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Tchou plus 2 The field hockey team gained two new assistant coaches during the offseason. See page 11
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Honoring one of Duke’s Best The Duke Craft Center will he renamed in honor of former director Krista Cipriano in a ceremony Sept. 5. By Becky Young The Chronicle
Krista Cipriano, who served as director of the Duke Craft Center for 26 years, is “surprised” that the center is being named after her, a decision made by the Board of Trustees last May. But ask any of her colleagues or students, and they will say the decision makes
JOHN KOSKINEN, Trinity ’6l and deputy mayor of Washington, D.C., tells sophomores of the importance of following their own ideals.
perfect sense. “I think it’s a very fitting gesture,” said Leonora Coleman, a former student of Cipriano’s. “She is the Craft Center, and it is very appropriate.” Coleman has since become the owner of a business that offers art classes, some of which she teaches herself. Cipriano was named the center’;
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mail. “Mr. Koskinen did a superb job and the question and answers period met all our expectations. So
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West Campus. “We certainly had hoped for a larger turnout, but the responsiveness was excellent,” wrote Dean ofthe Faculty ofArts and Sciences William Chafe in an e-
tionship with the arts, graduating participation with national and rewith a bachelor’s degree in fine gional crafts and a lot of safety isarts from East Carolina Universisues. She was constantly maintainty, largely considered the best art ing and updating issues of safety.” school in the state, Coyle said. BeBut when asked what her fafore coming to Duke, Cipriano vorite role at the Craft Center was, taught pottery at the Durham Cipriano quickly and confidently Arts Council. responded, “Teaching!” At Duke, one of her greatest Her students recognize this paschallenges was working with a sion. “My career in clay began in smaller than most would 1987 with Krista’s support and en>r the Craft Center. “As couragement,” Coleman said. of the Craft Center, she “She’s always very helpful.” responsible for both creCipriano also developed a iting and following the high-quality instruction staff. “One of her greatest accomplishindget, scheduling class!S and supervising workments was putting together a :udy students and spestrong collection of local craft peolalists on each area of ple to serve as teachers,” Coyle .rafts,” Coyle said. said. “Now our instructors are [Being the director of the professional craftsmen.” ’raft Center] takes a lot See CIPRIANO on page 6 »f planning ahead and '
Few sophomores attend new event tion Tuesday afternoon a success. Only about 25 sophomores were in attendance in Page Auditorium to hear John Koskinen, Trinity ’6l, deputy mayor of Washington, D.C., and former chair of the Duke Board of Trustees, deliver his keynote address. But several hundred students joined them at a barbecue on the Main West Quadrangle afterwards to celebrate the first year of all sophomores living on
1975, prior to its opening in Southgate Dormitory. “She had an absolute commitment to both the students and to crafts as an art form,” said Associate Director of Student Activities Peter Coyle, who chaired the committee that recommended Cipriano for the job. “She demonstrated the willingness to put in all of the extra time and effort.” Cipriano has had a long rela-
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A week after upperclass students began moving back into dormitories, many are observing the impact of the new policy that places all sophomores on West Campus. The requirement, part of the University’s changes to upperclass residential life, was instituted in part to in-
crease class unity and interaction across races. Most sophomores say they appreciate the effort, although so far many doubt that the new living arrangements will make their friendships more diverse. On the surface, the policy does result in a more racially diverse campus by repheating the diversity found on the all-freshman East Campus to West. “[The administration] did a good job of racially diver-
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Administrators are increasing security on East Campus with a number of measures including closed-circuit cameras in Randolph Dormitory. See page 3
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Drinking too much coflee, even in the morning, can cause increased stress and high blood pressure throughout the day and at bedtime. See page 4
As students and professors learn their new class schedules, they also are adapting to a new bus schedule that utilizes fewer buses but more
frequent cycles. Under the revised system, buses will travel between East and West Campuses every three to five minutes during weekdays and more routes will run to Science Drive. Peter Murphy, the new assistant director of transit services, instituted the changes based on transit assessments made last spring. Murphy said increased efficiency is at the root of the plan. All active buses will continually circle rather than park during off-peak times. The plan calls for East-West travel frequencies of about three minutes from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, compared to the old plan’s five-minute cycles in peak times and 10 minute cycles in off-peak times. It also only uses six buses —two fewer than last year. “The major difference is we are keeping the buses running,” Director of Parking and Transportation Services Catherine Reeve said. “Having drivers sitting and reading the newspaper is not what efficiency is all about.” See BUSES on page 9 Protesters arrested on Ninth Street for an unauthorized “street party” last spring will likely face only community service and no permanent criminal records. See page 5
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Study finds more African Americans in jail
According to a study released Tuesday by the Justice Policy Institute, there are almost a third more AfricanAmerican men in jail or prison than in colleges and universities, with 791,600 in jails and only 603,032 enrolled in colleges. •
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Bush, Saudi official discuss Saddam Saudi ambassador declares that any military action against Iraq is unacceptable By DAVID SANGER
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President CRAWFORD, Texas George W. Bush told Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States Tuesday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was “a menace and a threat” to both his Middle East neighbors and the United States. But after a meeting that lasted several hours, Saudi officials said their position was unchanged—that war was not acceptable and they would not cooperate in any military action. Bush’s meeting with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the longtime Saudi ambassador and a friend ofthe Bush family since before the Persian Gulf War in 1991, followed a speech by Vice President Dick Cheney Monday in which he
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made the strongest case yet that military action was the only realistic choice to remove Saddam from power, But the White House said that Bush told Bandar that he had still made no decision about whether the United States should proceed with a military overthrow of the Iraqi government. A few administration officials—including some who fear that administration hawks are trying to press the president into making a decision—suggested privately that the vehemence of Cheney’s language had taken them by surprise. Bandar came and left Crawford without making any comments, and reporters were kept miles from the session. But after it was over, a Saudi spokesperson, Adel al-Jubeir, made
By JOSEPH VERRENGIA The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa The United States, Saudi Arabia and other wealthy nations worked at a UN. summit Tuesday to water down proposals to rapidly expand the use of clean, renewable energy technologies around the globe. Renewable energy sources like wind power and solar energy produce smaller and more expensive amounts of electricity than a traditionalpower plant. But the technologies generate a tiny fraction of the smog
that comes from burning oil, coal and other fossil fuels, as well as carbon dioxide and other gases believed to accelerate global warming.
“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” —Walt Disney
the rounds of television shows and reporters to make it clear that the Saudi position about how to deal with Saddam was unchanged. “There is a process under way with the U.N. to bring the inspectors back in,” he said, speaking in Washington. “If it is successful, we can achieve our objectives without firing a single bullet or losing a single life. “There is no country I know of supporting the use of force in Iraq at this time,” he added, and said that “the rhetoric about using force is way ahead ofthe policy.” It was unclear Tuesday evening whether Cheney’s comments Monday meant the administration was no longer interested in getting weapons inspectors back into Iraq, as the Saudis and others insist.
Leaders examine environmental issues
White powder appears at Gore office
Authorities are testing a “suspicious white powder” from an envelope sent to former Vice President Al Gore’s office to determine if it contains anthrax.
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A proposal for the World Summit on Sustainable Development’s action plan calls for the use of the technolo-
gies to be increased to account for 15 percent ofthe world’s total energy production by 2010. Sources sitting in on the negotiations said delegates from the United States, Saudi Arabia and other industrialized and oil states were lobbying to eliminate the provision and set no specific goals. Even the European Union—of which some members, like Germany, strongly embrace renewable energy sources—wavered on the agreement. “We may have to bend if we can’t convince all of our partners,” said EU official Christine Day. “It’s early in the negotiations.” The moves by the industrialized countries angered environmental groups, which are demanding stiffer anti-pollution measures. The United Nations expects this to be the largest summit in its history.
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Duke adds security Res life thrusts Nurkin into spotlight procedures on East This is the third story in a five-part series profiling various student leaders this year.
By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle Almost seven months after a reported sexual assault in a Randolph Dormitory bathroom, University officials are beginning to implement safety and security measures in and around dorms on East Campus. The changes come in response to a security consulting firm’s initial review of East Campus safety, a report that recommended short-term and longterm suggestions, including closed-circuit video surveillance, landscaping alterations and increased police patrols. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta commissioned the report late last spring amid growing student concern about security on campus. Pending completion of a final report expected in late October, the University began initiating many of the short-term proposals this month. “We’ve decided to do the small things that we could do quickly,” Moneta said, “including installing a couple of cameras at Randolph and continuing with some of the [blind spot] mirrors in the bathroom.”
Closed-circuit cameras should be installed at the entrances to Randolph in the next several weeks, said Major Robert Dean of the Duke University Po-
lice Department. The feed will not be monitored live, but the footage will be available for review following any incidents that may occur. “The police department is in favor of installing anything to help campus security,” Dean said. “We just hope the people do not abuse these cameras.” He added that Randolph will serve as a pilot site to test the new technology’s viability, and that expansion to other dorms remains possible. Moneta met with resident advisers to inform them of the changes, but has yet to publicize the new initiative to students. Moneta said the police have initiated other short-term recommendations in all East Campus dorms, including the installation of blind spot mirrors in the bathrooms and cutting back shrubbery to eliminate hiding spots. Locks and other small security measures have been updated and police patrols have been increased. A consistent access policy has also been established with prescribed hours of access to residence halls by non-residents. “All the precautions—the systems they have set See SECURITY on page 6
By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle
When he ran for Quad Council as a sophomore at the urging of his fraternity brothers, Andrew Nurkin had no idea that Campus Council, elected by quad representatives, would soon represent the primary voice of the students on residential policy. Now that Campus Council has the ear of the administration and more influence than ever before, Nurkin, a senior and the organization’s president, has been thrust into the limelight—despite having no student governMEET ment experience before running I YOU R for Quad Council two years ago. | A native of Atlanta, Ga., PAMPIIR Nurkin is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and has worked extenLEADERS sively with Project BUILD, a community service and orientation program. As an English major, he says that much of his spare time this year will be spent writing his thesis. Those who work closely with him say he is well suited for the job. “I think Andrew is a very polished, very mature leader,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. “He has a good sense of the needs on campus.” Campus Council gained influence last year when Moneta arrived on campus in August 2001 and began looking to the group as the voice of the students on residential life policy. Previously a programming organization foremost, Campus Council began passing resolutions like those recommending a residential smoking ban and preserving seniority in the housing lottery. Nurkin believes these are heady times for Campus Council. “Since Duke is such a residential place, the residence halls are really where the character of the place is shaped,” he said. Among the issues confronting residential life, one of the most important to Nurkin is reinstating seniority in the housing lottery process. “I hope [the lottery] will change,” he said. “I think it needs changing. There are some real traditions about the Duke residential system that should be preserved; one of them is seniority.” He envisions Campus Council as the organization that has the capacity to affect residential life the most positively. “It has administrative support, support from the division of student affairs... plus the benefit of the [residential coordinators, resident advisers, graduate assistants] and the quad councils,” he said. Although the administration began to seek advice on _
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SENIOR ANDREW NURKIN hopes to restore seniority to the housing lottery, among other goals as Campus Council president. residential issues from Campus Council last year, Duke Student Government continued to pass its own resolutions, some of which contradicted Campus Council’s. “There just wasn’t any communication,” Nurkin said. “Campus Council admittedly didn’t notify DSG it was increasing its r01e.... Also, DSG didn’t talk to Campus Council about its projects.” The two organizations’ struggle for influence culminated in a DSG referendum asking whether Campus Council should hold direct elections. Currently, Campus Council executives are elected indirectly, via
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Some Campus Council officials, including Nurkin, disagreed with that move. “While I respect that DSG is See NURKIN on page 7
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Brain Tumor Program receives gift
The Duke Brain Tumor Program has received a $1 million gift from Park Smith of New York to establish the Carol R. Smith Endowment for Faculty Research at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. The gift, in memory of Smith’s wife, who died of brain cancer, will be used for basic and translational research using genome and other technology. It was matched with $500,000 from the Nicholas Faculty Leadership Initiative Fund.
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Researchers at Duke's Center for Human Genetics at the Medical Center and Harvard University have identified a gene on chromosome 10 that may help to trigger Alzheimer's disease in the elderly. To identify this age-at-onset gene, the scientists employed a DNA microarray to investigate gene expression changes in thousands of genes from a single tissue sample. Margaret Pericak-Vance, director of the Center, hopes understanding the gene, called GSTO-1, may lead to treatments aimed at delaying the disease. The study, as well as similar research identifying mitochondrial DNA associated with risk for Alzheimer's, was presented at the Bth International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. •
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After studying uranium traces in ancient crystals, scientists at Louisiana State University, Stanford University and the U.S. Geologic Survey have concluded that an asteroid, estimated at between 12 to 30 miles wide, slammed into Earth nearly 3.5 billion years ago. The researchers, writing in the August 23 issue of Science, believe the asteroid was at least twice as big as the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and released at least ten times as much energy. The impact would have destroyed all life on Earth except bacteria living in the deep sea, said the scientists, who investigated iridium-rich, spherical sand grains in South Africa and western Australia that coalesced from rock vapor sent up by the impact. News briefs compiled from staffand wire reports
Caffeine adds to stress, warn scientists Coffee or tea consumed in the morning may amplify stress levels and raise blood pressure throughout the day. By MIKE MILLER The Chronicle
Your morning cup of coffee may be doing more harm than previously thought, according to a new study by Medical Center researchers that shows caffeine consumed in the morning increases blood pressure and amplifies stress throughout the day. . The study, published in the July/August 2002 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, is the first to demonstrate caffeine’s lasting stress effects in a clinical setting. “When regular coffee drinkers ingest caffeine, they are raising their blood pressure and adrenaline levels above what they would be without caffeine,” said James Lane, associate research professor of behavioral psychiatry and lead author of the study. He added that even if a person does not consume any caffeine after 1 p.m., the effects may persist until bedtime. To investigate caffeine’s effects, the researchers recruited 47 habitual coffee drinkers, mostly Duke employees. The researchers measured their response to caffeine on two separate days. On one day, the coffee drinkers were given a 250-milligram dose of caffeine in the morning and again at lunchtime, equivalent to four cups of coffee in total. On the other day, they were given placebos in an identical capsule and at the same times. Neither the coffee drinkers nor the researchers knew when the placebos were being administered, and several days were allowed in between for regular coffee consumption. The coffee drinkers were each hooked up to a portable monitor that measured blood pressure and heart rate
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JUNIOR ELIZABETH HINSHAW drinks a evening cup of coffee in the Bryan Center. Caffeine may be more unhealthy and affect the body longer than previously thought, according to Medical Center researchers. four times an hour, from morning until bedtime. In addition, the participants were asked to collect urine samples to measure the levels of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, and to record their feelings of stress every time their blood pressure was measured. “What we found is that the average blood pressure was elevated on the caffeine days,” said Lane, who has studied the health effects of caffeine for the past 15 years. “These effects
were present both during the workday and at nighttime... and this is without any caffeine after lunchtime.”
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coffee drinkers felt more stressed, their adrenaline levels were over 30 percent higher and their heart rate increased on the caffeine days. “Caffeine is eliminated by the liver, but it takes three to five hours for the See CAFFEINE on page 6
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Street party’ arrestees likely to avoid severe penalties
By LAURA BEACH The Chronicle Fourteen people arrested last spring during an unauthorized celebration on Ninth Street may have a new cause to celebrate. Those arrested, including several Durham residents and Duke students, will most likely escape punishment without criminal records for April’s party-turnedbrawl, attorneys said this week. The district attorney’s office is currently offering deals for either deferred prosecution or prayers for judgment continued, and will require those arrested to perform community service. If they accept these deals and behave lawfully in the future, their records will remain untarnished. David Blocher, a junior and Durham native, was one "of three Duke students arrested after the incident. Charged with resisting, obstructing and delaying justice, a misdemeanor, he recently made a deal and is working on clearing his record. “I learned a lot about our judicial system, Blocher said. “I’m not really angry, just sad that something like this could happen in Durham.” The so-called “street party” took place on the afternoon of April 13, when more than 200 people in costume crowded onto Ninth Street beating drums, playing music and waving flags. Protesting the way in which they said streets are no longer viable locations for social interaction, the revelers wanted to “define [their] own terms for cele-
bration,” according to the event’s website. They did not apply for a permit, however, and when they began obstructing traffic, police were quick to take action. A near-riot ensued. “The organizers were planning to have so many people that the street would be forced to close, which is the part that the cops
werent cool with,” said sophomore Alison
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the confusion. Those arrested were taken to the Durham County Jail, where others continued to protest outside, eventually collecting enough money to bail out those arrested. All but one were charged with misdemeanors, but one local resident, Maria Brubeck, was charged with felonious assault because she allegedly hit an officer with her bicycle. Some still contest the validity of the charges. I felt that in almost all cases the charges were made up after the fact to justify the arrests,” Constantine said. Defense attorney Marvin Sparrow, who represented nine of the 14 arrested, attributed many of the charges to confusion on the part of the police. “The police would see someone doing something, then run over and grab the wrong person. Many of those" arrested had done nothing more than stand there and complain about people being arrested,” Sparrow said. He also said some of the charges were inaccurate. “Many were charged with ‘failing to disperse upon command,’ but in fact there had never been a command.” Assistant District Attorney John Phillips said that an outside organization was the main factor behind the incident. “These cases were unfortunate because there was an outside group that was responsible. People didn’t know what they were getting into,” he said. “I would hope they would not be involved further with that group.” Phillips said the group is “active in this area and will probably have more demonstrations in the future,” but he declined to release the organization’s name.
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This emphasis on co-curricular educational opportunities in crafts is what Cipriano prides the center on. “The Craft Center is small and we’ve never had the opportunity to have much space, but the interesting thing about it is the students could go there and take a class, and the students weren’t all students,” Cipriano said. “They could be a doctor from the Med Center [or anyone else]. That kind of interaction where they’re all there learning together is invaluable.” Cipriano’s commitment to such aspects of the center has been visible in her leadership. “She has always had a certain tenacity about supporting the presence of the Craft Center and the value of the center in an academic set-
Cipriano’s job went well beyond the Craft Center, as she was active in the campus and local communities. Despite four major brain surgeries over the past 22 years, Cipriano never wavered from her commitments. She retired in 2001. As a Student Activities staff member, she worked with student groups, advising Freewater Productions, WXDU and Cable 13, as well as coordinating backstage hospitality for visiting artists of all kinds. She was also a member of the Durham Art Guild and chair of the Durham Arts
Council’s Education Committee. She has been decorated by the community, earning such awards as the Durham Jaycees annual award for Community Leadership in the Arts in 1990 largely the result of Cipriano’s efforts to bridge the gap between the University and the surrounding community.
ting,” Coleman said. A naming celebration for the Krista Cipriano Craft Center, including remarks from President Nan Keohane, will take place Sept. 5 from 4-6 p.m.
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want to eliminate it. Our data suggests they may feel less stressed without it.” “Think about the effect coffee is having in your life,” Lane advised.
liver to get rid of half of it, and it takes another three to five hours to get rid of the next quarter, and so on,” Lane explained. “So lunchtime coffee may affect sleep.” Lane warned that although moderate coffee drinking does not represent a severe health risk, a lifetime of extensive caffeine consumption may pose health problems. “It is well established that stress is linked to higher risk of heart disease, stroke and death,” Lane said. “Stress is bad for you.” Caffeine consumption may especially endanger those with existing stress conditions and diseases exacerbated by stress, such as the type II form of diabetes, Lane noted. “People who already have high stress and use caffeine might
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they need it to get through their day” said Katherine Haggerty, a Perkins Library assistant who also works at a local coffee shop. “It perks you up, makes you feel better.” Haggerty, who said she drinks coffee and tea regularly, warned against drinking too much caffeine to avoid getting jittery. Added senior Katie Van Wert, “[Coffee] may be stressful, but no more than a stressful career—or my Mom.” She said she has started drinking decaffeinated coffee to ease her addiction.
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“It’s hard to have a system that isn’t paranoid but is still safe. I like this system; it’s a good effort and it at least lets people know they should be cautious.” Long-term recommendations include cameras for all dorms and a possible card swipe system for bathroom access. The University hired the consulting
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to decide whether to ask them to review Central and West campuses. “We wanted to start with the campus with our youngest students and our smallest residence halls,” Moneta said. “They’re the most vulnerable.” Nonetheless, DUPD has initiated some other changes across campus, including the creation of a new Central Campus police substation, which will feature a police staff person on-site during normal business hours, Dean said.
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DIVERSITY from page 1 sifying dorms on East. You had to [live with people of different races] freshman year, and now you have to do it sophomore year,” said senior Richard Rivera, co-president of Mi Gente, a Latino student group. Rivera said the new residential policies, which also move selective living groups off Main West Quadrangle and allow sophomores to live with freshman dorm mates, will be a positive change in the long run. “It is a big change for West Campus,” Rivera said. “It isn’t dominated by stereotypically white greeks or selective living groups, so hopefully [the policy] will increase open-mindedness.” He added,
the policy], there are so many more opportunities to form relationships.” Administrators had hoped having all sophomores on West would allow them to live where they wanted, instead of being influenced by the racial and social environment, which in the past has been characterized by a predominantly white West Campus and a disproportionate number of black stu-
dents on Central Campus. Some, however, believe the pressure still remains, especially for minority students. “Some sophomores I know see [the requirement to live on West] as an obstacle to where they want to be—-Central Campus,” senior Christopher Johnson said. Some students say the movement of the social scene offWest will limit, opporhowever, that permanent improvement tunities for people of different ethnicities to campus diversity would partly depend to meet and form friendships, since the on whether students would remain on more remote locations of many parties West after their sophomore year. may shrink attendance. “People are going Other students said the new West to take the social scene to where their Campus only provides a diverse cultural friends are, so socially, the campus is not climate for residential life, not social life. going to be more diverse,” sophomore While the residential arrangement guar- Alice Williamson said. antees the presence of more ethnicities The linking feature of the new polion West Campus, many students note cy—in which residents of freshman that it may not increase the interaction dorms have reserved spaces in West or integration necessary for racial diverCampus quadrangles—is another limit, sity in friendships. to diversity, many students said. “[The policy] would have worked if Sophomore Liz Reaves, whose freshthere were more interracial friendships man dorm was linked to Edens Quadranto begin with,” said sophomore Haley gle, said her new living environment is Burchfield. “I don’t think it promotes in- not very racially diverse. “Maybe if we teraction [with those of other races] just were linked to a better dorm we would because people are there.” see more diversity,” she said. Black Student Alliance President Other students said, however, that the Abena Antwi, a senior, said file policy will new system may eventually foster more successfully diversify West Campus. interaction, if residents are willing to “There is more of a likelihood of making seize the opportunity. friendships with different people if you Statistics on the relative diversity of are living with them,” she said. “[With quads will not be available until October.
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NURKIN from page 3 representative of the entire student body, I don’t think student groups have the right or the obligation to question each
other,” Nurkin said. There are currently no plans to amend the election procedures. As president, Nurkin is determined to avoid the conflicts that plagued Campus Council and DSG last year. He met with Duke Student Government president Joshua Jean-Baptiste several times this summer, calling him a “good friend.”
“We’ve had a couple meetings,” JeanBaptiste said. “I find him to be a very sharp individual.” Whether Nurkin avoids political and
personal conflicts, he still must contend with mixed student opinion about Campus Council. “The conflict last year helped us in some sense in that it drew attention to what we’re hying to do, but I don’t think it made us some of the most popular people on campus,” he said. In the long run, the continued confidence of the administration vfall be the key indicator of Campus Council’s influence, and Moneta remains committed to the council. “Some students, especially in DSG, may have some suspicions about it, but I’ve been impressed with Campus Council since I’ve arrived,” he said. Nurkin, too, believes that Campus Council’s newfound influence is not a temporary fix. “We’re not going anywhere,” he said.
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The spring’s transit assessment found a high number of travelers on Science Drive buses, and that part of the bus system received one of the most notable overhauls. The East-Science Drive route combined with the Central-Science Drive route, with an increased frequency from 35 minutes to 12 to 13—and with service extended from a 2:20 p.m. to a 7:25 p.m. stop-time. “We have a higher ridership from East to Science Drive than we were previously serving,” Murphy said. “This should help students out.” The East-West-Central route will be on the same schedule, and weekend service also remains the same. Safety is the goal behind other changes in the system. Drivers now count riders as they enter the bus and close their doors at 60. They also instruct people to exit through the back door and enter through the front—a move Reeve said increases both safety and efficiency. Bus drivers reported, however, that not all students are abiding by the new rules as of yet. “Some of the students still come in the back, so we are not able to count like we should,” bus driver Gerald Mayo said. “It’s not working out well, and I think they could make some improvements.” Many students said they had favorable bus experiences in the first days of the new schedule. Others reported that delays—which they blamed on fewer buses—caused them to be late to class. “The system could be better,” said freshman Nick Vivien. “Right now there is a lot of congestion and pushing.” Reeve said.that any problems reported this week are more indicative of first-week chaos than an insufficient
number of buses. Duke Student Government leaders agreed, expressing satisfaction with the changes. “They definitely streamlined the process. It’s going in the right direction,” said junior Clifford Davison, DSG vice president for facilities and athletics. Transit Supervisor Darryl Holleman, who stood in the rain at the West Campus bus stop all Tuesday to observe bus patterns, confirmed some problems but agreed the kinks will be worked out soon. “It is a problem, but we have to give it a few more days,” he said. Kira Rosoff contributed to this story.
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HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS SHOWED UP to a barbecue Tuesday as part of the inaugural Sophomore Celebration, but a much smaller number attended the other main portion of the event, a speech by John Koskinen, Trinity ’6l and deputy mayor of Washington, D.C.
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did the barbecue where Mr. Koskinen engaged in lively dialogue with students for more than an hour. So all in all, it was a good beginning.” Koskinen spoke of his years since coming to Duke—his path from the Physics Building to law school to his years in public service and eventually to the Clinton White House. “I finally decided as I kept thinking about my career choices that the right test wasn’t whether I wanted to be a Nobel Prize-winner, but whether I would enjoy a career in physics ifI were just one of the guys,” Koskinen told the audience. “I decided I liked people better than electrons.” Koskinen said the first step in understanding what is important-in life is one’s perception of oneself—not the perceptions of others. “Ultimately, you can’t succeed at others’ expectations,” he added. “You
Koskinen encouraged members of the Class of 2005 to join a club, pursue an activity and do good in the community while at Duke. “Take a course people love and you don’t know anything about,” he added. “Hang out with oddballs—it’ll broaden your horizons.” Those in attendance said Koskinen’s speech made them aware of what someone can do with a Duke education. “I came because I am interested in a career in public service, and I thought he gave a great speech,” sophomore Pasha Majdi said. Sophomore Celebration was the first of a series of
speeches and events, including a sophomore majors fair, a distinguished lecture series and quad dinners. Koskinen, who joked about trying to walk on to the football team as a freshman, entitled his address “Second Down and Goal to Go.” “Your first year took a long time, but the next three will be gone in a flash,” he said.
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Assistant coaches bring different experiences and abilities to program By NEELUM JESTE The Chronicle
The field hockey program has added two new assistant coaches to its staff this season to help head coach Liz Tchou. Sally Bell and Lori Stark will join Tchou and top assistant Cindy Werley to round out the coaching crew. “We all have pretty different personalities,” Tchou said. “It’s a really fun staff.” Bell brings 12 years of coaching experience to the Blue Devils. She was a coach in Australia, mainly at Perth, which according to Tchou has the best field hockey in the world. Bell also served as head coach for the Brunei national women’s team and served as assistant coach at the University of Richmond last year. “She is absolutely amazing,” Tchou said. “She will be great for the team because ofher experience at the international level. She is also a good teacher and has earned honors in skill acquisition. Her experience will allow the coaches to think outside of the box.” Her practical knowledge of the game, along with her
Soriano or A-Rod? Bonds or Sosa? For weeks, the debate has been brewing: Should a great player on a bad team win his league’s MVP award? Some say that the award should go to the league’s best player. After all, it’s not Alex Rodriguez’s fault fl that the fl Rangers bullpen is less reliable Tp than a Bill Burig promise. And while Sammy Sosa’s numbers are Evan Davis impressive on their rom ec “P 56315 own, they become even more meaningful when one considers the fact that he is surrounded in the lineup by, well, eight Cubs. But then again, there are those who insist that the word “valuable” implies that the player is helping his team win. Sosa may have 43 homers, but helping your team to a 55-75 record at this point in the season just shouldn’t cut it. This season, however, there is a solution to this dilemma. If these guys aren’t on the field Aug. 30—the current strike date—then there just shouldn’t be an MVP. Period. The award is meant to go to the game’s Most Valuable Player. And if
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technical skills, should be immense assets to the team. “I have seen a lot of different styles of play,” Bell said. “My broad range of experiences has given me a philosophically different approach that I can bring.” Bell will be a comprehensive assistant, helping analyze opposing teams to determine what strategy Duke will use. She will also focus on goalies. Stark, the other new assistant, will also be working with goalies. “I want the goalies to be the best in the ACC,” said Stark, who Tchou described as hilarious. “I will be
ecstatic if we can beat Carolina.” Stark, a former Blue Devil, who graduated in 1990, ranks first in team history with a .860 save percentage, and her 528 saves lands her second all-time. The former
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Safin outlasts Kiefer, favorites advance inU.S. Open By HOWARD FENDRICH The Associated Press
NEW YORK The wheelchairs were there, if needed, resting side-by-side in the corridor leading from the court to the locker room. For four and a half muggy hours Tuesday at this wearying U.S. Open, 2000 champion Marat Safin and Nicolas Kiefer traded big serves and crackling strokes to the point ofexhaustion. By the end, both were cramping. Kiefer barely could walk, his body contorting in pain. The second-seeded Safin, not known for his mental toughness on court, kept his head in the game when he really needed to and had just enough energy left to win the first-round thriller 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4). “How was I feeling? Dead. Completely dead,” the Russian said. “I was choking so badly. I was embarrassed. I couldn’t serve, I couldn’t play, I couldn’t move.” Still, he and Kiefer managed to stay on court until the bitter (for Kiefer) end—quite an accomplishment so far at the Open. Seven men have quit during firstround matches, a record for a Grand Slam tournament. “All the players are praying not to get injured. Any small injuries—even a finger, or some small muscles
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you don’t even know about—can bring you trouble,” said Safin, who withdrew from a tournament in Indianapolis this month because of injured ribs. “Tennis is getting a little bit more powerful. We’re playing much faster. That’s why the body breaks.” Among Tuesday’s victims was 1998 finalist Mark Philippoussis, who wrenched his long-troubled left knee in the fourth set against No. 24 Sjeng Schalken and had to stop four games later. Philippoussis was leading 2-1. Jan-Michael Gambill of the United States moved into the second round when his opponent, Julian Knowle, stopped because of lower back pain. In other action, two-time defending champion Venus Williams and third-seeded Jennifer Capriati both opened with perfect victories: 6-0, 6-0. Williams overpowered Miijana Lucic to win her 14th straight match, and Capriati beat Bethanie Mattek at night. Monica Seles, who won the Open twice in the 19905, eliminated Zsofia Gubacsi 6-3, 6-3, and 1997 winner Martina Hingis returned to Grand Slam play after ankle surgery and beat Marissa Irvin 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. See OPEN on page 12
I Two Dukies fall in Open VB Five on ACC Lax team # Freshmen Stephen Amritraj and Jonathon Stokkefell in separate doubles matches Tuesday at the U.S. Open. Amritraj lost 6-3,6-3, while Stokke and his partner lost 6-4, 6-2.
Men’s lacrosse players Kevin Cassese, Stephen Card, Jim Gonnella, Tyler Hardy and Matt Ogelsby are the only Blue Devils on the 55-man ACC 50th Anniversary Team.
MARAT SAFIN returns a volley to Nicholas Kiefer during the first round of the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.
Olympic list cut to two San Francisco and New York City are the two U.S finalists for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The United States Olympic Committee will pick the lone U.S. finalist Nov. 3.
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NEW YORK While baseball negotiators intensified their meetings and commissioner Bud Selig made plans to travel to the labor talks, teams began pushing back travel plans to prepare for a possible strike Friday. The Chicago White Sox called off their Thursday charter to Detroit and said they would travel Friday only if there is no walkout. Boston rescheduled its charter to Cleveland for Friday, too, but St. Louis will travel Thursday for the following day’s game at the Chicago Cubs. “Midnight Thursday, if we don’t have a deal by then, we’re on very dangerous ground,” Selig told ESPN radio. After negotiators met briefly Tuesday morning, players held a telephone conference call with the union staff. There was a longer session in the afternoon and another at night as the sides tried to avert baseball’s ninth work stoppage since 1972, but the sides were holding nonbinding two-on-two discussions
OPEN from page 11 Seeded winners included No. 7 Kim Clijsters, who next faces wild-card entry Mashona Washington, the sister of 1996 Wimbledon finalist MaliVai Washington; No. 10 Amelie Mauresmo, and No. 14 Chanda Rubin. Defending men’s champion Lleyton Hewitt had a very matter-of-fact debut, beating Nicolas Coutelot ofFrance 6-2,63, 6-3. Also advancing were; 1998 French Open champion Carlos Moya, No. 18 Alex Corretja, and No. 19 Xavier Malisse. “The closer it got to 6-0, 6-0, the more I wanted it to be that score,” said Williams, who never faced a break point once she got on court. She curled up in a chair in the trainer’s room to read a newspaper while waiting around quite a bit—her match followed Safin-Kiefer. They provided the day’s best theater,
leader, and Michael Weiner, the union’s instead of trading formal proposals. No. 3 official. I optimistic. really think “I’m still “We did, however, have conceptual we’re going to get something done,” said Atlanta’s Tom Glavine, the NL player discussions aimed at resolving the difrepresentative. “I think there are still ferences between us,” Manfred said. “We going to be some ups and downs have time to make an agreement.” between now and Thursday. But ultiOwners and players disagree on how that we’re much going to to increase revenue sharing and mately I’m optimistic on the level of a luxury tax on high-payget something done.” Not all players were as roll teams that would slow I^l Major League Baseball salary increases. upbeat as Glavine was. Siat o»'j«tik>*n “I plan on strikingFriday,” Red “If the owners want a deal, •# % mm %%£ there will be a deal,” Cincinnati Sox pitcher John Burkett said. “I player representative Aaron think it’s going to be long. I’m just Boone said. “The framework is going by my experience in ’94.” The tone of the meetings there for a deal to be had.” Negotiators have not comwas far more serious than in earlier days, several people on mented publicly on the substance both sides of the negotiations said on of the talks since the weekend, when condition of anonymity. Rob Manfred, they exchanged angry accusations. They the owners’ top labor lawyer, said no met twice Monday and got closer to an new proposals have been made since agreement on testing for steroids, one management’s offer Sunday. Manfred major league general manager said, speaking on condition of anonymity. and Bob DuPuy, baseball’s No. 2 offiTuesday morning’s session, according cial, were at the sessions along with Steve Fehr, the brother of the union to the GM, touched on the union’s desire ...
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combining for 113 winners and 27 aces, and countless arms-raised celebrations and guttural yells of frustration. Safin broke two rackets by spiking them. Both players argued calls. “Why in the fifth set?” Safin screamed at a linesman after a foot fault. “Show me the mark!” Kiefer yelled at the umpire when a Safin lob was ruled in. Safin has an all-or-nothing history in Grand Slam tournaments, reaching the semifinals or better at three straight before bowing out in the second round at Wimbledon. He was fined $2,000 for lack of effort after losing to a qualifier in the first round ofthe 2000 Australian Open. He nearly gave away Tuesday’s match against Kiefer, a German once ranked as high as No. 6 and labeled “the next Boris Becker.” Now he’s out of the top 50 after starting the year 4-16. One moment, Safin was brilliant: a perfectly angled cross-court backhand passing shot on the run. And in the very
not to have a luxury tax in the final year of the proposed contract, which would run through the 2006 season.
“A deal, if both sides wanted, could be done in a day, that’s how close we are at this point,” Detroit’s assistant player representative Brandon Inge said. Burkett thinks the players already have moved too far toward owners. “They pretty much won the negotiation. They’ve pretty much got everything they wanted,” said the pitcher, who had urged players to boycott last month’s AllStar game, which was played in Selig’s hometown of Milwaukee. Some players scoffed at suggestions several owners believe they won’t strike if there’s no deal. “They doubted them in ’94. They’ve doubted them since ’72, probably,” St. Louis player representative Steve Kline said. “Obviously, we walked every time. This year won’t be any different. A lot of people want to break the union. That’s the thing that makes me laugh, because our union is real strong.”
next, he looked like a weekend hacker: sending a sitter into the upper deck. Serving for the match at 5-3 in the fifth, Safin was broken when he double-
faulted. Kiefer then evened the set at 5-5, somehow mustering strength in his legs for consecutive aces to hold serve at love. In the next game, back-to-back forehand errors by Safin gave Kiefer a break point, but the German put a slice backhand into the net. In a match already more than 4 hours old, Safin then cranked a service winner at 132 mph, and two more service winners helped make it 6-5. . In the tiebreaker, Kiefer hit a forehand into the net and lost his footing, sliding to the ground. Safin called for a trainer, who went out bn court and stretched Kiefer’s left leg, then helped him rise. Two points later it was over, and DON EMMERT/AFP Safin walked off under his own power. Kiefer left his rackets and bag behind ANDY RODDICK returns a backhand en route to 7-6 (7-2), 6-3, 6-4 victory over Martin Verkerk. and was helped off by a trainer.
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Ashley, junior back Kim Gogola and senior back Sarah Wright. In preparation for its upcoming seagoalie set school records her freshmen son, which begins this weekend year in 1986 with a 0.50 goals against against La in Philadelphia, the Salle average and a .927 save percentage. team has primarily worked on underShe spent six years with the U.S. Army standing strategy. doing military intelligence work with the her main goals as Tchou cites one of ensuring that the bomb squad. She then worked with entire team comprehends and follows bombs and explosives for the Bureau of the game plan. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. The Bliue Devils are hoping to improve She described her work in the bomb on last year’s 9-9 industry as “just something [she] got went 0-4 in the ACC.overall record—they into, a natural progression after being “It is important that we get off to a in the Army.” good start,” Tchou said. “We will take Stark also served as a police officer in the season one game at a time and hope California, but a hand injury led her to to improve after each game.” switch professions. After a phone call to Competing in arguably the Tchou, she is now back at her alma mater. toughest conference, the squadnation’s has a “My goal is for us to do as well as we strong freshman class that should balpossibly can,” Stark said. “We have a lot ance out its senior leadership. of talent and potential, so well see Tchou notes that the new recruits where it takes us.” comprise one of the strongest classes ever. Aside from the help of Tchou’s two “The team has a ton of potential,” she new assistants, the team will have three said. “They are fun to work with, eager THAD PARSO'JS/THE CHROMCLE captains: senior midfielder Chrissy and fired up to get some decisive wins.” KIM GOGOLA will serve as one of three co-captains for the Blue Devils this year,
DAVIS from page 11 multi-millionaire who thinks that the strength ofthe union is priority No. 1, then you don’t deserve to be called “valuable,” The 1994 players’ strike led to the World Series being cancelled for the first time in 90 years. The season didn’t end with a mound celebration, bottles of champagne and t-shirts proclaiming one team World Champions. Instead, fans saw Donald Fehr and company lamenting the fact that the two sides were unable to reach an agreement. Despite these circumstances, however, the postseason awards went ahead as planned. Frank Thomas and JeffBagwell you re a
were each named as their respective
MVP award, which had recently been who lost their lives who are America’s league’s Most Valuable Player. named after Ted Williams, was given true heroes. Beginning Aug. 12, 1994, Thomas t0... nobody. Last year, players, owners and fans and Bagwell were free to sit on their There was no winner; there was no all agreed that coping with national couches all day long, eating potato chips MVP. tragedies overshadowed the need for the and playing video games. Yet in It was less than a year ago that the players to be on the field. This year, if November, baseball writers honored nation turned to baseball as a means of go on strike, the players are assertthey these two players by using their names recovering from the trauma of Sept. 11. ing along with the words “valuable” and Games were postponed for nearly a nessthat their own greed and stubbordeserve similar status. Yet, for “baseball” in the same sentence. week, after which Americans watched as some reason, the expectation exists that Somehow, the concept that there is the Seattle Mariners celebrated their each league will name someone its Most nothing valuable or honorable in A.L, West title by gathering an Valuable Player. around choosing to end the season in August American flag. And with priorities like the players was overlooked. Mets and Yankees wore NYPD and currently have, none of them are even In fact, baseball itself has acknowlFDNY hats, while “God Bless remotely deserving of that title. edged that if the games don’t end, the America” echoed through ballparks awards aren’t distributed. This year’s across America. The players themEvan Davis is a Trinity senior and All-Star Debacle was abruptly ended selves reminded us that it’s people senior associate sports editor. His colafter 11 innings in a 7-7 tie. The game’s like the policemen and firefighters umn appears every Wednesday.
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4pm. “Disparity, constraints, and the articulate brachiopod fossil record.” Charles N. Ciampaglio, Duke University. 111 Biological Sciences.
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Wellness Partnership: 12:30-2pm. Staff Development Center. Contact david.stein@duke.edu.
Dance Program Auditions: 7pm. All repertory classes including modern, 7 pm; ballet, 7:45 pm; and African repertory by appointment. Ark Dance Studio, East Campus. Call 660-3304 for appointments.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29
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Reading: 7:30 pm. Rick Lischer reads from his memoir “Open Secrets”. Barnes & Noble, New Hope Commons, Durham.
Contact rlischer@div.duke.edu.
Public Interest & Pro Bono Board’s First Meeting: 121:30 pm. Contactspruill@law.duke.edu. Duke Alumni Affairs and Development Checkbook Open: 12:00pm. Washington Duke Inn. Contact Karen McClure to play, mccluoo2@mc.duke.edu. ILS International Mentor Program Lunch: 12:1 Opm. An opportunity for LLMs and exchange students to meet their JD mentors over lunch. Courtyard. Contact wechsler@law.duke.edu.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 Catholic Mass: 5:15 pm. Duke Chapel Crypt.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 Biology/Dissertation Seminar:
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Peace Corps Volunteers; Last Thursdays of the month, s;3opm. Prospective and returned Peace Corps volunteers and their friends and family are invited for monthly gathering. Satisfaction in Brightleaf Square. Call 361-9770 or 403-2684. 12:30-1:20pm. Roger Williams Brown Bag Lunch: Fellowship- Brown Bag Lunch. Contact reo@duke.edu.
Community Affairs: 3-6pm. Durham County Dept of Social Services Open House, “Bringing the Pieces Together”. Learn how we partner with families to achieve prosperity, permanence & safety. 220 E. Main Street. Contact sam.miglarese@duke.edu.
Wesley Fellowship Freshman Small Group: 10pm. Wilson Commons. Jenny Copeland, Campus Minister,
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 Wesley Fellowship Weekly Eucharist: s:3opm. Wesley
Office in Chapel Basement. Contact Jenny Copeland, Campus Minister, jenny@duke.edu. BSD Faith & Friendship: 7:00 pm. Marketplace, Balcony Room. Ted Purcell, Campus Minister.
Ongoing Events Carillon Recital: Weekdays, 5 pm. A 15-minute performance by J. Samuel Hammond, University carillonneur. He also gives a recital before and after the Service of Worship each Sunday. Duke Chapel, West Campus. For information, call 684-2572.
Organ demonstration: Weekdays, 12:30-1;30pm. A daily recital of mostly sacred music on the Flentrop organ, which both tonally and visually reflects the techniques of DutchFrench organs of the 18th century. Duke Chapel, West Campus. Schedule subject to change. For information, call 684-2572.
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Orthodox Christian Weekly Vespers/Fellowship: Student Fellowship. Duke Chapel Basement. Father Edward Rummen, 919-782-7037, fatheredward @ mindspring.com. Exhibition: Through Sept 15. Nineteenth-Century French Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection. CDS Exhibition: Through Sep 28. Juke Joint: An Installation by North Carolina Artist Willie Little. The Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street. For more information, 660-3663, cds.aas.duke.edu, daocstudies@duke.edu.
Photography Exhibition: Through Oct 3. 9/11 Memorials. Duke University Museum of Art. For more information, 684-5135, www.duke.edu/duma. Exhibition: Through Aug 30. The Collector’s Confession, works by Suzanne Stryk. Duke University Union Brown Gallery, Bryan Center. Touchable Art Gallery: Art and crafts by people with visual impairments, Main Lobby, Duke Eye Center. Carved in Wood: hand-worked hardwood carvings from six continents. John Hope Franklin Center Gallery, 2204 Erwin Road. Gallery hours vary; call 684-2888. Excerpts from Mao II: by Scott Lindroth and William Noland. Lower
Level Art Space: John Hope Franklin Center Gallery, 2204 Erwin Road. Gallery hours vary; call 684-2888. Haiti & Memory: photographs by Phyllis Galembo. Perkins Library, West Campus. Hours vary; call 6846470.
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the aftermath ofthe creation of the International Criminal Court, the United States has backed down from its initial pledge to withdraw all peacekeepers from world conflicts without blanket immunity. Since then, however, the United States has tried to tie military aid to foreign countries to their support for immunity from the court. What is unfortunate in this conflict between the ICC and the United States is that superficially the fundamental values of the ICC —the rule of law, respect for human rights, and accountability and justice for those who violate universal human rights—are values shared with America. The United States and the ICC, however, remain at loggerheads. Although former President Bill Clinton signed the Rome treaty creating the court at the of his term, his successor President George W. Bush withdrew the United States’s signature. Furthermore, neither sent the ICC treaty to the Senate, where it would surely be rejected. Furthermore, as the United States stands as the clear world superpower, it also responds more often to international cries for help. In the last dozen years alone, America has intervened in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, the Balkans and Afghanistan. In aiding nations tom apart by violence and protecting the freedom of the world, the United States must sometimes use military force and inevitablly and unfortunately kill civilians in the process. Simply because the United States is so often involved in these just military actions, the chances are even greater that those with anti-American agendas and the targets ofAmerican action might try to bring American generals or political leaders before the court. There are also serious problems with the structure and jurisdiction of the court. It has ill-defined paramters of what it can and cannot prosecute, leaving the door open for the abuse of its power and ex post facto problems. There are no guarantees that defedants rights will be upheld by the court. And the court inherently infringes upon American sovereignty by purporting to excerise its power over all people, everywhere, while not being accountable for its actions to any group of people. The court needs to work harder to ensure American rights and safeguards because in order to have any effectiveness whatsoever, the ICC needs American support. Without American support, the ICC will be swept into the dustbin of history along with the League of Nations. Additionally, the ICC needs American military muscle to bring tyrarmts and murders to justice. In the short term, the best policy is for the court to grant the United States immunity so that the United States can continue in its role as the protector and savior of the downtrodden worldwide. In the long term, however, the court should demonstrate that it will act responsibly in its mandate, and further reassure the United States that it poses no threat to American humanitarian and peacekeeping missions.
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The organizers were planning to have so many people that the street would be forced to close, which is the part that the cops weren’t cool with. Sophomore Alison Constantine, who was hit with pepper-spray during the illegal demonstration on Ninth Street last April (see story, page five)
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Bush is on fire Round up the usual suspects! President George W. Bush’s new “Healthy Forests” plan reads like a parody of his administration’s standard operating procedure. You see, environmentalists cause forest fires, and those nice
Paul Krugman Commentary corporations will solve the problem if we get out oftheir way. Am I being too harsh? No, actually it’s even worse than it seems. “Healthy Forests” isn’t just about scrapping environmental protection; it’s also about expanding corporate welfare. Everyone agrees that the forests’ prime evil is a well-meaning but counterproductive bear named Smokey. Generations of fire suppression have led to a dangerous accumulation of highly flammable small trees and underbrush. And in some of the national forests it’s too late simply to reverse the policy; thanks to growing population and urban sprawl, some forests are too close to built-up areas to be allowed to bum. Clearly, some of the excess fuel in some of the nation’s forests should be removed. But how? Bush asserts that there is a free lunch: allowing more logging that thins out the national forests will both yield valuable resources and reduce fire risks. But it turns out that the stuff that needs to be removed—small trees and bushes, in areas close to habitation—is of little commercial value. The good stuff, from the industry’s point of view, consists of large, mature trees—the kind of trees that usually survive forest fires—which are often far from inhabited areas. So the administration proposes to make deals with logging companies: In return for clearing out the stuff that should be removed, they will be granted the right to take out other stuff that probably shouldn’t be removed. Notice that this means that there isn’t a free lunch after all. And there are at least three severe further problems with this plan. First, will the quid pro quo really be enforced, or will loggers simply make off with the quid and forget about the quo? The Forest Service, which would be in charge of enforcement, has repeatedly been cited by Congress’ General Accounting Office for poor management and lack of accountability. And the agency, true to Bush administration form, is
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now run by a former industry lobbyist. (In the 2000 election cycle, the forest products industry gave 82 percent of its contributions to Republicans.) You don’t have to be much of a cynic to question whether loggers will really be held to their promises. Second, linking logging of mature trees to clearing of underbrush is a policy non sequitur. Suppose Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced that Waste Management Inc. would pick up
Manhattan’s trash free, in return for the right to dump toxic waste on Staten Island. Staten Island residents would protest, correctly, that if Manhattan wants its garbage picked up, it should pay for the service; if the city wants to sell companies the right to dump elsewhere, that should be treated as a separate issue. Similarly, if the federal government wants to clear underbrush near populated areas, it should pay for it; if it wants to sell the right to log mature trees elsewhere, that should be a separate decision. And this gets us to the last point: In fact, the government doesn’t make money when it sells timber rights to loggers. According to the General Accounting Office, the Forest Service consistently spends more money arranging timber sales than it actually gets from the sales. How much money? Funny you should ask: Last year the Bush administration stopped releasing that information. In any case, the measured costs of timber sales capture only a fraction ofthe true budgetary costs of logging in the national forests, which is supported by hundreds ofmillions of dollars in federal subsidies, especially for road-building. This means that, environmental issues aside, inducing logging companies to clear underbrush by letting them log elsewhere would probably end up costing taxpayers more, not less, than dealing with the problem directly. So as in the case of the administration’s energy policy, beneath the tree-market rhetoric is a plan for increased subsidies to favored corporations. Surprise.
A final thought: Wouldn’t it be nice if just once, on some issue, the Bush administration came up with a plan that didn’t involve weakened environmental protection, financial breaks for wealthy individuals and corporations and reduced public oversight? Paul Krugman’s column is syndicated through the New York Times News Service.
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What the word ‘slut’ truly means Wednesday. What a day. The hangover from last Saturday night is cooling off, and there’s still enough time to get pregame materials for tomorrow night. I remember this time from my freshman year (sort of)—the semi-chilled beer, the punch my mother had sagely told me to avoid and the small group of dorm boys I had put on RAPP—Rape And Pillage Patrol. Although I first put the RAPP ■ together (and to be clear, their purpose was to prevent raping and pillaging, not to instigate it) for safety I reasons, I soon began to wonder Meghan exactly why I, who had spent the preValerio vious summer at school in New York The F Word City, taking a subway to the train home well after dark, felt unsafe. What was I protecting myself from? Those mean upperclass frat boys, who at their worst just asked me if I wanted a beer? I felt compelled to protect myself from those advances, if you could call them that, not because I thought Fd get hurt or even do something Fd regret, but because I didn’t want to get labeled a slut. Although at my girls’ high school I was relatively unused to male attention, I was certainly familiar with the stigma of a random hookup, and if college were to be a clean slate, I wanted to keep it clean as long as possible.
In our rooms and even on these pages we constantly talk, jokingly or not, about the way upperclass guys prey on freshman girls. We look at our party scene as if it were an episode of The Crocodile Hunter—see the freshman girl writhe in her slinky pants, as the frat boy watches from behind. Croikey! He just moved in with a beer!” Why do we buy into this? Boys and girls, sexual relationships—they’re mutual territory. The point of my column is a minor linguistic history, inspired by those girls who’ve been offered non-boxed wine in a room with the door shut. Man, those girls are clueless. They’re just asking for it/doing this for the alcohol/going after upperclassmen for the glory. We can call them sluts, right? Wrong. No. My Merriam-Webster defines “slut” as either a slovenly (untidy in dress or person) woman or a prostitute. Since I’d venture a guess that Duke girls aren’t paid for drunken hookups and are pretty put together when they go out, the definition doesn’t particularly apply. I’m continually amazed at the freedom with which boys use the term. Maybe they don’t get that if girls weren’t under perpetual duress to avoid such a label, they’d be more inclined to hook up—kind of like how they don’t realize that a girlfriend is, among other things, a steady source of play. I’ve always been a bit fascinated with the word “slut.” The sound of it alone is damning—the hiss of the ‘s;’ the upper palate tongue pressure that creates an ‘l;’ the final, almost superfluous, fluttering ‘t.’ It isn’t a pretty word, but it contains a force that its relatives lack, and in case you were wondering as to its affiliation, it even sounds like “slur.” It’s a bad word, in more ways than one. Why do we still use it? Maybe I shouldn’t be questioning the word itself, but why its meaning can carry such blows. It’s used not only to describe the promiscuous, but also those who have had sex at all, have been rumored to maybe have had sex, had sex with someone they didn’t love or maybe even didn’t know, are attractive, been raped or just have breasts. It’s not only a term ofjudgment for behavior that we have no right to judge, but a term that doesn’t even always refer to behavior. And if that’s the case, why should someone labelled a slut care at all? The one time “slut” was hurled at me within earshot was when I wouldn’t let a girl cut in the Ticketmaster line in ninth grade. The girl didn’t know me, and even if she had, my slut factor ended at one game of Spin the Flashlight at summer camp and an eighth-grade “boyfriend.” I wasn’t a slut because I was promiscuous: I was a slut because I stood up for myself. And if that’s what being a slut comes down to in this day and age, then maybe it’s not such a bad thing to be. Meghan Valerio is a Trinity senior and arts editor of Recess. Her column appears every third Wednesday.
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The cost of losing our honor
Last year, an introductory economics class had a midterm exam, worth a large part ofthe final grade, with an extensive take-home portion. Under the Honor Code, the students were asked to complete the exam within time restraints and not to consult certain materials or other students. After the test was graded, the professor disHpOl covered that cheating on this portion of the exam had been so widespread the he had to disregard the results entirely. This incident represents a breakRussell down in the honor code system, which is Williams based entirely on trust. The professor trusted the students to abide by the Stark Raving Sam Honor Code. Students abused that trust, and the code failed to protect academic integrity. When academic integrity is not protected, it is the honest students who suffer. If the Duke community is not willing to support the Honor Code fully, we must replace it with a system that works. As the Academic Integrity Council begins integrating the old Honor Code into the new Community Standard, it is time to face the implications of being a university governed by an honor code. An honor code places heavy demands on every member of the community, and if we are not prepared to accept these responsibilities, we would be better off without it. Every incident of largescale cheating diminishes the credibility of the honor system. A few more exams thrown out, and the Honor Code might not have any credibility left. What is the alternative to an honor code? If we cannot base our academic system on trust, we must base it on security. At a university without an honor code, the students must earn their teachers’ trust by having their every academic endeavor thoroughly monitored. This sort of system, the academic equivalent of an Orwellian police state, runs contrary to the spirit of university education, which should value individual exploration and not spend its time looking over its students’ shoulders. However, this system protects academic integrity absolutely, without an honor system’s reliance on trust, which students often fail to merit. Academic integrity ,
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absolutely must be protected. Cheating makes our evaluation systems meaningless and undermines the value of the University’s only product—education. Therefore, any measures to combat cheating must be evaluated by their effectiveness first and their desirability second. I would love to attend a university where the students had no desire to cheat. Obviously, I don’t. I would rather attend a university where the students themselves protect integrity than one governed by paranoia. But if the Honor Code does not provide that protection, I would rather have every exam proctored and every assignment monitored, than allow dishonesty to erode the integrity of my education. How can we avoid a system of constant surveillance, without writing cheaters a blank check? The Honor Code gives us away, but at the cost of laying heavy responsibilities on every member of the Duke community. If we fail to acknowledge and respect those responsibilities, we make the honor system a joke, ignoring cheaters and placing honest students in a dilemma where they must either follow the lead of their less scrupulous peers or try to compete against an unfair advantage. There are two responsibilities laid on students by the Honor Code: not cheating and not tolerating those who do. Both are necessary to the successful operation of the honor system. It is the failure of otherwise honest students to honor the second responsibility that has crippled the honor system in the past. No one wants to turn in a friend or classmate to face a charge as serious as academic dishonesty, but this is the only method of accountability available in an honor system. Are we ready to assume the burden of supporting an honor system, to the point of serving as witnesses against cheaters in our classes, in our dorms, in our circles of friends? The prospect is neither easy nor pleasant, but if we do not accept it, we must accept omnipresent surveillance to prevent pandemic dishonesty. If we, as students, fail to protect academic integrity, we must have someone protect it for us.
Russell Williams is a Pratt junior. His column appears every third Wednesday.
The remorse of an ESPN junkie ESPN celebrated its 25,000th these sports. As a child, I never parSportsCenter Sunday night. I of ticipated in Little League or played a down of Pee Wee football. One would course, watched it. Twice. Hello, my name is Jasen Liu, and think that a sports-addict such as I am addicted to ESPN. myself would be six-foot three, wear Like so many of my fellow Duke jerseys with pro athlete names on students, ESPN, ESPN2 and them, and spend my free time pracESPN.com have completely taken ticing and excelling at the heretoover my life. Even now, as I write fore-mentioned activities. this column, I am monitoring the latUnfortunately, I am blessed est Major League baseball scores on with the athletic ability of a doorESPN.com. If I studknob. Give me a sport that led for classes the requires dexterity or coordination, way I read up on and I’ll show you why the word “inept” was created. teams and games, I would be on my way So why the love affair with sports, to a Rhodes scholaryou ask? Aside from being incredibly J/g' } ship right now. entertaining, sports provide a common communication pathway for In all fairness, Center can- Aimlow■ HitL}W many people. Sporting events bring together people of different races, not be blamed entirely for the deterioration of my ages, socioeconomic classes and intellectual persona. My addiction to beliefs. One only has to attend a Duke basketball game to witness ESPN’s continuous stream of highlights and top plays condensed into a this amazing phenomenon. Sports are the quintessential slick package is only the manifestation of my pitiable obsession with topic of conversation for many peosports in general. ple. Two strangers can instantly conTrue, there are those among you nect to one another by discussing the who easily surpass me in terms of numerous controversies and issues that embroil the sports world. sports fanaticism, but to define levBut as much as I would like to els of addiction is pure semantics. The point is, in the past two years, believe it, sports do not measure my condition has evolved from that up in life. In the long run, sports of a relatively normal, loyal Los amount to about as much as a Angeles Lakers fan, to a full-blown game of chess —stimulating, weekend-warrior sports nut. What addicting, complex, but ultimately began as an interest in professional only a game. basketball has expanded to encomGoing to school here has not pass baseball, football, soccer, tenhelped much in coming to this realnis—you name it, I will watch it. ization. In fact, my time here has The worst part of it all is that I only served to encourage this have no true affiliation with any of dependency. Many athletic teams at
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Duke are placed at the forefront, above most other campus organizations. Superstar athletes are given scholarships and preferential treatment from the University. But it is unfair to condemn the University for this emphasis on sports, since American society in general is obsessed with these games. Professional athletes are placed on excessively high pedestals. Why should someone who runs fast be given more publicity and respect than a Nobel Prize winner who
makes revolutionary discoveries? This is not to say that I stand untouched above the remainder of society. If anything at all, I am more star-struck by athletes than your average Joe. Seeing Chris Duhon walking onto the bus causes me to become incompetent. But I do realize that a society—and a university—that regards athletics and sports as highly as ours does has a problem with priorities. And so I say to you, my fellow sports addicted brothers and sisters: Resist the urge to watch consecutive episodes of SportsCenter; try reading something other than the Sports section in The New York Times. Escape from the prison that is College Football Saturday and NFL Monday Night Football. Realize that life is not a sport. In the hierarchy of important social issues, sports sit at the bottom of the totem pole. At least until basketball season starts again. Jasen Liu is a Pratt junior. His column appears every third Wednesday.
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