by the disruptions to air travel and ordinary commerce are likely to be enough to push it over the edge. With the global economy also decelerating, economists have been particularly concerned that a sharp and sustained fall in stock prices in the United States and abroad could set off a financial crisis that would make the overall

of the nation’s best-known and most successful investors, said that he “won’t be selling anything” when the market economic outlook even dimmer. There were rumors throughout the opens and that if prices fall enough, “there’s some things I might buy.” day—driven as much by hope among inHe was joined on “60 Minutes” by vestors as by concrete evidence—that Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secthe Federal Reserve might cut interest retary who is now with Citigroup, and rates in the next few days, perhaps in Jack Welch, who recently retired as conjunction with the central banks in chairman of General Electric Co., both Japan and Europe. Rate cuts tend to provide the marofwhom offered similar messages of reassurance to investors. kets with a psychological lift and to enThe Fed declined to comment on the courage investors to move money from schedule of its chairman, Alan bonds into stocks. Greenspan. But underscoring the focus Cheney said the nation “quite possithat policy-makers have put on getting bly” faces war and recession simultathe stock market operating again as a neously. But he said the economy step toward re-establishing economic should rebound quickly, and he sugnormalcy, Treasury Secretary Paul gested that individuals could help by O’Neill left Washington Sunday after a continuing to work, spend and invest National Security Council meeting and as normally as possible.

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Forum audience Muslims find atmosphere secure offers thoughts I* FORUM from page 1

Gregory Jones, Divinity School dean and Kristina John-

son, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, offered their thoughts and personal reflections on a week that most will not likely soon forget. Ebrahim Moosa, a professor of religion, noted that

he too has been the victim of alleged Islamic militants, when his home in South Africa was bombed in 1998. He traveled to Stanford Unversity in the aftermath ofthat experience and ended up at Duke this year. “The intellectual community is one of the places from which critique can take place,” Moosa said. Indeed, critique was also a major theme throughout the forum as many panel and audience members stressed the need for tolerance and warned that the United States should not be too hasty and rush to act in retaliation. One audience member, noting that the United States helped train and fund Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, the alleged perpetrator of Tuesday’s acts, said the prudent act would be to abolish the military and the CIA. Other members were more constrained, but nevertheless offered warnings of more misery to come should the United States retaliate. Faculty members and students alike urged the United States to think about why there’s a perceived hatred of Americans overseas, especially in Middle Eastern and Islamic nations. Frederick Mayer, associate professor of public policy, connected three American cities Washington, D.C., Hollywood and Las Vegas—as the symbols some nations perceive as American abuse of power, decadence and immorality. “There is a view of the US. and the West as some kind of evil force,” said Madeline Morris, professor of law. “Military attacks would seem to confirm that view.” Other faculty members looked to last week’s tragedy as an impetus for binding both the national and global communities together. “I’ve been surprised by all the many gestures there have been, from the playing of‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at the changing of the guard to moments of silence around the world,” Mayer said. “We can’t squander that moment.”

� HARASSMENT from page 3 tacks’ victims. “[The vigil] was very last minute, but it’s indicative of the very strong ties that bind us together. We just had students from all different organizations come together and help as a well-knit community,” said Qadir, a senior. The e-mail, which was sent to Navid Choudhury Sept. 13, and received the next day, stated that: “I see that attacks against Arabs and Moslems are increasing in America and it makes me very happy. You are going to regret you ever emigrated in this

Christian kingdom.” Choudhury, the webmaster for the MSA’s website, speculates that he was sent the threatening e-mail because his e-mail address appears on the main MSA web page. “When I first read it, it sort of shocked me,” Choudhury said. “As time went on, I re-

alized that this person was venting his anger and needed an outlet.” Other students expressed concern about Arab students who are more clearly identified with Islam. Fourth-year medical student Shaza Fadel, who wears a head scarf, said that some of her friends who work in Durham have been harassed. Fadel, however, has never been harassed on the Duke campus. “I would commend Duke University for being proactive in trying to reach the Muslim community,” Fadel said at the vigil. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, who also attended last night’s vigil, said that his thoughts went out to the student. “The fact that there would be a random hate reaction of some sort is not surprising, but for the moment, it seems the campus has held together,” said Moneta.

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Charlotte Pierce-Baker, associate research professor, compared the struggle for tolerance ofArab-Americans and Muslims on campus now to the discussions and protests last semester with African-Americans. “I’m comforted by my membership in the Duke community in this time of fragmentation,” Pierce-Baker said.

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Officials predict Center includes website with tips Taliban’s refusal � PAKISTAN from page 2

Taliban as well as bin Laden, and possibly lead to American troops entering Afghanistan. Alternatively, the Taliban would be told, according to these sources, if they agreed to hand over bin Laden and his associates and close down all his training camps, the Taliban would be left to continue in power. The choice between confronting the Taliban or cooperating with the United States is a wrenching one for Musharraf, who leads an chronically unstable and nuclear armed nation of 140 million people, dependent on ties to the West but increasingly lured by radical Islam. In a sign of just how treacherous he judges the situation to be, Musharraf spent the day in highly unusual series of meetings with influential Pakistanis, including politicians, newspaper editors, Muslim clerics, and dozens of people with links to conservative Islamic groups. Success in Kandahar would head off an American military operation that would almost certainly involve the use of Pakistan’s airfields and airspace. Such an event could set off bitter protests by supporters of bin Laden and the Taliban in Pakistan, who took to the streets already Sunday in modestly sized rallies across the country. It could even shake or wrench loose Musharraf’s hold on power. But officials said they rated the chances of the Taliban bowing to the ultimatum as “very poor.” The Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has already said, in a defiant, warlike radio speech Friday; he believed handing over bin Laden would not spare Afghanistan from an American attack. If Monday’s mission does fail, Pakistan nearly inevitably have to prepare for a central role in what President George W. Bush has repeatedly described as war. In Washington, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday an “an inter-agency” team of top officials would fly to Islamabad this week to work out the details of that support. Pakistani officials, however, continued to avoid specifying what Pakistan’s role would be, apparently to give Musharraf time to prepare key centers of opinion for steps certain to provoke bitter opposition. “This is not a man whom is used to having to sell anything, least of all to politicians, editors and mullahs,” one of the participants in Sunday’s meetings said. “He’s a general, used to telling people what to

do, not asking them to support him.”

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A Reflections Wall has been erected in the Bryan Center for everyone to offer their thoughts, and share messages of grief, support, and prayer with one another. We invite students to use the Mary Lou Williams Center as an informal gathering place. This will be a place to talk, do homework, and to provide a comfortable and personal setting, for people to share their experiences in this tragedy with each other. The Mary Lou Williams Center is in the bottom level of the West Union building, below the Duke card office.

WRITING CENTER from page 4 is a constituent practice of the ministry, as integral as prayer and preaching.” Utz, who previously taught a class focusing on the different writing contexts theology students may encounter, explained that most divinity schools —including Duke’s—traditionally use tutors to help students meet their writing requirements. He said this latest initiative goes beyond meeting standard tuto-

rial needs. The center’s three-fold mission includes helping divinity students with their fundamental writing skills, extending this support to faculty and other members of the parish and enhancing the overall art of theological writing. -Utz said that in addition to other help, the website offers tips for constructing sermons to facilitate “writ-

ing for the ear as well as the eye, [making] better writers for the pulpit.” In addition to funding the website, the grant will enable better, more well-known speakers to lecture to divinity students and faculty. Although neither students nor faculty have used the writing center yet, they are now completing course writing assignments that they will submit. Once the center has writing samples from some students and faculty, it will be able to assess an individual’s writing skills and offer suggestions for im-

provement.

First-year divinity student Ryan Moore said he believes the center will be a valuable addition to the curriculum. “Kids coming in don’t quite have the [writing] skills they used to,” he said. “[The center willl force you to run your skills by someone else.... It says something about the Divinity School’s priorities.”

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University deems study abroad alternatives infeasible P STUDY ABROAD from page 4

ready left, 45 who were planning on still going, four who are staying and one who was undecided, said Margaret Riley, assistant dean of Trinity College and director of study abroad. For those no longer going abroad, administrators de-

cided that the semester was already too far along to allow students to return to the University. “We reached a decision after a lot of thought that we’re already a week after drop/add, and, while it’s understandable that people may want to alter their plans, it did not seem educationally feasible to construct a four-course curriculum now,” said Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College. Instead, Thompson is encouraging students to make use of other options. In

individual cases he is allowing students to use more than the regularly allowed two credits from other universities or to

use more AP credits. “In some particular situations, ifthey could work out something that was educationally meaningful, then we would take a look at that and have them talk with their academic deans,” he said. Several academic deans declined to

comment Friday, but Barney praised the efforts of her dean and advisor. Barney said she will likely stay at the University next summer to graduate on time. Still, she and other students in her situation said that many other schools’ drop/add periods have also passed, but that some ofthe schools would allow her to enroll anyway. “I have to question Duke’s priorities

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The University’s hands were tied, Riley said, in whether to allow students to return to Duke, but that all students abroad are being informed of safety considerations. Another e-mail sent last week to all students abroad urged them to avoid drawing attention to being Americans through speech or dress. “The State Department travel advisory has not said, ‘Do not travel.’ It has

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Cheney calls for assassination of bin Laden ATTACKS from page 1 on NBC, Cheney echoed other senior officials in declaring that any nations harboring terrorists like Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in last week’s attacks, would face “the full wrath of

the United States.” At the same time, Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell made it clear that Washington was reaching out to an unlikely range ofpotential allies, including Pakistan, India and possibly even Iran, which has been fisted by the State Department as the world’s most active sponsor of state-supported terrorism. Powell said that US. officials expected to contact Taliban leaders in Afghanistan in the coming days to demand that they expel bin Laden’s organization, which has been operating there for several years. “They must help us destroy this organization,” Powell said. Cheney warned that the coming con-

flict would have to be fought “in the shadows” with the help of unsavory intelligence sources, and despite a 1976 executive order banning assassinations by the government, said he saw nothing to prevent the United States from killing bin Laden if it could find him. Asked by the moderator, Tim Russert, if he would like bin Laden’s “head on a platter,” Cheney replied, “I would take it today.” As Wall Street nervously prepared to

reopen on Monday, Cheney said the country “quite possibly” could experience war and recession at once. But he also said, “I would hope the American people would, in effect, stick their thumb in the eye of the terrorists

cooperation against terrorism. “Unand say they’ve got great confidence in large, multi-headed effort that probathe country, great confidence in our econ- bly spans 60 countries, including the doubtedly, this act is not just against omy, and not let what’s happened here in United States, and it is much bigger New Yorkers, but all humanity,” the letany way throw off their normal level of than one person, and the problem is ter said, according to reports on the front much broader.” pages of many of Sunday’s newspapers economic activity.” A in in Tehran. clearly destroyer damaged was Yemen last In other ways, change in In his comments on the White House the wind. Attorney General John October in an earlier terrorist attack Ashcroft met with leading legislators to finked by military officials to bin Laden, lawn Sunday, Bush stressed his discusseek support for an emergency package the USS Cole, was reactivated Friday in sions with three nations: Pakistan, of anti-terrorism bills, including one Pascagoula, Miss., the Navy said. India and Saudi Arabia. He noted in Cheney went out of his way to say particular that the general who took that calls for a significant expansion of the Justice Department’s ability to use that so far US. intelligence had turned over in Pakistan in October 1999, Perwiretaps in cases of suspected terrorism up no evidence of Iraqi involvement in vez Musharraf, has been particularly or espionage. Under the proposal, investhe attacks last week, and Powell said helpful, and administration officials say tigators would have broad authority to that officials were exploring whether that a delegation is being sent to Pakistan with a list of requests. He did not Iran, with which the United States sevconduct so-called roving electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists as they ered relations in 1980, could be helpful specify them, however. “The leader of Pakistan has been move from one telephone or computer in fighting this new war. terminal to another. Other elements The administration has drafted a spevery cooperative,” Bush said Sunday. He cial message to the Iranian government also had kind words for the leader of call for new authority to fight moneylaundering and punish those who harsaying that Iran can join the fight Pakistan’s avowed enemy, India. The bor terrorists. against terrorism, but to do so must National Security Council said that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumschange its policies, a senior administraBush spoke Sunday morning with feld, speaking on “Fox News Sunday” tion official said Sunday. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of But a decision had not yet been made India, who offered condolences and a said simply: “It’s a new kind of war.” He promise of support. India could play an added, “It will be political, economic, by Powell or the national security advisdiplomatic, military. It will be unconvenimportant role if the United States uner, Condoleezza Rice, to send the mesdertakes a military response in or sage, the official said. tional, what we do.” The message says that the Iranians around Afghanistan. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell all said, It was not clear what Bush said to, or in the clearest terms yet, that evidence cannot be selective in which terrorists pointed to bin Laden and his A1 Qaeda they oppose. Iran considers the Taliban a sought from, the Saudis. But his round of organization as those responsible for last bitter enemy but at the same time is a phone calls to those leaders strongly sugweek’s attacks. But, speaking in phrases major backer of other terrorist groups, gests that whatever military retaliation that echoed each other and were clearly like Hezbollah. he plans, he wants to make it clear that coordinated, they also emphasized that In Iran, Tehran’s mayor, Morteza he has the support of moderate Muslim other groups, including the Islamic Alviri, and Mohammad Atrianfar, the governments and other neighbors in the Jihad in Egypt and a terrorist cell in head of Tehran’s city council, sent a let- region. India on Sunday turned over Uzbekistan, are part of the threat. ter ofcondolence to Mayor Rudolph Giumuch of the intelligence it gathers about “There is no question but that he is liani of New York, the first govemmentthe Taliban and other terrorist groups, a prime suspect,” Rumsfeld said. “The to-government communique in two including some it blamed for terror on its A1 Qaeda organization, however, is a decades, that hinted of possible Iranian own territory, officials said.

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Duke’s volleyball team won yet another match yesterday, improving its perfect record to 8-0 while sweeping the East Carolina Pirates (1-6) three games to zero in the match. Sunday marked the last non-conference match before ACC play begins for the Blue Devils. After nearly a week-long hiatus from volleyball, the team stepped onto the court a little hesitantly at first. Coach Jolene Nagel pinpointed the problem and worked with the team to win the final two games in an easier fashion than the first. “In our first game, our problem was that we weren’t passing the ball that well,” Nagel said. “Our defense wasn’t being aggressive and we were a little tentative.” Duke began the first game hitting well but not moving enough to dig their opponent’s hits. With the Blue Devils trailing 26-27, junior Rachel Vander Griend stepped up to block the Pirates middle blocker and bring the game to a tie. The next two points were won by Duke, the second one courtesy of Jill Sonne, who tipped the ball crosscoiirt where no ECU player could be found. Senior Dorrette Burwell, who finished with seven kills and nine digs, thought the Blue Devils had problems during the first game. “I think pretty much everything was a problem in the first game,” Burwell said. “We weren’t ready to play. We were just going through the motions.” After the Pirates scored a point to close within 29-28 of the Blue Devils, Ashley Harris promptly smashed another kill to end the game in Duke’s favor. Harris, who led the team in kills with 16, was one ofthe few Blue Devils who looked in sync during the first game. She knew the team would be struggling somewhat after a long break. “I think coming out we were a little bit rougher on the edges, not that we weren’t ready to play, but it was just rough,” Harris said. “It’s been a while since we’ve played—almost a week.” Between the first and second games Nagel talked about anticipating plays before they happen, something Duke was not doing early in the match. They started the second game more energetically than the first, diving for balls and cutting off angles for the

By STEPHEN WADE The Associated Press

KLETTWITZ, Germany Even those who have spent a lifetime in auto racing and seen mayhem on the track were aghast at the crash that cost Alex Zanardi both his legs and almost

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KRISTA DILL (left) and Dorrette Burwefl (right) block a hit by an East Carolina player. Pirates hitters. Nagel noticed the difference immediately and was pleased with her team’s effort. “I think we got in a little bit better rhythm the second game Nagel said. “In the first game it wasn’t that we were doing poorly or badly, it was that we were one second too slow. We talked about that between games See VOLLEYBALL on page 19 P”

his life. “It’s a big shock to everybody,” said Johnny Herbert, a former Formula One teammate. “You have accidents, yes, but you don’t expect something this gruesome.” Saturday’s American Memorial 500—CART’s first foray into Europe—was supposed to “help heal wounds” from Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in the United States. Instead, it produced its own tragedy. A popular two-time CART champion, Zanardi was in stable but serious condition Sunday in a Berlin trauma clinic after doctors amputated both legs above the knee. Zanardi also sustained a small fracture of the pelvis and a concussion but, amazingly, no internal or head injuries. “He’s needed a lot of blood transfusions,” said Dr. Gerd Schroeter, part of a team of physicians treating the 34-year-old Italian. “But the amounts aren’t as great as yesterday. Patients that suffer such a big trauma are subject to heart and lung failure.” He credited CART team physicians Drs. Steve Olvey and Terry Trammel with saving Zanardi’s life. Zanardi is expected to stay in an “induced coma” for several days and in the hospital several weeks. Zanardi was leading with 12 laps left when he entered the pits. Accelerating out of pit lane, his Honda Reynard got away from him. He spun backward onto the 2-mile oval and into the path ofAlex Tagliani barreling by at 200 mph. See ZANARDI on page 19 P-

Hart experiences scary day following terrorist attack By CRAIG SAPERSTEIN The Chronicle

Having started his fourth season as an integral part of the Duke football team, Mike Hart embodies the notion of a hard-working, dedicated student-athlete. In fact, the senior tight end practically eats, drinks, and sleeps the game. But football’s all-consuming nature took a back seat for Hart last Tuesday when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan. A resident of Saysville, N.Y., a suburban Long Island town within driving distance of the Big Apple, Hart has been to the city on many occassions throughout his fife and, more importantly, knows many people who live and work in New York City on a daily basis. Thus, when planes struck each of the Twin Towers, Hart concentrated wholeheartedly on his close friends and family, not football. “Just being so close to it and having been to the World Trade Center so many times, it... hit me really hard,” Hart said. “It was like, cWhy am I

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playing football today?’ It was just so hard to focus. I really think I had one ofmy most sluggish and mentally slow practices [Tuesday] because of all the things that happened.” Hart had many people for whom he was concerned when he learned of the attack while in class at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Needless to say, he was shocked when he first learned of the incident. “I was kind of blown away at first,” Hart said. “I was like, ‘This is pretty hardcore.’ Then, when I was starting to leave, I heard that the buildings were collapsing and that’s when I started to bug out. I went home, I started calling all my family and I couldn’t get a hold ofanybody.” Hart reached his father, who witnessed the attack as he was finishing his commute into the city, at around noon and soon after he talked to two of his uncles that live in Manhattan. In fact, both of these uncles work near the World Trade Center, but neither of them was directly MIKE HART, shown here in action against Virginia last season, has had a lot on his mind since last Tuesday’s attacks. See HART on page 16

Football lends a hand A portion of the proceeds from next weekend’s footgame against Northwestern will be donated to United Way relief efforts for last Tuesday’s tragedies.

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and six-time All-Star Peter Forsberg announced that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence. Forsberg ruptured his spleen in May.

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Russian beats Russian

According to USA Today. Notre Dame women’s basketball coach Muffet McGraw was ticketed for one of the flights that hit the World Trade Center but had changed her plans.

The ATP’s first all-Russian final saw Marat Safin beat Yevgeny Kafelnikov, 6-2, 6-2, to win the President’s Cup Sunday in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The title was Safin’s first of the year.

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Ryder Cup match at Belfry postponed until next year By KRYSTYNA RUDZKI The Associated Press

LONDON The Ryder Cup was postponed for one year Sunday because of terrorist attacks that left the U.S. team wary of traveling and uneasy about playing. The European Ryder Cup board said golfs showcase event, scheduled for Sept. 28-30 at The Belfry golf course in England, will be played in September 2002 at the same location. The PGA of America informed the European board that the scope of Tuesday’s strikes in New York and Washington was “so overwhelming” that

it would be “impossible” for the U.S. Ryder

Cup team to attend. “We have been placed in a position beyond our control and therefore the matches, out of necessity, have been postponed,” European Ryder Cup Board spokesman Mitchell Platts said. Tiger Woods had already pulled out of this week’s Lancome Trophy in Paris. “I feel strongly that this is a time to pause, reflect and remember the victims of Tuesday’s horrific attack,” he said on his website. European captain Sam Torrance said the decision was one of “common sense.”

JUSTIN LEONARD sank the putt that gave the United States the 1999 Ryder Cup

‘What happened in America last week the 34th Ryder Cup matches are played has put the Ryder Cup and everything in the spirit in which they were meant.” The invitation for the U.S. team and else into perspective,” he said. “I am desperately heartbroken for all the people officials had not been withdrawn but extended, Platts said, and the process of involved in this terrible tragedy. rescheduling feel moment is an the matches for 2002 would at the “All I can immense sadness. There will be time begin as soon as possible. The matches will take place with the enough to talk further about the 34th Ryder same captains—Torrance and Strange—next year.” Cup matches taking place U.S. captain Curtis Strange called the and the same 10 players and two wild postponement “very appropriate in light cards on each squad. Woods had stressed his concern about of the situation.” “The tragedy in America caused us all making the trip to Paris. “I have always felt that I must be fully to reflect and evaluate our own lives and he committed to each and every golf compefamily friends,” with and relationships said. “Our hearts and prayers go out to all tition I enter, but due to this week’s those affected by last Tuesday’s disaster.” events, I am not,” he said. “I also fear that The Ryder Cup, which began in 1927 the security risks of traveling overseas at the present time are too great.” and is played every other year, was interWar The PGA Tour will resume this week H. rupted for six years during World It has become one of the biggest events in after calling off a tournament. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said golf, and this year’s matches were espehis organization supports the Ryder cially anticipated. Two years ago, the United States Cup postponement. “It became apparent over the last sevpulled offthe greatest comeback in histodays that the challenges posed by 45-foot Justin eral Leonard putt by ry with a and a celebration that offended the international travel and time away from families for innumerable fans and sponEuropean team. Jim Awtrey, chief executive officer of sors of the Ryder Cup matches made it PGA of America, said the organization impossible to hold to the original schedappreciated the respect shown by the ule,” he said. European Ryder Cup rookie Pierre Ryder Cup board. “Given the enormity of the tragedy in Fulke of Sweden said most of his teamAmerica, we informed European officials mates wanted to play but fully underof our desire to postpone the matches stood the reasons for the postponement. “Under the circumstances it’s the only until next year,” Awtrey said. “We understand this is a hardship for decision that could have been made,” he them to reschedule the matches next said. “Everybody’s gut feeling after year... but it was important to us that the Tuesday was that the Ryder Cup would be in danger and you have to understand matches be played and not canceled.” in with our the American players who did not want to counterparts “We will work Europe over the next year to ensure that travel, and it’s the only decision.”

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‘Captain Crown’ shows determination by surviving � CROWN from page 1 came crashing down. “He’s in a cloud of smoke and soot,” head coach Mike Pressler

explained to the Durham Herald-Sun after having spoken to Crown. “He’s covered in blood—his blood and the blood of others. He was stumbling over bodies... At a couple of points, he said the thought crossed his mind to just give up.” Fortunately, Crown refused to quit. Pressler said this type ofresolve was typical of his former player’s character. “If you knew Captain Crown like we knew him at Duke, you would not be surprised by this,” Pressler said. “His resiliency, determination—there was nobody tougher than this guy.” Kent’s mother, Nancy Crown, explained Crown’s condition to Pressler over the phone. Her son broke one of his legs, one of his wrists and several ribs, and sustained serious lacerations to his face. He went through a series of successful surgeries, however, and seems to be getting better quickly. “He’s doing better,” said Pressler. “From what we hear, he’s on his way to recovery and he’ll be 100-percent. Besides broken bones, lacerations... none of those things won’t heal.” Pressler explained that many of the current lacrosse players have passed their condolences on to Crown. He added that each time he has called the hospital, the phone

has been answered by other former Duke lacrosse players in the New York area who have stayed with Crown dining his recovery. Chase Stock, a teammate of Crown’s for three seasons who now works in New York, described him as a leader and a survivor.

“He was probably one of the best captains we had that year,” he said. “Keat had a tough senior year. He finally earned a starting spot and tore his ACL in the first game of the sea-

son. He still found away to remain an active contributor to the team. He helped the coaches as well as he could.” Although most of the current players on the lacrosse team only played with Keat for a year or two at most, they still remember him as a popular captain. “If we were meeting at the dressing room before a road trip he would bring Bojangles to the dressing room for the team,” said junior Taylor Wray. “He was a really giving person.” Stock estimated the number of Duke lacrosse graduates living and working in New York at around 15 in the last three years alone. He explained that as soon as they heard about the disaster they began tracking their friends down as best they could. “By about 11:30 we had everyone accounted for but Keat. [Around noon] a doctor called [Crown’s parents] and said Your son’s alive, your son’s alive.”’

According to Stock, the hospital released Crown on Wednesday, soon after which Stock was able to visit him at a family friend’s home. “He didn’t look so good,” said Stock. “[He sustained a] fractured fibia, and a big cut ear to ear across the back. One right down the side ofhis face, right in front ofhis left ear,”

Nonetheless, Crown apparently knows

just how close he came to being much worse off. “When we were there,” explained Stock, “he was on a conference call to his company. His group lost seven people, and his company between 220 and 400. He feels very lucky, and I think he said he was looking forward to starting work again.” Crown is from Winnetka, HI., near Chicago, where his immediate family still resides, according to the Herald-Sun. Neither Crown nor his mother could be reached for comment.

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KEAT CROWN, a former lacrosse captain, had the scare of his life last Tuesday.

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Eight Wyoming CC runners Hart: New York terrorism die in late-night car crash puts football in perspective By ROBERT W. BLACK The Associated Press

Eight University LARAMIE, Wyo. of Wyoming cross country runners were killed early Sunday in a head-on accident with a pickup truck driven by a fellow student, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol. Sgt. Stephen Townsend said the athletes’ sports utility vehicle struck a oneton pickup truck that apparently swerved into the northbound lane of

US. 287. The crash happened at 1:30 a.m. about 17 miles south of Laramie. All seven passengers of the sport utility vehicle were ejected and died at the scene as did the driver, who was not ejected. Some were also members of the school’s track team. The driver of the pickup truck, Clinton Haskins, 21, of Maybel, Colo., was in serious condition at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie. Haskins is a senior at Wyoming and a steer wrestler on the rodeo team. There were no passengers in the pickup truck, which was traveling southbound on the Wyoming highway. “They weren’t coming from a meet that they were participating in,” Townsend said. “They might have gone

to Colorado to watch one.” Although a cross country meet was being hosted by the University of Denver Saturday, the men’s team was not scheduled to compete and the women’s team withdrew because of the mourning surrounding the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. “We believe they just got together. All

the athletic meets were canceled over weekend,” university spokesperson Jim Kearns said. “They may have been just out for the day.” Townsend said only Haskins was wearing a seat belt and that the crash

was being investigated. were: Those killed

Nicholas Schabron, 20, of Laramie, (driver);

Justin Lambert-Belanger, 20, of Timmins, Ontario; Kyle Johnson, 20, of Riverton; Kevin Salverson, 19, of Cheyenne; Shane Shatto, 19, of Douglas; Joshua Jones, 22, of Laramie; Morgan McLeland, 21, of Gillette; and Cody Brown, 21, of Hudson, Colo. “The loss of eight students and the critical injury of a ninth is a terrible blow to the University of Wyoming community,” university President Philip

Dubois said. “Today’s tragedy has struck close to home. These were people we knew, whose families we knew, members of the University of Wyoming family, young men who showed great promise for the future. “In deepest sorrow I offer my condolences to the families and friends of the victims of this horrible accident and pledge our support for them.” All the university’s coaches, athletics director Lee Moon and Dubois met early Sunday evening to discuss the tragedy. Moon and Dubois looked drained as they left the meeting. “We just wanted to stress the importance to our coaches of supporting each other and supporting our student-athletes and being open to talk to,” Moon said. “This is a lot to put on young people.” A candlelight vigil for the victims was scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday on campus. A formal university memorial service will not be planned until memorials and funerals for the victims are scheduled, according to Dubois. Lambert-Belanger, a sophomore, had posted Wyoming’s top times in the cross country team’s two meets so far this fall. He finished 13th at the Wyoming Open with a time of 22 minutes, 53 sec-

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affected by the attacks because of other obligations. One .of Hart’s uncles never made it to lower Manhattan because of a doctor’s appointment, while the other uncle, who, incidentally, had a meeting scheduled in one of the towers later that afternoon, decided to go to his daughter’s swim meet and be late for work. After learning the whereabouts of his family members, Hart focused his attention on finding one of his best friends who works for Goldman Sachs, an investment firm whose headquarters are adjacent to the Twin Towers. The tight end became extremely worried as the hours passed and no one, including his friend’s mother, had been able to get in touch with him. Hart went to football practice Tuesday with no idea where his buddy of 19 years was, and it was not until after practice that he received a message from his friend’s mother that he was all right. “He actually had to run away from the building that was falling on top of

him,” Hart said of his friend. “He said he

ran about 5 miles in his suit and shoes. He’s got blisters all over his feet now. He said that he thought he was going to die.” After such a traumatic experience, it has been quite difficult for Hart to concentrate on football over the past few days. Even though he is able to focus on his assignments when he is executing plays for the Blue Devil offense in practice, he has come to the realization that the importance people place on football is not even comparable to the significance of the tragedy that struck New York and Washington, D.C.

“It puts everything in perspective,” Hart said. “This is a game and people forget that it’s a game. They think ofit as life-or-death situations, but obviously, it’s not, because [the terrorism] is. People lost their lives and people are down there rescuing people and losing their lives.... We put in a lot of time and effort but it’s really trivial. “It really makes you think about why you’re doing this. You’re doing this for fun, obviously, because otherwise you wouldn’t do it. But when you look at it, it’s not that serious.”

onds, and 27th at the Colorado State

Open in 24:08.5. Shatto, a freshman, had the secondbest times for the team in each event. Brown, a junior, had the second-best finish for Wyoming last October at the Mountain West Conference championships, placing 33rd overall.

MIKE HART will need to refocus on football when Duke takes on Northwestern this weekend

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200 mph impact Duke gets ready for Georgia Tech splits car in half � ZANARDI from page 13

Tagliani ripped through Zanardi’s nearly stationary car and sheared it in half. The explosion hurled the red nosecone bearing No. 66 into the air, spewing a trail of debris. The main part of the shredded chassis settled near a retaining wall with Zanardi’s red helmet visible inches behind the gnarled nose of the car. “It’s as bad as it gets,” said Honda spokesperson Dan Layton, who saw the crash from 200 yards away. “As he started to accelerate the car snapped backwards. We don’t know if it was mechanical or driver error. The car was going up the track backwards, and the point of impact appeared to be Alex’s knees.” “When you get weight moving at that speed, it doesn’t take a physics major to see how severe it will be.” Mo Nunn team spokesman Laz Denes saw the crash from the pits. His first thoughts were no doubt like many among the 87,600 fans at EuroSpeedway. “I knew it could be fatal,” he said. “All of our knees buckled. We thought, ‘Oh, my God,’ and we all just turned and groaned.” “It was an immense hit, almost harder than anything I’ve ever seen. The hit was about 12 inches past the cockpit. I wouldn’t say I’m shocked he survived, but through some miracle, I’m very glad he did.” Alex Zanardi Zanardi’s closest y driver friends—Herbert, Jimmy Yasser, Dario Franchitti and Mo Nunn teammate Tony Kanaan —gathered at the hospital Sunday with Zanardi’s wife, Daniela. Herbert flew in from Atlanta when he heard about the crash. Zanardi has many friends in Formula One, where he had two unsuccessful stints. In a hospital room set up to handle guests and sprinkled with bouquets,

Herbert talked optimistically. “He’ll be up and around,” Herbert said. “He’s a very doting father and he’ll want to play with his [threeyear-old] son. “He’s going to go through the roller coaster of accepting what’s happened,” added Denes. “When he gets through this he’ll come back to surprise a lot of people.” Zanardi had not won this season. But Friday he was second-fastest in practice, and Saturday he couldn’t wait to race. “He was ready to rock and roll,” Denes said. “I’ve never seen him so ready to get out there.” CART chairman Joe Heitzler was allowed by family members to see Zanardi. An openly religious man, Heitzler said he prayed at Zanardi’s bedside. He also prayed when he saw the crash. “What went through my mind immediately was, “Dear Lord, dear Lord, please let this man be okay... When I saw him, I couldn’t believe how good he looked for what he’d been through. He was resting peacefully and his face had color.” With virtually every other American sport called off over the weekend, CART was one of the few taking place. With his traveling party of 1,500 already arrived and German fans and promoter Joerg Hans Fischer expecting a race, Heitzler decided Thursday to go ahead. In tribute, the race was renamed Friday from the German 500 to the American Memorial 500. On Saturday, it was run before a near sellout crowd. Heitzler said he had no regrets, noting CART held a 30-minute memorial ceremony before the race and religious services and moments of silence all week. “We found ourselves far away from home and we had a lot of mixed feeling about it,” Heitzler said. “We wanted to find away to express our sorrow and sympathy, and appreciation to the German people.” Heitzler said he received a book of condolences from the head of the regional government that was signed by 5,109 fans. CART plans to donate $500,000 to a relief fund with the drivers adding

another $50,000. “It was important for us that we put together a proper memorial,” CART vice president Ron Richards said. “We’re all away from home and wrestling with that.”

� VOLLEYBALL from page 13 one and two —that we need to be in position to dig and hit the ball.” Sonne, who had 10 kills and 13 digs during the match, made two big plays to start the second game and help the Blue Devils lead 17-11. After hitting off ECU’s block for a point, she stuffed her opponent’s hit attempt to the floor. Duke and ECU traded points before the Blue Devils made a surge to end the game, 30-21. Vander Griend ended the second game when she hit a back slide for one of her seven kills of the afternoon. After struggling through the first game, Burwell thought that defense was a key component of the second and third game victories for her team. “Balls we didn’t think we could get our hands on before we were catching and passing to the target,” she said. Duke won the third game in a similar fashion to the second, with tough defense and smart hitting. The

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Free Graduate School Admissions Strategy Seminar for Durham Residents and Students- Kaplan Test Prep, a division of Kaplan Inc., will present a free admissions and GRE, GMAT, LSAT strategy seminar for prospective business, graduate, law students. The event will be at Duke University on September 17 at 7:00 pm. For more information or to reserve a seat, please call 1-800-KAP-TEST. The seminars are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Teer House: Food Safety: Groceries to Leftovers. Mary Lewis. To register, call 416-3853 or 1-888ASK-DUKE (275-3853). 7:00 pm. N. Roxboro Road, Durham.

Center for International Studies: Caribbean film, TBA. For information, call 684-2765. 8:00 pm, Richard White Auditorium, East Campus.

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The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) meets on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm. Study and recreate the middle ages. Sword-fighting, feasting, dancing, clothing, etc. For information, call 682-0551. The Durham Newcomers Club will hold the first meeting of their 40th year, 7:00 pm, Colony Hill Clubhouse. All newcomers to the area are cordially invited. For more information call 919-401-5516. Teer House: A Rediscovery of Self Using Oriental Medicine. Laurie Jones. To register, call 416-3853 or 1-888-ASK-DUKE (275-3853). 7:00 pm. N. Roxboro Road, Durham. Teer House: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Support Group. Pam Spaulding. To register, call 416-3853 or

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“They Wrote Us A Poem V,” winners of the Duke Hospital poetry contest. 7:30 pm, Regulator Bookshop.

W£PN£sP*r Teer House: Living with Losses Support Group. Ursula Capewell. To register, call 416-3853 or 1-888ASK-DUKE (275-3853). 6:30 pm. N. Roxboro Road, Durham. Teer House: Asthma 101: Helping Your Child to Manage Their Wheezing. To register, call 416-3853 or 1-888-ASK-DUKE (275-3853). 7:00 pm. N. Roxboro Road, Durham. North American Studies at Duke University presents the 2001 Mexico Film Series. “La Ley De Herodes,” Latin American Major Picture Award, 2000 Sundance Film Festival. The Mayor of a small town is killed for his greed and abuse of power. The local authorities name Juan Vargas, a janitor and old militant of the Party, to take over. Vargas does the job by the book until he discovers the sweet taste of money and corruption, turning into a mad tyrant who is willing to do anything to remain in power forever and ever. In its satiric and comedic attacks, La Ley de Herodes shows with humor the great farce that is politics in Mexico. Director: Luis Estrada, Produced by Bandidos Films, 1999. 7:00-10:00 pm , John Hope

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Durham. School ofLaw’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security: Debate on Judicial Reform: England v U.S. Debate between lawyers from both countries on the merits of their judicial systems. For information, call 681-8059. 8:00 pm, Geneen Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business, West Campus.

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Duke Gardens Classes: “Landscaping with Perennial Grasses.” John Hoffman, Hoffman Nursery. Tickets are $3O for Friends of the Gardens, $35 for the public; call 684-3698. 1:30 pm. Vans leave from main gate of the gardens. Engaging Faculty Series: Robert Durden, professor emeritus of history, “J.B. Duke and the Duke Power Company.” Includes a question-and-answer session.

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Freewater Films: “Chocolat,” with Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp. Tickets are free to Duke students, $4 for Duke employees, and $5 for all others. For information, call 684-2911. 7:00, 9:30 pm. Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. Duke Jazz Series: The 19th Annual Duke University Jazz Festival in honor of Dr. Sonny Rollins. Pete La Roca Sims, drums; Paul Jeffrey, director. 8:00 pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Center for Documentary Studies: AV Geeks. 16mm educational films. For information, call 660-3663. 8:00 pm. 1317 W. Pettigrew St. Free.

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Chamber Arts Society presents “Opus One,” pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, violinist Ida Kavafian, violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Peter Wiley. 8:00 pm, Reynolds Theater. For ticket information call Page Box Office at 684-4444,

sm>w The Durham Branch of the NAACP will host its Meet and Greet Political Forum on Sunday, September 23, 2001, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The Forum will be

held at Community Baptist Church, located at 4821 Barbee Road, Durham, NC. The event will give local citizens an opportunity to have an up-close session with office seekers for the 2001 election cycle. Representative Paul Miller will moderate the event. Candidates for mayor and city council are invited to participate. Holy Eucharist Worship service followed by fellowship dinner. 5:00 pm. Episcopal Student Center, Episcopal Center at Duke University, 505 Alexander Avenue,

Freewater Films: “Carnal Knowledge,” with Candace Bergen, Rita Moreno, Ann-Margaret. Tickets are free to Duke students, $4 for Duke employees, and $5 for all others. For information, call 684-2911. 7:00, 9:30 pm. Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus.

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Exhibition Opening: “R. B. Kitaj: Selections from the ‘ln Our Time’ Portfolio,” Exhibition runs through December 21. Duke University Museum of Art is located on the East Campus at Trinity and Buchanan Blvd. Hours are Tuesday Friday 10:00 am 5:00 pm, Saturday 11:00 am 2:00 pm, and Sunday 2:00 5:00 pm. Admission to the galleries is free. For more inforcall 919.684.5135 or visit mation, www.duke.edu/duma. -

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Teer House: Woman to Woman: A Physician’s Perspective about Staying Healthy. Dr. Martha Adams. To register, call 416-3853 or 1-888-ASKDUKE (275-3853). 7:00 pm. N. Roxboro Road,

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Center for Documentary Studies “Three Contemporary Artists in the Classroom: Collaborative Work with Durham Students.” Work by Durham middle- and high-school students created with three internationally known visual artists Deborah Willis, Whitfield Lovell, and Alfredo Jaarwill will be exhibited at three venues in Durham this fall. The work was created during the artists’ recent residencies, as part of the Literacy Through Photography project at the Center for Documentary Studies, Deborah Willis’s work with the students at Shepard Middle School will be exhibited at the Center for Documentary Studies, September 1October 20. Whitfield Lovell’s work with the students at Neal Middle School will be exhibited at the Durham Art Guild, September 20-October 28. Alfredo Jaarwill’s work with the students at Jordan High School will be exhibited at the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Duke University, September 20-October 28. A public reception for the artists will be held on Friday, October 5 from 6:30-9:00 pm. Transportation will be provided between participating venues: The Center for Documentary Studies, the Durham Art Guild, and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University. The center is located in the Lyndhurst House, 1317 W. Pettigrew St., off Swift Avenue, between East and West campuses. Current gallery hours are 9:00 am to 7:00 pm MondayThursday; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Friday; and 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Saturday. For more information, call 6603663. Visit the web site at http://cds.aas.duke.edu. -

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The Chronicle Combatting terrorism International approval and alliances are crucial for success of global effort

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there have been crises in the past, no president has had to face a direct attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor brought the country into World War 11. Unsurprisingly, President George W. Bush is in a very difficult position, as is the nation. The president has had a strong presence throughout last week, rallying the nation together, especially on his visit to New York City. Indeed, all ofAmerica’s leaders have rallied the nation, from Congress’ nearly unanimous support to New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani’s calm, cool response at ground zero. Bush has been in the public eye daily and should remain so, as the true test ofhis mettle and his administration’s talents is yet to come. Much like his father did in 1990, Bush must take the time to assemble an international coalition against the new threat of terrorism, including full support from the United Nations and garner support from as many Arab countries as possible. Immediately after the attack, the UN. Security Council passed a resolution condemning the terror. NATO, for the first time in its 52year history, invoked Article Five’s mutual defense clause. Even Cuba was supportive ofAmerica and volunteered medical supplies. Nevertheless, the United States must ensure it has full UN. support for any actions it may take against nations that harbor or even sponsor terrorism. Otherwise, America would endanger the support it has built over the past week. Although UN. support is largely symbolic given the commitments already stated from the nations that comprise it, such approval is still very important to launch a truly global campaign against terrorist actions worldwide. Fortunately, Bush has capable people from operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm including Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary ofState Colin Powell—who were successful in achieving international sanction and support for their actions. An important turn of events came this weekend with the pledged support of Pervez Musharraf’s government in Pakistan. The central Asian nation, one of three to recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan, has allegedly given the Taliban three days to turn Osama bin Laden over or else. Even Iran, which has had its own problems with the United States, has since closed off its eastern border with Afghanistan. Much like in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and other Arab nations, the United States must be careful turning verbal promises into actions, especially with populations in those states not nearly so U.S.-friendly as their governments. Finally, as the coalition-builders of Desert Storm can attest to, it is often difficult to maintain such a coalition. That will be even more difficult, now, with India and Pakistan, Russia and China, Israel and a number ofArab nations all united on the same side. The United States is making alliances now with countries that were sworn enemies only a decade ago. Bush and his foreign policy team will have to navigate very carefully. It is easier now, when words, not deeds, rule the tentative coalition but, it will prove even harder when those words become actions. —

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Letters to

the editor

Hurtful U.S. policies played part in recent attack I have heard very disturbing sentiments regarding the possibility of military retaliations against whatever group or state is responsible for Sept, ll’s horrible events. The argument was that choosing long-term solutions to the problems that likely gave rise to these attacks—namely Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory and

will grow back. One would benefit from asking who has been the terrorist for the past decade? The United States has continuously bombed Iraq for 11 years, causing untold destruction to the civilian infrastructure and loss of life. Sanctions have brought suffering to the Iraqi people and strengthened Hussein’s grip on power. To say

Iraq

deserves

this

because of its tyrannical, nonelected leader punishes its Iraq—would only legitimize people for the actions of a govterrorism as means of ernment over which they obtaining political goals. have no control. Nor is one of The dangerous fallacy lies the two largest holders of in how we define terrorism. A nuclear, biological and chemimilitary response, which cal weapons justified in terwould doubtlessly kill civil- rorizing the Iraqi people to ians, not only propagates vio- prevent their country from lence as a means of justice, building up its own small but invites a violent response: stockpile. For every head we cut off, two Since it is probable that America’s continued bombing of and sanctions against

America’s shameful record in Iraq was one of the motivations behind Tuesday’s attack, we must remind ourselves that these events were, in the eyes of the perpetrators, retaliations against the United States for its foreign policy crimes. Now that the United States uses the word “war” to

justify forthcoming military revenge, it is following the same rationale as the attackers. We all were sickened by what we saw on Tuesday, and nobody wants to see it again, in the United States or elsewhere. Thus, we can only achieve peace by changing the way America conducts itself throughout the world. Violence will only throw us deeper into the fire.

Mark Lebetkin Trinity ’O3

Vigil lacked speakers from Hindu, other faiths Although I believe the intent of the Sept. 12 vigil was to unite people at Duke and in the surrounding community, I fourid myself feeling more upset after it was over. I think it was a good idea to have the Jewish and Muslim speakers, but it felt like a small token in a very

Christian-based heavily service. There are a number of other beliefs that are represented on this campus, and as a Hindu student, I was offended that there were no Hindu speakers included in the “interfaith” vigil. I had gone to the vigil in hopes of finding a spiritual prayer

and a bond to others, and

instead

felt

completely

excluded and isolated. I hope

the vigil helped those students whose religious beliefs were acknowledged. But what about the rest of us? Monisha Saran Trinity ’O2

Noon vigil focused too little upon tragedy’s victims In the wake of our collective horror, it is hard to know exactly what to feel or how to react. Indeed, we may have no framework in which to know what to do. However, it is a bit easier to know what a wrong response feels like. Duke’s shameful attempt at a prayer vigil Wednesday was a disgrace to this school and the victims of this attack. Duke’s notorious embrace of political correctness along with its dedication to appearance over substance has

failed to meet the needs of the community once again. There can be no disagreement that any response to this tragedy based on prejudice and hate is wrong. This message must, and has been delivered to the student body.

There are millions ofMuslims and Palestinians who are proud Americans and condemn the atrocity of Tuesday morning. No generalizations should put upon them. With that in mind, what the nation, and University needed community, on Wednesday was to grieve, unite, and to feel whole again. What we received was a political message disguised in the language of three sacred religions. One speaker had the audacity to pray that Duke students consider the anger of our national leaders as an illegitimate response. How

dare she. I would like the planners of the vigil to explain why there was so little focus on

the victims of this tragedy and so much focus on possible future victims. Why was there so little patriotism or pride in who we are and what we represent? Are we so afraid of embracing our common American ideals and our flag that we could not even sing “God Bless America” or start the service with our national anthem? In talking with many students, faculty and staff, I realize that I am not alone in feeling that Wednesday’s vigil was vacuous and shallow. I urge the administration to put aside their ideologies and politics and help us feel whole again. Jesse Panuccio Trinity ’O3

On the record This is not life and death, hut it is about being part of a community, and you would think the community would he more creative in finding a solution. Laura Barney, mother of junior Elizabeth Barney, on the University’s decision not to allow study abroad students to return for campus classes after the recent terrorist attacks, (see story, page four)

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Commentary

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2001

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Worst is yet to eome

Tragic images and ideas will hit viewers even closer as the week progresses

WASHINGTON It will get worse. The horror ofwhat we’ve seen on TV

screens and read in our newspapers will reach new levels when we begin to see individual families dealing with the grim mechanics of

death—the coffins, the words that cannot jB truly comfort, the ceremonies of official mourning for lost f loved ones. William It will get worse Ras l Pberr Y when we discover by what few degrees we are separated from the direct victims of the catastrophe—when it turns out that virtually all of us know someone who knows someone who

lost someone. It will get worse when it begins to dawn on us how helpless we are to respond in any satisfying way to what happened Sept. 11. Reports now indicate 50 men were directly involved in the slaughter, 40 of whom died along with their victims. Suppose we got our hands on the remaining 10, on Osama bin Laden himself and on 100 more besides them. What could we conceivably

do to

them that

bears any degree of

proportionality

their offense against us? Our response to Pearl Harbor was

proportional.

Our

response to this terrorism cannot be.

It will get worse when we find ourselves looking at individual Muslims and Arabs (including Muslim- and ArabAmericans) as fit targets for our vengeance. Even if we don’t officially

round them up, as we did with Japanese-Americans during World War 11, the unofficial acts of meanness and hatred against those who look like our blood enemies are likely to redound to our shame. And the prospects of that sort of bigotry will increase if the authorities

I was not reassured by the answer suggested by William Beeman, a Middle East expert at Brown University, in a commentary he wrote a few days ago for the Pacific News Service. Bin Laden, according to Beeman, is not so much an anti-American terrorist as a fierce defender of Islam determined to stop the United States from (in bin Laden’s words) “occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of

places”—including Jerusalem. “Bin Laden will not cease his opposidon’t do something pretty dramatic—- tion until the United States leaves the perhaps a raid into Afghanistan to cap- region,” Beeman wrote. ture bin Laden?—and if that something If that desire to have American (and doesn’t happen pretty quickly. other Western) interests completely It will get worse when we discover out of the region is the reason behind that eliminating bin Laden doesn’t the anti-American sentiment—and if, eliminate the problem. Maybe he realas seems likely, that means curtailing ly is the evil and resourceful genius America’s support for Israel—then it’s that we’ve made him out to be. Maybe it takes a certain fiendish genius to be capable of seeing commercial jetliners as hideously effective bombs, and of seeing such symbols as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (or was the target supposed to have been the White House?) as particularly effecto tive targets. But how much genius will it take time, the next want remembering that the next time needn’t it. involve trained airline pilots but only zealots committed to dying in the effort to strike a heavy blow

hard to see how it can be appeased.

But if that sentiment is widespread, and if, as we keep hearing, the structure of the active terrorist organizations, including bin Laden’s, is highly “cellular,” the threat to the United States could well survive bin Laden. “Cellular” has both an organizational and, as Beeman uses it, medical reference. The terrorist cells already scattered throughout the world are evidence of an anti-Western cancer in metastasis. The usual wartime responses are likely to render the cancer yet more aggressively malignant. It will get worse.

William Raspberry is the Knight professor of the practice of communications and journalism. His column is syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group.

And yet we’ll have do something; we’ll

insist on it.We blood, and we’ll have

And yet we’ll have to do something; we’ll insist on it. We want blood, and we’ll have it. Maybe we deserve our blood revenge. But we’ll want to be satisfied that we spill the right blood, and that—no matter how certain our leaders seem to be that bin Laden is the terrorist-in-chief—can’t be all that easy.

against their enemy—against us? Which raises two questions: Why do so many in the Muslim world—not just the terrorists, but quite ordinary men and women—consider us their enemy? And is there anything at all reasonable for us to do about it?

Duke physicist makes revolutionary discovery Physics professor Lyman trees and jumping over logs. As you get faster and and orange? What difference does it make what color DURHAM, N.C. Jenkins published a final draft explaining one of the faster and approach the speed of light, the trees start the damn shoe is?” asked renowned Cambridge promost important discoveries in astrophysics in the to bend in towards you, the branches and leaves fessor Stephen Hawking. last 100 years. His research will undoubtedly revolu“Heteroscedastiwhat?” puzzled Harvard Professor slowing you down. As you come to a stop, you rip off tionize the way humans have thought about the uni- your red shoe and shove it in a hole in the tree that John Thornton. verse since the dawn of time. It doesfinally stopped you. Then, you take off the green shoe Last month, Jenkins was again asked to speak n’t appear, however, that anyone and chuck it all the way back to where you started, about his discovery, this time at an astrophysics other than Jenkins has any idea where it, too, lands in the hole of a tree. Suddenly, summit in Toronto. the trees all stand up perfectly as they were before “Look, morons. It’s not that hard,” he said in what he discovered. “The entire physics community you started running. Thus, black another lengthy discussion. “Imagine a sun-screened penhas been batting this around for holes have to be harmonized guin laying on his back on a about a year now,” said Stanford and qualified at the same time. Florida beach. Then imagine University physicist Carl Yarman. Isn’t it fascinating? I’m looking Sparky four women racing pennies all been crunching the numforward to discussing it at to McQueen “We’ve down his slick stomach. Every sorting through formulas and length with each of you in the bers, Monday, once in a while one of those pendiscussing it with each other since we coming months.” at same Monday nies is going to ramp up his However, after some time and heard about it, and to be honest with webbed feet and fall into the a lot of brooding over the trantime. it you, we don’t have the slightest clue what he’s talkocean..,. God, is this really that ing about. It’s not that we doubt its correctness. We script of the conference lecture, difficult?” most certainly don’t. All our numbers show that he’s it became apparent that the Jenkins said it was his frustration with the “raw right on the money. Some of us can understand bits physics community did not fully understand what and pieces, but most of us don’t have the foggiest.” exactly Jenkins had discovered. Consequently, he stupidity of the cosmological community” and lack of Jenkins first explained his theory at an astrowas invited to give a guest lecture at Emory need for their “pea-brained support” that led him to physics conference in San Diego last year. “It’s really University in February in order to clarify and/or publish the final draft of his paper Friday. In related news, the math department has strickvery simple. What I did was take an infinitesimally offer more information. “Alright. Once again. Is everyone listening?” he en imaginary numbers from the curriculum. “Yeah, small chunk of quantum foam, minus the quarks and semaphores, wrap it heteroscedastically around a said. “I took a small chunk of quantum foam, we came to found out that nobody in the department superstring in the seventh dimension, which of wrapped heteroscedastically around the seventh really understood them,” said Andrew Becker, head dimension...” During the 90-minute lecture, he even of the department. “We’d all just been pretending we course is a combination ofthe third and 11th dimensions, warped it into a saddle shaped structure of offered a new analogy involving the throwing of a knew what we were teaching, so we’ve decided to plastic bag of buckshot with a single white marble stop. Most of us now think the whole concept of dark matter using Lamboli’s algorithm and concluded that all black holes have to be harmonized and inside down a football field made of teflon. Still, it imaginary numbers was just some practical joke Newton was playing on his students that never got qualified at the same time, ‘and’ being the key word.” was not clear to his colleagues exactly what the conwas that he was to erased from the textbooks.” attempting convey. continued. cept “Let me offer you an analogy,” Jenkins “How the hell do you ‘qualify’ a black hole? What’s “Imagine you are running in a forest with one red shoe and one green shoe. You’re dashing between with the red shoe and the green shoe. Why not blue Mos def had to turn off the TV to write this one.

‘Thus, black holes have be harmonized and qualified the Isn’t fascinating?’

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Pulling Together in the Face of Terror: An Invitation to the Duke Community

As members of tbe Duke University community, we, in unity with others around the world, are experiencing shock, were sorrow, and anger at the cruel acts of terrorism committed on September 11th. We grieve for those who murdered, injured, and traumatized, and for all the families, friends, and loved ones whose lives have been shattered. No one in this country remains unaffected by the horrific events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. They remind us of our vulnerability, a new and frightening lesson for many of us who have never experienced the insecurity people face in some parts of the world. There are no easy solutions in defending ourselves against terrorism. The days and months ahead will test the wisdom of our leaders and the integrity and strength of our democracy. But they will also test our individual humanity and our community closer to home. Recognizing this, we affirm our commitment: •

•

We call

To seek tangible ways of helping the victims of this terrible attack, by donating blood, money, and other resources, and by comforting grieving community members;

To steadfastly oppose any tendency, in ourselves or in others, to stigmatize, scapegoat, or dehumanize the members of any group or the adherents of any religion, and to speak out when we perceive or experience such behavior; To seek and support punishment of the perpetrators and their accomplices, but in a spirit of resolve to defend freedom;

not

in a spirit of indiscriminate vengeance

To strive, in everything we say or do, to uphold the ideals of democracy and of our common humanity, including human rights, freedom, the rule of law, and concern for the vulnerable; To appreciate our human diversity and work to build a community of civility, mutual respect, and mutual understanding.

all members of the Duke community to join September 11th, but we can help shape its moral legacy. on

us in

these commitments. We

cannot

undo the pain and horror of

Campus Organizations Humanitarian Challenges FOCUS Program

Auxiliary Services

Students and Faculty International Association International Council International House Internationally-Minded People of Faith, Divinity School Kenan Institute for Ethics

Campus Council Community Service Center Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy Diya Duke Democrats Duke Institute of the Arts Falun Dafa Cultivation Group Freeman Center for Jewish Life

LEAPS

Graduate and Professional Student Council Hart Leadership Program HIWAR

Martin Luther King, Jr. Planning Committee Multicultural Resource Center, Department of Medicine Muslim Student Association Newman Catholic Student Center

Office of Institutional Equity Office of Intercultuml Affairs Organization for Tropical Studies Philosophy Department PRISM Program in the Study of Sexuality Progressive Alliance Public Interest Law Foundation, Duke Law School Student Affairs Resource Administration

Students of the World Undergraduate Judicial Board University Scholars Program Women’s Center Women’s Studies Faculty

Individuals Catherine Admay Frank Alcock Anne Allison Richenel Ansano Mahadev Apte Charlotte Pierce Baker Houston Baker Lee D. Baker Ruth Baker John Barrow Katherine Bartlett Andrew Beguin ‘O3 Robert Bifulco Dee Blankfard Alma Blount

Pat Bodager

Bridget Booher Tony Brown Stephen Bryan Peter Burian Jackson Carroll Douglas Casson William Chafe Evan Chamey Pavan Kumar Cheruvu Dave Chokshi ‘O3 James Clack Doriane Coleman Richard Collier Chris Conover

Erin Conroy Gretchen Cooley Stephanie Comette Cathy Davidson Blake Dickinson Gerry M. DiGiusto Kenneth Dodge Albert Eldridge Jan Ewald

Katherine

Ewing

Peter Feaver Alonzo Felder Brian and Beth Felker Jones Kirk Felsman

Peter Fish Holly Francis Curtis Freeman Jan French Jack Friedman Chris Gelpi Lisa Giragosian Michael Goren ‘Ol Ellen Gray Cynthia Grossman

Mazella Hall Jean Hanson Melissa Harrell Alex Harris Stanley Hauerwas

Jane Hawkins Carol Haynes Lisa Hazirjian

Cynthia Herrup Karla Holloway Abby Home ‘O2 Tracy Hresko‘o2 Sara Hudson ‘O4

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Kristina Johnson Alma Jones Gregory Jones Kathleen Joyce Roger Jay Kaplan Nannerl. O. Keohane

Robert Keohane Nelson Kerr Kathryn Kerr Herbert Kitschelt Emmanuel Kotongole Helen F. Ladd Celeste Lee Yoonkyung Lee Sylvia Lim Marcy Litle Deb Lo Biondo

Roger Loyd Elaine Madison Melissa Malouf Paula McClain Mary McClintock Fulkerson

Margaret McKean Patricia S. Meadows Beverly Meek Parul Mehta ‘O3 Gilbert Merkx Thomas Metzloff Jill Miller Marie Lynn Miranda

Alejandro Posadas Naveen Rao William Reddy A1 Rossiter Tania Roy

Kathy Rudy Linda Rupert Priya Saigal

Charlie Thompson Susan Thome Tallman Trask 111 Chris Tucker Melissa Walker ‘O3

C.j. Walsh, 111 Benjamin Ward Sue Wasiolek

Pavel Molchanov‘o3 Rabbi Bruce

Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein

Larry Moneta

Michael Wick Bianca Williams ‘O2

Diane Nelson Julie Norman ‘O2 William O’Barr Bruce Payne Charles Piot

Bromberg Seltzer Sharon Ann Shewmake ‘O2 James Siedow Robert Sikorski Irene Silverblatt Marcy Speer

William Willimon David Wong Peter Wood Laura Yordy

Many individuals helped draft this text including, Elizabeth Kiss (Kenan Institute for Ethics), Judith Ruderman (Martin Luther King Committee), Myma Adams (Martin Luther King Committee), and Andrew Beguin ‘O3.

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