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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Krzyzewski signs lifetime contract with Duke By CRAIG SAPERSTEIN The Chronicle Less than five months ago, Mike Krzyzewski said he wanted a contract that would give him greater job stability. Stability to its fullest extent was granted to the 26-year veteran when he signed a
lifetime contract with the University. Announced at a press conference Wednesday afternoon, the contract mandates that Krzyzewski serve as Duke’s coach until at least 2011 and binds him to conclude his career at Duke. Krzyzewski has also been named special assistant to President Nan Keohane. Radiating a huge smile as he sat by Keohane and Director of Athletics Joe Alieva, Krzyzewski was clearly pleased with what he termed a consummation of “marriage” with his longtime institution. “There are times where you just have to celebrate commitment, and this con-
tract celebrates commitment,” Krzyzewski said. “You do it in marriage, and you do it in a number of things—l’m doing it with my university on this day, which makes me feel great.” MEN’S BASKETBALL COACH MIKE KRZYZEWSKI and President Nan Keohane laugh at a joke during the Thursday press conference, at which the UniIf Krzyzewski’s lifetime contract is versity announced Krzyzewski’s lifetime contract with Duke. analogous to a marriage, no one wants to publicly recite the vows ofthe union. Except for the stipulation that keeps Krzyzewski at Duke for the next 10 years, the terms of the contract—inBy KEVIN LEES At Syracuse University, where Jim ketball for 19 years, said he has never The Chronicle Boeheim has coached basketball for considered offering a lifetime agreement cluding his salary—have not been reFollowing Wednesday’s announcement over 25 years, athletic director Jake to a coach. leased. But Alieva said Krzyzewski would be compensated “appropriately, of Mike Krzyzewski’s lifetime agreement Crouthamel said he would not consider “I think we would be staying with a lifetime contracts for any ofhis coaches. set number ofyears with each coach, dereflecting his achievements and his with the University, ESPN is already re“It depends a lot on the situation, deporting that another coach—Michigan pending on their contributions,” he said. many contributions to the athletic program and the University.” In turn, State’s Tom Izzo—could be in line for a pends a lot on the coach,” Crouthamel Chaney was inducted into the Naismith similar deal. As the college athletic world said. Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Krzyzewski stated that his new conis abuzz with the news at Duke, directors Other directors echoed that sentialongside Krzyzewski this summer. tract left him “well compensated.” But Allen Bohl, Kansas University’s Alieva, Krzyzewski and Keohane across the country are reflecting on their ment. Dave O’Brien ofTemple UniversiSee CONTRACT on page 16 � own programs and lifetime contracts. See IMPACT on page 16 8* ty, where John Chaney has coached has-
Athletic officials debate contract’s impact
Duke to become member of WRC Researchers study preventative care By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle
Signaling a different approach to monitoring factories that manufacture Duke-licensed products, the University announced Wednesday that it intends to join the Worker Rights Consortium, a non-profit group of colleges, universities and labor activists that inspects companies’ labor practices. In addition, the University has decided to let its contract expire with New Era' Cap Company, which owns a factory in Derby, N.Y., that is currently entangled in a labor dispute.
� Top-level researchers and physicians at the Medical Center hope to transform the way medicine is practiced by emphasizing prevention, not treatment.’ By AMBIKA KUMAR
The University had previously hesitated to enter the WRC because Duke was already affiliated with the Fair Labor Association, an anti-sweatshop organization that it originally helped found in 1999. Labor activists have called for more support of the WRC and criticized the FLA because of the role corporations play in the organization. Now, however, administrators believe that the groups can work together. “When it all started there was a feeling that the FLA was competitive with the WRC. Over the years they have become more complimentary,” said Tailman Trask, executive vice president. “After a lot of conversations, it seemed there was no longer a reaDUKE APPAREL has in the past been the cause for protest son not to be member of the WRC.” See WRC on page 7 � among anti-sweatshop advocates. ;
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away, or so the saying goes. One day, that preventative mentality may become the norm—if physicians at the Medical Center have anything to do with it. Over the next three to four years, several researchers will begin the Duke University Health Sys-
tem’s push toward preventative medicine through a study aimed at creating a system in which prevention —not treatment—is emphasized. “Ultimately, it will improve health and lower cost per any given individual,” said Dr. Ralph Snyderman, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Health System.
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The FBI believes a man who is the focus of a worldwide manhunt was supposed to be the 20th hijacker on Sept. 11 but failed three times to get into the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller told federal prosecutors Wednesday.
Israeli tanks move into Palestinian camps
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Israeli tanks moved into a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, witnesses said, after Palestinians fired mortar shells at Jewish settlements and exchanged gunfire with Israeli forces. •
O’Keefe nominated for NASA administrator
Sean O’Keefe, a Washington budget official renowned as a cost-cutter and supporter of President George W. Bush’s efforts to rein in space station spending, was nominated Wednesday as NASA’s next administrator.
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A Massachusetts state board ruled Wednesday that an HIV-positive man with end-stage liver disease should be covered by Medicaid for a potentially life-saving liver transplant. •
UC approves admission changes
In what some branded as backdoor affirmative action, a University of California regents committee approved a new admissions policy that would take into account any personal hardships a student had to overcome. News briefs compiled from wire reports.
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Meanwhile, a majority of Pashtun tribes revolt against the fundamentalist regime vised political settlement representing all ethnic groups. In the south, there were reports—The rout KABUL, Afghanistan impossible to confirm—of Wednesday although Taliban accelerated of the with the Islamic militia losing control fighting in the streets of Kandahar, of Jalalabad in the east, once-loyal the Taliban’s birthplace. Many of Afghanistan’s 23 or more Pashtun tribesmen joining in the revolt in the south and many of their Pashtun groups appeared to have fighters fleeing into the mountains to risen up against the Taliban, Pentagon spokesperson Rear Adm. John Stuffleevade US. airstrikes. The Taliban is “in retreat virtually beem said. “Whether or not they’re all over the country,” Vice President working in concert, we don’t know,” he told reporters in Washington. Dick Cheney said in Washington. The tribal leaders were PashA day after seizing the capital, of Afghanistan’s the altuns—members northern Kabul, elements of which served as largest group, ethnic by power consolidated their liance taking over the defense and interior the backbone of the Taliban’s harsh ministries—temporary measures, the five-year regime. “It is time for the rest of alliance insisted, until a U.N.-superBy KATHY GANNON The Associated Press
Afghanistan—particularly the ethnic groups in the south—to join the uprising against the Taliban and throw off their oppressive rule,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in London, “The sooner they act, the greater the
benefit for all the people of Afghanistan.” Cheney said the Taliban’s retreat was “a very good beginning to what’s likely to be a long struggle,” which will end only with the capture of Osama bin Laden and the destruction of his al-Qaida terrorist network. President George W. Bush against airstrikes launched Afghanistan on Oct. 7 after the Taliban refused to surrender bin Laden,
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER The Associated Press Investigators raised the possibility NEW YORK Wednesday that turbulence from a jumbo jet led to the crash of American Flight 587, saying the two planes took off less than the standard two minutes apart. “We do not know whether this contributed in any way to the actual accident, but we are looking at this very closely,” said Marion Blakey, chair ofthe National Transportation Safety Board. Wake turbulence, the swirl of air behind a plane, can endanger planes flying too close behind or below. The phenomenon has been blamed for at least one deadly crash in the past Investigators want to know whether it caused Flight 587 to break apart three minutes after takeoff from Kennedy Airport Monday, killing all 260 people aboard
and as many as five on the ground. The plane’s tail assembly sheared away and its twin engines fell off as the jet went down. Standard protocol says there should be at least two minutes between takeoffs. However, Blakey said it appeared there was less than that between Flight 587 and a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 that left ahead ofit from the same runway. “We believe that in fact it was 1 minute and 45 seconds in terms ofthe actual distance,” Blakey said. She did not explain why this was so, but she said it appears that air traffic controllers followed proper procedure. She said that tower clearances for the two takeoffs came 2 minutes and 20 seconds apart. Pointing to a map of the two planes’ flight paths, Blakey noted that although the jumbo jet’s path was 800 See CRASH on
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Fuqua plans to offer more doctorates Administrators hope to double the number of Ph.D. students at the Fuqua School of Business within the next few years. �
By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle
Now that the Fuqua School of Business has established a foothold in executive MBA education, it is looking to improve its doctoral program by doubling the number of students in the next few years. Doug Breeden, dean of the business school, said strengthening the program is one of his top priorities, as he devotes more attention to it as the academic year progresses. “I’m really excited about that,” Breeden said. “We’re moving rapidly to increase the [number of students in the] program, particularly in marketing and finance.” There are a total of 57 students in the Ph.D. program, which is taught by Fuqua professors and run through the Graduate School. Other top schools’ programs are substantially larger. The Wharton School at
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A SECURITY OFFICER, A POLICE OFFICER and a student stand in front of the gates to the Blue Zone parking lot the night of Oct. 23, when a student reported that he was assaulted in the first lot on the left.
DSG rejects Blue Zone safety resolution By ALEX GARINGER
Zone—especially some of our more remote ones,” Birkhead said. In the past 18 months, there have only been 10reported incidents in the Blue Zone, including an alleged assault Oct. 23, he said. Birkhead recommended that the proposal focus more on lots on Central and East Campuses. DSG legislators opposed to the resolution said they felt it was a knee-jerk pro-
Senior Alex Niejelow, co-author of the legislation, along with Vice President for A resolution calling for heightened seFacilities and Athletics Matt Slovik, said curity in the Blue Zone was rejected at the purpose of the proposal was to tackle Duke Student Government’s meeting last the biggest lot first and draw attention to night, with plans for another proposal adthe need for heightened security in all dressing more broadly security in all campus lots. Following the meeting, parking lots. Niejelow said that a campus-wide recomThe proposal recommended a revampmendation would be more appropriate, ing of lighting fixtures with white flood and he expects to reintroduce legislation. “I think the body perhaps had some fights, the installment of additional fightposal, coming only weeks after the first ing fixtures, increased blue fights and the reported incident of assault in the Blue good insight,” he said. “Chief Birkhead trimming of overgrown shrubbery Zone since the lots opened as the main and [Director of Parking and Transportaaround the parking lots. undergraduate parking area in August tion Services] Cathy Reeves are extremeThe proposal was defeated after Duke 2000. The opponents also said any resoly supportive of increasing safety in camUniversity Police Department Chief lution DSG passes should be a campuspus lots. By no means is this going away.” Clarence Birkhead addressed legislators’ wide initiative and should follow the recIN OTHER BUSINESS: DSG Vice concerns. Although Birkhead agreed with ommendation of police and parking President for Student Affairs Joshua the need for greater safety measures in officials like Birkhead. Jean-Baptiste announced a six-week trial “Let’s make sure we are putting these period beginning next semester of a proparking lots, he cautioned against focusing on the Blue Zone, which he considers measures in the right place,” said Jason gram in which the University will subsione of the safest lots on campus. Freedman, legislature individual projects dize two buses for transportation to off“I think our first priority should be coordinator. “I’m not sure why we would campus parties and special events off-campus. any other parking lot besides the Blue not go with the professionals on this.” The Chronicle
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2001 � PAGE 5
Future Duke retirees may receive less health benefits By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle
Future Duke retirees will be paying more in medical costs if a health care plan currently under consideration is passed. Former employees are currently reimbursed 85 percent of their medical costs, but, if the Board of Trustees approve a plan later this year, that could be reduced to 60 percent over the next five years because of a need to reduce expenses. Retirees’ spouses will continue to pay 50 percent of their costs. New requirements mandate that Duke must pay ahead for the benefits instead of paying them as they go, resulting in the need to restrict $2lO million over the past five years, said Tallman Trask, executive vice president. “The big push is the change in the actuary rules, where we have to create a liability for future need,”
Trask said. The average difference for employees will be about $9 per month,
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The plan will be discussed at today’s Academic Council meeting, and could undergo changes before being approved by the Board of Trustees, possibly in December. The issue has been discussed at length over the past several months by the Faculty Compensation Committee. “I think we were interested in
making sure that all the different options were discussed, but accounting principles require you to take into account future financial costs for retirees if you provide those benefits,” said Thomas Metzloff, professor of law and FCC chair. “One of the options would have had to been to just eliminate the benefit, but we thought it was essential for Duke to continue to make that commitment.” To balance out the cost of the future expenditures, the University could try different ways to adjust the health care benefits. Metzloff said he thought the committee came up with the best solution possible to allow salaries and other benefits to continue increasing. The changes will not affect current Duke retirees, and the drop from 85 to 60 percent will take place over about five years. Employees from the University and Duke University Health System will be affected. Still, other professors, who have studied the situation, see Duke’s hands tied in having to cut money from somewhere to cover the liabilities, and that the cut in benefits will have minimal effect on retirees. “At the moment those numbers are very reasonable, even low,” said Richard Burton, a professor in the Fuqua School of Business and member of the FCC. “They will go up, but will not go up substantially, and the new plan would still be low.”
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Researchers hope study will help change reimbursement � PREVENTATIVE from page 1 practiced for quite some time now, so “It’s a much more rational way of de- methodologies for reimbursement have livering health care,” he added. been aligned that way.” The proposed shift, presented to the Researchers agree that, in the long Board of Trustees at its October meetrun, preventative health care would ing, would redefine the patient-doctor lower costs by decreasing hospital visits for acute care. But they also caution relationship and the traditional national view of health care. Going to the doc- that when life span increases, costs rise tor would become an interactive rather as well. than passive process; proposed changes “The simplistic argument is, ‘Let’s prevent disease because it will save range from more regular communication via the Internet with doctors to money,’” said Dr. Robert Califf, associate more frequent visits to clinics. And pavice chancellor for clinical research. tients would be treated by a set of “Unfortunately, if you take the longhealth practitioners, not just one doctor. term perspective and look at the nation“We’ve known for years that people al budget, that’s not the case. The reaneed to exercise, lose weight, not son is, because [now], eventually people smoke,” said Dr. Tracy Gaudet, director get sick and die, so if you prevent disof the Center for Integrative Medicine. ease at age 50 and age 60, people are liv“The thing that’s shifting here is, how do ing longer, but they don’t live forever.” we embrace a whole person philosophy Califf said even short-term financial and offer different [mechanisms] to supsavings may be disadvantageous, citing port that?” that money from in-patient care often Such a shift would represent a major supplants funds in divisions that lose change in the practice of medicine, and money, such as neo-natal intensive care. “If I could give a pill today that would researchers admit there are several obstacles, financial and psychological. wipe out heart attacks, it would be a disMost notably, they point to the current aster for a lot of other areas in the Medmethod of health care reimbursement; ical Center,” Califf said. in fact, the most recent grant for the Furthermore, Califf and others note study was granted by the Centers for that they must develop a method that Medicare and Medicaid Services. spurs patients to be more proactive. “A lot of care these days is based on This may be particularly difficult in acute care of a specific illness when a younger patients, despite growing reliadisaster happens,” said lead researcher bility of medical predictions. Dr. Gary Stiles, chief medical officer and “Young people feel they are immortal,” vice president of the Health System. “So said Stiles, also chief ofthe division ofcarsomebody has diabetes that’s out of condiology. “They won’t believe smoking is trol and gets admitted to the hospital. bad for them or being overweight [is unSomebody has congestive heart failure healthy].... Part of this project is interacting with patients to understand what it is and is out of control and goes to the hospital. That’s how medicine has been that would make them want to change.”
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Due to this obstacle, Snyderman said With a preventative approach must researchers will concentrate first on come changes in physician training, more severe and immediate diseases. something the School of Medicine has For example, one part of the study, led already begun to take into account. “We can figure out how we need to by Stiles, will examine prevention specifically in patients who have sufdeliver health care differently, but if fered congestive heart failure. we’re not training people that embrace that philosophy... it’s not going to Stiles pointed to preliminary research already completed by Dr. work,” said Gaudet, Trinity ’B4 and Christopher O’Connor, associate profes- Medicine ’9l. sor of cardiology. Although he did not Gaudet will be involved in phases cite numbers, Stiles said the research, one and two of the study. In phase one, conducted on about 100 to 150 patients, researchers will examine data that may proved that with a preventative mindalready demonstrate the success of preset and process, patient admission to ventative care; in phase two, they will the hospital does decrease. Still, Stiles design the health intervention process emphasized the long road ahead and, and test it on Duke employees. Phase above all, cited teamwork as a must, three consists ofthe study on congestive heart failure patients. given the complexity of medicine today.
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Trask: University will not renew New Era contract After students’ January 1999 sit-in
support the WRC more,” said freshman Allison Brim, a member of Duke Stu-
of the Allen Building, Duke received national attention as a leader in scrutinizing factories for university apparel made with sweatshop labor. Many of the other schools then at the forefront of the sweatshop movement, like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have already joined the 80member WRC while Duke has tried to work within the 160-school FLA. As a member of the WRC, the University would pay the organization dues of 1 percent of annual licensing revenue, the same amount it pays to the FLA. In return, the WRC would help the University monitor factories involved in producing Duke-licensed goods, including the New Era factory. Trask said that New Era has been unresponsive in answering accusations that it has treated workers unfairly. Workers at the plant are currently on strike, and the National Labor Relations Board is mediating the dispute. The University will not renew the contract with the company until there is more investigation of factory conditions by an independent group, Trask said. Campus labor activists responded positively to both announcements. “Right now there is a place for both [the FLA and WRC] because of our past involvement in the FLA, but hopefully that will change and we will
dents Against Sweatshops. “It is the only organization that is doing this job in an effective way.” Brim praised the WRC’s work inspecting the New Era factory and its general practices in monitoring and reporting on working conditions. She sajd the leadership of companies in the FLA and their involvement in monitoring systems detract from its effectiveness. Earlier this fall, the FLA amended its bylaws to include two more university representatives on its board of directors. Trask expressed hope that the FLA and WRC combined will improve monitoring of factories that produce University goods, but he noted that the groups have different agendas. While the FLA attempts to work with companies to inspect working conditions of only cfertain factories, the WRC takes a more active role, one in which WRC officials said the University can play a part in. “Duke has been a very important leader in code of conduct issues from the beginning of the process, and their involvement will strengthen the WRC at every level,” said Scott Nova, executive director of the WRC. “They will have the opportunity to be part of an organization that will help achieve their goal—producing goods with fair labor practices that will bear the Duke name.”
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sought in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Taliban officials insisted the Islamic movement remained intact in its southern strongholds despite its losses. A Taliban official, Mullah Abdullah, told the Afghan Islamic Press the movement’s supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and his “guest,” bin Laden, were “safe and well.” But by other accounts, the news was not good for the Taliban. A US. official in Washington—speaking on condition of anonymity—said there was fighting in the streets of Kandahar between Pashtun tribesmen and the Taliban. The official asserted that the city would fall to anti-Taliban forces within days if not hours. Many Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan were fleeing to rural, mountainous province of Helmand southwest of Kandahar, the official said. Yunus Khalis, a Pashtun mullah in Jalalabad, between Kabul and the Pakistan border, negotiated a deal under which the Taliban left the city in return for safe passage with their weapons, according to sources there. Khalis, who is anti-Western, deeply conservative and a friend to Arab militants, declared himself independent ofboth the Taliban and the northern alliance. Witnesses said Khalis’ followers also took control of the Torkham border station to the east of the city and were preventing anyone—including Afghans—from entering Pakistan or leaving Afghanistan. U.S. jets reportedly pounded targets south of Jalalabad early Wednesday. The area is suspected to contain al-Qaida hideouts. Khalis’ return to power fit into the larger trend: Afghanistan seemed to be reverting to the patchwork quilt of fiefdoms that controlled the country before the Taliban ascended in 1996. Already, warlords who previously ruled Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat have taken control of those cities. Afghan sources in Pakistan, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the airport outside of Kandahar was held by about 200 fighters loyal to Arif Khan, a Pashtun tribal leader. The Taliban denied it, and officials in Washington said the situation was unclear. There were other advances. Tribal elders took control Wednesday of the town of Gardez, in Paktia province about 60 miles south of Kabul. And an alliance official in Kabul said there were reports of antiTaliban uprisings in the southern provinces of Ghazni and Wardak. Reporters were unable to travel south of the Afghan capital, and the reports could not be confirmed independently. Haron Amin, a U.S.-based envoy for the northern alliance, said some Pashtuns in southern Afghanistan were working with the alliance. He described Mullah Naqib near Kandahar and Qari Baba in Ghazni province as alliance supporters. “People have revolted against the Taliban,” said Saeed Hussain Anwari, a Shiite Muslim commander. U.S. special forces were watching key roads in southern Afghanistan, hunting for Taliban leaders, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. “They have been interdicting the main roads that connect the
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north to the south to see what’s going on and to stop people that they think ought to be stopped,” he said. At the Pentagon, senior defense officials speaking on condition of anonymity said a new military plan was being prepared to hunt down bin Laden and other leaders of al-Qaida and the Taliban. As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan approached, authorities said there would be limited U.S. bombing aimed at pockets of Taliban resistance in northern areas like Kunduz, as well as caves and other mountain redoubts in the south where al-Qaida leaders were believed to be hiding. Both alliance and U.S. officials say the Taliban were holding out at Kunduz, which is between the allianceheld cities of Mazar-e-Sharif and Taloqan in northern Afghanistan. Many of the Arab, Chechen and Pakistani volunteers fighting alongside the Taliban appeared to be making a stand at Kunduz. In other developments:
Eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, were reported safe in Pakistan after being held in Afghanistan for three months by the Taliban for preaching Christianity, U.S. officials said. Three U.S. special forces helicopters picked up the aid workers in a field near Ghanzi, about 50 miles southwest of Kabul, at about 4:40 p.m. EST, Pentagon officials said. •
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to the border with Afghanistan to prevent Taliban fighters and their al-Qaida allies from escaping into Pakistan. The Defense Ministry refused to comment on the report. The United Nations sent its first delivery of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, 55 tons of winter supplies via a barge across the Amu Darya River that forms the border with Uzbekistan. At the same time, UNICEF and the World Food Program halted shipments amid reports of looting and lawlessness. Britain ordered thousands of troops to prepare for possible duty in Afghanistan. Indonesia and New Zealand offered troops for peacekeeping. Afghanistan’s former king, Mohammad Zaher Shah, urged the Afghan people to unite and choose their destiny in a statement made public Wednesday to be broadcast by radio in his homeland. The ex-king, who has lived in exile in Italy since his ouster in 1973, intended to return to Afghanistan soon to serve as a symbol of national unity, though Zaher Shah has said he does not seek to regain the throne. •
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Fuqua anticipates Cockpit recorder gives no clues enhanced research FUQUA from page 3 gram in business administration, agreed that increasing the number of students was important and complimented the current strength of the program. “I think we’re getting outstanding students [based] on all sorts of standard criteria,” he said. “Generally, we [have] an excellent placement rate—people are going to really good places.” He added that doctoral students take courses from faculty in economics, psychology and even at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to supplement their Fuqua coursework, and will likely continue to do so. Breeden said increasing enrollment will contribute to more intense research throughout the school. John Payne, deputy dean of Fuqua, agreed. “I think that good Ph.D. students encourage and support faculty to maintain an intellectual excitement that enhances the research that comes out ofFuqua [in] questions they ask... and unexplored regions that need to be looked at,” Payne said. Bettman said that in addition to faculty, other resources will be necessary, such as more office space and administrative support. Payne said the expanded program would require more computers and that a large part of the Fox Student Center—scheduled for completion in March 2003—will be reserved for doctoral students. Currently, there are Ph.D. programs in six areas. Most students, however, are in three of those—finance, management and marketing. Payne hoped that in addition to strengthening those three concentrations, the school could attract more students to accounting, operations management and decision science as well as programs in new areas. “In some areas like accounting, where we haven’t had as much Ph.D. research as in the past, we’d like to do more of that,” he said. “Where we haven’t had a major presence [with Ph.D. education], we’re expanding numbers but also expanding breadth.”
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force.”
The Federal Aviation Administration has set minimum distances for planes flying near each other, based on aircraft size. After a 1992 crash in Billings, Mont., that killed eight people, federal investigators found that the pilot failed to follow the established “vortex avoidance procedure” and flew too close to a jet. Blakey, at a news conference, also said that Flight 587’s other black box—its flight data recorder—was repaired by the manufacturer, allowing investigators to extract data on the last minutes of the doomed flight. The recorder had been scorched and banged up in the crash. Both of the plane’s engines have been recovered and taken to a hangar at Kennedy. Authorities have not ruled out sabotage or other causes but have said all signs point to a mechanical failure. “That does not mean we have concluded there was no crime. We simply have no evidence to date of a crime of terrorism,” Attorney General John Ashcroft said. The flight data recorder monitors nearly 200 separate functions in the European-made A3OO, including rudder movements. “We’ll be looking very carefully at how the tail failed,” the NTSB’s George Black said. An FAA expert was headed to the site Wednesday to study the plane’s tail assembly, an analysis that could lead to corrective measures or inspections.
Blakey said American Airlines has also volunteered to do a sample inspection of its Airbus A3OO fleet to ensure there are no problems with tail assemblies. The tail fin was largely intact when it was fished out of Jamaica Bay, a short distance from the crash site; the rudder, in pieces, was found nearby. The rudder, which is supported by the tail fin, controls turns from side to side. The 27-foot tail fin was ripped off the fuselage cleanly, as if it had been sliced by a knife. David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association, said he and several pilots he spoke to were struck by the sight. “It’s as if you had a model of an airplane and you just snapped the stabilizer off,” he said. “It’s really shocking and surprising.” Safety records show the same plane was severely shaken when it hit air turbulence at cruising altitude seven years ago in an episode that injured 47 people. Aviation consultant Jim McKenna said the plane could have been weakened by the earlier encounter. “I would expect that the airplane underwent inspection after the turbulence encounter to verify that it hadn’t been damaged and any damage that was incurred was fixed,” McKenna said. NTSB investigators are reviewing records, interviewing maintenance employees and asking questions about the 1994 incident. “This would be the most catastrophic inflight disaster we’ve ever had. We’ve never had a modern civilian jetliner come apart in flight. It is so unbelievably catastrophic what happened,” former Transportation Department inspector general Mary Schiavo said. Investigators said both engines were relatively intact, which seemed to discount early speculation that one of them blew apart and propelled pieces into the body of the plane. Investigators also cast doubt on the theory that birds had been sucked into the engines and brought the plane down.
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Men’s basketball faces Nike Elite Duke must win By ROBERT SAMUEL The Chronicle The Duke men’s basketball team plays its final exhibition game against Nike Elite today in Cameron Indoor Stadium at 7:30 p.m. The team feels it has accomplished many things during the preseason. “We’ve accomplished a lot,” junior Casey Sanders said. ‘We’ve found our leaders. We’ve found a couple of our scorers. We’re starting to hit our stride.” The Nike Elite team features former college players, including former Temple stand-out guard Quincy Wadley and 7foot-2 former Georgia Tech center Robb Dryden. The backcourt is also very strong, and Duke is not taking it lightly. “They’re all great shooters,” Sanders said. “They bring speed, quickness. They’re a very old team. They’re a lot older than we are.” Nike Elite has played in a limited number of games, and it is hard for Duke to judge what type of team they are. Elite’s shot selection changes nightly, with many arbitrary one-on-one shots being taken. The. team feels the best way to stop its opponents is straight “in your face” defense. The exhibition game is helpful for Duke to prepare for its arduous defense of the national championship. “It’s a good preparational tool,” guard Andre Buckner said. “We’re going to play a lot of teams this year that are strong on the perimeter.” Despite Nike Elite being a virtually unknown team, Duke has been aggressively preparing for the game. “It’s just another game Duke is playing,” Sanders said. “Whether we play See NIKE on page 14 � JASON WILLIAMS will lead Duke into its last exhibition game
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For the second time in under two weeks, the men’s soccer team (8-10, 2-4 in the ACC) is set to face off against the No. 9 Wake Forest Demon Deacons (13-4-1, 3-2-1) Thursday at 3 p.m. This opening-round match of the ACC Tournament at Historic Riggs Field in Clemson, S.C., however, will have even higher stakes: another Blue Devil loss to Wake could very well end Duke’s season, as well as the team’s string of 23 consecutive seasons with a winning record. Although the Blue Devils dropped a match to the Demon Deacons 2-0 on Nov. 3 in Winston-Salem, the upcoming game looks to be an even affair. While Wake Forest is the fourth-seeded team, and is a sizzling 9-1-1 over its last 11 matches, in the singleelimination tournament, the Blue Devils are just below them as the fifth seed. “The [first game] was a very close match,” Duke coach John Rennie said. “We outshot Wake Forest, beat them statistically and played well, but we gave up two early goals in the first half. We just have to find away to stop giving up the goals, and we need to find away to score ourselves. [The game will be played at a neutral site], so it should be a very even contest.” The key to the game will be Duke’s ability to contain the ACC’s leading scorer, Wake Forest’s sophomore forward sensation Jeremiah White. White, who finished-the regular season with 37 points, is one of the top strikers in the nation and an incredibly quick player. “You just have to try and double team him whenever you can,” Rennie said. “You concentrate as a team on making sure that you get pressure on the ball. When it’s one-against-one, he can beat anybody.” While Duke’s defense has been very solid throughout the year, the offense has struggled at See MEN’S SOCCER on page 12 �
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Wellstone, Conyers introduce legislation for Twins By RONALD BLUM The Associated Press
NEW YORK Legislation was introduced in Congress Wednesday to allow lawsuits against Major League Baseball when teams fold or relocate, and lawyers for players and owners agreed the union’s grievance to save two teams will be heard next month. Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat, and Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the Fairness in Antitrust in National Sports Act, which would limit baseball’s exemption from antitrust laws, created by a 1922 U.S. Supreme Court decision. “Our country has tremendously urgent priorities—we have the war in
Afghanistan, the war against terrorism, and our urgent need for economic stimulus legislation to keep our nation from plummeting even further into recession,” Wellstone said. “Unfortunately, however, major league baseball owners did not give us a choice on timing. They have picked a particularly inauspicious time to announce their unilateral, shortsighted and self-serving decision, so we must respond.” Baseball owners voted last week to eliminate two teams by next season, and Montreal and Minnesota appear to be the most likely candidates. Wellstone and Conyers—who is from Michigan, attended a news conference along with several House members from Minnesota—hope to exert pressure on baseball owners to reverse their decision. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said last week his sport no longer can support financially struggling teams.
Wellstone called baseball’s decision to fold two teams “away for owners to divvy up profits.” “If GM, Ford and Chrysler tried that in Detroit, we would have a lot of people outraged,” Conyers said. The bill would allow an “injured” party to sue for antitrust violations—ranging from a government entity to a stadium authority to a baseball player. Other parts of baseball’s antitrust exemptionsuch as minor league baseball, marketing, sales and intellectual property rights—would remain intact. “The Minnesota Twins on the northern prairie aren’t just a baseball team. They’re really away of life,” said Rep.
Earl Pomeroy, a North Dakota Democrat. “It’s what you listen to when you plant the crop in the spring. It’s what kids talk about when they go to their sandlot ball.” Congress has traditionally been reluctant to tamper with baseball's antitrust exemption. In 1998, a law was passed eliminating the exemption only for labor relations involving the major leagues. “It’s a steep mountain to climb, but we absolutely have to make the effort,” Wellstone said. Union head Donald Fehr immediately backed the legislation. “It is unfortunate that the owners’ recent actions make consideration ofthis legislation necessary, but it is important to make certain that the antitrust laws apply to baseball owners in order to protect the interests of baseball fans, ballpark employees, cities and, frankly, the game itself,” he said. “Some legal experts believe that... major league baseball is already subject to the antitrust laws. I share that view.
a news conference to REP. JOHN CONYERS D-MICH. is introduced by Sen. Paul Wellstone D-Minn., at s antitrust exemption. announce their co-sponsorship of legislation limiting baseball “We will confer and get back the Weiner said. and other the commissioner However, owners evidently continue to believe that to him shortly. Weiner said it was likely the date for they can operate free from scrutiny under starting laws the hearing will be set Thursday which antitrust laws—that the the apply to other Americans do not apply to or Friday. In Minneapolis, a hearing is schedthem. This bill would eliminate any comuled for Thursday before Hennepin that baseball must doubt remaining ply with the antitrust laws, just like the County District Court Judge Harry other professional sports, and nearly Crump on a lawsuit filed against the Twins by the Metropolitan Sports every other industry.” In New York, lawyers for the union Facilities Commission, Judge Diana Eagon last week issued a and the owners spoke with arbitrator Shyam Das, who will hear the grievance temporary restraining order barring the filed by the union, which claims the deci- Twins from being eliminated. The comsion to eliminate two teams violated its mission is seeking a permanent injunction to force the Twins to play in the labor contract, which expired last week. ‘We have a series of dates beginning in Metrodome through the end of their lease early December,” union lawyer Michael in 2002.
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Two Duke frosh Cila, Ahumada will miss key game add to toughness FROSH from page 11 “It’s one of the hardest things to do—you can just stop, but he didn’t,” she said That attitude has served her well at Duke. She went home to Georgia over fall break and could not waitlo get back to Durham. She has not looked back. Currie is the quiet one, the focused one, determined a la Alana Beard. She cited Beard as her role model on the team and is poised to make just as large a splash as a freshman, taking a double-double in her debut last weekend. “One of my former players, Kira Orr, is one of the first players who told me about her,” Goestenkors said. Orr, who played for the Blue Devils in the mid-19905, is now an assistant basketball coach at the Bullis School in Washington D.C., where Currie played in high school. “Kira’s the one who really piqued my interest and said I needed to recruit this player. I sent [assistant coach] Joanne [Boyle] to watch her initially. She came back and said she’s phenomenal.” Currie said she considered a number of schools and that she enjoyed herself at Duke when she visited as a recruit. She said she simply liked the players, the coaches and knew that the Blue Devils, were national contenders. Before the season began, she showed no hesitation about wanting to have an immediate impact. “I remember in preseason, I couldn’t wait for the season to start,” she said. Both freshmen are contributing to the team immediately as two of the unit’s more physical players. The two freshmen provide attitude in the frontcourt as well. The hard part is juggling so much talent. Even without the two freshmen stars, Goestenkors has her hands full with a star-studded upperclass roster. “I’ve never been in this situation before,” she said. “Everyone feels like they can contribute. Everyone feels important. This team feels closer than any other team we’ve had.”
� MEN’S SOCCER from page 11 times—particularly in the latter stages of the season. Overall, the Blue Devils are averaging 1.22 goals per game, and have been shutout six times thus far, including their last two games. To make matters worse, Duke’s
leading scorer, sophomore forward Jordan Cila, will not be playing due to illness. Gila’s illness is just another example of the hard luck that has confounded the Blue Devils throughout the season. In addition to Cila, five Blue Devil starters, including the heart of the defense, sophomore defender Matt Ahumada, will be unable to play due to a combination of injury, illness and suspension. All of the injuries have taken their toll on the consistency of the team, as Rennie has been hard-pressed to keep a single lineup together throughout the season. The results have been the poor offensive performance, as well as a 2-8 record in games decided by one goal—including two overtime and three double OT matches. Despite the hardships, the Blue Devils, as evidenced by the words of their coach, will not be
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NOAH LEWKOWITZ and the rest of the Duke men’s soccer team will be playing for its own survival against Clemson.
“We want to compete and play hard,” Rennie said. “And I think we have been. We are going to work as hard as we can, do the best that we can and hope that things start to go our way.”
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Last week in review Saturday, Nov. 10 Wake Forest 32, North Carolina 31 Virginia 39, Georgia Tech 38 N.C. State 34, Florida State 28 Maryland 37, Clemson 20
This week’s schedule Saturday, Nov. 17 Duke @ North Carolina, 1:30 p.m. Georgia Tech @ Wake Forest, noon Clemson @ No. 22 South Carolina, 12:30 p.m No. 18 Virginia Tech @ Virginia, 3:30 p.m. No. 10 Maryland @ N.C. State, 7:45 p.m. No. 21 Florida State @ No. 4 Florida, 8 p.m.
PASSING YARDS Comp/Att G. Godsey, Ga Tech 185/284 C. Rix, FSU 126/223 P. Rivers, N.C. State 191/299 S. Hill, Maryland 170/288 D. Bryant, Duke 152/300 RUSHING YARDS Att B. Perry, Maryland 198 J. Burns, Ga Tech 215 T. Williams, Wake 192 W. Dantzler, Clem 167 C. Douglas, Duke 185
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SCORING LEADERS L Manget, Ga Tech N. Novak, Maryland X. Beitia, FSU B. Perry, Maryland B. McMullen, UVa
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“This might be our biggest test of the year. Every week we have needed to get back up for a game and I think this is one that we have to be ready to play if we are to be successful.” Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen ON THE UPCOMING MARYLAND- N.C. STATE GAME
“For anybody who’s ever been hit in the mouth or hit directly in the nose, it stings, it hurts, it’s aggravating, it’s frustrating and sometimes you’re not able to overcome that.” North Carolina coach John on his team’s season
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When South Carolina hosts Clemson Saturday in Columbia, S.C., it will be the 92nd consecutive year in which these two teams have faced one another and the 99th time overall. Clemson has won the last four meetings and nine of the last 12, but the 22nd-ranked Gamecocks are just one win shy of posting back-to-back eight win seasons for the first time in 13 years.
“When you win the way we did, down 24-0 and come back and win late, those are the special wins you never forget.” Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe on COMING BACK TO BEAT NORTH
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In the fourth quarter of Virginia’s 39-38 victory over Georgia Tech, 43 points were scored and the lead changed hands seven times. The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Cavaliers. With 10 receptions against the Yellow Jackets, junior WR Bryan McMullen is now the leading receiver in UVa history.
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Blue Devils travel to Maui after last exhibition game NIKE from page 11
each other or whether we play an opponent, that’s basically the mentality that we bring to games as a team. Duke’s playing tonight. That’s all that matters.” Duke prepares for Nike Elite just like it does for every other opponent. The Blue Devils look at Nike’s strengths and weaknesses, and try to take away everything they do well. “We try to gain as much as we can from watching them [on film],” Buckner said. In Duke’s previous exhibition game, the Blue Devils cruised to a 129-94 win against EA Sports. Jason Williams and Carlos Boozer combined for 55 points, as Williams displayed his unanimous pre-
season All-American status en route to a game-high 28 points. Duke’s newcomers, freshman Daniel Ewing and junior Dahntay Jones, each scored 11 points, receiving quality experience in Cameron. “I was kind of nervous at first,” Jones said. “I was just trying to get used to the atmosphere in general, but as the game went on, I started getting a little more comfortable and started getting into the game.” The Blue Devils leave Saturday for
Maui, Hawaii, and they begin their defense of the national championship against Seton Hall on Nov. 19 at 9 p.m. in a game televised on ESPN.
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ANALYSIS Carlos Boozer dominated in Duke’s first exhibition game, missing just five shots on his way to 27 points. He may face stiffer defense from 7-foot-2 Rob Dryden, who played his college ball at Georgia Against UNC, however, Dryden got into foul trouble and played only 16 minutes, scoring six points.
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Nike Elite hasn’t been very successful in its exhibition schedule thus far, losing to UNC and falling to projected ACC cellar-dweller FSU. Meanwhile, Duke put up a whopping 129 points in its first game. But since the Blue Devils turn around and fly to Maui this weekend, the starters may play less minutes than they did last week, meaning the team Compiled by Shawn Nicholls could score less. Duke wins 128-83
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Krzyzewski will help raise money Sperber: teaching not really valued � CONTRACT from page 1 initiated contract negotiations during the summer, following the announcement that Krzyzewsi would be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Krzyzewski said his goal was to reach an agreement with Alieva before the start ofDuke’s season, which begins Monday in Maui after a final exhibition game tonight. With little speculation from local media, the proceedings were held in private, to the satisfaction of the involved parties. Keohane expressed happiness with Krzyzewski’s new post, which she said will formalize the regular
interaction the two currently share in regard to University issues. “It is both a recognition of a partnership that has developed and of the level of visibility and commitment to the whole University that Mike has had,” she said. “I was thinking just the other day when we had a meeting ofall the boards of visitors of every part of the Medical Center—350 people came together to talk about the future of the Duke Medical Center and its research and its teaching. Of course, Mike was the only person who could address that whole group and get them all excited and... to focus their vision on the future: That’s the kind of thing Mike does so beautifully for Duke.” As an ambassador for the University, Krzyzewski mentioned that he wants to play a more active role in promoting the capital campaign, which has not yet reached its $2 billion goal. In particular, the coach said that he could help provide a final push with benefactors as the campaign’s goal becomes closer to reality. Furthermore, Krzyzewski said he believed his new title would allow him to remain an active presence at the University after he retires from coaching. He expressed his gratitude toward Keohane for her constant support and said he looked forward to consulting with her in the years to come. “I don’t think you necessarily have to have a lifetime contract to have commitment. What you need to have on a day-to-day basis is dialogue where you’re not
working for somebody, you’re working with somebody,” Krzyzewski said. “And I’ve never felt that I work for Duke or for my presidents or for my AD. I’ve always felt that I’ve worked with them, and they’ve provided the atmosphere for that to happen. I don’t think that happens very much.” If Krzyzewski decides to retire in 2011, he will likely be near the record for all-time wins of 876 set by longtime adversary Dean Smith, who coached at North Carolina for 36 seasons. To tie Smith’s mark, the Duke coach—who has 606 career wins—would have to maintain an average of 27 wins per season, the Blue Devils’ mean for the past decade.
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athletic director, praised Krzyzewski’s new deal and said he would definitely consider such a contract for Roy Williams, Kansas’ basketball coach, who last year flirted with leaving for his alma mater, the University of North Carolina. “In the future, that’s something I would definitely always want to take a look at,” Bohl said. University officials said that more than just Krzyzewski’s coaching talent inspired them to offer the contract. In particular, they pointed to his role as a teacher.
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“[Duke has] always recognized that athletics is part of the educational process,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s a very important part of the process. A lot of schools don’t want to say that, for whatever reason. Here at Duke, we not only say it, we embrace it.” But Murray Sperber, a professor of English at. Indiana University and author of four books on contemporary college athletics, said Krzyzewski’s viewpoint was selective, because not many other Division I teams could boast the academic talent of Duke’s players, nor could many other college teams boast the basketball team’s winning record. He said lifetime contracts for athletic coaches have little to do with teaching. He said at most, such contracts get coaches out ofthe “win-or-hit-the-road cycle.” “For Duke to give [Krzyzewski] a lifetime contract implies that everyone should do it. Duke’s going to fire [head] football coach [Carl Franks], but I’m sure he’s just as much a teacher as him.” Since coming to Duke almost three years ago, Franks led the football team to a winless season last year and appears likely to repeat that record this year. The nature of college athletics may be even more evident in Krzyzewski’s salary as compared to academic officers.Although the University has not released the details of the new lifetime contract, it did release the salaries of its highest paid employees this summer. With $662,000 annually, Krzyzewski topped the list, above Keohane and Dr. Ralph Snyderman, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System. Keohane said Krzyzewski’s occupation represents a different realm of the University in which the market demands higher pay. “We’ve got an unusually large number of really accomplished and successful people here at Duke,” she said. “Each of them is in a different market. I’m quite comfortable with the way in which salaries work out at Duke.” Sperber disagreed, saying Krzyzewski should not be considered separately. “If they are two separate markets, [Keohane’s] got to say college basketball is commercial entertainment,” Sperber said. “As long as it says studentathlete, you can’t say there are two markets. He’s an employee of the University.”
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the northern alliance in possession of Kabul and the Taliban only in control of 20 percent of the country, Afghanistan will soon need a new government to replace its failing regime. The northern alliance acknowledges that it cannot take control of the country, and neighboring countries like Pakistan would not readily accept that solution. How the succession is handled will profoundly affect the stability of Central Asia. The United Nations should take the lead in establishing a government in Afghanistan, a view supported by Britain and several of Afghanistan’s neighbors. Just as US. officials have stressed that the military campaign is part of a coalition effort, the rebuilding effort should also not be the domain of a single nation. This situation presents a perfect opportunity for the United Nations to prove that it can assume real authority in world affairs. The ultimate goal in this reorganization must be stability, and the surrounding nations and groups must have a say in Afghanistan’s leadership. UN. officials can work here to facilitate this discourse to ensure that the nation remains intact—not broken into smaller countries isolated by ethnicity. Still, rebuilders face the difficult question of how much they should influence social and cultural change in Afghanistan. The distrust Afghans have developed toward Western powers will make these efforts difficult. Aspects ofthe culture —such as the lack of womens’ rights, non-religious education and free elections—clearly clash with tenets ofliberal democracies, but the populace may be unwilling or unable to change fundamentally. Therefore, the United Nations should concentrate on establishing a free and open society in Afghanistan that allows citizens to hold on to their social and religious practices, while having the freedom to become educated in other ideas. The existence of an open society will facilitate changes in custom and mindset without imposing beliefs on a wary people. While the United Nations must institute a stable government in Afghanistan, other nations must help in this effort. More than a month of U.S.-led bombings has destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure. President George W. Bush strongly opposed nation building efforts during the 2000 election but has wisely backed off of this initial stance. The United States cannot ignore the region once the military campaign ceases—as happened over a decade ago—and must play a part in the UN. rebuilding efforts, particularly by providing economic aid and developing other financial ties. In the future, the United States must also be economically engaged in all of Central Asia. The United States must also remember the original intent ofits involvement; rooting out terrorism wherever it exists. The war against Afghanistan is not yet over, but preparations for the aftermath must proceed. A successful military campaign in this country does not mark the end of the global war on terrorism.
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Wishes for peace and unity overrule certain motives First of all, I would personally like to thank HIWAR for bringing Norman Finkelstein to Duke. Although I find his incorrect and viewpoint repugnant at best, one always has an opportunity to learn more from an opposing position. I don’t wish to dispute his statements; I will leave the rebuttal to those dissenters who are more capable with words than I can. I sincerely hope that this event was not meant to undermine the significance of Krystalnacht’s “Night of Broken Glass,” which many designate as the for referenced story,
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beginning of the Holocaust sides of the Middle East conand that the date of the flict, perhaps naively, I speech merely accidentally believe our concerns for the coincided with the eve of safety and peace of that as Finkelstein well as all other areas of the Krystalnacht. views the remembrance and word are the same. I don’t grieving ofthe Holocaust as a think that one should rejoice Jewish means ofexploitation in the death of any human to extort funds with which to being, and the systematic continue persecuting the persecution, torture and Palestinians. However, I extermination of six million would expect HIWAR, if not Jews and four million other members of the human race every other member of this community, to be respectful of is an event for which we this important memorial for should all mourn. Jews and for human beings Marla Schonwald everywhere. For, even though we may stand on different Trinity ’Ol http:ll www.chronicle.duke.edu story.php?article_id=242o4 /
Television character gives glimpse of Hindu culture I would like to take this time to address the issue of Apu as a representative of Indian culture in the popular TV show, The Simpsons. As the of The audience Simpsons reaches millions of Americans, Apu remains to be one of the only media of exposure of Hinduism and Indian culture to mainstream America. Therefore, I feel it is important, as an
family—Homer’s 2.5 children, job at the nuclear power plant—or American public school systems—
Springfield Elementary—hardly any aspect of American culture remains free from close scrutiny.
most profound statements, “I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others, rather than forcing my beliefs on them.... You know, you can influence people without badgering them always,” rings clearly Hinduism’s tendency to be tolerant. Apu has also been
Furthermore, while Apu does represent a few negative the focus of several shows, stereotypes—overpricing most notably the one regardfood, working excessively to ing arranged marriage, a avoid spending time with his fairly commonplace activity Indian, to present another family and possessing a 30 years ago and even indiview of Apu, different to the grossly exaggerated accent rectly today. So rather than become too politically correct one shown at Diya’s Awaaz which character doesn’t? Apu also represents quite about everything, appreciate 2001 that suggested that well the positive aspects of what Apu’s character does for Apu is a racial stereotype. It is important to take India: On many occasions, Indian culture and Hinduism everything in context; The Apu has made comments for Americans. —
Simpsons is undoubtedly a satire of American culture. Whether it is the nuclear
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Tushar Kirtane Trinity ’O5
Oak Room’s limiting menu cause for sluggish sales I must respectfully disagree, with Ara Karamanian’s praise of the newly renovated Oak Room. After two very disappointing visits, I have decided that my food points would be better spent elsewhere. I join the ranks of many of the students here who no longer see the Oak Room as a viable dining option. Although the new menu is limiting as it stands, it is even more constricting for myself and many of my peers. Unfortunately, the for referenced letter, see
majority of the items on the menu are comprised of shellfish or pork products, which I am restricted from eating for religious reasons. Seemingly
simple items like a hamburger or roasted chicken are no longer viable options because they are accompanied by ham or sausage. Though Karamanian praises the new decor, I really feel that the money spent during renovation might have been better directed to keeping the
appealing. menu more Though the new wine bar certainly is alluring, the new business style chairs in
the dining area assure us that the Oak Room will never really resemble a restaurant. If the management wonders why sales are down, it is because the quality of the food, the limited menu and the ridiculous prices dictate it. Ilana Simon Trinity ’O2
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On the record There are times where you just have to celebrate commitment, and this contract celebrates commitment.You do it in marriage, and you do it in a number of things l’m doing it with my university on this day, which makes me feel great. —
Mike Kryzyzeweski, men’s basketball coach, on his new contract that guarantees his career will end at Duke (see story, page one)
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Naming a generation This is not my defining moment. There s been a lot of talk over the last couple of weeks, as the initial frenzy has jBWBk slowed somewhat, of Sept. 11 being a defming moment for our generation. It hit the
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I etelle line “Generation 9-11.” Great. I’ve always wanted to be known as the terror generation. There’s even some glee in the commentators’ voices, as if they’re glad that they finally have a tag to hang on us. As if they’re almost happy that finally we get to see what it’s like. There’s some pride in the voices of some ofmy peers, who seem happy that they finally saw a “major historical event.” It’s as if they’re thinking, “My children will be able to ask me, ‘Where were you when the planes hit the World Trade Center,’” the way that I ask my parents, “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?” Ever since I was in high school, I can remember people saying, “Your generation doesn’t have a defining moment. You’ve grown up in peace and prosperity. You have no decisive turning point.”
Congratulations, Generations X and Y, children of the baby boomers. We apparently have one now. Frankly, I don’t want it. You can take it back, I would gladly trade a world without the events of Sept. 11 for the rhetorical convenience of finally having a “defining moment.” Besides which, this is certainly not a defining moment for our generation. The pre-Sept. 11 pundits were halfright when they called us a generation without a defining moment, who had
9-11 should not define a generation
grown up in peace and prosperity. They were half-right because that peace and prosperity is what defines us. We came of age in a time of peace that our parents and grandparents won for us in a time of great national prosperity. We. are a generation that has not known the draft; a generation that has reaped the benefits of the arduous civil rights struggle; a generation that grew up in a world transformed by feminism. We have already had great historical events and societal movements define us. We watched the fall of communism on primetime TV. We saw the Berlin Wall come down, we saw the failed coup in Moscow. These events gave us a world transformed. We are the wired generation—that will probably define us more than anything, when all the historical beans are counted. We are children of the Internet revolution, many of whom have been using computers since grade school. Some of us have never lived in a household without a PC. Point-andclick is as intuitive to us as it is foreign to some of our parents. We are the generation that came of age with the AIDS epidemic, watching it go from a hushed and horrible disease of homosexuals and drug users to a major public health issue with celebrity spokespersons. We have never known a time when a one-night stand was safe Sept. 11 changed things. There are moments I feel that pieces of the world I knew have been misplaced, as if I just put down my keys and they aren’t there. When did Vladimir Putin become such a major ally, and when did human rights abuses in Chechnya cease to matter? When did President George W. Bush decide he was in favor of nation-building? When did President
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Moammar El-Ghadafi start writing such nice official condolences? I have been an anti-Taliban activist for about six years, and I’m very used to explaining what it is, why it’s bad, what it does to women, and where, exactly, Afghanistan is. I don’t have to explain those things anymore—suddenly everyone knows about the obscure repressive group in the unforgiving mountains of Central Asia. I’m not even sure there will be a Taliban to be active against next week, Sept. 11 changed things, but terror is not new, anti-U.S. sentiment is not new and Islamic fundamentalism is not new. These things existed before then and will exist after the current conflict is over. No military response can change
that. The scale of Sept. 11 is unprecedented and horrific, but it was six years ago that Timothy McVeigh brought terror home to our soil, Sept. 11 changed things, but it did
not define us. We are defined by the peace and prosperity we grew up in, by the opportunity to go to excellent and free public schools in freedom and safety. We are defined by our unprecedented ability to use the Internet to be instantly on the other side of the world, to communicate in a new kind of freedom and ease. Sept. 11 changed things. It is seared
into my brain as well as yours. But it did not change the way I think about the world. It did not change my ideals. It did not change the world’s problems. One moment of terror cannot define our entire generation, no matter how convenient that might be for pundits. You will tell your children where you were, but that will not tell them who you are.
Laura Petelle is a professional student in the Divinity School and in the School of Law.
the city on the hill
it. So we were indoctrinated as religious school todIn the first week of September, I sent a quick email to a former teacher from my time in Israel. He dlers into an ideology that equates the land of milk is a smart man who is deeply dediand honey from our Torah stories directly with its cated to his country, and our sporadic modern incarnation—as if they were the same state, interrupted only for a millennium or so. When time correspondence has brought much came to learn about its historical context, it was insight into my questions about the Middle East. So I was disappointed made to appear as if the whole world was pretty cool with letting our cousins just tramp over there and when he finally responded, a few weeks and one world-changing event set up camp. The only problem was the neighboring £ they must have had some sort of jealous Arabs; later, without a single word of perBloom sonal greeting—only a long, 20-page grudge. Then, in 1967, they tried to kill us. We won. series of post-Sept. 11 articles of various pro-Israel The winner gets more land, fair and square. Fair and square—impeccable logic for a kid raised as one of and anti-Palestine sentiments My teacher, who had always tempered his own the Chosen People. It couldn’t hold water for long, though. The first politics with close personal relationships and encouragement to pursue their education independently, leak sprung on me in Israel, when I realized that our was giving me the straight propaganda shaft. I was class lecture on Sabra and Shantila—sites in disappointed but not really surprised. A Jew is Lebanon of the 1982 massacre committed under the expected to believe unconditionally in Israel, and watch of current Israeli Prime Minister Ariel any concerns should be about forces that oppose it. Sharon —was almost shorter than the time it took us This is my experience with politics when mixed with to speed through the decrepit Palestinian town of religion: They don’t reflect a real desire for peace Hebron on our way to the sparkling beaches of Eilat. progress so much as a self-perpetuating hunger only All of the beauty of the land was shown to us, but I saw for myself just enough of the dark underbelly to for justification The Jewish community—my community—has know that there was much more to it. The bubble both the hot pride of a champion underdog boxer and burst early in college when I realized that imperialthe snarling defensiveness of a dog kicked into a cor- ism does not just entail the New World and Heart of ner—a result of thousands of years of communal tri- Darkness but is inextricably tied up with a moveumph in the face of overwhelming adversity. Jews ment about which I once sang songs on the promehave successfully, decadently assimilated into nade looking over Jerusalem. I wasn’t able to attend Norman Finkelstein’s disAmerican society, but conflicts are still seen in terms of us against the world—especially when it comes to cussion on this topic at Duke last week, but I’m sure that the Jewish community at Duke must have had Israel and that city on that hill. Now, my generation was not alive when the strug- a tense moment in the face of pro-Palestinian argugle for our homeland was an uphill battle, rather ments from “one of our own.” Unfortunately such than the last 30 years’ messy ordeal of holding on to challenges are often met with the easy way out:
Critics like Finkelstein—and probably myself, at this very moment—are tasked into the label of self-hating Jew. This willful exclusion of dissenting voices is anathema, the- antithesis of healthy discourse. As it stands, dialogue within the community is stale at best, and outright biased at worst. To give an idea, an e-mail I received some time ago called for the boycott of McDonald’s because the corporation gave aid to injured Palestinian refugees—just about the worst cause for organized protest that I have ever heard. I only criticize the Jewish community because I know it well; this propaganda and intolerance exists on every side of the conflict. I do love Israel, a land of great hope and beauty where I may someday live—and yet that does not blind me to the fact that it is, with tensions escalating daily, arguably the most dangerous country in the world. There are no right answers, but surely claims such as “we were here first” or “they started it” are wrong ones. And yet they are used daily by each side. The Middle East is a bloody morass, a mess of primitive political quicksand where the more you know, the less you really understand; indeed, anyone who can provide you with straightforward and simple answers to its problems probably knows very little. That’s why public discourse, like on these very pages of The Chronicle, goes in such meandering circles, with manipulated, meaningless statistics and death counts aimlessly fired off like blank shells. Before we confront the intolerance ofothers, we have to recognize those same fundamental aspects of ourselves. Otherwise the harder we struggle to stay on that hill, the farther into the pit we’ll all sink. Greg Bloom is a Trinity junior and managing editor
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