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Final Stretch Head football coach Carl Franks said his team is going back to fundamentals after a week off. See page 9

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Group hopes to spur Iraq debate A new campus group of faculty members, students and administrators, called Iraq and US, is looking to create more dialogue from hawks, doves and “owls” on the Iraq situation. By JENNIFER HASVOLD The Chronicle

Members of Iraq and US, a new working group comprised Of faculty members, staff, students and administrators, met for their fourth weekly meeting Monday night to discuss ways to engage the Duke community in dialogue about the issues surrounding a potential war with Iraq. The group, including notable campus leaders such as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe and James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus John Hope Franklin, claims to be neither pro-war nor anti-war. It began when James Joseph, professor of the practice in public policy studies and former U.S. ambassador to South Africa, received e-mails from individuals interested in having a conversation on Iraq that was open to and representative of diverse perspectives.

During the first meeting, the group discussed three positions on a potential war with Iraq—hawks support unilateral action against Iraq, so-called owls recognize the need for multilateral force if Iraq continues to pose an imminent threat and doves oppose going to war with Iraq under any conditions. After discussing the classifications, Joseph said the group considered itself representative of all three. The common thread during the meeting was a desire to encourage discussion about the possibility See IRAQ AND US on page 6

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LUNAR NEW YEAR, an annual Asian Students Association presentation, is one of the many cultural events sponsored by various student groups on campus. A new task force hopes to improve advising of such groups and their events.

Task force examines club advising Student activities office hopes to make system more equitable By MOLLY NICHOLSON The Chronicle

In an attempt to address longstanding concerns about weak and inconsistent advising for student organizations, administrators have established a task force to examine the current system. Zoila Airall, assistant vice president for campus life, organized the task force to continue efforts by

both Duke Student Government and the Office ofUniversity Life for several years to improve advising—-

specifically the connection between advisers and their student groups. “It’s not like people were saying that we had terrible advising,” Airall said. Rather, she added, many people feel the advising system is inequitable. “Some organizations get very good advising, some organizations get average and some get none, and [students feel] that the reason that might have happened is that a set of expectations has not been established,” Airall said.

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Senior Dave Russell has to duck his head when he walks into his room, for fear that his tall frame will hit the low pipes running along the ceiling just an inch above him. While this inconvenience is a disadvantage to Russell, he enjoys—for the most part—being one of only 463 seniors who chose to live on West Campus this year, compared with about 530 in previous years. Due to new housing assignment rules or just personal preference, many students decide to live off campus their last year at Duke. While apartments or houses can offer the luxuries ofpersonal space and independence, the seniors who do live on campus find the convenience overwhelmingly favorable. These seniors don’t have to deal with parking on a daily basis just to get to class. They don’t worry about cooking all their meals. And they often are quite happy living with selective groups, blocks, or perhaps inde-

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Eric Meyers Bernice and Morton Lerner professor of relicautions that a recent archaelogical discovery may not necessarily relate to Jesus of Nazareth. See page 3

The Graduate School is offering more information to prospective students while joining a national forum on combatting attrition rates. See page 3

Brian Denton, assistant dean of university life, coordinator of advising and an adviser for a variety of groups—including DSG, Cable 13 and the East Campus Coffeehouse—said that although the Office of Student Activities encourages student groups to find an active adviser, the groups are not always successful. “The idea for getting the adviser is to find someone interested See ADVISING on page 5

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has tried to foster with its new residential life plan—seems to be missing from their fives. Russell admits that being able to stop by his room between classes or easily getting home after a night with friends are the clearest advantages to living on campus. When he was a freshman, he felt that only seniors and maybe a few lucky juniors could get singles on campus, and he was ready to wait his turn. It happened to be a lot more trouble than he thought, when as a senior he saw better housing going to sophomores because of new rules mandating all sophomores five on West Campus. “It seems odd that a university, which has made such a big deal recently about creating a sense of community on campus, would adopt a policy that drives people off campus, and makes it more difficult for those students living off campus to get to campus,” he

wrote in an e-mail.

Fellow senior Erin AUingham, currently the president of the Women’s Studies selective house in the West-Edens Link, chose to live on campus because she said all her older friends See SENIORS on page 7 Danish Ambassador Ulrik Federspiel addressed the role of ethics in foreign policy generally and in the recent confrontation between Iraq and the United States. See page 4

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Barkley says he will not align for session

Dean Barkley said Monday he will not vote with either party when he becomes Minnesota’s interim senator, leaving Democrats in temporary Senate control during a post-election session that President George W. Bush wants used to complete homeland security legislation. •

Officials say al Qaeda leaders relocated

Most of al Qaeda’s surviving leaders have relocated to Pakistan, although a few have slipped away to countries in Asia and North Africa, defense and counterterrorism officials said. •

Box cutters guidelines not upheld

Airlines failed to enforce their own pre-Sept. 11 security guidelines requiring airport screeners to confiscate box cutters from passengers, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. •

Study connects heat and blood vessel damage

Researchers report a toxic compound formed when sugar, proteins and fat are cooked at high temperatures may increase blood vessel damage in diabetics, encouraging cooks to lower the temperature. •

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Storms ravage central U.S., kill 35

Tornadoes and thunderstorms left 200 more injured across a five-state region By DUNCAN MANSFIELD The Associated Press

MOSSY GROVE, Term. Searchers and dazed survivors went from one shattered home to another Monday, picking through splintered lumber and tom sheet metal for any sign of the missing, after twisters and thunderstorms killed at least 35 people in five states. More than 70 reported tornadoes cut a path of destruction from Louisiana to Pennsylvania over the weekend and into Monday. Sixteen deaths were reported in Tennessee, 12 in Alabama, five in Ohio and one each in Mississippi and Pennsylvania. More than 200 people were injured. ‘Yesterday, we had a nice brick

house and four vehicles. Today, we don’t own a toothbrush,” said Susan Henry of Mossy Grove, where seven people were killed and at least 40 were still unaccounted for as of

midafternoon. The tiny community 40 miles west of Knoxville was nearly wiped off the map, with about a dozen ofthe 20 or so homes reduced to concrete foundations and piles of rubble a few feet high. The tornado—estimated by the National Weather Service as being between 200- and 300-yards wide—cut a five-mile path across Morgan County. Henry, her husband and two children survived after taking shelter in the basement of a neighbor’s home that collapsed around them.

“It was just deafening it was so said 17-year-old Tabatha Henry. ‘You could hear the wood pop in the house, and that was it. Then all you could hear was the screaming and praying.” Daylight brought a picture of destruction. In Mossy Grove, clothes fluttered from tree limbs. Power lines dangled from poles. Cars lay crumpled after being tossed like toys. About the only sound was the bleating of a battery-operated smoke alarm buried deep in the rubble. Searchers believed that most of the missing in and around Mossy Grove were okay and had simply

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Bush promises veterans full force in Iraq By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press

In somber tribute to soldiers of WASHINGTON wars past, President George W. Bush said Monday he will commit “the full force and might of the United States military” against Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses

to disarm swiftly. As the rubber-stamping Iraqi parliament condemned a

U.S.-backed United Nations resolution, Bush used two Veterans Day addresses to underscore his impatience. “The time to confront this threat is before it arrives, not the day after,” he told several dozen veterans during an East Room ceremony. Behind the scenes, Bush has approved tentative Pentagon plans for invading Iraq should a new UN. arms inspection effort fail to rid the nation of weapons of mass

destruction. The strategy calls for a land, sea and air force of 200,000 to 250,000 troops, administration officials said, as they sought to build up pressure on Saddam to relent. “We have to keep, in a sense, a gun pointed to the head of the Iraqi regime because that’s the only way they cooperate,” Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told National Public Radio’s The Tauis Smiley Show. The talk of war grew to a crescendo just three days after the U.N. Security Council approved a tough new resolution with an unexpected 15-0 vote. Iraq has until Friday to accept the resolution that would send U.N. inspectors back to Baghdad after an absence of nearly four years See VETERANS on page 7

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Meyers discusses archaeological find Grad school offers more information

By JENNIFER HASVOLD The Chronicle Two weeks ago the average American had no idea what the word ossuary

meant. But, after experts announced that a recently uncovered ancient stone receptacle may contain the bones of James, alleged brother of Jesus, the word is entering the modem lexicon. However, Eric Meyers, Bernice and Morton Lemer professor of religion, cautions that the authenticity of the finding is still questionable. “This is an important finding—it is not a monumental finding because it comes from a looted context,” Meyers said. “This finding is by no means a slam dunk.” Meyers observed that because the artifact was not discovered, archaeologically, it is difficult to determine whether it is genuine. The 2,000-year-old ossuary was first identified as potentially belonging to James when its owner showed the relic to a scholar of ancient

languages. An Aramaic inscription on the box read, “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” The Geological Survey of Israel conducted tests on the stone which verified its age, and analyses of the ossuary’s inscription traced its origins to between 20 B.C. to 70 A.D. Because the origin of the ossuary remains unknown, it is possible that it belonged to another individual with the same name and family relations.

“These three names are like Tom, Dick and Harry,” said Meyers, director of the graduate program in religion. Although the notion of Jesus as a historical figure has been widely accepted by experts for nearly a century, Meyers noted that the ossuary, if authentic, would be the oldest extra-biblical evidence of Jesus’ existence. More importantly, if the ossuary is indeed that of the biblical James, it strengthens the claim that the nascent Christian community followed many Jewish traditions—in this case, burial traditions, since ossuaries in the first

� In an effort to combat attrition, the Graduate School is participating in a national forum to share ideas on how to address the trend. By KIRA ROSOFF The Chronicle

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potentially demonstrate! how deeply rooted in Jewish practice was the early Jerusalem church,” Meyers said. The finding could also influence Roman Catholic doctrine, since it con-

cerns James’s biological relationship with

Jesus, said Professor Kyle McCarter, chair ofthe Near Eastern studies department at The Johns Hopkins University. In Roman Catholic theology, Mary, the mother of Jesus, is considered to have always remained a virgin, a belief complicated by the notion that the New Testament calls James Jesus’ brother. One way to reconcile this conflict is to posit that James was the son of Joseph

from a previous marriage; another relies on the fact that the Greek and Aramaic word “brother’ can refer to any kinsman. However, ifproven to be that of the biblical James, the inscription on the ossuary may erode the latter argument. Meyers, who was recently quoted in articles in Time magazine and The New York Times as a leading authority on the topic, will lecture on the ossuary at the annual symposium of the Society for Biblical Literature, which convenes in Toronto in two weeks. “Meyers is recognized as a leading authority on the material culture of the Greco-Roman period in the Holy Land, and so he is one of the first people you would think of to ask for an opinion

about this,” McCarter said.

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As the Graduate School continues to look at ways to reduce attrition rates, graduate school officials have signed off on a pilot program that will evaluate attrition rates in late-year students and students who leave before the end of their third year in graduate school. Debra Stewart, president of the Council of Graduate Schools—a consortium of graduate schools nationwide—met this fall with Duke administrators to discuss attrition and also to help assess Duke’s role in reversing the negative trend. Administrators said that as a result of the meeting, they hope to be able to increase the availability of information for prospective students. Lewis Siegel, dean of the Graduate School, said the main goal is to provide as much information as possible about graduate programs. He said the University is the first private institution nationwide to provide this level of transparency for students. “The Duke Graduate School is in the leadership, nationally, in looking at Ph.D. attrition rates,” Stewart said. “They have been very innovative in putting this information down on their

web page.”

“Students want to have information about the program as well as [about] students in the program,” she said. “They want to know the likelihood of completing the degree.” See ATTRITION on page 6

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Danish ambassador highlights ethics in foreign policy By ROBERT MORRIS The Chronicle

Federspiel used examples from the foreign policy ofhis own country to illustrate some other ethical issues. “The philosophy

As the European Union considers the addition of 10 new countries into its ranks, that the stronger should always help the its chief representative—Ulrik Federspiel, weaker is a fundamental part of Danish the ambassador of Denmark to the United foreign policy,” he said. When, in the summer of 1991, three States —addressed the issue of ethics in foreign policy before a collection of about Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia and Lithua50 students Monday. nia—wished to assert their independence His speech was the keynote event in from the Soviet Union, Denmark became the Honor Council Ethics and Integrity the first country to formally recognize foreign relations with them. In the short peseries. Denmark currently holds the bianriod before any other country followed nually-rotating presidency of the European Union, making Federspiel its official Denmark’s lead, it was uncertain how the representative in Washington, D.C., until Soviet Union would respond. the end of this year. In his opening com“It was a scary forty-eight hours,” he said. Federspiel devoted the end ofhis speech ments, he quoted a poem by the Danish poet and scientist Piet Hein to describe to the decisions surrounding Iraq. “Iraq is the diplomat’s role: “I see and I hear and a perfect case to study for ethics in foreign policy,” he said. I speak no evil.” Most ofthe question-and-answer period Federspiel compared the first line of Duke’s honor code, “I will not lie, cheat, or was dominated by questions about Iraq. steal in my academic endeavors,” to the Although some audience members critiethical conduct of foreign policy. He cited cized the E.U. for its lack of support of the the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe United States’ position, many felt that Euafter World War II as one case study in in- rope was unethically focusing on Iraq preternational ethics. He said it was not cisely because ofUS. pressure. Other members of the audience were merely an altruistic act, but it also “stabilized growth and stimulated trade, which disappointed with Federspiel’s responses. benefited every country involved, includDoug Wade, a retiree from Durham, said, “I thought he was very diplomatic, meaning the American donor.” Federspiel emphasized the fluid nature ing that he side-stepped a lot of issues.” Federspiel concluded his remarks with of international ethics. “Ethics in foreign policy must be viewed as situational a charge to the University community in ethics,” he said. “It must be the combinaparticular to continue debating the question of the procedural norms of internation of ethics. “It is imperative that we do tional law with the circumstances of each not lose track of ethics in foreign policy,” situation.” He stressed' however, that he said. “Academia bears the responsibilithese circumstances are not “the excuse ty for promoting the debate that will beULRIK FEDERSPIEL, the Danish ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy Monday, emphasizing the role of ethics in foreign policy. that merit the means.” come part of the decision.”

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ADVISING from page 1 and connected with the organization, and in many cases it is, but many times it’s just a name on a piece of paper,” Denton said. Sue Coon, director of the Office of Student Activities, wrote in an e-mail that another weakness in the advising system is the lack of advising guidelines. “There is no formalized training for advisers, and no clear expectations,” she wrote. “Some of this stems from the incredible range of student organizations, from those that have no budget and not much activity, to those that have sizable budgets and major programming activities.” Some students have also expressed concern over the advising system in the past. Senior Richard Rivera, Mi Gente co-president, said the group stays in close contact with its adviser, Julian Sanchez, director of the Office of Intercultural Affairs. “He’s been really good; we go to him with any questions we have,” Rivera said. “I think you have to be very proactive with advisers on this campus. There’s a lot of keeping them updated on things you’re doing... but a lot of students get stuck in a rut where they don’t use them as best as they can.” However, as a member of Phi Sigma Pi, a national honor fraternity, Rivera said that group had lost touch with its adviser. Though he did not think having an adviser should be required, Rivera thought the task force should highly recommend both advisers for every group and a central location where groups can go for advice. To more systematically assess advising, the task force e-mailed a survey to the presidents of organizations and their advisers last week, asking them to critique the advising system and suggest improvements. Additionally, Airall said the new task force has looked at about 30 other schools’ advising systems as possible models. “We found some schools that were like Duke and said that things needed to be improved, _

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and then other schools had parts of their advising system that we thought looked interesting,” she said. Some schools only required advising for groups that had a great deal of funding. Many schools without advisers provided orientations for student groups, while others provided instructive orientations or manuals for advisers with a list of answers to frequently asked questions by student groups.

Eventually, Airall said, she hopes the task force will move toward recommending a onestop center where students will be able to go for all of their advising information. “A lot of times, it’s not so much that you need to have the answer, but you need to know where to send the students,” Airall said. Currently, Coon wrote, each student organization is required to have an adviser to be recognized. “Most groups approach either faculty or staffwith interests similar to the organization and request that the faculty member or staff person become their adviser,” she wrote. Because administrators and faculty both advise student groups, Airall said she wanted to take those different roles into account. As the task force examines the current model, Airall said she also recognizes that there are different levels of advising. “We don’t want to make the expectations so stringent that people will say ‘Well, I can’t be an adviser,”’ she said. “For example, the Chess Club isn’t going to need the same advising as the Union. We don’t want an advising system that’s cumbersome.” After compiling their research, the group plans to submit ideas for an improved advising system to the Office of Student Activities, which would fine-tune and implement those suggestions. Any changes would go into effect at the beginning of the next academic year. “This is a critique of the advising system as we know it,” Airall said. “This is certainly not to say that what’s happening now is bad because it’s n0t.... This is only to strengthen the system.”

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of war with Iraq between these categories “The first conversation could have been an end in itself, where people met [once] to talk about Iraq,” Joseph said. “It was the decision of the group that as an academic community we ought to be engaging the rest of the community in the substantive issues

been unable to get in touch with family members, said Steven Hamby, Morgan County director of emergency medical sendees. The storm knocked out telephone service and blocked roads. No bodies had been found since early’Monday, but Hamby said digging out could take weeks. “We’re hoping that weTe past the bad stuff,” he said. In Carbon Hill, Ala., 70 miles northwest of Birmingham, seven people were killed by nighttime storms that sent giant hardwood trees crashing down on

involved.” After the first meeting, group leaders sent e-mails to various faculty members, administrators, staff members and students whom they knew were interested in Iraq’s current political situation with other nations. The group includes other notable campus figures such as Kenan Institute for Ethics Director Elizabeth Kiss, Hart Leadership Program Director Alma Blount and Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture Director Leon Dunkley. There are approximately five undergraduates involved with the group’s projects. “I don’t know why more students don’t come,” said freshman Emily LaDue, who attended her first Iraq and US meeting this week. “[The group is] really glad to have students here.” Group members decided on the name Iraq and US with the intent of being ambiguous—the title could be interpreted as referring to the United States or us. The purpose of last night’s meeting was to discuss the logistics of Iraq and US’s campaign for awareness and dialogue next week. The group is organizing a series of events to take place Nov. 18 to 20, including three panels—American perceptions of Iraq, ways to resolve the conflict and the relationship between the United States and Iraq. The group is also sponsoring a video presentation and artistic events reflecting on war. Chafe is encouraging faculty members to provide space and time in their classrooms during the first part of the week to discuss issues pertinent to conflict with Iraq, Joseph said. “Here is this critical event, primarily for policymakers, but it seems like it would be a real mistake for us not to be partaking in it personally,” Joseph said. “We believe that the debate about Iraq is really a debate about the [United States’] role in the world.”

houses and mobile homes. Sheryl Wakefield cowered in her concrete storm shelter and listened to a twister roar down the country road where her extended family lives in six homes. Her sister and niece were killed when their doublewide mobile home was thrown across the street, its metal frame twisted around a tree. “Everybody’s house is just totally, gone. My son doesn’t even know where his house is,” she said through tears. “It’s gone. It’s just gone.” At the now roofless Carbon Hill Elementary School, fourth-grader Johnny Rosales looked through a win-

ATTRITION from page 3 Early attrition, which constitutes about two-thirds of the entire attrition rate, presents a more serious problem than attrition later in the doctorate process, Siegel said. After three years, students who do not want to be in the program will not gain anything from sticking it out, he added. Often, the school will give those students a masters degree for their work. “Deans will say that any dropout rate is bad,” Siegel said. “They would say that is it terrible for students and a waste of time and resources.... The faculty convinced Debra that it was not such a bad thing though. It’s a chance for students to get their feet wet.” Stewart said some attrition will always be expected as students question their motivations: “The objective should not necessarily be so strict that schools only want

dow into the rubble that was once his classroom. It was only five months ago that the town’s high school burned down, and the boy said he does not know where he will go to school now. “I’ll guess they’ll bulldoze it like they did the high school,” he said. Dan McCarthy of the federal Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said unseasonably warm weather—in the 80s —Sunday, followed by a cold front, made conditions perfect for the rash of twisters, some ofwhich were estimated to be at least in the F-3 category, with winds ranging from 158

mph to 206 mph. It was the nation’s biggest swarm of tornadoes from a single weather system since more than 70 twisters some topping 300 mph—killed 50 people in Oklahoma and Kansas in May 1999. Broadcast storm warnings preceded twisters in the most hard-hit areas. In Alabama, National Weather Service forecaster Ken Graham said 46 tornado warnings were issued in an 11 1/2-hour period, and everywhere that had damage was under a tornado warning at the time the storms occurred. “We’re very proud of that,” Graham said. “We think we saved some lives last night.” —

students in the programs until they graduate or die.” One aspect of the program will include meetings between Siegel and the heads of each graduate department, and will focus on eight factors related to attrition, from student selection to advising. “Once we gather this information, we will bring the similar disciplines together in order to facilitate discussions,” Siegel said. “Maybe the ones with higher attrition can learn from the ones with lower attrition.” Stewart said that as information is collected, the Council of Graduate Schools will begin the Ph.D. Completion Project, bringing together deans of graduate schools from around the country, as well as several students who have either completed graduate school, who are working on their doctorates or who have dropped out of programs. “Duke will be one of those schools that we will put in a leadership position,” Stewart said.

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SENIORS from page 1 were happy living there for four years. She agreed, however, that the sophomores on West and their linked housing from freshman dorms are pushing upperclassmen off campus. “It ruins the fairly tightly knit community that Duke

boasts,” Allingham said. Senior Paul Hutchison agreed, noting that the new residential structure has further separated the student body into smaller groups. As a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, Hutchison has lived in section for three years and praises the sense of community among the brothers brought about by living together. He said, however, that the interaction among independents and within quads has diminished to a low level. “I see very few doors open. It doesn’t look like there’s a lot of interaction [among independents],” Hutchison said. “And I haven’t seen any sort of quad pride that was [evident] the past two or three years.” Others expressed hope that sense of community would improve in future years. They agreed that having sophomores on West has disrupted a sense of community for upperclassmen. “Maybe for upcoming classes, it will foster a new sense of community... but any change you make is going to affect the people who are not used to it,” said Julie Cooper, a senior and member of Maxwell House. For the few seniors who remain on campus, they are now forced to deal with the changes ofwhat Cooper calls a “forced community.” For example, Cooper said that there are so few seniors on campus that they are likely to greet each other, even if they do not know each other well, just because it is unusual to see a familiar face. Bill Burig, assistant dean of residence life, recognized that seniors may not want to live on campus. Instead of enforcing a mandatory policy for all four years, Duke has mandated that students live on campus for at least three of their four years. Burig, who said the decision reflects the general tendency of students to live on campus at least three years, also said much can be learned in a residential environment. “[What students can learn in dormsl parallels what students learn in the classroom,” Burig said.

SPEAKING AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, President George W. Bush, flanked by Veterans’ Affairs Secretary Tony Princip, marked the day by a speech to war veterans in which he promised to commit all of the United States’s forces to disarming Iraq

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U.N. resolution, and a senior lawmaker urged that it be rejected—a prospect that likely would bring on a war with the United States.

Rice dismissed the response and the parliament. with broad new powers to go anywhere at any time backed by the threat of force. “I don’t think anyone believes this is anything but With the clock ticking, Bush visited Arlington Naan absolute dictatorship and this decision is up to Sadtional Cemetery, laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Undam Hussein,” she told reporters at the White House. knowns, praised America’s veterans and pledged his reEven if Saddam accepts the resolution, Rice said she will remain skeptical. solve against terrorism and Iraq. “We will not permit a dictator who has used “They are obligated to accept, but the U.N. weapons of mass destruction to threaten America with thought it best to ask for return-receipt requested,” chemical, biological or nuclear weapons,” the president she said. said. “This great nation will not live at the mercy of Bush himself said Iraq is behind the eight-ball. any foreign plot or power.” “No enemy that threatens our security or endanStanding beneath the marble dome of the cemegers our people will escape the patient justice and the tery’s flag-draped amphitheater, the president drew overwhelming power of the United States ofAmerica,” cheers and whistles of approval when he declared, he said in the East Room. “Should military action be“The dictator of Iraq will hilly disarm or the United come necessary for our own security, I will commit the States will lead a coalition to disarm him.” full force and might of the United States military, and In Baghdad, Iraq’s parliament condemned the we will prevail.”

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Franks working on team’s fundamentals for Tech By ROBERT SAMUEL The Chronicle

Seeming more relaxed than usual at his weekly press conference, headfootball coach Carl Franks spent the bye week working on the fundamentals that he believes have been forgotten during the

season when every game is a must-win. “You don’t normally get time during the season, though we do spend time on fundamentals in each practice, because you’ve got to move on to the team you are playing,” Franks said. ‘You have to prepare for the schemes they have, and the different things you have to do to get ready to play a game. So we made sure we took some time to work on fun-

damentals at each position.” Franks said that the defense worked on tackling and producing turn-overs, while the offense worked on its angles and steps with the quarterbacks practicing their throwing mechanics.

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“[We worked on] just general things that we tried to clean up that you might have gotten sloppy on the course of the season,” Franks said. Franks stressed that he did not approve of sophomore quarterback Adam Smith’s performance against Maryland, saying Smith played much better against Clemson, even though he over-threw his receivers a number of times. Franks called over-throwing much better than

under-throwing because eventually receivers will catch the long passes. “You cannot under-throw the ball,” Franks said. Franks also addressed the poor play of kicker Brent Garber of late. Franks said that the strong-legged junior had hurt himself warming up for the game against Clemson, but did not tell the coach. Franks said that Garber is questionable for Saturday’s game against GeorgiaTech. Franks said he gave the players off Friday Nov. 8 and Saturday Nov. 9 to rest. He said that this allowed many players who would have been slowed by injuries, including junior running back Chris Douglas, to be at 100 percent. “We had some guys that weren’t at full speed this week that will be now,” Franks said. “We needed a little bit of time off.” Franks also said that he used the extra time to look at Georgia Tech, Saturday’s opponent, more carefully. He said that he was greatly impressed with its linebackers. “We’re first in the conference against the rush, and they’re second,” Franks said. “They’ve been impressive to watch play. They’re linebackers are very athletic. They mix-it-up up front quite a bit.” See FOOTBALL on page 10

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After a sensational freshman season in which she averaged 14.3 points per game and was named second team All-ACC, Monique Currie appeared poised to make an even bigger leap for the Blue Devils in 2002-2003. During the offseason she had noticeably improved her shooting range, her athleticism and her defensive abilities, improvements that suggested the 6-foot small forward would help lead the preseason No.l women’s basketball team to postseason glory. Five seconds into the Blue Devils’ Nov. 5 season-opening exhibition game against Premier Players, however, those plans were dramatically altered. A tom ACL had finished Currie’s season. One week later, as she prepared for upcoming reconstructive surgery, Currie took time to reflect on her injury’s ramifications, both to herself and the team. “We’re still going to have a great season this year,” she said. “I just would have liked to have been part of it. I still have a lot of faith in the team. We can still win a national championship, which is our ultimate goal. But everyone is going to have to step up their game to replace what I’m not contributing.” A number of factors have helped Currie maintain such a positive attitude. First, although she suffered a complete tear to her anterior cruciate ligament, her injury does not included damage to the any of the surrounding ligaments, a factor which should facilitate her rehabilitation. Secondly, because the injury occurred early in the Blue See CURRIE on page 12

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Bonds unanimously voted five-time NL MVP The Associated Press

NEW YORK Barry Bonds is winning Most Valuable Player awards so fast and so often, he does not know what to do with them. “All my trophies are in storage. I don’t have a house big enough,” Bonds said Monday after winning the National League MVP for a record fifth time. “I happen to have a little house in San Francisco. I’ve been living out of storage for the last eight, nine years now.” Bonds, the only baseball player with more than three MVP awards, won it unanimously for the first time. The San Francisco Giants outfielder received all 32 first-place votes and 448 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. “I’d rather win the World Series, but this is great. I’m very happy about it, very excited,” Bonds said Tuesday in Japan, where he is on the major league all-star tour. “I’m trying to figure out why a 38year-old player is still playing like this. “Forget the historical part about MVPs. I’m overjoyed, very happy, very pleased, especially coming off the 73home-run year, to be able to pretty much stay consistent,” he said. Bonds hit .370 to win his first NL

batting title, and set records with 198 walks, 68 intentional walks and a .582 on-base percentage. He had a .799 slugging percentage, down from his record .863 last year but still good enough to lead the major leagues.

FOOTBALL from page 9 Franks additionally gave praise to his own defense, saying that junior Shawn Johnson deserves to make the All-ACC team. “He’s leading the league in sacks, what more do you* need to do,” Franks said. “I think that shows that he’s played against pretty good competition,

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St. Louis outfielder Albert Pujols was second with 26 second-place votes and 276 points, followed by Houston outfielder Lance Berkman (181) and Montreal outfielder Vladimir Guerrero (168). Bonds also won the MVP award for Pittsburgh in 1990 and 1992 and for the Giants in 1993 and 2001, and is the first player to twice win the honor in consecutive seasons. No other player has won an MVP award more than three times, and only ten others have won it in consecutive seasons. In other sports, only the NHL’s Wayne Gretzky (nine), and NBA’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six) and Bill Russell and Michael Jordan (five each) have won as many or more MVP awards as Bonds has. “I wish mine could be respected as much as theirs, but unfortunately they haven’t,” Bonds said. Last year, Bonds received 30 of 32 first-place votes, with two Chicago writers casting their ballots for Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa. Bonds finished second to Atlanta’s Terry Pendleton in 1991 and to teammate JeffKent in 2000. Bonds became the 14th unanimous winner, and just the fifth in the NL, joining Orlando Cepeda (1967), Mike Schmidt (1980), Jeff Bagwell (1994) and Ken Caminiti (1996). Bonds hit 46 homers, down from a record 73 last year, and had a team-high 110 RBIs as San Francisco won its first NL pennant since 1989 and he made it to the World Series for the first time. To be leading the league in sacks at this point is a pretty significant statistic.” Franks had kudos for much improved sophomore receiver Khary Sharpe, as well. Franks said that Sharpe has worked very hard at his game, and is a lesson for all young players looking to improve. “He made a lot of big catches for us at the end of [last] season,” Franks said, “He then came back and picked up where he left off. We had a tough time

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CURRIE from page 9 Devils’ preseason, Currie will be able to take a medical redshirt year, and thus not lose a year of eligibility. These factors may be of small consolation considering the daunting six months awaiting Currie, but the Washington D.C., native has taken solace in the fact that all current indications point to her returning next season stronger and more prepared. “I’ll learn a lot about the game watching,” she said. “I’ll still get that extra year, so it couldn’t have come at a better time, but it still sucks.” Currie’s injury came as a major setback to the Duke coaching staff, as head coach Gail Goestenkors and her assistants were suddenly confronted with the Blue Devils’ first major knee injury in two years. “We had the next day off, which I think was really good,” Goestenkors said. “It gave us coaches time to adjust and think about things that we were going to need to do a little differently without her. We had practice the following day and we just talked to the team about the fact that every year we face some sort of adversity and we’re just facing ours early this year.” Because of the Blue Devils’ vastly increased depth this season—made possible by the five freshman that comprise the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class—the team should be able to absorb Currie’s injury blow with success. With Duke expected to go 11 deep, Goestenkors has a wealth of personnel options. Senior captain Sheana Mosch will step into Currie’s starting role, which should add hustle and grit to the Blue Devils. Should Mosch catch fire as she did during her sophomore year when she set a new Duke record for points in a four-game stretch, the veteran could adequately replace Currie’s scoring presence as well. Goestenkors could also decide to put one of her five post players at the three spot— most probably either 6-1 Michelle Matyasovsky or 6-4 Iciss Tillis, Duke’s two most agile power forwards—thereby creating an extremely tall lineup. Its ability to adapt to Currie’s loss on the court notwithstanding, the Blue Devils’ will most certainly feel her loss off the court. “She’s probably my best friend, so it’s bard to see her sad,” Tillis said. “This is going to be the longest time she’s ever not played basketball. Like her fallen teammate, Tillis also assumed an outlook of optimism, as she noted that Currie could benefit from her injury in many ways. “When she comes back, not only is she going to be a lot stronger physically, she’s going to have a great advantage mentally because she will know the game really well,” she said. “So the injury is terrible, but she is going to be gaining some other intangible aspects of the game.

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Academic Teer House. 6-7pm. Health Holiday Cooking Demo, Cathie Ostrowski. Limited registration, $5 fee. Call 416-DUKE. 4019 N. Roxboro Rd.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series:

12pm.

“Anthropology and Documentary Fieldwork,’ Orin Starn, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University. Interdisciplinary Views on Documentary Studies, in conjunction with the new Undergraduate Certificate in Documentary Studies program at Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W.

Pettigrew Street. Biology/Dissertation Seminar: 4pm. Caitlin Coberly, Duke University. 'The cost of white flowers.” 111 Biological Sciences. Teer House. 7pm. Necessary Conversations with Aging Parents. Edna Ballard. Call 416-DUKE. 4019 N. Roxboro Rd. and the The Duke Center for Multicultural Affairs Bpm. Present: Center Resource Academic “Succeeding in Chemistry.” Multicultural Center, 0010 Bryan Center. Questions, call 684-6756. Duke College Bowl: Bpm-10pm, Wednesdays. General practice for upcoming intercollegiate academ-

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Duke Events Calendar ic and pop culture competitions, as well as organization for upcoming high school tournaments. No experience necessary. 107F West Duke Building. Emil Thomas Chuck, Ph.D. etchuck@yahoo.com. Panel Discussion: Bpm. Race, Class, and HealthDisparities In Our Health Care System. The North Carolina Student Rural Health Coalition will host a panel discussion of doctors, community members, and members of governmental agencies regarding inequalities in healthcare. Multicultural Center Lounge.

Religious

about LGBT People and Issues. All gay men. lesbians, bisexuals, trans, allies welcome. Duke Women’s Center Lower Level Lounge. National French Week Events: 5:30-B:3opm. French wine tasting. Wellspring. National French Week, through Wednesday, Nov 13. Freewater Films: 7, 9:3opm. “Jules et Jim (Jules and Jim),” directed by Francois Truffaut. Free to students, $4 for employees and ssfor the public. Call 684-2323. Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

French Table: 7pm, Tuesdays. Everyone is welcome if you want to speak French and have a nice dinner. Great Hall.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 National French Week Events: 7:30-B:3opm. French Cheese Tasting, International House. National French

TAIZE Prayer: s:lspm, Tuesdays. Memorial Chapel.

Presbyterian/UCC Ministry Bible Study: 12:15-1pm, Wednesdays. Bring your lunch and Bible. Chapel Basement, Room 036.

Catholic Mass: s:lspm, Wednesdays. Duke Chapel Crypt. Campus Ministry Service.

Social Programming and Meetings TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Out, In, Out, and In-Between: 4-s:3opm, Tuesdays. In, and In Between: A Confidential Discussion Group

Week, through Wednesday, Nov 13.

Screen/Society: Bpm. “Amuleto de Ogum” (Amulet of Ogum). Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. Screen/Society presents a retrospective of the films of Nelson

Pereira

dos

Santos.

www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety. Institute of the Arts: Bpm. David Daniels, countertenor. David Daniels is one of the new breed of countertenors who are carving out a future for the voice. Tickets are $3l, $2B, $l5 for the public, $26, $23, $2O for students. Call 684-4444, Page Auditorium, West Campus.

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Senior Class Dorm Reunions: Free Food & Drink at the Dillo.Thur, Nov 14, 6pm, Randolph/Blackwell, 7;3opm, GilesA/Vilson. Fri, Nov 15, 6pm, GA/Southgate, 7;3opm, Brown/Bassett. Reunite with freshmen buddies at Armadillo Grill, Bryan Center. Duke Police offers following services: Crime prevention presentations, Rape awareness presentations, Alcohol Law presentations, Workforce violence educational programs, Personal property engraving. Please contact Lieutenant Tony Shipman at 668-2627 to schedule these programs/services. Allen Building Lock-In: Do you like the Diversity Initiative? Do you feel safe on campus? Do you care about the war Iraq? Do you like to have fun? If any of these questions interest you, help plan the Allen Building Lock-In. Please contact TeMeka for more info at tcw3@duke.edu.

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The Chronicle U.N. approves resolution

Last

week, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution demanding that Iraq allow weapons inspectors in to search for weapons of mass destruction. What is remarkable about the resolution, and a testament to the efforts and Secretary of State Colin Powell, is the unanimity of the resolution, which even Syria, an Arab-nation backed. Iraq has a week in which to agree to the inspections, after which there is a month for inspectors to go into Iraq and search for weapons. The resolution does not spell out what the consequences of Iraqi non-compliance will be, leaving it open to interpretation by the United States and the United Nations as to what actions and methods will be used to enforce the U.N. Resolution. The United Nations seems to be takinga wait-and-see posture, since the resolution has no automatic triggers as a basis for the use of force, a fact that American UN. Ambassador John Negroponte made perfectly clear. Indeed, Negroponte indicated that the United States would come back to the Security Council to discuss any new Iraqi violations and the appropriate response to them, including force. The fact that the Bush administration is binding itself to the Security Council’s timetable and has committed to returning to the Security Council to discuss future actions is an encouraging sign. Although the United States may not need international approval or support in order to take action against Iraq, by working with the United Nations the Bush administration is showing that there is a broad coalition of countries that oppose Iraq. Obviously, the UN. resolution is a productive step; more than just posturing by Bush and his advisors, this is a substantive, forceful resolution with a clear timetable and a clear intent that is backed with a threat. However, the one area the resolution is open ended about is the response if Iraq fails to comply with weapons inspectors, as its past history of duplicity suggests it probably will. In a sense, then, this resolution is putting off the crucial decision until a later date, although it is not putting off the decision indefinitely. Hopefully, Bush and the United Nations can still find a peaceful way to settle this dispute with Iraq, even though past history seems to suggest that may not be possible and that more serious steps will need to be taken to neutralize Saddam’s threat. Whatever course of action is settled upon, hopefully Bush will continue to work closely with the international community.

On the record The objective should not necessarily be so strict that schools only want students in the programs until they graduate or die. Debra Stewart, president of the Council of Graduate Schools, comments on the new pilot program to evaluate attrition rates (see story, page three)

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Letters to

the editor

DSG committee presents plan to improve transit istration

It’s no surprise that our transit system is in desperate need of change. The true concern is how to adequately resolve Duke’s adminis-

trative challenges in solving our transportation needs.

We,

the

Duke

adding mbre signs and maps to the current routes, thereby solving any congestion

to delineate between the beneficiaries of the newly implemented guidelines as well as comparing this new system to those of our peer institutions. To further this notion, we ask that the long-term parking plan become an integral

Student

Government Facilities arid Athletics Committee, are working hard to enhancing the system as a whole for

and confusion current students may have. Lastly, we hope to promote alternative means of transportation in the years to come through such medi-

portion of Duke’s Master

ums

Plan.

Robertson Scholars buses are equipped with bike racks (on the front) and we find it beneficial for students traveling between our three campuses to have the same option as Chapel Hill commuters.

Falling under these guidelines, the F&A committee is also concerned about the present and future state of the Blue Lot. How will this structure sustain its current influx of

the students.

Wednesday at the DSG legislature, we asked Auxiliary Services and the Department Transportation Services to

registered cars? Will the issue of safety in the Blue Lot become a key concern among administrators after

comment on a memorandum outlining the state of undergraduate parking and transit. I will briefly explian what was noted in this memo.

All of these guidelines are those we plan to pursue heavily in the months to come through our subcommittees and task forces in the Facilities and Athletics

the recent assaults and

rapes on campus? Furthermore, we seek to potential discover the spaces off campus particularly in the Duke University Hospital facilities for parking. How can we better combine our facilities to work together? Working on the notion of culminating resources, we strive to work with SAFE rides in establishing a more systematic approach to route planning. Duke University needs to be more inclusive of all students—on and off campus. By accomplishing this, we need to define a more efficient route between the We propose campuses.

Speaking from personal experiences, we are concerned that parking ticket

prices have been raised without a direct correlation toward improved transit services. Where is this money actually going? It seems just a bit coincidental that ticket prices and permit fees have in some cases more than tripled during the construction of a brand new parking garage (behind the Bryan Center). We as students should receive justification for these new fine increases. The memo addresses the need for the parking admin-

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Committee of DSG. We look forward to bettering our campus for you the students of Duke University. In closing, we value the opinions of all students, so please call our office at 684-DUKE with any feedback you may have to follow up with our own efforts in bettering student satisfaction with parking and transit concerns.

Brandon Goodwin Trinity ’O6

The writer is a member of the Duke Student Government

Facilities and Athletics Committee.

McClendons rightfully asked to remove gargoyles Regarding the Nov. 8 article about the gargoyles of Aubrey and Kathleen McClendon, I would just like to ask Peter Vaughn if he is really doing a good job of fooling himself with the

statement, “I think [the gar-

goyles] just honored them too much.” The statues are ghoulish at best, and I can imagine Kathleen McClendon turning to Aubrey upon seeing

After

all,

the

McClendon’s have a chunk of the West-Edens Link

named after them—they have no problem with being

honored. Furthermore, such an “honor” would probably be accepted with broad smiles and firm handshakes had the honor not looked the monsters staring back like a pair of gremlins. at them through boggled Peter, I understand that eyes and saying a lot of you are just trying to keep Http:! / www.chronicle.duke.edu

the wheels greased, but it is okay to admit that those gargoyles sucked eggs. Did the

things. “I am so honored that they must be taken down this instant!” is not one of them.

University

have pay

from this embarrassment. Zachary

Dunn

Trinity ’O4

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front, or did no one have the heart to tell the artist to take these bad boys back home? I must say that I feel the worst for Aubrey though out of involved. everyone Kathleen can at least ride her limestone wings away

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11.02, Durham “What do you see?” he asked me, and I wanted to tell him that I saw the opportunity to create more than I can currently comprehend, but she tackled him before I could. He ran back, squatted, and whispered, “I want to know what you see.” The dampness of the grass seeped into the places where my back, bottom, and

except for the red patches that creep up into her neck and ears, and I find myself

attentive to rehearsed inflection: “Picasso is kind of playing a GAME with us here, riiight?” I try to picture PicAsso on our tour then assume a shallow condescension for our regurgitating guide because I make my thoughts his, too; give me a break.

would have described if I had been able to answer him. But when I finally found the

We are the hollow men we are the

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calves sank into it, and I thought of gravity pressing me down and imagined defying it. This, now, was what I

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12,

11.02, Durham

“Let’s talk about Eva’s character. Who can tell me about Eva?” The class is silent. “Eva READS because she believes KNOWledge is LlBerating! Unlike YOU PEOPLE!”

Mary

Adkins

words it was between the calls and laughs of our other friends. We were going to 3 AM breakfast and all I had time to say was, “It makes me want to cry,” and we said goodnight and he yelled over his shoulder, “The ball is in your court.” I am to call him when I feel like discussing this further. Or other things, I suppose.

Between the conception and the creation between the emotion and the response falls the shadow.

7.02, Paris The youth hostel is a breeding ground

for self-compromise. Over breakfast we fill silences with gossip and then welcome the weak bonds that arise from reliance on the third, absent party, and we feel empty. So we dabble until we find common ground and leap onto it hungrily. Surprise, surprise: today, it’s—

To see a World in a grain of sand and Heaven in a Wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour...

7.02, Paris

I arrive at the Picasso museum late and the tour has already begun. Our guide, a petite and immaculately dressed graduate student with a one strap, leather sac-a-dos is ushering us into the first salle on the agenda; Picasso’s Blue Period. Her confidence is convincing

Lips that would kiss form prayers to broken stone. —our bodies. I mention that I’ve worked on eating disorder issues and don’t plan to elaborate but their eager attentiveness encourages me and it gets

personal fast. Melissa who admits her preference for cordial pretending over uncomfortable honesty becomes teary and I catch it and am pulled to her. I begin speaking and my agenda bends and is exposed according to her response. I want to help. Then: there is so much pain at the table. The most reliable vehicle into sincere conversation with upper class, American women is, again, body inadequacy, and this devastates me. I think I am crying too loudly in bed that night, so I go into the hall.

of a prestigious university where students drink and push their minds and want to have sex all at once because they think it will take them home

She mistook the heat of my determination for warmth between us.

My grandma was determined to fight cancer and then she did for a

11.02, Durham Alvinesa: ‘She mistook the heat of my determination for warmth between us.” GroverlSO: he wants sex? Alvinesa: no, not he. she, and it’s about quantifying someone, an impersonal, calculated... hold on GroverlSO: Sex. Alvinesa; you haven’t read even read

al I heard the music of her life in the words and tears of my father and she was not dead. Mozart said he searched for two notes that love each other.

the book! GroverlSO; i don’t have to. it’s all sex... you know Ferenczi?

11.02, Durham In my interview I will talk about how I (she sips her glass ofMerlot pretending the loss for words is just a pause for quenching) am dropping the class because I want time to process and then time to reflect on that processing, and then time to escape from that processing and then time to return to it in discussion with other people which will expand it. I want time to sit. And sit. And sit. And write like I am now about the circumstances

—

7.02 I hear a string quartet play Carmen’s theme and then I move to where fountains splash the notes together so that I can still hear Carmen in the next piece. Rain makes the music only as mortal as my ability to hear beauty in chaos.

while and then she died. At her funer-

11.02

—because they think it will take them home and— 7.02, 11.02 This joy is not of my own creation. I should sing it: This JOY is not of my own creAtion!

11.02 And the ultimate question is What do you see?

This is the way the world converses. This is the way the world converses. Love awaits patiently the whimper: You know Ferenczi? Mary Adkins is a Trinity junior. Her column appears every third Tuesday.

The necessary termination of a love affair Guns are cool. Let’s face it, it is fun to blast some unsuspecting clay pigeon to oblivion with a 12gauge. Just when the disk thinks it finally tastes freedom and starts to believe it can actually fly, I provide a reality check. So maybe more clay pigeons learned they couldn’t fly by splattering on the rocks than as a result of my stellar marksmanship—lo percent accuracy—but I still enjoyed hunting clay. Following my afternoon at the range, I reckoned guns are fun and bearable even if used too often against other people, since harm can be inflict- ■ ed in more ways than pulling a trigger. jB Several events this year changed m my view; guns are a horrible invention, unnecessary in a supposedly civKevin ilized world. I was not influenced simply by the headline-making rampage Ugorzaleß of “The Sniper” or the shooting at the A moment University of Arizona, but also since 0f your time the crime rate rose for the first time in 10 years. Each day between 30 and 40 people fall victim to homicidal gun violence and nearly eight children also die daily as a result of guns. Do not forget Jam Master Jay, who serenaded us not but two years ago in Page Auditorium with Run DMC. His only request that night was a bucket of fried chicken and some weed (Last Day of Classes organizers only scored the former for Jay and his group). He never asked for a bullet in the brain, but he got one two weeks ago. Long ago, tragedies such as Columbine and other school massacres should have set off an alarm across America that something was wrong and guns clearly do more harm than good. Unfortunately, some one keeps hitting the nation’s snooze button, preventing Americans from rousing to combat the clear and present danger residing in our households. Why after all these senseless deaths does the number of guns in American homes equal the country’s entire population? Guns serve little practical purpose. Most developed countries, such as Japan, ~

England, Sweden, Denmark and others, limit private gun ownership and appear to be doing just fine. Americans, unlike other people, are so madly in love with their Colts and Winchesters that we have ignore their constant danger. If we as a nation are willing to commit troops to eliminate a possible threat in the form of Saddam Hussein, why are we not willing to destroy an equally menacing peril in our own homes? While dealing with foreign threats to our safety, we should remember to seek to diminish domestic violence as other countries have done following their own tragedies. Several years ago, following a small-town gun massacre in Port Arthur, Australia (an equally gunloving nation) began buying back rifles throughout the country, making them illegal except for special rural cases. Following that legislation violent crime has decreased. Several weeks ago another gun rampage claimed innocent lives in Australia at Melbourne’s Monash University. A handgun was used by a licensed owner in this case. Prime Minister John Howard and his conservative government immediately sought to implement stricter gun control laws and possibly buy handguns from its citizens. The U.S. government, unlike its little brother Down Under, has not jerked its knee toward stricter gun control no matter how terrible the killing spree. This temporary paralysis stems from a brace applied by the most effective lobbying group north of the Rio Grande: the National Rifle Association. Charlton Heston and his cronies cling to their guns as maniacally as disco fans to the past. In fact, following the Columbine shootings Heston did one of his finest gun-clutching demonstrations ever in Denver, promising that gun-control advocates would only get his weapon “from my cold, dead hands.” He followed that performance with one in Flint, Michigan immediately after a first grader shot a classmate. At age 78, Heston, like most his age, won’t be able to hold onto that gun for much longer thanks to senescence. He along with other gun fans use The Constitution’s Second Amendment as their first line of defense to keep their toys. They may be a well organized lobby, but they

are far from a “well-regulated militia” so they must use only the second half of the amendment: their right bear arms. Fine, but they are a using a “living document” that is not infallible. Don’t forget that prohibition was one part ofThe Constitution. It took the United States only 14 years to realize its mistake on that amendment. Now is a good time to adjust the law of the land, 211 years after the Bill of Rights, and take guns off the street. Beyond their constitutional right, gun owners need their weapons for protection. These are most likely the reported 3 percent of illiterate citizens inhabiting the

United States, failed by the public education system, who cannot read report after report explaining that more gun owners or their family members are injured by their own weapon than would-be attackers. Last year 11,000 people were murdered in the United States, most with guns. America is successfully terrorizing itself. Guns no longer belong in the homes of Americans; we are too dangerous as a people for our own good. The British are no longer coming and if they were, what teenage girl wouldn’t want Prince Will as their ruler? Americans no longer need to hunt to get their food, thanks to modem refrigeration. If sport is an issue, what’s more exhilarating than using a bow and arrow? If it was good enough for Robin Hood, it should be good

enough for any Busch drinker (tights are optional). Modern society does not necessitate gun ownership, thanks to super markets and paintball. There is no practical purpose they serve other than to kill people and inflict terror. The old, tasteless saying that appears on T-shirts and bumper stickers goes something like: “Guns don’t kill people, I do.” That’s exactly the problem. We are violent animals. We do not need more weapons than we already have. Our infatuation with guns has gone too far and caused too much pain. Even without guns around, I will think them cool and the skeet will five without fear. I still think disco was cool, yet society is safer without that movement as it will be without smoking barrels. Kevin Ogorzalek is a Trinity junior. His column appears every other Tuesday.

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Vocal Recital by DAVID DANIELS,

Duke Players Lab Theater

countertenor & MARTIN KATZ, piano David Daniels has got it all—high notes, strength and crowd-pulling Daniels

atz

who are carving out a future for Martin Katz will accompany Mr. Daniels. countertenors

power. He’s one a new breed of the voice. Pianist

November 13, 8 pm, Page Auditorium. $3l/$2B/$25 General; $26/$23/$2O Students

One-act plays directed by students. “Life Under Water" by Richard Greenberg, directed by Carla Brackman (‘O3) and “The Winged Man” by Jose Rivera, directed by Faran Krentcil (‘O3). November 14-16, 8 pm, November 17, 2 pm, Branson Theater, East Campus, $8 General Admission; $6 Sr. Citizens/Students

PERFORMING ARTS

AFTER HOURS

Graduate Composers Concert

After Hours and Exhibition Opening. “Pedro Figari (1861-1938): Lines of* Uruguayan Life, A Student Curated Exhibition.”

Featuring new works by CRAIG DEALMEIDA, TODD HERSHBERGER, CAROLINE MALLONEE, MICHAEL TRINASTIC and MICHAEL WORTH November 14, 8 pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Free.

Arts In The Ark

OIMI

tap!

A show combining multiple arts groups from around campus, including Speak of the Devil, On Tap, Dance Slam, Out of the Blue, Ballroom Dance Team, Indian Classical, DU I, Drama and more! November 15-16, 8 pm. Ark, East Campus, Students Free.

Duke University Jazz Festival PAUL JEFFREY, director

with the Duke Jazz Ensemble; Guest Artist RALPH PETERSON, JR., drums

ARTS EVENTS ON CAMPUS -

ON TAP! is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of the Arts in cooperation with participating campus arts departments and programs. For more information about performing arts events, call the Duke University Box Office, 684-4444 or view online at tickets.duke.edu. To inquire about this ad call 660-3356. Note: Students must show Duke I.D. for free admission to events.

Two distinguished European chamber music groups, both formed during their student years at the Conservatoire National de Paris, and now worldfamous in their own right, are joining together for this special program.

7 & 9:30 pm, Griffith Film Theatre, $5 Gen; $4 Employees

November 16, 8 pm, Reynolds Theater, $2O General Public; $lO Students. (A limited number oftickets will be available at the door on the night of the performance.)

Master class with PARIS PIANO TRIO November 17, 10 am-1 pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Free.

Faculty Recital RANDY REED, guitar with guest artist ALMA COEFMAN, flute and NANETTE PARAINO, soprano. November 16, 8 pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Free.

Freewater presents November November November November

12 14 15 19

LECTURES Brown Bags

Documentary Studies Fall Speaker Series. “Anthropology and Documentary Fieldwork.” ORIN STARN, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology. Nov. 13, 12 pm, Free.

Nov. 20, 12 pm, Free. Center for Documentary Studies

y outre, invited, to experience, the, extraordinary

FILMS ON EAST

Nov. 14, 5:30 pm, $3 General Public; $2 Students; Friends Free. Exhibition runs through February 2, 2003, Duke University Museum of Art.

“Learning to Listen: Writing Down Talk.” RANDALL KENAN, Lehman Brady Chair Professor of Documentary and American Studies at Duke and UNC.

duke arts

Ysaye String Quartet and Paris Piano Trio

curators.

EXHIBITIONS/READINGS

This Week: November 12 20, 2002

November 15, 8 pm, Baldwin Auditorium, $l5 General Admission; $l2 Sr. Citizens/Students.

Focusing on the cultural implications and artistic style of the drawings and paintings of Pedro Figari. Reception and Lecture by student

“‘Props for the Memory’: Traumatic Enactment and Cultural Memory of War in the Work of Joseph Beuys.”

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Joseph Bueys is a 20th-century artist whose sensibility formed by his experience of World War 11. Professor KRISTINE STILES, Associate Professor of Art andArt History, will discuss new research on this topic. Sponsored by Duke University Museum ofArt and the Department ofArt and Art History. Part of “The Arts in Times of War” series of events sponsored by The Duke Institute of the Arts. For more information, call 660-3356. Nov. 15, 4 pm, Duke University Museum of Art, North Gallery Wing, Free.

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Screen Society presents 8 pm, Griffith Film Theatre unless otherwise ...

Duke University Department of Music Lecture Series

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November 13 “Amuleto de Ogum.” November 18 “Vidas Secas (Barren Lives).” November 15 *

“Masters and Slaves.” (Center for Documentary Studies) November 17 “Store Wars: When Walmart Vidas Secas Comes to Town.” (Richard White Auditorium) Part of the Nelson Pereria dos Santos Film Series. Visit www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety. *

ERIC CHAFE, Professor of Music at Brandeis University, “Wagner’s Amendment of Schopenhauer: The Transformation of Desire in Tristan and Isolde.” Nov. 15, 4 pm, 101 Biddle Music Room, East Campus, Free.

“Randy Polumbo: Early Bird Special” Kinetic Sculpture. Thru Nov. 22, Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Bryan Center, Duke Union Visual Arts Committee.

“Mike Smith: Color Photographs of Eastern Tennesse.” Thru Dec. 14, Juanita Kreps Gallery, Center for Documentary Studies.