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Task force to examine funding system Students scrap plan created last year with Student Affairs administrators By MOLLY NICHOLSON The Chronicle As students and adminis-
trators consider the University’s capacity to support a growing number of clubs and organizations, Duke Student Government has created a task force to examine the underlying funding system.
In related news As a new task force looks at streamlining student group funding, administrators are considering limiting the growth of new clubs. See page 3
Chaired by sophomore Philip Kurian, the committee plans to examine methods to make funding for student organizations more efficient. Groups can now seek funds from about 12 different sources, depending
on the organization. Kurian, also a DSG legislator, said a top priority for his task force is receiving
student input, which he hopes will be achieved through a series of town hall meetings jointly sponsored by the task force and the Student Organization Finance Committee. “We’re just going to talk about raising the student activities fee and hopefully getting a student voice on this,” Kurian said. “Our goal in this task force isn’t to take what [the Division of] Student Affairs thinks.” Last year, students and administrators —including Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and former SOFC chair Vinny Eng, a senior—devised a plan to bring funding for student groups under one umbrella organization. The plan called for a 15-member funding council that would distribute annual funds to eight subcommittees, each See FUNDING on page 9
Lynne Burgess, a 21 -year hospital employee, said hospital administrators terminated her last year because of her pro-union activities. By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle
THE FRESHMAN ACTIVITIES FAIR on East Campus provides an opportunity for student groups to recruit new members.
Saddam agrees to U.N. resolution � The Iraqi leader said Wednesday he would allow United Nations inspectors into his country and claimed he has not been amassing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. By EDITH LEDERER The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS Claiming Iraq was seeking the “path of peace,” Saddam Hussein’s government agreed Wednesday to the return of international weapons inspectors, accepting a stringent UN resolution two days ahead of a deadline. Although Iraq accepted the tough terms, President George W. Bush warned he had “zero tolerance” for any Iraqi attempts to hide weapons of mass destruction and said a coalition of nations is ready to force Saddam to disarm. Iraq’s nine-page letter of acceptance was laced with anti-American and anti-Israeli statements as well as stem warnings for UN. weapons inspectors. In contrast, Iraq’s UN. ambassador, Mohammed Al-Douri, said his government had chosen “the path of peace” and its acceptance had “no conditions, no reservations.” Still, the harsh tone in Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri’s letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, and its warnings about how Baghdad expects inspectors to behave, raised questions about Iraq’s plans to cooperate with the resolution. Annan, speaking to reporters in Washington after meeting with Bush, said he would wait to determine Iraq’s intentions. “I think the issue is not their acceptance, but performance on the ground,” Annan said. “Let the inspecSee IRAQ on page 7
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WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS Dan Bartlett (left), director of communications, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Chief of Staff Andrew Card meet in the Oval Office.
As student groups multiply in number, the University administration is examining the benefits of limiting new group formation. See page 3
Nurse claims bias in firing
A conference on bullying next week aims to prevent young people from moving on to more serious offenses later in life. See page 4
A former nurse has accused Duke University Hospital of firing her because of her support of unionization, just months after another nurse sued the Hospital for the same grievance. Lynne Burgess, who worked at the Hospital 21 years before her termination in January 2001, said the decision was based on her avid union activity—not, as hospital administrators claim, alleged patient negligence. “I was the perfect scapegoat for the anti-union [cause],” Burgess said. “Nurses in my unit could witness the most experienced nurse in the unit being fired [for supporting the union].” Burgess said that in targeting her, the Hospital compiled a list of infractions against her, which included giving a patient too much oxygen; not giving a patient Ativan, a medicine that treats anxiety and insomnia; not giving a treatment for high potassium rapidly enough; and failing to get physicians to sign a nursing order. Burgess admitted to committing the infractions and noted that a North Carolina Board of Nursing investigation did indeed find her accountable, but gave her the lightest applicable reprimand—attending a one-on-one course about the ethical and legal issues of nursing. Nevertheless, she said pro-union activism made her a target, not the infractions, which she said were common nursing errors. “Duke [University Hospital] is notorious for getting rid of senior employees so they don’t have to pay senior benefits,” she said. Hospital officials declined to comment. Hospital chief executive officer Dr. William Fulkerson’s office referred comment to Jeff Molter, director of the Medical Center News Office. “Federal law protects employees from being persecuted for union activities,” Molter said. “We at Duke respect our employees’ right to pursue their own interests.” Molter declined any additional comment on either Donahue or Burgess. Constance Donahue, a 17-year hospital employee, filed a lawsuit on similar charges that she was terminated See NURSE on page 10
Blue chip center Alison Bales, recruited from Dayton, Ohio, committed to play for the Blue Devils next year, See page 11
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Netanyahu urges Arafat’s expulsion
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Annan advises against war in Iraq
Israeli disapproval of Palestinian leader heightens after recent attack kills 5
Secretary General Kofi Annan said Wednesday that the United States seemed to have a lower threshold for going to war in Iraq than other nations on the U.N. Security Council. •
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A finger-wagging JERUSALEM Yasser Arafat warned Wednesday against any attempt to send him into exile, while Israeli Cabinet ministers repeated calls to drive the Palestinian leader out of the region after the latest
Greenspan voices support for tax cuts
Alan Greenspan, chair of the Federal Reserve, weighed in strongly Wednesday in favor of President George W. Bush’s campaign to make last year’s tax cuts permanent, lending a powerful voice to a priority of the new Republican Congress. •
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attack killed five Israelis. In the biggest sweep in months, Israeli troops stormed into Nablus in
Bush security bill likely to pass
The Senate rejected a Democratic plan for combining several agencies into a new Department of Homeland Security, clearing the path for a version Bush prefers and reflecting the White House’s new post-election muscle.
dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, rounding up 30 suspected Palestinian militants. The West Bank’s largest city is a hotbed for militants, and troops have been in and out for the
past seven months. The proposal to expel Arafat, backed by several members of Israel’s
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Bush declared 16 Tennessee counties disaster areas Wednesday, freeing millions in federal aid for a state that lost 17 people in weekend tornadoes that cut a deadly path across five states. •
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BEIJING Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin is expected to retire Thursday from the party’s central committee, paving the way for China’s first transfer of power without turmoil or a leader’s death since Emperor Qianlong stepped down in 1795 after 60 years at the top. It is a fitting close to Jiang’s 13 years in office, which, shortcomings aside, have been the most peaceful in modern Chinese history. He has presided over unprecedented economic growth, a dramatic improvement in living standards and personal freedoms, and a rise in China’s stature on the world stage. At the same time, he failed to curb spiraling corruption within his party, allowed a yawning chasm to open between the newly rich and those left behind by market reforms,
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the debate would continue. Sharon’s comments came after Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged for the second time in two days that Arafat be expelled. Sharon has sought to diminish Arafat’s powers and the government has long since halted direct dealings with the Palestinian leader. In a speech Tuesday night, Netanyahu said if he becomes prime
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Security Cabinet, failed to win approval Wednesday. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in a television interview Wednesday that Israel’s security chiefs have advised him not to expel Arafat, as demanded by several hard-line ministers in his Cabinet. But he also said
minister in January elections, his first move would be to expel Arafat, He renewed the call at Wednesday’s Security Cabinet meeting, and was supported by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, according to Netanyahu’s spokesperson, Rena Riger. Arafat responded angrily to Netanyahu.
“Netanyahu has to remember that I
am Yasser Arafat and that this is my land and the land of my grand-grandgrand-grand-grandfathers,” he said on
the steps of his offices in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Arafat has spent almost all of the past year at his headquarters and has See ARAFAT on page 6
Jiang to step down from central committee
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and in the name of stability, silenced any who dared to challenge party supremacy. Many Chinese view Jiang, 76, as a colorless, workmanlike figure who has the country’s best interests in mind. At best he is seen as a benign grandfather, at worst a bland bumbler unworthy of the adulation or fear accorded his iconic predecessors, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Yet if his tenure is followed by another period of stability and development, the Jiang era could be remembered as just what China needed. Although he is set to leave his top party post as the 16th Party Congress closes Thursday—and will step down as president in March—Jiang is believed to have stacked the ruling Politburo standing committee with proteges who will guarantee his continued influence. It is unknown whether he will See JIANG on page 8
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UNIVERSITY BRIEFS From staff reports
Nixon panel to be held today A panel discussion at the Law School today will explore the legacy of Richard Nixon ’37, the only University graduate to become president of the United States. The event, titled “The Nixon Legacy: Duke Law, the Nation, the World,” is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. in the School of Law room 3043. The panelists include Edward Nixon, Trinity ’52, the former president’s brother; Ole Holsti, George V. Allen Professor Emeritus of political science; Philip Laeovara, who served as counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor and argued the Nixon tapes case before the U.S. Supreme Court; and Raymond Price Jr., former head of President Nixon’s writing and research staff and special consultant to the president.
GPSC sponsors ‘Evening of Local Flavour’ tonight The Graduate and Professional Student Council, Forestry and Environmental Management and ACTION are sponsoring “An Evening of Local Flavour: A Benefit for the Durham Food Co-op” tonight from 8 to 11 p.m. The event, at 1101 West Chapel Hill St. in Durham, will feature free organic hors d’oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages, local beer and wine and live music. Smart casual attire is recommended. The purpose of “An Evening of Local Flavour” is to educate the faculty, staff and students at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences about sustainable buying options in North Carolina. The ultimate goal of the event is to educate and unite the voices of environmentalism and
business so that lasting solutions for resources can be created.
‘Sheesha’ planned for Friday The International Association is hosting “Sheesha” Nov. 15 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the Main See BRIEFS on page 7
CORRECTION In the Nov. 12 edition, The Chronicle incorrectly reported that Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe said he was encouraging faculty members to use class time to discuss the possibility of U.S. military action in Iraq. Chafe instead said that he encouraged faculty who were interested in the Iraq issue to talk to him privately.
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LADY BLUE sings at the A Capella Jam during orientation week last August. University administrators are examining the proliferation of student groups on campus and the subsequent effects on funding and resources.
University considers limiting groups Administrators say funding, advising may be too widely spread By MOLLY NICHOLSON The Chronicle
Duke’s admissions office has long attempted to sell the University to prospective students as a place where starting a club is as easy as walking into the Duke Student Government office and expressing an interest. Now with over 300 student organizations and growing, however, some students and administrators are concerned that the entire structure of student-run groups—especially in advising and funding—cannot effectively support all of its members. At a lunch for campus leaders organized by President NanKeohane and DSG Chief of Staff Emily Grey last month, Keohane mentioned the possibility of controlling the expanding number of student groups. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said Keohane’s comment was part of an ongoing conversation about the University’s support ofstudent groups. “We do need to think about unbridled growth be-
cause oflimited resources,” Moneta said. “It’s a really challenging issue because obviously we don’t want to discourage students from coming together and expressing new ideas and talking about new initiatives.” When groups approach DSG seeking a charter or recognition, legislators may need to be more cautious about granting approval, said Troy Clair, DSG vice
president for student affairs. “The initial concern is as a number of clubs and organizations grow, how are we able to fund them adequately and are we able to advisfe them,” said Clair, a senior. “As a student government, I think it’s important to encourage students who have ideas to get something started and increase leadership roles. I think the question that a lot of people on DSG have and... the University in general is, is there a point where you should say ‘Hold on, maybe we should re-
consider?’”
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CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports
Briefcase snatched from Fuqua
Someone entered room B-l of the Fuqua School of Business between 10:05 a.m. and 10:18 a.m. Nov. 4, and stole a visitor’s unsecured $450 Tumi briefcase containing his $3,000 laptop computer, $550 IPaq handheld pocket PC, $2OO Sprint cellular phone, $2OO T-Mobile cellular phone and Motorola $l5O pager.
Employee reports golf course damage
An employee reported that between 6 p.m. Nov. 5 and 7 a.m. Nov. 6, someone damaged several plants on the golf course at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, stole one sign, damaged another near the bag drop area, and stole two flags and flag sticks from the eighth and ninth greens, totaling $2,000.
Parking office vandalized
Someone caused $750 of vandalism to Parking and Transportation Services between 11 p.m. Nov. 7 and 7:54 a.m. Nov. 8. Two windows were broken and window frames, screens and plastic mini-blinds were damaged. A vehicle caused damage to the lawn, and trash was dumped outside the building.
Bike swiped from Bassett dorm rack
A student reported that someone stole a $450 secured red and white Giant 21-speed bicycle from the bike rack located at Bassett Dormitory between 12 p.m. Nov. 2 and 12 p.m. Nov. 3.
Documents taken from clinic
Someone entered an employee’s office in Duke Clinic’s Blue Zone between 3:30 p.m. Nov. 5 and 3 p.m. Nov. 7, and stole $3OO of School of Medicine documents containing medical students ranking scores and personal notes.
Thief enters student’s car on Central
While a student’s secured vehicle was parked at 302 Oregon St. between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Nov. 9, someone entered her secured vehicle and stole two $lOO wallets, $2OO in cash, credit and check cards, a $4OO Sprint LGSIO cellular phone, a $l5O two-way pager, a Omega Psi fraternity card, miscellaneous identification cards, a $9O finance textbook, an $BO math book and keys. There were no signs of forced entry.
Funds pilfered from J.D.’s Deli Someone entered a storage area of J.D.’s Deli located in the Law School between 4 p.m. Nov. 8 and 8 a.m. See CRIME on page 8
Conference to look at bullying Expert to discuss deterrence methods, prevention of abuse By AARON LEVINE
creased communication between students with dif-
ferent experiences. “I ask children to listen to each Enduring harassment from the school bully may other, and they realize how much collective wisdom seem like just another undesirable experience that they have,” she said. “The more responses I get from goes along with growing up, but some experts point students, the more options occur to them.” Recent studies have demonstrated the prevalence to more serious impacts later in life that make it of bullying in the hallways of America’s schools. A important to stop bullies early. 2001 report in the Journal of the American Medical This Friday, a statewide conference in Greensboro, N.C., will present bullying as a national public Association of over 15,000 sixth-through-tenth health issue and offer methods of deterrence. The graders found that 16 percent of students were victims of bullying, and almost 30 percent conference, sponsored by the North Carwere involved in some aspect of bullying. olina Medical Society Alliance, is entitled “Bullying: How to Stop the Bully Without Studies in Norway and England suggest that bullying is even more prevalent. Becoming One,” and aims to draw around In Durham however, some school offi225 people in professions ranging from education to medicine to government. cials point to larger issues that need to be addressed besides bullying. “I don’t see SuEllen Fried, the guest speaker for bullying as being a problem so much as the event, is an author and advocate for the prevention of child abuse. “I hope to gang-related issues on the streets of Durham,” said Larry McDonald, principal share enough data that will elevate the of Southern High School. Nathan Curry, problem of bullying in [attendees’] minds so they will come to realize how serious it SuEllen Fried assistant principal of Hillside High School, said the school has a much lower is,” Fried said. She also aims to empower both children and adults to play a larger preventatolerance of bullying than some middle schools. tive role in bullying and to help them see that bullyFried said that in general there is much less buling can have lasting effects. “It is time to give up the lying in high school than in middle school. “The quantity decreases at the high school level, myth that bullying is a rite of passage and that as students become more mature. But [high school okay,” comes out she said. everyone Conference Co-Chair Anne Ashburn said the upadministrators! are not aware of how much is uncoming conference will emphasize the immediate derground.” need for action In North Carolina elementary schools, there are “Many organizations have done studies on it. It is already established programs to help students build time to address it,” Ashburn said. “Research... has social skills and prevent bullying. Elizabeth Feifs, shown that people who were bullies as youths had a executive director of guidance and counseling of Durham Public Schools, described several programs greater chance of becoming abusers or having criminal records.” She added that previous symposiums now in place, such as the buddy program which pairs problem students with behavioral role models. have also been directed towards issues that have afIn addition, she mentioned once-a-week sessions fected youth. Marilyn Walls, a member of the NCMSA, cited the based in cognitive behavioral therapy and programs work the organization has done to help students who to help develop social skills, both offered at local elfeel threatened. “We have developed resource mateementary schools. rials for dealing with bullying, even [specifically! for Despite preventative programs, Fried said bullying remains a problem for millions of students in little kids,” she said. She also mentioned how current methods of America, and its effects can lead to escalating viochanging student behavior are not as effective as lence. “People don’t realize how much more malevothey could be. “It is important to try to provide allent bullying has become. Children have access to ternative means of communication,” she said, adding weapons, they are exposed to violent iniages... The that adults cannot offer guidance to children merely world is a scarier place that can leave tremendous by warning them not to bully. scars,” Fried said. “Peer abuse is an issue whose time has come.” Throughout her career, Fried has advocated inThe Chronicle
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Bishops approve sex abuse policy By LAURIE
GOODSJEIN
New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON —After nearly 11 months of unrelenting scandal, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to pass revised rules that they insist will eventually remove from public ministry any priest who has sexually abused a child or
young person. But they rejected a measure to censure bishops who protect abusive priests by moving them from one parish to another. The new rules were revised in Rome last month after the Vatican demanded changes to the zero-tolerance policies the bishops devised at their meeting this summer in Dallas. Critics said, however, that the rules failed to give accused priests due process and allowed bishops to remove them from public
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CHARLOTTE PIERCE-BAKER, associate research professor of women’s studies, lectures Wednesday on the “theory of the flesh.”
Professor speaks on sexual assault
ministry on the basis of accusations alone. Under the new policy, priests accused ofabuse would be judgedby church tribunals. “The point is that it not look as if the bishop is jury, judge and executioner,” said Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, the senior American prelate sent to Rome to work on the revision. But it will be years before the backlog of cases of accused priests are resolved by the church. And the bishops acknowledged Wednesday that it could be at least a year until the tribunals have been organized and the priests who will act as judges and prosecutors have
been trained. Victims of sexual abuse were sharply critical, saying the process of judging accused priests should not be con See BISHOPS on page 9
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In an informal talk Wednesday, Charlotte PierceBaker, associate research professor of women’s studies and author of Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories ofRape, stressed the importance of a “theory of the flesh” when dealing with victims of sexual assault. As part of the “Wednesday Conversations” series by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, PierceBaker spoke only briefly before opening the floor to
questions from the audience. Among the diverse topics of discussion were Pierce-Baker’s book, the pedagogy of trauma and counseling techniques for friends of trauma survivors. “I thought it went brilliantly” Pierce-Baker said. “We had a wonderful cross-section ofmale and female, professors and students, people from the Duke community and people from the Durham community, black and white. I couldn’t have asked for more.” A “theory of the flesh” is a theory that goes beyond the traditional means of analyzing sexual assault by recognizing the importance of factors such as race, gender, class and sexuality, Pierce-Baker said, borrowing the term from Latina feminist theorists Gloria Anzaldua and Cherie Moraga. “We’re not all alike, we’re not all cut from one pattern. Body, flesh and the essential nature of black women’s bodies are important in my discussion of violence today,” she said. “You minimize the effect emotionally and psychologically when you don’t pay attention to the flesh.” Pierce-Baker said she became especially cognizant of
matters of the flesh after her close friend and confidante died unexpectedly. “I witnessed a loss and a leaving, as have some ofyou, but I was not paying attention so I missed important elements of that leaving,” Pierce-Baker said. She added that this marked a turning point in how she viewed the world, as she realized she had missed her friend’s bodily signals of dying. “I have to pay attention to the body, to the flesh,” she said. “A disembodied theory does not work for me.” When one audience member asked about the emerging pedagogy of trauma at the University, Pierce-Baker emphasized the need for an integrated
and personal theory. “In recent years, theory has been defined by some as disembodied, impersonal and beyond the perceptible conversational moments,” Pierce-Baker said. “A ‘theory of the flesh’ is really important as well as traditional theory when we’re writing and when we’re teaching and when we’re passing on to our stuSee PIERCE-BAKER on page 10
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Judges request examination of Milosevic’s mind Tribunal also seeks extensive evaluation of strain inflicted on war criminal during trial By MARLISE SIMONS
New York Times News Service
PARIS Slobodan Milosevic’s ailing heart has already been checked numerous times; Wednesday, his judges ordered an evaluation of his mind. In a court order issued at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the judges requested “a written psychiatric report” about the “mental condition” of Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president, who stands accused of genocide and other crimes in the Balkan wars of the 19905. They also sought an evaluation of the “strain” doctors say Milosevic is suffering as he conducts his own defense at trial, which began in February. The reasons for the judges’ request are no secret; Milosevic’s health problems have already interrupted hearings five times—causing a delay of almost two months. In the past two weeks, “exhaustion”
defendants to assess their conduct and was once called in to help a convict cope with a sentence. From the beginning, the three international next week. Zdenko Tomanovic, who heads the legal team that judges have pressed prosecutors to reduce the scope supports Milosevic outside the courtroom, said he of the complex trial, which involves three Balkan did not yet know what his client’s reaction would be. wars and may last two years or more. They have reThe involvement of a psychiatrist would clearly repeatedly expressed concern about Milosevic’s quire Milosevic’s cooperation, but he has often health, as his self-defense—especially his long thwarted the court in the past, calling it illegitimate. cross-examinations of prosecution witnesses—has “I understand the judges are interested in his clearly taken its toll. mental capacity, his capacity to concentrate,” With their request Wednesday, the judges appeared Tomanovic said in a telephone interview from The to raise the possibility that the trial may not conclude in Hague. “They may use this as a reason to impose a its present form. They said they wanted a full prognosis defense lawyer. There are some precedents in Ameron Milosevic’s “future health and his ability to attend ican cases. But Milosevic refuses to have a lawyer.” court and stand trial.” They also asked for a new cardiac Calling in a psychiatrist is unusual but not unassessment; the last one was done in July. heard of, say lawyers familiar with the court’s procedures. A Serbian psychiatrist has visited at least two See MILOSEVIC on page 8 has kept him out of court every day but one. Officials said Wednesday that hearings would resume
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completely stopped traveling abroad. Israel has said he is free to go, but suggested he may not be allowed to return to the Palestinian territories. The Israeli invasion of Nablus was triggered by a Sunday shooting at an Israeli communal farm in which five people, including two small boys, were killed by a gunman from the A1 Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, a militia linked to Arafat’s Fatah group. The attacker managed to flee the scene. Israeli officials identified the gunman as Sirhan Sirhan, a 19-year-old from the Tulkarem refugee camp. Officials initially said they believed he was a distant relative of the assassin by the same name who killed presidential candidate Robert Kennedy
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in 1968—but later withdrew that claim. Relatives ofthe suspected gunman said they had no blood ties to the Kennedy assassin, who came from the predominantly Christian village ofTaibeh in the West Bank. The Sirhans in the Tulkarem camp are Muslims. Earlier this week, Israeli troops searched the homes of Sirhan clan members and detained two uncles of the suspected gunman, who remains at large. Israeli security officials have said the order for Sunday’s attack came from militiamen in Nablus. Arafat denounced the Nablus raid as a “new war crime.” With Israeli helicopter gunships hovering overhead, armored vehicles poured into the city before dawn Wednesday. As the vehicles patrolled the mostly deserted streets, a few youths threw stones and firebombs. At one point, several youths ran up behind a slowmoving armored personnel carrier, with one ofthe kids attempting to plant a Palestinian flag on the back. “This operation will continue as long as we believe that it is valuable in damaging the terror infrastructure,” said Mofaz, the defense minister. “We are not limited in time, we are not limited in the type of operation.” The focus of Wednesday’s raid were several militant strongholds—the Old City, two neighborhoods near An Najah University, as well as the Balata and Askar refugee camps on the outskirts of Nablus. There were sporadic gunfights but no injuries reported. Several explosions were heard in the Old City, or Casbah, apparently set off by soldiers breaking open
doors. Tanks sealed all exits from the Casbah, a maze of alleys and covered passageways and the scene of fierce fighting in April. Troops took over a nearby girls’ elementary school as a makeshift base. Israel declared Nablus a closed military zone, and soldiers barred journalists from taking pictures or talking to those rounded up. The army said 30 suspected militants were arrested. In the Gaza Strip, a 2-year-old Palestinian boy, Hamid Masari, was killed, and his mother Asma wounded when they were hit by fire from Israeli tanks patrolling Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, said Assad Masari, the boy’s father. The shooting occurred in the border town of Rafah, a spot of frequent clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians. Assad Masari said there was no shooting from the Palestinian side when the Israelis opened fire.
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in front of the Cambridge Inn. The event will feature food from International Delights, entertainment and Sheeshas—vessels made to boil water so that people may smoke tobacco through its pipes.
Multicultural Career Conference set for Saturday The Career Center and the Center for Multicultural Affairs—in collaboration with the Asian Students Association, the Black Student Alliance and Mi Gente—are hosting the Second Annual Multicultural Career Conference Nov. 16 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The conference, which will be held in the Von Canon rooms ofthe Bryan Center, provides professional development for minority students through workshops featuring employer and alumni panels. In addition, students will have the opportunity to network with confer-
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An army of three? The U.S. Army invaded campus Wednesday afternoon with their camouflaged Humvee, seeking new members for their ranks. Soldiers handed out pamphlets to potential recruits on the Chapel Quad and discussed military life with students.
ence participants. There are free giveaways for the first 100 students to arrive at the conference, as well as opportunities to win door prizes—including Palm Pilots and DVDs—for students who stay
IRAQ from page 1
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tors go in, and I urge the Iraqis to cooperate with them and to perform.” Annan said the advance team of inspectors is scheduled to arrive in Baghdad on Nov. 18. They have until Dec. 23 to begin their work and must report to the Security Council 60 days later. If Iraq fails to cooperate, the resolution orders inspectors to immediately notify the council, which will discuss a
Cox and Labaton to discuss corporate ethics Brainerd Currie Professor of Law Jim Cox, one of the nation’s mostquoted experts on current corporate malfeasance, and Stephen Labaton, legal correspondent for The New York Times, will engage in a public dialogue on ethics in the corporate world Nov. 16 at the Fuqua School of Business. Their discussion will take place at 1 p.m. in the R.J. Reynolds Auditorium in Fuqua’s west wing. A limited number of seats are available to the public. Cox, who specializes in corporate and securities law, has published widespread material in the areas of market regulation and corporate governance. He has testified before the U.S. House and Senate on insider trading and market reform issues, and has been quoted extensively by the national media. Labaton, Law ’B6 and Graduate School ’B6, is a member of Duke Magazine’s Editorial Advisory Board. He has reported groundbreaking stories on the Securities and Exchange Commission, including reporting that led to close scrutiny of SEC chair Harvey Pitt, who recently announced his res-
response. By Dec. 8, Iraq must declare all its chemical, biological and nuclear programs, according to the terms of the
resolution. Al-Douri said his government has nothing to fear from inspections because “Iraq is clean.” In the letter, Sabri accused Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair of fabricating evidence that Iraq possessed or was on its way to producing nuclear weapons—and had already stockpiled biological and chemical weapons. “The lies and manipulations of the American administration and British government will be exposed,” Sabri said. He also warned that Iraq plans to closely monitor the inspectors while they are in the country. In 1998, Baghdad accused inspectors of spying for the United States and Israel. Under Security Council resolutions adopted after Iraq’s 1990 invasion of
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Ivanov said. “Now it is important that the international inspectors quickly re-
turn to Iraq.”
In Baghdad, state-run television announced Saddam’s acceptance of the Security Council resolution two hours after Iraq’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Almonth campaign that began with Bush’s Douri told the rest of the world. Sept. 12 speech to the UN. General AsIraqi TV showed images of Saddam, in sembly challenging world leaders to deal a dark suit and tie, presiding over a meetwith Iraq’s failure to comply with the ining ofhis Revolutionary Command Council, made up of senior military officers. ternational demands to disarm. The picture was frozen on the screen Iraq’s parliament rejected the resolution Tuesday, but it has no power and while an announcer read the message reAnnan and others said they would wait counting at length a history of Iraq’s disfor the official government response. pute with the United Nations. Bush declined to discuss the letter, China’s deputy U.N. ambassador though he thanked the UN. Security Zhang Yishan, the current Security Council for unanimously adopting the Council president, notified the 14 other U.S.-backed resolution last Friday. members of Iraq’s acceptance. White House spokesperson Scott Mc“Members ofthe Security Council welClellan said the test of Iraq’s compliance comed the correct decision by the Iraqi government,” he said. would come in Baghdad’s actions. “We’ve heard this before from SadThe advance team that will arrive in dam Hussein and the Iraqi regime,” Mc- Iraq Monday will be led by chief UN. inClellan said. “The U.N. resolution is spector Hans Blix, who is in charge of bibinding on Iraq, and the Iraqi regime. ological and chemical inspections, and Saddam Hussein had no choice but to Mohamed El-Baradei of the Internationaccept the resolution.” al Atomic Energy Agency, which is in charge of nuclear inspections. Officials in Russia, which has longBlix said he would not comment until standing economic and political ties to he had read the letter. Iraq, welcomed Saddam’s decision to acThe resolution allows inspectors to go cept the return of inspectors. “We were confident that Iraq would anywhere at any time to search for make this decision, which opens the weapons of mass destruction. It also warns that Iraq faces “serious conseway for a political resolution ofthe situation,” Russian Foreign Minister Igor quences” if it doesn’t comply.
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GROUPS from page 3 If DSG and administrators do not consider this issue, Clair said, then clubs may have difficulty generating funds or receiving sufficient advice. Both University officials and students are also concerned that some organizations are forming when they could be joining established clubs instead. “I don’t think there are too many, but I think that the tendency at Duke here is to start their own groups instead of working with existing groups,” said Brian Denton, advising coordinator for the Office of Student Activities; “Occasionally, a group will pop up that to me sounds like it should just be on a committee of an existing group.” Clair said the formation of redundant groups discourages collaboration and wastes resources. “What happens is you split the amount of resources that you have not only financially but also in terms of manpower,” he said. Clair added that his committee plans to examine the process of forming a student organization to make the system more efficient. “Let’s say they come in the office, what type of information would they get, who would they talk to? I don’t think that process has been clearly outlined,” he said. When seeking to establish an organiza-
tion, students should consider whether their cause serves the larger Duke community or just a few of their friends, Clair said. “I think it’s unrealistic to say that this is the target number of clubs that we want to have and we’re going to stop at this number,” he said. “However, I think we’re going to have to look at how that process works.” Although Pushpa Raja, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, said her committee has sufficient funds to sponsor many groups, she added that student clubs should consider how they use that funding. “I wouldn’t say that there are too many clubs,” Raja said, adding that some groups choose to deactivate after a few years or do not require much funding. Raja pointed out that if groups consolidate, funding could be distributed more productively. She suggested that students look at a list of existing organizations in the Office of Student Activities before starting a new group.
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JIANG from page 2 relinquish the chairmanship of the Central Military Commission, a post that would ensure his place as a senior statesman and final arbiter of military and foreign affairs. Jiang's accomplishments and unfinished business will provide both a road map and a set of pitfalls for his expected successor, Hu Jintao, the deputy party secretary and vice president. After China experienced a decade of rapid growth averaging more than 9 percent per year, many economists predict a slowdown in line with the global slump, which would bring greater hardship and likely social unrest. The annual number of protests, most by laborers and farmers, ballooned fourfold through the 19905, and Jiang’s failure to adequately address re-employment, social security, corruption, and needed legal and political reforms could haunt Hu. “Jiang has successfully bought
CRIME from page 4 Nov. 12, and stole $2OO of charity funds from ajar.
Ornament, display case damaged Someone attempted to break
into the display case on the first floor of Duke University Hospital between 1 p.m. Nov. 7 and 1:54 p.m. Nov. 12. In doing so, a $lO glass ornament that was hanging on a miniature Christmas tree was broken and the lock on Jhe display case sustained $5O damage.
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A student’s $5O wallet—containing $2O cash, a check card, a DukeCard, a driver’s license and a Social Security card—was stolen from the center basketball court in Wilson Recreation Center between 9:30 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. Nov. 6.
Locker ransacked in Clinic Someone entered an employee’s
time for the party and for the maintenance of one-party rule,” said Joseph Cheng, a professor of political science at City University of Hong Kong. “The real challenge will come when economic growth slows down. Then it will be much harder to paper over the con-
tradictions.” Plucked from relative obscurity after the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, Jiang was widely viewed as a transitional figure, a compromise caretaker. He defied expectations, keeping himself and the party firmly in control even as the Soviet Union collapsed next door. Born in Jiangsu eastern province, Jiang joined the Communist Party in 194, three years before the revolution. He studied engineering, trained in Moscow, and was a car factory manager. He rose to mayor and then party boss in Shanghai in the mid-1980s and was tapped to join the Politburo in 1987, just two years before his unexpected selection as party chief.
secured locker in the Clinic 1-C break room between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. Nov. 8, and stole her $3O wallet, containing $4O cash, driver’s license, N.C. nurse’s license, Social Security card and other miscellaneous papers. There were no signs of forced entry.
Locker entered in Brodie
Someone entered an employee’s secured locker in Brodie Gym between 5:35 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4 and stole $3O from his pants pocket.
Wallet snatched from Armadillo Someone stole a student’s wallet that he left on a table at Armadillo Grill between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Nov. 8. The wallet contained $5 cash, check and credit cards and a driver’s license. Crime briefs are compiled from Duke University Police Department reports. Anyone with knowledge about those responsible for these or other crimes at the University can contact Lt. Davis Trimmer at 684-4713 or Durham CrimeStoppers at 683-1200.
MILOSEVIC from page 6 The latest requests stem from the assessment of the prison doctor, Paulus Falke, who informed the court Tuesday that Milosevic, 61, still suffered from exhaustion, high blood pressure and stress that affected his state of mind. “We have to face reality; the trial is taking its toll,” a court official said. “It’s not surprising. The burden of a trial is enormous, even without a serious heart condition.” Earlier this month, Judge Richard May, who presides over the trial, and his two fellow judges called on prosecutors, independent lawyers and Milosevic himself to suggest ways to avoid an impasse and help end the trial in reasonable time. Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor, urged the court to impose a defense counsel “in order to avoid further disruption and delay and to ensure a fair and expeditious trial.” By constantly refusing the assistance
of counsel, she wrote, Milosevic “has
inevitably increased the strain on his own health.” Geoffrey Nice, the lead prosecutor, told the judges that the indictment, covering crimes attributed to Milosevic in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo in the 19905, had already reached the
“irreducible minimum.” prosecutor’s the Wednesday, spokesperson, Florence Hartmann, said a full trial was crucial because the tribunal above all “has an obligation to the victims ofthe Balkan wars.” Milosevic has not submitted any suggestions. But last week he called Del Ponte’s request to impose a lawyer an “illegal and absurd” at-" tempt to silence him. He also complained to the two lawyers appointed as “friends of the court” to look after his interests, telling them he preferred morning sessions only. WTien afternoon sessions are held, he said, he has to wait for an hour and a half in a small, windowless room and returns to prison at 5 p.m. The friends of the court have not yet made public their proposal.
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BISHOPS from pages trolled entirely by clerics. And they accused the bishops of reneging on the promises they had made in the charter they passed in Dallas. “TTie charter that was designed to make bishops more accountable is going back into the secrecy of the courts run by the clergy” said Mary Grant, who was abused by a priest and now works for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, in Los Angeles. “We want the laity to coptinue to be diligent and to call thenbishops to account to work harder and make the church safer.” For the first time since the scandal erupted in Boston in January, the bishops Wednesday considered how they would deal with fellow bishops who mishandled
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sex abuse accusations against priests. But blander measure that says they acthey stopped short of condemning their knowledge and apologize for their miscolleagues who had brought on the scandal takes, an echo of the apology they issued by protecting priest molesters. They rejectin Dallas. That language was the proded the language in an amendment submituct of a committee of bishops that was ted by Archbishop Elden Curtiss of supposed to devise ways for bishops to Omaha, Neb., who called for the bishops to keep one another accountable. “censure” the actions of bishops who had Their document, a “Statement of Epis“transferred priests accused of sexual copal Commitment” said that the regionabuse ofminors from parish to parish.” al groups of bishops would provide one Several bishops rose to the floor to supanother “fraternal support, fraternal port Curtiss’ amendment, including Carchallenge and fraternal correction.” dinal Bernard Law of Boston, whose misOf that document, Curtiss said, “I have handling of abuse cases is blamed by to say I don’t understand it, and I’m sure many bishops for causing the scandal. our people won’t.” Another, Archbishop Alexander Brunett The bishops say they cannot disciof Seattle, said, “Our people are waiting for pline or demote one another because some kind of sign at all that we recognize that is solely the perogative of the pope. we have some culpability in this matter.” Acknowledging that limitation, the SurHowever, the bishops excised the vivors Network Tuesday suggested that word “censure” and instead passed a bishops who have been particularly no-
torious at handling sexual abuse cases can at least be denied leadership positions in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In an interview, Bishop Robert Bronx of San Diego, chairperson of the committee that drafted the “episcopal commitment” statement, said he would be willing to carry that idea to the bishops’ ad hoc committee on sexual abuse. “I think it’s a suggestion that has merit and deserves a response,” he said. David Clohessy, national director of the survivors network responded, “That’s clearly good news, but it’s shameful that we have to suggest it. For men who 365 days a year condemn immorality and speak out on every conceivable social issue, as they should, they long ago should have called their brother bishops on the carpet.”
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made up of student groups with similar interests. “I think that students have said that we do a very good job of the enabling process,” Moneta said. “If [clubs] go to register for an event, we help them register. But in terms of thinking about activities... about funding priorities, I don’t think we’ve done a
very good job.” Although Kurian said he liked some aspects of the plan, he said it is not feasible overall. “You have at the minimum a total ofabout 15 people making these decisions. Right now, the SOFC has difficulty bringing about eight people to the table to
make these decisions,” he said. Kurian said the proposed system would also have members that might be partial to a certain group. “Students on [SOFC] don’t have a particular interest in any group,” he said. However, he added, with members of student groups on the governing council to determine funding, “What group is going to say ‘Take money away from me and give it to these other groups—they need it.’” Splitting these groups into committees under the system proposed last year may also force groups to identify themselves as a certain type of organization, Kurian added. Senior Christina Hsu, president ofthe Asian Students Association, said she thinks there are too many hoops to jump through to get funding under the current system. “Because the cultural fund has been set up, people automatically assume the cultural groups are taken care of, but that’s not the case,” Hsu said, adding that figuring out the funding process was also difficult. She said, however, that the Office of Student Activities’ workshops for student group treasurers have been helpful. This year, with $35,000 from Campus Council—which has refocused its funding efforts exclusively on residential programming—and SOFC’s new capacity to fund up to 100 percent of a student organization’s request, SOFC chair Pushpa Raja hopes her group can meet more requests for funds. “For smaller budgets, I think it will definitely help. We obviously won’t be able to fund 100 percent of everything,” said Raja, a junior. The task force—working closely with Raja—would also like to increase communication among funding sources and advising for student groups on organizing funding, Ku'fian said. “[Groups] will send one budget to SOFC, and then they’ll send a completely different budget to the
University and Cultural Fund,” Kurian said. “I don’t think there’s much merit in merging these funds because they have different purposes.... We don’t think there’s enough communication among the funding sources.” One way to increase that communication may be through creating uniform budget request forms, which students could submit to both the Office of Student Activities and any funding source to request money, Kurian said. The task force might also revamp the SOFC website to make it more accessible. Rick Gardner, director of the Event Advising Center, said although his office offers financial advice to student groups, many organizations approach the center too late for him to help save them money.
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because she-tried to rekindle nurse unionization at the Hospital. Her lawsuit named both the University and Duke University Health System as defendants, specifically listing Fulkerson, Christine Roeback, clinical operations director of General Surgery, Trauma and Transplant and Elizabeth Hickey, nurse manager for the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, as individuals in-
volved in the firing. Burgess, who waived her right to sue in an agreement that allowed her to technically resign and thus salvage some of her benefits, accused the same people Donahue named as persecuting her for her pro-union stance. Both terminated nurses sought legal help from Stewart Fisher ofthe Durham Firm of Glenn, Mills & Fisher. Fisher confirmed legally consulting Burgess, but declined additional comment. Local 465 of the International Union of Operating Engineers initiated a campaign in 2000 to unionize 2,500 nurses, who had complained oflost career opportunities, mandatory overtime and overworked staff levels. But in October 2000, nurses voted not to unionize under lUOE, which already represents University groundskeepers, electricians, plumbers and other maintenance employees. Burgess became involved with Nurses United for Patient Advocacy—a pro-union group—during its third meeting. Faced with a patient-to-nurse ratio that she considered too large, Burgess supported the union to improve the quality of care for patients. “Notice it’s not called Nurses Looking Out for Their Own Butts,” she said. “We came together because we were forced to supply substandard care, and did not move for any sort of benefit campaign until our licenses were being threatened.” Once Burgess became involved in NUPA, she spread the word about it to others she worked with, including Donahue, who was terminated in May 2002. Although Burgess left the University in January 2001, she and Donahue have maintained contact and a close friendship. “In one conversation I had with her... the red lights started going off that they were after her,” Burgess said. “What she was telling me mirrored the same experience that happened to me. The hair on the back of my neck went up and I was thinking, here we go [again].” Three months later, when Donahue was put on administrative leave, Burgess said her worst fears were realized. The Hospital hired the national law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart for advice on the nurse unionization in lUOE. During the unionization campaign, Duke also settled with the National Labor Relations Board after Local 465 charged the Hospital with unfair labor practices—including accusations that Duke had granted wage and benefit improvements with the specific intent of curbing union support and telling union officials and nurses that negotiations would begin
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The Hospital, Burgess said, also brought Roeback to the unit where Burgess and Donahue worked in 2000 in order to dampen unionization efforts. In Roeback’s first month there, Burgess said she ended an ethics committee that Burgess had begun a year earlier. Because ofher pro-union activism, Burgess said her preemptive approach to patient care was turned against her. “I could have sued them for slander of my professional character,” Burgess said.
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suppose the easiest way to convince the student body to lay aside the half-finished term papers for a few hours and see Frida is to announce that the movie includes a number of scenes that feature Salma Hayek TOPLESS. If that's all the incentive you need, you can stop reading now, sport. Still with me, baby? You may rest assured that director Julie Taymor's biopic of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is meant to induce more than just drooling. This is, in fact, a colorful study of how Kahlo's many joys and sorrows became her art, a cinematic experience both warm-hearted and disturbing, and one of the most visually stunning movies I have ever come across. You may think of the abundance of nudity as an added bonus. Hayek is luminous in the title role as the
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The Winged Man and Life Under Water—two studentdirected one-act plays (including one by our very own Faran Krentcil) —will be performed this weekend at the Branson Theater. Shows Nov. 14-16, shows are at 8 p.m. It's at 2 p.m. Nov. 17. $6 for students. Arts in the Ark—a show that combines many of Duke's artistic groups—will take place this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the ARK, you frickin' idiot. Groups as diverse as Speak of the Devil, On Tap, DU I and the Ballroom Dance Team will be on hand for the festivities. Free to students.
Of course, the characterization is not entirely her fault. De Palma seems to fare best when he concentrates fully on direction, like in Scarface and Mission: Impossible, and doesn't bother with the writing like he did in Snake Eyes. His characters are dull, flat and formulaic—if only he had enlisted some writing help, he would have had a script worthy of the film's stunning visuals. And completely stunning they are. I could watch the movie with earplugs in and still love it. I never tire of the pans, fadeaway shots, split screens and interesting angles that characterize his flicks. In the opening sequence, he only allows RomijnStamos' face to be seen in shadow until the heist is well underway—a masterful visual job of foreshadowing the elusiveness of her visage throughout the film. The Hitchcockian influence is ever-present, but never dull. Overall, if you're not looking for an exhilarating visual experience or a stunning view of Romijn-Stamos body, stay away. —Meg Lawson
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hapless Kahlo, whose extreme lifestyle has by now become the stuff of popular myth. Her passionate scenes are touching, but her moments of tartness and grit are especially fun to watch. Take note, for example, of the exquisite boredom on her face as she is being nuzzled by a pretentious French lover.
This is not the visage of a stock Latina babe enjoying her latest close-up; this is an image of an actress coming into her own. Alfred Molina is even more effective in the role of Kahlo's philandering husband, the leftist muralist Diego Rivera. Molina manages to convince the viewer that this beached whale of a man would have no problem in seducing 99 out of a GRADE: 100 women he meets. The jarring love story of Kahlo and Rivera is offset by magnificent cinematography that makes creative usage of Kahlo's art. Some of it is scary, some of it sensual, but none of it is boring. See this movie. Just, uh, don't bring your hardcore Southern Baptist friends. .
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said. "People have been doing what they've been doing all along, but now they're doing it all in one place." Broyles defines his artistic community as that which takes place within Durham homes, where friends and neighbors would —and still do —gather to enjoy some good old-time jams. Though he and fellow musicians get together to play for occasional Ie of the Tracks dances and receptions, Broyles emphasizes the laid-back attitude that he believes has :ime, literally across the railroad tracks from where the white elite characterized indigenous Durham music since the booming days of tobacco and j a visible cultural base, the black community, known as Hayti, was Now, he says, with the arrival of ig the most prosperous in the United States. What is now Parrish 44 would new blood in and around Durham, happenown Durham was known as "Black Wall Street" thanks to the concern music is becoming more varied—and img nn concentration owned businesses, including the largest in the world at that time, more publlc Mutual Insurance Company. "It's been here all along, but resurgence. People lomic and social prosperity, Durham's black community was able to tend to be more |ow ke v; Southerners been doing what they’ve been theytend to hang the best artists of the time, particularly musicians travelling between the out with it," Broyles a ii useyte said. [New Durham residents] come lorth. Cab Calloway, Count Basie and Billy Strayhorn lit up the clubs along neing eil along, not , which served as the center of black social life. 99 in and make what they like happen. It doing it all ham's attractiveness for these performers, the Biitmore Hotel was one of a n b e ll s !' serving but think —Doug Broyles, Trinity ' s in the country that catered primarily to a black clientele, ans g be00 d e Musician always had a very rich arts and entertainment scene, even from the early Clark is one of Dorothy those ambitjous transplants. :i community," said Dianne Pledger, president of the Hayti Heritage imazing to bring artists in and they'll say, 'Well, I've been here before.' Upon moving to Durham from Indicott, N.Y., in 1998, Clark noticed a gap that needwhere they've been —the Biitmore Hotel, the juke joints or the places ed to be filled. Though Durham's music scene was as strong as ever, she sensed a lack of theater arts accessible to the Durham public. "If people want to see theater and they're not in a college community, they have to go to Raleigh," said Clark, who works at the Duke University Museum of Art. cco established the foundation for Durham's cultural scene, the After meeting other Durham residents with similar desires for a public creative outlet and despite many obstacles for funding, Clark formed Front Porch Entertainment, adustry in the mid-1980s did not signal the demise of the artistic had stayed afloat since the days of Calloway and Buck Duke for an independent, non-profit and community-based theater group that focuses on the black experience and culture. Their first play debuted in September at the Hayti )m infusing the area with a portion of the capital that had left with tobacHeritage Center and featured high school students and married couples acting together on stage in a truly grassroots theatrical endeavor. However, the future of Front ing biotechnology firms in Research Triangle Park have attracted people world. Porch, and similar grassroots endeavors, depends on the ability to secure funding at a ine years as director of the Durham Arts Council, the majority of board time when budgets for the arts are dwindling across the board. the arts organizations I worked with—including my own—were people Local artist Emily Weinstein, also sensing the need for low-cost grassroots art, began orn in Durham," Coleman said. "So they bring those world experiences, painting murals around Durham. Calling on volunteers from the community, Weinstein diversity of the Triangle and the quickness of how people move in and out has brought together Durham residents and students to expand their creativity on walls at the Durham Arts Council, the Hayti Heritage Center, the Durham Technical College and flourishing." /ntown Durham became a virtual ghost town when tobacco pulled out St. Francis Animal Hospital. "The murals are right out there for people for free, which makes it very successful," ibandoned and property values plummeted. an upshot: Artists could afford studio space in the old warehouses, and Weinstein said. from being in such close proximity to one another, From Broyles, to Clark, to Weinstein—from music, to theater, to visual arts and of the buildings in the last decade or so has allowed for artists to move everything in between—Durham's present artistic scene is building on a tradition that and we are reinventing the direction for community art," Pike said. was laid out over a century ago. Addressing the need to sustain that tradition even through economic downturns, the newly-devised "cultural masterplan" seeks to unify :tion Durham's diverse arts communities by pouring more money and energy into their conhas lived in Durham on-and-off since attending high school in Raleigh in tinued progress. pending his undergraduate years at Duke. A self-proclaimed "recreation"Durham is a place that is extremely tolerant of new ideas," Coleman said. "That's a oyles has witnessed the changing face of Durham over the years, very unique feature in North Carolina. Durham is not stale, it is not stagnant. There is that's happening now a concentration rather than a resurgence," he always an embracing of creativity."
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eratic Space-E fG acier Epic (Ok, so you'll read that from every reviewer.) The Sigur R6s opera unfolds like so; In the post-apocalyptic future, Kid A has grown to be a fearsome revolutionary leader. He sends his four waifish, androgynous proteges back in time for some obscure reason; my guess is that their native Iceland has sunk, or maybe it's something to do with humpback whales. They deliver from the future lush mournful dirges, sung in
strange code. Whatever Sigur R6s is trying to tell us, the roaring bowed guitars and cosmic soundscapes make it sound really f-king important. Or maybe it's like... a proggie fraud of
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a performance at New York City's Beacon Theater, Sigur R6s came back onstage to thunderous applause not once but three times. Never bothered to play another note, though—just took a bow in front of a screen that read "Thank you" or some such in Icelandic. After maybe 15 minutes of hungry clapping, the lights finally went on and a cry of disappointment erupted from the crowd. Was this break of rock concert protocol a gesture of modest appreciation or a coy snubbing? With this band anything is hard to tell, but to be fair, a Sigur Rbs show is not quite a rock concert. It's more like... an operatic space-elf glacier epic.
Yes-sized proportions, a flabby naked pretender to the new millenial throne who steals beauty from all the bright fringes of the music kingdom: Godspeed, You Black Emperor!, Mogwai, Low and even fellow Icelandinos, Mum. Self-proclaimed to be important, their musical-savior posture is dramatic enough to bust onto the pages of the glossy mainstream like Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly. Lofty melodies so grand they disappear into a gaudy Technicolor horizon, and a made-up gibberish language—Hopelandish—that's hokey enough to merit its own Stonehenge dwarves. Yes, Sigur Bos is breathtaking, but after a few listens to the sweeping orchestras and crashing cannondrums, you just want to take a breather. On their breakthrough second album, 2000's
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Agaetis Byrjun, Sigur Ros let slip hints of the latter even as they seduced the international hypemachine with romantic crystalline visions of the former. What better way to tip the scale from art to pretension than to release eight unnamed songs, with blank-paged packaging and an untitle? Literally, the nameless state of Sigur Rds's new album, (), is only tangentially related
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piece of music, at once a more restrained and looserflowing effort than their last. The album is divided into two thematic halves—one slow-moving and pristine—like continental drift screened at one frame per year, the other tense and tumultuous like battles of the gods. It ail revolves around a single lyrical refrain, repeated and mutated in lulling, ongoing patterns. Ongoing and still going, beyond 70 minutes of sightless cinema to a rousing roof-burning finale that doesn't try to save the world, just busts some space-elf butt. If you make it to the end, you certainly don't need an encore—a simple "thank you" would suffice. —Greg Bloom
Kinda Precious For as much as people compare him to Jeff Buckley, Ours' lead singer Jimmy Gnecco's image is a much darker one. Halfway between Grace and Bauhaus, his lyrics on the newly released Precious exude a heightened sense of desperation, while his music still remains universally accessible. "Realize" epitomizes this contradiction with yearning, defeated lyrics that are tempered by a repetitive, poppy melody, making the chorus' declaration less tragic. The slower-tempo "Places" illuminates similarly universal and vague emotions, serving as a bittersweet background to moments of despair, as it expresses an innocent, yet palpable fear through the imagery in its chorus. Throughout the album, Gnecco sings about the futility of human actions against fate, perhaps most consistently illustrated by the album's first single "Leaves." However, while the album begins with dynamic instrumentation, it loses steam in the middle and crawls to
the end. After the atmospheric "Outside," Ours stumbles through "In a Minute" and "Broken."The former plays like an anthem with a trite cause, while the latter's rliHAUe. experimentally strained vocals and music beCome sleep-inducing. The swirling guitars B and textured percussion of "Chapter 2 (Money)" will likely wake up listeners. However, on this and subsequent tracks, Gnecco delves into disturbing imagery and reaches the apex of his hyperbolic emotions, straining believabitity. In addition to this unwelcome transformation, Precious' final tracks also lack the sonic ingenuity of previous efforts. Though Ours' compositions are relatively complex, the redundant percussion could be decidedly more interesting. Nonetheless, their musically layered melodies often transform themselves into sweeping, uniform compositions that create a consistent background, allowing the listener to focus on the lyrics. Despite its lackluster finish, Precious is accessible yet interesting, making it an appropriate soundtrack to the listener’s despair. _
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Mediocrity People love to give music critics a hard time for immediately rejecting any form of mainstream pop, dismissing all things radio-friendly without a second thought in favor of the latest indie act to come out of
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pops is still pommeling you in the cool category When he plugged in at Newport all those years ago, he made history by taking a chance, and you still can't amass the testicular fortitude to stop writing the same song over and over and over. This album is nothing new. David Gray—A New Day at Midnight This music is a Honda Accord. This music is the missionary position. This music is Styrofoam-flavored water. If David Gray were a black woman with dreadlocks, he
guys who only sing in their native Dutch and would never sell out by lending a song to the soundtrack of the new big-budget holiday blockbuster. That is, until they show up on the cover of next month's Spin, and the search begins again for a new indie darling. Well, I'm not that cool would be Tracy Chapman. (or knowledgeable), but I A New Day at Midnight have to draw the line was as big a risk for Gray somewhere. Direct your as the time in second attention to two recent grade when your friend pop releases that will no dared you to write "pee" doubt eat up the airon the chalkboard. waves, but may just eat “I DON’T WANT YOUR LIFE, DAD!”: "Why can't you just Yawnsville. accept that I want to suck ass for the rest ofmy life?!'' The next time your The Wallflowers—Red roommate defends Gray's Letter Days music by saying it just got stuck in her head Attention Jakob Dylan; Your father is Bob and now it's growing and she can't get it out, Dylan, and you still suck. This should not be posremind her that the same description can be sible. Granted you have a lot to live up to and it used for brain tumors. was easier for kids like me whose fathers wore camouflage swim trunks to the beach, but your —David Walters
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a pathetic attempt to apply what I've learned in my entrepreneurship class about "niche markets," I reasoned that the name Papa's Grill was a poor choice for a restaurant because it didn't strike you as anything special. My friend and I cracked lame jokes about having Mama's Kitchen, Granny's Diner and Lil' Sis' Confectionary. My skepticism and so-called "business sense" flew out the window as I pushed through the glass doors and experienced the true magic of "Papa-style" Mediterranean food.
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Papa's Grill's originality lies in its ability to combine the best of two worlds: Greek cuisine and sophisticated fine dining. It's no surprise that its owners, the Papanikas family, also master the mystic blend of spices to create the "Greek touch" in their food. For an appetizer, the Pikilia—a delightful platter of six different types of dips artistically arranged like a multi-colored flower —is something you do not want to miss. The meltzanosalata, an eggplant spread, which might have been undermined by its grayish tones, instead brings out the natural sweetness and supple texture of the vegetable. The htipiti, a feta cheese spread usually prepared with hot roasted peppers, is given an herbal twist when parsley is substituted. The htipiti's lime color and zesty fragrance bring balance and complexity to the other dips that are mainly sweet or savory. The plate of warm pita wedges would have been better if parmesan cheese were not sprinkled on top—the pungent
aroma shielded the natural flavors of the various dips. For my entree I had Moussaka, a Greek version of shepherd's pie, which is a hearty treat on a chilly winter day. Moist shredded lamb is delicately layered among creamy potatoes, fall squash and a rich cheese sauce. At times, the cheese sauce overpowered the nutty taste of the lamb, which could have been played up. The heat was just right, intense without scorching your tongue. This meaty dish can be rather filling and is not for the faint-hearted. As we waited for the bill, 1 mused on the huge mural with a typical Mediterranean landscape; white-washed domed houses, blue skies and a calm ocean. For a moment, I was swept into another world, and it struck me that the name of a restaurant didn't really matter. What's in a name after all?
—Katy Yung
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant He calls me at 7 "Pulcinella's," he says.
"I made bruschetta this week," he declares, picking up a gooey piece of toasted table bread. It smells like garlic and singed tomatoes, and tastes like Tuscany. I'm confused. Address: 4711 Hope Valley "It's a legend," he explains. "Did you make bruschetta like this?" I ask, already knowing the answer. Rd., Durham. whom?" ask. He "A legend according to swipes the last slice from my plate. I Hours: Mon.-Thurs.: to 11:30 Italian "According anyone in North Carolina. Pick you up at dressing is not supposed to be a marvel. But this stuff, a.m.-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat: 8. And wear a dress." homemade, is amazing. We smear it on everything, including the 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. The line goes dead. croutons. Chicken Marsala, the waiter's favorite, is inhaled in three am a dress. He is shorts—the kind Phone: 919.490.1172 minutes—if only there were more! We begin to pick at the baked eggwearing wearing 1 that zip away from pants. plant ziti when he kicks my chair. "Let's order pizza!" he says it like a little kid We can't find Pulcinella's until we figure out it's in the strip mall with Food Lion ail the way out on Hope Valley Road. "Classy," I smile. He looks a little scared. I nod like a grown-up. We get a large veggie pie. It takes us all night to We are starved—the place smells amazing. People with pizza are popping finish the Chianti, which is deep purple and potent. A little unsteady, I sit back in my chair. I wish we had room for dessert —just like the main coursin and out, and the entire place is packed. We wait for 30 minutes, our name on a list a mile long. Aside from the little girl clinging to her father's neck, we es, I'm sure it would have been amazing. are the youngest ones here, and definitely the only ones from Duke. When "I'm not from Italy," I smile, "but I really like your restaurant." the hostess calls our name, it feels like a lottery win. —Faran Krentcil
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By JAKE POSES The Chronicle 89 It was 16-0, Duke
hadn’t missed a shot, 38 and Concept Hillary Howard, returning to Duke as a member ofTeam Concept, cracked a smile as she looked up at the rafters ofCameron. The Blue Devils came out of the gates firing, hitting their first 12 shots from the floor and forcing Team Concept players into difficult attempts on their way to a BOSS victory Wednesday night at Cameron
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Indoor Stadium. “I mean, its November, you are not supposed to be that good this early,” Howard said, reflecting on the play other No. 1 ranked alma mater. Alana Beard dominated the game early, helping Duke push the ball up the court before the Team Concept players could set their defense. The Blue Devils also forced a number of turnovers leading to fast break lay-ups as Team Concept struggled to get into their half court offense. Beard, the consensus pre-season national player of the year, finished the game with 26 points going an impressive 11 for 13 for the field. She also compiled four steals and
By CATHERINE SULLIVAN The Chronicle
Traditionally, Parents Weekend has been designed to impress the families of students already attending the University. Apparently, the 2002 version of this annual event also appealed to some future Blue Devils. Last week, Duke received verbal commitments from highly touted men’s basketball player Luol Deng and women’s prospect Brittany Hunter, two of the three recruits to visit campus Oct. 25-27. Yesterday, Alison Bales made it three-for-Parents Weekend, as the 6foot-6 center from Dayton', Ohio, joined Hunter as the second member of the women’s basketball class of 2007. “I had a lot of fun when I visited Duke,” Bales said. “We went to the men’s game and I saw how excited the whole campus gets for basketball season. I also enjoyed getting to know everyone on the team.” After making all of her official visits, Bales narrowed her list of schools
four rebounds in 19 minutes. Iciss Tillis added 13 points and nine boards. But when Beard exited the game midway through the first half, the Blue Devils struggled offensively. The pace of the offense slowed, and Duke was not able to get good looks at the basket. While Duke played a crisp first half with its lead never in question, the Blue Devils focus dropped as the game progressed. Duke scored 55 points in the See CONCEPT on page 16
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Men’s soccer ready for tough ACC tournament Duke will square off against the Cavaliers today at 3 p.m. in Cary’s SAS Soccer Complex By ADAM YOFFIE The Chronicle
With two teams in the top 10, including No. 1 ranked Wake Forest, and two others in the top 25, the Blue Devils definitely have their work cut out for them in this week’s ACC tournament. “Some people say it’s more difficult to win the ACC tournament than the NCAA tournament,” freshman Danny Kramer said. Duke, seeded sth in the conference tournament faces No. 4 UVa, 14th overall, today at 3 p.m. at the SAS Soccer Complex in Cary. A victory over
the Cavaliers would mean a secondround match-up with Wake Forest Friday at 5:30 p.m. The Blue Devils, 2-3 in their last five games, are looking to make up for losses to UVa and Wake earlier in the season. “Earlier in the year, we didn’t think we were as good as the other teams out there,” junior striker Jordan Cila said. “Mentally, we now know that we are just as good if not better than any team in the ACC.” Cila spearheads a potent offense that has scored 13 goals in its last five victories. Leading the team in points and assists, he is also second in goals and shots. The biggest asset for Duke will be a healthy starting squad that has been plagued with injuries throughout the Junior Matt season. defender Ahumada did not play in the game against UVa and defenders Ryan Kerlew and Matt White saw limited minutes because of ailments. “We are healthier,” head coach John Rennie said. “We are still missing
some guys, but for the most part we will have our starting lineup. That is the most important thing for the end of the season.” On the defensive end, the Blue Devils will rely on starting sophomore goalkeeper Justin Trowbridge, who has played all but ten minutes of the season between the posts. Trowbridge enters the tournament with 42 saves, 1.33 goals against average, and a .636 saves percentage. “We need to play mistake free soccer in the back,” Trowbridge said. “UVa likes to play high pressure soccer, and we have been working on countering that.” The team has been reviewing a lot of tapes of previous games in preparation for the tournament. Rennie said he is determined to continue with the same game plan he has used throughout the season. “The real important thing is for the team to play defense,” Rennie said. “Defense is a team thing. Not only the
defenders, but the forwards and midfielders also have to step it up defensively. You win on defense.” The Blue Devils will have to contend with Cavalier forward and ACC player of the year Alecko Eskandarian, who has recorded 22 goals on the season and leads a squad that has churned out seven consecutive victories. Wake, undefeated in the regular season, brings a force that received seven ACC accolades including coach and freshman of the year as well as three first team all-ACC players. Should the Blue Devils emerge victorious in the first two rounds, they will likely face No. 2 Maryland, ranked Bth
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JORDAN CILA and the men’s soccer team will face UVa in the ACC tournament today. overall, or No. 3 North Carolina, 17th in the country, in the finals. Duke is 13-12 in 15 appearances in the ACC tournament. The Blue Devils were ousted on penalty kicks by the Demon Deacons last season, and it was the Cavaliers that took them out in the semifinals in 2000 The season before, however, Duke
beat the Wahoos to win its only ACC men’s soccer tournament. The Blue Devils, cognizant of the ramifications of a loss, know that they are a team on the bubble—not guaranteed an NCAA bid. “We know it’s huge,” said Trowbridge “It’s the ACC tournament. We’re pumped and ready to go.”
Sheana Mosch provides leadership without Currie In the second half of the women’s basketball team’s torching of Team Concept last night, Sheana Mosch forced a jump shot in traffic as Duke started to lose a bit of focus with a fifty-point lead. The senior forward clenched her fists, letting out a growl, a huff and a puff, but not before wiping her grimace off to go give her teammate at the foul line a high five. Mosch, back in the starting lineup for good after sophomore Monique Currie tore her ACL last week, often looked past those missed shots for intangibles and senior leadership. She filled in admirably mKjtk Wednesday with eight rebounds, eight assists and a pair of steals along with plenty of loud-mouthing while on the
floor with four underclassmen. MSML “Sheana’s a little different than Monique,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “She’s not as much a power player. Matt Sullivan
But we had talked about her rebound- Game commentary ing for us a little bit more to help alleviate the loss of Monique. And I thought she did a really good job on the boards, I thought she did a good job passing the basketball and getting out on the breaks. I thought she did some really nice things for us.” Most of those nice things came early on, when the starting lineup was still intact. Saving balls from going out ofbounds and reading Team Concept’s passing lanes for break-ups, she stood out enough to forget, for the moment, about Currie, who was active herself hopping
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SHEANA MOSCH has begun to fill the void left by the early-season injury of Monique Currie.
and butt-slapping from the bench. Even when Mosch faltered and lost Concept’s LaTonya Washington on defense midway through the first half, she made up for it by tipping the ball away for a turnover. Indeed, it’s on defense where Mosch is most noticeable, albeit by force. Belting out “Ball! Ball!” while hounding her offensive counterpart, she leads the No. 1 Blue Devils now that her voice is heard some more without Currie around. Still, though, Mosch alone will have trouble making
up for Currie’s scoring. Without those 14.3 points per gamefrom Currie, Mosch will have to find herself looking a lot more like the player who put together 106points over a four-game span when leading scorer Alana Beard was injured last year. Mosch gave a preview of that player in the first five minutes last night, draining two long jumpers with a confident stroke. But she, like most of her teammates, lost her touch in the second half, missing six shots and turning the ball over twice to end with only the four points from early on. “I think she’s very comfortable in a scoring role,” Goestenkors said, “so I think she’ll do that. And I think, some other people will step up as well. I don’t think it’ll be squarely on Sheana’s shoulders.” With Beard and Iciss Tillis already baring quite a load, that third scorer is running short on time to show face. Goestenkors pointed to Michele Maytasovsky or one of the freshmen as sources to chip in, but Maytasovsky didn’t appear ready to step into that new role with a quiet night against Team Concept, and the first-years seemed less than polished. Jessica Foley received significant playing time but couldn’t find her outside shot, Brooke Smith fell in love with a lazy hook shot and Mistie Bass was intimidating with 12 points down low but overly deliberate with her raw post moves. For her part, Beard isn’t worrying and doesn’t expect to have to carry virtually the entire scoring burden. “We had a big loss in Monique,” she said. “She’s a huge part of our offense, of our team. But I think we have other players that can step in and fulfill that position. So it’s no pressure at all. I’ve just got to have confidence in my teammates.” The talent is certainly there for anyone to be confident in Duke—they’re not No. 1 for nothing. But with Tennessee looming early on the schedule, Mosch and Co. have too much to prove and too little time in which to do it to leave Monique Currie’s shoes unfilled.
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Miami (Ohio) coaches suspended for violent actions � Two assistant coaches were punished after allegedly assaulting a fan and trashing Marshall’s coaching box following a last second loss. Bv JOE KAY The Associated Press
OXFORD, Ohio Two Miami University assistant football coaches were suspended Wednesday after one was charged with assaulting a fan and another acknowledged damaging a coaches’ box at Marshall. Coach Terry Hoeppner apologized Wednesday, saying things got out of control when fans rushed the field following Marshall’s last-second, 36-34 win over its Mid-American Conference rival. Hoeppner took two university police officers with him for extra protection on the field, anticipating a volatile situation. “It’s scary,” said Hoeppner, who hadn’t slept following the bus ride back from West Virginia. “I had more police protection around me last night, and that shouldn’t be necessary. We’ve lost a little bit of
THE MIAMI (OHIO) FOOTBALL PROGRAM was hit with a pair of internal suspensions Wednesday.
our perspective.” Defensive coordinator Jon Wauford and linebackers coach Taver Johnson were suspended with pay while
the southwest Ohio school investigates. Wauford was led off the field in handcuffs and charged with battery, a misdemeanor, for allegedly shoving a fan who ran on the field after the game. Johnson acknowledged damaging the visiting coaches’ box, Hoeppner said. The post-game problems were uncharacteristic for a school that prides itself as the “Cradle of Coaches.” “I don’t want to prejudge our investigation of the facts. But I have to tell you, as president, to see one of my coaches led away in handcuffs was one of the most difficult things I’ve seen since I’ve been here,” school president James Garland said in a phone interview. “We justify our support of athletics because of the message that it sends about character,” Garland said. “These events of yesterday suggest that we’ve fallen short of our goal.” Interim athletic director Steve Snyder said Miami will pay to repair the coaches’ box. A shelf and chairs were damaged, and holes were knocked in the wall, Snyder said.
Wauford was released on $5,000 bond early Wednesday and has a court hearing Dec. 13. The fan, Robert Flaugher, 36, was treated at a hospital and released. Flaugher was among thousands of fans who stormed the field moments after Marshall scored the winning touchdown in the closing seconds. West Virginia State Police said Wauford shoved Flaugher, who fell and struck his head on the artificial turf. He was taken away on a stretcher with what was diagnosed as a concussion. Flaugher’s brother, Todd, said that neither he nor his brother used abusive language toward Miami play-
ers or coaches. “He was waving goodbye to Miami’s players... the coach basically hit him with a forearm. That knocked him flat. His head definitely hit first on the turf. It was basically a sucker punch,” Todd Flaugher said. Hoeppner predicted that Wauford, a Miami assistant for three years, will be exonerated because of the circumstances on the field. “It was emotional in all contexts,” Hoeppner said. Marshall coach Bob Pruett said he didn’t see the confrontation and declined to comment on it.
Asked about the damage in the coaches’ box, Pruett said: “People get excited after games. It’s a very emotional game. You put your life and soul into a ballgame, and sometimes you react in ways that would be distressful.” Mid-American Conference commissioner Rick Chryst talked to both schools on Wednesday and
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going to the local YMCA to play ball and lift weights. “It was incredible, it was like nothbaseball team after the second week of practice last spring. ing I’d ever seen him pursue before...” “I just wanted to be a student for a Brooks said. “We sat down and talked while,” Johnson said. “I didn’t know if about the fact that he wanted to put on such a commitment to doing athletics 10 pounds if he could, so he and I and stuff was what I wanted to do.” worked out a training table arrangeHis mother noticed that Johnson ment so he could have four or five just was not into baseball, and that meals a day.... Whatever it was that his mind was on other things—acamotivated him to do it was just enormous because he was completely dedidemics, adjusting to college, and apcated to the task.” parently, basketball. And when Johnson returned to cam“I think he had the impression at that point what the academic workload pus in August, he participated in pickwas going to be,” his mother Susan up games with the varsity team, imBrooks said. “And that was a big, big pressing coaches and players alike. After a week or so of practice, the coachquestion mark; and the time commites told Johnson he was officially a memment [for baseball] was a concern, too.” So much for that. ber of the team. “The Monday night he called us... he “We actually tented for Maryland was just delirious,” Brooks said. “Our last year, and it was about that time it’s kind of a stupid way to start thinkfriends who are ACC basketball fans uning about it—but it was like, you know, derstand the magnitude of it. It’s Duke—I’d rather be out there [on the court] it’s like walking onto the Yankees.” However, Johnson’s nonchalant recrather than tenting,” Johnson said. In the spring, Johnson sent a pair of ollection of the past six months cone-mails to director of basketball operatrasts the enormity of his accomplishtions Mike Schrage inquiring about the ment. He has acclimated himself well possibility of walking onto a team that to the college game, and credits his had just signed a six-member freshman teammates and coaches for bringing him along well. Yet he is still able to class heralded as the nation’s best. According to his parents, Duke’s see the obvious difference between him coaches were neither excited nor dis- and his teammates. couraging about the possibility of “It’s funny, they’ll be talking about Johnson walking onto the team, but AAU circuits or what went on in their said that he would have the opportu[college] visits...! actually don’t have nity to meet with them in the fall to asany experience with that,” Johnson said. sess the situation. “But we’re all on the same team.” Johnson took the message to heart, And though Johnson probably will and hard all summer, both in not contribute much on the court for the the weight room and on the basketball Blue Devils, his mother’s reaction to court. His determination amazed his Johnson’s making the team provides parents, as he woke early every day to perspective on the importance of her —
PATRICK JOHNSON went from playing pickup games in Wilson to the big show in Cameron son’s achievement and is indicative of “And to see him set this goal and do it the true value of college athletics. as a parent you can’t even imagine get“He’s very realistic about his own ting to that place. You always think role...but it’s such a thrill for him, and you’re kids are wonderful but you never he’s enjoying every second of it I think, imagine they can accomplish the things and that’s wonderful to watch,” she said, that he has accomplished.”
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CONCEPT from page 11 first period, but, as Duke’s starters sat on the bench, sloppy play yielded only 34 points during the second half. “We lost our focus and we can’t afford to do that,” said head coach Gail
Goestenkors. In the second half, Duke’s talented freshmen core saw considerable playing time, which was highlighted by solid effort by Mistie Bass. Bass had 16 points, and five rebounds. “I am really proud of the freshmen,” said Goestenkors. “They continue to get better and better. I think they are all going to help us this season. I thought Misty and Brook in particular down low did a really nice job for us so that's good to see.” The Duke coaching staff used the blowout as an opportunity to work on a few different defensive looks that the Blue Devils hope to employ during the season. “We worked on our zone a little bit,” said Goestenkors. “We didn’t do a great job with our zone or with our trap.”
Freshman Caitlin Howe missed the game after her knee slipped out during last exhibition game. Through rehab, Howe has been trying to reduce the swelling and strengthen her quadracept muscle to prevent the injury from occurring in the future. Goestenkors is confident that Howe will be ready for the season opener in nine days. After blowing out opponents in two exhibition games, the Duke players are looking forward to the opportunity to put their No. 1 ranking on the line when they begin their regular season schedule next Friday against East Carolina. “I think all the players are ready to have some real games as well,” said Goestenkors. “I think these exhibitions are good but we are ready for some real competition,” In the end, Howard, who was presented with a Final Four chair by Goestenkors before the game, said, “It was certainty not the homecoming you think of. I was just really impressed with Duke. I was sorry I was on the other end of it but in some way it was nice to see how good they are up close.”
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Academic THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Systematics Seminar: 12:40pm. Sang-Hun Oh, Duke University. “Phylogeny and biogeography of tribe Neillieae (Rosaceae) inferred from DNA sequence data.” 144 Biological Sciences. Sarah P. Duke Gardens: 2-4pm. Elizabeth Sanders, “Flowers Through History.” Call 684-3698. Duke Gardens, Adult Classroom, Doris Duke Center, West Campus. Lecture: 4pm. Genomic response to ecological change: finding the lost pines. Claire G. Williams, Professor in Genetics and Forestry, Texas A&M University. A247 LSRC. Perkins Library Engaging Faculty Lecture Series: spm. Dr. James Tulsky, “In Search of a Good Death: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?” Call 684-3009. Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, West Campus.
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Teer House: 7pm. Emotions: Guides to Health and Longevity. Laurie L. Jones. Call 416-DUKE. 4019 N. Roxboro Rd. Perkins Library: 7:3opm. English department faculty member Joe Ashby Porter reads from Touch Wood, his new collection of short stories. Call 684-3009. Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, West Campus. Heart-to-Heart Conversations: Bpm. Dr. Shakti Butler will speak on “Connecting the Head and Heart: An Inner Journey on Behalf of Social Justice and Change.” White Lecture Hall, East Campus. Participants should BRING A JOURNAL
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Institute for Care at the End of Life: 8:30 am. “Music in the Care of the Suffering and the Sick.” Call 684-6422. Freeman Center for Jewish Life, East Campus.
University Program in Ecology Seminar: 12:45pm. Van Breemen, Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands. “Rock-eating mycorrhizal fungi.” A247-LSRC.
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Lecture: 3-4PM. Who are the Minangkabau? Professor Peggy Reeves Sanday, PhD. Duke University East Campus, Room 2048, East Duke Building.
Teer House: 7pm. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); Improving Your Quality of Like. Edana Altman. 416-DUKE. 4019 N. Roxboro Rd.
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recent decision by Kappa Sigma fraternity to disaffiliate itself in the face ofirreconcilable pressures from both the University and its national organization is the latest in .a series of administrative signals that even the least socially-conscious undergraduate understands—Duke’s greek-dominated social scene is changing. That change may be welcome, especially if it includes greeks in a constructive way. But until administrators within Student Affairs stop playing games and take their responsibilities seriously by acting in a forthright, even-handed manner, the constructive process that the newly-created Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and many members of the greek scene at Duke seek cannot and will not progress. Kappa Sigma, the fourth selective group to disaffiliate or lose its University recognition in as many years—a trend that began with Old House CC and also subsumed Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon —is likely no better or worse than a half-dozen other fraternities also on probation or rumored to be in trouble. For example, Theta Chi fraternity has recently been put on notice by the administration and is on probation because its members were playing a drinking game. By punishing fraternities for such minor problems—which may not be problems at all, but simply run-of-the-mill college student activities—the Office of Judicial Affairs is directly contradicting the merrilywe-roll-along rhetoric of the greek life office. In doing so, both administrators and fraternity members are sidestepping frank discussion of the deeper anxieties and problems that should be addressed. Indeed, the most troubling aspect of the Kappa Sig debacle is that Student Affairs administrators called nationals to find a solution they themselves were too cowardly or naive to take. Regardless ofnational fraternity protocols, Student Affairs administrators made the decision to involve an outside presence to resolve issues that could have been more effectively settled within Duke. If the administration feels that fraternities sponsor activities and behaviors that are unacceptable and no longer tolerable at a top-10 university, it should say so and quit wasting fraternity members’ time and precious University resources by playing games. But if the administration has a more realistic goal of working within the greek system—central to any plan to build a deeper undergraduate community—the unwieldy and inconsistent bureaucratic elements within Student Affairs should provide a strategic and unified vision for what it expects out ofresidential fraternities at Duke and communicate that goal to fraternities in good faith. No longer should Todd Adams, OFSL director, be sent out as the ever-chummy friend offraternities to dangle carrots, while Kacie Wallace’s Office of Judicial Affairs continually lurks in the shadows to bash fraternities with a stick. The OFSL cannot be an effective liaison to the greek world unless they are consistent in their goals with the dean of students’ other offices,
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DSG’s transit memo does not address the issues Just when I thought that Duke Student Government could not be any less productive, they create a memorandum that does nothing to, as it claims, “improve transit at Duke.” Upon reading DSG’s letter to the editor, I am convinced that they are absolutely worthless. First, the Facilities and *
Athletics Committee, has decided that adding more signs and maps to current routes between East and West Campuses is away to help improve transit. Is DSG trying to tell us that people do not know how to get from East to West? It’s one road! If you don’t know how to get from East to West, you don’t belong at this school. Secondly, this committee http: / / www.chronicle.duke.edu
comments on the increase in prices for tickets and parking permits. It wants to know where the money goes, commenting that it “seems coincidental” that the prices go up when the University is building a parking garage. Of course this is why the prices are high. Would you rather the administration raise tuition,
so students who don’t even have a car at school have to
pay for a parking garage? I don’t think so. Thirdly, DSG recommends that we should all use bicycles to get around campus. People who live off campus want to be able to drive to school, which is one of the reasons why they bring their cars. Instead of telling them they should bike to class, this memo should /
have proposed building more parking lots closer to campus specifically for off-campus stu-
dents, which would allow these students to drive to campus and not park miles sway. This memo did not even address the poor state of the buses on campus. Bus stops are swamped during peak hours throughout the day, and many students are late to their classes because the buses fill up. Instead of talking about signs, ticket prices and bikes, DSG should actually spend some time on important transit issues, and only then will members of this campus see this “governing” body as legitimate. Lan Roth Pratt ’O5
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Men’s basketball season draws closer with exhibition The men’s team will host their second exhibition game tonight against the EA Sports All-Stars in Cameron Indoor stadium at 7:30 pm. Tonight’s game will be a walk-up game. As always, you can begin lining up for the game at the back entrance of Cameron on the sidewalk running in front of Card Gymnasium and
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Wilson Recreation Center about the procedure, feel whenever you wish. Once a free to contact me or find significant number of people any line monitor, some of are in the line, the line monwhom will be on duty near itors will register groups of the student entrance of up to 12 people. Two hours Cameron throughout today. prior to the game, all indiLet’s go Duke! viduals in registered groups Jeremy Morgan must be in line so that I may begin admitting people into Trinity ’O3 the stadium. Head Line Monitorfor Duke If you have any questions Student Government
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Dr. Bala Ambati’s Nov. 6 column was unbelievable. Sometimes I think he must be living in a totally different world from mine. Either that or he takes in the bits and pieces of news that feed distorted and simplistic views of life and ignore the rest. Here are examples of his one-sided account. A better deal than anyone in history for a resolution of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict? Please, the Camp David proposals were almost laughable. Israel, a country created by practicing terrorism on the innocent of Palestinians, demonstrated at Camp David that it was not willing to seriously consider the plight of the Palestinians; not surprising considering who the culprit was.
The war in Afghanistan
protected American citizens? Quite the contrary. Not only is
Osama still on the loose, we have created more enemies out of the innocents that watched their family members die from misguided American efforts to supposedly make their lives better. As for Ambati’s theory that “Islamic fundamentalism imperialism” (a nonsensical term in itself) lies at the root of all terror, consider the Muslim and Christian citizens in India whose government does nothing to protect them from violence by Hindu fundamentalists, extremists in Ireland that bomb school children, Israeli troops that daily murder innocents and bulldoze homes, the brutally
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repressive Russian government in Chechnya and the list goes on. I am in no way implying that we deserved the Sept. 11 attacks. But we need to real-
ize that the support for those attacks results from American support for the oppression of innocent people worldwide. The way to create a peaceful Middle East is not by killing people and their leaders, but by empowering people to govern themselves. Lifting sanctions on Iraq would be a good start. As for Bala: pick up a history book and read more than one newspaper. You should find it enlightening. Sadaf Raja Trinity ’O3
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Overpaid doctors? Many people outside medicine envision doctors as working four days a week (if it doesn’t interfere with their golf schedules), exploiting tax shelters to finance their Porsches, all the while pulling in 300K annually just for a few extra years of school. Oh sure, they say. Medicare is sticking it to them and malpractice premiums are rising, but so what? They can spare a few bucks. An M.D. costs many times the cost of a law or business degree, yet medical students pay roughly the same tuition as other professional students. Supply ofphysicians is artificially restricted through medical schools in order to keep wages high, and I have to wait long enough to get an appointment as it is, so let’s open the Emilv floodgates and bring down those . I. Carlisle overblown wages. And then the final pronouncement; Doctors are overpaid. Strange Bedfellows Given the space, I can’t address every misconception contained in the above paragraph, but I can tell you this: Doctors are not overpaid. Before I continue, I should probably issue a disclaimer: I have been accepted into medical school for next fall, so my interest in the subject is more than merely intellectual. What follows, however, is an economic argument, not a political or emotional one. Labor economists explain some differences in income through compensating wage differentials. Jobs that are dangerous or unpleasant offer higher wages. Otherwise, people wouldn’t take them. In our age of infectious dis-
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Individuality in a cloned world I agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson: To be yourself in a world that is constantly tiying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Conformity towers in every comer, threatening to push me into a sea of sameness, yet I cannot submit. College is an environment that tests one’s ability to remain steadfastly independent at I the expense of being labeled weird or, God forbid, different. Admittedly, I often find myself thinking, talking and walking with the masses, unable to escape xj.i ikyatu from the materialistic and self absorbed culture so pervasive at Duke Monotonous phrases, words and sen- Hot anti Bothered tences are regurgitated daily by my peers, ultimately creating a culture in which we all speak the same. I had never incorporated hook-up into my vocabulary until I came here and understood that this phrase embodies one or all of the following; sexual intercourse, foreplay, kissing, fondling or everything in between. Oh, and I cannot ignore those marvelous
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colors. This problem is particularly present among sororities, as women tend to be less cordial to one another than men are to one another. The all too forgotten individual loses her eccentricity to a Greek title, walking stone-faced across campus, mechanically acting out a part that she’s been conditioned to play. Alternatively, there are those who wouldrather maintain their uniqueness, flashing their colors proudly while at the same time staying true to themselves. As always, some of you will read my column and totally misinterpret every word. Sometimes I wonder about the reading comprehension capabilities of Duke students. Some will erroneously label me an independent that doesn’t believe in greek life. You are wrong. I believe that greek life fosters leadership, ambition, sister/brotherhood and much more. However, one must also be fully aware of one’s character. Without unique thought and action, all creativity would be lost, consequently creating a dull and fruitless atmosphere. The boredom thatresults from sameness ultimately kills the soul. Apathy is the child spawned from monotony. When we become overly comfortable in monotony, the busy and chaotic world, which exists outside of our narcissistic bubbles, becomes insignificant. To my contemporaries, I can straightforwardly say that ours is a generation unconcerned with overseas affairs or even national affairs for that matter. Did you know that a woman in Nigeria is sentanced to death by stoning for having sex outside of her marriage, or that in Bogota one of Latin America’s leading bishops was kidnapped as he went to hold a religious service in central Colombia? Individuality is by definition a separate existence, outside and above the uniformity that society crams down our soft and vulnerable throats. Conclusively, I will tell you why alcoholics exist—to make the overwhelming number of mindless clones that much more interesting.
Burberry Boucle Scarves with the matching mini Umbrellas; anyone who is anyone is rocking Burberry. Some believe that uniqueness is inevitably sacrificed when one becomes a member of a sorority or fraternity. I strongly disagree. It is up to the person who enters into such an organization, whether he is going to allow his brethren to influence him in such away that his own identity is lost. Each sorority/fratemity effectively differentiates itself from the next. One sorority for example promotes sisterhood, community service and academic ease and violence, I probably don’t need to explain that excellence; another sorority touts basically the same medicine can be dangerous or that medical practice isn’t principles with the addition of finer womanhood. These a bowl of cherries. Holding the responsibility for anothorganizations are rather noble in their quests to unite a er’s life is, put mildly, stress-inducing. Some areas of broad range of potential leaders in a community. medicine are more unpleasant than others; some speWithin these sororities, however, one must be able to cialties have more paperwork, higher litigation, sicker uphold her voice, her own actions and her own style. I patients or worse hours. Among the specialties, we do see notice that some, not all, become engulfed in their greek some differentials according to these factors. letters, walking haughtily across campus as though they Nikyatu Jusu is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs However, productivity is the most important factor in are impervious to anything that does not involve their every other Thursday. wage determination. Broadly, a worker’s fair wage is More equal to her marginal productivity. productive people make more money. Doctors tend to be pretty productive, intelligent and hard-working with aptitudes for science. If a particular physician weren’t a physician, If Sudan is at all familiar it is pound the religious conflict with Osama Bin Laden was operating out of Khartoum, and despite the nomithere’s a good chance she would be well-paid in some probably because the Blue Devils’ racial division—an Arab north (actuother field such as research, engineering, business or latest basketball recruit, Luol Deng, ally a motley group with a perceived nal cooperation of the GOS in the law. To determine the amount by which she is “overpaid,” calls it home. But what the average common ethnic identity) united war on terrorism, additional terroryou need only look at the difference between her secondDuke student doesn’t know is that around a common language, and the ist links within the country led to the choice job’s salary and her compensation as a physician. according to Secretary of State Cohn African south that is a diverse col- halt of relocation programs of Intensive training often results in high marginal proPowell, “There is no greater tragedy laboration oftribes speaking over 80 orphaned Sudanese boys to the ductivity. With respect to the medical field, most grossly on the face of the earth than the one different languages. Add to the mix a United States. The country is run by underestimate this component ofcompensation. The real unfolding in Sudan.” The ongoing 16- colonial history marked by unequal Islamic fundamentalists, who have difference between other professional training and medyear civil war has claimed over two rule within the country and the officially declared a jihad on all nonicine comes after medical school. Lawyers and business million lives and displaced four milresult is a recipe for disaster. Muslim civilians within the borders. Britain and Egypt, Sudan’s colo- The oil wealth of the government, people tend to step into well-paying jobs after gradualion civilians. tion.Their hours are bad, but not as bad as the average nizers, created a dichotomous Sudan together with its history of cooperation with al Qaeda, beg close superby investing in education and infraintern’s, who used to work around 100 hours a week and vision from the CIA. structure in the north, while effecusually makes less than $40,000 per year. Work hours The Sudan Peace Act, which was tively ignoring the south beyond recently have been limited by law to 80 hours per week, subduing govpassed by Congress last month but rebel movements. The but the “overpaid” doctors who are practicing now comCommentary received little press, demonstrates ernment of Sudan imitated this polimonly worked in excess of this amount while training. Why does no one pay attention? cy until substantial oil deposits were some initiative on the part of the The heart surgeon who saved your grandmother’s life United States to finally demand was a general-surgery resident for five years before Half as many deaths in the discovered in the south. peace in Sudan. It is potentially sigAnother difficulty in understandbeginning a thoracic fellowship for another three. Her Rwandan genocide in 1994 still salary is not a reward for four years of medical school. plague the collective conscience of ing the Sudanese civil war is the nificant, but the weak language will Her medical education lasted 12 years: four years of the United States and its allies, unclear good guy/bad guy distinc- again result in inaction. The tion. The war crimes of the strongest part of the legislation is its medical school plus eight years of graduate education. while the Sudanese conflict continterminology for the wholesale that between international Government of Sudan are substanThere’s evidence a tradeoff exists ues, rousing little income and public service ; people who take jobs with a interest. The reason is that in this tially the worst of the two sides, slaughter by the GOS of the southlarge component of service are willing to trade some war there has been no quintessential including documented slavery, the ern civilians. Genocide, by internaincome in exchange for feeling good about what they do. media moment that encapsulates forced displacement of millions of tional law if not by individual moral This perhaps explains why teachers, nurses and public the conflict. Sudan’s civil war is not Sudanese from the oil fields, the ban standards, demands action. Will the defenders make so little while oil company executives one of splashy, sensational events. ofU.N. distributed humanitarian aid United States act? It’s now up to and stock brokers do so nicely. We don’t have enough of Instead it is ignored and forgotten. and genocide. The “good guys” President George W. Bush to take these public servants as it is. But can you imagine how The roots of Sudan’s conflict are so according to recent United States the powers Congress granted him few we’d have if their jobs required a minimum of seven inextricably intertwined that they policy—the Sudanese People’s through the language of the Sudan years’ graduate education without a salary adjustment? cannot be easily simplified by CNN Liberation Army, the rebel forces of Peace Act and make the peace the south—are likewise guilty of process an reality. In the end, being a doctor might be a pretty good way for mass consumption. The United States has taken American Christian groups claim raping, looting, forced child conscripto make money, but it definitely isn’t the best way if humanitarian in brokering peace in Sudan, intercepting tion and steps fundamentally religious about that a it’s that’s your only objective. The next time you gripe while the but it has not gone far enough. If letting needy how north’s aid starve. you by about war defined the Islamic think your physician’s six-figure income, Until recently, the United States peace there is ever going to be more didn’t have to spend your 20s accumulating debt and persecution of the Christian south. has acted passively, financing the than just a personal cause of a basworking around the clock for less than minimum wage. While partially true, this is an overSPLA and placing economic sanc- ketball star—first Manute 80l and qualifications, sacrifices, simplification. Think about your physician’s The majority of Muslims live in tions on the GOS, but taking few now Duke’s own Luol Deng—then and training. She might not seem so overpaid after all. the north, while the Animists and proactive steps to generate lasting the government must get on the ball. 16 years of continual war must end. the ecoare concentrated in the peace. Sept. 11 did shift US. attenin student Christians Emily Streyer Carlisle is a masters south, though there is a significant tion to Sudan with regard to nationnomics department and the Health Policy Certificate proal security interests. Until 1996 The authors are Trinity seniors. mixing of populations. Now comgram. Her column appears every other Thursday.
Genocide simmering in the shadows
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This program is designed to provide professional development for minority students at Duke through workshops involving employer and alumni panels as well as an opportunity for networking and mentoring. To leam more about the event and to register please go to http://career.studentaffairs.duke.edu/undergrads/mcc.html
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Growing Up Hyphenated; 2nd Generation Youth
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