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CUSTOMERS eat lunch at the re-opened Oak Room. The upscale on-campus restaurant on the second floor of the West Union Building has attracted 25 percent fewer student customers.

Oak Room attracts fewer patrons Officials report 25 percent customer drop, only 5 percent decline in revenue By VICTORIA KAPLAN The Chronicle month after A new management took

“I’m very concerned that we’re not remotely close to the number of meals we were serving last year.... I’d hate to

over the Oak Room, the eatery seems to be experiencing some growing pains. With the number oftransactions down by roughly 25 percent over last year, dining officials are coping with the difficulties of developing an upscale restaurant on a college campus, and are looking for ways to attract more customers.

think that something we’ve spent so much time on is running the risk of closing,” said Jim Wulforst, director of dining services. But Maggie Radzwiller, manager of the Oak Room, said it is too soon to evaluate the Oak Room’s business. A longtime restaurateur who helped open

Brightleaf 905 and Pop’s, Radzwiller said she has focused the first month of business on training.

“If you’re overly busy from the day

you’re going, you’re not training. You’ve got to go slow. The official term is soft opening,” she said. ‘Teople are looking at

the sales of the first month, and they have no business doing that.” Although the number of customers See OAK ROOM on page 6 �

The natural sciences are preparing to enter the fray ofcampus construction projects, as administrators and faculty map out a new building to be located somewhere between the Physics, Biological Sciences and Gross Chemistry buildings. With research, teaching and office space, the new building is planned as a major improvement over its future neighbors, none ofwhich have undergone major renovations since they were built. “Experimental sciences—primarily those with lab use—are in facilities now that are about 35 years old,” said Bemdt Mueller, dean of the natural sciences. “You have to appreciate that the way sciences have gone in the last 35 years has changed dramatically.” Planning for the building is still in the preliminary stages as architects work to design a space that will accommodate the complex and diverse needs of researchers. Construction will not begin for at least six months on the 110,000square-foot facility, which includes more See BUILDING on page 5 �

Cole-McFadden, Candidates hope to tackle crime White square off s � city employee By RUTH CARLITZ The Chronicle

Cora Cole-McFadden, opposed by neighborhood activist Jeffery White, is the front-runner in the race for the Ward 1 City Council seat.

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election Nov. 6 Former city employee Cora Cole-McFadden is the front-runner in the race, having won 58.1 percent of the votes in the four-way primary and securing the en-

dorsements of the city’s four major political groups. Although this is her first run for public office, Cole-McFadden is a career City Hall worker and a Democratic Party activist. Before retiring this summer, she had served as the city’s affirmative action director, vice chair ofthe Durham Committee on the Af-

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Fighting crime will be high on the agenda of Durham’s next mayor, regardless of the outcome of the Nov. 6 election. Both Nick Tennyson and Bill Bell have touted crime as a key issue, although they differ on the specifics of how to effectively fight it. The candidates emphasized prevention as a top priority, and also addressed Durham’s clearance rate —the number of criminal investigations successfully concluded by the police. Both mayor hopefuls pointed to the drug climate and a lack of opportunity as the driving forces behind crime in Durham. “What, you find is kids become disillusioned, and the only way they see out is through some easy illegal activity,” Bell said. Tennyson also faulted the judicial system for contributing to crime. “[The system]' has not worked too effectively to deliver guidance,” he said. “People are involved in this revolving door, and we’re not getting the benefit of corrected behavior.” But the candidates offered countering views as to the methods of fighting crime.

As National Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, doctors emphasize that women of all! ages should regularly perform breast checks. See page 4

Carrie Shoemaker. Pratt 00, died Friday following a hit and run accident Her Minds remember her as caring and fuNoving. See page 5

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U.S. heightens offensive against Taliban •

U.N. presses refugee concerns

Ruud Lubbers, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, appealed to the United States and Pakistan to pay greater attention to the plight of refugees, saying the war on terrorism should not entail only unrelenting bombing. •

Government announces lower surplus

The sour economy and tax rebates made for a smaller, $127 billion surplus for the 2001 budget year, compared with the record $237 billion produced the year before, the Bush administration announced Tuesday. •

Red Cross ceases relief solicitation

The American Red Cross is halting its appeals for donations to a fund created to help victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, its interim chief executive officer said Tuesday. •

Tax rebates remain to be claimed

The IRS holds almost 300,000 tax rebate checks worth an average of $322 apiece, still unclaimed by taxpayers. Checks have been returned undelivered from all 50 states and three territories. •

Supreme Court considers sexual predator laws

Justices are looking at whether or not states should have to prove that violent sexual offenders cannot control their behavior in order to keep them locked up after they complete their sentences. News briefs compiled from wire reports.

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U.S. military personnel and the northern alliance coordinated ‘relentless’ strikes Bv STEVEN GUTKIN The Associated Press

An CHARIKAR, Afghanistan American bomb blasted huge plumes ofsmoke 1,000 feet into the skies over Afghanistan’s front lines Tuesday in an unusually mighty airstrike. The Pentagon said U.S. forces were with the northern opposition and directing fire against the Taliban. The opposition alliance deployed hundreds of crack troops near Taliban lines north ofKabul, the first tangible sign of preparations for an assault on the capital. Early Wednesday, U.S. fighter planes dropped three large bombs on camps used by Arab fighters in Sapora region near the southern Afghan

city of Kandahar, according to the South Asian Dispatch Agency. Fighters responded with anti-aircraft guns. There was no immediate word of casualties. The United States acknowledged it had uniformed military personnel in Afghanistan, coordinating airstrikes with the opposition. A senior opposition official said such coordination will increase in coming days and that alliance forces were planning a major offensive to wrest the strategic northern city of Mazar-e-

Sharif from the Taliban. “There is coordination in all aspects,” Abdullah, the foreign minister of the Afghan govemment-in-exile, said in an interview with the Associated Press.

U.S. jets pounded Taliban positions in the Balkh region around Mazar-eSharif Tuesday, in strikes that an opposition spokesperson called relentless. “They hit very important positions of the Taliban,” spokesperson Ashraf Nadeem said. Witnesses also said they saw a U.S. plane drop a bomb Tuesday at the Bagram front lines, about 25 miles north of Kabul, creating a mushroom cloud that billowed at least 1,000 feet into the air. Witnesses called it the biggest bomb to hit the area in 10 days of American bombardments on the front lines. Despite the U.S. aerial attacks, the opposition alliance has made no advances against the ruling militia.

New cases spur concern of anthrax spread By ROBERT TANNER

that several billion dollars would be needed to safeguard the nation’s mail. The latest cases prompted worries about “cross-conNEW YORK A hospital worker lay gravely ill with inhalation anthrax Tuesday as the growing list of victamination,” where a piece of mail picks up spores at a tims prompted investigators to worry that the bacteria mail facility and infects someone else, said Dr. Anthony might be spreading at postal facilities from one piece of Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. mail to another. Investigators are now asking, “Did they get infected The 61-year-old New York woman became the first perfrom a piece of mail that went to their home?” Fauci said son in the country outside the news media or the Postal at the White House. “That is being intensively investigatService to be infected with the deadliest form of the dised right now.” ease. A day earlier, a New Jersey woman with a skin inOfficials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and fection became the first person in the state with no links Prevention are now keeping an “open mind” about crossto the Postal Service to contract anthrax. contamination, a spokesperson said—a stark change from In Washington, where the disease has killed two postal a week earlier. Last week, Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, the CDC director, said workers, officials shut down two more post offices and planned a two-week decontamination of an anthrax-taintcross-contamination was “highly unlikely -to virtually imed Senate office building. The postmaster general warned possible.” Tuesday, he said it was a “possibility.”

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At-large hopefuls answer questions � Candidates vying for the Durham City Council’s three at-large positions responded to audience questions about key issues, including school overcrowding and transportation. By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle

In their last forum of the campaign Tuesday night, candidates for Durham City Council took on such issues as the cost of the city’s growth on its in-

frastructure. The six candidates vying for the council’s three at-large positions—Lewis Cheek, Tamra Edwards, Dan Hill, Angela Langley, Thomas Stith and Joe Williams—also took questions from an audience of about 50 people on topics including transportation, city mismanagement and affirmative action. But the most frequently addressed subject was development, as two audience members challenged the incumbents to defend the council’s approval ofrecent development projects in light of overcrowded schools, increased traffic and environmental damage. Cheek, Hill, Langley and Stith—four incumbents who often vote in favor of rezonings for new developments—said growth provides many benefits like more jobs and a larger tax base, and can even help traffic by putting people’s homes and workplaces closer together. “For years, people in Durham lamented the fact

that we had no growth. Now we’re lamenting the fact that we have too much growth,” Hill said. He admitted that Durham schools are overcrowded, saying 2,500 children throughout the county are stuck in trailers rather than permanent classrooms. But he said waiting until the trailers are eliminated to pass any more rezonings would mean 10 years without any development. The four council members said one cure might be more communication among the city, the county—which oversees the school system—and the city/county zoning committee. “I just really think it’s a question of proper planning,” Stith said, adding that such communication is becoming more common. But Edwards, the one incumbent among the atlarge candidates who typically opposes controversial rezoning proposals, said the current pace of development is too rapid. “I do not believe Durham See FORUM on page

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THE UNIVERSITY plans to build an extention onto the back of the Bryan Center in order to provide storage space for the Department of Theater Studies, which frequently uses the Sheafer and Reynolds theaters.

Theater Studies gets storage facility BY KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

Less than a year after Theater Studies was promoted to a department, administrators are planning a $2 million addition to the Bryan Center to give students more classroom, production and rehearsal space. Richard Riddell, chair of the department, said the addition will make it possible to use the Bryan Center theaters—Sheafer and Reynolds—less for rehearsal and more for productions. “It’s a great space because it’s so flexible,” said senior Talya Klein, president of the Duke Players’ Council. “There’s just not enough space when you’re working on a theatrical production, not enough time to load scenery. There’s always a struggle over who gets that space.” Klein said the addition to Sheafer will allow more groups to use the new space for both storage of costumes and scenery while also freeing the stages during rehearsal. “It would be so amazingly helpful,” she said. “I think our stock is hidden someplace on East Cam-

pus, because there’s not enough space to keep it in the Bryan Center.” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said he hopes the addition will compliment current changes to the Bryan Center. A new building for Duke Stores and administrative office space, along with a new parking garage, have been approved by the Board of Trustees. Administrators hope this will clear out space in the Bryan Center for student groups. “It’s not been approved by the Board of Trustees, but it’s in early design and we hope it will move along in concert with the other two projects,” Trask said. “We should start probably by the end of the year.” The new addition will be placed in the back of the Bryan Center, Riddell said, toward the Sanford Institute for Public Policy. He added' that most of the funds for the project have been raised. The Program in Theater Studies became a department last spring. In addition to Duke Players’ productions, the Bryan Center also hosts plays put on by Hoof ’N‘ Horn and professional theater companies.

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Enzyme may aid antibiotic resistance

NIH grant funds diabetes research

Duke's Mouse Models of Diabetic Complications Consortium obtained a five-year grant for over $3.5 million to develop animal models for studying diabetes. The National Institutes of Health grant charges Duke researchers with studying diabetic complications leading to heart and kidney disease in mice. This will allow scientists to use genetic techniques in mice to predict how diabetes complications arise in humans. Specifically, the researchers are interested in learning how certain genes change normal body functions and lead to disease. Dr. Thomas Coffman, professor of nephrology in the department of medicine, will lead the initiative. The Duke researchers will be working with colleagues at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

ACROSS THE NATION •

Study questions early hearing test’s value

Despite a widespread trend by government officials

to require hospitals to test newborns for hearing problems, little evidence exists that detecting deafness at such an early age helps with the child’s later language skills, a new study argues. About 30 states now require the so-called universal screening, prompted in part by research suggesting that the earlier a hearing problem is identified, the greater the odds are that children get help that will enable them to talk and understand speech. But a review of 19 studies, published in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, says there is no evidence to support that belief. The study was led by Diane Thompson of the Haborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle. •

Marathons could cause dangerous stress

A new study suggests that long-distance running may put stresses on the body that are less obvious but potentially more dangerous. Writing in The American Journal of Cardiology, researchers say they have found evidence of temporary changes in blood chemistry in marathon runners that could increase their risk of heart attack. A team led by Dr. Arthur Siegel of McLean Hospital, a Harvard University affiliate, found that 24 hours after a marathon, runners had an increase in blood factors that cause clotting and inflammation.Those changes alone would be unlikely to cause a heart attack, the researchers said, but could be perilous in people who also have irregular heartbeats or blockages in their coronary arteries.

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Scientists analyze mummy chemicals

Two scientists from the University of Bristol in England have analyzed the organic compounds present in 13 Egyptian mummies dating from about 1900 B.C. to A.D. 400. The results confirmed that many embalmers used beeswax and also showed that the process was often more complex, with a mixture of different plant oils, resins and fats used. The recipe also changed over time, perhaps as some of the materials became more-or less available. News briefs compiled from staff and wire reports

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Bacteria may cause kidney disorder By JENNIFER SONG The Chronicle

Researchers at Duke have identified a possible cause of serious kidney damage after major heart surgery. One in 12 patients who have had coronary artery bypass surgery experiences significant kidney failure. Lead investigator Dr. Mark StaffordSmith believes renal damage is caused

by inflammatory responses resulting from major surgery. When the body is exposed to surgical machinery, heart valves become “leaky” and allow a bacterium called endotoxin to be released from the gastrointestinal tract into the body. This produces an inflammatory response believed to be involved in damage to various tissues, including the kidney. To test whether endotoxin is responsible for triggering post-surgery inflammation, researchers obtained blood samples from 461 surgery patients and screened them for levels of endotoxin antibodies before their procedures. “We hypothesized that if you have high levels of endotoxin antibodies, you could intercept the inflammatory response and would be less likely to experience renal problems,” said StaffordSmith, the interim chief of the division of cardiothoracic anesthesia. After reviewing the data, the scientists found that higher levels of antibody concentration in the blood are associated with a lower risk of complications after surgery. These results were presented two weeks ago at a meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. “I think the findings are most important because they draw additional attention to endotoxin being a likely cause of kidney damage, which will hopefully further encourage development of appropriate anti-endotoxin strategies,” said Dr. Elliott Bennett-

Guerrero, chief of cardiothoracic anesthesiology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Researchers are now focusing their efforts on developing vaccines that will increase endotoxin antibody levels and drugs that will either block endotoxin levels or reduce the inflammatory response caused by the bacteria. “Our findings provide us with a new target to potentially use for treatment,” said Stafford-Smith. Anti-inflammatory drugs in preclinical and clinical trials are currently

DR. MARK STAFFORD-SMITH, associate professor in the division of cardiothoracic anesthesia, investigates the causes of kidney disease following heart surgery.

available, but scientists say they have not been successful. “It’s likely many [of these drugs] failed because patients were being treated too late,” said Bennett-Guerrero. Over the past three decades, researchers have been concerned about post-surgical complications. “People have been recognizing that kidney injury after surgery has been a significant problem, and that the rate of that problem hasn’t changed much,” said Stafford-Smith. “Every year, 1 or 2 percent [of bypass surgery patients] will have to have dialysis, and 10 percent will have moderate renal injury.” Anti-endotoxin therapies may there-

fore be significant for major surgery patients in the future. “The endotoxin core antibodies can counteract the effects ofthe endotoxins, but some people seem to produce fewer antibodies than others,” said Dr. Barbara Phillips-Bute, a senior research associate in the Department of Anesthesia, “Since kidney damage is still one of the bigger risks of cardiac surgery, these potential treatments could make a difference in the quality of surgical outcomes for heart patients.” Stafford-Smith is currently working on additional research to understand the role of genetics in post-surgical renal damage.

Doctors urge monthly breast self-exams Experts advocate tests for young women to detect benign cysts, atypical hyperplasia and other illnesses By JENNIFER WLACH

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Research led by Christian Raetz, George Barth Geller Professor of Biochemistry, has suggested mechanisms that bacteria can use to become resistant to antibiotics. Duke biochemists discovered an enzyme called aminoarabinose transferase which attaches lipids to bacterial coats, making it more difficult for antibiotics to bind and lyse the organism. The research, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, may lead to additional discoveries about how bacteria develop antibiotic resistance and how this resistance could be overcome. •

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Although the rate of breast cancer for college-age women is low, doctors have been stressing the importance of breast self-exams in detecting other illnesses during October, designated National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Self-exams have been promoted mainly as a means for early detection of breast cancer. With rates in women under the age of 24 at less than 5 per-

cent, some women do not perform self-

checks, thinking they are unnecessary. But doctors say a self-exam can uncover many other conditions that are

several times more likely than breast cancer in college-age women. “There is a much higher rate of benign cysts in young women,” said Dr. Kimberly Blackwell, associate professor in the division of medical oncology.

She added that there are several other conditions that can affect college women, including atypical hyperplasia, a change in either the cells lining the ducts or the glands of the breast, and scelerosing adenosis, a range of benign morphologic changes in the female breast. “Young women who have benign

breast tumors are at a slightly in-

creased risk for having additional benign lumps in the future,” said Lynette Leepack, nurse practitioner

and breast health specialist at the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Center at the State University of New York at Stonybrook. Leepack added that although benign lumps can be more common, risks for breast cancer do not increase for women who experience benign tumors at a young age. Blackwell said that practicing monthly self exams is important and stressed that it is necessary for women who have a strong family hisSee BREAST EXAMS on page 6 P-

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Shoemaker, Pratt ’OO, dies in hit-and-run accident From staff reports Carrie Shoemaker, Pratt ’OO, remembered as an honest and fun-loving woman, dedicated to both her friends and her country, died Oct. 26, a victim to a hit-andrun driver in Everett, Wash. She was 23. Shoemaker, who was a member of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps

while at Duke, had a night off from the USS Milius—the ship on which she was assigned—when she was struck by a car while crossing a street

“Tragic doesn’t begin to describe her death,” said Carrie Shoemaker Julie Reeye, Trinity ’OO. “You’re not supposed to be burying a friend at the age of 23, especially someone with Carrie’s vivacity.” She added that Shoemaker, a mem-

ber of Alpha Delta Pi sorority when she was at Duke, was a loyal friend. “She was dedicated to her friends, offering to be there when any of us was going through some rough times, even if that meant she would be in Teer until 4 a.m.,” Reeve said. Funeral services will be held Friday in Minneapolis, Kansas, where Shoemaker’s extended family live. Flowers may be sent to Shields Funeral Home, 405 Argyle Ave., Minneapolis, Kansas, 67467. Her ship will be holding a memorial

service today in Everett. Sigma Chi fraternity is planning a memorial in Shoemaker’s honor. Gifts may be sent to Duke University, Box 98521, Durham, N.C, 27708.

Duke appeals Mercer verdict: The University presented arguments Monday in the appeal of damages

awarded to Heather Sue Mercer, a former placekicker for Duke’s football team who in October 2000 won $1 in compen-

satory damages and $2 million in punitive damages when she sued Duke for sexual discrimination. ..

Duke attorney Stephen McNabb told

the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

that Title DC of the Education Amendments of 1972—which prohibits educational programs receiving federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex—was not designed to include punitive damages. He said the remedy for Title DC violators is cutting off federal money, not imposing a fine. Mercer’s attorney, Burton Craige, said the $2 million is less than onetenth of 1 percent of Duke’s net assets and that punitive damages are appropriate because administrators were indifferent to Mercer’s complaints. Judge Robert King told Craige, “You’ve got to sell us on the idea that you can get $2 million for punitive damages. You have to prove wanton, illegal

conduct to get this amount.”

The judges may not make a decision for several months. In the October 2000 verdict, a federal jury found that Duke discriminated against Mercer in 1995 when then-head football coach Fred Goldsmith allowed Mercer to walk on the team, then refused to let her dress for games or practices. The University filed its appeal this summer.

Wind Symphony to perform Halloween concert: The Duke Wind will perform its annual Halloween concert in Baldwin Auditorium tonight at 8 p.m. Symphony

Tom Jenner will conduct the symphony. The musicians will perform in Halloween costumes for the free concert. The symphony is an ensemble of 60 undergraduate and graduate students who typically perform three concerts each semester. The symphony has performed in Vienna, Budapest, Prague, other European cities and throughout

the eastern United States.

Professors call current facilities too small, outdated P BUILDING from page 1

space than the 100,000-square-foot Biological Sciences, Mueller said. At least initially, space in the new building and in Biological Sciences will be split between the chemistry and biology departments. The future of Gross Chern, which has “third-rate” space according to an external review three years ago, has not been determined. The condition of laboratory space, both for researchers and teaching, is a major issue for all of the sciences. Researchers describe current facilities as worn-out, cramped or awkward, with old infrastructure, such as decayed vents and hoods, and worn furniture and shelves. “In the late 19605, when [Gross Chem] was designed and built, it was just before a lot of innovative thinking about science buildings took place in the

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professor of chemistry. Even the structure of some of the spaces may be inefficient. Some say rooms are often too large or too small for teaching needs, and the labs for undergraduate biology classes are currently spread over several floors and wings in Biological Sciences. “There are a lot of problems moving equipment, and a lot of the equipment isn’t movable,” said Terry Corliss, who manages undergraduate biology labs. “Lab space has been moved about as they

renovate different areas for incoming people, so we’ve been in spaces that weren’t really designed for teaching labs.” Such spaces need to be improved for the University’s major investments in the sciences to succeed, said Kathleen Smith, chair of the biology department. “Our teaching space is probably equal to a bad high school space, maybe a middle

school space,” she said. In addition to citing inefficient and uncomfortable spaces, Smith said that

the lack of workable research and office space hurts the ability of natural science departments to recruit faculty. “We basically have run out of space in the department to move faculty into,” she said. “Without a new building, we’d

be stuck for years.”

Although administrators have not made final decisions on the new building’s tenants, they hope to encourage work across disciplines. The new facility may include room for the University’s various new science initiatives, including those in genetics and nanoscience, and it will likely be directly connected to neighboring science buildings—possibly even the Levine Science Research Center. “Almost everyone in the sciences does at least part of their research at the molecular level, even a lot of the primate research, so it’s really important to have easy, easy connections between these buildings,” said Frederik Nijhout, professor of biology.

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Students complain about Oak Room’s selection, prices I think last year’s was a lot better and offered more of a variety. I think they need to revamp the menu,” said senior Kelly Rogers. Rogers said she used to eat at the Oak Room once a week, but will probably go less often this year. cerned about increasing the number of Senior Martin Wilkins said he likes the Oak Room’s new, upscaled decor, but meals served. agreed that the menu could be more inOfficials have pointed to the restaurant’s late opening, lack of advertising clusive. “A lot offavorites from the past and visibility and increased business at weren’t there,” he said. “And there were The Loop and The Great Hall as possible definitely some pricey dishes that reasons for the decline in customers. The might sound good, but I wouldn’t get beOak Room opened Oct. 1, one month into cause they’re too expensive.” David Randolph, ARAMARK’s resithe semester. “Freshmen don’t know it exists, and dent district manager, echoed these reacupperclassmen don’t know it’s new,” said tions. “We’ve heard it’s a little too expenJason Freedman, co-chair of the Duke sive,” he said. “[Customers] like the University Student Dining Advisory service and the atmosphere, but they think there’s not enough options.” Committee. Radzwiller, Trinity 77, is addressing Some students who have eaten at the Oak Room say that not all of the changes this concern by rotating the menu as often as three times a semester, somehave been positive. “Even though I know they’re trying to thing she had planned on doing since she improve this year’s menu over last year’s, was hired in September. S* OAK ROOM from page 1

has decreased, revenue for the first three weeks of October was down only five percent from the same interval last year. The average check price has increased by 25 percent, but administrators are still con-

“There won’t ever be a larger menu,” she said, citing the limits of the small kitchen, which was adequate in the past, when many dishes were prepared ahead of time or frozen. “If you look at Nana’s or Pop’s, they’ve only got eight or 10 items on the menu.” Wulforst welcomed the idea of community members eating at the Oak Room, but emphasized that 81 percent of last year’s customers were students. “As much as we’d like to be a Pop’s or a Nana’s, the bedrock of our business is students,” Wulforst said. DUSDAC, which must approve all menu changes, will be conducting extensive surveys in the coming weeks to gather customer feedback. Freedman added that the Oak Room began accepting take-out orders last week due to stu-

dent demand. DUSDAC has also insisted that the Oak Room hire only student and union employees, as it has done in the past. But Radzwiller said this has created obstacles

in training and shift scheduling since students must plan around their courses. Radzwiller also expressed concern about the cash-only tipping policy. Since the majority of patrons are students using their DukeCards to purchase food, they often do not carry cash on them. Michelle Hurtado, a sophomore and former Oak Room waiter, quit Saturday in part because of the tipping situation. “Basically every time I’ve been at work, I’ve been stiffed at least once,” she said. “It’s awful, especially if you only get three or four tables a night.” While no decision has been made as

to the fate of the Oak Room, Wulforst said that in the event of its closure, the space could be sold to a privatized restaurant or be converted into programming space. “If at the end of the year, students decide [they] want another place, then you say we’ve given it a shot,” Radzwiller said. “But after three weeks, you just can’t say that,” she said.

Doctors suggest women perform regular breast exams � BREAST EXAMS from page 4 Tory of breast cancer to start checking right away. She recommended that women perform selfexams seven days after their menstrual cycle because there is less tenderness in breast tissue. She said the checks are less effective when performed

right before the menstrual cycle because detecting lumps is more difficult then. The most important doctor recommendation is breast checks be done regularly. Blackwell said she

tells her patients to do the self tests on the first day ofeach month, so it is easier to remember. Practicing regular self-exams allows women to find benign lumps before they grow or spread in the breast. Leepack said that ignoring lumps until they get too large poses a problem because “it makes removing them more difficult, which causes more scarring and scar tissue in the breast.” According to the National Institutes of Health, only one in 10 lumps is actually breast cancer. Black-

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If a woman discovers a lump, Leepack said she should contact her obstetrician-gynecologist or primary care physician immediately. Blackwell said that women at Duke should contact Student Health Services as they can provide proper examination and refer women to breasts specialists.

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Ward 1 candidates stress crime, fiscal responsibility � WARD 1 from page 1 fairs of Black People and chair of the Durham County Democratic Party. “I think I can win because we are going to get out the vote,” said Cole-McFadden, a lifelong Durham resident. “If people respect not only my endorsements, but also my contributions to the community and my knowledge and love of the community, I think I will win their votes.” Her opponent, neighborhood activist Jeffery White, said he is optimistic he can win, after receiving 17.9 percent of the primary votes. Since moving to Durham two years ago, White has acted as the Duke Park Neighborhood Association vice president and has helped Partners Against Crime write grants for anti-crime programs. White said he is ninning for Ward 1 to bring change to the City Council. “With the previous City Council member from my ward, I felt like my voice wasn’t being heard,” said White. “As someone who has never worked for the city government, I bring a perspective that is closer to the actual citizens

of Durham.” Both candidates said crime and fiscal responsibility were central issues in their campaigns.

Cole-McFadden said she would use a multifaceted approach to crime prevention and examine the existing partner-, ships against crime in Durham.

“I think in high-crime areas, we have to look at what is happening in a holistic way” she said. “Preventing crime takes the whole community, not just the police.” White said he wants to emphasize reducing crimes like car break-ins and burglary, which he said do not necessarily require increased patrolling. “As much as we focus on crime prevention, we need to focus on crime solution,” said White. ‘While high-profile crime is down, the lower-level crime that happens everyday isn’t decreasing, and eventually that crime escalates into larger crime.” The city’s allocation of funds has also drawn the attention of both candidates. If elected, White said he would call for an

audit of the city budget.

“The City Council is ultimately responsible for the taxpayer’s money,” he said. “I want to know where that money goes.” Cole-McFadden said she agrees with the importance of fiscal responsibility but thinks that a new approach to the budget would remove the need for an audit. “We need to be pro-active,” she said. “If we do internal auditing upfront by making sure we study the agenda items carefully before the vote, we will not have to correct problems later.” In the Oct. 9 primary, voters eliminated democratic incumbent Jacqueline Wagstaff, who won unopposed two years ago, and Libertarian Ray Übinger.

For more than 50 years, Durham and Triangle-area businesses and residents have recognized Duke’s many contributions to the overall health of the community and donated to Duke University through the Duke-Durham Campaign. Starting in 1999, however, every dollar contributed to this campaign has returned direcdy to Durham through the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership Initiative. Your donations are making an important difference. This year they helped pay for a program to link Duke freshmen volunteers to schools and neighborhoods, such as West End and Walltown, and provided construction money to help complete a special science lab at E. K. Powe Elementary. We organized a partnership to build a playground at the newly renovated Community Family Life and Recreational Center at Lyon Park. Funds also supported a summer jobs program for the youth of Crest Street neighborhood. We thank all those who contributed to the 2001 Campaign and a better

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Bell faults city’s Candidates debate city development financial priorities � CRIME from page 1 Bell said he would support a heightened police presence, specifically through increased cooperation between the city and county governments. He cited one specific case in which a sheriff monitored the Few Gardens community after a murder had occurred there, stressing the heightened sense of se-

curity the surveillance provided. Tennyson said city and county cooperation is beneficial but that the potential for cooperation is limited since the two organizations serve different purposes in different geographical areas. He said information is a key tool in combating crime. “The idea of identifying areas of higher crime and allocating more police to those areas is exactly the philosophy I brought to the job.” During his tenure as mayor, the police department has filled 60 vacancies, the City Council began receiving crime reports on time, and crime over the last three years is down 20 percent, he said. Bell faulted Tennyson’s methods of attaining reduced crime figures, claiming that they resulted from the mayor’s land annexation policies. But Tennyson said he has always focused on the absolute number of crimes, rather than the rate. He added that there have been no annexations substantially affecting population during his tenure. Both candidates cited the need to provide opportunities for at-risk youth as the most important preventative measure. “The biggest crime prevention effort we’ve got right now is to have every child reading at grade level by third grade,” Tennyson said. “Young people with a sense of an economically viable future are much less likely to be involved in crime.” Bell agreed, but said he felt the city is not doing enough to provide activities for youth outside of school. He said he would conduct a re-prioritization of city funds and be more aggressive in going after federal funds for extracurricular programs. He expressed dissatisfaction with a one-cent tax increase put in place two years ago for the upcoming construction of a parking deck in downtown. “We’ve got to prioritize what we think is important in this community,” he said. In addition to addressing prevention, the candidates spoke about solving criminal investigations. Bell expressed dissatisfaction with the city’s low clearance rate, which he said is probably one of the lowest in the state. “It does no good to know that the crime is there if you can’t find the people that have been charged with doing the crime,” he said. Tennyson said the clearance rate is a key factor, but that it has improved and does not require as much attention in the face of lower crime. He also cited the recent investment in the crime lab and said that officers new to the force will improve over time, further raising the clearance rate.

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� FORUM from page 3 should grow at the cost of the lives of the people of Durham and the souls of their children,” she said. “Am I against development? No. But I am against it

tax increase. “Listen to me careful: I do not see where the money they say they have spent downtown [has gone],” he said. “Downtown has benefited

from that money—in somebody’s pocket!”

But the incumbents said that even though the if it’s not strategic.” Williams, the lone candidate not already on the American Tobacco project and others have not yet gotten off the ground, other projects—like the West council, said he would talk to citizens before decidVillage apartment complex—have become a reality. any rezonings. whether to support ing They said it is important to invest in downtown Another development-related question focused specifically on downtown, as candidates debated as the center of Durham. “Fm a believer in downfunding downtown revitalization. town, I’m a believer in trying to put things into The city recently raised property taxes by 1 cent downtown,” Cheek said. Langley agreed, but added that nearby low-into set aside money for initiatives like a $3B million come neighborhoods were still suffering. “Millions of parking garage to supplement a potential redeveldollars have been put into downtown, but it hasn’t opment of the American Tobacco campus by a pridone anything for the neighboring communities vate company. Williams said the city had nothing to show for the downtown,” she said.

Sports

After one more in the loss column, Duke maintains a positive outlook on the situation. See page 12

� Who cares if W. threw out the first pitch? This columnist is going to Madison Square Garden. See page 10 The Chronicle � page 9

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2001

Duke rallies from one game back to win nail-biter By MICHAEL JACOBSON The Chronicle

When the Duke volleyball team (18-3, 10-3 ACC) took the floor against Virginia (7-14, 3-10) last night in Cameron Indoor Stadium, it did not resemble the same team that went 11-0 to start this season. From a varied lineup, namely freshman setter Stephanie Istvan’s second match in the starting lineup, to a lackadaisical mentality that permeated throughout the first four games, this team was different than it had been earlier in the season. “In the end, we managed to put it together, but I think that this is going to be a lesson to us,” junior Rachel Vander Griend said. “Every team in the ACC can win on any given night. We can never come out without being fully ready to play.” Perhaps it was due to a bit of overconfidence that came from matching up against one of the conference’s bottom dwellers, but Duke certainly did not look like a team in contention for an

ACC championship and an NCAA tournament berth. But as they seemingly have done all season when pressed, the Blue Devils found away to win. “We don’t want to play just well enough to win,” Duke coach Jolene Nagel said. “We have to do a gut-check as a team and understand that we have to do our very best every single time we’re out there... to give 110 percent every time.” The Blue Devils started strong, claiming an 8-3 lead and forcing the Cavaliers to eat an early time out. Duke continued to play well, taking an eight-point lead at JANE HETHERINGTON/THE CHRONICLE

MEGHAN BROWN tosses up a serve in the winning effort against the Wahoos

14-6 on an ace by sophomore Meghan Brown. But Virginia, playing much better than its record indicates, refused to quit, and nabbed its first lead of the

evening at 27-26. After Virginia served long to tie the score at 28, Duke capitalized on a few crucial Cavalier errors late in the first game to win 31-29. “We’re having trouble taking advantage of easy opportunities given to us and doing it on a consistent basis,” Nagel said of the team’s inability to take an opponent out of the match early. The Blue Devils led for the majority of the second game, but were unable to knock Virginia out of the match. Trailing late in the game 27-26, the Cavaliers held themselves together and won the next four points to take the game 30-27. This tied the match at one game apiece. Nagel attempted to jump start a Blue Devil team that was caught in a lull by playing sophomore setter Arielle Linderman in the third game. Initially, the substitution seemed to give Duke a boost, as it played with much more emotion than it displayed in game two. “I just always try to play really intense,” Linderman said. “I try to be a leader and to get people excited. I was just excited to be playing.” However, Virginia picked up its play to match the Blue Devils and take a lead at 13-12 that they never relinquished. Reeling, Duke stared at a one-point deficit midway through the fourth game. The Blue Devils then began to play in a style more indicative of their season, never giving the Cavaliers a chance, winning 30-24 to knot the match at two. As freshman Cassidy Crum served out the fifth game, the match ended with Duke playing its most fundamentally sound volleyball of the night. The win puts the Blue Devils in position to hold on to the second seed in the

ACC tournament.

Clemens slows Diamondbacks’ train to glory in its tracks By RONALD BLUM The Associated Press

YORK Yankees 2 NEW President Bush startD’backs I ed off with a strike and Roger Clemens kept them coming. The Yankees’ season was spinning out of control, needing someone to step up and hold off Arizona, and give New York’s offense time to awaken from its World Series slumber. The Rocket came up big, allowing nearly nothing. He started 23-of-27 batters with strikes and showed Arizona some of the same stuff that Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson threw at New York back in the desert last weekend, giving up three hits, just like them.

He handed the ball to Mariano Rivera, who got six straight outs, giving New York a 2-1 victory and closing the Yankees to 2-1 in the World Series, which seems like it is just beginning.

Scandanavian surprise Jh By Duke’s sophomore goalkeeper Thora Helgadottir

was given the ACC Player of the Week distinction for shutting out the offenses of both Wake Forest and N.C. State.

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“You go out there and try to get some night. It was straight and simple. “For a pitcher as great as Roger has momentum,” Clemens said. “That’s what I tried to do, get the crowd into the game.” been, he’s really had to defend himself a Clemens struck out nine, just like he lot,” Yankees manager Joe Torre said. “I did in last year’s Series start against don’t think, after this game tonight, the New York Mets. Only this time, he he’ll ever have to defend himself again.” will be remembered for the pitches he After fellow Texan Bush opened threw, not the shattered bat. with a first pitch that most major Sometimes, it seems as if Clemens league relievers would be proud of, the cannot do enough to please Yankees’ Rocket took over. He didn’t have his fans. When he won the 1999 Series best stuff, but he mastered what he had clincher against San Diego, and walked and won for the first time in seven that line atop the Yankees’ dugout in starts since Sept. 19. the postgame excitement, they said, “The president, the mayor and all of ‘well, yes, he won, but New York was up the fans—it’s another moment I’ll remember here in the Stadium,” three-games-to-none.’ When Clemens pitched a one-hitter Clemens said. “I’ll take this with me.” He even picked off a runner in the against Seattle in last year’s AL playoffs, he was remembered for putting first, something he rarely does, and Alex Rodriguez in the dirt. And then allowed only Matt Williams’ sacrifice came that weird moment, when he fly in the fourth after loading the tossed the bat fragment in front of bases on two walks around Luis ROGER CLEMENS celebrates after a huge performMike Piazza. None of that Tuesday Gonzalez’s hit. ance against the Diamondbacks.

23’s back, baby!

Donations accepted Multi-millionaire and UVa alum Paul Jones gave $2O million to his alma mater so that the Cavaliers can replace University Hall with a better equipped basketball arena.

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Anticipation be gone. MJ returned to a hardwood near you in a 93-91 loss to the Knicks. Nineteen points later, basketball’s Zeus still has 81 more games to go.

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After his first round of chemotherapy for stomach cancer, Montreal Canadians’ captain Baku Koivu has visibly improved. A heroic spring return is not out of the realm of possibility.

NBA Scores Nets 103, Pacers 97 Magic 114, Raptors 85

Timberwolves 83,76ers 74 Celtics 108, Cavaliers 89 Mavericks 94, Pistons 87 Spurs 109, Clippers 98 Jazz 84, Bugs 75

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Jeter, Jordan 0r... Lebowski Baseball bores and the NBA stinks, so a man needs to make a difficult life decision After a hellish night last night—l was up until 4:30 a.m. writing a paper— I decided to give myself a break, take my

mind off work and do something I hadn’t done in quite sometime. I sat down, beer in hand, to watch some sports. Fortunately for me, the night’s airwaves happened to be filled with sporting events. Not only was Game 3 of the World Series on, but the NBA was also opening tonight. A quick look at the listings showed that the featured game tonight was the Washington Wizards versus the New York Knicks. Translation: the start of the Michael Jordan show, part 111.

Upon further review Paul Doran I found myself faced with quite a predicament, and being lazy, I almost decided to shun both of these options and watch the Professional Bowling Association’s Johnny Petraglia Open, the main event on ESPN. Luckily, that epiphany only lasted a few seconds before a sensible frame of mind set in. On the one hand, I hate NBA basketball because I think it takes a beautiful game and ruins it with money, arrogance, showboating, etc.—all the common reasons any sports journalist hates the NBA. On the other, he is MJ, one ofthe few good things left about the NBA. No matter how

much you like him or hate him, it is really fun to watch him play. Plus, he is the best basketball player—-no check that— he is the best athlete we will ever see. Jordan had the added bonus of being able to rub it in to my friends, after he • almost knocked the '-pi SCTL6S Knicks, who laughed *

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The Diamondbacks? The first thing you have to ask yourself about the Diamondbacks is who, outside the state of Arizona, likes them? Bitter Mariners or Phillies fans may hate them because they stole their stars, but all Philly fans are bitter since their city has not won a title in eons and no one cares about a team that wins 116 games and can’t make

Royals could be in the World Series if they spent enough money. Then there’s always the fact that any team that has Craig Counsell as a series MVP cannot be exciting. But the way in which baseball is set up, expansion teams don’t mean a thing except if they can buy their way to the Series in a few years. There is a reason the 1969 Mets are special: They won with terrible players having a great year; they didn’t buy a championship. According to all the unwritten rules of sports, the Diamondbacks should still be bottom feeders in the NL West, building a loyal fan base, signing good young players and waiting for their day to come. That tangent aside, it boils down to the fact that the series entertains John McCain’s constituents, residents of

Manhattan and fairweather Yankee fans (who should be Mets fans) on Long Island. On the sentimental side, there was always the chance to watch President George W. Bush throw out the first pitch—but the verdict is still out on whether or not he can even spell the word “Yankee.” So after considering this, I clicked the

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remote to TBS as quickly as possible, and even though I hate the NBA, it is much more fun than one ofthe most bor-

The thing that annoys me most about the Diamondbacks, however, is the fact that their owner, Jerry Colangelo, pulled a Wayne Huizenga and bought the team’s way to the World Series. There’s no reason to be proud of the fact they are the quickest expansion team to make it there. The Kansas City

ing series in living memory. Final verdict: Jordan in a landslide. The only question that remains to be answered is whether he can he bowl 300, because after 10 minutes of no defense, the PBA is looking pretty tempting. Paul Doran is a Trinity junior and sports managing editor.

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Franks sifts through rubble following loss to Vandy By SHAWN NICHOLLS The Chronicle

Last Saturday, Duke (0-8, 0-5 in the total yards of offense against Vanderbilt, the most in coach Carl Franks’ tenure. The Blue Devils also had the game’s leading rusher in Chris Douglas, who ran 29 times before being sidelined late with an ankle injury. Quarterback D. Bryant passed for a season-high 295 yards. The Blue Devils even held the ball almost 13 minutes longer than the Commodores. But they also turned the ball over five times and lost by two touchdowns. And now, with three games remaining on their schedule—all against ACC opponents with winning records—the Blue Devils may be headed to a second consecutive winless season. However, Franks continues to drive home the point that the team is better than they were last year, talking specifACC) gained 537

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importance of Douglas. “[Douglas] certainly provides a lot of

offense for us,” Franks said. “We tried to find as many ways as possible to get the ball in his hands. He’s got a lot of speed, which is one of his biggest assets. He is an exciting guy to watch play.” Douglas, who said one reason he chose Duke over other programs was to be an integral part of the rebuilding process, enjoys his individual success, but at the same time wants to focus on the team effort.

“You never really get used to losing,” Douglas said. “But you do gel with your team and get kind of a commitment and a respect for each other so that each week, you can rely on those teammates to go out and give their all. “You go into each game thinking you’re going to win, and if you don’t, you always have another football game.” But even with Douglas’ numbers and a strong overall performance against Vanderbilt, the Blue Devils still rank last in the ACC in both total offense and scoring offense, making any improvements seem hardly substantial.

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CHRIS DOUGLAS carried the ball 29 times in a loss to the Commodores As for defense, which yields 482 State, a team Franks describes as very yards per game and an average of over athletic, scored the winning touch40 points per game—both conference down with less than a minute to play highs—Franks is disappointed that in a game where Bryant threw for over Duke has not been able to tackle better 300 yards. than it did last year. “There’s been a lot of close games “The option has certainly hurt us a over the years,” Franks said. “The past lot more than I thought it would,” doesn’t guarantee the future, so I don’t Franks said. “When you’re not a very know whatthis one is going to be like. It good tackling football team, you need to has the possibility to be a game that have the ability to get a lot of people to could be very close. I don’t know if that the football.” means it will be high-scoring or lowDefense will definitely be in the spotscoring, but if we want to have a chance light this Saturday when the Blue to win, we will need to get in the high Devils host N.C. State quarterback 30s or low 405.” This will be a lofty goal for the Blue Philip Rivers, who leads the ACC in passing yards per game. Devils, considering Duke has only However, Duke seems to have scored over 20 points twice this seamatched up well against the Wolfpack son, and has yet to post more than 40 in recent meetings. Last year, N.C. in a game.

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The Chronicle Keeping seniority Student Affairs officials should not squeeze seniors off Main West Campus

order to make way for all sophomores to live on West Campus, the University seems to be neglecting the interests of seniors in the new housing lottery system. Particularly, the Division of Student Affairs has sent a message that independent seniors should either live in singles on West, or else on Central or off-campus. The division has done so by giving juniors priority in selecting doubles and triples. Inevitably, there will not be enough singles for all seniors to live on West. The many seniors who want to live in doubles, be it for friendship or financial reasons, will be hard-pressed to find accommodation on West Campus, and this result is simply not satisfactory. Seniors have spent the most time at the University and have earned the opportunity to choose where and how they live on campus. Moreover, the University should endeavor to make seniors’ last year at Duke their best year, establishing memories and a positive connection to the University. When first entering the housing process, students accepted their poorer housing locations under the impression that they would have better housing during their senior year. As sophomores, they may have been pushed into Trent Drive Hall, and, as juniors, they may have studied abroad for the full year or for a semester and then had to live on Central Campus for their remaining junior semester. These students will have graduated without ever having a fair shot to live in the heart of campus. Not only is this plan unfair to seniors, but residential life at Duke will suffer from the absence ofDuke’s most experienced undergraduates. Seniors know the pitfalls into which younger students may be tempted to fall, and these fourth-year students may be able to guide sophomores and juniors through these obstacles. The bottom line is that for Duke to be a top university, it must provide a valuable growing experience, academically and socially for all students—not a tunnel-visioned focus on the sophomore class to the detriment of juniors and seniors. Because the University did not allot enough space in building the West-Edens Link for all who wish to live on West to have that opportunity, one class has to be squeezed. This current dilemma of who to force off West Campus would have been avoided if the University had waited until there was sufficient space on West for the plan to work. Clearly, in the long term, Duke must remedy this situation. But in the short term, if the University is to go ahead with its all-sophomores-on-West plan, the best place to squeeze is the rising junior class, which is already naturally dispersed to a great extent, in part because of study abroad programs. But perhaps what is equally concerning about the new policy is key student leaders’ silence on the issue. Campus Council and Duke Student Government sound too much like mouthpieces for Student Affairs rather than advocates of the student body. Selective living groups naturally have a structure to voice their concerns; independent students only have student leaders to turn to.

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University housing changes hurt Class of 2003 While I praise the University’s efforts in trying to promote residential class unity among the student body, I believe its plan is flawed and will do everything but good. By leaving Main West Campus to just sophomores and selective groups, there will be much less interaction among classes. Historically, there has also been little interaction among independents and selective house residents, and besides the under-aged sophomores’ easier access to parties, that will not change. The administration’s ploy to make Trent Drive Hall “more desirable” to upperclassmen is ridiculous as well. It’s not and never has been the desirable place to live. Despite being more economical, Trent will be more desir-

able only to students who are not as affluent as others and will become an extension of Central Campus, which is admittedly disproportionately comprised of financial aid and minority students at present. Ultimately, upperclassmen will be banished from campus life, to live in Edens Quadrangle, Trent, Central or off-campus, where most disconcerted upperclassmen will undoubtedly prefer to live. And though it appears that the University would lose revenue and see its mistake, the creators of this new housing policy have included a provision that might begin enforce-

ment of the three-year residency policy, thus preventing losses. In giving preferential treatment for sophomores to fill an agenda, administrators must also deal with a few

thousand disgruntled upperclassmen who find that student life at Duke is not all it could—or should—be. Having “done my time” in Trent, I’m ecstatic about living on the Main West Quadrangle. I’m furious that the administration wants to put me back there—or further away—for my final year. We’ve lived under a system that fairly grants students with the most seniority the best choice of housing. Why is it suddenly amiss? As a member of a class that feels like it’s been continuously run over by the administration, I consider this a final blow to any potential for enjoying our last year of college life. Thanks, for ruining our unity.

Maureen O’Dell Trinity ’O3

Reviewer employs ‘nauseating’ style in unfair piece In response to Farhan Mustafa’s Oct. 26 review of Tosca Ristorante in Recess, I was unnerved by the

author’s lack of professional

ter suited to lubricate my car,” “skip them,” “skip Tosca,” the writer describes a setting in which he might have been waited on by an unrequited lover. Is this the case, and if so, why not write about that? If not, why not show more respect in tone and leave the discretion to the informed reader? I found the writing style employed

dent. For my own part, as someone who has spent significant amounts of time in Italy, I must say that Tosca comes as close to the an unin authentic,

journalistic integrity. While it is certainly admissible to Americanized sense, as I criticize and critique a have found in some time, quite a bit closer than those restaurant, it is less so to do so vehemently with a sort of nearby competitors mentioned in the review. personal animosity. In the review, with descriptions such as “you should probanauseating, particularly Randall Gilbert bly never go there,” “oil betcoming from a Duke stuDurham, N.C. for referenced review, see http:ll www.chronicle.duke.edu story.phptarticle J,d=24022 /

Tipping at Oak Room often ignores conventions I am a server at the newly renovated Oak Room and am concerned with the fact that students do not seem to be able to follow basic tipping rules on dining bills. I believe that I speak for my co-workers as well as for myself on this issue. Industry standard says that all waiters and waitresses should be tipped 15 percent of a diner’s bill. The Oak Room is a quality dining establishment and asks its diners to tip at 18 percent. Most students will only leave a fraction of the tip expected, or no tip at all. If a diner is not satisfied with the food or service, then he or she should not have to tip over what is

expected. Yet in every case, cash is a lot harder to deal the minimum 15 percent rule with—and sometimes not as still stands. We are trained easily acquired—in compariprofessionally as servers; we son to food and FLEX. Yet if thus expect to be treated proyou do choose to eat at the Oak Room, understand that fessionally in return. The restaurant has just it is a real restaurant despite opened, and problems and the fact that it is on campus mix-ups are bound to occur. If grounds. While we are curyour meal and service was not rently trying to obtain perwhat you expected it to be, mission to install an ATM then please ask to speak to a machine inside the restaumanager and do not speak rant, please make sure that your mind by not giving your you already have money to server a tip. Your concerns cover the expected tip. It is over the service will be much the least you can do to more clearly conveyed if you express your appreciation to speak to someone who will be your server for his or her able to address your comhard work. plaints in a proper fashion. Being a Duke student Courtenay Crouch myself, I understand that Trinity ’O4

On the record Our teaching space is probably equal to a bad high school space, maybe a middle school space. Kathleen Smith, chair of the biology department, on the state of biology teaching labs (see story, page one)

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Missing the undergraduate years

Students often do not realize the uniqueness of college while they are there

Every April, the editorial pages of this newspaper are filled with columns by graduating Chronicle staffers offering their insights on the Duke experience and

advice for the underclassmen. The problems with this system are obvious—after two weeks of reading multiNorm pie people telling you BradlevI_ the same things—carpe diem, take classes you are interested in, and free speech is kinda important—you begin to tune out the message. Plus, soon-to-be alumna haven’t had their advice tempered by what they’ve found outside the Gothic Wonderland. After an entire five months away from the University, lam prepared to offer, without the slightest reservation, the definitive guide for enjoying life after Duke. It’s so simple, it can be expressed with just three simple words: Do not graduate. I know you’re all sold on this plan to begin with, but use caution—this is not the type of thing you share with your academic advisor, and it will take some efforts for your parents to see the merits of this proposal. Think of the possibilities—you’ll get to take all ofthe classes you’ve wanted to take. Eighth-year seniors probably get some pretty sweet housing, and I hear the job market is great for quintuple majors. I don’t mean to sound like a pathetic dweeb who can’t leave his Duke experience behind—the kind of person who wears his favorite jacket everywhere and looks yearningly at his bullhorn, dreaming of days gone by and walk-up lines to screw up. Obviously, this is not the case here. When you leave Duke, some things will be better. You’ll meet new people,

engage in new experiences that expand graduate school. Good luck getting in— I wish I could tell you that this entire your horizons, and blah, blah, blah, applications are up dramatically across column is in the spirit of the holiday and cliche, cliche, cliche. I hate to break it to the board as young dot-comers seek things aren’t that bad. I also wish I you folks, but after Duke, there will be a refuge from the economy in academia, could give you, the undergraduates at burning hole in your stomachs, similar And even when you get here, don’t be Duke, a more reasonable solution than to the feeling after a heaping helping of looking for bonfires and Big Beer delaying your career aspirations and chicken fried chicken at Bullock’s. Night—that sense of community (and wasting your parents’ money. I guess the For example, when you are at the institutional priority) is usually best solution is carpe diem—enjoy your University, you take for granted the sea reserved for the undergrads. time at Duke, because the undergraduof similarly situated people. After you On the other hand, you could choose ate experience is to be treasured, a when y°u see a Duke bumper to find gainful employment. After four unique phenomenon that can’t be &raduate sticker, you begin to honk wildly and years of stretching your minds and repeated and should be sucked dry, as wave to get the driver’s attention, learning at the feet of some of the world’s the outside-the-classroom experiences Meanwhile, the poor student’s parents most amazing minds, you can prepare are the most valuable, and the people in the car next to you is calling 911 on PowerPoint slides and take orders from are what you miss the most, their cell phone, convinced you are some of America’s most ordinary bosses See, I’ve learned a lot in my life about to carjack them. at America’s most typical companies—if after Duke, Occasionally, you’ll run across a Duke you are lucky. Considering the number of “fan” in your travels. You’ll soon learn people I know who have had their jobs Norm Bradley, Pratt ’Ol, is a former that most fans are vaguely aware that delayed, moved or outright eliminated, editorial page editor of The Chronicle Duke has a good point guard and the don’t take anything for granted until and Duke Student Government head coach’s name can’t be spelled. You’ll miss your first day of work, line monitor. deep, meaningful conversations, such as whether Matt Christensen or Casey Sanders should play the five for the blue team in practice or wondering about the subliminal messages in the Deja Blue ’

poster. (Note to Sports Promotions: Real friggin creative, where have I seen that headline before? When can I expect my “Back Duke or Back Off” football poster?) As a group, you aren’t going to meet a much more content clique than Duke seniors. Oh sure, there’s the stress of interviewing and worrying about where the next step will lead. However, the various prestigious jobs and schools talking to you are putting their best foot forward, wooing you with the prestige and rewards of their program. It’s only when you get there that you realize that graduate school dictates a heckuva lot more work than undergraduate life and that there’s a lot of hours that go along with those consulting and business jobs, So let’s say you are interested in

Duke’s Halloween horror show While haunted houses, ghouls lurking in shadows and witches flying in windows may have been our childhood horrors and the themes of our dreams and Halloween costumes, by Wednesday night here at Duke these nightmares Mm \

smile in relief, only to come up to the row and see that they’re all handicapped! Finally, you realize that the dirt lot is your best bet. You pull up to the lot and slow down as another car speeds around the turn on Duke University Drive and side swipes your mirror. You take Sk p1 a right and blow out the bottom of your car on the may have evolved into more realistic terrors: anthrax, the Taliban and the Ji uneven terrain. Once you finally bungle over the rocks job market for seniors. Jll and ditches, you find a tiny opening in between two The Bill Gates heads had sold out at Tahoes in the back. You start to turn in, but ah! Your wheels won’t move anymore; you’re stuck in the mud Halloween Zone, and there was only one Alexandra Bush mask left. Boys were opting for and can’t stop spinning. You sit there for about half an Wolfe hour until finally you give up and try to forget the fact fatigues and commando costumes, and girls were trying to decide between Sexy Grown Up that you’ve boxed two huge cars in the lot. Another half an hour later, you finally arrive on West Bunny costumes and black patent leather female cop outfits for the dominatrix at heart. Me? I couldn’t decide. Campus, and immediately, leaf blowers accost you, and I had one friend who dressed up last year as a a gale of leaves blow you backward and get stuck in your Freudian slip with the word “Ego” written on it. I had hair. But you persevere, when, suddenly, you spot a train taped cereal boxes to myself and carried a toy machine of freshman girls on their 15th lap from East to West. gun. As baffled students started to pick up my fallen You look around you and see all the girls wearing full Fruit Loops and Coco Puffs at George’s, I realized that make up, prom dresses and stilettos, sequins and gold. being a cereal killer hadn’t been as clever as I thought Every boy has a briefcase and is off to an interview with it was. So I figured that it might inspire me to find a that company where you forgot to drop your resume! relevant and witty costume for Halloween 2001 if I You rush to find a computer cluster and on the way see could imagine a truly contemporary Duke House of all ofthe professors whose classes you’ve cut, all the peoHorrors tour: You’re a senior, you don’t have a clue how ple with whom you have the dreaded, “Hi, how are you?” you’re going to make a living eight months from now, pseudo-conversation, and now you’ve started entering the job market is slow, corporations are laying off peothe darkest part of the Duke Campus of Horrors. In front of each computer in the cluster are hunple right and left, you’re about to be late for your Ibanking interview at the Career Center, and you’re dreds of eager beavers, all typing cover letters fervently and visiting resume workshop sites enthusiastically. pulling into the parking lot. You enter the Blue Zone, and see a spot right away You see a free spot—it’s frozen. Another—frozen—and You start to pull in when another car pulls in right in another! Finally, one free screen glows in the distance—front of you. Flustered, you move on and see another aha! But, no! It’s a Unix computer, for engineers only. one. You pull in and oops, it’s not a spot, but a half-spot, Dejected, you leave and head toward the bleakest corriwith one of those diagonal lines on the comer that cost dor: the Career Center, for your I-banking interview. $6O a ticket when you’re caught. You move on to the So far on-campus recruiting has been a lethal mix of next lot and see a row of empty spaces, 20, no 30. You sorority rush and fraternity pledging. Everyone dress.

es up in the same outfits, puts on their most winning smile and goes out to join the right group and get the right status; except with interviews, there are no kegs or section parties. It all started at the career fair, where you dressed up in your navy suit, brought 50 resumes and spent the whole morning wondering in the back of your head why you worked in retail that summer rather than starting at J.P. Morgan at age 12. Wasn’t there someone in your Bth grade class whose father was the CEO of Goldman Sachs until 1975? Should’ve been nicer to him—too bad. Now you’re

stuck in this glorified meat market, nervously waiting, fidgeting with your fingers, smoothing back your hair, all to answer questions like, “How many ping-pong balls fit into a New York subway car?” and, “How many pay phones are in New York City?” Once you pull these answers out of thin air you become a human computer once again, shooting back your SAT scores, your GPA and analyses of your highest and lowest grades. “Why did you get an A- in this class?” and “why are you getting higher grades in cognitive classes?” are leading questions in this stimulating and exciting conversation. After the typical strength and weakness questions, you are completely drained from brain teasers and ready for some reassuring chit-chat. You ask whether or not your dear interviewer is enjoying New York, and he says it’s pricey. You agree with him and he says, “Why would you care? You’re wearing Ralph Lauren cashmere.” You practically rip off your sweater in shame but instead shake Mr. Interviewer’s hand as firmly as possible and stumble out, ready for your Duke House of Horrors tour to be over. Party dresses, designer sweaters, neckties, navy suits—I finally decide to be Minnie Mouse and don the red and white dotted dress and cartoon mitts. Hey, in an age like this who really wants to get real? Trinity seniorAlexandra Wolfe is a staff writer for Recess.

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