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Conner picks Scott for chief � The selection of M. Douglas Scott likely ends a police chief search marked by resignations and allegations of domestic abuse. By RUTH CARLITZ The Chronicle
Nine months, two rounds of searching, six finalists and multiple domestic abuse allegations later, the city of Durham finally has a new chief of police. Durham City Manager Marcia
Conner named M. Douglas Scott the city’s new chief of police
Wednesday night, m. Douglas Scott “I am confident that we have chosen the best person to lead Durham as we seek to make our city one of the safest in the state,” she said in a statement. “Scott was outstanding at every point during the interview process, with the assessors, with police department employees and with the citizens.” Scott, 45, currently serves as assisSee NEW CHIEF on page 10
DSG passes new Duke shows steady Title IX progress excuses policy � The student government’s 37-15 approval
marks the first widespread student support of the measure, which faculty will now consider. By MOLLY NICHOLSON The Chronicle
Giving the Honor Council’s dean’s excuse policy its first stamp of student approval, Duke Student Government legislators voted 37-15 to support proposed
changes Wednesday. DSG Vice President for Academic Affairs Lyndsay Beal, who presented the proposal, said the DSG academic affairs committee felt the current policy Vas just too much work and not trustworthy enough.” The new policy, proposed last spring by the Honor Council and Dr. Bill Christmas, director of student
health, would allow students to submit a memo to professors and academic deans explaining their absence due to medical complications —without the consent of a doctor. The change is meant to encourage trustworthiness under the principles of the
By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle The number of scholarships for female athletes climbed a percentage point last year to 41.2 percent, according to a new report released by the University Wednesday. Despite the small increase, officials said they could reach their ultimate goal of 48 percent as early as next year. The report, which is required of all universities by the Higher Education Act, showed continued growth in the number and the percentage of scholarships for women, total expenditures on women’s teams and revenue generated by the women’s basketball team. About 91 scholarships were awarded to women athletes for the 2001-2002 season, according to the report.
Chris Kennedy, associate director of athletics, said about nine more scholarships have been added this year in rowing and track and field, and six more could be added in 2003-2004. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, mandates that participation opportunities for male and female students should be substantially proportionate to overall enrollment percentages. Duke’s undergraduate female enrollment last year was 48.7 percent. See TITLE IX on page 16
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Leaders propose peace in Ivory Coast
Details surrounding case reveal only preliminary leads, with hard evidence lacking
West African leaders agreed Wednesday to send monitors to secure a cease-fire in Ivory Coast, hoping to obtain regional peace, which they say hinges on ending the conflict between the government and rebels who have seized half the country. •
By FRANCIS CLINES and CHRISTOPHER DREW
ROCKVILLE, Md. The manhunt for the roving suburban sniper focused on two people being sought by the police Wednesday night as witnesses, who were reported on the run and the subjects of an intensive East Coast dragnet. After three weeks of fruitless hunting by law enforcement officials, the search for the sniper suddenly leaped toward solid progress with the announcement of the search for the two. One man was identified by the police as John Alan Williams, also known as John Alan Mohammad, a 42-year-old military veteran. The police said he was accompanied by a juvenile, whom they did not identify. An alert for a car presumed to be carrying the two was issued at 10 p.m., calling on area police to be on the lookout for a 1990 blue or burgundy Chevrolet Caprice bearing the New Jersey license plate NDA-21Z. The focus on the two capped an intense day in which the search for the sniper, who has killed 10 people and wounded three, shifted westward across the country as federal investigators began searching a home in Tacoma, Wash., for evidence that might be linked to the shootings here on the East Coast. The search was televised live nationally explaining that the hunt had become particularly fluid with
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Israel arrests army members for spying
Israeli authorities arrested a lieutenant colonel and nine other people serving in the army Wednesday on suspicion of spying for the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. •
Chechen rebels take hostages in Moscow
At least 40 armed Chechen rebels stormed a crowdEd theater and took hundreds of people hostage in the midst of a musical, threatening early Thursday to shoot their captives and blow up the building if Russian security forces attacked. •
Study shows aspirin aids bypass recovery
A recent study shows giving aspirin to heart patients after bypass surgery dramatically lowers the risk of death and complications, contradicting long-held belief the tablets can trigger disastrous bleeding. News briefs compiled from wire reports.
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JOHN ALAN MOHAMMED, is being sought by police as a witness in the sniper case. what they called fresh developments. The lookout for the two and the car was issued soon after. Federal investigators said that searchers were looking for shell casings or bullets in the yard of a duplex in suburban Tacoma where one of the two might have once lived. A federal official said the two were being sought for questioning about possible ties to “skinhead militia” groups. Federal agents noted the Tacoma search was being conducted with the cooperation of the current resident there and with federal agents formally declaring it a crime scene search in combing the grounds. Officials would not comment on reports that one of the people being
lice here have been for two white vehicles, a cargo truck and a van, the description put out Wednesday night was similar to one witness’ account of a shooting last week outside a Home Depot store in Falls Church, Va. The witness described a dark Chevrolet or Chrysler speeding away immediately after a woman shopper was shot in the head as she loaded packages into her car. Residents here as elsewhere were transfixed by the live TV coverage. But they remained mindful that the sniper was last heard from with deadly certitude Tuesday in the single-shot killing of a 35-year-old bus driver in the Aspen Hill section ofthe northern Washington suburbs here in Montgomery County.
The local manhunt by hundreds of police officers has been fruitless so far. The sniper, meanwhile, has defied dragnets and steadily cut down his targets at widespread points across the area, preying as far as the Richmond, Va., area, 100 miles to the south. The Tacoma search indicated that federal investigators have several far-reaching leads to pursue. “It may not amount to anything,” one federal agent conceded, emphasizing that the Tacoma search proceeded from one of the many tips that investigators are pursuing.
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Gender forum features discussion on intellectual life Panelists say academic and social pressures force Duke students to accept exaggerated ideals By JENNIFER HASVOLD The Chronicle
Students gathering at a forum Wednesday night might have been surprised when the panel discussion drifted from the notion of gender and notions of “ideals” to the state of Duke’s intellectual climate during the question-and-answer period.
About 40 people—mostly undergraduate students—attended the forum, sponsored by Duke Inquiries on Gender, the student arm ofthe University gender initiative that President Nan Keohane announced last spring. The eight-member panel included conservatives and liberals, students, administrators and faculty. “It’s certainly true that most Duke students are used to excelling without having to try terribly hard,” said Lawrence Evans, professor emeritus of physics. “They get up here and realize not everybody makes it into the top half and that comes as a shock.” Panelist Mary Adkins said that academic and social pressure forces students to create ideals by which they gauge their success. “[Students] find some way to stand out,” she said. “Too often, there are institutions in place that encourage sorts ofbehavior that are unhealthy and make people unhappy.” Adkins, a junior and Chronicle columnist, said those tendencies disproportionately impact women. Franca Alphin, student health services dietitian, agreed, noting that students who feel intense pressures to fulfill their goals may develop unhealthy eating habits in an attempt to gain a sense of control. “[Disordered eating] is not about attracting the opposite sex—it is about not feeling like you have control over your life.” Other panelists suggested that other issues influence disordered eating. “Eating diseases seem to be a fundamentally ‘rich’ disease,” said panelist Bill English, a senior and Chronicle columnist. English argued that women who fall into a higher
BECKY GRIESSE, JAMES B. DUKE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY JOHN STADDON AND JUNIOR MARY ADKINS sit on a panel discussion in the Faculty Commons Wednesday night to discuss gender images and ideals on Duke’s campus. economic bracket have a much higher frequency of disordered eating. John Staddon, James B. Duke professor of psychology and brain sciences, harshly criticized what he perceived as a lack of intellectually engaging activity on campus. “Duke seems to me incredibly impoverished,” he said. “I have never been under the illusion that this is an intellectual university.” Students commented on campus social climate as well. “If I try and bring up issues of homophobia or anti-racism in a social conversation, I get shot down,” said senior Kelly Quirk. “When it comes down to the two hours a day when you aren’t doing work, people don’t want to talk about this stuff.”
disagreed Audience members whether the blame for unhealthy gender images lies with the greek-centric social order. One sophomore pointed to the rush process as evidence of a student tendency to judge people based on physical attributes. For all of the frustration expressed with social climate, participants agreed that change would have to come not from administrators, but from students. “As an administrator I can only fail,” said Leon Dunkley, director of the Mary Lou Williams Center. “Solutions aren’t going to come from the Flowers and Allen Buildings,” said English, who opined that administrative engineering exacerbates problems.
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“I don’t think this committee should try and force discussions where there aren’t any.” DIG student organizer Emily Grey expressed mild disappointment with the conversation’s shifting focus. “The reason the conversation drifted from gender is because people are uncomfortable talking about it,” said Grey, a senior. “[But] some dialogue is better than nothing.” DIG has organized focus groups to discuss gender-related issues this semester and will follow Wednesday’s forum by hosting a Nov. 7 performance by comedian Chris Kilmartin entitled “Crimes Against Nature,” offering perspective on the accepted notions of masculinity.
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2002 ELECTION Bowles, Dole tackle jobs, growth
Midterms serve as Bush referendum The Nov. 5 elections will serve as a referendum on George W. Bush’s presidency thus far, according to political commentators. Bush has been asking voters in House and Senate elections to grant him a Congress that will deliver him deeper tax cuts and free rein to build a domestic record he can carry into his own re-election campaign. The White House is working hard to keep Republican control in the House and gain a majority in the Senate, where the Democrats currently hold a one-seat advantage. The President has raised over $163 million for Republican candidates, among them Senate hopeful John Thune, who is running in a close race against Democrat Tim Johnson in Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle’s home state of South Dakota. Vice President Dick Cheney has raised over $22 million for candidates in 74 campaign appearances thus far.
By MELISSA SOUCY The Chronicle
In the U.S. Senate race, James Carville’s famous 1992 maxim apparently still holds true. It’s the economy, stupid. Both major-party candidates, Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Elizabeth Dole are volleying to take the upper ground on a variety of economic issues—including tax reform and President George W. Bush’s economic record, North Carolina manufacturing job protection, state business growth and agricultural policy. George Rabinowitz, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, characterized the race as a typical Republican-versus-Democrat battle. “Dole is like the classic Republican. peaks races Spending in governors’ She looks undifferentiated from Bush are Candidates for governor shattering spending in any way,” he said. “Bowles is close to records in more than a half-dozen states in one a classic Democrat, though more hosof the most competitive election years for the tile toward free trade.” examstates’ top office over the past decade. For Rabinowitz said the candidates difDemocratic Gov. Rick and ple, Republican Perry most pointedly on taxes. Dole, who fer challenger Tony Sanchez have together spent a favors cutting taxes in order to spur record $72 million in Texas, while total spending growth and create more jobs, supports hit $B9 million in the New York gubernatorial Bush’s economic stimulus proposal, race, driven partly by at least $4O million spent which calls for both corporate tax cuts by billionaire and Independence Party candidate and direct unemployment aid. Golisano, who is his self-financing B. Thomas Bowles criticized the plan for being third run. GOP Gov. George Pataki has spent at heavily weighted toward corporate too least $27 million, while Democrat Carl McCall America and neglecting to provide million. $ll has used funds for job training and recovery for communities hurt by foreign trade. In County stops out-of-state voting contrast, Bowles has proposed that Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is challenging a Congress wait to cut taxes and instead, county judge’s ruling that bars out-of-town colshould reduce spending. lege students from voting in the Nov. 5 general “People are not holding [Bush] terrielection. Circuit Judge John A. Thomas ruled bly favorably at the moment and that Tuesday that, under the law, students could not JANE HETHERINGTON/THE CHRONICLE would work in favor of Bowles,” Rabivote in Arkansas elections if they reside out-ofnowitz said. Erskine Bowles and Elizabeth Dole, who both support AID TO LOCAL FARMERS a is a top priority for both state and could not vote in local elections if they He added that even though Dole’s a tobacco buyout at the federal level. live in another county. The Governor is considplatform and the Bush administraering using his daughter’s status as an out-ofsmuggling of goods through Mexico to tion’s economic plan are very similar, 1994 and the World Trade Organizacounty student at Ouachita Baptist University in circumvent higher protective tariffs. the state’s conservative-leaning stance tion was created in 1998, manufacturClark County, where the judge made the ruling. Bowles, however, has emerged as a labor outside of ers have found cheaper will give Dole political cover. If the judge’s interpretation of the law withstands critic of fast-track legislation, to harsh contributing States, are United thus [economic issues] being think the “I appeal, it affects 912 voters at Ouachita Baptist job losses throughout the country. which would allow the president trade used to influence marginal voters and Henderson State Universities. promotion authority. Dole, however, people who are worried about their North Carolina, however, leads the nation in manufacturing job losses, a fact supports the measure, arguing that the jobs,”Rabinowitz said. policy attracts more countries to negoFar more important to unemployed not lost on either Bowles or Dole. IN LOCAL RACES ) have called for entiate trade deals, and has accused Both candidates workers may be another hot-button issue—the decrease of jobs in tradi- forcing current trade agreements more Bowles of flip-flopping on fast-track, tional manufacturing sectors such as strictly. Bowles, for example, has noted which he supported as chief of staff on Senate candidates on the road in N.C. textiles. Since the North American in his campaign that the United States See ECONOMY on page 16 Free Elizabeth Dole eastTrade Agreement was passed in should crack down on China’s alleged swung through Republican —
ern North Carolina Tuesday, addressing problems like joblessness and the struggling farm economy, despite a breakdown of the “ElizaBus," Dole’s custom tour bus. In Smithfield, rival Erskine Bowles touted his proposal to help the rural economy with a buyout of the tobacco program. He told several dozen farmers he has a record in Washington that makes him best able to get a tobacco buyout plan approved.
Judge elections to be nonpartisan The General Assembly passed a law this year making statewide appellate judicial races nonpartisan by 2004. Currently, judicial candidates run on party tickets and are touting core “party values," the News & Observer reported, making the most of this last year of partisan campaigning. Local elections of trial judges are already nonpartisan but appeals court candidates often rely on party connections in order to get their message across the stale.
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The Federal Election Commission will decide how parties can direct funds By SHARON THEIMER The Associated Press
Election regulators preparing to implement the nation’s new campaign finance law are stepping into one of its thorniest issues: to what extent political parties, interest groups and candidates can legally coordinate their spending. Many of the key players, including the Democratic and Republican National Committees, business lobbies and campaign watchdog groups, are offering their views at a two-day Federal
Election Commission hearing that started Wednesday. The new law, due to take effect Nov. 6, the day after the election, will bar the national party committees from raising unlimited donations from businesses, unions and others. The parties can currently spend such contributions, known as soft money, on general party activities such as
get-out-the-vote drives and ads on party issues. The law’s sponsors, including Sens John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russ Feingold, D-Wis., say strong coordination rules are crucial to its success. If too high a degree of coordination is allowed, soft money will simply find a new way into federal elections through outside groups working in tandem with parties and candidates, they say. Lobby groups including the Republican-leaning U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Democratic-leaning AFLCIO, both conducting get-out-the-vote drives across the nation in this fall’s election, told the commission in written comments that its rules must protect the constitutional rights to free speech and free association. The Supreme Court has not yet taken into consideration the coordination issue.
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HEART program hopes to mentor teenage girls N.C. youth center launches teen rehab initiative By AARON LEVINE The Chronicle
A pilot state program intends to use holistic approaches and one-on-one guidance to rehabilitate troubled teens. Sixteen girls, ages 15 and 16, will have the opportunity to take part in the administrated at the program, Samarkand Youth Development Center in Moore County. The program will initially target teenage girls with drug-re-
lated problems, in hopes that they will stay drug-free. The Holistic Enrichment for At-Risk
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RUSH HOUR ON U.S. 15-501 and other transportation congestion is just one sign of increasing urban sprawl, the subject of a new study that adds to concerns about growth.
Study ranks Triangle 3rd for sprawl, raises concern By APARNA KRISHNASWAMY The Chronicle
A recent report that ranked the Research Triangle Park region the third “most sprawling” area in the country has prompted concern among community members, as more residents encounter long stretches ofroad between home and work. Reid Ewing of Rutgers University and Rolf Pendall of Cornell University examined 83 metropolitan areas nationwide and ranked the Triangle behind the Greensboro/Winston-Salem area and the Riverside/San Bernardino region in California. The researchers used four variables to measure urban sprawl—residential density, connectivity of roads and streets, strength of downtown activity centers and mixture of homes with shopping and workplace areas. A low score on these variables indicated high urban sprawl. The report, which is the first in a series that will focus on the different effects of sprawl, focused on transportation. “This should be a big alarm for our region,” said Cara Crisler, executive director of the North Carolina Smart Growth Alliance. “The conclusion from this report is that regions getting low scores on these variables are experiencing negative im-
pacts, like traffic fatalities, for example.” Crisler explained that there is a direct link between urban sprawl and a reduced quality of life. “If these regions want to improve the quality of life, they need to look at how they are growing. We need to coordinate transportation patterns with land-use patterns and reinvest in existing communities that are using landspace,” she said. Crisler admitted, however, that it will take a concerted effort to attract businesses to the downtown Durham area. “If people are living there, business owners will see that the market is there. But both have to happen at the same time,” she added. ‘The government can help alleviate the tax burden on being able to use buildings downtown.”
One reason for the Triangle’s high rank, Crisler said, is the lack of a central authority to coordinate growth efforts. She added that the study isn’t likely to change people’s attitudes on sprawl. “There is still a perception that the American dream means a half-acre lot with a large house on it. This requires suburban development and urban sprawl,” she said. Johanna Reese, a public information spokesperson for the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said she wasn’t surprised by the study results. “North Carolina’s population has been growing quickly and people have been moving out of the city for a while now,” she said. She cited several environmental impacts of urban sprawl. Among these are negative effects on water and air quality and the depletion of natural open spaces and forests. “The more sprawl you have, the more paved areas there are, and there will be a lot of runoff when it rains,” Reese said. “This carries pollution into streams. The farther people live outside the city where most of their jobs are, the farther they have to drive into the city and the more cars that will be on the roads, releasing a lot of toxic emissions into the air.” Reese seemed optimistic, however, about the efforts being made by groups in the area to alleviate these problems. “Ordinances, for example, have been passed to encourage developments downtown. There are state tax incentives for using downtown space,” she said. Richard Bell, project officer at Active Living by Design, an organization that encourages physical activity in community design and public policy, discussed the health impacts ofurban sprawl. “The report indicates that we are weakest in the category that measures the amount of space between homes and shopping centers or workplaces. This makes it difficult for people to just walk to those areas,” he said.
Teens program, which will begin Nov. 4, is the result of a $1.3 million federal grant and years of planning on the part of the Schools of Social Work and Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Samarkand staff. The program will provide the girls with 24hour care, based on a holistic rehabilitative approach. Additionally, the HEART program will boast new residence facilities and a staff of 17—a ratio ofless than oneTo-one—nearly unheard of in rehaSee HEART on page 16
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Sunday, October 27: 7:00 Candidates Forum, Von Canon C (in the BCJ Don’t miss this opportunity to hear candidates running for Durham County Commissioner seats and the U.S. House of Representatives as they vie for YOUR vote! Co-sponsored by the Student-Employee Relations Committee (SERC) and the Duke NAACR.
Monday, October 28: 8:00 Keynote Address: Kevin McDonald and the TROSA Musical Ensemble, Social Sciences 139 Guest speaker Kevin McDonald is the CEO and Founder of one of Durham’s most unique and successful community organization, Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA). Learn about his story with the Durham community and experience the music of the talentedTROSA Band.
Tuesday, October 29: 7:30 Duke in the Community: A Forum of Student Service Groups, Multicultural Center [in BC)
Come learn about the different issues facing the Duke community, what students are doing about them, and how to get involved. Speakers include representatives from Break for a Change, SERC, LEAPS, Duke Red Cross, Latino Life Connection, and more!
Wednesday, October 30: 11:30-1:00 Brown Bag Lunch with President Keohane,
Griffith Board Room Join President Keohane for a discussion about Duke-Durham relations and community service efforts at Duke. 1:00-2:00 Community Service Successes and Failures: A Historical Perspective, Rhodes Conference Room [Sanford Institute) Bruce Payne, public policy professor and director of Duke in New York Leadership in the Arts, will discuss the Community Service Movement. Co-sponsored by the Hart Leadership Program. 4:00-6:00 Halloween Carnivalfor Durham Youth, Cast Campus Quad Games, crafts, costumes, an inflatable obstacle course, and a haunted house, followed by trick-or-treating in East Campus dorms! 7:00-8:00 Party of Champions, Round Table Commons Join Durham County Special Olympics athletes and Round Table residents for a send-off party before the November 9th North Carolina Fall Games. Co-sponsored by Round Table. Thursday, October 31: 12:30 Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Brenda Armstrong, Mary Lou Williams Center Dr. Brenda Armstrong, Dean of Admissions at Duke Medical Center, will speak about her involvement with the Durham Striders, a youth track team that has been a major success in helping children in the community.
Friday, November 1: 10:00-6:00 Shop at One World Market on Ninth Street! Show your DukeCard and receive a 10% discount on all merchandise from this international craft store dedicated to fairtrade.
Saturday, November 2: 8:00-12:00 Habitat for Humanity
Volunteer with other Duke students to help build a Habitat for Humanity house in Durham. Signups on the BC Walkway all week.
Sunday, November 3: 7:00 Acapeiia Concert to benefit Project Share, GA Down Under
Great music for a great cause! Hear your favorite acapeiia groups while contributing to Project Share, a holiday gift-giving campaign for Durham families Admission is $3 or $2 with a canned good.
All Week: “Donate canned goods for Urban Ministries of Durham Community Kitchen and the Alliance ofAIDS Services at the CSC table on the BC Walkway “Make Halloween cards and crafts for patients at Duke Children’s Hospital at the Marketplace from 5:00-7:30 Sunday-Wednesday! “Pika, Deke, SigEp, Delta Sigma Theta, and Kappa Alpha Psi will be working with the CSC at various times to make sandwiches for donation to the Durham Rescue Mission.
All events sponsored by the Community Service Center and are free unless otherwise noted. For questions or more information, call 684-4377 or email Beth Brantley (eab@duke.edu) orloree Lipstein (Ibl3@duke.edu).
Christie looks back: 30 years after reforms By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle
Looking back 30 years after the socalled Christie Report redefined faculty governance at the University, James B. Duke Professor ofLaw George Christie said the faculty’s role in influencing University policy remains solid and the changes established then remain as important as ever. The report was submitted to the Academic Council in April 1972 by the Committee to Study the Nature and Role of
the Academic Council, which Christie chaired. The report aimed to establish a coherent system for communicating faculty recommendations on University policy to the administration. Among other provisions, it called for administrators to give the council ample time to discuss major issues before they were brought before senior officials or the Board ofTrustees for action. Christie stressed greater accountability for administrators as a major achievement of the reforms. “On the whole, the administration has shown good faith and has brought major proposals before the council,” he said. “I think it’s led to better decisionmaking.” He also said the reforms increased the faculty’s say in planning. “It’s the job of the president and the Board of Trustees to run the University,
but they should let us know what they’re doing,” he said. “I think we’ve done that and I’m pleased.” The report, which contained 10 recommendations addressing a number of Academic Council issues, also redefined a “faculty representative” as someone who was appointed by the Executive Committee of the Academic Council. This eliminated the practice whereby “an administrator could consult with a couple of people, maybe his cronies, and say, T spoke with the faculty,’” Christie said. Provost Peter Lange said administrators also benefited from consulting representatives who truly spoke for the faculty. “From my standpoint, [the reforms] really assure that we consult with and work with the faculty effectively on the major issues that affect the University,” he said. Christie said the council’s influence has lent the University legitimacy. “You would have had serious problems, given all that has happened in the last 30 years, if it looked like [the administration] was a top-down regime,” he said. He also said having an established system to distill faculty opinion was even more important now than in the past, considering the differences between today’s faculty and the faculty circa 1972. “It’s a larger faculty with less commonality [today], so I think [an Academic Council] like what we have is even more important,” he said.
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(left to right) GEORGE CHRISTIE, James B. Duke professor of law, led reforms of the Academic Council in the early 19705. WILLIAM HAMILTON, (at left), professor of history, served as chair of the first Academic Council. PAUL GROSS served as vice president in the Division of Education before protests led to his resignation and the creation of the Academic Council. PHOTOS COURTESY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
COUNCIL from page 1 ident and one or two administrators serving as ex officio members. The seven-year-old council encountered a severe test when black students staged an Allen Building takeover in February 1969 and issued a series of ultimatums during a 10-hour standoff with administrators and police. At an impromptu meeting of about 1,000 students and faculty members in Page Auditorium, Professor of History Thomas Rainey earned a standing ovation when he said the cause for the takeover was not the racist attitudes of the “grits and rednecks” but the faculty, who “sold out and gave [University President Douglas] Knight a blank check to bring the pigs down on us.” The faculty responded by passing a resolution supporting the president and the Trustees, though the debate was heated. About 40 faculty members walked out on the meeting when a motion to delay any ultimatum against the students failed. In another political debate of the era, the Vietnam War, the Academic Council adjourned in disorder for the only time in its history after a 1970 debate about terminating the Duke ROTC program was disrupted by protesters. Despite the incident, the program remained on campus. The Christie Report
After years of administrative dominance, the role of the faculty in University decision-making was codified in an April 1972 report by the Committee to Study the Nature and Role of the Academic Council, chaired by James B. Duke Professor of Law George Christie. The Christie Report, as it was known, specified that anyone considered to be a “faculty representative” to a University committee must have been nominated by the Executive Committee of the Academic Council. This mandate aimed to end a long-standing pattern—administrators chaired committees and appointed a few faculty members of their own choosing. The report also established the Christie Rule, which changed the power balance at the University by requiring an inviolable role for faculty consultation. “Except in emergencies, all major decisions and plans of the administration that significantly affect academic affairs should be submitted to the Academic Council for an expression of views prior to implementation,” the Christie Committee wrote. “The views expressed by the Academic Council should be transmitted, along with the administration’s proposals, to the Board ofTrustees.”
New Developments, New Debates Discussions in the Academic Council have changed the course, for better or worse, of a number of expansion projects across the University. Perhaps the most rancorous debate in the council’s history began when repre-
sentatives of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, Law ’37, entered into discussions with Duke President Terry Sanford in July 1981 about providing a home for the Nixon Presidential Library. The Academic Council, which had not been consulted in accordance with the Christie Rule, threatened to call an emergency summer meeting before Sanford persuaded Nixon representatives to allow the decision-making process to play out
fully. Strong faculty opinion against a proposed 110,000 square-foot museum eventually led the council to vote 35-34 against continued negotiations, and the project was eventually scrapped. Construction of Duke Hospital North, which opened in 1980, also spurred a contentious battle. Throughout the late 19705, debate raged in the council as to whether the hospital was worth the considerable financial commitment. “As I recall, the entire assets of the University, including the Duke Forest, had to go on the table as collateral,” wrote Fluke, a professor emeritus of zoology. In addition to the hospital, several expansion projects later earned the backing of the council, including the Levine Science Research Center.
The Modem Era The Academic Council has moved into this millennium exhibiting a commitment to an assortment of issues, including fundraising, diverse representation and the more routine issues that comprise the bulk of the council’s business. A harassment policy was discussed and endorsed by the Academic Council in April 1993 after widespread debate the previous fall when a draft of the policy had referred only to sexual harassment. President Nan Keohane signed off on the policy in November of that year and it went into effect Jan. 1,1994. Sometimes, by chance or design, council meetings have led to unexpectedly widespread implications. For example, in the early 19905, a parade of deans came into a series of meetings to explain why their schools’ budgets should not be cut. The immediate result of this, Fluke said, was the University’s current capital campaign, now approaching its $2 billion goal. “In 40 years the council has generated a tremendous stream of low-profile stuff, the view of the faculty on the detailed ordinary business of the University” Fluke wrote.
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DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS LYNDSEY BEAL speaks to the Legislature about the proposed changes to the dean’s excuses policy.
chair, said the new policy would be more convenient for sick students by eliminating a trip to the student health center. He added that DSG’s support of the proposal was important to its ultimate acceptance by both the Arts and Sciences Council and the Engineering Council. Many faculty members have been hesitant to support the proposal because of a perception of tepid student support. “In DSG, we’re really getting a sense of what students want because, of course, students are going to be the primary supporters of this,” said Kishore, a junior. “If they give their support, then faculty will follow.” Judith Ruderman, chair of the Academic Integrity Council created last year, and vice provost for academics and administration, said faculty may not be ready to embrace the climate of trust the new policy promotes. “This is a delicate issue,” she said. “Some faculty don’t want to be put in the position of determining who’s sick and who’s sicker than the next student who didn’t miss the next assignment.” A new subcommittee of the Academic Integrity Council—co-chaired by Beal, a senior, and junior Sourav Sengupta, the Honor Council’s vice president for external affairs—will study the dean’s excuse policy in general, making further recommendations to the council. At the meeting, some DSG legislators questioned the effectiveness of the policy. Troy Clair, DSG vice president for
although the new policy may provide a symbolic advantage by showing increased trust in students, grades may suffer if more students miss class. “Yes, [in] the new honor code, trust [and] integrity [are] symbolic, but your grade is not symbolic,” said Clair, a senior. “We’ve seen from surveys over past years that there is a question of honor at Duke.” Other legislators said they trusted the current system and the requirement of doctor’s approval more than the individual whims of faculty. “I have a lot of professors that I probably wouldn’t want to put this choice in their hands,” said sophomore
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Davidson College’s honor system—where students can take exams when they please without a proctor, “That’s the kind of community that I want to live in,” he said. IN OTHER BUSINESS: DSG legislators approved charters of the Canadian Student Association, the Force Air Club, the Persian Students Association and Learning Identity for Environment. It also appropriated $1,965 to Sigma Chi fraternity for its Derby Days programming.
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Scott served as head of both the Fairfax County Police Department—Virginia's largest police force—and the smaller Fairfax City Police Department prior to working for the Department of the Interior. “I am ready to dive into the issues facing the community, and to take the department to a level of success to make it the best police department in the state,” he said in a statement. At a forum for the three finalists earlier this week, Scott emphasized the importance of working with the community to prevent crime. He also discussed the importance of curbing gang violence through a combina-
tant inspector general of the U.S. Department of the Interior. He will begin serving as chief Dec. 1 with an annual salary of $lOB,OOO. Mayor Bill Bell said it is too early to say what Scott’s selection will mean for the police department and the city of Durham. “I’m confident that the manager’s done the best she could do,” he said. Bell said that in addition to performing background checks, Conner talked to insiders who spoke very highly of Scott. “I think he’s going to bring a lot to this department,” said City Council member John Best. “[Scott’s] experience with the local, state and federal level is going to be a big asset for Durham.”
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ARTS A brand-new play, A Streetcar Named Desire, is playing at the Raleigh Little Theatre this weekend. Frankly, I've never heard of it, but I hear that it was a book or a movie or something. So, if you're literary and crap, check it out. Oct. 24-26 at 8 p.m. and Oct 27 at 3 p.m. $l3-19. 301 Pogue St., Raleigh.
MUSIC Apparently from the camp that is not yet convinced that alcohol destroys your liver and mins families, Guided by Voices play just
about all of their shows knocked out of their gizzards. (Is that even an expression for being wasted?) Anyway, they're good and another good band, Superdrag, is opening for 'em. Cat's Cradle. 301 E. Main St., Carrboro. Doors open at 9 p.m. Saturday. $l4. Glass Handle, a five-piece rock band comprised entirely of Dukies, will play this week's Armadillo Grill Saturday night concert. Lead guitarist Ashwin Alexander, Pratt 'O4, is one of the best the University has to offer, 10 p.m. Free, except for wings.
Local boys Jett Rink are playing with Dragstrip Syndicate and (warning: best band name ever) Snatches of Pink (III!) Friday at Go! Room 4 in Carrboro. Come early come often, 10 p.m. $5. 414 E. Main St.
FILM Not only do the French have the world's mightiest army, but they (or just a couple of them) have released the new film 8 Women. Sounds fishy to me. Opens Friday at the Carolina Theatre. 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. every night, and 2:15 and 4:30 p.m. weekend matinees. 309 W. Morgan St., Durham.
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Keeping Them Entertained: A Guide to Parents' Weekend Pinsky Pontificates The former poet laureate discusses America and his writing In Page Auditorium
Robert Pinsky is a cool dude. The U.S. poet laureate from 1997-2000, he's known for his efforts to make poetry accessible to the public —he started the "Favorite Poem Project," which added a recorded collection of ordinary Americans reading their favorite poems aloud to the Library of Congress. He has also authored several volumes of poetry and criticism, as well as a translation of Dante's Inferno. Saturday, you and the 'rents will have the opportunity to hear Pinsky speak about poetry and modern America at 3:30 p.m. in Page Auditorium—an event sponsored by the Union's Major Speaker's Committee and the late ions Board,
taring his visit, Jitor Meghan engaged
via e-mail on ics of writing, hip and making accessible. ess: In lish classes Duke, we ften use Norton Anthologies—ioetryf modrn poetry, short stories, a reader, you name it. I've always thought publication in one of those would be an indication that the writer had "made it" —kind of like a rock musician hearing themselves on the radio, or an actor being asked for an autograph. When did you know that you had "made it" as a poet? A point when you knew that the world, and not just you, considered yourself a poet? Robert Pinsky; Anthologies, prizes, titles, critics—all these offer only unreliable measures of one's work. Once, visiting a poetry class at a prison, I heard one of the inmates recite from memory a poem I had written, "Exile." I once met a 14-year-old boy who for a school assignment had to memorize a text related to the word "compassion," and he chose my poem "From the Childhood of Jesus." Those are examples of real laurel. You will see what I mean if you go to www.favoritepoem.org and look at the videos of a construction worker reading Whitman, of a Jamaican immigrant reading Plath, of a young Cambodian-American woman reading Langston Hughes, of a nine-year-old reading Theodore Roethke's "The Sloth." Notice the way these readers say the poems aloud, and what they say about them. Imagine yourself being the poet: that, for me, is far more glorious than inclusion in any anthology. (On the other hand, POEMS TO READ, the Favorite Poem Project anthology, is indeed published by Norton!) You've commented that poetry is doing well in this era, but that criticism is not. How can the U.S. train new, intelligent critics? Literary criticism is in a somewhat dark age
at the moment, and reviewing suffers as a result. Newspapers do as good a job as ever, though the literary newspaper reviewer must
fight for space. It's in the highbrow quarterlies that the decline seems so drastic. The academic critics who used to write for them have lost confidence and morale. They seem terrified by new work, depressed about the challenge of making judgments. But this weakness in criticism may be a general, culture-wide matter: the scandals about film criticism for example, with critics being manipulated by publicity agents. I don't know how this situation might improve. Maybe it is cyclical. Or maybe a new wave of clever young people are ready to take over reviewing? The chair of Duke's English Department, Maureen Quilligan, recommended Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey as summer reading, especially because the new translation has turned it into "true beach reading." Did you have such accessibility in mind when you began your Inferno? I tried to make a translation that would be a poem in English, that would be exciting to read. I didn't know of such a translation of Dante—in other words, I tried to make something that I would like to read. The poem in Italian has given great pleasure to readers for hundreds of years. It has speed and quickness, as they say in basketball, and tremendous variety. I strove to give it something with that grace and attraction in English. As poet laureate, you began the Favorite Poem Project. Were you surprised by its eager reception or by the poems and recordings that came of it?
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Yes and no—I knew that the American audience for great poems was far greater and more vital than the stereotype of us might indicate. But yes, I am surprised that the first anthology, Americans' Favorite Poems, has gone through 15 printings. And yes 4 1 have been surprised by the quality and intensity of the letters quoted in the two anthologies and at www.favoritepoem.org.
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Memos, Coffee, Spankings Two disillusioned souls escape society’s boundaries and find love
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spank me with a stiletto! Secretary, winner of a Special Jury Prize for originality at the 2002 Sundance Festival, features a screenplay written by one of our own: Duke associate theater professor, Erin Cressida Wilson. Maggie Gyllenhaal is Lee Holloway, a directionless 20-something endowed with a compulsive conscience and the most enviable collection of 'Bos-style office apparel this side of Murphy Brown's closet, mutilation, Lee returns home to your run-oflands her first job as a secretary in the offio Spader), a local lawyer who administers mi, Grey just needs a helping hand. Lee just starts as a kinky little bit o' somethin'-som, ous tug-of-war between lonely hearts, trou we say it) aching loins. Lee and Grey pay hi chology feeding frenzy of inhibitions, comp sions and sexual fantasies. Neither can qu ; conviction of chronic abnormality, and of b siders in a world that plays by the rules. Time out. Secretary is not some asinine tic comedy about oddballs and unlikely love I think the more overt symbolism and the easy melodrama of the story are a ruse intended to hide a more intense agenda
Secretary likes to outsmart its audience, and it panders briefly to a contingent of pseudo-intellectuals who'll pat themselves on the back for seeing an "Art Film" and reaffirm their suspicions that Everything is Society's Fault. But beneath the slick veneer, there's something a little deeper and far more sinister at work. Secretary thrusts its audience outside a self-imposed comfort zone which has nothing to do with diversity objectives, dialogue and other PC superficiality. Secretary is strong, sexual and graphic; and the very fact that it can be so GRADE: disturbing is testimony to the depth of its conflict. The discomfort of the audience mirrors, on a smaller scale, the same self-imposed division of right, wrong, normal and abnormal which spawn the tuple's magnificent capacity for self-hatred. Secretary is a jarring example of alienation between mind nd body, and I'm going to wrap up this review right now, 'efore I'm tempted to toss in a half-assed thesis and hand it in for ninth-grade Flonors English credit. Apologies. On a more serious note, give Secretary a took; films with this level of depth and creativity are few and far between. But be warned: What you get out of the movie is up to you. If it's mindless entertainment you're after, 1 recommend The Transporter. I hear it's pretty good.
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—Katie Latanich
Abandon stereotypes
I'm not afraid to die. I've seen The Ring. I've encountered Freddie, I've stood toe to toe with Jason (all 10 times), but The Ring scared me to levels previously unimagined. From the opening sequence, the film is tinged with an unnameable, unexplainable terGRADE: ror. A story fraught with child abuse, murder and revenge from beyond the grave, The Ring speaks to the darkest parts of your soul. The premise is simple: You watch "the" tape. You die. And right before you take your short trip into the long sleep, you see... the ring. About as tight as a horror film gets, The Ring smoothes over any plot holes by sinking its claws of existential fear into your unsuspecting flesh. Personally, I spent most of the movie just trying not to wet my pants. There is probably a whole truckload of symbolic and ideological questions that you could analyze about The Ring, all of which are rendered inconsequential by the sheer dread of the experience. Should you see The Ring? I don't know. But be sure to think long and hard about what you want your next week to be like.
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Gore! Heavy metal! Gratuitous sex! What else ambiguity of Katie Burke —the girl who has everywould you expect from a Katie Holmes/Benjamin thing, who has every guy falling all over her and Bratt flick? I never imagined Abandon would be yet scratches "YOU HAVE NO GRACE" into her driven instead by the measured direction of psychology notebook. Stephen Gaghan. The enthralling character development in Abandon—one of the most intelligent films to come Although we soon learn that Katie Burke (Holmes) is a senior at an elite university and that out of the teen genre in years—makes it well worth troubled detective Wade Handler (Bratt) is investiyour two hours. gating the disappearance of her ex-boyfriend —Corinne Low (Charlie Hunnan), we don't really GRADE: understand what the movie is about until near its conclusion. As the plot unfolds at an almost maddeningly slow pace, Gaghan somehow holds it all together, finally hitting us with a smart and satisfying twist ending just before our patience is exhausted. At first Holmes plays her tiresome Joey Potter routine, with a perpetual smirk and all-too-scripted sarcasm. But as the movie progresses, she relaxes into the role, beautifully displaying Burke's vulnerability and insecurity. Ignore the sometimes uneven plot. Forget the contrived college dorm and grating party scenes. Lose “I LOVE THE WAY YOUR TITS LOOK TONIGHT”: "I mean I love you for yourself instead in the complexity and who you are as a person and how good of an actress you are on Dawson's."
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Mockeip or Remember
that Rage Against the Machine video during the 2000 election that showed Dubya and Gore's faces morphed together, symbolizing the purely cosmetic differences between the candidates? Beginning in January 2004, average Americans will have the opportunity to find their own out-of-thebox presidential candidate or to choose another centrist—with a little help from the FX Network. The new show American Candidate, based upon summer's break-out hit American Idol, will allow viewers to call in and choose which candidates—currently being selected from a pool of applicants—move on and which are handed their hats. The show's episodes will be filmed across the U.S. at quintesAmerican locales such as Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty. Like Idol, the 100 semi-finalists will be whittled to three finalists by a panel of judges and by audience votes evaluating their performance in activities like
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debates. On July 4, 2004, the final episode will feature a convention on the Washington Mall where the "American Candidate" will be chosen. 1 asked two public policy professors—Susan Tifft and Jay Hamilton—to weigh in on the implications of Candidate for politics and the U.S. Tifft said she is worried about the line between politics and entertainment becoming too blurred. "The thing that concerns me is it is based on these reality shows like Survivor... and Big Brother, and what it’s purporting to do is turn politics into entertainment," Tifft noted. "We live in such a media-saturated culture as it is, I'm not sure this is going to encourage people to think of politics as anything other than entertainment." Hamilton, instead, touted the benefits of more young adults being exposed to politics. "[Many people] feel that since their votes have such a tiny chance of being influential that they will not take the time to invest in learning about the process," Hamilton wrote in an e-mail. "If this show can spark an interest in politics among 18-34 year-olds, the prime demographic for FX, then that might be a positive influence." Tifft noted that many of her students have made similar arguments, but she remains doubtful. "1 would be ecstatic if that were true, and I wait for enlightenment," she said. —Meg Lawson
Dreams OD's on Saccharine The new drama American Dreams is a classic example of the overachieving freshman TV show. Each week, the creators behind Dreams present the audience with an hour's worth of conflict focused on the conservative Pryor family in 1963 Philadelphia. In each episode, all six Pryor family members are awarded a storyline of their own, and as each arc progresses through the hour, all six of the stories remain connected by a succession of golden oldies that underscore the scenes. Thankfully, the mish-mash of melodrama and music is centered around one particular family member: the starry-eyed 15-year-old daughter Meg. She is the eye of the hurricane that is American Dreams, but like the real thing, the show can't help but be strong on action and seriously lacking in subtlety. The obviousness is truly unfortunate because,
as cheesy as a show about a girl whose life's dream is to get on American Bandstand is, the actors and performances that comprise the Pryor family are surprisingly excellent. Several critics have already pointed out that American Dreams strives way too hard for historical significance, particularly in its desire for post-Sept. 11 relevance, causing it to come off as sentimental and saccharine. However, it is an even greater disappointment to know that if the creators of American Dreams tightened their storylines, while also allowing their talented actors to suggest the social significance of the times to the audience instead of force feeding it to them, NBC would have a worthy successor to The Wonder Years on its hands and not an overlyr
stylized nostalgia trip. —Sarah Brodeur
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The San Francisco Giants squeaked by the Anaheim Angels 4-3 in Game 4 of the World Series. See page 12
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Virginia crushes women’s soccer in Charlottesville
Loss drops Blue Devils 2 games below .500 as Cavaliers notch Ist ACC victory of season By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle
2 The women’s soccer team continued havPuke 0 ing problems scoring as it fell to the Virginia Cavaliers 2-0 Wednesday night at Kldckner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. The win, which was the first in the ACC for the Cavs, improved Virginia to 8-5-2 overall and 1-3-1 in the ACC. With the loss Duke fell two games below .500, to 6-8-1 and 1-3-1 in conference. “I think tonight was a huge win for us,” Virginia head coach Steve Swanson said. “We played a tough game and we played well defensively and converted some chance to win. We are improving and we now have some momentum that we hopefully can build on.” Both defenses held tight early on, but the Wahoos found a crack in Duke’s backfield when Alyssa Benitez netted a Noell Keselica throw-in in the 32rd minute to take a 1-0 Virginia lead. The Cavs then held tight and went into the final 45 with the lead. Both teams played stellar defense tight in the second half, as the Blue Devils tried to break through Virginia’s ironclad defense and pounded home the equalizer. However, fortune turned to the other
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side of the field as Darci Borski beat Blue Devil goalie Thora Helgadottir on a quick counterattack breakaway for the game’s second and final goal.
Mathews moving Washington Redskins quar-
terback Shane Mathews said he is moving his family from the Washington, D.C. area to Florida in an effort to get out of range of the area’s sniper.
Borski, who moved into Virginia’s all-time top 10 in points and goals, was set-up by freshman Julie Napolitano for the score. -Overall, the Cavaliers, outshot Duke
13-6—a season low in shots for the Blue Devils. It was the third time in 15 tries this season that Duke has been outshot. So far this season, the Blue Devils have been able to produce chances, but unable to finish. In the net, Helgadottir was able to make four stops, meanwhile her UVa counterpart Anne Abernethy tallied only two. And while the Blue Devils and Cavs both took a pair of corners, Duke outfouled the Wahoos six to two. The Blue Devils now have three regular season matches left before the
ACC tournament. Duke travels to Chapel Hill Sunday for archrival and second-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels. The Blue Devils then return home to play High Point Oct. 30 for Senior Night, before traveling to Wake
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Washington Wizards star Michael Jordan filed a lawsuit against a women he claims tried to extort $5 million from him to keep quiet about their relationship 10 years ago.
Although he will not need surgery to repair his knee injury, Jerome Bettis was officially listed as “out" by the league-wide injury report for this weekend’s game against Baltimore.
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Shaq out at least 5 Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O’Neal will begin the season on the injured list, Lakers head coach Phil Jackson said. O’Neal will miss at least five games.
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Giants edge Angels 4-3, even Series at 2 each
David Bell’s single in Bth lifts San Francisco to first home World Series win since 1962 By BEN WALKER
The Associated Press
Tim Worrell got the win and Robb Nen closed for a save in a game the Giants trailed 3-0. It was an October classic, and came on a fitting night. Pete Rose drew the biggest ovation during a pregame celebration marking baseball’s most memorable moments. Jason Schmidt will start for the Giants in Game 5 Thursday night against Jarrod Washburn. It will be a rematch ofthe opener in which Schmidt outpitched the Anaheim ace. Bell’s father, Buddy, and grandfather Gus, both played in the majors. Spiezio and Barry Bonds, of course, also had dads in the big leagues, while Snow’s father played in the NFL. Pitching on his 24th birthday, Angels rookie John Lackey picked up a nice present, the souvenir ball from his first major league hit. More importantly for Anaheim, he avoided trouble on the mound, thanks mostly to
FRANCISCO Just in the nick of 3 time, Angels San the Francisco Giants solved the Kid. David Bell hit a tiebreaking single off rookie sensation Francisco Rodriguez in the eighth inning and the Giants rallied past the Anaheim Angels 4-3 Wednesday night, tying the World Series at two games each. Somehow, the Giants slowed down Anaheim’s persistent hitters. And then, the biggest surprise of all; They broke through against Mr. Unhittable and posted San Francisco’s first Series win at home since 1962. “I was just trying to get a pitch over the plate I could hit hard,” Bell said. “He has great stuff and he’s been doing a good job.” Rodriguez had blown away all 12 San Francisco hitters he faced in the Series until J.T. Snow singled to start the eighth. Snow moved up on Bengie Benito Santiago. Twice, Lackey intentionally walked Molina’s passed ball, but stayed put when first baseman Scott Spiezio made Bonds to load the bases with one out. a sensational, diving catch on Reggie Both times, he got Santiago to hit Sanders’ foul bunt. grounders to Eckstein that the shortstop But Bell became the latest son of a turned into inning-ending double plays. Yet Santiago got sweet redemption major leaguer to deliver in this Series, an RBI single that capped a threediving shortstop with past singling sharply David Eckstein. Snow scored ahead of run fifth that made it three-all. And in a center fielder Darin Erstad’s throw, and tasty twist for a Series dominated by the celebration was on. long balls, the comeback started with two of the shortest hits yet. Rodriguez had been 5-0 this postseaPitcher Kirk Rueter led off with a high son. The 20-year-old with a wicked slidabsorbed his er and crackling fastball first major league loss. See WORLD SERIES on page 14 Giants
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Arkansas coach Houston Nutt kicked defensive tackle Jermaine Brooks off the team Wednesday after city police arrested Brooks on charges he sold and possessed 10 1/2 pounds of marijuana in his off-campus apartment. Brooks was charged late Tuesday with felonies alleging drug possession, drug distribution and simultaneous possession of several rifles and handguns. Officers found $16,841 in Brooks’ apartment and also arrested a woman who was there with him. Police laid out cash, marijuana and a cache of weapons on a display table for reporters to view. Deputy prosecutor John Threet said that if convicted of simultaneous possession of drugs and a gun, Brooks could be punished by life in prison, though that would be rare in a marijuana case.
“He’ll do a fraction of whatever he’s given,” Threet said. “It would not be a complete shock if he got 10 years out of the whole thing,” and be eligible for parole in two years. Brooks apologized to Arkansas fans
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in a telephone interview with Fort Smith TV station KPOM. “Tell everyone I made a mistake, a big mistake,” Brooks said. “I would like to tell all Razorback fans, Razorback teammates, family, friends and especially the coaching staff that I am truly sorry. I made the mistake and therefore I apologize to everyone for the decision that I made.”
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WORLD SERIES from page 12 chopper that he beat out for an infield single. Kenny Lofton followed with a bunt that slowly danced down the chalk fine until third baseman Troy Glaus picked it up for another single. Rich Aurilia singled home the Giants’ first run, Jeff Kent hit a sacrifice fly and, after another intentional walk to Bonds, Santiago singled up the middle. The MVP of the NL championship series clapped his hands and pointed toward the San Francisco dugout after
rounding first base. Glaus hit a two-run shot, tying Bonds’ record of seven home runs in a postseason, to give the Angels a 3-0 lead in the third. A day earlier, fans taunted Glaus with shouts of “Welcome to Pac Bell!” after he flied out to the warning track, reminding him it gave up fewer homers
EARLE from page 12 went down in his life and knows what it takes to rise above it. He understands that, so he’s not mad at anybody, and he’s not an angry kid,” Still, Earle’s life certainly not lacking for bumps in the road, has hit a frustrating snag since getting to Maryland. Intense media coverage of his life’s journey by the likes of ESPN and HBO forced Friedgen to ban him from speaking to the press in order to concentrate on his play. However, Earle continues to struggle in his shift to the college game. Even with the Terrapins thin in linebacker depth, especially with the current injury to starter Jamahl Cochran, Earle has yet to see any action, even if it might be better for his
than any other ballpark in the majors this season. Both teams looked for every edge they could find. Wanting an extra right-handed bat in the lineup, Angels manager Mike Scioscia pulled ALCS MVP Adam Kennedy—hitting .371 in the postseason—and instead started Benji Gil at second base. The hunch paid off as Gil singled his first two times up. The Giants brought out their own good-luck charm in 3 1/2-year-old Darren
Baker. After missing Game 3 because of a sinus infection, the son of manager Dusty Baker was back as a bat boy. Not even as tall as some of the Louisville Sluggers he toted, the little boy wobbled out toward the plate during the Giants’ rally in the fifth, and Kent had to corral him when a throw went wild. A leadoff single by Tim Salmon set up Glaus’ third homer of the Series, a shot to center over the leaping Lofton. psyche at Wallace Wade this weekend “I think he’s handled the academic and cultural transition, but the transition to college football has not been as easy for him, so he’s red-shirting,” Seamonson said. “Even though physically
he’s a good talent, he hasn’t been able to make that transition yet. Obviously we have high hopes for his future ability, but I really think he’ll learn from not playing this year and mature as a football player.” Mature as a man, Earle is starting to put the pieces together, finding his new home and looking into a psychology major—maybe the most fitting transition of all. The Terps may have another Juan Dixon on their hands—someone with both ability and perseverance—whom they are welcoming with open arms as the newest member
of the family.
opposing defenses were doing, nor the habits of his receivers—something that caused his delivery to be timid and awkward. After figuring out his problem, and gaining 35 pounds, Smith has a more-than-adequate throwing arm, passing for TD strikes of 40 and 45 yards against Navy and N.C. State, respectively, this season. “This guy has devoted himself to being a good quarterback,” Franks said. “Adam couldn’t get anything on the ball because ofhis delivery when he first got here. It took more time than what coaches are allowed to work with. He had to work on that on his own. He really dedicated himself to get his arm stronger by getting the ball in the right decision to get something on it.” Smith’s development led him from a redshirt season his freshman year to being second-string quarterback to D. Bryant last season. He appeared in five games, connecting on 5-for-13 passes for 30 yards with one interception.
Smith was expected to be the back-up again this season, with D. Bryant returning for his senior season, and Smith said that when learned that Bryant was suspended by the University, he had mixed emotions. “I was excited, but I felt bad for him,” Smith said. Smith had no problems adjusting his summer schedule to compete for the starting position because he says he approaches every summer with the intent of starting the next year. “It was known that D. was going to be the starter, but at the same time I was always preparing myself for that opportunity,” Smith said. “I had gone home that summer with the intention to be the starter because you never know what’s going to happen in football. It’s just one of those games. I wanted to be prepared as much as possible.” The starting position was by no means handed to Smith, as he and Chris Dapolito competed everyday of pre-season for the starting position. Franks did not announce Smith as the starter until game time against East Carolina. “There’s a certain honor in starting,”
Smith said. Smith and Dapolito continued to split time at the quarterback position until Smith began to separate himself against Northwestern on Sept. 14th.
The Chronicle Smith threw for 188 yards that game, while Dapolito had zero. From that point on, the Blue Devils became more and more “Smith’s team.” Smith led Duke to its second victory ofthe season against Navy throwing 11for-17 with 144 yards with no interceptions. Smith had his first 200 yard plus game in a near loss to Virginia, throwing 26-42 for 256 yards. “I thought the key to the team was the quarterback,” said UVa head coach A1 Groh. “The throws he made were really excellent.” Smith struggled against Wake Forest this season, and did not manage to pass the century mark in passing yards. Always willing to learn from his mistakes, Smith had his best game of the season last week in a 24-22 loss against then No. 10 N.C. State. With 353 yards on 28-41 passing in Duke’s near upset, one couldn’t help but be
impressed.
“I’m very, very impressed with Duke’s quarterback,” Maryland head coach Ralph Friedgen said. “I think the quarterback play has been outstanding.” Smith feels that he still has a lot of room to improve, and is working hard to do so. “I don’t feel so much that I’m better, it’s just that I’m more confident and more relaxed,” Smith said. “I’ve definitely learned a lot.” Smith also looks to improve by continually thinking about the game. “For me, its mental,” he said “All week long, I am almost always thinking about the game. Sometimes I’ll be in class and I’ll just be thinking what if they threw this cover or pulled this check and it will be the middle of class. Sometimes I’ll sit and laugh at myself and ask ‘why I’m doing his.’” Smith is continually adjusting to North Carolina, a place much different than his hometown, Orinda, California. “It was very different at first,” Smith said. “People are nicer around here, and a lot more friendly.” He even had to adjust to the food. “BBQ is different in California,” Smith said.
As he has with every role he’s had in his football career, he has adjusted well, emerging into one of the best quarterbacks in the ACC. “He seems to be developing a very good command on what is happening in the game,” Franks said. “He sees what other teams are doing.”
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HEART from page 5 bilitative and correctional facilities. Judy Julian, a Youth Development Division Special Projects planner, has high hopes for the program’s success. “One of the most important things about this program is that this is a life plan program,” she said. “Mental health, education, vocational and spiritual aspects of treating are all priorities.” Julian added that a typical day for a girl in the HEART program might include classes in women’s studies, personalized treatment from a psychologist or rehabilitative counselor and other activities aimed at developing self-knowledge and spirituality, including yoga. HEART facilitators have been training in preparation for the girls’ arrival. Martin Pharr, clinical director of the state’s youth centers, said the staff—-
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teacher’s aid—is crucial to realizing the aims of the program. “Relationships [between the staff and the girls] allow learning and growth and behavior change to happen,” he said. Leigh Hines, Samarkand communications director, said she envisions the HEART program as a new and necessary approach to treating troubled youth. “This is cutting edge for the state of North Carolina,” Hines said. “This is a system we are moving into because we know that the therapeutic model is the way to deal with our youths.” Because the program is in its trial phase, girls will have to apply for a limited number of spaces in the program. Julian said renovated facilities, which
include new computers and classrooms, will greet the girls when they arrive. She added that girls already at Samarkand have painted “healing affirmations” on the walls that aim to provide a positive girl-power message. “Girls need role models,” she said, contesting that the program’s perspective may proliferate idealized gender roles. “Studies have shown that genderspecific works.” Pharr added that the juvenile justice
system has not kept pace with the needs of females and contemporary societal roles. “The juvenile justice system has been very male-oriented, and research has revealed that girls face different approaches and require different approaches, particularly girls who have penetrated the juvenile justice pro-
gram,” he said.
Specifically, Julian cited the results of a 1998 U.S. Department of Justice report on women in the criminal justice system that showed a lack of concern for the needs of girls in juvenile justice programs. The study also found that many female juvenile offenders have self-esteem problems either contributing to or resulting from their delinquency problems. It said that current programs, geared more toward the treatment of boys, do not properly address the gender-specific problems that girls face—a vacuum the HEART program hopes to fill. Pharr and Hines hoped that a successful trial-run for HEART could bode well for the future of therapeutic approaches to juvenile institutionalization. “This is a new way of doing things, and each day we are moving forward,” Hines said. “We think this is going to bring a lot of attention to the state of North Carolina.”
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Kennedy said that to reach the goal of proportionate representation, the department developed a plan in 1998 to add 34 new women’s scholarships, with the ultimate goal of adding 106. Kennedy said those additional scholarships needed to be strategically distributed and the total number can fluctuate
and athlete transfers to other schools. “There are all sorts of variables,” Kennedy said. “You can have your nice little tidy numbers, but you are always going to be off.” At an average of $36,218 per scholarship, the University allots the greatest total scholarship ftmds to students in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Kennedy said it is difficult to compare Title IX compliance success with other ACC schools because ofthe wide range of undergraduate enrollment breakdowns. ‘You need to measure compliance with what the female athletes think,” Kennedy said. “Do they feel like they are being equitably treated? I think we’re doing pretty well compared to other places.”
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Both candidates have called for statewide infrastructure investment. Bowles’ plan calls for building new roads throughout eastern North Carolina that will facilitate travel and attract more business. Dole has highlighted support for small businesses as well and has pledged to help displaced workers find jobs in the high-tech sector through community college tuition grants. But statewide, the candidates are most aggressively posturing to claim the mantle of protecting the state’s top industry—agriculture, which has taken a hit from this year’s drought. Both Bowles and Dole promise they can negotiate a tobacco buyout in Congress, which could generate between $5 and $6 billion for farmers.
Expenses and revenues of the University’s 24 teams were also included in the report. Men’s teams accounted for 98 percent ofthe total revenue and 43.9 percent of total expenses. The men’s basketball team took in
the most revenues at $9.3 million, which is 29.2 percent of total revenue, and incurred expenses of $4.8 million. The football team had $6.4 million in revenues and $6.3 million in expenses. Other men’s teams garnered $65,087 in revenues and $3.1 million in expenses. Women’s basketball, which made it to the Women’s Final Four of the NCAA Tournament last year, more than doubled its revenue from 2000-2001 to $321,905, with expenses of $1.7 million. “The revenues for women’s basketball are going up and the interest is going up,” Kennedy said. “There is a lot of potential there, and we are going to be very good this year, so it should continue.”
The numbers also documented the breakdown in gender ofhead coaches of women’s and men’s teams. All 12 men’s teams had male head coaches, but the 12 women’s teams were split evenly between male and female head coaches. The candidates’ plans would end the tobacco quota program that has existed for over 70 years—farmers must buy or rent quotas to grow tobacco. The buyout would provide $8 per pound to quota owners and $4 per pound to growers, allowing farmers the capital to invest in other crops. “The rural communities of North Carolina desperately need the infusion of money that the [tobacco buyout] would bring,” Dole said. “Our farmers have been crying out for help for a long time, and it’s high time that Congress responded by passing my plan now.” Although Dole’s plan has been endorsed by many farm groups, including the North Carolina Farm Bureau and the North Carolina Tobacco Growers Association, Bowles has made the issue one of his top goals. “I don’t think [passing a buyout] will take long,” Bowles said. “It is my number one priority.”
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4pm. The academic deans of Trinity College will sponsor a graduate and professional school fair on the upper level of the Bryan Center. Representatives from more than sixty universities will be available to talk with students about their business, graduate, law and medical schools. Lecture: 12-1 pm. “Aging and Memory Loss: Detection and Prevention,” by Gary W. Small, M.D., UCLA Center on Aging, Los Angeles. Sponsored by Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. Rauch Conf. Room 15103, Ist Floor, Morris Bldg., White Zone, Duke Clinics.
Systematics Seminar: 12:40pm. “Phylogeny of the Lyophylleae (Agaricales, Basidiomycetes); systematic versus ecological transitions in Basidiomycota,” Valerie Hofstetter, Duke University.. 144 Biological Sciences. Popßio Seminar: 7pm. “Combined effects of plant
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 University Program in Ecology Seminar: 12;45pm. “Some economic dimensions of climate change and the future of forests,” Brian Murray, Research Scientist, RTP A247-LSRC. EOS Seminar Series: 4pm. “Responses of Coastal Wetlands to Rising Sea Level,” James T. Morris. 201 Old Chemistry Building. Duke Department of Music Lecture Series: 4pm. “Rethinking the Siena Choirbook: A New Date and Implications for its Musical Contents,” Timothy Dickey. 101 Biddle. Lecture: 4pm. Kate Wolfe-Quintero, Department of Second Language Studies, Director, University of Hawai’i English Language Program University of Principles of Hawai'i at Manoa will speak on Pedagogical Grammar. Carpenter Boardroom. 223 Perkins Library. A reception will follow the talk in the same location. For more information please contact Professor Hae-Young Kim at haeyoung@duke.edu or call 660-4364.
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Religious THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch: 12-1 pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen. Fellowship Weekly Intercultural Christian Gathering: 7:3opm, Thursdays. “Tell Us Your Story” lounge. More info: Guest series. Chapel www.duke.edu/web/icf/, contact: dsw9@duke.edu.
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Wesley Fellowship Eucharist: s:3opm, Thursdays. Wesley Office Chapel Basement.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 Wesley Fellowship Bible Study: 12noon, Fridays. Wesley Office. Shabbat: 6pm, Fridays. Invite your family to experience the joy of Shabbat at Duke. Let us know if you are coming for dinner by Thursday at 5 pm. Email jewishlife@duke.edu. Freeman Center for Jewish Life.
Social Programming and Meetings THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Freewater Films: 7, 9:3opm. “Bringing up Baby." (1938) with Cary Grant. Free to students. $4 for employees
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Hoof N Horn Presents: Bpm. The Mystery of Edwin □rood. Tickets $7 students, $9 general, musical murder mystery to be presented by Hoof N Horn in the Emma Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. Institute of the Arts: Bpm. Quraishi, Music of Afghanistan. Quraishi is a renowned musician dedicated to preserving and interpreting the music of Afghanistan. He will be joined by three members of his ensemble ail playing traditional instruments. Tickets are $l5 for the public, $l2 for students. Call 660-3300. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. East Campus.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 Freewater Films: 7, 9:30 p.m. “Kissing Jessica Stein” with Jennifer Westfeldt, Free to students, $4 for employees and $5 for the public. Call 684-2323. Griffith Rim Theater. Bryan Center, West Campus. The 20th Annual Duke University Jazz Festival: Guest Artist; Joanne Brackeen, Piano.The Duke Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Paul Jeffrey, will be joined by pianist Joanne Bracken. Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus. Tickets may be purchased at the door or by calling the University Box Office at 684-4444. Bpm.
Argentine Tango Social Dance and Tango Performance: Bpm. Performances by Luciana Valle and Alex Krebbs. Free tango lesson by Luciana Valle, 8-9pm. Social Dancing, 9pm-12am. Call Gulden Ozen at 402-9562 or events©triangletangueros.org. Doris Duke Center at Sarah P. Duke Gardens.
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December, the Arts and Science Council will vote on a proposal to permanently approve an opt-in system for the Student Accessible Course Evaluation System, which provides quantitative data on courses through ACES web. The Council should approve this plan, but should not stop thinking about the issue and refining the system to better serve student needs. What is most unfortunate is that the council will vote on the opt-in system, in which professors must choose to be included in the system rather than the opt-out system currently in use, in which professors are included in the system unless they specifically ask to be left out. The danger is that professors will be less likely to put their evaluations online if they have to make an effort to do so, whereas they will be less likely to opt out if their information is automatically posted. However, council chair Ron Witt believes the council would unequivocally deny any proposal to make a permanent opt-out system, so it seems the opt-in system is the only possible option; in any case, any type of online data is preferable to nothing. With an opt-in system, the most important aspect for students is that a large number of professors provide their data. Professors need to recognize that students are both smart and responsible and will use data in a similar manner, and so should continue to provide it. Professors who oppose SAGES generally base their argument either on the premise that students should not be evaluating professors in the first place, so placing data online only codifies an already invalid metric, or that students will abuse the course evaluation data to find the easiest classes or ones with the least amount of work. Neither of these arguments reflects the reality at the University. While undergraduates may not always accurately evaluate the impact of a course or how well the material was covered, they are able to provide general impressions, such as whether the course was intellectually stimulating or if it was a waste of time. Undergraduates may not make perfect judgments about the quality of a course or professor, but they certainly can make such judgments in a general sense. Undergraduates generally do not decide on courses based on difficulty; rather, students choose courses based on the content of the course, the professor and most of all how interesting and stimulating the course will be. Moreover, SAGES is not the only or primary tool used by students to judge classes. Students talk with their peers who have had courses, consult with their adviser or make decisions based on hearsay. Many campus organizations compile their own listing and evaluations of courses. SAGES just adds another piece of information to the large body of resources already available to students. SAGES can only increase the course information, improving students’ decisions about what courses to take. After all, vital to a liberal education is the free flow of information and instruction on how to make good judgments. .
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Swiping cards for bathrooms is safer than keys The plan to secure bathrooms by gender-coding the
bathroom keys for
each
house is a dangerous mistake and will ultimately place an enormous burden on the housing offices, while not providing the safety students need. Issuing new sets of keys to men and women of every house on campus is not a viable solution. Changing the keys to bathroom doors doesn’t resolve the issue that students are still abusing the basic security of a closed, locked door. Students are at risk by propping doors and letting unidentified persons tailgate into our dorms and bathrooms. Keys can only secure doors if they are used and possessed by their legal owners. Also, the University’s plan requires that when one student loses his or her key,
Selective groups In response to Monday’s article regarding locks for coed bathrooms, we cannot help but be disappointed at the lack of dialogue between
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selective living groups on this issue. Being part of a selective living group such as Round Table, we were given the freedom to make in-house decisions on a number of significant issues, one of them being the gender specification of the bathrooms due to our coed halls.
every person in the house receive a new one. This is preposterous. There can be no safety while students wait for a lock-change and no bathroom-use without a new key. Safety isn’t prompt or timely under this system. A simpler solution is found not by the quick, temporary fix the Duke administration provides, but rather by a more extensive and expensive option: DukeCard readers. While initially costly and on taxing physically University resources and facilities, only a cardswipe can really provide comfort, simplicity and ultimately security. Monitoring doors would provide hard evidence of entrance and exit to a secure location.
Conscientious students and additional security precautions, such as telephones and panic buttons must supple-
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ment card readers for all of the student body to be safe in their homes. The difficulty of enacting
this plan is daunting, but we issue a challenge to the University Explain what possible advantages a key has over a card. There are none
beyond cost. Why do we have DukeCard readers at our residence hall’s entrances but not at our bathrooms, even in
brand-new housing facilities? As students concerned about safety and security on campus, we say we are willing to accept its costs. The question is, why isn’t Duke?
Chris Bond Trinity ’O3
David
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Whether or not a bathroom is to be coed was decided upon at the beginning of the semester by members of the same hall. Consequently, to use gender-specific locks would be extremely inconvenient and impractical given the setup of our dorm.
most Furthermore, Round Table members feel more secure that our male members can get into the restrooms. Perhaps a reasonable compromise might involve hall-specific locks,
to narrow down those who have access to certain bathrooms. Either way, as a co-ed selective living group, we strongly feel that we should be involved in the decisionmaking process regarding gender specific locks on our
bathroom doors. SUGANDHI CHUGANI Trinity ’O4 Siegel Trinity ’O4
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The writers are co-presidents of Round Table
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Few and far between If you want to put me in a total state of confusion, force me to watch a football game. Unfortunately, I must admit to all you football fanatics that my knowledge is limited to “the guy who catches and runs as far as he can before getting tackled” (I believe this is the quarterback), “the guy who throws the ball,” and last but definitely not least “the big guys in the middle who tackle.” I must apologize to all of you for my ignorance, as I am sure the sport of football consists of much more than my overly simplistic breakdown. Despite my selfproclaimed ignorance, I’m confident in the following: Every football team plays with one goal in mind—to win. I have already confessed that lam a Hh|
bona fide football moron; therefore, the dynamics of why Duke’s football team vj.i 1 IKY a,:u has the stigma of such a disappointing record must be broken down into basic Jusu terms. Yet, a nagging feeling I call com- Hot and Bothered mon sense draws me to the conclusion that this dreary record is a consequence ofbad coaching. Carl Franks is in his fourth year of a five-year contract. Duke would have a hard time justifying retaining him after another fruitless season. In fight of a USA Today article I happened to peruse, I was forced to battle with the obvious dearth of black college coaches. Had a black coach been responsible for such a poor record, would he finger as long as Franks has? There is a scarcity of black football coaches, with only five African-American head coaches among 117 head coaches in Division I-A. In a recent move to action, the Black Coaches Association is warning colleges it will steer prospects away from institutions that do not improve minority-hiring practices. In an era when “affirmative action” has become a divisive buzzword at colleges and universities across the country, college athletics in the United States, according to the Northeastern University’s Center for Sport in Society racial report card, provide the fewest opportunities for blacks in coaching and management-level positions. In an attempt to clearly illustrate this problem, I must supply oft-overlooked statistics. The Center for Sport in Society reports that blacks make up 46.4 percent of the players in college football, yet they constitute a paltry 4.7 percent ofthe head football coaches. Do these numbers make sense? There are multiple factors involved in the lack of black coaches at the college and university level. Oftentimes the hiring criteria are expressed in a fashion that unfairly eliminates blacks from the beginning with job announcements indicating that applicants should have Division I head coaching experience. If the job is looking for previous experience head coaching at a Division I level, then you are currently only referring to the five existing black coaches. What’s more, the decision to hire particular coaches is often a decision that is not reserved for athletic departments to make on their own. At many colleges, such as Duke University, the alumni and boosters are controlling the funds for these programs. If you control the money you have major influence on those decisions. Division I football is surprisingly a big money business. Too many black coaches running around would probably disrupt people’s comfort zones, and consequently, their money flows. Realistically, this situation will not change drastically until blacks begin to gain positions as athletic directors, where they can have more say in whom to recruit and hire. It would be a great disservice for me to ignore the fact that steps, although small, are currently being taken to
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Democracy is a funny word. It doesn’t have a universal definition; rather it is defined by different groups of people for different interests. The U.S. government, for example, uses the word democracy to mean neoliberal economics. I would like to try to imagine a different definition toward a dif% ferent end. Especially in a time of silencing dissent, it is imperative that f we try to understand what the poten1 i tial of working democratically for A|| L democracy is. ak m The Zapatistas in Chiapas Mexico Jessica use the expression “Mandar obedeciendo,” which roughly translates Rutter into English as to rule and obey at Left Turn on Red the same time. In an ideal democra-
the classroom. Children are socialized into the world through many ideological outlets, including media, religion and family. However, many times school is the first opportunity for children to interact with their peers and to face an authority figure in a “professional setting.” Children are taught from their first day in kindergarten to listen when the teacher speaks, to raise their hands, to be deferential and to allow authority to define their learning process. If we could begin to change this process, perhaps we could change the way we participate in our society. We should pay attention to power and try to use it while at the same time obeying others. Leadership is being engaged in a democratic process. It is being critical and productive at the same time. It is experimenting and opening to change. We should never trust cy, there would be formal and informal authority in authority without a reason to do so. Just because all people. All people would be treated in away that someone is a professor, a doctor, a lawyer, a president is respectful and that encourages them to critique or a senator does not mean that he is competent or has and engage in society. People would participate in the inherent right to tell us what to do, where to go or collective decisions. how to live our lives. Many Duke students will some Racism, sexism, homophobia and the existence day occupy these positions and will have the ability to of social and economic classes are all obstacles to change these roles. democracy. These oppressions silence voices and Democracy is only possible where there is trust. undermine economic and political freedoms. We need to be honest and trust each other in order to Hierarchies, whether formal or informal, often develop democratic social relations. We need to impede on freedoms and dehumanize those are democratize the media and our classrooms where we disenfranchised. are given our assumptions through the naturalizaThe concept of democracy is so warped in our tion of inequality. While the United States prepares to launch preminds right now that we cannot even imagine what it would look like. Democracy does not simply mean emptive strikes on Iraq, we should question who would representation, but rather reaching consensus and benefit from this action. Iraqis who are killed will not doing what is best for the collective group. It is the benefit. Americans in the military who will die will not exact opposite of a capitalist system, the dominant benefit. Americans who rely on social programs that get cut due to the military budget will not benefit. I definition in the United States. We cannot quickly transform our culture into one will not benefit. Oil companies, the military complex that is truly democratic. Nothing short of a total and and President George W. Bush might benefit. But if we complete revolution in our economic system and the are working for democracy we need to assert that this way we function could. However, we can try, practice war is not good for the people of the United States, nor and experiment with democracy at every chance we the majority of people in the world. get. We can question authority, make change within Jessica Rutter is a Trinity junior. Her column runs oppressive structures and take power for ourselves. One of the best ways to begin this process is within every other Thursday.
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Being honest with p -frosh When you were considering Duke as a high school senior, did you know about security issues, community strife and over-zealous meter maids? This past weekend, I was on a “first-year residential life” panel with other undergraduates in
front of North and South Carolinia prospective students. The audience asked questions about FOCUS, East Campus living, move-in day, coed dorms and orientation. Those were pretty easy. slpp One mom asked us about campus ■
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improve this disparity. Tyrone Willingham has recently pretty sugarcoated answers. Of become the first black head coach at Notre Dame in any course, we all spoke some semblance sport and has also assumed one of the most prestigious of the truth, but subconsciously or positions in college football. Note the fact that this man not we made key omissions. is not simply a brown pawn used to fill a space of white“Lots of measures are taken to ness; he has all the desirable qualifications necessary for keep people safe. It’s pretty much like every other school.” Or “you successful coaching. I am not at all arguing that coaching spots be blindly don’t really notice socio-economic filled with black coaches regardless of their coaching divisions. It’s always nice to have potential—that would be absurd. Rather, it is important rich friends with cars.” These sorts that all qualified candidates be considered, regardless of of answers made me uncomfortrace. In regards to our football team here at Duke, the able, and I have been grappling with my inability at the time to talent exists. I am not questioning whether we are capable of having a formidable team. Yet, the glaring fact that give what I believe to be more comFranks has had a dismal record over such a long period plete answers. Looking back at my p-frosh visit oftime makes me wonder if this institution would be just as merciful had Franks been one of the few existing to Duke, I remember hearing about black football coaches. only one substantial campus issue. As an officer in the Black Student Nikyatu Jusu is a Trinity sophomore. Alliance, my friend/host had a vest-
Ed interest in the Horowitz ad that had just run in March 2001. He gave me the inside scoop on various responses the ad elicited. Besides that, everything was just rosy. Duke was a great big family community. The administration always made sensible policies. There was no conflict between selectives and independents. Everyone felt safe and secure anywhere on campus. Trent Drive Hall was a great place to live! We all know this school has its problems. But it’s too easy to say “Oh well. Every university goes through the same crap. Duke’s no different.” In reality, how true is that notion? Granted, there are some issues here non-unique to Duke. And then there are the others. Practically everyone has his or her laundry list of concerns and complaints that could be strung up on the quad for prospective firstyears to read. Enough of just perusing the dazzling viewbook. How exactly do we present an honest and complete picture of this school to prospective students? What do we say to p-ffosh staying in our hall or to the ones running around the quad during Blue Devil Days? Should we reveal different information in official and unofficial capacities? Do we mention the spate of violence and security breaches? What about the inane and ill-conceived alcohol policy? Or the crime against humanity that is the bus system? Or the ruinous social engineering project on West Campus? To the administrators enjoying
“an exciting new culinary experience” in The Oak Room Grille; Don’t worry. There is a flip side. Students do have great things to say about Duke. Otherwise, we would have nothing to tell p-frosh, and we
would all transfer while “genderspecific locks” are being installed in bathrooms to deter potential assailants. I, myself, was once Duke’s biggest critic. I’ve come to love a lot about my Duke experience. Now I only spread good words when talking to people from my high school. But therein lies the problem. I just don’t know how to balance the good with the bad. This fall, p-frosh again flock onto campus. Their parents lug around bags from the Duke store loaded with Duke paraphernalia. Tour guides trip over the useless little brown poles everywhere on the corners of main West. What do we say to the inquisitive high school seniors walking around in droves? “Duke, Duke, mutha’ f—a’s” as I would intoxicatingly yell in Cameron? Or “get out while you still can?” Unfortunately, I have no solution to this dilemma. I guess I
still have to resolve this quandary myself. I just hope there aren’t any p-frosh reading this column. On second thought, maybe I do. Go Duke?!
Christopher Scoville is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.
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