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Blue Zone Blues Due to the basketball ticket campout, students must move their cars from the last two right parking lots by 3:30 p.m. today.

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Students camp out for basketball tix

Construction on WEL progresses � Despite concerns that construction on the new dormitory would finish late, the University expects to complete the WEL next summer.

By WHITNEY BECKETT

By DAVE INGRAM

Although basketball season is still months away, some fans are already tenting. Graduate and professional students begin their 36-hour campout for season tickets tonight at 7:30 p.m. “It’s different than [Kzyzewskiville],” said Drew Brown, a third-year law student. “The only thing it can be compared to is the night before the UNC game, because everyone has to be there, and everyone is so excited.” This year, the campout will offer many new additions for its participants, including T-shirts commemorating the event and a big-screen television that will play the Duke-Virginia football game and past basketball games. There will also be social events and opportunities for community service. “It is similar to the undergraduate camping experience in that it is very fun,” said Will Tyson, a third-year sociology graduate student who helped plan the campout.. “It’s an older crowd, but we still know how to have fun. Campout is basically the crown jewel of the graduate and professional student year.” Unlike undergraduates, graduate and professional students do not camp out for each game, but instead use this one opportunity to win season tickets. See CAMPOUT on page 8 �

The West-Edens Link is nearing its final form, and is on schedule for completion in July 2002. The three-building, $37 million complex will include about 350 undergraduate beds, and administrators and students hope it will bridge the residential divide between Main West Campus and Edens Quadrangle. Administrators had questioned the completion date after construction workers discovered a large pit of debris last winter. After some intense work over the summer, however, the construction is on a tight schedule to be finished by next fall. “We are on schedule. We don’t have much slack, and we’re thankful that the hurricanes didn’t hit this year,” said Judith White, assistant vice president and director of the Residential Program Review. The structures of the buildings have reached their final height, with the exception of the 75-foot tower of Building D, the section closest to Few Quadrangle. In the final stages, the University is focusing on how best to integrate the WEL into its surroundings. A bridge and ground-level staircase will connect Buildings A and B to the staircase

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A CRANE INSTALLS FRAMES into the windows of Buildings B and C in the West-Edens Link Thursday. Behind Building B is one of three towers in the 350-bed complex.

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Blue Devils hunt for first win this season against UVa. Team hopes to rekindle magic of past upset in Charlottesville By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

Twenty-two games ago, the football team marched into Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., and came away with a 24-17 double overtime victory. After coming from behind 17-10 to tie the score in regulation, Duke began overtime by missing a field goal and, fortunately for the Blue Devils, Virginia reciprocated on its next possession. One possession later, Duke was on the Cavs’ seven yard line and landed in the endzone on a botched gimmick play that somehow found the hands of tight end Benjamin Watson. A Lamar Grant interception on the Cavaliers’ final try sealed the deal for the first win of the Carl Franks era and the first for the Blue Devils in Charlottesville since Franks played tight end for Duke in 1981. But that was 22 games ago. Since then, Duke has won only two games, and currently holds the longest losing streak in the nation —a streak that recently hit 15 games after last weeks’ 447 loss to Northwestern. This weekend, when the Blue Devils (0-3, 0-1 in the ACC) make the return trip for a 1 p.m. game Saturday against former New York Jets coach A1 Groh and the Cavaliers (2-1,1-0), they can only hope the magic from two years ago somehow finds them again. “We need to get some turnovers on defense; that’s

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going to be critical,” said Franks. “We need to make sure we take care of the ball on offense. We need to score when we cross the 50 [yard line] whether it’s a field goal or a touchdown. Whatever it is, offensively we’ve got to score. Defensively we’ve got to show that last week was not the way we tackle people. We’ve got to tackle better.” Since their last meeting in the Old Dominion State, the two programs could not be on more different trajectories. While Duke has been one of the worst teams in Division I, UVa. has been on the rise, going to bowls in the last two seasons and recently upsetting then-No. 18 Clemson 26-24 last weekend in South Carolina. That win gave the Cavaliers a reason to believe they can make some serious noise in the ACC this season. “We are in the hunt. It’s a long hunt, but we’re in it,” said Groh, who last faced Franks while coaching Wake Forest to a 46-26 loss during the Duke coach’s playing years. “There has to be a first step to raise the level of expectations and to learn the difference between really trying hard and competing. When you compete, you find away to win, whatever it might be.” Duke will also be looking for away to win, but unfortunately for the Blue Devils, they may be a little shorthanded in their efforts.

Researchers at three universities have found that choline consumption by preg nant women may improve their unborn children’s memory See page 3

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THE BLUE DEVIL OFFENSIVE LINE rests poised for a play to begin at practice. The team faces the Caviliers Saturday.

Projectors make good teaching tools, but they seemingly make easy targets for burglars. Six projectors have been stolen from the Fuqua School of Business alone. See page 3

Gov. Mike Easley approved the long-delayed state budget bill. The final plan calls for a $620 million tax hike and a 2.86 percent pay raise for teachers. See page 4

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FBI releases photos of suspected hijackers

The FBI released photos of the 19 suspected suicide hijackers with a plea for citizens to help with identities of some that are still in doubt. The FBI believes the names and photographs match those on the manifests of the hijacked planes. *

Unemployment reaches nine-year high

New claims for unemployment benefits rocketed to a nine-year high as the terror attacks started showing up in national economic statistics. Since the attacks, more than 100,000 layoffs have been announced in the airlines and related industries. *

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The State Department said most of the Indonesian embassy staff could leave the country if they chose because of protesters burning U.S. flags outside the gates of the U.S. embassy and extremist groups threatening to kill Americans. •

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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided Thursday to hold to its current production level of 23.2 million barrels per day despite a drop in oil prices this week. •

The police clashed with more than 300 Protestant rioters at a flash point in north Belfast. Similar violence left 33 officers injured by a barrage of stones, homemade explosives and flaming bottles of gasoline. News briefs compiled from wire reports.

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By ELISABETH BUMILLER New York Times News Service

Trying to soothe the nerves of reluctant American frayed travelers, President George W. Bush announced Thursday that the federal government would take on a larger role in airport security and that more than 4,000 National Guard troops would begin protecting the nation’s

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ministration would work with Congress on the new security agency, and establishing it would likely take four to six months. The official could not say whether the government would hire more than the existing 28,000 workers or whether they would be paid better than the minimum wage. Critics of airline security have long said that the low pay keeps away the best workers. In addition, the president said he would give grants to airlines to allow them to develop stronger cockpit doors and transponders that cannot be switched off from the cockpit. Government grants would also be available to pay for video monitors in the See

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was a bipartisan rush to provide the administration with emergency aid money, new military authority and financial relief for the airlines. But Congress is taking a second look—and a third and a fourth—at the administration’s

anti-terrorism proposal Asked about the strikingly different response, Rep. Dick Armey, the House majority leader and a conservative Republican from Texas, said this week: “This is a tougher area for us to look at than areas that involve money. This is about how we equip our anti-espionage, counterterrorism agencies with the tools they want while we still preserve the most fundamental thing, which is the civil liberties of the American people.” That concern over civil liberties—and the desire to keep

careful checks on the government^—run deep on Capitol Hill, although they are expressed with the utmost care these days, given the magnitude of the losses and the anger at the terrorists who caused them. Everyone begins their remarks by vowing that law enforcement authorities should be given the tools they need. But there are questions and worries that the balance between civil liberties and national security in the administration’s proposal is not quite right And those concerns are bipartisan!, voiced by those on the left and on the right. The result is that legislation Attorney General John Ashcroft asked Congress to pass last week is now the subject of intense negotiations among Democrats, Republicans and the administration. Some provisions will apparently be dropped, others substantially revised. See PROPOSAL on page 9 �

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Vitamin could better memory >

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Duke, have found that choline can have a significant effect on the brain functions of unborn children. By MIKE MILLER The Chronicle

It may not be the focus ofmany people’s diets, but the vitamin choline is more important than once thought, according to new research at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Boston University. By administering different levels of choline to pregnant rats, researchers have found that the prevalence of choline in the mother’s diet has a dramatic effect on brain functions in the offspring, especially memory caRAPHAEL LOUIE/THE CHRONICLE

PROJECTORS IN CLASSROOMS AND LECTURE HALLS have become frequent targets of burglars. The Fuqua School of Business, which has lost six since the summer, has been hit especially hard.

Police battle bout of projector thefts Fuqua lost 3 projectors this summer, each valued at $4,000 By ANA MATE The Chronicle

As police struggle to track down the thieves who stole a number of projectors out ofclassrooms, campus authorities are working to find solutions to prevent future thefts. Since May 2001, the Biological Sciences Building and the Bishop’s House each have had a projector

stolen while the Sociology-Psychology Building has experienced two thefts. Three projectors from the Fuqua School of Business Were stolen over the summer and three have been taken since the beginning of the semester, said Jim Gray, associate dean of marketing and communications for Fuqua. Officials do not know why there have been so many thefts at Fuqua. Gray said that over the years, projectors have gotten smaller and much easier to conceal. “We’re like every other place at Duke. We have a line of computer equipment and buildings made pretty ac-

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cessible to students and professors alike,” he said. Students, and sometimes professors and visitors, often use Fuqua projectors, which are attached to seminar-room ceilings by brackets. Each of the stolen projectors is worth $4,000, and all have been replaced. Jessica Sell, an employee at Pawn America in Durham, reported that someone called the shop asking about pawning a projector. “We didn’t take it because no pawn shop takes projectors,” she said. Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department, said that investigations regarding the thefts are ongoing. While each affected department is responsible for its own prevention and security measures, DUPD is working with them to recommend what actions can be taken. Currently, one of the only security measures in place is equipment engraving. Gray declined to specify details of new prevention measures. Dean said the school has hired off-duty officers to patrol the area.

pacity and attention span. Choline is a vital nutrient that is a critical signaling chemical in cells, a component of biological membranes and a producer of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter necessary for brain functions. Largely because of research done at Duke and UNC, the National Academy of Sciences decided in 1998 that choline is an essential vitamin and gave a recommended daily amount: 550 milligrams per day for men and 425 milligrams for women, and more if the woman is pregnant. Good sources of choline include eggs, milk, soy products, fish and other meat. Studying the behavioral effects of choline, Psycho-

logical and Brain Sciences Chair Christina Williams examined the relationship between extra choline exposure during gestation and the subsequent mental abilities of the adult. “We find these adult animals have better memory... and the animals can sustain attention over long periods of time,” said Williams. “These offspring also show better maintenance of memory... They don’t show age-related decline in

memory,” she said.

Animals deficient in choline, even as adults, show lower memory capacities and a far greater decline in memory as they age. Working on the electro-physiological component of choline research, Duke Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology Scott Swartzwelder has found yet See

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Pratt School gets webmaster, launches new website Officials hope users will find site easier to navigate and more frequently updated By KIYA BAJPAI The Chronicle

In response to complaints within the Pratt School of Engineering, a new website has been created under website designer Rebecca Board. The site—www.egr.duke.edu—is now active but is still undergoing additions and changes. Board’s aim was to make the website not only more informative and aesthetically pleasing, but also more user friendly. “The first priority is content... [and] the next priority is to make it more friendly... We want alumni to visit our

site.... There will be more pictures... [and] it will be more content searchable,” she said. The title of webmaster came under Board’s command after an informal conversation with Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson. “There had been a lot of concern and unhappiness from the school itself.... It didn’t look like a Duke website,” Board commented, adding that users often found it difficult to navigate. Board also mentioned that the

school did not update the site frequently because the internal design was difficult to use; in addition, nobody

had overseen the site’s development. With the help of Associate Director of Communications Steven Wright, the website now also contains a new electronic newsletter, The Pratt Press. Users can access the monthly issue through the Pratt website’s news and events area. The first issue contains articles and briefs, profiles, pictures and a welcome

note from Johnson. With it’s more extensive layout, it is meant to replace an older version, First Friday Club, which provided an rarely updated series of briefs.

Wright, Trinity ’Ol and a former university editor of The Chronicle, said the school created the newsletter because many other schools have them. He added that the site is a good way to put out information, not only for Duke’s students and faculty, but for the engineering community around the country as well. Director of Duke News A1 Rossiter agreed that the renovations of the site were a good idea. “We hope that it will be certainly helpful.... It will be a source of current news at the school and I think it’s been badly needed.”

Governor signs much-delayed budget bill into law From staff and wire reports The budget will give a 2.86 percent payraise to teachAlmost three months into the fiscal year, a $14.5 bil- ers and will provide $25 million to reduce class sizes. lion state budget finally became law Wednesday when The University of North Carolina system will get Gov. Mike Easley signed a spending bill passed by the an additional $37 million to accommodate increased General Assembly last week. enrollment and the cost offinancial aid. The budget includes a total tax hike of The spending plan also allocates $lBl \r \TI7WC $620 million, including a half-cent sales tax 1 1 Wo million for the state’s rainy day fund, $125 lllif increase and a temporary 2-year increase in PnTrrr; million for a building repair and renovation PKlilr j the income tax on the wealthy. fund and $47.5 million for a trust fund for Easley, a Democrat, said the budget’s programs for the mentally disabled. State support for education justified the increases. “With employees’ salaries will increase by $625. this budget, North Carolina took a stand. With this In the longest legislative session in state history, budget, North Carolina gives our children—all of our the General Assembly debated the budget for weeks children—every opportunity to succeed,” he said at before passing the plan last week the signing ceremony. “North Carolina sent a clear message to the nation Finance bill faces heavy opposition: A conthat our state will take care of its people, in good times sumer finance bill under consideration in the North and bad,” Easley added Carolina Senate that would charge borrowers more

fees while keeping interest rates steady has found

few supporters. In April, the House passed a bill introduced by Rep. Henry Michaux, D-Durham, that would have lowered interest rates. But the Senate dropped the rate changes because of opposition from the state attorney general’s office, which expressed fears about the uncertain national economy. Consumer finance offices make high-risk loans to individuals—mainly borrowers rejected by banks—of up to $lO,OOO. Under current law, these offices can charge up to 36 percent interest per year. The House bill would have lowered this maximum to 30 percent. Under the Senate bill, offices would be able to charge a loan-processing fee of up to $6O, instead of a $3O credit investigation fee. The bill also allows a See

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Nationwide patriotism trend Professor emeritus, 87, dies triggers free speech debate By BILL CARTER and FELICITY BARRINGER

“Hard times for the first amendment

tend to come at very hard times for the New York Times News Service country,” he said. “When we feel threatThe surge of national pride that has ened, when we feel at peril, the First swept the country after the terrorist atAmendment or First Amendment valtacks on Sept. 11 has sparked the beues are sometimes subordinated to ginnings of a new, more difficult debate other interests. over the balance among national secuOne of the most visible examples of rity, free speech and patriotism. this burgeoning debate involved a scufIn the most highly publicized case, a fle between the White House and Bill nationally televised talk show host was Maher, host of the late-night talk show shunned by many ofhis advertisers and “Politically Incorrect.” Last week, criticized by the White House Maher said that the hijackers were not spokesperson for making what some cowards, but that it was cowardly for considered an unpatriotic remark about the United States to launch cruise missiles on targets thousands of miles American soldiers. But the debate over whether it is away. Some of the show’s main adverproper to speak in ways that seem to tisers abruptly ended their sponsorship of the program, which is designed to be contradict the popular theme of national unity has been played out on smaller controversial. Maher later apologized stages as well. for the remarks. Ari Fleischer, the White House press A Midwestern journalism school has come under fire for not allowing stusecretary, denounced Maher Wednesdent television broadcasters to wear paday, saying that news organizations, triotic lapel pins. A college professor in and all Americans, in times like these the Southwest has been threatened “have to watch what they say and with disciplinary action for comments watch what they do.” he made about the World Trade Center When the White House later redisaster, and at least two small-town leased the official transcript of Fleischjournalists have lost their jobs over er’s briefing, the portion of his comwhat they wrote on the subject. ments urging people to “watch what All of this coincides with an upsurge they say” was not included. of public patriotism that is most obviWhen that sparked yet another ous in the schools around the country, round of discussion over Fleischer’s whose hallways have sprouted bunting comments, Anne Womack, an assistant and red-white-and-blue crepe paper to Fleischer, said Thursday that the transcript did vary from the remarks and posters of Uncle Sam. Those spiritFleischer made. She called it “a traned displays are embraced. But other artistic expressions are scription error.” Fleischer had earlier noted Presi less welcome. A program of the works of a German dent George W. Bush’s criticism of Rep. composer was canceled by a New York John Cooksey, R-La., for remarks that were considered disparaging to Arabs. music program after he made comments that suggested the destruction of Fleischer said Thursday night that his suggestion that people “watch what the World Trade Center might be conthey say” also referred to both Maher sider “the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos.” and Cooksey. Community reaction was swift and Floyd Abrams, a first amendment specialist with the New York law firm of furious when newspaper columnists in Cahill Gordon & Reindel, said the Unit- Texas City, Texas, and Grants Pass, Ore., criticized the president’s actions ed States often debates issues like patrion the day of the attacks. otism and free speech in times of crisis.

From staff reports Raymond Postlethwait, professor emeritus of surgery, died Tuesday at the Olsen Center at the Forest at Duke retirement home. He was 87. Postlethwait received his medical degree from the School of Medicine in 1937 and began teaching there in 1957 as a professor of surgery. In his time at Duke, Postlethwait served as chief of surgical services for 15 years at Duke Hospital and chief of staff at the Durham VA Medical Center for 15 years, until retiring in 1983. He is survived by two daughters, two sons and a sister. Condolences may be sent to Raymond W. Postlethwait, Jr. at 3209 Cromwell Road, Durham, NC, 27705 or to rw.post@gte.net. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Forest at Duke, with a reception following.

Chapel hosts concert. Mass delayed: A memorial concert is sched-

uled for 7 p.m, Sunday as a tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The North Carolina Symphony and guest soloists will perform a wide variety of music, from Mozart to patriotic tunes. Rodney Wynkoop, director ofuniversity choral music, will direct singers from the Choral Society of Durham, the Duke Chapel Choir, the Duke University Chorale and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Community Chorus. In addition to seating for 1,000 inside Duke Chapel, those attending will be able to view the concert on wide-screen

monitors inside Page Auditorium and on the lawn in front of the Chapel. Lawn viewers are encouraged to bring a folding chair or blanket. Catholic Mass at the Chapel, which normally begins at 9 p.m., will begin at 9:30 p.m. Sunday, to accommodate

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women clergy members. The lecture is scheduled for 2 p.m. in York Chapel. Carpenter will talk about how black clergywomen are slowly reshaping black churches through incremental increases in the ranks of female pastors and other forms of ministry.

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Pakistan to send top general, clerics to Afghanistan Team hopes to convince Taliban to hand over bin Laden to face terrorism allegations By JOHN BURNS

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Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan said Thursday that it would send a top general and several of the country’s most militant Islamic clerics to Afghanistan today in a last-ditch effort to persuade the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, to hand over Osama bin Laden and spare Afghanistan a U.S. military attack. Pakistan’s military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, ordered military aircraft to bring an improbable team to the Afghan city ofKandahar. The team includes the army’s intelligence chief, Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed, and several Muslim clerics who only a week ago were disdained by Musharraf in a television broadcast as representing an isolated minority of Islamic militants in this country of 140 million people. The mission is a measure of how desperately Pakistan wants to avoid being drawn into backing a U.S. military thrust into Afghanistan. Officials said their task would be to “discuss ways in which the Taliban can be saved” from a U.S. attack, namely by agreeing to a formula that would allow bin Laden to be handed over to face charges that he is responsible for a series of terrorist attacks around the world, including the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The Muslim clerics, an official said, were going to tell Mullah Omar, the village prayer leader who is the Taliban’s supreme leader, that continuing to harbor bin Laden would in-

Pakistan —now the last country in the world to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government —said bin Laden was “missing, but not lost” and “in some place hiding.” Zaeef said he had no idea that the fear example, suggested norwhere that hideout might be. The message purportedly given to mally spread by one of the Taliban’s most repressive agencies, the religious bin Laden was a religious decree, or police, has dissipated as their offices fatwa, that a gathering of several hunhave been all but shut down. People dred high-ranking Taliban clerics aphave been playing music again, an act proved at an emergency gathering in that could draw a penalty of a lashing Kabul last week. In the decree, the clerics ordained or worse since the Taliban swept to that Mullah Omar, their supreme power in Jalalabad in 1996. The move by Musharraf to send some leader, should “encourage Osama bin of Pakistan’s most militant clerics to Laden to leave Afghanistan of his own Kandahar came as the Taliban leaderfree will, in the shortest possible time, ship admitted, indirectly, that they and choose any other place for himself.” know where bin Laden is hiding, or at After initially wavering over whether least that they know how to reach him. the decree had been delivered to bin In an interview Thursday with Laden or not, Zaeef said Monday that Reuters in Kabul, the Taliban informaMullah Omar, exercising his overarchtion minister, Mullah Qudrutullah ing authority, had made a “final decision” that bin Laden would not be surJamal, said the Taliban “believed” a message sent to bin Laden by courier had rendered and not be asked to leave. reached him at an undisclosed location. But Thursday, the information minHowever, Mullah Jamal gave no hint of ister in Kabul offered a new twist. where bin Laden was or even if he was in “The edict had to be delivered by a Afghanistan, and it was possible that his messenger,” he said, according to the remarks were only the latest in efforts to Reuters account. buy time during the crisis. “It’s not like we can pick up the teleEver since the Sept. 11 attacks, the phone and talk to Osama, or fax a mesMuslim clerics who Eire the Taliban’s sage to him. He has no such facilities, so ance of Taliban members who were stationed at checkpoints in the cities or voice to the world have been engaging in the message had to be sent through a whose pick-up trucks roared through sideways shifts and about-turns on bin messenger who probably took some time the streets, bristling with weapons, was Laden, saying at first that his whereto find him.” an ominous sign. They said the Taliban abouts were known to the Taliban, then He added, “We believe that by now fighters were being dispersed in case of that they were not. Monday, Abdul he has found Osama and delivered the U.S. air attacks or moved from the cities Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to fatwa to him.” jure the cause of Islam everywhere. The mission comes at a moment when Taliban leaders are faced with possible signs of an erosion of their political power. A flurry of recent reports has suggested that chaos is sweeping the country as vast numbers of Afghans flee their homes ahead of possible U.S. military strikes and that the turmoil has begun to weaken the Taliban’s hold on the 90 percent of Afghanistan it controls. Reports have also suggested that some powerful blocs within the Taliban may be having second thoughts about taking on the U.S. military. Because the Taliban expelled the last western reporters from Afghanistan last week, the reports are sketchy if not contradictory. But all point to the fact that as cities like Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar empty, what little government the Taliban have provided, besides all-pervasive army and police forces, is withering, too. The Taliban, including clerics, soldiers, and government officials, appear to be evaporating from the cities like many of their fellow Afghans. Some reports Thursday from Afghan journalists with close ties to the Taliban suggested that the sudden disappear-

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between Craven and Wannamaker Quadrangles. A bridge and staircase will also connect Building D with Few Quad, and a walkway on top of Building D will lead under a canopy to the main tower and down to Edens. A fire lane will cut into the space between Main West and the WEL, running under the bridge, but the rest of the space will be landscaped. In early 2002, the University will remove the air-conditioning facility currently behind Few Quad and replace it with another on Towerview Road. The main entrances to the WEL buildings will open into commons rooms, with archways and large windows creating a welcoming connection to Main West, White said. “We sited most of the stairs and passageways for people returning home from classes. That way it will feel like coming back to your home, back to your entrance,” White said. “We can’t move [Edensl up to West, but we can make it nicer to get there.” Most of the WEL will be dark red brick, with Duke stone covering the archways and tower. Duke stone is six times more expensive than brick, White said.

Original thoughts from over a year ago on designing the buildings called for a completed quad, as opposed to the current U-shaped design. White said another building directly next to Edens would cut off the lower area and undermine the intention of the link. She added, however, that administrators are considering more buildings for the area, especially amid ongoing discussions of increasing enrollment in the Pratt School of Engineering.

Building A—closest to and running parallel to Towerview Road—is furthest along in construction. The exterior walls are nearing completion and stud frames

have been installed inside.

The hallways in Buildings B and C—which run par-

allel to Main West—are elbowed in the middle to make them seem shorter, with an open den area there similar to a commons room. The layout is designed to increase interaction among students. “These are rather long buildings. You don’t want it to look like a hospital with the long hallways,” White said. The rooms are designed with rows of 140-squarefoot singles and 240-square-foot doubles across from each other. Most doubles have the same design with a closet on each side of the entrance, about 9-foot ceilings

and three windows. The rooms and hallways will be carpeted, and the commons rooms and dens will have

wooden floors. Senior C. J. Walsh, president of Duke Student Government, said the new dorm rooms, combined with the diner, cafe and lounge space planned for the tower, will change the center of West Campus. “I’m jealous I’m graduating because I won’t live there,” Walsh said. “What defines prime housing now is proximity to campus amenities, and this will -spread amenities out more.” Although all rooms will be handicap-accessible, three singles will have private bathrooms for disabled students. The WEL buildings will also have three elevators. Planners designed the WEL specifically so that it

could not be seen from the Main West Quad, The WEL’s main tower will be its highest point—rising to about the same height as Few Quad —but Main West’s skyline view will not change. At the same time, planners also tried to maintain views ofMain West from Edens and the WEL. Craven and Wannamaker Quads are visible from Edens through the passage between the WEL’s Buildings A and B, and Few Quad is visible to the right.

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Bush hopes more people will travel AIRLINES from page 2 cockpit to alert pilots to trouble in the cabin, and for new technology, probably far in the future, allowing air traffic controllers to land distressed planes by re-

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS check in at last year’s basketball ticket campout. Instead of camping out for weeks, like undergraduates do, these students face a more intense, weekend campout.

1,500 students expected to camp out � CAMPOUT from page 1 “As graduate students, we have many more responsibilities and do not have the time to devote to getting tickets that undergraduates do,” said Amy Goodman,

a graduate student who also tented in K-ville when she was an undergraduate at Duke. “We prefer being able to go out for a weekend and get a season pass.” Over 1,700 people registered online for this weekend’s campout, but Daniel Rosenthal, who helped organize the event, said he does not expect all ofthose people to come. Other time commitments and bad weather have decreased attendance in the past, he said. “It’s really difficult to tell how many people will actually be there,” Rosenthal said. “We have a similar number registered this year as the last two years, but last year we had a tropical storm... so we only had 1,200 people. This year, weather permitting, I would guess that there will be about 1,500.” He said many students miss checks and become disqualified before the end of the campout at 7 a.m. Sunday, often because of oversleeping or slipping home. And not all students that do weather the weekend will get season passes. The students who do endure the entire 36 hours are entered into a computerized lottery that will select 700 winners. “Graduate and professional students consistently

pack Cameron with the seats allotted to us,” Rosenthal said. “[The campout] is different from the undergraduate task because it is only a weekend, but we want to make sure it is still a difficult enough task that the best fans get into Cameron.” To increase their chances of having tickets for the season, many graduate and professional students informally pool their tickets, making an agreement with one or more other students to divide any tickets the group wins. Graduate and professional students can also sell their tickets for face value to other graduate and professional students and their spouses. For the last two years, Brown has camped successfully for tickets, and he said he will camp again this weekend. Although he is optimistic that he will receive tickets again this year, he has back-up plans, as well. “The best part of the graduate and professional student line is there are other ways of getting in,” Brown said. “I will be at the games no matter what.” Holding a season ticket won through the campout guarantees students spots in the graduate section if they arrive before tip-off. However, if the section is not full at tip-off, other students are admitted. “The goal of this whole process is to fill Cameron and have it as loud and... fun as possible,” Goodman said.

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mote control. Transponders, which allow air traffic controllers to track aircraft, were switched off in some cases during the Sept. 11 hijackings. Bush also said his administration had ordered what he described as a dramatic increase in the number of armed, plainclothes sky marshals on planes, although neither he nor administration officials would provide numbers. Until the agency is established, Bush made it clear that he wanted the presence ofthe uniformed National Guardsmen—at an estimated cost to the federal government of $l5O million—to serve as a powerful psychological tool to get Americans back on airplanes. The troops, to be trained in baggage and passenger screening by the Federal Aviation Administration over three or four days, would augment, rather than replace, existing airport security personnel. “Some airports already meet high standards, and you all know that,” Bush told a cheering crowd of thousands of airline pilots, flight attendants and other workers outside a hanger at O’Hare International Airport. “But for those airports that need help, we will work with the governors to provide security measures—visible security measures—so the traveling public will know that we are serious about airline safety in America.” How much additional security the National Guard troops will add to commercial airports is an open question. Ever since the Sept. 11 hijacking of four jetliners, airports have on their own increased security, using local police, state troopers or sheriffs’ deputies who stand by screening machines and metal detectors—often with little or nothing to do in half-filled airports. The administration official said that the National Guard troops would not operate the screening machinery.

“Basically, they’ll be standing there watching and making sure everybody is operating in a safe way,” the administration official said. The announcement ofenhanced security measures is the Bush administration’s latest attempt to give a boost to the aviation industry, which has been economically battered by the falloff in ridership since the four suicide hijackings Sept. 11. Congress approved a $l5 billion bailout package Sept. 21 for the airlines. Bush also said he was setting aside an additional $3 billion for aviation security, a portion of which will pay for the measures he announced. The White House, which rapidly assembled its airline security plan as the nation’s airlines were losing hundreds of millions of dollars, did not offer a specific picture of how a new airline security agency would work. The administration official who briefed reporters in Chicago, for example, described the security organization as either an agency or an authority and said that it had not been determined whether it would be part of an existing agency.

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� CHOLINE from page 3 another benefit ofcholine. “We look at how brain circuits change in reaction to choline, and a major part is how the brain protects itself,” said Swartzwelder. A recent study suggests that animals prenatally supplemented with choline suffer less brain damage from a variety of toxins, including alcohol, and are less susceptible to brain seizures.

Swartzwelder studied the effects of MK-801, a chemical that causes brain damage in animals. He found that an extra abundance ofcholine in the diet helped ameliorate the damage done to the brain. “The chance that [the findings] are transferable to humans is extremely likely,” said Williams. “The expectation is that brain organization is very similar in humans as in rats.... [Humans] probably will need choline, and a lot more than in rats,” she said. Based on the new findings, Steven Zeisel, chair of the UNC School of Med-

icine’s Department of Nutrition, is leading research on human subjects to determine exactly how much choline is needed in the diet. “The next step is to figure out why choline works the way it does on a cellular level,” Swartzwelder said. “Why do the brain cells from

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$7 to $lO charge for each 10-day period a loan payment is late. But Rob Schofield, a spokesperson for the N.C. Justice and Community Development Center, which opposes the senate bill, said the interest accrued on the loans is already a penalty for late payment.

Airports slightly relax security

measures: The Federal Aviation Administration has allowed two North Carolina airports to relax some of the security measures instated after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Raleigh-Durham International Airport has been authorized to reopen 1,200 spaces in the two parking decks near Terminal C. However, the airport has not yet been authorized to reopen

the surface lots near Terminal A, RDU personnel will inspect the interior and exterior of each vehicle before it is allowed in the garage. The vehicle inspections will take place in the early morning and the late

afternoon. Charlotte-Douglas International Airport is seeking FAA approval to allow non-ticketed customers through security, citing a $700,000 decline in revenues for airport businesses. But the request is unlikely to be granted due to concerns about security and efficiency. “The new security initiatives have been put in place to provide the safest environment,” said Christopher White, an FAA spokesperson.

“Any changes to those rules would require considerable coordination,” White added.

Durham Housing Authority secures federal grant:

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development gave the Durham Housing Authority $1.2 million to provide 200 vouchers to pay for safe, affordable housing for disabled Durham residents. “The median income and market rents in Durham are among the highest in the state, putting low-income persons at greater risk in finding affordable housing,” said James Tabron, a spokesperson for the Durham Housing Authority. “This grant will help create housing opportunities for a very vulnerable seg-

ment of our population,” he said. Rep. David Price, D-4th, and Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., announced the grant Monday.

Legislators scrutinize proposal details � PROPOSAL from page 2

The Bush administration’s proposal seeks more authority to detain suspected terrorists and those suspected ofaiding and supporting them; broader powers to track communications over telephones and computers, and greater powers to seize assets and attack the “financial infrastructure” of suspected

terrorist organizations. Lawmakers say they still hope to move legislation through the committees next week, but they also say that it is critical to reach a broad consensus before all else. “I’m not going to bring a bill to the floor that’s going to be attacked by the left and the right,” said Sen. Patrick

Leahy, D-Vt., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, “because it’s not going to go anywhere.” Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., is worried about the administration’s proposal to allow the indefinite detention of immigrants if they are deemed to be threats to national security. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., shares those objections.

Rep. Barney Frank, a liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, wants to ensure that, if the government gets the new surveillance powers, there are also new remedies against those in the government who release “inappropriate, personal” information. At a hearing this week, he recalled the wiretapping of Martin Luther King, Jr. by J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation. Armey voiced a concern similar to Franks’ but reached back to a more recent precedent—the gathering of FBI files on Republican officials by aides in the Bill Clinton White House. “There are a lot of members that are acutely aware of the fact that the agencies don’t always exercise due diligence in the way they handle information,” Armey said. “I draw my case by raw FBI files apparently being turned over to political operatives at a moment’s notice, and that sticks in a lot of people’s craw in terms ofthe security of who you are in your life and what right the government has to share that information,” he added.

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crat from California, declared at the House committee’s hearing this week

that while many lawmakers had “bent over backwards” to rally behind the administration, “we have to draw the line” when it comes to civil liberties. Waters said she feared that the definition of terrorism in the administration’s bill was too wide. She concluded, “I find myself agreeing with Mr. Barr, and that is very unusual.” Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., a House Judiciary Committee member, was pleased with the decision.

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for artistic dynamite; Mix two performers loaded with musical talent, add a healthy dollop of sexual politics, heat under strong fire from extreme leftist role models, flavor with self-righteousness and wait. The result will either take off or blow up in your face. Eternally Hard, the latest album from duo Bitch and Animal, does both. Backed by Righteous Babe Records (the same company that was founded by Ani by Faran DiFranco and friends), Bitch and Animal are two young female artists with a distinct sound, a taste for the radical and a soft and sultry groove that's twisted by their strong New York accents. The title of their album, Eternally Hard, references the chorus of their first song, a soft and thumping rap called "Best Cock on the Block." If a male artist attempted to pull this one off, he'd rank right up there in rankness (and GRADE: innovation) with Eminem. Having two women harmonize as they throb out lyrics like "my dick it's like chick bait/ one bite and they're hooked" is pretty hilarious, albeit a bit awkward. Still, "Best Cock on the Block" is one of the strongest tracks on Eternally Hard, with a rocking base and intricate vocals that wind around the words. One of the best things about this album is the ease with which Bitch and Animal maneuver moods. The tracks seem to slide seamlessly together, yet each features a different tonal scale,

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nous, languid "Traffic" seeps into the harder, shimmering sounds of "Scrap Metal" as if it's an awakening. The progression is logical, but not predictable, and it's extremely fun to

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anticipate. The wide ranges of tone, style and theme presented in Eternally Hard are exactly where this album goes right. It makes some wrong turns, however, in its self-righteous contradictions. It seems wrong to attack any artist brave enough to embrace an alternative (and sometimes derided) lifestyle. However, it's WHO'S WHO?: Can you guess which one's the bitch? also strange to ask for respect and humanity while choosing stage names like "Bitch" and steer clear of "Boy Girl Wonder," a lament that "Animal." Some people find it empowering to "he's got a real one, but mine's from the store." It embrace and reassess derogatory terms. This walks a fine line between hard-hammering and her and animalistic bitchy hilarious, and ultimately, it registers as both. Recess girrrl suggests, in way, that the artists gain respect through their mesOverall, enthusiastic sparkles for Eternally Hard. With ability, complex, lulling harmonies and lyrics that and the shock value in sage not through their names, and also in some lyrics. are both intriguing and amusing, Bitch and Animal "Prayer to the Sparkly Queen Areola" may sound should guard their assets carefully. With their cool at a Second Wave Feminist rally, or even at a dynamic style and fresh (though sometimes forced) viewpoints, they could quickly overtake crunchy concert, but it doesn't fly on an, otherwise the ashen Ani DiFranco as the new, true voices of soaring album. Prudes and people tired of sexual the electric, alternative generation.□ correctness shoved down their throats should also

Amos Makes Old Covers eem New to confess that the last Tori Amos CD I bought le Earthquakes, released in 1992. While for a period I knew all the words from start to finish, est in Amos didn't resurface until recently. Her album. Strange Little Girls, is by no means an cheerfui hour of music. Rather, all of the songs

tions of male artists' creations. s include Neil Young's Heart of Gold," which isforms into an angry, somewhat dizzy and "

version of the originally mellow classic. Other ,uch as the Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm and "New Age," written by Lou Reed round out m. Eminem's "Bonnie & Clyde" is a frightening

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The extremely offbeat and eclectic nature of Amos' album appeals to many listeners, and the somewhat depressing yet passionate songs are no doubt intriguing. The CD lost me on overly emotional or redundant tracks. Yet the concept of an album featuring Amos' fresh variations is an achieveuHAIIi! ment in itself. The album is available in four different covBers, each of which shows a seperate Amos alter-ego. Clearly, she assumes many musical personas in this expansive effort, making the exploitive marketing ploy somewhat appropriate. Although would not recommend Strange Little Girls as a fitting introduction to

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reaction became an instant cliche: "It was all so unreal, like special effects in a movie." Few could find a good way to say it otherwise—but at a time when words were failing, the triteness of this particular cliche was forgivable. It was, after all, forged in large part from a fundamental modern American truth: Film, the dominant cultural medium of the 20th century, has shaped our understanding of reality. Indeed, virtually unharmed for half a century, we have learned most of what we know about danger from the movies. We think in terms of the gruff, honorable cop, the accented bad guy, his ticking bomb and defenseless, huddled masses. In this time of introspection, the question of exactly where this perverse hunger for catastrophe comes from, and what it says about our culture, is very important. America can learn about itself from its fantasies, especially now that the gap between fantasy and reality has been so suddenly bridged. The critical and intellectual elite have always groaned about the irrepressible, sadistic tendency toward the calamitous. Hare-brained man-with-bomb plots of the '9os have been skewered like the hare-brained natural disaster films of the 70s before them, and like the hare-brained city-devouring monster films of the 'sos before them. The pulpy disaster film is exploitative, cheap (despite its big budget) and (according to its critics) desensitizing in its unrealistic and sensationalists fantasy. And yet, it's also one of the most successful. Independence Day, whose shots of Manhattanites fleeing down streets with a billowing cloud in close pursuit, undoubtedly inspired a sick deja vu among millions in the past weeks, broke box office records almost solely through savvy marketing of an exploding White House. Armageddon and Pearl Harbor were both as widely attended as they were bloated and wasteful. The entire country turned out to see them with little hesitation, as if the very gravity of their titles made it a social imperative. Of course, when it was released last summer, Pearl Harbor was only offensive to anyone with a modicum of cinematic sensibility or a sharply tuned knowledge of history. Now, after that defining American moment has been conjured up in comparison to Sept. 11, such a trivialization of national tragedy appears even more disrespectful than ever. To be sure, after exposure to the

real thing, it seems incredible that we could ever have been wowed by such sensational bloodshed, such aestheticization of tragedy. Flowever, it would be wrong to say that exploitation of the taste for disaster is a tendency unique to Hollywood —much less that this taste is particular to modern-day American audiences. It is a deeply imbedded part of the Western cultural subconscious—only now, after reality smacked us upside the head with our own death wish, it happens to be painfully obvious. In fact, the bar for large-scale blockbusters was set thousands of years before the birth of film. Between Noah's Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah and the story of Exodus, the Bible created a standard for massive, epic bloodshed that filmmakers have often tried unsuccessfully to match. Society has been created, society will be destroyed —a theorem of our mythology that is almost as accepted as gravity. The conviction that our social structures are fundamentally flawed creates a desire to see those structures demolished. Of course, every movie can't be expected to show the intricacy of social decay, so the destructive urge is vented metaphorically upon the actual structures we create. Whether theseTowers of Babel take shape as towering skyscraper infernos or in sinking ships, the impact of the image is the same: We've built it, we revel in it and when it comes down, we're going to have to fight to get out of it. Speaking of skyscrapers, New York City—the crown jewel of urbanity—has been under siege by the movies ever since King Kong. With its foreboding skyline and notoriously hard-shelled citizens, it stands as the very symbol of modernity, an irresistible target for Ground Zero of Judgment America's sick obsession with its demise is unnerving now more than ever. It is too large of a coincidence to think that whoever was behind the attack was not well aware of its cinematic symbolism. But whether it be New York or Tokyo, apocalypse in the movies comes in many forms, shapeshifting as society is continuously forced to reimagine its own demise. The first of the successful disaster films appear absurd to the point of comedy to modern audiences, but at the time, they were dealing with a subject of the utmost importance. In the mid-‘sos, Japan was a country still reeling from the first demonstration of the awesome power of nuclear attack.

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The people coped in part by watching all sorts of rough beasts on the big screen. Godzilla and other rubber-suit monsters were awoken by the terrors of modern technology and filled with an appetite for destruction of cardboard city models. Movies then were unable to deal directly with the horror of Hiroshima, but the underlying concept—that man had tinkered with the forces of nature and would suffer as a result—made the Godzilla movies, as well as American adaptations such as the giant ants in Them!, unconventional methods of coming to grips with otherwise paralyzing fears through escapist cinematic release. Eventually, movies came around to address the nuclear threat more directly. Long after the specter of the atomic bomb had first come over the Western world, but only two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, two films came out back to back that looked the nuclear threat right in the eye. Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove shared virtually the same premise: Standard operating procedures go wrong, and the government is powerless to stop the ensuing holocaust. Kubrick's film was a biting satire where Fail-Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet, was a more somber assessment of the nuclear reality, but both looked honestly at a very real-world apocalyptic scenario. Considered together, the two demonstrate a remarkable capability for depth in film—when it finally comes around to taking its own fantasies seriously. What we are experiencing now, something that was perhaps absent even after Pearl Harbor, is a culture shock unique in history to this moment. For all the killer UFOs and Godzillas, and all the Biblical apocalypses imagined in centuries past, perhaps never before has a culture's most feared scenario actually come to life before its eyes. Since the fall of the USSR, movies have sorely lacked a monolithic source of evil and have turned to the chaotic threat of men-with-bombs in buildings, buses, trains and planes. And yet, for all the surprise and fear that has erupted across the country, it may as well have been Mothra himself who leveled the towers. Now, the sense of unease with our own violent media culture almost resembles guilt—as if our perverse imagining of tragedy has willed it into existence like the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. Surely, movie culture will be fundamentally altered by this. After all, the job of movies is to show the unimaginable, and one of their best tricks was just

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rupt on concept and originality. Designed with the express purposes of introducing Carey to the big screen and resurrecting her long-dead girl-next-door fagade, the film sacrifices any attempt at legitimacy by succumbing to commercial, artistic and undoubtedly egotistical constraints. Other notable mishaps and low points are numerous. Why the film is set in the early 'Bos is a mystery. Some of the wardrobe choices are appropriately Reagan-era —and a few even achieve the laughPerzyk out-loud level of Wedding Singer kitsch —but Carey and her deejay producer beau, Dice (Max Beesley), could just as easily be modernday rip-offs of J-Lo and R Diddy. Ironically, Glitter achieves its intended period only in the visual texture of the film —the dark, grainy filters used for most daylight scenes have all the charm of M.A.S.H. reruns. And Beesley's unbearable NewYawk accent is so vintage Marky Mark you'd almost wish this-were a film about sign-language. If there's anything that should've gone right with Glitter, it's the soundtrack. Sadly, the 'Bos influence appropriately extended to the music created for the film, leaving Carey with a string of bee-bop "Holiday" wannabes and maudlin ballads even Air Supply wouldn't have recorded. The unfortunate byproduct is that Glitter's penultimate tribute scene, in which Carey performs the meandering "Never Too Far," falls flat on all planes, marking the nauseating nadir of an unholy cinematic misadventure. One thing is certain: If Carey ever does recover from this self-indulgent ego odyssey, she'd better plead insanity. And after seeing Glitter, no one could argue

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the Friday following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, box office numbers at movie theaters nationwide hit staggering lows, a hint that the impact on the film industry might be far greater than the reshuffling of release dates and the digital tinkering of New York's skyline. But Saturday, ticket sales rebounded, and rebounded with vigor, sparing films like Hardball and The Glass House from opening weekend disaster. At Duke, the trend was similar. Freewater Presentation's Friday night film, Snatch, had poor attendance in the Griffith Film Theater in the Bryan Center, but Quadflix's Saturday and Sunday showings of the Renee Zellweger comedy Bridget Jones' Diary nearly sold out at the same venue, with the line to buy tickets stretching almost to the post office. By Alex The message? People across the country and at Duke desperately needed the escape of the movie-going experience in such a time of crisis—a need that is present even without national tragedy. Other than staying in one's dorm room, movie going at Duke is by far the most popular alternative to the campus' alcohol culture. With Freewater and Quadflix, both under the umbrella of the Duke University Union, and the Film and Video Program's Screen/Society, students, faculty, staff and community members with a taste for a good film enjoy a diversity of options. "It's far more opportunity than most Duke students realize or ever take advantage of," says Isham Randolph, programming coordinator for Screen/Society. "(The films] reflect the taste, backgrounds and interests of Duke students." Freewater and Quadflix are the two most recognizable movie names on campus. The groups are one in the same, as the student members involved in Freewater are also responsible for Quadflix. Tuesday and Thursday nights, Freewater shows five-film series on subjects as varied as rock-umentaries and martial arts to actor Jack Nicholson and director Billy Wilder. Duke students get in for free, while Duke employees pay only $4, the general public $5.

Friday nights, Freewater kicks into higher gear with smaller films released in the last year, like Pollock and In the Mood for Love. Flollywood's biggest recent releases get a second running Saturday and Sunday, with blockbusters like Shrek, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Rush Hour 2 on the schedule. These films are $4 for Duke students and employees and $5 for the general public. The prices constitute a one-dollar increase over last year, a rise that Freewater chair Matt Simon says is necessary. "We're moving more away from 16mm films to 35mm films in order to get the best quality," says Simon, a sophomore. "Most 35mm cost a lot more, and so our costs are going up. We also want to keep Freewater Garinger free for students." Running films on 35mm has actually been the biggest problem so far this year with Screen/Society, which focuses more on the academic study of film, rather than pure entertainment. With the opening of the new Richard White Lecture Hall on East Campus, almost all of Screen/Society's films were supposed to be shown in the new building. But the 35mm projector in the main lecture hall has yet to be installed, so most of the films on that format have been moved to the Griffith Theater. However, when the projector does arrive, Duke community members can expect to see some great films in a beautiful venue. Screen/Society sponsors five free series and special events every year: Public Exhibition, Southern Circuit, the Latin American Film Festival, Cinemateque and the annual Documentary Film and Video Happening. Highlights this semester include a French and Francophone series as well as appearances by Southern Circuit director Alan Berliner and documentarian Les Blanc. "Between Screen/Society, Freewater and Quadflix," Simon says, "you can definitely find a great movie to see every night." □

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the possibility of further economic difficulrequired to play at least 12 different characties, and he does not approve when his ters from at least four different countries. Makel three Surprisingly, daughter Anna (Actor #3, Caroline White) chose freshmen are all falls in love with young Sammy Linsky (Actor fortunately, they extremely talented #l, Amit Mahtaney). individuals. Even in a dress rehearsal, when The play brings up heavy religious, political the show should be "working out the kinks," seem be anc * soc ‘ al issues - Y et the proany. there didn't to p HnohPQ y 3 duction does not feel weighted Group's Wendell Theatre one livIn scene, Actor #2 is playing two of —German for down. production Lebensraum in space—is Germany. camp survivors who are disnear-future concentration ing set The set is very functional with cussing very grave issues. But because the ramps, scaffolding and lots of coat actor is playing two people at once, switchhangers for the abundant number of ing hats, postures and accents every second, it seems lighter, and none of the meancostumes on stage. In the opening ing is lost. scene, German Chancellor Rudolph Stroiber (Actor #2, David Foster) Because Lebensraum covers such a conholds a press conference to apolotroversial topic, Makel wanted to include a gize for the Holocaust and invites six faculty forum to discuss the issues it deals million Jews to return to Germany to with. After the Saturday matinee, faculty live. What ensues are the reactions members from Theater Studies and the reliand interactions of four different gion and German departments will gather in groups. The first family to take the Shaefer Theater to discuss the play. Makel offer and return to Germany are believes it is important to "relate these issues back to what's happening in the real the Linskys, a traditional JewishAmerican family. Next are two world" because so many people are oblivimarried gay men from France, ous to what is really happening today. followed by a concentration The show opens tonight and is only runcamp survivor who's been living in ning through the weekend. Judging by a dress rehearsal, it seems Lebensraum will Australia. The Giesling family are be a rare treat to Duke theater. The show is natives to Germany and Gustav serious yet funny, and combined with excepGiesling works on the docks tional direction and highly talented actors, where Mike Linsky finds a job upon arrival. Gustav is against the this production should have little trouble THREE MUSKETEERS:This trio of workhorses mugs for the small screen, Homecoming Project because of finding success. □

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Freewater Films Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. 7 & 9;3opm Free to students with ID, $4 to employees, $5 to all others. In the Mood for Love, Friday Decline of Western Civilization 11, Tuesday Prizzi's Honor, Thursday

Cat's Cradle 300 E. Main St., Carrboro. (919) 967-9053. Richard Buckner w/Anders Parker & Crooked Jades, Friday Butchies, Saturday Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Sunday The Waterboys, Monday B-Sides CD Release Party, Tuesday Burning Spear w/ Sons of Steel, Wednesday Weekend Excursion w/ Llama, Thursday

Sports Arena. $lO and up. 1400 Edwards Mill Road, Raleigh. For info: www.ticketmaster.com or call (919) 834-4000.

Quad Flix Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. 7 & 10pm Saturday, Bpm Sunday. $4 to students and employees with ID, $5 to all others. Moulin Rouge

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Men’s soccer travels to Chapel Hill ACC thriller pits two top10 rivals

After defeating Maryland 1-0 last weekend to open ACC play, Duke will be tested by a tough road match at North Carolina. '

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Loss, loathing and possible redemption in the Research Triangle. And they can’t even use their hands. When the Blue Devils (4-2,1-0 in the ACC) make the short trip to Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill Saturday evening, they will face a North Carolina team (52, 0-1) that lost 78 percent of last season’s goals and 56 percent of its assists

Out on the East Campus turf fields, Duke’s field hockey team has been practicing hard all week to get ready for Saturday’s Carlyle Cup match at North Carolina.

While UNC has dominated for

many years, this year’s Blue Devils are optimistic, unintimidated and ready to play. Coach Liz Tchou credits her team with a great deal of consistency and poise, and explains that through the first part of the season, “they have been working well together.... The chemistry has been really good. “We’re just trying to find the balance ofover-zealous and too cautious.” The strengths of the team seem to be coming from all positions. Tchou believes the 2001 defense has been the strongest since the start of her

through graduation last spring. Of course, Duke finds itself in the same predicament this year without Ali Curtis, Robert Russell and company patrolling the chalked lines of Koskinen anymore. “With their losing a lot of people and our loss of a lot of talent,” Blue Devil coach John Rennie said, “this weekend’s game will be much different than our last three years worth of games.” So, throw Duke’s 30-33-6 lifetime record and its 4-1 recent record against the Tar Heels aside, and what is left are two teams with more to prove than they

both would care to admit. Senior goalkeeper Scott Maslin, the See SOCCER on page 12 ¥■■

tenure and that the offense has

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GOALKEEPER SCOTT MASLIN and the Blue Devils will face archrival UNC, a team with which Duke has competed very closely in recent years.

“really been our strength; they’ve been working really hard.” Senior co-captain Angie North, See FIELD HOCKEY on page 16 �

Volleyball looks to extend winning streak against UNC By KEVIN LEES

Sophomore Krista Dill added that defeating UNC would be a great benefit, but that each game

Although the volleyball team has yet to be defeated and is on the cusp of the best start in the program’s history, the hard part always

was important. “UNC is a great team; they are every year. They

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remains ahead. The difficulty starts this weekend as Duke (10-0, 2-0 in the ACC) hosts N.C. State (5-4, 11) 7:30 p.m. tonight in Cameron Indoor Stadium and North Carolina (9-3, 2-0) Saturday at 7:30 p.m.Like Duke, UNC is undefeated in conference play. Yet while the Blue Devils know they cannot look past the Wolfpack tonight, it is clear that the ultimate test will be the Tar Heels, a foe that has confounded Duke in three of the last four matches. Duke coach Jolene Nagel said, however, it is a different year and Duke and UNC are both different teams. “Every weekend in the ACC is tough,” she said. North Carolina had an easy time with conference rivals Virginia and Maryland. Its three losses were to proven volleyball titans such as No. 6 Penn State, No. 19 UC-Santa Barbara and No. 20 Santa Clara. The game will not be an easy one for the Blue Devils, who last won in Cameron two years ago. “With North Carolina, they’re not going to give you many points,” Nagel said. “We’ve got to make things happen for ourselves by being aggressive and disciplined.”

Row your boat The Duke rowing team kicks off its fall season this weekend as it hosts the Lake Michie Invitational, which takes place on Duke's home water in nearby Bahama, N.C.

have great athletes,” she said. “But we’re better.” Dill also cautioned that N.C. State would not be a walkover.

“They’re not regarded as one of the best teams in the conference, but we definitely want to stay

focused,” she said. The Wolfpack, under new coach Mary Byrne, has yet to prove that it is much of a threat, but its 1-1 start is the best since 1996. “With N.C. State... they have a lot of freshman that are playing that aren’t familiar to us,” Nagel said. “I think they’re really a team that we need to make sure we know very well going into the match. We’ve never really seen them a lot before.” She said that the team was scrappy and had nothing to lose. A win Friday night, Duke’s 11th consecutive win on the court, would, signify the longest opening-season winning streak in Duke’s history. Predictably, Nagel and her team have downplayed the pressure of hitting that 11-game mark. “Coach mentioned that early in the season, but we’re not focused on having a winning streak,” Dill said. “We just want to take one game at a time.”

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ASHLEY HARRIS and the volleyball team will attempt to prolong their unbeaten streak against North Carolina this weekend.

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Former Terrapin star and current Rockets guard Steve Francis donated 700 free meals to students displaced by the tornado that hit the Maryland campus earlier this week.

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Sixty years later, Williams’ record of .400 BA still intact By 808 DUFFY The Boston Globe

He finally admitted it. This self-styled hitting automaton who absorbed himself in every at-bat, who scrutinized a pitcher’s every nuance, and whose universe consisted

entirely of deciphering a baseball’s aerodynamics on its

flight to home plate betrayed a vestige of human frailty when it came to his favorite, obsessive subject. “What a thrill!” 23-year-old Ted Williams said in the Red Sox clubhouse at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park on Sept. 28, 1941. “I wasn’t saying anything about it before the game, but I never wanted anything harder in my life.” The object of his affection was a .400 season’s average, and he achieved it 60 years ago today—something nobody has accomplished since—with heroic bravado. Rather than sitting out the final doubleheader of the season to preserve a .3995 average that would have been

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TED WILLIAMS was the last major league player to hit over .400. The 60th anniversary of this feat will be celebrated today.

rounded up to .400, he decided, “The record’s no good unless it’s made in all the games.” So he went 6-for-8 against the Athletics—four singles, a double and a home run that gave him the American League championship with 37—as he hiked his final average to .406. He could have taken the safe path to history. In September’s crunch, Williams got as high as .413 at midmonth, ended the home portion of the season at .406, and a l-for-7 doubleheader in Washington before the final series left him at .401. He’d been hitting only .270 since Sept. 10, and manager Joe Cronin considered sitting him out ofthe last three games to protect the milestone. But Red Sox coach Hugh Dufiy counseled Williams on the eve of the Philadelphia series. “Listen, kid, it’s an honor to hit .400.1 know because I once hit .400 myself (the all-time high of .438 for the Boston National League team in 1894),”Duffy said. But it won’t mean a thing unless you earn it the right way. Go out there tomorrow and show ’em you’re a .400 hitter.”

The speech was inspiring but unnecessary. Williams already had told Cronin he intended to play out the season. There was no question after he went l-for-4 in the series opener, which left him at that irksome .3995. He couldn’t sit now; even though his average would be listed as .400, he knew it would be a technicality. Because of the treacherous Shibe shadows in late afternoon, Cronin debated whether to keep him out of the nightcap of the doubleheader if he reached .400 in the opener, but again, Williams would have none of it. And so he earned everlasting distinction the only way he would take it—by earning it. The feat was hailed as remarkable, but it was not considered an epic. A .400 average was a rarity, but not an endangered species. It had last been reached by Bill Terry (.401) of the National League New York Giants in 1930. The AL’s last .400 hitter had been the Detroit Tigers’ Harry Heilmann (.403) in 1923. There had been an appreciable gap before Williams joined the club, but it wasn’t a lifetime. “Even after he hit .400,1 don’t think the magnitude of the accomplishment was realized,” says Williams’ outfield partner that season, Dom DiMaggio. “Maybe when a couple of guys hit .370, people said .400 was

such an achievement.”

The deed has become honored through its absence. In the past six decades, only the Kansas City Royals’ George Brett (.390) and the San Diego Padres’ Tony Gwynn (.394 in a strike-shortened season) have come within hailing distance of .400, and the mark now has assumed mythic proportions. Williams’ feat is regarded as not necessarily once-in-a-lifetime but one-last-time. Yet in that splendid summer of 1941, baseball’s final one before the ravages ofWorld War II spelled the end of any trace ofAmerican innocence, Williams did not occupy the spotlight alone. His chief rival for eminence, New York Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio, established a standard that was immediately regarded as immortal. From May 15 to July 17, DiMaggio hit in every game the Yankees played—s6. It shattered the previous standards for hitting streaks—the modem mark of 41 by the St. Louis Browns’ George Sisler in 1923 and the all-time record of 44 by the Baltimore Orioles’ Wee Willie Keeler in 1897. DiMaggio’s target was more finite, more readily comprehensible, than Williams’, and the Yankee Clipper’s streak dominated fans’ interest and news coverage as the summer progressed. But there were no hard feelings from Williams. While the two may have been portrayed as the symbols of the eternal Boston-New York feud, such enmity in fact was not personal. Dom DiMaggio, Joe’s brother as well as Williams’ teammate, had a unique perspective. “All I can remember,” he says, “is that Ted would look at the scoreboard and yell over, ‘Hey, Dommy, Joe got another one.’

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Williams’ appreciation was sincere, Dom DiMaggio believes. “I think they had a great admiration for each other,” he says. ‘Ted thought Joe was the greatest player ever, and Joe said many times that Ted was the finest hitter he’d ever seen.” Then came the September swoon. But with the pressure really on, Williams made the world—even his teammates—aware of his distinction. “I’ll never forget,” Dom DiMaggio says reverently, “4for-5 and 2-for-3 on the final Sunday of the season.” No one was aware of it, but they may have been witnessing the end of an era—and a celebration of singular greatness.

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newest recipient of the ACC Player of the Week honor, has more than compensated for some of Duke’s lingering question marks this year with his quick hands. He has already amassed four shutouts, including the last two games, and has only allowed half a goal on average per game. However, as strong as the Blue Devils remain in net, their main issue against North Carolina will be to attack successfully enough to alleviate some of the pressure that Maslin will surely bear in the backfield. Despite the Tar Heels’ 11-2 first half scoring advantage over their opponents this season, Duke, comparable to how it defeated Maryland last weekend, feels it can accomplish this goal by sacking its rivals before they have time to adjust. “Both teams will go into the first half not knowing exactly what to expect out ofthe other,” Rennie said. “If we get on the board early, though, we will be at a tremendous advantage for the rest of the game.”

The Tar Heels will also use their defensive prowess to offset any offensive weaknesses they may possess. Leading the ACC in shutouts, goals against and save percentage last year, goalie Michael Ueltschey undoubtedly did the best Tony Meola impression in the conference last year. In addition to Ueltschey’s near impenetrability between the posts, North Carolina returns all three of its defensive starters, all of whom will be up for legitimate All-America consideration this season. “They are a much different team than most of the ones we have played this year,” junior midfielder Donald Mclntosh said. “They are a team with big guys who like to play very physically.” Lastly, because it is a Duke-Tar Heel matchup and the teams don’t know how to play each other any differently, both squads, along with their wall-like keepers and less-than-accommodating defensemen, will bring a healthy dose of hostility into Fetzer. At least that won’t change.

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TREVOR PEREA will be looked to to provide a scoring threat for the Blue Devils against UNC.

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GRID PICKS ROLLING VIEW MARINA This week, the Grid Pickers decided that it was no longer appropriate to continue their hero-worship of athletes. Craig “not Morley” Saperstein, in a bid to become more like his 60 Minutes namesake, spent all week at

a marina in Raleigh, waiting for another football coach to save a man driving into the water. Unfortunately, he caught a sniffle, and all week long, his voice ended up two octaves lower. To satisfy his boss’ desire to see heroism up close, Paul “I a” Doran “cherish time at The my Chronicle” told Kevin “I” Lloyd “when I said I loved you” to drive an SUV into the water. “I would do much, much worse to him if Craig would let me,” Doran

fumed before brightening. “I’d cut him out of Grid Picks; that’s what I’d do!” Unfortunately, Doran was distracted by “I” Am “a” bika “full of tofu and vinegar” Kumar, Dave “don’t” In “hale a” gram “of marijuana”

and Martin “Ringling Brothers and” Barna “m and Bailey Circus,” who just happened to wander up, and forgot to rescue Lloyd. While drowning, Lloyd was characteristically bitter, blaming the University administration for the water that was flooding his lungs. Tyler “up and call the police” Rosen sat by himself on the dock trying to come up with a pun involving Lloyd and drowning. Kevin “p” Lees “stop calling me a traitor” stood behind Doran, muttering about business cards, a portfolio and a useless digital recorder. “This never would have happened if I ran sports,” he whined to Jim “Like Caesar I will alight in my C” Herriott, who, while doing his best Jonas Blank impersonation, was admiring his own pants.

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Duke at Virgin! TV/Radio: WDNC 620 AM Virginia record: 2-1 (1-0 in ACC) Duke record: 0-3 (0-1 in ACC) Series record: Duke leads 27-25 Last meeting: Last year on Sept. 16, Virginia beat Duke at Wallace Wade 26-10. Dan Ellis passed for 333 yards, while Billy McMullen burned the Blue Devils on eight receptions for 189 yards and two touchdowns. The score had been even at three apiece before UVa rolled off 17 straight points. Spencer Romine led Duke with 198 yards passing.

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If Duke’s offensive line can open up some holes against Virginia’s extremely physical defensive line, Chris Douglas can have a successful day. The back has been Duke’s biggest bright spot on offense this year and UVa’s rush defense is less than stellar.

Virginia suffered a hit here when Antwoine Womack went down in the season opener. The running game has stayed on track with Arlen Harris rushing behind a powerful offensive line. UVa will not attain Wildcat-like rushing numbers, but Duke will have trouble here.

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In three games this year, Duke has surrendered the ball eight times while only generating two turnovers. A turnover ratio like this makes it nearly impossible to win football games—especially when your team has less talent to begin with. While Duke wrestles with its turnover problems, Virginia will try to figure out who they are. After opening the season with a loss to Wisconsin and a scare against Richmond, the Wahoos shocked Clemson and the ACC last week when they won at Death Valley. Two years ago, an 0-3 Duke team traveled to Charlottesville and upset the Cavaliers. Don’t expect that to happen this year, Virginia wins 38-13. —Compiled by Tyler Rosen

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No. 10 Duke not intimidated facing No. 2 UNC Tar Heels � FIELD HOCKEY from page 11 also a senior, credits junior Chrissy Ashley as a key strength in the midfield. Ashley contributed a goal in the Blue Devils’ victory over Richmond last Saturday. “I don’t think [UNC] can really handle her,” North said. While the captains and coaches are clearly excited about this team, they do recognize their weaknesses. In

respect to Duke’s two losses, which were against Louisville and William and Mary, both games ended with a score of 2-1. “Both games we were up 1-0,” Tchou said. “We were protecting our lead instead of going out on attack.” • Co-captain Liz Bateman agrees with

her coach’s assessment. “We weren’t playing well when we scored, so we never felt the need to step

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FOOTBALL from page 1

Two-sport star Reggie Love may be out with a pulled hamstring he suffered during a break-away play against Northwestern. Franks noted that Love has been resting more during practice in the hopes of having him on Saturday; however, if he plays it will probably only be sparingly. “He might be back,” Franks said of his wideout. “We’d rather not have him practice today and then play on Saturday. We just need to rest him a little bit.” However, Franks would rather not concentrate on injuries, but instead wants to get his team ready to a play a physical game in the trenches. “It will be a physical game. We’re going to have to be physical,” Franks

said, adding that the Cavaliers’ offensive and defensive lines are its biggest strengths. The game will not be easy for Virginia either, though. When the Blue Devils have the ball, the Cavs will have to concentrate on shutting down running back Chris Douglas. Franks noted

it up,” she said. Bateman also mentioned that both games were ones that the Blue Devils had felt they were going to win. Now, Bateman is ready to face UNC yet again. After playing the Tar Heels twice

a year for the past three years, the seniors know what to expect from a team that has beaten Duke on 44-straight occasions. Nonetheless, the Blue Devils remain fearless about their upcoming contest. “We are very aggressive, which will really help against UNC,” she said. The Blue Devils (5-2) are currently ranked 10th in the nation. UNC, after losing to Kent State in overtime and dropping Wednesday night’s game to Wake Forest, is ranked second. Even with two losses, the Tar Heels have fared well. Abby Martin, a senior midfielder, was recently named ACC field hockey player of the week and also serves as a member of the U.S. national team. Tchou understands the tough challenge that her team faces. “You have to give UNC credit,” she said. “They’ve had an unbelievable tradition in field hockey. “Streaks were made to be broken. We have nothing to 105e..,. We have the heart to do it, and the talent.... It’s just a matter of putting it together.”

that Douglas’ increased strength, coupled with the unexpectedly good play of the offensive line has lead to Duke’s vastly improved rushing game. Douglas currently ranks fifth in the ACC in total yardage with 199. They will also have to deal with a defense that has shown flashes of brilliance throughout the season, holding then No. 5 Florida State to zero points in the first quarter. On the other side of the ball, the Blue Devils’ comerbacks will have to contend with the ACC’s best wide receiver, former Henrico High School standout Billy McMullen. McMullen has caught 20 receptions, five touchdowns and gained 238 yards in three games. “They’ve got a great wide receiver who makes a lot of plays for them,” Franks said of the potent Cavalier receiver. “He’s leading the league in three statistical categories.” All those facts combined, however,

the Blue Devils are still confident they can repeat their magic from 1999. “The season’s not over. We have eight more games left,” Douglas said.

CHRISSY ASHLEY has provided solid play in the midfield for the Blue Devils

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Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina is sponsoring the 6th Annual Candlelight Vigil for Child Abuse Homicide Victims to be held from 7:30 am to 12 Midnight at the State Capitol grounds in Raieigh (at Salisbury and Edenton Streets downtown). A brief Opening Ceremony will be held at 7:30 am today to kick-off the event, and a Candlelight Closing Ceremony will be held from 11:00 pm to 12 midnight. The closing ceremony will include music, prayer, talks on prevention and inspiring words from people who make a difference in the lives of children.

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less than a month, corporate giant Microsoft will release Windows XP, the latest version of its operating system. Consumer groups are already pressuring the government to take a tough position toward the company, as several submitted a 33-page study yesterday detailing their objections to the new software. U.S. officials should take heed and ensure that Microsoft does not commit the egregious acts that have allowed it to monopolize the market in the past. Unfortunately, the Department of Justice already made a mistake when it decided in mid-September not to pursue the dismantling of Microsoft; in doing so, the court system failed to resolve one of the nation’s most glaring anti-trust cases. Yet the DOJ, perhaps fearing a long and pricey legal battle with one of the world’s richest corporations, shied away from its responsibility to correct Microsoft’s wrongdoing and set America’s—and indeed the world’s—technology development on an efficient path. Consider the history of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Initially behind Netscape in market share and quality, Microsoft has taken the lead in large part through unfair competition: It began offering its Internet Explorer web browser at no cost and then tied it into its operating systems, which already dominated the market. Computer users could indeed use Netscape’s software, but later versions ofWindows 95 and upgrades required lE, regardless of the consumer’s desire. These efforts successfully diminished Netscape’s presence. Had Microsoft not been able to wrongfully use their monopolist power, they would have had a much more difficult time “out-competing” Netscape. But with Microsoft’s usual tactics, one can hardly use the term “competition.” But this is just one example ofMicrosoft’s unfair competition. More recently, industry observers fear the tying ofits media player and instant messaging software into the Windows operating system. The government should have broken the company up; even if the Microsoft remnant companies were to lead in individual markets, the DOJ could better ensure actual competition instead of unfair domination of an industry. Now that the Justice Department has decided not to pursue that redress, though, it has an even greater task ahead: imposing restrictions on one giant corporation. The DOJ did hand Microsoft a set ofrestrictions, recommended June 2000 by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. They prohibit the company from favoring companies and developers who discriminate against Microsoft’s competitors. The restrictions also require Microsoft to license Windows to personal computer manufacturers under uniform prices while barring the company from mandating startup screens, the Windows desktop and preferences. Ensuring that Microsoft submits to these restrictions will be difficult. But the DOJ must not fail consumers again; officials must be willing to bring charges again if Microsoft reverts to its old practices.

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Chronicle misstates economics curriculum changes A small typo in the Sept. 27 front page article on the economics department’s reforms may cause some confusion. Specifically, the article states that our department will no longer give or transfer Advanced Placement credit for introductory “macroeconomics” when it should have said “microeconomics.” Let me therefore take this opportunity to quickly state the department’s policy on trans-

fer credits for introductory or

intermediate courses. correctly The article reported that the introductory

lowed by microeconomics (Econ 52), intermediate microeconomics (Econ 149) and

intermediate macroeconomics (Econ 154). This permits us to teach all courses following Econ 1751 at a more advanced level that reflects the high

quality of our undergraduate students here at Duke. However, it also means that

our new Econ 52 course is no longer equivalent to a

Principles of Microeconomics course at another university, or to AP microeconomics. Therefore, we can no longer give transfer credit for AP

credit toward graduation for such courses, but not departmental credit. Similarly, the transfer credit policy for courses previously considered equivalent to Econ 149 or 154 will also change because these courses, too, will become different than what is taught elsewhere. Students intending to major in economics must therefore take their core requirements here at Duke. During the course of this semester, we will update our web page to reflect these and other changes.

microeconomics or Principles Thomas Nechyba and intermediate courses are ofMicroeconomics taken elseDirector of now sequenced—with introwhere. Students may still be Undergraduate Studies able to receive University ductory macro (Econ 1/51) folDepartment of Economics for referenced article, see http:! www.chronicle.duke.edu!story.php?article_id=236ol /

Violent retaliation justified to bring in terrorists Unfortunately, I came across a letter to the editor from the Sept. 18 issue ofThe

veteran to shoot down our anybody in New York City. Eesley proposed the quesgeneration. If you have tion, “Would you tell your son found inner peace, I envy after he gets in a fight that you. However, I know that I the right thing to do the next will never reach that level day is to go pick another until those responsible are fight?” Hey buddy, we didn’t brought to justice through even get a chance to throw a violent retaliation. I’m willpunch. I don’t know what ing to bet that I share the your father taught you, but sentiments of the victims’ us true Americans don’t tuck families and the vast majortail and run in the face of ity ofAmerica. So do us all a adversity, especially when favor, Eesley: Stop trying to staring into the eyes of evil. open your mind when you This is a premise that has should be trying to open been illustrated throughout your eyes. American history. Ryan McCarihan This letter has all the

Chronicle entitled, “Additional Violence Will Not Solve Terrorist problem The author, Chuck Eesley, feels that through inner peace we will overcome terrorism without the need for retaliation. He undoubtedly feels true sorrow for the victims and their families just like the rest of the nation. However, there is no doubt in my mind that he did not know anybody who was involved in the attack. He probably didn’t even know ammo for a World War II for referenced letter, see http:! www.chronicle.duke.edu/story.php^articleJd-23469 ”

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Like letter writer Tiffany pride in our alma mater. or their mother or their pasWith respect to those who tor is the victim of the next Hamburger, I too received Alexandra Wolfe’s Sept. 19 decry patriotism, suggest attack. Fortunately, Wolfe, column from a fellow alum- that America had it coming and I, and most Americans nus. Wolfe should know that or otherwise assume the who take a broader view of alumni are circulating her fashionable position that we whom we consider members piece, not just because it should respond to this devasof our extended family, have makes eminent sense, but tating act of war with peace, suffered enough devastation also because reading her I suspect, sadly, that these already, and are ready to act. article and knowing that it students will come to recogwas written by a Duke stu- nize the error in their ways Paul Friedman dent generates enormous only after their best friend, Trinity ’96 for referenced column, see http:! /www.chronicle.duke.edu/story.php?articleJd=234B9

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SEPTEMBER 28,2001 � PAGE 19

Not a new p henomenon

Terrorism: The historical co ntext and the present crisis

tinues to metastasize into the social fabAs the horrific tragedy of Sept. 11 setric of the Western world. Modem terrortles into permanent corridors of our conscious life, our reactions as a society are ism began in a democracy: In 1793, the manifold. There is shock, grief, anger and French government, after four years of other emotions that we have not fully experimenting with the problems of understood or found words to describe. As establishing a democratic republic, inauwe search for explanations, our sages in gurated a self-proclaimed “reign of tergovernment, the media and the academy ror” in which tens of thousands of citizens try to help us articulate what we have were victimized and executed as “eneexperienced. We have been told that our mies of the revolution.” Terror from below innocence is gone, that the third world began with the Italian Carbonari, small war has begun and that we are concells ofItalian patriots who killed French fronting a new and more lethal form of officers during the occupation of Europe terrorism than the world has ever seen. under Napoleon. In 1849, Karl Heinzen There is no doubt that our life as a wrote the first manifesto on modem ternation will be altered by the destruction rorism in which he justified the killing of of that day. The thousands of lost lives “the barbarians” in government as the cannot be restored, and their loss cannot only means of ending the injustice and be explained to those left without them. brutality ofmonarchical rule. A critical moment in the evolution of Fear will become a presence that terrorism began with the assassination increased security can never really disof Emperor Alexander II of Russia in pel. Sacrifices will be made if our government chooses to seek retribution by 1881. A wave of assassinations followed, the consequences of which have led to war, as seems now to be the case. the dilemma we face today. Until the 1880s, the combat between the state and terrorists challenging its legitimacy was confined to specific areas and individuals, as attempts were made on the lives of leaders in Italy, Germany, Spain, Guest Commentary France, Britain and the United States. The justification for later political We are urged to resume normal life, as both a healing mechanism and a tactic in violence was the ideology of anarchism. the war against terrorism. Sports events Governments began their own acts of resume and we will cheer for anotherkind terror, as in the case of the Haymarket of victory, movie theaters will again draw Affair in Chicago in 1887 when seven innocent editors of an anarchist newscrowds to view digitalized specters of violence, mayhem and terrorism, and our paper were executed with the support of the public and the media for the killings daily routines of earning a living, providofseveral policemen at a labor rally. The ing food for our families, and seeking temfront of at state and the terrorist, locked in an in escape televisions, porary bars and in restaurants with friends will interdependent relationship, have been go on. The firebomb that brought down resorting to acts of violence to achieve the World Trade Center will be a memory. their ends up to the present moment. Then, the enemy of the bombers was In historical perspective, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the nation-state, which, after the unificathe Pentagon are not really new; they are tion of Germany and Italy in 1871, part of an evolutionary pattern that con- seemed to have created a threatening

Martin Miller and

Ylana Miller

Leviathan about which Heinzen had earlier warned. Governments responded with new security measures, immigration quotas, deportation laws and sweeping powers to combat the threat of “nihilists and anarchists,” who were never clearly identified. For civil society, the terror was a scourge that seemed to have no end, no predictability and from which no one was safe.

The most recent

We live

limited control over its resources in complex ways. Yet terrorist action, by inflicting damage and generating rage, has its greatest impact when our hurt gets in the way of our will to understand. The result is a cycle of violence next which sacrifices long-term goals to

with the stage of dealing with the problems that lie behind the unacceptable violence ...

upsurge of terrorism was the intensive combat that took place “from Berkeley to Berlin” and beyond during the 1960s and 19705. The bombings seemed once again to have no limits. The Baader-Meinhoff Group in West Germany, the Red Brigades in Italy and the Weathermen in the United States became the subject of increased media attention with every violent “action” taken against the symbols of the state and its “ruling classes.” Governments again responded as American cities were patrolled by tanks and the National Guard, and universities, for the first time, permitted a permanent police presence on campus grounds. During this time, terrorists expanded the zone of combat even farther by introducing airline highjackings. Again, as in the past, terrorist movements ultimately were eliminated by a combination of state action and a loss of public support for their cause. We live today, however, with the next stage of dealing with the problems that lie behind the unacceptable violence. Contrary to some arguments, history has not come to an end. In fact, history tells us that those who resort to terrorism are acting to seek change in the political arena and in this case, their challenge faithfully mirrors the globalization phenomenon which has widened the Western economic arena but

short-term relief. Terrorist actions of the scale with which we are dealing today are not the work of a few mindless and crazy individuals or groups. An effective defense will require analysis not only of the networks which recruit members but equally of the political world in which they operate and the reasons that they succeed in generating broader popular identification with the rage they express. We might begin by recognizing the extraordinary planning, sources of motivation and intended goals that went into the attack which devastated us. If we are to find ways of protecting ourselves, we need to take seriously those who oppose us. It is past time for us to acknowledge that the role of being the superpower, with all its prerogatives, comes with the imperative of anticipating the responses we engender, intended or not. We cannot escape the anger we have and will create; we can, however, learn that our failure to listen all too often costs us the international support we will need to be productive in our efforts at maintaining both security and our liberties. Only if we rethink our place in the framework of the cultural complexities of an interdependent world, with its multiplicity of potential centers and conflicts, can we hope to succeed. .

Martin Miller and Ylana Miller are faculty members of the Department of History.

Beyond the catastrophe The catastrophe of Sept. 11 has left us without the words to adequately capture our feelings of shock, anger and frustration. Yet we hear, with each passing day, more and more voices that promise to fill this void through a cheap and easy resort to stereotypes and unthinking, empty fist shaking. The images that have colonized our minds since that day have long had a place in our collective imagination, fed by innumerable movies that have enthralled millions with the vicarious thrill of apocalyptic destruction. Yet the events are not Hollywood. This rhetoric of war, vengeance and retribution is entirely inadequate to the task offinding ways to express the loss, mourning and grief in which we find ourselves. Words such as “attack,” “war” or “Pearl Harbor” do not plumb the depths of a catastrophe so sudden, unexpected and ruinous that it can only be experienced as a calamitous fate. It may be that poetry and private prayer are the only expressions capable of capturing what has occurred to thousands of our countrypeople of different classes, races, religions and national origins. Yet how are we to come to terms with what has happened? We have been subject to a barrage of images and rhetoric from a media that has done far too little to prepare us for the world in which we five. Facile punditry and self-interested political and military posturing serve only to reinforce our ignorance rather than help us understand the passions that have so grievously wounded us. We are, after all, only a small part of a world of six billion people that is profoundly divided by power, wealth, culture and ideology. And we have been betrayed in the last decade by self-satisfied cheerleaders who have suggested that the world is becoming ever more like us—the myth of globalization—or that each and everyone of “them” aspires to what we have or envies us because they are not like “us.” As has often been said, the citizens

of the United States are a generous people who will do anything for the rest of the world, except learn about them, their languages and their cultures. Self-centered flights of fantasy are all the more dangerous now because they feed off the anger, confusion and helplessness that we have all experienced. There are simple truths that have remained unsaid: This is not Pearl Harbor, would that it were. And there are no winners to be had, only losers, if we buy into the simplistic imagery and rhetoric of war. I can understand, to a degree, why our political leaders have been so quick to “reassure” us by emphasizing our supreme militaiy might when wielded with decisiveness. However, this catastrophe speaks to the limits of our power, to the vulnerability that we are exposed to despite our wealth, our awesome technology and our status as the world’s unchallenged superpower. The deaths of-thousands stem

John French

Guest Commentary from the unthinkable. Our illusions of invulnerability have collapsed from a deadly combination of the lowest of low-tech weapons wielded with perverse ingenuity by ruthlessly single-minded religious fanatics, a small group of men intoxicated with the desire to punish rather than to convince or convert. The “terrorism” with a capital “T” that appears on our TV screens tells us much too little of what we need to know about the world, while threatening to morph into an all-encompassing conglomeration of our society’s fears and weaknesses, its wounded vanity and pride. The anger that tempts us to embrace the false words we are offered is even more dangerous when it is linked to an

older self-righteous colonialist rhetoric pitting “civilization” against “barbarism.” If only that the moral lessons of history were so clear and unambiguous. Responsibility for the two greatest global catastrophes of the 20th century lay neither with the world’s “backward” peoples nor with Islam, but rather with the very countries that offered themselves up as their “teachers” of civilization and Christianity. After all, it was the self-proclaimed center of Western Civilization that devastated itself in a paroxysm of violence and destruction twice in a little over a quarter century. The massive slaughter ofWorld War I, which cost 20 million lives, originated among the very NATO countries that now style themselves “civilized.” And the 50 million lives lost in World War 11, one half of them civilians, was made possible only by our advances in scientific and technological knowledge and industrial organization, the source of our inordinate pride. In view of this history, it should surprise no one that exaggerated claims made on behalf of the modem, scientific and civilized world rang and ring so falsely to the world’s “backward” peoples and “barbaric” nations. Asked by an English reporter in 1930 his opinion about Western Civilization, Mahatma Ghandi replied, “That would be a good idea.” We have lost our illusions that we are immune from the world’s passions. Yet the loss of that feeling of untouchability should not be replaced with an even more dangerous illusion; That it is possible to remake the world in order to extinguish its passions. It would be especially tragic if we chose the path of teaching “civilization,” once again through soldiers and bombs—a course of action unworthy of those who have died. John French is an associate professor of Latin American history.

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