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Budget task force calls for reduction of faculty By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle

Arts and Sciences can best address projected budget deficits by cutting up to 50 faculty positions, the Arts and Sciences Council Budget Task Force said Thursday in a long-awaited report. The task force—established last year to find solutions to projected deficits—said that Arts and Sciences’ financial

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BATHROOM DOOR LOCKS in Wannamaker Dormitory will be replaced beginning today.

Reported attack leads to new locks, more security By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

As the Duke University Police Department continues to search for the man who reportedly assaulted a female student in a Wannamaker Dormitory bathroom Wednesday morning, University officials are preparing to install sex-specific locks on dorm bathroom doors across campus. Locksmiths will install the first new locks in Wannamaker women’s bath-

rooms today, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. They will proceed with other dorm bathrooms on both West and East Campus after fall break. The new sex-specific locks would mean more security them the current system, in which allresidents can use

their keys to unlock all bathrooms in their dorm. Students will now have two sets of keys—one for their dorm room See SECURITY on page 7

If tuition rates increase by more than 4 percent, the task force said Arts and Sciences might make fewer cuts. Given the current revenue estimates, however,

the task force said it may be necessary to cut the number of faculty searches to 17 each year for the next three years, replacing just half of departing faculty. By contrast, Arts and Sciences filled an average of 34 faculty positions over the

problems are structural and past five years. Chafe commissioned the could not be remedied by task force in December 2001 stopgap measures. In presenting its report to the Arts to examine the viability of cutting expenditures in four and Sciences Council’s areas: faculty size, average monthly meeting, the task faculty compensation, doctorforce suggested returning the al training support and faculfaculty size to 1995 levels. Although Arts and Scity research support. Of these, ences managed to avoid a the task force recommended budget deficit for the 2003 considering only faculty size and faculty compensation. fiscal year, officials expect phi| Cnnie its deficit to increase dra- Kmi,p UOOK Some council members exmatically over the next five pressed reservations about a years, reaching a peak of $6.1 million by faculty size reduction, especially since the 2006 fiscal year. Arts and Sciences many departments have aimed for expansion in the coming years. Professor this year has a $220.8 million budget. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciof Public Policy Studies Philip Cook, who heaaeu uie task force, said some of ences William Chafe said the projec.

tions rested on the assumption that undergraduate tuition revenues, the main funding source for Arts and Sciences, would increase at an annual rate of 4 percent. He said the rate could vary, depending on trends at other elite schools.

the proposed expansions were “probably

not consistent with reality.” John Thompson, chair of the history department, released a statement exSee A&S BUDGET on page 7

Lack of career help Football seeks Deacons’ blessing may affect attrition By TYLER ROSEN The Chronicle

This is the fifth story in a five-part series examining attrition among graduate students. By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle

Many graduate students who wish to pursue jobs outside the traditional academic setting say they find limited career counseling, despite efforts from the Career Center and academic departments. Many students and administrators agree career counseling services need improvement. But although some attribute student drop-outs in part to the lack of such services, whether it contributes to attrition remains in dispute. Most students who decide on a nonacademic career already have a definite sense of their plans, said third-year zoology student Julia Bowsher. However, Virginia Steinmetz, counselor for most graduate students at the Career Center, said she believes students are less likely to drop out if they can find advice from a trusted adviser. “I may have helped people continue [in their graduate studies] by listening to their hesitations, helping them with their problem solving,” Steinmetz said. Career advising at the Graduate School is mostly decentralized, with departments taking up the primary role as advisers. This allows students to receive See CAREERS on page 8

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FULLBACK ALEX WADE tries to avoid a tackle against a Navy defender earlier this season.

President Nan Keohane declined to sign a petition that ran in The New York Times this week decrying antiSemitism among students. See page 3

Groves Stadium will be a carnival mirror Saturday. When the football team (2-4, 0-2 in the ACC) looks across the field at Wake Forest (3-3, 1-2) before the 3:30 p.m. kickoff, it will see an exaggerated reflection of its own strengths and weaknesses. With the double threat ofrunning backs Alex Wade and Chris Douglas, Duke has the most potent rushing attack in recent school history. Wade opened the season by rushing for 100 yards in four of the first five games while Douglas struggled with an injured ankle. Against Virginia last week, Douglas returned to form and picked up 126 yards, providing the quickness to balance Wade’s power. “We want to keep running the football,” Duke head coach Carl Franks said. “That keeps our time of possession up. That keeps us making first downs. And it’s something we do very well.” Meanwhile, the Demon Deacons trot out a trio of running backs who combine for an ACC-leading 246.7 yards per game—almost 80 yards more than the Blue Devils have been mustering. Rounding out the group is Tarence Williams, who burned Duke for 275 yards and five touchdowns in his two previous games with the Blue Devils and who is finally returning from injury. “Wake runs the ball very well and keeps the ball,” Franks said. “We’ve got to try to control [the game] by keeping our offense on the field.”

April Brown, chair of electrical and computer engineering, testified before Congress last week on improving female representation in the sciences. See page 3

See WAKE FOREST on page 10 The Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation will hold a conference in Raleigh this weekend to bring together members from different universities. See page 4

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Hungarian wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Imre Kertesz, a Hungarian novelist and Holocaust survivor, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday for what was described as writing that “upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” •

Iraq denies manufacturing nuclear arms

Iraqi generals threw open a sprawling complex

Thursday that the United States suspects may be developing nuclear arms. Iraq insists it turns out nothing more deadly than toothbrushes. •

House passes compromise defense bill

The House approved a $355.4 billion defense bill Thursday, providing money for new destroyers, helicopters and missiles, granting President George W. Bush most of the Pentagon buildup he requested. •

Kashmir votes against pro-India party

Kashmiri voters ousted the ruling pro-India party, the dominant force in the Indian-controlled province for more than 50 years, demanding economic and social reforms and an end to the Islamic militancy. •

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Congress OKs use of force in Iraq

Republicans vote mostly unified while Democrats split votes in both chambers By CARL HULSE and ALISON MITCHELL New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON The Senate voted overwhelmingly early Friday morning to authorize President George W. Bush to use force against Iraq, joining with the House in giving him a broad mandate to act against Saddam Hussein. The hard-won victory for Bush came little more than a month after many lawmakers of both parties re-

turned to Washington from summer

recess expressing grave doubts about a rush to war. It reflected weeks of lobbying and briefings by the administration that culminated with a speech by the president on Monday night.

The Republican-controlled House voted 296 -133 Thursday afternoon to allow the president to use the military “against the continuing threat” posed by the Iraqi regime. The Democraticrun Senate followed at 1:15 a.m. Friday with a vote of 77-23 for the measure. After the House voted, Bush said the support showed that “the gathering threat of Iraq must be confronted fully and finally.” He added, “The days of Iraq acting as an outlaw state are coming to an end.” While the votes in favor of the resolutions were large and bipartisan, they highlighted a sharp split in the Democratic party over how and when to use force. This was particularly true in the House. Even though Rep. Dick

Gephardt, the House minority leader, put his weight behind the force authorization, more House Democrats voted against the resolution sought by the president than for it, splitting 12681. Only six Republicans opposed it. The opponents cited a host Of reasons for their vote, including doubts that Iraq would imminently develop nuclear potential, fears that military action would take away from the war on terrorism, and sentiment against war among constituents. In the Senate, as the debate stretched on, some prominent Democ-

rats announced they would support the president, including Sen. Joseph Biden ofDelaware, who had proposed a more restrictive resolution.

Police link Wednesday killing to sniper

FCC rejects merger of Echo Star, DirecTV

Federal regulators Thursday blocked the merger of the two largest satellite television broadcasters, moving closer to approving another deal to create the nation’s largest cable television company.

By WAYNE WASHINGTON The Boston Globe

WASHINGTON Virginia police Thursday said ballistics evidence linked the slaying of a man shot Wednesday night to the sniper attacks that have terrified area residents. Dean Meyers, a 53-year-old from Gaithersburg, Md., was shot just after filling his car at a gas station in Manassas, Va., 35 miles southwest of Washington. Charlie Deane, police chief in Prince William County, which includes Manassas, said autopsy and ballistics results confirmed what law-enforcement officials had suspected—that the same sniper believed to have killed six people in the previous week had gunned down Meyers, too. Two others were wounded. “I would appeal for the person to give themselves up,” Deane said. “There’s enough that’s been done.”

An autopsy showed that Meyers, like the other victims, died at the scene of a single gunshot wound to the upper part of his body. He was the third person since the shooting spree began to be shot at a gas station. Others were killed or wounded performing other everyday tasks—mowing the lawn, going to school or to the store. The attack on Meyers was the second in Virginia. A woman from Fredericksburg was wounded by the sniper last Friday. Neighbors said Meyers lived alone in a townhouse complex in Gaithersburg, in Montgomery County, Md., the site of earlier attacks. He had worked for the past 20 years at an engineering firm in Manassas. Coworker Dave Brent said his friend once gave hundreds of dollars to an office campaign that raised money for underprivileged children to go Christmas shopping.

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Keohane declines to sign petition By CHRISTINA NG The Chronicle

President Nan Keohane’s decision not to sign a statement cautioning against the intimidation and mistreatment of Jewish students has evoked disappointment among the Jewish student community at Duke. The statement, which was sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and ran as an advertisement this week in The New York Times, called for “college presidents to decry intimidation on campuses.” In light of recent threats against Jewish students and Israeli rights supporters, the statement asked that campus debates continue to be free of taunts or intimidation. Keohane decided not to sign the statement because it did not include other ethnic backgrounds. “President Keohane felt uncomfortable endorsing a statement that only spoke to one aspect of [the intimidation] issue Nan Keohane and one target group,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs. “[The statement] implies a concern primarily for or explicitly about Jewish students. If it was worded differently, she may have signed it.” Some Jewish students, however, do not believe the statement’s wording should detract from the general issue of anti-intimidation. “In the statement, out of the 6 paragraphs, only one talks about Jewish students,” said sophomore See PETITION on page 7

EDITOR’S NOTE With this edition, The Chronicle ceases publication for tall break. Publication will resume Oct. 16. Have a nice break!

CORRECTION Due to misinformation, a page-three story in the Oct. 10 edition of The Chronicle incorrectly identified a representative from the Duke Surf Club. The student was senior Ben Balmages, not senior Josh Solt.

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FEMALE ENGINEERING STUDENTS work in their electrical and computer engineering lab this summer at the Pratt School of Engineering. Women remain underrepresented in Pratt and other engineering schools, as well as in the sciences overall.

Title IX hearing sparks debate By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle

As Title IX celebrates its 30th anniversary and its success in women’s athletics, higher education officials nationwide are considering whether to and how best to apply the equity law to the sciences. Six academics—including Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering April Brown—testified last week at a Senate hearing on Title IX enforcement and how it can be applied to inequities of female representation in the sciences and engineering. “If you look at Title IX, it is an education law that is not focused just on sports but applies to having opportunities and no barriers in education,” Brown said. Title IX prohibits gender discrimination at all education institutions that receive federal funds. Many barriers, however—such as the public perception of the sciences, pre-college science training, lack of role models and the timing of tenure—still exist for women in the sciences, Brown said. Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, spoke to the same Senate subcommittee this summer about the obstacles for women entering engineering and sciences. “What was once a moral obligation—sharing the joys of engineering and the financial opportunities afforded by good paying careers in science and engineering fields—is now a national imperative,” Johnson wrote in an e-mail. “Engineers create products and instruments that improve quality of life, quality of our environment and facilitate a richer communication experience.”

Todd Jones, deputy assistant secretary for enforcement in the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, also testified before the subcommittee, chaired by Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore. Jones reported “remarkable gains... and good news in the area of math and sciences.” He added that inequities in the sciences may largely be a self-selection issue and perfectly even numbers in the sciences may not necessarily be optimal. Geraldine Richmond, professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, said this week that the differences in the government representative’s testimony and that of the other witnesses became central in the hearing. “Honestly, through that vehicle and conversation, I did not get the sense it would be a high priority [for the Office for Civil Rights],” Brown said. “I think there was more going on there than meets the eye.” Others testifying painted a more pessimistic picture of female underrepresentation in scientific fields. “Advert discrimination is much less than it used to be, but subtle discrimination still exists,” Richmond said, adding that women often are given heavier teaching loads, have more family responsibilities and receive less recognition for their work. “It’s not a question of, ‘Do we use Title IX or not?’ Title IX is on the books. It’s a law,” Richmond said. “The question is, ‘How do we implement it to maintain excellence in science and get more women involved?’” Title IX may be more difficult to apply to academics than sports, however, said Margaret Murphy, coach See ENGINEERING on page 8

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N.C. NEWS THIS WEEK Torn staff reports

State board to investigate alleged double voting The North Carolina Board of Elections said Thursday it will look into a report from the Republican National Committee that shows 96 people voted in North Carolina as well as another state. “We’re going to contact the Republican National Committee and ask them to provide information on these 96 and investigate,” said board attorney Don Wright. Duplicate registration occurs when people move and is not illegal unless they actually double vote. The GOP report showed 17 people also voted in New Jersey, 12 in South Carolina, 8 in Georgia, and 6 in Virginia, Kentucky, and Florida. Other states had five or fewer double votes while some states had none. Wright said that double voting in the same election is a felony. He also said that it is not uncommon for a person to be double registered after they move from one state to another. Usually, double registration is fixed through routine exchanges of information between states.

Three anti-war protesters arrested Three protesters against war in Iraq were arrested Thursday after refusing to leave the office of Rep. David Price following a Wednesday night sit-in. Anna Carson-Dewitt, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student who was arrested, said she hoped her civil disobedience would send a message.

“I think war is reprehensible,” CarsonDewitt said after her release. “It’s not acceptable, and I wanted to make it clear that war in my name is not an option.” The three protesters were charged with second-degree trespassing and have a Nov. 18 court date. The others charged were Sascha Bollag and Lenore Yarger. All three were members of a group that protested Monday afternoon near Price’s office. Price opposes President George W. Bush’s proposal on Iraq because it gives him free rein to declare war, said a spokesperson. Price is supporting a bill that would require Bush to seek approval from Congress before declaring war.

Hearing on Blue Cross conversion sparks few fireworks There was little public support at the first of three hearings over Blue Cross BlueShield of North Carolina’s plans to change to a for-profit company. About 150 were in attendance at the meeting hosted by North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long, who emphasized in his opening comments that he has not made a final decision on the proposal. The chiefexecutive ofBlue Cross, Bob Greczyn, said the plans for a conversion were in the best interests of Blue Cross’s members.

In his opening statement, Greczyn could not promise that premiums would not increase under the new plan, but he said that no changes would be due to the conversion. Most of the other speakers backed the proposal, but several urged Long to examine the plan with scrutiny.

SKSF holds conference on students’ spirituality By CHARLES MEHL The Chronicle

While most Duke students catch up on work and sleep during fall break, one group of students will be heading to

North Carolina State University to attend the first Inward Bound Conference. The event, which runs Sunday

through Tuesday, is the brainchild of the Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation, a spirituality network founded in 1989. SKSF is run primarily by students at four universities in North Carolina, including Duke, and the Education as Transformation Project, a spirituality academic group founded at Wellesley College in 1996. Sponsored primarily by the Duke Chapel and the John Templeton Foundation, the conference will bring about 300 students from as far as British Columbia, Canada, together for the three-day event. Although the primary emphases of the conference will be experiential learning and discussing spirituality, there will also be ample time for personal self-reflection and networking with the other participants. “This conference is a great example of the phenomenal spirituality present today in many college students,” said Will Willimon, dean of the Chapel, who will be among those attending from Duke. “It is a great opportunity to spread the spiritual activity present

here at Duke to other students from around the country.” Willimon, who used to be the adviser

to Duke’s SKSF chapter, will also deliver the closing prayer at the conference. He will be joined at N.C. State by other spiritual leaders, including David Scott, chancellor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Jon Dalton, director of the Center for the Study of College Student Values at Florida State University. Additionally, the conference boasts a roster of seven speakers, including Rabbi Niles Goldstein, who is a New York Police Department chaplain and a former Ground Zero counselor, and August Turak, the keynote speaker and

SKSF founder. In total, seven Duke students, many of whom are affiliated with SKSF, will attend the conference. The Duke chapter of

SKSF, founded in 1994, currently meets each Tuesday night to discuss issues of spiritual self-evaluation and reflection. “We as a group expect to gain a greater understanding of what we are doing here by observing what other groups at different universities are doing,” said senior

Andrea Oland, president of the Duke SKSF chapter. “This conference will also help us show other places, that don’t have similar groups, what we’re doing here.... We hope that what we learn will be applied to our everyday lives.” Oland is also a senior associate photography editor for The Chronicle. Although this is the first Inward

Bound Conference, similar events have taken place recently, such as one at Wellesley College.

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Academic FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 EOS Seminar Series: 4pm. “Hunting Mt. Rainier’s Danger Zones: Aerogeophysical Mapping of Weak Hydrothermally Altered Zones,” Carol Finn. 201 Old Chemistry Building.

Religious FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

Men’s Tennis: ITA All-American Tournament, All Day, Chattanooga, Tenn. Field Hockey: 1 pm at Maryland, College Park, Md.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 Men’s Tennis: ITA All-American Tournament, All Day, Chattanooga, Tenn. Men’s Soccer: 2pm at NC State, Raleigh, N.C

Ongoing Events

Wesley Fellowship Bible Study: 12noon, Fridays. Wesley Office.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 University Service of Worship: 11am. This is an ecumenical worship service. All are welcome. Chapel Docents provide tours of the Chapel after the worship service. Live audio and video available at www.chapel.duke.edu. Duke Chapel. Episcopal Student Center: spm, Sundays. Service of Holy Eucharist followed by fellowship dinner. Located at the Episcopal Student Contact Anne Center, 505 Alexander Ave.

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Social Programming and Meetings

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 Women’s Volleyball: 7pm at NC State, Raleigh, NC. institute of the Arts: Bpm. “Persian Masters.” Four of Iran’s leading musicians, Hossein Alizadeh (tar), Mohammad Reza Shajarian (vocals), Kayhan Kalhor (kamancheh) and Homayoun Shajarian (tomback and vocals) preserve classical Persian music. Classical Persian Page music. Call 684-4444 for tickets. Auditorium, West Campus. Center for Documentary Studies Film Screening: Bpm. “The Lucky Bum Film Tour from the Funhouse Cinema and the Oregon Department of Kick Ass." Media artists Bill Daniel and Venessa Renick present experimental and documentary films. Call 660-3663. Center for Documentary Studies, 1327W. Pettigrew St.

Men’s Tennis: ITA All-American Tournament, All Day, Chattanooga, Tenn.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 of Music: 3pm. Beginning Ensemble, Intermediate I and Chamber Music Groups will perform works by Borodin, Francis Scott Key and Dorothy Kitchen. Conducted by Stephanie Swisher and Shelley Livingston. Call 660-3300. Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus. Department

Department of Music; 7pm. Intermediate II and the Duke Youth Symphony Chamber Ensemble

Mozart and Haydn. Conducted by Dorothy Kitchen and Stephanie Swisher. A reception will follow. Call 660-3300. Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus.

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Duke Police offers following services: Crime prevention presentations, Rape awareness prepresentations, Alcohol Law sentations, Workforce violence educational programs, Personal property engraving. Please contact Lieutenant Tony Shipman at 684-4115 to schedule these programs/services. Macular Translocation Course and Wet Lab: November 6-8. Enrollment is limited, registration fee, $1980.00. This course is designed for the experienced vitreoretinal surgeon and will focus on macular translocation surgery with 360degree peripheral retinectomy. Includes lectures, panel discussions, training in the surgical wet-lab, and observation of live surgery and videos. Contact Avie Grier, 919-681-4442. Allen Building Lock-in: What would you do if you had free reign over Duke’s main administrative building for one night? You can do it with the Allen Building Lock-in Committee! The Allen Building Lock-In is an event that commemorates the 1969 Allen Building Takeover, celebrates the progress of the past, promotes increased student, staff, faculty, administrator, and alumni interaction, and addresses underlying racial tension at Duke. The event vombines pertinent issues with unlimited fun! Your ideas are needed so contact TeMeka at tcw3@duke.edu if you are interested in helping plan the event or if you want more information.

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Orthodox Vespers/Fellowship: Christian Student Fellowship. Duke Chapel Basement. Father Edward Rummen, 919-7827037, fatheredward @ mindspring.com.

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, 12:30I:3opm. A daily recital of mostly sacred music on the Flentrop organ, which both tonally and

visually reflects the techniques of Dutch-French organs of the 18th century. Duke Chapel, West Campus. Schedule subject to change. For information, call 684-2572. Exhibit: Through October 27. “Thinking Outside the Book: New Forms by Women Artists.” Perkins Library. Call 684-3009 for hours.

Exhibit: Through December 13. “ThirteenMonth Crop: One Year in the Life of a Piedmont Virginia Tobacco Farm.” Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library’s hall gallery. Call 684-3009 for hours. Exhibition Continues: “Russian Collection ReInstallation,” From the Permanent Collection. Exhibition runs through December 20, 2002. Duke University Museum of Art Exhibition Continues: “‘Shroud’ from Anya Belkina.” Exhibition runs through February 2, 2003. Duke University Museum of Art 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 684-6470. Sports photographs: “Four Horseman of the Apocalypse #1” and “Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.” from Paul Pfeiffer. On loan to DUMA.

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Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch: 12-1pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen. Intercultural Christian Fellowship Weekly Gathering: 7:3opm, Thursdays. 'Tell Us Your Story" Guest series. Chapel lounge. More info: www.duke.edu/web/icf/, contact: -

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pressing concern that a decrease in faculty size may damage morale. Cook, while admitting the process could be painful, said a potential cut would not put Duke’s faculty size significantly below that of other elite private schools. “Surprisingly, we have a larger faculty than some,” he said, noting that Stanford University’s faculty is smaller. “If we had to cut back the size of the faculty, we’d be moving back to a period in recent history, not unknown territory.” Between the 1992 and 2001 fiscal years, Arts and Sciences grew rapidly, netting an additional $ll3 million in revenue, $26 million of which was invested in increasing the faculty size. Over the same period, the

Justin Segall, Hillel vice president. “I wished [Keohane] had signed the statement because I think in general, we should commit to a university that is free from intimidation and hatred—and I think there has been some of that here [on the East Campus Bridge].” Evan Davis, another sophomore Jewish student, said signing the statement would be taking a step closer to an intimidation-free campus for all religious and ethnic groups. “How can you start to stop the hatred and oppression that are going on if you don’t take it one ethnic group at a time?” Davis also said that a proactive response would be a statement that endorsed all religious and ethnic groups. Dartmouth College President Emeritus James Freedman sent the anti-Semitism statement to Keo-

number oftenured and tenure-track faculty increased

by 18 to a total of 454 and other regular-rank faculty increased by 26 to 109. The task force prioritized cutting faculty size over reducing compensation, citing the need for quality over quantity. According to the report, the University must keep wages reasonable to attract and retain the best scholars. “We won’t rule out the possibility of cutting salaries, but if we want to remain competitive... that would be a dangerous way of going about it,” Cook said. The report cites the economic slowdown and the University’s efforts to keep tuition rates competitive as reasons for the projected budget deficits. Chafe and Cook predicted more difficulty for the American economy, and that revenues will likewise remain depressed. Among the budget’s fastest growing expenditures will be capital projects, programmatic appropriations and strategic initiatives, increasing by about $lO million in the next five years. Cook explained that the increases resulted from Arts and Sciences assuming a portion of those costs from the provost’s office, which had helped pay those costs in the past. Faculty will likely continue discussing the task force’s proposals throughout the semester. No final decision will be made until the spring, when Chafe and the administration begin finalizing the budget process for the upcoming year.

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room around 4 a.m. that morning and that the man was not there at the time. He entered the bathroom some time between then and the 5:20 a.m. attack. Unlike many other bathroom doors across campus, the bathroom door in Wannamaker was not propped open, Loßiondo said. A campus-wide locked bathroom door policy was instituted last spring, following an alleged sexual assault in Randolph Dormitory on East. The University began fining residents for propping open doors this semester. Moneta noted that because students need to be on campus to receive their new keys, most of the lockchanging will take place after fall break. “We are also looking in the long-term into cardswipe technology [for bathroom access], as well as a panic alarm in bathrooms that you could just hit,” Moneta said. At Campus Council’s Thursday night meeting, the residential life governing body endorsed the first phase of changes. Campus Council members said many of their female residents are afraid to use bathrooms alone. The University has offered Wannamaker residents staying on campus for fall break the opportunity to spend the weekend in a Central Campus apartment. Loßiondo said two women have accepted the offer.

and one for their sex-specific bathroom. Meanwhile, police are still questioning residents and gathering information about Wednesday’s incident, in which a man waiting inside a second-floor bathroom physically attacked and sexually assaulted

the woman. “We have gotten a few leads that we are following up, but we have nothing conclusive at this time,” said DUPD Maj. Robert Dean. He added there is a possibility the assailant is a student. After an initial struggle with the attacker, the woman managed to escape to her room and called the police. Assistant Dean ofResidential Life Deb Loßiondo said the woman is doing okay and is expected to return to school after fall break. The assailant was described as a white man, 18 to 25 years old, between 5’10” and 6’ tall, with a stocky build and longish brown hair. He was wearing a red shirt and jeans. A police composite sketch was distributed widely across campus via e-mail and flyers Wednesday. Police told Wannamaker residents in a Wednesday night meeting that another woman had used the bath-

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“Intolerance affects lots of minorities—Blacks, Asians, Muslims, Arabs, Latin-Americans—and is not limited to one group,” he said. “If [Keohane] were to sign anything, I agree that it should be more inclusive.”

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hane, as well as to many other university presidents and chancellors. Almost 300 leaders at other universities have signed the statement, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Boston University and Brown University. North Carolina State University declined to sign. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, who is Jewish and has closely worked with the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, agreed that the statement should not focus solely on intimidation and hate, but that it should also apply to other ethnic backgrounds. “I really like the sentiment in it but would personally prefer it to be a little broader,” he said. An Arab student, sophomore Sajid Anwar, believed Keohane made the right decision.

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of Brown University’s women’s icehockey team, who also spoke to the committee. “Men and women are totally separate in sports because of their bodies, but in academia you can be even more equal because they have the same minds,” she said. “But detecting barriers is even more of an issue because they are not separate so they seem to have the same opportunities.” Murphy added that about twothirds of universities are not currently in compliance. Brown made several specific recommendations about how to improve women’s opportunities: that universities provide scholarships for female graduate students, be held accountable for maintaining a supportive work environment, and create better family options, including extending the tenure clock for pregnancies. '

advice specific to their discipline from faculty members in the field. One problem, however, is that not all departments are equally committed to career advising, Steinmetz said. “There are some departments that take very good care oftheir students and work with students on placement, their dissertation topic [and] getting prepared to make their first conference presentations,” Steinmetz said. “Other departments, depending on the leadership, might fall back and not do as much.” Furthermore, since most departments train doctoral students primarily to become scholars, career advising gets a low priority. Reiko Mazuka, director of graduate studies in social psychology and health sciences, said training for non-academic careers in psychology is minimal, even though many students go into nonacademic, psychology-related jobs. “We say from the beginning that our

training is geared toward academia, but over the years, students’ interest can change,” Mazuka said. Graduate students can now participate in what Steinmetz called a “moderately successful” Ph.D. career fair cosponsored by Duke and four other North Carolina schools. Employer turnout at the career fairs has been modest. About 30 employers came to the first of these fairs in Chapel Hill two years ago, and only 14 showed up last year. In addition to the fair, the Career Center also attempts to provide students

with information about alternative careers through a series of symposia with alumni and other doctorate degree holders who have pursued nontraditional careers. In the past, the Career Center has brought in an astronomer who works with the Hubble Space Telescope in Arizona and a botanist who writes about the history of botany. “It’s someone like that that a graduate student needs to know about,” Steinmetz said. However, many students said they

were largely ignorant ofthe Career Center’s offerings. “I liaven’t spent much

time with the Career Center,” said electrical engineering student Jason Jopling. “It’s not a daily presence in what I do.” Steinmetz said shebelieves some attrition is actually beneficial. “From [Dean of the Graduate School Lewis Siegel’s] perspective, there is a cost to students leaving, but I think [others] see this in a more balanced way,” she said. “Students have screened themselves out because they’re not suited for [the doctoral track].” Provost Peter Lange said attrition after the first few years is partially due to career issues. “Students learn as they get further down in their career that, given the job market, they are not going to get the kind of job they were thinking they would in the first place,” he said. Siegel, who believed lack of career advising may contribute to attrition, agreed. “Toward the end, students might not see a clear path for where they want to be,” he said.

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Volleyball falls to No. 11 Tar Heels in 4 games By ADAM YOFFIE The Chronicle

Amidst a crowd of taunting North Carolina fans chanting “Let’s go Tar Heels” and “Duke sucks,” the Blue Devils (14-6,2-3 in the ACC) lost 3-1 (30-22,2030, 30-23, 30-28) to the No. 11 Tar Heels (16-1, 4-0 in the ACC) Thursday night at Carmichael Auditorium in Chapel Hill. It was not UNC’s overwhelming play or Duke’s lack of tenacity, but a series of unforced errors that led to the defeat. “UNC is not anything that special,” senior defensive specialist Josie Weymann said. “We just made too many errors.” The underdog Blue Devils played a competitive four games, exchanging blocks, kills and digs with the Tar Heels throughout. The aggressive net play of senior outside hitter Malaika Underwood and senior middle hitter Holly Strauss for UNC was more than compensated for on Duke’s side by Katie Gillman’s hustle and Jill Sonne’s convincing kills, including the 1000th of her career. “To be honest, I didn’t even know I got it,” Sonne said. “I really feel like I have contributed to the Duke volleyball program.” Sonne, who on the fourth point of the final game was able to recover after a quick put-back by UNC with a bump from her knees, helped keep the fourth and final game extremely close. After ties at 24 and 28, the game ended when UNC scored the final two points of the match. „

After saying that the team needed to work on its blocking and overall defense following last week’s victory against Maryland, Duke head coach Jolene Nagel felt the team improved in both areas. “We got better, but still have a lot more to work on,” Nagel said. “We need to eliminate those easy mistakes. If we can do that, we will be a much better team.” The spirited Blue Devils were beset by poor blocking and mid-range hitting in the first game. The Tar Heels came out aggressively, never surrendering the lead. Duke brought the score within four at 9-13, but could not contain

Underwood’s blistering attacks. Nagel called two quick timeouts in an attempt to rally the team and in hopes of salvaging the game. Yet Duke failed to answer while the Tar Heels responded with five consecutive points. Junior outside hitter Katie Gillman displayed hustle and determination, diving all over the court in pursuit of the ball. She led the team with 15 kills and added 14 digs for a double-double. “We didn’t make any errors in the second game, and that is why we won,” Weymann said. Although Duke emerged victorious from game two, the Tar Heels responded to their coach’s timeout outburst in the previous game by winning the final two. “I’m only going to say one thing,” UNC head coach Joe Sagula screamed to his team. “This is Duke, and you’re at home.” Duke turns around quickly and faces N.C. State tonight at 7:00 p.m.

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other and coach has an opportunity to get a substitution routine down and just get a feel for the guys. I think this will help us out a lot in the long run.” Critics who have lower expectations for this younger team could easily be proven wrong this weekend, as the players in the freshman class have been lauded by their older teammates for their hard work ethic. J. J. Redick’s hot shooting has caught the attention of all. “This guy is incredible,” Duhon said. “He’s at another level I’ve never seen before. He gets it off so quick, there are times when I just go up to him and ask him to hit the rim to make sure that he’s human.”

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Yani advances Men’s tennis player Michael Yani advanced to the second round of the ITA Men’s All-American Tennis Tournament with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Vanderbilt’s Chad Harris.

While most Duke students are going home or staying at school for fall break, the mens’ basketball team will be taking an international flight this afternoon. The team, which started practice Sept. 28, is playing in the International Challenge Series held in London. “It’ll be interesting to see what some of the guys are like on the road,” senior Casey Sanders said. “This team definitely has a different attitude as far as playing together.... This team has a lot of jokesters.” The Blue Devils start off with a game Sunday mornShavlik Randolph has also stepped up as a leader ing against the Racing Basket Antwerpen, one of Belgium’s pro teams. Duke plays its first of two games and his versatility will enable him to play either inside against the London Towers that evening at 5 p.m., local or outside. Michael Thompson and Shelden Williams, time. Monday, the team plays the Brighton Bears, anothbring a more physical and aggressive game to the court. er English pro team, at 1:30 p.m. The international circuit Sean Dockery is playing well at the point and Lee closes with a 7:30 p.m., matchup against the Towers. Melchionni has surprised teammates with his shooting. “The freshmen are learning fast, there are a lot of All games will be held at the Crystal Palace, the home court of the Towers. The Blue Devils will be allowed a good players,” Sanders said. “They caught on faster than short sightseeing tour before heading to their hotel at I think our class did as far as the way things are done. That’s just a credit to them.” Piccadilly Circus after arriving. They play a closed scrimmage Saturday afternoon against Antwerpen before The likely starting five will be Randolph and Williams as forwards, Sanders at center, and Duhon entering Sunday and Monday’s competitive play. “Right now, I think everyone’s on the same page, it’s and Dahntay Jones defending the backcourt, “We’re just looking to have fun,” Duhon said. “We really good,” Daniel Ewing said. “It’s a better bonded team so far; everyone gets along. There are no big egos.” just want to see where we are so we can change things Duke will see a smart, fundamentally sound game and become a better team. Especially with us having such a young team, for us to get an early start to see from the Europeans. “I think the games will be more valuable [than the where we are and how we can build to become a better extra practice],” team captain Chris Duhon said. team, that’s definitely smart. I thank coach for taking “We’re playing someone else. We’re hot playing each advantage of an opportunity like this.”

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Duke came within a few key mistakes of pulling off a major upset of UVa last weekend, but this Saturday it keys up for an eerily even contest in Winston-Salem. The Blue Devils and Deacons don’t match up well, but are very similar, with both squads boasting impressive offenses. But Wake is markedly more fine-tuned on the ground and in the air. Look for Adam Smith to have a big game as he continues to —By Matt Sullivan mature in the pocket but for Tarence Williams to run all over Duke. The Deacons dice up the Blue Devils, 34-14.

WAKE FOREST -on, page 1 In addition to their running game, the Blue Devils have recently been moving the ball with an emerging passing game. Sophomore Adam Smith has solidified his hold on the quarterback job and has improved in each game; yet Duke’s passing offense is only seventh in the ACC, at 185.5 yards per game. “The running game is what we needed to do early in the season when we were playing young quarterbacks, so that you don’t put all the pressure on them to have to get to the right place and put the ball in the right spot,” Franks said. “It has helped our passing game, because now people worry about our running game.” Smith passed for a career-high 256 yards and two touchdowns against Virginia last week. “Since the first game,

I’ve gotten more confidence,” Smith said. “Things are slowing down and getting easier for me. I feel like I belong in there more and more each game.” Though Duke’s passing offense is not mighty, the reflection across the field is even more meager. Wake Forest’s passing attack is last in the ACC. Senior quarterback James MacPherson has thrown for just two touchdowns this season. Just as with its offense, Wake’s defensive mantra could be “Anything Duke can do well, we can do better; Anywhere Duke struggles, we’re a disaster.” The Blue Devils’ run defense has held opponents to 126.2 yards per game, which Franks said is the lowest average for a Duke team since 1962.Wake Forest holds opponents to 116.5 yards per game on the ground. Duke’s spotty pass defense surrenders an average of 243.8 yards per game and has allowed nine touchdowns. The

Demon Deacons have allowed an ACCworst 274.0 yards per game in the air and an ACC-worst 15 touchdowns. “We have a really big challenge this week,” Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe said. “Hopefully we can eliminate some of the big plays we’ve been giving up.” Perhaps the biggest improvement in

this year’s Duke squad—which could have entered Saturday’s game with a 4-2 record if the fourth quarters against Northwestern and Virginia had gone slightly differently—is its turnover margin. Duke has a plus-five turnover margin thanks to an increasingly enthusiastic defense and Smith’s accurate passing. “The offensive line has really done a good job—l’m not feeling that much pressure,” Smith said. “When I feel like it could be an iffy pass, I really try to put it either in a place where my receiver can catch it or it’s going to be incomplete.” Again, Wake does Duke one better.

The Demon Deacons lead the nation with a plus-15 turnover margin. MacPherson has thrown just one interception and the opportunistic defense has pounced on 11 fumbles. But perhaps the most fundamental reflection is that both bottom-dwellers are starting to crawl out of the ACC cellar. freshman linebacker Redshirt Brendan Dewan said Wake Forest is not simply similar to Duke in strengths, weaknesses and styles of play, but both teams share a common character. “They’re exactly like us,” said Dewan, who returned against Virginia from a broken ankle sustained against ECU. “They’re a team coming from the bottom, starting to show people they’re a lot better. They’re tough—just like us. It’s going to be tough playing a team that wants to win just as bad as you and doesn’t just expect to win, like a lot of

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Grid Picks

MATCHUP

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CHARTER FLIGHT Stowed away in the luggage compartment of the men’s basketball team’s plane to England, the Grid Pickers were cramped, but eager to see the London Towers fall down. “Hey, Gabe, I thought you were busy this weekend,” Tyler Rose “s are red” n said. “Yeah, I had a commitment, but I sent an e-mail. Someone will cover for “Navy Preview” me,” Gabe Githens responded. Piled farther away in the baggage, “St.” Nick “is almost a” Christ “figure in the South” ie ranted away about post-Sept. 11 airline security and its failure to stop over 20 people from getting inside a transatlantic flight. Christie blamed it on the security guards’ southern allegiances, and just as he was calming down, he remembered that Robbie “is related to” Samuel “Clemens” is also related to Robert E. Lee. Nick decided to push Robbie, but Robbie barely budged, using his 100pound backpack for support. Robbie didn’t realize his bag had bumped into Neelum “never in” Jest e, and she was suffocating. When Robbie finally moved, Neelum let it be known that she actually enjoyed the contact. “I love backpacks, especially huge ones,” she said. Evan “411” Davis was missing out on the action, simultaneously filling out a University ofArizona law school application and talking on a cell phone with his new best friend Ndudi Ebi’s father. “Arizona, that’s a really wonderful school,” John “more like Barbara” Bush said, although Evan did not notice. Always creating mischief, Greg

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The Chronicle We’re on strike!

We,

the Editorial Board of The Chronicle, are sick and tired of all the demands made upon us and all the constant criticism about how we never spell-check and can’t write. So we’re going on strike! That’s right: In the proud tradition of Duke Student Government, which has been on strike from doing anything productive for at least five years, and graduate students, who are forming a union to protect their right to sit around for seven years not writing their dissertations, The Chronicle will unionize and stop publication. No more crossword puzzles or Blazing Sea Nuggets until our demands are met. Oh, and for those 23 readers who care, no more coverage of University news or the Medical Center—guess Duke News will have to redouble its efforts to inform people about what’s going on. Speaking of Duke News, we are fed up with continually being scooped by it on compelling stories like pens given to faculty members. We demand that Duke News tell us about these important events so that we can put some of our lazy University reporters to work. Our next demand is that we get unlimited use of paper at The Chronicle. We’re up here for 80 hours a week and we don’t get paid, so the least we can do is have the right to use some freakin’ paper! Or at least the adults should stop complaining about how much paper we use—after all, we are a newsPAPER, and we occasionally must use paper to print out our stories or layouts. Our third demand is that Nan institute a University-wide boycott of all pickles and other condiments made from vegetables. We think its unfair to single out Mt. Olive Pickle Company when other companies are abusing their farm workers, too. Why don’t we just boycott all food that is not organically grown and become vegetarians raising our own food—oh, right, farming is hard and meat is delicious. Also, we want Chronicle parking in front of the Chapel, or at least some explanation for why the Chapel is randomly closed at least three times a week. And we want the deans to hire at least one Chronicle graduate each year and provide them with a cushy job where they do nothing except send us joint e-mails. And when is Subway coming? Stop being lazy and just build the thing already. Build some bus shelters, too, so that people will stop using The Chronicle as a makeshift umbrella (at least there’s one use for a Chronicle other than a toilet paper substitute). We will continue to strike until the above demands are met, or at least until hospital officials call us in for a little chat explaining the evils of unionization (they would fire us, but they can’t because we’re not nurses, we’re volunteers). And we are more than willing to give kick-backs to anyone who will support our cause. All that ad revenue we get from selling to racists and the baby-killers has to go somewhere. As a result The Chronicle’s slush-fund is pretty large. But, it’s not quite as large as President Nan Keohane’s cultural slush fund that she uses to pay off disgruntled groups so that they don’t hold annoying protests and chant slogans in front of the Chapel. We’ll leave that to the anti-war protesters—thank God those tree-hugging pacifists weren’t around in 1941, or we’d be speaking German, eating sauerkraut and worshiping a short man with a really bad mustache (and no, we do not mean Provost Peter Lange). This is just a joke. Have a nice fall break. Ifyou are offended by this, don’t send letters. We’re on strike, so we won’t run them.

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Students suffer from noise at all hours of the day To the author of The noon, because I have been Chronicle’s Oct. 9 editorial awake since 6:30 in the “Deal with Construction”: morning, it is not possible You do not live near those due to the “crashing pipes dormitories affected by the and roaring jackhammers.” sounds of construction, or if At five o’clock, if I wish to get you do, please tell me how any sort of studying done, I have to go to the library, lest you get through the day. This is how the “inconvenI go insane to the sound of ience” you mention, affects more machinery. Finally, at my day. At 6:30 a.m., not 9 seven o’clock, the sounds a.m., I awaken to the sound cease, and I cannot help but of construction. And that is scream “Halleluia!” because six days a week. When I another day of construction come back from my 10:30 is over. class, I hear construction Is it therefore an unfair noises; when I come back infringement of students’ from my 2:20 class, I hear rights to request a more construction noises. If I want decent work period—say 9to to take a nap in the after- 5, like the rest of this coun-

try? Hardly. That The Chronicle should then rant about how students have no right to complain, when students pay $35,000 to attend this institution and cannot get a decent night’s sleep except for on Saturday night, and how you can further claim that they need to sacrifice themselves to the wishes of a majority because Duke is a young institution, is a completely irrational statement to make, and one which could have used some further thought on your part.

Jessica Lancia Trinity ’O5

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Construction noise begins much earlier than 9 a.m. I would agree fully with the editors regarding construction if the work actually started at 9 a.m., as the editorial stated. However, as a resident of Building CC in Crowell Quad, I would like to

remind everyone that whatever time the administration tells us that construction will begin will in fact have very little to do with the reality. I have been woken up at 8 a.m. every morning this semester

the

construction

Towerview Drive directly outside my window, and my corn-

plaints have all been ignored

Jessica Wolf Trinity ’O5

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Gender politics about power, control and money Regarding Bill English’s

Oct. 7 column: Great column. You are an excellent writer and have learned much. But you have a lot more to learn. It is not about women’s

ever they want. They really do not give a damn about women, religion or whatever per se, just some other basic instinct-type goal such as money, power, etc.

issues. It is just a platform or soapbox, if you will, to get something they want. Power, control, money or whatever one of the needs Andrew Maslow was talking about. The same applies to any ethnic minority, religious, sexually (dis)oriented group or who knows what else and their respective

In other words, all the claims of persecution in this day and age are grossly overblown to follow the

bitch-’n’-moan platforms. It’s just a tool to get what-

realized that it was just another chance to push the

theory that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. When I dropped my son at Duke years ago, I recall feeling guilty about being a white

male after listening to Nan’s speech, supposedly to welcome the incoming freshmen. I soon

female and race issues out there in order to preserve those federal dollars. She turned me off completely to the school and surely to any future donations. Do not kid yourself. Wait until you get into the workplace. And, be careful, they will turn you into a gelding if you are not careful. Make sure you buy life insurance before you go to any feminist convention and try to find a woman who actually enjoys being a woman and enjoy life with her.

Gene Tompkins Devon, Penn.

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Bush’s marketing of war should disgust America “You don’t launch a new

product in August,” White House Chief of StaffAndrew Card told The New York Times. No, the centerpiece of the strategy was the first anniversary of Sept. 11, helping to “move Americans toward support of the action against Iraq.” Accordingly, on the next day President George W. Bush launched the new product at the

United Nations. And here we are in the month before Congressional elections able to think of nothing but

Saddam Hussein. We really need to stand back and admire the superb marketing skills of the White House. Their efforts at mass distraction have really worked! All of us, like sheep, dare not be unpatriotic.

Who would now notice the economy (except the jobless),

after the president mashed our panic buttons for 30 minutes Monday. Scary. But some think him ill informed; he forgot to mention that the Iraqi people are sick and exhausted already after we

have bombed them for twelve years killing off one million ,

of them.

There is a measure of sincerity, however, in this marketing. I have no doubt that Cheney and Rumsfeld really do love war. How despicable to market war. But it’s not too late. This manipulating is transparent enough that

the American people can still turn around and just say, “No you don’t!” Sarah Freedman Divinity School

the record

Why is this happening on our campus? What is the atmosphere at Duke where someone and wait for another person and attack them?

can go into a bathroom

Andrew Nurkin, Campus Council president, expressing his outrage over the recent attempted sexual assault in a Wannamaker bathroom (see story, page one).

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Lie detector lies WASHINGTON Longtime readers of this column have noticed some recurring themes: Fm for personal privacy and have an affinity for the often-betrayed Kurdish people. I despise state-sponsored gambling as well as the form of torture that calls itself the “he detector.”

William Safire Commentary Win some, lose some. Losses: Lawmakers are playing the slots, and privacy has been taking a beating from both government and private snoops. But some wins: The Kurds we protect in northern Iraq are united and ready to join in a fight for freedom. And this week, the polygraph—that hit-and-miss machine measuring

sweat, speedy heartbeat and other signs of nervous-

ness—has been discredited as the judge oftruth-telling. After 19 months of study, experts convened by the National Research Council, an arm of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, concluded that “national security is too important to be left to such a blunt instrument,” and noted pointedly that “no spy has ever been caught [by] using the polygraph.” Up to now, the main objection to the determination of human believability by machine has come from civil libertarians. In criminal investigations, hot lights and rubber truncheons have been replaced by a modem “third degree.” A U.S. attorney general once told me: “Look—we know it’s often wrong, but watching that needle jump is scary, and it’s our best way for police to get confessions.” The Supreme Court in 1998 held, 8-1, that only a jury can be the lie detector: “By its very nature, polygraph evidence may diminish the jury’s role in making credibility determinations.... [T]he aura of infallibility attending polygraph evidence can lead jurors to abandon their duty to assess credibility and guilt.”Thus defeated by the high court in criminal trials, and with businesses restrained by Congress from using the intimidating device to screen employees, the “polygraph community,” as the sweatmerchant lobby calls itself, made its last stand by claiming the ability of its testers to root out spies. The CIA had been the first to fall for it. By relying on widespread polygraph tests to “flutter” its employees, the agency believed it was invulnerable to “moles.” But the Soviet penetrator Aldrich Ames breezed through two of those tests, causing our counterspies to lower their guard and ignore obvious clues to the source of espionage that cost the lives of 10 U.S. agents in Russia. Because professional spies are trained to defeat the device; because pathological bars do not cause its needles to spike; and because our counterspies relax when a potential suspect “passes”—the system breeds the opposite of security. Here’s how I learned about that. In 1981 there was a brouhaha about the Reagan campaign having pilfered a briefing book used by Jimmy Carter to prepare for a debate. James Baker, to deflect suspicion from himself, hinted that it must have been the doing of the campaign chair, Bill Casey. Casey, just appointed CIA chief, told me he was going to challenge Baker to a polygraph test to show who was lying. Figuring my old pal Casey was the culprit, I wondered why he would take the gamble. He reminded me that he was an old OSS spymaster, and that by using dodges like a sphincter-muscle trick and a Valium pill, he could defeat any polygraph operator. Baker wisely did not take Casey up on the challenge. A more serious example of the foolishness of dependence on the machine: A national security adviser was suspected of leaking a secret to The New York Times. Though not our source, he flunked the exam and was about to be fired and disgraced. He put President Ronald Reagan on the phone to The Times’ publisher, who—on a one-time basis—confirmed that the adviser had not been our source. That was one fewer career lost to the preda-

tory polygraph.

To such anecdotal evidence we now add thorough scientific refutation of the technique. As a result, polygraphing should be stopped not only at the Energy Department, which sponsored the research council study because it was losing scientists, but at the Defense Department, which subjects some 10,000 employees to the self-defeating display of distrust. If unfairness to truth-tellers doesn’t move you, try the hardliner’s reason; Bureaucratic reliance on today’s fault-ridden system lets well-trained spies and terrorists penetrate our defenses.

William Safire’s column is syndicated through The New

York Times News Service.

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The party of compassion? Has anyone been to the Republican National Committee’s website recently? It features a hilarious Flash Movie, a cartoon showing Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt and other pro-choice advocates walking into a hospital nursery with guns and shooting a third of the babies. The ad then makes the excellent point that voting for Democrats next month is equivalent to killing babies. Truth I through satire. How brilliant. If you are riled up right now, then I have both good and bad news for Nathan you. The good news is that the Carleton Republican Party is not really guilty . etfmg oum of employing such a defaming and to Business inaccurate scare tactic. But the bad news is that another major party is. For more than a week now, the Democratic

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National Committee’s official website, www.democrats.org, has been featuring a flash ad entitled “Social Insecurity,” a cartoon critique of President George W. Bush’s social security plan. A brief description of the ad shows it to be just as inappropriate as the fictitious baby killing one. The ad begins with a man picturing himself as a senior citizen relaxing on a beach. “Ever think about your retirement? George W. Bush has,” the narrator begins. “He’s been pushing a plan to put your social security savings in the stock market.” At this point, a cartoon depiction of Bush shoves the man into a wheelchair. The chair’s wheels roll backward and the man rolls down a steep incline resembling a stock market graph. As the narrator inaccurately explains the economic ramifications of Bush’s plan, the man begins flipping around in the air, twice landing on his head. “Instead of guaranteed benefits, your retirement would be tied to stock market returns. And wouldn’t George Bush have gotten his way?” the narrator asks. To make sure everyone knows that Bush didn’t just make a horrible mistake, the ad shows him striking again. He walks behind a wheelchair containing a little old lady and gives it a good shove. The woman slides down the incline screaming. Her wheels then lose contact with the ground and she flies through the air before hitting the ground and bursting. How classy. There are a few things I could say about the president’s social security plan. I could say that it will help the economy. I could say that it will have absolutely no

effect on the social security of current senior citizens. I could say it is no riskier than many of the other ways the government invests our money right now. And I could say that it merely allows those people who want to earn some interest on a small portion of their social security savings the opportunity to, as a person who did not want his savings invested in the stock market would not have them invested. These are the arguments Republicans have been making, and these are the arguments that Democrats should be trying to refute, either with logic or fact. But with “Social Insecurity,” the Democratic Party has once again shown that it would rather resort to name calling and scare tactics. Instead of telling us that Bush is misguided, misinformed, or even too stupid to realize how harmful his own plan would be, they’ve taken it another step further and depicted him as a mean spirited man who murders the elderly. Do they actually think that the average American will buy this? The Democrats already tried this in the spring of 2001 when they accused Bush of putting arsenic in the water supply after he reinstated regulations to the level they were during the Clinton-Gore years. They tried again in May when, for about two days, they implied that Bush knew that Sept. 11 was going to happen. Both accusations fell on deaf ears. Forget that you’re on a college campus for a minute and recognize that mainstream Americans, even if they disagree with him on issues, accurately see the president as an authentic and hardworking man who wants to improve our lives. You can say that he’s wrong about how to do this all you want, but don’t accuse him of being evil. And to those of you who refuse to believe that the media is biased, I implore you to go to a few news search engines and type in the phrase “social insecurity.” I doubt you’ll find too many matches. Isn’t it amazing that with this and the 2000 NAACP ad which likened then-governor Bush’s refusal to pass hate crime legislation to dragging James Byrd to death again, the Democratic Party has taken less heat than the Republican Party did when it offered donors pictures ofthe President talking on the phone on Sept. 11? I guess it’s almost as amazing as Democrats being called the party of compassion. Nathan Carleton is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears every other Friday.

The ‘Girl Glare’ I am standing in the Lobby

Shop with two girls. They are stick-thin, stickstraight, and sticking to the magazine section. “Look,” says one, holding a Maxim to her chest like a shirt she wants to buy. “I’m getting body this by

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Christmas.” She taps the bikinigirl cover with a fingernail.

“How?” asks her friend. “Whatever,” replies the girl, reaching for a Volvic. “It’s called salad and water.” I know what’s coming. The girls turn to leave, and walk past me. They look down at my Reefs. They look up at my body. They finish with my face, and then they briefly look away before they go. “It happens every time,” I sigh to my hallmate at Starbucks. She smiles across her coffee cop and shrugs. “Come on,” she says. “If guys checked me out as often as girls did, I would have a date for every day.” I know she’s right—nothing on campus is as rampant, and as totally ignored, as the Girl

Glare. They happen by the Stairmasters in Wilson, on line in Alpine, and while riding the East/ West to class. Girl Glares happen all the time, and whether we know

it or not, they make us weaker with each passing glower. “Oh please,” grins a friend in theater class. “You like to stare as much as the rest of us!” A pretty girl with a Birkin bag walks in, and we fall silent. “I don’t stare,” I insist. “And that bag is so last season.” As my friend laughs, I walk away; guilty as charged. So why do we glare? Maybe it’s just curiosity. Duke is full of diverse people, and a lot of them are really styling. At its most innocent, checking out our fellow peers is a chance to get informed and inspired. At its worst, however, the Girl Glare means something totally different. By assessing our peers one stare at a time, we can try and affirm our own worth. How often have we glanced at someone and fleetingly thought, “I’m thinner than her,” or “Wow, her pants are way too tight”? Then there are times when Girl Glares go wrong. I almost cried today on the bus when I saw a young woman with everything

down-perfect outfit, flawless hairstyle, gorgeous body. Instead of being psyched about the new Marc Jacobs jeans I was wearing, I sat in the back and felt sorry for my size-six self. Ridiculous? Of course. Disgusting? Yeah, I think so too. But it happens every day, and not just to me. Girl Glares are a quick fix. They don’t really make us stronger, and they turn us into bitches that we don’t need to be. Salads and water aren’t the solution. As soon as one thing gets fixed, you’ll find something else that’s too ugly, too pretty, too big or too small. I wish that the answer to happiness were as attainable as a flat stomach or an expensive purse. But after years of diets and Louis Vuitton splurges, I know it’s just not true. I also know that “beauty” has a million definitions. It’s our job, as women and as peers, to find one-in-a-million beauty that defines us. Maybe then, we’ll finally be able to stare at ourselves. Faran Krentcil is a Trinity senior and senior editor of Recess. Her column appears every other Friday.

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